Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 27 Twenty-seven. The first cooperation

   At 4:57 in the afternoon, there was a knock on the door of the detective agency.

  Oliver saw that the clock was three minutes ahead.

   Lu Li was awakened, as if his eyes were covered with a hazy mist, they gradually became clear and turned into a pool of secluded springs.

   This time, I didn't fall into that bizarre dream again, but I couldn't remember what I dreamed.

   Washed up, walked to Oliver who was waiting outside the door, before going out, Lu Li took the top hat on the coat rack, and then closed the door.

  Click——

  The door closed, and the dim detective agency returned to deserted.

  …

   "Sell chestnuts, sell chestnuts!"

   "Fresh-fished eel, 4 shillings a pound—"

   "Give me back the headband!"

   The cries of hawking reverberated through the bustling Sailor Street, and children frolic and ran past. The fishy smell wafted in the air, from the crew returning from the sea, or the fish they brought back.

   "Do you want to come with me?"

   Lu Li tilted his head and said to Oliver who was following him.

   "No, I'm turning left ahead." Oliver pointed to the corner ahead.

   At the corner, Oliver said hello and slipped away. Lu Li watched him leave, put on a top hat, and mixed into the bustling crowd.

  …

   "Your Excellency Exorcist, do you need me to close now?"

On the second floor of the    gallery, Lu Li, who pushed the door into the office, was warmly received by Benjamin.

  The bare bookshelves and the clean desk showed that everything last night was not an illusion. Lu Li suddenly remembered that he didn't tell him about the situation in the office before leaving this morning.

   But now Benjamin doesn't seem to care, so Lu Li didn't mention it.

   "Wait until the end of normal business hours." Lu Li replied.

"Uh……"

   Benjamin showed embarrassment: "There are no guests in the gallery now."

  The gallery finally closes at 6:00 after business hours. The employees left one after another, and Benjamin was the last to leave.

  Lu Li stood in front of the door and watched Benjamin leave. Instead of turning back to the gallery, he walked down the steps, walked around the back of the gallery, and walked under a window on the second floor.

   There is the window of the second-floor office, where Lu Li left the baby dead last night, but there is no trace on the ground.

   Determined that it is unlikely that the dead baby will appear here, Lu Li returned to the main entrance of the gallery, took off the business sign on the door, and closed the door.

   The sky started to get dark, but it was still some time before it was completely dark. Lu Li lit the fuel light, covered the windshield, and waited quietly for night to fall.

  The gallery corridor gradually becomes dim, hazy, and invisible. Half an hour later, only a small circle of oil lamps was left on Lu Li's body.

  Wow——

   A strange friction sounded deep in the corridor and echoed.

The    sculpture came to life.

  Lu Li stood up, picked up the oil lamp, and walked around the desk to the depths of the corridor.

   After walking more than ten meters, he saw his sculpture approaching on the promenade.

"good evening."

   Lu Li said hello: "I need your help."

   Without waiting for the sculpture to reply, Lu Li picked up the sculpture and walked to the end of the corridor, leading to the stairs on the second floor.

   "I know you can hear and think. I need your help to keep an eye on Athena by the stairs, you should know her. Come and let me know if she comes out of the lounge."

  Lu Li put down the sculpture in front of the stairs, looked at the lifeless stone eyes of the sculpture and said, "If you don't want to, you can walk away."

   took a few steps back, turned around and left, and a few seconds passed, but there was no sound of the stones rubbing against the floor moving from behind.

   Succeeded.

   Passing through the portrait of Anna, the girl in the painting was still frozen, and there was no sign of her coming back to life.

   looked away, and Lu Li continued to move forward.

   But at this moment, a pair of slightly transparent palms circled out from behind Lu Li's head, covering Lu Li's eyes.

   "Guess who I am?" A crisp oriole-like laughter sounded behind him.

  Lu Li stopped, but it was still a little slower. The translucent palms that blocked his eyes couldn't react quickly. They pressed them into Lu Li's head from the eye sockets and hurriedly recovered in a panic.

   "Anna." Lu Li said.

   "What, you didn't guess wrong on purpose."

  Anna lowered her hands in a fit of rage, and floated in front of Lu Li, her face puffed out into a bun.

   "...?" Lu Li's black eyes showed some confusion. Does this Guess Who Me game require intentionally answering the wrong person's name?

   Put away the confusion in a moment, Lu Li returned to calm and said: "Can you sense the location of other ghosts?"

   "If you don't deliberately hide your breath, you can." Anna nodded.

   "Very good, I need your help." Lu Li nodded lightly.

  …

   "I feel it... there!"

   On the back of the exterior wall of the gallery, Lu Li held the oil lamp and held it up high.

  Anna floated beside her, exclaiming in surprise.

   They were looking for something under the wall - or a ghost.

  Lulli raised his head, followed Anna to a higher place, and found a hanging umbilical cord on a tree branch several meters above the ground.

   Arms raised higher, hanging on the tree Ghost baby appeared in the light of oil lamp.

  Its umbilical cord wraps around a tree branch. Perceiving the light of the oil lamp, the ghost baby struggled to move its hands and feet.

  Lu Li looked at Anna beside him and pointed to the tree: "Take that ghost baby down."

   "Hmm...it looks so weird, this is a human cub?" Anna floated up on the tree branch and complained, but she untied the umbilical cord without disgust, holding the ghost baby down in front of Lu Li.

  Lu Li stretched out his hands and held up the ghost baby in Anna's confusion.

  It has not yet fully grown, its knuckles are still together, its hands and feet are hugging Lu Li's arms, its mouth is split open, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth - no screaming, no biting.

   It just sees the same kind and laughs happily, even though its vocal cords have not grown yet, it cannot make a sound.

   If it was yesterday, Lu Li would not be so tempted. But after encountering ghosts like Anna and Sculpture who can't attack people and can communicate, Lu Li's attitude changed a bit.

   Ghosts were once living people, why can't they have human nature?

Looking down at the ghost baby, this ghost baby less than seven months old is not yet fully developed. The layers of wrinkles grow a layer of fine fluff. The face is more like the snout of a beast, and it looks like an evil spirit. Cub.

   In fact it is.

  Lu Li reached out to touch its eyelids, and found that it could see things. Its five fingers were like frog webbeds, connected with a thin and transparent film, to grab Lu Li's fingers.

  Lu Li retracted his gaze, looked at Anna who looked strange, and went back to the main entrance of the gallery.

   locked the door, Lu Li took off his coat, wrapped the ghost baby, and placed it next to the oil lamp on the desk.

  He raised his head and looked at Anna, whose expression became more and more strange, and said, "What do you want to say?"

   "Is it your child?"

"no."

   "Then why did you bring it back...?"

   "It's Athena's child."

  “…?”

   "It can quell Athena's resentment."

   "The question is, why are you doing this?"

  Lu Li was silent for a moment, staring into Anna's eyes.

   "Because I'm an exorcist."

   (end of this chapter)