Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 964 Thirty-one. Identify the weird

   Having mastered the preliminary refining skills that can pass the trial, Lu Li said goodbye to Professor Chris and Claire's mother and daughter, and left the alchemy office.

   "The smell of the purple mast, a sequence potion?"

  Claire sniffed the undissipated herbal smell in the room: "I heard rumors after I came back from outside... Lu Li comes here every day to make medicines?"

   "Otherwise, my dear. Lu Li is preparing for the second-level alchemy trial." Professor Chris put the blood-red potion on the potion rack. "Get ready, Claire. It won't be long before you have new teammates."

  …

a new day.

   Knowing that Lu Li will participate in the second-level alchemy trial, Professor Rubehero told the alchemy class about the skills of refining pharmaceuticals, including the inspiration refining that Lu Li mastered yesterday.

   At noon, Lu Li came to the alchemy classroom.

   This time, only one student, Lu Li, participated in the trial. There are no surprises in the trial requirements - only Lu Li is required to refine an alchemy potion with a pass rate of more than 50%.

   Skilled in refining the basic potion that had been refined two days ago, Lu Li successfully passed the trial and was promoted to alchemy level 2.

   "Lu Li, can we still see you after you go to middle school?" Dog Meat asked reluctantly at lunchtime.

   "Can't... The academy strictly prohibits the trunk area from practicing in the canopy area..." Fudot looked complicated, and the time she and Lu Li were classmates was shorter than expected.

   "Library." Lu Li said calmly.

  Fodor's eyes brightened slightly, only the dog meat was still dejected: "But I can't read the words..."

  In any case, the existence of the library has shattered the sense of separation that is about to leave.

  TaoTaoTao——

   Familiar and unique footsteps sounded, and the gatekeeper entered the auditorium and walked in front of Lu Li, facing the curiosity of the surrounding students.

   The gatekeeper informed Lu Li that the Level 2 trial of occultism will be held tomorrow, and asked Lu Li to go to the elevator platform in the mixed area at noon to wait.

"I see."

   Not long after the gatekeeper left, Lu Li returned to the dormitory to prepare for the trial tomorrow.

   "Lu Li is leaving, and you are still eating!" Fudot, who was in some kind of tangle, got angry when he saw the dog humming.

   "But I feel hungry..." Dogmeat said aggrieved.

  Fodor didn't bother to pay attention to him, took out the pen and letterhead from the wide pocket of his robe, wrote a few lines in beautiful handwriting, and left the auditorium to find the gatekeeper.

   "Mr. Gatekeeper, send this letter to the Lins family for me."

  …

   Noon is approaching.

   Lu Li, who arrived at the mixed area, saw another student participating in the trial on the elevator platform.

  Bentler.

   The freshman with the cursed title [Edge Walker].

   "Lu Li... uh, your Excellency, hello." Bentler greeted cautiously.

   Lu Li nodded in response and followed the short cloak gatekeeper to the elevator.

  The elevator descended slowly, and Lu Li's voice sounded in the bright silence: "Where is the test site?"

   "Forbidden swamp."

   "Restricted area..." Benteler whispered to himself, he had never been there, but the word restricted area is enough to explain a lot.

  After the long landing, after a few days, Lu Li once again saw the magnificent and fantastic swamp restricted area.

  An ant-sized figure scattered on the edge of the safety zone below, heading towards the depths of the swamp.

  The lift platform falls into the safe area. Lu Li and Benteler followed the gatekeeper and headed to the north side of the safe area.

   A procession waited there, surrounded by gatekeepers.

   In addition to being obviously dressed as outsiders, there are teams of old people and children, as well as three middle and senior students.

"I am the leader of the team..." The leader of the migration team was trembling nervously as the gatekeeper and the students of the Giant Tree Academy surrounded him: "We are heading to Midnight City Terminal, and the gatekeeper told us that there is a strange creature hidden in the team and asked us to participate in the trial... …”

   "Find out the weirdness hidden in the team, and the time limit is to reach the Midnight City Terminal."

   "Find out whether the weird ones pass or all pass." Lu Li asked.

   "Find what you think is weird and arrive at Midnight City Terminal to reveal the answer."

   "Isn't it forbidden to reveal weird identities?" Lu Li noticed the loose trial conditions.

   "If you need, if you believe," answered the gatekeeper. This means that if someone finds a weirdness and announces it, other testers will also pass.

   But if the wrong answer is published, everyone will fail.

After the    rules were announced, the gatekeeper told the team leader to continue.

   As the interlayer between the surface and Midnight City Terminal, the swamp has countless passages to the outside world. Weird or human will often choose to travel from the swamp to the surface or old sewers.

  The Roots and Safety Zone of the Giant Tree Academy keeps the perimeter of the swamp relatively safe. The swamp might be safer for the team than the old sewers, as long as you don't venture into the depths.

   At least not like the old sewers, passing through the main line branch and causing coveted peeping.

   The gatekeeper escorted the team southward.

  The diameter of the safety zone is less than 10 miles, and the destination is the southern edge. This means that the trial students will find the weirdness within an hour or so.

  Lu Li quietly observed more than a dozen people in the convoy. A couple with a young child, an old man holding a clay pot, a young couple...they were apprehensive and nervous, but also relieved.

   With the **** of the Giant Tree Academy, they no longer have to worry about danger.

   Just by looking at it, it's obviously hard to tell in what form the weirdness has infiltrated the team. Trial students integrate into the team, chat and test with the public.

   "The ashes of the deceased wife... He is still young... We have been together for a long time..."

  The sound of shattered conversation drifted in the swamp breeze.

  Loli gets into the convoy, touches everyone, and goes back to the edge of the convoy.

   The second person to leave the convoy was a man named Jaeger, who took everyone's blood and got the answer.

   Benteler, who followed Lu Li, was lost-everyone seemed suspicious. A couple who hugged tightly and were inseparable, a couple who attached great importance to their children.

   An hour is not very long. Rounding the dangling tree roots of the lift, they got closer and closer to their distant destination.

   "Mr. Lu Li, have you... found something weird?" Bentler, who was sweating on his forehead, left the team and asked in a low voice, licking his dry lips.

   "I can tell you." Lu Li watched him calmly.

   "I...I'll wait..."

  Bentler didn't want to rely on help...he wanted to pass the test on his own.

   Twenty minutes later, the convoy stopped at the southern edge of the safety zone.

  The deep hole leading to the old sewers is opened next to the stairs where the silhouette is stationed.

   And the answer to the trial was officially revealed - the little boy that the couple favored was a weird one mixed in with the team.

  Bentler unfortunately made the wrong choice. The weirdness he identified was the old man who had lost his wife.

   Although he had almost guessed right that he thought the child was weird, the couple's love for the child clouded his judgment.

   This couple already knew that their child was weird - after their real child died in silence in an infancy.

   (end of this chapter)