Bizarre Detective Agency

  Lu Li and Elena visited another neighbor that Crags Creep Monster remembered, while Claire and Ophelia returned to the manor to prepare sumptuous food for Lu Li.

  Their excuse was that merchants are not suitable to appear here, but in fact they wanted to prepare a meal for Lu Li with their own hands.

  Considering that no matter how bad it is, it can't be worse than Anna's craftsmanship, Lu Li let them do their best, and crossed the territory with the creep monster to the other end.

  This monster looks like a visitor from hell, a demon similar to hell, with a thin body, with bat-like demon wings, curved and long horns converging on the top of the head, claws and a spike-like tail with barbs.

   It hid in a farm outside the farm. It was disturbed by Lu Li's arrival, and it circled up, waiting for an opportunity.

   "There is no way to negotiate, we have to let it go." Elena said.

  Lu Li distanced himself from the team to give his neighbor a chance to land.

  It seems that the creep monsters and Elena behind them are weaker in their perception, and the flying neighbors fold their wings together and swoop down towards them like arrows.

  Lu Li returned to Elena's side in an instant, and the pervasive dream captured the neighbor who had thrown himself into the net.

  The ear-piercing scream was blocked by the dream, and Lu Li released the lighthouse, but the light from the lighthouse made him even more frenzied, struggling and trembling like a giant bat.

  Lu Li could only force it to sign the contract. Surprisingly, the appearance of the devil's contract made it stagnant for a short time. Although it continued to struggle afterwards, it seemed to recognize the devil's contract.

  Engraved the harsh treaty on the devil's contract and forced the neighbor to sign it. Lu Li dragged him into a dream to avoid violating the contract and killing himself. First, he brought him back to the manor to trace his memory.

   "Are there any other monsters nearby?" Lu Li continued to ask the Kraggs Creep Monster.

   "It says this is the last one, and the rest are outsiders."

   Those weirdnesses from the wilderness can exclude the soul of Night City.

   Searched around the farm and found nothing but bones and feces. Lu Li looked around at the desolate wilderness on the outskirts of Midnight City.

"Let's go back."

  …

  Like dark magma from **** surging in the furnace, the mottled iron pot with rust gradually burned red, and with the filling of water, it boiled and formed thick fog. The rust breaks away from the iron pot, decomposes, and melts into the turbid rust water.

  Chef Claire who was cooking this time said to Chef Ophelia: "We lack seasoning and ingredients."

   "Did you know that ingredients and seasonings are actually everywhere."

  Claire talked eloquently. After the fall of Midnight City, before joining the Land of Light, she had been working as a competent head maid in the Viscount Castle: "The wine in the wine cellar can extract the umami of the ingredients."

   "Then what about the ingredients?"

   "Pick some creep from the outside, we can make mushroom soup."

  A bowl of delicious and hot mushroom soup can warm people's hearts on a cold night.

  It will take some time for the water in the pot to boil. Claire went outside the manor to pick the creepers, while Ophelia came to the wine cellar, turned on the tap, and a viscous scarlet liquid flowed out.

  Ophelia observed the mucus mixed with black flakes, wondering if it was wine. But it's in the cellar, and it's in the barrel... what else is it?

   Filled half a bowl of viscous wine with the skull, Ophelia went back to the kitchen, but she didn't see Claire went outside to look for her again.

  …

  She saw Claire picking a bunch of creeps and looking at the territory of the Queen of Flowers.

   "You put wine in skulls?"

   "I didn't find the container, can't I?"

   "No...very creative, we can also use it as a bowl!"

   When Ophelia asked Claire what she was doing here she continued:

   "I was wondering if adding some nectar would make the taste better. Its color is so bright, even if it doesn't change the taste, it will make the mushroom soup better."

   Newbies in the kitchen and apprentice alchemists are always like this, trying to add everything in sight.

   "But if you eat the nectar, you will become the puppet of the Queen of Flowers."

   "Don't worry, after the devil's contract binds the flower, we can make it decontaminate."

  Claire threw the creeper to Ophelia, and went to the territory of the Queen of Flowers to ask for nectar.

   "Put the creep first, then the nectar, and finally the wine..."

   “Red, black, purple… awesome.”

  Claire gradually found the sense of accomplishment she had when she was an apprentice alchemist, which made her value this opportunity even more.

   Handed it to Ophelia to continue stirring the mushroom soup, Claire searched for tableware in the mansion, and finally found a set of unused silver tableware in the dusty utility room.

   "There are still wine glasses, we can take some more wine." Claire picked up the crystal wine glass in surprise.

   "Lu Li doesn't drink."

   "That's right, what a pity."

  Claire threw the wine glass back where it was, and suddenly remembered something: "Why are you here too? Food..."

   "Lu Li and the others are back."

   "Oh, the mushroom soup is almost ready."

  Ophelia lights the fire, provides the ingredients after flowers, and Claire cooks the food.

  Like this team—everyone can make a difference.

  Until they returned to the kitchen, the iron pot on the magma was silent.

  The magma baked out too much water in the bacterial soup, and the nearly drained viscous liquid rose with black smoke and dark purple bubbles, and the cracks would be shining dark red like magma.

   "It's okay, this way Lu Li can eat more."

  When Lu Li returned to the manor, what greeted him was the bowl containing the skull exuding a disgusting smell, and boiling hot mucus that was as foul and mottled as paint.

   "When did I make you feel hated?" Lu Li stared at Claire, his pure black eyes reflected Claire's innocent cheeks.

   "Why do you ask that?"

   "You know I'm human right?"

  Claire realized what the problem was, and picked up the smoldering viscous mucus so that Lu Li could see it more clearly.

   "But this bowl of mushroom soup looks pretty good."

  Red, purple, black, not only appetizing, but also as delicate as alchemy.

  Lu Li asked, "What is this?"

   "Mushroom soup." Claire replied repeatedly.

   "Where are the mushrooms?"

   "What mushroom?" Claire was slightly taken aback.

   "Where's the soup?"

   "What soup?" Ophelia was in a daze.

  Maybe mushroom soup just looks bad—

  Knowing that this was not the case at all, Lu Li took the spoon from Ophelia, put it in the mushroom soup and stirred it. When he took it out, the spoon was gone, only the handle remained.

   "How does it taste? Or is there anything that needs to be improved?" Claire asked expectantly.

  Lu Li fell silent.

   "Oops?" Claire guessed.

   "I don't think it should be described as 'terrible'." Lu Li put the soup handle into the skull bowl, and the silver handle sank into the mushroom soup quickly melted.

   "Then what's the use!"

   "Devastating."

   "Just tell me how I can improve!"

   "No more cooking."

  Lu Li turned and walked out, "You summon the merchant and let him bring a month's worth of food, and I'll go to interrogate the new neighbors."

"It seems that he doesn't like it." Claire shrugged, looking at the mushroom soup that was still emitting black mist, "We shouldn't waste it... Didn't Little Remi catch a new monster? Give it as a friendly gift from us !"

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