Creator's Steam Fairy

Occasionally move forward, occasionally back, and occasionally circle the water.

Luria had a great time playing, and her posture in the water became more and more light and free, and finally she simply threw off the ring of life where she could step on the bottom of the pool.

She closed her eyes and submerged herself in the water. A strand of her tied-up hair let loose and floated in the clear water. When she was about to be unable to hold back, she changed the direction of the magic force field again, allowing herself to gently float to the surface.

Using hands and feet to assist magic to maintain balance, Loria, who gradually mastered the trick, learned the skill of swimming in the water with an awkward posture.

She jokingly named this new magic Magic Force Field Floating.

Too bad it's useless on land.

When the light in the room began to dim, the little dolphin, who was having a great time playing, stepped on the bottom of the pool and slowly left the pool.

The air seemed to suddenly become heavy, pressing on her body. In just a few hours, her body seemed to be unable to adapt to gravity.

It is said that there is a fortress floating in the sky in Londinium, but why no one goes to the bottom of the sea?

Loria, who knew little about science and industry, thought wildly that the home of mankind should include the sea of ​​freedom.

How fun it is to play in the water, how tired it is after returning to land.

She was so fatigued that she even lost her appetite. After returning to the room to take a shower, she and Abigail ate a few bites of bread casually, and then Luria fell asleep on the deck chair on the balcony of the room.

Dimly, she hoped that such a carefree life would continue.

She has seen all-consuming destruction and the self-sacrifice of the gods.

The historical orphan who escaped by chance, loves this lingering world deeply.

Chapter 24 For Eve

Loria was awakened by an urgent and heavy knock on the door.

She frowned in a daze, grabbed the thin blanket covering her body tightly, and there was another low-pitched argument outside the bedroom door.

She called Abby softly, but no one responded to her, and opened her eyes irritably, only to notice that it was completely dark.

"Abby?"

Loria lifted the blanket that Abigail had put on her, and after a while, stood up from the couch.

She rubbed her eyes vigorously and got up to leave the terrace. She opened the bedroom door with a bad expression on her face and looked towards the living room.

Outside the living room door, an unknown man in a hotel waiter's uniform seemed to be dissuading... Captain Crespo with dark brown curly hair.

"What right do you have to forcibly break into other people's guest rooms late at night? And you, is this how your hotel protects guests?"

Abigail, who was wearing a maid's long skirt, had her hands on her hips, but the lowered volume made her look a little lacking in momentum.

"What's wrong Abby?"

Seeing the waiter and captain who were noisy but hadn't even stepped into the living room, she turned pale.

The laws prevailing in various countries seem to be similar. The guest rooms of hotels and hostels are equivalent to the temporary territory of tenants... Stepping in without a reason can trigger unlimited defense rights.

Although it is morally unreasonable to go to the door of single women to make noise in the middle of the night.

Captain Crespo was more responsive than Abigail, his eyes were red, and he spoke very fast with an agitated expression: "Sorry to bother you! Miss Romero...Loria, I need your help."

The anxious look did not seem to be fake, which made Luo Liya stunned for a moment.

"Come in, please." Loria nodded to Abigail, then said to wait a moment and closed the door.

She straightened her skirt quickly, and checked the time by the small pocket watch hanging on the necklace - 09:30 in the evening.

Put on a embroidered shawl with the characteristics of Zambia, and walk out of the bedroom in 1 minute.

Captain Crespo, who had just sat down under Abigail's cold eyes, jumped up immediately. He was extremely anxious, but he was also prepared to wait for a long time.He opened his mouth to say thank you, but in the end he just said a few words silently in his heart. What a good boy.

The captain took out a blue dried flower from his coat pocket, took a deep breath, and tried to ask in a calm tone: "Loria, do you know... this flower?"

"Yes, I put down the dry June rain with my own hands."

Luria didn't intend to deny it at all. She had led the weirdo to the deserted street just to avoid breaking the furniture and being troublesome.Now that trouble has come to you, why not face it calmly.

Under the gaze of Captain Crespo, who was staring at bloodshot eyes and full of surprise, Loria straightened her shawl, sat on a chair and said, "This is June rain, probably only I have it, you have it." What to ask?"

"This... why did it appear there?"

Captain Crespo didn't know how to ask the question for a while, and asked, are you the murderer of the mysterious theological ritual murder?

"Abby and I went out for supper, and then found out that we were being followed, and we hid in a deserted street in a panic. The weird man said that he had killed several witches, and he wanted to attack us with an axe."

Loria concealed many details, patted the lower part of her collarbone, looked frightened, and said after a pause: "Then that strange person died suddenly...Although I was very scared, but I am a believer in the goddess of life, so I put a The June rain, which symbolizes the goddess, remained there."

