The unique smell of the morning mixed with the fishy smell of the sea from the harbor, filtered in through the window, blew open the window covering, and floated into the living room of the detective agency.
Oliver huddled in a corner of the sofa, shaking all over.
A few books bought on the way were left aside.
"Anna, this is Oliver. Oliver, this is Anna." Lu Li introduced each other.
"Hello, I'm Anna." Anna held up her skirt and bowed slightly to show aristocratic etiquette.
Anna still maintained a certain degree of reserve in front of strangers she met for the first time. Of course, except for Lu Li.
"嘘嘚嘚嘚嘚..."
Oliver shook even more violently, his cheeks trembling.
He turned his head stiffly, not daring to look at Anna, and looked at Lu Li with help in his eyes.
"I am an exorcist, and if you work for me, you will come into contact with these ghosts sooner or later." Lu Li explained, walked to Oliver, and picked up the top book with a dark red cover in the pile of books.
Oliver looked like he was about to cry: "Just because I work for you doesn't mean I'm not afraid of ghosts, and I can't take it step by step! This is too sudden, and a ghost will come back with just one click, and I don't care whether others can bear it or not...
…”
As he finished speaking, a faint tone came from beside him.
"The way I look now...isn't it scary!"
Oliver showed a very twisted and weird expression.
That is when you hear a sound and turn your head subconsciously, and then realize what is next to you. The expression of wanting to turn your head and not wanting to turn your head, a mixture of subconsciousness and resistance.
Then Oliver froze.
Anna floated beside him, looking down at Oliver.
The girl's unique sophistication is hard to dislike, especially when she is wearing a beautiful white gothic dress.
"...Still, it's still acceptable." Oliver smacked his lips, suddenly feeling less scary.
Some even think that Lu Li made a good decision in bringing such an exquisite ghost lady home...
Anna floated from Oliver back to behind Lu Li. The latter felt relieved and stumbled: "So this ghost lady...is now a member of our detective agency?"
"That's right." Lu Li said without raising his head.
He opened the title page of the book, but his eyebrows gradually wrinkled. After quickly turning through a few pages, he turned the book over and showed it to Oliver: "What is this?"
"The history of the growth of the Principality of Allen Peninsula."
Oliver curled up his neck and leaned back. He couldn't read, but that didn't affect his ability to count the characters on it. One, two, three, four, five... nine characters, that's right. The bookstore owner also said it was this one.
"Then did anyone tell you..." Lu Li closed the book and threw it on the dining table. "This book is a full-length novel."
"Uh...what do you mean?" The word was beyond Oliver's ability to understand.
"It means fantasy literature." Anna, who was floating behind Lu Li and looking down from his shoulder, said casually: "The contents inside are all fictitious."
Salsasa——
Oliver scratched his head, as if he understood, but as if he didn't.
Lu Li looked at the remaining books, "My Love History with Baron Joseph", "One Hundred Fables", "Roadster Port Style", and "Martin and the Dog".
He didn't feel that these books contained what he needed.
"Is that all there is?"
Even so, Lu Li still flipped through a few pages and made sure that there was no knowledge in them, so he gave up.
Perhaps because of Anna, Oliver was much more polite to his boss and whispered: "The bookstore owner said that the ones you want are all sold out."
"Where are the other bookstores?"
"Similarly, we don't sell those history and geography books anymore."
"Sold out...the library burned down...what a coincidence." Lu Li whispered, tilting his head and asked Anna, "Do you remember General History?"
Anna comes from an upper-class background and is often exposed to some books and has teachers to impart knowledge.
"I do not remember……"
Anna said humbly: "After waking up, I forgot a lot of unimportant memories..."
"Is that so?" Lu Li nodded, but did not give up.
There are schools in this world, and there are several in Belfast alone. They don't just tell fairy tales all day long.
"Speaking of which, I seem to have remembered something... I remember my mother had a similar conversation with a certain government worker." Anna suddenly spoke up, her expression slightly confused, and she fell into memories.
Lu Li didn't ask out loud and waited quietly for Anna to recall.
"I remembered that the government official asked my mother to destroy some historical exhibits."
"Is it related to history? Why would he do this?"
"I don't know... I just hid behind the door and overheard some."
"Then what?"
"My mother disagrees, but these guys in black uniforms are very tough..." Anna bit her lower lip gently, her clear eyes becoming a little dim, as if thinking that her mother was no longer here.
"Wait a minute, you said they are wearing black uniforms?" Lu Li noticed a key word and his black eyes narrowed. After Anna nodded in confirmation, he asked: "Do you still remember whether they have armbands?"
Anna tilted her head slightly: "One half-open eye?"
This coincided with the group of people Lu Li had seen at the port.
Those night watchmen also wore black uniforms, and the armband was an eye. The only difference was that the former's eyes were fully open, while the latter's eyes were only half open according to Anna's description.
If they are the Night Watchmen, then the question arises... Why do the Night Watchmen prohibit people from learning about history?
The duty of the night watchman is to protect the town and solve strange things. Their duties have nothing to do with history in any way, unless... there is something wrong with history.
In other words, history is weird.
But this speculation was too exaggerated and unreasonable, and even Lu Li did not dare to regard it as a possibility.
Temporarily suppressed in his heart, Lu Li focused on the matter at hand: "Can the book be returned?"
"It seems impossible...but I'm willing to try!" Oliver quickly changed his words and couldn't wait to leave here.
Although Anna is beautiful and lovely, she is a ghost.
Just like a tulip made of shit, no matter how beautiful it is, it is just a disgusting piece of shit.
Even this description is frowned upon.
Oliver hurriedly packed several books, but an envelope fell lightly from among the books.
"What's this?"
Lu Li picked up the envelope that fell on the table.
"Well……"
Oliver glanced at Anna with an inexplicable guilty conscience, and pursed his dry lips: "This is a letter from Mrs. Lu...Slavic to you. Then I will return the book to Mr. Lu Li first and then come back to Miss Anna!"
After Oliver finished speaking, he hurriedly slipped out and left the detective agency,
On the other side, Lu Li looked away, opened the envelope while Anna was curious, took out a piece of brown paper sprayed with perfume, and unfolded it.
