After saying goodbye to Klein, Ester returns to the hotel in the Bridge District.

Xiao Qi was not in the house, and he didn't know when he flew out, the window was still half open, and the house had been blown by the cold wind for too long, so cold that it gave people goosebumps.

After Esther had left a few souls at the front desk, the attentive proprietress quickly brought her a new fruit bowl and an overnight portion of charcoal, and a second time before she came and gave Esther a plate of dry-baked jam biscuits and hot tea.

The biscuits are hard, it should have been baked for a while, and I can only feel the sincerity of the proprietress who is not sincere.

The room was heated again, and it wasn't until Esther fell asleep that there was a slight movement by the window. She opened the window, and a black crow fluttered its wings and flew eagerly to the fireplace, looking sluggish.

Without waiting for Esther to ask, Xiao Qi took the initiative to explain: "I originally wanted to go and get something, but the atmosphere over there is very wrong, someone is blocking the nearby area, so I can only fly back." ”

"You're not going to go to that mausoleum, are you?"

Xiao Qi looked at Esther with a suspicious gaze.

Esther immediately shook her head: "It's not me, someone else has found the location of that mausoleum." The 'Heart of the Machine' is aware of this, and should be investigating accordingly in the plan. ”

"These churches are really annoying, but they also help us." Xiao Qi leaned closer to the fireplace, spreading his wings and roasting the damp feathers, "There's a back door there, a dangerous passage that only the main body can use. It's better to let them seal it up like this, lest the main body suddenly emerge from that back door when the main body is interested one day,"

Esther sat on the carpet next to Xiao Qi, with a slightly rough texture under her palm: "Oh, is that 'interesting place' that Xiao Wu wanted to lure me to before?" ”

"Well, yes, that's it. Is it still sleeping? ”

Esther pulled out the curled up Worm of Time from her pocket, and it didn't react all these days: "I can feel it's alive, but it's pretty faint. ”

"The aura he exuded that day really affected the seal on Xiao Wu's body, and it cannot be ruled out that he did it deliberately."

"Do you recognize Him?"

Xiao Qi shook his head: "No, it's just speculation." ”

"I'm wondering, too," Esther knocked on her head, "if he's really 'Zoya'." ”

"At least for now, that's the most likely, otherwise it's hard to explain why you had that weird dream. If it's really ......" Xiao Qi's eyes were a little gloomy, "Please move your hair and close this room." ”

Esther's mind moved, and the light drifted away, completely cutting off the room from the outside world.

"This is also what I want to remind you, 'Zoya' itself should not be a 'thief', but the 'fate' path shown by the light spot, that is, the 'monster' path."

Esther suddenly knew why Ademisore the Monster was so close to her, and the light he could see was Zoya herself, not the dots of light in her hair!

"Including my 'backtracking' ability?"

"Its strict name should be 'restart'," Xiao Qi's gaze was full of reminiscence, "In a very old age, I have seen it, we have all seen it. ”

In that era when red and silver, wind, sunshine and wisdom, fantasy and shadow jointly guarded the "supreme god".

"Sounds like a pity, that old age was terrible?" Esther asked casually.

Xiao Qi's eyes widened slightly, he didn't expect Esther to catch the slightest change in its mood so keenly, and replied in an indifferent tone: "Maybe." ”

Esther pressed down a finger, then another: "'Restart' is a symbol, and the circle should be another symbol, corresponding to another ability, but the power I can use is extremely small, and it can only be used as a means of isolating from the outside world, sealing or weakening the extraordinary influence of others." ”

"Do you have any special feelings about this application?"

Esther's fingers scratched in the air and made a circle: "The seal of Xiao Wu should also be an application of this power, Xiao Wu is fixed in a state of weakness in his sleep, and repeats this process over and over again." Is this a 'loop'? ”

"So when you let it act on yourself, you can circumvent the outside world by letting it enter a cycle of brief withdrawal?"

Xiao Qi nodded: "There is also a simple shock trajectory. ”

"These points of light have the instinct to tear apart the spiritual world, and only when they exist in both the spiritual world and the real world can they gain enough power to influence the physical world."

Esther slowly undid the bandage wrapped around her right hand, the fine cracks left by the light spots had almost healed, but there were still faint marks, making her hands look like broken and put together porcelain.

However, Esther had a hunch that in a few days, these residual scars would be dissolved by her body on their own, and would not leave a longer trace.

Wearing gloves made Esther feel awkward, she didn't like the feeling of being restrained in her hand movements, which would make her feel like she was slowing down to steal.

