Two hundred and twenty-four. The place where evil spirits dare not set foot
Anna blinked.
It was not because of Lu Li's words. She probably knew Lu Li's plans because of other things.
She was a little curious about the contents of her diary and the things in the deep-sea stone box.
But Lu Li did not intend to open them.
"Don't you look?" Anna blinked again.
"'Don't look at notes from unknown sources and open boxes of strange places at will,' it is written in the "Exorcist Survival Manual"." Lu Li explained.
"Exorcist Survival Manual? What is that?"
“A very interesting book I saw in the real library.”
It is very interesting to be said by Lu Li, which shows that the content of the book is considered useful by him.
Anna's attention was removed from the notes and stone boxes, and she asked Lu Li about the content of the "Exorcist Survival Manual".
"Let's talk about it after leaving here."
Lu Li looked around and confirmed that nothing was missing. He walked out of the basement and returned to the upper floor.
He closed the basement and the doors of the house one after another, walked out of the building, held up an umbrella under the eaves, and walked into the rain curtain.
His steady narrative gradually faded away.
...
"Items Rule 8: A good weapon is necessary, it can increase your courage and prevent you from falling into a weird hand. As for lethality? That's just a side."
The streets of the Sailors neighborhood have already appeared in sight and they are back.
"But I remember that the investigator must be curious and exploratory." Anna asked in confusion.
"Curiosity and exploration need to be done within one's ability, because curiosity dives into the water and because curiosity dives into the abyss because of curiosity." Lu Li's answer sounded under the umbrella: "Don't let curiosity suppress rationality."
"oh."
Anna, who probably understood, nodded, but no one could see her in the inner world.
When approaching the long house, Lu Li was stopped by a groom. He had helped Lu Li sell the furniture brought by "Yong Mengzhe" before, and then he had been waiting on the street for Lu Li to come back.
The groom cautiously handed Lu Li a stack of wrinkled shillings, with a maximum face value of only 10 shillings.
There were 183 shillings in total. The groom told Lu Li that the old furniture could not be sold, so he could only sell it to the owner of the thrift store.
According to the previous promise, Lu Li went to the bakery next to the long house to buy 5 pounds of white bread. The bad weather made it impossible for children to run on the street, and Lu Li took the bread and went straight back to Long.
Room.
Most of the rainproof items in the long house have been laid, and sandbags are blocked behind the door to prevent rainwater from rushing into the corridor.
The doors of most residents in the corridor were open, and the smell of food and the movement of talking and walking were wafting out from it.
As time approaches four o'clock in the afternoon, most people start preparing supper.
After passing several rooms with a strong sense of life, Lu Li and Anna returned to the detective agency.
Anna went to warm up the meal, and Lu Li picked up the garbage bags piled up in the kitchen and living room and threw them out. When he came back, he heard the relaxed humming sound floating from the kitchen.
There are no lyrics, and the humming is like you can do whatever you want.
Perhaps only then can Anna relax a little.
The merchant will come tomorrow, and Lu Li can directly take it to the old warm streets, houses with bird beaks and masks.
This is the destination that Lu Li arranged for the two items in the basement.
To be honest, weird items are really valuable.
Lu Li didn't plan to directly contact these two things, and sold them directly to the merchants and take them away.
The faint smoke from the burning firewood floated out of the kitchen, making people's throat tight. In order to prevent rain, the chimneys of each household blocked most of them, which is why Lu Li came back and saw the residents of the long house with their doors open.
So the detective agency joined them.
While the food was still going to be hot, Lu Li took the basket in the kitchen and went to the back street to buy some firewood and coal. Only when cooking was used, one basket would be enough for a week.
There is no need to hoard these things, they are cheap and bulky and difficult to carry.
More than ten minutes later, Anna returned to the living room with a steaming pot.
After dinner in a few minutes, the sky became darker than before. At 4:15 pm, the sky began to darken.
At 4:30, two oil lamps on the detective agency were lit up, and at 5:00, there was only a darkness outside the window.
Noisy, children's running, talking, coughing, and the sounds of other rooms in the long house were faintly transmitted to the detective agency, mixed with the sound of rain, and as time passed, these sounds gradually faded away, leaving only none left.
The sound of changing rain falling.
At eight o'clock in the evening, the detective agency lit a second oil lamp and Lu Li lay down on the sofa.
"Good night," Anna said.
The night is silent.
...
A peaceful night passed.
Perhaps calm.
When Lu Li opened his eyes, there were many people surrounded by the eaves outside the window. They were pointing in a certain direction, and the vague and unrecognizable voices came to the detective agency.
"Did they wake you up?" Anna, who always paid attention to Lu Li's tone, said a little cold.
"no."
Lu Li, who woke up at dawn, sat up and looked out the window: "What's wrong with it outside?"
Anna shook her head suddenly, she was only guarding Lu Li.
Lu Li took off the blanket and sat up, looking at the incident behind the desk: It was already very late at 7:15.
The sky outside was almost 6 a.m., and the rain did not get heavier, but the sky was even more gloomy than a few days ago.
I hope it is just a simple dark cloud, not something else.
Anna went to prepare breakfast, but she was still the stewed pork with expensive carrots and some potatoes.
As the cooking was approaching, the merchant who had arrived recently appeared outside the door with the cut deep-sea stones, but was still not one of the merchants Lu Li had seen.
Lu Li mentioned the old warm streets to it, and the merchant agreed to accompany Lu Li.
"Can you wait for a while?" Lu Li pointed to Anna who left the kitchen holding the food.
"Please be as soon as possible."
After finishing breakfast ten minutes later, Anna seized the time to clean up the dining table, Lu Li washed up and put on his coat, and took Anna and the merchant out.
The crowd under the eaves had not dispersed yet, and they seemed to be unable to see the strange tall businessman beside Lu Li, but occasionally they looked at Lu Li and showed a friendly smile.
During the conversation, Lu Li learned that a couple living in the next long house died. The police judged that the death was caused by a night disaster. When they arrived in the morning, the oil lamp in the room was in out, and there was no human being on the body.
Scars caused.
The focus of these residents' discussion was on oil lamps, because after the body was discovered, some people found that there was a lot of kerosene in the lamps-
So the grocery store owner who sells kerosene also appeared here and explained to the police.
"It always feels strange..." Anna muttered in a low voice.
"Maybe it has little to do with the oil lamp."
Lu Li replied, his figure gradually moved away from the long house, and turned his head to ask the merchant: "Is it the shadow of the stolen fire?"
“5 contribution points.”
It's very cheap, but Lu Li doesn't plan to pay. The merchant has already told Lu Li the answer in some way.
Even if the murderer is not the shadow of the stolen fire, he is also another evil spirit.
The more remote the place, the more dangerous it is, but Belfast has a large population...