Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

Chapter 17 New Team Members

Dunn did not hold a formal welcome banquet for Esther. He was always vigilant towards Esther. After listening to Leonard's description of the anomaly, Dunn was not surprised, but asked Leonard not to tell others. He would prepare some snacks for Esther to take with her.

Leonard left the captain's office and walked into the lounge of the Nighthawks. He saw Esther holding a minced meat pie and watching other people play cards. Sika, Luo Yao and Kenli were fighting evil, and Fry was Waiting for the next game to replace him.

Seeing Leonard walk in, Esther smiled at him: "Your dinner is on the coffee table over there. This stuffing is very fragrant! It's very delicious!"

Sika smiled and shook his head: "This is ordinary ground beef. The honey sauce steak in this store is the best. We can go to the store to try it next time."

"Then I have to look forward to it!"

Leonard looked at Esther's eyes that were shining because of the food, and remembered her strange state in the carriage a few minutes ago, and always felt a chill down his back.After finishing dinner quickly, he went back to the office and had a headache facing the introductory book of poetry anthology.

Esther didn't notice Leonard's alienation from her. After eating the pie, she enjoyed the apple pie again, only to feel that the exhaustion brought about by the afternoon training was swept away.

The red moon was rising outside, and Esther sat on the sofa in the reception hall, turned her gaze back from the moon that disgusted her, and listened to Rosanne talking about the recent gossip in the newspaper.

To be honest, Roseanne didn't know what the people who wanted to march for the "Corn Bill" were doing, she just thought of something new and wanted to share it with others.But Esther sighed because of this, "cheap grain hurts farmers" is a truth she heard at a very young age, when a large number of farmers can't survive, they can only sell their land cheaply, and become the lowest coolie workers in the city , At that time, the human resources will be too abundant, and the workers at the bottom will be even less able to make money.

As far as Esther knew, the Loen Kingdom didn't have many protection laws for workers. They were more like gears that were squeezed endlessly, and were discarded when worn out. Anyway, there would always be brand new, more robust labor force willing to take over.

Roseanne will be on duty tonight, so she will stay here with the other Nighthawks, and when Old Neil returns home, she will go to guard the armory below.

Esther originally thought that tonight would be so quiet, but someone suddenly broke into the gate of the Blackthorn Security Company. It was a middle-aged man wearing a police inspector uniform, his face was flushed from running, and his temples had gray hair. Sparse and scattered, covering most of the top of the head with a police cap.

But at this time the police cap was also crooked, and he yelled, "Is Mr. Smith there? Hurry up, we need help urgently!"

Esther immediately jumped up from the sofa and quickly went down the stairs, almost jumping down: "Captain Dunn! There is urgent help! From the police station!"

After Dunn announced the emergency assembly, several Nighthawks quickly prepared to come to the front hall. Except for Sequence Nine's Kenli and Luo Yao who stayed behind to guard the Chanis gate, Leonard, Frye and Sika all followed Dunn.Dunn just took out a few sealed items from Chanis Gate, and quickly explained the negative effects and ability effects when they were handed over to several people.

Esther was also included in this operation. What she got was a short broadsword numbered "2-147". The blade was only slightly longer than a palm and was covered with bandages.

"This sealed item is also called 'Half Dawn'. With your hand agility towards the blade, at least it can protect you. The negative effect is that holding it for a long time will make your thinking dull, impulsive and irritable, so you must put it away after using it. The bandages were tied again, covering its light."

Esther nodded, but when she held the hilt of the sword in her hand, she immediately noticed the submissiveness conveyed by it, and couldn't help being a little surprised.The source of the little babbling in Chanis Gate suddenly became clear. Most of what she felt was the "fluctuation" of these sealed items. This feeling was very similar to when she first saw the little bug. At that time, the communication between the two sides was Ais Especially to sense the "expression" of small bugs.

These Sealed Artifacts... Where did they come from?
Esther had a terrible idea, but she suppressed that guess and tried to prepare herself to face danger with others.

This is her first mission, and she must not cause problems due to distraction!

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Dongqing South Street, No. [-] townhouse for rent.

There used to be three families living here, but now, there are probably only two families left.

