Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 125 Forty. "True News of the Ellen Peninsula"

  Lu Li looked away calmly and looked at the newsboy under the gas lamppost: "Is there still today's newspaper?"

   "Of course there is." The newsboy graciously picked up several newspapers on the newsstand: "What do you want, "The Principality of Allen Gazette," "Walson Post," "Daily News"?"

   "Isn't there a local one?"

   Lu Li glanced at the newspapers, which are also available in Belfast.

   "Are you a foreigner? The local newspaper office in Shadow Town has been closed for several years." The young newsboy shook his head and said.

   "Are there any old newspapers?"

   Seeing that there is still business to do, the young newsboy smiled: "Of course there is, when do you want it?"

"all."

   "All?" The young newsboy was stunned.

   "I have a hobby of collecting newspapers, and I am keen to collect newspapers from different newspapers in different periods." Lu Li explained briefly.

   "That's it...but maybe not so much, please wait a moment."

  The newsboy picked up the stack of old newspapers behind him and put them back on the newsstand: "There are only these, there may be a few days in between, can you read them?"

   "Yes, how much."

   "I'll count one, two, three... A total of thirty-four, um... you can give ten shillings."

   Handing over 10 shillings, Lu Li took a palm-sized stack of old newspapers from the young newsboy and left the newsstand.

   "Aren't we hanging around anymore? Maybe there are other clues."

  Anna noticed that Lu Li was walking back.

   "The clue has been found."

  Lu Li said something that Anna didn't understand, she didn't see the newspaper in that corner.

  Unexpectedly, he followed Lu Li back to the Big Wave Tavern, and returned to the upstairs room while the old woman greeted him casually, "You're back so soon?"

   Put a stack of newspapers in front of the dining table, and Lu Li briefly looked out the window. The lights the three of them picked up were like a ribbon of light dotted in the night. There were scattered lights in the distance, and the outermost part of the town was surrounded by a thick darkness.

  Whoa——

  Drawing the grey cloth curtains, Lu Li sat behind the dining table and took out a newspaper from a stack of newspapers.

   "Real News from Ellen Peninsula"

  【Shadow Town Scam! You are all fooled! 】

   "Oh~ is this the clue you said?"

   Suddenly realized that Anna did not get an answer, Lu Li raised his hand and moved the oil lamp, the light and shadow swayed, and the handwriting on the yellowed paper became clearer.

"Yingchuo people? Hexapods? Most people who know Shadow Swamp know Shadow Town, and most people who know Shadow Town know Yingchuo and Hexapods. The local residents have made money for decades because of this rumor, but if I What if they were fictional?"

"There have never been any shadows and six-legged monsters. Of course, maybe in some unknown place hundreds of thousands of miles away, such things really exist, but at least in Shadow Town, shadows and six-legged monsters The blame is only played by residents in crappy holsters!"

   "Yes, Shadow Town has tricked you all. Whether it's adventurers, nobles, merchants, ghost lovers, or whatever, you've all been tricked!"

"First they tell you 'there are ghosts in the Shadowswamp and they'll come to Shadow Town' but in case you're afraid, they'll then say 'fortunately, they're afraid of light, as long as you stay in the light you're safe'. And then you hear that and think, 'Wow, it's safe to see those monsters or savages!' and get excited to buy tickets and go to Shadow Town and see them like circus animals."

"When you get there, the local residents will remind you, they will tell you 'don't draw the curtains, after dark you will see Yingchuo people walking through the dark streets outside', and you do it in good spirits , and saw all those things they said go past the window, and then you and the residents were satisfied. You saw those things, and the residents got shillings."

   "But those are fake! Even faker than the manga!"

   "You might ask, since it's fake, why haven't tourists come forward to expose all this for decades?"

"The truth is that every year many tourists come forward to expose the ugly behavior of the residents of Shadow Town. Unfortunately, most newspapers are reluctant to report these truths. It is difficult for me to say whether Shadow Town gave them money or something. It's an analogy."

   "And Shadow Town's actions are far worse than you think. Why do they dare to deceive everyone without fear? Because they have support!"

"Shadowswamp grows a hallucinogenic fruit. It's a fruit that deepens people's subconscious. Somewhat like a dream, but not as disorderly. In layman's terms, it makes your subconscious real— - Of course it's a hallucination."

   "They will add this fruit to the food and let you eat it inadvertently. But don't worry, the hallucination of the fruit can only last for a dozen hours, and there will be no side effects."

   "So when ignorant outlanders eat this hallucinogenic fruit, their subconscious mind expands. What's going on in the minds of tourists who come to Shadow Town?"

   "Of course Yingchuo and Hexapod!"

   "Think about how many shillings they made by doing this? How can a small town with a population of 3,000 or 4,000 and less than 100 years of history accumulate so much wealth?"

   "Because they rely on this to develop the town!"

   "Everyone here has lived in a small town for generations. Conscience? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's important to develop a small town and make money by yourself."

"But since the disaster of the night, they have restrained a lot. Although they still do this to ignorant strangers, it is not so often. I mean, no one will want to go again after the disaster of the night, right? Right? The horrors are all around us, why do we go so far to see the horrors of others?"

"Actually, I wrote this article many years ago and tried to publish it in the Shadowtown Newspaper. The president is a gentleman of integrity and conscience, but unfortunately we underestimated Shadowtown. The residents are terrifying, they worked together to shut down the newspaper, and the last issue of the newspaper that wrote the truth was not published."

"I've been trying to get more people to see the truth for the next few years, but I'm really weak on my own. Until I found The Ellen Peninsula True News, the sheer truth it advertised attracted me, and they were. It did. After I said that I wanted to reveal the truth about Shadow Town, they tried to verify my article seriously and seriously, and completely confirmed the content of my article, so that it could be published in this issue of the newspaper.”

   "It's late, but it's not too late. Residents of Shadow Town, you have to apologize for your ugly behavior!"

   "I'm Thomas Dior, a scholar dedicated to uncovering the truth for people."

   (end of this chapter)