Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 661 Two hundred and thirty eight. End point

  In the early morning, the strange fog quietly faded away.

  Anna squatted by the fireplace and swept the ashes into the basket, added dry wood, and sprinkled a small half of the ashes in the corner of the cave.

  The relatively constant temperature of the cave allows plants to come alive, and shoots grow in the crevices of the rocks or in the soil. The closer you are to the safe house, the better it will grow.

   The two pots of flowers that Lucky had placed on the desk had already bloomed, one of which was an iris, and the other was a dark purple flower that neither Anna nor Remy could recognize.

  Only Adanfuya said she had some impressions, which she saw in the illustration of a book in her hometown when she was alive.

  Purple flowers seem to be native plants of the Lord's Continent. After all, the flower pots were brought back from the city of Ellen.

  The remaining ashes were scattered on the farmland outside the cave, and it will grow very well next year, if there is another year.

   "Good morning Ana." Remi greeted her.

   "Morning." Anna smiled lightly, exchanged a few words with Remy and returned to the cave.

  Jimmy got out of the wooden house, rubbed his eyes and said, "Miss Anna seems to be getting more and more cheerful."

   Anna has been smiling a lot more than before these days.

   "Maybe." Remy was noncommittal.

   Being a scholar made her faintly aware of what Anna was suppressing in the depths of her emotions.

   Bringing a few pounds of firewood from the firewood house, Remy, who was about to go to the safe house, turned around and instructed her brother: "Only half of the wood in the firewood house is left, go to the woods to bring some back."

   Ignoring his brother's complaint, Remi was about to enter the cave when a footstep sounded from the woods outside Wanghai Cliff.

   Lu Li slowly woke up.

  's open black eyes fell on the desk alarm clock, and when he woke up, the confusion that had not dissipated reflected yesterday's newspaper on the corner of the desk.

  【The heroes go deep into the barren land along the river! 】

  The picture shows three ancient sailing warships entering the river.

  If the journey goes well, they should be near the oasis where the silence was.

  Anna's figure returned to the safe house at this time, put down the basket by the fireplace, sighed "it's getting colder and colder outside" and suddenly pressed the illusory white hands on Lu Li's face, who was sitting up.

  Lu Li raised his calm black eyes and tilted his head slightly to look at Anna.

   "My hands are cold." Anna blinked in response, as if expecting something.

   was silent for a while, and Lu Li, who had just sat up, lay down again, and said in a calm, narrative-like tone, "...It's so cold."

   Lu Li's cooperation was terrible, but Anna was still like a little girl who succeeded in mischief, pounced on Lu Li and laughed non-stop.

   After a while, Remy came outside the safe house and said softly, "The merchant is here."

  According to the content of yesterday's transaction, the merchant brought today's newspaper.

   The result of this crusade will be shown above.

   After putting down the newspaper, the businessman left. Lu Li picked up the newspaper with ink and morning dew, and unfolded the page.

   "What did it say?" Anna asked.

   Lu Li glanced at the title and exhaled lightly.

  …

The    pass could have accommodated the passage of warships, but the chaotic current in front of the pass caused the ship to gradually tilt. If it was turned again, the Old Gentleman would lie in front of the pass and be caught by the warships behind...

   After a short pause, the young chief officer untied the hemp rope without hesitation, jumped in front of the rudder, and pressed the rudder with his body weight to turn the rudder to the right.

  Manik Pa opened his eyes reluctantly. He heard the bell, but he couldn't speak to stop the first mate.

   A pocket watch, flickering under the oil lamp, flew out of the arms of the young chief mate.

  Click——

   seemed to touch the mechanism, and the watch cover was lifted, revealing the time and the photo of the girl, as well as the figure disappearing in front of the rudder in the reflection.

   The young chief mate did it. The old gentleman, which was moving across the river, changed direction, barely clinging to the pass, scraping a trace on the side of the boat.

   sailed out 100 meters along the river again, the anchor fell to the bottom of the river, and the old gentleman remained stationary as the river resumed its smoothness.

   But the worst is yet to come. Unfortunately, the wolf's warship was caught in the same chaotic undercurrent, gradually tilted, and got stuck in front of the narrow pass.

On the   Old Gentleman, the deck crew watched in horror as Canglang's warship lay across the entire river, and was hit by the last warship.

  Squeak——Yeah——

   In the dull and sour sound, the keel of the warship was broken, and it was almost broken by the middle.

"Oh no……"

   One of the crew members tied to the mast couldn't help but murmur, and the words that followed disappeared with him.

  Two wooden boats piled up at the pass, and a large number of broken wooden boards floated down the river, lightly hit the old gentleman, and spun away.

   No survivors lay on it.

   Under the terrifying collision, the two warships stuck in the pass may have become dead ships...

   Only the dead silence of the water and the thumping of the cargo warehouse below the deck lasted for more than ten minutes, and the sailor holding the evil spirit broadcast rang the bronze bell.

  The crew untwisted themselves numbly, and found that the old captain Mannick Pa appeared outside the captain's room, took off his hat and observed a few seconds of silence.

   "Children, I won't say sensational and nasty words." Mannick Pa's shout resounded above the deck, and his arm holding the captain's hat pointed to the front of the river, where the outline of a forest loomed.

   "We've sacrificed too much. And now, the goal is ahead of us... anchor!"

  Wash-la-la-la-

   turned the winch to stow the heavy anchor, and the old gentleman continued to sail alone.

   They were getting closer and closer to the outline of the oasis far beyond the horizon, and the broken planks followed the river, as if surrounded by the old gentleman.

  When the Oasis officially came into view and came into range, the Old Gentleman dropped anchor a mile away.

  Manik Pa stopped the crew from lifting the tarpaulin and preparing to reload the shells. Five minutes have passed since the last time of silence, and it will come again soon.

   Waiting until the end is when they fight back.

   Two minutes later, the bronze bell on the deck sounded as scheduled.

   Although the Old Gentleman had broken down, the crew anchored themselves to the deck to avoid accidents.

  The crew was worried that something would happen during this quiet time, and waited for ten minutes tormentingly, but until the quiet time left, no crew members disappeared.

   "Load the shells!"

   The second mate who took over from the first mate shouted.

   The dozen or so crew members who survived picked up the shells and stuffed them into the barrels.

   "Calibrate!"

  Some old sailors who had participated in the war stepped forward to adjust the angle, and Mannick Pa also went to the deck to help, and then took the torch from a sailor.

   "I'll take this shot."

   "Fire!" The second officer roared exhaustively.

  A dozen torches are tilted at the same time to ignite the leads.

   hiss——

  After a few seconds of hissing like a letter from the viper, a deafening bang echoed in a thick cloud of smoke,

   Thick smoke surged, drilled out a dozen shells, whistled sharply across the arc, and fell to the edge of the oasis village, an ordinary withered short tree.

   At this moment, an obscure, invisible wind blew gently around the bushes, and the cannonballs swept through the air like footprints on the sand. The waves came and wiped away quietly.

   The cheers of the crew were rudely shoved back into their throats.

  The invisible wind blew through the oasis and drifted further away——

  The smoke of gunpowder continued to rise, and the empty warships parked quietly by the river.

   (end of this chapter)