Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 882 One hundred and seventy-three. Xenophobic natives

  The air is filled with a fishy smell that is stronger than that of sea water.

  There are collapsed outer walls and uninhabited dilapidated old houses everywhere outside the town. There was no sign of the inhabitants, and it was as if all the figures overlooking the sea were hiding.

   Ophelia suddenly stopped, and the gaps in her body lit up with a dark red sheen.

   "What... is warning... me."

   As a wraith, Ophelia was excluded from the town, and Lu Li was not affected because he was a human.

   "You wait here."

"Do not……"

   "I need your support when I come out."

  Lu Li checked the items he was carrying. A psychic gun with silvered bullets, a jug and a can, an oil lamp and fluorite, some shillings and a few weird coins, pills, and a sight glass.

"and many more."

   Ophelia murmured hoarsely.

   "I...have something...to tell...you about...Anna."

"what."

   "She... is still alive, right next to you..."

  Lu Li's black eyes were quiet and firm to Ophelia, and the flat, charred face without facial features could not make out any expression.

  Ana sacrificing herself to save him was indeed thought by Lu Li.

   For example, why did Lu Li come back after a long twenty-four years, such as Friday's inexplicable sentence "you will die when you see the wound", such as Socrates saying "she is by your side and never leaves you".

   But like any other possibility, there is no evidence.

   "I can... feel her... feel... hostility towards me, feel... fiery... love."

   "Why tell me now." Lu Li said.

   He thought of the illusion of Ana that frequently appeared after low sanity.

   "I... in your... eyes... can't see... the desire to live..., I don't want... you die in... inside."

   Her sincerity seemed to be felt in the hoarse voice of the howling wind blowing into the cave.

"Believe me……"

  Lu Li didn't say anything, nodded lightly to her, turned and stepped into the gloomy town shrouded in dark clouds.

   As he entered the complete part of the town, Lu Li saw the local residents.

   They are indeed human, but they still have notable anomalous features, such as lack of hair, skin on both sides of the neck with gill-like folds, and a pair of protruding fish-like eyes that never seem to close.

   This trait seems to become more pronounced with age. It is almost invisible in children and young people, but more or less in middle-aged people.

   And the strange thing is that the town is full of children, young people and middle-aged people, no old people.

The appearance of   Lu Li made the townspeople chatter, full of vigilance and hostility to outsiders, as if they were strange beings.

   But to a certain extent, it is quite friendly - after all, this is the domain of the Lord of the Deep Sea, and it is more logical to greet them with a sacrificial ceremony.

   This kind of vigilance made it difficult for Lu Li to approach the locals, and even grocery stores and shops were reluctant to accept them. But there are no suspected pagan or monster servants looking for trouble.

   Passing the empty circular square, they saw a huge pillared church on the corner.

  The paint on the surface of the church has been peeling off for a long time, and the mottled and faded gable wall has the name of the church: Dagon Esotericism.

   Is this the Lord of the Deep Sea?

  Lu Li did feel the nightmarish breath from the deep sea from the darkness in the depths of the church, but the townspeople were indifferent to the dilapidation and primitiveness of the church, as if they did not believe in the gods represented by the church.

   You can vaguely see the dark and nightmarish silhouette. Lu Li didn't stop or watch too much, like a tourist passing by.

   After a few more blocks, Lu Li found a hotel that was obviously not run by locals: the Wayan House.

The   Wayaans were the indigenous people of the Ellen Peninsula, and the shops opened by those locals did not have signs.

   pushed the door and approached the hotel, the figure behind the counter confirmed Lu Li's guess.

   It was an old man, and had none of the abominable features of the natives. He was amazed that Lu Li was an outsider, but allowed him to stay.

  Because there have been no guests for a long time, the first floor of the hotel has been filled with daily clutter, so the old man arranged Lu Li in the bedroom on the second floor.

   A lush fern potted plant is placed in front of the window, facing the bay with waves in the distance, and the light smoke rising from the factory chimney melts into the clouds.

   closed the door, and when the footsteps of the old man down the steps stopped, Lu Li looked away from the dark green broad-leaved fern on the windowsill and took out the monocular.

  Squeak-

The single bed beside    seemed to sink, and the girl asked in a puzzled voice.

   "Why come to such a desolate and festering place?"

   Lu Li stopped when he pulled out the monocular.

   "Do you like her?"

   Sitting on the edge of the bed, the girl who kicked her calf continued to ask.

  Loli pointed the extended monocular to the inlet.

   There are swaying outlines around the dilapidated and rough factories, skin color or clothing like mud mixed with seaweed juice.

   There is a plank-paved square on the edge of the port, standing unrecognizable, what seems to be stone carvings and what seems to be just the outline of a column.

  When Lu Li stared at the square for too long, the sound of the distant ocean waves suddenly resounded close at hand, the house was covered with water-mist-like marks, and the stench and blackness seemed to come from the waterline of the seabed silt infiltrating from the ceiling, wetting the hair and getting into the skin...

   "You didn't speak, it seems that you acquiesced..."

   The lost whisper in his ear made Lu Li return to his senses and moved the monocular.

   He nearly fell into the bewildering twisted madness of the cult here... but was saved by delirium.

   "I just have no intention of communicating with hallucinations."

  Lu Li no longer uses binoculars to spy on the harbour.

   There is obviously something to do with Katarina's whereabouts, but I want to get close and find a way to be immune to pollution.

   Lu Li reached out and touched the cold scalp, but he touched a cold, slippery scale that seemed to be emitting a fishy smell.

   It grows with the scalp as if it were part of the skin.

  Lu Li reached out and took out the pills, poured out a few yellow-brown flattened pills and swallowed them in his mouth.

   At this time, a drug developed by Reiner Pharmaceuticals to suppress the delirium caused by low rationality.

The    pills took effect quickly, and the vision of Anna on the bed disappeared.

   Lu Li reached out and touched his hair, the scale still existed under the black hair.

   is not an illusion, it is not delirium, the scales are the same aberrations as those of Purseus.

   pedal - pedal - pedal.

   There was a slow sound of stepping on a wooden ladder outside the door, and soon after, there was a knock on the door.

  Lu Li put away the medicine bottle, smoothed his black hair, and opened the door.

  The friendly old man brought shortbread and fish broth.

   "I'm from outside and want to know something about this place."

   took over the food that he didn't plan to eat, Lu left his mouth and said.

  The old man was covered in folds and ravines, but his face, which was completely different from the locals, lost his smile.

   "Don't ask the town's secrets, don't make contact with the locals, don't go near the coast."

   He obviously knew something.

"why."

  Before the old man continued to say anything, there was a slow, wriggling knock on the door from the living room under the gap of the planks.

   (end of this chapter)