Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 887 One hundred and seventy-eight. The rising deep diver

   The drizzle fell like a prelude to a storm.

  The locals like the rain. They walk out of the dark and cramped houses and wander around the rain-shrouded town of Innsmouth, gathering together in twos and threes to pray or sing, as if they are holding a celebration.

   This makes Lu Li, who is wearing a black trench coat and covering his body with a hat and scarf, even more strange.

  Although Lu Li is no longer hostile to the locals, they still attract attention and curiosity.

   Facing the completely opposite look from when he arrived, Lu Li approached the coast where outsiders would never dare to set foot.

   A paved road demarcates the boundary between the residential area and the port.

  There are very few residents here. Except for the workers in the processing factory, most of the townspeople will not be close to the bay, so respect to keep them away.

   Passing the coastal processing factory, Lu Li saw hundreds of pounds of fish in the fishing net on the wooden pole waiting to be processed into food. When he continued to go deeper, the local guard at the gate stopped him and told him that there was a gold processing factory in front of him, and outsiders could not enter.

  Lu Li left the processing factory and approached the center of the revival festival tonight, the port square.

   Relief stone columns like another civilization stand on the edge of the wooden plaza. The blasphemous, half-fish, half-frog creature that Lu Li had seen on the indescribable pattern was vivid and terrifying. If you ignore the sinking power of reliefs, you may be able to see them as exquisite works of art that carry history.

   Looking at the edge of the plaza near the bay, you can see the sloping wooden planks extending into the sea incomprehensibly, as if a visitor from the bottom of the sea will land on the land.

  The townspeople who crowded around the square did not prohibit Lu Li from approaching, and even invited him to pray with them.

  Lu Li asked some questions, and the enthusiastic townspeople knew everything and got answers that were similar to the priest's answer. It's just that whenever Lu Li mentioned the sealed house, these townspeople would keep silent.

   is not an attitude of fear or treatment of sacrifices, but a complex emotion.

  Attention Qianluli left the square and headed north of the town.

  Zadok Allen was still snoring against the stone wall, and Lu Li woke him up.

   "Where is the small town kerosene stored."

"what……"

  Zadok Allen pulled his eyes out of focus, and the rich wine smell permeated.

  Loli removes hat and scarf.

   Zadok Allen's drunkenness faded away, his scarlet eyes tightened like an enemy's Lu Li: "Even an outsider can—"

   "Where is the small town kerosene stored?" Lu Li asked again.

   Zadok Allen, who resents everything here, is the only person in this town who will not betray Lu Li, even the old man cannot guarantee it.

"you want……"

  Zadok Allen froze his resentment, shook his crazy head suddenly, and let chaos regain his mind: "I won't tell you, I can't betray..."

   "Shop?"

   "No kerosene...they can't burp, we're all using fish oil..."

  The mad Zadok Allen said drunkenly.

"Where."

   “…factory by the bay…”

   Zadok Allen muttered vague words and fell back asleep, only this time, an indescribable sense of unease enveloped him.

   Inquired about where the fish oil was stored, and Lu Li returned to the town port.

  The chimneys of the processing factories along the coast no longer emit black smoke. As evening approaches, the whole town of Innsmouth is preparing for the revival festival, which is only twice a year.

   This gave Lu Li the opportunity to sneak into the fish processing factory.

  The main door was locked with iron chains, but the window was still open, and Lu Li turned into the dim factory along the open window.

   A rich flower-like fragrance permeates the interior of the processing plant, and Lu Li knows that this smell is the fishy smell before cognitive distortion.

   Untreated fish piles, processed fish piles in processing plants, they should have attracted swarms of flies and maggots.

   Sticky, wet ticks and clatters echoed in the void.

  Lu Li walked past these "flower clusters", looking for barrels and cans of fish oil.

   did not hide the weird and twisted limbs, nor did it suppress the terrifying whispers, leaving aside the fact that it was in the small town of Innsmouth, this was an ordinary fish and meat processing factory.

   Soon, Lu Li found five barrels of fish oil on the edge of the gate.

   It's a bit less flammable than kerosene, but nearly a thousand pounds of fish oil is enough to burn wooden buildings by the bay.

   It’s just that Lu Li will face deep divers from the bottom of the sea, and the flames may only be able to hinder them weakly——

  The fish meat processing factory is upstream of the port square. Lu Li does not have to work hard to move them around the square and hide them, as long as the fish oil can flow to the square when needed.

   Anyway, hope there is no chance to use them.

   He found the key to the chain again, restored everything to its original state, and Lu Li quit the fish processing factory.

   The sky began to get dark, and the dark clouds were like rough sea waves.

  The brazier in the port square dispelled the darkness, and the townspeople of the distant town gathered towards the square like stars.

   The revival day ritual is about to begin.

  Lu Li quietly joined the townspeople and went to the square with them. And before that. He tucked the torn strips of cloth into his ears to prevent what was about to distort his consciousness.

   This didn't help at all. When a priest wearing a tall golden crown came to the hundreds of townspeople and prayed in unison, Lu Li couldn't restrain his desire to pray with them.

  Lu Li grasped the slender key, took it out of his pocket and put it next to his ear.

   He took a deep breath and pierced his ear canal.

   The world on the left quickly pulled away from his ear, Lu Li followed the same method and pierced the eardrum of the right ear, the world returned to loneliness.

   The desire to follow the priest's prayer was quickly suppressed by the expanding world of reason and loneliness.

   In the silence, Lu Li silently looked for Katarina's silhouette in the crowd.

The    prayer continued for more than ten minutes, and until the end, Lu Li still hadn't found Katerina.

  The priest with a strange beauty led the priest to shout, and a dozen sacrifices were brought to the square.

  These were young women in their teens and twenties, dressed in fine and naked attire, and were escorted by Dagon esoteric followers to the side of the relief stone pillar and tied to it.

   There is still no Katarina in it.

  Looking at the silent world, Lu Li frowned slightly.

   The sacrifices that were as enthusiastic as the townspeople made Lu Li give up his plans to go to the fish processing factory, and continued to watch silently.

  The priest, the priest, the townspeople and the sacrifice raised their arms and shouted the same language frequently, repeatedly and continuously.

   Lu Li suddenly looked at the sea, and in a trance, something rose from the deep seabed.

   All beings glimpsed a picture at the same time, where countless deep divers held terrifying prayers between majestic colonnades and underwater palaces.

  In the surging waves, silhouettes emerged, they stepped on the planks extending into the bay and surfaced.

   They have grey-green smooth skin, bulging eyes that never sleep, and babble and bark-like language.

  When the surrounding townspeople were prostrating to the ground, Lu Li's black eyes focused on one of the deep divers.

   The trophy hanging on its waist is a black bee sting, and the apocalypse book.

   They should have been on Katarina.

   (end of this chapter)