Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

When Sherlock Moriarty was fighting with Detective Isengard Stanton and the "Apostle of Desire" in No. 15 Minsk Street, Esther ushered in her one-bedroom apartment on the edge of the East End. A long-lost crow.

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

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

Xiao Qifei landed on the simple desk and stared at Xiao Wu who was lying on his notebook. They didn't speak for a while. Xiao Qi's black eyes were empty and eager, staring at Xiao Wu, but without saying a word, he almost picked up Xiao Wu and swallowed him. Esther didn't understand what was going on, and thought the two were waiting for some secret signal. She sat on the rickety chair next to her in confusion, because one of the chair legs was missing a corner, and her center of gravity became unstable when she sat up. It's easy to rock back and forth.

"Esther," Xiao Wu suddenly called her, "just use your light spot to clean this guy."

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

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

Xiao Wu's final urging was so urgent that Esther's original leisurely attitude was wiped out. She pressed her knuckles between her eyebrows, and a ball of fireworks almost exploded above her head, and the big light spots flew quickly. Rushing towards Xiao Qi who was still standing on the table.

Xiao Qi stood on the table without any reaction, as if it was just a crow specimen for others to appreciate and collect, letting the stream of light drown him, his eyes still so numb.

The light spots surrounding Xiao Qi rotated spontaneously, and rings wrapped around the black crow's body, seemingly penetrating its body, but there were no traces of any wounds, only illusory layers. The ring wrapped around the black crow tighter and tighter.

Suddenly, all the haloes collapsed inward, as if they had found a point strong enough to hold and gather them, and were instantly sucked into the crow's body.

Xiaoqi's eyes lit up again, returning to the cunning demeanor that was always full of thinking. It coughed violently and retched until it spit out a small ball of tangled hair. This hair was constantly emitting a bright and soft light. It was tightly wrapped around a scale the size of a small fingernail. The gray-white scales gradually turned translucent under the entanglement of hair.

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

The hair also broke, but the number of light spots that escaped was much smaller, slowly floating up, and then got back into Esther's hair.

"It's finally done! Just a little bit close," Xiao Qi breathed hard and fell tiredly on the desk with burrs on the surface. "Fortunately, fortunately, there is a loophole in His command that can be exploited..."

Esther dug out a bag of peanuts she bought as snacks, broke the shell and stuffed two into Xiao Qi's mouth.

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

Xiao Wu laughed sarcastically: "Let's get down to business. The person who gave you the psychological hint will no longer pretend this time?"

Xiao Qi took a deep breath: "He will notify the head of the family in a few days, and he has planted a psychological hint for me to keep an eye on you, because after seeing my changes, he is not at ease with you. My spirit is almost completely intact. Controlled by Him, but through that command, I carried out the action of 'Keep an eye on you'."

Esther recalled the way Xiao Qi glared at Xiao Wu as soon as she came in, and lamented that Xiao Wu knew Xiao Qi very well, but she then remembered that both of them were clones of the head of the family, 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 a pitiful pleading in her tone, but it was hard to tell how sincere it was: "I really have no place to go. I can only rely on the self-contained circulation characteristics of your light. Only in this way can we avoid divination or perception and not be tracked by the owner of the family.”

When Esther was hesitating, Xiao Wu interjected: "Don't take what this guy said too seriously. You'd better remember that the Sequence 8 of 'Theft' is the 'Scammer'."

"I just want to stay. Of course I am safer with Esther, because when someone comes, she will be the target first." Xiao Qi said calmly, not caring at all that Xiao Wu revealed his true identity.

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

She paused and continued: "Also, I know that your family head is the true body."

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

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

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

Xiao Qi tilted her head: "You are getting better and better at lying. Is it because you have secrets? Don't worry, I won't follow you every day."

Esther rubbed the center of her right eyebrow distressedly, and simply said: "Okay, let's be honest. I have people to see and things to do, as well as secret gatherings that I attend occasionally. I The reason why Xiaowu can be suppressed with light spots is because of its special status, but it probably has no effect on you, and it is very inconvenient to carry you around."

