"Ha, I guessed you were going to ask this." Hades had a genuine look on his face. He turned his back to Lu Li, stood on tiptoes and picked up a bottle of red wine in a square bottle from the upper shelf of the wine cabinet.
Pulling out two goblets from under the counter, Hades shook the bottle and pulled out the cork with a pop.
A trickle of dark red water fell into the goblet, swaying and rising.
"Do you want it?" Hades shook the bottle and signaled to Lu Li.
"If it were free."
"Forget it."
Hades capped the wine bottle, took the empty glass in front of Lu Li, picked up the wine glass and took a sip, shaking his head: "The night watchman is the same as you and me, specializing in dealing with ghosts and weird things. The only difference is
They have an official background, and if you become famous in the future, they will try to recruit you."
"weird?"
Lu Li noticed the new vocabulary.
"It's those things that even the church's magicians can't explain. They have weird shapes. They may be buildings, they may be creatures, they may be stories... In short, there is no logic. Shut up! Don't ask anymore.
!I don’t know how to describe it either!”
"Isn't it a lot weird?"
"It's less common than ghosts. Most ordinary people can only encounter them once or twice in their lives."
"How to deal with weirdness."
"Run, run as far as you can. Don't try to fight. This is definitely not something we can deal with. If you encounter it, contact the Night Watch to deal with it." Hades seemed to believe that Lu Li wanted to become an exorcist, so he did not deliberately hide it.
Some key information. "I know what you want to ask, how to identify weirdness, right? I don't know the answer. I can only tell you that you will know what it is after you encounter weirdness."
"Have you ever encountered it?"
"I encountered it once and luckily escaped."
"Can you talk about it?"
Hades swung his wine glass: "It's better not to know, it won't do you any good."
"It's just my business, just say it." The words like snake oil couldn't persuade Lu Li.
"Then what if I say, I'll be in trouble if I say it?"
Lu Li fell into silence.
"If you are willing to compensate me appropriately for some losses, I may reveal something inadvertently." Hades emphasized the word "accidentally" and rubbed his fingers.
He just had the word "asking for money" written on his face.
Lu Li said nothing and stared at Hades quietly with his dark eyes: "... Let's talk about other things."
"Uh-huh..." Hades showed an unhappy expression that his conspiracy had not succeeded.
"You just said that being an exorcist is more dangerous than going to the sea, is it also dangerous to go to the sea?" Lu Li didn't think the danger Hades mentioned came from the weather or sharks.
The shaking wine glass stopped, and Hades looked strangely: "You really don't know anything?"
When Lu Li spoke, Hades raised his hand to stop him: "Forget it, swallow the lies you prepared. I only care about your money, not where you come from or what your purpose is."
So Lu Li returned to his original silence and listened quietly to Hades's slow story.
"If the world is a gorgeous flower, then this flower is withering now."
The ocean is the main body of this world, and most of the land exists in the form of archipelagos.
Belfast is located in the Principality of Allen Peninsula. The land in this world has been colonized and developed by humans long ago, and due to low technology, ocean exploration and activities have always remained offshore.
Many explorers have attempted long voyages to find new islands and new continents, but few have returned.
The biggest discovery among them is none other than the great explorer Thorasivia Him, who discovered a brand-new continent three hundred years ago: Thorasivia. Compared with the world named after Thorasivia Him,
On the mainland, people prefer to call it the Farmland Garden or the Land of Hope.
This is one of mankind's greatest discoveries with hundreds of years of modern navigation history, but for more than a hundred years, subsequent explorers could only find some islands or coral reefs that were not even islands.
At that time, the furthest sailing distance of people was only a few hundred nautical miles.
It wasn’t until fifty years ago that the steam engine came out and was quickly used on ships. People were finally able to leave the shackles of sailing ships and head into the depths of the sea——
Then they tasted the bitter pill.
Human beings live on a small island called ignorance in the dark ocean. This ocean is vast and contains endless secrets, but we should not sail too far or explore too deeply.
No one knows what happened at that time, except that after that, no one or group wanted to stay away from the land and peek into the deep sea.
But things are not over yet. The original voyage may have opened a wooden box called danger. Starting a few decades ago, the ocean has gradually become more and more dangerous, foggy, weird, and underwater shadows have begun to appear frequently in the deep sea.
And it is spreading to the land.
"You want to know that you can find relevant books in any library... Oh, sorry, I forgot that the library in Belfast was burned down." Hades shrugged, somewhat gloating. "So you are here at this time.
Coming to Belfast could not have been a worse decision.”
Lu Li recorded everything in his mind and continued to ask: "What's in the darkness."
"This requires paying a certain price." Hades raised his eyebrows, hinting at something.
"I will continue to buy bullets here from now on."
"This is not enough, you have to give me something more." Hades knocked on the table.
Lu Li shook his head slightly: "I used most of the money to buy a psychic gun."
The smile faded, and the gold teeth no longer sparkled. Hades issued an eviction order very realistically: "Then I'll wait until you have collected 1,000 shillings before you come back."
Lu Li's expression remained unchanged: "Does anyone else know this?"
"No one will tell you this at risk. Even if they do, they won't tell you because of money." Hades was not worried about potential competitors. He leaned forward and approached Lu Li: "Then Mr. Newbie Exorcist
, how many bullets do you want to buy?”
"Ten." Lu Li replied.
"Okay...wait, what did you say? Ten?! You actually - no! I said so much, at least twenty!"
"Can."
Hades's complexion improved a little, and while taking the bullet for Lu Li, he asked, "I also have a question."
Before Lu Li refused or agreed, he asked first, "Why do you want to know this? Don't say it's just out of curiosity."
"...To go home." After a brief silence, Lu Li replied.
If he wants to go back, Lu Li first needs to know where he is and why he is here.
Hades misunderstood and thought that Lu Li was living here. He took out a box of bullets and pushed them in front of Lu Li. With sympathy in his eyes, he said: "It's a free gift. You must remember this sentence."
"Stay where there is light?"
"It's another sentence."
Hades looked more serious than ever before and whispered slowly.
"Don't pretend to know too much. The more you know, the faster you will die."
