Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 223 One Hundred Thirty Eight. Childhood

  A shadow passed by Lu Li silently. It seemed to be holding something, silently came to the side of the ship, and was thrown into the sea.

  A shadow passed by Lu Li silently. It made its way to the cabin, pierced through the captain's cabin door, and disappeared behind it.

  A shadow passed by Lu Li silently. It leaned against the plank next to the cabin, stole lazy for a while, and was called away by another shadow.

  The two shadows gathered on the deck a few meters away from the land, stood blankly for a while, and then left one after another.

   They repeat their actions step by step, on a sailboat covered in black matter in the dark and deep sea. Strangely walking around, and strangely staying silent.

  Lu Li blended into it, maintaining his status as a "sailor" and "cleaning the deck" without shadows disturbing him.

   This situation lasted for an hour, and Lu Li just stood in front of the cabin, repeating the action of dragging the mop, occasionally he would stop and rest for a while against the wooden board by the cabin. Although he does not need a break, it is important to maintain his sailor status.

   There are still two hours before dawn.

   continued for another ten minutes, and Lu Li observed the deck out of the corner of the eye and noticed that another shadow was walking towards him...

  Different from the approach of other shadows, the target of this shadow seems to be Lu Li. He made sure of this after Lu Li walked back and forth a few times, pretending to be unintentional.

   This shadow is approaching itself.

   Lu Li was not ready to deal with them.

   After hesitating for a while, Lu Li maintained the behavior of bending over and dragging the deck, facing the shadow and retreating to the cabin behind him.

  The sound of the surrounding waves came from in front of him, the sea breeze with a fishy smell poured into the cabin, and Lu Li returned to the cabin.

   The shadow walking towards it stopped in front of the cabin and did not step in. It stood there quietly for a while, then turned to leave.

   Its goal is indeed itself.

   Watching the shadow leave, Lu Li, who pretended to be mopping the floor, straightened up and frowned.

Looking directly at them and touching them will not reduce the sanity value, and looking directly at them and touching them will not distort thinking, except that they look like shadows, they don't seem to be harmful at all - but this is what makes the situation weird. disturbed.

   The enemy is most dangerous when they don't know they are unknown.

   Lu Li was able to face the ghosts calmly because Lu Li found their logic.

The    shadows also have this logic, but now this logic has changed.

  Hopefully it was just an accident.

  Lu thought about it, walked to the deck again, bent down again when approached, and pretended to be mopping the floor.

   He could no longer find the shadow that had just walked towards Lu Li, except for the captain with an easy-to-distinguish captain's hat and a crew member who was missing an arm, they all looked the same.

   Even if he wrote down their special points, Lu Li could only distinguish a few of them.

   returned to calm, but only ten minutes later, another shadow walked towards Lu Li—and it wasn't the one that came last time.

  Loli was the same as last time, returning to the cabin. Out of the corner of the eye, the shadow turned around in front of the cabin and walked away.

  Is something wrong...

   Once can be understood as a coincidence, but twice is very reluctant, especially on the paradoxical sailboat.

   thoughtfully returned to the deck, no accident, the shadow was nowhere to be seen.

   A few minutes later... the third shadow walked towards Lu Li.

   Lu Li had to hide in the cabin again, waiting for the shadow stagnant outside the cabin to leave.

   The time for them to come is shortening, but Lu Li has not found the source of the problem.

   Maybe the reason for staying in one place for a long time?

   So after going out, Lu Li expanded the scope of "cleaning up" and approached the ship's side.

  This is useless, less than five minutes have passed, and another shadow walks towards Lu Li.

   The four shadows came at shorter intervals each time, as if they had noticed something.

   But it is clear that they have been maintaining the scene of the ship.

  The only good thing is that they did not set foot in the cabin. After Lu Li returned to the cabin, the shadow no longer tracked Lu Li.

   But Lu Li was temporarily unable to go to the deck. It is foreseeable that the next time will continue to shorten until a certain node is reached, and then a terrifying change will occur.

  Lu Li will not sit back and watch that scene happen.

   He stayed in the cabin temporarily, thinking about the focus from "why the shadow came to me" to "what is the intention of the shadow to go to me".

   Realizing that he is an outsider and rushing into the cabin, these are the two possibilities that Lu Li thought of. But unfortunately, Lu Li was unable to analyze useful clues from these two possibilities.

   The vine eyes on the wall looked around the corridor, and some fell on Lu Li, not malicious.

   Compared to the weird deck, this place will indeed make Lu Li unconsciously relax.

  Lu Li silently looked at the deck outside the cabin. Occasionally, shadows of crew members walked across the deck.

   This scene lasted for a while, and at a certain moment, the shadows on the deck outside the cabin suddenly came from all directions and gathered in one place.

   Lu Li frowned and approached the edge of the cabin.

   On the deck not far away, the shadows were rearranged into three rows, the first row and the second position were vacant, and the captain's shadow stood alone in front of all the shadows.

  Everything was just as Lu Li first saw.

  Lu Li thought of something, he walked out of the cabin, turned over the deck and came to the captain's room on the uppermost floor.

   pushed open the door that was pried open, Lu Li wiped off the black substance covered by the last Kuroshio on the glass of the clock, revealing the current time: 3:55.

   It has been two hours since the last Kuroshio.

  According to the strange behavior and time interval of the shadows...

   The next Kuroshio is coming.

  Lu Li was faced with a choice. Hiding in the cabin and standing in the queue, he had to choose an action between the two.

   No matter how you look at it, hiding in the cabin is the safest option. No one in it will hurt Lu Li, and he even got the favor of many strange figures - but Lu Li was a little uneasy.

   He felt that if he went back to the cabin and avoided the Kuroshio in the cabin...something less wonderful would happen.

  Lu Li has no hunch and never relies on hunch. This type of emotion usually does not appear, and if it does, it is quickly suppressed by powerful emotional control.

   But that was before, and now it has changed.

  Science is no longer the only possibility, logic becomes dispensable.

   In this case, believing a hunch becomes a very reasonable behavior.

   Approach the queue first, and if there is a problem, flee to the cabin as quickly as possible.

  Lu thought about it, left the captain's room and returned to the deck.

The    queue maintained an eerie silence, and Lu Li approached them from the rear, silently reciting the approximate time of the arrival of the Kuroshio.

   turned from the rear to the side, the shadows did not respond to Lu Li's arrival.

   But at this moment, Lu Li's footsteps suddenly stopped.

   His position was occupied by a figure.

   In other words, there was an additional figure in the originally vacant position.

   (end of this chapter)