The mysterious man took the oil lamp, turned around without saying a word, and stepped onto the wooden ladder next to him. He disappeared around the corner, and the halo of the oil lamp and the sound of footsteps gradually faded away.
"A strange stranger, huh?"
The old woman looked away and said to Lu Li.
"Why don't you look outside?" Lu Li looked at her and asked.
"This is a normal tourist." The old woman smiled contentedly. "But it's already very late."
Most people might be disappointed and walk away. As it happened, Lu Li had received many similar baptisms from Hades, and he knew what the old woman across from him wanted.
"It's okay, I haven't had dinner yet, and I don't plan to take a rest for the time being. You can prepare a table of food and talk while you eat."
The old woman's smile became sincere: "We will go upstairs to inform you after we prepare the meal."
"OK."
Lu Li picked up the oil lamp on the bar, turned around and walked upstairs.
In the narrow corridor, the oil lamps hanging on the walls emit a faint light. They are very far apart, making the second floor not as bright as the hall downstairs.
Lu Li took off the key chain hanging on the oil lamp, with "203" written on it. Standing in front of door 203, he could hear footsteps and the sound of beds moving behind the wooden wall with poor sound insulation.
The mysterious guest lives next door.
The key was inserted into the door hole, and there was a small click. The wooden door was pushed open with a creaking sound. The oil lamp shone into the dark room.
Facing the window facing the three people, the sparks dotting the night cast shadows on the objects in the room.
Lu Li stepped into the guest room, and a smell similar to damp and decaying wood penetrated his nose.
The room was very ordinary, with a low single bed in the corner, a dining table, and clothes racks behind the door, with no other extraneous things.
Lu Li placed the oil lamp on the dining table in front of the window, walked to the bed and touched the sheets. Fortunately, the bed was dry.
Squeak——
Lu Li turned his head, and the door slowly closed automatically without any wind, and then Anna's figure slowly emerged from behind the door.
"We want to eat here? There will be no problem with the food..."
The room didn't seem to be soundproofed and Anna's voice was very low.
"This is a town, not a den of evil spirits."
Lu Li asked Anna, who was experiencing persecution paranoia, to relax.
"But I think that woman is weird..." Anna was still a little worried.
Lu Li looked at her and said, "If you insist, we can change to another tavern."
"Well... forget it, maybe I just made a joke about Sarkozy." Anna was not sure and told Lu Li not to bother.
Sarkozy was a nobleman a hundred years ago. The reason why he was recorded in history was because of a joke he made at a noble ball: He suspected that a nobleman who had a grudge against him was going to kill him at the ball, so he cowered in fear.
In the corner of the dance, keep distance from others. At that time, a lady with a broken heel also came to the corner, took off her high heels and held them in her hand. Her shadow was projected on the wall, and it looked like she was lifting
Knife - and the Sarcoche fainted and became a laughing stock.
It's similar to Lu Li's story about being bitten by a snake and being afraid of well ropes for ten years.
Lu Li was noncommittal and said nothing.
Some things were still placed on the carriage. After Lu Li looked at the room, he picked up the oil lamp and returned to the first floor, where he went to retrieve some things from the carriage parked in the backyard.
It was dusk, and the bloody tentacles were hidden in the night, unable to be seen.
A kerosene lamp hung on the stable pillar at the edge of the backyard, barely illuminating the surroundings of the stable.
Animals also need to stay in a place with light after darkness comes. But they are slightly better off. Being in the dark will only put them in a little more danger, instead of being in a state of death like humans.
But even this is enough to make biological insects rare in the wild.
Lu Li speculated that perhaps the slow growth of plants was related to the disappearance of some insects. However, the biology of this world has not even begun, and they still have a long way to go before they want to know this relationship.
Approaching the carriage next to the stable, Lu Li patted the brown horse's head and saw water in the trough mixed with hay and beans. He ignored it and got into the carriage to pick up the uneaten bread and a few of Anna's books.
Book.
When he opened the curtain of the carriage and walked out, Lu Li suddenly noticed with his peripheral vision that the dark corner where the oil lamp couldn't shine seemed to be distorted, and something was hiding behind the wall.
Lu Li raised his black eyes and stared at the corner wrapped in thick darkness.
"What did you see?" Lu Li's movements caught Anna's attention in the dark.
"Do you feel anything?" Lu Li stepped out of the carriage and whispered while lowering his head.
"Well... nothing."
Lu Li, who had his feet on the ground, looked back at the dark corner. After a moment, he looked away and suddenly said in a normal volume: "Maybe I'm dazzled."
When Anna was stunned, a muffled and fast voice sounded in her ears.
"Be vigilant. Like you said, there might be something wrong here."
Back at the tavern, Anna gradually relaxed in the bright hall. No one could see her floating around Lu Li, and occasionally she would come close to a portrait on the wall out of curiosity.
The aroma of food wafted faintly from the open door of the kitchen, which attracted her attention. She drifted to the door behind the bar and looked inside.
In the open pot, there are sweet and sour broth and oval green fruits.
"What are you doing in the kitchen?" Lu Li, who was sitting at a dining table, asked at the right time.
The old woman who was wiping the table with a rag in front of the bar replied: "That is a specialty of the Shadow Swamp, the light fruit. It grows in the place where the light is exposed in the swamp, and it tastes great when stewed with rabbit meat."
"It's a pity that there has been no sunlight for a long time, and the plants have not grown. The sunflower seeds have become very expensive. Only outsiders like you are willing to use this to stew meat."
Lu Li didn't ask to eat this kind of food, but since it had been cooked, and from the smell point of view, it was within Lu Li's acceptance range.
"Don't worry, wait another half an hour and the stew will be ready." The old woman turned to look at the clock on the wine cabinet and said.
"Perhaps you can tell me what you haven't finished just now." Lu Li replied.
"Guest, you are really impatient." The old woman told a somewhat ambiguous joke, put down the rag, walked around the bar and sat down on the wooden chair opposite Lu Li: "But before that, guest, can you tell me the reason why you came to this town?
?”
Lu Li said half-truth: "I am a detective, and I was commissioned to go to Shadow Swamp to investigate the whereabouts of a person."
"So you want to know something about Shadowmarsh?"
"Um."
"Going to the Shadow Swamp..." The old woman's eyes were slightly blurred, as if she was remembering something, and she said slowly: "Before I talk about that, please allow me to remind you not to go into the depths of the swamp, as long as it is not particularly deep there, it is generally not possible.
have trouble with."
"What does trouble mean?"
"Those swamps that cannot be seen to be very deep, and there are... some things that live in them."