Why didn't you say it when you were first visited by the captain?Of course it was because she was scared.

The madman did die suddenly, although she burned the device on his chest.

There is nothing wrong with saying that she is a believer of the goddess... Luria doesn't mind telling others that she is an ancient priest who traveled through time, but most of them will be regarded as nonsense.

Captain Crespo lowered his head and grabbed his thick curly hair with both hands... Witch, I have killed several witches... That distorted corpse belongs to the murderer of the girl?

He knew that Luria had obviously concealed some details, but her words were generally logical and consistent with the evidence he already had... As for the sword marks on the device, this kind of thing doesn't matter anymore, and he didn't come here for it.

"Loria, forgive me for calling you by your first name. In my eyes, you are like my niece."

Captain Crespo tried to calm himself down. His intuition told him that Loria was trustworthy and knew something. He thought about his words and said: "I have been investigating the case of the murder of the missing girl. You can tell me, Why do you go to Workshop Street so often? Please don’t get me wrong, the patrolman who was with me last time was on duty nearby, and he recognized you... My youngest daughter went to Workshop Street yesterday afternoon, and today, she left Didn't come home after grammar school."

Luo Liya raised her eyebrows, is there really more than one mouse in those gutters?She thought for a while and said: "My maid, Abby, also went to Workshop Street the afternoon before the night we were followed. I think the weirdo who attacked us was in a very bad state of mind, and he didn't seem to be able to make decisions on his own. , so I suspect that there are other people behind him."

"Wait a minute."

Loria shouted to Captain Crespo, who jumped up and was about to run out, and said, "Pedro... Uncle, please wait a moment, I may... be able to help you."

The restless Crespo patiently and briefly repeated his little daughter's track before running away.

That's great, Loria is a little envious.

Abigail murmured softly, "It's so rude, you can't even say goodbye."

"Idiot, they lost their daughter." Loria rolled her eyes at Abigail and said, "Don't just stand there, go find someone to run errands, tell our lady guard to come over, and then you will be honest Just stay here and wait for me to come back."

"Yes, ma'am."

Abigail didn't refute, although she just complained casually, after taking a little change from the small box in the room, she faithfully carried out Loria's order.

Luria, who was a little sour in her heart, shook her head, and then laughed.

She is a child who was raised by a goddess—some people in this world regard her as a treasure. The goddess named Eve is like a mother and a friend.

She returned to the bedroom with a smile and changed into a lighter dress, hung the song of Roland on her waist with a belt, and prepared a small revolver in strict accordance with the regulations, although there was a high probability that it would not be needed... But she Or put it in a special small handbag.

Tie a low ponytail indiscriminately, and wear a small top hat that fits your head.

After hesitating for a moment, she didn't silently recite the prayer to guide the sublimation of divinity.

Although stimulating the latent power of the heart can make her calmer, this little trick applied to solemn occasions should not be used as a shortcut...she has to learn to grow herself.

For Eve, who is waiting for her arrival with a smile on a certain street corner one day.

Chapter 25 Saving Miss Crespo

"So this mission is to find a kidnapped lady?"

Alice resumed her dusty, washed-white traveler's attire.She lived not far away, and soon rushed to the hotel to meet Luria.

She followed Luria through the crowded and lively night market, staring at the pale pink ponytail that swayed from side to side, more and more wanting to reach out and pull it a few times. In order to restrain this stupid impulse, she deliberately said that she didn't care at all. "I'm not very good at tracking and searching. The black market intermediary you hired before is better at this kind of task. With such a little clue, it's useless for the two of us to wander around at night."

In fact, she rather likes to hang out at night with nothing to do.

"Let's try it out."

Loria is also not sure, but if the little girl from the Crespo family has the misfortune to meet that lunatic's companion, and happens to turn on that weird machine that can control magic... the artificial resonance is very important to her. As conspicuous as a bonfire lit in a dark wilderness.

Pedestrians are getting less and street lights are getting darker. Starting from the vicinity of Workshop Street, Loria goes around to the southeast of the city that has been expanded layer by layer.

Recently, the warehouses and factories in the south are always transporting a large number of machinery and goods to the north of the city, so that the roads are often blocked. Miss Crespo has to go southeast for a while to return to her home in the old city from the grammar school. .

The streets gradually became narrow and dirty, and garbage that was not cleaned up was scattered on the ground from time to time. Even the air was mixed with a faint smell, and the kerosene street lamps that were already too dim were even half extinguished.

Luo Liya frowned slightly, she had never been in this direction before—it was the first time in her life that she saw such a dirty place, even the desolate wilderness was several times cleaner and tidy than this place.

Alice coughed twice, handed over a handkerchief, and said with a smile: "The ladies are not used to seeing such a place for the first time."

Hurry up and cover your nose, it won't look good if you vomit in a while.

