Mystery: The Returner of the Stars

Chapter 247 Sharon's New Year's Gift

Gift?

On the second night of the New Year, Hastur unwrapped Sharon and Maric's presents.

What Maric gave was a sterling silver pocket watch, while what Sharon gave was a mirror, a round mirror with various black patterns inlaid on the edge of the mirror, which looked a bit mysterious.

But this thing is not an Extraordinary item, it is just a little more delicate than ordinary mirrors, there is nothing special about it.

Hasta thought at that time that Sharon didn't give gifts to people very much, so when giving gifts, she gave him her favorite mirror.

Now, does that mirror have any other unusual metaphors?
But he did check it, and the mirror is not an Extraordinary item, nor is it a sealed item, it's just an ordinary mirror that looks more refined.

Unable to figure it out, Hastur could only honestly answer: "It's taken apart."

"Well, do you like it?"

"like."

"you are lying."

"..."

Hastur looked embarrassed. He couldn't say that he didn't like the gift from Sharon, could he?
But how could a big man like a mirror.

Even Maric knows to give something he likes more.

Seeing this, Hasta had no choice but to bring out Roselle, the scribe again, "Emperor Roselle once said: To send a goose feather a thousand miles away, the gift is light and the affection is heavy."

"What I care about is the intention of giving the gift, not the price of the gift."

These words made Maric give him a thumbs up secretly. He really could make it up. He obviously didn’t like the gift from Sharon.

"Then take the goose feathers and travel thousands of miles."

"Yes, I will always keep this mirror in my room."

Hastur seemed to understand a little bit what Sharon meant. Could it be that Sharon wanted to look at herself through this mirror in the future?
……

Early the next morning, Hastur was ready, with a total of seven carriages, including a guard sent by the king, with 12 people.

In order not to attract too many people's attention, Hasta asked them to change their outfits in advance and wait in the carriage first.

Then take a steam train to South Wales under the watchful eyes of Greck, Grelint, Audrey and others.

What age is it, you can't leave the more efficient and fast way of travel alone, and choose to arrive in South Wales by horse-drawn carriage, right?
Along the way, his ass would definitely be bumped by the carriage in pain.

On the steam train, Hastur sat alone in a luxurious carriage. Not only could he sleep here, but he also had a variety of food supplies, which was considered a bit of aristocratic privilege.

He didn't trust the escort sent by the king, but he couldn't refuse, so he could only stay in the carriage by himself, counting the time it would take to go to South Wales.

The distance from Backlund to South Wales is very long, and it has to pass through East Tucker County in the middle to reach South Wales in the south.

It will take at least five days for this journey, and it will take a while to arrive in South Wales to his own territory. There is no steam train to take on that part of the road.

Being idle and bored, Hastur took out the mirror that Sharon gave him and looked at it.

Stretching out his hand to gently stroke the smooth mirror, he murmured, "Miss Sharon is probably hiding in a certain mirror right now. If she were hiding in this mirror, what kind of surprise would it be?"

Hastur put the mirror directly in front of him, looked at himself in the mirror, and smiled.

How is this possible? Sharon still needs to stay in Backlund to deal with things, so she can't leave everything to Maric, right?

The steam train roared forward, behind him was the ever-shrinking Backlund.

After admiring the scenery outside the car window for a while, Hastur took a book and started to read it. This is the book that Professor Wayne specially selected for him, saying that it is the possible direction of the laws of the Kingdom of Loen in the future.

By lunchtime, Hastur had read a third of the way through.

This book is definitely the product of Professor Wayne's private goods, and the various laws in it look like advanced versions of the current laws of the Loen Kingdom.

The food on the steam train is far inferior to the exquisite cooking of its own chef, so when he set off, Hastur deliberately offered a high salary to bring two chefs who were willing to go to South Wales.

After tasting the food similar to the one at home, Hastur glanced at the mirror on the table again, paused for a few seconds, and said in a deep voice: "It is forbidden for resentful souls to hide here!"

The golden rules flickered, covering the interior of the carriage. The originally smooth mirror surface revealed Sharon's appearance. She was still dressed in a black court dress, with blue eyes, and she was looking at herself from the mirror at this moment.

The corner of Hastur's mouth rose slightly, and he said with a smile: "Miss Sharon, are you here to see me off for the last time?"

