Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1187 One hundred and twenty five. Worm Train

  The old sewers are expanding all the time.

   Occasional collapses, fractures, and encounters with danger cannot stop the expansion of the underground kingdom.

   The existence of the old sewers has mixed public opinion. Sociologist Charles Robert argues that the old sewers harbored a plethora of oddities that agreed with "rules," and that over time they might not have been domesticated by humans like the beasts of the past.

Another claim that has no scholarly side, but is widely shared: weirdos are stronger and smarter than humans, the only advantage humans have over them is to develop civilization, but if they set out on the road to building civilization, they will undoubtedly replace humans .

  The third claim is that of Lu Li—

   How to divide human beings is a subjective judgment.

   Scholars believe that there is no reproductive isolation to be human, so are those who have deformed into aliens counted as human?

   believes that having wisdom and being able to think is human beings. Whether businessmen, distorted believers, or hexapods have different degrees of wisdom, are they human?

   Or those who think they are human are humans, and the Ability God headed by the Mother of the Swamp is also human?

There are also people who believe that there must be no reproductive isolation, wisdom, rational thinking, no distortion, and identity as human beings - the old days were obviously full of such people, but in the dark ages, maybe only a few thousand people can Self-proclaimed "human".

   In a gathering place with evil gods, weirdness, and evil spirits, it is not conducive to integration. In the land of light, they should have a common name: the inhabitants of the land of light.

  ——So the proposition represented by Lu Li blurred "human beings" and replaced them with "residents". Those who consider themselves human are the inhabitants, those who have wisdom and thinking are the inhabitants, the merchants, the Twisted Cultists, and the Hexapods are the inhabitants, and the mother of the swamp and the distorted shadow are also the inhabitants.

   Generally speaking, the division of old sewers from main line, branch line to dark line is also a transition from order, rules to chaos.

  The main line extends eastward like a mine cave, and the dark rock wall does not reflect any light. Because it was wrapped in coal, the old sewers, which could only be illuminated with fluorite, were as dark as a branch line.

However, darkness did not breed evil. For example, merchants in strange skins sold goods in shacks or stalls, pagans sold coal, and the fluorescent plaques of land dwellers’ businesses attracted customers. The juvenile monstrosities chasing playful larvae in front of the cave all prove that the main line is ruled by order.

  Lu Li walked quietly in the darkness. The gravel and stones that can be sold as commodities probably only exist at Meishan Town Station.

   "It's my turn to be the exorcist!"

  The chasing larval monster starts the next game: the weird larvae without jaws and epidermis takes the simple wooden gun made of two wooden boards and chases its companions.

   "I'm going to eat you!" It grabbed the first companion.

   The weird larvae who were unwilling to be caught screamed and quibble: "The exorcist wouldn't say that!"

  The strange hatchling dropped it and caught the second companion: "I'm going to kill you!"

   "The exorcist wouldn't say that!" It was screaming too.

  The remaining two strange hatchlings realized that making the stronger child among them the "exorcist" would soon be all caught, so they all shouted:

   "You don't look like you at all!"

   "Not like you, I'll be the exorcist!"

  Lu Li walked past the children, observing the scene of the old sewers along the way, and came to the worm platform on the edge.

  【Dagon Town Station-Meishan Town Station-Feitian Town Station-Black Cat Town Station-Ghost Town Station-Midnight City Terminal】

The    wooden sign shows the route passed along the way, almost covering the main route in the southwestern part of the Badlands.

The   dijuren firm sells tickets in front of the platform: about 10 pounds of weird meat, which is nearly twice as expensive as outside, and at the same time provides a service to exchange weird currency for shillings, which is twice as expensive as outside.

  Lu Li bought 10 pounds of low-quality weird meat for nearly 300 shillings. After waiting for ten minutes, the station vibrated and scattered cinders.

  The worms wriggled from the depths of the tunnel and stopped in front of the platform.

   The "passengers" walked into the worm's mouth with the weird meat. Lu Li was one of them. He let go of his palms and let the creeping meat wall roll away the weird meat.

  The worm waits on the platform for a few minutes, then wriggles along the tunnel when no more passengers appear.

   Like the warm fleshy walls of a mother's womb, which divide and encase the passengers, they are forced to jolt and wriggle. It is difficult to stand or move inside the worm. The passengers, including Lu Li, could only seem to be wrapped in gel and remained almost stationary.

   It takes nearly three days to get to Ghost Town. But the next day, Lu Li got off the bus at Heimao Town Station temporarily, and stayed in a hotel near the platform for a day to rest - he was severely seasick, or motion sickness.

  Nothing can hide the fact that Lu Li is only a human being.

   Open the window to ventilate, lie down and rest for a few hours, Lu Li barely escaped the symptoms of dizziness.

  Recovered Lu Li contacted the land of light, businessman Anthony brought today's newspaper, and a piece of good news and bad news.

  《The Exorcist is about to arrive in the ghost town》

The    ceremony in the newspaper obviously did not predict that Lu Li would get off the bus halfway.

And the bad news of the good news and the bad news is: the fluorescent fruit sent to the dungeon by the merchant Anthony has mutated. In the sketches and photos taken by the artist and the camera, the mutated fluorescent fruit grows with gray lines like eyeballs. texture.

   "Businessman's eyeball?"

   "Like but not, like the difference between a rose and a chrysanthemum," replied the Swamp Mother.

   Variation Fluorescent Fruit does not have the ability to summon merchants. These three strains were temporarily left in the dungeon and watched over by Twisted Cultists, waiting to be studied after they matured.

  Good news parasites bad news: these glowing grasses from the Eternal Forest bring unexpected joy. Glowing fruit in Vaults and Dungeons grows normally, even when planted in unpurified dirt, just slowly.

  If it can bear fruit, food problems will no longer plague mankind.

   "Have you found a survivor?" The Swamp Mother asked Lu Li.

   "Not so fast."

  The rumors of the survivors of Midnight City are everywhere, and analysis and judgment are needed to find out the real clues.

   "Remember those bloodline families or churches that appeared in the illusion, you can try to contact them..."

  The Swamp Mother provided a good suggestion, and the Black Cat Town above Lu Li's head at this time was a member of the "Spirit Town Union".

   But there is one more thing to do before the investigation begins.

   "After the fall of Midnight City, the worm station has become an ownerless thing, and we can send cultists to take over."

  Because of their ally with worms, they will not refuse, and the income will be better than ten pounds of meat for a guest, and the benefits are usurped by the land dweller business.

   One bizarre currency at a time is too expensive, the shilling is gradually rejected because of the rate of depreciation, and should be charged for the distance traveled rather than ten pounds of meat everywhere.

  Then use of a contribution point smaller than the denomination of the weird currency and more stable than the shilling becomes a matter of course.

   (end of this chapter)