Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 6 Six. Shipwreck

  Leaving the dark and quiet wine... Detective Agency, the extended bluestone street and the pedestrians dispelled a touch of depression in my heart.

  Although the sky is still covered with a layer of fog that cannot be dissipated.

  Lu Li put on his top hat, his dark eyes in the shadow of Gujing had no waves, and calmly swept across the street.

   There are no brightly painted orange carriages on this street.

   Discarded the idea of ​​going back by car, Lu Li distinguished the direction from which he came, pressed down on his top hat, stepped forward, and turned into a figure among the pedestrians.

  Men usually wear a black vest over their shirts and jackets. The clothes are mainly black and gray. Some people wear leather shoes and hold a cane in order to show their status and money. The suspenders common on Sailor Street are hardly seen here - the clothes are also classified, and only workers and manual laborers will wear suspenders that are easy to wash and not easy to fall off.

  Women wore long lace dresses in bright colors, the length of the skirt hem almost covering the feet, and the layers of folds made the skirt fluffy. As a counterpart to leather shoes and walking sticks, they wore lace veils, feathered wide-brimmed hats so exaggerated that they crowded the streets, and they were sprayed with expensive perfumes.

  The carriages are mostly closed carriages. Occasionally, a car with a strange shape is steaming and driving through the street.

  The houses on the street have two to three floors, and the paint is mainly bright and dark, and most of them are spires or domes.

  Everything with a special Victorian aesthetic—

   Not far away, a beggar was pushed out by police patrolling the street.

  —and ignorance.

   There is no doubt that the street on which Hades is located is one of the places where Belfast's upper classes live. Most of the people who live here are businessmen, doctors, lawyers, government officials, or poor nobles, and an exorcist who regards wealth as his life.

   looked around calmly, Lu Li recalled the content of the conversation with Hades before leaving.

   "How do I carry it."

Lu Li didn't touch the flintlock gun, which was so delicate that it could be used as a work of art. He took the box and placed 20 silver-plated incantation bullets in 4x5 in the box. Including the one that came with him, there were 21 bullets in total. .

   "Take it." Hades took out the leather holster from under the counter that seemed to have everything, and threw it into Lu Li's arms. "Put the gun in the holster and you won't have to deal with those **** guys anymore."

   He didn't say the meaningless nonsense "Won't you give me a holster if I didn't ask?", he silently went over the holster, grabbed the flintlock holster and put it in the inside pocket of his coat.

The    palm only touched the gun body for a few seconds, but even so, that space affected Lu Li, making his emotions feel depressed and gloomy.

   "Friendly reminder, don't use her too much."

  The black eyes regained their focus and fell on Hades: "Reason."

"Like I said before, if you want to put out the flames in the oil lamps, you first have to get rid of the outer shield, but when you are in the same space as them, you are also equivalent to them. While you stare at the abyss , the abyss is also watching you."

   "Meaning, the longer I use it, the more I will get closer to the form of a ghost?"

"It's worse than this. You're still alive, but you've got too much of the aura there, until you overuse it, you can always be in that dimension even if you don't need a psychic gun—a living person in the ghost world, tsk. Gee. It's not the worst, the really bad thing is that you can't avoid them."

  Lu Li walked to the newsstand on the street. Behind the newsstand, an old man with gray hair and a black vest smiled politely, "Sir, what do you need?"

"a newspaper."

   “Do you want Belfast local?”

"Um."

   "Okay, wait a minute."

  The old man turned over to get the newspaper, Lu Libi stood upright in front of the newsstand and waited.

   "Besides the psychic gun, is there any other way to deal with ghosts?" Lu Li asked. After thinking about it, he added: "There won't be any negative effects."

   "Of course there is."

  The long-lost golden tooth appeared in front of his eyes: "You can ask Hades to exorcise the exorcist, and you will not lose anything except shillings."

   "What about the price."

   "Depending on the strength of the ghost, if it is a normal ghost it will only cost 300 shillings."

   "Strength? Do ghosts also have levels?"

   "People still divide the poor, the commoners and the nobles, why are there no ghosts?"

   Haders sneered, laughing at Lu Li's naivety.

   "This information is free: ghosts are divided into three types of powers, ghosts, wraiths, and evil spirits. However, in ordinary people, they are generally referred to as ghosts."

   "Why do you say that the more you know, the quicker you die? That's the last question."

   Sensing that Hades was rushing out, Lu Li finally asked a question.

   "Sir, here is your paper, a shilling."

  The old man brought a neat and new newspaper.

   handed over a coin, Lu Li unfolded the newspaper, and the smell of ink permeated.

  [The Principality of the Ellen Peninsula passed the Wine Bill with 8 votes in favor, 3 votes against, and 1 abstention. In order to protect the acreage under the Wine Act, the acreage of grapes on the Allen Peninsula is not allowed to exceed last year's. 】

  【Baron Scandal! Last night, Baron Joseph invited dozens of young and strong men to party all night in the garden at his manor—]

   [Mr. Oliver increased the daily working hours from 10 hours to 12 hours and the wages for labor remained unchanged. This proposal was criticized by other MPs—]

   Haders' last two sentences came to mind.

   "You will understand, time will tell you the answer." And a sentence "If you want to ask anything else, remember to bring money early! If it takes too long, I will raise the price!"

   Looking past a few news items, Lu Li put away the newspapers and asked the old man, "Is there any newspapers from a few days ago."

   "The day before yesterday was sold out, except for the newspapers of the last seven days the day before yesterday."

   "Give me one."

  Lu Li rummaged through his pockets, but could not find a 5-shilling coin, so he handed a 10-shilling coin instead.

   Just then, a commotion came from the corner.

   Several boys with sand on their bodies ran from the corner, shouting as they ran.

   "Something happened to the ship Rhodes!"

   "Something happened to a fishing boat! They've run into something weird, and they're in port now!"

   "Several people died!"

  Three shouting little boys ran behind Lu Li, taking a damp sea breeze.

   Pedestrians and shop clerks on the street looked at each other, and an emotion called panic was spreading, which was manifested in the rapidity of people's pace and the disorder of the orderly street.

  The idle patrol policeman came to his senses, shouting and chasing after the boys.

   "Sir, here's your newspaper and change."

  Lu Li took a small stack of newspapers and change and asked, "How long does it take to get to the port from here."

   "It will take more than 20 minutes, the carriage can be faster, sir..."

"thanks."

  Lu Li nodded his thanks, turned around and walked towards the port without waiting for the old man to finish speaking.

   (end of this chapter)