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

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

Esther was a little depressed. If Xiao Qi had the appearance of the Worm of Time, she would not relent, but it felt really weird to be stared at pitifully by a humanized crow.

Even though she knew it was all staged, 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. The 'Audience' sequence at the top will have this characteristic, 'Whatever is said, must be known.'"

Esther frowned and subconsciously leaned back on the chair, but she forgot about the chair's missing back legs. Fortunately, she was agile enough to stand up and rush to the side before the chair overturned completely. He grabbed the chair before it hit the ground.

"This is really scary."

Such characteristics made her feel vaguely familiar. Why?

——

Because Xiao Qi insisted on staying by her side, Esther gave up her plan to visit Klein again the next day.

Because of the fright she received last night, she wanted to stay in bed to make up for the hurt in her heart, but her mechanically stable biological clock did not allow it. After opening her eyes once, Esther couldn't fall asleep at all.

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

After leaving Chanis Gate, Esther stopped having those strange dreams. Every time she thought about this, she had to suspect that the night had secretly manipulated her.

After washing up, Esther put on trousers, a shirt and a thick woolen coat, then wrapped a black cloak over the scarf and put on the silver mask that revealed only half of her face. Today she planned to take the black bread to the East District to visit the street children and ask them about anything special happening in the East District recently.

As soon as she walked out of this house that exuded an old musty smell, Esther saw a short blond lady walking slowly from across the street, flipping through several sketches of different characters in her hands.

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

"Good morning." Esther replied politely and started to walk to the other end of the street.

"Please wait, I haven't thanked you properly for what happened yesterday." The little lady showed a sincere smile, took back the portraits in her arms, and extended her right hand to Esther, "Self Let me introduce you, Hugh Dilcha, a bounty hunter who travels around."

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

After the other party mentioned this, Esther could only sigh in her heart and shook hands with Xio: "You can call me Hamel. As for my profession, I won't reveal it. Just in case you want to arrest me one day." Me, that would be bad.”

Xio smiled brightly twice, and then said: "What you said is very reasonable, Miss Hamel, because there are several gangs looking for information about you now, and I even doubt whether I am the first to follow you. People who introduce themselves.”

Esther has nothing to be afraid of. She has become more and more skilled in stealing people's memories. However, Esther felt very warm about the news that Xio deliberately revealed and reminded her to pay attention to her safety while typing: "Actually, it's not the case. You're the second one. Nice to meet you, and thank you for telling me this."

"I'm just curious. There were a lot of rumors about you circulating in the East End last month. After my roommates heard about it, they all considered serializing a ghost story about you."

This is not the case either. Esther observed a few seconds of silence in honor of her name.

"I hope she won't do that," Esther shook her head, "otherwise it will be very troublesome for me. You should be able to tell that this is a disguise, after all, I am covered in disguise."

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

"Yes, you might offend someone one day. Do you often move around here?"

Xio nodded and looked curiously at the dark crow on the other person's shoulder. It seemed that few people would keep this kind of bird as a pet. However, Xio did not ask rashly, hoping that this conversation could build some trust: "I have A friend named 'Sherman' lives nearby, and I occasionally visit him to get some news."

"I see, then I won't delay you. I'm also going to meet my friends elsewhere in the East District. Goodbye, Hugh."

"Goodbye, Hamel, and 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 very cheap bakery.

Xio looked at the back of "Hamel" thoughtfully. This extraordinary person hiding nearby was surprisingly easy to talk to. Judging from this brief exchange, she did not give him the feeling of a dangerous person.

But Xio could always feel a strange sense of dissonance in "Hamel". Is it related to her sequence? Or is she hiding her true self too well?

The crow, which had been standing quietly on "Hamel's" shoulder, turned around and glanced at Xio, which sent a chill down her spine. She didn't know why the well-behaved pet showed such a humane and teasing look.

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