Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 513 - 513 Thirty-two

513: Thirty-two.

Leave 513: Thirty-two.

Leave The black cat lay quietly in a blanket spread out in the corner of the carriage.

Lu Li was driving the carriage outside, while Anna stared at the black cat grooming its fur, hesitating before extending her hand as if to touch a delicate flower, gently caressing the black cat’s paw.

The black cat lifted its head, sniffed Anna’s fingertips, then continued to clean its paws.

“Hmm…”

The flickering, scarlet pupils’ coldness faded, and Anna reached out another pair of hands, tentatively, to pick up the black cat.

The black cat’s lower body seemed to be glued to the blanket, and as Anna, who was supporting the black cat’s armpits, lifted higher and higher, the black cat stretched longer and longer—until it was fully hoisted.

Those disturbing red eyes narrowed slightly, and for the first time since becoming a ghost, Anna felt the weight of a living being.

At that moment, the moving carriage came to a stop.

A stranger’s inquiry came from outside the carriage, “Excuse me, is this Mr.

Lu Li’s?”

Seconds later, the voice continued, “The Police Station’s Richard has sent me to stop you, he says there’s a new discovery with his colleague who has gone mad, and he hopes you could go to the hospital to check, uh…

it’s Ward 913.”

“I will go.”

Anna gently placed the docile black cat back onto the blanket, concealed her form, and drifted out of the carriage, looking at the retreating figure, Anna drew back her gaze, “Could it be a new clue?”

“We’ll know when we get there.”

Just about to leave the Seaside Town, Lu Li gathered the reins and turned the carriage back around.

After asking a passerby for directions to the hospital, the crisp sound of horseshoes approached the hospital.

A few minutes later, the carriage stopped in front of a white three-story stone-brick building.

Lu Li stepped down from the carriage, ducking under the sheets hanging on the line and clean gauze bandages, and walked into the hospital corridor.

The familiar smell of disinfectant wafted from deep within the hallway, and Lu Li asked a passing nurse for the location of Ward 913.

“On the third floor to the left,” said the nurse, her gaze transfixed by Lu Li’s unusual black hair and eyes, she subconsciously asked, “Are you here to see Mr.

Richard from the Police Station?”

Sounding a bit strange, Lu Li corrected, “Richard mentioned that Unruh has woken up.”

The nurse showed a look of incomprehension, “But the patient is Richard…”

Whoosh—

She flipped through the patient list she carried, and with a puzzled expression said, “Mr.

Richard Federman, are you sure you got it right?”

“The one who went mad and is hospitalized here is Richard?” After a slight pause, Lu Li asked.

“Yes, Richard Federman has been here for two days now.”

“Alright, thank you for letting me know.”

Lu Li thanked her and the nurse waved off, saying it was nothing, then walked a short distance before turning back to look at Lu Li curiously.

The Richard who had been following Lu Li was the officer who had gone mad from reading the diary—from start to finish, this whole affair reeked of absurdity and strangeness.

How could a madman casually show up at the Police Station, take Lu Li and Anna back and forth around town, without any officer or townsfolk noticing anything odd?

Unless he had deceived everyone in town.

And the being with such power, harboring malicious intent towards Lu Li…

The invisible breath spread all around Lu Li, and Anna’s icy voice, devoid of emotion, echoed, “It’s that devil…”

Ever since Lu Li had entered the Spiritual House and became an Observer to the Spiritual Ritual, he had been marked by that devil.

“It probably doesn’t know we’ve discovered its true identity, we should find it, force it to reveal what it knows.”

“There’s no need,” Lu Li said softly, shaking his head as he looked up towards the staircase leading to the upper floors, then turned to walk out.

“If it wants to do something, let it come to find us on the Ailen Peninsula.”

Lu Li had no intention of accepting the devil’s invitation.

He needed to hurry and resolve the trouble with the Blood-Colored Tentacles before the situation worsened, and smoothly set sail from Belfast to Lennon Islands.

There was no need to get involved with a hellish visitor.

If the demon that killed Lady Merlin refused to let Lu Li go, then, as he said, they should find him at Ailen Peninsula.

Anna protected Lu Li as they returned to the carriage.

Lu Li lifted the carriage curtains to confirm the black cat was still inside the compartment, then took the reins and departed from the hospital.

Soon, Lu Li reached the spot where he had earlier turned around; nothing had happened, and the demon didn’t seem to be in pursuit, as if it was still waiting in the hospital, crafting its trap to ensnare Lu Li.

“Could the black cat be that demon?”

At the moment, Anna was wary of everything except for Lu Li.

“If the demon could be so real, our resistance would be in vain.”

Lu Li was certain that the black cat truly existed.

But if it was that demon…

it could easily play with Lu Li and Anna in the palm of its hand.

The carriage once again stopped at that spot, and as Anna watched, Lu Li called over a postman cycling past: “Could you help deliver a message?”

Lu Li handed the postman 10 Shillings.

“Of course, sir!

What would you like to say?” The young postman hopped off his bicycle, excited about the opportunity to earn some extra money.

“Go to the Police Station and find the investigator, tell her this is from Lu Li: ‘I’m being targeted by a demon, it should be at the hospital now, stay away from there.

If the United Organization has a way to deal with it, please contact them as soon as possible.'”

If the Exorcist’s United Organization could handle this matter, it would save Lu Li a lot of trouble.

“Uh…

of course, Sir…

I will pass on the message for you…” the postman stammered, hesitantly handing back the Shillings.

Lu Li calmly said, “This is what you’ve earned.”

“Thank you, Sir…

I’ll go to the Police Station right away!”

The postman hurriedly said, pocketing the Shillings and tipping his cap down before stepping on the pedals, he pushed off the cobblestone road and started to cycle quickly towards the Police Station.

“We should go, too.”

Watching the postman’s retreating figure, Lu Li pulled the reins and resumed his journey.

The black cat was still lying on the blanket, licking its fur; Anna paid it no mind, remaining vigilant of the passersby around her.

Lu Li maintained an unchanged calm, which Anna couldn’t understand why he was still so quiet.

“Door” “Blood-Colored Tentacles” “Hell”—each one was like the gaze of the abyss, causing Anna to feel oppressed and angry, and profoundly powerless.

Apart from fighting, she could only comfort Lu Li from other areas if he needed comfort: “What should we name the black cat?”

After a moment of silence, Lu Li’s voice arose.

“You choose the name.”

“Hmm…

how about Tree Hollow?”

That was the name of a pet owned by a couple in a romance novel, although it was a flying squirrel.

“Okay—”

Anna suddenly interrupted Lu Li: “Never mind…

let’s pick a good name for it later.”

She thought of Annie, and figured that Annie wouldn’t be happy with that name.

“Mm.”

Lu Li thought bringing the black cat was the right decision—Anna indeed started talking more.

In the afternoon, just before the sky darkened, the carriage left the Seaside Town, heading towards the Marsh Road that connected the mainland and the peninsula, along the outline of the Falling Leaves Mountain Range.

Behind the forest, two illusory Blood-Colored Tentacles dropped and swayed.

Lu Li raised his eyes to watch them, muttering to himself in a low voice.

“Hopefully they made it to Belfast.”