Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 1389 Thirty-one. Or start

  The dust that obscured the sky gradually enveloped Midnight City.

   "Are we going back?"

  Ophelia looked at the suburban farm engulfed in sand and dust.

  Ghouls are so rotten and weird the dust has settled, and they don't seem to need to leave here.

  Claire no longer curled up and trembled, and the source of her uneasiness seemed to disappear with the fall of the alchemy tower.

   "I'm not following you."

  Lu Li was about to leave, lest the king of ghouls go back to the source of the war and implicate them.

   "Where are you going?" Ophelia asked him.

   "Lying in Midnight City, waiting for the eyeballs to arrive."

   "Do you still want to go back?"

   "Ghoul—"

   "Don't say it!" Elena screamed to stop Lu Li: "I can feel... He is listening to any words that mention himself..."

  "—Even if He traces back to the source, he cannot appear in Midnight City."

  For Lu Li, Midnight City is safer than other places.

   "And we always have to know what happened to Midnight."

   "Claire can...be careful." Ophelia retracted the words that prevented her.

  No one can convince Lu Li, except Anna.

  Lu Li followed them back to the dust-covered farm, and then left alone.

  No longer in the image of a ghoul or a rotten monster, Lu Li, who is dressed in a black robe and lingers with faith, makes the few weird fears left in the south.

   Ignoring the prying eyes behind the vertical windows of the castle, Lu Li stepped into the yellow dust.

  He came first to the ghoul lair. The ghouls were brought to Blood Eye by Lu Li. The blood pool dried up due to the arrival of the King of Ghouls, and the place was as desolate as if it had been abandoned for a long time.

  Lu Li left the ghoul lair and came to the outpost. They searched the dried blood pool, the Scarlet Monastery, and the theater one after another, and found no trace of any ghouls without accident.

  Including the blood spirit who could only be the soul of the night city.

  Looking at the unknown east from here, mist-like dust enveloped the quiet Midnight City.

  Finally, Lu Li hid all traces and quietly approached the Blood Eye lair.

  Stepping into the withered lair, the ghouls who had come here with him were the same as the pool of blood, as dry as rotten wood, maintaining their previous posture.

   Lu Li's passing brings a breeze, or the robe touches, a ghoul collapses, and ashes rise.

  He didn't investigate the blood plague tribe anymore, because the answer he sought had already been obtained: the **** who was listening to the talker drained all the ghouls in Midnight City.

  Whether the weirdness is having a carnival, or forming a deep pit left by the alchemy tower, there is only danger and barrenness left there.

  Unsettling sounds echoed in the depths of the dust that hadn't dissipated. Lu Li left the danger, returned to the safe south, and continued to visit those strange things that hadn't left.

  The Misty Manor that Lu Li had dealt with before was the first target that Lu Li visited. Tell them what happened in the east, threaten them that the south will be invaded, promise that the manor will give them a place to stay, and successfully get them to sign a contract to leave the manor.

  Then there is Wraith. But when Lu Li visited, there was only an empty haunted house, and the resentful spirits were nowhere to be seen.

  Lu Li lived in the bookstore next door to the haunted house, curbing his unnecessary curiosity.

  Night falls, dawn arrives.

  Lu Li woke up from the underground rock layer surrounded by tree roots, returned to the basement, and returned to the surface from the basement.

  Outside the dusty window was still a sandstorm-like haze, and the dust from the fall of the alchemy tower was unexpectedly long-lasting.

  The ghost neighbor has not yet arrived.

  As if Midnight City didn't want Lu Li Anyi to wait and see the real eyes, the approach of the resentful spirit attracted Lu Li's attention, but it wasn't the owner who was waiting here.

   "Why are you here?"

  Lu Li looked at Ophelia, she was anxiously looking for something:

   "I'm here to find Claire... haven't you seen her!"

  The bizarre dreams quickly diffused and returned, and Claire was not around waiting to play pranks.

   "But Claire said she went to find you..."

  Lu Li had some guesses: "You go back to the farm, I'll go find her."

   No longer waiting for the wraith to return, let Ophelia go back and then Lu Li headed to the east of Midnight City.

  Claire is likely to be in the east at this time.

   Stuck in some kind of trouble, or investigated something?

  Lu Li passed by the outpost, but Claire was not here. Came to the blood eye lair again, Claire was not here, not even Claire—the remains of the ghouls were gone.

  Including the scattered ashes due to Lu Li's passing, they also disappeared. And he found messy footprints that were fairly new and not covered by dust from the exit of the lair.

  These footprints are specious, as if the ghoul whose body and soul were annihilated was resurrected evilly for some reason.

  Lu Li looked at the footprints extending into the depths of the dusty street. If they don't change direction...there's the blood plague horde.

  The clues seem to converge in one place.

   Like fate, Lu Li, disguised as a ghoul, inevitably returned to his hometown after the blood plague group was wiped out.

   There is just one thing that needs to be confirmed: Claire went there on her own initiative, or was captured.

  Either way... it tells what secrets are buried there.

  Lu Li moved forward along the uncovered mark, and the buildings he passed became more and more dilapidated. The impact caused by the fall of the alchemy tower turned the wooden house into broken eaves and broken walls, and the roof and walls were inlaid with fragments of the alchemy tower.

  Finally, Lu Li approached the edge of the Blood Plagued Tribe—the surroundings were turned into ruins, and there were no flesh lairs or shadows in front of the dust-shrouded front, only a deep pit spreading like a cliff.

  The Alchemy Tower forever changed the landscape of the eastern part of Midnight City.

  The footprints that led Lu Li here disappeared on the edge of the pit. This is the blood plague tribe, and the ghouls use it to return to their nests...but there is something strange surging in the quiet, dust-shrouded pit.

  What did Claire discover?

  While the wandering Lu Li was about to descend into the deep pit, a black shadow suddenly sprang out from the deep pit, jumped over Lu Li's head, swooped down through an arc, and got into Lu Li's cloak.

"run!"

  Claire's panicked voice came out.

  Lu Li didn't ask what happened, and retreated from the deep pit without hesitation.

  When Lu Li was more than ten meters away from the edge of the pit, a silhouette crawled out from the bottom of the pit.

   It was a pus-drenched, rotting monster, decayed, foul, and revolting, with an unsustainable hideous shape that was constantly changing, enough to be anyone's nightmare.

  It's utterly terrifying, but it shouldn't have made Claire so panicked, especially when Lu Li was far away from the edge, it wandered back into the deep pit, and never got to the bottom of it.

   "Why are you here."

   "I just escaped..."

   "Are you stuck with it?"

   "Not just it..." Claire said incoherently. "It's all over the place down there."

  Claire described what she saw: a black tide surging at the bottom of the pit, gestating some kind of horror.

   "Rotten Ghouls? I don't know what to call them..."

  Finding that Lu Li didn't respond, she exclaimed, "You don't want to go down and explore, do you?"

   "...don't think about it for now."

  Thinking about the good, the first to face the horror pit is the Eastern Weird, and Lu Li and the others can leave at any time.

   On the downside, Rotting Ghouls seem to be a fusion of Rotting Weird and Ghoul traits, if they breed new horrors...

The key is.

  Lu Li smelled the swamp from the rotting ghoul.

  (end of this chapter)