Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 714 - 714 Two hundred and thirty-three

714: Two hundred and thirty-three.

As heavy as a rock 714: Two hundred and thirty-three.

As heavy as a rock Sometimes, Selika Darel would think that all of this was just a dream.

She had only had a very realistic nightmare, and when she woke up from her sleep, everything would be the same as before.

At this moment, hunger was gnawing at her sanity.

The bottom lip she had bitten off had kept Selika Darel from going out scavenging for three days, and she suddenly regretted burying Mike instead of eating him.

When survival lay like a bottomless fissure across the road ahead, who would care about the humanity further away?

I need to eat something…

Selika Darel made up her mind.

If she didn’t eat, she would die, and rather than die in the basement, she might as well take a gamble…

She stepped onto the staircase, listened quietly behind the door for a few minutes, pushed the basement door and disturbed the silence, walking towards the backyard.

She hoped Mike’s body hadn’t rotted away…

Pushing open the wooden gate, everything in front of Selika Darel’s eyes spelled despair.

The soil was overturned, a humanoid monster crouched at the edge of the hole where she had buried Mike, tearing at something, the sounds of chewing audible.

It had detected Selika Darel, emitting a friction-like hiss and pouncing towards her agilely.

Am I going to die…

Selika Darel watched the monster in the air, with a piece of intestine hanging from its mouth, with unprecedented calm—

Suddenly it was as if space had frozen, the monster halted mid-air, flung back into the backyard at the same speed.

Selika Darel saw four forces simultaneously pulling at the monster’s limbs.

Before it could howl, its body was forcefully torn apart, with dark green blood gushing out like drawn-out muscle.

A delicate girl in a white dress appeared inside the courtyard wall at some point, flinging at the monster something…

a gun?

She didn’t seem to know how to use a gun, tossing it instead of pulling the trigger, but with astounding results.

Once the gun landed on the limbless monster, it acted like a furnace coming into contact with ice, emitting thick smoke, and the monster stopped struggling, already dead.

The girl, barefoot, walked to the hideous, filthy monster, scooped up the gun, and slid it back into the holster.

Only then did she raise her gaze indifferently towards Selika Darel and subtly tilted her head, “Still survivors?”

The rescued Selika Darel was just about to respond when, to her horror, she discovered that the girl’s body was transparent!

Without thinking, she turned and fled for her life.

Selika Darel never felt that her survival up to now was due to luck…

perhaps a part of it was, but more so it was cunning, like running out instead of back to the basement right now—

A spreading shadow was faster than her.

It caught up with her and entered the soles of her feet.

Selika Darel stood still, strangely stunned for a few seconds, then turned around and walked back to the middle of the backyard.

Anna’s projection reluctantly left Selika Darel’s feet, returning to Anna’s phantom image.

“What have you done to me, monster!”

Selika Darel suppressed her voice, shouting in fear.

She had just lost control of her body, as if it no longer belonged to her but had become a dwelling for an Observer…

“I haven’t done anything, just wanted to prevent you from running around carelessly, it’s dangerous outside…” Anna’s eyes drifted down, like the Divine Statue in a church pitying the people, “Selika Darel.”

“You know me…

of course, you do,” Selika Darel felt a chill in her heart.

If she could take over her body, she could certainly know her memories…

Selika Darel felt as though she stood naked before this indifferent girl.

But this only…

behavior was very strange.

Selika Darel knew about ghosts; maybe it was similar to wraiths?

Ghosts are what people become after death, does this mean…

“You’re not going to eat me?” Selika Darel asked tentatively.

“I am a wraith, not interested in eating people,” Anna replied, waving her hand to re-bury the pit and leaving a statement before flying out of the backyard.

“Stand there and wait for me.”

Serica Darel’s expression shifted, and she subconsciously wanted to run away, but she was cold and hungry, and this was the only safe place she knew.

Trust once more…

Serica Darel convinced herself to wait in the backyard for the girl to return.

Two minutes later, the girl returned, along with the delightful sound of heavy canned goods falling onto the earth, clinking against each other.

This was completely different from what Serica Darel had imagined, “Why…”

“I need your body,” Anna said, watching Serica Darel.

“My body?” Serica Darel repeated curiously as if she understood something, and she shed her ill-fitting, loose hemp clothing, revealing her thin, trembling, filthy body in the cold.

Serica Darel felt ashamed because she thought the girl across felt like the pristine moonlight, while she was the dirtiest rat in the sewer.

“Whatever you want to do, if you can keep me alive… it’s yours.”

“Not like that,” Anna frowned.

“Put on your clothes.

Hide here and don’t go out, I will come to you when needed.”

The segmented monster’s body was lifted by an invisible hand, gathering behind Anna.

Anna didn’t want the lucky vessel she found to leave out of fear, so after pondering, she said, “Don’t think about running away, it’s more dangerous outside than you think.”

With that, she left Serica Darel still shivering in the cold wind and floated away from the backyard toward Seaview Cliff.

Serica Darel stood gaping as Anna disappeared from view, as if she had just woken up, picked up her clothes and put them on, disregarding the cold, swallowed her saliva continuously, greedily hugged all the cans, and dropped some as she walked back to the basement.

She didn’t even pick up the cans that had fallen, struggled to open one, and devoured its contents with shaking hands.

Eating while crying.

…

Joy filled Anna’s heart.

Yes, joy.

Anna was happy that she had found a balance with Lu Li.

She had kept her promise to Lu Li, not to harm others without reason.

Maybe because she had just possessed a host, Anna’s emotions were fervent and intense.

Or maybe because Serica Darel’s memories had influenced Anna, making her realize how precious the bond with Lu Li was: a world where humans are rife with deceit and hatred, yet a ghost and a human lived together without barriers.

She could trust Lu Li with ease, and so could he.

After ensuring no apparition followed her as usual, Anna returned to Seaview Cliff.

Thud—

The prey fell in front of the hut, before Jimmy, while Raimy couldn’t wait to rush into the cave, diving into the arms of Lu Li, who was talking with Raimy.

“…I’ll check on the prey.”

Raimy’s eyes held a hint of a smile, not interrupting their intimate conversation.

“What’s wrong?” Lu Li asked calmly.

The pen in his hand fell onto the notebook, blotting a small spot of ink.

“It’s nothing,” Anna said.

Although she felt nothing while embracing Lu Li, it was as if she could feel the breath tickling her ear, bringing the warmth of a living body.

She wanted to touch Lu Li.