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Abner clenched his fists, and he could clearly hear every word the vendor said.He hurried forward and pushed the crowd away vigorously. The vendor thought it was a generous lord, and quickly handed over a stack, and said with a smile, "My lord, how many do you want?"

Abner glanced coldly at the picture in his hand, it was still rough paper and clumsy drawing, but this time the picture showed a terrifying ghost leopard being pierced by an arrow, falling into a pool of blood, and its stomach had been bruised. Hollow out, there are many rockets in the sky above the ghost leopard.

Abner's breathing froze for a moment, he took a deep breath, and asked the vendor coldly: "Didn't you sell 'Ghost and Leopard Picture' before?"

The peddler's face immediately turned black, and the surrounding guests also retreated one after another. His eyeballs rolled around, "My lord, this ghost leopard is very cunning. I thought it was a good one before, but I didn't expect... it eats people's hearts." No, I rushed to make the 'Red Heart Arrow' overnight, just to eliminate harm for the people."

"What about the ghost?"

The vendor was taken aback, and said: "But ghosts and leopards are more terrifying than ghosts, not to mention that there are almost no hauntings now. I think Master Chilong has appeared."

There is no haunting because Aureas collects souls day and night!Abner was so angry that his hands were shaking, he said solemnly: "How many more, bring them to me!"

"May the kings bless you!" The merchant happily turned around and handed all the pictures in the bag to Abner.

Abner took the picture and tore it in half.

"My lord!!!" The vendor screamed while holding his head.

Sean frowned and asked, "Abner, what are you doing?"

Abner continued to tear, and said coldly: "There has never been a 'ghost leopard', it is just a puppet of people's hearts."

The picture in his hand was torn to shreds, and Abner crumpled the shredded paper into a big ball and threw it into the vendor's open bag.He took out another gold coin and threw it in.The merchant's face changed from panic, to surprise, and then to excitement. He buried his head in his bag to flip through the gold coin, and said repeatedly: "The kings bless you...the kings bless you..."

The two continued to walk forward, and the merchant's words "Kings bless you" were still lingering in their ears. Sean couldn't help but look back and asked, "What's going on here? I remember Adair ?Lord Caroline still wants to find this 'ghost leopard'."

"Hmph, don't think about it, my lord," Abner snorted softly, adding, "He's mine."

"Oh?"

"You should see him in these two days."

"You'd better not play lip service."

"You can rest assured, Your Highness."

Sean glared at him with a dark face.

The two of them didn't walk for long before they arrived at the market in the city.Xiao En looked behind him, then at the bustling street in front of him, and passed the city gate inspection, his face darkened, "Why is there such a road?"

Abner patted him, "Don't worry, Wins knows it too, and I dare not interfere with it. By the way, when it comes to Wins, I have to talk to him. You should go back first. Is your carriage ahead? "

Sean's carriage was parked not far ahead. The luxurious double-decker carriage, dragged by four fine horses, was very conspicuous.Sean didn't refuse either. After bidding farewell to Abner, he boarded the carriage and left.

Sure enough, Abner found Wens in the small building at the gate of the city. Wens was busy reading documents when he looked up and saw that Abner was coming, and hurriedly asked someone to prepare mint tea.

Abner sat down opposite Wens, and glanced at the documents in his hand, which seemed to be some information about the deceased.

Wen Si signed at the end of the document, closed it, and asked Abner: "Master, are you so free?"

Abner flicked the quill in Vince's hand.

Wins: "..."

"I'm here to tell your subordinates that they can't do their job."

"Oh?"

"Before, your subordinates failed to catch the vendor who sold the 'Ghost Leopard Picture', but now he is selling 'Red Heart Arrow' very arrogantly."

Wen Si frowned, "I'm looking into this matter."

Abner tapped on the table, "Please hurry up."

Wins twitched the corner of his mouth, "As you wish, my lord."

Abner snorted softly, "How is the investigation of those corpses going?"

"No new corpses have been found today. I found Dr. Aaron Ackerman. He said that the time of death of these people is different, and it is very likely that their hearts were ripped out alive."

Abner's hand trembled, "It's too cruel."

Wen Si nodded and asked Abner: "How is the matter with Adrian?"

"Promising."

Abner's answer made Wens breathe a sigh of relief, and he said, "The Priest of the Fire Spirit is about to arrive, too."

"Hmm." Abner replied casually.

Seeing him drawing circles on the table absent-mindedly, Wen Si asked softly, "Have you found Oreas yet?"

Abner's hand stopped, "I didn't look for him, he will come or not."

Wen Si raised his eyebrows and noticed that Abner was holding his breath, so he didn't say much, poured him a cup of mint tea, and went to read other documents.

After drinking a cup of tea, Abner asked calmly, "Did the people below you see any visions last night?"

"What vision?"

"There are many small bright spots in the sky, flying in one direction."

Vince shook his head.

Abner sighed softly, put down his teacup, "I'm leaving."

