The price of the Investigator's Weekly Report is prohibitive at Sh100/week/each copy.
Especially now when Lu Li needs money.
But there is no money left. The real-time and relatively safe weekly news can effectively let Lu Li understand the current situation. Not only that, Lu Li also plans to buy past newspapers from the businessman after he appears to judge the direction of the world during this period.
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Is it like a falling feather, falling at a constant speed? Or is it like a giant ship that hits an iceberg, floating briefly for a few hours and then quickly sinking into the abyss?
So the content on the white paper included old newspapers and stones that prevent the soul from penetrating.
The latter is a necessity for building shelters.
"Have the merchants come while I'm at sea?" Lu Li asked Anna.
Anna shook her head.
"The book was held upside down."
Lu Li reminded him, folded up the investigator's weekly report and put it away.
Anna hurriedly turned the book over to cover her cheeks that were starting to turn red.
Lu Li took out the task list stuck in the book. After scanning it, no new content was added, and put it back to its original place and put it away.
Looking at the alarm clock, it is almost one o'clock in the afternoon, and the businessman will not be coming today.
It usually appears in the morning.
It is unlikely that the results of the sanity test after each incident and the assessment of the previous incident will be released in the afternoon - after all, Lu Li just returned to Belfast in the morning.
Lu Li planned to go out while he had nothing to do. The phone bill was posted outside the door. When he came back in the morning, he saw it but forgot to pay it because of what happened to Anna.
He rarely forgets things.
Taking the brand new woolen coat of the same style off the hanger and putting it on, Lu Li tilted his head slightly.
Anna was holding a book on the sofa. This time she was holding it upright, but the book was almost pressed against her face, and her big clear eyes peeked over the book.
When she noticed that Lu Li was looking at him, she hurriedly covered her face with a book.
After a moment, the book held up by Anna fell down bit by bit, revealing first her smooth forehead, and then her clear eyes.
Wow——
Seeing that Lu Li was still looking at her, Anna covered her face with the book again.
"Let's go together."
Fasten your black tie, Lu Li said to Anna.
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The telephone office is on Commercial Street, only two streets away from the city hall. As you look around, you can see tall and gorgeous stone buildings on both sides of the road.
Pedestrians coming and going are neatly dressed, men's clothes are straight, women are elegant and graceful, and the spacious and bright streets are like the bustling commercial metropolis described by the writer.
Banks, shipyards and factory agencies, detective agencies, law firms, embassies, and shops that you have never seen in Sailor Street are scattered on this long street.
The bakeries and clothing stores that are ubiquitous in other neighborhoods have been transformed here into pastry shops and clothing stores.
The money earned from selling black and white bread and linen clothes is not enough to pay the rent here.
Compared with here, the sailor streets in Lu Li's place were as dilapidated as a suburb.
Men, women, the elderly, children, shop assistants, policemen, these ordinary people are not aware of the other side hidden in the real world, and now, that side is surging undercurrents.
Lu Li did not hang around. After asking passers-by for the location of the telephone office, he went straight to the telephone office to pay his phone bill.
The detective agency didn't have much kerosene left, and there was no store selling kerosene in the commercial street, so Lu Li bought two kilograms of kerosene on the way back and returned to Sailor Street carrying the aluminum barrel he bought for an extra 5 shillings.
Passing by a street bookstore, Lu Li paused slightly, looking at the bookshelves and reflection in the window, then opened the door and walked into the bookstore.
"Go and pick."
Lu Li whispered to Anna, who had been following him.
Now Anna has three states. The disappearing state of sneaking into the other world, the normal state of suppressing the breath, and the combat state of releasing the breath and showing mental projection.
There is not much difference between the three states, and Anna can switch freely with a thought.
In Wufeng Bookstore, the tips of Lu Li's black hair moved slightly, and Anna should have left.
Lu Li walked up to the old store manager, picked up the books on the bookshelf in front of him and flipped through them, occasionally responding calmly. But at the edge that the old man couldn't see, the books on the bookshelf seemed to be pulled out and turned by invisible hands.
One person attracts attention and the other takes action. This scene looks a bit like stealing, but Lu Li just wanted to hide Anna's movement of flipping through the book.
Ten minutes later, something moved the ends of Lu Li's hair again.
He put down the story about revenge in his hand and followed Anna's guidance to a bookshelf.
"These three books..."
Anna whispered in Lu Li's ear.
On the bookshelf in front of you are three eye-catching books that have been pulled out half.
In a quiet bookstore, any sound will be very clear, even a whisper. However, the old man is hard of hearing, so he is still sitting in a chair with a blanket on his legs and a biography on the blanket, enjoying the leisurely afternoon.
He still needs a cat and a cup of coffee.
Lu Li picked up the three books Anna had selected, "His and Me's Desert Island Survival", "Princess Sered's War" and "The Lost Country"
The names make them sound like popular science, biography and adventure. After opening it and scanning the catalog, I found that these are all from a female perspective and have elements of love.
Anna seems to love watching romance lately.
After paying for the books, Lu Li returned to the longhouse holding the three wrapped books and the oil barrel.
When Lu Li came back, he met the landlord of the longhouse. He asked how much he could sell his room for. The landlord thought for a while and told him that it would be 2,300 shillings. If he was not in a hurry, he could sell it for around 2,500 shillings.
It is equal to the cash Lu Li has on hand.
Back at the detective agency, as soon as I put down my things, the door closed, and Anna's figure and voice appeared impatiently: "Are you going to sell this place?"
"Um."
Anna was a little confused and asked reluctantly: "Why?"
Lu Li looked at her calmly: "You know my experience of going to sea."
"Yeah."
"You read the Investigator's Weekly."
"Hmm... um."
"Did they appear so frequently when you were still alive?"
"...No." After a brief silence, Anna answered. A hint of darkness flashed across her eyes.
"Is it a coincidence that Cultivated Garden has lost contact with the entire continent?"
Anna pursed her lips slightly and understood what Lu Li wanted to express: "Is this still the same idea? The world is on the verge of collapse..."
Lu Li nodded: "The environment is getting worse at a speed visible to the naked eye. We must prepare as soon as possible."
"Then it's up to you. Anyway, as long as there is..."
Anna coughed a few times strangely, then changed the subject and said: "Then you found a safe... called a refuge point, right? Have you found a safe refuge point?"
"I'm still thinking about it. I'll let you know when I have a concrete idea."
"oh."
Anna responded honestly and glanced at the books wrapped in brown paper on the edge of the desk.
Lu Li, who noticed her gaze, picked up the brown paper and handed it over.
"Hey hehe..." Anna giggled a few times and threw herself on the sofa with the book in hand. The aristocratic temperament she once had was gone.
After sitting down, Anna secretly glanced at the back of Lu Li who was taking off his coat.