The deep calm face of a true exorcist reveals a subtle revulsion, and the sight of a face flowing from a faucet is far more disgusting than the blood flowing from a faucet.

Frowning, Ms. Lu stepped back half a step as she watched the sticky, twisted, pale face slide out of the faucet and down the drain.

Hua -

The silence of the night, only the sound of the water echoed continuously.

The clear, transparent water continued for some time before Lu Li approached the tap to turn it off.

Drip, drip, drip --

The water stopped flowing, and the original silence resumed.

Lu Li walked back to the kitchen door. The closed door blocked the light, and the kitchen was in darkness.

Back in the living room, Ms. Lu left the single bed in her bedroom and spent the night resting in a chair behind her desk.

Perhaps it is the calm of Lu Li, perhaps it is the kitchen knife clenched in the hand, this night nothing unusual happened.

Nothing happened all night.

...

The next morning, a little bit earlier.

The morning mist pervaded every part of Rodester Harbour, and the sky was clouded with a persistent gloom.

Instead of the quiet and quiet you might expect, the morning here is bustling.

After a night of silence, residents seemed to make up for more than a dozen hours of dead silence. Smoke rises from the chimneys of the sprawling houses, dried fish are hung out of the Windows, workers ready to work say goodbye to their families, ship sirens reverberate far away from the harbor, and the smell of breakfast fills every street paved with green SLATE.

"Hello, Mr. Lu Li."

"Hello, Detective!

"Why are your eyes black?"

As the new face of Mariner Street, Lu Li is popular with residents, especially children.

Although no one has ever seen any emotion in Lu Li.

Lu nodded back to the greeting residents, walked to a carriage at the end and stepped up.

The carriage was not a van, but an open vehicle like a rickshaw.

"The nearby church or the exorcist's detective agency."

'Mr Three Shillings.' "Muttered the stableman, squatting by the roadside eating brown bread, hastily stuffing the residue into the entrance.

"Well."

Leaning back in her chair, Lu puts on a black bowler hat, hiding her dark eyes in the shadows.

Black hair black eyes here is unique, Lu Li does not want to be too much gaze.

The groom jumped into the carriage and drove the horses away from Mariner's Street.

He struggled to swallow his rough, dry food, coughed quietly, and turned to say, "Have you met a spirit?"

"Well."

"Then I suggest you go to Mr. Hades's detective agency."

"Why not a church or another detective agency?" asked Lu, who showed only half his face.

"You have come from another town? Belfast churches stopped dealing with exorcisms a long time ago. Most of the other exorcists are eccentric, or serve only nobles. Mr. Hades serves everyone who has money."

Everyone except Lu Li seems to know that ghosts exist in the world.

After a slight silence, Lu Li replied, "Yes, I'm from somewhere else, and this is my first encounter with a ghost."

"Then your hometown must be very safe." The groom's voice was full of envy.

'Can you tell me about the ghost?

"... I'm sorry, Sir, I can't tell you. '

The stableman's voice faltered and he shook his head in refusal. Just like others Lu has asked.

"Why, because I'm haunted by ghosts."

"... Yes, if we talk about it too much it changes the goal. Even if you're not haunted by a ghost, you talk about it a lot..."

The groom stopped decisively.

This seems to explain why, after exorcising the old couple, the ghost became attached to Lu Li.

As the conversation ended, the carriage fell silent.

As the carriage moved along the street, the houses on the left disappeared and the view opened.

Looking sideways from the land, without the shelter of the houses, you could see the rolling streets below, the roofs, and beyond the harbor, where the ships and cruises were docked. Fishing boats that had left port were scattered across the dark sea.

Unfortunately, there is no sunrise, the sea should be sparkling water light gray dead, not waves.

Trance watched a burst of whole harbor, Lu from the eyes back, the whole face hidden in the shadow of the hat brim.

A dozen minutes later, the carriage stopped in front of a two-story house with white walls.

The streets were quiet and clean, and the people who passed were well-worn and neat, in contrast to the hustle and bustle of the Mariner's streets.

Take out 3 coins to groom, Lu Lizai walks into this detective agency.

When I push the door, darkness and quiet wrap around me.

A spacious layer everywhere placed a number of round tables, the inside of the counter behind a figure is wiping oil lamp.

A hazy beam of light spilled from the window into the palm wood floor

If you ignore the sign outside that says Detective Agency, it's more like a closed pub.

da-da-da-da

Boots stomped the floor and Lu Li walked to the counter.

"Does this guest have anything to entrust?" The slightly fat figure behind the counter put down the lamp and towel and piled up a smile.

'About ghosts.'

For the next few minutes, Mr. Lu briefly recounted what he had seen the night before, skipping the part about his identity as an exorcist.

"You did a good job. The fear feeds into the spirit and makes it stronger. It's too small to hurt anyone. But you can't let it absorb any more emotions."

The fat figure of a waiter, with the mouth of his mouth wide and a glint between his teeth in the dim light, held out his hand to Lu Li. "I am Hades, the exorcist you are looking for."

Lu Li stretched out his palm and touched it: "I have a problem before I entrust. What other way to get rid of a ghost than by an exorcist?"

Very interested in the eyes fall on the land from the body: "You want to solve the ghost yourself?"

"If I may, yes." Lu Li took off the top hat affecting the view, did not deny.

"You're asking the right person. Most exorcists will probably shout at you to get over your delusion. I happen to be one of those few." Hardes lowered himself, took out an object from under the counter, slapped it on the table and pushed it in front of Lu Li.

A short flintlock.

Lu Li reached for it, but pressed his hand on the flintlock before he could.

Pa!

Hades put his palm over the flintlock, the counter swayed, and he grinned into a razorlike smile. "It's not free."

"How much."

"2300 shillings."

"2000."

"Yes, consider it a welcome."

In a few words, Lu pulled out four 500 shillings and handed them to Hades, who took them in the palm of his hand that covered his flintlock and counted the 2,000 shillings, and then counted them, and then counted them again.

Lu Li picked up the flintlock rifle lying on the counter, a faint light suddenly appeared from the front of the body.

Lu looked at the eyes lit the oil lamp Hades, will focus on the flintlock gun.

The flintlock gun body is exquisitely carved, and the rose carved under the light seems to come alive and blossom slowly. The streamlined gun body is elegant as a work of art.