Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

Chapter 21
Esther was chatting with Roseanne about the "Flying" opened today, mainly listening to Roseanne expressing her regret: "I really hope they can open a direct route to Disey Bay, so we can go there for vacation !"

"I have limited interest in travel, but some magazines have introduced the recipe of Dixie Pie, which looks delicious."

"Don't you want to take a look outside?" Roseanne asked curiously, "Are you from Tingen?"

Esther frowned in confusion: "No, I'm definitely not from Tingen..."

At this moment, the bell in the reception hall rang, and Luo Shan stood up unhappily: "Oh, I don't know what the captain wants me for, I'll go and see!"

"It should be to ask you to guide the new colleague. Because the captain will stay there to guard the Chanis gate, it is inconvenient to take him to other places."

Esther threw a puff into her mouth, flipped through today's latest "Tingen City Candide", and browsed the short story column above, but unfortunately Sika's submission was rejected again, she may be able to according to Write some horror stories about the experience of the Nighthawks... Forget it, that would be too dangerous for ordinary citizens, after all, spirits and demons do exist in this world.

At the same time, Klein, who had just received a huge salary advance of twelve pounds, walked to the room of the armory according to Rosanne's directions. He saw an old man in a classic black robe sitting behind the table, holding a Reading a few pages, meditating by gaslight.

Not long after, Klein saw the diary written in Simplified Chinese by Emperor Roselle, and he finally confirmed this time that this senior traveler is really his compatriot!
The amount of information in the diary is too large, and Klein only had time to remember them roughly in his heart.

Has Esther seen these too?Klein was very curious, but he couldn't show it yet. Now that he had joined the Nighthawks, there would be no shortage of opportunities to inquire.

When Klein left the underground, he happened to meet Leonard walking down. He was going to replace Dunn with guarding the Chanis Gate.

After a simple conversation, Leonard walked down the stairs, but stopped at the corner, talking to himself in the air.

An old voice sounded in his mind: "No, I didn't feel it, he looks like an ordinary person."

When Klein returned to the reception hall, Rosanne and Esther were giggling together because they were talking about something. Seeing Klein coming up, both of them restrained their laughter in embarrassment. Rosanne waved at Klein: "Captain Let you come back on Monday and deal with the chores at home first."

Klein agreed and glanced at Esther: "Also, thank you for the puffs."

"You're welcome! Anyway, we are all colleagues now." Esther waved her hands repeatedly.

Roseanne winked at Esther: "Anyway, you just like to feed others, don't you?"

"Just like your gossip."

"You're laughing at me again!" Roseanne said angrily, but there was no anger in her eyes.

Klein did not stay to continue listening to this kind of melodrama unique to girls. Since there is no chance to chat with Esther alone, let's go home first, Melissa will like this puff.Although he really wanted to ask Roseanne about the "Extraordinary", but now that Esther was around, it was inappropriate for him to ask for information.

Esther looked at Klein and blinked, and a certain feeling in the dark made her suddenly remember: "Oh, I have to return my book to Old Neil. I'll go back to the house and look for it."

Then she left the reception hall of the Blackthorn Security Company.

Of course, Klein immediately seized this opportunity, asked Roseanne about the Beyonder ability sequence mastered by the church, and gave Esther a suspected fellow villager a thumbs up in his heart.

So understanding!

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The next night, just after Esther had dinner, Dunn, who was about to go out, came over and called her.

"Is it a mission?"

"To be precise, it's the guard. The new team member has been followed, and Leonard is currently on guard in the dark. But the other party is likely to attack at night. Let's change shifts."

Esther nodded, knowing that she was on the safe side, she walked to Dunn's side and took "Half of Dawn" from Dunn's hands. Esther was given two small boxes, one of which contained a mass of dark black hair, and the other contained a feather-shaped brooch.

"3-0611's 'Quiet Hair', 3-0499's 'Shadow Feather', you should have read their information."

"Well, suppression and concealment, that is, there is no need to kill people. Do you want to ask for information in your dream?"

"Yes, I don't want to alarm ordinary residents without knowing the ability of the other party's sequence, so as not to bring them danger."

"Understood. I will aim to stun or subdue the opponent."

Dunn once again felt Esther's completely different state when she received the mission. As the number of missions increased, her change became more and more obvious. Dunn was not sure if this was a good thing.

The church told him that this was a normal situation, which made Dunn guess, maybe this is the real "Esther"?
But Esther's cooperation with others is extremely efficient. She is not affected by the spirituality of the midnight poet's poems, and will not fall asleep due to the control of nightmares. Spiritual intuition brings quick on-the-spot reactions, and analysis and reasoning seem to have extraordinary abilities. bonus.Although she couldn't use things like spiritual power spells, Esther's negative effects from the sealed items were minimal, which made it possible for the team to use more powerful and larger numbers of sealed items when she was there.

The carriage stopped a street away. Under Dunn's gaze, Esther put on the "Shadow Feather" first, and her body seemed to melt into the darkness instantly, turning into a light shadow. No one would have noticed without knowing that someone was here.

