Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang.

Because of Arrodes' words in the dream, Klein woke up quickly, and made up his mind to immediately prepare the potion to advance to Sequence Six.

He glanced at the time, there were still three hours before morning.

After performing the praying ceremony to himself, Klein walked into the kitchen with the ingredients. This cauldron was newly bought yesterday, and it was just for preparing the recent potion brewing.

After cleaning and drying the surface with a flame, Klein carefully proofread the formula of the "Faceless Man" potion in his mind.

Klein has reached a deal with the vampire Emlyn White of the Harvest Church for the brain mutation pituitary gland and blood of the hunter of a thousand faces needed in the materials. With the hair in hand, he can be promoted at any time.

But Klein felt that there was no need to wait any longer, the sooner the better, the sooner he could master the gray fog and control the ball of light, maybe the sooner he could restore Esther to a safe and free body.

Although both of them have now "resurrected" in their own ways, Klein will never forget Esther's miserable call when he fell down that day in Tingen.

He didn't hope that one day, he would call her name by himself.

Strength, strength is everything that lays the foundation of the extraordinary world, and it must go further.

Klein held the glass bottle containing the freshly brewed potion. After divination to confirm the degree of harm, Klein took a few seconds to calm his mind, then he raised his head and poured the black-green liquid with bubbles on his face into it. into the mouth.

The feedback from the Extraordinary Potion instantly caused Klein's body to dissolve. After he tried his best to meditate and keep his body stable, he finally passed the most difficult out-of-control state of promotion.

He was successfully promoted to become the "Faceless Man" of Sequence Six.

Facing the mirror, Klein changed back to his "Zhou Mingrui" appearance, and smiled at himself.

Fortunately, I was not left too far by my fellow villagers. I must share this good news with her next time we meet and give her a surprise.

As Klein reached out and wiped his face lightly, it instantly changed to Emlyn's face, and then he changed again, and Captain Dunn's face was reflected in the mirror.

Is this the "Faceless Man"... I hope it won't startle her.

Klein imagined Esther's possible surprised reaction, and his smile deepened.

-

A new day, a new morning.

Esther didn't sleep very well that night, she always felt restless in her mind, which made her wake up soon after falling asleep.But what her "spiritual intuition" fed back to her was not a warning about danger, but more like a stress response after sensing some abnormality.

Because this "alarm clock" was sounding the alarm indiscriminately, Esther got out of bed early and went into the bathroom listlessly.

"It's so noisy, I can't turn it off yet, I can't break my brain..."

Esther washed her face with clean water for a long time before she gradually regained her composure and cheered up from the annoying waking up.

Soon, she left the hotel again, and Xiao Qi also went out with her, but soon flew towards the direction of the West District.

Esther didn't ask what it was going to do, but took the steam subway to Hillston District for today's "wandering performance".Esther's explanations to those shopkeepers will change a little every time. Although they are all insignificant things, she has become more and more comfortable in using lies.

Today she played a very brisk rhododendron waltz, making the drizzle outside the cafe less gloomy.

When a carriage passed by the door of the cafe, it suddenly stopped for some reason, and a well-dressed lady stepped down from it, accompanied by a personal maid who held up an umbrella for her.

The lady clasped her hands on her lower abdomen. When Esther raised her eyes, her hands suddenly twisted together, as if she had been awakened from the performance, and quickly returned to the carriage without looking at it again. glance.

Esther didn't stop playing the music, but stared closely at the direction the carriage was leaving.

At that moment just now, she smelled something full of temptation.

Like freshly baked hot cakes and freshly soaked thick cocoa, it is very sweet and tempting.

But that lady is not an Extraordinary, Esther can see this, so she is even more unclear where this feeling comes from, the other party may be hiding her own existence.

"Fate"?What a wonderful fate.

After Esther played a song, she put down the harmonica, and the shop owner smiled and applauded her: "That's great! I agree with you to stay and play. There must be many guests who are willing to come here at noon and evening, with music as an accompaniment to the meal." .”

"Thank you for your generosity," Esther responded with a smile, "I will give you half of the tip at that time, and it will be considered as paying the venue fee. Rainy days are not suitable for me to perform on the streets."

"Hahaha, you should learn some professional musical instruments, kid! Like violin or piano, go to a place like a big concert hall to better display your talent."

Esther smiled and chatted with the other party for a few words, and put the topic aside, but she was still thinking about the identity of the lady just now, and was very curious about what attracted her.

-

Friday, December 24.

After two consecutive days of light rain, today's Backlund is finally left with only clouds and haze that cannot be dispelled, but everyone who lives here will still go out with an umbrella.

