Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 712 Three. Surging Undercurrent

   "There is no point in living for the sake of living."

  Lu Li turned the grilled fish on the fire to the other side.

   "I like that about you." Friday threw a fourth fish at random, and returned to the fire with the water stains on his hands. "Always say something philosophical."

   "Did it impress you?"

  Lu Li put the three grilled fish aside, picked up the last fish he caught, and cut it open.

   "No." Friday put his hands against the fire to keep warm. "Observe your surroundings, where can you leave?"

   The **** fish viscera was thrown into the dark river. Lu Li took the sea fish and put it into the icy river to wash it clean, and returned to the fire with dripping water.

   "Dark River."

   "Only fish and boats can go upstream, we can't." Friday picked up the three fish grills next to it and put them on the fire.

   Nothing has changed from the harsh reality: they are trapped in underground rock formations.

   Luli skewered the fish, took the three grilled fish handed over on Friday, and put them on the fire together. The river water dripped from the fish tail into the fire, and it sounded sizzling.

   The greenish-grey skin of the fish gradually turns the color of the food as it bakes.

  While grilling the fish, Lu Li observes the rushing river on the edge of the rock.

   They swept under the wall, as if squeezed out of the smooth-edged rock. But infiltrating water can't form such turbulent currents, they have upstream.

   And Lu Li tried to find a way to go upstream.

  The tuna was grilled first, it was not cooked yet, but I wanted to eat less cooked on Friday.

   squeezed the grilled fish, reached into the shadow under the cloak, and soon came the sound of chewing.

   Ordinary human eating sound.

   "Hiccup—"

  Friday threw the fishbone and branches into the fire: "I'm full, the rest is yours."

  Lu Li silently waited for them to be fully cooked, then removed them from the fire to eat.

  Three grilled fish made my tired body recover a lot. After eating, Lu Li began to prepare for leaving the cave in the rock formation.

   "My suggestion is to wait for a while." Friday seemed to see Lu Li's thoughts. "You want to drag your dying body and jump into the swift and cold dark river?"

   She simply moved Lu Li.

   The Doomsday Apocalypse increased Lu Li's endurance, but it didn't mean the injury didn't exist.

  Lu Li now needs to rest.

   "I'm very lucky, I won't let us starve to death." Friday said as if to reassure Lu Li.

   This obviously solves the biggest problem with voids in rock formations.

   Tired and surging, Lu Li went back to his coat to rest and sleep.

   When he slowly woke up, Lu Li saw Friday with his back to the fire, with a simple fishing rod made of branches in his hand fishing by the fast dark river.

Beside   , there are sea fish of similar size that cannot be determined whether they were caught or caught.

   Lu Li, who woke up briefly, ate several grilled fish, and then fell asleep again.

   He always felt sleepy and slept long enough, but it was difficult to tell whether he slept for six hours or twelve hours.

   You can only use the number of times to calculate the elapsed time.

   Between waking up for the third time, Lu Li checked the wound and the evil spirit broadcast. The mechanical parts inside it seemed to be damaged due to water seepage and could not work properly. At least Lu Li didn't hear it again.

   And the former has scabbed.

   After eating, Lu Li fell asleep.

  Sleep becomes a large part of terrestrial life in subterranean rock formations.

When    woke up for the sixth time, he stopped fishing on Friday, leaned on the rock wall and quietly flipped through the book he caught, with the dead fish beside him.

  The dried book becomes fluffy and wrinkled, but does not affect reading.

  Waking up for the tenth time, Friday seemed tired of the repeated grilled fish, and the food was replaced by a young cow or the hind leg of a sheep.

   When he woke up for the fifteenth time, the food was changed back to sea fish, but this time there was a new kitchen utensil in the hollow of the rock formation, a cooking pot.

  Lu Li said that fish and salt alone cannot make food delicious. She didn't believe it on Friday, but she didn't eat a single bite after the fish was cooked, and caught some spice when Lu Li woke up for the sixteenth time.

   When he woke up for the twentieth time, the scabs of the wound had fallen off. The questioning eyes fell on Friday, she motioned Lu Li to take a look.

   untied the bandage wrapped around his chest, and the ugly new tender meat was like a spider, clinging to his chest ugly.

   Lu Li reached out and touched it, there was only a hollow under the flesh without the support of the sternum, like a skinned war drum.

   Anyway, the wound is healed, and the next step is to leave yourself.

   "I'm going into the water to see." Lu Li said to Friday, rewinding the bandage to protect the wound.

   "I'll stay and be responsible for catching you up when you're about to be washed away."

   After getting the answer he wanted, Lu Li began to move his body.

   "We're in the depths of the earth where the evil spirits can't reach, and it's okay without light," added Friday.

   A minute later, Lu Li took off his shoes, sat down on the bank, stretched his legs into the icy-cold rushing dark river, and supported the bank to slide down.

  The dark river is shallower than expected, and when the soles of the feet touch the bottom, the water does not reach the chest. But it is wider, and there is a large dark space under the rock walls on both sides.

   Hollows in rock formations are like islands in dark rivers.

   Accustomed to the feeling of difficulty breathing due to the cold, Lu Li took a deep breath, sank into the dark river, and moved upstream with the help of the narrow rock wall.

   On the first attempt, Lu Li walked less than five meters away before being washed back by the current.

  Climbed on the "isolated island", Lu Li sat by the fire to warm up, and analyzed the information he found: the rock wall structure is inclined upward, and the **** is close to the streets of Belfast.

  If the structure of the dark river behind does not change, and the rock layer is ten meters above the ground, Lu Li can surface before running out of breath. The rock formation was twenty meters above the ground, and Lu Li could surface before drowning. If the rock formation is thirty meters above the ground...that's no different from a few hundred meters above the ground.

   His lung capacity and stamina could not last until then.

  Lu Li has no reckless and broken. After waking up the next few times, he repeatedly explored, the furthest one was about 10 meters away, and the most dangerous one was disorientation. If he hadn't seen the fire on the shore in the dark, he would have missed the island along the undercurrent without knowing it until he ran out of breath.

   Woke up for the twenty-third time.

   It may be early morning on the ground, or it may be late at night.

  Lu Li boiled a pot of hot broth, sprinkled with salt and pepper, a pinch of sugar, added carrots and broccoli when the meat was about to boil, and put it in an empty can.

   "I hope you can find your way to the ground today." Friday raised a can full of broth and handed it to Lu Li like clinking glasses.

  Lu Li raised the can and touched Friday.

  After a bowl of heart-warming broth, Lu Li sank into the dark river and went upstream along the road he had walked a dozen times.

   The raging river pulled him back, and the freezing cold took away his body heat.

  Lu Li moved forward step by step, his pace unwavering.

   One minute later, Lu Li walked out more than ten meters, but from this point on, the upper and lower rock walls began to shrink inwards.

  The dark river becomes narrower, harder to navigate...and more desperate.

   Maybe not far ahead, the rock wall will close into a narrow opening of only a few centimeters.

   (end of this chapter)