It was two other families who called the police. They heard screams from the house in Room [-] while they were having dinner. It didn't take long before they saw the hostess of that house screaming and running out of the house, but was soon caught by a man with a knife. When the man caught up, he raised his hand and turned into a black flame, which ignited the mistress's legs.After that, the man dragged the screaming hostess back into the house, and the other two families ran out immediately at this moment, and refused to leave after entering the police station.

But the police had doubts about the ability that man used, so they sent someone to ask for help from the Seventh Team of the Special Operations Department of the Police Department, which is in charge of the West District of Ahowa County, that is, the Nighthawks of the Church of the Evernight Goddess.At the same time, the police also assigned police officers to initially surround the block and restrict anyone from entering or leaving.

At this time, most people are still having dinner at home, and not many people are moving around.

After Dunn and the others arrived at the scene, they immediately communicated briefly with the police about the current situation.César, who was driving, turned back in a hurry, and he had to go back to pick up Old Neil. Because he had to prepare the materials needed for the ritual magic, Old Neil didn't follow Dunn and the others to set off immediately.

Standing among the other Nighthawks, Esther was half a head shorter than Sika, who was 1.7 meters tall. The sleeves of the trainee police inspector's uniform had been rolled up several times so as not to affect her large-scale movement of her arms. Such a young-looking The little girl is very eye-catching among several people.

"No one has come out? The murderer is most likely still inside."

Because the opposite side is very likely to be Extraordinary, Dunn asked the ordinary police officers to keep a distance on the outside, and all the Nighthawks except Esther drew their pistols, Dunn signaled Esther to follow Frye, which made people nervous Leonard heaved a sigh of relief.

Frye is the "Corpse Collector" of Sequence Nine, the most silent person in the entire Nighthawks team, about [-] years old, his thin lips are always pursed into a thin line, his neat broken black hair contrasts sharply with his pale complexion, His cold temperament gave him an undead aura around him.

After Dunn asked a few people to find a squatting position with cover, he approached the front door with a gun, and then used his nightmare ability, dragging everyone in the house into a dream.

But Esther didn't, she just saw Frye close his eyes suddenly, and opened them again after more than ten seconds.

Frye noticed her blank eyes and could only explain in a low voice: "The people in the room have been pulled into a dream, we are on standby and staring at the windows on the second floor."

Esther immediately looked up, feeling a certain feeling in her heart, she took off the dusty bandage on the dagger, wrapped it around her forearm tightly: "That person won't come out from here. "

Frye was taken aback: "How do you know?"

"Is it... spiritual intuition?"

Frye nodded, but obviously didn't trust Esther's words too much, after all, she sounded unsure of herself.

Esther looked at the dagger in her hand, it was indeed only half, and the half of the blade covered by the bandage presented a strange and translucent appearance, as if the morning light was constantly flowing inside, making it extremely bright.

According to the plan, Leonard stepped into the house through the back door for a minute, when a roar erupted in the house, and then, the house shook suddenly, and the roar came from the side opposite to Esther. , which was Simeon, which Sika was in charge of guarding.

"go!"

Even without Frye's warning, Esther would immediately run up. Hearing the violent movement just now, the suspect probably broke through the wall.After Frye realized that Esther's speed was a few points faster than him, he immediately put away his previous "nanny" mentality and put Esther in the position of his teammate.

"Touch! Touch!"

Two gunshots made the surrounding police officers tense up.

Dunn was the first to arrive, and it was Sika who shot the gun. She backed up while shooting, and distanced herself from the man holding the axe. The man was covered in blood, but there was no expression on his face. His protruding eyes were bloodshot.

Seeing that Sika was moving very fast, the man gave up chasing and ran in another direction. Dunn shot him in the back without hesitation.The man seemed to have eyes on his back, and jumped to the side to avoid the vital point, but was shot in the side arm, and ran out without looking back, the scarlet in his eyes became more and more intense.

Dunn was about to follow immediately, but suddenly a cloud of black flames sprang up in front of him. He stopped and was forced to go around. This delay caused the man to run several meters away, and he was about to run away. On to the back street.

Seeing this scene, Frye immediately used the sealed item he was holding. It was a rusty red whistle. Frye fired a shot at the man while blowing it.

This shot also missed, and the man dodged again, but the extraordinary ability of the sealed item was activated. The man panted heavily and turned his head. His indifferent face was distorted by anger, and he roared towards Frye. He rushed over and swung his ax as if determined to kill Frye.

