Faintly aware that Lu Li might not take her with him, Anna grabbed the backpack that Lu Li was packing, hid it behind her and shouted.
"no."
Lu Li ignored the backpack that Anna had taken away, walked to the bedroom, and took out a set of clean clothes from the cupboard.
"Why! I'm already very good!" Anna kept facing the moving Lu Li and said unwillingly as she watched him walk out of the bedroom to the desk.
Putting the clothes in his hands on the desk, Lu Li extended his palm to Anna and looked at it calmly: "If you lose your way, you will never find it again."
"I'll just follow you." Anna lowered her head and stared at Lu Li's hand in front of her, and suddenly stretched out her white and transparent palm to hold the slender palm that she couldn't feel the temperature of.
"..."
Lu Li looked at Anna quietly for a while, until her eyes dodge shyly, and then stretched out another palm.
Without thinking about it, Anna hid it behind her back, stretched out her left hand holding the backpack, and held Lu Li's hand.
The backpack floated behind her, being held up by telekinesis.
Anna raised her head, her clear eyes unable to hide the pride.
But the next second, his pride was replaced by panic. Lu Li, who held Anna's hands, suddenly used force and threw the light and weightless Anna to the empty space in the living room behind him.
Anna, who was floating in the air, stabilized her figure, not caring about arranging her messy hair, and rushed towards Lu Li's back in shame, shouting "I'll fight with you!", threw herself on Lu Li's back and covered his eyes.
Anna knew clearly that she had no weight, so she used her ability to pull herself, which made Lu Li unsteady and swaying from side to side.
"Pfft...Pfft hey hey hey hey..."
Anna let out a burst of giggles, but suddenly found that Lu Li was silent, and her laughter suddenly stopped.
Anna, who couldn't see Lu Li's expression, thought he was angry, so she climbed off Lu Li's back obediently, not daring to speak, and secretly observed the side of Lu Li's face.
Lu Li's calmness did not change. He resumed his movements, picked up the backpack that fell to the ground because of Anna's play, put it back on the desk, and put the clothes inside.
Anna was very unwilling, pursed her lips and muttered: "So why don't you take me there..."
"I told you, the sea is dangerous."
"Then you're not in danger?"
"It's better to be in danger with one person than with two people. And your abilities have little effect at sea."
"How could it be! If you accidentally fall into the sea, I can pull you out!"
"How long can you hold me?"
Anna was speechless and watched quietly as Lu Li put each item into his backpack.
Bitterness grew in Anna's heart. She was like an abandoned puppy on the street. She wailed pitifully and helplessly: "Why do you have to abandon me one by one... So do you, so does my mother..."
"I don't."
Without turning his head, Lu Li put the separately packed kerosene lamp and lamp oil on the top shelf of his backpack.
"You all said that..." Anna curled her lips and said in a low voice.
Wow——
The zipper of the backpack was fastened, and Lu Li turned around and said, "I won't be away for too long. If nothing happens, I will be back early tomorrow morning."
Although Lu Li couldn't feel Anna's strong dependence, he could understand it. An eighteen-year-old girl died of an infectious disease and she became a ghost, but her family was gone, and the mother she was closest to also died of excessive grief when she passed away.
Die. Only Anna, who became a ghost, is left alone in this world.
Then Lu Li stretched out his hand at this moment.
"Eh?" All of Anna's negative emotions suddenly froze. She looked at Lu Li blankly, with mist in her eyes: "Wait, is it just one day?"
"It's 120 nautical miles. We'll come back after the exploration. How long do you think it will take?" Lu Li asked back.
"Well...I, I, I thought it was just one day!" Anna stumbled, her blushing cheeks indicating something.
Picking up his backpack, Lu Li looked around to make sure he didn't forget anything, then turned and walked towards the door.
"When you come back, I will cook your favorite food for you!"
Anna suddenly summoned up the courage to shout.
Lu Li paused as he walked to the door, picked up the umbrella by the door and opened the door.
Bang.
The door closed and the detective agency returned to silence.
The expression on Anna's cheek became lonely at a speed visible to the naked eye.
…
The gloomy and rainy day did little to dampen the hustle and bustle on the harbor.
The smell of sweat and fish permeates the slippery wooden piers of the port. Workers, bare-chested and stained with sweat, carry goods off cargo ships.
At another pier a few hundred meters away, a tall, snow-white painted cruise ship docked at the port. First-class aristocratic gentlemen in elegant attire held the hands of their female companions and gracefully walked down the gangway.
I heard that this ship came from the Kingdom of Ellen.
Tesla stood next to Lu Li with a cane and introduced the two people in front of him: "This is Captain Harvey and First Mate Lewis."
"Hurry up and move the things on the ship! The guests on the Ayr over there will be unloading here after they get off!"
An overseer shouted and walked quickly behind them.
"It's a pleasure to serve you, sir." Captain Harvey took off his captain's hat and buckled it on his chest and saluted.
He obviously knew the identities of Lu Li and Tesla.
The dark-skinned Lewis stood straight to the side, like a guard.
"Let's talk as we walk." Tesla pointed forward with his cane and stepped onto the noisy and bustling pier. "Let's talk about the specific situation."
"Louis, tell these two gentlemen."
Lewis, who was as straight as a mast, followed the three people and said: "All the debris and artillery have been removed, only the whaler gun and the basic crew are retained. This weight can allow us to reach a speed of ten knots. It is dark now to set off.
Disc Reef can be reached before.”
Tesla nodded and turned to look at Lu Li: "Do you get seasick?"
"If there is no storm."
While they were talking, they came to the place where the sailboat was docked.
It was a sailing ship nearly sixty meters long. The severely faded hull made it look like it had been there for some time, and the masts of the ship that had not raised the sails were standing bare.
"Old guys are the most reliable." Captain Harvey grinned and said a proverb among sailors. "When will we set off?"
"Do you have a pen and paper?"
Lu Li's reply was completely irrelevant.
…
Anna was sitting alone on the sofa. The detective agency in front of her was the same as usual.
But she just felt like something was missing.
She raised her head in boredom and looked out the window. Suddenly Anna saw something, she sat up excitedly, turned around and lay down in front of the window sill——
An emerald green bud emerged from the moist soil in the flowerpot.
…
In the captain's room, Lu Li finished writing the last paragraph, folded the paper and stuffed it into the envelope.
"If I don't come back in three days, have this letter sent to the detective agency."
Tesla hesitated to speak, but said nothing. He smiled and put away Lu Li's envelope, and walked off the sailboat accompanied by Lu Li and the captain.
"So smooth sailing."
Standing at the dock, Tesla took off his hat and waved to Lu Li on the deck.
"set sail!"
Louis waved the signal flag and the sails were raised one after another.
The three-masted sailing ship gradually moved away from Rodster Harbor, turning into an insignificant trace in the leaden gray sea.
