Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

Esther was chatting with Roxanne about the "Fly" that opened today, mainly listening to Roxanne express her regrets: "I really hope they can open a direct route to Desi Bay, so that we can go there for vacation !”

"I have limited interest in traveling, but some magazines have introduced how to make Dixie pie, and it looks delicious."

"Don't you want to go outside and have a look?" Luo Shan asked curiously, "Are you a local 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 from me, I'll go and see!"

"I should ask you to help guide the new colleague. Because the captain still has to stay there to guard 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 Honest Newspaper", and browsed the short story column above. Unfortunately, Sika's submission was rejected again. She might be able to use it based on Write some horror stories about the Nighthawks' experiences...forget it, that would be too dangerous for ordinary citizens, after all, spirits and demons are real in this world.

At the same time, Klein, who had just received a huge salary advance of twelve pounds, walked to the weapons depot room according to Roshan's directions. He saw an old man wearing a classic black robe sitting behind the table, holding a Reading a few pages, thinking about something under the gaslight.

Not long after, Klein saw the diary written in Simplified Chinese by Emperor Russell. He finally confirmed this time that this senior time traveler was really his compatriot!

The amount of information in the diary was too large, and Klein only had time to roughly remember it in his mind.

Has Esther seen these too? Klein is very curious, but he can't show it yet. Now that he has joined the Nighthawks, there will be no shortage of opportunities to inquire.

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

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

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

Klein returned to the reception hall. Roshan and Esther were laughing together because of something they were talking about. When they saw Klein coming up, they both suppressed their laughter in embarrassment. Roshan waved to Klein: "Captain I ask you to come back on Monday and take care of the chores at home first."

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

"You're welcome! We are all colleagues anyway." Esther waved her hands repeatedly.

Roxanne winked at Esther: "You just like to feed others, right?"

"Like you're into gossip."

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

Klein did not stay any longer to listen to this girl-specific melodrama. Since there was no chance to chat with Esther alone, he should go home first. Melissa would like this puff. Although he really wanted to ask Roxanne about the "Extraordinary" again, but now that Esther was here, it was not appropriate for him to ask for information.

Esther looked at Klein and blinked. Some kind of feeling made her suddenly remember: "Oh, I have a book that I should return to Old Neil. I'll go back to the house and look for it."

Then she left the reception hall of Blackthorn Security Company.

Of course, Klein immediately seized this opportunity and asked Roxanne about the extraordinary ability sequence mastered by the church, and mentally praised Esther, a suspected fellow countryman.

So understanding!

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

"Is it a mission?"

"To be precise, it's a guard. The new team member is being followed. Leonard is on guard in the dark. But the other party is likely to take action at night. Let's change the shift."

Esther nodded, knowing that she was brought with her for insurance. She walked to Dunn's side and took the "Half Dawn" from Dunn's hand. This has almost become her standard equipment when she goes on a mission, but Dunn still Esther was given two small boxes, one of which contained a ball of dark black hair, and the other contained a feather-shaped brooch.

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

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

"Yes, I don't want to alarm ordinary residents without knowing the opponent's serial capabilities, so as not to put them in danger."

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

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

The church told him that this was a normal situation, which made Dunn wonder, maybe this is the real "Esther"?

But Esther's cooperation with others is extremely efficient. She is not affected by the spiritual influence of the midnight poet's poems, and will not fall asleep due to the control of nightmares. Her spiritual intuition brings quick on-the-spot reactions, and her analysis and reasoning seem to have extraordinary abilities. of bonus. Although things like spiritual charms cannot be used, Esther is minimally affected by the negative effects of sealed objects, which allows the team to use more powerful and larger quantities of sealed objects when she is present.

The carriage stopped a street away. Under Dunn's eyes, Esther put on the "Shadow Feather" first. Her body instantly seemed to merge into the darkness and turned into a light shadow. No one would have noticed unless they knew there was someone here.

Dunn found Leonard squatting at the agreed location. After a brief exchange, he patted Leonard on the shoulder and signaled that he could go back first.

"You're the only one, Captain?"

"Esther is here too."

Leonard nodded and left the alley. He was going back to find a cafe for dinner.

At midnight, someone broke into the room where Moretti's house was.

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

At the same time, Esther had touched the door outside with the help of Shadow Feather's stealth ability. The shadow was like a cloak wrapped around her shoulders, perfectly hiding her figure from the crimson moonlight. Dunn stood At the end of the corridor, when the door was slowly opened and violently closed, he immediately began to sing the melody:

"Ah, the threat of fear, the crimson hope! At least one thing is true: this life is fleeting. One thing is true, the rest is a lie, and after the flower blooms once, it will die..."

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

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

Dunn was at the end of the corridor, still with his eyes closed. Esther knew that Dunn was entering the man's dream. She stopped where she was and crouched next to the man to prevent any accidents from his sudden outburst.

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

Esther took the sleeping man into the alley where she and the captain had crouched. Not long after, they waited for Dunn to return.

"everything is fine?"

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

Esther stretched out and took the paper packet Dunn gave her. Inside was a butter cookie crushed into several pieces.

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

After she walked out of Chanis Gate, she unexpectedly met Klein in the corridor. The young man who was attacked last night rubbed his brows and half-closed his eyes without noticing Esther walking behind him.

"Klein, good morning."

"Ah, good morning..." Klein turned around and saw that the person who greeted him was the weaver of the knotted bracelet, Esther with oriental features. "It's Esther, right? What's your name?" It seems to be rare.”

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

Klein lowered his hand between his brows and stopped in the corridor with Esther. This seemed to be the right time to ask her quickly: "I saw the knot you gave to Miss Daly before. Its shape It’s very unique, does it have any special meaning?”

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

Klein's eyes widened instantly, and he whispered in Chinese: [Chinese knot? ]

If someone doesn't understand Chinese, they would just think that Klein was talking to himself and didn't hear it clearly. But for people who also understand Chinese, it's impossible not to hear this word.

Esther's eyes also widened, and she couldn't help lowering her voice for fear of being heard by others: [You too...]

At this moment, the sound of footsteps was heard, and the two fellow villagers, who were staring at each other to digest their excitement, turned their heads at the same time, looking at the visitor as warily as a cat with fried fur.

Dunn looked at Esther and Klein with confusion on his face: "What? What happened?"

Esther rubbed the center of her right eyebrow: "Goddess, captain, you suddenly appeared out of nowhere. It's shocking."

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

Klein tried hard to use his acting skills, otherwise he would appear too excited: "We just talked about, um, things about my hometown."

Esther answered smoothly: "Of course, it's my hometown, but Klein knows a lot of relevant things. It's rare for me to meet someone who knows these things."

After saying these words, the two people looked at each other and smiled. This wave of cooperation was not even a lie, the two people understood each other tacitly.

Dunn seemed to have remembered something: "That's right, Klein, you seem to be a college student in the history department, but don't touch ancient books from previous centuries casually in the future. There are dangers easily hidden in them. Esther, you too, Don’t be too curious about this.”

Both men nodded and listened quietly to the captain's instructions.

"You all must remember that curiosity will kill cats and extraordinary people. Don't try to explore the whispers you shouldn't hear and the existence you shouldn't see."

"Okay." "I know, Captain."

Klein didn't stay long. He 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 alert him?"

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

Esther said this, and her words could not be more sincere.