Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 146 Sixty-one. Shadows in the sky

The    panting sound was smashed by the rain, swept away by the storm, and disappeared without a trace.

   During the storm, Lu Li, who was following the savage running in the swamp jungle, noticed keenly that the savage who was leading the way was crawling towards a straight line.

   Straight ahead, no longer dodging swamps, only going around when you encounter dead trees and intricate roots.

   This means that the swamp is getting less and they are close to the edge of the swamp road.

   Just as he was about to escape from the swamp, a strange scene suddenly came. Among the layers of tree shadows in front, a pitch-black spider with a huge belly and a body larger than a human dangled from a few meters away.

   Lu Li's black eyes tightened, his feet stopped suddenly, and he touched the psychic gun under the poncho.

"What's wrong?"

  Anna looked strangely in front of Lu Li's gaze, it was empty.

   "Illusions of the inner world."

   The drooping spider is just a black silhouette, with four slender limbs about the height of an adult waving in front of it, entangling an invisible prey heavily.

  Lu Li still bypassed this huge, scalp-numbing illusion and looked forward, only to find that the figure of the six-legged savage disappeared in the rain.

   "It's gone...?"

  Ana turned her head to look for it, and followed Lu Li, who was moving forward, ignorantly.

  The surrounding jungle began to become sparse, and after a few tens of meters, the vision suddenly became clear, and there were no distorted dead trees blocking the view.

   They are back on the swamp road.

   "We're out!"

  Anna let out a cheer in surprise and accompanied them out of the swamp. The feeling of oppression that had never dissipated when they walked into the swamp finally disappeared.

  Lu Li stood on the edge of the swamp road. Without the shelter of the jungle, the storm became more violent. The rain fell on him like beans, and the direction of the wind changed drastically, sometimes from behind and sometimes from in front.

   His body relaxed a little, then tightened in an instant.

   The danger is not completely gone. He was still nearly 10 miles away from Shadow Town, which meant that Lu Li had to walk between the dangerous swamps for an hour.

   Unless there will be a passing carriage. But there is little hope, no one wants to drive in this kind of ghost weather, even the meanest boss.

   On the swamp road, the ground is no longer soft and muddy, and the hardness brings a down-to-earth feeling.

   In the heavy rain, the visibility was very low. On the straight swamp road, two figures marched side by side.

  Lace white dress fluttering, short hair like silk, Anna, whose image had not changed in the storm, counted silently in her heart. The increased number gave her a sense of accomplishment as she approached her destination.

   is slow though.

   She was a little worried about Lu Li's physical condition, but she couldn't see any emotion on Lu Li's face, nor did her pace change.

   Frequent flashes of lightning are not good for the eyes, but better than nothing.

   Rainwater flows into the swamps on both sides of the road, but there is still some pooled water in the puddles on the uneven road.

  Lu Li lowered his head and bypassed the pool of water under his feet.

  Under the indeterminate pale lightning, the rippling and broken water reflected the scene above Lu Li's head. At that moment, Lu Li saw the reflection in the water, and an indescribable huge black shadow was suspended in the sky.

  Lu Li raised his head, narrowed his black eyes slightly, and looked at the sky behind him.

  It was a steamship that looked like a shuttle-shaped hot air balloon at first glance. It floated in the air 100 meters above the ground, sailing in the sky at a speed of roughly eight knots...

   "A boat...?"

  Anna couldn't hold back the surprised and panicked voices ringing in her ears.

   Not an illusion this time.

  The direction of the wind is unpredictable, and it hurts when it hits the face. Ana, who is considerate and considerate, arranged a piece of mind power in front of Lu Li, and the falling rain seemed to be blocked by a layer of glass and slipped in front of her.

  The bottom of this ship is rusted, and the length of more than 20 meters is close to the regulars of the port of Rodster, a medium-sized fishing boat.

   Its speed is about 20 miles per hour, which is similar to the running speed of an adult male. The bare mast stands upright.

   Amazingly, this sailboat actually has a physical body. Lightning flashed, and the shadow of the ship appeared on the ground. The rain fell into the fishing boat and overflowed from the edge of the ship, which appeared to be full of rain, forming a curtain of water.

   Lu Li and Anna watched closely, this strange ship that appeared under the cloudy clouds and sailed from nowhere passed over their heads, crossed the straight swamp road, entered the northern swamp, and gradually disappeared.

   Occasional flashes of lightning reveal smaller and smaller outlines.

   "Where is this ship going...?" Anna withdrew her gaze and simultaneously withdrew her mind power.

  Although she can recover her strength outside, she will lose consciousness during the recovery process. If Lu Li can't touch her, she may be left alone in the middle of the swamp road when she opens her eyes next time.

   "Probably Belfast." Lu Li identified the general direction of the ship and noted the direction it was coming from.

   After returning to Shadow Town, you can use the map to determine its route.

   The rest of the journey was back to being busy.

  Lu Li lowered his head slightly, looked around, and thought about something.

   The recent spate of weirdness seems to indicate that the world is getting worse and worse...

   I hope these are just accidents, not what I thought: the world is getting worse.

  …

   Rain meanders on the windows.

   On the edge of Shadow Town, near a "pier" on Swamp Road.

  Wagons were neatly piled up in the roadside vacant lot, horses and some important goods that couldn’t get wet were piled under the stables, and some workers hugged their shoulders and squatted under the stables to talk in a low voice.

  The tavern not far from the stables was in full swing. The commoners in commoners and the rich or nobles in expensive clothes were sitting around the table, and the loud noise seemed to shake out of the wooden house.

   Outside the tavern, in a small room closer to the swamp, a figure wearing a thin shirt, surrounded by the fire, shivered and brought his palm to the charcoal.

   "What a terrible ghost weather, right?"

   A sloppy middle-aged man put his legs on the table, holding a cup of hot coffee, and looked out of the hut.

   Two people make this cabin crowded, and the windows on all sides illustrate the purpose of this log cabin: observation posts.

The young man by the fire kept complaining: "Several carriages have been blown apart, and I heard that there are houses in the town destroyed... I don't know what those scholars are doing! The hurricane has blown to Shadow Town, and there is no news yet. !"

   The middle-aged man shook his chair gently: "It's normal, they always do. Maybe those weather forecasts were written out after being drunk, because sober people can't do such stupid things."

   The young man became more and more angry, and couldn't help but scolded: "Old Joey's rheumatic legs were more accurate than their predictions."

Snapped--

   The middle-aged man suddenly dropped his legs.

   He looked at the two figures outside the hut in shock: "Someone is walking outside! They just came out of the swamp road and so on... They came out of the swamp road!?"

   (end of this chapter)