Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 693 Two hundred and seventy. Even if he is not human, he will not be stingy with his own mercy

   "Wrapped in mud, the outline of a pig, and it will grow after feeding." The village chief Abdel described it.

   Compared with sculpture, it is more vivid to describe it with clay sculpture, or: a pig covered with mud.

   It is dead, but alive in another way.

  The villager told the village chief about the third day after he brought it back, claiming that it could protect the village and give those who believed in it a magical power: pain relief.

   or become numb.

  The villager split his arm with a dagger without changing his face, and the village chief believed it. Despite a tinge of apprehension about the weird, the statue doesn't seem to be asking too much—as long as it's fed.

   "How does it eat?" Lu Li asked.

   "When no one is watching, there will be a sound like a pig eating... and then the food disappears," the village chief Abdel replied.

   Maybe it is a psychological effect, maybe it shelters the village, and the appearance of the statue really makes the villagers feel at ease.

   But over time, problems started to appear.

   "It ate more and more, and we couldn't afford the meat, so we started feeding jicama. It also accepted the jicama, but it didn't take long for us to feed the jicama..."

The    united villagers split at this time. A group of villagers, headed by the head of Abdel, wanted to send the sculpture away. Otherwise people would die of starvation without needing it to shelter the village.

   The remaining villagers, mainly believers, refused because they wanted more abilities.

  Because of faith, they are not afraid of pain, nor hungry.

   However, rather than the believers gaining power because of their piety, it is more like they were surrounded by statues for a long time and were infected by strangeness.

  Because the mayor of Abdel said that the statue would do nothing but eat. The so-called "revelation" and "vision" are all fabricated by believers or made by themselves.

  The village chief of Abdel was suspended, and the villagers were ordered not to approach the statue, but this also prevented them from being numb by the statue.

   Until the devotees go out hunting, the statue's appetite cannot be satisfied.

  The believers began to set their eyes on the merchants and travelers who came and went.

   They carry food.

   They carry money that can be exchanged for food.

   They are both food.

  Although the endless disasters and times of silence make people reluctant to leave the gathering place, there are always migrants and merchants passing through this village less than 70 miles from the revolving city.

  The former will pass by every once in a while, not much but stability. The latter pass occasionally, but both themselves and the goods and money they carry can last a long time—provided the villagers don't feed endlessly.

   Those believers obviously don't do that.

   So the statue grew so bloated that it had to be moved into a barn named "Church" by the faithful.

Under the endless feeding, hunting and looting passers-by could not satisfy the appetite of the statue, so just tonight, the village chief Abdel and other villagers who had already been under control were sent to the pigsty with the travelers who were arrested yesterday, ready to go. Dedicated to the statue after the bonfire ceremony.

   Then Lu Li and Elena came to save everyone who had been reduced to meat.

The    Statue event is similar to the Believer event, but it is not the same event, and there is no sign of Anna here.

  Luni looked towards the periphery of the bonfire. The villagers who had collected clothes and water were giving them to everyone.

   Five or six believers and villagers were tied with ropes and led to the perimeter of the bonfire, with cloth strips in their mouths to block their malicious curses.

   A villager came to Abdel village chief with a male lion fur blanket, and was signaled by Abdel village chief to give it to Elena.

   "I don't need it." Elena ignored the fur that fluttered softly in the firelight, ignoring it. "So the hyenas will come to attack the village, you have hunted all the food around, they can only come to attack you."

   "It may also be because of hatred... They also killed many nearby beasts, including hyenas, because they didn't feel pain."

   "Mr. Exorcist, can I ask you to destroy that monster?" Abdel Village Chief pleaded with Lu Li.

The voice of    fell, and the rescued people gathered around the bonfire looked forward to coming.

   "Staying outside the village overnight and migrating to the Rotary City in the early morning is the best choice." Lu Li said.

   Anyway, that was just weird. It's not wise to fight monsters at night, and there's no need to provoke a monster that doesn't actively attack people for a while.

   Village Chief Abdel sighed in disappointment. Of course he knew it, but he couldn't bear the high price in his heart: the village would be abandoned and most of the population would be lost.

   "The fog is coming!"

   The night sky echoed with shouts, and a villager came running with a torch.

  People turned their heads, but nothing could be seen except the darkness of the campfire.

   "Sorry Mr. Exorcist, I'm going to try..."

   Village Chief Abdel made up his mind and approached the bonfire after bowing to Lu Li. The heat frizzed his hair, and Mayor Abdel pulled out a torch and turned toward the vaguely silhouetted barn.

  Some villagers guessed something and drew out torches, leaving behind a piece of sparks to catch up with the village chief Abdel.

   They stopped more than ten meters away from the barn, and the village chief Abdel threw the torches in unison, hit the barn, and bounced down.

   The straw decorating the "church" was ignited and burned quickly. The only wooden building in the village is slowly burning.

   The bigger "bonfire" dispelled the darkness little by little, revealing the strange fog that had engulfed the outermost houses of the village.

   Just then, a pained, helpless scream came from the barn.

  It wasn't a human scream...it was like a pig-killing cry, but it was thicker and duller, and it seemed to make people feel the pain in the cry.

   Many people looked unbearable, including the villagers who threw the torches.

   "That's a weird howl, and this is the price it deserves to pay!" shouted the village chief of Abdel. Use words to strengthen everyone's mind...including himself.

  The dry barn was completely burnt, the walls collapsed and sparks splattered, revealing the scene of the barn: a statue of a giant pig over three meters covered with silt, like a fat man sitting paralyzed, stood in the barn.

   screams lingered around it, and the statue was eerily motionless.

  Lu Li silently felt the emotion in the screams, suddenly pulled out the psychic gun, pointed at the statue, and pulled the trigger.

  !

  …

  Lu Li stood in a quiet plain in the evening.

  hum...

   A pig humming sounded not far away, Lu Li tilted his head, and saw a few months old pig wandering a few meters away, sniffing, as if there were dangers around him.

   A line of human children's footprints stretched out from beside it.

  Lu Li lowered his eyes thoughtfully, stood on tiptoe, and lightly touched the "ground" under his feet.

   The toes of his shoes fell into the muddy mud of ashes.

   This is a swamp, and the evening makes the dangerous swamp look like a plain.

  The pig raised its head at this time, sniffed, and looked at Lu Li with bright eyes.

  Lu Li raised his arm, pointing in the direction where the footprints extended.

   The little pig snorted in response, followed the extended child's footprints, and gradually disappeared into the darkness.

   (end of this chapter)