Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 884 One hundred and seventy-five

   "Maybe that's not your real purpose, but in any case, take my advice, don't go near the sea, the farther away the better, the farther, the better."

With another reminder from the old man behind him, Lu Li opened the door and walked out of the hotel. Head north of town along the damp alleys and the hostile vigilance of the locals.

  Insmouth is more than just weird. Lu Li didn't see any cats, dogs or other animals, not even a mouse. In addition to the uncomfortable gaze, all the locals who looked in Innsmouth had a sense of being watched everywhere, and they could only get rid of them temporarily by digging into the dark and uninhabited alleys.

   Lu Li, who went straight to his destination, had to take some detours to get rid of the surveillance of the locals.

After dozens of minutes, Lu Li, who behaved like a tourist, went to the slum, which was even more dilapidated. There were smoking chimneys and repaired roofs everywhere. It was only better than the abandoned buildings outside the town. Where is the strange cry.

   didn't go far, Lu Li found the fire station with peeling red paint.

  Luri saw Zadok Allen lying on the side of a bench overlooking the breakwater north of the coast. As the old man said, he was very recognizable, or in other words, every townsman who didn't look like Innsmouth was very recognizable.

   Looking towards the coast, the fisherman on the breakwater is looking at this side and whispering strangely.

   It's not a good thing to let the locals know that Lu Li is approaching someone who doesn't look like Innsmouth.

  Lu Li did not approach Zadok Allen not far away. He walked to the side that was six or seven meters away from the bench, with the back of his hands behind him, including the bottle of wine. The finger tapped the bottle lightly, confirming that Zadok Allen woke up and saw the wine bottle,

   Before Zadok Allen took the initiative to speak, Lu Li turned to leave, turned into the alley under the gaze of the fishermen on the shore, gently lowered the brim of his hat and disappeared behind the house.

  …

   At the corner of the street, Lu Li waited quietly against the wall.

   Zadok Allen was still lying there, propping himself up and sitting up, as if he was tired and wanted to walk around. It seems that the years of drinking have not made him lose his mind.

   Hearing the sound of staggering footsteps from far to near, suddenly a muffled "bang bang" came from the wall of the house behind.

  Lu Li was far away from this house, its doors and windows were all nailed with wooden boards, and even the chimney was blocked with stones, and there was no exit.

   At this time, Zadok Allen who appeared at the corner attracted Lu Li's attention. He didn't seem to notice Lu Li, and staggered and continued to walk north.

  Lu Li stopped briefly at the house where the knocking sound was heard, followed Zadok Allen as if he was just on the way, and gradually distanced himself from the surrounding townspeople.

   Fortunately, Zadok Allen is just an old man, and it is normal for an old man to walk slower. Follow him through a net of local gazes, past a place called Water Street, around crumbling brick walls, a clearing out to the sea. The brick wall and the warehouse ruins to the north block all possible prying eyes.

   This is a great place to talk about secrets.

   "Whatever your purpose is, give me the wine!"

   Zadok Allen no longer hides his cravings, and staggers towards Lu Li like a drug addict, he may have endured all the way.

   Lu Li didn't ask any questions, and silently handed the wine to Zadok Allen.

  Zadok Allen grabbed the bottle, held it in his arms and opened the bottle cap with his palm as thin as a claw, but it was useless.

   "Open it for me!"

   Zadok Allen stuffed the wine bottle into Lu Li's arms again, bloodshot eyes appearing in his eyes.

   When Lu Li opened the bottle, he grabbed it back, raised his head and poured it into his mouth. He was thirsty as if a traveler who was short of water in the desert had found the spring. It's just that it's strong alcohol, which makes people worry if he's going to get alcohol poisoning.

  Besides this, Zadok Allen's drinking is quite ornamental - he can swallow without revealing a drop of alcohol, just like gobbling down a plate of salad without any vegetable leaf falling out of the plate.

  The old man in the hotel arranged everything very well, or it was a coincidence - a bottle of bootleg liquor was just enough for Zadok Allen to get drunk without getting too drunk.

   "Young man, thank you for the wine... hiccup."

   Drained the last drop of wine, Zadok Allen threw it aside, and the empty wine bottle rolled down the moss-covered stone.

   "I'm looking for someone, her name is Katerina, who was brought here by that order a few days ago."

   "I don't know the woman you're talking about, but hiccup...I know about Dagon's secret sect."

   Zadok Allen said that name, but nothing happened, and he still looked drunk.

"tell me."

"Don't worry... boy, it's still a long night." Zadok Allen leaned on the wet and cold stone wall and said with a burp of wine, "I'll tell you the origin of everything, the cursed evil place. , the source of deep waters, the gates of hell—"

   Zadok Allen sounded incoherent, telling the story of the small town of Innsmouth.

  Lu Li had to pick out really useful information from the drunk man's lengthy narrative.

   Such as Dagon Esotericism.

   Dagon Esotericism was present in Innsmouth a long time ago, long before the old days.

   They soon squeezed the local orthodox religion out of the town, calling on the father and mother gods, Dagon and mother Hydra of all the townspeople's religious cults.

   After all the townspeople voluntarily or were compelled to believe in the cult, the Dagon esoteric revealed their true nature: a being from the deepest depths of the ocean.

  The townspeople who believe in Dagon's esoteric religion have gradually changed, becoming a being that has the characteristics of fish and frogs, can survive in the sea, and has... near-eternal life.

Townspeople who become deep divers can still mate with humans, and the hybrids born will change their bodies to their parents as they age. Deep diver group.

  They are intelligent, even smarter than humans, and live on the bottom of the sea. The small town of Innsmouth is just one of their breeding grounds.

   All deep divers respect the leader of the sect, Dagon, and at the same time worship the Lord of the Deep Sea——

   Dagon is not the master of the deep sea.

   The father **** Dagon and the mother goddess Hydra, who are believed by the deep divers, are only servants of the supreme deep sea lord.

  These secrets can only be known by integrating into the town and becoming a member of them.

  The reason why Zadok Allen knew this was full of pain and despair for him. Without wine, no one can let him speak.

   He is a "dumb kind".

   Zadok Allen's ancestors were deep divers, his grandfather and grandmother were deep divers, his father and mother were deep divers, and even his wife and children became deep divers.

   But he is not. Flippers, gills, or scales never appeared on him.

   (end of this chapter)