Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 371 Two hundred eighty six. One thing

   "When are you coming to get it."

   Lu Li did not regret it, and chose to pay Marcus according to the negotiated share.

   Counting the 250 investigation points he just got, he should be able to scrape together 5,000 shillings.

   "Of course - oh damn!"

   A mess of bumps and shouts rang out from the other side of the microphone, Marcus' voice stopped abruptly, and then there were footsteps running away.

   After a few seconds, Marcus returned to the phone and said anxiously into the microphone:

   "I'm not very good here, that group of police found me! Damn... I'll run away when I contact you!"

Hurrying to hang up the phone, Marcus turned his head to look at the door that vibrated more and more exaggeratedly, grabbed a suitcase that seemed to have been prepared from under the table, pulled the cord and put the phone in, buttoned it, and Open the window.

  Wash-

   The sound of the light rain falling outside the window became clear, Marcus looked down at the muddy road that was almost four or five meters high, took a deep breath, and jumped from the second floor.

  !

The door behind    was knocked open at this moment, and several police officers armed with batons rushed into the already empty room.

   chased to the window, they saw a back disappearing into the alley.

   "He escaped!"

   A young police officer wanted to go out to chase, but his boss raised his hand to stop him: "Go and tell the exorcists that the person they are looking for has escaped."

   "But aren't we going to chase?" the young police officer asked eagerly.

   Maybe if I chase it out now...

   "That guy is wanted by a group of exorcists. If you want to die, go after him yourself." The old sheriff sneered. "We can't finish the troubles in the town, and still want to do things for others? Go find the lost convoy first! Also, the mayor is calling all the villagers to the open space, you go and call those exorcists."

  …

   Lu Li knew that Marcus was looking for him and was hiding everywhere, but he didn't know that the people looking for him were the police.

   Hanging up the disconnected phone, Lu Li planned to reduce his contact with Marcus in the future to avoid being implicated.

   "Who is it?" The constant phone calls made Anna curious.

  Lu Li told her what happened on the phone, Anna narrowed her eyes and said thoughtfully, "If Marcus dies, the money won't be repaid, right?"

  Lu Li looked at Anna calmly: "We shouldn't do this."

  Anna seemed to sense Lu Li's seriousness, so she had to let go of her inner thoughts: "I'm just talking casually."

   took away the kraft paper bag with the ingredients on the desk, and Anna went into the kitchen to make a fire to prepare lunch.

  Lu Li sat behind the desk, sorting out the things that he had not had time to take care of during the ten days of the Shadow of the String incident.

   Four letters, three of which were sent by Slavic ladies. The most recent one came three days ago. It seems that the arrival of the rainy season made her temporarily put down her pursuit of Lu Li.

  The other sender was Remy & Jimmy, delivered yesterday afternoon when he and Anna were taking refuge at the cliff top.

   The three love letters, Lu Li, were not opened, and they were placed in the deepest part of the drawer together with their previous companions.

   Tear.

   Tore open the envelope with a soft sound, and Lu Li took out the letter.

   Anna, who heard the movement, stuck her head out of the kitchen.

   "I can see the letter." She reminded Lu Li.

  Anna already knew that in the story of The Shadow of the Line, the "door" appeared to lure Lu Li again, but she was by her side and didn't notice it.

   "I know." Lu Li opened the envelope.

   An intact tawny maple leaf fell from the stationery,

  【Dear Lu Li】

  【Long time no see, how are you recently? 】

  【Have you seen the little gift we gave you? When Jimmy found it, he couldn't wait to show it to you like a child, so I decided to give it to you in a letter, I hope you like it. 】

  【I hope your sanity doesn’t bother you anymore, and my brother has recovered a lot. I think it won’t be long before we—]

[Just now Jimmy came to tell me that he was all right, and wanted to go to Belfast to meet you as soon as possible, sigh... But not now, we will leave for Belfast when the storm passes, maybe we will settle there with you, You don't despise us, do you? 】

  【Just kidding, but I really want to settle down in a place...]

  【By the way, please pay attention to safety recently, if you can, it is best not to stay in the city. I don't know why, but I always feel that something extremely terrifying is emerging in the deep sea. It may also be my delusion... I hope I think too much. 】

  【Then that's it, the next time you arrive may not be a letter, don't dislike us. 】

  【Your good friend Remy & Jimmy. 】

   His gaze paused for a long time at the text of Remi's hunch, Lu Li retracted his gaze, put the maple leaf and the last needle leaf together, and prepared to reply.

   The content of the reply is always short, with only one sentence in it: "If you can't get close to the city, go to the cliffs of the Elm Forest, where the refuge is, you can wait for me there."

  Lu Li can believe in a forest, and of course he can also believe in friends who "used to be side by side".

   Put the envelopes and put them on the stamps, put the letters on the edge of the desk, and clean up the other clutter on the desk.

   On the other side, Anna, who was cooking the pork, walked out of the kitchen and looked at the five boxes of canned food together with Lu Li.

  Squeak-

   The nails being pulled out made a sour sound, and the lid of the wooden box was lifted by an invisible force.

   Pinnacle cans.

  The cans with the appearance of oil paintings like works of art stand in the isolated wooden grid, and the surrounding is filled with compacted cotton to prevent leakage due to bumping. So a crate that needs to be hugged contains only 12 cans.

   A pocket tin can only the size of a girl's fist makes people wonder how much it can hold. Lu Li picked up a can, and even if he was ready, the reality is more exaggerated than imagined.

   A can weighs less than half a pound.

   One fifth of which is the weight of the tin can. Most of the weight of the wooden box comes from the wooden box itself—

   "Open it." Lu Li said.

   The mouth of the tin can in his hand was pierced, showing tear-like traces. The crack was circled and opened, and a strong smell of meat sauce wafted out.

   It was filled with a sticky meat sauce.

   It should be served on the table with fluffy bread, or poured into soup as a seasoning, not a hard-time sustenance.

   This seems to be some misunderstanding of the noble class on the commoner class.

  Lu Li's eyes fell on the remaining four wooden boxes.

  After the wooden lid was lifted for a few minutes, fifty-nine cans were put into the box with the wooden compartment removed, and there was still a large gap—

   "Women are the most unbelievable. You trust that woman too much."

   With strange prejudice and inexplicable joy, Anna walked into the kitchen with the open can and the remaining wooden crate.

  …

  Anna's cooking skills have improved, you can also say that the jar of meat sauce is seasoned. In short, lunch has a rare aroma.

  The damp sofa was very uncomfortable, so after lunch, Lu Li sat in the wooden chair behind the desk until evening.

   knock knock knock —

There was a knock on the door of the    detective agency.

   (end of this chapter)