Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 832 One Hundred Twenty Three. Twisted, Vine Church

   Put away the notebook left by the night watchman, Lu Li pushed open the carved wooden door of the dark passage.

  The damp and swollen wooden door rattled like a saw, revealing a dark passage leading to the real library.

  The night watchman "Matthew" guarded this place, and Lu Li and the others walked along the cold and safe damp dark passage.

   "What do we do after we go up?"

   asked Prius at the trouser leg.

   "What?" Katerina bowed her head.

   "What if we find the Church of the Twisted Vine, will they communicate with us?"

   "I don't know..." Katarina's eyes fell on Lu Li's back.

   Approaching an unknown church is not a good idea.

   But there is no better way.

   The only fortunate is that Lu Li, who lost his humanity and returned to ordinary people, should not arouse the covetedness of the church.

   The secret passage of the investigator base is longer than the mayor's secret passage in Wiener Freeze Harbor. It is incomprehensible that such a passage is repaired only to lead to the library.

  The stone steps extending upwards emerge from the edge of the oil lamp,

   Stepping up the steps to the top floor, they saw the quaint wooden door with a heavy sense of history.

  Because it is far away from the coastline, its corrosion condition is much better, and it is as beautiful as a work of art.

  Lu Li leaned close to the wooden door and listened, the other side was silent.

  The quaint wooden door rubbed against the door and slowly opened a gap, the smell of the diluted firewood burning smoke.

   The use of fire is one of the characteristics of human beings.

   Maybe the Church of the Twisted Vine is not as bad as you think.

   even better—

   The neatly stretched bookshelves are full of books. Everything remains the same as it was 24 years ago. The dampness fades away when you step into the real library. The burning smoke rising from the high windows keeps the library always dry.

  The Church of Twisted Vines is protecting the books here.

   "So many books..."

  Purse's throat squeezed out the sound irrepressible.

   There is always someone cleaning up here. Faded but dust-free floors, tall windows clearly revealing cloud cover.

   In addition to the gate, the real library has several secret passages.

   But thinking that the twisted vines might be able to communicate, Lu Li did not leave the dark passage, but pushed open the library door.

   A gathering place surrounded by layers of wooden planks like a fortress emerges behind the gate.

   A silhouette shrouded in black robes stood beside the door, gradually lowering.

   "Almighty Father told me to wait here for your arrival, please come with me."

   The cultists who had already known Lu Li's arrival walked ahead.

   "Who is that, where are you taking us."

   Although things were full of weirdness, Lu Li still followed behind.

   There are many survivors in the gathering place of the Church of the Twisted Vine. They wore sackcloth and were busy working or planting. Not only people, aliens with growing organs, aliens with changing body shapes, and even monstrous, they live harmoniously in the gathering place.

  Puseus loves this scene, it reminds him of the old sewers.

   "Our leader; the beacon of direction; the flame that shelters us, He knows your coming, He wants to see you."

  Cultists lead them out of the real library. The gathering place is very large, and several nearby blocks are integrated together. Those houses were flattened and turned into manure to form a wall around the gathering place. The unsightly shacks are like slums scattered throughout the gathering place.

   He was in a building like a withered giant tree, and the brazier was burning, driving away the darkness and cold. An old silhouette sat in a wooden chair, its body wrinkled like tree bark.

  A certain invisible influence was exerted on them, staring at the outline in the seat, as if staring at an old banyan tree.

  Cultists exit the building.

   He sat on the stump seat and silently watched Lu Li.

   Lu Li cast his eyes back, as if recalling something.

   "You...you know we're coming?"

   Katarina broke the silence that lasted a few minutes.

   "This is one of the things I care about in my eternal life. I stay in the ruins not only because I was born here."

   A slow and heavy whisper sounded slowly, making his image closer to the ancient tree. He nodded lightly towards Lu Li, as if he knew him. .

   "Long time no see, Mr. Lu Li."

   "Is it twenty-four years or twenty-four trillion years." Lu Li also recognized him.

When the    detective agency still existed, the man who asked him for help because of a long dream, the Eternal Dreamer.

  Eternal Dreamer seems to be smiling.

"I have seen civilizations like ant nests from building to collapse, and I have seen the earth being given life to civilization. Dragons and rockets flying into the sky, planets born to destruction; gods whose tentacles are as huge as galaxies; more than the universe The vast and magnificent existence unfolds its body..."

   "Calculating time only makes time longer, so I stopped caring about the passage of time a long time ago..."

   "...It's not ready yet?" Lu Li asked after a brief silence.

   "It's okay, or... I'm used to it."

  Eternal Dreamer seemed to see Lu Li's thoughts and said slowly.

   "It's not that hard... Nearly eternal life is indeed a painful ordeal, but after learning to forget, the only thing that tormented me was the pain of those times."

"I can not understand……"

   Katarina frowned. She guessed that the old man on the stump lived a long time, but did not understand the sentence itself.

   "Mr. Lu Li will tell you the answer." Eternal Dreamer just said.

  Lu Li answered Katarina for the Dreamer: "You have experienced 100 million years, and the long 100 million years is a kind of pain, but when the experience is over, forgetting what happened during this time will also make you forget the pain."

   This is the reason why the Eternal Dreamer hasn't gone mad, or... he was mad, but he was awakened by a long time.

   "Eternal life is a curse, everything should have its end." The Ever Dreamer whispered.

   "You knew we would come?" Lu Li continued to ask.

   "Certainly. A glimpse into the future is just a little bit of a long life."

   "A glimpse into the future..." Katarina repeated with a frown.

   "For example, Twisted Vine is two churches, on either side of the library. You will come to us first, not the other side."

   So the believers are waiting for them at the gate of the real library.

  Eternal Dreamer's answer made Katerina flattered: "You mean two churches?"

   "The Twisted Church and the Vine Church. We are the Vine."

   "So...you know our purpose, right?" Katarina continued to ask.

   "Where is Anna." Lu Li asked more directly.

   It’s just that the Ever Dreamer didn’t plan to give the answer directly, he just replied: “Let the rest of the church tell you. Go to the Twisted Church on the other side of the library, they know the answer you want… There are also people you are familiar with.”

   "You can read those books at any time." The Ever Dreamer looked at Pusius and said kindly, and then looked at Katerina with an old-fashioned cunning: "I will keep your secrets."

   "Can't you tell me." Lu Li asked.

   "The future will be changed by knowing the answer in advance. All I can say is—"

  Eternal Dreamer's deep and wise eyes returned to Lu Li and spoke softly.

   "That's not a bad ending."

   (end of this chapter)