Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 425 II. Lennon Islands Immigration Boom

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   The whistle echoed over Rose Town.

  Large black smoke spewed from the chimney of the steam locomotive, blending into the gloomy sky. In front of the platform where people come and go, the steam train starts slowly.

  Tesla stood behind the door on crutches, and when the door closed and the steam train left the platform, he bowed his head and returned to the warm, blanket-covered luxury carriage.

   As the regional leader, there is also one of the biggest contributors to the Shadow Town incident, and they are eligible to sit in the first-class carriage.

   "The Council of Elders has suspended steam trains since the disaster of the night, but now is a special period, and people are flocking to ports with the ability to travel to take refuge in the Lennon Islands."

   He sat opposite Lu Li, took off his wide-brimmed hat and hung it on the coat hook by the window, and smiled kindly at Jojo and Fran, who were curiously looking at the seat beside him.

   They already knew each other.

   "It will take us to Belfast, but before arriving it will enter Allenberg County and walk along the northern coastline of the Allen Peninsula."

  What Lu Li thought: "We will pass by Zenster?"

   "Yes... that city has been abandoned."

  Lu Li didn't stop for a long time on the train, and then asked, "Is it true about the Lennon Islands?"

   "Almost." Tesla picked up the coffee pot and poured two cups of coffee, one of which was hot and pushed to Lu Li. "Drink something hot to warm up. The weirdness of the Lennon Islands is indeed much less than that of the three places of Allen's Desolate Land. We haven't found the reason yet. It may be that it is too fragmented and isolated from the world, and the weirdness is inaccessible. arrive."

   Lu Li, who had bathed in the bathroom not long ago, sat across from him wearing a blanket, his black hair was still damp: "Is there today's newspaper."

  Tesla called the waiter and asked him to bring a newspaper of the day.

   Before the waiter came back, Tesla asked, "In the end, the Swamp Mother won?"

   They observed that the retinue of the Swamp Mother retreated to the jungle, and the retinue of the unknown evil **** disappeared without a trace.

"Um."

   Lu Li answered briefly.

  Tesla continued to ask: "Do you know who the unknown evil **** is?"

   "Also the mother of swamps."

   Leaning back in his seat, Tesla, who had partially missed the view from the window, looked surprised and watched Lu Li.

   "Wait for the merchants to come."

   As I said before, the story was too long, and Lu Li didn't have the energy to say it a second time.

   "Okay, but my curiosity was indeed aroused." Tesla smiled helplessly, and looked away from the waiter who came back from the noisy carriage next door.

"thanks."

   took the two newspapers handed over by the waiter, and Lu Li staggered them to reveal their respective first-page news headlines.

  【Lennon Islands immigration boom】

  【People are flocking to the Lennon Islands! 】

  The content of the two news stories is similar. Due to the endless emergence of weirdness, more and more inaccessible areas become dangerous, the number of towns and villages that have been erased from the map increases, and people are panicked, disturbed aristocrats and many middle classes seek safe places.

   At this time, the Lennon Islands come into view, where the eerie sparse, scattered islands make them naturally isolated from the land. In addition to the Queen's solicitation and the recommendation of the exorcist, the Lennon Islands became the most popular immigration area.

The    craze and dangerously deep seas have made cruise tickets to the Lennon Islands up to 1,500 shillings, and only last class.

   This is destined to be an expensive transportation that can only be used by the middle class or ordinary people who sell their houses alone.

   Aside from the Lennon Islands, Badlands has also become relatively popular.

   The Badlands are sparsely populated, with most of the locals congregating in a few coastal cities. Perhaps it is difficult for the crowd to find the weirdness scattered in the barren land, or it may be that there are few weirdnesses, and it is rare to hear that weirdness is raging there.

   So Badlands became the second choice for people who wanted to take refuge but were short on money. Or the idea of ​​smuggling across the Lennon Islands using the barren land as a springboard.

   That's why steam trains risked restarting.

   A large number of people from the Allen Peninsula flocked to the port, preparing to leave here.

"What do you think?"

   After Lu Li put down the newspaper, Tesla asked with a smile.

   "The food issue has not been resolved." Lu Li replied.

With    plants no longer growing, it is unknown whether the Lennon Islands can afford to supply a large population.

   "Don't worry, the Lennon Islands are not suitable for farming, and the fishing industry is almost the same as Belfast."

   Lu Li asked back, not showing the same optimism as Tesla: "What if the fish were gone."

"So far, fish and some carrion-eating animals are our only stable food sources." Tesla reluctantly replied to Lu Li: "If there are no fish like you said, we are not too big anywhere. meaning."

   The invisible is more desperate than the visible.

   People who die of weirdness are nowhere near as dead as people who die of starvation.

   "Isn't the reason why the plants stopped growing out yet?" Lu Li asked.

   After a moment of silence, Tesla replied to Lu Li: "The investigation is done."

  Tesla's expression showed that it wasn't a good outcome.

  The silence lasted for more than ten seconds, and was broken by Jojo sitting on the other side of the carriage.

   "Should we avoid it?"

   She felt that the following words were not suitable for outsiders like herself and Fran to hear.

  Tesla said indifferently: "No, but are you sure you want to know the cruel truth?"

   Before Qiaoqiao and Fran replied, Lu Li said, "They lost their last relatives and survived in Shadow Town for a day."

  Lu Li's direct words may make the client uncomfortable, but this is also his personal style.

  Tesla apologized, and bowed slightly to Jojo and Fran who waved their hands in a hurry: "I'm very sorry, I'm being rigid."

After    apologized, Tesla told Lu Li, who was waiting for an answer.

   "It's an evil spirit."

Tesla picked up the coffee cup and blew out the rising heat but didn't drink it, just said slowly: "The Agricultural Research Department of Imperial College in the Lord's Continent can't find the root cause of the problem, they just determined that the seeds can be indoors. To grow, the more airtight the environment, the better the seed will grow.”

"Then the Demon Slayer Association joined the investigation, and they found pollutants in the withered plants, or the breath of the world. Subsequent investigations allowed them to find the same breath in all plants. They named the evil spirit that attacked all plants. For the beginning of extinction."

   "A pessimistic name." Lu left the mouth.

  Tesla was noncommittal, and continued: "Now the slayers are tracing the source of the pollution, and the original birthplace is probably where the evil spirit's body is located. But it may be the worst case - this evil spirit has no body."

The voice of    fell, and the noise broke the tranquility of the first-class carriage.

  Tesla looked sideways, looked at the tall figure who walked into the carriage with his head down, smiled and said, "It seems that I can know what happened in Shadow Town."

   (end of this chapter)