Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

Chapter 18 The Guardian

When Dunn led Esther towards the house, Fry suddenly waved to Leonard and let him pass.

"What's the matter?" Leonard walked over in a daze, and took the familiar small square pot from Frye's hand.

"For Esther."

Leonard uncorked the bottle and sniffed it, then quickly plugged it again. The pungent and choking smell emanated from it, which lifted Leonard's spirits. This is the "Holy Night Powder" that Frye carried with him. , if Esther has a vomiting reaction, she can use this smell to suppress it.

Leonard gave Frye a thumbs up: "You are still thoughtful. I have to follow quickly."

Esther followed Dunn into the house, and the smell of blood in the door almost condensed into substance, clinging to every tiny particle in the air, making her stomach twist together uncomfortably.

But Esther didn't feel nauseous, she just felt nauseous. After passing through the living room, she smelled a stronger smell in the dining room, besides the ubiquitous smell of blood, there was also the aroma of roasted potatoes and tomato soup, and The smell of baked bread that Esther is particularly familiar with.

Esther looked at the wall, where there was a family portrait of a family of four—father, mother, elder brother, and younger sister. There were four similar faces with warm smiles on them. The photo was still new, and the lower right corner said Date, last July.

Ah, yes, it's dinner time now, they should be happy around the table and enjoy dinner with their families after a day of work and study.

"They" do sit at the table, too.

Each victim is tied to the back of a chair with rope and continues to pretend to be a peaceful, dinner scene.

Opposite the dining room is the wall that was chiseled by the prisoners, revealing a hole.

Large swaths of bright red dyed the restaurant, which was originally full of warm wood tones, the gas lamp above still faithfully provided lighting for the place, and the tablecloths prepared by the five seats below were all dazzling blood.

Five people.

Esther's spiritual intuition was touched again, she turned her head and left the restaurant, and ran up the stairs she saw just now, almost bumping into Leonard who had just walked over.

The lights upstairs were not turned on, and it was dark. Esther fumbled and pushed open the second door on the right.Her sight quickly adapted to this level of darkness, and after finding the switch on the wall, she turned on the light here.

There was a double bed in the room, probably the master bedroom where the couple lived. Esther walked to the closet and slowly opened the closet door.

Dunn walked up to her, saw the sleeping girl in the closet, and sighed softly.

Esther's numbness finally dissipated, and her tears flushed the blood on her face: "Is it always like this?"

"Yes. Ordinary people are very vulnerable in front of Extraordinary ones. Unprepared ordinary people are totally powerless to fight back. That's why there are Nighthawks, and that's why we have to fight."

"Nighthawks..."

Dunn stretched out his arms and picked up the little girl from the closet: "What we are facing is madness, and behind this madness is the backing for more ordinary citizens to live well. Even if their lives are not satisfactory, they are It’s not a reason to be wantonly killed.”

Esther's tears grew more and more, and the intense sadness made her wake up: "What about her? What will happen to her?"

"The police will be responsible for contacting relatives who are willing to adopt her. If she has no relatives to rely on, the church's orphanage will adopt her."

Leonard, who had been standing by the door observing Esther's situation, said when he heard this: "I grew up in the orphanage of the church, and there is nothing wrong with it. It is better than those children who are abused by relatives." Much more comfortable."

Esther didn't expect Leonard to have such a background, she didn't know what to say for a moment, she just looked at him blankly.The slightly naughty smile on Leonard's face looked particularly chic at this time.

Dunn nodded: "She won't remember all of this, and will only leave a vague impression. This is not the first time the church has dealt with this situation."

Esther glanced at the little girl in Dunn's arms one last time: "Then wish her good luck."

A throbbing pain crossed Esther's mind. She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and rubbed the center of her right eyebrow wearily. She only hoped to go back to Chanis Gate as soon as possible and sleep without any dreams.

Leonard has been by Esther's side all the time. After leaving the house to breathe fresh air, he immediately stuffed her with the things in his pocket, which were two hard fruit candies.For Esther, whose stomach started to colic again due to excessive consumption, it was a timely help. She gave Leonard a grateful look, and without being polite to him, she directly opened the candy wrapper and threw both pieces into her mouth.

César planned to send Sika, Leonard, and Esther back to Blackthorne first, otherwise there would not be enough space for so many people in a carriage.Old Neil, who arrived at the scene, sighed and followed Dunn to the scene to collect clues through psychics. Frye was collecting the suspect's body and would take his body back to the basement of the Blackthorn Security Company later.

After Esther finished eating the candy, she whispered to Leonard, "Thank you for the candy, it saved my life."

Leonard crossed his legs and leaned lazily against the window of the carriage: "No, you don't know how scary your eyes are when you're hungry. It looks like you'll catch anyone and eat them."

Perhaps the experience of fighting together is easier to shorten the distance between people, Sika patted Esther on the head, because of her height, everyone can easily do so.

"I didn't expect Esther to be so brave and powerful."

Esther's ears turned red immediately, and she lowered her head to stare at the dagger in her hand, hiding her embarrassment at being praised so bluntly.

Leonard couldn't hold back, he laughed out loud, and was glared at by Sika.

Back on Zotland Street, after returning the sealed item to the watchman, Leonard and Sika went to the rest room of the Nighthawks. They are all sleepless, and staying up late is a daily habit.After Esther stepped into the Chanis Gate, the comforting power in the darkness fell on her body, calming her sad mood little by little.

