Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 681 Two hundred and fifty eight. The thorns blocking the road lie ahead

   "It's almost...like a dream."

  Murray stared at the shillings on the table and whispered, unable to believe how easy they were to get them. But he was a little worried: "Are you sure it's true? What kind of plant disease was caused by those heretics, and they are still working on a bigger conspiracy...?"

  If it's fake, they should run away now. If it is true, the money is well deserved, but it makes people unhappy...

   "Who knows." Parker replied drunkenly, holding the bottle.

   "Uh..." Murray looked back at the shilling on the wine table, his eyes hot. "Put your pay away, don't be discovered by those guys."

   "No. You should be holding it."

   "What? It's not—" Murray was about to defend when Parker cut him roughly. "Why not? It's going to be used for drinking anyway—"

   "Okay... I'll put this money alone, and only buy wine for you and me." Murray sipped the wine in his mouth and reached out to pick them up.

   Parker pushed up his chair at this time, stood up staggeringly and walked towards the door of the tavern.

"Where are you going?"

   Parker raised his head to drank the last drop of wine, held up the bottle of wine and said, "I'm going back to have a good rest for a day, and then... continue drinking."

   "Okay, see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow."

   opened the wooden door with his shoulders, and the shaking Parker disappeared behind the door.

  …

   "Tavi Town is...here."

   The delicate fingers poked in the northeast of Luolei Fort, more than thirty miles away, not very far.

   "Are we going to go now? I think it's better to settle this side first..."

   "Why." Lu Li asked calmly while observing the yellowed map.

   "Weird believers are creating big conspiracies, we have to stop them, after all, this is our purpose, isn't it? As long as we destroy the conspiracy of Thunder Fort, their conspiracy will stop like a machine that has lost its gears."

  Emin didn't know Lu Li's true purpose, but her advice was equally valid: Aunt Mary fell into the hands of weird believers, and their plot to sabotage them could slow her death.

   It’s just that if you go to Tavi Town at this time, you might be able to meet Anna.

   "We can also help the assistant lady. The strange believer's attention is attracted, and she will act better." Emin added.

  Emin moved Lu Li. They went back to the Exorcist Society.

   Knowing that Lu Li decided to stay and help, the exorcists were very happy, and it was always good to have someone to share the pressure, especially when there were only two exorcists here.

   But they are not optimistic that Lu Li can solve plant diseases.

The    plant disease has been spreading for at least three weeks, during which time they have not found any solution.

  The branch that emerges from the body is cut off, and soon new branches will grow elsewhere.

   Exorcists have tried to "clean" the branches of a recently infected patient, but it did nothing except leave the patient with scars and ischemia and severe pain.

  Infected people continue to grow shoots.

   "We can't feel the curse and parasitism from them, as if the plants that grow are part of their body..." The exorcist sighed.

   There is no fool who can become an exorcist. They quickly doubted whether the plant diseases that the locals were infected with were related to the locals, and began to investigate the origin of the infected people and the history of the Fallen Castle, but unfortunately they did not find any useful clues.

   "How many people are infected?" Lu Li asked.

   "There are seventy-eight people in total, and there are still fifty-six left. They are all arranged on the second floor of the association." The exorcist replied.

   "Can you die from a plant disease?" Emin asked in confusion.

   "No...you have seen the patient with the longest infection, she is still alive. It is...other reasons..." The exorcist became depressed and did not hide the previous incident from Lu Li.

   "At the beginning, people discovered the first infected person, and the City Lord's Mansion captured him, rendered him into a terrifying monster, and then pushed him to the gallows as a monster..."

   "You use the gallows to deal with 'weird'?" Emin interrupted the exorcist's narration.

   "No... We all know he's not weird, but the City Lord's Mansion needs people to be brave, and patients infected with plant diseases can't think and resist..."

The exorcist continued bitterly: "The poor patient was hanged on the gallows, but soon the same happened to some soldiers and civilians who had been in contact with the patient. It was only after a few more patients were killed that people realized It's a terrible plague."

   "What about the dead infected person?"

   "They were all burned. We were worried that the bodies would contaminate the land."

   "So you haven't had a burial and an autopsy?"

"No……"

   The exorcist shook his head. That sounds like something a doctor would do, not an exorcist.

  Lu Li asked them to find a doctor who can operate and a patient who can operate.

  Anatomy may not help them find the truth, but it can help them exclude some illusions.

  The mortality rate of surgery in the early industrial age was high, and most patients died of bleeding during surgery or postoperative infection and various complications.

   So the exorcist forced the selection of a patient who was "willing to cooperate" with the operation. The exorcist described him as "a scum who hurt innocent little girls because of desire", and the poor little girl who was hurt also became infected.

   Apparently they were prepared for the death of the patient.

   This sloppy man was still struggling and yelling like a mad dog when he was tied to the operating table, and fell into a drowsy sleep after the doctor gave him an injection.

  The operator is an "outside" doctor who has lived in Loreburg for more than ten years.

  "Native" is a very strict condition, for example, it must be born in Thunder Fort.

   But just in case, the doctor and the onlookers, Lu Li and others, put on splash-proof clothing.

  The doctor took off the patient's shirt, and his body surface was covered with wounds that had not yet scabbed over, some of which had oozing pus.

   "See those wounds? A patient who has been infected for more than ten days will grow so many branches, but he has been infected for less than three days. The more he resists pulling the branches, the faster they grow."

   The muffled voice from behind the exorcist's mask came out, and explained: "His wound has nothing to do with us, it was made by the infected himself."

   "I'm going to start surgery, back off."

   The doctor reminded, take a sharp scalpel and gently cut through the skin of the patient's chest and abdomen.

  Blood lines appeared, the doctor dipped the blood with cotton, and continued the operation...or dissection.

   The doctor will of course know the identity of the patient.

   Peeling off the skin and fat layer, the doctor sighed from under the blood-stained mask: "Unbelievable... His organs are all fibrotic..."

   "Fibrosis? What is that?" asked the exorcist.

   Lu Li observed quietly. The patient's air-exposed organs are not pathologically fibrotic, but more like rough wood fibers.

   "Just become like a cork." The doctor's explanation was simpler.

   (end of this chapter)