Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

Chapter 9 Stone House
"Esther, come here."

"Old sir. Mr. Smith."

When Esther heard someone calling herself, she immediately recovered from her daze. Just now she tried to communicate with the little bug tucked into her breast pocket, but there was no response at all, so she started staring at the vase in the corner of the room. , I don’t know if I was abandoned by that little bug.

Or maybe it's the end of its life?It's just a bug after all.

Just when Esther was thinking about it for a while, she would be moved to tears because of the loss of her friend - as the party believed - when the door was pushed open, interrupting her cranky thoughts in time.

"Yes, we need to wait for the senior deacon sent by Backlund to confirm the situation. You need to live behind the Chanis Gate for these two days."

Esther didn't ask any more questions, she just thought it was some kind of temporary detention center, obediently followed behind Dunn and Old Neil, and in front of Esther, the two nighthawks didn't communicate too much, lest Esther Stuart was wary and then hostile.

There were only three footsteps in the long corridor.

Esther looked at the double door carved with seven special patterns. The door was mottled and thick, as if it had been around for a long time. Esther's intuition told her that those patterns contained special meaning and power.

The watchman by the door looked very old, more from the sense of spiritual silence, he nodded with Dunn, and after exchanging in a low voice, the watchman with the lantern opened the black iron gate to allow Old Neil did not follow the gap through which people passed sideways, but stayed outside and waited.

Dunn told Esther: "Come with me, don't get lost, there are many roads inside."

"Okay," Esther followed Dunn through the door, and asked curiously, "This door looks very special, is it to prevent the prisoners inside from mutating?"

"you can say it this way."

Esther's first impression of Dunn was that she was silent and reliable, with bright hairline, deep and peaceful eyes, and Dunn's age deepened her mature and steady evaluation.Esther recalled Ms. Daly's eyes when she occasionally said the word "Captain" in the store. She seemed to respect and love the captain, which made Esther wonder what Dunn's impression of Daly was.

But immediately, Esther was dragged back to the present moment without marginal divergence.

The temperature behind the door was much colder than outside, but what Esther felt more was the source of this temperature, the dead silence that was similar to the guard's breath.But the amazing thing is, this didn't make Esther feel uncomfortable, instead, her fear of this gloomy environment was quickly appeased. She stared at the surrounding air, obviously seeing nothing, but this strange power made her feel inexplicable familiarity.

Even a little cordial?Esther thought in confusion.

There are candlesticks hanging on the wall, and there are silver and white candles with engraved patterns standing upright. The faint blue flames are very similar to the will-o'-the-wisps in Esther's imagination.The guard closed the door behind Esther, and Dunn led her through the aisle. Esther suppressed her curiosity and did not look around.

This place seemed to be a secret place, and Esther was too embarrassed to be too interested, which might make the other party unhappy, after all, Dunn and the guard seemed very serious at this time.

They walked down the stairs leading to the bottom, and the environment became darker and darker. If it wasn't for the guard who was still holding a dim yellow lantern, Esther felt that she might have stepped on the ground.

In the end, the guard found a stone door without any markings in the room on both sides of the corridor. After he pushed the door open, Dunn motioned for Esther to go in.

The back of the door looks like a single cell. The tables and chairs are made of stone and connected to the ground. There is a stone bed with undulating pillows in the corner and an empty iron potty in the corner. There is nothing else.

Esther immediately looked at Dunn: "Mr. Smith, can I have a quilt and blanket? If you can't, you can ask someone to go to Slim Bakery to get it for me. Including... There is a wallet in the attic where I live. "

Esther was a little embarrassed at the end, as if she was bothering the other party too much.

Dunn nodded, unexpectedly showing easy-going: "No problem, we will send someone to fetch everything for you, you stay here for a while."

"okay, thank you!"

Dunn hesitated for a moment: "Do you need food? We can order an extra one for you."

Esther's eyes suddenly lit up: "Is it really possible!? Then do I need to pay you? I don't have much savings, and I may not be able to pay for food and housing..."

"No, the matter of expenses can be discussed later."

Esther's funny reaction made Dunn's tone soften a little, but after he realized this, he immediately tensed up again, nodded to Esther, and he immediately closed the door and left the underground with the guard. .

Esther touched the stone bed, and found that it was not as cold as she imagined. Perhaps every corner of the place was infiltrated with the deadly force that made her relax.Esther lay down on the bed with peace of mind, stretched her waist, and felt quite comfortable.

"It turned out that it just looked terrible. It was much better than I imagined, and there was still a bed to sleep in."

There is a glass-covered table on the wall, and the burning candles in it are also blue, with a shade next to it, which can be blocked by pulling the hanging rope, so that the light in the room is completely lost.

After Esther stretched out her hand to play a few times, she covered the candle and let herself be surrounded by thick darkness.

