Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 705 Two hundred and eighty-two. He is willing to end everything with his own hands

  Eccentric villagers are also affected by the dark night. In the dark evening, there is light behind the windows of the houses, and the bonfire in the center of the village is rising.

   rustling…

   A folded sheet of paper was shoved in under the door. Lu Li walked over to pick it up and unfolded it. Strange, elongated words were written on it, like the necks of villagers.

   [Hello Stranger... My name is Jones Triss. It has been a long time since outsiders have come here, and I am very longing for the outside world. The village chief said that foreigners are very afraid of life, so let's not contact you, but I'm curious... I wonder if I can chat with you? 】

   A slender neck shadow appeared behind the curtain.

  Lu Li put the paper on the table, got up, removed the latch, and opened the door.

   A shy head burrowed into the door and led the girl's body into the house.

   Gently closed the door, the girl's head dropped, parallel to Lu Li: "Hello, stranger."

"Hello."

  The girl's neck is slimmer and longer than other villagers, and the root is covered with a decorative bow, which makes her head and body look like two unrelated individuals.

With curiosity and shyness,    looked at Lu Li, especially his neck: "A lot of people from other places have short necks. I heard that there are many patients like you outside... Is that true?"

   "We've always been like this, and we haven't gotten sick." Lu Li replied.

   Lu Li guessed that the cognition of the local villagers might be biased. Because the news is blocked, they can't find their own strangeness.

   Heterogeneous is the minority that is different from the majority. In a village where all are aliens, normal people are aliens.

   As for the source that makes them strange... Maybe it has something to do with the silt fruit.

  The villagers were originally normal, but their necks became longer and longer due to eating silt fruit or contacting other strange things.

   This explains why everything in the village is no different from other villages.

   "If you weren't sick, then...would it be us?" The girl turned pale and murmured.

   If it was another traveler, he might signal it euphemistically or hide it in good faith, but Lu Li would only tell her directly: "Yes."

   "So it really is..."

  The girl who had been guessing for a long time lost her soul.

   She felt strange long ago. Why do you have to lower your head to enter the low door? Why do you have to curl up your neck when you sleep with such a short bed? Why are there no ornaments to decorate your neck?

   "But why didn't we notice it? It seems that the neck has been like this since birth..."

   "Your cognition is biased."

  The girl easily thought of a traveler from a while ago. He is afraid of the villagers and thinks the people here are monsters. But after eating the silt fruit, the traveler's neck began to grow, and it no longer felt strange and settled in the village.

   "Thank you, stranger."

   The girl who knew the truth left the house.

   hung the latch again, and Lu Li returned to the bed.

  The night has come completely, the strange fog has just landed, and it will take some time to reach the inland.

   The bonfire in the center of the village has already risen, and a figure with a neck like a snake walks in front of the bonfire.

   In the middle of the night, Lu Li, who was resting with his eyes closed on the bed, opened his black eyes and looked at the window that was blocked by the curtains.

   murmurs spread from the campfire and into the house.

  Lu Li left the bed and walked to the window.

   Local villagers gather around the bonfire that dispels the eerie fog. The heads on their slender necks were like seaweed, swaying gently with whispers.

  The villagers seem to be performing ancient evil rituals.

   At a certain moment, the village chief suddenly turned his head, and his gloomy face stared at the house where Lu Li lived under the firelight——

  Lu Li returned to the bed and rested on the bed.

   After a while, the door of the room was suddenly suppressed and there was a hurried knock.

  bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang ——

   anxiously whispered between the cracks of the door: "Are you inside? The village chief said that you are here to spread the disease and plague, and will kill you as a sacrifice!"

  Click——

  The latch was removed, the door opened, and Lu Li's calm face appeared behind the door.

   The girl lowered her head and hurriedly said, "I'll take you to hide, come with me!"

   Lu Li didn't respond, he remembered the village chief's reminder: don't go out, don't look outside.

   "What's the matter? Hurry up...they come back at any time." The girl outside the door urged anxiously, and at the same time looked at the bonfire again and again, worried that the villagers would find out.

   "I'll get something." Lu Li said, he turned back to the bed, took the "lighthouse", and came to the door.

   The "lighthouse" he held in his hand suddenly lit up, and the gentle light full of vitality like the morning sun shone down on the hut, and also passed through the figure of the girl outside the door.

   She has no entity and no shadow.

   She stood outside the door and did not set foot in the house.

   "Hurry up—" The girl urged Lu Li who was standing in front of the door.

  Lu Li raised his hand, and when the girl's face changed from anxious to expressionless, he closed the door and hung the latch again.

   Do not go out after dark and do not look outside.

  bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang ——

The   knock sounded again hurriedly, only this time there was no call, only a disturbing continuation of knocking.

   The strange knock on the door lasted for dozens of seconds and disappeared in the silence.

   Outside the hazy window, there are still people around the bonfire, and it seems that no villagers have noticed anything strange here.

  Lu Li sat cross-legged on the bed, with the "lighthouse" in front of him within reach.

   He was not lured out of the house by the strange existence, but more terrifying troubles were surrounding Lu Li: alone, he could not tell the difference between the truth and the trick of the "door".

   It is possible that Lu Li would fall into the trap of the "door" and enter the third stage when he opened the door by chance, responded by chance, and contacted by chance.

   At this time, it seems that we can only hope that in the ceremony of the séance rope, the "door" is difficult to get involved.

   Although the "door" has visited once not long ago.

  The house shrouded in weird fog was always quiet, and after the episode, there was nothing to disturb Lu Li.

   The bonfire burned all night, only to go out when it was about to dawn.

   The first shimmer of the morning lit from the gaps in the curtains.

   Lu Li woke up from a light sleep.

   After waiting a few minutes for himself to be awake enough, Lu Li left the bed, put on a cloak, and opened the door with an oil lamp.

  The chill was blowing, the morning mist shrouded the village, and the smell of burning firewood lingered in the air.

   The extinguished bonfire rose up with blue smoke, and around the bonfire sat... lowly villagers.

   Their necks and heads were gone, only empty chests splattered with blood.

   In the silent mist, the cold corpses of the villagers gathered in front of the extinguished bonfire, folded their hands and put their hands on their chests to pray.

   This scene is full of blood and horror beauty.

   Lu Li glanced over dozens of bodies, and paused slightly in one of them.

   He saw a blood-stained bow.

   "You must leave after dawn."

   Thinking of the village chief's warning words, Lu Li silently pulled on his cloak and hood and left the silent village.

   (end of this chapter)