Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1207 One hundred and forty-five. The girl in the dungeon

   The fantasy of the late night city is not real.

   But the story is not false.

  Perhaps the sea flooded the beach, but when the tide receded, there may still be traces left on the sand and gravel.

  In the depths of the primitive darkness, the outline of the World Tree is like a beacon, silently guiding the direction.

The    lurking shadow potion does not work in Midnight City, because there are no well-meaning undead lurking in the shadows. Lu Li, whose humanity has been supplemented, releases the dreamer, strays from the boundary between reality and dream, and travels underground.

  The shadows dormant above the surface are revealed at the edge of the dream halo. As they approached the giant tree without incident, Lu Li emerged from the ground and emerged in a collapsed dilapidated mansion. Looking forward through the broken and crumbling ceiling, he was still some distance away from the giant tree - the miscalculated distance and speed made the dreamer's imagination a little off.

  Lu Li re-corrected the scene, confirmed that there was no strangeness around him, and then disappeared into the ruins again.

   Two minutes later, Lu Li arrived at the outer edge of the World Tree, the World Peak Observatory.

  This used to be one of the most famous attractions in Midnight City, and it is said that when the weather is clear, you can even see the majestic World Back Mountains - which is of course false. Even the Alchemy Tower could not see the World Back Mountains thousands of miles away, let alone the observation deck that was only about 30 meters high.

   But aside from the commercial touts made by the owner of the observatory, this is indeed the best angle to observe the World Tree.

Even withered and withered, the crown of the tree of the world still holds up the sky like a pillar of the sky. The giant tree is dark and dark, but a blaze of fire lights up under its feet. The tiny silhouette of an ant wanders around its roots. The car was pushed out, and a mound was built around the giant tree.

   Earth dwellers occupy this place.

  Luli looked down at the foot of the giant tree, and the scene in front of him was not unexpected—since the profit-seeking land dwellers cooperated with the swamp to devour the late night city, they would not miss the legacy left behind.

  The knowledge that human beings have exchanged for a heavy price from the era of exorcism to the dark age is just like the waste being carried out of the giant tree by truck by truck. Lu Li can only watch and do nothing.

   At most, remember to let the Swamp Mother hire White Gloves to acquire valuable knowledge scattered in the old sewers after going back.

   The sacred artifact of the land dwellers did not appear when they were captured, so it is likely to shelter here.

  Unable to risk slipping into the giant tree, Lu Li took one last look at the ants moving under his feet, retreated into the shadow behind him, stepped down the floor, and submerged into the ground.

   Walking through the rock formations that silently told thousands of years, Lu Li broke into a mole hole that existed suddenly in the ground.

The cave is so low that one can only stand in it with their waists folded. There is no exit to the outside world. A skeleton wrapped in rotting clothes lies quietly beside the fluorite that seems to last forever. Iron pickaxe.

  Luli found the excavation marks on the rock wall and the half-buried rock pile behind him, and then tilted upward along the rock pile that blocked the passage, and appeared in a basement soaked in stagnant water.

   Holes blocked by sand and stones appeared on the walls where the masonry was knocked open.

  Lulli seemed to see the strange approaching on the surface. The desperate man waved his pickaxe, dug a tunnel in the basement, and piled the dug gravel behind him to form a cave that followed him. It is a pity that this whimsical act of extreme despair failed. He didn't hold out until he escaped, and the cave became his tomb.

   Lu Li, who appeared in the basement, suddenly went back the same way, not to bury the bones, but the cave reminded Lu Li of some truth that could still be verified——

   At the end of the street in the distance, the foot of the Giant Tree Academy was emitting fire.

  Lu Li burrowed into the ground before the surrounding monsters came, and quietly moved towards the deep and distant Giant Tree Academy. He must grasp the distance, so that he will not be found by the sacred artifact of the earth dwellers because he is too close to the surface, and he will not be caught by the swamp because he is too deep underground.

  Fortunately and sadly, the Academy of Giant Trees has left enough riches that the Earthlings did not evacuate the Giant Trees even after a few months, and the gloomy interlayer between the Giant Trees and the swamp was temporarily shelved by them.

   This is Lu Li's best chance to sneak into the dark interlayer.

  The dark cave like a mine tunnel, Lu Li stepped out of the rock wall, away from the tree hole connecting the giant tree and the swamp, replaced the dreamer with an oil lamp, and moved forward along the empty and quiet passage.

   Following the route he remembered, Lu Li came to a gap that was blocked by gravel and painted with special paint to integrate with the rock wall.

   Lu Li's guess has been verified.

   Now, I just hope it’s still too late.

   The dreamer reappeared, a halo shrouded Lu Li and stepped into the gap between the rock formations, and came to the space inlaid with fluorescent light to illuminate the dim village.

   Different from the two visits in the illusion, Lu Li no longer needs the latent image potion, and the dream smudged reality is enough to protect Lu Li from being attacked by the surrounding residents, but it also blocks the consciousness of the surrounding clusters.

   Residents surrounded the dreamer, and the dreamer wrapped Lu Li, who passed through the village to the core altar of the dungeon,

   Awakens the silver-haired girl who sits by the earthen pot in a statue-like quiet and contemplative manner.

"Who are you?"

  Margaret asked the intruder of the dungeon lightly.

   "The exorcist Lu Li."

   "I've heard of you..." Margaret observed Lu Li: "Did you come by accident, or a request from the Holy Light team, or a search for treasure?"

"neither."

  Margaret knew nothing of what was going on in the outside world - whether it was the Fall of Night City or the fantasy.

   Lu Li didn't explain for the time being, he just wanted to take her away.

   "If you can come here, then they can't stop you." Margaret nodded in agreement, picked up the earthen pot next to her, and walked towards Lu Li barefoot.

  The residents wanted to stop Margaret and isolate them, but Lu Li seemed to be wandering on the edge of the world, and the residents who were in the way were covered by the halo of dreams but did not hurt them, and came to Margaret and entered the dream.

   "The marshland has changed, it is almost impossible for you to return to the old sewers through the marshland." Lu Li looked around at the numb residents who surrounded him: "Wait for me here, I will help you return to the old sewers after the matter is settled."

   "They don't believe you."

   Margaret with a clay pot translates for cluster consciousness.

   "It doesn't matter what you said."

  Lu Li shook his head gently, stating the facts: "You can't stop me, you have no choice but to believe."

   Leaving the dungeon unhindered, Lu Li took Margaret back the same way.

   "In the legend, you are just a human being." Margaret asked during this period, observing Lu Li with her quiet eyes.

   "I am indeed."

   After passing the peak of the world, Lu Li briefly floated up, allowing Margaret to see the current Midnight City.

  The dream faded, and Lu Li returned to his black cat form.

   "Alienation Potion?" Margaret turned her attention to the ants at the foot of the giant tree: "Are those earth dwellers?"

   "Well, this is the first truth you have to accept: Late Night City has fallen."

   (end of this chapter)