Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 615 One hundred and ninety-two. Looking for her shadow

"Some dandelions are in the dark passage, they should have got in through the entrance... But the problem is not them, it's the exorcist who found a blocked fork in the dark passage." .

"The blocked fork road has been broken open, and the traces are very new, probably left by the former city lord who escaped. The problem is that people close to there will not help but want to walk into the fork, those exorcists wake up first and drag the scavenger back , they said strangely that the sanity counter didn't respond..."

  Assistant to the city master didn't know what these represented, so he could only tell Lu Li all the information.

   "Sounds like..." Anna remembered something that made her feel like she had heard it before.

   unknowingly walks in; the sanity counter doesn't ring; stronger willpower can resist attraction.

   "The bottomless abyss." Lu Li said.

   The abort and grave consequences of the events of the Abyss were still fresh in his memory: Thirty-two investigators died, including one legendary. Seventeen retired investigators, including one legendary.

   But it should be somewhere in the barren land, should not appear in the Lord's Continent... just some kind of coincidence?

   "What happened to those people."

   "They're all back, except for one scavenger who terrified everyone else."

   "Take us to see." Lu Li put on his coat.

   There are two dark passages. One leads from the master bedroom to under the garden fountain, and the other leads from the fountain to somewhere outside the city.

   When they came to the garden, the exorcist, also dressed, gathered with the scavenger. The fountain at the entrance to the back passage was completely dug up and exposed to the outside world.

   A short figure walked towards Lu Li and the others, and a weak girl's voice came from inside: "Brother."

   "Doreen? Why did you come here?" Dom was stunned, he just wanted to go back and wake up his sister later.

   "Brother, I had that dream again..." Doreen's voice contained fear.

   "It's closer to you?" Dom's expression became disturbed.

   The beak mask nodded: "It's looking for me... It's already very close to me..."

  Dom suppressed his unease, barely pulled the corner of his mouth and said to Lu Li, "Mr. Lu Li, Miss Anna, can I deal with some personal matters first?"

  Lu Li quietly glanced at Doreen, and walked to the tunnel entrance with Anna.

   The exorcists who remained in Flalend City consisted of a part of the night watchman and exorcists, and there were no investigators—there should have been, but they, like most of the citizens, failed to react when the dandelion came over. Only a handful of night watchmen and exorcists survived.

   Even so, there were only six exorcists standing in front of Lu Li, which was already half of the existing exorcists in Flalund.

They told Lu Li what happened in the tunnel, and the temptation the scavengers felt: "It was as if something was calling me in... It was a feeling I had never felt before, I couldn't describe it... It was like... like... A mother's warm love."

  Associating weirdness with family sounds weird, but it also makes the fork in the road full of indescribable weirdness.

   And those with stronger willpower, such as the exorcist, can only feel the call, with no additional lure.

   "My opinion is, let someone with strong willpower block the fork in the road again, and after exploring the dark passage, stay there to prevent the citizens from destroying the wall again."

   No one objected. They are not exploratory investigators, and it is more important to evacuate the citizens first than to explore.

   How to know if the will is strong is simple: most exorcists have this talent. Or choose some people to approach, and pass the level without being lured by the call from the depths of the fork.

  Lu Li returned to the Dom brothers and sisters not far away, and told Dom the arrangement, and he would pass it on to the city lord Valentine.

  The assistant of the city lord hesitated for a few times, turned his head to look at his sister, gritted his teeth and said, "My sister Doreen may be entangled by a strange... Can you help her?"

   Lu Li didn't answer, and turned his head to look at Anna.

   "I didn't feel any weird aura on her." Anna replied indifferently.

   "It's not reality...it's a dream." Dom explained quickly. "Sister, tell me."

   Wearing a beak mask, Doreen nodded lightly and spoke weakly.

   She suffered from narcolepsy two months ago - a condition in which she is always so sleepy that she falls asleep unconsciously.

  Fortunately, Dom became the assistant to the city lord before his sister fell ill, and the salary was enough for Doreen to see a doctor, albeit with little effect.

   Of course, they also searched for the exorcist, but Doreen's dreams were mostly disordered and chaotic content that would be forgotten within tens of minutes of waking up, and nothing came of it.

  Doreen had to recuperate at home as instructed by the psychiatrist.

The    change appeared a few days ago, when Doreen woke up from a sleep in the afternoon. This was the first time she voluntarily woke up. Usually only calls and ringtones could bring her back to reality from her deep sleep.

This time, the dream was different from before. She remembered the process clearly, as if it had actually happened: in the dream, Doreen woke up at home, walked to the window, and saw a dark shadow like ink that was darker than darkness on the street in the distance. Walk around, looking for something.

   For some reason, Doreen realized that the figure was looking for herself. At this moment, the dark black image in the distance noticed something and turned her head. Doreen hurriedly avoided the window, fear and heartbeat awakened her.

  Doreen sees it only as an occasional ominous nightmare, after all, everyone has nightmares.

   Until the second time she dreamed of this scene.

   The same as the previous time, Doreen woke up in the bedroom. She got out of the bed and went to the window, and saw the dark shadow appearing on the street closer than the last time.

   She hurriedly pulled up the curtains, climbed onto the bed, and tried desperately to wake herself up.

   "I was by her side at the time... She pinched her nose and almost suffocated herself." Dom said distressedly.

   This time, no one took it as a normal nightmare - although the nightmares also continued, the sudden change of the cheerful Doreen to narcolepsy was an incomprehensible strange condition in itself.

   has now become haggard, and the introverted Doreen makes Dom feel distressed. He continues to take Doreen to see a doctor, but this time he has changed from a doctor to an exorcist.

   Disappointingly, there was still no result, the exorcists couldn't find the source of Doreen's nightmare, the sanity counter never sounded, and the contamination source's congener didn't work either. That usually means just two things: that it was a pure, coherent nightmare; and that Doreen was not being haunted by the normal sense of weirdness—not all weirdness could be detected.

   Brothers and sisters all hoped for the former, it was just a bad nightmare.

   And just now, Doreen briefly fell asleep due to narcolepsy——

   "I woke up from the dream, looked at the window subconsciously, and then...then I saw that dark shadow standing outside the window, staring at me..."

   Doreen's thin body was shaking.

   "It found me."

   (end of this chapter)