Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 10 Ten. Possessed by Evil Spirits

   "Mr. Exorcist! Mr. Exorcist—"

   Tolkien shouted and chased after him, stopping Lu Li in front of the living room.

   "400 shillings! Please help my son."

  Lu Li stopped and said with a serious expression: "Mr. Tolkien, the ghost possessed by Henry is very powerful. I can't solve it. I suggest you entrust a more powerful exorcist."

  Tolkien begged bitterly: "But I don't have that much money...500 shillings! 500 shillings Mr. Exorcist, please save Henry..."

  Lu Li did not intend to take risks. Bypass Tolkien and plan to leave. At this moment, a feeling of being pryed appeared in his heart, and he turned his head subconsciously.

   In the corridor, at the door of Henry's room, a shadow retracted into the door, and the corner of his clothes disappeared.

  “…?”

   Lu centrifuge in micro-motion.

   "Mr. Exorcist?" Tolkien revealed a surprise, he thought Lu Li had changed his mind.

   This is indeed the case, Lu Li pondered slightly and said, "I can give it a try, but it's not guaranteed to work."

   "Then please!"

Accompanied by    Tolkien, Lu Li returned to Henry's room.

   The figure lying on the bed was motionless, as if Lu Li just saw the figure just an illusion. Henry's pale lips wriggled, as if he was meditating on something, which coincided with the whispers echoing in the air.

  “Henry…Henry…”

   Tolkien softly called his younger son's name, but the latter didn't respond, and his godless eyes fell on the ceiling.

  Lu Li didn't enter the room rashly, he stood at the door, his eyes swept over every corner of the room little by little.

  He found the source of the whispers, a prayer-like whisper coming from the cabinet at the foot of the bed.

   took a deep breath and exhaled the dirty breath, and Lu Li walked into the room under Tolkien's worried gaze.

  Lu Li walked to the cabinet at the foot of the bed, paying some attention to the figure on the bed, part of the cabinet where the whispers came out, and the last part of his attention to the curtained window.

   Once any supernatural phenomenon occurs, Lu Li will not hesitate to jump out of the window to escape.

   But until Lu Li stood in the cabinet, Henry did not show any vision to Lu Li, the intruder.

   The whispering voice became clear, and when he crouched down with Lu Li, the voice suddenly amplified, and it almost echoed in his ears.

  In the deepest part of the cabinet, a white linen cloth covers something, where the source of the sound is. After hesitating for a few seconds, Lu Li raised his hand into the cabinet and lifted a corner of the white cloth.

   Lu Li was able to spy on the object's true appearance, and the whispers in his ears seemed to be coming from a dark forest, exuding a disturbing viciousness.

   The black thread on the top of the item looked like the tentacles of some unknown creature, and the angular dark brown shape spread odiously, opening an abyss-like, terrifying gap in the middle of the item.

   It was a tube radio that was broadcasting.

  Kelsace Cathedral channel, every day at noon, current affairs broadcast the Mass prayer in the church.

it is as expected…

  Lu Li put down the white cloth, covered the radio again, stood up and opened the drawer.

   Some envelopes lay quietly in the drawer.

   "Mr. Exorcist?"

   Tolkien at the door asked in a low voice, he didn't understand Lu Li's series of actions.

   "I have to first understand the reason why Henry was possessed by a ghost, whether he was possessed through some medium or directly."

  Lu Li picked up the stack of envelopes and landed on the bed from the corner of his eye.

   A line of sight was looking at him calmly from the bed.

   "Mr. Tolkien, has Henry shown anything unusual recently, such as..." Lu Li casually opened one of the envelopes and unfolded the letter. Lines of fonts are graceful, and Henry's name is mixed with a confidant of admiration.

   "...whether you have a close relationship with the opposite sex."

   Tolkien was stunned for a moment, thinking of something, but before he could speak, a hysterical frenzied laughter suddenly sounded in the room.

   "You are all going to die! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!"

  Henry laughed sharply, his eyes rolled up into the penetrating white eyes, twitching like epilepsy on the bed.

   "Mr. Exorcist! My son... my son is him!" Tolkien was shocked and asked Lu Li for help.

   "I see." Lu Li closed the drawer, but did not put back the stack of envelopes, and said calmly to the door: "Then I'm going to start the exorcism, Mr. Tolkien, please go to the living room and wait."

  Tolkien closed the door worriedly and left, Lu Li waited silently for more than ten seconds, until Henry's convulsions subsided, and then said, "Tell me, why do you pretend to be possessed by a ghost."

The voice of    fell, and the room fell into silence.

   "Hehehehe... You will die! You will all die!" Henry grinned and screamed.

  Whoa—

   A stack of envelopes was thrown out by Lu Li and smashed on Henry, one of which happened to be slapped on his face.

   "Because Tolkien disapproved of your relationship with Evelyn?"

   Lu Li's understatement made Henry stop all actions. After a few seconds of silence, Henry took away the envelope on his face: "You... how do you know...?"

   "Tell me the specifics, and maybe I'll be persuaded not to tell your father."

   Henry, who was mad before, looked like a frail boy who just came of age. He hesitated and told Lu Li the reason.

  Henry and Evelyn met at the beach. Like most boys and girls, they were hormonally attracted to each other and fell in love. But trouble also followed. Before Henry could tell his father that he had a girlfriend, his father arranged for a fiancee first.

  Henry is of course unwilling, but Tolkien has always been strong at home, but Henry, the youngest son, naturally has no right to refute. After consulting with Evelyn, he decided to pretend to be possessed by a ghost.

   "Why do you pretend to be possessed by a ghost." Lu Li asked.

   "Then my fiancée might cancel the engagement out of fear..."

"The results of it?"

   "I succeeded!" Henry's pale face showed a hint of joy.

   "But you didn't figure out what to do next, so that Tolkien invited me over."

   Lu Li's words made Henry fall into silence.

   After a while, Henry raised his head and pleaded, "Will you tell my father?"

   "Are you still doing this in the future?" Lu Li asked back.

   "Never again, I swear!"

   "I will keep it a secret." Lu Li replied.

   This result is the best of both worlds. Lu Li got 500 shillings, and Henry got rid of his father's marriage contract.

  Except Tolkien.

   If miserly Tolkien knew that his youngest son had lost 500 shillings by pretending to be a ghost, he might have left him with only one son.

   After the commission was over, Lu Li had no meaning to stay here. After turning off the radio in the cabinet, he turned and walked towards the door.

  The door gradually closed, and Henry, who was on the bed, suddenly had a cold expression—

   The door that was about to be closed was reopened, and Lu Li's figure appeared at the door, leaving and returning.

   "What's the matter, Mr. Exorcist?" Henry raised his head blankly.

"nothing."

   (end of this chapter)