The door was not closed, and the open door was one of the basis for Lu Li to judge whether he was safe.
The wet and cold soles left water marks on the floor. Apart from the crunching sound of stepping on them, there was no other sound, and the house remained eerily peaceful.
In the living room outside the entrance, in addition to the smell of damp wooden boards, there was also a slight smell of rotting food.
Considering that no one entered the house for a week after Petra was eaten, and naturally no one cleaned it, it is normal for the leftovers to rot.
Lu Li remained silent, while Thomas continued to talk: "Did you know, I was the one investigating [House that Eats People] from the very beginning. If you read the information."
Lu Li's eyes fell on Thomas from around him: "I didn't see your name on it."
"I just chose to be anonymous." Thomas walked to the kitchen, stopped outside the door, pinched his nose to show disgust, waved his leather-gloved palms, and turned away from the kitchen.
However, he did not forget to talk to Lu Li: "I heard Truss talking about you. That guy is very optimistic about you. It seems that he has a good vision. So after the base asked me if I wanted to take over the incident, I declined tonight.
The Viscount came to help you at the huge cocktail party at the manor, and brought a hypnosis box to solve this incident at once."
"Speaking of which, thanks to you for investigating the source."
After walking around the living room, Thomas returned to Lu Li, thought of something and said, "Oh, by the way, can I ask you a favor?"
"What."
Thomas raised his finger and pointed towards the kitchen: "I have some severe mysophobia, can you please go to the kitchen and investigate?"
"The contaminant is the ancient book, we just need to find it."
Thomas smiled mysteriously: "But sometimes there are always some accidents, such as a difficult difficulty event I once conducted. I formed a team with three investigators and went to that town to investigate. Many people died there.
We all thought the murderer was the monster wandering around the town and had been tracking it for a long time - but in fact the murderer was the son of the mayor who had been cooperating with our actions. When he wanted to attack us, my keen mind discovered the problem and subdued him.
One unlucky companion was blinded in one eye.
"So if you encounter enough incidents you will realize this."
Discounting the self-proclaimed plot, what Thomas said is not wrong - until the truth is found out, all inferences and judgments are speculations. It can only be infinitely close to the truth, but not equal to the truth.
Of course, it would have been better if Thomas had said it in a more acceptable way, rather than in a cocky tone.
"What should I look for inside?" Lu Li asked.
Thomas stretched out two fingers and gestured to his eyes: "I know you are highly inspired and pay attention to things that make you notice something is wrong."
Lu Li walked into the kitchen quietly.
The rancid smell around him became stronger as Lu Li stepped into the kitchen. Its source was a pot of beef boiling on the stove.
After being left for more than a week during the rainy season, the surface of this pot of broth was almost solidified, with cinder-like and gray-black eyeball-shaped mildew spots crawling on the surface.
To a certain extent, this pot of food has as much of a mental impact on some people as facing weirdness.
For example, there is a senior investigator with mysophobia outside the living room.
Looking away, Lu Li glanced at other places in the kitchen. Apart from the pot of food, there was nothing here that would make Lu Li uncomfortable.
Lu Li returned to the living room. Thomas, who had taken out a handkerchief to wipe his forehead, put it away again, looked at Lu Li and said, "The look on your face tells me you didn't find anything."
"Um."
"Then go upstairs."
Thomas and I walked to the second floor, and Thomas opened the study door.
The bookcases on both walls are filled with books. The desk is placed under the window, with notes and several books neatly stacked on it. The layout here is like a professor's office.
"Can you feel that ancient book?" Thomas asked Lu Li, who shook his head.
"Well, I have to use stupid methods."
He said, pulling out the first book on the first shelf.
While Thomas was reading through the books one by one, Lu Li walked around the desk and walked to the window. The fog and rain streaks blurred the scenery outside the window, and he could barely see a few figures standing and waiting in the street below.
Knock knock——
The sound of gentle knocking on the glass suddenly entered the study room.
Lu Li was stunned for a moment, and an invisible finger drew a smiling face on the window. Although the traces were covered again as the finger moved away, the smile was still etched in his heart.
"Tsk tsk... "Secrets of Innsmouth", "Fifty-eight Recipes for Cooking Tanuki Crab" and "Occult Astrology". This poor old lady has good taste. Oh yes, she used to be a
professor."
Thomas commented, put the book back, and said to Lu Li, "Let's go to the bedroom and have a look."
"Have all the books been checked?"
"No, I only checked the books that he had recently read. Those books that haven't been read for a long time have no meaning in the investigation - unless we found nothing in her bedroom."
Lu Li and Thomas left the study and stood in front of Petra's bedroom door.
The door was pushed open with a creak, and Lu Li, who was standing outside the door, turned his eyes to the bedside cabinet almost at the same time.
An old book with a black cover sits on it.
"You feel it?" Thomas looked sideways.
"Some kind of whispers are spreading around the book." Lu Li replied.
"It seems that I want to congratulate you. Your guess is absolutely correct." Thomas said, entering the bedroom and walking towards the bedside table.
The palm covered with leather gloves stretched out towards the ancient book. When there was still some distance, Lu Li's reminder suddenly sounded behind him.
"This book is dangerous."
"If it was dangerous, it wouldn't be easily taken home by a retired old lady." Thomas said, touching the ancient book with his palm——
Until he picked up the ancient book, nothing happened.
But when he was about to open it, Lu Li's reminder sounded again.
"This book is dangerous."
The same words, but the tone was a little more accentuated.
"You mean you will turn the surrounding furniture and houses into evil things? Don't worry, they have already fallen into a deep sleep." Thomas smiled nonchalantly and handed the ancient book to Lu Li.
"Or you first?"
"No."
Lu Li has always been indifferent to things of unknown origin.
"Young man, you are not behaving like an investigator."
Thomas chuckled and opened the cover.
"Because I don't think the above content can be of any help to me." Lu Li stood outside the door and spoke.
Thomas was about to say something when his eyes that fell on the ancient book suddenly froze.
"This is……"
In an instant, his clothes seemed to come to life, exuding a disturbing and bad aura, squirming and shrinking in a hateful manner. Thomas only had time to cast his gaze on Lu Li——
Wow——
The meat and clothes were piled together on the floor to form a hill. Only half of the face was left on the top of the hill, with an open mouth as if to tell something.
In just a few breaths, the senior investigator was crushed into a pulp by his clothes in front of Lu Li's eyes.
