Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 548 One Hundred Twenty Five. Lighthouse

   Anna, who took Lu Li, was as far away from the North Swamp as possible, which forced her to enter the territory of the Mother of Swamps. But until the Fallen Leaf Mountains at the end of the swamp road appeared, the mother of the swamp never appeared, only the occasional peeping from the dark jungle below.

When    was about to fly out of the swamp road, the swamp mother took the initiative to contact them.

   A shadowy figure stood in the open space between the jungles, looking up at Lu Li and Anna who flew by.

  For the timid and photophobic Yingchuo, this is already a certain kind of indication.

After    asked Lu Li, they fell down and set foot in this Shadow Swamp again.

   But the danger is long gone from them.

  【I...want you...help...】

  Yingchuoren's mouth split open, and a whisper came out intermittently.

   Knowing that the mother of the swamp was talking to them, Anna took the initiative to say: "If it is to deal with the existence of the northern swamp, we can't do it."

【why……】

  The Swamp Mother's whisper was incomprehensible.

   "You should know our strength, if you can't resist, we are the same." Anna never thought that she and Lu Li were strong.

   Ana was already a Wraith in the Shadow Swamp event. But she couldn't even get close to the half-separated old mother's body that was sealed under the giant banyan tree.

  【I thought...we could...】

   "It's just a coincidence that the weak wins the strong." Lu Li said.

   He and Anna have the same idea - facing the weirdness of the evil god, humans are no different from ants.

After the    voice fell, Lu Li asked, "What is the awakened existence in the North Swamp?"

   After a brief silence, the Swamp Mother answered Lu Li's question: [A...thumb...]

   "More specific." Lu Li frowned.

   A thumb can be seen as a monster, or as part of a monster.

   The latter is far more frightening than the former.

  【It is the wreckage of an existence...the consciousness of existence awakens...the wreckage is the same...】

   "I'll give you some advice." Lu Li suddenly said, staring at Yingchuo, as if he was looking at the mother of the swamp behind him: "Look for a new territory and give up here."

  Lu Li understands the importance of territory to the evil god, the evil **** who loses the territory will decline because of the loss of the source of power. However... If you leave, you may still have the opportunity to occupy a new territory, and if you stay, you will be completely wiped out.

  The existence of a thumb of the remains of the dead body can invade the territory of the Swamp Mother. Perhaps in the eyes of that existence, the Swamp Mother is just a kind of ant.

  【I will think about...your suggestion...】

   After the conversation, Lu Li, the mother of the swamp, asked another question before leaving the consciousness: when the Shadow Swamp was invaded.

  The Swamp Mother's answer is ten days and her territory will be fully occupied, resisted or not.

   Feeling of powerlessness is the reason why the Swamp Mother asked Lu Li for help.

  Ten days is enough for Lu Li to return and take Adam Fuya from Shadow Town. But just in case, he told the mother of the swamp about Adang Fuya's situation, hoping that it would take care of it.

Before    left, the whisper of the Swamp Mother suddenly drifted slowly in the wind.

  【Are you going to...the Lord's Continent...】

  Lu Li paused slightly, remembered something, nodded and replied, "I will help you find the whereabouts of Duke Aedra's son."

   Archduke Adela, the mother of the swamp was once the father of humans.

  Mother of the Swamp no longer whispered, Anna hugged Lu Li and flew to the sky. When she was about to get far, she looked back at the clearing.

   A lacquer black figure still loomed there.

  …

  Deciduous Town.

  This town is feeling its last tenderness - many people who pass through the swampy road stop here to rest.

   There is no need to stop here, skip the Fallen Leaf Town and fly along the road and Fallen Fallen Mountains to the coastal town on the coastline.

   It's not on the route passing through Ellen's King City. It's because Lu Li has something he wants to confirm.

   In the final test, Lu Li, who resisted the temptation of "The Body of the Old Ones", returned to the seaside hut with the star-like consciousness and fell asleep.

  The seaside cottages you see there are similar to those in coastal towns.

   He has to know whether the scene is a subconscious projection, or is it on the blurred border between fantasy and reality.

   Over time, the whimpering of the wind blowing through the treetops is replaced by the sound of the waves, and over the deciduous mountains, flat, open coastlines and small towns emerge.

  Same fate as Watching Town, this seaside town was abandoned due to its geographical location and sparse population size. The streets were deserted, but perhaps some residents who didn't want to leave stayed.

  Anna didn't want to find out how many people there were in the town, and took Lu Li straight to the beach house.

  The footprints that once remained have long been smoothed out by the rising tide, and only the wooden house itself and the wooden boat on the upside-down beach not far away are consistent with the scene in memory.

   Anna supported, Lu Li stepped up the steps and pushed open the wooden door that was just hidden.

  The strong rotten smell of the wooden corpse rushed towards him, and a gust of air surged, and Anna was swept out of the house.

  Lu Li stood outside the door, his eyes swept across the narrow room. The messy bed, the half-closed cabinet door, the abyss-like deep traces on the floor disappeared at some point, and an old oil lamp was placed on the dining table in front of the window.

   It shouldn't be there.

  When reality left, there was only moldy and rotten food on the plate.

   It should have been there.

   When the test fell asleep, a black robe silhouette walked into the wooden house and placed it on the dining table.

The    oil lamp itself is stripped from the dreamlike unreality.

  Anna didn't notice anything unusual about the oil lamp that Lu Li was staring at, so she helped Lu Li approach and watched him reach out and lift the oil lamp.

   When Lu Li touched the originally extinguished oil lamp, the wick glowed faintly. It was not a flame, but it was like a flame.

  Anna suddenly felt a sense of rejection from the oil lamp.

   This is not some kind of illusory power, but an inner emotion. Like dislikes and dislikes, people tend to stay away.

   told Lu Li what he felt, and when Lu Li thought about it, the faint light in the oil lamp gradually disappeared, and the feeling that Anna wanted to stay away also disappeared.

   "Is this what the black robe has left for you?" asked Anna, who had already known the test process.

  Lu Li nodded lightly, it seemed to know that it would come here and take away what it left behind: "But the price is to burn humanity."

  The base of the old oil lamp is engraved with two lines of inscriptions integrated with the oil lamp.

  【The brilliance of humanity gathers in the wick】

  【It should be where it is】

  The light of the oil lamp will be weak and strong due to Lu Li's will, and can be manipulated.

  A practical prop that can effectively disperse Xiao Xiao’s coveting, the only drawback is the cost of burning human nature.

The   oil lamp was the only thing left by the man in black robe. After getting it, Lu Li and Anna left the coastal town and went to the penultimate stop of the trip.

   Tower Windy City.

   (end of this chapter)