Dunn found Leonard who was standing guard at the agreed position. After a brief exchange, he patted Leonard on the shoulder, indicating that he could go back first.

"Just you, the captain?"

"Esther is here."

Leonard just nodded, leaving this alley, he was going back to find a cafe for dinner.

At midnight, someone broke into the room where the Moretti family was staying.

Klein woke up immediately after receiving Dunn's instructions in his dream.

At the same time, Esther had reached the door with the shadow feather's stealth ability. The shadow wrapped around her shoulders like a cloak, perfectly hiding her figure from the crimson moonlight. Dunn stood At the end of the corridor, as the door was slowly opened and then slammed shut, he immediately began to chant the melody:
"Ah, the threat of fear, the hope of scarlet! At least one thing is true: this life flies away. One thing is true, and the rest is a lie. After the flower blooms once, it will die forever..."

At the same time as the poem sounded, Esther had already jumped out, but she was not in a hurry to attack, but first used the agility of the thief's hand to precisely stuff the black hair into the man's back collar in an instant.

The man only let out a muffled groan, and was suppressed by the power of "Quiet Hair" to fight back. He could no longer resist Dun En's chant, and lay quietly on the ground.Seeing that he refused to close his eyes, Esther knew that his desire to sleep was also suppressed by "Quiet Hair", so she simply hit the back of the man's head with the hilt of "Half Dawn" with moderate force, directly knocking him unconscious. over him.

Dunn was at the end of the corridor, eyes still closed, and Esther knew that Dunn was entering the man's dream, so she stopped where she was, squatting beside the man, in case he suddenly got up and had an accident.

A few minutes later, Dunn signaled Esther to leave here with the man, and he would briefly communicate with Klein.

Esther led the sleeping man into the alley where he had crouched with the captain beforehand, and it didn't take long for Dunn to come back.

"everything is fine?"

"Yes, the mission is over, we will take him back right away."

Esther stretched her waist, and took the paper package Dunndi gave her, which contained a piece of butter cookie that was crushed into several petals.

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Because of staying up late, Esther slept for a long time the next morning. When she woke up, she looked at her pocket watch, and it was already past nine o'clock.

After she walked out of the Chanis Gate, she unexpectedly ran into Klein in the corridor. The young man who was attacked last night rubbed his brows, half-closed his eyes and didn't notice Esther coming behind him.

"Klein, good morning."

"Ah, good morning..." Klein turned around, only to see that the weaver of the knot bracelet who greeted him was Esther with oriental features, "Is it Esther? Your name Seems to be rare."

"Yes, I suspect that I am the only one with this name in Loen, and its original pronunciation is also different from the Loen language."

Klein put down the hand between his eyebrows, and stopped in the corridor with Esther. This seemed like an appropriate time, so he had to ask her quickly: "I saw the knot you gave Miss Daly before, its shape Very unique, does it have any special meaning?"

Esther thought about it for a while, and felt that it didn't matter to tell the truth: "Well...in my hometown, people would use red rope to weave those knots, and the shapes are more complicated, usually with the meaning of blessing inside."

Klein's eyes widened instantly, and he whispered in Chinese: [Chinese knot? ]
If it is a person who does not understand Chinese, he will only think that Klein is talking to himself and he has not heard clearly, but for a person who also understands Chinese, it is impossible not to hear the word.

Esther's eyes widened too, and she couldn't help lowering her voice, for fear of being heard by others: [You too...]
At this moment, the sound of footsteps came, and the two fellow villagers who were staring wide-eyed and digesting the excitement turned their heads at the same time, looking at the coming person vigilantly like a cat with its hair blown.

Dunn looked at Esther and Klein suspiciously: "What? What happened?"

Esther rubbed the center of her right eyebrow: "Goddess, where did you come from, Captain, it's shocking."

"I just walked down from above." Dunn replied calmly.

Klein worked hard to show his acting skills, otherwise he would appear too excited: "We just chatted, um, about hometown."

Esther took the opportunity to answer: "Of course, it's my hometown, but Klein knows a lot about it, and it's rare for me to meet someone who knows about it."

After saying this, the two of them looked at each other and smiled. This wave of cooperation with each other was not even lying, the two of them knew it.

Dunn seemed to have thought of something: "That's right, Klein, you seem to be a college student in the Department of History, but in the future, don't touch the ancient books of the previous centuries casually, because there are easy hidden dangers in them. Esther, you too, Don't be too curious about these."

Both of them nodded, quietly listening to the captain's lecture.

"You all have to remember that curiosity will kill the cat, as well as the Extraordinary. Don't try to explore those whispers that shouldn't be heard and existences that shouldn't be seen."

"Okay." "Got it, Captain."

Klein didn't stay long, he still had something to do in the afternoon, so he said goodbye and left the Blackthorn Security Company.

Dunn looked at Esther: "Did your spiritual intuition warn him?"

"Of course not. In fact, I think Klein is quite kind!"

As Esther said this, it couldn't be more sincere.

(End of this chapter)