Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 461 Thirty-eight. Scarlet tentacles on the sea

   "It shouldn't take long." The policeman who followed behind said, ran outside the door and asked his subordinates to search for Richard's trace nearby.

  Lu Li took off the oil lamp on the wall, walked to the window, stretched out his arms and illuminated the alley.

   The damp walls of the dark alley reflected back the water light, and the drizzle washed away many traces, but also brought traces.

  A clear footprint stuck in the mud stretches out of the alley.

   But it's so obvious...

  Cunning Richard had no reason to leave such a visible mark.

  Lu Li left the window and looked around at this cramped wooden house with nowhere to hide.

   "There is no room to hide." Anna's voice sounded in her ears.

  Lu Li nodded and said to the police officer who came back from the door, "Help me check the recent call records of this phone."

   "Who have you been in contact with? Okay." The police officer agreed and left the hut with Lu Li.

   crunch——

  The wooden door was closed, and the oil lamp on the table in the wooden house exuded a quiet halo.

  Squeak-

   The door suddenly opened again, and a calm face appeared.

   "Your Excellency Lu Li?" An inquiry sounded beside him.

   "Nothing, let's go." Lu Li said, closing the wooden door again.

   "I'll have someone stay nearby and watch over here."

   On the way to the alley, the police officer said.

   "Trouble." Lu Li nodded and looked at the three police officers who were following along the footprints.

   Obviously, Lu Li's identity made them fearful of the murderer they were catching, and they didn't dare to persecute too much.

   "Let them come back." Lu Li said.

   The police officer next to him explained shyly: "Sorry... The city has become more and more dangerous recently. Three of the brothers at the police station have died..."

"I know,"

  Lu Li called them back because of this.

  The police officer can provide some help, but it is not suitable to confront and arrest Richard.

   watched the police officers return to the carriage and left, while Lu Li, accompanied by Anna, led the carriage and walked into the ruined block along the extended footprints.

  The sound of empty footsteps echoed among the collapsed and burned houses. Compared with the last time, the depression in the ruined district could not be dispelled even when it was approaching noon.

  Lu Li thinks this may be related to the recent rumors and the lack of sight of homeless people.

   Hope those homeless people just moved to a safer place to live and nothing else.

   Followed the footprints for less than 200 meters, and the increasingly faint traces completely disappeared in front of the ruins.

  Richard may have stepped on the ruins and gone to other places, or he may have covered up the traces in some way.

   "We might be able to borrow a hunting dog from the police station," Anna said.

   "It's useless." Lu Li shook his head gently. "The smell of the air can mislead the hound."

   Anna, who couldn't smell the temperature, asked, "What does it smell?"

  Lu Li raised his head slightly, looked at the raindrops that fell on the transparent protective cover, and whispered: "The burning smell in the air."

   And if there seems to be, the faint screams that gradually become clear as they go deeper into this block.

   "Go back, you may encounter trouble moving forward." Lu Li said.

   "But Richard..."

   "He shouldn't have time to take care of us anymore, take advantage of this time to get rid of all the **** tentacles." Lu Li said, and returned to the same way with Anna.

   As he stepped back to the land that was no longer scorched, the sense of oppression in the shadows gradually faded away.

   Back to the carriage, Lu Li approached one of the blood-colored tentacles.

   When passing a relatively lively street, the carriage stopped briefly. Lu Li asked a passing postman to go to the Anles Brothers Repair Station on the coastal street to pass information on the condition of the ruined block, and gave him 10 shillings as a reward.

   This is much cheaper than summoning black crows with carrion.

   However, Lu Li still did something superfluous—he followed the **** tentacles to the coastal street as well.

  The hustle and bustle of the port and the coastal streets continued, and at the end of the lead-grey sea, the blood-colored tentacles hanging from the clouds fell into the sea that could not be seen clearly.

   "Is there a piece that hasn't arrived in Belfast yet?" Anna asked Lu Li, who was looking out in front of the fence.

  Lu Li didn't answer, frowning and staring at the dark, oppressive sea. After a moment, he suddenly walked along the street and stopped in front of a telescope watching the scenery.

  The immigration boom has made this business hot again. Lu Li spent a shilling from the manager to get five minutes of time to use the telescope. He lowered his head and leaned in front of the telescope, turning the lens to focus on the sea where the blood-colored tentacles fell.

  In the blurry footage, a small passenger ship was parked on the sea a few nautical miles away, and the **** tentacles disappeared behind the passenger ship.

   Ignore the coincidence that the blood-colored tentacles on the vast sea just coincide with the small passenger ship, the tentacle host may be on the passenger ship.

   "It's not far from us."

   Leaving the telescope, Lu Li said to himself in the eyes of outsiders.

   "Are we here to wait for it to land?"

  Lu Li's eyes fell on the upside-down wooden boat on the beach: "It's better to get close to it before it docks."

   "We can find another host first." Ana said.

  Lu Li shook his head gently: "The host on the passenger ship may still be alive, I'm not sure if he can perceive me. Just in case, boarding the passenger ship on the surface will give him nowhere to escape."

   "Then just sit as you said..." Anna's voice faded.

  Lu Li walked down the steps from the gap in the guardrail and stepped on Sha Shuo to approach the darker sandy beach and a small wooden boat.

The sand and gravel rose along with the opened wooden boat. Anna let Lu Li sit in the wooden boat, ignoring the surprise and panic of the people around the beach admiring the coastal scenery, and pushed the small wooden boat, as if sailing on the sea and sliding on the beach, leaving a line of gully rushing. Entering the sea, facing the waves with unabated speed, rushing towards the direction Lu Li pointed.

  The sea breeze was blowing along with the waves, and the black hair and the hem of the clothes were separated. The galloping wooden boat did give Lu Li the illusion that he was still on a peaceful and peaceful earth.

Anna pushed the small wooden boat directly to the position pointed by Lu Li. An ocean liner that had just left the port was on the path of the wooden boat. She was only slightly disguised, speeding past the feet of this ocean-going giant ship that almost covered the sky, throwing off the pointing point on the deck. The passengers and crew of a small wooden boat with white spray wakes left behind.

   Then Anna suddenly felt annoyed.

   Obviously she can carry Lu Lifei over with her own hands.

   On the other side, Lu Li, who was bound by Anna to the small wooden boat to prevent it from being thrown out, squinted slightly, watching the boat get closer and closer to the passenger ship where a black spot had appeared.

  More details are revealed as you approach, the slightly faded hull, the anchor falling into the water, the figures walking on the deck, and the **** tentacles hanging into the hull.

   A few minutes later, only a few hundred meters away from the small passenger ship, Lu Li raised his arm and motioned Anna to stop.

  Ana dissipated her strength and let the small wooden boat float forward.

  Lu Li stared at the body walking on the deck for a moment, and suddenly whispered to himself, "One two three four five six seven eight... one two three four five six seven eight... one two three four five..."

   (end of this chapter)