Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 309

  Anna blinked.

   Not because of Lu Li's words. She probably knew Lu Li's plan because of other things.

   She was curious about the contents of the diary and the contents of the deep-sea stone box.

   It’s just that Lu Li didn’t intend to open them.

   "Why don't you take a look?" Anna blinked again.

   "'Don't look at the notes of unknown origin and open the box of the weird place at will' it is written in "The Exorcist Survival Manual"." Lu Li explained.

   "The Exorcist Survival Manual? What is that?"

   "An interesting book that I saw in a real library."

   can be said to be very interesting by Lu Li, which means that the content of the book is considered very useful by him.

  Ana took her attention away from the notes and the stone box, and asked Lu Li about the contents of "The Exorcist Survival Manual".

   "Leave here and talk."

  Lu Li looked around to make sure he didn't miss anything, then left the basement and went upstairs.

   After closing the doors of the basement and the house, Lu Li walked out of the building, propped up an umbrella under the eaves, and walked into the rain curtain.

   His steady narration gradually faded away.

  …

   "The Eighth Rule of Items: A good weapon is necessary, it can increase your courage and allow you to kill yourself early to avoid falling into the hands of weirdos. As for lethality? That's just incidental."

  The streets of Sailor's Quarter are already in sight, and they're back.

   "But I remember that investigators must be curious and exploratory." Anna asked inexplicably.

   "Curiosity and exploration need to be done within one's capacity, because there is a world of difference between diving into the water because of curiosity and diving into the abyss because of curiosity." Lu Li's answer sounded under the umbrella: "Don't let curiosity suppress reason."

"Oh."

   Ana nodded, who probably understood, but no one could see her in the inner world.

   When approaching the long house, Lu Li was stopped by a groom. He had helped Lu Li sell the furniture pulled by the "Eternal Dreamer", and then he had been waiting on the street for Lu Li to come back.

  The groom cautiously handed Lu Li a stack of crumpled shillings, the maximum face value was only 10 shillings.

   A total of 183 shillings, the groom told Lu Li that the old furniture could not be sold, so he could only sell it to the owner of the thrift store.

   According to the promise to give the groom 10% of the reward, Lu Li went to the bakery next to the longhouse to buy 5 pounds of white bread. The bad weather made it impossible to see children running on the street, and Lu Li went straight back to the longhouse with the bread.

   Most of the rainproof items in the longhouse have been paved, and sandbags are blocked behind the door to prevent rainwater from pouring into the corridor.

  The doors of most of the residents in the corridor were open, and the smell of rice and the sound of talking and walking wafted from inside.

  The time is approaching four in the afternoon, and most people start to prepare dinner.

   After passing through several living rooms, Lu Li and Anna returned to the detective agency.

  Ana went to cook the meal, and Lu Li picked up the garbage bags piled up in the kitchen and living room to throw them away. When he came back again, he heard a relaxed humming from the kitchen.

   There are no lyrics, and the soft humming has a freewheeling feeling.

  This is probably the only time Anna can relax a little.

  The merchant will come tomorrow, and then Lu Li can take it directly to the old warm street, the house with the beak mask.

   This is the destination that Lu Li arranged for the two items in the basement.

   Frankly speaking, weird items are really valuable.

  Lu Li didn't plan to touch these two things directly, but sell them directly to the merchants and let them take them away.

   The faint smoke from the burning firewood wafted from the kitchen, making one's throat tighten. In order to prevent the rain from blocking most of the chimneys, this is why Lu Li came back to see the longhouse residents with their doors open.

   So the detective agency joined them.

   Before the food would heat up for a while, Lu Li took the basket in the kitchen and went to the back street to buy some firewood and coal. The basket was enough for a week if it was only used for cooking.

   There is no need to hoard these things, they are cheap and bulky to carry around.

   Ten minutes later, Anna returned to the living room with a steaming pot.

   After dinner in a few minutes, the sky was getting darker than before. At 4:15 p.m., the sky began to darken.

   At 4:30, the detective agency lit up two oil lamps, and at 5:00, there was only darkness outside the window.

Loud noises, children running, talking, coughing, faint sounds from other rooms in the long house reaching the detective agency, mixed with the sound of rain, which gradually faded over time, leaving only the The changing sound of rain and rain.

   At eight o'clock in the evening, the detective agency lit the third oil lamp, and Lu Li lay down on the sofa.

   "Good night." Anna said.

   The night was silent.

  …

   A peaceful night passed.

   Maybe calm.

   When Lu Li opened his eyes, there were a lot of people surrounded by the eaves outside the window, they were pointing in a certain direction, and their indistinct voices entered the detective agency.

   "Did they wake you up?" Anna, who was always paying attention to Lu Li, said a little coldly.

"no."

   Lu Li, who developed his biological clock to wake up at dawn, sat up and looked out the window: "What's going on outside?"

  Anna shook her head suddenly, she was just guarding Lu Li.

  Lu Li took off the blanket and sat up, looking at the time behind the desk: 7:15, it was very late.

   The sky outside was about the same as usual at 6:00 in the morning, the rain did not get heavier, but the sky was more gloomy than a few days ago.

  I hope it's just a dark cloud and nothing else.

  Anna went to prepare breakfast, still her specialty pork stew, served with expensive carrots and some potatoes.

When    was about to cook, the businessman who had recently arrived in time for the meal appeared outside the door with a cut deep-sea stone, still not one of the businessmen Lu Li had seen.

  Lu Li mentioned the old warm street to it, and the businessman agreed to accompany Lu Li there.

   "Can you wait a while?" Lu Li pointed at Anna who was leaving the kitchen with food.

"please hurry."

   After breakfast ten minutes later, Anna took the time to clean up the table, Lu Li washed and put on his coat, and went out with Anna and the businessman.

   The crowd under the eaves hadn't dispersed yet. They seemed to be unable to see the eccentric tall businessman beside Lu Li. They only occasionally set their sights on Lu Li and showed a friendly smile.

In a few words of conversation, Lu Li learned that a couple who lived in the long house next door died. The police determined that the cause of death was a disaster in the night. When they arrived early in the morning, the oil lamp in the house was off, and there was no human being on the body. caused scars.

   The focus of discussion among these residents was the oil lamp, because after the body was found, it was found that there was still a lot of kerosene in the lamp——

   So the grocer who sold kerosene also appeared here and explained to the police.

   "It always feels weird..." Anna muttered softly.

   "Perhaps it has little to do with oil lamps."

   Lu Li replied, his figure gradually moved away from the longhouse, and turned his head to ask the merchant, "Is it the Shadow of Thief Fire?"

   "5 Contribution Points."

   is very cheap, but Lu Li doesn't plan to pay. The businessman had already told Lu Li the answer in some way.

  The murderer is other evil spirits, even if it is not the Shadow of Fire Stealing.

   The more remote the more dangerous, but Belfast has a huge population…

  Evil spirit actually dared to set foot here?

   (end of this chapter)