Seeing Abner's back, Wen Si wondered if the kid had been too tired recently and was not normal.

When Abner returned to the imperial auxiliary building, it was not completely dark yet. He saw Jonny walking towards the door carrying a bird cage. Abner took a closer look and found that the bird was sleeping straight in the cage, as if dead. , the tears on Johnny's face were still wet.

Abner was surprised that Jonny, like himself, likes raising birds.Although he is free-range, no matter where he goes, there are birds around him.Jonny had to keep the birds in cages, and the cages and fittings were excellent, but the birds were not very active.This one died today.

Jonny looked up and saw Abner, quickly wiped away his tears and put on a smile, "Brother!"

Abner stepped forward, stroked his head, and said, "Don't be too sad, brother will buy one for you some other day."

Jonny waved his hand and said in frustration: "No, it's all my fault. I shouldn't raise birds. If I raise one, it will die..."

In fact, Abner saw the bird once when it was still alive, when it was not very active and looked sickly.

"It's not your fault, let's go, I'll bury it with you."

Jonny took Abner to the green garden behind the imperial auxiliary building, found an open space, and dug a hole with a shovel.Jonny took the bird's carcass out of the cage, held it solemnly in two small hands, and lowered it into the pit that had been dug.Then slowly covered the soil with a small shovel, and after a while Jonny's tears fell on his hands and the soil.

Abner stroked Johnny's back and said gently, "Don't be too sad."

Jonny sobbed, "Brother...will I die as early as this bird..."

Abner's heart twitched, and even Dr. Ackerman didn't know what disease Jonny had. In short, Jonny's health was so poor that his body was so thin that it would shatter if he held it.He wiped away tears for Jonny, and comforted him: "No, no... Jonny's life is long."

"Really?" Jonny looked at Abner with trusting expression.

Abner nodded, helped him lift the cage, and left this sad place.

The two returned to the Yufu Building, and Abner sent Jonny back to the room, but Jonny wanted to pour a glass of water and bring it up.

"It's enough that the servants can't do it." Abner helped Johnny carry the cup upstairs.

"It's too much trouble."

"Don't you have a personal servant called..." Abner paused, he didn't seem to know the name of the servant, he only remembered that the man had a face that was easy to forget, so he could only say, " It's the one who brought you here to deliver grapes to me that day."

"Ah, that's Hipburn. He's gone back to his business."

"Didn't Alvin arrange someone else for you?"

Jonny pouted slightly, "I'm not used to it."

Abner smiled slightly, and pushed away from Johnny's room. As soon as he opened the door, he smelled an unpleasant smell of medicine.

Jonny whispered, "Sorry, brother, I forgot to open the window today."

Abner put the water on the table, only to see that there was still a bowl of black medicine on the table. The smell in the room was exactly this medicine. When he thought of Jonny drinking this medicine every day, he felt admiration.

He went to Johnny's window and opened it, only to see a birdcage on a shelf outside, and there were two birds in it, alive and kicking, very similar to the dead birds, but Abner could not see them at a glance. It can be seen that these two birds are bigger than the dead bird, maybe they were three closely related birds, but the youngest one died first.

He sighed, but when he turned around, he put on a smile again, "These two are very healthy and can live a long time."

"But why did it die?" Johnny didn't look very happy.

Abner slowly replied: "Life and death are unpredictable."

But Herbert said that everyone is destined for this life while in the mother's womb.

He went back to his bedroom and lay flat on the bed. The window was wide open, and the evening breeze came in. There were clearly lush laurel trees outside the window, but he still felt that the window was empty.

Soon, tiredness welled up, and he fell asleep with his clothes on.

Abner walked alone on the wilderness, the cool night wind filled his sleeves, he walked for a long time alone, until his mouth was dry and there was no one there.Suddenly he smelled the smell of blood blowing in the wind, he frowned, and walked forward following the smell of blood.

A huge black object stood in front of him. As he stepped forward, he felt the smell of blood getting stronger and stronger. Under the bleak moonlight, he recognized that it was Aureas.

The black fur has lost its luster, and there is a huge black hole in the abdomen, and the blood is still gurgling out, converging into a blood river to the distance.He stretched out his hand tremblingly, and whispered, "Oreas..."

But Oreas' eyes were closed, only his black hair fluttered soundlessly in the wind.

"Oreas..."

Oreas' internal organs have been hollowed out, disappearing from the tail little by little, turning into bright spots one by one, rising into the air.

"Aureas!" He rushed over, but Aureas instantly turned into countless bright spots, escaped from his arms, floated into the air, and floated in one direction—hell.

"Oreas...Aureas...Aureas..." Abner desperately swung his arms, trying to grab something, but the bright spot passed through his palm, and there was nothing.

Suddenly there was a warm feeling in his hand, and he woke up slowly.Seeing Oreas sitting beside his bed, holding his hand tightly, his eyes were tired but full of tenderness and worry.

"Lance." Oreas whispered, his other hand gently covering Abner's forehead, it was terribly hot.