Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1111 Forty-nine. The city of chronic death

  Lu Li boarded a port that no longer belonged to human beings.

   The icy cold wind of the aftertaste of the cold winter blows, tearing the exhaled breath.

   Wiener Refuge is close to Old Belfast. The same seaport city also exists along the mountain. Sadly, there is no light here. Only a large number of underground residents separate the Wiener Freezing Port from other lost towns.

   "Mr. Lu Li, long time no see."

  Despite complaining about Lu Li's reckless trip, Mateus was still rejoicing at his arrival.

   "The surface is not safe."

   Lu Li said to the powerful man who came from the refuge area.

"You crossed the deep sea to the frozen port of Wiener, and I just came to the ground from the surface." Matthaus said modestly, and looked down at the banyan tree guards dancing in the dark like anemones on the deck of the big ship: "This is the Your...friends? It's more shocking to actually see them than in letters."

   After witnessing the existence of the ancients and Lu Li keeping correspondence, Matthaus was undoubtedly able to accept these strange allies.

   The distorted figure in the form of Saint Elena was surrounded by believers and came to Lu Li's side, greeting Mateus: "I am the successor of the ancients, the star of the land of light, the distorted shadow."

   It might be a bad idea to have the Swamp Mother and Twisted Figures have afternoon tea every day.

   "I'm Ophelia... The undead returned from hell, a Belfast survivor."

   Ophelia is a recent addition.

   "It's nice to meet the two of you." Mateus welcomed him, and he didn't show any difference because of their introduction. .

Lu Li and Matthaus didn't waste time being polite, they went straight to the key: "We already controlled the surrounding of the dock before you came. There is bad news... We didn't find a battleship in the dock, and the Knights asked the only one who successfully evacuated to the shelter. Sailors of the district..."

  A fleet of naval battleships was on a clean-up mission outside the bay when the desperate catastrophe that the residents of the Wiener Refuge did not want to recall. Tragedy thus occurred: Except for the fastest small warship "Azazel", which rushed back to the port, the rest of the warships failed to return, including the honor symbol of Wiener's ice-free port: the flagship "Hergollus Giant".

   And the Asachel, like other ships in the port, floated out of the port in the following four consecutive months of winter, and did not know where to go.

   Only the Hemgrew survived due to maintenance in the shipyard - it should still be there.

  There is also one of the destinations of Lu Li's trip, and the personnel who repair Andrea are waiting in the row of the knight team.

   The twisted figure refused Mateus to let the Knights open the way, and his followers stepped into the icy waters and headed for the shipyard. The banyan tree guard also moved its roots, and the sleeping giant slowly approached as if it had woken up.

The    Knight Order surrounded Lu Li and Matthaus.

   After a few minutes, the twisted figure brought back good news for the believers.

   No weirdness has taken over the shipyard, the Hemgrew is still there, the bad news is that the winter Hemgrew is in dire need of maintenance, the good news is that the maintenance crew has arrived.

  The Knights briefly acted as worker accusers, transporting dirt to pile up in front of the ship repair yard, letting the banyan guards take root, and then stationed around with the Twisted Cultists.

   Lu Li, Ophelia, and the twisted figure followed Mateus to visit the Wiener refuge area.

   But Lu Li and Ophelia need to put on a cloak to cover their bodies.

   "We tried to clear a street from the entrance of the refuge area to the port, but they would attack endlessly, so it had to be changed to a temporary road that could pass." Matthaus explained.

   and casualties are inevitable.

   On the way to the refuge area, Lu Li saw many houses on both sides of the dark street with dead windows. Some new, some old.

  The old traces are from the residents who did not hide in the shelter when the original darkness shrouded, and the new traces are from the residents who ran out of the shelter.

   "Remember those coastal refuges designated as migration points. I sent soldiers to maintain order there. I don't want a group of robbers and prisoners to become residents of the Land of Light, and neither should you."

On the way   , a group of knights who dropped down from the port informed them that a group of civilians broke into the port and wanted to board the ship.

   They came from the coastal shelter and got the news that Andrea had landed.

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

   "How many."

   "Less than a hundred people." Not knowing whether it was cold or excited, the Knight Captain's voice trembled slightly.

   "Let them go back to the shelter first, and I'll take them away when the repairs are over."

  The knight left with the reply, and Lu Li and Matthaus, who were surrounded, continued to move forward.

   "The Land of Light needs to be built now, are you sure you want to bring back a group of civilians who know nothing?" Matthaus asked.

   "The camp now only needs scientists and students."

  The Land of Light needs to be accumulated.

   They must first restore the lost steam technology, and then find the same lost survivors of the late night city.

  The good news is that everything is going well in the camp, the bad news is that the crisis will not give much time. Whether it's the eerie fog and whirlpool that eat into the land of light, or the eerie coveted outside.

   Came to an open park and entered the entrance. After a long flight of steps, Lu Li arrived at a refuge area that was narrower than the old sewers.

   Residents along the way stayed in narrow cells that smelled like prison cells, numbly watching or listening to the clatter of knights walking along the passage. They didn't recognize Mateus, and they didn't have time to pay attention to what big man passed by outside.

   This pigpen-like vibe gets a little better until you step into the inner ring.

  The passage is no longer narrow, the room has privacy, and the decorations and fluorite lamps are hung on the rock wall.

   "We've been thinking about migration, weird attacks are getting more frequent, they know we're here..."

   "Worms can help you."

   "I know, but too many people don't want to leave..."

   A cave adorned with star-like fluorite appeared in front of him.

   Exquisite buildings are built along the rock walls, and a granite fountain is built in the square in the center of the cave.

   Here is the heart of the Wiener Refuge, both politically and financially.

   "They don't want to leave, right?"

  Lu Li's gaze fell on the men in dresses and the ladies in long skirts on the square.

   As if this is not the underground where they hide in embarrassment, but the night when the street lights are not on.

   "There are currently 87,000 citizens in the Wiener Refuge Area. A week ago the number was 93,000, half a month ago it was 100,000, and then it was 100,000..."

When    was still the ice-free port of Wiener, there were more than 300,000 people.

   Matthaus' answer lies in the reduction of the numbers: "We are dying slowly, starvation, plague, death, war flooding the ground... We dare not do anything, because no one knows what the price will be."

   They can only accept the growing weakness that comes with school, and Mateus has always had an excuse for procrastination: Wiener Refuge will hold out until the Land of Light no longer needs help.

   "I'll let the worms come over to help you dig deeper." Lu Li made a decision for the vacillating Matthaus.

   "Eighty-seven thousand inhabitants is not a number."

   (end of this chapter)