Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 324 Two hundred thirty nine. Banquet

  The crashing sound of washing bowls and spoons wafts from the kitchen.

   The weather has been good these two days, and the kitchen window was opened by Anna, and the annoying smoke was able to float out of the detective agency-although Anna would not choke on the smoke.

   The mutation that came silently late last night inevitably brought some influence, and what was worse, it came at an untimely time.

   Soon after, Lu Li and Anna left the detective agency and went to the carriage shop. On the way, they saw many panicked people, as well as police officers disposing of bodies.

  The bodies covered with white cloths on stretchers were mostly homeless people sleeping on the streets, and some were being carried from residents' homes.

   The last spooky fog didn't have such bad casualties.

   At least not so many civilians were killed.

   In the final analysis, the skyrocketing prices made the residents afraid to consume too much kerosene, and they only lit a candle or an oil lamp that was not bright. After the strange fog shrouded, the sudden darkness caused those people to die in their sleep.

The homeless people under the streetlights are the worst. The breeze occasionally lifts a corner of the white cloth, or the arm is full of gnawing marks, or the face is horribly dead with no eyes, or the body is covered with fist-sized purple-black sarcoma, or It's the limb that changes position.

  No one knows what happened to them before they died, and no one knows how many people died—many victims were left with stumps or shredded flesh, or nothing.

   Seeing this through the carriage window, Anna's mood inevitably became a little sentimental.

   She thought she could ignore it.

   "It's getting more and more dangerous in the city," she said with a sigh.

   She felt more and more that Lu Li’s decision to build a refuge was as accurate as predicting the future—especially the location in the Elm Forest, which indirectly helped Annie survive.

   Not to mention that the elm forest there will be able to shelter them in the future as their relationship improves.

   After renting the carriage, Lu Li drove the carriage to the neighborhood where the Jones brothers were located, and parked the carriage at the door of the old craftsman's log cabin.

   A still has been prepared, but Lu Li didn’t come for this purpose. He asked the old craftsman for a stone door, and he asked the door to be closed as tightly as possible.

  The old craftsman told Lu Li that the ordinary door structure can do this, as for the door that is completely integrated with the wall, it is impossible.

  Lu Li was already prepared and wouldn't care much. After all, windows are reserved on the deep-sea stone walls for lighting and ventilation. Even if they are blocked by deep-sea stones at night, there are still gaps.

After asking   , Lu Li brought a prepared distiller back to the carriage, went to a grocery store in the same block to buy some groceries, such as tools such as hammers, axes, glue, pots and bowls, and carried them to the Elm Forest.

  …

  The road is still muddy, the water has disappeared, and the rut marks left by the previous driving can be clearly seen on the forest path.

  The carriage stopped in front of the cliff, Anna "pick up" the sundries in the carriage and followed Lu Li into the cave.

  The constant sound of the waves on the cliffs gradually disappeared as we walked into the cave. In the darkness outside the range of the oil lamp, the furniture that was moved a few days ago was placed in the corner, showing its outline.

   Deeper is a dark wall.

  The cave was very quiet, and there was no certain existence that occupied the magpie's nest last night.

  Lu Li twisted the flame of the gas lamp to the maximum and placed it on the reserved window sill, then picked up a kerosene lamp beside the sofa to light it, and put it into the shelter.

  The darkness in the cave is no longer so dark that only the outlines of objects can be seen.

Afterwards, the things in the cave were moved into the shelter. Lu Li hardly had any effort, and let Anna control the sofa and single bed with great interest to fly into the shelter and put it away, but occasionally told her to put it away when she asked. where.

   It didn't take much time, the furniture was placed where it should be.

  The single bed is placed horizontally in the most corner of the refuge, a sofa is placed beside the bed, and a wardrobe is placed beside the sofa.

  The dining table is placed under the window, the desk and chair are in the corner opposite the single bed, and the fireplace is placed between the desk and the dining table, but because the deep sea stone has not been laid there, it looks a little shorter.

   As for the nine boxes of cans and some tools that were temporarily unavailable, such as redundant stills, they were all sent to the cellar by Anna.

  Everything was placed, and the shelter became a little crowded and full of life.

   But only furniture and no sundries, it looks like it has been uninhabited for a long time.

   "I feel pretty good here."

  Anna sat down on the soft padded cotton sofa and looked around with fresh eyes.

  Refuge looks like a small stone house embedded in the depths of the cave, and there is already a hint of dwelling here.

   Or according to Anna, it's starting to feel like a "home".

   "Then I'll go to Baron Joseph's place at night, I'll go alone, and you'll set it up here." Lu Li held the oil lamp and swayed over the completely solidified stone wall.

   "It's not good here at all!" Anna jumped up from the sofa as if her tail was being stepped on: "I'm going too!"

"it is good."

   Lu Li, who was checking the cracks in the wall, didn't look back.

  Anna hummed for a while, then tilted her head to look at Lu Li's behavior and muttered, "It would be great if there was enough light here."

   She was still a little dissatisfied that the natural light outside the cave could not shine here, even if the sun was shining outside, an oil lamp should be lit in the shelter.

  Anna is still a little puzzled: "Why do you have to make the position of the window if the light can't be here?"

   The arm holding the oil lamp fell, and Lu Li, who had checked the wall, replied, "Prevent claustrophobia."

"What's the meaning?"

   "People can't stay completely in a closed and dark environment."

  There are windows, at least you can see the light outside the cave through the windows.

   "I probably understand..."

   Arranged everything in the shelter, and accompanied Annie who was still sleeping for a while. Lu Li and Anna returned to Belfast by carriage.

   As night fell, a carriage left outside the detective chief's house.

  …

   Onyx Lake reflects brilliant and colorful light, and the extended street lamps surround the Onyx Lake.

  The outside of Baron Joseph's manor was full of carriages, and the banquet was placed in the garden of Nuoda.

  This place and the bottom of the mountain are like two different worlds.

   stopped the carriage at the edge of the road, and Lu Li came to the gate with Anna, who was completely restrained.

The    guard stopped Lu Li, asked his name, and said politely, "You don't seem to be in our invitation."

   "I'm an exorcist." Lu Li replied.

The    guard hesitated for a while, then stepped aside and said, "Okay, please come in."

   "Thank you." Lu Li nodded and walked into the hustle and bustle of the manor.

   "Someone else came to take the initiative to die."

   After Lu Li left, the guard whispered and sneered, which was overshadowed by the noise from the manor.

   (end of this chapter)