Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 601 One hundred and seventy-eight. Four keys

   "There is a note on the door."

There are more than one   , there are many notes on the thick heavy metal gate, some of which have fallen to the ground due to loss of stickiness or other reasons.

  Ana walked to the door, and when she saw that the contents of the note were the same, she casually took off a note and handed it to Lu Li.

  【The first key is where the lady is watching, the second key is in the place where the water dries up, the third key is in the chest of stars, and the last key is in its flesh. 】

   "A...mystery?" Anna's eyes fell on the keyholes in the four corners of the metal door.

  Decryption is indeed an effective method to filter out weirdness, although there are loopholes: weirdness can stand at the door of the vault and wait for humans to automatically come to the door, just like the weirdness that is entrenched in the hall and abandons the human body.

   "I can guess the last key, in that weird body outside, where are the other three?" Anna thought the puzzle was too complicated, and not only weirdness, but also some humans were filtered out.

   "It's somewhere in this bank." Lu Li took off the oil lamp hanging on the wall and lit it, and Anna returned to the hall.

   There were echoes of scratching and scratching from all over the hall, and Anna used a kitchen knife to cut up the weird corpse to find the key.

  The keyhole of the vault door can fit a finger, and as you can guess, the key will not be too small. Three minutes later, Anna found a spit out copper spoon in front of the crack in the corner and took it back to Lu Li.

   "Didn't find any other keys?" Anna asked, Lu Li's hands were empty.

   "They should all be upstairs."

  The second floor is the office area. A few messy desks and chairs indicate that there are still people on duty in this bank when Upside Down City comes. Following the house number guide, Lu Li entered the manager's office on the edge.

  Ana went straight to the desk and the corner filing cabinet. Lu Li put the oil lamp on the table, stood in front of the window and opened the curtains to look down.

   In the distance of the gray city, the top of the palace council hall, which is higher than all the buildings, pierced into the sky, almost connecting with the reflection in the upside-down city.

The crowd on the street below    has not decreased, but if you look closely, you will find that there are more figures leaving the central area of ​​​​the royal city.

   observed quietly for a while, Lu Li retracted his gaze, and his eyes fell on the office. His attention was drawn to a portrait on the wall: in the oil painting, there was a nobleman dressed in a pompous style of dress that had been around two hundred years ago, as if looking beyond the portrait.

  【Mrs. Ginny Amples】

   The inscription in the lower right corner reads the identity of the lady in the painting.

  Lu Li looked at the oil painting thoughtfully for a few seconds, then suddenly turned to look at the place she was looking at - there was also a portrait on the opposite wall: a middle-aged man with a goatee and a top hat.

  【Sir Glaft Amples】

   He is Mrs. Ginny's husband, and their decades-long love was once a good talk among the royal city aristocrats.

  Lu Li walked up to the portrait of Sir Amples as if he had found something and moved it away.

   A hidden grid was revealed where it was supposed to be a flat wallpaper, and the second key was revealed after opening it.

   "Which key is this?" Anna returned to Lu Li's side after searching unsuccessfully.

   "The first one."

   "Where Madam is watching..." Anna muttered to herself, looking around the office again, she found Madam Ginny's oil painting hanging on the wall, and understood the logic of the puzzle.

   "So the other two keys might also be hidden under this... abstract puzzle?"

  The chest of stars...maybe in the open air. Where the water dries up... the bank doesn't have a fountain, so it's probably near some mural of a river and lake or by the kitchen sink.

   It's just that Anna searched the second floor and couldn't find anything related to the two key clues. Instead, she found the answer to the mystery in a grocery box.

   A wooden box inlaid with precious gemstones piled on brooms, mops and other sundries.

  The jewels on the wooden box are like stars.

  This treasure chest is a precious treasure in itself, and it should be kept in a tight and tight treasury instead of being placed in the utility room.

   So its usefulness is self-evident.

   Open the treasure chest, and the third copper key lying quietly at the bottom of the chest appears as promised.

  Ana, who was immersed in the decryption game, muttered dissatisfaction with this, thinking that the guy who laid the puzzles was not serious. In any case, only the last key remained, and half of the third floor remained unsearched.

  The last room on the third floor of Amples Noble Bank is an exhibition room: it completely restores the bedroom of Mrs. Amples, the founder of the bank two hundred years ago.

   Maybe the bedroom that was cleaned at dawn is elegantly styled two centuries ago, and even the dresser is stocked with women's items.

   As soon as he walked in here, Lu Li saw a copper key pressed on the dark red bed.

   But Anna was puzzled: "Why is the key in the bedroom where the water dries up?"

  Lu Li glanced at Mrs. Amples's painting of an elderly woman on the wall, and replied, "Some kind of bad taste."

   All four keys have been found, and they have returned to the first floor.

  The ten minutes it took to find the key was enough for Dry Claw to clean up the body, walk through the clean hall, and they came to the gate of the vault.

  Anna inserted the four keys into the keyholes and twisted them clockwise.

  Kacha——

   A muffled sound reverberated in the hall, and the next moment, there was the sound of gears turning from the metal door, and the door of the heavy vault slowly opened automatically, revealing a staircase extending downwards.

   "I'll go ahead." Anna took the oil lamp from Lu Li's hand and walked into the cool treasure house first.

   Stepping down the last steps and passing through a long corridor closed like a dungeon, a hall with oil lamps hanging everywhere and lit candles emerges in front of you.

   Compared to the busy figure of Anna Lu who was on the table in the middle of the hall, the money cabinets around the treasure house seemed to be a foil.

   "Finally someone can get through the trouble." The old voice sounded, with gray hair, the one with his back to Lu Li and Anna was still busy with something, and didn't look back.

   The table and his feet are full of mechanical parts.

   "You know the monsters outside?" Lu Li frowned.

   "Call..."

  The old man finally finished the assembly in his hands, and with a long sigh of relief, he put the machine made of a large fist on the table, and turned back to greet the guests.

   He fits perfectly into the popular stereotype of a scientist: always wearing the white coat that a doctor would wear, scraggly, neurotic, and wearing thick glasses.

   "Why not? If it wasn't for it, I wouldn't call you here." He suddenly lowered his head and looked at Anna across the frame: "...Wraith?"

   "My assistant." Lu Li said.

"Of course... Of course... I'm not one of those exorcists who keep the old covenant." The old man waved his hand at will, expressing the difference between himself and those local ancient families, and by the way showed his disgust for them: "Introduce myself, Albert, the Demon Slayer Society...a scholar, a scientist—you know what science is?"

   (end of this chapter)