Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 542 - 542 61

542: 61.

The Source of Human Pus 542: 61.

The Source of Human Pus “You’ve given us some inspiration, and next the Exorcist United Organization will consider whether we should collaborate with…” Rachel paused slightly, skipping words that would discomfort Anna, “whether humans should seek some help to combat the strange.”

“Is that difficult?” Lu Li countered.

Apart from himself, he had not met other exorcists who were relatively friendly and unbiased toward the strange — perhaps he had simply encountered too few exorcists.

“People never trust the strange, even those that were once human,” Rachel said, shaking her head softly.

Take Anna, for example.

Even if she did nothing, one day she would fall into the abyss due to the overflowing aura from the Inner World.

She should have fallen long ago, but for some reason, she maintained her nature, a certain kind of nature.

It was like no one believed that someone could forever maintain the innocence of a child, as it was impossible.

“Tristan?”

Lu Li remembered the previous regional head, that hefty man who had been turned into a follower by the Evil God.

“He disappeared just a few days ago,” Rachel said, taking a big gulp of her coffee as though it were a glass of wine.

“He wasn’t found at the discovered Evil God’s sacrificial site.

He might have gone to a more secret place, or perhaps he doesn’t want to be found by us.”

The topic was somewhat heavy, and having said that, Rachel fell silent.

“Aren’t you going to help?” Anna spoke up at this point, as members of the United Organization outside the window were busy with the aftermath.

“The Night Watch and the Demon Slayer Association sent guys who are better at this kind of thing than we are, even the Alliance is better than us.”

Possibly sensing Anna’s hidden hostility, Rachel said with a faint smile, “Don’t worry, Miss Wraith.

Although I’d like to savor the taste of love before everything arrives, I don’t fancy men who are too mysterious, or those with black hair.”

Anna didn’t reply.

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside; looking sidelong, Deputy Mayor Gerard was arguing with someone.

“You are joking with the lives of everyone in Belfast!”

The young man confronting him was relatively quiet, his calm voice hardly audible to Lu Li and others inside by the window.

But judging by Gerard’s reaction, he seemed quite upset, “I disagree!

The harbor is still crawling with Human Pus and their diseases.

You are creating a shipload of monsters!”

“The nobles don’t want to wait?

Do they know what happened here before?

Let them wait!”

The young man said something else, then turned and left, leaving only Gerard with a changing expression, his demeanor gloomy as he walked toward the coffee shop.

Dingling—dingling—

As the shop door was pushed open, the wind chimes behind it tinkled pleasantly.

Gerard removed his hat, bringing a burst of air as he sat across from Lu Li, and complained loudly, “It’s the mayor’s assistant, that foolish Trangkin Kashiou who actually wants to reopen the port today.”

“If it’s not the right time, the United Organization will stop him,” Rachel was not worried about a premature opening.

These things weren’t up to politicians.

“It had better be so.”

Gerard looked at Lu Li, slightly bowing his head in respect, “Mr.

Luli, what are your plans next?”

“To investigate some personal matters,” Lu Li responded.

“Now?” Gerard looked toward the street still shrouded in the Mist of Strangeness.

“We have less than two hours until dawn,” Rachel noted.

Gerard was speaking mostly next, and although he was the deputy mayor, he had no command authority within the United Organization and could only assist with some matters.

Soon, he sighed with a helpless frustration about the epidemic, stating that despite resolving the troubles at the port, they still couldn’t find the source of the epidemic.

“I might have a way,” Lu Li suddenly said.

“But we need to find living Human Pus, and it depends on luck.”

Rachel and Gerard looked at him attentively as Lu Li specified further requirements: he needed the Human Pus from the ship at the source of the epidemic.

“My ‘Redemption’ can trace back to the segments of death, if the Human Pus was infected by contact with something, I can see it.”

However, the hope was slim unless they could find Human Pus infected by the source itself, not by other Human Pus.

They decided to give it a try, with Gerard leaving first and Rachel following shortly after, leaving Lu Li alone in front of the coffee shop window.

“We’ve done enough already, you don’t need to do anything more,” Anna mildly objected to Lu Li’s decision, whose Sanity Value was dangerously low, on the verge of stepping into the abyss.

“I find the occurrence of Human Pus quite peculiar.”

Or rather, coincidental.

Anna quickly connected it with the person they were tracking: “Do you suspect that Richard is behind this?”

“That cruise ship didn’t just arrive full of tourists at the port; it was in the port taking on tourists to the Lennon Islands, so the source of the epidemic came from Belfast, from those who boarded there, someone caused the disease to spread.”

And before this, the city had not seen the epidemic.

Whether that person was Richard or not, his causing the spread of the epidemic clearly involved another plot.

Anna seemed to be calmed down and stopped talking.

About fifteen minutes later, the sound of gunfire began to echo unceasingly over the port.

The Exorcists had already begun clearing the Human Pus participants at the port.

Quietly waiting for a while, as the wall clock’s hour hand was about to stop at five, Deputy Mayor Gerard returned to the coffee shop, telling Lu Li that the roaming Human Pus at the port had almost been entirely eliminated, leaving only the source cruise ship.

Following Gerard back to the port, the burning flames everywhere seemed to be incinerating the port, but in reality, members of the United Organization were cleaning up the remains of the Human Pus.

If touched, they still retained lethal infectiousness.

“Those ships are difficult for us to prioritize cleaning; they will be towed out to the bay and scuttled after dawn,” said Gerard, wearing a Bird Beak Mask.

The loss caused by this was naturally hard to estimate, but it was better than harboring the epidemic to infect all continents, including the new home, Lennon Islands.

Granrite, manufactured by the Margaret Manufacturing Company from the Main Affinity Continent, a long-range cruise ship that could carry 1200 passengers and 700 crew members.

The incident occurred shortly after open boarding had begun, and fortunately, because a crew member noticed a colleague vomiting blood and experiencing skin changes, they quickly found the captain.

At this moment, Captain Occam of the Granrite was following alongside, explaining the events that unfolded afterward to Lu Li.

Even more fortunately, Captain Occam had experienced an epidemic transmission several years prior, which remained vivid in his memory, his suspicions about the condition of the passengers prompted him to order the crew to evacuate the surrounding passengers and contact the Police Station.

This action effectively prevented the epidemic from spreading further—at least not on a large scale.

About fifteen minutes later, when the Police Station and Night Watchmen arrived, the infected were “only” controlled to dozens and confined in the steerage.

Everything was developing towards a better scenario, but the situation Lu Li and others were experiencing at the moment was doomed not to end well.

The Mist of Strangeness that could destroy all their efforts was creeping in from the deep sea.