CHAPTER XVII
Soon, under the waiter's message, Mr. Dimurdo came downstairs with his new wife.
After a brief exchange and Mr. Blanche's explicit, Dimurdo immediately took his new wife's hand and agreed to leave the place as soon as possible with the group, and joined the Blanche family who were waiting outside.
Klein bowed slightly to the restaurateur, "Excuse me." ”
Unlike the polite one he was, Esther narrowed her eyes and looked at the boss with a more subtle look.
To the relief of the boss, Klein shouted at the gate, "Let's go." ”
Esther hurriedly followed, glared at the boss fiercely, and followed Klein out the door.
The door to the lime restaurant closed again, only to sway in the wind, and the edge of the door made a noise against the door frame from time to time.
"What do you perceive?"
Esther shook her head: "It's just a little tempting to me, it's kind of a guide of fate." ”
There were a lot more people in the team all of a sudden, which made it much more difficult to protect thoroughly, and Esther just wanted to use the ability of the light point to draw the isolation range, but saw Crane shaking his head slightly at her.
Crane shifted his staff to his left hand and slipped his right hand into the gown, driving the "Sun Brooch", and the warm and uplifting light spread out quickly around him, enough to envelop everyone present.
However, under Crane's control, the power of the sun specifically bypassed Esther, who feared that this purifying light would touch "Zoya" in her.
The group set off for the telegraph office, led by Klein, where Captain Erlan had gone before.
Esther walked in front of the left of the group, Daniz on the right, and the three Cleves guarded the rear half circle, and Crane even took out Azki's copper whistle as bait to attract the monsters to target him first.
Successfully solved a wave of flying heads, and no one in the group dared to rub in, and quickly followed Klein's footsteps in the direction of the telegraph office.
"The direction of Daniz, this time it's not a head." Esther's hunch moved, and she reminded in a loud voice.
It was indeed no longer a human head, but a cloaked body, the slash in its neck still dripping blood, and the top was empty.
It lifted its leg and sped towards Crane, but Daniz happened to be in its path.
Esther's right hand gripped and the headless corpse froze in place, her body taking a step forward, but she quickly pulled it back to keep her balance.
The orange fireball that had been compressed several times in Daniz's hand was thrown out by him, and it made a loud bang at the chest of the body, blasting the headless body backwards again and again, and the clothes burned and shattered, revealing a blackened and collapsed chest.
But such damage only slows down the movement of these monsters.
With a light snap of his fingers, Crane's figure vanished into thin air, leaping from the flames of the monster's black cloak, piercing his staff through the headless monster and backhanding it to the ground, using the "sun brooch".
Esther's right hand slammed into the air, her body writhing in a strange circle, and the headless monster fell silent.
However, more than a dozen points of light also fell under her signal, and when everyone's attention was diverted by the monster, they quietly stuck to the ground and flew away into the mist.
Five seconds later, Crane pronounced the ancient Hermetian word for "sun," allowing a drizzle of holy water to condense in the air and blanket the headless corpse.
Soon, the monster turned into blood in the convulsions.
Such an unreasonable battle made the two children can't help but let out an exclamation, and the "Gelman Sea Adventure" that Esther made up before made them feel that it might be real at this time.
For the next few minutes, the group did not encounter any more monsters.
Crane was in his vision, observing tiny points of light in the nearby gray mist that were constantly wandering, and he glanced at Esther with a blank face, without breaking her small movements.
Upon arriving at the Bansey Port Telegraph Office, Cleves took the initiative to knock on the door.
"Who?"
The female voice inside was very peaceful, and there were no emotional fluctuations, which reminded Esther of the owner of the Lime Restaurant.
"We're looking for Mr. Erlan, the captain of the White Onyx."
The female voice in the door replied, "He and, his first mate, went to the church next door." ”
When Crane tossed the gold coin to tell the truth of the other party's words, Esther took two steps forward and nodded at Cleves, the former adventurer, who didn't know what she was going to do, but also stepped back and gave up the place in the doorway to Esther.
Esther knocked on the door again very politely:
"Knock, knock, knock."
The female voice inside became a little hurried: "Please, immediately, leave." ”
"I'm not welcome like that?" Esther smiled and lowered her voice, only Crane and Daniz could hear her with the extraordinary hearing provided by their extraordinary powers.
It stands to reason that the people inside can't hear it.
"Here, it's none of your business." The female voice behind the door only sped up her speech, without any ups and downs.
But suddenly a crack cracked in the corner of the door.
Esther was stunned for a moment, then stepped back, slightly regretfully returning to her position as a guard on the side of the group.
There were too many people present, and she didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore.
