Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 407 Three hundred twenty-two. Cooling the body

   "I should have thought of this long ago..."

  Jojo murmured sadly, unable to hold back her tears.

   She was clearly ready for her brother's death, but when she really touched the truth, the unbearable grief still pierced her heart in an instant.

   Holding an oil lamp, Lu Li stood at the door, with an unchanging calmness on his face. His eyes swept across the extinguished fire oil lamp, scattered empty cans and unopened cans, unused charcoal, and the strange lines on Oliver's body.

  Oliver apparently died unnaturally.

  Jojo squatted beside her brother, whispering soft words that could not be heard. Lu Li waited quietly, he thought it would take a long time for Qiao Qiao to ease her emotions, but soon, Qiao Qiao left her brother's side, wiped away her tears, and came to Lu Li.

   "Can we take my brother's body?" Jojo asked hoarsely.

   "Where to take?"

  Jojo is silent, this is the depths of the Shadow Swamp, and even they themselves are struggling to survive, how should they leave with a corpse...

   That doesn't make any sense.

   "Can I say goodbye to him? Just a few minutes." Jojo said pleadingly.

  Lu Li handed the oil lamp to Qiaoqiao: "We still have time."

"thanks."

   nodded lightly, and Jojo, who took the oil lamp, returned to Oliver, knelt down beside the corpse, and clasped her hands together.

   The sound of soft prayers rang out in the narrow cabin and spread deep into the corridor.

   "Life dies like a flower, but also blooms like a flower..."

   "Our destiny has already been arranged on a trajectory, through birth, to death... We come from the soil... go back to the soil... This is the fate of life."

   "The end does not mean the end... Everything about you will be remembered and passed on. The body will decay with time, but the spirit is immortal..."

   "I, Joanna, may Oliver's soul ascend to heaven without pain..."

   "May the dead live forever..."

   The last syllable faded, Jojo closed her eyes and murmured in a low voice.

  【very... subtle words...】

   The whispers that only Lu Li could hear resounded deep in his mind.

   "You should know this." Lu Li said silently. "It's a common prayer among churchgoers."

  【Are believers...I never respond to them...】

"why?"

  【The idea of ​​their prayers is absurd and weird...or coveting my power...or trying to curse others...or wanting wealth and women...or offering meager loyalty...I'm not interested in these...]

   "But most of the evil gods will always come."

   Unlike all weirdness, the evil **** is a weirdness born out of people.

  The evil **** itself is the consciousness that brings together many negative emotions. No matter whether it existed before that, as long as enough people believe in it and make sacrifices, the evil **** will be born with the consciousness of the believers.

Lu Li thought of one thing: "Those who believe in the Swamp Mother are the first pioneers of Shadow Town, and their imagination of the Swamp Mother is to shelter and bless the town. You call yourself the Swamp Mother, does this mean that you are the rumored 'good' Evil God'?"

   This kind of speculation is very likely, because only in this way can it reasonably explain why the slayers of the Eren Peninsula are indifferent to the evil gods at their doorsteps.

  Because the mother of the swamp is a "good evil god".

   The so-called good evil **** is only relative. They are not human, and naturally do not need to do things according to human rules, nor can they judge good and bad with human rules.

   They just guard their territory and ignore the humans passing by.

   is like a pair of eyes watching an ant underfoot.

   They may hurt those who pass by due to some factors, but compared to other evil gods, this evil **** is almost harmless.

   Today, when the world is tilted towards destruction, the exorcists have no time to pay attention to these harmless evil gods.

  The Swamp Mother didn't face Lu Li's question, it didn't even answer, whispering another thing: [I feel...you are very close...enter the center of the banyan tree...I'll be there waiting for you to come...]

   "Are you leaving again?" Lu Li asked.

  【It feels something... is resisting... I have to concentrate... 】

   "Leave a trace of consciousness, I will contact you if something happens."

   After a short pause, the Swamp Mother responded: [Hold the statue...I will sense your consciousness...and...it...I didn't bring it here...]

"it?"

  【The boat...you are in its body...】

   Lu Li tilted his head and asked Anna, "Do you feel anything?"

Anna, who had already appeared when Qiaoqiao started to pray, did not notice any breath. She knew that Lu Li would not say these words for no reason. She closed her eyes and diffused her own breath around, and then was caught by the cold and damp walls. block.

  It was hard to imagine that her breath could feel cold and damp, as if she had touched the wall.

   "The wall here is actually blocking my breath..." Anna whispered in disbelief.

  Lu Li looked at Jojo, who was kneeling beside Oliver's body and murmured, "Are you all right?"

  Jojo opened her closed eyes, and tears washed away the mud on her face.

   "What happened?" She heard the conversation between Lu Li and Anna before.

   "The situation has changed, leave here first."

  I don't know if the ship realized that they had found out, Lu Li didn't tell the truth.

"it is good."

   After a little hesitation, Qiao Qiao got up, staggered a bit, picked up the oil lamp and returned to Lu Li.

   Needless to say, Lu Li and Qiaoqiao quickly returned to the road under the protection of Anna.

  The oil lamp was handed back to Lu Li. At the beginning, Qiao Qiao would look back. She felt that her brother was in the dark, looking at her. But soon, she found that Lu Li's pace was much faster than before, realized something, and silently followed behind.

   Until a certain moment, Lu Li suddenly stopped in front of him.

   Qiaoqiao, who almost collided with Lu Li's back, raised her head and heard Anna's whisper: "The road ahead has disappeared..."

  The promenade under the deck of the big ship extends forward, and the darkness beyond the light seems to have no end.

   They have walked a long distance, and they should have reached the corner.

   But the corridor covered with rust was still straight ahead, and it didn't end.

   "Still haven't found any problems?" Lu Li asked to Anna.

   "I can shred it." Anna whispered indifferently.

   She felt that the ship was playing with them.

   "You can't shred steel." Lu Li rejected Anna's proposal. He remembered the illusion that flashed by when he boarded the ship, and thoughtfully said, "I'll give it a try."

  Lu Li stared straight at the darkness ahead, as if there was something there.

   "I don't know why you were stranded in the deep swamp, but I can help you get out of here."

The words    echoed into the depths of the darkness, for a few seconds, a dozen seconds... There was no change around them.

  Lu Li continued to speak with a calm expression.

   "The owner of the Shadow Swamp, the Swamp Mother, is my... companion, I may not be able to do it, but it can. Let us go, and I will let the Swamp Mother take you where you need to go."

   (end of this chapter)