Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 560 One Hundred and Thirty Seven. Western Hills Gathering

   At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Li put the three books in his suitcase, and after talking with Lilia, he brought the "lighthouse" and an ordinary oil lamp, and went to the meeting place with Anna, the western hills.

   Hundreds of years ago, this was an area that only the royal family was allowed to enter, and it was completely opened to the outside world a hundred years ago. Standing on the top of the hill, you can see the entire vast city that never sleeps and the wonderful Star Lake reflecting the stars on the top of the hill, which makes people keen to come to picnic parties.

   Until the first calamity of night falls.

   Plants stopped growing, fog covered the sky, and the wild represented danger. No one wants to go where the woods wither and the lake becomes the western hills of stagnant water.

  There was a rental car shop in the block at the foot of the western hills. Lu Li deposited the carriage and was pushed by Anna, and approached the gentle and low hills at the end of the street.

When    arrived at the foot of the mountain, the sky began to get dark, and it was not far from the night.

   Here, Lu Li and Anna encountered a stopped carriage, the servant lifted the curtain, and the middle-aged gentleman in a tuxedo stepped out.

   He looked curiously at Lu Lianna not far away: "Are you here for the party?"

   Lu Li nodded in response.

   "Then you must be Your Excellency Lu Li invited by Fulai." The middle-aged gentleman smiled and followed the groom carrying the box to Lu Li's side. "Allow me to introduce myself. The Maflin family, the exorcist Henry Maflin greets you."

   "Senior investigator, Lu Li."

   "We've all heard of your legendary experience." Henry Maflin laughed and said, "It seems that my luck is as good as Fry's, and I can meet you before the other guys."

   The second-level exorcist is not common, but it is not respected by the exorcist family that has lasted for several generations, or even a dozen generations.

   The real reason is that Lu Li personally resolved the dispute between the two evil gods and killed one of them.

   He did a lot of things that a third-level exorcist couldn't do.

  Can become an exorcist, except for the night watchman, most of them are curious about the unknown.

  Mysterious, never in contact with people, Lu Li is like the unknown.

  Henry Ma Fulin introduced their gathering to Lu Li: to exchange knowledge with each other, or to tell stories they know. Usually held once a month, friends who are exorcists can be invited. Henry Maflin was the party he was introduced to by a friend.

   He told Lu Li that there might only be four of him in this gathering—many exorcists in the royal city went to the surrounding areas to maintain law and order and follow the evacuated people from the villages and towns, and would not be able to return until tomorrow.

   "I guess Foley and Rod want to know about your legendary experience." Henry Mufflin said with a smile, moving along the trail between the dead woods to the top of the hill.

   After thinking, Lu Li replied, "There is still a Cthulhu still alive. If you mention the Shadow Town incident, the Cthulhu will probably pay attention."

   "That's a pity." Henry Mufflin felt regretful.

   He didn't ask who was pushing the wheelchair. Like a servant following him. Henry Ma Fulin thought it was Lu Li's servant or servant.

   Passing through the sparse jungle, the turbulent Star Lake and the Wangcheng buildings extending to the end of the horizon under the hills appear in the eyes.

   "It seems that Foley came earlier than us." Henry Ma Fulin looked at the figure at the other end of Star Lake and said, bypassing the 100-meter-diameter Star Lake and approaching Foley.

  Kig Foley was building a bonfire, and when he noticed the two approaching, they were already a dozen meters away.

   "Hi Ma Fulin, Your Excellency Lu Li." Giger Foley greeted him, and he was very happy to see Lu Li appear.

   Ma Fulin's servants were sent by him to build a bonfire, and Jige Foley and Ma Fulin, who were free, gathered beside Lu Li.

   "It's just that Rhodes didn't arrive." Keig Foley looked across the lake, and the trail up the hill still disappeared.

   After a while, the built bonfire was lit, dispelling the increasingly dark sky.

  The streets that stretch under the hills are lit with a few street lamps, like stars adorning the evening.

   As evening approached, the last figure finally appeared. Rod Tesla, Foley, they have already introduced him to Lu Li.

   A familiar surname, and Rod Tess then said that this familiarity was real: "My uncle mentioned you many times."

   "Michael Tesla?"

   "Hmm." The young exorcist nodded and smiled, "So I knew you earlier than those three guys."

  Kig Foley seemed to relax. Rod Tesla is not a good guy, it has something to do with the family behind him and it has something to do with his character. But now it seems that there is no need to worry that he will have a conflict with Lu Li.

  The light behind the clouds is completely far away from the earth, and the starry king city wraps the only dark western hill. But the western hills were not completely dark, and at the top of the hills, there was a small firelight.

  The four exorcists gathered in front of the crackling bonfire, and Keig Foley slowly turned the food on the fire, starting the theme of today's party: "Then I'll start first."

  Ma Fulin teased: "As long as you don't tell repeated stories."

   "Of course not, this story was specially prepared for Lu Li."

   "I remember that you have been teaching students knowledge at the university recently." Ma Fulin said suspiciously.

   "It's my brother's."

  Kig Foley answered with a shrug, the firelight licking his face and slowly recounting his brother's experience.

  There is a centuries-old open-air excavation site in the Tashoefik area of ​​the Kingdom of Ellen. It was originally excavated for stone materials for newly built towns dozens of miles away. But after digging down more than ten meters, it was found that the bottom layer contains rare minerals.

The    excavation site was subsequently taken over by the authorities, and in the following hundred years, the original excavation site, which was only a dozen meters deep, was expanded enough to accommodate a village.

  About 60 years ago, the amount of minerals mined in the excavations began to decrease. When people thought that the mineral resources were exhausted, new minerals were discovered soon after, and they were even more rare and precious: gold mines.

  Although disturbing things happen from time to time during the excavation, such as bones buried in the ore, mad miners, it is impossible for the royal family to stop mining precious gold because of the lives of slave slaves.

There was also a gold rush in the   Tashufik area, and many people risked being caught and hanged by guards and sneaking around the dig site to try to dig out the gold.

  The allure of gold is greater than expected. For decades, the royal family has gained a lot of wealth from the excavation site. Correspondingly, the excavation site has changed from accommodating villages to cities. The bottom of the excavation site is even nearly 300 meters above the ground. Downward stretches like the swirling mark on the sand left by the departure of a conch shell.

The    excavation became a strange event after the arrival of the Calamity of Night.

  The workers reported that the geology had begun to turn into strange black stones. A few days later, the bottom of the pit was suddenly enveloped in a strange gray mist spewing from the ground, swallowing hundreds of workers who were excavating.

   (end of this chapter)