After receiving an urgent alert from the apartment at 7 Lily of the Valley Street, Deacon Iconser Bernard, who happened to be on duty that night, immediately set out with a group of people, each equipped with a full set of "combat tools". Compared to other Orthodox Churches, the official Extraordinaries of the Church of Steam and the Mechanical God have no shortage of weapons that can sweep the entire field, and their fighting style is closer to "demolition" - of course, this is also a word that Russell the Great once casually uttered.

The look on Iconse's tough face is not good-looking, there is an Aurora informant in apartment seven, he is clear as a deacon, but the reports from the team members in the past few years are that the informant is emotionally stable, and he even just finished the inspection last week, why did something suddenly happen?

Just in case, Iconse brought the silver mirror with a simple pattern, hoping that there would be no place for it to be used.

By the time Iconse arrived at the scene, the plants outside Apartment Seven had returned to their original state, only becoming more lush, as if the cold temperatures of late October had not affected them in any way. The window of room 603 opened, and several vines waved twice outside the wall, and then retracted.

Iconse ordered the team to break up, let a few people ambush around, and if anyone showed up and wanted to leave or enter the apartment building, they would be controlled immediately.

Iconse himself ascended the stairs, and all the rooms were silent, without a sound.

Mrs. Romano was standing in the doorway of room 603, and it was just herself.

Iconse stopped at the top of the stairs: "Please prove yourself." ”

"My father's last words were 'May my daughter be strong all her life', and the guarantor of the estate was Archbishop Horamik. Do you want me to recite the tenets of the Church of Mother Earth God and the Church of the God of Steam and Machine? ”

In fact, the last sentence was the code word that Mrs. Romano had agreed on this week, and Iconse nodded helplessly, as if she hadn't heard the sharpness in Mrs. Romano's tone: "So what's the situation?" ”

"There is a suspected member of the 'Psychological Alchemy Society' lurking in the apartment, an extraordinary person in the 'audience' path. I'm not sure if he joined before or after moving in. ”

"He's a resident of 603?"

"No, the tenant of 603 is being targeted by the Aurora Society, and the informant is probably already ...... You can start with this 'audience' to investigate, he had a fight with the tenant of 603. I won't be accompanying you this old bone. ”

"What about the residents of 603?"

"She ran away."

Iconse wanted to sigh, there were so many things to investigate, it seemed that it was right to bring the seal with him.

The people who knew about the seal existed almost exclusively within the church, and Mrs. Romano did not know that her lies could be exposed by the seal in a matter of minutes.

Mrs. Romano walked out the door with her hands behind her back, and Iconse passed her, and entered room 603, where she saw the handsome young man on the ground. The man was wrapped in thick turquoise vines, but his right eye was covered in ointment of unknown material, giving off an earthy smell.

"Calvin Lepres, do you have anything to say?" Iconse turned on the kerosene lamp in the room, and the room finally came out of its darkness.

"Of course not," said the young man, whose yellow eyes were as bright as fine amber, "I will not say, nor can I say, sir." ”

"And what information do you have about the man you're fighting against?"

"Female, 1.6 meters tall, pseudonym Luna Duboa, her appearance is unknown whether she is disguised or not, her body shape is even, blonde hair and gray eyes." The young man's words were very fluent, and it seemed that he had already prepared a draft in his heart, and he was ready to tell others, "She has the ability to manipulate points of light and the ability to 'steal' the way, I don't know if it comes from magical items, you seem to be used to calling them seals." ”

"A point of light? Is it a spirit? ”

Calvin struggled to turn over on the ground so that he could face upwards from the official Extraordinary: "I don't know, sir, that the existence of those points of light is far beyond my knowledge. But she's also hurt, so it's a good opportunity, so you'd better hurry up. ”

Iconse frowned, if Calwin's words were true, if he asked about the whereabouts now, he could indeed immediately dispatch people to catch the injured party, even if Calwin's words were false, the matter of tracking down the wild extraordinaire must be done, and it should always be figured out.

Ikenser immediately made a decision, took out the quaint silver mirror from his bosom, stroked it on the surface three times with the palm of his hand, and then asked, "Dear Arodes, my question is, what is the current condition of this being who calls himself Luna Duboa?" ”

Subtle ripples rippled on the surface of the silver mirror, spreading out in circles, and then Iconser saw something shiny emerge from the very center, and then, a light as fierce as daylight burst from above, and a searchlight came into Iconser's eyes—he couldn't see anything clearly.

It took several minutes for the two of them, whose eyes were stinged by the light, to slowly open, and Calwin's eyes even lost focus, apparently stunned by the light.

What is this again? Can't Arodes see it either?

Finding nothing, Iconse sighed bitterly.

