The crisp alarm bell filled the entire detective agency, and the morning noise on the street could be heard outside the window.
The transparent figure lying on the sofa made some movement.
He raised his head and let his hair fall down, revealing a delicate face that was a little confused and seemed not to be awake.
"Ah... I made a mistake..."
Anna got up with a big tongue and slumped on the sofa in a daze, like most people who wake up from a deep sleep.
"It turns out I can sleep too..."
Anna muttered, suddenly found that the alarm clock was still ringing, and turned her head to look.
The alarm clock moved slightly and stopped ringing.
Anna tilted her head back and looked at the potted plants sprouting buds and the streets with people coming and going outside the window. She muttered in a low voice: "It's already dawn, haven't you come back yet..."
"But it should be soon..."
…
The sea water in the early morning was cold and biting, and the clouds were pressing under the sky, as if the morning light that pierced the dark clouds earlier was a momentary illusion.
Two figures fell on the leaden sea, and it seemed as if some huge black shadow passed under them and sailed into the distance.
After briefly falling into the sea water, Lu Li emerged from the sea again, and a figure appeared beside him at the same time, causing a splash of water.
Lu Li stepped on the sea water, barely letting himself sink. He tilted his head and asked, "What should we do next?"
"Wait for someone to pass by and save us at this moment." The black robe of the woman in black robe floated, forming a rich ink color around her.
A wave of waves lifted his body up and then fell down. Lu Li took advantage of this moment to continue: "What if there is no such thing?"
"If you are lucky, you will be sent back, if you are not lucky, you will report to the underworld." Her hood was attached to her body, and her face was still hidden in the shadows. Only the shadow of her lips and chin were inevitably exposed, and she said with a white smile: "Looking at the best,
Maybe we'll be washed up on some island."
This scene was more or less strange. No matter Lu Li or the woman in black robe, their voices did not fluctuate much, whether in volume or emotion.
They were talking as if they were sitting on a rickety carriage, rather than in an isolated and helpless sea.
After being silent for a while, Lu Li approached the woman in black robe who was not far away and grabbed her arm.
Turning the hood, it seemed that one could feel the doubtful eyes in the shadows.
Lu Li spat out the sea water that was blown into his mouth by the waves: "I can't swim."
This is why he put on a life jacket and lifebuoy before going into the water, but it was a pity that they were useless.
"The guy who assigned you the incident must want to kill you." The hooded woman said and allowed Lu Li to pull her for help.
The thin shirt attached to Lu Li's body was the original white color. The exposed arms and palms also returned to their original color.
I don’t know whether the sea water washed away the black substance on my body, or whether the black substance disappeared with the return ferry.
Some of the water Lu Li left behind was of no use to some extent.
In the vast deep sea, a hundred nautical miles away from the land, two lonely figures floated on the sea, drifting with the current.
The sea water may be only a little over 10 degrees Celsius, and the surging waves and undercurrents under the water make people have to expend more energy to maintain balance and buoyancy.
"I can't swim anymore."
Time passed, and about half an hour later, Lu Li said to the woman in black robe.
His body temperature was being taken away by the cold sea water, and Lu Li, who had struggled all night, had very little physical strength left. He felt like he was already suffering from hypothermia.
"Hold on, we're almost ashore." The voice of a woman in black robes sounded in my ears.
Lu Li, whose face lost all color, said, "I'll save these words for when I'm unconscious."
"It's true."
Feeling the woman in black robe holding him back, Lu Li raised his eyes and looked in the direction she was facing.
At the end of the sea, a light brown beach and woods are looming among the undulating waves.
That is not a mirage or illusion, it really exists.
There is an island in front of you.
Lu Li didn't show any surprise. He looked at the black-robed woman calmly: "Is this what you expected?"
"I just know that the boat returning the souls will approach the land at dawn. It seems that our luck is not too bad."
It was difficult to distinguish the truth from the falsehood. Lu Li did not delve too deeply into the black-robed woman's words. Everyone has their own secrets.
"Swim over before you run out of energy."
The woman in black robe changed her swimming style, from floating on the water with the current to actively swimming, approaching the isolated island in the deep sea.
Lu Li couldn't swim, but he knew how to tread water, and he pulled the black-robed woman's arm to help.
The boosting waves helped them approach the island, but even so, it took them more than ten minutes to approach the island a few hundred meters away.
When his strength was about to run out, the brown beach was already twenty or thirty meters away. His toes touched the soft mud on the seabed, and then the soles of his feet. For Lu Li, who could only float on the water, walking there was much faster than swimming by himself.
, but a wave came and Lu Li's figure floated up again.
But at this moment, Lu Li saw a clear black silhouette emerging on the beach.
The black silhouette had the size of an elephant, but its appearance was as oval and round as a beetle. Its lower body was not arthropods, but hundreds of wriggling tentacles that helped it move on the beach.
Lu Li's movements paused for a moment, then resumed as before.
A few meters closer, Lu Li's neck was already out of the water. He was holding the woman in black robe, who seemed to have no strength, as he walked onto the beach step by step.
His body became heavier and heavier. When the waterline dropped below his knees, Lu Li stumbled, leaving a mess of footprints on the brown beach.
"ha……"
A low laugh came from beside him.
Lu Li ignored her and looked at the beach where the black silhouette passed before, but several waves of waves had made the traces disappear.
That's so true.
Lu Li wondered if it was because his sanity value had further declined...
After walking more than ten meters along the beach, the gravel under my feet was no longer wet and began to dry.
The island is less than half a kilometer long, and you can see the end of it at a glance if it is not blocked by the woods. The woods, like other places in the world, have no green and are bare.
This makes the island look very desolate.
The moist sea breeze blew from behind, and neither of them rested directly here. They walked to the left side of the beach, in front of a rock wall more than 20 meters high. There was a sunken windbreak under the rock wall.
The woman in black robe lowered her head and ducked into the windproof place. Her black robe clung to her body, highlighting her alluring silhouette that made Lu Li unable to take his eyes away.
One...three...five...eight...
Counting a few that were left on the ship but have not been picked up, she really has a lot of psychic guns.
She sat down against the rock wall, exhaled a contented breath, and looked at Lu Li who was standing outside without coming in: "Is there any problem?"
Lu Li didn't answer. He took off his shirt and squeezed the water off it.
The woman in black robe sitting in the windproof place made a disgusted sound at this moment: "Oh... you are so dirty."