She walked into her stone house, got into the quilt after changing her clothes, and as the soothing power continued to gather, she finally cleared her mind completely and let herself close her eyes and fall asleep.

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Such is the life of the Nighthawks.

The ordinary rotation and standby is one of them. Everyone fights landlords in the lounge, jokes with each other, chats about trivial things from the weather to food, shares favorite books or magazines, and bets that the captain who has a crush on each other and Ms. Daly will contact several times a week .

Quests are on the other side. For example, the murder that Esther experienced is a rare case. Later, she followed the Nighthawks on several missions, and played a role as a "nightmare" field control in Dunn. After the ability, the others quickly arrested the suspect, and the process was quite easy.

However, according to Dunn, these superficial criminals are not the most terrifying. The most harmful are those cultists or organizations who do not know where they are hiding. crisis.

Old Neil was also present at the time. Hearing Dunn's admonition to Esther, he nodded in agreement: "So you must also be vigilant. Don't chant honorable names or pray indiscriminately, so as not to attract the attention of evil beings."

Esther's fighting training is also continuing. Sika enthusiastically took her to participate in shooting training, and praised Esther's talent with Dunn after returning. Sika's tone of teasing was too exaggerated, which made Esther Sit kept trying to hide behind the office door, so embarrassed that she wanted to get under the chair.

However, Esther is usually not worthy of a gun, and she herself doesn't like the gunpowder smell of guns. After practicing to be able to hit the bull's-eye with ten shots, she fully mastered the recoil and aiming skills, so she didn't go with Sika again. practise.

However, Old Neil's mysticism course was arranged by Dunn to push it again and again.It wasn't until Esther asked about it that Dunn talked to Old Neil, demarcated the scope that could be taught to Esther, and asked Old Neil to only teach language and common sense content, and avoid rituals that required spirituality.

Esther didn't know about it, and happily learned as long as she was taught, and didn't care too much what to learn.It was only after getting in touch with Hermes and Ancient Hermes that she found that she was not unfamiliar with this language at all, and the learning process was more like remembering.Old Neil's collection also contained fragments of Giant Language and Dragon Language. Esther quickly returned the book to Old Neil after she found that she could read and write without problems and could recall many contents directly.

Old Neil looked at Esther with a smile: "It's hard, isn't it? These languages ​​are very old, because few people use them, and even fewer people are willing to delve into them. You can't learn them just by looking at them."

Esther laughed dryly, nodded and said yes, for the sake of the old man's heart, she still pretended to practice hermes language hard.

Until one day, Esther saw "the notes left by Emperor Roselle in mysterious words".Old Neil will study this in his spare time, and he excitedly told Esther that he confirmed that part of the symbols should be numbers, this should not be a note but a diary!

Esther pursed her lips and put down the paper. She recovered from the shock after a few seconds, and solemnly told Old Neil, "I think so too!"

This is a diary written in Chinese. Esther had long guessed that Emperor Roselle was a time traveler, but now that this ironclad evidence was in front of her, she still felt unspeakably joyful.So Esther picked up these papers and looked at them again. Except for a few romantic affairs, Esther noticed a few words "apprentice", "seer" and "thief". Three ways to regret it.

It seems that some memories are waking up, but Esther can't remember clearly through a layer of tough paper.

And the "Land Abandoned by God" mentioned later...

The dark sky, the thunder that pierced the shadows, the land full of sorrow and distortion, the wandering corpses of giants, and the gray buildings and——she tried to recall, but these fragments seemed to be erased, and quickly disappeared from her mind disappear.

Old Neil looked at Esther curiously: "What? Did you see anything?"

Esther was shocked, and put these copied diaries back on Old Neil's desk: "No, I lost my mind just looking at it... This kind of writing is different from anything I've ever seen."

Old Neil didn't take it seriously either, and sighed: "Oh, I think so too. I wonder what the genius Emperor Roselle would leave behind."

Esther picked up the Hermetic literature she was going to read today and put the matter behind her.

Because her spiritual intuition was warning her that it was not time to delve into those secrets.

Esther seemed to vaguely feel the "guidance of fate" that the goddess said.

Because the church has never made further arrangements for Esther, Dunn no longer supervises Esther, but regards her as a young team member who needs to be taken care of.

After several missions, everyone in the Blackthorn Security Company naturally accepted Esther, and she completely became a member of the Nighthawks here.Because Dunn didn't arrange night shifts for Esther, she always hoped that someone could replace Rosanne who didn't stay up all night. She was very disappointed, so Esther took the initiative to help the clerical staff take part of the cleaning work.After all, after Viola left her job to go to a big company to seek further advancement, there was one less clerical staff, and the manpower was not sufficient.

From spring to summer, Esther got used to staying here as a half-Nighthawk. She cherished the people here and admired their efforts to protect ordinary people.

Being able to become a member of the Tingen Nighthawks team, getting to know such a group of people, and knowing the other side of this world made Esther extremely grateful that she chose to stay and live in Chanis Gate and accepted the "arrangement" of the goddess.

She didn't go back to Sling's Bakery for another look.

With the warm wind blowing, June of 1349 came to an end unconsciously.

(End of this chapter)