Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 263 One hundred and seventy-eight. Anna had a dream

  Lu Li opened the window, and the cold wind in the rainy night blew into the guest room and brought a dark creature at the same time.

   The black crow jumped to the desk and lowered his head to sort out the feathers hung with drops of water.

The    letterbox is tied to its legs.

  Lu Li took out the note from the letterbox, but did not check it immediately, but first took a small piece of bread crumbs from the travel bag and put it on the table, then unfolded the rolled up note.

  【New event in Shymfast: Cries for help in the alley】

  【Difficulty: None】

  【Information: 10%】

  【Information Known】

   [5%: The event target usually appears randomly in a dark alley with few pedestrians, and asks passersby for help]

  [3%: Time will not affect the appearance time of the event target, whether it is day or night]

   [2%: The voice for help is a female voice]

  【Neighboring investigators choose whether to explore the event, and nearby investigators choose whether to avoid the event】

   A reminder from the black crow.

   Not only Lu Li, but also other investigators in the Shymfast area received the prompt.

   This was the first time Lu Li received this kind of regional broadcast. He watched it several times until he wrote down the format and put it back into the letterbox on the crow's leg.

   "Leave after eating." Lu Li said to the black crow who had just finished his feathers.

   It might have understood it, or it might have intended to do so. It lowered its head to peck at the crumbs and finished it quickly.

   left a piece of debris, it jumped to the window, waiting for its Lu Li to open the window, the black crow spread its wings and flew away, and the debris on the table was blown away by the influx of cold wind.

  Close the window again, calm in the guest room, only the curtains gradually falling to tell the previous scene.

  Like Mary, under the bright electric light, Lu Li lit the spare oil lamp on the desk.

  Since the Night Calamity, towns have tried their best to prevent power outages, but sometimes there are always surprises, such as a light bulb that breaks and reveals a malfunction. Therefore, they encourage the use of fuel lamps for backup when the electric lights are turned on at night.

   There is no clock in the guest room, and the alarm clock that Lu Li put into his backpack shows that the time is approaching eight o'clock.

  The distant bell rang out in the night sky from the top of the nearly 100-year-old lighthouse, ringing eight times.

   Half an hour later, Anna came back.

   "Aunt Mary fell asleep."

   "You didn't turn off the lights for her before leaving."

  Anna snorted: "I'm not stupid."

   Her character recovered a little, perhaps because only Lu Li was there.

But soon she walked to the window and sat down, and said quietly: "Aunt Mary is my mother's best friend. They grew up and went to school together, just like me and Daisy. I think she also It must be hard."

  Lu Li said nothing.

  Anna tilted her head and asked, "Aren't you still resting? We'll be going back tomorrow."

   "I slept a lot during the day." Lu Li replied.

   It is difficult for him to fall asleep now, although the rest during the day is not very good.

   "Then can I go to sleep..." Anna's tone changed into a cautious, somewhat embarrassed tone: "I just showed Aunt Mary my ability, and it's a little... Exhausted."

"what have you done?"

  Anna twisted and said, "Let Aunt Mary fly..."

   "Go and rest."

"Um."

  Anna showed a cute smile, pressed her skirt and slid onto the bed.

   "Good night Lu Li."

she says.

  Lu Li flipped through the "Investigator Weekly" he had read during the day

   Not getting Lu Li's answer made Anna a little disappointed, but soon, as she began to rest, her illusory body no longer undulated.

  Lu Li looked at the girl lying on the side of the bed, observed it quietly for a while, and then looked away.

   After reading the three newspapers again, Lu Li put them away and looked at the empty room as if he had nothing to do.

   He will not be bored, because there will be illusions from time to time in the surrounding void, and there will be occasional murmurs in his ears.

  …

  Anna hasn't had a dream for a long time.

   Since her death.

  Rest is just a word for her, just like adding kerosene when the oil lamp runs out, and storing some strange things after the firewood is burned out. She needs to rest and wake up after resting.

   She could not experience the original meaning from this cold word. She closed her eyes, opened her eyes again, time passed, and she had no memory, just like the period of rest itself was missing.

   But today, Anna, who was resting, found that she still had meaning.

   Surrounded by a gloomy void that could not be shaken away.

   "An...an..."

   A faint call echoed around the void.

  Anna couldn't tell the owner of the voice, she didn't even know whether the voice was male or female, young or old.

   "Ann...Na...Anna..."

  I don't know how long ago, the voice calling her gradually became clearer.

The    voice is calling me.

  Ana thought that she didn't feel malicious and ominous, so she quietly listened to this indistinguishable voice and the purpose of the voice that called her.

   Until a certain moment, that voice came on and off, and slowly another voice came out.

"elder sister……"

The dark void in the meaning of    collapsed in an instant, and Anna woke up like an ordinary person who suffered a nightmare.

   An aggressive and cold aura swept through the surroundings, and in a split second, Anna, who had sobered up, took back all her aura.

   She secretly looked at Lu Li behind the desk with a slightly worried look, the figure just looked at him with an inquisitive gaze.

"What's wrong?"

   Feeling a little relieved, Anna showed a look of memory: "I... I just dreamed that my sister was calling me."

  Lu Li knew that Anna couldn't dream, so he asked, "That elm tree?"

"Um!"

  …

   Sugar Palm——

The fence door of the tavern was pushed open, and a figure with the smell of alcohol standing on the cold street turned around and waved to the companions in the tavern: "It's too late, if we don't go back home, the brown bear will tear me and my of a mistress who did not exist."

The voice of    fell, and there was a burst of laughter and whistling in the tavern, mixed with the words of a sarcastic figure.

The    figure smiled indifferently, carried the oil lamp, and walked towards the home.

   Before passing through a dark alley next to the tavern, he suddenly heard a woman's cry for help from the alley, followed by a fast running pace.

   He stopped, and vaguely saw a silhouette running to the edge of the alley, but was dragged back into the alley by something, only the sound of struggle echoed in the night sky.

   He is cautious and intelligent. After a brief moment of stunned, he turned around and walked to the tavern without thinking, and called his friends for help.

   But he didn't know what he was facing.

   A lively and noisy bar, a group of men laughing and drinking with each other, no one noticed that one of the bars of the bar was suddenly pushed open, but there was nothing behind the door.

   Except for the oil lamp that rolled down the steps.

   A voice came from the dark alley where the silence was restored.

   "Why didn't you save me?"

   "I want to go back and find someone else to help you! I'm going to save—"

The    sound disappeared with the sudden crackling sound of chewing.

   After a long time, a low voice sounded slowly.

   "Why don't you save me..."

   (end of this chapter)