Esther had the illusion that MT was attracting monsters when she was playing online games in her previous life.

Now that the monsters are drawn, should we go up to melee?
After all, this Extraordinary poses a great threat to the Tingen Nighthawks team.

When this kind of thought came out, Esther's body reacted much faster than her consciousness. She acted completely according to instinct and spiritual intuition. Thinking is a process, but this process is too slow for the human body.

She needed to get rid of this threat as soon as possible before anyone in the Nighthawk team got hurt.

Everyone was taken aback by Esther's sudden run, and Sika yelled nervously, "Wait, don't—"

The next moment, Esther slid sideways lightly to get away from the ax that the man slashed high, and the dagger in her hand danced like a phantom of a folding fan, cutting across the man's wrist.The moment the man's hand lost its strength, Esther quickly caught the falling ax with her left hand, and the instinct of the thief's hand allowed her to catch this opportunity.

With a flick of Esther's wrist, the ax slashed into the man's thigh following the inertia of falling to the ground, sinking most of it.Before the man's hand fell, Esther dodged behind him. With all her strength, she slammed the half of the dagger out, piercing into the man's chest from the back until only the hilt was left. outer.

The golden light of the morning sun was shining from the hilt of the sword, while the man's wound was continuously emitting black air.

Esther didn't try to pull out the ax and dagger, she almost scrambled to a few meters away, leaned against a tree that could be used as a cover, and looked behind at her "fruit".

The ax had already been pulled out by the man and thrown at his feet. He was screaming and roaring crazily, and evil black continued to emerge from the severed wrist and the back of his heart. He cursed and the blood on his thigh continued to pour out.The man's eyes had turned completely scarlet, and black flames appeared and disappeared uncontrollably around him.

This melee battle took place in no more than two breaths, and Sika and Frye hadn't fully recovered before Leonard's voice sounded nearby: "Ah, the threat of fear, the hope of scarlet! At least one thing is Truth: This life flies away. One thing is true, the rest is a lie, and after the flower blooms once, it will die forever..."

The man's howling gradually subsided. The spiritual sleepiness of the verse and the weakness of blood loss made him struggle to crawl towards Esther more and more slowly. In the end, he lay down in a pool of his own blood. The eyes of the same color are still fixed on Esther, full of hatred that yearns for revenge, like an abyss that wants to swallow her.

Dunn raised his gun, and two bullets with purification power were shot into the man's head, completely cutting off his breath.

Only then did Esther slump on the grass, and reason became the dominant brain again. She looked at the man on the ground in disbelief, confused by the fighting ability she had just shown.Esther felt a little nauseous, not because of the strong smell of blood in her nostrils, but because she was afraid of her abilities. At that moment, she felt that she was no longer human.

She did not hesitate in the action, and the blood stained on her cheeks was still a little warm.

Esther suddenly felt that putting "ordinary" on her was the most ridiculous description.

That little bug was right all along.

Would ordinary people end the first "battle" in their lives so neatly and fiercely?

Esther reached out her hand to wipe off the blood on her face, looking at the red mark on the back of her hand, she couldn't tell what it was like.

Dunn leaned over and pulled out the dagger from the man. The dagger was not stained with any blood, but only burned off the little black mucus attached to it. Seeing that the dagger was clean again, Dunn handed it to Esther. .

Sika ran over to help Esther up, looked at the girl up and down, and confirmed that she was really not injured, and the blood was from the suspect.Esther didn't speak the whole time, but took off the bandage from her arm with a sullen face, and wrapped it around the short sword again, covering up the light from "Half Dawn".

Frye went to check the suspect's body. Leonard approached a few people. Seeing Esther's distraught expression, he couldn't help but say, "Maybe you want to see the victim."

Sika frowned disapprovingly: "She is like this now..."

Dunn gestured: "No, let Esther go and have a look. Sika, you stay here and help Frye guard the body."

Sika patted Esther on the shoulder: "Can you still hold on?"

Esther nodded silently, followed behind Dun En numbly, not daring to look at the dead suspect on the ground.

Dunn looked at Esther, but what he said was to Sika: "She should at least know what this is all about."

　Suddenly found that the collection has broken one hundred.

　　Thank you very much for your love, I am a little apprehensive. (gradually sluggish)

　　There will be another update on Sunday night, and it is a great honor to meet you all.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)