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Abner circled around for a long time, and then got back into the carriage again. When he passed the city gate, he saw that Keener was guarding the gate, so he quickly asked the groom to stop the car and poked his head out.

"My lord, what's the matter for you?" Keener asked with a smile and a gentle voice.

"Did you see..." Abner paused.It’s not that Oreas has no hands and feet, so he can’t come back. It’s ridiculous for me to ask in such a hurry, Abner thought.

"No, it's nothing, just passing by, is Wens here?" Abner took Wens out again to make a rescue for himself.

"The captain seems to have returned to Duolun Palace." Keener's voice was soft, and there was no energy in his ears.

Abner nodded, and was about to leave when he heard the sound of hooves getting closer behind him. Keener and Abner turned their heads at the same time, and saw Wens coming towards him with the Knights of Honor.

Keener was slightly taken aback, then pursed his lips and said, "Please forgive me, my lord, I thought the captain had already left."

"It's okay." Keener's soft tone made people forget that he was apologizing.

Wen Si hurriedly reined in his horse, waved to Abner, and said loudly, "My lord, don't rush away."

Abner gave Wens a blank look, and rarely heard Wens call himself "Sir", which was really harsh.

As soon as Abner got off his horse, Wins hurriedly took him to the small building. A servant came up to help Wins take off his cloak. Wins asked, "How is Tommen?"

The servant replied, "I'm still in a trance."

Wen Si sighed, "At this juncture... let him rest."

Abner asked: "What happened to Tommen? Didn't he stay in the White Gull Tower for one night?"

"The bad thing happened that night. The child first saw the undead of the Duke and fainted from fright. When he woke up in the middle of the night, he insisted that he heard the cry of the child and saw a ghost child."

cry?Abner remembered that Algernon said that his men heard crying in the middle of the night, but he thought it was because they were too timid.Abner had indeed considered it at the beginning, maybe a timid guard had misheard the sound at first, and then it spread and made people panic, but Tommen was the first person to go, so how could he hear the crying by such a coincidence?

Abner held his chin, found two mint leaves in the tea pot and chewed them.

Vince knocked on the table and said, "Let's not talk about Tommen, there are more important things in front of us."

"what?"

Wen Si glanced at him and said with a gloomy face, "Where's Oreas?"

Abner replied lightly, "How would I know?"

"What? Haven't you been together all the time?"

"Damn it, is it possible that I have to take him with me for everything?"

Wen Si was taken aback, and noticed something strange, "What's wrong with you?"

Abner frowned, "What's wrong?"

The corner of Wen Si's mouth twitched, "Forget it, my lords, I don't care what happened to you. Now hurry up and let Aureas come over!"

"What kind of command tone are you talking about!" Abner's voice suddenly rose.

Wen Si patted Abner on the back, "My lord, young master, please forgive me, I am very busy now."

"what happened again?"

"Remember the corpse whose heart was dug out I mentioned earlier?"

"Are you alive and kicking?"

Wen Si shook his head, "Four more similar corpses appeared, and now there are 14 in total."

Abner was startled, "What's going on?"

Wen Si said solemnly: "More and more people believe that the ghost leopard did it, and some even said that they have seen the ghost leopard bite people..."

"impossible!"

"But there are leopard bloodstains on every body, suspicious scratches that I also saw at the scene today."

Abner stared at Wen Si tightly, Wins paused, he had never seen Abner show such an indifferent expression, and said slowly: "I also hope it's just a coincidence, but there are too many coincidences, let me... ..."

"I won't believe it." Abner stood up and said coldly.

Abner walked to the door, Wen Si looked at his decisive back, and asked slowly: "Do you really trust him that much?"

"Yes." Abner left.

At night, everything is silent, there is no star in the dark night sky, and the dark woods are like ghosts.Abner stood by the river, staring closely at the woods in front of him, his heart was pounding, as if he was waiting for something.

Suddenly, a pair of golden eyes flickered in the darkness. He wanted to speak loudly, and a hand stretched out from the river to cover his mouth tightly.

"Roar—" There was a roar, and the leaves rustled.

"Don't let him run away!"

"catch him!"

"Bless the kings we catch this beast!"

"Damn things!"

"..."

There was a loud sound of horseshoes in the woods, and the ground trembled slightly. Abner was struggling anxiously, and a pair of hands stretched out from the river, holding his whole body tightly.He glanced at the pair of hands from the corner of his eye, some were brown, some were white, some were black, some were rough, some were delicate, some were already peeling, some were big, some were small...

"Wuuu..." He struggled to glance back, and saw that the owners of these hands were either well-dressed, plainly dressed, or ragged... He struggled to look up, and couldn't help shaking, these people All blurred.And people like this are floating out in the river one after another.

"Let...let go...I..." Abner tried his best to break free, but it only made those hands get tighter and tighter.

