Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 831 One Hundred and Twenty Two. Belfast Destruction Records

   "Do you recognize it?"

   Katarina reminded Lu Li who stretched out his palm.

   "He's the night watchman."

  Lu Li's left hand picked up the dropped note.

   The weirdness who seemed to have been a night watchman took his own life after Lu Li arrived.

The    note records the answer.

   The black crow who stepped on the minced meat tilted his head, his dark eyes reflected Lu Li who opened the notebook.

  [On August 13, investigator Zohan Erkin borrowed two books, "History of the Fast Organ" and "Odds at Sea"]

   [On August 13th, the alliance member Winterdo borrowed a book "The Chronicle of the Lord's Dependent Continent"]

  【August 13th...】

The    note seemed to only contain the borrowing records of the library. Lu Li frequently turned the pages and stopped at one-third of the note.

  The handwriting became scribbled and the content changed.

  【I am Matthew, the night watchman in Belfast. The action record is lost, I will use this notebook to continue recording]

  [Our team was ordered to guard the investigator base when the disaster struck, I and they were separated, only I arrived here]

   [There are burning screams and terrifying screams everywhere, Captain Price and the others should not be coming... I should go to them, but guarding the investigator base is our task]

  【There is no one else here, I am the only one in the huge investigator base... Where have all the investigators gone? And the people from the league? 】

  【The earth is shaking, what happened outside? 】

  【The radio is saying that Belfast has been attacked by a strange, like the port of Zernst... the city is going to be destroyed? But... how is it possible...]

  【No one came back and no civilians fled in, the radio kept repeating that thing...maybe it's true...what should I do? 】

  【Found a warehouse for storing supplies, this should be enough for me to last for a while】

  【It's dawn... The burning hasn't stopped, there is thick smoke everywhere, what happened outside, the fire swept the whole of Belfast? 】

  [The task requires our team to guard the investigator base, I haven't waited for others... I will wait, the investigator base cannot be abandoned]

  【The situation may be worse than I imagined. Next, I will record the daily changes in this city, which will be useful, whether it is handed over by me or discovered by you... 】

   [At noon the next day, the whole city was silent, and the smoke from the burning made the sky dark as evening. I see some silhouettes passing by from the window, but can't tell if it's the survivors or...they]

  【On the third day, the radio broke. I found a passage, it looks very long, I don't know where it leads, I hope someone of my own will come from the depths... But if there is no rescue, I will explore. There's no point in sticking to the rules of the Night's Watch at a time like this, right? 】

[On the fourth day, the thick smoke over the city dissipated, and there were indeed survivors, but that was a few days ago, and now I can hardly see the figure passing through the street outside the window, only the way after the strange fog shrouded in it Outline, I know it's not a person...]

  【On the fifth day, the radio recovered itself. I heard voices other than me again. Belfast was devastated just as I thought... the weirdness invaded here in a big way, hundreds of thousands died and only a few escaped. The radio kept repeating sending the survivors to the town of Watchmen on the back of the mountain. 】

  【It seems that there was a rescue, but it failed, and they did not send new rescues】

  【On the sixth day, they gave up here? The organ at the entrance has not been touched, and no one has come]

[Seventh day... I should be thankful that there are many books in the library, I won't drive myself crazy because of boredom, but those books are poison, reading too much will make the sanity value drop... I hope there is not so much knowledge in it Books, story books can be more]

  【Seventh day, same as yesterday】

  【On the eighth day, nothing happened, or what should have happened has already happened in the first three days】

  【On the ninth day, it has been confirmed that there will be no rescue. 'Article 34 of the night watchman's code, the night watchman is free to investigate or retreat if the execution of the task exceeds the deadline for one week or an accident occurs at the discretion of the night watchman.' I want to go out and see]

  【A fishing boat smashed the next street, what happened? Why do fishing boats with hundreds of tons land in the city? who lifted it? I thought destruction was just...]

  【I'm back, I can't leave... They're all over the place, I was almost discovered, and even the sanity counter started beeping as soon as I got back to the ground]

  [This passage leads to the real library, I know there, but I haven't been there... I am disappointed that the real library has no survivors, and the weirdness also occupies the outside of the library, I can't leave from there]

  【The leftover food is counted, and the canned food is much more than I imagined, enough for me to last for more than half a year or even longer. But not so much kerosene, I have to get some firewood]

  【On the tenth day, maybe I should extend the frequency of writing notes appropriately, every day is the same as the previous day. The weirdness didn't come here, nothing happened. 】

  【On the eleventh day, the sanity counter kept beeping and never stopped...】

  【There are only three possibilities, I have a problem, this base has a problem, and the counter]

  【On the fourteenth day, the weirdness occupied this city, this ruin, otherwise there is no way to explain the constant pollution...】

  【On the seventeenth day, there were less than five pounds of kerosene left in storage, and I had to save. 】

  【I took down the cabinet and chairs and raised a fire, it was much brighter than the oil lamp, and even the counter seemed to sound slowly]

  【On the twentieth day, I felt unwell. Not because of filth, although being a woman, being filthy as a night watchman is not an unbearable problem]

  【The thirty-fifth...or how many days, I haven't recorded it for a long time...something bad happened to me, my body is changing...]

  【Fiftyth day? Another mass of meat, these pimple-like swellings are getting bigger every day...]

  【Sixty days...my thinking...becomes slow...I dare not look in the mirror...the ugly sarcoid hangs on my body...]

  【I'm turning into a monster...】

  【Food is almost out...】

  【The messenger came... no letter... hunger... brought back food... it saved... grateful... 】

  【For help...】

  【...care...messenger...companion...home...safety...waiting...leave...record...]

  The scribbled handwriting repeats the same content over and over, filling the paper behind it.

   Every page can feel the indescribable delicate changes, the text is gradually greasy and moist, like the sticky tentacles in the deepest sea, gently touching Lu Li's eyes.

   Lu Li reluctantly pieced together a part of the content from the tainted repeated words: the night watchman named Matthew hopes that the latecomers will take care of the black crow for her.

Snapped.

   Gently closed the note, Lu Li said to the black crow, "Wait for us at the top of the cliff in the Elm Forest."

   "Dumb!"

   The hoarse cry of the black crow seemed to answer, flying towards the way they came, and disappearing at the end of the passage with the echoing sound of its wings.

   (end of this chapter)