Chapter 67: The Building of the Lily of the Valley Street Apartments
From the time he received the special title, Xiao Qi considered himself to be "another Amon", and he deliberately distinguished himself from the other Amun, and was happy to enjoy freedom as an independent individual.
But it still retains much of what the ontology and the doppelgangers share, such as some memories of previous eras and extreme wariness and disgust for the "True Creator" and his men.
The man with long silver hair, a lark, and the madman as the master, did not think of anything but Ulorius.
Xiao Qitian's suspiciousness made him doubt Esther's true identity:
Her arrival was already strange, perhaps it was a trap set up by another dark night, trying to use Esther's possible clues related to the Source Castle to lead to the traces of the "Amunes", including the main body. Esther appeared directly in it, and this ability to borrow the fate of others as a springboard is clearly a means of "Trojan Horse of Fate", and the possibility of Pales Zoroaster being manipulated behind the scenes cannot be ruled out.
Could it be that the night has joined forces with the madman and Parles? How dare He be so bold that he is not afraid of other true gods pursuing him!?
Xiao Qi thought back to the course and ending of the Tingen incident, in fact, except for the unlucky guy who entered the night watch halfway, the rest of the people escaped the danger of their lives, and the possibility that Esther was doing things for the night was established.
Xiao Qi never fully believed Esther's "appearance", and admitted that it did have trust in Esther, but in the face of doubtful suspicion, such trust was no different from a bubble that bursts at the touch of a button.
The eighth sequence of the thief's path was originally a "fraudster".
But Xiao Qi won't really leave, its claws are wrapped around a hair of Esther, this tough hair is far away from the body, and it emits a faint light in confusion, trying to call Esther so that it can return to where it should be.
Night, Ulorius, it's not like that paranoid person will also have his eyes on Esther the next second, right?
Xiao Qi thought disgustedly and flew to the outskirts of the North District.
There was a deserted manor that once belonged to the Amun family, and the small merchants who now lived in the vineyards did not know that there were several secret rooms hidden under their home, and that some of the "inheritance" of the Amun nobles was preserved in the secret rooms.
Xiao Qi is going to find something to dig into the cognitive void left by the ontology in his mind. And according to Esther's description, she saw that the lark carried by Ulorius would also glow, which was a new entry point for Xiao Qi.
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Esther went to the nearest street, Lily of the Valley.
The environment here is much better than she expected, perhaps because it is adjacent to Yuejihua Street, where the Harvest Church is located, and the atmosphere here is softer and more peaceful than the station area. The people who came and went were not confined to formal dresses, regular clothes, or overalls, but most of them were calm and relaxed in their speech, and Esther's gaze was mostly curious, and there was not much malice.
At the end of the street is a small fountain square, and you can see many people walking from afar, and the sound of flutes and laughter in the wind is walking under the sinking sunset, adding a touch of warmth to the gloomy sky.
No. 7 is a small six-storey brick building, the whitewashed walls have a lot of peeling paint, and the light shines through several windows upstairs, and the rich aroma of toast wafts from the room.
Outside the two rows of flower beds at the entrance were potted plants, all of which were of various kinds: purple rosemary, a large clump of hibiscus, a bunch of red like a string of firecrackers, and many flowers that Esther did not recognize, and potted plants that did not open, filling the square corner of the flower beds.
The faint scent of flowers mixed with each other wafted out, so that Esther couldn't help but sniffle and stop here to take a closer look at these plants, many of them were not native to Beckland, but they did not grow too badly in the uncomfortable environment of increasing pollution, and the flowers of the season could bloom in full bloom.
Esther scraped the pot with her fingertips a bunch of red leaves, a plant that was not even native to Rune, but from East Bailang on the other side of the Tempest Sea.
"Hey you! Stay away from Mrs. Romano's babes! ”
Esther immediately withdrew her hand and looked in the direction from which the shout had come - it was a young woman with dark brown skin, not much older than Esther's appearance. Her unkempt black hair was tied into a bun and tied high on the back of her head, and she wore a gentleman's shirt, vest and suit pants, a cloth bag on her back, and a suitcase in her hand. She wears blue-purple feather-style earrings on her ears, her black eyes are large and bright, her lips are broad, her forehead is full, her eyelashes are long and thick, and her bright apricot eyeshadow makes her look more vibrant.
Look at where the lady stood, she was about to walk up the steps of the front door of this apartment.
Perhaps noticing Esther's close age and her unusual appearance to the natives of Rune, the lady tightened the strap of her backpack and gave an exaggerated smirk: "Mrs. Romano is easily angry, you need to be careful about your behavior." ”
Esther smiled back, "Thank you for the reminder." Do you live here? ”
"Yes." Lady Bun Head didn't seem to be very good at small talk, so she nodded hastily, put in the key, turned the doorknob, and quickly opened the apartment door and walked in, not caring if Esther was going to follow or not.
Esther didn't follow the lady directly, she silently recited the choice of "go in" and "don't go in" a few times in her heart, and based on her instinctive and gentle feedback, she decided to knock on the door and give it a try.
Seeing these well-tended plants, Esther did not think that Mrs. Romano was really a grumpy person, as the lady said, but she must have maintained her favorite character.
She feared that the Romano lady would be very honest and that it would be difficult to gain her trust without identification.
Esther knocked on the door, and it was only a matter of seconds for someone to open the door, as if it had been waiting for her.
The door was opened by an old lady with a rickety back, no more than 1.5 meters tall, wearing a floor-length high-waisted dress with lace trim at the neckline and an earthy knitted shawl wrapped around her shoulders.
The fine wrinkles on her face tell the story of the old woman's life, but her dark green eyes are unusually clear and bright, her rough brown-black hair is tied up in a hairnet, and the bun is covered with flower-like colorful gemstone hairpins or flower-shaped hairpins, making the back of her head look like a display flower garden.
The funniest thing was that a slender gold chain hung from her chest, on which were the wheat-yellow life emblem and the bronze triangular emblem of the god of steam and machine. Believing in two gods at the same time is extremely blasphemous for a devout believer, not to mention hanging the emblems of the two gods on his chest with a big grin.
"I've been watching you for a long time, but the kids like you so much that I didn't drive you away. What are you hanging out here? ”
"I've heard that you can rent a house here."
The old woman glanced Esther up and down and looked her with a grin, "Do you have a letter of acceptance for grammar school or the University of Beckland?" What about your testimonial? Give them to me. ”
Esther was stunned for a moment: "Beckland University? ”
The old woman's eyebrows raised, and her voice immediately sharpened: "This is not a messy shelter, not all wild cats and dogs can come!" Who the hell told you to come here!? Let that guy get out of here and be responsible! The recommender came and didn't open the certificate because he took me for something! ”
Seeing that the old woman was scolding more and more, Esther quickly interjected: "It's Father Utravsky!" The Bishop of Harvest Church! ”
The old woman's scolding suddenly stopped, she wrapped her shawl more tightly, muttered two inaudible words in her mouth, and then beckoned to Esther: "Then come in, don't stand stupidly outside." That big guy doesn't preside over the church of the Mother Goddess well, how can he know that it's troublesome to stuff me......"