Chapter 218 217. Drizzt Detective Agency

  The police carried the man away, and Xia put the book on the table.

Lu Yi felt that the cover was familiar. It was a man in a suit working at his desk, but beside him, various ugly and abstract monsters surrounded him, and the whole picture revealed a strong sense of incongruity, which seemed extremely crazy. .

  The title of the book can be seen through the translation of Silent Place. It is called "Shadow of Terror". When you look back at the picture on the cover, you will find that these monsters have emerged from the person's shadow.

  Lu Jie looked at his shadow subconsciously, it was empty, with nothing but pitch black.

  "This is the book of the ancient capital."

  Drizzt picked up the book.

"It is sold in all bookstores in Fudu, and there are even manuscripts in many places. Whether it is a high-class person or a helper in the store, anyone who is literate likes this author’s story very much, even if it’s illiterate. It’s okay, the storyteller outside the teahouse is also telling his story."

  He pointed to the storyteller who was standing at the door of the teahouse that had not yet been affected. He was wearing a long gown and a jacket, holding a folding fan, and wearing sunglasses.

  A few footmen, workers, and children gathered in front of him, listening to the storyteller with relish.

   "Ancient capital?"

  Siya obviously heard this name for the first time.

   "This is a writer, I've heard of it before."

  In the previous mission to the abandoned city, Lu Yi had heard of the name of the ancient capital and knew that he was a writer who liked to write horror novels and stories about wind, flowers, and snow. He seemed to often mix with married women.

   Is he the writer you are looking for this time?

   "Yes, in fact, the ancient capital is missing."

  Drizzt's expression looked a bit bitter.

"Actually, my previous colleagues received a commission to find traces of the ancient capital, but at that time I thought it was just someone whose husband found out that he was wearing a green hat and wanted to avenge the ancient capital. But today, I received a commission from a publishing house. It was looking for the ancient capital. He disappeared two weeks ago and has not heard from him so far."

  After leaving the teahouse, Drizzt led the way, and the three of them walked towards a corner of the street.

  Lu Yi listened to Drizzt's words while observing the surroundings.

Just as he saw it at the time, you can see the signs of all kinds of shops. Most of the people walking on the road are dressed in old, tattered, and disgraced faces, while the people in the rickshaw have suits and leather shoes, cheongsam dresses, and they are completely different. Two societies.

The road in the center is flat, but the alleys are stinking. In some areas, the screams of walking vendors have overwhelmed everything. It is like a vegetable market. In some areas, there are only those antiques, jade articles, and bookstores. The higher shops are quiet and depressing.

The three quickly came to a small two-story building. The first floor was a small tea house with more ordinary civilians sitting in it. Walking up the stairs to the second floor, Lu Zan saw the sign hanging "Detective Drizzt The signboard of “firms”.

   Pushing open the door, Lu Yi heard a lazy meow first.

  The fat orange cat didn't feel vigilant when seeing strangers. It only glanced at Lu Zin and Xia, and fell asleep again, without its tail moving.

  "This is the landlord’s cat. I don’t know how he likes to come to sleep with me."

  Drizzt took off his coat, took off his hat, and put the pipe on the shelf on the table.

  His desk is messy, full of documents, archives, and scattered photos in various formats. On the wall next to the desk is a bookshelf with piles of archives on it.

  There is an old sofa in the living room on the second floor. The orange cat sleeps in the middle of the sofa. There are some leftover food on the coffee table, more than half of the wine bottles, and more gadgets that do not know the purpose.

  There are no beds on this floor, only an unfolded quilt beside the sofa, and it looks like Drizzt is sleeping on the sofa.

   "Okay, now we can sort out the task information."

  Drizzt picked up a bottle of wine on the coffee table and glanced at the two of them inquiringly. Lu Zin and Xiya both shook their heads, and he poured the wine into the turbid glass by himself and drank it in one fell swoop.

"Gu is a writer. He became famous about seventeen years ago. He is good at writing horror stories. The horror stories he wrote are very popular with the upper class. Therefore, the books of the publishing house are very popular. I wrote several books and made a lot of money."

  Drizzt put down the cup, came to his desk, took out two files at random, and handed them to Lu Zin and Xiya.

"Some noble ladies, you know, either they are widows whose husbands have died early and inherited a large inheritance, or they are widows whose husbands have spent the whole year in Fengyuechang and raised several mistresses outside. Of course, there are also some who simply don’t like themselves. Husband, married purely for family reasons."

"These noble ladies are obsessed with the novels of the ancient capital and naturally became interested in this writer. Sometimes they held some poetry salons and invited literati to participate. The ancient capital was one of them. After the salon was over, the others dispersed. Then I will spend the night in their home."

  He smiled and poured another half glass of wine. Instead of drinking directly this time, he sat on the sofa and touched the sleeping orange cat.

"Over time, the reputation of the ancient capital has become strange. Sometimes, some of his female readers are willing to spend the night with him in exchange for their bodies, but this guy is really amazing. Energetic, sometimes I can go to three of them in one night."

   "Three?"

  Xia tilted her head in confusion.

"Ahem, in short, because his works are very popular, the rich people in the abandoned capital can't openly harm him. It is a curious master who specially invited the ancient capital to his home to create with his wife. However, His behavior will always lead to some dissatisfaction. The publishing house feels that it is possible that the master of any house attacked the ancient capital because he was wearing a hat, and killed or hid him."

  Drizzt changed the subject again when seeing Shia who didn’t understand it very well.

   "I think our task this time is to find the ancient capital."

   "Since it is a mission, the ancient capital should not have died. Maybe it was just kidnapped. Well, wait a minute. What happened to that person just now? Is there anything special about that novel?"

  Naturally, Lu Yi had never read the book of the ancient capital, so he asked questions.

   "That book itself is an ordinary book, there is nothing special about it, just this novel."

  Drizzt pulled out a book from his bookshelf. It was "Shadow of Horror", and it was brand new, like a new book that had just been bought and had not been read.

"I was not interested in these novels and hadn't read it before, but I asked a publisher for a set for investigation. I read another one last night and I can only say that the ancient capital can become famous. There is still some truth to it, since the man Saying that this book was the reason for his attack on us, maybe we can see what is written in it."

  Drizzt opened the novel.

  (End of this chapter)