Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 786 Seventy-seven.

   "I lead the invaders to the Forest of Tranquility..."

   It sounded like a dying Professor Nuno Alexandrovich.

   His curse seems to have originated here.

  Swish——

  The tree shook its crown in response.

   "This is the order of the pioneers..."

  The wind brings whispers.

  The tree hangs down its crown in obedience.

  Zhijiao's figure walked up to Lu Li: "Intruders, come with me..."

   It turned and walked deep into the forest.

  The danger seemed to be lifted, Lu Li climbed up from the soil and brushed the leaves around him.

"my leg……"

   There was a cry of grievance behind the twisted mask on the eldest sister's head.

   "Can you recover?" Lu Li picked up the eldest sister's head.

"cannot……"

   "I'll sew it for you when this is over." Lu Li put it in the hood behind him and looked around.

  The shadows of the forest surrounded him, and the trees that stood in the fertile soil were full of life, and if necessary, they would turn into powerful warriors in an instant.

   There is no escape.

   The model's mother's roar never stopped, but she was close to exhaustion, and the sound of falling trees disappeared for a long time. It won't be long before it will be subdued by this forest and become nourishment.

   Looking back, Lu Li followed the silhouette of Zhijiao who was far away.

  Swish——Swish——

  It stepped on the thick fallen leaves and led the way indifferently.

  The deeper you go, the thicker and taller the trees are, covering the sky like a virgin forest. The accumulated fallen leaves drowned the calf, and the rustling sound of falling in was the only sound of the dark and quiet forest.

   I wonder if they, like the surrounding trees, will become warriors guarding their homes due to foreign enemies.

   Big sister clutched her hood tightly, and Lu Li followed quietly.

   After a while, a natural tree house appeared in the depths of the forest shadow.

  The branches naturally form the outline of the tree house, and the dark green leaves embellish the shape of the tree house.

  Many vegetative people with branches growing on their bodies, like Zhijiao, live here. They wear torn cloaks, and branches grow from gaps, young people and children.

   Those older vegetative people took root on the edge of the clearing, some were still humanoids, some half of their bodies turned into trees, or they became members of the forest completely.

   The scene deep in the forest is eerily serene and peaceful.

   Feeling the outsiders, they looked here curiously.

  In the middle of the clearing, a giant tree stands. It has a thicker trunk and a higher canopy, sheltering the habitat like the giant tree that shelters Midnight City.

   "The pioneers are waiting for you..."

  Zhijiao's figure stopped and turned to look at Lu Li.

  Lu Li looked at the giant tree that vaguely outlined an old face, and walked over.

   "Can we escape?"

  The eldest sister stopped screaming and whispered in Lu Li's ear.

   "If you can fly." Lu Li said, walking under the canopy of the giant tree.

   The face on the wrinkled bark slowly opened one eye.

   "I feel... your breath... I remember you..."

   Amidst the trembling rustling of the branches, a whisper of reminiscence sounded.

   "The exorcist... Lu Li."

"Who are you."

  Lu Li observed that face, trying to hear something from the old face covered with ravine bark.

   The pioneer slowly answered Lu Li.

   "Twenty-four years ago...Luo Leibao...Little Linna...remember?"

   The face of the bark in front of him gradually overlapped with that of the little girl who was infected with the plant plague and blinded in one eye.

   Lu Li nodded lightly.

   "Nice to see you're still..."

  Little Linna...or the Linna tree gently swaying its crown to express its joy.

   "But why did your scent... fade... I almost didn't recognize..."

   "Something happened." Lu Li answered briefly.

  The eldest sister got her head out of the hood at this time: "Do you know each other?"

   "Twenty-four years ago." Lu Li said, looking around: "Are you their leader?"

   The canopy rustled.

   "I am not their leader, I am his people."

   "He?"

  A branch hangs down and points lightly further into the forest: "Dwell in the middle of the forest, our Lord, the spirit of the ancestors."

   When Lu Li watched quietly, Linna's tree called out the silhouette of the branches and corners in the distance.

   "Pioneers..."

  The horned figure bowed his head respectfully.

   "Lu Li...will be our...guide..." Linna's Tree said slowly.

   "I...don't understand..." The branch horn figure raised its head: "I heard of him...he cut off our branches and kept us ugly...not allowed to grow..."

   "No...child..." Linna's tree looked at it kindly: "Pruning makes the tree more lush... Lu Li is our gardener..."

   This time, the figure of Zhijiao lowered his head again and said to Lu Li, "Guide..."

  In any case, once the crisis is over, Lu Li and the eldest sister will no longer be buried in the ground as fertilizer.

  Lina's Tree asked Lu Li where he was going next.

   "Storm Cape." Lu Li replied.

  The plant habitat is still some distance away from Cape Storm, and how to get there safely is still a hassle.

   "Please rest here...it's getting dark..." Linna's Tree advised him.

   Less than two hours before night.

  Linna's tree allows the residents of the gathering place to vacate the tree house closest to it for Lu Li, and also provides him with branches and grass leaves, so that he can build a fire to escape the darkness.

  The plant people who are curious about Lu Li stay far away from the tree house, they don't like flames.

  The tree house is lit with fire, dispelling the darkness that pervades the quiet forest.

   He is not alone. beside

   In the sound of "crackling" burning, the face of the Linna tree suddenly gradually appeared on the wall of the tree house.

   "Can we talk..." The old face looked like a little girl, and asked with anticipation.

  Lu Li did have some questions to ask: "Is that leader dead?"

   "Not yet..." Linna's tree's answer revealed how tenacious and difficult to deal with a leader monster. "Children are draining its power..."

  Lu Li asked about Professor Nuno Alexandrovich's cursed bloodline again, and Linna's Tree replied that he didn't remember the name and the story about him.

   "We have no intention of trespassing...but the wind will take the seeds..."

   Plant habitats have little contact with the outside world and do not attack people wantonly, just like trees.

   "Do I have any seeds on me?" Lu Li asked.

   "I have already picked it off..." Linna's tree said.

The   seed is a blessing to his people, but a curse to all mankind.

  It is a pity that if Professor Nuno is still alive, his curse will be removed...

   "Mr. Lu Li... What do you think about this place..."

   That old face suddenly looks like a child who has completed the work, looking forward to the approval of adults.

  Lu Li looked at the dark and quiet open space and forest outside the tree hole, and shook his head gently.

   "Deadly."

   "Why..." Linna Tree was puzzled.

   "There are only trees here."

  No animals and insects, no plants and flowers.

   This forest has nothing but trees.

   (end of this chapter)