When Sherlock Moriarty fights with Detective Issinger Stanton and the "Apostle of Desire" at 15 Minsk Street, Esther welcomes a long-separated crow in her one-bedroom apartment on the edge of the East End.

Xiao Qi's claws struck on the window, and Esther opened the window a crack, letting the cold wind outside and the dark crow into the room.

"Little Seven." Her tone wasn't very eager, but Esther's delightful eyes revealed what she really thought.

Xiao Qi flew down on the simple desk, stared at Xiao Wu who was lying on the notebook, and didn't speak for a while. Xiao Qi's dark eyes were empty and eager, and he kept staring at Xiao Wu, but without saying a word, he almost swallowed Xiao Wu in his mouth. Esther didn't understand what was going on, thinking that they were waiting for some code, and she sat down in the rickety chair next to her, puzzled, because one of the chair legs was missing a corner, and it was easy to sway back and forth when she sat up with an unsteady center of gravity.

"Esther," Xiao Wu suddenly called out to her, "just take your light and wash this guy clean." ”

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

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

Xiao Wu's last urging was too eager, so that Esther's original laid-back attitude was swept away, she clasped her eyebrows with her knuckles, and almost exploded a cloud of fireworks above her head, and the light points of the big tent quickly surged towards Xiao Qi, who was still standing on the table.

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

The points of light around Xiao Qi spontaneously rotated, and circle after circle of rings were set on the black crow's body, seemingly penetrating its body, but there was no trace of any puncture wounds, only the illusory cascading rings became tighter and tighter on the black crow's body.

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

Xiao Qi's eyes lit up again, returning to his cunning demeanor, which was always full of thought. It coughed violently and retched violently until it spat out a small tangled mass of hair that was constantly emitting a bright, soft glow, and it was wrapped around a small mannail-sized scale that gradually became translucent under the entanglement of the hair.

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

The hair also broke off, but the number of light spots that escaped was much smaller, and it slowly fluttered back into Esther's hair.

"It's finally done! Almost," Xiao Qi breathed hard, and fell very tired on the desk with burrs on the surface, "Fortunately, fortunately, there is a loophole in his command that can be exploited......"

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

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

Xiao Wu laughed mockingly twice: "Let's get down to business, the person who planted the psychological hint for you is no longer pretending this time?" ”

Xiao Qi took a deep breath: "He will notify the family master in a few days, and planted a psychological hint for me to keep an eye on you, because he is not at ease with you after seeing my changes." My mind was almost completely controlled by Him, but by that command, I practiced the action of 'keeping an eye on you'. ”

Esther recalled that Xiao Qi stared at Xiao Wu as soon as she came in, and sighed that Xiao Wu really 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.

It has always been difficult for her to see Xiao Qi and Xiao Wu as one.

Xiao Qi turned to Esther, with a pitiful pleading in his tone, but it was difficult to say how sincere: "I really don't have a place to go, only by relying on the self-contained cyclic nature of the light on your body, I can avoid divination or perception and not be tracked by the head of the house." ”

Xiao Wu interjected when Esther hesitated: "Don't take what this guy said too seriously, you'd better remember that the sequence eight of 'The Thief' is 'The Scammer'." ”

"I just wanted to stay. I'm certainly safer with Esther, because she's the first target when someone comes. Xiao Qi said calmly, not caring at all about being exposed by Xiao Wu.

Esther could even feel that this passage was much more sincere than the previous complaint, and the corners of her eyes jumped: "I'm sorry to attract the hatred of the other party too much." ”

She paused, then continued, "Also, I know that your family master is the main body. ”

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

Xiao Wu climbed to the side again, and he was about to fall under the table: "You missed a lot of things. ”

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

Xiao Qi tilted his head: "Lying is getting more and more proficient, is it because you have a secret?" Don't worry, I won't follow you every day. ”

Esther rubbed her right eyebrow in distress, and simply spread out the words and said, "Okay, let's be honest, I have people to meet and things to do, as well as the occasional secret meeting to attend. I can suppress Xiao Wu with a point of light because it is in a special state, but it probably has no effect on you, and it is very inconvenient to take you with you. ”

Xiao Qi's tail drooped down: "Is it really not good?" ”

“…… What about you, every other day? Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ”

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

Even if she knew that it was all acted, it was still difficult for her to drive it away.

