Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 859 One hundred and fifty. Gunshots sounded, blood splashed, who shot who

"Always?"

The    head stone statue seems to be lit with a shimmer, dispelling the gray fog that shrouded it.

"Always……"

"Where is she?"

   Or, who is she...

   "Your companions, they are all..."

   With the whispering of the surging gray fog, Lu Li fell into memory.

"When you climbed out of the ground, you met Katarina in an abandoned shelter. Why did she appear at that time by coincidence? Why did she save you then? Still trusting you and telling you about the new world? After no longer worrying about survival, you choose with you?"

   "That's her company..."

   "Longing for the outside world, liking your human nature, and secretly leaving the eldest sister of Ghost Town with you, it sounds reasonable... But its 'mother' didn't show up and didn't stop it. Is this really reasonable?"

   "That's her curiosity..."

   "Prius, a little guy who is still innocent in the old sewers full of filth and sin... Do you believe it? A xenogeneic, a place surrounded by weirdness."

   "That's her innocence..."

"Ophelia, who was hiding in the basement of the ruined library, she stayed there for twenty-four years and left because of your arrival. But can there really be resentful spirits that can last twenty-four years without being invaded by the inner world? She is Wraiths, not ghosts."

   "That was her fiery love..."

"Perhaps even your escape has something to do with her? The underground rock formation is like a mother's womb, and the turbulent undercurrent that wraps it is like amniotic fluid that brings nutrients. When you soak in the river, traverse the narrow pass with difficulty, and come to the outside world, it is like a newborn baby... "

  The statue of the head shimmered.

   "She's by your side and never leaves you..."

  Lu Li left from the memory, his black eyes were quiet and silent: "Do you know my memory?"

   "There are no secrets in the gray fog..."

   "So you can weave lies too."

After the    words rang out, the surrounding gray fog suddenly thickened, gradually covering the tarnished head stone statue.

  Lu Li took a few steps forward, and the statue of the head disappeared without a trace. There was a note on the ground where it originally existed.

   Bends down to pick it up, and a line of motto floats over it.

  【Beautiful falsehood and cruel truth are not difficult to choose - people will choose the former. And only those who are parallel with reason and wisdom can choose the truth]

  This is a test?

   The scene in front of him made Lu Li think of the "Test of the Old Ones". Picking up the note, he moved on.

  The temperature in the gray fog approached a constant temperature, and Lu Li, who was wearing several layers of clothes, began to feel stuffy and took off his clothes, leaving only his shirt and coat.

   Continue to walk forward for a while, the second stone statue appears in the gray fog.

   "You passed the test, intelligent life from another world..." it said.

  Lu Li didn't respond, he observed the head stone statue and the rough ground around it: "This is the second test?"

   "The test is over, I don't believe you can leave..."

  Lu Li lowered his eyes and thought, then bypassed the stone statue and continued forward.

The stone statue behind    was gradually engulfed by the gray fog, and a second note appeared in front of Lu Li.

  【Persistence and hesitation will bring about three results. Good, bad, neither good nor bad. We usually don't expect good things, we just hope that things don't go bad. But what drives us forward is persistence, not hesitation]

  Lu Li's departure is the correct answer.

   Moving forward again, a third stone statue emerged shortly after.

   "This is the third test, a question..."

The stone statue of    lit up, no longer concealing its own purpose: "The gray fog will give those who step in everything they want. Wisdom life, what do you desire? Strength, immortality, wisdom, or wealth?"

   "An answer." Lu Li said. "Anna's Whereabouts"

   "These can be done. Strength will make you stronger against danger; immortality will make time meaningless to you; wisdom will lead you to the truth; wealth will make you hire anyone to do things for you, including weirdness."

   "What's the price?"

   "Fate has secretly marked the price for everything, and what you need to pay will be revealed in the future."

  Lu Li was no longer talking to the stone statue for nothing, he asked directly, "Whatever, tell me the way to find Anna."

   "This is what you want?"

"Yes."

The    head stone statues, like the first two stone statues, disappeared into the gray fog, leaving a note in place.

  【Don't lose your nature - but who can say that the lost nature is not the real nature? A man who covets wealth is lost in wealth, perhaps his nature is to gain more wealth]

   Put away the third note, Lu Li continued to move forward.

  The ground is gradually leveling, and it is no longer mud mixed with sand and gravel blocks. After walking a distance in the quiet gray fog, Lu Li saw a figure of a contemplative figure who seemed to be thinking.

   "I'm Socrates, the lord of the world, it's a pleasure to meet you, a man of wisdom..."

   The gray fog echoed its words.

   It continued before Luli left the exit.

   "The shard you're looking for is in your pocket..."

   Lu Li paused for a while, and touched his pocket with his palm. He took a dagger-like piece of stone from the pocket that should have kept three notes.

   "Despite its loss of power, Yuwei can still allow it to dispel the insignificant pollution that remains on the earth..." said the image of the contemplative who called himself Socrates.

  The incomplete stone flake with weight in his palm told Lu Li that his touch was real, and an indescribable strange force was flowing on the surface of the stone flake.

   It directly gave Lu Li what he was looking for.

   "Thank you, I'll be back when I'm done."

  Lu Li put the stone piece back in his pocket.

   "It's an unowned thing, and now it's yours..." Socrates gave it to Lu Li.

   "What do I have to pay?" Lu Li asked.

   "No need for anything..."

   "Fate has secretly marked a price for everything." Lu Li repeated what the other party said during the third test.

   "But what is precious in your eyes is worth nothing to me, and vice versa..." Socrates just replied.

   Lu Li frowned, he didn't like this vagueness of the price: "Be specific."

   "You have paid part of it, the rest will be paid in the future..."

   This ambiguity is reminiscent of a prophet. Lu Li wanted to know the specifics, but Socrates didn't seem to plan to tell him.

   At least not now.

   "Where are the others."

   Having obtained the purpose of this trip, Lu Li turned to ask.

   "They're stuck in the first test. You'll meet them on the way back..."

  The "Socrates" encountered by Lu Li is different from the description of the guardian, and it is also different from the investigation by the exorcist in the old days.

   It is impossible to know whether this change is good or bad.

   But like the proverb from the test, hesitation doesn’t make things worse or better.

  Lu Li said goodbye to Socrates, turned around and returned the same way.

   Leaving was not hindered. Behind Lu Li, the surging gray fog gradually engulfed the stone statue of the contemplative, leaving only whispers resounding in the gray fog space.

   "You will come again..."

   "You still need this..."

   (end of this chapter)