Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 868 One hundred and fifty nine. He lost time, lost Anna, and now he even lost his mind

"Door of hell……"

   A faint voice echoed in the cold basement.

  Darkness wraps here, with no more color than black and purer black.

The    murmur melted into the darkness, returning to silence.

   But at some point, a waking groan sounded from the attic outside the basement.

"Well……"

  The young man crawled up, dragging his cold and stiff body, and stared blankly at the darkness around him.

I'm alive?

   He couldn't help thinking, and suddenly discovered a fact that frightened him——

   The surging darkness enveloped him.

  Light…Light!

  The young man groped around in horror, touched the broken, cold, and dry oil lamp, and held it in his arms in despair.

  Time passed by, but nothing happened.

  Why am I fine?

   Surrounding him in doubt, he saw the dim light reflected by the snow outside the attic window, and there was a darker, elegant, and deeper shadow of a girl than darkness.

   The monsters in the darkness have come to me! I... am I going to die...

   The young man thought with horror on his face, what made him freeze was the girl's image walking outside the door.

   "I...I'm Jon...you...do you know me,"

   Jon who realized something couldn't help but let out a sound.

   "Do you know what? Are you—"

   "You're dead," she said.

died……?

   Jon was stunned, memories of not long ago flooding into his mind.

   The palm of his hand touched his chest subconsciously. In addition to the dried blood, there was a pierced hole.

   "The monsters... Tashana..."

  Jon burst into tears, burying himself in resentment, pain, and reluctance.

   "I didn't lose my memory, and I didn't collapse because of knowing the news of death... Did it succeed?"

   If there is no sound, it sounded softly.

  Jon raised his head in pain: "Excuse me...how long can I live?"

   "Being known by others that you are dead, or being killed again."

"what……?"

  …

   "Symbol... what is it?"

   Ophelia looked at the symbol that resembled the outline of a girl.

  Lu Li took out the information about the Church of Shadows and handed it to her, and the same symbol was drawn on the first page.

   "How...how...know...here?"

   "If the church had anything to do with her, of course she would know."

   There are shadow church logos here, there should be other clues.

  Unfortunately, the ruins were melted into magma by Ophelia, and there are no other clues in the basement.

  Going out of the basement, closing the iron door, they searched the house, but there was nothing but a bloodstain deeper than the floor and a broken oil lamp in the attic.

The reason for the    Church of Shadows here is a mystery. The ruins outside the gates of **** are still there, and Hades has never seen anyone else coming...

   "Let Weiner not freeze the port to investigate the source of the church logo." Lu Li said to the businessman Anthony.

   "You...doubt..."

   "Only me and Anna know here."

"And I."

   "And me!" The eldest sister also echoed. "But I don't understand."

   "Shadow...the symbol of the church..."

   "Probably derived from Anna, or a symbol left by Anna."

   Back on the street where the cold wind blows, they have two choices to solve the troubles of Purseus.

  Return to the Church of the Twisted Vine to wait for the disaster to pass, or advance in the misty tide and eternal night that are deeply tabooed by people.

   "Footprints."

  The eldest sister, whose head was covered with snowflakes, stretched out her little finger and pointed to the darkness deep in the alley.

  Approaching oil lamps dispel the fog and darkness, illuminating a pair of footprints extending deep into the alley on the dusky snow.

  Because of the wind, the footprints of the alley were preserved to the greatest extent.

   The time to leave footprints is no more than a week after the harsh winter.

The    stripes on the sole indicate that it is a human, or at least a human-like existence that can wear shoes.

   Lu Li guessed wrong, is he really a member of the Church of Shadows?

   Ophelia looked at Lu Li, waiting for him to make a decision.

  …

"right here."

   Jon gritted his teeth and lifted the cellar planks.

   His hands were red from the cold.

   Can the dead still feel cold? Incredible.

   With emotion, Jon turned and climbed into the cellar. Before long, the dim yellow of the oil lamp lit up at the bottom.

  The empty cellar only has a bed made of clothing and useless garbage in the corner, and a few fluorites in the glass jar emit a faint light.

  Oil lamps are a scarce resource that Jon rarely uses.

   This cellar on the edge of Overwatch is equally cold, but much better than the ground.

   Jon didn't know why the Shadow of the Maiden would follow him. After lighting the oil lamp, he stood there cautiously, ignoring the hollowness and blood in his chest.

   Nothing happened after that, the graceful silhouette of the girl's shadow was just projected on the wall and watched silently for a moment, then turned and left.

   "Are you leaving?"

   Jon asked subconsciously, seeing that the girl's shadow ignored him, and hurriedly shouted.

   "Wait! Can you tell me what to call you?"

   "Shadow of a Maiden."

   whispered softly.

   "Thank you...you are a good...good person."

   "Good man..."

  The cold wind blew sharply through the cellar opening.

   Witnessing the shadow of the girl who resurrected him but left, Jon, who was left alone in the cellar, was at a loss.

   You should no longer be considered a human, right?

   Do you want to stay here to survive? It's impossible to find food after Overwatch has left those monsters...

   So where are you going? Belfast or Shymfast? I heard that the Lennon Islands and the Lord's Continent, a place called Wiener Freeze Harbor, are safe...

  …

boom--

   Ophelia lifted the cellar plank.

   Dusty rotten gas gushed out.

   "Should... be... here."

  The footprints unfortunately disappeared after leaving the alley. They followed the direction to the edge of Watching Town, and the sharp-eyed eldest sister found this cellar.

   Ophelia reached into the cellar with the palm of the oil lamp. The dense edge has no bottom, and it is deeper than expected.

   raised his fingers, the dark red magma fingertips lowered, and the bright silk lines formed revealed the outline of the cellar.

   also illuminated that delicate and fair face that seemed to be flushed.

   A bed made of old clothes in the corner, useless garbage, a desk and a glass bottle with fluorite on it.

  Ana tilted her head and said to Lu Li, "It's...safe inside."

  Lu Li lowered his eyes and nodded lightly to Ophelia when he raised them again.

   He and Ophelia entered the cellar, and the merchant was left outside.

   Carrying the oil lamp, Lu Li leaned against the desk, the drawer was empty.

   Those who hide here take everything they can, except the fluorite.

   "Here... symbols."

  What Ophelia found.

  The bottom of the ladder is engraved with the logo of the Church of Shadows.

   is useless, they don't know anything except that Anna or the Church of Shadows have been here.

   Leave the cellar and look around.

  There are no footprints, everything is buried by the snow and blown away by the wind.

The    thread breaks here.

   But at the dark and hazy edge ahead, Lu Li saw Anna wearing a white dress, standing barefoot in the snow, her eyes curled and beckoning to him.

   (end of this chapter)