Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 834 One Hundred and Twenty Five. Library Ruin Incident

   "If you know the clue to Maiden's Shadow, if I can do it."

   Amid the anxiety of Purseus and the vigilance of Katarina, Lu Li answered calmly.

"There is a collection of books hidden under the ruins of the Belfast library, and a wraith with power close to the evil spirit guards it. Only after completing her test can you enter the basement and take the books and herself. Passing the test allows us to enter Get those books back.

   "Approach the guardian of the evil spirits." Lu Li repeated in a low voice, as if asking rhetorically.

Saint Elena leaned back into her seat: "I know what you're thinking. Don't worry, she's just asking questions, and it won't hurt you whether you fail or succeed, unless you offend her. I don't think you'll be that way. made."

   "Has no one else been successful."

   "Then you don't need to do it."

   Saint Elena's low laughter echoed in the church.

   "They are not suitable for storing knowledge in their heads, after all, some don't even have heads."

   Facing the devaluation of the superior, the believers around him guiltily curled up the tentacles on the edge of the robe.

   "I want to know more news and test content."

   "Take him... What's your name?" The saint who waved her hand to instruct the believers to remember that she didn't know the man's name.

"Land from."

   "Take Lu Li and his companions to the ruins and let those losers tell him what to do."

  The cultists were short, wriggling tentacles led them away from the church.

  The church hall was quiet and empty, except for the figure in the throne-like seat. Fluorescent eyes fell on the church, as if staring at the gods in the world.

  …

  Belfast Library Basement.

   Lu Li has been there.

  The newcomer needed books to understand the world, so he went to investigate, and escaped from there because of encountering a ghost in the basement.

   Lu Li was not sure whether the resentful spirit that was guarding there was the one that had encountered it, but there should be no coincidence that two resentful spirits appeared in the ruins.

   Take out a notebook from the inside pocket of the coat. It appeared to have fallen into the water, and after drying the paper was wrinkled like a leaf that had lost its moisture.

   Lu Li's notes have been kept in the drawer of the refuge desk.

  The dampness of Wanghai Cliff corrodes everything, and it is no exception. Fortunately, the damp and swollen drawers blocked the gaps, but the notes did not turn into rotten paper due to corrosion.

   After taking it out and drying it, it does not affect reading except for the deformed appearance and adhesion to many pages.

  Lu Li turned to the page where the previous investigation results were written.

  Number: ofTum-1

  Form: A humanoid ghost with a charred appearance

  Level: Wraith (undetermined)

  During his lifetime: Name was Ophelia Green; 29 years old; 1.75 meters tall; Belfast library employee; orphan, adopted by Miller Green (Miller Green died three years ago);

Personality: Often feeds nearby stray animals; will buy some food to send to the orphanage when getting paid; occasionally go to Kaiser's Tavern at night (one of the Sailor Taverns in Rodster Harbor, female-to-tavern, with male performances every night dance); a neighbor has seen her buying books like "My Love History with Baron Joseph", "Queen Catherine and Her Boys"; Mrs. Miller would rather live in the library than go home after her death; would please Neighbors introduced young men; often had blind dates with young men, but it was unsuccessful, and once beat the other man because it made her feel sick.

   Location: Ruins of Tulip Street Library

   "Have you seen the real body of that resentful spirit?"

   "Scorched..." A flood of vague words came from under the wriggling black robe.

   is probably still it.

   "What do you want the book to do?" Lu Li continued to ask.

   "Watering the fields..."

  Luli looked at the farmland reclaimed in the open space in the northwest corner, where there was only a piece of black fertile soil and no crops were grown.

   "The real library has enough books."

   "The more books, the better..." The believer's answer was still brief.

  The houses near the edge of the gathering place, the believers who live here cast their gazes, facing Lu Li, or the believers beside Lu Li, and saluting slightly.

  The tentacled cultists came to the gate of the fortress of the gathering place, and uttered a language that made them smell the rotting mud.

   "shumofur."

  The pagans of different heights and shorts in black robes approached silently, and the gate of the gathering place slowly opened.

   A wide, empty street leads straight into the distance.

   "shumofur..."

  Perseus, who followed Lu Li closely, couldn't help but imitated in a low voice. A strange wave suddenly surged in its hyena's body, with a strong sea smell.

  Purse suddenly felt itchy ass, turned his head, and saw a wiggling tentacle emerging from the base of his tail, like a bald, dysplastic second tail.

   "kiofunur..."

   A large pagan whispered, and the smell of the sea was like being next to a school of rotting fish.

   "It says it can become a new believer." Christians translate for it.

   "I...I don't want to..."

  Puseus shrank his "two" tails and said fearfully.

  The big pagan loses interest in Prius.

   "How can I make it disappear..." Pusius asked with a weeping voice. An extra ugly tail on the supple tawny fur made it uneasy and ugly.

   "This is the gift of his gaze," said the Tentacles.

   means unable to disappear.

   "This teaches us not to be curious about things, and not to talk nonsense." Katerina gloated, without malice.

   "Are there any side effects?" Lu Li asked.

   "breath."

  Ambiguous words, they walked out of the gathering place.

  The pagans who followed escorted them on both sides, the streets were empty and deserted, and the feeling was uneasy and strange. No weirdness dared to appear, or the surrounding area of ​​the gathering place had already been cleaned up.

  The ruins of the library are only one block away from the gathering place. They soon came to the ruins, the pungent burnt smell looming.

The    ruins had been burnt to the ground twenty-four years ago, and all they could smell was the aura of the resentful spirits.

   As we approached the collapsed corridor, the burnt smell became intense.

   At the end of the corridor, the iron door leading to the basement was closed.

  Under the gazes of the pagans and Caterina Pusius, Lu Li carried the oil lamp and stepped into the door in the darkness.

   After a while, Lu Li walked out calmly, followed by a charred black figure.

   He passed the test.

  It is unbelievable that everything went well, as the Ever Dreamers said, they will have a happy ending.

   On the way home, another figure came back to the gathering place, the coke figure followed Lu Li and entered the church with them again.

  Clap clap clap——

  The church reverberated with the applause of Saint Elena, who looked down at Lu Li under the hall with approval: "I know you are responsible for this matter, and you have done a good job. Then the second thing—"

   "It's time for you to tell me the clue of the girl's shadow." Lu Li frowned and interrupted her.

   "Of course, that's part of the convention..."

   Saint Elena said softly.

   "But I didn't say there was only one."

   (end of this chapter)