Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 1419 Sixty-one. Failed alliance

  The Beginning and End of the Silent Hour is not a story of revenge or gratification.

   There is no winner. Whether it was the time of silence that killed the villagers and were hanged by the villagers, or the villagers who were revenged by the time of silence and countless humans killed.

  In any case, from today onwards, the shadow that enveloped humanity has disappeared again.

  Bringing the prestige and humanity of hunting the quiet time, Lu Li returned to Midnight City where the undercurrent was surging.

  Full of humanity lingers around him. Wherever he passes, buds emerge from the soil, and the grass stretches under the feet.

   The oddity of feeding in ditches on the edge of the castle raises its head. The breath it smelled made it frantically eager, and because of the terrifying breath surrounding the castle, it retracted into the sewer.

  Castle halls, the swamp mother's whisper echoes:

   "He's back...and I don't feel the power of the silence anymore."

   "Dead in silence."

  In the empty corridor outside the hall, various wheel libraries emerged.

  Land of Light restarted the suspended negotiations. Before heading to the brood again, Ophelia asked Lu Li, "Do you want to release some humanity?"

   "It's not necessary anymore."

  The swamps already know of their existence. There was no need to hide his identity anymore, and the more human nature Lu Li had, the more attractive he was.

   And full of humanity will bring a false sense of fullness - as if being blessed by this world.

   Lu Li's return was "hospitalized" by the brood. The passage leading to the interior of the nest paved with flesh and blood was crowded with brood heirs who had heard the news. The allies who followed were on guard, worried that the brood would attack Lu Li.

   Lu Li, who was filled with tens of thousands of humanity, did not arouse the desire of the mother nest and its offspring to plunder. When talking about the swamp again, the brood said that it wanted to see for itself that what he said was true.

  So Lu Li came outside the nest, and the pervasive dreamland turned the soil under his feet into a transparent layer, extending deeper.

  The rock strata gradually hardened and deepened due to depth, and the roots of the withered World Tree were far more spectacular than the giant trees above the surface. And under the layers of root hairs, an oval, dim yellow swamp like an egg emerges—

  The swamp still maintains its original scale, silent and quiet.

   He didn't even respond to Lu Li's probe, as if the radical actions in the Land of Light were just stress caused by ridiculous hallucinations.

  Lu Li and the others knew that this was a poor disguise from the swamp, but the brood had no way of knowing. Therefore, it refused to form an alliance, and loosely left a condition: if Lu Li was willing to give humanity, the brood could join them.

   "Why didn't you agree to the brood?" Claire sat on the head of the eldest sister, who sat in the hood.

   "The brood is a natural ally against the swamp, this position does not change depending on whether it is agreed or not." Lu Li replied. And the brood broke its promise - at first it only asked Lu Li to speak.

  A being that cannot curb its greed is not a suitable ally.

   "I don't understand." Claire lowered her voice, seeming to avoid the mother next to her, "What position or not... This kind of vocabulary is too complicated for a young bird."

   "The Kingdom of Allen is preparing to invade the ancient St. Mark, and their army will pass through the neutral city-state Shuis." The Mother of the Swamp said.

  Claire fell into a brooding silence.

  Mother of the Swamp talks about seeing the swamp earlier: "It's camouflaging itself..."

  Whether trapping the ghoul king or maintaining silence shows that the swamp is intelligent and aware of what is happening outside.

  Its silence does blind many oddities, who still refuse to believe that the swamp is awake.

   And restless Midnight City weirdness can be negligent.

   Persuasion doesn't change anything.

   Lessons will come.

   But the Lightlands can't really leave Night City unprepared for the swamp.

   "We should maintain the plan... Lu Li, I have a new idea." The Swamp Mother said at this time.

  …

  The swarm of bat monsters took off from the castle and rose to a weird and unattainable height, and the ghost town cultists on their backs threw something out.

  A "snowfall" led by the Land of Light enveloped Midnight City, like a leaflet of snowflakes falling slowly.

  The nuns wandering around Midnight City curiously picked up the flyer, which contained a warning of waking up in the swamp and an illustration: an egg-like oval shadow stretched out and tentacles enveloped the city above.

The strange claws in the dark streets or deep in the ruins grabbed the crushed leaflets and retracted them into the shadows; the monsters who fought with their prey swallowed the leaflets and flesh together; the monsters chasing "snowflakes" crashed into death; or stuffed the leaflets into their mouths , I like the smell of paper and pick up leaflets and stuff them into my mouth, cleaning the streets like a scavenger.

   Similar scenes happened all over Midnight City.

   The first batch of leaflets received a mediocre response. Many geeks are illiterate, or even unable to read pictures.

  Mother of the Swamp produced the second batch of leaflets with the assistance of the nuns of the Maiden Grace Church—no words, no pictures, and babbles formed in the ears and hearts directly when touched.

   The weirds were wary of the pagan objects, but as the third, fourth, and more leaflets fell, and it was difficult for them to touch the bat monsters above the sky, the weirdness of Midnight City could only passively accept it.

  …

   Vicious, obscure green flames suddenly burned on the rune-carved rag doll.

  In the corner of the hall, the nun blew the ashes overflowing with a strange smell into the rune wooden box, and put the new doll in place.

   This is the eighth stand-in doll that took the backlash instead of the swamp mother.

  There is always a price to cover the spread of Midnight City...and this is good news to some extent-meaning that there are at least eight beings in Midnight City that can harm the Mother of the Swamp.

  Lu Li is also here. Because it takes humanity to make a stand-in doll, and because it's only here that Big Sister will stop bothering Lu Li because she can't see this scene.

  It's a pity that their efforts did not return much results—the visiting group led by Chris kept running into walls.

  But, believe it or not, Weirdness has at least alerted the swamp—the swamp will no longer be able to devour the ruins of Midnight City like it suddenly devoured Midnight City.

  The nuns of the Girls' Grace Church came to Lu Li's side at this time, and a cheerful voice came out of the hood like a wind chime: "Lu Li Lu Li~ Our sisters have found some strange guys, maybe you will be interested~"

  Lu Li followed the nuns to a dark thread, and found a group of aliens with most of the human characteristics and thinking.

  They are actually survivors of Midnight City.

   "Ten Badlands Survivors..."

  The song of the dance skirt that just arrived at this time proves their human identity.

   The mottled dream suddenly blurred, sending a survivor far away. The ceremony was broken, and the illusory pale dance skirt gradually faded under Lu Li's calm gaze.

   Sending the remnants back to the castle, Lu Li cooperated with the plan of the mother of the swamp, and used the prestige of the swamp to gather the weirdness of the dark field.

   or escape.

   At this time, Clare, who had been quiet for a long time, shouted belatedly:

   "I see! Your analogy means that the brood cannot move, and whether it is an ally or not, it has to help fight the swamp!"

  (end of this chapter)