Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 317 Two hundred thirty-two. Warming up

   "How did you get in?"

   Lu Li spoke to the figure in the sofa.

The    voice fell, and Anna's icy aura towards the opponent faded.

   "The door the sculpture lady helped open."

   said the man, directing Lu Li's eyes to the sculpture behind the door.

   "Next time we are not at home and someone comes, we don't need to open the door." Lu Li said to the sculpture, which has become more active recently.

  The sculpture is motionless, perhaps listening.

   Lu Li didn't ask why the man calmly faced a moving sculpture, after all, his dreams were more bizarre than the real world.

   put away the umbrella and put it outside the door, Lu Li closed the door and walked to the desk to sit down, looking at the man, waiting for him to say the purpose of his trip.

  Lu Li thought he would talk about what was in the newspaper, but he wasn't.

   "Long time no see." The man said.

   His clothes are the same as they were two days ago, but they feel completely different.

   The look of haggard and despair was replaced by the calm at this time, and the clear eyes contained wisdom, and there was no trace of the past.

   This brings some weirdness.

   Underneath his body, he seemed to be an old man who could see through the world, but his appearance was only a few years older than Lu Li.

   "How long." Lu Li said.

   "231 and 1185."

   Considering that the man in front of him has actually experienced thousands of years, then this strange feeling is understandable.

After a short pause, the man opened his mouth and said the purpose of his trip: "The long years have made me forget a lot of things, and only a few things are left in my mind, such as my parents, some happy and some sad things, and With your help."

"During the 231 years, I recalled what you told me countless times. At first I couldn't understand or even resisted, but as time went on and decades passed, I gradually understood the meaning of your words. This helped me Stop closing my heart. I made it, I accepted it, and it accepted me, and the world after sleep is part of my life."

  The man speaks very slowly, perhaps because he has experienced the elderly so many times in his dreams that his mentality changes accordingly.

"Although I am sometimes troubled by its excessive length, it is more fortunate...I am very grateful that I have been alive, especially seeing those people who are annihilating like Mars, and the mythical creatures who want to be immortal. "

   "Before I despair."

   "You can't help me more, but now I have nothing to help you... If you have doubts at some point in the future, you can come to me. If my consciousness has not disappeared because of the long years."

  The man stood up, walked to the door, stopped in front of the door and said, "Just in case, please don't take too long."

   After saying this, he left unexpectedly as if he had appeared by accident.

   "He looks like a philosopher."

   After the man left, Anna emerged and said with a frown.

   The man felt strange to her, especially since he swept towards him a few times - as if he could see himself.

  Lu Li replied: "Because anything people do adds to the experience of life, and he has enough time to experience anything."

   "Then is he a good man?"

"certain."

  Anna was slightly surprised. Lu Li's answers were usually ambiguous. It was the first time she had seen Lu Li be so sure of the outcome of an event.

   "Why?" she couldn't help asking.

   "Do you know dice?"

   "Um...should know."

Lu Li didn't change the metaphor because Anna "should know", and went on to explain: "Throwing the dice several times, the number of times each side will be different, but as you keep throwing the dice, the number of times each side will appear close to the same. "

   That man is like that.

   He may be evil at some point, good at some point, or transition back and forth between two or more personalities. But one day, these will fuse and solidify together.

   That character will not be good, nor bad, nor good or evil.

   This change will not be long, maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow.

  Anna understands some, but doesn't understand, but she knows that since Lu Li said so, then it must be true, and asked, "So it is possible for him to help us as he said?"

"Um."

   but with a time limit.

  If a man's dream time continues to increase endlessly, sooner or later he will lose himself in a long time until his consciousness is completely wiped out.

   He may have been alive then, but he was dead.

  Man has realized this. So before leaving, he told Lu Li.

   as soon as possible.

   "Wow ah ah ah ah ah-"

   There was a sudden cry of a child in the corridor outside the door, and the cry was mixed with vague voices and the movement of neighbors opening the door to check.

  Lu Li stopped thinking and glanced at the door.

The news in the newspapers made the whole Belfast panic. The sky has darkened, but there are still many residents on the streets. They gather under the eaves, chatting loudly, and at the same time look enviously at those who have spare money and buy a batch of supplies. of people.

   A few words will float into the detective agency, which is mixed with "price" and "bullshit".

   Fortunately, the rainy season is approaching at this time, and most of the residents hoarded some supplies before the bad news.

   There are enough ingredients left in the kitchen for two days. Anna asked Lu Li to buy some more tomorrow and go to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

  The sky gradually darkened, and the crowds on the street also dispersed and returned to their respective homes.

   After dinner, he pulled up the curtains, lit the second oil lamp, and lay down on the sofa.

"Good night."

   Anna's voice sounded in the bedroom, and then there was only the occasional sound of turning pages.

  The night is not quiet, and from time to time there is movement floating from the window. Occasionally there are quarrels, occasionally cries, the sound of wheels rolling by.

  Most of the people spent the night in unease.

  …

   Early morning, 5.50am.

   The sky lit up and people woke up one after another.

  Cooking smoke came out of the chimney that was mostly blocked, and more from the door and the window.

  The cold air was mixed with the choking smoke of the firewood burning.

   It's hard to say whether Lu Li woke up because of his biological clock or because of the smell of smoke from the detective agency.

  Anna noticed that Lu Li was awake for the first time. As usual, she opened the curtains and went to the kitchen to make a fire to prepare food.

   After eating the food, Lu Li and Anna, who was hiding, were about to go out, and Anna instructed them to make a sculpture and leave the detective agency.

   Go to the car dealership to rent a carriage, then pick up the Jones brothers, and get back the distillation equipment.

   The carriage drove to the residence of the four Jones brothers, and Lu Li saw the four brothers waiting in front of the door. Compared with yesterday, the Jones brothers are more dull today, and everyone's face is full of worries.

  Lu Li knew what they were worried about, but he couldn't do anything.

   He could only barely survive what was to come.

   (end of this chapter)