Lu Li thought as he reached out and touched the moldy wooden wall.
This is just an ordinary beach house that stood here more than ten years ago.
"What is that?"
Lu Li's gaze fell on the floor in the middle of the hut, where a dark mark of erosion was revealed.
It's not among the clues that Richa outlined earlier.
"Uh... we haven't seen it before, maybe it was corroded by the sea breeze?" Richard also looked like he was seeing it for the first time.
"The sea breeze cannot corrode it like this." Lu Li said to himself, staring at a circle of darker wooden boards.
Somewhere in the air, a breeze blows out from under the wooden board. If its color becomes darker, it will look like a bottomless abyss.
The keen intuition brought to Lu Li by his low sanity value rarely makes mistakes, and often what he perceives actually exists——
So an abyss is forming in the cabin?
In any case, the bloody tentacles and this deep wooden board should be inextricably related.
"If we can't find it, we can destroy this place." Anna said.
"Wait a minute." Lu Li said.
Destroying the place where the tentacles are located is the last option. If possible, Lu Li would like to understand what it is first.
"Shall we bring the diary and try it?" Anna suggested.
This was a good note, which might lead to the hidden bloody tentacles, so they exited the cabin and returned along the coastline.
Twenty minutes later, they returned to Haifeng Street.
Richard sat on the steps and hurriedly put on his socks and shoes, stood up and asked, "Do I want to follow you?"
He looked exhausted, and he was actually sweating in the temperature of only ten degrees Celsius.
Lu Li said calmly: "If you want to follow, just come."
In the end, Richa chose to follow. His identity did not allow him to give up halfway—well, mainly because of curiosity.
Returning to the abandoned house, it remained the same as when they arrived dozens of minutes ago, with no new changes.
Anna entered the room with an oil lamp and opened the diary again.
In front of the door, Lu Li touched the holster of his gun and looked quietly at the edge of the light of the oil lamp, as if he saw that elegant illusory figure.
The pages of the book spread out on the dining table stayed for a while, then turned back.
"It's all blank after that."
Richard's murmuring sounded beside him.
Anna also knew this, and she kept looking for any new content that had surfaced. But she still didn't pause until the pages she was turning quickly reached the last page.
The pages of the book returned at a faster speed, and the bottom became thicker and thicker. But at a certain moment, the diary that turned to the title page stopped and Anna let out a slightly indifferent chuckle.
"There is a second page."
The thickness of the first page is not right and it is stuck to the second page.
She gently opened the sticky papers and turned to the second page.
stay where there is light
stay where there is light
stay where there is light
stay where there is light
stay where there is light
stay where there is light
stay where there is light
stay where there is light
stay where there is light
stay where there is light
…
Lu Li waited quietly for Anna to finish reading. A confused voice came from the void: "It says...'Stay in a place with light.'"
Richa couldn't help but interjected and asked: "Just one sentence?"
Anna's tone became cold again at a speed visible to the naked eye: "I just repeated it many times."
Staying in a place with light seems to be related to the disaster of night.
But there is no need to write in the diary something that everyone is familiar with many times.
"Did the bloody tentacles fall into this diary?" Anna suddenly asked.
"Um."
Lu Li raised his eyes and looked into the void where the voice came from: "Why do you ask that?"
puff.
The diary was closed, and Anna said with a soft popping sound: "What if these words were crushed and smeared by that thing?"
The raised lines of these blood-red words are the same color as real flesh and blood. At the same time, because of this, the flesh and blood penetrates and sticks to the second page.
Moreover, the repeated text on the second page becomes lighter and lighter towards the back. If it is just pure flesh and blood... Anna thinks that the murderer will not be short of it.
After all, there were three people in the hut including him.
Maybe new clues will emerge when we get to the cabin.
Anna took the diary and walked back to the beach house with Lu Li. The diary floating next to Lu Li made the townspeople along the way cast surprised looks, and Richa had to dig out his police badge and wear it to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Returning to the cabin, Richard stayed on the beach while Lu Li walked up the steps and stood in front of the door.
As the two bloody tentacles approached, they reunited into one tentacle at low altitude, connected to the clouds, swaying like seaweed.
"Let it go." Lu Li said.
The diary beside him floated towards the deep wooden board, and then landed in the middle.
A cold aura filled the air, protecting Lu Li. Anna was prepared for an emergency. But as time passed, no new changes occurred in the diary or the deep wooden board in the past few minutes.
"Take it back."
Anna waved her hand and controlled the airflow to retrieve the diary.
Still no new clues appeared in the diary.
Anna looked at Lu Li, and Lu Li seemed to feel his gaze. He took out a match and turned to look at her: "Burn it."
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When Lu Li walked down the steps and stood next to Richa, Anna struck a match.
The match gave off a faint light and was held close to the bottom of the diary by force.
No strange phenomenon occurred, the diary was gradually ignited and spread like an ordinary book.
But when the flames spread to the bottom third of the diary, a strange and disgusting black smoke emerged. Lu Li grabbed the dazed Richard and quickly retreated from the area where he could smell the nausea.
The flames quickly spread to the entire diary. It floated in the air, ashes fell like snowflakes, and the unspeakable stench disappeared with the black mist.
Anna dissipated her power and watched the ashes of the remaining diary falling slowly.
She suddenly tilted her head slightly and looked at Lu Li, who was looking up at the sky. After more than ten seconds, he withdrew his gaze and said calmly: "The bloody tentacles disappeared."
When the black fog dissipated, the clouds descended, and the bloody tentacles connecting the diary and the wooden house disappeared together.
The dark wooden planks are still present in the cabin, but that seems to be an unrelated coincidence.
"Solved?"
"Um."
The disappearance of the hanging bloody tentacles means that a link in Richard's plan has been destroyed. Regardless of whether he allowed Lu Li to remain behind the scenes on the Allen Peninsula, he will eventually surface as his minions are removed one by one.
At this moment, a figure panting and ran towards the beach in the direction of the coastal town.
Richa, who had been doing nothing all this time, spotted him first and recognized him as his colleague: "Are you looking for us?"
The police officer calmed his breath and looked at Lu Li.
"The investigator sent by Ryan City arrived, and something happened... He hopes to have a few words with you."