The ink-stained quill was held in the palm of one hand and paused on the paper.

"Mr. Lu Li, you can say it."

The shrink looked up and motioned to the dark-haired man sitting opposite.

Outside the window, there was a harbour, and the grey and gloomy weather had reduced Rodester Harbour to a mere outline.

The industrial towers have been shut down for days, but fog still hangs eerily over Belfast.

"It's a long story." "Said the dark-haired man called Lu Li.

The psychologist said he didn't care: "Please, there is still a long time before dark."

The man nodded and slowly opened his mouth after a short silence.

"I'm an exorcist."

On the bluestone street in the morning, Lu Li said to an old couple in front of her door.

'I hear there's a ghost in your house?

The two old men scrutinized Lu Li from head to toe, their cloudy eyes filled with a sense of alarm.

The man opposite was dressed formally. He adopted the formal dress that most ordinary people would wear only at festivals and parties, a black coat over a white shirt and a black tie, but no cane or bowler hat.

Black hair and eyes are rare in Rhodes Harbour and Belfast, calm black eyes like a deep abyss into which you can't help falling.

"Who are you?

The old men's vigilance faded a little. They did not think that this man with fine clothes and handsome face could be a gangster.

"The Bizarre Detective Agency, the exorcist."

Lu Li took out a brand new postcard and handed it to the two old people.

The card was taken from the wrinkled palm, and it flickered blankly into two pairs of eyes. It was not until they saw the name of the Detective Agency and the address on the card that they had a rough idea of what it was for.

'Have you come to help us dispel the spirits? Fast...... Come in, please..."

They were eager to get out of the way.

Lu from step into the door, the body was engulfed in the darkness of the room.

The day was overcast and the room was dark.

A damp, musty smell filled the air.

Sweeping the simple and simple room, Lu Li withdrew his eyes, and two pairs of eyes full of expectation: "Can you tell me the specific situation? Like what's going on."

The old man said mysteriously, "Did you see it..."

Lu leaves gently SHAKE his head: "I WHAT ALL DIDN'T FEEL, so just CAN ASK you."

The old couple's disappointment was evident, but they still told Lu about their experience.

Such as night when the ground sounded the sound of marbles, midnight baby crying sound, a flash outside the window and the white shadow of the kitchen.

Lu Li listened quietly: "These are not necessarily ghosts, can be explained by scientific basis... Do you know science?"

The old couple looked at each other. "Yes, I heard that steam cars and iron ships are made by science."

Lu Li did not correct some of the common mistakes of the elderly, most of whom have a half-understanding of science: "Almost, then I continue. The marbles that you hear are made by building materials expanding and contracting, and the cries are made because it's summer, and I came here and I saw a wild cat, and cats make courtship sounds like babies. The white shadows outside the window are probably from people walking on the street."

"As for the noise in the kitchen..." Lu Li didn't look in the kitchen, nor did she need to. "It's time you put in a mousetrap."

"I... We're not lying! I saw a real ghost! Ask my wife!"

"Yeah, yeah, the other night..."

The two old people hurried to explain, trying to make Lu Li believe that they saw with their own eyes.

"Okay, I see."

Lu Li looked calm to stop the old man's narrative. He's seen a lot of that certainty these days.

'I can't find the ghost for the moment, so I'm going to arrange an exorcism in my room. Would you please wait outside?'

"This......" The old man looked at each other with a reluctant look.

Ghosts are frightening, but giving your home to an outsider...

Knowing what they were worried about, Lu Li said, "You are guarding the door, I have nowhere to run."

Hesitating two old people out of the house, standing in the street, Lu Li behind closed the door.

Ringing -

Drop the latch.

The expressions of the two old people who heard the latch tightened, and then they heard a deep, obscure curse coming from behind the door, in a language they could not understand, with a strange and tedious pronunciation.

There was a murmur and silence behind the door.

Suddenly there was a thud, a tremor in the door, and patches of mottled skin peeling off the walls.

The two old men shuddered and almost retreated into the middle of the street.

The room suddenly erupted in a violent struggle and a roar, which made you imagine a picture of an exorcist fighting a spirit.

At this point, in the house between the walls.

Contrary to the imagination of the old man outside the door, Lu Li is very calm sitting at the table, in addition to the occasional kick on so a wooden chair, knock on the table, issued a few dull hum.

So dozens of seconds past, feel the same time from the Lu stood up, a kick over the chair, with the side shoulder hit the wall.

A thud, a shock on the wall.

Then a dozen seconds of calm.

The two old men held their breath as the minutes ticked by...

The door opened and a figure appeared behind it.

Lu Li black eyes calm, forehead glued to look like sweat water stains, breathing almost smooth: "solved, now it's time to talk about the problem of remuneration."

...

"Wait a minute, you said you were an exorcist," the doctor interrupted. He bit the stress on the word 'exorcist'.

Lu Li asked: "Do you think I am the kind of exorcist who grabs a ghost by the neck and shouts' destroy you in the name of God '?"

The doctor was silent, motioning him to continue.

...

'The ghost has...' Two old men poke their heads through the door, looking for traces of the ghost.

"I got rid of it." Lu Li turned sideways, indicating that they could come in.

The two old people's income is not high, Lu Li as a charity as a token payment of 10 shillings, and left.

"I'll find you."

The moment I walked onto the street, a whisper suddenly rang in my ear, close at hand.

Lu Li suddenly turned around and saw the old couple closing the door with a relaxed look.

The breeze was blowing, the ends of my hair were swinging, and it was cold and raw in the day.

...

"So your confusion is... You've had an encounter with a ghost, and you suspect it's psychological? '

"Yes."

The EYES OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DOCTOR become VERY eccentric, up and down look at the land from one time: "Are you a stranger? Or aristocrats who rarely go out?"

"Is there a problem? Lu Li did not deny and did not admit.

The psychiatrist opened his hand: "As we all know, ghosts do exist. So instead of worrying about mental illness, you should worry more about being haunted by a ghost -- you're not really an exorcist."

"I do." Lu Li would not confirm or deny. "Let's change the story. What if I said I came from another world?"

"Can you elaborate?" The shrink changed his posture, looking interested.

Lu Li briefly described the situation of the earth.

"Wow... Dozens of tons of metal flying through the sky? A house hundreds of stories high? Thousands of miles apart to talk face to face?" The PSYCHOLOGICAL DOCTOR subCONSCIOUSLYsneers ALOUD, BUT REALIZES THIS KIND OF EMOTION SHOULD NOT APPEAR AFTER ONESELF BODY HURRIEDLY COLLECT GO, PLANK FACE SERIOUS WAY: "THE LAND LEAVES A GENTLEMAN, THIS IS VERY SERIOUS HYSTERIA DISEASE. You're more sick than I thought."

"I'm just asking. I don't want treatment." Lu Li replied.

The false being becomes real, and the real being becomes false. It's more believable that there are ghosts in the world than hundreds of tons of metal flying through the sky.

"Er... Whatever you want, you've already paid for it." The shrink shrugged, put the paper and quill on the table, and looked out the window. "It's getting dark. If you live far from here, hold on tight."

The grey sky was darker than at the beginning of the conversation.

"Thanks for the warning."

Lu Li stood up, shook hands with the psychologist who also stood up, and turned to leave the clinic.

There's a saying going around Belfast.

After dark, stay in the light.