Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 597 One hundred and seventy-four. Cage in the basement

   The ribs they cut from the monster hung on the kitchen hook, and the chef picked up the kitchen knife on the chopping board and handed it to Lu Li.

   "We brought our own." Anna raised her kitchen knife, and the chef muttered and put it back in place, generally complaining about the pedantic and cumbersome rituals of the nobles.

   "You'd better deal with the ingredients first, and I'll blend the sauce." Anna said.

   The chef and the boss looked at each other, agreed, and gathered in front of the chopping board to remove the ribs and busy.

   Now they all turned their backs to Lu Li and Anna unprepared.

  thump-thump-thump-

   The sound of falling to the ground in a short interval between two sounds resounded in the kitchen, blocked by the wooden door leading to the dining room.

   The psychic gun is like the legendary holy water that fights evil and melts the two monsters, leaving two gradually cooling bodies. It was inappropriate to deal with them at this time, and Anna temporarily dragged them to the back of the shelf, so that the weirdness could not see it for the first time when it came in.

   "There should be people who are imprisoned here." Anna, who built the body, looked at the thick wooden door in the corner: "Is it in the basement?"

   "Deal with the guests first." Lu Li took off the apron folded on the shelf, put it on his body, and tied his hands behind him.

  Anna stepped forward and grabbed the tie: "It's dangerous, I'd better go."

   "You have other things to do." Lu Li tilted his head to look at the chopping board: "Make some fragrance."

   It takes craftsmanship to make food delicious, but making it smell good couldn’t be easier.

  Anna nodded lightly, helped Lu Li fasten her apron naturally, and rummaged through the corner of the kitchen to find a piece of steak that Lu Li wouldn't mind.

   Ten minutes later, the closed kitchen door was suddenly pushed open, and the rising aroma surrounded a black-eyed figure in front of the door.

   The guests who were eating and talking in the restaurant all looked at each other, then raised their heads slightly, and smelled the enticing aroma that wafted out of their Adam's apple.

   "Does anyone want to try it?" Lu Li looked around calmly and asked.

  The guests raised their hands in disregard at the same time.

   "The rib is big enough for everyone." Lu Li randomly picked a "lucky" customer and brought it to the back kitchen.

   The wooden door closed again and opened a minute later.

   "Who's next?" Lu Li's calmness made the kitchen behind him look nothing like a trap with bait.

   picked a delighted guest, and after he walked in, Lu Li closed the wooden door again.

  The guests stepped into the silent kitchen one after another. When there were only two guests left in the restaurant, the part of consciousness that belonged to humans finally made them suspicious and vigilant.

   "Where have the other guests gone?" one of the guests asked Lu Li who appeared in front of the door.

   "It's inside, do you want to go in and take a look?"

   responded with Lu Liheng's unchanging tone. Inexplicably, that calm face seemed to shudder at the turbulent undercurrent surging under the sea, as if it were facing the weird... but it was ridiculous! Obviously it's weird in itself—

   "Hey, where are the people inside!" The guest shouted into the kitchen with an inexplicable panicked tone.

no respond.

   So Lu Li also turned around and called for it, just calling another person: "Anna, you can come out now."

   There are only two guests left, just deal with them directly.

  When Anna with a kitchen knife appeared and shackled the two guests with an obscure aura, they screamed in horror: "You killed them?!"

   "This, this is against the rules..."

   "It fits."

   Lu Li answered, picked up the holster, walked along the candlestick in the dining room, and blew out the candles on the road.

  The restaurant was immediately shrouded in a dim veil, making it difficult for the outside world to spy on what was happening inside from the window.

   The flickering stove engulfed the darkness, and Anna threw the last corpse on top of the other eight corpses. He tilted his head to look at Lu Li, who was looking for Dry Claw's hiding place.

   "Behind the door."

  Anna motioned to Lu Li to look behind the kitchen door - there was a new wooden board with an obvious rear patch. She found a tool to pry open the plank, peeped in, and a rustling sound faintly sounded from the darkness.

  Anna began to drag the corpse, and withered claws swarmed like flies that smelled carrion. Amidst the noise, the wooden planks of the wall were removed to expand the holes, and the corpses were grabbed into the gaps like a factory assembly line.

  The crowded kitchen soon emptied, and the withered claws in the cracks were like closed flower buds for the darkness behind the wooden planks. Lu Li picked up the oil lamp hanging on the door, lit it with the wood in the stove, carried it and walked into the basement with Anna.

   The sound of footsteps echoed in the cool and dark basement, and Anna could smell a **** smell from the chill of the ground—but this was normal. The humans kept in the basement by the restaurant owner were just blood slaves who provided blood.

   But the scene was far more cruel than what Anna had imagined. At the bottom of the basement, the dark blood that had solidified was scattered around, and three narrow iron cages each held a shapeless outline. The bad news was that the chests of two of the figures no longer rose and fell.

  The good news is that the curled up woman in the middle cage is still alive, blood smeared all over her body like tattoos, only her wrists are still clean - but they have been replaced by bone cuts that no longer bleed.

   The two icy corpses next to them had the same wounds on their wrists that could not be pulled down. They died of blood loss and the harsh environment in the basement.

   The dying woman lowered her head, her long sticky hair scattered, covering her face.

   "I'll leave it to you here, I'll wait for you upstairs." Lu Li looked away, handed the oil lamp to Anna, and took off his coat.

   "Soon." Anna said, watching Lu Li walk up the steps, holding his coat and squatting in front of the girl: "We are exorcists, here to save you."

   The head in the cage slowly lifted, and the numb eyes could not hold anything but despair.

  …

  Lu Li returned to the entrance of the basement, quietly listening to the faint chatter looming out of the basement.

  Knock -- Knock -- Knock --

   Lu Li's attention was attracted by the knock on the door that suddenly sounded outside the restaurant.

  Other guests?

  Lu Li thought so, staring at the door of the kitchen, and began to count silently in his heart.

  3…4…5…

  Knock -- Knock -- Knock --

   Almost five seconds later, a slow knock on the door rang a second time.

  Lu Li no longer hesitated, but at this moment, in the darkness of the basement behind him, he stretched out a white arm to grab his wrist.

   "I didn't feel anything..." Anna said softly, "Is it the trap of the 'door'?"

"Um."

   Lu Li nodded.

  Knock -- Knock -- Knock --

   A third slow knock on the door came as promised.

   "Where's the woman?" Lu Li saw that the coat was still being held by Anna.

   "She died..."

  Anna thought that the woman woke up because of hope and the desire to survive, but she didn't expect it to be a return to light - after a few words, the woman's head dropped again and could no longer be raised.

   She lost too much blood, and her ability to hold on has reached the limit.

  Squeak——Yeah——

  Suddenly, the sour sound of teeth that caused a sudden cardiac arrest echoed slowly in the empty and dark restaurant.

   The door outside the restaurant... was pushed open.

   (end of this chapter)