The cold and humid air sticks to the skin, and no one knows when the raindrops will fall again.

When Klein was exploring the gray fog, he found a staircase leading to the top, but he couldn't climb it with his current Sequence Six, which made him even more curious about what was on it.

Back in the hall supported by stone pillars, Klein raised his hand to summon the ball of light down.

This time, he could even clearly sense the power contained in it, which was extremely pure but full of dead silence, as if a rotten giant tree had lost all its vitality.

The nature of the power inside is very ethereal, and it is not the same as the gray fog that Klein felt, but it seems that it has been eroded by the gray fog for too long, and has lost its autonomy, so it can only be suppressed in the container where the gray fog condenses.

Klein had a hunch that it might be the same as the steps on the gray fog, he had to continue to improve himself in order to discover the secrets hidden by this ball of light.

Since the time hadn't come yet, and he couldn't think of a reason, Klein didn't bother with this matter anymore.

He left the gray fog and returned to the real world, and started to prepare dinner for himself.

Just as Klein threw the potatoes and carrots into the stew pot and just closed the lid, his spiritual intuition moved, and the doorbell rang very quickly.

Klein smiled and opened the door, and saw Esther's smiling face again.

"Welcome, it's goulash tonight. You come so punctually every time, do you have a surveillance camera installed in my kitchen?"

Esther shook her head again and again: "How is it possible! I believe it's just my luck, and I can always catch your craftsmanship."

In fact, Esther really likes to find Klein at dinner time, after all, it is more likely that he will be at home at this time.

Cengfan is just incidental, um.

Of course, Esther did not come empty-handed, except for a white umbrella, she also carried a paper bag in her hand, which contained a can of hard fruit candy and carrot cake, and two pieces of charred cake that were deformed due to the bumps. sugar pudding.

But... Klein seems to be different today, he is very friendly.Esther sized Klein a few times, but didn't directly see anything unusual.

As soon as Esther walked in the door, there was another light rain outside, and it hit the window lightly, making a little noise.

Both of them were a little surprised, but Klein quickly realized and looked at Esther with a smile: "Should I say it or not, your good luck is really enviable."

Esther smiled triumphantly, and put the things in her hand on the dining table: "Luck is also a part of strength, isn't that what you say?"

Klein went back to the stewpot to check it out, snapped his fingers, and let the flames become smaller to simmer slowly. The aroma of the cooked beef gradually wafted through the room.

"It's really convenient, and you can directly adjust the fire." Esther stared at the boiler curiously, then turned to Klein, "But I always feel that something is different about you?"

Before Klein could answer Esther's words, the doorbell rang again.

"There are a lot of guests tonight."

"Do you need me to avoid it?" Esther asked.

Klein shook his head: "It's okay, if it's an official Extraordinary who comes to visit, I'll kick the coat rack as a signal, and you go upstairs to avoid it."

Esther nodded, and retreated into the kitchen without wondering who it was.

Not long after, Klein returned to the living room. After putting down the postcard in his hand, he called out to Esther: "It's okay, it's my lawyer friend, you can come out now."

"Did he come to you to investigate the case?" Esther asked casually.

"No, he's going to take his family to the South for vacation next week, so he came here to tell me. Just in case, he came over and handed me his colleague's business card."

"Next week..." Esther took out the dishes from the cupboard familiarly, and arranged them on the dining table. "It's also pretty good. The weather in the south should be much better than in Backlund."

"After all, it's almost New Years."

"So what are your plans for the New Year?"

When Esther asked this question, the two were enjoying the steaming pot of goulash with white bread slices that Esther had lightly fried with garlic and olive oil.

"No, it's probably just staying in Backlund. I may go to sea to seek promotion after a year, and I will remember to tell you when the time comes. What about you?"

Esther made gestures on the bread slices twice, thinking that when the time came, she would cut out two Chinese characters "福" with red paper, one for each person: "If you want to stay, we might be able to celebrate the New Year together." It's idle, we can make dumplings! I still know how to do this."

Klein liked this idea very much, and his eyes gradually lit up: "Okay! What kind of stuffing do you want to eat then? I'll go buy the ingredients."

Esther hesitated for two seconds, then whispered: "...strawberry cream?"

silence.

Immediately afterwards, the two burst out laughing tacitly at the same time.

Klein covered his face helplessly, and waved his hands repeatedly while laughing: "This is not good, this is really bad! This is pure dark food!"

The warm fireplace dissipates the chill in the house and keeps the cold night outside in the drizzle.