Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 807 Ninety-eight. First Contact

The meaning of    flowing does not describe the softness of a cat. The weight it carries is also more precious than the words themselves.

  The existence of pagan beliefs in the small town of Vig is him, and most of the residents of the town are his pan-believers.

   "A god?"

   Katarina looked at the silhouette and murmured. She has no special affection for cats, but compared to the various gods in the barren land, a cat will not make people too fearful.

   She suddenly looked at Lu Li, and he rarely showed memories and thoughts.

"What’s wrong with you?"

   "I remembered something." Lu Li said calmly, breaking away from his memories.

   "You know this black cat?"

   The store manager casts an unwelcome look at Katarina, who offends her faith.

"Maybe."

  Looking at the silhouette painting, Lu Li remembered the black cat that he and Anna brought back to Haiya after Ms. Merlin died.

  The Jimmy Remy brothers and sisters, Ampere, the statue, and even the mother of the swamp, Lu Li also found their whereabouts after the underground escape, but they all disappeared like Anna.

The    clue will surprise him on that black cat.

   But Anna really likes cats...

   "Maybe the customer has seen it elsewhere. Black cats are not uncommon." The store manager smiled disapprovingly, ignoring Katerina's offensive words. "By the way, don't hurt them in any way in the mountains."

   "The Cat of Hillevigg?" Katarina asked rhetorically.

   "Yes, it seems that the guests know better."

  Most of the guests who come here only know not to hurt the cat without knowing its source.

but……

   The manager looked at the group of people behind the counter vaguely.

   The general tourist group would not be so strange, nor would they need a map, something that was only used after leaving the town.

   Luli unfolded the sheepskin map, dust wafting from the light of the oil lamps in the old grocery store. He found the small town of Nice on the southwestern edge of the mountains, and was calculating the distance from here.

  Caterina originated from the hunter's habit of casually talking to the store manager to conceal her true purpose.

   "Is the train broken?"

  Outside the window, outside the group of cats surrounded by layers, at the end of the street where they came, the steam train was slowly moving on the rails, and the distance was less than one car at this time.

   "It's always like that. Trains get hot as they go over the railroad, and they like to put their hands on something warm. They have to keep moving while driving them away."

  The manager is already used to this scene.

"How much."

  Lu Li folded a sackcloth-like parchment map.

   "Add this 10 shillings." The store manager put a new map of Hillelvig Mountains on the counter.

   "Not worth the price." Katarina said.

   "That share, maybe this is the only one in town." The store manager pouted at the parchment map in Lu Li's hand.

   "I still have some questions." Lu Li said.

   "Of course, you are the guests." The store manager is not like the Golden Tooth Hades or the merchant, and the information is also charged.

   "Why is the town of Nice abandoned?"

   "Because of the weirdness everywhere."

  The town of Nice has no hidden secrets, but like most towns in the Weird Age, it was forced to migrate due to its location and size. And it has had a slightly better fate than its peers—most of the town's inhabitants were lucky enough to relocate elsewhere.

   There were some people who escaped at that time in the town of Vig.

   After asking if there were any residents of the old Nice town that he could visit, the store manager gave a few names, indicating that Lu Li could go to them with a small fee.

  Lu Li then asked about the location of the church. The store manager is wary of foreigners: "Why do you know this?"

   "I want to know about the Flowing Cat." Lu Li replied.

   After thinking about it, the manager still can't tell this line of strangers, and he doesn't know much.

   "You can go to Lame Byrne, he knows a lot and may tell you."

   That is a devout believer of the Flowing Cat. Not a church member yet, but know a lot about the church and stray cats.

   "Do you want to leave through the back door?" After paying for the goods, the store manager pointed to the group of cats outside the window to Lu Li and others who were about to leave. "It may not be easy to go straight out."

   "Thank you." Lu Li nodded lightly.

   Leaving from the back, there is only a grey cat dozing lazily on the lid of the trash can. But when Lu Li passed by, it raised its head unexpectedly and was attracted by Lu Li's breath.

   He hesitated to get up and keep up with Zhonglu Li and they disappeared around the corner.

   It's not too long before it gets dark, and it's too late to reach the deserted town of Nice on the Wuli Mountain Road, and it's not necessary to go there--

   Get a few names you can inquire about, maybe you can get clues from them.

   "I have a good idea if I want to find the stray cat." Evil Fall's every sentence concealed a hidden malice.

"what."

   "Kill a cat to lead it out."

  Lu Li was silent, Katerina sarcastically: "Do you have the confidence to deal with a god?"

   They first went to visit the former residents of the small town of Nice. One of the old people was sitting on a bench in the street.

  Although the mountains wither, etc. are still rare scenery.

   Before the feral cats came around again, they followed the old man into his house.

   "The relationship between Hillewig's cat and the Floating Cat?" The slow-paced old man sat down on the hardwood chair, looked at the shilling on the table, and said happily, "That is indeed His incarnation."

   For the sake of Shilling and the elderly who are always used to telling the past, the elderly will tell them everything they know.

  The story of Hillewig’s cat is the same as the one told by the passenger on the Snow Moon cruise ship, but this time from the perspective of a witness, with more detail and clarity.

   And after that, Hillevigg's cat gradually became known as the stray cat. He remained in the Hillelvig Mountains, was believed in, and appears from time to time until now.

   He is sometimes surrounded by the stars of the wild cats, sometimes sitting on the top of a tree, sometimes staying on the roof, and being accidentally seen by lucky people.

   "Did you know him?"

   Leaving the old man's hut, Katerina asked Lu Li in a low voice.

"Maybe."

   "Whatever it is."

   "Because I can't be sure." Lu Li retracted his gaze towards the eaves.

   Next they went to visit the devout, the lame Bourne.

  It's a pity that Lame Byrne only knows the story of the stray cat - the deified Hillevigg's cat. He preached a lot of stories about the stray cat protecting the townspeople, but none of them were what Lu Li wanted to hear.

  Lu Li calmly looked out the window, the outside world was dark, there were no street lights in the town, only the light from the windows of the houses.

   The flowing cat may be the black cat.

   It followed Anna.

  Anna can feel her breath and know her arrival.

   But she didn't show up.

Meow--

   Suddenly, a cat meowing from the heart sounded.

   Lame Byrne closed his mouth and looked out of the house with the others.

  Squeak-

  The door opened slowly as if being pushed by an invisible hand.

   A slender black cat squatted in the middle of the road.

   "It's the silhouette... it's the cat that's flowing." Prius muttered to himself in disbelief.

   He squatted and seemed to be waiting for Lu Li to walk out of the house and step into the dark fog that filled the street.

   (end of this chapter)