Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 147 Sixty-two. Shadow Town Local Guide

"Um."

   Big Wave Tavern, Lu Li simply answered the old woman.

   "It's a miracle that you can get nothing out of the way." The old woman was obviously not very good at speaking, which was probably the reason why her pub had the worst business in the entire street.

   "Your mission is complete."

"Um."

   Lu Li still gave a short answer.

Behind the bar, the old woman holding a pipe looked up and down at Lu Li, leaned forward and looked at the wet footprints extending from the door to the front of the bar and the standing water at Lu Li's feet, showing an impatient look: "Your carriage has been dragged into the stable. Put it away, go back to the room, if the room leaks, remember to call Little Jack. If you need hot water and medicine, you can come to me, but you have to pay. "

   "Is there today's newspaper?" Lu Li asked, he needed other things even more.

   "I don't have a newspaper, do I want a book?"

"Can."

   "Wait."

  The old woman went back to the back kitchen, and came back shortly after, throwing a local guide to Shadow Town.

  Lu Li took the guide book, picked up the oil lamp on the table and walked upstairs.

  The old woman's shout came from behind: "Little Jack, come down and clean the floor!"

  Little Jack was the waiter from yesterday. He was carrying a bucket, embarrassedly smiled at Lu Li, and ran downstairs.

   took out the key from under the carpet and opened the door, the smell of damp wood wafted out from behind the door. Lu Li carried the oil lamp into the room and put it on the table.

  The door closed automatically, and Anna's figure appeared in the room and jumped on the bed.

"so tired--"

   She looked like she was really spread out on the bed, her hair was scattered on her cheeks, and her translucent white legs were draped over the bed.

   If ignore the skirt that penetrates the sheets due to gravity.

  Anna was paralyzed for a few seconds, then suddenly bounced up, with her legs together, with a hint of blush on her cheeks, dignifiedly tidied up her hair, and returned to the delicate and beautiful aristocratic girl in the oil painting.

   She just remembered that Lu Li was still in the room.

   "You rest, I'll keep watch."

  Lu Li put down the backpack. When he bought it, he chose waterproof fabric and opened the zipper. The contents inside were a little damp, but no water entered.

   At least that very precious flashlight can be used normally.

   "Hmm...Are you more tired than me right now?" Anna, whose blush had not yet subsided, stole a glance at Lu Li's face.

  The room was very quiet except for the whistling outside the window and the sound of rain beating against the window.

   This made Anna, who had been noisy in her ears for a long time, a little uncomfortable.

   She watched Lu Li put her backpack on the edge of the dining table, took off her rotten poncho, and said, "I slept for a while before escaping the swamp, and I'm fine."

   The alarm clock on the dining table showed 7:25, and it took them almost an hour and a half to return to Shadow Town from the storm.

  Anna squeezed her thumb and forefinger, and expressed a little bit of meaning: "Then I'll take over after you after a short rest."

"Um."

  I was completely soaked and cold, and the clothes stuck to my body were not replaced and wrung out for a while. There is a spare on the carriage, and I will take it back later and take a hot bath by the way.

   and a hot meal.

  Anna could of course see Lu Li's exhaustion, some guilt, and some hilarity.

   Really dishonest concern...

  Anna lay flat on the single bed, her hands on her lower abdomen, her eyes closed.

   It was the first time to rest outside. Anna was not used to it, but having Lu Li by her side could offset some of the strangeness. Of course she can go back to the inner world to rest, but then only Lu Li will be left in the room, which looks pitiful...

  As she entered the resting state, Anna, who started to move a little, became as if she was still.

  Lu Li glanced sideways at Anna's sleeping face, observed it quietly for a few seconds, and looked away.

   The rest of the ghost is similar to sleep, except that it is almost completely still, nothing special.

   The cold touch of the soaked clothes made people reluctant to move. He simply flipped through a few pages of the local guide of Shadow Town, and suddenly saw something, he moved, and his fingers that were about to flip to the next page stopped.

  Lu Li maintained this posture for dozens of seconds, quietly read the above content, then looked away, and resumed his own business.

   Pull open the drawer and light the spare candle. Lu Li left a candle in the room and went out with an oil lamp.

  The door closed softly, and the faint light of the candle swayed gently, gradually leveling off.

   Not far from it, the unfolded "Shadowtown Local Guide" was turned to page five, which introduced a speciality of Shadowtown.

  【Light Fruit】

  【A fruit of a plant that grows in a humid environment with sunlight. 】

  【Origin: Swamp】

  【Mature period: three months】

  【Appearance: The roots of trees growing in swamps are green when immature and turn brown when mature. It will turn brown if boiled when immature]

  [The original pioneers of Shadow Town discovered the fruit growing in the Shadow Swamp and discovered its hallucinogenic effect after several accidental consumption, which corresponds to the light fruit in memory. The early residents who ate the light fruit found that the fruit, which is generally used for medical anesthesia, tasted unexpectedly good, so a small amount of it was mixed into the food to enhance the taste of the food. 】

  [After causing several troubles, this behavior was stopped by Mr. Johnson, the first mayor of Shadow Town at the time, but there are still townspeople who secretly eat it for delicious food. The mayor, Mr. Johnson, was gracious and merciful. He was reluctant to punish the townspeople with punishment. He forgave a lot of the townspeople who secretly ate the fruit of light, and personally found a way to avoid hallucinations for the townspeople. 】

  【One day, Mr. Johnson, the mayor of Shadow Town, who left Shadow Town in the swamp to find the Kingdom of Light, rested under a tree. Suddenly, a fruit fell from the top of his head and hit his head. The mayor, Mr. Johnson, picked up the fruit and recognized that it was the unripe fruit of the Illuminati.]

  [The mayor, Mr. Johnson, thought to himself, why did the fruit fall down instead of up, and hit him on the head? The mayor, Mr. Johnson, thought it was a revelation from God, so he thought, since eating the ripe fruit will produce hallucinations, what about the immature fruit? 】

  [Mr. Johnson, the mayor of the town, picked the immature light fruits on the tree. In order to protect the integrity of these fruits, he wrapped them in clothes and returned to the town. 】

  【Mr. Johnson, the mayor, made a meal with unripe light fruit, and intends to try it himself. Residents who learned of the incident gathered outside the estate of the mayor, Mr. Johnson, to stop him. But the mayor, Mr. Johnson, said, "Every one of you is my people, and I will not let you take risks." Then he drank the food. 】

  [In everyone's attention, Mr. Johnson, the mayor of the town, was full of praise for the taste of the food, and then unexpectedly discovered that the hallucinations that have plagued the people for a long time did not appear! 】

  【The great mayor Mr. Johnson, he has found a new source of money for Shadow Town. Even decades later, the residents of Shadow Town will still put unripe light fruit into their food, let us thank the mayor Mr. Johnson for everything he has done for Shadow Town! 】

   (end of this chapter)