"You have given us some inspiration. Next, the Exorcist Alliance will consider whether we should cooperate with..." After a slight pause, Rachel skipped the words that would make Anna uncomfortable: "Should humans find some helpers to fight against the weird."
"Is this difficult?" Lu Li asked back.
Apart from himself, he has not met any other exorcists who are not prejudiced against weirdness - or it may be that he has come into contact with too few exorcists.
"People never believe in weirdness, even weirdness that was once human." Rachel shook her head slightly.
For example, Anna.
Even if she does nothing, one day she will fall into the abyss due to the overflowing breath of the other world. Even she should have fallen into it long ago, but she maintains her nature, a certain nature, for some reasons.
Just like no one believes that someone can remain childlike and innocent forever, because that is impossible.
"Tristan?"
Lu Li thought of the former regional leader, the big man who was turned into a vassal of the evil god.
"He disappeared, just a few days ago." Rachel picked up the coffee and took a sip, as if it was a glass of wine. "He was not at the Evil God Sacrifice where he was found. He may have gone to a more secret place, or he may not want to
Found by us."
This topic was a bit heavy, and Rachel fell into silence after speaking.
"Aren't you going to help?" Anna said at this time, while members of the joint organization outside the window were busy cleaning up the aftermath.
"The guys sent by the Night Watch and the Demon Slayer Association are better at this kind of thing than us. Even the Alliance is better than us."
Probably feeling Anna's hidden hostility, Rachel said with a faint smile: "Don't worry, Miss Wraith, although I want to taste the taste of love before everything comes, but I don't like men who are too mysterious and have black hair.
"
Anna didn't answer.
Suddenly there was some noise from outside. I looked sideways. Vice Mayor Gerald was arguing with someone.
"You're kidding with the lives of everyone in Belfast!"
The young man who was confronting him was relatively quiet, and his calm voice was difficult to hear by Lu Li and others in the window.
However, judging from Gerald's reaction, he seemed to be in a bad mood: "I disagree! There are still human pus and their diseases wandering around the port. You are creating shiploads of monsters!"
"The nobles don't want to wait? Do they know what happened here before? Let them wait!"
The young man said something else and turned around to leave. Only Gerald, whose expression changed, was left, walking towards the coffee shop with a gloomy expression.
Ding bell——ding bell——
As the store door opened, the wind chime behind the door swayed crisply and melodiously.
Gerald took off his top hat, sat down opposite Lu Li with a gust of wind, and complained loudly: "It's the mayor's assistant, the stupid Trangin Cardiff actually wants to reopen the port today."
"If it's not the right time, the coalition will stop him." Rachel is not worried about opening early. Politicians have no say in this kind of thing.
"It's best that way."
Gerald looked at Lu Li and lowered his head slightly to show respect: "What are Mr. Lu Li's plans next?"
"Investigating some private matters." Lu Li answered.
"Now?" Gerald looked at the street where the fog had not yet dissipated.
"It will be daylight in less than two hours," Rachel said.
Next, it was mainly Gerald who said that although he was the deputy mayor, he had no command authority in the joint organization and could only assist in some matters.
Soon, he lamented that nothing could be done about the epidemic and bluntly said that although the troubles at the port had been solved, the source of the epidemic still could not be found.
"Maybe I have a way." Lu Li suddenly said.
"But you have to find live human pus, and it depends on luck."
Rachel and Gerald paid attention, and Lu Li made a more specific request: he needed human pus from the ship where the epidemic originated.
"My 'salvation' can be traced back to the death fragment. If human pus is infected due to contact with something, I can see it."
But there's little hope, unless they find human pus that was infected through contact with the source, rather than someone else's pus.
They decided to give it a try. Gerald left first, and Rachel soon followed. Lu Li was the only one left in the coffee shop in front of the window.
"We've done enough, there's no need for you to do anything more." Anna complained about Lu Li's decision. Lu Li's sanity was already at a dangerous level and he could fall into the abyss at any time.
"I think the appearance of human pus is weird."
Or rather a coincidence.
Anna quickly connected it with the person they were tracking: "You suspect Richard did it?"
"That passenger ship did not arrive at the port full of tourists, but took tourists to the Lennon Islands at the port, so the source of the disease came from Belfast, from those who boarded the ship, and someone caused the disease to spread."
Before this, there was no epidemic in the city.
Regardless of whether that person was Richard, he clearly had another conspiracy in causing the epidemic to spread.
Anna seemed to be calmed down and stopped talking.
Ten minutes later, gunshots began to reverberate in the port. The exorcists had already begun to clean up the pus from the participants in the port.
After waiting quietly for a while, when the clock in the corner was about to stop at five, Deputy Mayor Gerald returned to the coffee shop and told Lu Li that almost all the human pus floating in the port had been removed, leaving only the source passenger ship.
Following Gerald back to the port, the flames burning everywhere seemed to be burning down the port, but in fact it was members of the joint organization cleaning up the scraps of human pus.
They remain fatally contagious if exposed.
"It's hard for us to devote our energy to cleaning those ships. They will be towed out of the bay and scuttled after dawn." Gerard, wearing a beak mask, said.
The losses caused by this are naturally difficult to estimate, but it is better than the latent epidemic leaving the ship and infecting all continents, including its new home, the Lennon Islands.
The Grand Ritter is an ocean liner manufactured by Mainland China's Margaret Manufacturing Company and can carry 1,200 tourists and 700 crew members.
The incident happened shortly after the ship was opened for boarding. Fortunately, a crew member quickly found the captain after he noticed that his colleague was vomiting blood and had changes in his skin.
At this moment, Occam, the captain of the Grand Ritter, was following beside him, telling Lu Li what happened next.
Even more fortunately, Captain Occam had experienced the spread of an epidemic a few years ago, which he still remembered. The condition of the passengers made him suspect that it was some kind of epidemic, so he asked the crew to evacuate the surrounding passengers and contact the police.
Department.
This action effectively prevented the disease from spreading—at least not to a large extent.
When the police station and night watchmen arrived ten minutes later, "only" a few dozen infected people were contained and locked up in a lower-class cabin.
Everything is developing for the better, but what Lu Li and others are experiencing right now is destined to not end well at that time.
A strange fog spreads from the deep sea that destroys all efforts made by people.