"You want to inquire about the latest situation here?" The bartender scratched his beard twice, which he hadn't trimmed, and asked suspiciously.

At the bar, the person wrapped in a black cloak nodded slightly: "Is there anything unusual in this bar?" Or something unusual happens? ”

The bartender suddenly raised an eyebrow: "No! This bar is very good, how can there be strange things, don't talk nonsense! ”

Esther took two more sips of her beer: "I've heard something happened here before. ”

"Oh, that was all years ago! But it looks like you've inquired...... Okay, okay, it's just over a year, long enough, right? It doesn't affect at all, look at the people in the store, my business is good! ”

The bartender slammed an empty wine glass on the counter and glared at the weirdo at the bar in annoyance, until a customer on the other side called out to him, and he went over to pour someone new beer.

Esther looked around the shop, business here was not bad, but it wasn't as good as the bartender boasted, and most of the people frowned when they drank.

Swallowing the last sip of the beer in his glass, and seeing that the bartender had time again, Esther struck the table with another penny coin, and the sound of the copper plate against the wood immediately drew his attention.

The bartender blew his beard vigorously, and his hedgehog-like double chin shook twice: "What are you doing?" ”

"In the future, the wine should be mixed with less water, and the taste is too light."

The coin rolled over the bar, and the bartender snorted coldly, slipped it into his pocket, and ignored it.

Because Esther didn't deliberately lower her voice, several of the bartenders who were seated near the bar heard this and laughed at the bartender, telling him to take the advice as soon as possible so that he would not be beaten up one day.

Esther stood up from the side of the bar, and in the center of the crowd on the other side, the iron cage was trampled by crazy rats and dogs, until the shouts of the drinkers rang out, and several people began to curse loudly at the uncompetitive dog.

There were a lot of people, and in her chaotic vision, the distorted and superimposed patches of color gradually dissipated, and she could not find any trace of extraordinary power, nor a silhouette like a black hole, or a shadow clinging to others.

It's all ordinary people, and so is the tavern - except for the fact that the things sold in the store are too watery.

Esther's hunch didn't move, which wasn't a surprise to her. Even if there were clues, it had been so long since it had been soaked in the water-mixed liquor for no traceability.

She wrinkled her nose and stepped out of the noisy tavern.

The moonlight on the street was clear, and her vision was covered with crimson, a scene that still disgusted her subconsciously.

Esther looked up at the moon, which was no longer so bright tonight after the blood moon that had suddenly completed last night.

The crimson moon is still a symbol of the goddess, why do I feel so resistant to the moonlight when I feel familiar in the face of the night?

Esther shook her head, and soon walked to the end of Iron Cross, fumbling in her satchel, her finger on another copper penny.

This was the one she had used for divination, and at the end of the divination, the coin was suddenly drawn and tried to fly towards her forehead.

Esther felt that it was more like a trap than an accident, and that the other party had deliberately left a means of targeting the soothsayer.

If it weren't for the fact that the divination person at that time was Esther, it is very likely that the extraordinary person of Sequence 9 would not be able to react and have an accident on the spot. Even those who react quickly will inevitably come into contact with the contamination on it.

For an official extraordinaire in a small city, the highest leader among them is often Sequence Seven, and Sequence Six is already the best of the team and is often transferred to more critical areas.

Without stronger external assistance, such contamination can spread rapidly and can lead to a loss of control for the person involved. This is fatal for the squad of the official Extraordinary.

Such a dangerous person is now lurking in Tingen.

Esther took out the coin and held it in her palm, she gradually eliminated the turmoil in her heart, and gave her direction to the uncertain "hunch".

The faint red light stirred in her palm for a moment, as if her heart was beating for the last time, and Esther turned street after street, and with the help of stealing ideas, she sent the police officer who came up twice to question.

Her black cloak was a bit of an eyesore, but if it was the red cloak, the vigilante would have stopped her more often.

It was very easy for Esther to get rid of them, and she didn't want to get into a conflict with these ordinary police officers.

However, as Esther got closer and closer to the docks, something unexpected happened, and she ran into another person first.

Benjamin Jacob came out of a bar, he didn't wear the disc glasses, his slightly raised eyebrows were proud, because there was no longer a smile on his face, and his lake-green eyes looked detached and cold.

But as if noticing the gaze that fell on him, he picked up the pair of glasses from the edge of his breast pocket and put them back on his face, regaining his polite and gentle temperament.

Then he lifted his feet and walked straight in the direction of Esther.

