Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 770: Keep Out: No Entry for the Living

Chapter 770: Keep Out: No Entry for the Living

It’s hard to say if the information Big Liu revealed is good or bad.

On one hand, it reveals a bleak, hopeless future.

On the other hand, it indicates that Lu Li’s situation is not serious for now—at least it’s only terrifying once the Sanity Value stage is reached.

It’s somewhat like cancer, which can be alleviated with medication and chemotherapy, but not completely solved.

The first stage is the searching stage, the second stage is the Sanity Value stage.

Lu Li is currently in the middle of the first stage, which is being heard but not yet seen.

Next, Lu Li must do everything to prevent the condition from spreading. And to avoid implicating the innocent… Shen Yuqiao must leave.

Beep beep——

The black high-end car behind them honked impatiently.

The green light had been on for a while.

Lu Li pressed the accelerator and drove through the intersection, heading back to the Detective Agency.

“Chunxue, there’s something I need you to do.”

Lu Li looked at the rearview mirror, where Yang Chunxue lazily lay sideways, looking bored.

“What is it?” Yang Chunxue lazily slanted her eyes, without any charm.

“Break Shen Yuqiao’s legs.”

“A good de—…?” Yang Chunxue sat up in bewilderment, full of questions.

“You heard right.” The old-style Xiali stopped at the next intersection’s red light, Lu Li replied.

“Why!”

Lu Li didn’t speak, he opened the storage box, took out a recorder, and turned it on, so he wouldn’t need to explain again when he got back.

Then Lu Li recounted the details of the conversation with Big Liu to Yang Chunxue.

After more than ten minutes, the car stopped downstairs from the Detective Agency, Lu Li turned back and said, “That’s basically the situation. Currently, the Detective Agency only has her as a normal person, and she hasn’t been in contact with the Gate. So for her own good, she must leave.”

Yang Chunxue listened until her head spun, the content too complex for her. But she understood the last sentence: “Just firing her would suffice, why… break her legs.”

Lu Li turned off the engine, sitting silently in the driver’s seat, replaying the scenario in his mind.

Telling Shen Yuqiao she must leave for safety, Shen Yuqiao refuses, saying she’s not afraid of danger and that she came to encounter ghosts. Continuing to explain that this time it’s not a ghost but something far more terrifying, but he couldn’t reveal the Gate yet, Shen Yuqiao excitedly says that’s even better, she likes such thrills. To persuade Shen Yuqiao, Lu Li has to talk about her being young and her family, making Shen Yuqiao torn and sadly leaving, and the other employees of the Detective Agency also grieving.

“Why aren’t you speaking?” Yang Chunxue interrupted Lu Li’s thoughts with curious words: “Honestly… do you have a grudge against her!”

“Because explaining is troublesome.” Lu Li replied candidly.

“Uh… I could go talk to her, it doesn’t have to be so brutal.” She thought carefully, using a more straightforward solution to avoid trouble is indeed Lu Li’s style.

“You can.” Lu Li nodded. “You go up first; I need to make a call.”

“Okay, just leave it to me!”

Yang Chunxue reached for the car door handle, then withdrew halfway, passing through the car door straight into the hallway.

Watching her figure disappear around the staircase corner, Lu Li took out his phone and made a call.

Beep——beep——beep——

A few seconds later, the call connected.

Lu Li spoke: “Have you found any leads on the three people I asked you to watch last time?”

“Which three… Oh~ I remembered. I handed it over to my subordinates and haven’t heard back. Why?”

“They committed another crime, in Lingling City. This time it’s a woman named Chen Rong, in her early twenties, either a student or already working. When I saw her, she was wearing a dark green plaid shirt and jeans.”

When leaving Jinlongyu Taoist temple, Lu Li originally wanted to ask the Taoist where he caught Chen Rong’s ghost, but he gave up.

Stealing someone’s oil and then asking where they bought it… doesn’t seem appropriate.

Officer Wen on the other end of the line was quiet for a few seconds, his voice dropping a bit: “You saw her… that…?”

“Yes.”

“I’ll check right away.”

Buzz——

The phone suddenly vibrated, another call coming in.

“Someone’s calling me, got to hang up.”

“Okay——”

Hanging up, he reconnected the call.

A voice from the phone came directly to the point.

“You don’t know me, but I know you. You’ve made a name for yourself in our ghost-catching circle. Now you’re on the threat list of Ghost Creatures, infamous throughout Lingling City’s circle.”

After a brief silence, Lu Li asked, “Who are you.”

“It’s a secret, but I can tell you our organization is called ‘Healthy Happy Every Day’. Initially, we wanted to be called ‘Exorcists’ Alliance’, but it sounded too generic.”

Lu Li asked again: “What do you want.”

“I need to earn some pocket money to make ends meet and maybe keep a few beauties, and you need to build a bigger reputation or make some pocket money yourself. So, are you interested in cooperating?”

“Not for now.”

He had more important things to do.

“Well, as they say, talented people are always proud. If you change your mind, feel free to contact me, just not by phone. Some bastard keeps reporting my number, and it won’t be long before this number is deactivated. You can come to one of the many contact points of ‘Healthy Happy Every Day’. The address is Flag Street 39, it’s the yard with a scrapped car in it.”

“Remember to knock nine short and one long, that’s the code. If you knock incorrectly, I might mistake you for those sharks and run away, hehe…”

Lu Li pondered whether it was too coincidental that the ‘Healthy Happy Every Day’ organization appeared shortly after he came into contact with the Cleaner?

Lu Li suddenly asked: “Cleaner?”

“Cleaner? Do you mean the content of our organization? No, no, actually, we do all sorts of jobs if the pay is good. Uh, it’s not what you think. From the organization’s name, you can tell we’re a healthy, upward, positive, lively organization, guaranteed not to break the law, although we don’t have a license.”

“So what’s your organization’s purpose.”

“Uh… just… accepting commissions, helping people clear ghosts, exorcise demons, and earn some money…”

“I’ll consider it.”

Lu Li had no interest in joining various organizations, but he needed to maintain a certain level of contact with them—information is always crucial.

“Oh, okay, be sure to come! I’m waiting for you to start work—uh, I mean… I’ve got too much work these days, I can’t keep up. In any case, please be as quick as possible, hehe… hehe…”

The other end’s laughter was cut off by Lu Li hanging up the phone.

Lowering the car window, he took the recorder back upstairs.

The door was half-closed, not shut, it seemed Yang Chunxue still hadn’t kicked some of her habits from when she was alive, clearly not needing to open the door.

A soft muttering came from inside the Detective Agency.

“… the truth? Lu Li actually likes you, and it’s a very pathological kind of like, he’s been secretly watching you for a long time, even sneaks a peek at you in the bathroom. I’m the one who couldn’t stand it anymore…”

“…”

Standing outside the door, Lu Li had his hand on it but didn’t push it open.