Xiao Qi quickly understood what she meant: "So the reason why your wounds heal too slowly is because the residual curse power has mixed into your real body and the star spirit body at the same time through the torn spiritual gap. ”

Esther nodded, "It's an accident, but it's also a gain, since these rifts can contain the power of the curse and the weak spirit, then I should be able to pass through them myself." It's a new way for me, if I can get them to tear open big enough chasms, I can escape into the spirit realm! ”

If Klein had been there, Esther would have happily said to him, "If Seon loses his horse, he will not know if he is blessed"!

It was a life-saving escape, and she was glad of it.

"Yes, you'd better pray when you're not using it." Xiao Qi prevaricated two sentences.

Esther was stunned for a moment, and heard the mockery in Xiao Qi's words: "What do you say?" ”

"If even the 'Zoya' in your mind is a tricky opponent, who doesn't have the ability to tear through the spirit realm?"

Esther's previous euphoria completely dissipated.

——

Hugh Dilcha returns to Sherman's favorite bar in the East Side to ask for clues about the anomalous fluctuations in the East End two days ago, and the man in the gold mask in the military wants her to help find out the relevant information.

But tonight, the silence outside the brightly lit bar made her feel eerie, which made Xiu wary that she didn't hear the noise of the reckless men, and she subconsciously felt that something was wrong.

The spiritual instincts of being a "sheriff" frantically alerted her to something was wrong, and Hugh's hand pressed on the triangular thorn she carried with her, cautiously and slowly approaching the bar door.

It would not be accurate to say that there was silence in the bar, and it was only after getting closer that Hugh heard the gentle sound of the harmonica coming from inside.

She was no stranger to that song, it was a very old Rune song "Friendship Lasts Forever", although the key was a little different, but it was generally the same, and sometimes when some people in the tavern were drunk, they would often sing and cry together.

But why is there no sound in it?

She crept like a lion on on the lookout for an unknown intruder, without making a sound, and then Hugh peered through the glass window of the door.

Hugh saw a man sitting at the bar playing the harmonica, facing the door, the upper half of her face covered under a silver mask engraved with gold stripes, the hood behind her head, revealing her pale blonde silky hair, just shoulder-length.

The scene in the line of sight next to him was extremely strange - the group of five big and three thick men were holding wine glasses or glass bottles in their hands, many of them had red eyes, shaking their heads with the music, and two of them had already drunk themselves unconscious, with tears on their faces, and even in their sleep, they had soft and calm smiles.

They were so quiet because they were so preoccupied with the music of Miss Hamel.

Hugh didn't notice a point of light floating up from the ground, sticking to her scribbled hair, and invisibly vibrating.

Hugh only felt an inexplicable chill, but she didn't know what the source of that strange feeling was, and her spiritual instincts couldn't catch any traces.

The player stopped suddenly, she moved the harmonica slightly away from her lips and smiled in the direction of the bar door:

"Hey, Miss Hugh, good evening."

Everyone turned their heads at the same time, their expressions unconsciously gentle and dazed.

Such a strange scene completely cut Hugh off the mind of probing the situation.

She ran away.

Esther sat down on the high chair by the bar in amazement, stunned as she felt Miss Bounty Hunter getting farther and farther away, and touched the harmonica in her hand at a loss.

Am I that scary?

In just two seconds, the time, space, and everyone in the bar were back to normal, and the bartender with his forehead slipping away secretly wiped the corners of his eyes with the rag that wiped his wine glass.

Several people whistled vigorously, and some waved their beers and kept heckling:

"Good! Good! One more song from the great musicians! Don't be stingy! ”

"Let's have a drink, girl, let's have a drink together. It was such a pleasant evening, I invite you! ”

"With your purse that doesn't pop up for a penny, what can you ask someone to drink!? Old Fergue brought her a glass of misty champagne and put it on my account! ”

"Don't make any noise with you, who was she looking for? Hey, where are you going? You're scaring people away! Darn! ”

Esther threw all these cries behind her and rushed into the dimly lit alleyways outside the tavern.

She didn't care about dealing with these enthusiastic bar patrons anymore, and Esther had just wanted to talk to Hugh tonight, because Hugh had introduced himself as a bounty hunter, and Esther wanted to entrust her with the task of finding Russell's diary. Since Hugh himself is extraordinary, then Esther's commission may be able to make new gains through Hugh's circle.

It was only because the tavern was so noisy that there were always people who harassed Esther, who was sitting at the bar, and she simply took out the organ and played for a while, trying to calm the noisy guys.

Who knew it would turn out to be such a mess?