Chapter 48

  Lu Li no longer paid attention to the other's occupation, and instead asked, "Is that notebook a prop?"

   "This?" The guy pretending to be a ghost beside him pointed to the notes on the desk, and after getting confirmation from Lu Li, he casually said, "It's a prop."

   "Is it?"

   "You don't know... oh I forgot you're not Ellen's guy..."

   "Ghost" muttered to himself and explained, "It's a rumor about a lunatic asylum, you know, ignorant country folks always fear places like this—"

   "Hey, pay attention to the words you use!" The strong man complained loudly: "I'm from Watching Town."

"Okay, okay, I used the word incorrectly." Ghost raised his hands to indicate his mistake, and continued: "There are always conspiracy theorists who say that the lunatic asylum is using patients for human experiments? It has become a rumor under the rendering of the nearby villagers. , said that there was a girl who was sent to the sixth hospital by her parents, and then tragically used as a test object, her body became rigid and turned into a sculpture or something. You can ask any resident in Watch Town and you can talk to you. all day..."

   At the end, she added: "Then our great writer, Mr. Stephen, thinks that this rumor can be written into a novel, and then that's what you see now."

  Sculpture…

  Lu Li was thoughtful.

   "Big detective, what are you here to investigate?" The brawny Stephen asked curiously.

   "Find the information of critically ill patients in the hospital." Lu Li said. There's nothing to hide. If the other party knows the information of the entrusted target "Edward", it will save a lot of trouble.

   "Then you have to go inside." Stephen pointed to the door and turned again. "Go to the end of the corridor, there is an elevator, just go down from the elevator."

   "Isn't the hospital powered off already?"

   "The stairs collapsed and you can't get through there. The elevator is stuck between the first floor and the basement floor. You have to climb down from the elevator."

   sounds dangerous.

   Stephen persuaded again: "There is something wrong here, I suggest you don't go too far. If you want to go in and investigate, it's best to go during the day, and call a few more people."

   Lu Li asked back: "Since there is a problem here, why are you all staying here to set up the scene?"

  Stephen and "Ghost" looked at each other, and the former showed the seriousness of the writer: "This is how to give the work a soul. And we don't bring nothing..."

   He abruptly tore off the collar and showed Lu Li the pile of pendants he was wearing on his chest.

   There are bizarre printed necklaces and complicated runes.

  Lu Li nodded and said nothing.

   "By the way, are you interested in making a cameo appearance in this book?" Stephen tucked his collar, and squeezed a smile on his face full of flesh: "I have a new idea, and I can write the paragraph just now into the book."

   "What is the title of the book?"

  "The Bard's Sad Biography of the Ellen Peninsula""

"…Can."

   "Okay, tell me your address, and we'll send you a copy after it's written."

   "Tax Street." Lu Li replied, his eyes lowered slightly, and he said calmly, "Also. I also apologize to the friend who blocked the door for me."

"no problem-"

The    voice stopped suddenly, and Stephen looked stunned: "Wait, what's blocking the door?"

  Lu Li gave a brief description, and the two of them got goosebumps.

  Stephen turned a lot paler, turned his head and asked the actor, "Aya, is it Aaron who came with us?"

   "Yeah, he should still be changing clothes in the car... Could he be the one scaring us?"

   "He dares to scare us with the kind of courage that he doesn't dare to be alone in the dark?" Stephen's expression was tense, and he looked around for the consequences and cut off the opening: "It's not quite right here, let's go first!"

  Lu Li didn't move, silently watching the two turn around and flee out the door, without any hesitation.

  Stephen kept dying unscathed in order to write the novel, not so much because of the many runes on his body, but because of his decisiveness.

   "Ghost" had slipped out of the room, and Stephen, who followed him, walked to the door, suddenly remembered that there was someone else, turned his head and asked, "Brother, won't you come with us?"

   Lu Li replied, "My work is not finished yet."

   "What can be more important than life!"

   "Death is important, but it's also very important." Lu Li answered frankly.

   His daily expenses are around 40 shillings, which is not counting the work and living expenses such as renting a carriage to buy kerosene.

   Every day he drags on, Lu Li's saving rate slows down by one point.

   As for saving money and saving money... that is not within Lu Li's consideration.

  Stephen was stunned for a moment, then ran back suddenly, tore off the bracelet on his wrist and stuffed it with Lu Li: "I'll borrow it from you first, the exorcist has a spirit!"

   As he spoke, he hurried out of the corridor, and at the last few words, he had already left the hospital hall.

  Lu Li, who stayed in the office, looked down at the bracelet in his palm and put it in his pocket.

   Holding the oil lamp, Lu Li strode out of the office and turned in the opposite direction to them.

   The doors on both sides, either half-closed, open or closed, were ignored by Lu Li, and after walking straight forward for a certain distance, the end of the corridor appeared within the range of the oil lamp.

   Stepping over the chairs across the corridor, Lu Li temporarily skipped the elevator and walked to the stairs.

  As Stephen said, the stairs had collapsed, and the stairs leading to the second floor were broken, forming a three-meter-long gap, and the gravel was piled up.

   The broken staircase smashed into the ground, blocking the passage leading to the first basement level, making it impossible to pass.

   retracted his gaze, and Lu Li retreated to the front of the elevator.

  Although it is an old-fashioned elevator, it has been completely converted to electric drive. Now the elevator is stuck between the first floor and the basement floor, and the horizontal rolling shutter door is completely open.

  The oil lamp swayed through the elevator, and the floating dust slowly floated in the air.

  The gap between the top of the elevator and the ground should not exceed half a meter. Lu Li must lie on the ground to climb into the elevator.

  The bad news is that you have to take risks to get down to Luli. The good news is that the ropes in the elevator shaft showed no signs of damage.

  Lu Li sat down on the edge of the elevator, put the oil lamp beside him, put his legs into the elevator, then turned over, his arms supported the outside ground, and dropped his body into the elevator little by little.

  Squeak-

   But at this moment, the floating dust in the air became restless, and the elevator made a disturbing friction sound.

  Lu Li remained still for a moment, showing a posture of holding his arms on the ground and his body suspended in the elevator, motionless.

   crunch-squeak-

  The elevator began to sway slowly in the narrow elevator shaft, and the sound of sour teeth continued to sound from overhead.

  The situation is not very good. Lu Li is lying on the edge of the elevator, and his lower body has already reached into the elevator. If the rope suddenly breaks at this moment... The best situation is that Lu Li is caught by the waist of the suddenly falling elevator car and the ground.

   almost broke at the waist, the body was outside, and the lower body was in the elevator.

   crunch—

The creepy creaking sound of    intensified, and the elevator showed signs of breaking.

   (end of this chapter)