Hades leaned back behind the counter, waved his hands and said: "Don't look at me like that, you may need several shots to solve it."
“What are the real methods of an exorcist?”
The psychic gun is only one of the means, not the only one.
"You don't want to know."
"I would like to know."
"This will do you no good."
"I think the benefits are great."
"...We'll wait until you bring 1,000 shillings."
The conversation ended unhappily, and it was obvious that Hades didn't want to tell Lu Li - I don't know if it was because he didn't want him to wade into troubled waters, or what.
After coming out of Hades' detective agency, Lu Li took a carriage back to Sailor Street.
Sailor Street is ushering in the busiest time of the day, and the sailors who are going to sea are finishing their breakfast and heading to the harbor one after another.
I bought two pieces of white bread at Mrs. Philling's bakery, and distributed one piece to the children gathered outside the bakery. I ate the remaining piece with hot water and called Oliver.
"Hi boss."
"Athena Leslie, a former employee of Mrs. An Lei Art Gallery, has died. All her information will be sent over before this afternoon. The focus is on personality and the cause of death."
"OK."
After setting these up, Lu Li took off his coat, hung it on the back of the chair, rolled up his sleeves and walked into the kitchen.
After a while, the sound of water running started, lasting for a while and then stopping. A few seconds later, Lu Li walked out of the kitchen with water stains on his face, wiping it with a towel.
Returning to the seat behind the desk, Lu Li lay down on the desk.
As the minutes passed, the figures on the table gradually stabilized, and the detective agency returned to deserted and lonely.
The experience of falling asleep this time was not good. Lu Li felt that his consciousness was sinking, penetrating through the floor, soil and rocks.
The surrounding water vapor is getting heavier and heavier, and they cling to the consciousness, making it heavier and falling downwards.
I don’t know how much time passed, but the increasingly hard rocks around me disappeared and were submerged by the quiet and silent deep sea.
There seemed to be a faint light above his head, but as Lu Li's consciousness fell into the vast abyss, that light became farther and farther away, until it was blocked by the unknown depth of the water.
Light cannot appear in the abyss beneath the deep sea, and breathless pressure squeezes from all directions, but it does not intensify.
Lu Li thought that he would keep sinking until he fell lightly into the mud of the seabed, and then he might see a seabed ruins covered with seaweed in the darkness of eternal night.
But changes occurred.
The seawater surrounding him suddenly turned into bizarre and colorful colors. They changed, like mixed paints that spread out layer by layer, twisted and entangled together.
This is definitely not a scene that would happen in the abyss, it is more like... being intercepted by some kind of indescribable existence.
Lu Li's consciousness was unable to think, so he could only watch and watch quietly.
The strangely changing and mixed colors may be accidental or inevitable, forming a door.
An ordinary, old wooden door.
The colors are still changing, which also makes the door change in shape every moment. Metal door, magnificent carved door, fence door, bronze door...
But without exception, there is a corresponding key inserted into the keyhole of each door.
Bang bang bang——
A familiar knock on the door suddenly sounded deep in his consciousness.
The consciousness that could only observe suddenly developed the ability to think at this moment, and could identify the source of the sound.
【Who is knocking on the door】
The moment this consciousness was born, an irresistible force instantly appeared from an unknown distance above his head. It pulled Lu Li's consciousness and pulled him away at a speed that nearly twisted his surroundings.
At that moment, Lu Li only saw dazzling white light filling his field of vision, and then...
Bang!
He subconsciously stood up and bumped into the seat. It collapsed backwards, making a moderate collision sound.
Like a fish stranded on the shore, Lu Li gasped a few times, suppressed by his will, and raised his dark eyes with a hint of indifference to the door.
…
Click——
The door opened a crack.
Oliver looked up at Lu Li and frowned: "Boss, you don't seem to have had a good rest..."
A bloodshot streak appeared on the edge of Lu Li's black eyes.
"Um."
Lu Li walked back to the table and sat down, rubbing his eyebrows.
The time on the clock shows that it is already afternoon.
"This is the information I found." Oliver handed a few pieces of brown paper to Lu Li.
Lu Li took it and looked at it.
Lu Li knew each of these words, but after they were combined into words and sentences, Lu Li suddenly couldn't understand their meaning.
It has nothing to do with the content, the problem lies with Lu Li.
He still felt sleepy, and the bizarre dream just now did not relieve Lu Li's fatigue, but instead intensified it.
While Oliver was puzzled, Lu Li temporarily put down the brown paper, stood up and walked to the kitchen.
The sound of running water continued for a long time. When Lu Li came out again, he wiped his wet black hair.
He finally looked better, instead of looking like he was dying just now.
After returning to the desk and sitting down, Lu Li exhaled slightly and picked up the brown paper again. The content on it was finally no longer familiar and unfamiliar.
Athena Leslie, who lived in the industrial neighborhood of Blackwater, worked for a long time as a weaver before working in a gallery, where she met Bill Eddy, the man who made her pregnant.
From acquaintance to passionate love, they soon lived together until Athena became pregnant.
The textile factory was not a suitable place for a pregnant woman to stay, so Athena quit her job and, with Bill's help, found a new one: working in a gallery.
The job was relaxing and the salary was similar to that of a textile worker. Athena cherished her new job and often stayed in the gallery beyond working hours.
Things should have continued happily like this.
But one day, Bill Eddy suddenly disappeared. No one saw where he went. After investigation, the police department only determined that the area was near the abandoned lunatic asylum in the suburbs.
But more than ten days later, Bill Eddy came back, acting as usual.
Then the tragedy happened. On the seventh day after Bill Eddy came back, he attacked Athena like crazy and cut out their children. This move directly killed Athena and her daughter who was less than seven months old.
's children.
That's all on the vellum.
"You mean Athena was killed?" Lu Li rubbed his eyebrows and put the paper back.
"It's very possible."
"Where's Bill Eddy?"
"Missing. My brother told me that the police station was looking for him, but he didn't see anyone else."
"How did the police determine the nature of this case?"
"It is said that it was done by cultists and that Bill Eddy joined them, but it is not clear why they think it was done internally."
Lu Li found it difficult to think now, so he asked instead: "Are you okay now?"
"Uh... not bad." Oliver replied subconsciously.
Lu Li nodded and leaned into his seat.
"You can stay here, or go out and do your own business, but remember to wake me up before five o'clock in the afternoon."