Bizarre Detective Agency

   "A group of soldiers came from the street just now. They are arresting the rebels. Let us stay at home and not go out." Jojo thought of the clue: "Does it have anything to do with you?"

【No】

   Shredded paper and blowing air to make up new sentences.

  【You, in the afternoon, go to the port, did you?】

   Qiaoqiao did go to the port after Lu Li disappeared: "I looked for you everywhere and questioned the suspicious exorcist, but he really doesn't seem to know your whereabouts."

   Part of the shredded paper floats up, and some of the shredded paper is left behind:

  【Port, yes, status, is it】

   "Well, it's still those rebels. Soldiers are catching them everywhere. When I passed by, the port began to prohibit ships from entering and leaving..."

  Unfortunately, tonight may be the start of the tragedy for the "Lennon Islands".

   Downstairs, Aunt Mary and Aunt Roseanne are still worried that they will break into Shanin Street because of the news of the rebels. There are many elderly people on this street. Qiao Qiao was completely at ease because Lu Li came back.

   None of them realized what was about to happen.

   Only Lu Li clearly realized that they were running out of time.

   Historically, the Lennon Islands went missing shortly after.

   It’s just that patrolling soldiers with torches and blocked ports appear on the streets from time to time so they can’t leave.

  【Stay, here, I, go, investigate】

  Lu Li had to figure out what was going on first, and remembered the same warning from the old exorcist and the Codex: run to the heights.

  This is an island. If it is a tsunami or the whole island is submerged, running to a high place will indeed avoid danger, but it is only temporary.

   And it turns out that there are no survivors in the Lennon Islands.

   Was the tsunami engulfing the archipelago, or some other unknown crisis?

  Loli leans towards the latter - as he passes through the shattered Lennon Islands, he finds no trace of the tsunami raging.

"me and you together?"

【Do not】

  Jojo, who was born in a slum, may be agile, but the invisible ghost is more suitable for scout.

  Let Jojo stay here to protect Aunt Mary and Aunt Roseanne. Lu Li left Shanning Street and floated towards Temple City.

   It is very simple to find the core of martial law. Follow the torches moving on the street. The denser they are, the closer they are to the truth.

   But when Lu Li floated over the city of Tambul and overlooked the entire "Queen's Island", he found that the southeastern part of the island was like an area with broken street lights, and several blocks were plunged into darkness.

  The periphery of the dark neighborhood is densely populated with moving torches, and giant bonfires are burning at every intersection.

  Lu Li fell back to the street, approaching the periphery of the area that the soldiers hurriedly patrolled. At first only martial law soldiers patrolled the empty streets, but as they got closer they turned into crow masks filled with spices, disinfectant and gauze. They distribute medicines, disinfect, seal doors and windows.

   The terrified residents slumped by the windows, occasionally coughing in low voices.

   Lu Li, who did not leave any reflection, passed the bonfire, jumped over the crow-masked soldiers and the raised fence, and headed for the depths.

  Lu Li began to hear painful coughs and desperate cries for help slamming on the closed door from the outside, and there were no more patrolling soldiers and doctors disinfecting and distributing medicines.

Despair and agony play out behind every window: the little girl twitches and vomits blood in the arms of her weeping mother; the hobbled old man falls down trying to get medicine, his head on the corner of the table and falls stiffly; the empty room in the smashed window, Blood strewn on the streets. …

   Plague?

  The Lennon Islands "just" had a plague outbreak?

  While it is true that if the plague spreads fast enough it can easily infect the blocked islands, the Lennons are made up of dozens of islands, and they cannot be plagued at the same time, self-isolating, and no one spared.

  Lu Li continued to move forward, the houses on the street no longer illuminated the light, only the dim street lamps illuminated the dead street.

  Whoa—

The muffled sound of overturning sounded from behind a window. A couple was fighting. They tore each other's clothes, hair, and skin. They ripped apart the person they once loved like a beast with their claws and sharp teeth, and finally knocked down the dining table. When the oil lamp shattered, darkness enveloped the outlines of the abominable flesh and blood that merged with each other.

   Abominable evil grows in the gloom.

  As Lu Li moved, a heavy, hoarse gasp sounded from behind the closed doors and windows.

   Once again, we passed an intersection where the bonfire was extinguished. The street lights in front were no longer on, and the dark shrouded street seemed to be a dark and dead zone.

  As Lu Li stepped into the real core, some kind of chaotic running sound accompanied by roars, from far to near, in the gloomy night without moonlight, terrifying monsters ran in the gloom.

  Lu Li couldn't see the appearance of these twisted and variously shaped silhouettes, but he could confirm that they found themselves and followed the bite. But they don't fly, they just follow below, roaring.

   is still some distance away from the real core, but Lu Li is no longer advancing. He thought that the strangeness in the depths might hurt him, but now he is just a ghost without any power, and it is impossible to confirm whether dying in a dream will really die, or that he will not be able to enter the nightmare again.

  Lu Li returned to the original road, and more and more annihilated houses were bright and the defense line was constantly retreating, and the distant church bells told him that the plague could not be controlled, and it was spreading outwards.

   floated over the blood-stained beak mask figure. Lu Li did not go back to Shaning Street, but instead looked for the night watchman base or the exorcist.

   He didn't see any trace of the exorcist among the martial law soldiers, and the fact that the exorcist didn't intervene itself represented a problem.

   But Lu Li didn't find the night watchman or the exorcist, and the old exorcist he visited earlier disappeared. He had no choice but to return to Shanin Street and remind Jojo and the others to be ready.

   When Lu Li came back, Aunt Mary in a nightdress sat on Jojo's bed and recounted a call she just received with a pale face:

   A friend of Aunt Mary who was going to visit tomorrow called and heard a weak cry for help on the other side of the phone. She said that the whole street was infected with the plague, and many people died. She hid in her bedroom, and the door downstairs was being slammed. Then the phone disconnected quickly after glass shattered and a scream.

   She hesitated to call the police station, but no one answered several times. The only time she got through was only to hear busy and panicked shouts and the ringing of the phone on the opposite side, and then she was hung up.

   "Will those insurgents break into the police station..."

  Qiaoqiao, who didn't know anything, was still waiting for Lu Li to return. Finally, she saw the shreds of paper fluttering.

   "I'll go downstairs to see."

   "Don't go out..."

   "Don't worry, I'll just look at the window."

  Jojo swept the shredded paper, [We, must, leave], hurriedly grabbed them back downstairs, and spread them on the dining table.

   "What's going on outside?"

  【Plague, Epidemic, Infection, Monster】

   "Plague...monster..."

   "Where are we going?" Jojo remembered the old exorcist's reminder: "Run to the heights?"

  【prepare, luggage, me, seaside, search, boat】