Chapter 1007 Seventy-four. Completion of Obsession

   "Who is outside."

  Lu Li let a calm voice be heard in the corridor outside the door, went to the window with the oil lamp in hand, and pushed open the window silently.

   "Mr. Detective, we want to commission an investigation." The deliberately lowered voice outside the door returned to normal.

"let's go."

  Lu Li picked up the picture frame, stepped on the sofa, stepped out of the window frame, came to the cool and quiet street, and said to Anna who was looking at the novelty.

   "Mr. Detective?"

   The police officers outside the door questioned and knocked on the door for the second time, and then they found that the lights extending under the door were gone.

   "The oil lamp was put out, knock it open!"

   "Wait, officers and gentlemen—"

   The landlord who came with the key failed to stop the police officers, and the old wooden door couldn’t prevent the impact. There was a muffled bang, the door panel slammed open, and two police officers rushed into the living room.

  The oil lamp in their hands illuminated the Dark Detective Agency, and they saw footprints on the sofa, as well as the open windows and the curtains lifted by the breeze.

  …

  The warm air from the windows on the street makes the long street shrouded in night dark and quiet, but it is not lonely.

   Occasionally, residents who return home late can be seen holding oil lamps and hurried past.

   Dodging another passerby, Anna appeared beside Lu Li, the light of the oil lamp passed through her illusory body, her eyes were as clear as ever.

   "Aren't you afraid of me?"

   "Not afraid."

   "You should go to the police station and confess the crime."

  Anna was a little behind Lu Li, staring at the back of his head, wondering if he could knock him out—he was helping the robber! Ana thought so, and then got discouraged. If you do this yourself, it is more likely to get yourself caught, and then exorcise and destroy...

   "It was just an accident." Lu Li walked along the edge of the street: "I have more important things to do."

   "What's more important?"

   Anna, who was fed up with the boring and boring gallery life, felt her heart beating silently, drifted past Lu Li, turned and asked him curiously.

   Handsome and mysterious, sensible and calm, looks full of stories! So is it the revenge of a down-and-out young nobleman or...

   "I didn't have money to buy things, so I **** the boss and took the things." Lu Li answered truthfully.

   He didn't say it was a psychic gun, that would scare Anna.

   The imaginary picture that Anna was looking forward to was so real, how quickly the excitement cooled down at the moment, she still didn't give up: "Well...that person is a bad person? That person has a grudge against you...?"

   Thinking of Hades selling the 300 shillings psychic gun for 2000 shillings to deceive the newcomer himself, Lu Li nodded lightly: "That's it."

   This answer was reluctantly accepted by Anna. It is inevitable to judge people by their appearance. The handsome and the ugly will be treated differently if they do the same thing.

  Especially for Anna who is only a girl.

   Came to the carriage shop at the end of Sailor Street. Lu Li rented a carriage with only a few coins left and the deposit for the previous rental of the carriage. Da Da stepped on the horseshoe to disturb the quiet night.

   Soon, the rushing police officers ran by the side of the road. They didn't notice or recognize Lu Li who was driving.

   After a few blocks, the carriage came to the avenue connecting the top of Mount Sugard to Rodster Harbor, and drove down the slope.

  Anna's cheeks quietly passed through the carriage, like a wooden board with an illusory face, cute and terrifying.

   She asked without knowing it, "Mr. Robber, where are we going?"

   "Go west."

  Lu Li did not let Anna know the destination and thus affected her emotions.

   This is what Lu Li came up with to maintain his dream.

   "Why did you bring me?"

   didn't get an answer, and Anna asked again, "Don't you want to tell me? Then why did you go to the gallery to buy...take me? Maybe take me away..."

   "Because you are my family."

   "You are also a member of the Bessie family!?" Anna exclaimed in surprise, and then replaced the brief inexplicable loss with excitement: "You are my brother or sister, but why do you have black hair and eyes."

   "Not this kind of family."

   For Anna, who met Lu Li for the first time, she could not understand the meaning behind the word.

   "It's a lover."

   After a brief silence, Anna stumbled and said, "You mean...you like me?"

"Um."

   "Yes, but we don't know each other..."

  Anna shyly withdrew into the carriage, but soon, Anna told her story.

   Lu Li took the trouble to listen quietly for the third time, occasionally responding.

During the    period, the carriage went over Sugard Mountain, came to the back of the mountain, passed the commercial road that was still prosperous at night, watched the town, and moved on.

   There is no moonlight tonight, and darkness covers the earth.

   The carriage was pulled by an old horse, capable of advancing along the dirt road it had stepped out under the dim light of the oil lamp.

   But they are not alone, and occasionally they can see a distant shimmer of light like stars shining in front and behind.

   But the wild is no longer safe at this time. Towards the end of the night, the last glimmer of light and the distance disappeared, loneliness and darkness wrapped around the carriage—

   was then dissipated by the dim oil lamps, the dull horseshoes and wheels turning, and the narration from the carriage.

   At a certain moment, Lu Li saw a surging darkness that was more solid than gloom, wandering in the fog-like wilderness.

  The old horse snorted uneasily and veered off the lane, trying to get around the solid darkness.

  Lu Li didn't stop and dimmed the oil lamp.

   Shake away from the wandering darkness, Lu Li observed behind him until it was no longer visible, and returned to the road.

   Then the carriage did not encounter any weirdness.

   "Mr. Robber, where have we been?"

   As the morning approached, Anna's voice sounded.

   "Outskirts of Shymfast."

  Anna got out of the carriage, the darkness before dawn had passed, and in the dim light, she saw the brightly lit city in the distance.

   "Why are you here...?"

   "This is your old home."

   is also where Anna used to be obsessed, yearned for and feared by her.

   "The former manor is now the academy, and Aunt Mary is now the dean of the academy." Lu Li said.

  Anna quietly looked at the art capital, flinched in anticipation, and even ignored to ask why Lu Li knew about this.

  The carriage slowly drove into Shymfast, along the street that was waking up in the dark morning, to the former manor of the Bessie family.

   The main entrance of the manor was locked with iron chains. When Lu Li was about to knock on the iron bar and call for the gatekeeper, Anna stopped him.

"follow me."

   Ana with a complicated expression led Lu Li to the side of the manor and pulled out a loose guardrail.

   Here is the "secret road" that she ran outside to play when she was young.

   Through the secret passage, Anna stood in the former manor again. Although the bushes and flowerbeds were yellow and abandoned, she could still recognize everything here.

  Anna's obsession has been completed, and Lu Li may leave the dream at any time.

   "Annie..."

   She saw a dead young tree, approached subconsciously, and stared blankly.

   Lu Li followed Anna, standing under the tree that had withered.

   At this moment, Lu Li suddenly heard the bark coming out, belonging to Annie's weak closeness.

  Emotions touch Lu Li's heart, like plucked strings, triggering deeper power, like a storm shattering dreams like mirrors——

   Lu Li woke up from a dream.

   Young branches shimmering dimly spread out from behind him.

   (end of this chapter)