The translucent ghost floated into the sofa and sat down with an aristocratic posture - maybe not quite standard, but it was enough to fool Lu Li.
Lu Li behind the desk calmly recounted what happened after dawn.
After sitting for a while, Anna felt uncomfortable because she couldn't contact the surrounding entities, and sitting on it was just an imaginary thing, so she floated back to the desk.
"Finally, I returned to the detective agency with your portrait and sculpture."
Lu Li concluded the story.
Under the oil lamp, Anna leaned forward and came closer to Lu Li. A blush appeared on her delicate doll-like cheeks, and her clear eyes were shining, as if thousands of stars were shining, conveying the message: "So you bought me?"
"Strictly speaking, it's to pay off debts." Lu Li replied, perhaps because he didn't notice the difference in the atmosphere.
Or maybe they discovered it and didn't care.
"I thought you would act like you wanted to go back to the gallery."
"It's okay." Anna's attention was easily diverted. She realized that she was too close to Lu Li and retracted behind the table. The blush on her cheeks was not sure whether it was the light of the oil lamp or something else.
"The gallery is not my home, and it is so empty and full of scary ghosts."
Anna had no idea that she was one of the "scary ghosts".
"I have dealt with the ghost in the gallery, and it is safe there now." Lu Li replied as expected.
Anna mistakenly thought that Lu Li did not welcome her. She lowered her head, her face fell into the shadows, and her expression could not be seen clearly, but she could hear faint sobs.
Lu Li still had a poker face: "No... I mean, you can stay here."
Anna quietly raised her head.
Lu Li continued: "But I may need your help for a long time in the future. To put it in a simple and easy-to-understand way: I will hire you. And as an exorcist, my job is destined to be very dangerous."
Anna asked cautiously: "Then do I get a salary?"
"No."
"Why?!"
"Can you spend some money?"
"No...it can't be..."
"So why should I give you money?"
"Yes, yes..."
After Lu Li said this, Anna also felt that her salary seemed a bit excessive.
Lu Li leaned forward, put his arms on the desk, crossed his hands to his lips, and quietly thought about how to arrange Anna.
Although the detective agency has a ghost employee, he doesn't plan to do anything. Lu Li is casual and free, and he is unwilling to create rules, including forcing Anna to obey his orders.
He said: "First of all, I apologize for bringing you back. In any case, I did not ask for your opinion as the person involved at this point. This was my mistake."
"It's nothing..." Anna scratched her head and giggled in the middle of Lu Li's words.
"I hate unnecessary trouble and cumbersome rules. So I will not impose restrictions on you. You are free to stay here or even outside, and do what you want, except breaking the law. But it is best not to stay too far away from me. After all, this
There are many exorcists like me in the world, but they are not as easy to talk to as I am."
Lu Li stared at Anna calmly with his dark eyes, regardless of the touch in her expression, and continued.
"If a new commission comes up, I will ask you if you are willing to accompany me instead of taking you with me. In other words, you are actually free. If I am not worried about causing trouble, I will not care what you want to do. Above, you
What do you think?"
A few dozen seconds after Lu Li asked, Anna woke up as if from a dream: "Uh... so good?"
"Although I came back with your portrait, we are not superiors and subordinates." Lu Li leaned back and squeezed into the seat. "To describe it, it's more like two people who need to live together for various reasons, but now we still have each other.
No familiar friends."
"live together……"
Adolescent girls always pay attention to strange words and distort the original meaning.
But speaking of which, this proposal is a good thing for both parties.
Anna got the new things she wanted and was alive. Lu Li got a ghost helper who didn't need to pay wages.
Win-win.
Anna's placement problem is solved, and now the only thing left is some questions about ghosts.
"Can you feel the limitations imposed on you by the portrait?"
Anna nodded hesitantly, then shook her head: "Your question is too general."
"Then let me break down the problem. First of all, can you only appear after nightfall?"
"It seems that you can come out at other times, but I haven't tried it... There will be employees and guests in the gallery during the day, and I don't want to scare them."
“Can daylight and bright conditions harm you?”
"Whether it's bright or not, I don't know during the day...after all, I only come out at night."
"How long can you come out every day?"
"Usually it's one night...I'll be tired in the morning and have to go back to the frame to rest."
"Will you be tired?"
"It's like being sleepy while alive."
"What about rest?"
"It's almost like sleeping...I don't feel tired after I wake up."
"That is to say, apart from the reversal of work and rest, there is no difference from ordinary people, right?"
"Well...that's it."
"Can you use your powers?"
"Eh? What ability?"
"The unique abilities of ghosts, such as Athena's intestines... attack, or Daisy's vision shielding, and causing the surrounding hygiene to become disordered."
"I always feel like there's something weird about Daisy you said... I'll give it a try."
Snapped--
"Hey, it actually works."
"Next time you can try it on an empty cup. Water soaking on the floor will shorten its service life."
"oh."
"That is to say, your ability is similar to telekinesis."
"What does telepathy mean?"
"The literal meaning is the power of thoughts, which can control things around you based on your thoughts."
"Oh~"
wipe--
"Huh...huh...this chair is so heavy."
"That means your current upper limit of ability can only make the chair move slightly?"
"Um……"
"It's not bad. So what will be consumed when you use the ability, such as physical strength?"
"It seems so. I feel a little tired."
"And when you get tired, you'll go back to the portrait to rest, right?"
"Um!"
The questions came to an end, and Anna also asked some questions, such as what an exorcist is and why the gun on Lu Li can hurt ghosts.
At two o'clock in the morning, Lu Li asked Anna to go back to the oil painting to rest and come out again after dawn to see if the ghost could move during the day.
As Anna returned to the portrait, the detective agency fell into dead silence again. The sculpture beside the door did not move at all and still did not wake up.
Because you left the gallery, or something else?
Time passes gradually.
At 5:00 in the morning, a white glow began to appear on the horizon, and pedestrians began to appear on the street.
At a certain time, Anna floated out of the oil painting and was inevitably attracted by the hazy scene outside the window screen. She floated to the window and brushed the veil with her fingers.
Pedestrians on the noisy bluestone road bumped into Anna's mind, and suddenly she felt that she had come to life and no longer belonged to the night.
She turned her head in confusion and looked at a figure behind the desk.
