Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 495 Seventy-two. Disaster

  The wooden boat drifted with the current, and sailed unswervingly towards a certain direction in the deep sea.

  The coastline and the kneeling mermaid gradually disappeared into a deeper outline.

   Lu Li didn't know what was waiting for him next.

   His hesitation stemmed from his position, and it was the two tests that finally drove him to go out to sea: although they were weird, they were more like telling Lu Li something, some truth.

   The person who sets the test is not like an evil terrorist.

   Just a little doubt about how Richard, like him, passed those tests.

   No matter the first test or the second test, it is not like Richard, a mentally distorted lunatic, can pass it smoothly.

  Perhaps he was different from the test he went through?

   It's a pity that Lu Li knew very little about the "Body of the Ancient God", so it was difficult to analyze more information.

   On the vast sea, the oil lantern covers the boat, and is enveloped by the boundless darkness. The indescribable consciousness has dissipated, and there seems to be a trace of traction left, allowing the surging sea water to surround Lu Li and head to an unknown place.

  Lu Li slowly looked around at the deep sea around him. When he was two or three nautical miles away from the coast, he felt a strangeness in his peripheral vision.

   A blurry picture formed in his mind, it seemed to be a figure shrouded in black robes sitting on a pitch-black wooden boat. But when Lu Li looked over there again, only black waves surged.

   It seems that what I just saw was just an illusion caused by the waves.

  Lu Li doesn't think so.

   may be paranoid, but paranoia is useful in the current environment.

For a while after   , Lu Li always paid attention to the direction of the "illusion".

   may be a coincidence, maybe the previous scene was a sign, ten minutes after the wooden boat was floating on the sea, a wooden boat suddenly rushed out of the direction Lu Li was paying attention to.

   But unlike what Lu Li had seen before, the dark outline that was almost integrated with the color of the sea water, the wooden boat that emerged was the same as the wooden boat that Lu Li got off, and Richard was sitting on the boat.

  Richard's wooden boat was approaching Luli, perhaps a collision would be more appropriate.

  Lu Li subconsciously wanted to control the direction of the wooden boat, and then remembered that this boat had no oars and was out of control.

  The speed of the wooden boat was much faster than Lu Li imagined. Before he could continue to do anything, the wooden boat carried Richard with a ferocious look and slammed into the side of Lu Li's wooden boat.

   The wooden boat wailed under his body, the impact force made the wooden boat almost roll over, and Lu Li was also thrown into the sea.

The    oil lamp fell a few meters away and quickly sank into the water. The dark sea surrounded Lu Li, and the cold touch made people stop breathing subconsciously.

   With a lot of bubbles wrapped around him, Lu Li adjusted his posture and swam towards the sea.

   But the moment he was about to surface, Lu Li suddenly realized that he could breathe in the sea.

When    fell into the sea, Lu Li inevitably choked into the sea, the feeling is usually painful and overwhelming. But at this moment, Lu Li didn't feel the slightest pain.

   After a short pause, Lu Li suppressed the subconscious warning to his body and took a breath in the sea—

   The lungs were not crowded with icy sea water, and the trachea was not violently repulsing the influx. Lu Li really took a breath under this deep ocean.

   This scene of destroying common sense is like a dream.

  Lu Li thought deeply, the sea water would not hinder his breathing, then...

   Lu Li, with his black hair fluttering underwater, lowered his head and looked down at his feet.

  Under the sea, the dark abyss wants to choose someone to devour.

  Lu Li saw the oil lamp, it was sinking slowly, the firelight in the glass cover flickered a few times and disappeared into the deep darkness.

   The only ray of light at the bottom of the sea disappeared.

   At the same time, the consciousness that had called Lu Li came from the abyss below.

   It's right under the sea.

  Plop—

   Richard, who was surrounded by bubbles, suddenly fell into the sea. He turned to look at Lu Li, unable to discern the emotion in his eyes, he swung his limbs like a fish and swam to the depths of the ocean.

  Richard felt the same call. It was as if he had been looking for the source of the call and couldn't wait to get there.

   Lu Li, who was about to emerge from the water, narrowed his black eyes slightly, turned around and swam to the abyss behind Richard.

   There is no sign of life in this deep sea. With diving into the deep water, the surrounding brightness decreases at a speed visible to the naked eye. It is a purer darkness than darkness. But Lu Li was still visible, and it seemed that the Calamity of the Night could hardly affect this place.

   This reminded Lu Li of the experience of returning the dead souls to the ferry. It was somewhat similar, but he didn't know if they were related to each other.

Richard below    swims very fast. He has lived in Belfast since he was a child, and his water is of course not bad.

  Lu Li can only swim simply, but the added weight of the woolen coat allows him to keep up with Richard's diving speed.

   As time goes by, the surrounding dark waters fall into absolute silence, and it is difficult for the wind and waves on the sea to reach here.

  There is no reference object, so it is difficult for Lu Li to judge the depth of the subsidence, which may be hundreds of meters or deeper.

   In this deep, dead sea with no life, everything is like nothingness, the depth seems to have no meaning, together with time, and the meaning itself.

  Richard swam to the abyss tirelessly. The strip of cloth wrapped around the gunshot wound on his leg disappeared a few minutes ago, and a little blood penetrated from the wound and merged into the sea water.

   His speed is getting slower and slower, and his smooth swinging legs are like rusted machines, becoming stiff and dull.

   They don't know how far they are from their destination.

   Just when Lu Li thought that Richard might not be able to hold on for too long, a strange round stone pillar that was covered in silt and stood abruptly in the deep sea appeared in front of him.

  …

   Outside Watching Town, the temporary resting point is crowded with people fleeing from the other side of the mountain.

  Only half of the people who stayed in Shouwang Town, more people who fell into fear did not dare to stay in Shouwang Town and continued to flee down the mountain.

   At this time, the panicked crowd gathered, the mother hugged the crying child, the separated relatives shouted each other's name,

   There are also people who are shouting about what happened in Belfast.

   "Tsunami! Tsunami hit Belfast!"

   "It's terrible... A dozen or so, dozens of meters of waves..."

   "It's the monster! I saw the monster rush out of the sea and kill the people on the shore!"

   They were shouting in a variety of ways and it was difficult to hear, and it was difficult to tell who was telling the truth. But in any case, something happened in Belfast.

   Outside the rest point, two police officers next to each other were talking in low voices.

   "The thick smoke... it seems to be heading towards the lunatic asylum? What's going on there?"

   "You still have an insane asylum that was abandoned by the air traffic control?" The middle-aged police officer beside him sneered.

  What he said was right, the young policeman withdrew his gaze and looked at the top of Mount Sugard: "Will the disaster over there spread to us?"

   "Who knows... I just went home and told my wife and kids to pack up."

   "You're fleeing?" The young police officer frowned.

   The middle-aged policeman nodded at him, raised his hand and pointed to Mount Sugard: "If Belfast fails to stop the disaster that is happening, what can we do?"

   On the mountain he pointed to, the crowd was still like ants, turning into countless black spots and rushing down the mountain.

   (end of this chapter)