Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 5 Five. The more you know, the faster you die

   "What is a night watchman."

   "Ha, I guessed you were going to ask this." Hades looked like that, turned his back to Lu Li, and stood on tiptoe to hold a square bottle of red wine on the upper deck of the wine cabinet.

   Carrying out two goblets from under the counter, Hades shook the bottle and pulled the cork with a bang.

   A dark red trickle falls into the goblet, sloshing up.

   "Do you want it?" Hades shook the wine bottle and gestured to Lu Li.

   "If it's free."

   "That's it."

Hades closed the bottle, took away the empty glass in front of Lu Li, took a sip from the glass, and shook his head lightly: "The night watchman is just like you and me, specializing in those ghosts and weird things, the only difference is It's because they have an official background, and if you become famous later, they will try to recruit you."

   "weird?"

  Lu Li noticed the new vocabulary.

"It's those things that even those magic sticks in the church can't explain. They have strange shapes. They may be buildings, some creatures, or some stories... In short, there is no logic. Shut up! Don't ask any more! I don't even know how to describe it!"

   "A lot of weirdness."

   "Less than ghosts, most ordinary people can only encounter them once or twice in their lifetime."

   "How to deal with weirdness."

"Run, run as far as you can, don't think about confrontation, this is definitely not something we can deal with. If you encounter it, contact the night watchman to deal with it." Hades seemed to believe that Lu Li wanted to become an exorcist, so he did not deliberately hide it. some key information. "I know what you want to ask. How to distinguish weirdness, right? I don't know the answer. I can only tell you that when you encounter weirdness, you will know what it is."

   "Have you ever met?"

   "I ran into it once, but luckily avoided it."

   "Can you talk about it?"

   Haders shook the glass lightly: "You better not know, it's not good for you."

   "It's just my business, you just talk about it." The words of the panacea can't move Lu Li.

   "Then if I say it, I'll be in trouble if I say it?"

   Lu Li fell silent.

   "If you are willing to properly compensate me for some losses, I may reveal something 'inadvertently'." Hades bit the accent and rubbed his fingers inadvertently.

   was about to write the word asking for money on his face.

  Lu Li didn't say a word, his dark eyes stared at Hades quietly: "...Tell me about something else."

   "Hey..." Hades showed an unhappy expression of the failed conspiracy.

   "You just said that exorcists are more dangerous than going out to sea. Is going out to sea also dangerous?" Lu Li didn't think Hades said the danger was from the weather or sharks.

   The shaking wine glass stagnated, Hades looked strange: "You really don't know anything?"

When   Lu left the mouth, Haders raised his hand to stop him: "Forget it, swallow the set of lies you prepared. I only care about your money, not where you came from and what purpose you came from."

   So Lu Li returned to the original silence, quietly listening to Hades speak slowly.

   "If the world was a flower that bloomed beautifully, now the flower is dying."

  The ocean is the main body of this world, and most of the land exists in the form of an archipelago.

  Belfast is located in the Principality of the Ellen Peninsula. The land of this world has long been settled and developed by human beings, and because of the low technology, the exploration and activities of the ocean have always been maintained in the offshore.

   There are many explorers who try to voyage to find new islands and new continents, but few people return.

  The greatest discovery was the great explorer Sorathyvia Simm, who discovered a new continent three hundred years ago: Sorasimum. Rather than the continent named after Solasivia Simm, people prefer to call it the Garden of Farmland, or the Land of Hope.

   This is one of the greatest discoveries of mankind with hundreds of years of modern maritime history, but in the more than 100 years since then, subsequent explorers can only find some islands, or coral reefs that are not even islands.

  The furthest voyage of people at that time was only a few hundred nautical miles.

  It was not until fifty years ago that steam engines came out and were quickly applied to ships, people were finally able to get rid of the shackles of sailboats and set off to the depths of the sea—

   Then they tasted the bitter fruit.

  Humans live on an island called ignorance in the dark ocean. This ocean is vast and contains endless secrets, but we should not sail too far and explore too deep.

   No one knows what happened at that time, only that after this no one or group wants to stay away from the land and spy into the deep sea.

   But things are not over. The original voyage may have opened a wooden box called danger. Since decades ago, the ocean has gradually become more and more dangerous, and fog, weirdness, and underwater shadows have begun to appear frequently in the deep sea.

   and is spreading to land.

   "You want to know that these books can be found in any library... oh sorry, I forgot that the library in Belfast burned down." Hades shrugged, a little gloating. "So it couldn't have been a worse decision for you to come to Belfast at this point in time."

  Lu wrote down everything in his heart and continued to ask, "What's in the darkness."

   "This needs to pay a certain price." Hades raised his eyebrows, implying something.

   "I will continue to buy bullets here in the future."

   "That's not enough, you have to do something more." Hades tapped the table.

  Lu Li shook his head gently: "Most of the money was used by me to buy a psychic gun."

   The smile faded, and the golden teeth no longer flickered. Hades ordered the expulsion very realistically: "Then come back when you have enough 1,000 shillings."

   Lu Li's face remained unchanged: "Does anyone else know about this?"

"No one will take the risk to tell you this. Even if there is, it won't tell you because of money." Hades was not worried about potential competitors, he leaned forward and approached Lu Li: "Then the novice Mr. Exorcist , how many bullets do you want to buy?"

   "Ten." Lu Li replied.

   "Okay... wait, what did you say? Ten?! You actually—no way! I said so much, at least twenty!"

"Can."

   Hades' complexion improved a little, and he asked Lu Li, "I have a problem too."

   Before Lu Lili refused or agreed, he asked, "Why do you want to know this, let alone curiosity."

   "...to go home." After a brief silence, Lu Li replied.

   To go back, Lu Li first needs to be where he is and why he is here.

   Haders would have misunderstood, thinking that Lu Li was here, he took out a box of bullets and pushed it in front of Lu Li, with sympathy in his eyes: "There is a sentence for free, you must remember this sentence firmly."

   "Stay where there is light?"

   "It's another sentence."

   Hades' expression showed unprecedented seriousness, and he whispered slowly.

   "Don't try to know too much. The more you know, the quicker you die."

   (end of this chapter)