Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 300 Two hundred and fifteen. The family of the Elm Forest

  5:30

   The sky that had been lit up in the past was still as dark as nothingness.

   The endless rain poured down the land.

  A heavy stretched carriage drives down the streets of Belfast, and the windows of the roadside cast shadows of people walking around the house.

  Most families are already waking up at this time, preparing for breakfast and going to work, and praying that the rain will be less today.

  The rainy season has not yet come, and most families are not ready to deal with this continuous sudden heavy rain. They can only use all their savings to repair the house and buy food storage that is already very expensive.

   Occasionally, people can be seen on the streets carrying oil lamps to work. Although it was still raining heavily, the working hours of the factory were still not lenient at all.

  The lengthened carriage drove past the area with street lights. The houses on both sides of the bluestone road gradually became low and dilapidated, and the wooden houses without the slightest beauty gradually took up the majority.

   After a while, the extended carriage stopped in front of a longhouse on Serlov Street.

   Lu Li didn't know which room Lame Barton lived in, but he remembered the window. He came to the window and knocked on the window. After a few times, the curtain was lifted, revealing Lame Barton with messy hair.

   He spoke, his voice covered by the rain, then rubbed his eyes and walked to the door.

   "You stay here and wait for me." Lu Li and Anna said, walking into the dark longhouse and entering an opened door.

  Patton's house was full of debris, and Lu Li stood by the door: "Is the map ready?"

   Patton, who opened the door, turned around, still rubbing his eyes, turned his back to Lu Li and pointed to the dining table where the leftover food was still placed.

  Lu Li walked to the table and picked up the brand new piece of parchment. The terrain and woods were drawn, and the felled areas and silent hills were marked. There were also dotted lines symbolizing the road. This kind of detail was obviously not from Patton's hand.

  Lu Li put the promised reward on the table.

  Barton put down the water glass, picked up 300 shillings with a smell of wine, and pouted out the window and asked, "What's on the outside of the car?"

"Tree."

   "You brought it from the Elm Forest?"

   "I want to take it with me."

"what are you going to do?"

   "Plant a tree."

   "You came to me so early to ask for a map just to plant a tree?"

"Um."

  Barton was speechless and waved his hand to indicate that Lu Li could leave.

   took the map and left the longhouse, Lu Li returned to the carriage, Barton raised the reins in the window, and drove the carriage away.

   did not return to the detective agency, and after getting the map, Lu Li went straight to Elm Street, the northernmost tip of Belfast.

  Anna told Lu Li that Annie couldn't last too long.

  6:23

   The gloomy sky finally showed a hint of light, and the streets were no longer empty.

  Elm Street, where a long carriage drove into the Elm Forest.

   Approaching the Elm Forest, the pervasive sadness began to permeate his heart. Lu Li, who was overwhelmed by the turbulent emotions yesterday, seemed to have some resistance. This sadness did not have any effect on Lu Li.

   It may also be because this forest has changed the impression of Lu Li.

  Anna was deeply affected, and the flame that carried Annie's life in her perception was weak and about to go out. She was already sad, and she lowered her head and said nothing.

  Lu Li drove the horses that showed a little more resistance after entering the forest, followed the map and the road he walked yesterday to the cliff.

   As we went deeper into the elm forest, gradually there were some other emotions in the sadness that pervaded the surrounding.

   The emotion was indescribable, it seemed to be some kind of concern, they surrounded the carriage, gently touching Annie who was close to death.

  Anna raised her head in amazement, feeling the flame of Annie's gradually stabilizing mind, and whispered in disbelief, "Annie is no longer weak..."

   "They're helping Annie."

   Lu Li said, he raised his head and glanced, the surrounding forest emotions had no substance and could not be observed.

  The emotions of those forests, or the wills, kept touching Annie, and her flames were no longer weak, and even began to stabilize.

  The pervasive emotions are no longer only sadness, but mixed with unobservable expectations and joy. As if they were waiting for Annie, as if Annie was one of them.

   In fact, Anne is an elm tree.

   Their actions were not in vain, the forest could indeed save Annie.

  Some of the emotions brushed lightly across Lu Li and Anna, as well as the horse's body, as if to comfort them.

  The horses no longer resisted, and the muddy mountain road became relatively easy to walk.

  Anna's mood was also relaxed, her palm never left Annie's trunk, feeling her condition.

   After an hour, the horses reached the back of the cliff cave.

   The front is a muddy road that is difficult to travel, and the carriage could not go up smoothly after several attempts.

   It was less than 100 meters away from the cliff, where Lu Li stopped his carriage, took out a shovel from the carriage, and went back to the cave, where he started digging at the place he had chosen yesterday.

  The rain-soaked soil was easy to dig out. Anna brought another shovel and wanted to help, but was stopped by Lu Li. Use her abilities where it matters.

   Twenty minutes later, Lu Li dug out a soil pit similar in size to a wooden box, and went to the cave to fetch some dry soil and spread it at the bottom of the pit.

   "Too much water will flood to death."

   Lu Li and Anna said, but it didn't seem to work, the dry soil quickly turned dark and damp.

   Putting down the shovel, Lu Li and Anna went back to the carriage and asked her to use her abilities to transport Annie there.

   The cold and evil atmosphere is chilling, thick hair flutters, Anna's long skirt swaying violently, using her ability to make Annie, who weighs hundreds of pounds, levitate and float towards the cliff.

  Lu Li's eyes stayed on Anna's distorted shadow for a moment, then looked around.

  The surrounding area is obviously empty, but it seems to be crowded with beings, watching them.

  This forest has only emotions and no will, but they are indeed observing Lu Li. It seems that every tree in the forest has turned into an invisible eye, silently watching everything Lu Li does.

   supported Annie's wooden box on the edge of the pit, Lu Li opened the lid, and asked Anna to take out Annie and the soil that wrapped the roots, and put them in the pit together.

  Filled the gap with the soil piled aside, Lu Li stepped back, looked at Anna with her palms against the tree trunk, and then looked around.

   They are still here, with a certain joy and goodwill.

   "Annie knows what we've done for it." Anna said at this time.

   "Yeah." Lu Li picked up the shovel that Anna had left aside and looked at Anna. "The next step is to rely on the help of this forest."

  Anna pursed her lips, looked away from the invisible beings around her, and said softly, "Please... Please be sure to save my sister..."

The voice of    fell, and a self-mockery rose in Anna's heart.

   I can actually talk to a group of trees...

   The mental projection and breath were gathered up, and Anna looked at Lu Li: "What shall we do next?"

   "Prepare to build shelters and carry supplies."

   (end of this chapter)