Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 856 One hundred and forty-seven. When Lu Li was busy, he was taken out of the room

   They still have some problems to solve before heading to the excavation site in the Tashufik area, far away in the old kingdom of Ellen.

   The last time the Light Stealer shrouded the world was nearly fifteen days ago. According to the law, it will come again in a few days.

   It is obviously not a good thing to encounter the Eternal Night while stepping on the bottom of Socra.

   To make matters worse, since Lu Li escaped from the ground, he has never encountered a fog tide. This means that the fog tide, which covers once every two weeks to a month on average, may come at any time from now on.

   Compared with these, the prelude to the cold winter has become insignificant.

   Therefore, Lu Li needs to complete the excavation trip to the Tashoefik area within three days as much as possible.

  While Andrea was sailing to the mainland of the main family, Lu Li asked the businessman to contact the Wiener Antifreeze City Hall to collect information on the city closest to the excavation site, the city of Rielstein.

   Soon he got a reply that the city of Rielstein had disappeared, and there were only ruins left. At the same time, because the excavation site in the Tashufik area was occupied by the weird before the weird era, there is no human gathering place nearby - at least not found in the Wiener Antifreeze Harbor.

   "Can't we just go over there?"

  Compared with slow, time-consuming, and accidental encounters, Katarina prefers to go straight into Socrates to retrieve the fragments.

   "There is always a need for a foothold."

  Luri answered by observing the map.

The   Tashufik area is excavated inland, which means they no longer have the safe haven of Andrea.

  The nearest route is from the south coast of the main continent, about 70 miles west of the coastal town, from the mouth of the Hyde River into the river upstream, so that you can reach the vicinity of Rielstein City, which is less than 50 miles away from the excavation site in the Tashufik area.

   But if the Hyde River disappears or the river is too shallow, they can only walk from the southern coast of the Lord's Continent to the excavation site, relying on Ophelia to avoid the weirdness on the way.

   Andrea, sailing at full speed, broke the waves and traversed the net of darkness and fog.

The shaking of the    captain's room, which made Purseus reluctant to speak, would continue for some time until they reached the mouth of the Hyde River.

  They can get there before dawn if the sailing doesn't slow down.

  Luli wrote down all the villages and towns that once existed along the way. At critical moments, these places that have disappeared or become ruins may become their footholds.

   It's hard to say where the wilderness and ruins are safer. If Katarina were to choose, she would choose a cave or a cave.

  Andrea once slowed down, and the eldest sister said that she found something on the sea nearby.

  Land-off observation map, from the Ellen Peninsula to the south coast of the main continent is a natural route, without any reefs or islands.

  Only other things will appear on the sea.

  Wait until the unknown existence on the sea is far away, and Andrea resumes sailing speed.

   Andrea at sea is not unbeatable.

   The danger in the deep sea is not much less than that on land, and even Andrea will not set foot in the depths of the ocean at will.

  Although Andrea's body has a natural advantage: Freaks don't like big ships of steel.

   During the voyage, Lu Li told Katerina and the merchants about Socrates.

   Long, long ago, Socrates was regarded as a forbidden area and an abyss by previous generations.

   Another world is connected under the gray fog that fills the abyss. Maybe it's the inner world, maybe it's the same surface world as here. The previous generation had explored there, but as a result, the guardian had little memory, and could only piece together the incomplete outline from the few remaining fragments.

  Socrates' name comes from a lord in the gray fog who called himself Socrates. It possesses intelligence and claims its territory beyond the entrance. In the communication, it allows the previous generation to enter the gray fog and contact another world, but only the wise life can understand the true meaning of the world, and the stupid will only waste the little time left.

  Because of this sentence, the price paid by the previous generation was that the soldiers who were sent into the gray fog never came out. That's part of what the Guardian remembers: that includes members of his family.

  The king of the previous generation was furious and ordered to build a fort around Socrates to prevent everyone from stepping into the gray fog and beware of the gray fog invasion.

   The connection between the two worlds is thus interrupted. Until a long time passed, a soldier stepped out of the gray fog.

   He said that all people are alive, they see the truth of the world in the gray fog, and they are unwilling to leave. Only he chose to throw away everything he got back.

  The king of the previous generation wanted to communicate with Lord Socrates again, but it was too late. After the warrior returned, the gray fog leading to another world retreated into the ground.

  The returning soldier also hanged himself soon after.

   "Vulture", so the guardian's residual memory called the gray fog world.

  The King of the previous generation claimed that behind the gray fog was a world of vultures. They seek out worlds that have been invaded by strange creatures, wait until only Jhin remains, and invade and engulf them.

   But whether that was an excuse that Wang made for his own mistakes, or was it a fact that the gray fog had long since dissipated and there was no trace of it to be found.

   "Sounds like the previous generation knew more about the world than we do?" asked Prius curiously.

"Um."

  The bonfires of mankind are extinguished when they are about to reach their glory, and given only a few more decades, they will not be as utterly devastated as they are now.

   "Class...structure...what...?" As a library scholar, Ophelia wanted to know the story of the previous generation itself.

"do not know."

The    Guardians have severely crippled memories, and they have no time to understand the history of previous generations.

   But it seems to be possible to try to understand that the previous generation obviously knew more about the world than they did.

Lu Li asked the businessman Anthony to send a letter to Mayor Mateus, with his advice on communicating with the previous generation, and asked some scholars to use the ability of [linguists] to dig out the history and the truth of the previous generation. .

   But these will have to wait for them to bring their guardians after they return from the excavation in the Tashufik area.

   Frankly speaking, the wisdom of the previous generation is similar to that of human beings, at least what Lu Li understands is this: when a city-state scale can be established and its own language can be established, the difference between the previous generation and humans may only be the body structure and the way of thinking.

   And the body structure has become the double-edged sword of the previous generation. As a result, they are stronger, and can even fight against the weird without the help of foreign objects, but they also ignore foreign objects and only develop their bodies.

   This makes their way of thinking lean towards power rather than wisdom.

  So, when the strange tides come, they only have negligible power and disappear into the earth faster than humans.

   After telling about the "Socrates" of the previous generation, Andrea has left the Ellen Peninsula and is close to the southern coast of the Lord's Continent.

  The deciduous mountains and the coastal town are just ahead of the dark depths.

   During the calm voyage, Lu Li talked about another incident that he knew of "the excavation in the Tashufik area".

   is the story of the comeback of the gray fog in the later period of the old age of mankind.

   (end of this chapter)