If the depths of the slums are hell, then this place is far from being the entrance to hell.

At least you don't have to soak your feet in the sewage mixed with the excrement of tens of thousands of people.

Loria waved her hand to reject Alice's kindness, and she looked into the dark alley without light—it was impossible for Miss Crespo to go any further, unless she was really abducted into it.

She increased the output of magic power, surrounded Alice in the invisible force field, and swept the dust and various invisible residues far away from the center.

Loria sniffled, the shield's effect on purifying the air was better than nothing, but at least it allowed her to concentrate... Closing her eyes to get rid of the messy thoughts, she tried to perceive everything around her, and some faint resonance touched her to spread The outer shield has strong or weak 'ripples'.

This is a new trick she discovered while playing in the water in the afternoon. After simply expanding the range of the force field, once it exceeds a certain limit, it can strengthen the resonance perception of magic power.

There are many faint resonances in the north, which 'look' like powerful magic props that have not been activated - that is probably the direction where the palace is.

Alice looked around and asked, "Resonance perception? Did you find anything?"

Anyone who can communicate with magic power can more or less perceive the resonance phenomenon of magic power, and the greater the magic power that can communicate or possess, the sharper the perception will be.It is said that after long-term training, people with excellent perception talents can even distinguish different types of resonance and the specific source of resonance.

Alice doesn't really believe in this kind of legend, because she can also perceive resonance...but she can feel it only after sticking the activated magic item on her face.

Such tasteless abilities are not as useful as eyeballs.

"No." Luria shook her head, then looked Alice up and down, stopped her gaze on her lower abdomen, and said: "I feel an unfamiliar resonance from you, it's not magic, it's not a magic item, it's not The kind of machine I was looking for."

Alice subconsciously clutched her abdomen and walked away a few steps and said, "It's not a good habit to spy on others."

"Do you think I want to watch it? But it doesn't matter, I can automatically ignore it after getting familiar with it for a while."

If it wasn't for the fact that the familiar resonance fluctuations could be naturally ignored until it looked like a weak ambient sound, her head would have exploded long ago.

She continued to increase her efforts, and even assisted with a few short spells, which doubled the range of the magic force field. With her as the center, a radius of more than 20 meters was covered.

Alice, who was in it, found that the dark street in her eyes seemed to have become a little distorted... She squeezed her palm secretly, observing Luria's face... A look of ease, without the slightest morbid pallor of overdrawn magic power emerging.

How much magic power does this little girl have?With such a large area, even the light can be distorted... Can you easily activate the magically driven war beast?

Alice, who had been tricked by Loria's weird magic, was very nervous, for fear that Xiao Fanmao made a mistake, and the magic power of rampage would send them away together.

And Luria, who closed her eyes tightly, saw a little spark floating in the darkness... It was the source of resonance so far away that she couldn't judge the exact location.

According to the captain, Miss Crespo disappeared around 07:30...the sun had not set yet...For more than two hours, her house was strictly guarded, and she was always well-behaved. Wandering outside after dark... It is also impossible to meet an emergency without sending someone to inform the family.

Miss Crespo was probably in danger, and there was nothing Loria could do if it had nothing to do with the madman who threatened her and Abby's safety.

But if it is related... She recalled that crazy weirdo... The steam-driven machine was turned on from the beginning, and the rough and inferior way of using magic power would release too strong a resonance, so it could be easily perceived by her... ...It can be adjusted to a higher power...If it is turned off, it is an ordinary machine, and naturally it cannot be perceived...The body is suffering considerable pain, the mental state is unstable, and it is very nervous...It is easy to be scared.

Thinking of this, Loria closed her eyes and asked, "Miss Alice, can you make some noise here?"

"Of course it's okay." Alice took out her huge-caliber and exaggeratedly shaped revolver indifferently. She probably guessed what Loria was planning, and evaluated every nearby gendarmerie station in her mind. After talking with the patrol route, he said: "But this is still on the edge of a normal city, and you only have... about 3 minutes."

Then if you don't want to be invited to drink tea in the small black house, you can only run away quickly.

"enough"

Loria nodded.

Never underestimate the boredom of a child raised in a sanctuary.

Every night, every night, she quietly 'watched' everything around her in the room.

Identifying similar vibes and judging exactly where it is for her...

It only takes a moment.

Chapter 26 Dog Tags

"Damn, damn, damn."

In the dim dark room, Bruner bit his nails hard.

Blame it on that goddamned idiot, illiterate, irrational trash.

Once you get a little power, you don't know what kind of goods you are!

Although the higher-ups do the same thing, but this kind of thing can only silently pick on the stupid women in the countryside and slums!Moreover, if the residue is not cleaned up afterwards, it will be thrown into the wilderness casually!