Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 1413 fifty-five. The disappearing Kuroshio

   Midnight City.

   On the eighth day after leaving, Lu Li came back here again.

  The hunter’s hut on the hill, overlooking the deep pit in the distance, the Kuroshio is still entrenched at the bottom of the pit.

   After waiting for a while, Lu Li did not sense the connection of the King of Ghouls. Taking out the alienation potion from Chaihuolan beside the boiler to transform himself into a rotten ghoul, Lu Li approached the pit with the spirit sculpture.

   Until it got close to the edge, the aura of the King of Ghouls still did not emerge.

  His state has been so bad that he has lost his will, or is unaware of the outside world?

   This variability is disturbing. Lu Li wrapped the spirit plastic in his body, and wriggled to the bottom of the pit.

  A strange silence enveloped the deep pit, without the sound of licking and spray like the tide—Lu Li found that the Kuroshio had solidified and covered the surface of the deep pit like a scab.

  Lu Li came to the "lakeside", approaching the Kuroshio, and realized that there was only a lie in front of him... The Kuroshio only had a dry shell, and the depths were already empty.

  The light that suddenly emerged tore through the cracks and sprinkled into the bottom of the pit covered by the black shell—the empty deep pit had only one abyss leading to the dark underground.

   Kuroshio and Lord of Ghouls are gone.

  Lu Li slid down to the bottom of the pit and peeked into the central opening. It seems that the hole of the abyss is blocked by rock sand, only a few meters deep.

   There is no doubt that this passage connects the swamp.

   Unknown changes occurred, and the swamp gave up the pit. The worst of all possibilities is undoubtedly that the Lord of Ghouls has been eaten away by the swamp.

  Lu Li left the pit, returned to the hunter's hut on the hill, and asked the merchant Anthony who was waiting here, "Is the Ghoul Warlock still there?"

   Having received a definite answer, Lu Li asked the Land of Light to control the ghoul and let it sense the king of ghouls.

   Not long after, Merchant Anthony returned and asked from the Land of Light: "What happened?"

  …

  Princess Roland's other courtyard.

  Part of the tea party members gathered around the round table, because the news brought back by the merchant Anthony was silent: the black tide in the deep pit and the king of ghouls disappeared.

   "What would you have done before?"

  Mother of the Swamp wonders how humans dealt with this situation in the olden days.

  Tesla recalled the investigator system: "First, roughly classify the incident, and dispatch investigators of the corresponding level to investigate the incident."

"and then?"

   "Those who cannot cope or do not need to deal with it will be marked and closed. Those who can deal with it or must deal with it will gather members to resolve the incident."

   "What about the events that cannot be dealt with but must be dealt with?" Erin asked.

   Everyone knows she is referring to the immediate crisis.

  “…if it is possible to exterminate the human race, it must be done at the expense of everything.”

  Tesla's answer sparked new silence.

  Finally, the Mother of the Swamp broke the silence and summoned the members of the tea party, asking Lu Li and Claire from Ghost Town to come back.

  Chris, Claire and other members from Midnight City know more about the swamp.

  …

  The warm sunshine shone into Princess Roland's courtyard. The cheerful stream flows through the green bank, and the brightly colored flowers dance with the wind. And in the courtyard, you can see the sparkling lake in the distance, the shade of trees sheltering the land of light, and the harbor where ships dock.

   This intoxicating scene did not bring peace to people's hearts. Everyone sitting at the round table was Lu Li's familiar friends or companions.

   JoJo and Aunt Mary are there, but they are members and not councilors.

  Chris first introduced the swamp, from the origin to discovering the swamp along the roots of the World Tree, to studying the swamp and classifying it as a forbidden area, and then to using it—the swamp was relatively docile at that time.

   "Because of the Guardian of the Land."

  Chris crushed the skulls of the land dwellers that she brought specially, and used them as bone meal to fertilize the garden: "But we didn't expect the land dwellers to be so insane."

   Nothing to do with negligence. The Night City has always been afraid of the swamp and keeps a distance. They have no way of knowing, and they can't imagine that the residents will mix in and capture the guardian of the land to escape the swamp...

   After all, the land dwellers are in the old sewers adjacent to the swamp. The swamps are out of control...they are also in predatory range.

"We'd better hurry up and stop the growth of the swamp. Whether or not the Ghoul King is swallowed, the awakened swamp will eat Midnight City and the old sewers next, then the Badlands, and then this world will cease to exist. "

  The swamp is like a vortex located in the center of the world in the legend, devouring the ocean day and night.

  Part of the tea party members and the sleepy Hades finally realized that this is a crisis of annihilation... Unlike the weird invasion, after the swamp is swallowed, the world will return to nothingness.

   "How do we do it?"

   "Weaken the power of the swamp." Chris replied.

   "How to weaken it?"

   "Can't be weakened."

  Claire's incongruity has found its source.

   "How about hiding in hell? You can also sell tickets to the leader. The price is... tentatively set at 1,000 shillings, and the price will be increased according to the popularity. Anyway, we have a monopoly."

   Hades' proposal was ignored.

  Persius, who was squatting on the raised chair, asked, "It's so scary, how did Midnight City restrict it? Guardian?"

   "There is also an alchemy tower."

  The guardian of the land boundary was skinned and boned by the land dwellers, and only three of the five alchemy towers remained... The power that fettered the swamp itself has long since ceased to exist, only the old sewers that threatened it and the monsters entrenched in Midnight City remained.

   "We want to support another ghoul king." The mother of the swamp said, "compete with the swamp for divinity and faith."

  Save the horde of ghouls from harm and stop them from powering the swamp that devoured the ghoul king.

   But this only slows down the swamp, not stops it, let alone weakens it.

   "We have to do it again."

  Chris looked at the Mother of the Swamp, and they thought the same thing.

   "What again?" Tesla asked.

   "What Lu Li did in Midnight City."

   Terrorize monsters and make them allies.

  Chris clarifies the interests and interests. The best situation is that under the leadership of the Land of Light, the weirdness will unite to resist the invasion of the swamp, reseal or even destroy it.

   "Worst-case scenario?"

   "Accidents. Accidents of all kinds."

  For example, the swamp becomes a dependent of some indescribable thing;

  Some great being who came to watch and slap it and this world to death;

   Passing ancient gods drop by to settle the swamp or them.

   A certain pessimistic silence fell over the tea party garden.

  The "rustling" sound brought by the breeze dispelled the haze, and Tesla brought the topic back to the discussion: "Then we need someone to do this."

  "Considering the need to get in touch with those weirdnesses, it's best for that person to be harmless and powerful, so that the weirdnesses can take them seriously without resisting them."

  These key components point to clear.

  The tea party falls into an eerie silence.

   "Where is Lu Li now?" The Swamp Mother asked breaking the silence.

   "Not yet to the castle." Jojo said.

  Hades looked at Tesla, then at Mother of the Swamp.

   “I almost felt like we were hungry children waiting for their father to come home.”

  (end of this chapter)