The steady rise and fall of his chest indicated that the man had fallen asleep.
He was as peaceful as most people sleeping, and it was difficult to connect the man's previous narration with this moment.
Lu Li turned his head and looked at Anna, who appeared beside him. The latter shook her head gently at him. She couldn't feel any presence appearing after the man was sleeping.
So did Lu Li.
Lu Li tried to call him, but got no response. Pushing the man's arm only caused a wet mark to be squeezed out from the wet clothes warmed by his body.
Lu Li used other methods to wake him up, such as splashing water and shaking. The man was unable to wake up as if he had taken powerful sleeping pills. Opening his eyelids, his bloodshot eyes were moving rapidly.
The man has begun to enter dreamland.
And according to the huge gap between his reality and his dream, he might have spent several months in his dream just after falling asleep for a few minutes.
I checked the man's pockets again and found nothing else except the shillings and matches packed in waterproof bags.
The man also told Lu Li when he was awake that he had not come into contact with anything strange.
Lu Li took a few steps back and said to Anna, "Let's see if we can wake him up."
Anna's method of awakening is very direct. The man is controlled by Anna to float up, and then starts to turn like the hour hand on an alarm clock.
But he still never woke up.
Lu Li asked Anna to put him down and said, "It seems that his dream cannot be forcibly awakened."
"Can't we help him?" Anna sighed softly.
This person is really pitiful, hopelessly trapped in his own dream and unable to escape.
"Maybe." Lu Li answered ambiguously, looking towards the corridor outside the door where the footsteps were passing.
The merchants will come today and they should know something.
After confirming that the man could not be awakened, Anna returned to the kitchen to prepare food, while Lu Li opened the newspaper and checked the weather for the past three days.
The good news is that the heavy rain will briefly stop tomorrow and there will be only some light rain the day after tomorrow, giving ordinary people some buffering events.
The news about the terrifying faceless giant in the sea at Zernst Harbor did not appear in the newspapers. It may take several days for it to reach Belfast.
But some well-informed people have already begun making preparations.
When Lu Li came back in the early morning, he saw a rich man transferring his property and fleeing Belfast. His carriages were lined up one after another on the street.
Of course, it could just be a coincidence.
Half an hour later, Anna put the steaming pot on the dining table and asked Lu Li: "How long will he sleep?"
The man always sleeps in a flat position without making any small movements.
"Maybe I'll wake up in five or six hours." Lu Li walked around the desk and sat down at the dining table.
Anna puzzled: "He hasn't slept for several days."
"So he couldn't sleep for too long."
Anna didn't quite understand and nodded confusedly.
Anyway, she never saw Lu Li say he missed it.
It was just eight o'clock in the morning. Lu Li finished his brunch and waited for some time before the businessman arrived as promised.
Lu Li thought that the merchant would use some kind of tool to carry the deep-sea stones that had turned into countless small cubes, or pack them in its unusually huge backpack. However, the result was very mediocre. The merchant who appeared outside the door only brought two of them.
The cubic meter-sized wooden box contains thousands of cut deep-sea rocks and some waste materials.
Lu Li picked up a piece of deep-sea stone and held it lightly. A small 10 cubic centimeter deep-sea stone weighs about two to three pounds. The cut surface is smooth and flat, like a Rubik's Cube that has not yet been colored. It has an inexplicable artistic feeling.
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The deep sea stone is thicker than expected. It can be expected that if this thing is spread all over the bedroom wall, the bedroom space will be very crowded.
But it will be safe.
After putting down the Deep Sea Stone, Lu Li first asked about the current price of the Deep Sea Stone.
"10,100 shillings." The businessman replied coldly.
"A few days ago it was only 8,800 shillings." Lu Li said.
The businessman didn't answer, and Lu Li said calmly: "It seems that we can't afford the third stone in the short term."
[Crying for help in the alley] The reward for the incident was exchanged for 3+1+1 boxes of cans and some supplies prepared for the rainy season. He now only has more than a thousand shillings left on hand - 700 shillings of which were on Monday.
Weekly salary of investigators sent by alliance personnel.
"You can buy it," the merchant said at this moment.
Lu Li looked up at him and found that the businessman turned his head and looked out the window under his hood.
A black crow landed in front of the window and tilted its head to look at the figures in the house.
"Excuse me."
Lu Li told the businessman to go outside to retrieve the note from the messenger Black Crow's leg and return to the detective agency.
"How many investigation points do I have now."
"960 contribution points." the businessman replied.
The reward is the same as the event reward on the note.
Because of the dangers of [Man-Eating House], it was eventually rated as easy difficulty despite having no difficulty.
This means that Lu Li's progress in the event will be multiplied by five.
The root cause of the incident was discovered and solved, which brought Lu Li a 100% information reward. The discovery of clues such as the propagation methods of ancient books and dangers and hidden times also brought a 92% information reward.
Adding them together and multiplying by five gives Lu Li 960 investigation points.
At the same time, this was the first time that Lu Li completed a simple event with more than 100% progress.
If Lu Li completes two more simple events with a completion rate of more than 100%, he will be promoted to a senior investigator.
"Then bring me the third deep sea stone next time."
"Okay, is there any other transaction content?"
"besides."
Lu Li turned his body sideways so that the businessman could see the sleeping figure on the sofa: "I want to know his condition."
The businessman reported a number: "1750 contribution points."
"Solution?"
"His problem."
In other words, if Lu Li wanted to know the man's disease rather than the solution, he would have to pay 1,750 contribution points.
Lu Li couldn't even afford to know the cause of the man's illness.
To a certain extent, this is also a message: what haunts men is an extremely terrifying existence.
Anna looked at the man with a hint of pity.
"It's okay then. Please cut the third deep-sea stone and send it over."
"Um."
After the transaction was completed, the businessman left the detective agency.
While the man was sleeping, Lu Li went out once and went to several bookstores to search and buy a book about planting and cultivation.
It may be useful for both Annie and Elm Forest.
Time passed, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, there was suddenly some movement from the figure on the sofa.
"here it is……"
A hoarse and obscure voice came, and the man sat up on the sofa and looked around confusedly.
He stared blankly at Lu Li, who was looking up at him, as if he had been reminiscing for a long time: "You are still so young after all this time..."
His memory seemed to be a little confused. After a while, he rubbed his forehead and whispered: "I remembered, you are an exorcist."
"How long has passed in the dream?" Lu Li asked him.
The man raised his head again, with a deep and time-honored gaze.