"But Xiao Qi, who made you so embarrassed?"

'I can't name Him.' The audience's sequence will have this characteristic when it reaches the very top, 'Whatever is said, it will be known'. ”

Esther frowned and leaned back in her chair, forgetting about the missing hind legs of the chair, but fortunately she was agile enough to get up and run to the side before the chair toppled completely, and grabbed the chair before it hit the ground.

"It's scary."

Such characteristics made her vaguely familiar, why?

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

Because of the fright she received last night, she wanted to make up for the damage she had suffered by lying in bed, but her mechanical biological clock was so stable that she couldn't sleep at all after opening her eyes once.

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

After leaving Chanis Gate, Esther had no more strange dreams, and every time she thought about it, she had to suspect that it was the night that had secretly done it.

Esther freshened up and changed into trousers, a shirt, and a thick woolen jacket, then wrapped her black cloak over her scarf and put on the silver mask that showed half of her face. She plans to take brown bread to the East End today to visit the street children and ask them what special things have happened in the East End lately.

No sooner had she stepped out of the old, musty house than Esther saw a small, blonde lady walking slowly across the street, flipping through several sketches of different characters.

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 was about to walk across the street.

"Wait, I haven't thanked you for yesterday," the little lady smiled sincerely, took the portraits in her arms, and held out her right hand to Esther, "Introduce yourself, Hugh Dilcha, a bounty hunter who moves 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.

The other party said this, and Esther had to sigh in her heart and shook Hugh's hand: "You can call me Hamel, as for the profession, I won't reveal it, if you want to arrest me one day, it will be bad." ”

Hugh laughed brightly twice before he said, "You are right, Miss Hamel, for there are several gangsters searching for news of you, and I doubt that I am the first to introduce myself to you." ”

Esther has nothing to fear, she has become more and more skilled in stealing people's memories, but Esther feels very heartwarmed by the news that Hugh deliberately revealed and reminded her to pay attention to safety while knocking on the phone: "Actually, it's not, you're the second." It's been a pleasure to meet you and thank you for informing me about this. ”

"I'm just quite curious, there were a lot of rumors about you circulating in the East End last month, and my roommates heard about it and thought about writing you as a ghost story to serialize."

That's not going to be it. Esther mourned for a few seconds for her reputation.

"I hope she doesn't do that," Asther shook her head, "or I'll be bothered." You should be able to tell it's a disguise, after all, I'm all over it. ”

Hugh remembered her features last night, which did not resemble those of Rune, and immediately nodded in understanding: "Of course I advised her that it is dangerous to write about a person of repute casually. ”

"yes, maybe one day I'll offend someone. Do you often move around here? ”

Hugh nodded, looking curiously at the black crow on the other's shoulder, it seemed that few people would take this bird as a pet, but Hugh did not ask rashly, only hoping that this conversation would build a little trust: "I have a friend named 'Sherman' who lives near here, and I occasionally visit him to inquire about some news. ”

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

"Goodbye, Hamel, be careful on the road."

With a gentle smile, Esther waved Hugh goodbye and walked unhurriedly to the next block, where there was a cheap bakery.

Hugh looked thoughtfully at the back of "Hamel", the extraordinary man hidden in the neighborhood who was unexpectedly easy to speak, and judging by this brief exchange, she did not feel like a dangerous person to herself.

But Hugh can always feel that there is a very strange sense of disobedience in "Hamel", is it related to her sequence? Or is she hiding her true self too well?

The crow, who had been standing quietly on Hamel's shoulder, looked back and glanced at Hugh, which made her back chill, wondering why the well-behaved pet had such a human playful look.

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