Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 680 Two hundred fifty-seven. The exorcist walking with black hair and black eyes

  Lu Li soon saw a patient infected with a "strange" plague as described by the assistant at the Exorcist Association.

   They were lying on the hospital bed for treatment, and their trunks were strangely grown with plant branches. The flesh and blood were like fertile soil, allowing the branches to grow shoots and green leaves.

   The local exorcist told Lu Li that the infected and the branches are one body, and they will feel pain if they hurt the branches. They have tried to remove the branches, and the wounds of the branches will also bleed, and the removed branches will quickly wither and die no matter how they are transplanted, even if they are reconnected.

The arrival of    Lu Li was discovered by the infected. He turned his head neatly, climbed out of the hospital bed numbly, and approached Lu Li like a walking corpse.

   They felt a breath of comfort in their souls from Lu Li.

   "There is a voice in my head telling me to stay by his side..." Some infected people who were not very sick and only had fingers and twigs on their torso told pointing to Lu Li.

   "Maybe you have something on you that attracts them." The exorcist said curiously, he didn't ask what it was, and continued to learn about Lu Li. "We call this disease a plant disease. Not only the body, but their minds become as dull as the plants, and the longer the infection, the worse the problem."

  The exorcist led Lu Li and Aimin to the depths, passed the tool cabinet, picked up an oil lamp, and swayed to the last hospital bed.

   "It might be a little scary, so be prepared." He reminded Lu Li and Aimin, and pulled open the curtain of the rung.

   "Ah—" Amin exclaimed and hugged Lu Li's arm, clinging to him, his body trembling slightly.

  In the light of the oil lamp, the outline of the humanoid on the hospital bed is almost indistinguishable, and there is a banyan tree half a meter high on the chest. The twisted and knotted plant roots hang down like tentacles, intertwined with other roots squeezed out from under the clothes, spreading horribly throughout the hospital bed.

   "This is the patient with the longest infection, because we haven't found a patient more... than her. As you can see, she's almost completely vegetative, doesn't think, and doesn't respond to any of our actions."

   Only the slightly undulating chest symbolizes that she is still alive.

  Lu Li's humanity also affects her or the plants that parasitize her. The roots of the plants hanging on the edge of the hospital bed were like the arms of an old man. They lifted up tremblingly and stretched towards Lu Li.

  Before the elongated roots touched Lu Li, the exorcist pulled up the curtain and led them back to the bright and no longer oppressive window.

  Lu Li withdrew his arm from Amin's arms and answered the exorcist's expectation: "I have never seen such a disease."

   "But they will be attracted to you."

   "For some reason, I am more human than others."

   "Humanity..." The exorcist chewed on the word, a term he had heard of not long ago.

He showed similar disappointment as the city lord, and quickly disappeared: "The assistant who ran away said that you are here for other things? In other words, he doesn't have to run, this kind of plague can only be caused by local people and must be touched. infect."

  Lu Li told the exorcist what happened in Luosha Town.

   "Weird believers and missing people...? This is a nuisance, but you are not among the people who have disappeared recently." The exorcist frowned deeply. The silence and the plant disease alone have already devastated them, and one more weird believer...

   "Perhaps the Fallen Fort isn't their target?"

   "My assistants follow them."

   "Where is that assistant now?"

"I have no idea."

   "That's it." The exorcist breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that the situation wasn't as bad as Lu Li said: "Perhaps she just tracked the neighborhood, not necessarily in the fort."

   This is also possible.

   But it means that Lu Li has temporarily lost his clues.

   And it was less than two hours before it got dark.

   "Do you have a pen and paper?" Lu Li asked.

"certainly."

  The exorcist brought a pen and paper, and Lu Li used a pen to draw Aunt Mary's symbol on the paper. The exorcist inquired about the intention and told him that he could directly hand it over to the assistant of the city master, and they would help Lu Li find it.

   Leaving the Exorcist Association, the assistant to the city lord who was waiting at the door agreed to help Lu Li find it.

   "Can we go to the tavern and ask?"

After    parted with the assistant of the mayor, Emin suggested: "Maybe the disappearance happened but the local Exorcist Association didn't find it."

   After the disaster of the night and the plague of plants, the taverns of the Fallen Castle closed one after another. Because the wine is sold out, and because the guests can't afford the high price.

   But as long as the local residents still need the tavern, it will not disappear completely.

  Storm Tavern is one of the three remaining taverns in Thundercastle, and the afternoon is the busiest time of the day.

   "I'm afraid when I think of what happened in the morning..."

  In the corner of the tavern, two drunken guests were talking with inferior ale.

   "Morning? Didn't you have a hangover last night?" The other person waved his hand in disbelief. "All I can think of is that the oil lamp almost went out."

   "That was the day before yesterday! Hiccup...I was in Tawi this morning...saw a group of believers..."

   "What are you doing there?" The companion still didn't believe it.

   "I heard that there is a job there, and the salary is good and not tired."

   "That kind of work is not our buddy's turn." The companion shook his head.

"I thought so too. But you know, I wasn't awake... hiccup, just like now—shut up! Listen to me!" Looking forward.

   "Okay, I'll shut up." The companion said helplessly.

   "I went out to pee, but I couldn't find where the hut was, so I went under the wall. Guess what I heard? I heard two guys in black robes whispering, a big conspiracy!"

   "Yes, yes, you don't have to be so loud." The companion perfunctory him, and apologized to the look at him.

   Let him roar again and they may be blacklisted by the tavern.

   "They are attracting believers, and they want to draw a summoning formation on our burp—our territory. The Thunder Fort is a corner of the summoning formation, and those plagues are the summoning link..."

"and then?"

   "Then...then I finished peeing and left...Cheers."

   Sure enough, he was drunk.

The    companion dissipated the last trace of belief and touched the wine bottle with him.

   "Gudong-gudong-ha... But I went back to the wrong house. Before I found a locked room, I heard a lot of crying inside. I think it must be full of the living sacrifices of those cultists."

   "Then you rescued them and destroyed the church?" the companion asked frivolously.

   "Of course not...are you talking about a drama?" he sneered. "I found the right cabin, but they said I was a brainless drunk who didn't deserve the job and kicked me out."

   An unexpected and reasonable ending, my partner thought.

   But at this moment, a tall man with black hair and black eyes, who seemed to symbolize reason, and a cloaked girl stood in front of them.

   "I am the slayer." said the mysterious man.

The    companion replied nervously: "Uh...my friend is just talking drunk..."

"that's not important."

  The man took out a few hundred shillings and put them on the round table.

   "Speak again, the money is yours."

   (end of this chapter)