Esther instinctively turned to the side alley, trying to take a shortcut to the next main street, but Benjamin trotted all the way and squeezed in front of her: "Good evening, where are you going?" ”

“…… Good evening. We don't know each other. ”

"Miss Hamel, this is boring, I've told you my name several times, aren't we friends?" Benjamin said with an innocent face.

Esther pocketed the crimson coin, "No. ”

Benjamin stared at her pocket: "You seem to have gotten something wonderful?" ”

"You're just an antique dealer, and you're not obsessed with money." Esther's face was in shadow, but Benjamin could imagine her frowning brow just by hearing her voice.

"When we come across something very valuable, we always have a special sense, don't you?"

Esther thought about it for a moment, and it seemed that she really didn't have this kind of increase, but if you dig deeper, why...... It may be that because the most valuable things are in her hair, and even in her head, the perception of other things has become insignificant.

"Maybe I'm sluggish." Esther replied with a smile and continued to drill deeper into the alley.

But Benjamin obviously wouldn't just give up this opportunity, especially since the boy was not there, and Esther was alone, and he was curious about what Esther was doing, so he persistently followed: "I wonder what Miss Hamel is doing in Tingen?" Oh, maybe I should call you...... Esther? ”

Esther's footsteps suddenly stopped.

Benjamin quickly explained: "This is what I learned when I parasitized that boy!" Don't worry, I mean nothing else! I'm going to have to find somewhere else to find out what you don't want to say, especially if it's just a name, right? You can also continue to call me Mr. Jacob, if you mind so. ”

Esther stared at Benjamin for several seconds, Benjamin was very patient, he had always felt that his patience was better than that of "everyone else", and the last thing he, they, lacked was time.

Before Esther could react further, the perceptions of both were touched at the same time, and a third-party outlier appeared.

Benjamin hated the timing of the uninvited guests, and when the fun was interrupted, the hostility naturally turned into a look in his eyes that made his eyes as cold as Esther's.

A drop of liquid with a fishy smell fell from above, just in the short gap between the two of them.

"Smack."

A black shadow followed suit, but the moment it touched the ground, it shattered into a pool of black and red blood foam.

Esther reached for the zipper of her fanny pack and looked up like Benjamin.

Above this alley, there was an eyeball hovering, and the two of them might not have been able to see it clearly if it weren't for the good vision provided by their extraordinary powers.

The eyeball was right in front of the red moon, as if it was looking down on the two of them.

But the eyeball was not static, its exterior was constantly twisting and shaking, and the remaining nerves and blood vessels on the back side were slowly growing into the air, like vines stretching buds, expanding outward out of thin air against reason, laying out a strange web.

"You go up and I go down." Benjamin instantly made a corresponding judgment and said softly.

The guy who tried to attack the two was nearby, and was using that eyeball to set up a closed restriction, as we all know, normal people have two eyeballs, including the victim last night, so the other eyeball shouldn't be too far away.

The black cloak on Esther's body fell to the ground instantly, and the red cloak in her palm almost came to life, and before Esther shook it off, she took the initiative to stick to her, and the nail piece on her neckline buckled by itself: "You really talk a lot." ”

Her hands opened and closed, and the cold touch of the "pale bone nails" made Esther quickly calm down, and the anger that had been provoked by Benjamin before was all subsided.

Benjamin glanced at the bone sword in surprise: "The weapon is good. ”

"Not borrowed."

After saying this, Esther stole most of the gravity from her body with her backhand, and with a single jump of her feet, she threw herself against the wall.

With the help of her strength, she quickly jumped onto the roof and took a closer look at the eyeball, trying to use the ability of the "decryptor scholar" to detect the best way to crack it or destroy it.

Benjamin gave a "tsk" and looked away from the red cloak, now was not the time to think about it.

However, the filthy aura on the cloak was familiar to him, and it was not even much more restrained than the evil feeling that came from that eyeball, especially at the moment when Esther was in crisis, the red cloak had a faint tendency to activate.

The "Hanged Man" gave her the gift of favoritism, and what did he want to do with Esther? Does He want to use such a half-"parasite" against me, or us?

It's ridiculous.

I didn't need to delve into the thoughts of such a madman, Benjamin raised his hand and straightened the lens in front of his right eye, so that the frame was more stable on his ear.

Sure enough, it's more accustomed to wearing it in the eye sockets. No matter how long you have been "Benjamin James", you are still the happiest to be yourself.

Benjamin smiled, his glasses clenched and looked around, black shadows wriggling under his eyes, and his green eyes gradually became cloudy.