Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 575 - 575 Ninety-four

575: Ninety-four.

Accident 575: Ninety-four.

Accident His hair was meticulously groomed back, and his exquisite black tailcoat was immaculate.

If one ignored those eyes darker than Lu Li’s, occupying all the whites, he’d resemble a refined middle-aged nobleman.

The closer the devil got to Lu Li, the greater the resistance he experienced.

Layers of ethereal arms tugged at the figure, shattering and reemerging.

But this only delayed the devil’s movements, as he steadfastly walked towards Lu Li.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

The devil, a dozen meters away, tilted his head with his lips curling to reveal rotten black teeth.

“To the place I should be,” Lu Li said, telling himself that he’d already woken up.

His soul suddenly became weightless, like floating dust.

His toes left the ground and drifted upward.

The devil, approaching closely, momentarily reined in his sinister smile.

He quickened his pace, rushed to Lu Li, and reached out to grab him but only tore a piece of the coat’s fabric.

“You…

dare to mock me…”

The fabric in the gaunt hand turned to ash, and the devil’s pale cheeks trembled with rage as a wicked, intense terror suddenly burst forth.

The ethereal arms shattered in an instant, blowing Richard back several meters.

He landed heavily, tumbling awkwardly several times.

“Cough, cough, cough, cough…”

Choking, Richard got up and squinted upward.

The devil, like a cannonball from a ship, shot into the sky, catching up with Lu Li in midair, leveling with him.

Gaunt hands extended from his sleeve, reaching for Lu Li’s neck.

But an unseen force blocked the devil, preventing his hand from getting closer to Lu Li.

Lu Li closed his eyes, continuously muttering “wake up and return” internally, indifferent to what was happening.

Whoosh!

The devil’s sleeve suddenly burst into flames, quickly turning to ashes.

His arms shook violently, and the evil presence burst forth once again, yet it only stopped his hand a few centimeters away from Lu Li’s soul, unable to get any closer.

Even being the devil, the utmost being of Hell, he couldn’t retain the soul of someone not yet dead.

“Oh—how lame—can’t even keep a soul.”

Just then, a chorus of booing and hissing came from below.

The devil abruptly looked down, descending toward Richard, who was staring up at the scene, thumbs turned downward.

His snarling face reappeared, and the devil, exposing up to his elbow, abruptly aimed his hand at Richard below.

An irresistible force emerged, and with a shriek, Richard was pulled into the air, his neck landing in the palm.

“Do you know who you are speaking to, you foolish, feeble human soul?”

The devil, paying no more attention to the rising Lu Li, tilted his head and whispered, bringing Richard close.

Near the devil, Richard felt as if he were plunged into icy, bone-chilling seawater, the surging cold making it hard to breathe.

However, the devil soon released his pervasive aura, and those obstructing ethereal hands reappeared.

He gave Richard a chance to speak.

After all, this was but an ant-like spirit to him, exuding a difficult-to-swallow aura.

“Ugh, it reeks…

When was the last time you brushed your teeth?

They’re all rotten…” Richard’s initial reaction was to pinch his nose, his face full of disgust.

Then he suddenly realized something, his expression frozen, “Wait?

You want to kill me?”

“Think!

Again!

No one can kill me!

No one!

Only I can kill me!”

Spittle flew as he roared, Richard’s head thrown back, then smashing heavily into the devil facing him.

Just as the devil couldn’t approach Lu Li, who didn’t belong here, Richard couldn’t approach Hell’s mightiest breed, and his fate was even worse.

Without even a scream, Richard disintegrated into nothingness in an instant.

The devil still maintained its rigid posture of choking the throat, gradually, the flesh on its cheeks trembling with anger, the amplitude becoming more exaggerated.

It slowly raised its head, looking up at Lu Li’s soul in the sky.

It could clearly see the pair of black eyes slightly lifting, gaze falling upon itself, indifferent yet calm.

Perhaps it was the angle, or perhaps it was real, but Lu Li’s gaze from above made the devil feel a long-lost, sanity-stripping mockery.

“Do you think you can escape my domain…?”

The devil grimly stared at the black speck that was Lu Li, tilting its head and whispering lowly.

The dark red clouds surged like a hurricane, lightning streaking through them.

The ground began to tremble, and the long-silent volcano suddenly erupted with scorching magma.

This horrific scene seemed like the doomsday apocalypse out of Revelation.

“Stay…”

The entire space began to tremble, the deafening whispers echoing across the sky.

The clouds surged like molten lava, forming a face hundreds of meters wide that mirrored the devil’s facial features up in the air.

Lightning flickered within the facial features, those intensely solid black eyes stared down at Lu Li, its mouth opening wide, attempting to swallow the insignificant speck of Lu Li in comparison.

“STAY!!!”

The devil on the ground roared angrily, its body becoming extremely ethereal, as if it could disappear at any moment.

This was still just an avatar of the devil.

The hundreds of meters wide skull roared as well, swallowing the black speck in the sky and closing its mouth.

Everything seemed to end with that scene, the devil’s skull formed in the sky slowly dissipating, and then, an unchanged black speck soared upwards, reappearing.

Lu Li, who did not belong to this hell, had not been intercepted by the powers of this hell.

The nearly transparent devil seemed to calm down, looking up as Lu Li left hell.

It had exhausted the power of this avatar.

Even if it did nothing, it would completely dissipate within tens of seconds.

The devil failed to capture a soul that had invaded hell.

The soul rising faster and faster, piercing through the clouds.

Lu Li even began to feel a pain in his neck and a faint sensation of suffocation, which gradually became clear.

Suddenly, a change occurred.

The returning Lu Li was as if entering a dark, lightless place filled with hushed whispers, a bizarre locale.

Only that his soul this time was naked as if naked, instantly impacted by those outermost wandering consciousnesses.

He had no power to resist, bowing his head and losing consciousness.

“Is it about to descend…?

It’s time to hide.”

The devil quietly watched this scene, murmuring softly.

For a moment, its gaze fell on Lu Li starting to fall.

“It seems you’re destined not to leave here…

My children will follow my mark, find you, and bring you back to me…”

As the devil’s murmur rose, among the arms that appeared around it, one unmatching limb emerged—a mouth.

The mouth opened and closed, releasing Richard’s final mocking laugh, resonating around the Meteorite Crater.

“Oh, please, you can’t even keep this bastard, and you think your worthless sons can?”

Hiss—

The mouth along with the surrounding limbs evaporated, and the devil’s avatar also vanished along with them in this mountain range.

Only Lu Li emerged from the dark red clouds, unconscious, plunging into the Meteorite Crater.