Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 521 - 521 Forty

521: Forty.

The so-called “redemption 521: Forty.

The so-called “redemption Fragmented souls hardly counted as ghosts, they didn’t even possess consciousness, merely lingering around Lu Li by instinct.

Lu Li pushed aside the gun holster and grasped the handle of the Redemption Gun.

The moment he drew the Spirit-Calling Gun and the Sanity Value Counter clicked, he threw it toward the drifting fragmented soul.

Even ghosts couldn’t withstand the embodiment of redemption.

The fragmented soul melted like snow, disappearing completely.

The Spirit-Calling Gun traced an arc before clanging onto the deck.

Perhaps because the soul was not whole, there was no Death Retrace.

Lu Li frowned slightly.

As the fragmented soul vanished, he suddenly felt as though he had gained something and yet gained nothing.

Having no time to sense what he had gained, Lu Li looked up at the shell held aloft by Anna.

More fragmented souls emerged from the shells of the crew and passengers.

Like the first fragmented soul, sensing the presence of a living being, they drifted towards Lu Li and gathered around the protective shield set up by Anna.

“I’ll use the Spirit-Calling Gun,” Anna said, the previous rapid clicking sounds having been too much for her to bear.

Anna’s aura reached for the Spirit-Calling Gun, but like the earlier fragmented soul, it dissolved the moment it touched it.

Even vengeful spirits couldn’t resist the fully blossomed redemption of the rose.

Anna, completely releasing her aura, might have been able to lift the Spirit-Calling Gun, but she hesitated to reveal too much of her Soul Projection in front of Lu Li.

After a moment, she walked towards the Spirit-Calling Gun, seemingly wanting to physically contact the redemption.

“Use this.”

Lu Li took off the gun holster and tossed it to Anna: “Put it in the holster, then throw it.”

Although this was not the correct way to use the Spirit-Calling Gun and might damage the gun itself due to the fall…

it was the method with the smallest consequences.

Lu Li was hardly in a state to afford the cost of continuously using redemption for even half a minute.

Anna did as Lu Li said, storing the Spirit-Calling Gun in the holster, wrapping the aura around the lingering fragmented souls, gathering them together, then throwing the Spirit-Calling Gun.

Whether one fragmented soul or dozens, at the moment of contact, they turned to nothingness, as if they had never existed.

The instant they dispersed, something granted mystically through the branded redemption, fed back into Lu Li’s body.

Both Lu Li and Anna felt a trace of vitality emanating within their bodies.

This might be the ability of the third rose, the so-called “redemption.”

Anna felt it more profoundly than Lu Li.

As a soul, she clearly sensed that Lu Li now felt to her like a tree with burgeoning, flourishing branches and leaves.

Before now, Lu Li had felt no different from anyone else to her.

“It should be a good thing, like…” Anna didn’t continue.

Living longer now had no meaning.

Packing up the Spirit-Calling Gun, Anna dispelled her power and lowered the completely dead shells.

Lu Li turned back and looked towards the upper deck where the blood-colored tentacles dangled.

There, several more shells harboring fragmented souls were rigidly walking towards them.

Lu Li took the initiative to walk towards the upper deck, while Anna struggled a bit, dealing with the fragmented souls in the shells one by one — she could have completely overwhelmed these souls with her aura.

Every fragmented soul shattered by the Spirit-Calling Gun brought a trivial bit of vitality to Lu Li.

It might have been little, but there were many more shells on the ship…

Stepping onto the upper deck, Lu Li walked all the way to the Captain’s Cabin where the blood-colored tentacles hung.

The solidified, almost tangible blood-colored tentacles fell onto the mahogany floor, the host not being on this level.

“Below?”

Anna asked, and upon receiving Lu Li’s confirmation, she bade Lu Li to move back to the edge of the Captain’s Cabin and raised her finger, lightly tracing a circle on the floor.

Fine, thread-like traces appeared on the surface of the floor, connecting end-to-end into irregular ovals.

As Anna gently lifted her palm, this several-meters-long and wide thick floor was lifted up, shattering the window as it flew onto the deck.

Anna picked up the oil lamp on the table and lit it, controlling it as it descended into the dim space below the floor.

The blood-colored tentacles sank into the lower floor but still weren’t on this level.

Many muddled footsteps echoed from the cabin below, sensing the threat, the monsters were controlling more shells to move toward Lu Li.

“Let’s go to the cabin, the host should be there.”

Lu Li said, exiting the captain’s cabin and returning to the deck with Anna.

As far as the eye could see, a continuous stream of shells emerged from the dark cabin.

They could hardly stop Lu Li’s steps, Anna dealing with them like a farmer reaping wheat—she used a scythe to cut the wheat at the roots to sever its connection with the earth, then stripped the husks to retrieve the grains.

The blood-colored tentacles that had entered the ship’s body hadn’t changed location, which led to some speculation in Lu Li’s mind.

Perhaps the originator of everything was the tentacle host itself…

Carrying the oil lamp, Lu Li walked into the cabin and witnessed what Anna had described as “the walls covered with living flesh.”

Vine-like blood vessels crawling on the walls and ceiling of the cabin attempted to attack Lu Li but could barely breach the outer layer of protection.

The continuous stream of shells only slightly slowed Lu Li’s pace.

The weak monsters that occupied this passenger ship were boring to Anna—perhaps she was simply too powerful.

Lu Li remained silent, with each step he took, several lifeless figures fell.

This small passenger ship that should have carried five hundred crew and passengers now had only one human, Lu Li, and all life aboard had perished under the monster’s invasion.

Then the residual souls in the shells turned into nourishment for Lu Li.

As he approached the door of the dining hall in the lower cabin, the last figure in his field of vision fell.

At that moment, the aura Lu Li emitted gave Anna a feeling akin to a towering tree full of life.

His vigorous vitality even caused some unusual resistance in Anna, who was a vengeful spirit.

Was Lu Li’s body becoming resistant to the monsters?

This discovery delighted Anna, and she was eager to share her findings with Lu Li.

At the same time, however, she sensed an obscure aura emanating from the dark depths ahead.

Lu Li’s steps also stopped.

The oil lamp’s light reached the edge, and a vague human figure wrapped in a massive cluster of flesh that occupied the dining room appeared, resembling a skinned human.

Disgusting blood-red vessel roots extended outward from the flesh, forming what they had seen along the way, the flesh covering the walls.

In Lu Li’s eyes, the blood-colored tentacles hung down onto its forehead.

“We… can talk…”

The blood-colored figure’s mouth opened and closed, a muffled and indistinct voice echoed in the dining hall.

Lu Li took the gun holster from Anna’s hand.

Sensing the indifference in Lu Li’s eyes, the monster, still with its wits, threatened, “I know many secrets, and I know what you’ve done.

If you kill me, you’ll never—”

Bang!

The loud noise deafeningly reverberated through the dining hall.

The head of the blood-colored figure exploded, and the obscure aura dissipated.

The hanging blood-colored tentacles gradually faded and disappeared from Lu Li’s sight.

Anna looked at Lu Li in astonishment.

“I don’t intend to talk to it.”

Lu Li lowered his arm, his expression calm as he replied.