Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 858 One hundred and forty-nine. Then they started fighting with each other, and the chairs were smashed to pieces

  The smoke from the chimney melts into the snowstorm night.

  The fireplace, buried in wet mud, was silent again.

   "Don't make a fire, it's too noticeable."

   Luli conveyed Ophelia's reminder to Luli, who was covering the windows with wooden boards removed from the wardrobe and table and chairs.

   Are they outsiders or a group of humans. It's not wise to have a high profile in a city occupied by weirdness.

   "But the clothes and boots are soaking wet, and it's more troublesome to find a way to deal with the illness." Katerina looked at Ophelia: "It would be great if Ophelia could dry them."

   "Only... Lu Li's... can." Ophelia was firm on this point.

  Katerina looked at the busy Lu Li again: "Or do you ask Anthony to take away the wet clothes to dry and bring them back?"

   "A merchant is not a servant who does these things."

   said Lu Li, who was peeking out of the window with a wooden plank.

   "So no?"

"Can."

   blocked the last window in the living room, and Lu Li blocked the remaining furniture up the stairs leading upstairs.

  They certainly can't stop the weirdness, but they can warn you when the weirdness is approaching.

   "...10 investigation points."

   It seems that businessmen can only express their protest in this way.

   "Button it from Lu Li." Katarina took off her jacket and put her hands behind her back to untie the leather armor.

   If it was a month ago, someone offered 100 shillings to wash her clothes, she would have stuffed that person's mouth in his ass.

   But now it's different, how could the only exorcist be short of money, not to mention that Lu Li has a wealth that can't be compared to all mankind combined——

  Lu Li did not let the businessman go to "dry a pile of wet clothes and bring them back" like a servant, but only let him bring a few new clothes.

  The businessman walked out the door, Lu Li picked up the oil lamp and followed behind.

   "Where are you going?" Katerina asked.

   "Look at the footprints disappearing."

  The turbulent wind and snow pushed against the wooden door and poured into the living room through the open gap. It seemed that even the light of oil lamps and fluorite had become dim.

   The blizzard ravaged the streets, snow piled up in the corners, and the footsteps of the group had long since disappeared.

   Waiting for the merchant Anthony to go out, Lu Li closed the wooden door and hung the latch. Anthony the businessman came back in a few minutes and opened the door for him again.

   "Lu Li, help me take off my armor," Katerina said.

   Her left hand is twisted, making it difficult to reach the joint of the leather armor.

  The heat wave came from behind, and Ophelia came to help her untie the leather armor.

"Thanks."

   calmly took off the last layer of intimate clothing, Katerina wiped her body with the blanket, carefully past the eyes on her abdomen, and put on dry clothes.

   "That's... what?" Ophelia asked, staring at the eyes that pierced out of the skin.

   "My pollution." Katerina put on a dress to cover the distortion.

  Without a fireplace, there is no way to cook food, so the cans are simply heated by Ophelia's side.

   On the snowy night when the blizzard whistled, everyone after dinner fell asleep again, leaving behind Ophelia and a book brought back by the merchant Anthony from the ice-free port of Wiener.

   Books are one of the few psychological comforts for spirits who do not need to rest and eat.

  Perhaps the only thing that kept her from being polluted into an evil spirit by the inner world was to close herself and those books.

  Katarina and Physius didn't sleep well. In addition to the hypothermia caused by prolonged hypothermia, the blizzard outside the dangerous house in Rielstein City made it difficult to sleep well.

  The tiles and planks slapped the walls, like an uninvited guest knocking on the door. The half-asleep lasted for several hours before Katerina fell asleep in the middle of the night, while Prius ran to Ophelia to read a book with him after waking up.

  …

  Call——

  In the early morning, Katarina slowly woke up.

   opened his eyes, the gap between the wood-blocked windows was shimmering, and the sky was already bright.

  Puseus fell asleep beside the oil lamp, Lu Li was buttoning up his shirt sleeves, everything was peaceful.

   Katarina was very happy to see the light of the morning and her companions.

  woo...

  Purse's whimper suddenly called her attention.

   Lying on his side, Renmin, with anxiety and fear, waved his limbs as if he was fleeing from something.

   Ophelia patted him awake, and the terrified Purse gasped heavily.

   "Nightmare again?" Katarina sat up and put on the slipped blanket.

"Um……"

  Puseus sweated profusely from his wet hair.

   Lu Li asked and looked at Ophelia.

   "No... pestering him," Ophelia replied.

   "I'm fine...Mr. Lu Li." Perseus got up weakly, turning his head and shaking his hair.

   looked away from Purseus, and the merchant Anthony took out the can and handed it to Ophelia to prepare dinner.

  The cold wind blows outside the window, and the blizzard is still raging on the earth, but it is no longer the horror of last night.

   Waiting for the time around Ophelia's cans to heat up, they quietly listened to Lu Li to arrange the next plan.

  The undiscovered fortresses built around the excavations by previous generations meant they had difficulty getting there. And the gray fog may have already filled the entire excavation site.

  This means that no matter what, they must step into the gray fog and come into contact with the existence in the gray fog and the lord named Socrates.

  If the lord has not changed.

   "Wait until the gray fog."

  Lu Li paused for a while, and looked around with his calm black eyes: "I entered the gray fog, you stay outside."

   "No...don't think about it." Katerina shook her head.

   "You and I... go in," Ophelia said.

   "The lord's rank will not be lower than the evil god." Lu Li replied.

   Katerina's resistance was more intense than she imagined: "Maybe we're not as smart or sober as you, but don't underestimate our experience of survival."

   No one backed down at this point.

   After breakfast, everyone put on their bloated clothes and cloaks and left the hut.

  Relstein City gradually disappeared in the wind and snow behind him, maybe the destination was just ahead, maybe it was no longer against the wind, or it had nothing to do with them - the gray fog was spreading outwards.

  The blizzard gradually weakened in the afternoon, and the small people in the white awn land could see the hazy distance, the dividing line between white and gray.

   Pauses slightly in front of the eerie pervasive gray fog, and then steps into it.

   They came for this.

  The whistling snowstorm from the outside is gone as you step into the gray fog.

   "Let's get closer and don't get separated-"

  Purse's low voice stopped abruptly, he turned his head in panic, but there was only a surging gray fog around him...

  …

  Lu Li calmly looked into the depths of the gray fog.

   He felt something waiting for him in the depths of the gray fog.

   Someone else might be experiencing the same thing?

   Stepping on the gravel, Lu Li walked to the depths of this barren excavation field filled with gray fog.

  Broken stones, broken iron picks, they lie on the only road of Luli and gradually become complete. Complete stones, intact iron picks, vague outlines of stone statues, iron picks piled beside—

   And at the end of the road, a stone statue of a head carved to the height of a man stands quietly.

   "The lost person looking for the answer..."

   The whisper of the stone statue rang around.

   "What's confusing you...?"

   "I'm looking for someone, her name is Anna." Lu Li felt the stone statue staring at him. Its hair is attached to its whiskers, like tentacles that accumulate on its lower jaw.

"why……"

   The whispers surrounding the gray fog were suspicious.

   "She's always by your side..."

   (end of this chapter)