Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 651 - 651 One hundred seventy

651: One hundred seventy.

Familiar ‘people 651: One hundred seventy.

Familiar ‘people The priest released their goodwill as compensation for Emma’s previous impolite demeanor, telling Lu Li about the gathering point of the “selfish ones” they had abandoned due to their character.

To some extent, Lu Li could also be considered a member of the “selfish ones.”

Lu Li found them hiding in a basement outside a block of streets, ironically none of the weird creatures had infiltrated among them.

The cold and hungry wretches learned that Lu Li was from another group of survivors, and they pleaded excitedly for Lu Li to take them away.

That was exactly why he had come — he directed them straight to the clothing store in Leek District — their character had been tested by time, no further trials were necessary.

“Can you protect us on our way there…” a woman holding a child of only five or six years old implored.

Among the seven survivors, there were surprisingly two mother-daughter pairs, a couple, and an old man.

Whether together or alone, they would attract the attention of those greedy, hungry strange creatures on the streets, and in order to avoid their attacks, Lu Li and Anna went back to the clothing store to fetch the carriage, and brought them back.

The second floor of the clothing store had enough space to accommodate these people.

“Where to next?”

Having settled into the carriage with Lu Li, Anna asked.

“Back to the investigators’ base,” Lu Li replied.

Tristan, Reinhardt Wick, as well as the priests seemed to share a common goal.

Two hours had passed, and Lu Li needed to check on Reinhardt Wick’s situation; if they ended up like Tristan…

then the priests and their people would likely meet the same end.

The trials in the confessional would also be deeply significant: “Would you sacrifice yourself to save others?”

The crisp sound of horseshoes striking cobblestones swept across the dim streets, and the passersby indifferently watched the corner of the speeding carriage that raced by them, without any reaction.

Twenty minutes later, the carriage reached that long street.

Lu Li arrived just in time, or perhaps…

a little too late.

On the highest building, a three-story structure, a not-so-straight figure straddled the sloping rooftop, arms outstretched from the building.

Below, many onlookers gathered around, as well as others who were climbing up the eaves in an attempt to rescue the person.

Had it not been for the greed and bloodlust in their crimson pupils, the scene might have seemed normal.

“His arm is dripping blood.”

Anna, lifting the carriage curtain, looked up at what was happening.

The “horses,” catching the faint scent of blood in the air, grew a bit restless, stamping their hooves.

But because of the multiple feedings from Lu Li and Anna, they weren’t too hungry and remained in place.

“Come on!

You bunch of monsters, come eat me!”

The shout echoed, and the surrounding “spectators” grew more agitated, with more and more figures climbing the building, nearing the young man on the rooftop.

The closest had already climbed to within a few meters of him.

The young man on the roof didn’t let them yearn for too long.

As the strange creatures behind him reached out toward him, he leapt downwards—

“I am waiting for you—in death!”

His last cry filled the breeze.

The young man’s legs twisted up, his features oozed with blood, but he did not die immediately.

The watching weird creatures finally gathered around greedily, having their figurative cake and eating it too.

Shadowed by death, he did not feel the pain of his flesh being torn and bitten.

Weakly turning his head, he suddenly spotted Lu Li and Anna on the carriage, seemed to recognize them, and struggled, slowly forming the shape of words with his mouth in silence, soon to be engulfed and hidden by the overlapping shadows of the crowd.

“Remember us,” he said.

“Tristan and the others are feeding their own flesh and blood to the creatures…

is it a curse with a purpose of its own?” Anna looked at the surging crowd not far away, and those figures who, out of anxiety, leaped from the rooftops.

Half the length of the street was thus thrown into chaos.

“They want us to remember,” Lu Li murmured.

Prada too had made Lu Li remember it, did it have any connection with them?

Lu Li withdrew his gaze, assisted off the carriage by Anna, and stopped a resident living here: “Why is he doing this?”

Perhaps feeling it hard to get a share before the creatures devoured the corpses, the resident stopped to answer Lu Li: “A bunch of madmen.”

“A bunch?”

The resident looked at Lu Li strangely, as if sizing up whether Lu Li was of their kind or a human, and answered casually: “This is the fifteenth one.

Every so often there’s a human that goes mad, climbs up on the roof, attracts a bunch of monsters, and then jumps down.”

This ghostly resident seemed quite aggrieved, as he had struggled several times just to snatch a mangled arm; why couldn’t foolish humans come to him voluntarily?

Anna once again showed genuine panic, tugging gently at Lu Li and whispering, “Let’s get out of here quickly…”

If only the demon’s tail behind them hadn’t been wagging back and forth.

A minute later, Lu Li and Anna emerged from the alley, and the resident following them was nowhere to be seen.

The poor creature had been toyed with by Anna’s disguise and played with applause.

They still made a trip to the Curious and Oddities General Store and Investigator’s Base.

The thick door of the base was wide open, empty inside.

They may have gone into hiding, or the last of the survivors may have been the one who jumped.

Back on the carriage with Lu Li, Anna fed the remaining arm to the “horse,” waiting for Lu Li’s next move.

“Go to Echo Church,” Lu Li said.

The priests were their only lead right now; he needed to know their plan, and what Prada was, before they sacrificed themselves.

He hoped it was not too late.

But on the way to Echo Church, Lu Li unexpectedly encountered an attack from an evil spirit.

It might not be so unexpected, someone like Lu Li who wandered everywhere was bound to catch the attention of creatures sooner or later.

Ordinary creatures couldn’t differentiate humans, but to evil spirits and demons, humans shimmered like stars in the night sky.

Anna was also attacked—she sat in the carriage with Lu Li one second, and in the next, she and Lu Li found themselves inside a dimly lit cottage.

Outside the window, the carriage drove past, still unaware that its passengers were gone.

They had been forcibly pulled into the roadside wooden house.

Anna instantly released a vengeful spirit’s aura to declare her stance, standing in front of Lu Li.

Lu Li’s gaze moved past the top of Anna’s head, scanning the living room cloaked in grey dimness as if covered by a thin veil.

“The first to clean all the rooms can leave…

but only one person,” a familiar female voice echoed faintly in the empty room.

“Forced to leave will only lead to death.

Welcome to the game, we are—”

Before Lu Li and Anna, a strange, shadow-like outline slowly materialized out of the void.

The odd shadow was half man, half woman, divided by a centipede-like grotesque symmetrical seam.

On the left was the gentle, beautiful face of a young girl in an elaborate noblewoman’s gown.

On the right was the simple, handsome face of a young man dressed in plain overalls.

“Sara and…

Adam?”

Anna uttered their names.