Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 661 - 661 One hundred eighty

661: One hundred eighty.

The remaining people 661: One hundred eighty.

The remaining people Whoosh—

The drawn curtains hid the second-floor windows of the house.

“How is it?” York and the elderly couple looked anxiously at Gemini Reed.

Gemini Reed’s expression was grave, “It’s bad…

some strange creatures no longer bother to hide their true forms and shapes.”

Although this change temporarily didn’t affect them, it was part of a deteriorating situation—the rules were becoming ineffective.

Continuing this way, there would be more and more creatures that no longer donned disguises, and those searching the surrounding buildings would increase in number.

Until the rules completely failed, they would recklessly attack all that maintained a human appearance.

“Is disguising ourselves as a clothing store still useful?” Webb asked, which was their concern.

“It will become increasingly less so, but we have no better option,” the thug disguised as a gentleman was shedding their false garb, but hiding anywhere would lead to being discovered by these hyenas.

“We could ask the withered claws in the wall seams for help!” York suggested.

As Gemini Reed contemplated the feasibility of this idea, he suddenly saw them looking behind him with eyes full of terror.

“Hide quick—”

Webb’s panicked shout had just begun when suddenly the window behind Gemini Reed shattered, the fluttering curtain wrapped around the fragments and surged into the room, along with a sharp whistling sound.

Thud—

A segment of limb with dark patterns and sharp joints pierced through Gemini Reed’s body, protruding from his chest.

Gemini Reed looked down blankly, as the sudden incident had left him without feeling the pain yet.

The copious amount of blood that seeped out quickly soaked through the new clothes still smelling of fabric, and a surge of intense pain suddenly hit him as the piercing limb bent, hooking him and pulling him towards the window.

His limbs instinctively resisted against the window frame, and like someone waking from a deep sleep, Gemini Reed became aware of his impending death.

To York and the others, who were also slow to react, he shouted, “York, take them to your place—”

The words turned into a prolonged scream at the end.

Gemini Reed was forcibly dragged out the window and lay outside, a monstrous spider with eight limbs carrying him up the eaves.

“My place…”

York suddenly realized what Gemini Reed was referring to and clenched his teeth as he rushed to the door, “Everyone follow me…”

The excruciating pain in his chest and the jerking from being tossed about caused Gemini Reed immense pain but also made him incredibly lucid.

He even saw the blood that dripped down on passersby as the creature dressed in his clothes climbed to the rooftop, and they greedily looked up.

Gemini Reed slid off the limb and fell at the edge of the rooftop.

He felt like his body, which was losing life, was being cut and moved about like a steak on a plate by knife and fork.

In the darkness, Gemini Reed suddenly remembered a prayer-like sentence from the depths of his consciousness, which he should have forgotten long ago, heard on the radio.

As his consciousness began to fade, he subconsciously murmured the whisper at the back of his mind.

The void trembled faintly, ineffable, unearthly tentacles descended from the sky.

In a daze, Gemini Reed thought he saw an inverted city reflected in the sky—

Was this the Inverted City Lu Li had seen…

The ethereal tentacles touched his body, which was losing life, and Gemini Reed felt a sudden connection with the Inverted City.

Unintelligible whispers entered his mind, revealing the truth to him on the brink of death.

“So that’s how it is…”

Murmurs came intermittently from the mouth gushing with blood, as Gemini Reed turned his head to look down at the street below.

Will they remember me…

The street downstairs was becoming increasingly crowded with abominations drawn by the pool of blood, with four or five silhouettes climbing the walls, approaching the rooftop.

Gemini Reed longed to embrace the monstrosities and fall together with them, sharing his flesh with even more creatures, but his strength had dried up long ago, and he could only dangle his arm over the edge of the roof, letting his blood trickle down onto the abominations below.

Before his consciousness slipped away completely, he saw York and others, who had taken a detour around the entrance of the clothing store, looking up at him.

The despair, pain, and sorrow filled their eyes as they looked at him.

They will.

…

“I know the story of Hyena King I.”

Opposite Amprus Noble Bank was a tailor’s shop, which catered specifically to the middle class who had financial dealings with the bank, making custom-fitted clothes for them.

Lu Li and Anna stood in front of the second-floor window, observing the figures flowing into the bank on the street below, as busy as if order had been restored.

They were the bank’s customers coming to conduct their business.

Albert had finished what Lu Li had been tasked with.

At that moment, Albert’s voice was echoing through the speakers across the whole street block: “Good doggies, you must be starving, come in quickly, your kind grandpa has prepared some dog food.”

“What did he talk about?” Lu Li asked.

“Hyena King I’s family had been exterminated by a rival clan, and he was the last of his lineage.

When the enemies found him, he betrayed his family’s honor by kneeling before them and begging for mercy, offering all the hidden treasures of his family in hopes of surviving.”

“He survived, but as a servant.

The rival clan took him everywhere they went, tethering him with an iron chain meant for a dog around his neck, then told others, ‘Look how merciful we are, to allow him to live and retain his family name.’ Of course, everyone understood that it was a threat and a mocking gesture from the family, taking pride in subjugating a former enemy.”

“Hyena King I was a servant for seven years, known throughout the country as nothing more than a vile, wretched creature without dignity or honor.

Then he found a way to make the complacent enemy clan release him.”

“Hyena King I’s title began to take true meaning afterward.

He hid his real name, unearthed some of the jewels hidden during the destruction of his family, purchased a few cargo ships, hired a band of desperate rogues, and took to the seas to plunder merchant ships of his adversaries.

Eventually, he accumulated enough power to exterminate the rival clan and established a pirate kingdom on the southwestern isles of the Lennon Islands.”

The story that Albert wanted to tell was about the first half—where Hyena King I was unable to resist the rival clan, had to hide part of the treasure, and then offered up everything he had including his life, in abject submission.

This corresponded to the decisions made by the three organizations.

In the “Fire Seed” plan, they indeed harbored some strange obsession, as if they knew that the abominations would leave this world one day.

Of course, it might also be that this was the only hope they could find.

Just like the only white flower that bloomed in the dark mire of the Silent Swamp.

The three organizations abandoned most people—including themselves.

And the proactive setting of traps to attract abominations was hardly praiseworthy.

But the prospect of preserving the seeds of civilization gave more hope than the extinction of mankind.

On the street below, abominations with bloody corners of their mouths began to emerge from the bank’s entrance.

Lu Lili moved away from the window; it was time for them to leave as well.