Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 1458 Bizarre Syndrome.

  Like a light that is turned on for a short time, the tungsten filament gradually dims and fades after the light is turned off.

  Such is the price of three nights of sleepless nights—the days are fleeting, like the hands of the hour turning into seconds.

   Maybe if it continues, Lu Li will fall into a perpetual night without day—or he may pass out at a certain point and wake up in the hospital bed the next day.

  Before the last afterglow disappeared, Lu Li found Kate, relying on contact with other patients to "resist" the rapid passage of time, and at the same time fulfill the agreement:

   "Get ready, let's go to the event area."

"you did it?"

"Um."

  Kate stretched her curled fishtail, drooped on the edge of the bed, and as she fell to the ground, her straight and smooth legs were revealed as if she had pulled off the wrapped sheets.

  Looking at it, Lu Li wondered how the "paranoia" could justify the scene before him.

  Bringing Kate to find the crow mask, she told Lu Li that it would be hidden behind the abandoned sofa in the utility room of the activity area—take it out and bring it back, the flashlight is his.

   "Lend me the flashlight, and I'll find what you want faster." Lu Li still didn't give up getting the flashlight ahead of time.

   Crow Mask also still refuses.

  Before going to the activity area, Lu Li returned to the ward while the embers in front of the night had not disappeared, and piled up the bedding to create the illusion that he was still resting in the ward. Then send the wheelchair girl back to the ward, and lead Kate into the corridor leading to the activity area.

  The shadow quietly spread from behind to the two walking figures. At a certain moment, the wall lamp on the wall at the end of the corridor lit up, faintly dispelling the darkness, protecting Lu Li and Kate who came to the door from being swallowed.

  The gatekeeper in a brown cloak blocked the door, and it was even colder than usual.

   "I only promised to let you in."

   "Then I will give her the qualification."

  Lu Li stood aside, and Kate appeared behind him.

  The gatekeeper stared at Lu Li for a moment, his attitude relaxed: "...Go in."

"Thanks."

  Lu Li and the gatekeeper thanked him, motioned for Kate to go in, and reminded her to help find the request for the crow mask.

   "I don't want to see you," said the gatekeeper suddenly.

  Lu Li realized something, and tentatively walked towards Kate who was watching from behind the door, but was not blocked, so he stepped into the activity area.

  The door closes behind him.

  The spacious and dimly lit activity area spread in front of your eyes. It was still as dim as the hospital seemed reluctant to install too many lights, but it was a little brighter than the wall lamps like night lights in the ward.

  Lu Li's attention fell on those unnatural light sources. A fluorescent vending machine is playing on a TV screen with snowflake noise. They had caught his attention in the first two days.

   "I'm going to look around," Kate said.

   Lu Li nodded in agreement with Kate's departure, turned his gaze, and looked for the utility room along the edge of the activity area.

  Pass past the fluorescent vending machines placed by the wall. Some cigarettes, snacks and bottled water were neatly placed in the window that reflected Lu Li's silhouette.

  The items sold by the vending machine were normal—Lu Li thought it would be blood, eyeballs, and pieces of meat.

  The door not far away opens, and shadows come to the activity area. After staring briefly, Lu Li returned to the vending machine, thinking quietly.

  He has no money, even if he had money, he would not waste it here. Instead, he thought that during the nearly twelve days since he came to the hospital, he had no physical needs.

  Whether eating, excreting, or sleeping and desire.

   Or are they selectively forgotten or replaced by paranoia?

  Leave the vending machine and pass the TV. There is a sofa in front of the flickering snow TV, and there is already a shadow sitting on the sofa, and the eerie shadow is stretched long and narrow.

  Lu Li bypassed them, and looked around this hall-like activity area again.

  Shadows are scattered and wandering in the activity area. Kate stands in front of the window and looks at something. There is even a gurgling fountain in the center of the activity area.

  Lu Li walked through the hall, reached the wall, and found the door of the utility room.

   Squeak—

  The door of the room rubbing against the floor tiles opened a gap, and the dim light of the activity area spilled into the lounge, revealing the outline of the object.

  The utility room is very dark, filled with abandoned beds, sofas, tables and cabinets like a warehouse. It seems that the dilapidated objects of the hospital in recent years are piled up here.

   As expected, what Raven Mask left behind is not easy to find.

  Lu Li rolled up his sleeves, fully opened the door to let the utility room change from dark to gloomy, looking for an outline that fit the description.

  Moving debris raised dust, but what was more troublesome than the suffocating dust was the debris dormant in the darkness—every time Lu Li stepped into the darkness, he would be surrounded by indescribable whispers.

"What are you doing?"

  A shadow suddenly entered the utility room.

   Lu Li said to Kate outside the door, "Find what the crow mask wants."

"I'll help you."

   "She said it was behind the sofa." Lu Li toppled another sofa, and there was nothing but dust.

  Kate's help accelerated Lu Li's speed, and when he saw her rummaging in the darkness, Lu Li asked strangely, "Aren't you afraid of the dark?"

   "Why are you afraid?" Kate's blue eyes lit up in the darkness, and Kate found Lu Li standing where he could see the outline clearly, "Are you afraid of the dark?"

  Lu Li remained silent.

  Kate smiled and said, "Are you really afraid of the dark?"

   "Is there a canteen in the hospital?" Lu Li changed the subject.

   "Of course, you haven't been there yet?"

   "I don't remember." Lu Li lowered his eyes slightly, and when he was about to ask more questions, Kate suddenly raised a box wrapped in oiled paper.

"Is it this one?"

  Kate raised her hand and lifted the hair on her forehead,

   "If there is no second person hiding things here."

  Lu Li took the greased paper box, not intending to explore what was inside: "I'm going to go back."

   "No more shopping?"

   "I haven't slept in days."

  Lu Li didn't know what would happen if he endured it any longer, it would not be too good. At this time, Cannianying, the drowned person, had already returned.

   "See you tomorrow morning." Kate and Lu Li waved.

  Close the door of the utility room, Lu Li said goodbye to Kate and left the activity area.

  One more problem held him back—the darkness beyond the hallway.

  Lu Li asked the gatekeeper for help, but he only wanted to watch a joke.

  At this time, a tall and thin shadow stepped out. Lu Li recognized that it was a businessman and tried to follow closely behind it.

  The shadow was indifferent to Lu Li's approach, and the darkness didn't wrap around him to engulf him. Back in the corridor of the ward, Lu Li pushed open the door of Room 204, and saw the shadow of a disembodied businessman entering Room 205.

  Then, Lu Li found stains on his feet. The drowned are sad.

  Lu Li, who needed to rest, dragged the bed to block the door, and remembered that it could slip through the door, so he dug out the patient clothes in the drawer to block the door.

   Now, he should be able to sleep well.

  …

   The gray mist dispels the depression of the night.

  Lu Li woke up early in the morning and looked at the calendar with only one day left.

  He restored the hospital bed, put away the patient clothes, and took the box to find the crow mask.

  Crow Mask kept his promise and gave Lu Li a flashlight.

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  Turn on the flashlight, and the bright beam shines out the window.

  Now, Lu Li can explore the ward at night.

  (end of this chapter)