Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 838 One hundred and twenty nine. Found

  The swirling dark clouds form a funnel-like shape that vertically twists the spiral tower in the center of the longhouse.

  Pav's escape did not affect Lu Li's plan, and they sought news from the vortexed residents who had returned to calm.

   The question of how to communicate is inevitable. After several active contacts, they realized that the more "growth rings" there are, the more difficult it is to communicate, even the eldest sister can't do it.

   Only inhabitants with a small number of pronation layers can vaguely discern the interrelated pronunciations.

   "Have you ever met someone like us."

   Lu Li asked a whirlpool man. With only four internal rotations, he could still barely distinguish the cross-section of the teeth and the slender and elongated limbs with scattered facial features.

"do not know…"

   The distorted noise sounded like a brain stirring, and Katarina covered her forehead again, she even felt that listening for too long would shorten the pendant time.

   Advance along the spiral longhouse, and the tail of the first longhouse emerges in the distance. During this period, they were not attacked and received no information.

   This is not a good sign.

   Their time is short, and night is no longer a good place to seek.

   If there is no trace of Saint Elena tomorrow morning, they can only leave the Vortex.

   Stepping into the second circle, a maze of cramped long houses surrounded them, and the twisting corridor stretched forward.

   The depression caused by the reduced field of vision became more intense. Katerina quietly followed behind Lu Li, while Lu Li observed here.

The structure of the   longhouse is similar to that of the detective's longhouse in the former Sailors District, but it is more primitive, and the gaps between the wooden boards can even faintly peep the swaying shadows inside.

  You don’t need to walk around in circles to get to the center. Some longhouses don’t have walls and you can go straight through.

  Not only longhouses, there will be a pool between connected longhouses at intervals. Inside is the food of the whirlpool man, a snail man whose whirlpool failed.

  The outer volute is formed by the accumulation of the degraded hard skin of the body, and the heavy volute is dragged by the head that swallowed the face by the vortex, squirming intensively in the pool.

  When the whirlpool people feel hungry, they will fish out the snail people and swallow the shell meat together.

   Katarina thought it was cannibalism, and both the Whirlpool and the Snail made her sick. Only Lu Li observed some details.

  From vegetation to dark clouds, longhouses, spiral towers and vortex people, everything in the land of the vortex rotates clockwise.

  The snail man who failed to vortex rotate counterclockwise.

   Although they look almost indistinguishable, to the whirlpools they are completely different, another species or even heretical.

   "That won't work, we don't understand what they're saying."

   Katerina stopped him after Lu Li stopped the residents who had rotated in four circles.

   The resident they encountered the least pronation also had three laps, and its words remained cryptic.

   "Sister, can't you really hear it?"

"Humph!"

  The eldest sister raised her head proudly, it ignored anyone except Lu Li.

  Katerina looked at Lu Li, and Lu Li asked repeatedly, "Don't you understand?"

   "Hmm..." The elder sister who was lying in the cloak nodded. "Their language is twisted by the forces here."

   "Do you have a solution?" Lu Li looked at Katarina.

  Katerina thought for a while, and took out the pendant that was still warm under the leather armor: "The pendant is more specific than our previous question."

  Then the way they ask questions changes. In addition to "Have you seen people like us", the pendant will be displayed asking if you have seen it.

   Their travel route has also changed, and it is no longer time-consuming to walk along the revolving promenade. Ask in each area by walking through the longhouse.

   From noon until evening, they found nothing.

   "Is it missed or just bad luck?"

  Katarina stood on the roof of the longhouse and fell into the spirals that stretched far into the distance.

   They traveled almost halfway through Vortex Town, but found nothing.

   "Or maybe that saint is dead?"

   The gentle-tempered whirlpool man ignored the three figures on the roof. After getting to know them for a while, they realized that the characters of these vortex people are slow and slow like tortoises, and their outrageous actions will not cause them to pay too much attention.

   "Twisted figures won't let us look for people who don't exist." Lu Li said.

   "But maybe it's right that the pendant was snatched?"

  The tiny cyclone that blew rolled up Katarina's hair, and after observing where they were, they returned to the street and began to ask questions.

  Perhaps Katarina's complaint played a role, and after asking the seventh or eighth resident, her response was different from all the previous whirlpools.

  It turns its body clockwise, towards a certain direction outside the town.

"have you seen?"

   Katerina realized that it was useless to ask, they couldn't understand it, and changed her mind and said, "Can you take us there?"

  The whirlpool man muttered something vaguely and walked in the direction he had pointed earlier.

  Lu Li and Katarina looked at each other and followed the whirlpool man.

  The wriggling vortex man led them through the seventh and sixth circles, and came to the fifth outer circle, in front of the door of a long house, and left muttering twisted words.

  Lu Li came to the door and knocked on the wooden door.

   knock knock knock —

   After waiting for a while, the wooden door opened, and a terrifying whirlpool man appeared behind the door with a dozen laps inward.

   "We are looking for someone who owns this pendant." Lu Li went straight to show the pendant.

  The whirlpool person is still, like observing or thinking.

   After more than ten seconds, it paused and retreated, signaling them to enter the room.

  Lu Li and Katerina, who covered her eyes, walked into the house and saw another whirlpool man sitting in front of the round dining table. Its body rotates only three times, and its elongated neck holds a diamond-shaped pendant.

   is the same pendant worn by Lu Li and Katerina.

   "Are you Elena?"

   "...is... looking for...you...!"

The    pendant proves its identity.

   They found Saint Elena.

   But it was too late. Elena has been tainted by distorted power and transformed into a vortex man.

   "What?" Katerina asked

   "Take her away."

   Twisted Figures only asked them to bring Elena back, which they did.

   Whether it has a way to restore Elena to normal

   There was still some time before dark, and they had time to return to the edge of the vortex before nightfall.

   Elena suddenly let out a hoarse cry, and the obscure and twisted voice was indistinguishable from anxiety.

   The whirlpool man who had rotated inwards for more than ten laps whispered something, approaching Elena who only had three laps, the difference in the number of laps seemed to be her mother.

   They seem to be arguing. Elena was screaming and shouting, and the Whirlpools replied softly with a tenderness they could feel.

  Katerina is on guard, ready to control the whirlpool who Elena talks to.

   In the end, Elena left it and came to Lu Li.

  The whirlpool people persuaded Elena to leave here with them.

"Let's go."

  Lu left the entrance and left the house with the reluctant Elena.

   Their backs gradually became smaller, and they walked along the arc-shaped corridor to the periphery of the whirlpool town.

  The vortex people left behind stood in front of the door, looking sadly at them as they passed away.

   (end of this chapter)