Sparse candlelight shines from some residential windows, but most windows are dark. In a world where darkness equals danger, this often means that no one lives inside.
No. 103 Oak Street, where the client lives. Under the tall courtyard wall, a carriage parked quietly not far away. The windows of the houses behind the courtyard wall were dark and not a single light was on.
"Are you late...or is it already over?"
Outside the carriage, Lu Li was holding an oil lamp and whispering.
The former means that the client has been killed, and the latter means that other exorcists have taken the lead.
Anna failed to understand the difference between the two and sat aside with her head tilted.
"Can you feel the similar aura inside?" Lu Li asked, tilting his head.
"I can't feel it..." Anna shook her head gently.
This shows two things. There are no ghosts inside, or the ghosts inside are stronger than Anna.
The former can almost be ruled out, that is to say...
Lu Li did not rush in. During this quiet observation, time passed quietly.
“The radiance of God shines over the world, and so does the radiance of money~”
Suddenly at a certain moment, a soft hum sounded from far away in the street, approaching slowly.
Lu Li's eyes fell on the rear of the car. In the darkness, a figure holding an oil lamp staggered over, humming something, like a drunkard who had just returned from a tavern.
But the voice was very familiar. Just a few hours ago, Lu Li had talked a lot with the owner of the voice... and gave him 1,000 shillings by the way.
The humming gradually became quieter, and Hades, who had walked more than ten miles at midnight to save money, noticed the carriage in front of him and the figure under the oil lamp beside the carriage.
"Hide your breath."
Lu Li told Anna that he was not sure what the local exorcist's attitude was towards ghosts.
On the other side, Hades no longer staggered when walking, and walked towards the carriage suspiciously until he saw the figure sitting on it clearly——
"Why are you here!?" Hades exclaimed, spreading far away in the quiet street, and then instantly changed his attention: "Are you stealing my business!?"
I didn’t expect that the competitor Marcus was talking about was Hades...but it does make sense. A guy like Hades who regards wealth as his life is indeed a good match for Marcus.
"Rather than grabbing business, we'd better find the client first." Because they were acquaintances, Lu Li put down his guard.
The client is the mistress of the house, but there is no one here, there is no light, and things are weird.
Hades came to his senses and ran towards the door as if something bad had happened. Lu Li didn't want to miss the opportunity to make money and save people, so he followed behind.
Hades, who was the first to run onto the street, rushed to the iron gate next door. He pulled the iron gate a few times, but when he saw that the door was locked and could not be opened, he climbed up the wall.
The leather shoes stepped on several protrusions in the wall, and Hades climbed up the wall with some flexibility and jumped behind the wall.
After all, he was old. After climbing over, he was slightly out of breath. When he saw that there was no light in the window, his heart tightened.
"I hope no one is here..."
"How could there be no one? The client's family is inside." Lu Li, who followed closely behind, pushed open the door and walked into the yard, his dark eyes unruffled under his furrowed eyebrows.
Lu Li briefly held the psychic gun, and the moment of contact allowed him to "see" that the entire house was enveloped in a hazy aura like mist.
Without even bothering to ask Lu Li how to open the iron door, Hades' expression suddenly changed: "Oops!"
He tried to push the door open, but unfortunately the door was locked inside and wouldn't budge.
Before he came up with the idea of a window, Lu Li called Anna and asked her to go in and open the door.
Anna stole a glance at Hades, who was no longer behind the door.
Hades looked at Lu Li in surprise: "Ghost!?"
"Yeah." Lu Li spoke concisely and had no intention of explaining.
After the words fell, the door made a click sound and was slowly pushed open. Anna floated out from behind the dark door.
Hades didn't care about Anna's identity for the time being. Like Lu Li, he reached out and pressed the handle of the gun at his waist, raised the oil lamp and walked through the door. He was wearing a top hat and looked like a police sergeant preparing to handle a case.
"Don't stay too far away from me after you go in." Lu Li stared at Hades' back and followed him through the door. He held the handle of the gun in his hand, ready to pull out the psychic gun at any time.
"anyone there!"
The shadow of the oil lamp swayed, and Hades looked around slowly, lowering his body and moving forward slowly.
Lu Li stood upright behind him, and Anna had a curious look on her face. She looked like she was shopping alone instead of exploring a dangerous house.
Walking a few meters along the dark corridor, an open door appeared in sight.
Hades walked through the dark room next to him and raised his oil lamp to shine inside. At the edge of the darkness, the outline of a piano appeared.
After observing, Hades withdrew his gaze and continued to move forward.
Passing another open door, Hades raised the oil lamp again. The bed was empty, the quilt was lifted, and the sheets were in disorder. This was a bedroom.
Continuing forward, after walking a few meters, Hades suddenly stopped and looked solemn.
He held the handle of the oil lamp in his mouth, put his free left hand into his arms, and held a strange black dead branch.
"This is……"
The black dead branches seemed to be some kind of homologue. Hades holding it seemed to be sensing something and observing his surroundings.
"Anna, take off the wallpaper."
Lu Li suddenly spoke up.
Anna nodded obediently, and suddenly a strong wind surged around her, spreading to the entire corridor.
The strong wind blew the hair tips, and there was a certain cold atmosphere in it, sweeping around.
Fragments of confetti were flying all over the sky, falling from overhead.
"This..." Hades had already let go of the dead branch. Through the scattered debris, he could clearly see everything behind the wallpaper, and his face was horrified.
Thick black and red lines as thick as an arm extend disorderly on the wall, like children's graffiti, rich, deep, and piled up layer by layer. They are everywhere on the ceiling and walls, extending under the wallpaper.
A black silhouette appeared at the location of the previous hole.
The silhouettes of a family of three holding hands, looking happy and happy, appear on the wall in a very uncomfortable way.
Hades stared at the strange black silhouette of hands holding hands, a cold current penetrated his mind from his back, and he shouted in horror: "It's a talisman!"
"Sigil?"
Lu Li stared at the black silhouette of the family of three and tilted his head slightly.
"Patterns with strange powers...those lines are imprints, and the whole house has been painted with sigils!"
"so?"
"The talisman has another layer of space. I have to destroy it, otherwise the ghost in the wall will come out!"
Hades said with a stern expression. He took out the dead branch again and lowered his head to bite the bark.
Lu Li noticed that there were bite marks all over the dead branches.
Hades painfully swallowed a piece of bark the size of a fingernail, and hideous veins suddenly appeared on his face. He backed away all the way, back to the piano room they passed before. Hades rushed into the room, raised his head and shouted to Lu Li: "
I want to break the talisman, but I can't protect you, so you and your ghost had better get out as soon as possible."
"Um."
Hades could obviously be solved, so Lu Li turned around and walked out of the room without hesitation.
When he reached the door, Lu Li stopped and turned back: "Do you need to close the door?"
A pitch-dark piano room came into view, with no light or people in sight.