Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 701 - 701 220

701: 220.

‘Heretics’ flyer 701: 220.

‘Heretics’ flyer The seagulls that could always be seen even during the colder years had vanished over the skies of Belfast, and deafening silence enveloped the entire ruins.

Anna flew along the coastline, avoiding the ominous Rodest Port, and returned to the homely warmth of the cliff top.

Returning to the refuge, Lu Li took out a notebook and a pen from the drawer, flipped to a blank page, pulled off the pen cap, and began writing without looking up, “Call Aidanvoya, and if Jimmy can write, bring him too.”

“My brother can’t read.” Raimy said helplessly, curious about what Lu Li was doing.

“Can he transcribe?”

“Um…

he should be able to, I’ll go call him.” Raimy, still confused, left the cave to call them.

“You told him there’s a way to deal with them…

What are you planning to do?” Anna asked, left alone with him.

Lu Li didn’t answer; she slightly tilted her head, looking over Lu Li’s shoulder at the content he wrote on the paper, and she vaguely guessed his plan.

“Fetch me four pens and the notebook,” Lu Li said.

In recent days, Anna had brought back many supplies, including pens.

Three boxes of fifteen brand-new pens were enough to last a very long time.

Anna fetched the pens and continued standing beside Lu Li.

Soon, Raimy returned with her brother and Aidanvoya.

After writing down a full page of content, Lu Li tore off the page, pushed it to the edge of the table, and gathered it together with the pile of notebooks and pens.

“Please transcribe this into dozens of copies,” he said.

Raimy stepped into the refuge and picked up the torn paper.

“We are Believers devoted to Him,”

“In His name, we declare in Belfast, the city of old glory:”

“Our Lord shall be summoned soon to descend here, and this land shall belong to Him.”

“Evil Spirits, Evil Gods, fiends, and those with malice will be brutally sacrificed and exiled.”

“But we also welcome new brothers and sisters to join,”

“If you wish to become loyal servants of our Lord, come to the southern Oak Forest,”

“Follow the twisted, distorted traces, search for our lair,”

“Our Lord awaits your arrival,”

After reading it once, Raimy read the contents of the paper to Jimmy and Aidanvoya.

“You want to drive out the monsters of Belfast to deal with those Heretics?” Raimy put down the paper.

“A clever method, so that’s why you said earlier you couldn’t guarantee Old Miklos’s safety.”

“But how can you ensure that the content on here will provoke the monsters to obediently go after the Heretics?”

“It’s like a gang of ruffians planning to steal the neighbor’s property,” Lu Li pushed the ink bottle next to the pile of notebooks and pens.

“The affected party will care more than us bystanders.”

The denizens of Elm Forest were simply worried that the Heretics occupying Belfast might reach out tentacles to the surroundings, while the monsters in Belfast would clearly face annihilation.

Monsters were never united as one.

“So what happened?” Jimmy felt he was losing track of their conversation, and the contents on the paper also baffled him.

“Keep writing and I’ll explain as we go,” Raimy picked up the notebooks and pens, grabbed an oil lamp, and moved to a desk beside the cave’s bookshelf.

Lu Li bowed his head, preparing to continue writing, but Anna gently covered his hand, “Let us write, you don’t need to leave any traces.”

“Anna is right,” Raimy’s voice came from outside the refuge.

“Some monsters possess the power of curses, and some curses have particularly uncanny abilities, such as tracing back to the original source, causing the writer to be entangled with curses.”

As he was learning to hold the pen like Raimy, Jimmy paused, “Curses?”

“We are monsters, we are not afraid of curses,” Raimy scoffed at her brother’s timidity.

This statement is too absolute; anomalies also suffer from curses, only they have higher resistance and can better withstand malicious and terrifying curses.

It’s like the vast difference in strength between an adult and a child.

Click.

Lu Li capped the pen and raised his hand to close the notebook.

In the moment when the pages fluttered down, a slip of paper tucked among them fell out.

It had reminders Lu Li set for himself after he first arrived here, such as “figure out where you are,” “gather enough shillings,” and “find a new place to live.”

Most of the reminders had been crossed out, leaving only one line.

[Find a way to leave here]

Lu Li reinserted it into his notebook and placed it in the drawer.

The content above no longer mattered.

Lu Li gave up his desk space for Anna, who, along with Raimy and others from the cave outside, copied down notes like students.

After more than an hour, they had accumulated thirty-some sheets of copied paper.

Jimmy had no choice but to stop and rub his sore wrists, a smear of ink coloring the side of his pinky.

His physical body had been weak for too long, making any strenuous or prolonged activity a strain.

Anna and the others wrote for another half hour, barely managing to prepare fifty copies of the flyers.

Now it was ten in the morning, and they had enough time to post them around Belfast, ensuring that the literate anomalies would see them.

This was a task only Anna could do.

Aidanvoya was just a ghost, Raimy was not good at concealing herself, and, after posting the flyers, it was necessary to conceal oneself and observe the effect of the flyers—whether any anomalies noticed the flyers and headed towards Oak Forest.

Taking the flyers that could cause the anomalies to slaughter each other, Anna left Elm Forest.

With limited numbers of flyers, Anna didn’t waste them around Elm Forest or other districts.

Instead, she sneaked to the southern part of the Ruins of Belfast, near Oak Forest, and placed the flyers in conspicuous spots as much as possible.

For example, at intersections or on the carriages blocking the streets.

However, fifty was still too few, and Anna had used up all the flyers after just five or six districts.

Anna retreated to the Oak Street District leading to Oak Forest and hid on the second floor of a civilian house, silently observing.

She waited for an hour, but nothing happened; the streets below were quiet and empty.

Had no anomalies discovered these flyers, or were the flyers useless…?

After waiting another ten minutes, Anna left the area and returned directly to the cliff top to inform Lu Li of the situation, “They might be useful, but the flyers are too few; they’re not even one-twentieth of what’s needed for Belfast.”

Clearly, time was insufficient for them to copy several hundred more flyers.

Lu Li pondered for a moment, took out the map of Belfast and spread it, his finger pressing on a spot: [Belfast Today Press]

If the press office hadn’t been burnt down, it should possess relatively intact machinery along with plenty of blank papers and ink.

These could meet the demands for making the announcement.

Given the technological level of this world, the printing technology of the newspapers should be between the relief press and the early lithographic press.

Whichever it was, he hoped the machines wouldn’t use electricity or could be operated by hand.

However, after Lu Li suggested going to the press office, Anna and he had a dispute.

Anna would allow Lu Li to go to Ghost Prison, because Raimy was accompanying him and the route was relatively safe.

Belfast was different; it was filled with anomalies everywhere—underneath the ruins, inside buildings, even in the sewers—and to these creatures, Lu Li, with merely a human disposition, was like mouth-watering food every second.

Lu Li’s response was straightforward, “Do you know how to use the printing machines?”