Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 308 Two hundred twenty three. Basement

   murmurs and some kind of rhythmic breathing were blocked by the wooden door.

   "Aren't we going down?" Anna lowered her voice subconsciously so as not to disturb some existences in the basement.

   "She asked us to hand over the things in the basement to the investigator, but didn't say to get it."

  Lu Li said, went back to the table to pick up the oil lamp, and left the house where the beak mask figure was.

The    figure reappeared outside the building, Lu Li walked through the alley among the ruins, came to the adjacent theoretical block, walked into the faded red-painted telephone booth, and dialed the number.

  We waited for a long time, until a hazy mist appeared on the glass of the phone booth, the call was connected, and a lazy, dreamy female voice came from the microphone: "Who is it?"

   Belfast Regional Investigator Lead, Rachel.

  It is her turn to guard the base this week.

   "I'm Lu Li."

   "...Oh I remember, Black Gem, right?"

   Ignoring Rachel's strange associations and adjectives, Lu Li told her the letter of the beak mask figure and the situation in her basement.

   "Okay...I know what you're talking about, can you bring it?" The tone on the other side was still lazy, one could imagine a graceful woman lying on her side on a velvet bed, holding a microphone at will.

   "No." Lu Li replied.

   "Got it...I'll go right now. Damn where are my shoes..." Rachel sighed helplessly, and the whining sounded away from the microphone, and then the phone was hung up.

  Lu Li put down the microphone, suddenly noticed something, and turned his head to look at the empty space.

   "It's a woman." Anna's seemingly random question sounded in the small space.

"Yes."

"is it beautiful?"

"Um."

  Anna suddenly didn't know what to say and fell into silence.

   Walking out of the phone booth, the chill hits my face. Lu Li held up his umbrella and went back to the 16th building in the old warm neighborhood, waiting for Rachel to arrive.

   Maybe the matter is not urgent, maybe I just woke up and fell asleep and fell asleep, maybe it is the nature of a woman, an hour later, the sound of the approaching carriage in the rain curtain is long overdue.

  A luxury carriage with the family logo was parked in front of the building. The servant in a black evening dress held up an umbrella, opened the curtain and bowed slightly to meet the white arm stretched out in the carriage.

The    arm stretched out for a few seconds, and without waiting for some kind of support, Rachel had to bow her head and get out of the carriage.

   She wore a gorgeous long skirt that hem-to-calf-length, as if she was going to some noble ball, rather than going down a gloomy ruined street into a gloomy abandoned house and down a gloomy basement in gloomy weather.

With two crisp sounds, Rachel's heels fell to the ground, and she took the umbrella from the servant.

   "Humph..." An inexplicable humming sound came from the void beside Lu Li.

   "You are waiting for us here." Rachel said to the servant, her eyes narrowed slightly and she landed in the empty space beside Lu Li.

   "My assistant." Lu Li knew what she was looking at.

"uh-huh."

  Rachel raised her head slightly and walked into the building with Lu Li.

   Back in front of the utility room door, Lu Li stopped: "That thing is inside."

  Rachel grabbed the doorknob and opened it, the pervasive malice and murmurs resurfaced. She wiped her palm with a handkerchief as if she didn't care, and reached out to Lu Li.

  Lu Li put the oil lamp handle in his white palm.

  Rachel took the oil lamp and walked into the basement.

"Be careful."

  Lu Li suddenly said, and added when Rachel turned around: "You are wearing high heels."

  Rachel chuckled indifferently and stepped into the basement with the oil lamp.

  Lu Li stayed outside the basement door, watching the graceful figure in the light and the clear footsteps walking down the steps, turning to a blind spot he couldn't see.

   Only a faint glow extends from the edge.

  The silence lasted for dozens of seconds, and suddenly a sharp scream echoed to the ground, merged into nothingness, and disappeared.

   After a few seconds, Rachel returned, holding something in her other hand.

   As he approached, Lu Li saw that it was a strange wooden animal sculpture, and his mouth opened wide in horror.

   "The rest is yours."

  Rachel returned to the ground, handed the oil lamp to Lu Li, left a sentence and chuckled, and turned to leave the house.

   The disturbing breathing and whispering in the basement was gone.

  Lu Li turned his head to look out the window and saw Rachel return to the carriage on the street, then the wheels turned and drove away from the building.

   "She seems to be very powerful..." Anna emerged and muttered softly.

"maybe."

   It is difficult for an exorcist to use "strong or not" to distinguish abilities. Humans are fragile, and so are exorcists, who can neither take more damage nor take extra lives. Their abilities depend on possessing cognates and knowledge.

   The former is usually only suitable for a very small number of monsters that can be directly damaged.

   Knowledge can represent the true abilities of exorcists. After all, knowing what it is is more important than anything else when it comes to weirdness that can deal instant death damage.

   For example, the Shadow of Stealing Fire, it will extinguish the light around people and make people fall into dark despair. But if you know what it is, just step on its shadow and it will automatically back away.

   Violent smashing of doors is always the most stupid and time-consuming act, and smart people will only go to find the key - or pick the lock.

   There is still an unpleasant cold breath in the basement, perhaps the breath of the evil thing that Rachel took away has not dissipated, or there may be other things in the basement. But since Rachel let it go, it meant that the contents inside could hardly hurt Lu Li.

   Holding the oil lamp, Lu Li walked down the basement where the temperature was getting lower and lower.

   Stepping on the stone brick floor of the basement, Lu Li looked around and lit the candle on the stand.

   The dim candlelight lit up, and the basement of the two light sources was slightly brighter.

  The basement is not very spacious, and there is a chandelier hanging from the low ceiling that cannot be lit.

  Lu Li walked to the desk, something in the corner of the desk caught Lu Li's attention.

   looked down, it was a diary on the desk, the black cover was covered with a layer of dust, a voice sounded at the bottom of Lu Li, calling Lu Li to pick it up.

   After a brief pause, Lu Li will notice a black stone box on the other side of the desk.

  The stone box is very familiar to Luli, the obsidian-like matt-colored stone, which is a deep-sea stone material.

   The things sealed inside seem conceivable.

   A few pieces of parchment were spread on the table, and the content on them was cluttered and unrecognizable. It seemed that they were just doodles.

  The wooden box in the corner is empty, only the bottom wooden box is stacked with some used tools.

   Apart from these, there is nothing else in the basement.

   "We don't need any of these things." Anna sighed in disappointment. "And it's not worth the money."

   "On the contrary."

  Lu Li doesn't think so.

   "They are very valuable."

   (end of this chapter)