Chapter 1000 Sixty-seven. Old Day Scenery

  Dim and dilapidated corridors, many signages in front of the doors, filled with smoke.

"This is where."

  Standing in the corridor, Lu Li looked out the fog-shrouded window.

   "Jones Psychotherapy Clinic," replied the psychiatrist.

"What city."

   "...Belfast." The psychiatrist quietly opened the drawer, knowing how to deal with this kind of "patient": "A patient you want to ask or make an appointment?"

  The black eyes looked around the clinic quietly, Lu Li said nothing and left the clinic.

  The bottom of the wooden stairs is passed, and Lu Li, who is back downstairs, walks into the end of the deserted and shimmering light——

   The gloom faded, and what was revealed was neither the Twilight Marsh nor the waiting Silver Cross Sloane and Mildred Hampley.

  The pungent smell of the air coming with the mist disappeared due to the shutdown of the industrial area. There were more pedestrians on the street than a few days ago, but the ladies still hadn't taken off the black tulle covering their faces.

   The postman riding a bicycle jingled the bell to remind passers-by, the sound of whispering conversations and the sound of horses’ hooves passed by, and a steam car spewed black smoke and approached.

   The winding street extends down, disappearing behind the outlines of the houses. The bay at the end was not really visible due to the mist, and only the occasional distant whistle could be heard.

  Old days, Belfast.

   Where it all started.

  Loli stayed in place and waited. If it's some kind of vision that blocks perception, the two masters are enough to rescue him from it.

  At the same time, check the body, there is no doomsday apocalypse, the stomach bag and the psychic gun are not there——

  The touch of shirts and coats has also become more delicate.

  Lu Li opened his palm, without the brand of the inverted pentagram or the scars after redemption.

The power brought by the    Redemption Fragment disappeared, and the left hand returned to its original state, and no longer felt the existence of humanity.

The only thing    had in his pocket was some shillings and a set of keys and a box of matches.

   As if Lu Li really returned to the beginning.

   While waiting for a while, Lu Li didn't wait for anything other than catching curious eyes.

  Then it seems that the authenticity of this moment should be considered - just like Lu Li suddenly came to this world, on a certain day when the world is dying, it seems that Lu Li suddenly returned to the beginning.

   But what triggers it?

  The only clue about this is that Lu Li pushed open a door.

   but not a "door". Lu Li didn't see any trace of it, and it would take a while for it to arrive at the Giant Tree Academy.

  Unable to wait for the "rescue", Lu Li walked down the street and returned to the Sailor Street in his memory.

   The fishy smell in the cold and wet mist is like the splint of a fishing boat standing and floating on the sea, and it is quickly covered up by the smell of sweat and other smells.

  The streets are bustling like a market, with children chasing and running by, and residents drying out the fish stopped by the land, so as not to be contaminated with neat, clean and expensive clothes.

  The familiar longhouse appeared in the distance.

  【The Bizarre Detective Agency】

   A brand new wooden sign hangs by the door of the longhouse.

   pushed open the half-closed door, stepped on the creaking floor, and returned to the familiar door along the narrow and dark corridor.

  Wash-la-la--

   The sound of cooking vegetables was heard from the room with the wooden door half-closed on the opposite side, and the cry of teaching the child was heard in the room not far away.

   took out the keychain, Lu Li jumped out of the copper key and inserted it into the keyhole.

  Kacha——

   The damp smell of wood like wine lees diffused into his nostrils, and Lu Li walked into the quiet and silent living room.

  Anna is not here.

   At this time, he has not met Anna.

   After a while, Lu Li left the detective agency again.

   He has something to do, even if everything in front of him may be false.

   "Do you want to go out? It's getting dark." In the corridor, the fat landlord, whose face was gleaming under the oil lamp, seemed to greet him.

   "I brought an oil lamp."

   After dozens of minutes, Lu Li came to No. 23 Dafenci Street.

  【Mrs. An Lei Art Gallery】

   As evening approached, only faint oil lamps were lit in the gallery windows.

  The current owner of the gallery, Benjamin, was mopping the floor, and he didn't turn back when he heard footsteps: "A new employee who wants to apply for a job?"

   "Guest." Lu Li replied calmly.

  The rich Benjamin quickly got up, put the dirty mop into the bucket, and looked at Lu Li, who was mysterious and seemed to be either rich or expensive: "I'm sorry sir, we're closed, you can—"

  Lu Li took out a handful of shillings from his pocket and stuffed it into Benjamin's subconsciously spread out fleshy palm. A cursory glance should be close to a hundred shillings—

   "I'm a friend of the Bessie family. I heard that the gallery opened here so I came to see it."

"Uh……"

   Palm Shilling and Lu Li's "acquaintances" made Benjamin hesitate.

   "But I still recommend that you come back during the day." Benjamin looked hesitantly into the darkening depths of the gallery: "You may not know that this gallery has been haunted at night recently..."

   "I'm here for this." Lu Li interrupted Benjamin again: "I'm still an exorcist."

  Benjamin's breathing suddenly became much faster, and he hurriedly stuffed the shilling that Lu Li gave him as a reward back into Lu Li's hand: "These are all for you! Please help solve the haunted gallery!"

  clang——clang——clang——

  Meanwhile, church bells wafted down the street at night.

  Benjamin's face was fat and trembling, and he left a sentence, "I'll leave it to you." He couldn't wait to leave without even putting away the mop and bucket, leaving behind Lu Li and the entire art gallery.

   Witnessing Benjamin's fat figure disappear, Lu Li lit the fuel lamp.

   The dim yellow light gradually spreads, driving out the darkness that enveloped the whole body. Holding the oil lamp, Lu Li entered the darker depths of the gallery with the echoing footsteps.

   He saw the oil painting titled "Mrs. An Lei's Daughter".

  The place depicted in the portrait is in the manor, and you can see the dark green and pink flowerbeds on both sides of the path and the mansion as the background.

  Anna sat in the seat of the manor, her hands lightly pressing the skirt, and she was wearing a white gothic pleated dress that was as delicate as a doll. The aristocratic girl's attitude could not hide her lively atmosphere.

  Some fine particles are scattered all over the oil painting, making the canvas a little uneven. Perhaps because there are no protective measures, the pigments have also oxidized, making the oil paintings somewhat distorted and dim. This distorted and darker color gives the painting and Anna a special mottled beauty.

   is like the weight of time.

   stopped for a moment, Anna did not break away from the rest, Lu Li temporarily left the portrait and continued to walk deeper.

   Plaster statues like perfect works of art stand on the display stand. Lu Li, who once returned to Wanghai Cliff, didn't find him, and the Jimmy brothers and sisters took it to Paradise Valley. But so far, Lu Li has not received any information about "Paradise Valley".

  Lu Li returned to the original road, without going upstairs, or even approaching the portrait of Dracula in the center of the stairs.

   Now he doesn't have a spirit spear, and he doesn't have any means to fight the weird.

   When Lu Li returned to Anna's painting, there was a strange sound of stones rubbing against the floor in the depths of the gallery he had just left.

In the    and dull gray mottled oil painting, the beautiful and delicate outline color is becoming vivid.

   (end of this chapter)