Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 619 - 619 138

619: 138.

Gray Fog, Arena 619: 138.

Gray Fog, Arena The investigator headed to the Tashufik region to conduct a ground excavation investigation.

During that time, two incidents occurred: Several workers’ wives or brothers and an Exorcist tried to enter the fog.

Before his disappearance, the Exorcist had claimed he hadn’t felt any evil presence from the fog, only a sense of unease and emptiness.

Another incident happened after the disappearance of the Exorcist, when a grieving worker’s wife climbed into the hoist leading to the bottom of the excavation site, wanting to die with her husband.

By the time the excavation site guards reacted, the hoist had already plunged deep into motion.

They tried to pull the hoist back, and to their astonishment, they discovered the worker’s wife still inside, trembling and clutching her knees.

The next day, the investigator arrived, who was the brother of Keg Fla.

He questioned the terrified worker’s wife and received only fragmented information, such as after entering the fog, the surroundings seemed empty, as if from far below echoed the roars of beasts, along with the whispering voices of many people gathered together.

Already aware that entering the fog from other places could be dangerous, Keg Fla’s brother chose to enter the fog’s range via the hoist.

In order to replicate the worker’s wife’s experience to the highest degree, he even refrained from bringing an oil lamp and had himself sent into the fog on the hoist.

The investigator, like the previously disappeared Exorcist and worker’s wife, first felt an emptiness inside, where even the slightest sound could trigger a valley-like echo that reverberated far and wide.

The extremely low visibility in the fog also made it hard for him to see a dozen meters ahead.

The investigator felt as if he had entered another world inside the fog.

An empty, silent world devoid of life.

He had to stay as quiet as possible, listening to the sounds within the mist.

The investigator began to hear many people’s whispering voices eerily echoing.

The source seemed to be below yet was uncertain.

As the hoist went deeper into the fog, the whispering voices soon were replaced by what the worker’s wife described as “beast-like roars.” To the investigator, these seemed more like the sounds made by many strange beings.

They echoed from a deep abyss far below the hoist.

The hoist progressed to about three hundred meters, and the strange noises gradually faded, then were replaced by a heavy, slow heartbeat reverberating through the fog.

The investigator realized his own heartbeat was being influenced by the dull heartbeat, slowing down.

The hoist advanced to about five hundred meters, where the investigator voluntarily stopped the hoist, confirming that the world inside the fog was likely unconnected to the world outside.

The distance from the edge of the excavation site to the bottom of the pit was about four hundred and thirty meters, and the investigator who had ridden the hoist forward five hundred meters had already surpassed the pit bottom—he now should be more than fifty meters below the ground.

The heartbeat sounds faded, and what approached this time was a series of faint, yet distinct feelings of being watched.

The entities in the fog had become aware of his intrusion.

Sensing danger, the investigator no longer went deeper and began to pull the hoist back the way it had come.

The feeling of being watched never disappeared.

On the way back, the heartbeat sounds, strange noises, and whispering voices did not rise again.

In the silent fog, only the noise of pulling the hoist remained.

However, the fact that Keg Fla knew about the incident indicated that the investigator had safely returned to the surface.

Back on the surface, he recorded the information, and on the following day, he began a second exploration.

But this time, as soon as he entered the fog, those feelings of being watched suddenly descended.

They remembered the investigator.

After a brief hesitation, the investigator chose to exit the fog and stayed at the excavation site to observe.

On the fifth day, Keg Fla’s brother learned about the origin of the excavation site.

During this time, he had allowed some daring workers to ride the hoist into the fog.

Their experiences matched his first entry, having heard many whispering voices.

During the observation period, the grey fog showed no signs of spreading, but on the sixth night, the rope tied into the fog suddenly trembled and began to shake more and more violently, as if something was climbing out of the fog along it.

The terrified watchman woke up the Exorcist, and they cut the rope.

The rope twisted and pulled back into the fog like a living thing, and peace was restored.

Keg Fla’s brother continued to observe the site for another week, and with the rope leading to the world of the grey fog severed, everything returned to calm.

The investigators ceased their observation and sent the records of the incidents to the investigators’ base.

“The final decision by the investigators was to mark the digging site as a danger zone, and the residents of Blackgold Town, less than ten miles away, were relocated to Reilston City, sixty miles away,”

After finishing the story, Keg Fla took a sip of the spinach soup he had prepared.

“That can hardly be called a story,” Marvelin said, glancing at the thoughtful Lu Li and speaking to Keg Fla.

Keg Fla said nonchalantly, “We are Exorcists, aren’t strange incidents more intriguing to us than stories?”

“Who was it that last gathered us with trivial stories?” Marvelin asked with a laugh, looking at Rod Tesla, “So is it my turn now?”

Rod leaned back against the warm rocks indifferently, “As you wish.”

“In the northeastern part of the Arlen Kingdom, in Waynefort County, there’s a story about a death arena involving Sara and Adam.”

Lu Li in the wheelchair and Anna beneath the cloak were both momentarily startled.

The flickering bonfire concealed Lu Li’s slightly furrowed brow, only Rod, who was keenly observing Lu Li, noticed something.

As Evil Spirits, their existence could be traced back two hundred years.

They might not be infamous in Waynefort County, but frightening people was very simple.

They roamed Waynefort County, occasionally appearing to claim unoccupied houses, where they began their games: the death arenas.

Innocent victims captured would be confined in these houses, participating in their games.

The type of game played usually depended on the kind of dwelling.

If it was a regular home, the game was merely hide and seek—either the victims played among themselves or Sara and Adam joined in…

In factories or larger buildings, the nature of the games changed.

They were generally eerie simple games: cleaning the house, finding specific objects within a set period.

It is called “Sara and Adam’s Death Arena” and not “Sara and Adam’s Death Game” because the victims had to compete against each other.

And those who performed best could avoid death and escape the game.

Of course, there were exceptions, such as no one performing best and nobody surviving, or multiple people escaping the game.

This is why they were more infamous—if there were an Evil Spirit that one could encounter and not evade, nobody would know about them.

This is also the fundamental difference between an Evil and a Malevolent Spirit.

The former harbors unprovoked malice towards humans, while the latter does not target humans; they merely use humans as… playthings.

It sounds somewhat more malevolent, but for those encountering the bizarre, they would rather be playthings and gamble on surviving.