Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 734 Twenty-five. Eternal Night Comes

   Be careful near the area traversed by the ghouls, the plague-like stench of rot that they bring has not dissipated.

The    stench stems from the ghouls themselves, as well as the rotten flesh they shed from the food they carry.

   Katarina covered her mouth and nose with a strip of cloth and gave Lu Li a piece: "Let's go faster, the ghoul's rotten nose is very sharp."

  The plague breath carried by ghouls will cause people to contract various diseases, and diseases are equivalent to death for most hunters without savings.

   Quickly passed through the foul-smelling area, during which Lu Li lowered his head to observe the footprints of the ghouls, and the three big toes connected to the flat and long feet were easy to identify.

   was far enough away that Katarina took off her mask and took a deep breath.

   The next journey was quicker - Katarina was worried that the other hunters would discover the migration of the ghouls and arrived at Leviathan town before them.

   The first hunter to bring back the news will be rewarded handsomely, the second one will get nothing.

   Katarina's survival experience avoided many dangers for them.

  For example, a wooden house standing abruptly on a mound exists undisguised in the wilderness, with dim lights shining through the windows, and the crooked-necked tree in front of the house looks like a witch’s hut.

   Nothing but weirdness.

   For example, in a fog-like area shrouded in fog, novice hunters or hunted hunters may rush to take refuge in a panic.

   "The fog disappears very quickly, it only exists for an hour or two after the early morning, and it must be a low-lying place. See? That fog is not a low-lying place." Katerina whispered.

   And there are traces of that fog. It does not change and wriggle like a real haze, but like a solid mass, a mass of haze with substance, the surface will not change.

   You may run into the fog head-on if you rush in, but it is more likely that you will be digested by the fog if you rush into it.

  Perhaps because of the migration of ghouls, the strangeness in the dark field has become sparse. Katarina said so, but they saw a lot of weirdness, just because the flat wilderness made the viewing distance so far, they were able to avoid it before encountering it.

  Caterina counted the time with the climbing light stealer, which was already close to the morning sun, ready to catch the light at any moment.

   They delayed for a while because the ghouls got in the way.

  When the wooden sign inserted on the mound reminded passers-by that there were only thirteen miles left from the town, Katerina took Lu Li to the town of Leviathan quickly.

   There is a clear difference between the safe zone and the wilderness - although it is also a dark and barren land, there is no ubiquitous whispering and chilling sense of prying in the safe zone.

   At some point, Katarina looked up to the south.

   "Come on, we're late."

With a    whisper, Katarina suddenly ran.

The noise of running is like courting death in the wilderness, but they are not too far from the safe zone, and the more dangerous light stealers are approaching - careful walking will not allow them to rush into the safe zone before the night comes .

   The cloaked Lu Li followed Katerina. He raised his head, his hood slipping off his head, to the south sky. Shimmering light spreads around the Lightstealer, rising high enough that its thin shadow claws are slowly stretching out.

  The barren land, the dark field, outside the safety zone of Leviathan town, two inconspicuous figures are speeding up.

   Ahead of them, a burning torch from the town pointed the way.

   Above the sky, the open shadow claws set off their anxiety.

   Nightmarish sharp shadow claws curled up and ripped apart the sky.

  The dimly lit rock walls and magma fire rings are like canvases on a drawing board, wrinkled and stacked by the grasping of shadow claws, revealing only darkness and pure nothingness behind the canvas.

   Katarina's breathing spread across the wilderness, and Lu Li's breathing was relatively steady, quietly watching the apocalyptic scene taking place in the sky: the entire sky was torn down by Light Stealers and fell to the edge of the world.

   Nothingness occupied the sky, and a black line was coming towards the earth behind him.

  The black line spanned several miles every moment, and in an instant it approached the two running—

The    safe zone was so close, Katerina could almost see the writing on the border board.

   At the same time, the thick darkness completely shrouded their figure.

  Eternal night falls.

   rustling…

   murmurs sounded in my ears, and something climbed up the back, pulling the body, making the body sluggish and the movement sluggish.

  The boundary of the safe area was silent for a while, and two figures suddenly rushed out of the darkness, and there were loud footsteps.

   Katarina took out the fluorite, and the fluorescent light, which was darker than the oil lamp, barely illuminated her body.

   The darkness not far away was surging, and it was blocked outside the safe zone.

   "Almost stuck in the eternal night..."

   Katarina gasped, with the joy and regret of the rest of her life.

   She thought she could go to Ghost Town today, and then go to Midnight City from the old sewers.

   calmed her breath, she and Lu Li walked quickly towards Leviathan Town.

  The safety zone was surrounded by flickering fluorescent light and constant light. Those were the people who arrived in the safety zone not long ago. These people who returned to the safe zone at the last minute risked a lot of danger, but they were nothing compared to Lu Li and Katerina, who had returned from Yongye.

  Katerina looked around suspiciously, Lu Li asked what happened, she shook her head and avoided the topic: "The rule of Leviathan Town is that water is not allowed."

"why."

   "Who knows. You can drink coffee, soup, tea and even blood, but you just can't drink water, so I don't like it here."

   Getting closer and closer to the town where the torch was lit, Katerina reminded Lu Li: "Cover your face with a cloak."

  Lu Li picked up the hood that slipped while observing the Lightstealer and put it on, hiding his face in the shadows.

   But after doing everything, he found Katerina staring at him, and suddenly touched the eyeball with the homolog.

   "You're not quite right." Lu Li looked at her calmly.

   "We were stuck in the eternal night for two or three seconds, maybe we lost some sanity at that time." Katerina put down her palm embarrassedly: "I hope to recover."

   "What's your sanity level?" Lu Li asked.

   "Most of the time I have auditory hallucinations, sometimes hallucinations." Katerina said indifferently: "I saw a group of tentacles drilled out of your cloak just now, which scared me."

   Of course she knew the seriousness of sanity, but there were countless things in the wilderness that were more terrifying and deadly than sanity. Some auditory hallucinations? It's just a small problem until they actually show up.

Before entering Leviathan Town, Katarina unscrewed the water bag to add enough water, and Lu Li also opened her water bag to drink some purified water - water that is less polluting than distilled water, and the cost can buy nearly two pounds of small meat. 18 shillings.

   Entering Leviathan Town, the difference here is visible to the naked eye compared to Tango Town, which is not much different from the former town.

   This makes it even more clear that they live in weird times where they can die at any moment.

   (end of this chapter)