"I'm a detective, and I accepted the commission to investigate some matters."
Although the exorcist industry has been semi-public, it is not yet mainstream that everyone knows about. Most people know little about exorcists. They only know that if they encounter supernatural events, they can go to a detective agency to find professionals.
Whether the police officers knew this was not within the scope of Lu Li's consideration.
The light of the torches dispels the darkness in the dreary midnight.
From time to time a flash of lightning flashed through the gloomy clouds.
Two police carriages and one carriage from the hospital were parked in front of the mental hospital. The fence gate of the hospital was open, police station personnel were busy coming and going, and medical staff in white clothes carried out a body covered with white cloth from the hospital from time to time.
The situation was more serious than Lu Li and the police expected. There was not one body, but four, and that was only the result of the preliminary search so far.
The four corpses had different degrees of death. The latest one was the corpse on the hospital bed that Lu Li saw. The oldest one only had a layer of shriveled skin sticking to the bones. It was initially determined that the body had been dead for more than three months.
The identity of the body is still being confirmed, and the police are matching it with the missing persons database. If the victim is a resident of Belfast, it will not take long to find out the identity.
Or not.
A police officer hurriedly ran out of the sickhouse manor and brought the latest information: the corpse's face was severely damaged, and there were no clothes or anything that could identify it. At the same time, it had been left for too long. Except for the latest corpse, the remaining three were found
The chance of identification is slim. The only way is to compare the time of death and the time of disappearance.
"You just said that the murderer named Richard has accomplices, are you sure?"
"Yes."
At the back of the police station carriage, Lu Li said to the two police officers who were recording statements in front of him.
Lu Li was leaning against the wall of the carriage, with a blanket wrapped around him. A senior police officer opposite him frowned.
Shen Yuqiao was squatting aside holding his backpack, while Anna was afraid of strangers and slipped back into the carriage, lying in front of the car window and looking pitifully here.
"Is a gang committing a crime... It's troublesome. It seems that the only way to start is from the suspect's family."
Forty minutes had passed since Lu Li called the police. The police car arrived at the 20th minute, and Lu Li, who had already crawled back to the ground through the underground window, was waiting at the gate and told the police all his experiences except the fat ghost.
The police officer put his hands on his hips and sighed as if he was much older: "It's been getting more and more unsettled recently. That incident just passed and something like this happened again... You don't need to remember this sentence."
The last words were said to the little police officer beside him who was taking notes.
Not sure what "that thing" refers to, Lu Li remained silent.
A steady drizzle began to fall from the sky, and the torches and oil lamps were surrounded by a layer of mist.
The other police officers were still searching in the hospital. The medical staff from the hospital had nothing to do for the time being. A nurse came over and asked: "Is anyone injured?"
The police officer heard this and pointed at Lu Li: "He's injured on the back of his head. Please take care of it."
"It's a small problem, just apply it when you go back." Lu Li waved his hand and refused. The blood on the back of his brain had dried up and the pain had eased.
Although as the heart beats, there will be a bulging feeling from time to time in the swelling on the back of the head.
The nurse didn't say anything. She glanced at Lu Li a few more times and turned back to the carriage.
Is he injured?
Not far away, Anna, who was hiding in the carriage to peek and eavesdrop, realized later and looked at Lu Li with her big eyes.
The police officer shrugged and looked at the hospital dormant under the night: "You are lucky to be able to escape in this situation and force the murderer away. We may be able to help you with what you want to investigate."
The relationship between the police and the detectives is somewhat tangled. The detectives are wandering in the gray area, doing illegal but legal activities. Moreover, they are well versed in the police's operational rules, and it is difficult to be discovered even if they violate the law - but
Unfortunately, they can help the police in certain situations and provide key clues.
Therefore, the two have always had an inseparable relationship. They cooperate with each other and conflict with each other.
The Night's Watch and The Exorcist are similar to them to some extent.
"No need, I've found it."
Lu Li took out the patient information found before the police arrived from his pocket and showed it so that the other party could see the writing on it clearly.
"Head! This guy has a gun!"
A nervous shout suddenly cut across the night sky, attracting the attention of those around him.
The police officer in charge of recording behind the police officer pointed at Lu Li's waist and yelled. At the same time, he quickly raised his hand to remove the baton from his waist. However, due to nervousness, he could not successfully remove it for several seconds.
The police officer's eyes fell on it, and his pupils shrank when he saw the silver rose reflecting in the firelight. He hurriedly reached out to stop his subordinate: "Idiot, this is a psychic gun!"
He apologized to Lu Li: "I'm sorry, Mr. Exorcist, my subordinate has just joined the job and is not clear about some of the rules."
"You don't have to be so polite." Lu Li nodded, put away the patient information, and covered the holster on his waist with his windbreaker.
He was indeed worried that the flintlock would be exposed and he would hide his identity, but it seemed that there was no need for it now.
Seeing that Lu Li did not have an attack, the police officer breathed a sigh of relief and asked tentatively: "But since you are an exorcist, does that mean the situation is not what you said before?"
"Not entirely." Lu Li replied calmly, showing no signs of panic after being exposed.
He told the story of the fat ghost again.
The police officer listened silently and exhaled a heavy breath: "Is that so... Do you think we need to contact the night watchman?"
"Frankly speaking, I have never had contact with the Night Watchmen." Lu Li replied, recalling what Richard was doing, and reminded: "But I suggest you inform them."
"Understood."
After confirming that Lu Li was an exorcist and that the case in the lunatic asylum was a supernatural incident, the police officer knew that this matter was beyond his control.
He signaled to Lu Li that he was going to contact his superiors, and Lu Li was ready to leave. The two parties returned to their respective carriages.
"Are you injured?" Anna came over, extremely nervous.
"Um."
"Wait a minute, I seem to have brought some medicine..."
Anna treated this commission as a trip, and before coming out, she brought a backpack with which Lu Li didn't know what was inside. She opened the backpack, rummaged through and found a small box of medical kits, unfolded it, and pulled out a band-aid.
“Where does the Band-Aid go?”
Lu Li didn't want to refute her good intentions, so he calmly replied: "Post it somewhere out of the way."
"Oh!" Shen Yuqiao closed the medical kit, put it back in his backpack and zipped it up. Shen Yuqiao stood up and approached Lu Li, and put a band-aid on...his forehead.
This band-aid placed in the drawer was painted with a color and pattern by Anna who had nothing to do a few days ago: pink bow style.
Lu Li said nothing, got out of the carriage with a pink band-aid on his forehead, sat outside the curtain, drove the carriage, and slowly left the front door.
At this time, a carriage with a Belfast newspaper logo slowly came from the end of the road and passed Lu Li's carriage.
However, the scene was almost over, and they didn't even get anything hot to eat.