Chapter 120 Thirty-five. Departure

  The detective agency has become more lively than before.

   It doesn't mean that he is usually deserted. Since the arrival of Anna and the sculptures that have no sense of existence, the word deserted does not belong to this detective agency.

   At this moment, the desk of the detective agency was full of debris, the carriage was parked on the street outside the window, and Anna was still putting the things she thought she should bring on the desk.

   A few books on exhaustion, pure water in a kettle, spare torches for every householder, two oil lamps, pounds of kerosene, and picture frames to hide in.

   Lu Li didn't intend to stop her. This kind of pre-trip preparation is something most people like to do, and people are keen to think about what to bring and what to leave out. Until Anna was ready to take all the clothes in the closet.

   "Shadow Town is not far away, we can arrive in the evening tomorrow if we leave during the day."

   said Lu Li, who quietly watched all this happen.

   Anna, who had just opened the wardrobe door, stopped and asked tentatively, "Then bring one...?"

  Lu Li raised his eyes and looked at Anna, and replied after a few seconds, "Yes."

  Agreed, Anna cheered and got into the closet, picked up a set of clothes and threw it on the table.

   Busy for half an hour, or longer. They won't leave until tomorrow morning when Anna gets the disappointing news from Lu Li after everything is ready.

   "It's already afternoon, and if we start now, it means we'll have to travel at night for more than half the time."

  While it is safe to stay in the light, there is no guarantee that there will be other problems at night. The distance of 200 miles is not far, but it is not as easy as going from Belfast to Watchtown

  The long journey itself entails a certain risk, especially at night. The troubles Lu Li is currently encountering are not enough for him to take such a big risk.

  Anna had to accept this fact. Fortunately, she didn't need to sleep, otherwise she might have a sleepless night.

   Relying on perseverance, the exhausted Anna waved to Lu Li and got back into the picture frame she put on the desk. After Anna went back to rest, Lu Li left the seat and started to get busy, putting back the extra things that Anna found, such as the pounds of kerosene.

  He went to Shadowtown to deal with the **** tentacles, not to sell kerosene.

   When Lu Li got everything ready, the sky started to get dark.

   He lit the oil lamp, went out to the bakery to buy dinner, ate dinner in silence, went out to throw away the garbage, and by the way, put some beans and water in a pot, and went out to feed the horse.

  Beans were provided by the car dealer, who probably thought that Lu Li would be their new customer, and the rental time this time was longer than before, and the car dealer provided all the rations for the horses rented this time.

   After feeding the horses, Lu Li returned to the detective agency, closed the door with a "click", passed the sculpture by the door, and stopped.

   He remembered something.

  Whether it goes well or not, they can't come back a day.

  Lu Li stood in front of the sculpture that didn't seem to have moved once since it was brought back to the detective agency, stared at it quietly for a moment, and said, "The detective agency will hand it over to you while we're away."

   After waiting for a few more seconds, the sculpture did not respond. Lu Li turned and walked away, rolling up his sleeves and walking towards the kitchen. After a while, there was a sound of water flowing from inside.

  After washing his cheeks, Lu Li returned to the desk. The night was quiet and silent. He sat in the seat, as if remembering something, sat quietly for a few minutes, then lay down on the desk and fell asleep under the dim butter lamp.

  Time passed quietly, the barking of dogs rang out from nowhere, and occasionally the candle in the oil lamp flickered briefly, and the swaying light and shadow seemed to bring the sculpture to life.

As it approached midnight, a translucent outline floated out of the frame, and Anna stretched her arms as if stretching her waist. She wanted to say something, but when she noticed the sleeping figure lying on the desk, she quickly covered her mouth so as to avoid it. Wake up each other.

  Ana's movements became gentle, even though her movements would have been silent.

Anna floated to Lu Li's side, took off the windbreaker hanging on the back of the chair, and put it on Lu Li's body gently, her clear eyes watched quietly for a while, and after making sure that Lu Li was not woken up, she floated to the desk and sorted out the items on the desk. He pulled out the unfinished storybook and turned to the bookmarked page.

   She lowered her head and her hair fell, immersed in the story in the book. But occasionally she would raise her head and glance at Lu Li across the table, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and she continued to lower her head to read with some joy.

   Only the occasional sound of flipping books is left in the room.

  At some point, Anna noticed that the surroundings were getting dark. Thinking that the oil lamp was kerosene, she raised her head and found that the dim light was dimly lit outside the window.

  It is about to dawn.

  Anna buckled down the half of the book she had seen, stretched out her waist as if she was still alive, and suddenly found that Lu Li across the table was awake, and those black eyes were looking at him.

   "Yeah..." Anna exclaimed, retracting her arms embarrassedly: "When did you wake up?"

   "When you find the dawn."

  Lu Li sat up straight, the windbreaker slipping behind him attracted attention, and when he looked back, he found that Anna was staring at him—or rather, his hair, with a weird look.

   "What's wrong?" Lu Li tilted his head and asked.

   "Hmm..." Anna suddenly covered her chest and waved her hand in a difficult and patient manner: "It's nothing."

  Lu Li raised his hand to touch the top of his head, and touched a small clump of hair outside the expected position.

   "Is there any hair curled up?"

   Lu Li asked, pressing down the tuft of upturned hair after getting a nod from Anna like a chicken pecking at rice. Only when the hand was removed, the black hair curled up stubbornly again.

   "Pfft..."

   Probably thought it was funny, Anna couldn't help but burst into laughter, waved her hand and said, "Go take a shower."

  Lu Li put down his palms and shook his head: "There's not enough time, just wash your hair."

   He got up and left his seat, walked into the kitchen, and walked out after wiping his wet black hair after a while.

  It was not bright enough, but there were already scattered residents walking around the streets who got up early.

  Anna prepared food for the horses. Lu Li put the items that needed to be brought into the carriage, fed the horses, and returned to the detective agency to pick up a piece of paper and write "temporarily out, no one in the detective agency".

   "What if the baron comes?"

   Anna dragged her chin and asked vaguely.

   Lu Li, who was about to close the cap, made a pause, and added a new line below.

  【If you have valuables as a gift, you can put them into the crack of the door. 】

"All right."

   Buttoned the pen cap, Lu Li took the paper to the corridor and stuck it on the door.

   went back to the detective agency, put on a trench coat, and picked up the oil lamp on the table. Anna followed Lu Li and left the detective agency.

  patta——

  The door was tightly closed, the last ray of light from the oil lamp disappeared, and the room fell into darkness.

  The sky near six o’clock is covered with clouds, and it will appear dark and bright,

   Everything in the room came to a standstill.

Dawns Here Are Quiet.

   (end of this chapter)