Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 1401 Forty-three. On the way

  The convertible steam car bumped on the gravel deposit beach.

  Kate raised her hands, feeling the cool and smooth touch of the wind passing through her fingers.

  In front of them is an endless barren plain, only the inlet that bends into the ocean. The roar of the internal combustion engine, the smell of engine oil, and the woody smell of the interior of the steam car dragged Lu Li back from the dark, terrifying and weird age to the old industrial age.

   "Woo—"

  Phan, a drunk who hadn’t fully sobered up, stuck his head out of the car, opened his mouth and let out a strange scream, his front tooth was smashed off by the rubble thrown up by the car, and he retracted in embarrassment with a mouth full of blood.

   "Fortunately, it wasn't the eyes that were smashed... Bah."

  The drunk man Puhan spat out blood foam, as if he didn't care about the loss of a leg, he didn't care about the loss of front teeth, and shouted at Lu Li, "What do you want to know?"

  Lu Li slowed down to make the drunk Puhan's voice clearer, and asked without looking back:

   "What are Heim and Lingsu?"

   "What Helm Spirit Sculpture?"

"You do not know?"

   "I know about Heim wine and Heim tavern, but I don't know about Heim spirit sculpture."

  However, several names uttered by the drunken Puhan all point to the noun "Heim".

   "Why is it called Heim Wine?" Lu Li asked.

   "Because they come from Helm, idiot." The loss of a front tooth didn't affect the drunk Phan at all, taunting his savior, "Where are you going? Please don't go, the people of Helm are all crazy."

"Why do you say that."

   "You have as many problems as Ana!"

   This name touches the softness in the hearts of the drunkard Puhan and Lu Xin, linking them together.

   "Anna..." the drunk Puhan sighed, "Because Heim is the territory of the aborigines. They resist us and stay away from us...Damn it, I have to tell you more! For Anna's sake!"

  The drunk Puhan started talking cursingly while vomiting blood.

  Cultivated land was inhabited by aborigines before it was discovered by Solasia Sim. The mystery that is talked about by people is that they have the same language.

  Although the prophecies of the aborigines are mixed with local slang, they do belong to the language family of this world.

  The current reasonable argument is that the natives of Cultivated Land are descendants of those wandering, shipwrecked crew members.

  The colonization of the main mainland will inevitably cause conflicts with the aborigines, but they are still friendly to the aborigines who share the same language. Neither conquered them nor killed them all. The aborigines are thus divided into three types—those who integrate into civilization, those who dissociate from civilization, and those who reject civilization.

  The first two kinds of Luli have already been seen—the bay town and the fishing village.

  The latter is Heim.

   "But don't expect to see a bunch of ignorant aborigines to get your pathetic arrogance." The drunk Puhan smiled: "There are fewer and fewer aborigines of that kind, and they are basically integrated into civilization."

"where?"

   "Hi...then you're going in the wrong direction. We're heading inland. Heim is on the coast, at... Cape Lookout."

   "Where is Wanghaijiao?"

   "East...no, north...west, yes, west."

   "South."

  Kate said suddenly: "My history teacher told me that Cape Wanghai is a place where the aborigines and the descendants of the crew lived together."

   "As I said, they are basically integrated into civilization." The drunk Puhan had no shame in pointing in the wrong direction.

   "Aren't you going to change direction?" Kate asked Lu Li who was still driving along the water bay.

   "Go to town first."

  From there, you can know what happened in the cultivated land last night, get a local map, and tell them that the Immortal Giant was stranded.

  Even though what he experienced was false and a dream, Lu Li still couldn't do nothing.

  Lu Li asked, "How much do you know about Gengdi Garden?"

"what?"

   "How much do you know about Cultivated Land?"

  Smiling, the drunk Puhan spoke leakingly: "Your question is like asking me what wine I want to drink today."

   "Tell me about Heim."

   "Nothing to say...there are local people there, they lived there when you came. It used to be very exclusive, but more and more things made by science flow into the farmland, and they start to use your things."

  Drunk Puhan repeated what he had already said.

   "Is there any legend there?"

   "You are right... Hiccup, I know a lot of legends, do you have any wine?"

"No."

   "Then I won't tell you."

   "This is important."

   "Young man, you're threatening an old guy with nothing..."

   “I am saving many lives.”

   "Are you a policeman too?"

   "I am the exorcist."

   "It's almost the same, almost..." The drunk man waved his hand, "Let me think about it... Legend... It is said that there is an unknown flower blooming in a nameless pond in Heim, and the person who gets the flower can make a wish..."

  The drunkard Puhan told one local legend after another intermittently.

   "...you will be healed when you hear a lullaby... hiccup...you go on, I'll sleep for a while, and call me when I get there..."

  The voice of the drunken Puhan became smaller and smaller. Kate turned her head and saw his head drooping gradually. The blood foam from his mouth flowed along his lips to his chin, staining his dirty brown collar dark brown.

   It seems that only the shaking caused by the bumps is left.

"How are you?"

  When Kate thought he was dead, the drunk Puhan shook his head again and tried to open his eyelids: "The ghost knows how much blood I bleed, if Anna didn't wake me up..."

   "Bring me another bottle of wine, and I can talk with you for a while."

  Kate opened the storage box and searched, and the head of the drunk Puhan in the back seat dropped bit by bit.

   "Anna..."

  The dreamlike whispers were blown away by the wind.

   There are women's cigarettes, handkerchiefs, lipstick and rolled stockings in the storage box, but there is no alcohol.

  Kate turned her head to tell the drunk Phanham, but found that he was already leaning against the car door, with his head drooping and his chest no longer heaving.

"he died."

  The convertible steam car gradually stopped, Lu Li pushed the door to get off, and together with Kate lifted the drunk Phan Han off the seat.

   "Are we going to be buried here?" Kate looked around for a tool in hand.

"Need not."

  Lu Li brought the heavy Puhan to the beach, and pushed the body into the water bay.

  The icy river carried the corpse far away, and as time passed, he would wash into the sea with the current.

  Lu Li and Kate returned to the car and restarted the car.

  Kate looked back and saw the dark stain around the back seat, as if Puhan was still sitting there.

  The dull abnormal noise made her turn her attention away, and looked at Lu Li who stepped on the accelerator but the car was just shaking: "What's wrong?"

  Lu Li turned off the engine, then re-ignited it, stepped on the gas pedal, this time the steam car was completely unresponsive.

   "Can you repair cars?" Lu Li asked.

   "This is not in the knowledge taught by my teacher."

  Looking into the distance, Lu Li saw a low mound blocking his view.

   "Stay here."

   Lu Li got out of the car again, and Kate's gaze gradually faded away, and he climbed up the mound only ten meters away.

   Soon, Lu Li returned to the car and asked Kate to get off.

   "The town is just ahead."

  (end of this chapter)