"What do you think?"

"Of course I hope that Miss Sharron's move is an agreement to go to South Wales with me."

"Ah."

Sharon in the mirror nodded slightly, affirming Hastur's statement.

"So Miss Sharron agreed to my invitation as early as when she gave me a New Year's gift?"

"Ah."

Hastur, who was in a happy mood, stretched out his hand and caressed the edge of the mirror and said, "Why didn't you say that this is a special surprise for me?"

"I overestimated your intelligence."

"..."

Hastur thought so too, obviously the night before leaving, Sharon reminded herself to remember to take goose feathers with her and travel thousands of miles. If she was smart, she should have noticed the true meaning of that sentence long ago.

In the end, he still couldn't believe that Sharon would agree to his invitation to accompany him to South Wales.

"What made Ms. Sharron change her original decision?" Hasta changed the topic to a more favorable one.

"I need a demigod mummy to help me advance to Sequence 4."

"Just to advance to a higher sequence?"

"Isn't that reason enough?"

"..."

Hastur sighed, "Do you need me to accompany you to the Southern Continent?"

"If necessary."

"Then you handed over everything about Backlund to Maric?"

"Well, he needs to learn restraint."

Sharon glanced at Hastur again and said, "Do you prefer that the person who appears here is Maric?"

"Of course not. I also think that Maric should be given more experience in handling things alone. It is not a good thing to yearn for adventure too much."

Hastur immediately denied this statement.

If Maric was hiding in this mirror, he would have thrown the mirror out of the car window.

"Miss Sharon is coming out? You can't enjoy the scenery along the way if you hide in the mirror all the time."

"Ah."

Sharon nodded, her body floated out of the mirror, she landed on the seat opposite Hastur and sat down gracefully, with her upper body turned slightly, her gaze was looking at the scenery that kept flashing outside the car window.

Hastur leaned back slightly on the seat cushion and looked in the direction of Sharon. This trip to South Wales was finally not lonely.

After a long time, Sharon suddenly said, "A New Year's gift from you?"

"I am hiding in the territory of South Wales, and only when I get there can I honor this gift."

After the brief exchange, the carriage became quiet again.

Sharon looked out the car window at the scenery, and Hastur took her as the scenery.

Until, an unusual feeling came from outside the carriage.

Sharon glanced back at Hastur, who shook his head slightly, signaling that she could hide in the mirror first.

Sharon didn't say anything, and directly entered the mirror in the state of a resentful soul.

After a while, Hastur fell into a dreamland. There was only a dark night in the dream, and no figure appeared. Soon, the dreamland shattered.

A very short dream, like taking a nap when you are tired.

"People from the Church of the Evernight Goddess should be the night watchmen of Sequence 4."

Hastur murmured, telling Sharon in the mirror to know.

It was the ability to enter dreams in a large area just now, and it should be searching for someone with the help of this extraordinary ability.

It is estimated that some wanted fugitive is also on this steam train.

Can a Sequence 4 night watchman come forward, it can't be Ince Zangwill, right?
Hastur's heart skipped a beat, it was really possible.

But is Ince Zangwill crazy?
Dare to take your own ride?
Or, he didn't know anything and just happened to be on this steam train to South Wales?
Is his luck so bad?
"Need me to check it out?"

"No, I'll take care of things here, don't come out and take risks."

Hastur didn't want to put Sharon at risk, even though her wraith ability was great for spying on intelligence.

"Ah."

Sharon's figure in the mirror disappeared.

"Miss Sharon, you can't sneak away, the other party is not coming for us."

"will not."

The mirror light flickered.

……

In the third carriage of the steam train, the disguised Ince Zangwill looked expressionlessly at the scenery outside the window.

He is also a night watchman of Sequence 4, and with 008's occult information, the opponent's large-scale dream ability can't find his whereabouts at all.

What surprised him was that members of many different organizations seemed to be mixed in on this steam train.

Is it all for the sentence that the Southern Continental War will be in the next year?
He heard this sentence from the mouth of the Witch Sect. Back then, the Black Saintess prevented him from leaving Backlund and asked him to wait for a while.

Maybe it's because of this sentence.

At this moment, they are also on this train.

(End of this chapter)