"Little bug? Are you still there? Are you okay..."

no respond.

Esther put her palm on her heart and patted it lightly twice: "Forget it. What a dream."

There was a weak cry in her voice, and she looked quite pitiful in the underground cell without any light.

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As soon as the guard and Dunn walked out of Chanis Gate, Old Neil came up to him nervously: "Everything went well?"

"Well, Esther is very cooperative."

Dunn briefly explained to the guard, and after the guard nodded, Dunn and Old Neil left Chanis Gate.

Walking on the promenade leading to the ground and sunlight, Old Neil looked back at the closed black iron gate: "How is she?"

"She was unresponsive inside Chanis Gate."

"Even if the Nighthawks—"

Dunn took up the old Neil's words: "Even if it was me or Daly, I would feel uncomfortable every time I entered the Chanis Gate, but she seemed to be adjusting well."

Old Neil fell silent. It was hard to believe that there was something weird about a girl who would giggle because of hot cocoa.Dunn specifically emphasized his and Daly's situation, because they already had the highest sequence among Tingen Nighthawks.

Dunn seemed to suddenly remember something: "By the way, there is one more thing. In the telegram from the church headquarters, the description of her is referred to as 'it'."

Old Neil looked at Dunn in shock, opened his mouth for several seconds and said nothing, the tip of his gray beard was shaking.He had turned on his spiritual vision to stare at Esther at the time, and she didn't look much different from ordinary people, at most the golden light on her head was brighter...

Golden light?

Seeing that Old Neil's face was getting uglier, Dunn couldn't help asking him, "What's wrong?"

"I turned on my spirit vision to observe her at the time. But now I think carefully, I only saw the astral body at that time, and Esther did not have an etheric body! At that time, I ignored such a weird anomaly, and only regarded it as the astral body The ray of light is so strong that it covers up the etheric body..."

Dunn recalled the occult knowledge he had learned: "This is an impossible situation. 'Creatures' must have the characteristics of the etheric body, which is closely related to our physical condition."

Old Neil sighed heavily: "Oh, no wonder it's 'it'..."

"As long as you are in contact, you will keep letting go of Esther, which is unsolvable."

Dunn patted Old Neil on the shoulder: "Don't worry, the Holy Church is paying close attention to this matter. They have asked Your Excellency Sesima to hand over the work immediately, and come directly to Tingen tomorrow."

Dunn walked into his office, and he had to report the preliminary results of this matter to the church.Just before Old Neil was about to leave, Dunn suddenly called him again: "By the way, there is one more thing, you asked Roseanne to order an extra meal for lunch and evening today, and I will take it for Esther. If I have something to do, I will ask the gatekeeper to help send it in."

Old Neil nodded: "No problem."

"There should be nothing else."

Old Neil didn't move.

Sure enough, Dunn turned from the telegraph again: "By the way, by the way, Leonard is in charge of appeasing the residents of the bakery today, isn't he? Ask him to take Luo Yao there again in the afternoon and take Esther Luo Yao is a lady after all, so it is more convenient than Leonard to go by himself. Also, Esther specially requested a set of quilts and blankets, and I will send them to her after preparing together."

Only then did Old Neil agree, and shook his head in his heart for the captain's old problem of forgetfulness.

Walking into the front hall for reception, sunlight diffused through the window, dispelling the heavy feeling on Old Neil's body.The brown-haired girl sitting behind the table was lazily flipping through a popular magazine, gesturing to the knitting patterns on it, her face full of boredom.

"Hey Roseanne, is Leonard back?"

The shiny eyes of the brown-haired girl are always full of emotion and curiosity: "Not yet, he should go to the police station to communicate the news of the incident. Didn't the girl Daly said come out with you? I still expect to be with her Let's have a cup of tea and chat."

Roseanne is the most "enthusiastic" clerk in the Tingen Nighthawks team. To be precise, it is because of her enthusiasm for gossip that Rosanne can always chat with everyone quickly. Of course, if you tell her something , not far from everyone knowing.

Old Neil smiled wryly and waved his hand: "You'd better not inquire about this matter, there are many things involved. When you order lunch and dinner, remember to order an extra copy, and ask Mrs. Orianna for the expense, and reimburse it together with other people's orders. Just do it."

"Okay, for the girl, huh? Is there anything she won't eat?"

Old Neil was stunned for a moment: "I really don't know, you can just order some ordinary food."

Roseanne nodded, and wrote down the matter on the memo: "Then when Leonard comes back, I'll let him find you?"

"Okay, let's do that."

"Then what if Daly asks? Isn't that the kid she knows?"

The smile on the corner of Old Neil's mouth disappeared: "If she asks... let her talk to the captain."

　There is an update in the evening.I may not reply to questions too often because I am worried about spoilers, but I still have a lot of gratitude to everyone... Thank you everyone!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)