Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 759 - 759 278

759: 278.

And everything came to an abrupt halt in separation.

759: 278.

And everything came to an abrupt halt in separation.

The convoy carrying the elderly arrived at the Storm Corner in the afternoon.

They weren’t in great shape after a day of rough travel, but it was better than being devoured by the darkness in the wilderness.

After unloading the elderly, the convoy returned to the wilderness to pick up the migrating crowd left behind.

On the roof of the City Hall.

The Lord of Storm Corner gazed at the distant city gates where the Storm Corner Guards were maintaining order, directing people to the vacant houses.

Looking further into the distance, the migration train stretched endlessly along the road.

“Send our convoy to assist,” the Lord said to the butler standing behind him.

“And inform those merchants that if I see any fool daring to raise prices, I’ll send him to the gallows!”

“They might refuse to sell,” the butler reminded.

“Then let their fish rot in the warehouse,” the Lord snorted disdainfully towards the nobility.

“Send someone to Luo Lei Castle to find my castle lord brother and ask him to send a batch of food and clothing.”

The butler nodded and retreated.

The Lord continued to gaze at the endless migration train.

A gust of wind swept across, and the Lord squinted slightly, looking towards the rear.

A new sandstorm was brewing deep within the Barren Lands.

…

“—I think you’ve misunderstood something, child.”

After a brief pause, the guide seemed to remember something, and the corners of his eyes relaxed: “Among us, there are some radical believers, they—ahhhhh!!!”

The old man suddenly clutched his head, letting out a painful, hoarse scream.

At that very moment, Anna also clutched her head, screaming in agony.

The believers’ mass was interrupted by the screams, and they looked up.

Lu Li reached for his waist.

“Get out of my mind!”

Anna and the old man suddenly screamed in unison.

As the words fell, a shadow emerged from the old man’s long shadow, returning to Anna’s feet.

The old man, back to his senses, looked fearfully at Anna, who was still clutching her head, pointing at her and shouting in terror, “It’s controlling my mind…

kill it!”

The believers exchanged a glance and moved to surround Anna, but were blocked by Lu Li stepping in front of her.

“They’re together…

kill them!”

The guide shoved aside roared viciously, losing his previous gentleness.

Lu Li no longer hesitated, pulling out the Spirit-Calling Gun and firing at the believers.

BANG!

The gunshot resounded alongside the obscure aura behind him, and Lu Li was instantly pulled into a Death Retrace.

“It’s controlling my mind…

kill it!”

In front of the fireplace, the guide pointed at Anna and shouted in fear.

Lu Li ignored the approaching believers and himself shielding Anna, striding forward to uncover her cloak.

Yet Lu Li’s hand passed through the outline, unable to touch Anna.

Lu Li turned around and drew a torch from the fireplace, approaching Anna.

The firelight illuminated the delicate face under the cloak, now filled with pain and madness.

“They’re together…

kill them!”

Behind, the guide screamed, then the gunshot rang, pulling Lu Li from the Death Retrace.

At this moment, the scream behind Anna suddenly sharpened, a biting cold erupted from around her, and Lu Li and the believers were flung like ragdolls, slamming against the wall with a dull thud.

THUD!

Lu Li fell to the floor, Redemption dropping beside him.

In the corner, the guide’s head tilted to the side, his position was wrong, with his neck broken upon impact with the wall.

An unfortunate believer fell into the fireplace, struggling to climb out but pressed by the burst of air from Anna, unable to escape, burning with screams.

CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK——

The Sanity Value Counter rattled maddeningly.

The violent airflow surged in the narrow living room.

Lu Li’s hair and clothes flapped wildly as he squinted tightly at the agonized Anna in the living room’s center.

He averted his gaze, reaching for the fallen Redemption beside him.

A chill suddenly swept from his fingertips, a section of the wall in front of his fingers disappeared, the gap revealing the empty street outside.

Lu Li looked back at Anna, twisted airflow erupted from around her, shredding the cloak, under the torch of humanity, invisible blades turned to remnants, ravaging the entire wooden house.

The scream of the human torch abruptly stopped as the air blade cleaved his skull open.

The other three fortunate believers were severed by invisible blades, quickly turning into minced flesh.

Redemption, fallen to the side, was shattered into pieces, yet they deliberately avoided Lu Li, leaving his surroundings intact in the splintered house.

Dense piercing sounds rang in the dilapidated house; amidst the swirling dust, a hysterical scream suddenly emerged.

“Get out…

of here!”

Once more, the fierce airflow exploded, the house disintegrated, Lu Li was flung by the wild storm onto the street, rolling across the ground, crashing into the wall of the house opposite the street.

THUD!

With a muffled sound, Lu Li coughed up some blood.

The firelight of the fireplace was extinguished by the gale, darkness enveloped from all sides, only to be dispelled by the light from the tightly clenched “Lighthouse” in Lu Li’s palm.

The soft light bloomed like sunlight, enveloping the surroundings, shrouding Anna within the ruins.

It illuminated the surroundings, revealing something that should not be visible…

things.

Tangible darkness hovered over Anna—a gateway, vaguely glimpsing the fleeting entities beyond the darkness.

Clusters of densely packed eyeballs, indescribably bloated lumps of flesh, tendrils swaying like seaweed, a pale hand with nails growing densely like teeth, outlines of migrating limbs coupled with a bloated body.

The Inner World aura poured forth, around Anna as if merging the Inner World and Reality World, the hidden anomalies began to emerge.

Everything seen diminished the Sanity Value with each passing second.

Yet Lu Li kept his gaze fixed on Anna, watching the tumultuous Inner World aura seep into her form.

That white dress outline gradually solidified.

No longer ethereal, the scream vanished.

Anna’s hands clutching her head turned into covering her cheeks, transforming into a pitiful and grieving sob.

The surrounding reckless winds receded, Lu Li’s black hair falling down, the street gradually returning to silence, save for the echoing sobs.

Lu Li furrowed his brows; without knowing why, a surge of heartache welled up inside him, indescribable sorrow and bitterness lingered at his nostrils and eye corners.

Amid the distant echoing sobs, a phantom of a rope-like twine appeared above Anna’s head, then gradually faded.

As the twine disappeared, the crying Anna began to lose color, washed away by streams, flowing and fading from her body.

ZZZZ…

ZZZ…

A sudden crackling sound emerged from his bosom.

Lu Li looked down, silently pulling out the noisy Evil Spirit Broadcast—it emitting a buzzing sound representing the presence of nearby evil spirits.

Looking again at Anna’s standing place, the portal to the Inner World had vanished, leaving a colorless, ink-black outline of a girl.

She rotated her head, seemingly looking this way.

The next moment, the outline crumbled into a shadow, disappearing into the ruins.

A new entity…

was born.