Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 722 Thirteen. More Questions

  Lulu closed Sean's notes.

   He was quietly thinking about the message inside.

  Although there are still tiny other possibilities, such as everything is a near-death vision - from the moment of falling into the abyss, or being killed by a mang ghost.

   But it is more likely that Lu Li is still alive, and the time is now twenty-four years later.

   On Friday after waking up for the first time, he said that half a year or a year had passed, and Lu Li fell asleep twenty-three times in total.

   "Can the road to the refuge lead to the outside?"

   Putting the diary in his pocket, Lu Li turned around and sat on the wooden chair sideways and asked the woman.

   "Of course, I was fine when I came..." The woman looked at Lu Li suspiciously, wondering why he asked that.

   "Where is outside?"

   "...the ground?" the woman answered tentatively.

   "The Ellen Peninsula, the Lord's Continent, is still a barren land."

   "The dark fields of the Badlands."

  Lu Li rummaged through his memory, but couldn't find the area that the woman said. Either she's lying, or it's a place name that was born later.

   "Do you know where the people in the shelter went?"

   "He was picked up by the townspeople."

   "City people?"

   "That's someone who lives in the city." Even worried that Lu Li wouldn't understand, the woman separated the words and told Lu Li.

   Lu Li is clear, combined with the woman's acerbic sarcasm before saying "the upper class people from the city", what she said about the city people and his understanding of the city people are different.

   He put the question on hold for the time being, and kept asking it would only increase the number of questions.

   First solve the doubts in your heart, and then go to understand what the outside world looks like.

   And the woman went from impatient and mocking at first to cooperating with every question - she seemed to be trying to confirm something.

  Lu Li doesn't care.

   "What is the weirdness that penetrates deep sea rocks?"

   "Mantis ghosts, some people call them mantis people."

   "Why can it pass through the deep sea stone?"

   "The Sealing Stone? It's not working." The woman didn't realize how shocking the casual answer was: "Since a big guy emerged from the sea, these stones that can block monsters are useless.

   "Otherwise the cowards of the sanctuary would not dare to leave their homes."

   She added mockingly, then carefully observed Lu Li's expression, as if confirming whether he was a refugee.

   But she only saw peace in Lu Li's haggard face.

   "What's your name?" the woman asked proactively.

"Land from."

   "Lu Li? Strange name, you can call me Katerina." The woman tried her best to associate this name with the residents of the shelter.

   But as far as she knew, none of the inhabitants of the Vault had such a strange name, and neither did the xenomorphs, whose names were long and tongue-in-cheek, very strange, either made up of vowels or had no vowels.

  Lu Li looked at her calmly: "You care about my identity very much."

   "There are some, the residents of the shelter are hot outside." Katarina didn't intend to hide her purpose, and stared at Lu Li fervently, waiting for him to give the answer she hoped.

   "I'm not a shelter resident." Lu Li shook his head gently.

   "Really?" Katarina doubted. "If you dare to speak of amnesia, you will lose the trust of my "Bee Sting" Katarina."

   She specially reminded Lu Li: "Trust is very important on the ground. If you hadn't saved me, I wouldn't have told you so much."

   "Really, but not the current person either."

   "'Not the current person'?"

  Lu Li calmly told her the truth: "For some reason, I stayed underground for a long time."

"how long?"

   "Twenty-four years."

   Katerina who got the answer was just like Lu Li knew that twenty-four years had passed from the ground not long ago, and was silent for a long time, accompanied by a hissing breath.

   Lu Li, who told the truth, made Katerina in disbelief.

   "How could it be possible... How old were you twenty-four years ago? Ten or fifteen?"

   Katarina looked at Lu Li, who was almost as dirty as herself. The stubble looked very embarrassed, and the trimmed hair seemed to give some credibility to this statement.

   "For some reason, my timescale may only be over twenty-four days." Lu Li said.

  The woman didn't understand what a time scale was, but she understood the sentence twenty-four days: "So you thought twenty-four days passed, but it's actually twenty-four years?"

"Um."

  Katerina seemed to be able to accept this answer, her chest shrank, and she exhaled the cool air she had inhaled earlier: "I don't know whether to call you lucky or unlucky... So, are you a purebred human?"

   "Pure human?" Lu Li asked rhetorically.

   Katarina temporarily pulled out the homologue from the sole of her foot, inserted it into her eyeball, stood up with the black awn between her pupils, lifted her shirt, and tore down her trouser waist, revealing the shriveled belly that highlighted her ilium.

   There is also a round sarcoma in the lower abdomen.

   Katarina stretched out her hand to peel off the sarcoid, or... eyelid, revealing an eyeball that seemed to be sleeping, with a twitching pupil.

   "Have you seen it? All the living people in the world are polluted by weirdness. Only having children with pure human beings will reduce the pollution. If it is pure human beings and pure human beings, they will also give birth to pure human beings."

   Putting down her shirt, Katerina retreated to the bedside and sat down, pulling out the homolog in her eyeballs and continuing to stab the soles of her feet.

   "If you're pure human, you're as lucky as the Vault Dweller, if not, you're just as unlucky as I am. Your identity is worthless."

   "Because of what pollution?"

  Lu Li was still recalling the sleeping eyeball growing on his abdomen.

"It's all because of anything." Katerina shrugged and replied indifferently: "Contaminated food, too little sanity, belief in evil gods, copulation with aliens, using homologous things too many times, going to places that shouldn't go, being A powerful and strange imprint, from blood..."

   "What will happen if the pollution deepens."

   "Not so much. Become alien or weird, or go to town and sell yourself."

   "Sell?"

   "It is to sign a contract with the mayor of the city, in exchange for a fortune and a ghost-killing collar, and then go and fight the monsters around the town until you are killed or become a monster and get killed by the ghost-killing collar."

   "So you better be a pure human."

   "Will the fate of those shelter residents be bad?" Lu Li asked.

"Bad? Not at all." Katerina was looking at a lunatic: "Why do you think so? Safe and warm house, no need to deal with monsters in the wilderness, no need to do anything by yourself, clean and delicious food, clear water, and arranged spouses, it's almost like...like..."

The word    came to his mouth, but Katarina had no idea what that word was.

   "Like a pig." Lu Li said.

   "—like a princess. Pig? A bit ugly but it seems good." Katarina didn't think "pig" was a derogatory connotation at all.

   "So who were you before, civilian?"

  Lu Li looked down at his chest, his slayer badge had long been lost.

   But that doesn't change his identity.

   "I am the exorcist."

   (end of this chapter)