Chapter 76 Seventy-six. Where are you?

   Lu Li and Hades looked at each other at the same time, and they could see from each other's eyes that the other didn't know what was going on.

   An indescribable malice permeates the air, exuding an abomination that makes you want to stay away from it. The surrounding black silhouettes became restless, and they moved as if they wanted to get out of here.

"Where are you?"

The words    echoed in the air again, this time with an obscure male voice.

  Lu Li's eyes left the nervous Hades and landed on the broken candle.

  Is it the existence of the voice that attracts it...

"Where are you?"

   The voice in the void changed again, becoming the indifferent voice of a woman.

   Lu Li recognized the voice, it was... Anna's voice.

   comes to mind along with the image of the first two voices: Jojo and Oliver.

   Hades' expression was still tense, and there was no suddenness, which meant that he couldn't tell the sound of his voice... Was this question directed at himself?

  Lu Li decided to keep quiet and not answer the unknowable voice in the void.

   He listened to the subtle sounds on the other side, some noises like water flowing, and the barely perceptible whispers that were concealed gradually emerged.

"Where are you?"

   A hoarse, icy male voice sounded, and Lu Li couldn't tell who its owner was.

"Where are you?"

"Where are you?"

"Where are you?"

"Where are you?"

   The changing voice keeps repeating the same words. Some were people he knew. There were voices that he was so familiar with but couldn't remember.

"Where are you?"

   An extremely familiar, yet extremely unfamiliar female voice echoed in the void.

   There was a sudden buzzing sound in Lu Li's mind, and noise appeared in his eye sockets, occupying the entire field of vision, and he lost the ability to think.

   His whole mind was drawn to this voice.

"Where are you?"

"Where are you?"

"Where are you?"

   The uninterrupted voices continued, and Lu Li was still sitting in front of the bar, motionless.

  …

   The murmur as the background sound suddenly amplified at this moment, covering up the question after question.

   In a trance, blood-red spots appeared in the gaps between the wooden boards on the ceiling. They grow and spread to the periphery, and the disgusting veins like blood vessels are rolling, climbing and occupying the entire top of the head, as well as the surrounding dark area.

   Hades' expression changed from nervousness to fear. He raised his head and touched his palm almost subconsciously behind him—on his psychic gun.

"what is that!?"

   Hades whispered, but no one answered him.

   He realized something and wanted to extinguish the small broken candle that remained.

  's outstretched arm was blocked by a palm, Hades looked up, saw Lu Li watching him calmly, and shook his head, "You didn't lie before, did you?"

   The broken candle he refers to cannot be extinguished.

   Hades woke up and slowly swallowed his arms. But waiting to die and doing nothing is not his style. Almost instantly, he thought of a solution, picked up the oil lamp and tilted the flame to accelerate the burning and consumption of the broken candle.

  Lu Li raised his head, still observing the continuous changes on the ceiling.

  The blood vessels cover every part of the ceiling. Suddenly, the black silhouettes in the hall of the detective agency have all disappeared. Only the two of them were left by candlelight in front of the bar.

   On the wall that was densely packed with blood vessels, a crack suddenly opened the blood vessel and emerged from the veins.

   "Wow, rustle, rustle, rustle..."

   Maliciousness pervaded Lu Li's body, bewitching in a low voice.

   murmurs filled every corner, and the crack gradually opened to both sides, turning into an eye trying to open and occupying the entire wall.

   Blood vessels act as eyelids. Under the cracked translucent eyelid film, the bloodshot black-red eyeball several meters in diameter turned restlessly.

   Maybe when this eye opened, it was when it found Lu Li.

   At this moment, the surrounding light dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Lu Li moved his eyes and looked at the broken candle that had burned out and the last flame was fading.

"Where are you?"

   The sound of inquiries resounded in the empty hall like a nightmare. As the broken candle no longer burned, the image on the ceiling dimmed, disappeared, and returned to its original appearance.

   shattered together with the image, and the whispers that filled the ears disappeared.

   "Success?"

   Hades had a layer of fine sweat on his forehead, showing his embarrassment.

   He looked at Lu Li, his nervousness not dissipating: "What is that?!"

   "I want to ask that too."

   Haders tried to spy something under Lu Li's calm exterior, but he didn't find anything, so he looked away suspiciously and put the oil lamp back in place.

   Under the steady light, he waved his hand wearily: "Forget it, I guess there is something wrong. These ghosts can't be understood with common sense... If there are any negative effects, I will ask you to compensate!"

   In the last sentence, he suddenly shouted viciously, and then regained his previous weakness: "I'm very tired, if you have any other questions, you can wait—"

   "I do have other questions."

  Lu Li interrupted Hades, ignoring his intention to evict guests and his unhappy eyes, and put the flintlock gun and holster on the bar.

   "She has her first flower, what does that mean?"

   Hades' impatience was driven away by shock. He picked up the holster and stared in horror at the elegant rose blooming on the sound of the gunshot: "How many ghosts have you solved!?"

   "That's why I have 1000 shillings." Lu Li replied.

   But the full bloom of the first rose is largely linked to Michelia's dissipation. After Michelia disappeared, the rose almost fully bloomed in an instant, and the remaining part was completely completed in the haunted house and just now.

   Haders looked at Lu Li for a long time with eyes like a ghost, and returned the holster to Lu Li: "I have a suggestion, do you want to hear it?"

   "Don't use the psychic gun for now. At least don't use it in front of weak enemies."

"why?"

"The power of the rose...let's put it this way. The psychic gun is the masterpiece of the second generation of demon slayers. As a homolog, it has an inexplicable relationship with that paradoxical world. After the disappearance of the third generation of demonslayers, although the The way the psychic gun is made is still there, but the secret is gone. All I can tell you is that every rose that blooms represents a weird ability... It could be good, it could be bad, it's only you to understand."

   "More importantly... the rose will speed up the invasion of the world against you."

   The third generation slayer.

Lu Li knew that he had new questions, but Hades just waved his hand: "Don't ask me, the relevant information has been wiped out into the dust of history, there may be some information from the current Demon Slayer organization and the Night's Watch. Okay. , you should go."

   To solve some problems, Lu Li left the detective agency with some more problems.

   The original calm was restored here. Behind the bar under the oil lamp, Hades looked at the empty hall and whispered slowly.

   "I hope the world doesn't get worse..."

   (end of this chapter)