Bizarre Detective Agency - Chapter 1424

Chapter 1424 Sixty-six. Along the footsteps

No one doubted Lu Li.

In the long years and experiences, Lu Li has practiced his ability with actions. The so-called “people will make mistakes” does not exist in Lu Li who is crowned with honor.

Compared to “Maybe Lu Li’s perception is wrong”, they prefer to believe that an unknown accident happened.

“This is good news… We have more time.” The Swamp Mother whispered, “The third alchemy tower will be handed over to me.”

Still, the silence of the swamp is unsettling—it won’t sit still and wait for the Lightlands to seal it away.

“Where are we going next?” Claire asked with her head down.

“It’s not us, it’s me.” Lu Li reached out to remove Claire.

“We! We! We! We!” Claire spread her wings and lay on top of Lu Li’s head like protecting an egg.

“You still need a guide.” Kris said for her daughter.

“Good sister.” Claire waved her wings to her mother.

Lu Li had no choice but to take Claire, ask Chris about the location of the Weird Forest, hand over Midnight City to them, and head to the last forbidden place.

Swamps, rotten sewers and weird jungles.

Lu Li used his own cognition to stereotype them into wilderness, events and evil spirits. It helps to understand their rules.

The swamp is like a wilderness, full of dangers, and the dangers come from the surroundings.

The rotten sewer is like an event, and you need to face weird and weird situations.

The weird jungle is like an evil spirit. If you know its rules, then you are safe.

To a certain extent, the Weird Forest is safer for Lu Li than the rotten sewer—there is no precedent to prove that the rotten sewer will treat him as one of his own after obtaining the crown of knowledge, especially if Lu Li obtained it from the illusion. But the Weird Forest Luli is only allowed to obey its rules—and even if they don’t, humanity and the Tree Whisperer will make the Weird Forest close.

“We might be able to find survivors in the weird jungle.”

“You said the same thing when the sewers were rotten.”

The vast dark field passed by underfoot. The strange group of people wriggling like bacteria, the slightly larger leaders and evil gods like ants or insects reminded Lu Li of the ant box and sand table theory.

The result is that there are no traces of any survivors in the rotten sewers—although those survivors escaped the fall of the night city, they were isolated and helpless so that they died one after another on the way to the nearby **** towns, rotten sewers, and curses.

Some of them became part of the rotten sewer, but also lost themselves.

“Do you remember the curse of the swamp?” Lu Li asked suddenly.

“‘Deep Yellow Poison’? Mother has already prepared.”

At least they won’t let the swamp pollute them with the curse again.

The so-called “Dark Yellow Poison” is the chief culprit for the silent disappearance of the Midnight City—most of the survivors outside the Deep Night City suffered bad luck at the same time.

What did Lu Li think of: “Is there any legacy treasure in Midnight City?”

“I’ll tell you if there is any.” Claire replied.

A canyon-like straight crack appeared in the distance.

Lu Li landed on the edge of the weird jungle.

Like an ant under a tree root raising its head, each of those terrifying giant trees is like an alchemy tower, with twisted and strangely shaped lush branches covering the sky, forming a dark forbidden place.

Lu Li released the cursed title, but it wasn’t the dreamer, but the tree whisperer that only permeated his body. The saplings whose canopy was only higher than Lu Li cast pure white light, just like before.

Claire wanted to land on the branch curiously, and then passed directly through Annie’s phantom, almost fell, shaking her head to catch up with the extended grass.

Like an elf in a fairy tale breaking into a dark forest——Lu Li walking on the humus among the giant trees gave Claire this feeling.

“How do you summon the consciousness of the weird jungle?”

“Like it happened before.”

Lu Li, who maintained the Tree Whisperer, released the dreamer and ascended into the sea of ​​trees that covered the clouds.

The tangled and twisted branches squirmed and faded away as Lu Li approached, as if they were afraid of light. They were close but not pious—the Tree Whisperer just made Lu Li equal to them. But Lu Li didn’t feel the existence of consciousness from it.

Maybe this place is located at the edge of the forest, and the weird dense forest can hardly respond to Lu Li’s call.

He wants to go deeper.

Continue to move forward, the halo behind him gradually fades away. About 10 miles away, a forest hut appeared in front of the side with its back against a giant tree.

It is unlikely that there will be survivors here, and as Lu Li imagined, this forest hut not far from the exit is empty, with only charcoal and ashes left in the stove, and the firewood basket next to it is empty.

After a short search, Lu Li left the hut and went to the second hut in the depths.

“Did you come out along this road?” Claire twittered on Lu Li’s head, “What happened?”

“That book is very detailed.”

“Which book, “The Sunken Land”? I want to hear you talk~ Tell me, tell me~”

Claire’s noise became the only sound in this dark and quiet place.

The second forest hut appeared, Lu Li walked in, and Claire suddenly jumped out with an exclamation: “Here is a note!”

Lu Li also saw it, and stretched out his hand, and Claire dropped the note back into his palm.

【There is not enough firewood…the last hut has no firewood, I don’t know what happened outside, now I have to go inside…】

Time in the Weird Forest is approaching a standstill, Lu Li has no way of knowing how long this note has been around, and the stove has already cooled down.

Lu Li continued to move forward, and found the note at the third hut.

【I don’t know what’s going on outside, I can’t go back… If anyone replenishes the firewood, I haven’t heard any news after seeing this note… Come and save me with firewood】

Lu Li tried to contact the consciousness deep in the canopy here, but he was still too far away to call.

Following the footsteps of the unknown remnants to the fourth wooden house, there is still a note.

【I met another group of survivors, they actually burned firewood to keep warm… can’t blame them, they don’t know what’s going on outside, and neither do I. There is not enough firewood left for us to go back, we must move on. But if the next hut is not enough, go to the next hut, if the next hut is not enough… hope luck is on our side]

Lu Li came to the next wooden house, there was also a note here.

【Not enough】

Then there is the next wooden house.

【Not enough】

Go down to the next wooden house.

【Not enough】

Lu Li realized at this moment that they couldn’t go back.

They may also realize that they hope to be swallowed up bit by bit.

On the edge of the deep forest, the wooden houses here have not yet been built, and there are some shins and leg bones scattered around the wooden houses with missing roofs and one wall.

An ax looks like an arrow on the city wall embedded in a giant tree behind the wooden house, and a hand bone hangs from the handle of the axe.

The last piece of paper is sandwiched between the wooden boards of the wooden house:

【We are fighting among ourselves. They stay, we go on. They were right…we were wrong, the hut here is not built, we can’t get out]

Their hope turned into despair at this moment.

(end of this chapter)