Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 476 Fifty-three. Candle Head

   Lu Li had experienced the weird fog, when the gallery first contacted Anna.

  It wasn't so bad back then, the world, the spooky fog itself, and Anna...

   "Cough cough..."

   The sound of a child's imprinted cough came from the corridor, and the longhouse was far quieter than usual.

   The looming cries sounded, and it was pitiful to hear that a woman's husband was trapped in the harbour.

  【...Shasha...Exorcist united...】

   The sound on the radio was intermittent and noisy.

  Lu Li reached out to adjust the frequency, trying to make the sound clearer.

   This is not a special broadcast, the content is aimed at the public in all Belfast cities.

   The faint smell of burning wood wafted from the kitchen, and Anna set fire to almost everything in the detective agency, except the house itself.

  Three oil lamps with steady, faint light, a kitchen stove, and a few candles.

   Just when the thick fog came from the street and completely wrapped the Sailor Street, the faint candlelight went out in an instant.

  Everything in the house seems to be veiled, the sculpture huddled in a corner away from the window, motionless.

   Outside the curtained window, something seems to be walking down the street.

   From time to time, shattering sounds and screams cut through the night sky, and then stopped abruptly.

   Someone is dying from a strange fog.

  [No one knows...Shasha...what's the matter...The Exorcist United Organization's suggestion to you is...Shasha...dodge...don't pay attention. Hiding in a closed and bright... rustling... is safe, even if it makes a not too loud noise... rustling... strangely discovered in the fog...]

  The eerie fog affects the broadcast signal, and the sound is becoming more and more muffled.

[…The weird fog won’t be recognized yet… Swish… Evil spirits… We don’t know what caused it… Swish… lasts longer… Haunts… Swish… maybe at dawn… or ... disperse...]

  【Keep the light source bright...there are those who dare not violate the existence of light in the fog...Shasha...Azatori...]

  Empty, muffled prayers mixed with the whimpering of the wind suddenly intruded into the broadcast and continued, sounding disturbingly.

  The original content of the broadcast was mixed with church-like prayers, making it difficult to hear, but as time passed, they became clearer and seemed to appear all around——

   At this moment, Lu Li raised his head and looked out the window.

   A row of bright silhouettes walked slowly down the street.

   Will anyone go out at this time?

  Lu Li frowned, then suddenly reached out to turn off the loud radio.

  The silence after turning off the radio only lasted for a moment, because Lu Li heard whispering prayers still coming.

  From the window.

  Ana and Lu Li looked at each other, floated to the window, and looked out from the edge.

   She frowned as if she saw some incomprehensible food, and returned to Lu Li after ten seconds.

   "It's a group of candle heads..." Anna recalled what she saw and described to Lu Li: "A group of figures with candle heads... They were wearing long robes, lined up in two lines on the street like believers..."

   Any kind of weirdness can exist in the weird fog.

   Luckily, light sources dissipate fog, and they only exist where fog is present.

  Lu Li turned on the radio again, and Anna went back to the window to continue observing.

  As the candle heads on the street gradually moved away, the sound of prayers on the radio gradually faded away, returning to a noisy and surging broadcast sound.

   "Will Richard do something at night?"

   Something was moving in the surging fog, Anna frowned and left the window, asking Lu Li.

   "Like us, he can't move in the weird fog."

  Unless Richard has a way of avoiding danger, or he's crazy enough to go out under these conditions.

   So Lu Li and Richard are relatively equal - Lu Li is a little behind. Because Lu Li only needs to act, and one night's delay is enough for Richard to think of a new way to deal with it.

   In any case, there is only one tentacle left, and Richard's plots and traps can only appear there.

   "Go and rest, I'll keep watch." Anna said.

The    broadcast says the spooky fog will clear at dawn, and after recuperating tonight, take out the last Scarlet Tentacle and Richard tomorrow morning before they head to the safety of the Lennon Islands.

"Um."

   The bed in the bedroom was so damp that it was difficult to lie down. Lu Li turned off the sound of the small radio. He just put his woolen coat over his body and lay down on the desk to rest.

  Ana watched quietly for a while, then returned to sit on the sofa under the window where Lu Li and the door could be seen, flipping through the books she had read a few days ago.

  The night was filled with eerie fog, and the detective agency returned to a dark and dead silence.

  …

  Boom!

  bang bang bang bang!

   A quick knock on the door entered his ears.

   Lu Li, who was sleeping lightly, gradually woke up, and in his open black eyes, there was a trembling desk and a rippling cup of water.

   It was not the door of the detective agency that was knocked, but the door of the longhouse.

   Midnight, the strange fog has not yet dissipated, and the sound of continuous knocking on the door kept coming.

More and more residents in the longhouse were woken up. They got out from under the bed and from the closet and looked at each other in panic. The mother hugged her child, while the father grabbed the completely useless wooden stick and looked nervously at the longhouse. house corridor.

  bang bang bang bang!

   The knock on the door and the vibration continued, and at a certain moment, a questioning voice with insufficient confidence sounded: "Yes... who is it!"

The    knock on the door paused for a moment, and then there was a terrified, broken voice: "Old Hand? It's me! I'm Finn! Finn! Quickly let me in!"

   "It's human, he has an oil lamp, and there are no monsters."

  Ana said to Lu Li who sat up.

  Lu Li nodded, put on his coat, walked to the door, and opened the door of the detective agency.

   The knock on the door suddenly became clear, and Lu Li found that many doors on the corridor were half-closed, and there were figures prying behind the doors.

   "I can't let you in, you...you could be a monster!"

   At the door, old Hand, the gatekeeper, shouted to the door in panic.

   "Monster? I'm not a monster! Emily... Are you there, Emily! Hurry up and get Old Hand to open the door!"

   "Finn..."

   A woman couldn't hold back her emotions. She opened the door and ran out of the corridor crying, and was pulled by other residents who went out.

  Old Hand was about to say no to the thin wooden door when Lu Li walked up to him and said, "There are people outside. He has an oil lamp, and the light will disperse the fog."

   "I recognize my husband's voice, it must be him...it must be..." The wife Emily also cried with the woman's support.

  The overwhelmed old Hand looked at the coming landlord. The landlord gritted his teeth and said, "Listen...Listen to Mr. Exorcist, quickly open the door and let him in."

   "Thank you...Thank you Mr. Landlord, thank you Mr. Exorcist..."

   The sobbing Emily apologized repeatedly, while on the other side, Old Hand hurriedly took off the latch—

   (end of this chapter)