Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 619 One Hundred Ninety Six

  Lu Li stretched out his hand towards her back, but Doreen, who was facing away from him, looked like a soft-bodied creature, dodging with a deformed and twisted posture.

  Anna also reached out her invisible hand to grab Doreen's back at this moment, but just as she was about to touch it, it was like a snowflake falling on the chimney, quietly melting.

   "My power has been suppressed..." Anna frowned.

   "You stay here."

   said Lu Li, pushing through the chaotic crowd and chasing after Doreen.

   "Mom! Mom, where are you—" The cries that sounded were barely audible in the screams of the people.

  Lu Li saw a little boy standing helplessly by the wall, and was almost hit by a running figure several times. He walked over and picked up the little boy, found the woman who was looking for the child, handed it back, and continued to run to the fork in the road.

  Those mad citizens completely tore down the wooden boards blocking the fork, smashed the exorcist's obstruction, and rushed into the fork in a crowd like wild beasts.

   The two exorcists struggled to get up, saw Doreen approaching, and wanted to stop her. Doreen, who was approaching, suddenly burst out that didn't suit her agility...

"pass it to me."

   Lu Li chased after him, leaving a message to the two hesitant exorcists to chase into the fork in the road.

   The darkness instantly wrapped him, Lu Li took out his flashlight and turned it on, using the faint light to distinguish the distance from the sound of footsteps ahead.

   Doreen was getting farther and farther away from him, and the running sounds of the citizens who had rushed into the fork had disappeared.

  Plop—

  The sound of Doreen falling suddenly came from the depths of the dark fork in the road. The excavation of the fork road is obviously unfinished, and the uneven ground is obviously not easy to walk.

   But it wasn't the fork in the road that caused Doreen to fall. She tripped over the suitcase that blended in with the color of the rock wall, and the gold coins inside were scattered.

   The whereabouts of the previous city lord are obvious.

  Lu Li caught up with Doreen who was climbing up. She fell in front of the abyss at the end of the fork in the road. The fall seemed to restore her senses and stopped running. But he stood there strangely, not caring about the scratches on his body.

   Doreen hung her head down, her face hidden behind shadows and strands of hair.

  When Lu Li took a step forward, she slowly raised her arm and pointed it towards the wall beside her.

   The dim light fell on the uneven rock face, revealing Doreen's shadow...it wasn't a shadow.

The    shadow was completely etched into the rock formation, oddly identical to Doreen's stature.

  Loli moved the flashlight and found more human-shaped shadows around the shadows on the rock wall.

  A series of figures stand in the rock wall, some are far away, some are very close, their silhouettes appear on the rock wall, as if quietly observing Lu Li standing between them.

   Doreen's slowly lowering arm drew Lu Li's attention back to her.

   "This is my end..."

   Doreen said softly, stepping back, one foot fell on the abyss, and the other stepped out——

  The young and fragile life disappeared in front of Lu Li's eyes in an instant.

  Darkness and silence enveloped Lu Li from all directions, and vaguely, Lu Li seemed to hear some kind of calling from the abyss that engulfed Doreen and the citizens.

   Lu Li ignored the call and stepped back. The human-shaped shadows on both sides of the rock walls occasionally jumped into view, and he suddenly realized in his heart that these shadows might belong to the citizens who jumped into the bottomless abyss.

   Maybe because Lu Li's will is strong enough, maybe because human nature resists temptation, maybe there is no shadow of him on the wall... Lu Li walked out of the fork in safety.

   Greeting Anna's worried gaze, Lu Li shook his head slightly.

   The chaos under the dark passage has been appeased, and the sudden accident is estimated to have reached the ears of the city lord Valentine. But at this time, unless no one can pass the fork, it is impossible to stop.

  The panicked staff asked Lu Li's opinion and rushed back against the wall.

  The two exorcists barely blocked the road, and the evacuation plan continued. However, the shadow of the fleeting disappearance of more than two dozen people has always shrouded people. Citizens who pass by the fork in the road will involuntarily cling to the wall and go far around it. Parents will cover their children's eyes to avoid seeing horrible things that they shouldn't see.

   Following the crowd, Lu Li and Anna moved further and further away from the fork until they could no longer see them.

  Lu Li told Anna about the weirdness that happened in the fork in the road. After speaking, he thought of the bottomless abyss where the barren land engulfed dozens of exorcists. Did they, like Doreen, discover their fate on the wall?

   Doreen's experience is like she said at the end, it's her end. It seems that it is not the ghost in the nightmare that haunts her, but herself, her destiny...

   In any case, Lu Li failed to fulfill Dom's request, and his sister was finally found by the shadow and buried in the bottomless abyss in the dark passage.

   Thirty minutes later, Anna Lu arrived at the exit at the other end of the dark passage.

  Darkness shrouded the land again.

  Lu Li and Anna left the team, watching Lund huddled in the dark night with their backs to them, and walked into the corridor that stretched straight to the end of the line of sight.

   On both sides of the promenade, a bonfire is lit at intervals. Used to bring light and disperse dandelions.

   For most citizens, they are lucky. Until there was an hour before dawn, the support of St. Andrews came, and the strange did not bother the migrating long dragon.

  Lu Li and Anna didn't meet the exorcists, and after learning of their arrival, they prepared to return to Flalend City.

   But before leaving, Lu Li saw Dom evacuating.

   He seemed to completely ignore the outside world, and he didn't find Lu Li and Anna not far away. He lost his sister like a corpse, and followed the crowd numbly in the last darkness before dawn.

  Lu Li and Anna flew back to Flalund from the ground. The city lord Valentine was surprised by their return, then remembered Lu Li and Anna's original purpose and asked, "Do you need help?"

   "We will solve it." Lu Li said.

   "An undisturbed bedroom and food," Anna added.

   From the Ellen King City incident three days ago to now, Lu Li has only slept for a few hours.

"certainly."

   Valentine said, have the waiter take them back to the guest room and prepare a hearty meal.

   Lu Li was really sleepy, and he fell asleep before the food was delivered.

   When he woke up again, Anna was sitting in a wooden chair by the fireplace, with cold food on the dining table, and there was no sound other than the crackling in the fireplace.

  Lu Li looked out the window, still as dark as when they came back in the early morning.

   "What time is it."

   "It's almost evening."

   Lu Li slept all day.

   got out of bed and walked to the window, there was not a single figure in the cluttered square outside the window, only the black smoke with the possibility of extinguishing the fire and rising.

  The dandelion fog completely enveloped the dead city.

  Ana came from behind and handed Lu Li a map that marked the location of the Flarlend Sanatorium.

   "The last Valentine left an hour ago, and now we are the only ones left in the city."

   (end of this chapter)