The clatter of dishes and spoons being washed floated from the kitchen.
The weather has been good these two days, so Anna opened the kitchen window a little, allowing the annoying smoke to drift out of the detective agency - although Anna would not be choked by the smoke.
The mutated thing that came quietly late last night inevitably had some impact. What's worse, it came very late and at the wrong time.
Not long after, Lu Li and Anna left the detective agency and headed to the carriage house. On the road, they saw many frightened people and police officers handling corpses.
Many of the bodies covered with white cloth on the stretchers were homeless people sleeping on the streets, and some were being carried out from residents' homes.
The last time the weird fog didn't cause such terrible casualties.
At least not so many civilians were killed.
In the final analysis, the skyrocketing prices have prevented residents from consuming too much kerosene, so they only lighted candles or an oil lamp that was not bright. After the strange fog enveloped them, the sudden darkness made those people fall asleep.
die.
The homeless people under the street lights are the worst. The breeze occasionally lifts a corner of the white cloth, or their arms are covered with gnawing marks, or their faces are horrifyingly dead with eyeballs missing, or their bodies are covered with fist-sized purple-black sarcomas, or
It's the limbs that have changed position.
No one knows what happened to them before they died, and no one knows exactly how many people died - many victims were left with only stumps or minced flesh, or nothing at all.
Seeing this through the carriage window, Anna's mood inevitably became a little sentimental.
She originally thought she could ignore it.
"The city is getting more and more dangerous." She sighed.
She increasingly felt that Lu Li's decision to establish an evacuation site was as accurate as predicting the future - especially the choice of location in the Elm Forest, which indirectly helped Annie survive.
Not to mention that the elm forest there could protect them in the future due to improved relations.
After renting the carriage, Lu Li drove the carriage to the neighborhood where the four Jones brothers lived, and parked the carriage directly at the door of the old craftsman's cabin.
A still was already made, but Lu Li didn't come here for that. He made a request to the old craftsman for a stone door, and asked that it be closed as tightly as possible.
The old craftsman told Lu Li that an ordinary door structure could achieve this, but that it was impossible to achieve a door that was completely integrated with the wall.
Lu Li was prepared and wouldn't care too much. After all, the deep sea stone wall also reserved a window for lighting and ventilation. Even if it was blocked by the deep sea stone after night, there would still be gaps.
After asking, Lu Li took the prepared distiller back to the carriage and went to a grocery store in the same neighborhood to buy some groceries, such as hammers, axes, glue, pots and bowls, and other tools, and drove them to the Elm Forest.
…
The road is still muddy, the water has disappeared, and the ruts left by previous drives can be clearly seen on the forest path.
The carriage stopped in front of the cliff. Anna "picked up" the sundries in the carriage and followed Lu Li into the cave.
The sound of the waves that continued day and night on the cliff gradually disappeared as we entered the cave. In the darkness outside the range of the oil lamp, the furniture that had been moved in the past few days was placed in the corner, showing its outline.
Deeper is a dark wall.
It was very quiet in the cave, and there was no presence that occupied the magpie's nest last night.
Lu Li turned the flame of the gas lamp to the maximum, placed it on the reserved window sill, then picked up a kerosene lamp next to the sofa, lit it, and put it into the refuge.
The cave was finally no longer so dark that only the outlines of objects could be seen.
After that, he moved the things in the cave into the refuge. Lu Li spent almost no effort and allowed Anna to control the sofa and single bed to fly into the refuge and put them away. He only occasionally told Anna when she asked what to put away.
Where.
It didn't take much time and the furniture was placed where it should be.
The single bed is placed horizontally in the corner of the refuge, a sofa is placed next to the bed, and a wardrobe is placed next to the sofa.
The dining table is placed under the window, the desk and chairs are in the corner opposite the single bed, and the fireplace is placed between the desk and the dining table, but because there is no deep sea stone laid there, it looks a bit shorter.
As for the nine boxes of cans and some temporarily unused tools, such as extra stills, Anna sent them into the cellar.
Everything has been placed, and the shelter has become a little more crowded and a little lively.
But there are only furniture and no debris, and it looks like it has been unoccupied for a long time.
"I feel like it's pretty good here."
Anna sat on the soft stuffed cotton sofa and looked around with fresh eyes.
The refuge site looks like a small stone house embedded deep in the cave, and there is already a hint of residence here.
Or according to Anna, this place started to feel like "home".
"Then I'll go alone to Baron Joseph's place tonight, and you can decorate the place." Lu Li held up the oil lamp and swayed it little by little across the completely solidified stone wall.
"It's not good here at all!" Anna jumped up from the sofa as if she had been stepped on: "I want to go too!"
"good."
Lu Li, who was checking the cracks in the wall, didn't even look back.
Anna groaned for a while, tilted her head to look at Lu Li's actions and muttered: "It would be great if there was enough light here."
She was still a little dissatisfied. The natural light outside the cave could not shine here. Even if it was sunny outside, there was still an oil lamp in the refuge.
Anna was still a little confused: "Why do you still have to make the position of the window when the light can't come here?"
The arm holding the oil lamp fell down, and after checking the wall, Lu Li answered her: "To prevent claustrophobia."
"What's the meaning?"
"People cannot stay in a closed and lightless environment."
There are windows, at least you can see the light outside the cave through the windows.
"I probably understand..."
After arranging everything in the refuge and accompanying Anne who was still sleeping for a while, Lu Li and Anna returned to Belfast by carriage.
As night fell, a carriage left outside the detective president's house.
…
Colorful lights are reflected on the surface of the Agate Lake, and extended street lights surround the Agate Lake.
Carriages were lined up outside Baron Joseph's manor, and the dinner was held in the Noda's garden. The manor was brightly lit, and there was a constant noise of people coming and going.
Here and down the mountain are like two different worlds.
The carriage stopped at the edge of the road, and Lu Li brought Anna, who had completely calmed down, to the gate.
The guard stopped Lu Li, asked his name and said politely, "It seems you are not included in our invitation."
"I am an exorcist." Lu Li replied.
The guard hesitated for a while, then stepped aside and said, "Okay, please come in."
"Thank you." Lu Li nodded and walked into the hustle and bustle of the manor.
"There are still people who come to die on their own initiative."
After Lu Li left, the guard chuckled in a low voice, which was covered up by the noise coming from the manor.
