Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 685 Two hundred sixty-two

   The next morning, on the eve of his departure, Lu Li saw many townspeople surrounding a house.

  According to them, the poor inhabitants of this household encountered strange things last night, and no one survived.

   And this is the fourteenth day in a row that Tavi has been dead.

   There are no traces of weirdness left at the scene. Considering the time of silence last night, they may have died of the Third Calamity, or the Calamity of Night and the Strange Fog.

   To replenish some supplies, they traveled east in a carriage.

  The distance between the Thunder Fort and the Rotary City is almost equal to the length of the Ellen Peninsula, and there is a vast lake like an inland sea in the middle.

  Light Mirror Lake, where the glaciers on the world's Ridgeback Mountains melt into water, where they converge into a droplet-like shape.

   Either go around it or cross the lake from the ferry.

   It would take too long to get around it, so Lu Li and Amin came to the ferry to get through by boat.

   "It can't pass."

   The most experienced boatman pointed to the carriage behind Lu Li. "It can't hold it, and the messenger of Light Mirror Lake will not allow it to go up."

The    ferry only has wooden boats that can hold up to eight passengers.

   "The owner of Mirror Lake?" Emin asked in confusion.

   "They are the masters of this lake. So remember and respect them." The boatman reminded as if a devout believer.

   Lu Li tilted his head to look at Amin: "Ask the locals."

  Emin left briefly to ask the others on the ferry. Come back soon and tell Lu Li about the situation of Jingjing Lake.

   A kind of underwater soul called the First Death Demon occupies this place. They have the power to drag people into illusions and occasionally attack passengers on passing ships.

  The boatman they selected seemed to believe in these first-dead demons, and his boat was indeed safer than other boats in the ferry.

   There were many people who wanted to pass the ferry at noon, and the wooden boat quickly gathered eight people.

   Leaving the carriage behind, Lu Li and Amin sat in the stern of the wooden boat. After the other passengers got on the boat, the boatman pushed the wood pulp and left the shore.

  The mirror-like calm ripples on the lake, and the clear lake water can be seen a few meters underwater, but the bottom of the lake is still invisible. This unknown makes some first-time wooden boaters terrified.

   But the world's back mountains in the distance are reflected in the clear lake water, and some wooden boats are dotted on the lake. This magnificent scenery dispels some fears.

  The boatman rowed the oars, and told the passengers behind him what he needed to pay attention to with the piety of a believer: for example, the messenger did not like to look at it, so be grateful.

   Scraping away the content with obvious meanings of religion and praise, we can strip out the true information of the first-death demon: the first-death demon is similar in shape to a human, and swims like a jellyfish. They roam the Lake of Mirrors of Light, using hallucinations to lure crew members into crashing.

  Don't touch the water; don't drop things; don't stare at the bottom of the lake for a long time; don't believe in any hallucinations; and "be in awe" for now.

   They use hallucinations as power and may indeed feel the human mind.

   Otherwise, why do boatmen who believe in them become the most experienced ferrymen?

  The wooden boat gradually moved away from the shore, and there was only the sound of passengers' breathing and the rattling of the oars stirring the water.

"what is that……"

   At some point, a young woman looked in horror at the bottom of the lake on the right.

   She just saw a veil-like fabric swimming across the bottom of the lake.

   "That's the esteemed messenger!" The boatman turned his head angrily and yelled at her for her stupid behavior: "Take your filthy eyes away from the pure lake!"

  The young woman closed her eyes in panic, and the passengers who turned their heads to look around also became honest, and the atmosphere became frozen.

  Lu Li thought that the boatman would throw the young woman who offended the "messenger" into the lake in exchange for the forgiveness of the first-dead demon - believers can do anything.

   But surprisingly, the boatman just whispered a few prayers and continued to row the oars away from the waters.

The    crisis appears to be over. But even the people on board were breathing slowly.

   Lu Li's palm suddenly slipped into a soft and warm palm. Emin looked at him and took out the sensory alarm clock in the pocket of the cloak, the needle on it was spinning out of control.

   This usually represents two possibilities: It senses the strange smell but cannot locate it.

   Or weirdness is everywhere.

  Lu Li looked away and stared at the lake outside the wooden boat.

   Terrifyingly, the veil-like silhouette of a humanoid is like a dense school of fish, gathering at no time and wandering around the wooden boat.

   "Why so many... Messengers, you—"

   A trembling voice sounded from the bow of the boat, and the fisherman who also noticed this scene cried out in fear and stopped abruptly.

   "No! My child please don't leave me—"

   With a shrill cry, the fisherman rushed out of the wooden boat and crashed into the lake.

   The first-dead demons wandering on the water surface surged up, entangling the fisherman into the bottomless depths of the lake.

   "We take over the wooden boat."

  Lu Li immediately stood up, stepped towards the bow, and said at the same time, "Everyone, close your eyes. Don't believe every word you see and hear next."

   But it was of little use, and the passengers had been caught in fear, screaming in confusion.

   It wasn't just this boat that screamed, other boats on the lake echoed the screams.

   The first-dead demon is no longer "docile" for some reason, and is attacking the humans on the Lake of Light Mirror.

   grabbed the oars, and Lu Li paddled to the other side.

   Attacks without a body are the most powerless. Because it's impossible to tell the difference between true and false.

  Perhaps Lu Li was still sitting in the stern of the boat at the moment, waving his hands as if he was holding an oar. But soon Lu Li found that he was still awake because he felt an illusion: the sound of the busy street.

   These familiar voices are not clear, like being blocked by water.

   Luli's illusions have been weakened.

  Suddenly, a cracking sound came from the back of Lu Li's head. A young man waved the oil lamp fiercely and smashed it into the back of Lu Li's head.

boom!

With a muffled sound, the young man with a grim expression fell into the lake, revealing Emin who was holding a suitcase behind him.

  The young man who was about to fall into the water was swarmed by the first-dead demon.

  Lu Li silently looked back. Except for himself and Emin, all the other passengers were caught in the hallucinations, talking into the air, or jumping into the lake shouting.

   "Never mind...watch out for them, the hallucinations might make them attack us."

  Emin came to Lu Li's back to block the attack that might come behind him. "You row, I protect you."

   Lu Li nodded and picked up the paddle again.

   But at this time, a clear, glass-like crisp sound passed through the noisy and chaotic wooden boat and got into Lu Li's ears.

   knock knock --

  Lu Li lowered his eyes and looked towards the side of the boat where the sound of knocking was heard.

   A fair and delicate face emerged under the water.

"Land from……"

   The white dress fluttered softly, and Anna watched Lu Li weakly underwater. Her hands were on the surface of the lake, but as if there was an ice barrier, she couldn't get out of the water.

   "I'm trapped below, help me...pull me up...please..."

  Lu Li looked at her quietly, still showing no emotion.

   But the hand that was about to hold the oars moved away, and reached out to Anna who was underwater.

   (end of this chapter)