One hundred and seventy-one. Trading deep sea stones
Back at the detective agency, Anna was sitting on the sofa holding the romance novel she bought in the morning.
Lu Li didn't notice any changes in her.
"The phone rang not long after you left." Anna was still reading the book, staring intently, and said, "It was that strange guy who called himself Marcus."
"What did he say?" Lu Li took off his coat and hung it on the hanger.
"Well... I didn't say anything. It seems that I have something to tell you personally."
Possibly a new commission.
After Anna finished reading this page, she turned to the next page and looked up at Lu Li worriedly: "Your sanity..."
"It has dropped a bit, but it is still in the first stage."
Lu Li's tone was calm, as if the problem happened to someone else.
"Then you won't do any more missions for the time being, right?"
"perhaps."
The detective agency returned to calm, with only the occasional sound of pages turning.
Jingle bell bell bell——
After a while, the phone rang nervously.
After picking up the phone, a familiar voice came from the receiver: "Hey, how are you doing lately?"
"Is something wrong?" Lu Li had no intention of reminiscing or being polite.
"There's a commission you might be interested in—"
"How much."
"Two hundred shillings."
"Not interested."
"Well……"
Lu Li's straightforwardness made Marcus silent for a moment: "A while ago, the newspapers said that you and Baron Joseph were in love...is it true?"
Anna, who was reading a book, immediately pricked up her ears.
"Fake."
But it is true that Baron Joseph wants to pursue Lu Li.
Marcus' pleading voice came from the microphone: "Please, you are the only member of 'Healthy and Happy Every Day' except me. The other exorcists are unwilling to pay attention to me. I have only eaten one meal for several days."
It’s time to eat, please..."
200 shillings is equivalent to half a month's salary for a normal family, which is not low. But Lu Li's weekly salary is 700, even if he does nothing.
Coupled with the gap of tens of thousands of shillings at this time, a few hundred shillings would not arouse Lu Li's interest.
In other words, he and Marcus can no longer cooperate.
So Lu Li said: "I have become an investigator, these commissions are of no value to me."
Marcus's voice suddenly rose several degrees, making the transformed noisy voice sharper: "Investigator? The investigator from the three major organizations."
"Um."
"Well done! Our 'Healthy and Happy One Day' is about to become famous! I'm still wondering why I can't collect your information - listen, I can tailor a commission for you, and the identity of the investigator is nothing compared to bullshit
The Exorcist is much easier to use, those wealthy nobles will definitely consider you, hahahaha we are going to get rich, man!"
The voice from the microphone became even noisier, and Lu Li had to move further away, waiting for Marcus to yell endlessly for a long time before it suddenly stopped.
"Wait...don't tell me you're not interested..."
"You can consider it."
Coincidentally, Lu Li just needed money.
Marcus shouted excitedly again, his voice mixed with a strong accent, and it was impossible to tell what he was talking about.
Waiting for Marcus to calm down, he continued: "When do you have free time? I will look for commissions to arrange in your free time."
"Any time."
"Then it's settled!"
After hanging up the phone, Lu Li looked at Anna's curious gaze - the sound insulation quality of the phone at this time was very low, and it was not difficult for Anna to hear it in the quiet room.
"You still want to cooperate with him?" Anna's eyes narrowed in a dangerous arc. "It must be this guy who made you approach the sewer door."
"It has little to do with him. The main messenger is Richard."
Although there was one thing that Lu Li still couldn't understand. When Richard prepared the trap commission for Lu Li, Lu Li didn't know him yet.
What is his intention to harm himself?
Or is there someone else who did this?
Nothing else happened all afternoon.
As evening approached, Anna drew the curtains, lit the oil lamp, and watched Lu Li lie down on the sofa to sleep. She watched quietly for a while, then returned to the bedroom to rest.
Although she has been able to go for a week without needing to rest.
Nothing happened the next day, except that when Lu Li went to the market to buy vegetables, he found that the price of pork had increased by another 1 shilling. Anna whispered to Lu Li that she was learning how to cook fish recently.
Fish prices are also rising, but not as much as other meats and vegetables.
So Lu Li went home to buy ingredients that day. In addition to pork, he also had four small fish weighing a total of one pound.
The latter is used for Anna to practice her skills, and the former is used as food.
Facts proved Lu Li's foresight, and Anna also learned a lesson - when cooking fish, you don't just put it in the pot like other dishes, at least you have to dig out the internal organs.
A peaceful day passed.
In the early morning, the sky is bright.
When Lu Li woke up, he opened his eyes and saw Anna who had turned off the oil lamp and pulled up the curtains, revealing the blurry and winding rain streaks on the window.
Just like the weather forecast in the newspaper said, it will rain lightly today.
The water in the tap was colder than usual. After washing, Lu Li picked up his umbrella and went out to buy ingredients with Anna. When Lu Li came back, he held the same four small herrings as yesterday and asked Anna to practice.
If the world is so dangerous that it is necessary to move to an evacuation site to survive, the only food that can be stably obtained at that time may be fish.
Excellent fish cooking skills are very useful.
Anna got into the kitchen and boiled a pot of water. While the water was not boiling, she clumsily opened the herring's internal organs, pulled out the internal organs and threw them into the trash can.
When the second herring was processed, the water started to boil. Anna put in the prepared meat pieces, added seasonings and spices, and continued to process the remaining small fish.
Time gradually passed, and fifteen minutes before 7 a.m., there was a crashing sound from the detective agency door.
It was like someone was hitting the door with their body.
The movement outside caught Anna's attention. She poked her head out of the kitchen, watched Anna open the door, and then got out of the way——
A tall figure in shabby clothes lowered his head and walked into the detective agency holding a square black stone.
It bent down and placed a cubic meter of deep-sea stone in the empty space behind the door. As the deep-sea stone fell to the ground, the floor beneath its feet shook.
One cubic meter of stone weighs more than two tons, and the businessman was holding it as easily as if it were an insignificant thing. At least Lu Li didn't hear its rapid breathing.
This may explain why everyone refers to businessmen as "it".
"Abyssal stone?"
The new businessman nodded.
"Anna." Lu Li tilted his head and called.
Anna understood, walked to the deep sea stone, removed the layer of standing film that had always been placed outside the ghost, and reached out to touch the deep sea stone.
The fingertips were pressed against the surface of the deep sea stone, and it seemed that it was a bit difficult to penetrate, but at this moment Anna suddenly shouted: "I can touch it!"
Anna's fingers penetrated a few centimeters into the deep sea stone and she felt resistance and could not go deeper.
Unless she releases her mental projection and all her breath.