——

Esther was eating a packed fish stick, and although the light point had replenished a little energy by absorbing Calwin's fate, Esther's own consumption was still very large. While chewing on the cold food, she was thinking about the conversation she had with Xiao Qi and Xiao Wu, and there was a low pressure floating on her whole body.

Suddenly, the feeling of being watched made Esther subconsciously jump up from the ground, but the feeling quickly disappeared.

She turned to Xiao Qi, who was squatting on the bedside table next to her: "It seems that they do have some means to track me down, but soon that lock is gone again, do we need to transfer?" ”

"It's up to you, after all, you're the only one between the three of us who can do anti-divination." Xiao Qi is very indifferent.

A layer of light floated out from Esther's body, circling the room in the air, and after a few minutes, Esther beckoned and pulled them back to her head.

"Something isn't quite right."

"How?"

"I can't tell, that peeping presence doesn't make me feel malice, but it has an aura that makes me uncomfortable."

Xiao Qi tilted his head, and his dark eyes flashed twice: "What is the tendency of your spiritual intuition?" ”

Esther closed her eyes and sensed the faint feedback in her mind: "It doesn't matter if you stay, the other party's investigation is not successful." ”

"Then you'll stay here." Xiao Qi narrowed his eyes, and there was a smile in his slightly hoarse voice.

"When you laugh, I feel even more uneasy."

She said so, but Esther sat down and finished the rest of the fries before going into the bathroom.

As soon as she opened the door, the light in the bathroom dimmed, and a pale black emerged from the air, and the feeling of being watched was extremely strong in an instant.

Two lines of blood-red handwriting appeared on the mirror in front of Esther: "Do you know where your master is now?" ”

What is this? Haunted? Ambience Inn? It gives people a sense of confusion when they walk into an immersive script.

Thinking about it, Esther looked around, not noticing anything else. Suddenly, her spiritual intuition was slightly touched, and Esther subconsciously spoke, "Beckland? ”

The blood words faded, and the silver font resurfaced after ripples on the mirror: "Okay." According to the principle of reciprocity, it's your turn to ask questions. ”

It took a few seconds for Esther to react: "If I didn't answer just now, will there be a punishment?" ”

"Yes."

Then the eerie atmosphere of the bathroom disappeared, and the mirror was empty, and there was no font left.

Esther reacted at this time, she reached out and knocked on the mirror: "Wait! What kind of problem was that!? I didn't say I was going to ask, but you can explain it clearly! ”

It's just a trick.

Esther didn't get a response, of course, and the stranger had already left as soon as she answered her rhetorical question.

Esther was left in the bathroom with question marks in her head.

——

Richie got out of bed in a daze and yawned heavily.

Then he saw Mrs. Romano standing beside his bed with a gloomy face, glaring at her condescendingly.

"Mrs. Romano!? You, you, why are you here! It's scared to death! Richie almost fell straight out of bed, because he was so flustered that he rolled up under the quilt and couldn't break free for a while.

"Don't worry, you've already missed today's class."

"What? Why should I skip class? I still have a paper to hand in today! Richie kicked hard in surprise, and even the quilt was thrown to the ground, but he finally crawled out of the warmth of the quilt.

Richie noticed that the sky was dark outside, and the room was already slowly sinking into darkness.

"How long have I been asleep!?"

"One night at a time. Because I was afraid that you would die of sleep, I used some herbal water to stimulate my spirit. So said Mrs. Romano, raising the little watering can in her hand and squirting twice more at Richie's face, and a smell mixed with mint and many other plants rushed into Richie's nostrils, causing him to sneeze violently.

"Alright, alright! Am I not awake? Please stop spraying! Richie pinched his nose with one hand and fanned the air in front of him with the other, trying to make the smell dissipate faster, and he would burst into tears if he smelled it any more.

"Anyway, it's good for you to wake up."

Neither did Richie notice Mrs. Romano's emotional abnormality, but complained, "So what about Gal? He said he would call me on time this morning and come with me to the campus! ”

Mrs. Romano walked out with her hands behind her back: "He's gone." ”

"Gone? Why, he still owes me a glass of kinroll, why did he leave? ”

Mrs. Romano's back paused, and she turned back to show a kind smile that she had never seen before: "Norn and Luna are also gone, and they will not come back." ”

Richie's hand that was rubbing the back of his head froze in mid-air, his wide eyes full of confusion and doubt: "Mrs. Romano, have I—I've slept for so long?" What the hell is going on......"

Your good friend has cast a spell on you, "mercifully" to make you sleep through everything - of course Mrs. Romano can't say that, Richie is just an ordinary person, even a believer in the Church of Mother Earth God, and he can't get much help from other Orthodox Churches in Beckland, and the less things he knows, the better.

So Mrs. Romano shook her head.

"Don't ask, Richie. It's normal for people to come and go. ”