Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 261 One hundred and seventy-six. Time and the earth will bury everything

  The dark red is hidden behind the clouds, and there is a subtle rustling around.

   The branches never swayed, there was no wind, these sounds came from the raindrops on the wet ground.

   It started to rain.

  嘭—

  Lu Li opened the umbrella he was carrying and held it above his head, the sound of rain was isolated from the umbrella.

   Some raindrops fell on Anna, but were blocked by a thin layer of invisible material, unable to reach her soul.

  Anna seemed to wake up from her memory because of this sound. She put the drawing paper back in the wooden box and put the wooden box back into the earth pit.

   "You can take it away." Lu Li's voice came from behind her.

   "No, forgetting can make me no longer sad."

   Anna stood up with her back to Lu Li, and the mounds on both sides were filled automatically, covering the wooden box with the dirty dolls that rolled into the pit.

  Time and the earth will bury everything.

   "I'm sorry, I didn't help you." Anna lowered her head and rubbed under Lu Li's umbrella with a low expression.

   This emotion dispelled the gloom and silence that had permeated her side earlier.

"nothing."

  Lu Li did not give way to the umbrella in a gentlemanly manner and sheltered Anna under the umbrella—she wouldn't be caught by the rain anyway.

   Anna, who was with Lu Li day and night, couldn't tell Lu Li's emotions most of the time, but at this time, she heard a hint of "this is normal" from Lu Li's sentence.

   As if Lu Li had already…

   "You already knew that?" Standing beside the umbrella, Anna raised her head dazedly.

  Lu Li lowered his head and looked into Anna's clear eyes: "No one will bury treasures and dolls together."

   Ms. Mary, who was not far away, looked at the two who were standing in front of the locust tree and looked at each other. The relief in her heart made her ignore the cold raindrops.

   It's nice to be young, but it's a pity that Anna has...

  The sound of footsteps approached, and Ms. Mary came to her senses and saw Lu Li and Anna walking towards her.

   "Aunt Mary, is there anything left besides the gallery and the manor mother?" Anna who approached suddenly asked a strange question.

Some doubtful Mary replied: "An Lei, she doesn't have much, she has devoted her whole life to painting and you. During the time when you went...you left, she felt that her body was getting worse and worse, and she decided to hand over the gallery to you. A guy named Benjamin, the manor gave me to start a college, and all the savings were donated."

  Anna's mood was even lower.

   They came for nothing.

   What made her even more blamed was that she wasted Lu Li's already pressing time.

  Mary realized something, and looked between Lu Li and Anna: "Have you encountered any difficulties?"

  Anna nodded lightly: "We need money."

"How many?"

   "The more the better."

  Mary was embarrassed. The academy’s planning, after consultation with Anna’s mother, decided that it would be completely free. Except for paints and drawing paper, students did not need to spend a penny. This means that although Mary is the dean, she has no other income.

   "I can only come up with 5,000 shillings, maybe not enough but it's all my savings..." Mary said regretfully, sad that she couldn't help the young couple.

   "Thank you for your help then." Lu Li thanked Mary.

  Anna didn't want to end her trip to Simfast just like that. She was thinking about something and looked up at the building behind the fountain, her former home.

"This-"

   Anna just opened her mouth when she felt Lu Li looking at her, shaking her head slightly as if she saw what she was going to say.

  Anna was puzzled: "If we sell this manor, our money will be enough."

   "It's not that time yet."

   "When?"

   "When you throw away everything."

  Ana fell silent.

  Mary listened to their conversation quietly, and said to Anna in a soft voice, "Anna, do you want to go up and have a look? Your mother and I have kept your attic, and it's still the same as it was when you left."

  Anna showed a trace of nostalgia, but still shook her head: "No, my home is no longer here."

   Her answer made Mary sad, but then she smiled relievedly and looked at Anna: "It seems that someone is taking care of you for my good friend."

  Lu Li didn't show any emotion as if it had nothing to do with it.

   Thinking of something, Mary asked, "Where will you be staying for a while? Or will you rush back to Belfast overnight?"

  Ana looked at Lu Li, and Lu Li replied, "Find a tavern to stay."

   There is an investigator base in Shymfast, but it is not a place to stay, especially if you are with Anna.

   "Why don't you go to my place." Mary looked at Anna tenderly: "I want to talk to you about your mother..."

  Anna looked at Lu Li again and asked for his opinion.

   "So disturbing." Lu Li said.

  Anna showed a relaxed smile: "Thank you Aunt Mary."

  Mary raised her hand and subconsciously wanted to touch Anna's smooth black hair, but she remembered something stiff in the air, and smiled softly after retracting: "If An Lei knows that you still live in this world in a certain way..."

  Anna's expression darkened slightly.

   "Then I'll take you there now." Mary changed her style and pretended to be relaxed.

  Anna said strangely: "Now? The students are still in class."

   "School is about to end, and there is a teacher here, so don't worry." Mary said with a smile. "But wait for me first, I'll go back to the office to get some things."

   "Then we'll wait for you in the carriage." Anna nodded, as if she didn't want to step into her former home at all.

  Mary sighed in her heart without showing any emotion: "Okay, I'll be out soon."

  …

   A light rain fell on every part of Shymfast.

   Pedestrians on the streets quickened their pace, and rainy days and dark nights usually came sooner.

   On a remote street, in front of a dark alley, several figures who were speeding up their steps suddenly heard a cry for help from the dark alley.

They looked subconsciously and saw a woman with disheveled hair and blood on her face rushing to the edge of light and darkness at the entrance of the alley. She screamed miserably for people to save her, but in the next moment, countless hands stretched out from behind her and put the name The struggling woman pulled back into the gloom.

  The only thing left in the alley is the constant cries for help and dragging.

   Several figures stopped slightly, glanced at each other, kept silent, lowered their heads and accelerated their pace to leave here.

   They didn't notice that the moment they turned and left, the dragging sound and the woman's scream for help suddenly disappeared.

   The figures of these people also disappeared.

   There were no more passers-by in this remote street, and no one saw this bizarre scene.

   At this moment, the figure of the woman calling for help came from the dark alley, low and cold.

   "Why didn't you save me?"

   "Why don't you save me..."

   The female voice whispered repeatedly, and the voice gradually faded away.

  The only sound left in the alley was the horrific sound of chewing.

   (end of this chapter)