Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 850 One hundred and forty one. They are both young and have each other, who would expect more?

"what?"

   Irene tilted her head, she didn't hear what Lu Li was saying.

   "It's made by the 'person' we've been looking for." Katerina answered for him.

   "Has Anna been here before..." Irene stared at the dead corpse on the high platform.

   There were messy footsteps behind him, and Finn instructed his men to lift the brazier to the corner of the ruins and light it.

   The light that spilled out between Luli's fingers was fading, and the lit brazier replaced the light to illuminate the ruins.

   There are heavily oxidized and faded pictorial runes remaining on the leveled rock walls and high terraces. They should have recorded patterns and texts, but everything was probably destroyed by the shelter that was dug through here a few years ago.

   Maybe the graffiti would be more incomplete if the shelter did not seal the passage.

   The residents of the shelter were relieved by the flowing warm brazier, and looked at Finn, who asked Irene, and Lu Li stared at Ophelia: "Is there a problem here."

   "Very clean...except...the stone statue." Ophelia turned to the stone statues at the four corners of the tower-shaped high platform. "The stone statue... contains... aura."

   "Before you move the things here, I suggest you solve the stone statue." Irene reminded from the side.

   "How?" Katerina asked Xiang Lu Li.

   "Cut out the face."

  Lu Li lowered his arms, the light from the fragments of the ancient statue was no longer much stronger than the torches, and walked towards the stone statue with the afterglow.

   This is an act once performed by exorcists, digging out the face to make the stone statue lose its power.

   "Leave it to me."

   Katarina stopped Lu Li, twisted her hand to grasp the dagger of the homologous substance, pulled out her own dagger with her right hand, and leaned against the stone statue with the double dagger in her hand.

   The information doesn't say what to use to dig out the face, you can't go wrong when you use it together.

   "Ophelia, please protect her."

   Ophelia's charred head shook, emitting a heat wave.

   Katarina, who came to the stone statue, raised her head, raised her double daggers and pressed it against the stone statue's face at the same time, without stopping, she stroked vigorously without hesitation—

   A rubbing sound sounded, and the ordinary dagger left white marks on the face of the stone statue, while another homologous dagger pierced the stone statue. Even the stone statue was completely submerged due to excessive force, like cutting a block of solidified grease, leaving only the handle outside.

   Put away the ordinary dagger, Katarina held the dagger in both hands and dug out the face of the stone statue.

boom--

The    excavated face slid down as Katarina retreated, making a smashing sound that made people suddenly "this is a stone".

   Katarina stared at the cavity inside the stone statue that was exposed by the force.

   Nothing happened, not even the sanity counter.

   "The breath...disappeared," Ophelia said.

   "You dug out the faces of the remaining stone statues." Irene instructed the residents of the shelter.

   Then when Lu Li finished exploring the ruins, this place will become part of the refuge.

   "Wait a minute." Katerina stopped them and motioned to Lu Li: "Go and try."

   Aware of Katarina's intentions, Lu Li nodded, took the dagger and walked to the other corner of the tall platform.

  The blade that pierced the face of the stone statue was like a knife cutting into butter, weaker than flesh. When the dagger slashed the irregular circle on the stone statue, digging out the face, humanity poured into the body.

   There is also death retrospective.

  …

  The sea breeze blows through the wonder-like trapezoid city.

  Many humanoid beings with slender limbs and tall bodies patrol the surroundings in armor.

  The stone statue was once a "human".

  The erosion of time has made the rocks no longer clear, rough, blurred, and weathered, and the stone statues they see are like melting standing lions. Lu Li was standing beside the bluish-brown, viscous magma pool without high temperature, surrounded by dozens of identical magma pools.

   He watched a naked humanoid walk to the magma pool, they spoke incomprehensible language, showing religious fanaticism and warrior-like firmness, even if they stepped into the magma pool, they did not go over their heads.

   Over time, the magma pool will solidify, and then the rock that wraps the victim is taken out and sculptured into a stone guard.

  Lu Li looked away and looked into the distance of the trapezoidal city.

  The coastline can vaguely see the outline of reality, but it seems to be just an illusion.

  The trapezoidal city building allowed Lu Li to see the shadow of the underground giant ghost city between the fire and the water. Therefore, I think of the similarities between the ruins there and the ruins here.

   Here is thousands of years ago.

   They are the "older generation", humans who thought they had the life of the world before.

   And now, in the void of the horizon, a circle of dark circles silently hangs down black silk threads.

   "The tide..."

  Lu Li said something in a low voice, and disappeared beside the magma pool, or rather, he didn't exist here.

boom--

   His face fell, Lu Li restrained his consciousness and lowered his arms.

   "How is it." Katerina asked from behind.

   "I got it." Lu Li replied.

"is it a lot?"

  Luni looked around at the remaining two stone statues: "Not too little."

   Nearly a hundred ghosts or monsters of the same power can make up a piece of human nature, but it is difficult to find such weak monsters in this era.

  Lu Li looked at Irene and asked, "Do you want to keep one?"

"Why do you ask?"

  Irene is trying to understand their previous conversation.

   "Here are the relics of the previous generation, the stone statues are self-sealing of the previous generation, and maybe they can communicate."

   "The previous generation..." Irene whispered.

   As a sanctuary that stores all the knowledge of mankind, of course it knows the existence of the previous generation.

  Because the Demon Slayer Association also knows the previous generation, they will formulate a fire plan.

  Even... maybe the Tinder project was one of the efforts of the "older generation".

   "As long as you don't stay in a shelter."

  Irene's implication can be handled casually.

   Lu Li asked the merchant and got an answer that it could put away the stone statues, so he did not deal with the remaining two stone statues and let the merchant put them away.

   Finally, we checked the severely corroded and mutilated frescoes, the dry and weathered corpses, and everyone who found no clues left the ruins.

  The cleaned up ruins will have their traces erased and become part of the shelter.

   Next, they have to leave the shelter and wait for the night to fall and the statue to wake up. But before that, they will go to the Forest of Quiet Whispers to find the "merchant corpse".

   As for the conflict between the supporters and the opposition, it was resolved with the appearance of Lu Li.

The supporters insisted on going to the surface to obtain seeds, while the opposition refused to leave the sanctuary. In the past few years, the two factions have been fighting fiercely. Although the balance of the supporters has been getting lower and lower over time, at least Irene will continue to have a headache. two years.

   And now, the sanctuary can get seeds without leaving—and reconnect with the outside world.

  All credit goes to the merchant and Lu Li.

   A businessman's mouth is as strict as a dead man's.

   Therefore, when he left the shelter, there was no longer so much hostility in the eyes of Lu Li and others, and there was also a lot of gratitude and yearning in it.

  Lu Li gave them the illusion that "the outside world may not be that bad".

   Passing through the old shelter, Irene drove the other managers away as I continued up, only she and Irene followed Lu Li through the passage to the ground that was being filled by residents carrying stones.

   (end of this chapter)