Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 885 One hundred and seventy-six. New believers who joined

   Zadok Allen once believed in God and Father more devoutly than anyone, but they never paid attention.

  Because of the bloodline of the deep diver, he can stay in Innsmouth town as a "human" and will not be invaded by pollution. Also because of his blood, he was out of place in the town.

   The unconverted townspeople dismissed him, and the Deep Dive thought he was a poor fellow.

   "Boy, what are you going to do... hiccup... become a deep diver and get eternal life?"

  The drool of Zadok Allen's mixed liquor lay along the corners of his mouth and covered his beard, exuding an indescribable rotten smell.

   He doesn't have many years to live.

   "I once took the train to pass through Innsmouth Town, and when I stopped at the station, many townspeople gathered around, do you remember?" Lu Li did not continue with Zadok Allen's question.

   As for the deep diver Lu Li, he may have come into contact with him long ago, and even the Dagon or the lord of the deep sea...

  Friday, or in the final test of other unknown existences, the fish-like humanoid creatures that Lu Li saw on the coast, and the existences called the Old Ones at the bottom of the sea, who slept in the deep sea.

   Once the train passed through Innsmouth, the result of the gathering of the townspeople was also presented: Lu Li had the faint breath of their master.

   "Old days? Train stations? I don't remember, maybe you... hiccup, you had something on you that attracted them."

   Speaking of them, Zadok Allen raised his wobbly fingers to the sea, hating more than being close.

   "Hiccup... What did you ask me before? That woman named wah la woola."

  Zadok Allen drooped his eyelids, and spirits were gradually pouring into his mind.

   "Katerina, she was taken away by deep divers in the ice-free port of Wiener a few days ago."

   "Wenner Freeze Harbor? Hiccup... There's their cult there too?"

   "No, she was taken away after being contaminated."

   "Today is the 31st day of October...I see."

Zadok Allen pointed to the sea again, but Lu Li couldn't watch the port: "Today hiccup... Tonight's revival festival, they will perform sacrifices, call their father and mother god, and make your Katarina become Deep diver."

   Lu Li was not late.

   But with only a few hours left, they didn't have much time to prepare.

   "Not hers!"

   Anna, who was sitting on the stone wall and shaking her legs, retorted.

   "You really don't want to be them? There's nothing wrong with that, you're no longer weak, you're not afraid of pollution, you have power, and you can live almost forever..."

  Zadok Allen fell into a weird drunken dream, as if he might doze off at any moment.

   "In the port square?" Lu Li asked.

   "Right there..."

   asked some more information, and about pollution, Zadok Allen's answer gradually turned into a meaningless dream.

   "If you don't want to be them, get out of here. Innsmouth doesn't welcome outsiders...unless they are no longer outsiders."

  Qiangqiang cheered up and left the last sentence, he dozed off against the broken wall.

  Lu Li briefly observed the vicinity and confirmed that there were no townspeople nearby, leaving Zadok Allen, who was drunk and grinding his teeth, and walked around the stone wall to the town.

   Those born of mixed blood and those who are polluted will be transformed into deep sea creatures, deep divers.

   The Deep Dive Clan worship their Father and Mother, Dagon and Mother Hydra.

  Dagon and his mother Hydra are the old ones who once slept at the bottom of the sea, and the servants of the lord of the deep sea.

  Be optimistic, they don't have to face the Lord of the Deep Sea, and they probably don't have to face Dagon and Mother Hydra, as well as their other dependents and servants, only the local sect of Innsmouth town and the deep diver.

   It’s just that when the fog dissipates, the endless mountains that lie in front of you can indeed make travelers feel hopeless.

   Back in the town, the ubiquitous sense of voyeurism reappears. Ignoring Anna and the townspeople, Lu Li returned to the original road and walked through the town to the ruins to the south.

   But he didn't get back to where Ophelia was waiting.

   Several townspeople followed behind without hiding their whereabouts. Lu Li took some time and common sense to shake them off, but it was useless. Even if there are no traces of the townspeople in sight, the sense of staring is still lingering - Lu Li has already aroused suspicion.

  The townspeople watched Lu Li return to the town under the strange and dull gaze.

   "Our Great Exorcist can't do anything anymore?"

   said to Anna who was behind him.

  Lu Li sat down on a bench outside the hotel, ignoring the townspeople who were constantly whispering and looking at the sea not far away. Before he caught sight of the bay port, he withdrew his gaze, stood up, and entered the hotel.

   "Looks like you've got the answer you want."

   The old man who found the bottle was missing smiled.

   Unlike Zadok Allen, the old man is a human without the blood of the deep diver.

  The reason he's lived in the town unharmed for decades is simple: timid enough, and long enough, long enough to even converse with deep-dives. Although he never actively touches them.

After    Lu Li asked him for gloves and a scarf, the old man felt strange.

   "Why? Those things just make you more visible and suspicious."

   asked the old man strangely.

  As an old man who has lived in a small town for decades, his opinion should be taken seriously, but Lu Li still wanted these two things and went back upstairs.

   "You paid such a big price for Katarina, and still said you don't like her?" Anna, who was sitting on the bed, chuckled. "Or do you... want your story to end here?"

  .

  Close the door, Lu Li took off his hat and put it on the table, along with the scarf and gloves.

  A strand of black hair fell.

   "You should try to believe Ophelia, believe me to be true."

   Lu Li didn't answer, he adjusted the monocular.

   "You care more about human identity than anyone, because of Anna. Now you want to lose that identity? When she sees you as a newborn...will she accept it?"

  Lu Li paused briefly on his hand, continued to stretch to the longest, and put the monocular on the table.

   "Find Katarina and I'll recover," he replied.

   "Maybe not."

  Anna tilted her head slightly: "And then being killed as a monster by Anna who doesn't recognize you... Interesting."

   Lu Li shook his head and said nothing.

   "You don't think so? But you were killed by the real Anna who pierced your heart." Anna rolled her eyes and said cruel words like a lover.

"Do me a favor."

  Lu Li no longer sinks into the conversation with the illusion, picks up the monocular and walks towards the window.

   "The contamination process may be lost, I need you to wake me up every five seconds."

   "You actually let a hallucination help you?" Anna stopped shaking her calf.

   "You saved me twice."

   "I just don't want you to be taken away by something other than me." Anna's clear eyes stared at Lu Li.

   "That's right."

  Lu Li closed his left eye and raised the monocular steadily to aim at his right eye.

   "When my consciousness sinks into the abyss, pull me back to you."

   (end of this chapter)