Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 312 Two hundred and twenty seven. On the cliff

   There is still some time before noon. While there is nothing to do today, Lu Li sorted out some things in advance, such as three cubic meters of deep-sea stones, two boxes of canned beef, and 5 pounds of kerosene.

   After renting a carriage to pick up the Jones brothers tomorrow, you can take these things to the warehouse and cliff by the way.

   The plan to lay deep-sea stones in the bedroom of the detective agency was cancelled by Lu Li, and time was running out.

At noon and afternoon after   , apart from Jojo bringing the sale proceeds of 230 shillings, there was nothing else to ask Lu Li.

   Yesterday's "Eternal Dreamer" was already the "Eternal Dreamer" a hundred years ago from an idealistic point of view. He may have forgotten Lu Li who helped him a hundred years ago.

  As the sky darkened, every corner of Belfast was dimly lit, and the whole city gradually ceased to be noisy and fell into silence.

  …

   In the early morning of the next day, the sky was dimly twilight.

   The light rain was falling, and the visibility was much better. You could barely see the hazy bay in the distance.

  After washing up, Lu Li rolled back his sleeves, tied his tie, and put on a woolen coat to go out. Not long after, he rented a carriage and went back outside the longhouse, disguised as "carrying" three boxes of deep-sea stones into the carriage, and took other supplies into the carriage, and drove to the residence of the four Jones brothers to pick them up.

They may have woken up before dawn. When Lu Li arrived, they were loading up the food they had just prepared. It was a baguette made from a mixture of wheat flour, wheat husks and sawdust. Not to mention nutrition, but enough to satisfy hunger and look impactful.

   and hidden ones can be used as sticks.

  The price of brown bread has risen to an expensive price of 3 pounds a shilling, an increase of 300%, even if it is used by ordinary people as food, it must be carefully considered whether it is worth it.

  In addition to the sawdust bread, they also brought some dried fish that had not been dried yet. The half-dried sea fish had wide eyes, and the skinny fish exuded an unpleasant sea smell and a strange feeling.

   Fortunately, Anna can't smell the smell, so naturally she won't complain.

   After half an hour, the carriage arrived at Elm Street. After stopping for a while in front of the warehouse door to unload the supplies, the carriage drove into the elm forest.

   Despair and pain pervaded the forest and never eased. The four Jones brothers, who occasionally whispered on the road, closed their mouths after feeling the emotion, and looked at each other in the small and dark carriage, with fear of the unknown in their eyes.

   Knowing is one thing, confronting it is another.

   But no one wanted to leave. The pay for this job was enough for them to not have to worry about food for half a month, and Lu Li's calmness was somewhat contagious to them.

   In their eyes, Lu Li with black hair and black eyes is mysterious, but not scary.

   Lu Li's feeling is almost the same as theirs, and his mood is not relieved by the slight help he provided to Elm Forest, but he is also special, and there are some joyous emotions lingering around Lu Li, offsetting the negative effects of despair and pain.

   Some trees regard Lu Li as half of his "person".

   After an hour of relative silence, the carriage came to the front of the cliff. The carriage could not get up on the last section of the ramp. A few people jumped off the carriage and watched Lu leave to move the three boxes of black stones in the innermost part of the carriage.

The four brothers   Jones volunteered to help, but Lu Li refused.

   The wooden box, which weighs more than one ton and weighs nearly 3,000 pounds, is not enough for four workers to handle. Even if Anna lifts it, it is very difficult. Fortunately, it is not very far from the cave.

   Watching Lu Li walk up the cliff with a huge but seemingly light wooden box, the eldest of the four brothers and the other three waved and let the two get back into the carriage to help carry the wooden box.

   But when they got started, the complexion began to change.

   The two of them couldn't lift a corner of the wooden box. The bottom of the wooden box seems to be integrated with the carriage and does not move at all.

   The boss frowned and let them both down.

  Lu Li came back from a distance, passed by them, looked calm under the gazes of the four different expressions, even lifted the box of deep-sea stones without much effort, and walked towards the cliff with the things in his arms.

  Coodong——

  Someone swallowed and felt a chill down his spine.

  The boss was silent for a while, then turned to the brothers and said, "Remember, we don't know anything."

   On the other side, Lu Li, who was walking towards the cave, heard Anna's voice.

   "They seem to be secretly moving the wooden box." Anna's tone was smiling, and she thought it was very interesting: "I'm guessing your identity now."

  Lu Li didn't answer, this is just a trivial matter, but the Jones brothers may concentrate a lot on their work next.

   After moving three boxes of deep-sea stones one after another, Lu Li tied the carriage under a tree under the eyes of the four brothers mixed with fear and respect, and led them to the cliff cave.

   In other areas of the Elm Forest, it might be risky for Lu Li to do this. But in the cliff area, Lu Li is the "own person" of these elms, as long as he doesn't actively hurt them, they won't affect Lu Li emotionally.

   Although he didn't say hello to the tree king here.

   "Don't get close to and hurt the trees here, and just in case, don't leave the caves and cliffs."

   The four brothers, Lu Li and Jones, who were walking in front, said that they walked into the cave and placed the oil lamp on the flat stone platform beside them.

  The sound of rain was blocked outside the cave. Lu Li arranged the scope of expansion and the location of the cellar in detail. Boss Jones checked the stone and gave the answer that the completion time would remain unchanged.

  The four Jones brothers put down their oil lamps and food, picked up tools and got ready to start work. Lu Li agreed to pick them up in the afternoon, and then walked out of the cave.

   Came to the edge of the cliff and looked into the distance, the crescent-shaped bay seemed to extend in the distance, and half the city was hidden behind the hazy light gray drizzle, like a sketch scroll.

   There is a shallow reef under the cliff, and the drop of nearly 100 meters makes it unknown and will not be noticed by people.

   And with Anna's help, Lu Li wouldn't be too troublesome if he wanted to go down to fetch water for fishing or come up.

   The reef occupies a large area at the bottom of the cliff. At the very edge of the reef four or five hundred meters away from the cliff, there is a lighthouse 30 to 40 meters high in the middle of the rocky reef.

   A man-made trail stretches from the lighthouse to the beach.

   Its existence dispels the desolation and loneliness on some cliffs.

  If the world is not gradually becoming gray, the scenery on the cliffs should be beautiful and soothing.

   But now there are only leaden seas and dark skies, and the unpleasant smell of the sea breeze and the dead woods around.

   "You stay with Annie and watch them." Lu Li retracted his gaze and said to Anna, who appeared.

"Um."

  Ana looked up at the outline of Lu Li's face, and suddenly raised her hand to help Lu Li straighten the crooked tie.

   If it weren't for the blush of her illusory delicate cheeks gradually rising, this scene would have been much more natural.

   After staying for a while, Lu Li said goodbye to Anna and took a carriage to the cemetery in the Holy Father's block to attend the funeral.

   (end of this chapter)