Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 129 Forty-four. Real and Unreal

   "Wait! I'm not finished yet!"

  The mysterious man hurriedly stopped Lu Li who was about to leave.

  Lu Li stopped and returned to the dining table.

   "You're sure to live until you die." The mysterious man couldn't help but say something, he thought that Lu Li would shirk and leave, but who knew that he would run without any hesitation.

   "I think so too." Lu Li didn't seem to catch the irony in his words. "Is there anything else?"

  The mysterious man paused, his voice much lower: "After you get rid of the evil spirit ritual... remember to come back and pick me up."

"Um."

  Lu Li left again, and behind him, the faint spot of light like a firefly quickly moved away.

   "One...two..."

   Lu Li, who fell into the darkness, started reciting the numbers again. When the third number sounded in his heart, he raised his arm and pulled the trigger.

boom! ! !

   In the light, everything appears in an instant.

   Yingyingchuochuo figure closer to the dining table than before, the gap between the shadowy people in front, and the back door revealed behind the gap.

"open the door."

   Lu Li did not reload bullets. He stood up and his left shoulder was facing forward, and he stepped forward and slammed forward!

  Click.

   There was a faint sound of a door lock, followed by an exclamation from Anna, Lu Li's left shoulder had already touched the wooden door.

  !

   There was a loud noise in the darkness, the door was slammed open, sawdust splattered in all directions, and the wooden planks under my feet were replaced by the low backyard mud.

   Lu Li, who escaped from the tavern, walked quickly to the position of the carriage in his memory, stretched out his hands, and reached forward like a blind man.

   "Three...four."

   murmurs emerged in the darkness around him. The mud is uneven, and the speed of Lu Li has not been reduced. He will focus on the inner soles of his feet to avoid twisting his feet.

"five……"

   Lu Li touched the pillar of the stable, and turned to the other direction according to the memory in his mind. At the same time the whispers became clear and seemed to be approaching.

"six……"

   Lu Li's black eyes shrank, turned his head suddenly, and swung his right fist, but it was empty.

   Just now, something blew a breath in his ear.

"seven……"

   An indescribable sense of horror climbed up Lu Li's back. This emotion did not originate from Lu Li's heart, but was forcibly imposed on him by some kind of terrifying and suffocating terrifying existence.

  An arm emerged from the darkness and grabbed Lu Li from behind.

   to the limit...

  The moment Lu Li realized this, his fingertips stretched forward to touch the rough horsehair and warm skin.

  Whispering, dark, creepy, some kind of existence that was approaching Lu Li was suddenly stripped away, and the mottled color and light that had been deprived in the previous few minutes were refilled into Lu Li's world.

  The oil lamp hanging on the stable column swayed slightly with the cool night wind, and the light and shadow in the backyard moved with it.

  The barking of dogs from far away echoed in the middle of the night.

  The horses are nestled in the haystacks, and are cupping Luli's palms with their hot and humid noses.

   The once ubiquitous scene is now impressive and unreal.

   "Anna?"

   "I recovered."

   Anna's voice sounded in his ears.

   Lu Li patted the horse's mane, the flintlock gun was holstered, the old cartridge case fell into the haystack, and the new bullet hit the barrel of the gun.

  Click.

   closed the barrel of the gun, put the holster back on his waist, Lu Li took off the oil lamp and walked to the tavern.

   When he left the stable, he suddenly stopped and looked back.

  Because the oil lamp was gone, the stable was getting dark, only a pair of **** eyes reflected the figure of Lu Li.

  …

  The situation of the mysterious man is not very good.

   When he wanted to escape from the shadows of Yingyingchuochuo... he was already surrounded by shadowy shadows.

   He may not be afraid of this group of things, but it is troublesome.

   Lu Li never returned, he had already planned to open the suitcase. But if so, the assessment will inevitably deduct a portion of the score. That's worse than letting him die... well, it's second only to letting him die.

   During the extremely long wait, a palm that seemed to emerge from the void patted his shoulder, everything shattered before his eyes, and he was pulled out of that dark and grotesque world.

   But the situation did not improve. The face of the mysterious man was covered by firelight and thick smoke. He hunched up and coughed violently: "Thanks, buddy, cough, cough, cough, what are you taking? cough cough cough—"

  Lu left the mouth to explain that the lit hay was to prevent the hall from being unlit, when an angry shout came from the soles of his shoes.

   "Damn, are you two **** trying to set my pub on fire!?"

  The old woman with a blanket draped over her body stepped downstairs, and found the broken back door that was completely open, letting in the cold wind.

   "My door! What did you do to my door!?"

   "The gentleman next to me will pay for your losses." Lu Li threw off the burning hay, but there was more hay smoke from Bright Mars.

   "Why me?" The mysterious man who had just stopped coughing raised his slightly blackened face, suddenly gasped, and threw away the match that burned to the end and burned his fingers.

   "I have no money, and I did this to save you." Lu Li walked to the back door and threw the hay out the door under the unkind gaze of the old woman.

   The mysterious man sighed: "Okay... Boss, remember to include the loss in my room fee."

   "Don't do anything more." The old woman pouted and closed the back door reluctantly.

  Lu Li walked to the mysterious man: "Can we talk."

   "Now? It's late. It's important to me to rest well."

   "Safe?"

   "They won't come again."

   "Then during the day."

"Can."

   Under the suspicious gaze of the old woman, Lu Li returned upstairs after the brief exchange.

  The mysterious man took his suitcase and followed him up the stairs. The old woman stared at them until her back disappeared around the corner.

   After she walked back to the bar, she poured herself a glass of red wine.

  Anyway, she'll be keeping an eye on these two guys tonight.

  …

   "The man next door said a lot and seemed to be a good guy."

   Back in the room, Anna showed her figure and floated to the wooden chair to sit down.

   The relighted oil lamp was put back on the dining table. She watched the scene of the street below for a while, and no one could be seen, so she closed the curtains again.

  Ana's behavior of associating a good person with a lot of talk is a little confusing, but it's understandable, because Lu Li also thinks the same way.

   Compared to being taciturn, Lu Li is more willing to contact people who talk a lot, no matter what the truth or the lie.

   "But he looks like we're safe... Really?"

"should be."

   Unlike Anna, who recalled the fright, Lu Li was thinking about another thing.

   That is... what he had experienced before was real, or was it a subconscious hallucination induced by the fruit of light...

  If it was a hallucination, why would Anna fall into the ritual too?

  If not, how should the Yingchuo people who have been confirmed to be false by the newspapers explain?

  Lu Li told Anna his guess, and Anna answered hesitantly, "I smell the light fruit... Is it counted?"

  Things became confusing again.

   However, the next night will be calm.

perhaps.

   (end of this chapter)