Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1208 One hundred and forty-six. More and more fish

  Margaret's acceptance threshold for truth was higher than she thought.

   Maybe because she is the same person as Lu Li, thinking about things without too much emotion, more rational than emotional.

  —and there is nothing worse than being imprisoned in a dungeon that sees no light.

  Lu Li returned to the head maid manor. Claire had woken up and was sitting on the terrace waiting for his return.

  The wind wrapped around the black cat that converged on the dreamer, and took Lu Li into his arms. Claire looked at the shimmering silver-haired girl: "Margaret?"

   "Are you someone I know?" Margaret was also observing Claire, who was close to Lu Li.

   "You don't know me, but I know you..."

   In Lu Li's dream.

  Claire's movement of stroking the cat's back suddenly stopped, and she lowered her head and asked, "You brought back Margaret... Does this mean that Asammons is lying to us!"

   "It doesn't mean much. Asammons' speculation about the illusion is just rational thinking." Lu Li shattered Claire's newly born hope and said to Margaret, "We need your help."

   "Please tell me what happened in these four months first."

  Lu Li nodded, and asked Claire to take out the sleeping potion and hand it to Margaret: "Don't resist."

   "My body is not there, I can sleep if you need me," said Margaret, who was just a soul.

   "As long as you are asleep."

   And ghosts can dream.

   They went back to the bedroom, and after Margaret fell asleep, Lu Li accompanies her to a dream.

   Margaret had a dream.

   After dozens of minutes, Lu Li woke up from his dream and waited for Margaret to open his eyes.

   In a way, finding Margaret was more rewarding than finding Asammons - Margaret didn't experience the fall of the Night City, and she had all the memories before the March Contest.

   At this moment, Margaret woke up slowly, her eyes no longer looking at Lu Li like a stranger: "Thank you for your rescue in the illusion, Deputy Captain Lu Li."

   Next, it was Margaret's turn to tell Lu Li and Claire what happened before the March Tournament, and the stories of everyone she knew.

   This enriches the stories of every professor and many students. If more details are needed, Lu Li can also experience Margaret’s story from a dream—she doesn’t care about being pryed into her memory.

   After Margaret finished speaking, Lu Li told her the current clues that "the farmer is undead" and "the gardener is Asammons", during which Claire brought two lizard maids, but unfortunately Margaret didn't know them.

   "What do you think?" Lu Li asked her after finishing Asammons' point of view.

   "I am more inclined towards Asammons." Margaret's answer made the wind around Claire chaotic: "Unlike you, I have never had contact with the dean or vice dean, and have no feelings for them."

   "If the mother is the real murderer...why did she compile your whereabouts into the illusion!" Claire retorted.

"I have no idea."

   Margaret's calm left Claire speechless.

  Lu Li raised his cat's paw and patted Claire to soothe his emotions, and continued to ask Margaret: "Kinuite, may they tell others that you are trapped in the dungeon?"

   "Yes, they may have tried to save me and turned to the professor after they failed, but it seems they failed."

  The dark humor is that Margaret, the first to die, survived, and none of the unharmed team members survived.

  The story of Margaret is over, and it's time to talk about how to hide her whereabouts: Margaret does not have the means and power to hide herself, as long as the bat guard arrives and Lu Li is not around, she will be exposed.

Lu Li arranged two options for Margaret: "The first option is that I will send you out of Midnight City, the worm will **** you to the safe ghost town, and the merchant will keep our communication. The second option is to transform into a lizard maid. , you will have a body, stronger strength, and not be seen through identity, at the cost of possibly being unable to get rid of this body and maintaining an ugly appearance."

   "I'll stay," said Margaret calmly. "Four months later, my body has long been buried and rotting in the mud."

  Because Lu Li needed their help at any time.

  Lu Li looked up at Claire, and she took the opportunity to rub the soft hair on his chin: "When can the transformation begin."

"Now you can."

  It's hard to say that Claire didn't have the idea of ​​punishing Margaret, but it accidentally saved them from the trouble that followed.

   Lu Li retreated temporarily, because the transformation would bring pollution that he could not bear, and it would be meaningless to consume human nature to maintain the dreamer to stay.

   Watching the lizard maid's naked corpse and lizard head being sent into the basement, Claire and Margaret followed.

  While waiting, Lu Li thought of his conversation about "what is a human being" long ago, not yet the investigator.

   At that time, Lu Li’s answer was: to have a sense of human identity.

   still is.

  Humans take civilization as the carrier.

   As long as you identify with human civilization and think you are human, then you are human.

  Claire is human, Margaret is human, and the Swamp Mother is human.

   The wait didn't last long, the iron door of the basement opened, and Claire floated out, followed by the lizard maid.

   With a ferocious lizard head on top of the plump and white carcass, Margaret's cold voice also became hoarse and twisted: "I got a new life."

   And soon after, a few bat guards fell into the manor, hanging upside down in gardens, promenades, or halls, helping the head maid—or rather, watching over the head maid.

  Lu Li's range of activities is limited, and he can only hide in a bedroom where he is not under surveillance.

   Margaret, who was transformed into a lizard maid just a few hours ago, was able to safely pass through the area they were watching.

   Under the surveillance of the bat guards, they temporarily changed their plans. Claire recalled all the lizard maids to the manor under the pretext of shrinking their defenses. Lu Li, who was hiding in the dark, found "three", "four" and "five" from nearly a hundred lizard maids. Then let Margaret memorize them, enter Margaret's dream, and follow her through the long dream that begins at school.

  This dream may last for a few days, Claire asked Lu Li how to explain it if the gardener asked for it.

   "The truth can be told."

  Loli enters the secret room connecting the bedrooms.

   This time, the dream was replaced by Lu Li following Margaret's perspective, and Lu Li found the identities of "two" and "five" at the promotion party and the New Year's party.

   One is a senior student, and the other is a middle-grade student named "Vina".

   Three of the five lizard maids have been found.

  It was the second evening when Lu Li and Margaret woke up. Claire brought "Two" and "Five" and told them the truth in the form of a dream.

   Maybe they don't believe it, but it doesn't matter. They are the servants of the head maid and are destined to be unable to resist and betray.

   (end of this chapter)