Chapter 105 Twenty. The first test item

   "Yeah!" Marcus hummed heavily, and his voice began to change: "You and the ghost actually killed my client!"

   "Is there any problem?" Lu Li didn't think there was any problem, and asked calmly. "And how do you know I did it."

   "Uh...I just know not to ask anymore because I haven't figured out an excuse yet!" Marcus's voice got louder and louder, and finally it started to growl.

   "Okay, so any questions?"

   "Uh... no problem, just kill if you're happy." There was a rustling sound of Marcus scratching his head from the opposite side. "It doesn't matter whether the client is dead or alive. Anyway, we have already got the deposit, so it's not a big loss."

   "Anything else?"

   "Uh... no, wait, I almost forgot what to say."

   "What to say?"

"Although I don't mind that the client dies too many times, it may affect our reputation of 'healthy and happy every day', so that the client is afraid to contact us. It’s not appropriate to exorcise it too. More importantly, we can only get the deposit, uh… I originally wanted to ask if you could be more restrained.”

   "I will." The opposite Lu Li said concisely.

Marcus let out a long sigh of relief, and his tone became excited: "Thank you so much, if you still refuse to agree, I will even be forced to increase your share ratio to make you agree. Oops, I seem to have said something that shouldn't be said. Hey...then that's it, I will send you your commission fee through the mailing system, contact me next time!"

  Di——

   The phone on the other side hangs up.

   At the same time, on the back of the mountain is Watching Town.

   The deputy sheriff's office of the police station is also on the phone.

"The missing woman's name is Shelley, and he left Shelley's house not long ago. Yes sir, the information is provided to him by me. Okay, I will continue to pay attention and contact him immediately if anything else happens... What? There's a new one? But how could it be that we didn't—"

  Valentan stopped, a smile on his face, listening quietly, as if the presence on the other end of the phone could see his flattery.

   "I see, I'll contact him soon... Well, I should have returned to Belfast. So how do you think we should inform him?"

   "Okay... I will, I will treat him as one of you. By the way, I heard about the rum block... sorry I shouldn't have asked."

  Click.

  The microphone fell back to the telephone, and Valentine sat down in the wooden chair in relief, whispering: "Is that exorcist being targeted by this group of people...

  Valentan didn't know whether to envy or rejoice.

   If you have a relationship with them, most people will not end well, or to put it bluntly - the living are basically crazy, and most of the dead do not understand.

   "Call—"

   He exhaled, calmed down his emotions and gradually recovered his breath, and picked up the microphone again.

  …

   "Is the detective agency very busy today?"

   Anna on the dining table by the window held her chin and moved her head up and down as she spoke.

  Lu Li picked up the phone, Valentine's voice rang.

   "Mr. Lu Li, we have a new clue."

  Lu Li thought it was the fourth victim of O'Connor's attack, but following Valentine's narration, Lu Li realized that the time couldn't match.

   The victim this time is called Claire, a female, from Belfast, who disappeared for a short time near the Watching Town Lunatic Asylum half a month ago, and suddenly reappeared.

For a long time after she showed up, she was talking like crazy, grabbing the neighbors and yelling things like "There's a voice in my head!" "They want to replace me!" Claire lives alone and has no family, so no one cares about this poor, crazy woman. In fact, no one even found out that she was missing, but she revealed it during a certain gibberish.

   At least that's what Valentine said.

  Claire went crazy for a few days and was finally found dead at home. Doctors determined she died of dehydration and was severely malnourished - she hadn't eaten since her return.

  Deputy Sheriff Valentine said that Claire's strangeness was discovered when he was sorting out the information on the Sixth Lunatic Asylum. When he realized that the information was vaguely related to Richard, he came to inform Lu Li, and told Lu Li where Claire was staying.

   Mortuary in Belfast Cemetery, not yet buried.

   hung up the phone, knuckles tapped the desk lightly, Lu Li lowered his eyes.

  Anna blinked, without interrupting Lu Li's thoughts.

   Lu Li's thinking didn't last long, he raised his head and said, "There is a problem with the source."

   "Is there a problem?" Anna, who was floating on the seat, sat up slightly.

   "Don't you think it's too detailed." Lu Li calmly explained the doubts. "There's no reason for the Watch Town Police Station to do this for me, an exorcist, especially since the cause and the ending are all recorded accurately."

   After spending some time with Lu Li and being beaten for a while, Anna finally made some progress. At least she learned to see the essence through the appearance of things: "Do you think this is a trap? Is that Richard!"

  Although the gap is huge.

   "I don't know, maybe not. If Richard can influence the police station, he shouldn't just do this." Lu Li doesn't think the news comes from Richard.

  If Valentine was behind Richard, he could have designed Lu Li in a more efficient way, instead of unloading the bullet from a flintlock gun and throwing it by hand until it smashed people to death.

   Although this behavior is more in line with Richard's background of mental problems.

  Only from Claire's strange conjecture, she does seem to have something to do with Richard's plan. The first is that she disappeared earlier than the other victims, and the second is that some of the contents she revealed after her return are intriguing.

   "A failed product..."

   Lu Li murmured thoughtfully.

   In any case, a trip to the cemetery will make it clear.

   But it's not all bad news, at least this time, Lu Li didn't need to go to Watchtown after nearly two hours of bumps and 12 shillings in this bad weather.

   When Lu Li looked at Anna, Anna flinched.

   "The cemetery... I, can I not go?" Anna's voice was weak and pitiful, her teeth chattering.

  Some things will not be changed by becoming a ghost, such as being afraid of ghosts.

   "It's not that I'm afraid... I wouldn't dare to go because I was so afraid... I'm going back to the painting to rest!"

   "Well, I act on my own."

   Lu Li's mood has not changed.

  Anna suddenly felt no sense of guilt, and secretly clenched her fist under her sleeve: "When you come back... remember to bring another recipe book."

   asked her eyes, Anna's clear eyes were full of determination.

   "I want to be more useful!"

  Lu Li watched her quietly for a moment, then nodded.

"it is good."

   (end of this chapter)