"Kill him...kill him..."

Abner heard the murmuring of the people who trapped him, he shuddered, and looked up, only to see the same mouths growing out of those blurred faces, speaking the same words with the same frequency and the same voice .

"kill him……"

Aureas!No!They want to kill Aureas!

"let me go……"

He twisted his body desperately, only to hear another roar, the panther jumped out of the woods, followed closely by the hired knights and archers with guns.

At one command, tens of thousands of fire-tipped arrows instantly illuminated the dark night, heading straight for the panther, but the panther could not escape the range of the arrows no matter how he ran, a sea of ​​flames opened up in the sky, and the panther was about to die in the sea of ​​flames ...

"No—Oreas run away—"

Abner woke up screaming and opened his eyes, only to realize that everything was just a dream.He sat on the bed, panting violently, his throat seemed to be rusty, hoarse and congested, his whole body was drenched in cold sweat, and wet hair stuck to his forehead.

He lit a candle, got out of bed and poured a glass of water to drink. At this time, it was dark and silent outside the window, with occasional insects chirping.

His heart was pounding, he pushed open the window, the night wind came in, there was no one outside the window, even the birds were already asleep.His heartbeat reached his throat, and he wanted to shout "Oreas" to the night sky, but he dared not do anything in this Duolun palace with many eyes and ears.

"Damn it, where are you!" Abner kicked the wall angrily, but his foot hurt.

Suddenly he turned around in a hurry, picked up the big paper bag he brought back, and threw the wrapped small paper bags one by one into the night sky, "If you don't come back, don't come back! Get lost! Master Lost has specially bought bread for you! Get out of here! I'll give it to the dog and not to you!"

The big bag was slowly getting lighter, and Abner's anger was almost gone.He hugged the big bag and looked at the still motionless night sky.

The sourness suddenly filled his nose, and he felt his eyes itching slightly, he touched his eyes lightly, but got warm liquid, paused, looked at his fingers quietly, it was tears.He froze, looking at the slightly unfamiliar liquid, he couldn't remember the last time he cried.

Then the tears couldn't stop flowing down, and after wiping, the tears dripped on the paper bag, patter, the tears slid down the cheeks to the neck, and poured straight down.

His vision was blurred by tears, and he couldn't see clearly what was in front of him.Suddenly he felt a bright light in front of his eyes, and he quickly wiped away his tears, only to see white bright spots lit up in the distant night sky, and these bright spots were slowly flying in the same direction.

He stared wide-eyed at this abnormal phenomenon, but the alarm bells in Silver Bow City did not ring, and even Duolun Palace was as quiet as a sleeping child.

"what happened!"

He put on his coat and rushed out the door, the entire imperial auxiliary building was dead silent, candles were lit in every corridor.He hurried down, and for the first time felt that the Yufu building was really big and empty. Before he reached the gate, the guard of the Yufu building sent a person to check the situation.

Seeing that it was Master Abner, the guard turned pale, and quickly asked, "My lord, what happened?"

"There is a vision outside, didn't you notice it?" Abner pushed away the guards and ran to the gate, only to see that the bright spot was mostly covered by the tall building opposite.

"My lord, what vision?" The guard looked strangely at the direction Abner was looking at.

"There are so many bright spots, haven't you seen them? If you stand at a higher place, you can see more." Abner pointed to the bright spots.

The guard took a look, but saw nothing, "My lord, did you read it wrong?"

"I didn't!" Abner said.

At this moment, Alvin was attracted by the movement, and saw Abner standing at the door in thin pajamas and a robe, pointing anxiously at the empty night sky.

"Master, what happened?" Alvin came.

Abner pointed to the night sky, and there were only a few bright spots left at this time, "Don't you see any unusual bright spots in the sky?"

A group of people surrounded Abner, shaking their heads helplessly.

"Damn it, it's gone." Abner scratched his head.

Alvin's voice was still soft, "Master, did you have some nightmares?"

Abner turned pale.

Alvin's face became softer, "You are hallucinating."

Abner didn't speak, those bright spots did remind him of the sea of ​​flames in his dream, but he was sure that he saw it right.But he looked at the guard's indifferent eyes and the sleepiness in Alvin's eyes, and went back to his room without saying anything.

Although Alvin was usually nagging, he still did his best to Abner. He watched Abner lay down again, and asked attentively, "Master, do you need a servant? ..."

"No! I don't want it!" Abner buried himself in the quilt.

Alvin smiled, seeing that Abner's window was wide open, he walked to the window and prepared to close the window for him.

"Don't close the window!"

"Master, it's cold in the middle of the night."

"Don't close it!"

It was rare for Alvin to see Abner so stubborn, so he sighed and had to give up.

When Abner looked out the window again, the bright spot had disappeared.The night wind escaped through the window, blowing the sweat on his forehead and the wet tears on his face cold.