Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 639 - 639 One hundred fifty-eight

639: One hundred fifty-eight.

Hunting the strange 639: One hundred fifty-eight.

Hunting the strange “A corpse lay on the mud.

The anomaly had dissipated, but the shell it inhabited remained, still in a dismembered state, the cold body not yet rigid, as if it had died not long ago.

Surprise filled the eyes of the onlookers, their fear gone.

They had no reason not to believe the words of someone who had just killed an anomaly.

‘Please lead us out of here…’ they pleaded.

Lu Li looked toward the anomalies wandering in the distant garden and said, ‘Those words were to appease the anomaly, it’s just as dangerous outside, and there’s no one else.’

The people exchanged glances, their despair showing.

‘Then…

what should we do…’

‘Unite and move together as much as possible.’ Lu Li had Gawain York tell them about the exam in half an hour and added, ‘I’ll try to leave the university by passing the exam.

If anyone passes I’ll take them with me, those who don’t can stay here, as this place will soon undergo new changes.’

The change stemmed from Tristan’s plan; his sacrifice couldn’t possibly be meaningless.

Some hesitated, others wanted to leave, asking Gawain York about the content of the exam, but even Gawain York didn’t know what it would entail.

Just ordinary academic knowledge?

Impossible!

In any case, the remaining four humans planned to stick together for warmth to get through the next half hour.

Yesterday’s rainfall had softened the soil, they busied themselves burying the body, then the four were the first to leave the place.

‘Where do we go?’ After separating, Gawain York realized that the direction Lu Li was heading was not toward his office.

‘Hunting.’

‘What?’ Gawain York involuntarily stopped in his tracks.

Seeing that Lu Li had no intention of stopping, he hurried to catch up.

‘What do you mean by that…’

A bad premonition suddenly came over him.

‘What are the rules of ‘Paradise’?’ Lu Li asked in return.

‘Well…

the anomalies disguise themselves as us and then seek out and kill the real humans…?’

‘But it wasn’t said that humans can’t kill an anomaly upon discovering it, right?’ Lu Li said without looking back.

Gawain York was stunned again, but this time he still followed Lu Li: ‘You mean…’

‘Yes.’

The kitchen knife and Tristan’s sacrifice made some changes in Lu Li’s thoughts: follow the heart, do what one can, and incidentally obtain humanity.

The ‘Paradise’ rules are reciprocal, which is quite interesting.

The ‘master’ hadn’t restricted humans from hunting anomalies, it’s just that the truth was masked by the terror and dominance of the anomalies.

Lu Li was not alone; surely there were many in the Royal City hunting anomalies, it’s just that the sealed-off Xiusi University, without the Exorcists, wasn’t included.

‘I now know why I’m just a scholar, and you are an Exorcist…’ After a long silence, Gawain York said, moved.

What was to come was not suitable for his involvement, so Gawain York and Lu Li split up in the garden.

Lu Li sat down on a bench by the dried-up fountain, looking up at Inverted City, searching for anomalies that appeared weak and easy to bully.

Those anomalies with colossal bodies and illusory appearances were not within Lu Li’s range of prey.

They were usually hard to deal with or had strange and elusive powers.

A gaunt figure wrapped in filthy bandages circled the fountain, passing not far from him.

It had disguised itself as a robust, young human form.

Leaving the bench, Lu Li approached the anomaly: ‘Follow me.’

As he got closer, Lu Li mumbled softly, his footsteps not pausing, turning along the wall to the side of the academy.

The plan was halfway successful; attracted by Lu Li’s odd behavior, the anomaly followed him unconsciously.

On the other side, Lu Li pressed against the corner of the wall, listening to the footsteps drawing nearer.

As a figure emerged, he covered its mouth and plunged the kitchen knife into its body.”

The monstrous entity paused for a moment, but did not react.

It regarded Lu Li as one of its own.

It did not believe Lu Li would break the rules and harm itself.

It was oblivious to the harm inflicted upon itself.

So it wasn’t until its arms and head were severed that the entity, realizing Lu Li was attacking it, thought of retaliating, but it was already too late.

The barrel of “Redemption” was stuffed into its mouth, stifling the angry roar.

A few seconds later, a hand reached into the dissolving smoke of the entity and caught the falling “Redemption”.

Another thread of humanity merged into Lu Li’s body.

Giggle, giggle, giggle, giggle—

The chatter of the Sanity Value Counter ceased as “Redemption” returned to its holster.

Lu Li did not bother to bury the bodies anymore.

He threw the bloodless limbs and corpse into the nearby bushes.

The disorderly, dead branches of the bushes concealed the contours of the bodies well.

Although one could still discover them if close enough or by the smell, by that time, Lu Li had already been long gone.

But just as Lu Li finished dealing with everything and was about to leave, a bit of trouble found him.

“What are you doing, classmate Lu Li?”

The portly student who had caused trouble for Lu Li before, sneered as he approached from the back row.

“You can go take a look,” Lu Li replied calmly.

The portly student was about to do just that.

He walked to the front of the bush and saw the dismembered corpse—The next moment, everything spun around, and he saw his body leaning forward, his head no longer on top.

Hiss—

Giggle, giggle, giggle, giggle—

The static noise rose faintly, then quickly disappeared.

Lu Li, putting away “Redemption”, imperceptibly shook his head.

It was unclear whether he was lamenting the foolishness and carelessness of the entities or realizing the difficulty in dealing with their corpses.

But at least the latter was indeed troubling for Lu Li.

The low and withered bushes could not hide the two corpses; he needed to think of a method to dispose of them, such as—

The dark rifts that seemed ubiquitous in the city.

There was a crack as thick as an arm under the nearby wall.

Picking up an arm and approaching, a withered claw, missing one talon, actively reached out from the dark rift as if recognizing Lu Li, welcoming him.

Lu Li tossed the arm to it, and the claw grabbed the arm just before it hit the ground, dragging it into the rift.

Soon after, sounds of squabbling, tearing, and gnawing came from within the dark rift.

A few seconds later, the claw, now with flecks of flesh on it, reached out again along with a few timid “companions” only daring to show the tips of their claws at the edge.

It seemed there was a more effective way to dispose of the bodies now.

Lu Li was like a herdsman in a pasture looking after dairy cows, feeding the animals he was tending to.

Except he wasn’t tending to dairy cows, and what he was feeding them wasn’t hay.

The intense and hair-raising sound of gnawing emerged from the rift.

The food piled in front of the rift sent them into a frenzy, and the withered claws began to damage the wall, widening the gap.

More and more withered claws squeezed out from the dark rift; a few turned into a dense mass of a dozen, and within the gaps, vaguely more claws surged and waited…

It was as if the wall was entirely made of them.

Lu Li silently moved back a bit, even though the withered claws manifested no intention of harming him.

A few dozen seconds later, the ground that had once held two bodies was left with only soil marred by claw marks.

Lu Li returned to the bench beside the fountain, continuing to search for his next prey.