Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 514 - 514 Thirty-three

514: Thirty-three.

Uninvited Guest 514: Thirty-three.

Uninvited Guest Silent Mountains, the carriage traveled alone on a desolate trail.

As the sky grew darker, a figure peered out of the carriage, hanging an oil lamp on the compartment, then ducked back inside.

Conversations drifted from the slightly ajar carriage door.

“What does it eat?”

“Usually the same as us.”

“But it didn’t eat that piece of bread.”

“It will eat when it’s hungry.”

“Are you hungry?”

“Not yet.”

After a while, Lu Li emerged from the carriage, taking the reins to steer.

Lu Li looked back at the road they had come from, the last glimmer of twilight disappearing, and darkness chased up from behind the carriage.

To save time and to stay as far away as possible from the hellish visitors of the Seaside Town, they needed to travel at night to return to Ailen Peninsula.

By this time, the devil in the hospital must have known Lu Lili had left.

It had not yet appeared; perhaps it decided to spare Lu Lili, or perhaps it was lurking in the shadows, waiting for its chance.

Regardless, Anna, who sat beside Lu Lili manifesting her ghostly form and releasing a resentful aura, would protect Lu Lili from harm.

“Meow~”

A cat’s meow sounded between them, and a black cat squeezed out from the gap in the carriage door, unreservedly climbing onto Lu Lili’s lap, curled up comfortably on the warm legs.

“It is like you,” Lu Lili and Anna’s gaze fell on the black cat, Anna’s eyes lowered, the carriage’s oil lamp casting light on her side profile, seemingly sketching a smile.

“The same color and calmness.”

Lu Lili said nothing, releasing one hand that held the reins, shielding the cat from the night wind blowing in front of the carriage.

Anna, weightlessly leaning on Lu Lili, looked up at the night sky, devoid of bright stars, only endless darkness merged with the earth, pervading the world outside the carriage.

It was so lonely it seemed as if only the two of them, and one cat, remained in the world.

And what was reflected in Lu Lili’s black pupils, softly rustling hidden within the carriage, projected from the Inner World.

This odd, engulfing silence lasted for half an hour until broken by a prolonged line of fire stretching across the road ahead.

“What is that?”

Too far to discern, Anna could only guess that those were carriages on the road.

But why were there so many carriages here?

“Marsh Road must have reopened,” Lu Lili said.

They were coming from other cities, gathering together, passing through this only road towards Belfast.

Knight retinues with Spirit-Calling Guns and watchmen patrolled along the convoy, warding off any peculiarities that might approach.

The immigrant craze to the Lennon Islands was clearly intensifying.

Predictably, in the long term, the flow of people towards the Lennon Islands would keep increasing until the sea became an impenetrable forbidden zone.

However, with the grand convoy, the night could be slightly less worrisome.

The lone carriage traveling along the mountain range quickly joined this convoy, no longer needing vigilant watch, Lu Lili, holding the black cat, and Anna, who faded from sight, returned to the carriage.

Approaching midnight, this migrating caravan of carriages entered Leaf Fall Town.

The soon-to-be-abandoned Leaf Fall Town seemed to burst into its last splendor, all town residents were awake, readying goods and food to resupply the convoy.

Or taking everything they could and joining the convoy to leave the place.

Back outside, Lu Lili amid the bustling crowd saw the Knight Captain and his knights maintaining order, too busy to notice Lu Lili who passed just a few meters away, then fading into the distance.

Anna, floating within the void, sat beside Lu Li.

She knew that as time passed, such lively scenes would be hard to see again.

Just as they were about to leave Leaf Fall Town, a shouting figure ran from behind the caravan and reached Lu Li’s carriage under the curious gazes of the people around.

Lu Li stopped the carriage and looked down at the small boy in a brown robe.

“My master asked me to give this to you, it can protect you from demons,” the little boy said, handing a bracelet set with precious gems to Lu Li.

“Who is your master?” Lu Li did not take the bracelet.

“A venerable priest,” the boy, or rather the priest’s retinue, said, looking up proudly.

“May I speak with him?”

The young retinue shook his head, “I believe my master does not want to meet you, which is why he sent me with this.”

“Then convey my thanks to him.”

After a pause, Lu Li took the bracelet and watched as the boy’s figure disappeared between the carriages.

“Is it someone from the United Organization who received the message or just a passerby?” Anna asked.

“Neither.”

Lu Li replied and suddenly threw the bracelet into the withered bushes by the roadside.

Before the perplexed Anna could say anything, a shadow, blending into the night, burst out of the bushes at a much faster speed and charged at Lu Li.

An indistinct gloomy aura unfolded, enveloping Lu Li.

Yet the bracelet heading straight for him did not hit him.

It stopped in front of the carriage, releasing a sinister black mist with a hint of sulfur smell, solidifying into the figure of a middle-aged man in a striped suit and bald.

“What is that?!”

“My God—”

“Run!

It’s a monster!

Run!”

The sight panicked the onlookers who screamed and fled, turning carriages that clogged the road, forcing people to abandon their vehicles and run into the distance.

The panic spread to the outer perimeters.

“Ha!”

Anna, constraining the air around the demon, stretched out her palm.

A several meters long invisible spear formed, sharply leaving marks in the air, instantly piercing through the solid figure and flying a hundred meters into the Falling Leaves Mountain Range.

A massive rumbling sound emanated from the dark mountain range, accompanied by the creaking of falling trees and the cries of startled birds.

The middle-aged figure stiffened, lowered its head in shock, and looked at the fist-sized hole in its chest.

“You…”

It pointed unbelievably at Anna, its form starting to fall backward—

But in the next moment, it stood up straight again, its palm passing over the hole in its chest, and when it moved away, the chest and the clothes were completely restored.

It grinned with an exaggerated smile: “Little Ghost, do not wield your laughable feeble power in front of the devil.”

“How about this then?”

Anna’s expression turned colder, her hair fluttering, distorted shadows extending from her feet.

Suddenly, a fierce wind emerged around the self-proclaimed devil, forming a tornado-like swirling vortex, its sharp winds slicing through the figure’s body, shredding it within the whirlwind.

Sand and gravel flew, horses nearby screamed, dragging their carriages away from the dusty area.

Lu Li and the carriage were shielded by a transparent protective shield while in the eye of the storm, the torn figure suddenly stepped forward, walking toward the edge of the whirlwind.

“I said…”

The face, revealing bloody flesh, suddenly transformed into a terrifying skull ablaze with black flames, issuing an angry roar.

The spreading sound waves easily shredded the swirling whirlwind like a piece of paper.

“Do not wield that laughable power in front of the devil!”