Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 840 One hundred and thirty one. Escape from the vortex

  Lu Li walked out of the mist and stood beside Katerina.

  The fog that covers the vortex land is like a cage, preventing the existence of being infected by the twisted power from leaving this place. Katerina pressed her hands on the edge of the fog, like a glass covered with fog.

   Lu Li grabbed her wrist with his right hand and looked towards the mist.

   The slippery wrist in the palm was resisted, and an invisible force prevented Katerina from leaving.

  Lu Li let go of Katarina, and she slapped hard close to the mist, but no sound came out.

   Katarina's eyes filled with despair and pain, Lu Li took off the pendant and handed it to her.

   "I..." Katerina shook her head hesitantly, backing away from the pendant: "You go out first and tell Elena's sister about my situation, she will have a way..."

   "It's too late."

   It would take two or three hours to go back and forth to the vortex, and Katarina's vortex was even more severe at that time.

   He had more time-saving options than leaving for help.

   "I'm standing in the fog."

   Katarina finally accepted the pendant and touched the mist tentatively.

  The mist still locked her in the vortex like a cage.

   "Escape with it, take it long enough and you'll recover."

   An obscure murmur appeared in Katarina's mind.

"no no."

  Katerina shook her head and returned the pendant to Lu Li.

   "Do you have any other way?" She asked Katerina, and Lu Li, who was rational and calm at all times, made her reluctantly suppress the pain.

   Lu Li tilted his head to look at the businessman.

   "No." Katarina knew what he was thinking. "The merchants will appear when they leave Barry."

   "It may not be able to step into the vortex."

   "It's not necessarily impossible." Katerina stubbornly disagreed with this method and refused to let the businessman leave. "Don't forget that we've interrupted it a few times and its patience is running out...it's easier to perform rituals here too."

   "Then go back and find Elena." Lu Li said

   Elena's pendant has more lasting power, she once let the vortex people take it away with it, maybe it can help people who are infected with twisted power to leave.

   Katerina did not refuse again.

   The mountain road in the dark night is rough and difficult to walk, and it is difficult to approach jogging if you speed up.

  Katarina still has to hold on to the dagger to prevent Pav from rushing out to attack them. Although it was almost solved by Lu Li before, it should not dare to appear again.

During the    period, he passed through several open spaces suspected of fighting with Pav, and Katarina observed her feet and tried to find the pendant. But there was nothing to see except the confounding spiral pattern.

   With the light of the fire in the outermost expansion area of ​​the Whirlpool Town, they did not lose their way in the woods and returned to the outskirts of the town smoothly.

   "Do you remember the way?"

"Um."

After walking    several times, Lu Li was able to find Elena's home with reference.

   There are still many whirlpool people walking around in the promenade. They are not afraid of the dark, they can ignore the dark.

   knock knock --

  When the wooden door was knocked, Elena and her family opened the door and seemed to feel their consternation.

   "We need your pendant."

  Lu Li said directly: "Katerina's pendant is lost."

  Katarina raised her left arm, and the palm she tried to straighten was still like a rhizome of a plant that had lost its nutrients, with a curved arc.

   is worse than at the edge of the mist.

   "...would...give..."

   The Whirlpool Man replied, and then quarreled with Elena, who was twisting and whispering.

  It stretched like the slender neck of a long-necked person and wriggled. The pendant of the second circle moved to the outer circle with the wriggling, and finally landed on the palm of Lu Li's outstretched hand.

"thanks."

  Lu Li handed the Wet Cool Pendant to Katerina.

  What Elena said, the little whirlpool people relayed to them: "...wear...time...it will block...you...you...go away in the morning."

   Katerina, who wiped the pendant, couldn't wait to put it on and looked at Lu Li.

   "She has no reason to harm us."

   said Lu Li and walked into Elena's hut.

   Elena asks them about what's going on outside, and places them in the empty room next to the longhouse.

   "Don't let...objects...leave...contact, it will be...distorted."

   She reminded Lu Li.

   After they left, Katarina lay on the wooden bed, checked that the pendant was still there, and fell asleep exhausted.

  Lu Li sat in the wooden chair to rest and waited for the morning to come.

  The oil lamp dimly illuminated the old room, except for the faint sound of people moving in the whirlpool on the corridor outside.

   Time passed quietly.

  Squeak-

   There was a faint light from the clouds outside the vortex and dark clouds. There was still an hour before the morning, and the door was gently pushed open.

"……run……"

  The little whirlpool man clumsily said to Lu Li and the awakened Katerina.

   "...fast...run."

   "Where's Elena?"

   Katarina grabbed the dagger.

   "She sneaked to inform us." Lu Li looked out the window. "Go now."

   grabbed the handle of the oil lamp that curved and fit in his palm, Lu Li and Katerina left the house in the farewell of the little whirlpool people.

  Something was not right. The whirlpool people who had ignored them on the corridor stopped strangely and looked indifferently at the intruding guests.

   "I feel like they're looking at you." Katarina reminded in a low voice, and she shuddered just to feel the peripheral vision.

   has undergone some unknown change, and only on Lu Li.

   "...he...not...us!"

   screams suddenly sounded behind him.

   The little whirlpool people standing in front of the longhouse shouted at their backs.

  The reason was found.

   Katarina was polluted by the vortex power, but Lu Li was not.

"run."

   Lu Li ran forward. At the same time, an afterimage stabbed at his back.

   Katarina threw a dagger and smashed the afterimage, and Lu Li in front was also attacked.

   It was no longer the simple and rude pounce of Pav who only twisted half a circle. The vortex man's body unfolded, stretched like noodles, and lashed towards Lu Li like a long whip.

   It's not very lucky. Lu Li did not dodge the attack, but his body was wrapped around his left arm. Lu Li just held back his body, and the whirlpool man broke off his body miserably.

   The whirlpool man, who lost part of his body, stayed in place, spinning round and round for no reason.

   "Go!"

   Katerina, who helped Lu Li to defend against a few whirlpool people, turned around and shouted.

   They didn't attack Katarina because she was "of the same kind", and Katarina cut off the bodies of several vortex people so that they could only circle in place.

   During the escape, more and more vortex people joined the attack.

boom--

  The closing longhouse wooden door and the whirlpool people are flying upside down,

  Lu Li looked around indifferently, jumped out of the house, and escaped from the vortex people with Katerina.

   While the outer whirlpool people did not know the situation, they successfully left the whirlpool town.

   Running through the forest, the front of the fog wall appeared.

   Lu Li and the gasping Katarina slowed down. She hesitantly raised her palm and touched the mist lightly.

   Katarina's arm collapsed into the fog, and the "wall" contained her.

   "Call..."

   Finally, before walking into the mist, Lu Li looked back at the foot of the mountain.

  The Whirlpool Town is shrouded in pre-dawn darkness. The looming commotion came faintly.

  This twisted land contains many unknown and strange secrets, the rumors of paradise spread in the whirlpool, the spiral tower in the center of the town, the repetition of Elena and the little whirlpool.

   But it's nothing to do with them.

   (end of this chapter)