Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

When Sherlock Moriarty was fighting with Detective Isengard Stanton and the "Apostle of Desire" in Minsk Street NO.15, Esther welcomed the A long-lost crow.

Xiaoqi's paws tapped on the window, and Esther opened the window a crack, letting the cold wind outside and the dark crows into the house together.

"Xiao Qi." Her tone was not very eager, but Esther's delighted eyes revealed her true thoughts.

Xiao Qifei landed on the simple desk, stared at Xiao Wu who was lying on the notebook, and did not speak for a long time.Xiao Qi's black eyes were empty and eager, staring at Xiao Wu all the time, but he didn't say a word, and almost swallowed Xiao Wu in his mouth.Esther didn't understand what was going on, thinking that the two were waiting for some signal. She sat on the rickety chair next to her in doubt, because one of the chair legs was missing a corner, and when she sat up, her center of gravity was unstable. It's easy to rock back and forth.

"Esther," Xiao Wu called out to her suddenly, "Just use your spot of light to clean this guy up."

"Wash it clean?" Esther was stunned, not understanding what Xiao Wu meant.

Xiao Wu lifted up half of his body, and under Xiao Qi's unchanging gaze, it quickly crawled to a place far away from Xiao Qi, approaching Esther's side: "Just let your light spot swallow it, hurry up!" point!"

Xiao Wu's final urging was too eager, which swept away Esther's original leisurely attitude. She clasped her eyebrows with her knuckles, and a ball of fireworks almost exploded above her head, and the light spots of the canopy flew quickly. Flock to Xiao Qi who is still standing on the table.

And Xiaoqi stood on the table without any reaction, as if it was just a crow specimen for appreciation and collection, letting the stream of light drown him, his eyes were still numb.

The light spots around Xiaoqi turned spontaneously, and circle after circle of rings were placed on the body of the black crow, which seemed to penetrate its body, but there were no traces of piercing any wounds, only illusory layers The ring of the black crow became tighter and tighter.

Suddenly, all the halos collapsed inward, as if they had found a point that could carry and gather them, and were instantly sucked into the crow's body.

Xiao Qi's eyes lit up again, returning to the cunning demeanor that was always full of thoughts.It coughed and retched violently until it spit out a small tangle of hair strands, which were constantly emitting bright and soft light. It was tightly entwined on a scale the size of a small fingernail. The off-white scales gradually became translucent under the entanglement of the hair.

When Esther reached out to touch it, the scales suddenly shattered into faint light spots and dissipated in the air.

The hair strands also broke, but the number of escaping light spots was much smaller, slowly drifting, and drilled back into Esther's hair strands.

"It's finally done! Just a little bit," Xiao Qi breathed hard, and fell down on the burr-covered desk very tiredly, "Fortunately, fortunately, there is a loophole in his order that can be exploited..."

Esther dug out a packet of peanuts she bought as a snack, broke the shell and stuffed two into Xiaoqi's mouth.

Xiao Qi stared at her in shock for a moment, but swallowed it obediently, then quickly turned over and jumped up, shaking his head: "I'm not you, I really don't need to eat these!"

Xiao Wu laughed mockingly: "Let's get down to business, the person who planted a psychological hint for you is no longer pretending this time?"

Xiaoqi took a deep breath: "He will notify the Patriarch in a few days, and planted a psychological hint for me to keep an eye on you, because he is not at ease with you after seeing my changes. My spirit is almost completely Controlled by him, but with that command, I practiced the act of 'keep your eyes on'."

Esther recalled the way Xiao Qi stared at Xiao Wu as soon as she came in, and felt that Xiao Wu really knew Xiao Qi very well, but then she remembered that both of them were clones of the Patriarch, and it was normal for them to be similar to each other matter.

It was always difficult for her to see Xiao Qi and Xiao Wu as one.

Xiao Qi turned to Esther, with pitiful pleading in her tone, but it was hard to say how sincere she was: "I really have nowhere to go, only relying on the self-contained circulation of the light on your body, I In order to avoid divination or perception, and not be tracked by the Patriarch."

When Esther hesitated, Xiao Wu interjected: "Don't take what this guy said seriously, you'd better remember that the Sequence Eight of 'Thief' is 'Trickster'."

"I just want to stay. Of course I'm safer with Esther, because when someone comes, she will be the first target." Xiao Qi said calmly, not caring about being exposed by Xiao Wu.

Esther could even feel that this passage was much more sincere than the previous complaint, and the corners of her eyes twitched: "I'm sorry for attracting the other party's hatred too much."

She paused, and continued: "Also, I know that your patriarch is the main body."

Xiao Qi didn't speak for a long time, but stared at Xiao Wu with contemptuous eyes.

Xiao Wu crawled over to the side and almost fell under the table: "You missed a lot of things."

"But if you follow me during the day, it will be very inconvenient for me."

Xiao Qi tilted her head: "Lying is becoming more and more proficient, is it because you have a secret? Don't worry, I won't follow you every day."

