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The three paragraphs of Abyss become coherent.

Lu Li, who came back two months later, knew the last whereabouts of Agent Nightingale. The word "death" in parentheses after her name was very eye-catching. He also knew why the bottomless abyss, which was tentatively considered an ordinary event, turned into a difficulty, and then turned from a difficulty into a nightmare.

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The Abyss incident taught Lu Li that even investigators are walking on thin ice when faced with the weirdness of this world. No matter how cautious or determined they are, they are just fragile flesh and blood.

After reading the remaining contents of the three weekly newspapers, Lu Li did not forget his purpose. He compared the differences between the four months - the weirdness was indeed increasing significantly.

Remote and deserted villages far away from populated areas are disappearing rapidly, as if they never existed.

The wild becomes increasingly unwelcoming to humans.

In addition, Lu Li paid attention to the layout of the investigator's weekly report. Usually newspapers are divided into three sections, news, new events, and strange events. The apocalypse forecast is not included in the section because it is too short.

If he wanted to earn royalties, Lu Li had to start from these three sections.

Putting away the newspaper, Lu Li looked outside the car. Half an hour's bumpy ride had brought them close to the foot of the mountain, and several carriages were slowly advancing dozens of meters ahead.

As the most prosperous and well-known commercial port city on the Allen Peninsula, the security in Belfast and surrounding areas is relatively stable.

At the same time, this is also the lowest level for Lu Li.

If a mass death event or a strange epidemic occurs in Belfast one day, he will be ready to leave here and move to a refuge.

After extinguishing the oil lamp, the car became dim. Anna, who felt the change in light, turned her head: "Have you finished reading?"

"Um."

Lu Li moved outside the carriage, preparing to take the reins.

"I'll do it, no one will notice if it rains anyway." Anna, however, did not intend to lose her job as a temporary groom. She wanted to do something for Lu Li, no matter how insignificant it was.

"good."

Lu Li, who never knew what politeness meant, nodded and returned to the carriage to sit down.

The carriage bumped slightly, and Lu Li, who had a blanket underneath him, closed his eyes and took a short rest.

Traveling on the road was boring, and there was no way to pass the time. Lu Li could only fall asleep in the rickety carriage and wait for the time to pass.

During my intermittent sleep, I would wake up every once in a while, and at a certain moment, the carriage beneath me suddenly stopped shaking, and the slightly noisy rutting sound also disappeared.

Lu Li opened his eyes in the sudden silence. After a brief silence, he looked towards the front of the car.

Anna huddled behind the car curtain, with only half of her face exposed. Lu Li looked outside through the translucent illusory back of her head. A row of motorcades was blocking the front, and the outline of the building was visible at the edge.

"Are we there?"

"Yeah." Anna's tone showed a hint of sadness, filled with sentimentality and nostalgia: "Himfast... the city where I grew up."

Lu Li stretched out his hand to lift the car curtain, and bright light squeezed into the car, dispelling the darkness. Lu Li completely saw a city standing on the plain in front of him.

Belfast does not have a city wall, neither does Himfast, and all the cities on the Allen Peninsula do not have city walls. Not only because building the city wall is time-consuming, laborious and expensive, King Macdonald decided to remove the city wall with a wave of his hand, but also because of the colonial development of the Allen Peninsula.

At that time, the situation on the continent had stabilized, and the endless weirdness forced human beings to unite together. Although gaps and contradictions still existed, everything was only on a small scale.

"Do you still know the way?"

Lu Li asked. On the map of Allen Peninsula, Himfast is just a city icon and a line of text.

"Of course...I walked around every street in this city with my mother, and I can still remember them...if nothing has changed."

Anna had not left Himfast for too long, and her sadness at this time was more like a sigh that things are man-made.

"I'll drive the car next, and you tell me the route." A calm voice that broke the mood came from behind.

Lu Li's voice was neither warm nor sunny. It made people feel that if one day those big iron blocks made by something called scientific industry spoke, their tone would be the same as this guy's.

But Anna felt that this voice comforted her, just like her mother's soft humming after nightfall.

"oh."

Anna, who had regained her mood, responded obediently, put down the reins and slipped back into the carriage.

Lu Li lowered his head and got out of the carriage and picked up the reins. But he didn't need to do anything. The old horse pulling the carriage knew to move forward slowly with the convoy.

It took a few minutes for the carriage to enter the city. Compared with the relatively practical buildings in Belfast, the buildings here are more beautiful. The towering roofs of Gothic buildings seem to pierce the dense clouds. There are no exceptions in the middle of every intersection.

There is a beautiful stone sculpture standing there.

Himfast's city symbol, a thirty-four-meter-high bell tower, jingled. The long bells of this 98-year-old building floated over the entire city. The bell rang four times, and Anna told Lu Li that it was afternoon.

Four o'clock means.

The sky wouldn't darken until six o'clock, and they still had plenty of time to find the treasure.

Driving the carriage in the direction Anna pointed, Lu Li simultaneously observed the shops on both sides of the broad street. There were more galleries or sculpture galleries here than Lu Li imagined. There were one or two on almost every street, and there were oil paintings of different styles in the windows.

Or a sculpture.

Benjamin, who took over Madame Anlei's art gallery, made the right choice when he moved from Himfast.

"The city is no longer prosperous. Weirdness and disaster have distracted people from appreciating real art."

Anna's whisper suddenly sounded behind her, and these words obviously did not fit her character.

Before Lu Li turned around, Anna continued to recite: "False is hung high and praised, but no one cares about the truth, and the treasures are covered with dust. I will no longer keep these portraits that I have collected, and each oil painting will only be sold for 50

shilling……"

Following Anna's gaze, she was reading what was written on a roadside stall. Next to her were dozens of portraits and an old man who looked cynical.

"Is this thing real?" Lu Li asked.

"Fake, Himfast's unique deception, specially designed to deceive those who come here for the first time."

Anna raised a smile on her lips.

"But the paintings were actually painted. There is an art gallery on Hualan Street in front. The apprentices there only pay 6 shillings for each painting. If you are an acquaintance, you can buy it for 4 shillings."

Just like the colorful shells in Belfast are always popular with outsiders, and they think that a shell is very cheap for only one shilling - but you can pick up a basket full of this kind of stuff on the beach in an hour.

"I think the city of art is a place where everyone can have artistic accomplishment."

"How is that possible?" Anna smiled and poked Lu Li's back gently with her finger. "There are also thieves and gangsters in Himfast, but there are more people engaged in art here, just like there are more people fishing in Belfast.
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