Crane gave her a quizzical look, Esther shook her head, and Crane said to the others, "Storm Church." ”
Since the other party is very jealous of the fellow, it is best to leave as soon as possible at this time, so as not to tear the faces of these eccentric Bansey residents.
Not long after, the group arrived outside the Storm Church again, the door was closed, and Crane went up again to knock on the door.
A slightly vigilant male voice came from the door: "Who?" ”
After Klein and Erlan faced off with something like "White Shark Compensation" that only the two of them knew, others also spoke out one after another, which made Erlan relax and open the door.
Esther frowned and stared at the emblem above the church, and stopped outside the door: "Gelman, I'll wait for you here, I won't go in." ”
Klein hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "Okay." ”
Then he pointed to Daniz: "You, stay here." ”
Daniz smacked his tongue and shook the horse lamp in his hand: "Okay, anyway, she's the safest ...... by her side"
When Ellan explained to Klein about the changes that had taken place in the church, Esther and Daniz stood by the door of the church on the left and right, like two door gods.
Daniz's words came up again, and Hamel was indeed a much better person to talk to than Gelman, who did not smile at the "cold and cruel", even if her words were often inaccurate.
"I mean, the monsters on this island seem to be a little afraid of you?"
Esther blinked innocently: "Is it possible that it's because I'm also a 'monster'?" ”
"Hey, hey! Don't scare me! There were only two of them at this time, and Daniz felt a chill rising from behind him.
Esther chuckled twice, and suddenly turned cold: "Young man, don't you know that there are many things in this world that are more terrifying than death......
Daniz took two steps back and clinged to the edge of the door to the Storm Chapel: "You, you—"
Several points of light emerged from the mist, drifting close to this place, and melted into Esther's hair, her face gloomy, and the pale color of her eyes gradually thickened, and a thick darkness seemed to rise in them.
Esther slowly took two steps closer in the direction of Daniz:
"Like letting the dear 'Admiral Iceberg' know that you are so passionately in love with her!"
Daniz's pale face froze for a few seconds, and then quickly turned red: "Who told you that!?" I? Haha, I didn't! ”
Esther smiled and took two steps back, the strangeness in her eyes completely gone.
Daniz was stunned for a few more seconds, then exclaimed in annoyance: "Okay! You're lying to me!? That's what you're capable of! I've seen through you, a black-hearted woman! ”
"How can it be said to be a fraud? I'm just reasoning about it, and the result is what you showed to me. Esther shook her head, "Remind you, Mr. Daniz, you were as red as if you had been slapped." ”
At this moment, Klein walked out, and his cold gaze swept over the two: "It's noisy." ”
Daniz subconsciously covered his mouth, only to flick his finger at Esther in more annoyance, full of condemnation. Esther spread her hands and stood honestly to the side.
Crane and Elland had taken a cursory look at the inside of the church, including the murdered priest, and it was time to get back to the ship as soon as possible.
With the addition of Captain Erlan and First Officer Harris, the team's defense strength has increased a lot, and Crane also retracted the bronze whistle with a gloomy aura into his arms.
After a few steps, Erlan proposed to go to the telegraph office and report the situation to the Storm Church.
The road would have passed through the telegraph office anyway, and Klein had no objection.
But it didn't take long for another figure carrying a lantern to appear on the opposite side of the team.
The man was dressed in a dark blue bishop's robe, embroidered with the symbol of the storm, and his head hung slightly, and his steps staggered closer.
As soon as Erlan recognized the other party's identity, he shouted, "Bishop Miller? ”
The middle-aged man raised his head and raised the lantern: "Are you, Erlan?" ”
Esther's expression suddenly became serious, and she reached out and grabbed it, her eyes turned dark red for a moment, but the next moment the superfluous color completely dissipated.
Esther quickly digested the extra thoughts in her mind, and shouted at Ellan in front of her:
"Stay away from him! He has been polluted by unknown forces! It's here to stop us! ”
Light erupted from the fog in the distance, and the thunder swirled like a roar, cleaving the peaks of the mountain range, one after another, so that the dead silence on the island was blown away by the sound of thunder.
Bishop Miller's light brown eyes instantly turned a dark red, and he stared at Esther as his clergy robe flipped up frantically, and the wind rushed out of him.
A few ordinary passengers were completely unable to withstand such a hurricane, and Esther quickly turned and jumped out, pulling Donna and Denton into her arms to block them, so that the two children would not fall directly to the ground.
In the next second, Esther immediately turned over and jumped to the side, quickly closing the distance between the others, almost leaving the edge of the horse's bright light.
Because the Bishop Miller was still staring at her, and even raised his hands at her.
Esther had a hunch that his next attack would be even more ferocious.
"Hamel, be careful!" Crane suddenly shouted, "There's an ambush in the fog!" ”