Esther rubbed the center of her right brow in distress, and said simply, "Okay, let's be honest, I have people to meet and things to do, as well as occasional secret gatherings. I You can suppress Xiaowu with the light spot because it is in a special state, but it probably has no effect on you, and it is very inconvenient to take you with you."

Xiaoqi's tail drooped: "Is it really not possible?"

"...Then you, come every other day? Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday."

Esther was a little depressed. If Xiao Qi had the appearance of a bug of time, she would not soften her heart, but it feels really weird to be stared at pitifully by a humanized crow.

Even though she knew it was all from the show, it was still hard for her to get rid of it.

"But Xiao Qi, who made you become so embarrassed?"

"I can't say His name. When the 'Audience' sequence reaches the top, it will have such a characteristic, 'Whoever speaks, will be known'."

Esther frowned, and subconsciously leaned back on the chair, but she forgot the missing back leg of the chair. Fortunately, she was agile enough to stand up and run to the side before the chair completely overturned. He grabbed the chair before it hit the ground.

"That's pretty scary."

Such a characteristic made her feel vaguely familiar, why?
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Since Xiao Qi was determined to stay by her side, Esther gave up her plan to visit Klein again the next day.

Because of the fright she received last night, she really wanted to stay in bed to make up for the damage she suffered in her heart, but her biological clock, which was so stable that it was mechanical, didn't allow it at all, and Esther couldn't fall asleep at all after opening her eyes once.

"Forget it, at least I didn't have any dreams..."

After leaving Chanis Gate, Esther didn't have those strange dreams anymore, and every time she thought about this, she had to suspect that the dark night had done something secretly.

After washing up, Esther changed into trousers, a shirt and a thick wool coat, then wrapped the black cloak over the scarf again, and put on the silver mask that showed half of her face.Today, she planned to take the black bread to the East End to visit those homeless children and ask them what special things happened in the East End recently.

As soon as she walked out of the old musty smelling house, Esther saw a small blond lady walking slowly across the street, flipping through several sketches of different characters.

When the little lady looked up and saw a black cloak a few steps away, she subconsciously said, "Ah, good morning."

"Good morning." Esther replied politely, and was about to walk to the other side of the street.

"Please wait, I haven't thanked you enough for what happened yesterday," the little lady smiled sincerely, put all the portraits back into her arms, and stretched out her right hand to Esther, "Self Let me introduce you, Hugh Dilza, a bounty hunter everywhere."

Xiao Qi, who was squatting on Esther's shoulder, turned her head and looked curiously at the lady who was shorter than Esther in front of her.

The other party talked about this, so Esther could only sigh in her heart, and shook hands with Xio: "You can call me Hamel, as for my occupation, I won't disclose it, in case you want to catch me someday Me, that would be bad."

Hugh smiled brightly, and then said: "You are very reasonable, Miss Hamel, because there are several gangsters looking for information about you, and I wonder if I am the first to tell you Someone who introduces himself."

Esther has nothing to be afraid of, she has become more and more proficient at stealing people's memories, but Esther feels very warm about the news that Xio deliberately disclosed and reminded her to pay attention to safety while knocking: "In fact, it's really not, you are the second. Nice to meet you, and thank you for telling me about it."

"I'm just curious. Last month, there were a lot of rumors about you circulating in the East District. After my roommate heard about it, they considered writing you into a ghost story and serializing it."

This is not enough.Esther observed a few seconds of silence in honor of her name.

"I hope she doesn't do that," Esther shook her head, "otherwise I'll be very troubled. You should be able to see that it's a disguise, after all, I'm covered in disguise."

Xio still remembered her facial features that were not similar to those of a Loenian last night, and immediately nodded her understanding: "Of course I persuaded her, it is very dangerous to casually write novels about famous people."

"Yeah, maybe I will offend someone someday. Do you often move around here?"

Xio nodded and looked curiously at the black crow on the other's shoulder. It seems that few people would take this kind of bird as a pet, but Xio didn't ask rashly, and only hoped that this conversation could build a little trust: "I have A friend named 'Sherman' lives around here, and I visit him occasionally for information."

"So that's it, then I won't delay you. I'm going to meet my friends in other places in the East District. Goodbye, Hugh."

"Goodbye, Hamel, be careful on the road."

Esther showed a gentle smile, waved goodbye to Hugh, and walked unhurriedly to the next block, where there was a cheap bakery nearby.

Xio looked at the back of "Hamel" thoughtfully. This Extraordinary hidden nearby was surprisingly easy to talk to. Judging from this brief exchange, she didn't feel like a dangerous person to herself.

But Xio can always feel that "Hamel" has a very strange sense of disobedience. Is it related to her sequence?Or is she hiding her true self too well?

The crow, who had been standing quietly on the shoulder of "Hamel" all this time, turned her head and glanced at Xio, which made her back feel cold. She didn't know why that well-behaved pet showed such a humane and playful look.

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