The next morning, early hours.

Tink, tink, tink

The wind chimes on the door are clear and sweet, echoing in the empty and quiet hall.

Lu left more than a few eyes yesterday did not have the wind chimes, into the dark hall.

An oil lamp on the counter lit up a small area, and the figure behind was counting something, collecting things on the table when he heard someone coming.

"Oh, who is it? I was right. You've amassed enough money so quickly. You're the gold mine for our exorcist... New star, I mean."

Hyperbolic exclamations came from Hades, his gold teeth glinting, his arms outstretched with the enthusiasm of an old friend he hadn't seen in years.

Lu Li walked to the counter. The wooden chair from yesterday was still in place. He sat on it and said, "I only have 500 shillings."

The enthusiasm is fading with visible speed, in the form of outstretched arms falling down on the counter.

"It's not enough, you know." Hades' face was dark and uncertain under the lamp.

'I want to ask some other questions, about the ghost.'

Hades' gold teeth bloom again: "That's enough. What do you want to ask?"

Lu Li ignored Hades, will last night's experience said out.

"So what's your question?"

"Ghosts can communicate."

Hades did not answer Lu Li, but instead threw out a question: "What is your understanding of ghosts?"

"Illusory forms."

'No, I mean, what were ghosts when they were alive?

Obviously only the answer to tell Lu Li directly.

Lu Li naturally understood what Hades meant and asked, "So ghosts can communicate?"

"They were once humans, of course, if they wanted to talk to you. If you're bold and charismatic, you can try to connect with them." Hades has opened a whole new door to Lui.

"It's not common, but it happens all the time."

...

"But...... But are we really going to do this?" Oliver, pushed by the big hand, stumbled to the phone and looked up at the huge outline, pitiful, weak and helpless.

In the dark of the night, the eyes of a beacon looked down on Oliver and said softly, "Sweet little Oliver, do it."

Oliver had never heard Mrs. Slavs speak so softly. "Are you talking to me?" he asked.

"No, I'm talking to the painting on the wall behind you... Call your boss!"

With the wind howling in his ears, Oliver, terrified, went to the telephone and called his boss.

With the receiver to his ear, Oliver kept peeking out of the corner of his eye at the stout figure beside him, hands akimbo. A minute later, he raised the microphone with a forced smile. "The boss didn't answer. Maybe he went out for breakfast?"

"Oh poor Mr. Lu Li, there is no one to take care of him. Can you, as his employee, bear to see him like this?"

"No... Don't have the heart to..."

"Good. Call back in half an hour."

Mrs. Slavic turned and walked away, and Oliver shook and breathed.

...

After listening to the words, Lu Li fell silent.

It is a little different from the common sense of ghosts and ghosts, but it is reasonable. The ghost is the death of a stranger into the natural owner of the emotional logic and wisdom.

And this coincides with the ghost Lu Li saw.

Want to think, the land leaves the opening: "BUT not so simple right."

'Of course, not all living people can be reasoned with, let alone ghosts. I can see you're intrigued, but remember my warning, the relationship between the living and the ghost is not equal, the more powerful the ghost. They are the hunters, we are the prey, don't put your own safety on what they might be sensible. If you're not vigilant enough... The cemetery outside Kelthas Cathedral is full of careless exorcists."

"I'll see to it."

The LAND LEAVES THE HUMPNESS LET HADESI BE VERY SATISFIED, PUT PUT A HAND WAY: "BUT ALSO NOT SO SERIOUS, THE GHOST ABILITY THAT BLAME SPIRIT BELOW IS LIMITED, YOU CAN LISTEN TO WHAT THEY WANT TO SAY GREATLY, PERHAPS HAVE UNEXPECTED JOY."

"Like an inheritance or a very valuable final commission."

"What about the angry and evil spirits?"

"Ghosts get stronger at a cost. The stronger they are, the deeper their relationship with the space, the more distorted their minds. You can try to communicate with the spirits, but my advice is to deal with them or run away."

"You missed the evil spirit."

Hades was silent for a moment. "This goes to the core of the exorcist's secret," he said slowly.

The implication is not free.

"Please go on."

"A sense of ritual." "Hades said.

"I have not seen evil spirits, only heard from other old exorcists who have almost died. Being TARGETED BY AN EVIL SPIRIT is almost certain to die, but they will have a unique sense of ritual before killing the target. If you break the ritual sense, you have a small chance to escape from the evil spirit. It's a thing you can't explain until you've had one yourself, so..."

Hades didn't want to talk much about the evil spirits, as if doing so would bring bad things to him.

But not forgetting his business, he spread out his outstretched hand: "500 shillings, courtesy of you."

"100."

"Take the money."

At the end of the consultation, Lu Li got up from his seat.

"No more sitting?"

"If there's no charge."

"Then you can't."

Putting on his hat, he emerged from the agency and stepped into the waiting yellow carriage outside.

"A detective agency near here."

The carriage moved slowly towards its destination.

In this world, a detective agency is synonymous with an exorcist, and the origins go back 300 years.

A dozen minutes later the carriage arrived at a new detective's house, which was more normally arranged, at least not like a tavern.

Lu Li posed as an ordinary man confronted by a ghost and asked the exorcist common-sense questions that were not far from Hardes'.

But when it came to discussing Hades, the exorcist showed a brief revulsion and agitation.

"That fellow is an exorcist's shame!"

"Why do you say that?" Lu Li asked.

"This guy has no professional integrity! Once he performed an exorcism on a poor nobleman, and collected a thousand shillings for five exorcisms!"

Sounds like something Hades would do.

Lu said he would consider whether to entrust exorcism, turned to leave.

"Don't ask Hades, that fellow would do anything for a shilling!"

The exorcist shouted after Lu Li.

He doesn't know that's why Lu Li and Hardus are working together.

Lu thinks it's a good deal to exchange money for knowledge, and so does Hardes.

Riding on the carriage, Lu Li did not go to other places this time, straight back to his own detective agency.

Soon after returning to the solitude of the detective agency, the telephone rang.

Lu Li picked it up and heard Oliver's voice from inside. Just like yesterday, Mrs. Slavic wants to see him.

Lu Li did not refuse.

"I'll be there in about an hour."