Mystery: The Stars Returner

For about ten minutes, Hastur has been waiting for Azshara's reaction, but it didn't react at all. It waggled its little tail, snuggled up to his feet, and meowed softly, as if calling him to hug him quickly. it.

Hastur stretched out his hand to caress Azshara's head, and then took a serious look at its eyes. There was indeed nothing special about it.

Could it be that he drank a fake magic potion?

Hastur glanced at the glassware that had been licked dry on the ground.

"Meow."

Seeing that Hastur didn't pay much attention to her, Azshara jumped into Hastur's arms, curled up into a small ball, closed her eyelids and fell asleep.

"Maybe it just doesn't know how to express its feelings at the moment."

"It could also be that the Assassin's Potion is naturally suited to it, allowing it to quickly adapt to this feeling."

"Susie didn't seem to have any special reaction when she accidentally swallowed the audience potion. It was several days later that Audrey discovered something was wrong with it."

Hastur thought a lot, looked down at Azshara who was curled up in his arms, tidied up the things in the room, and then opened the door and went out.

……

The next day, after Hastur woke up, he immediately went to check on Azshara's condition.

I saw it squatting by the window, its pair of blue eyes staring at the pedestrians passing below, licking its little paws from time to time.

Was this the birth of a strong desire to hunt?

Hastur did not interrupt, but chose to observe quietly.

At this moment, Azshara seems to have a little more soul than before.

He felt that this was his illusion, giving Azshara too much imagination at this moment.

Digesting potions is a long process. Azshara is just a simple kitten. It does not have the complex and summarizing wisdom of humans. It mostly relies on its own nature.

"Meow!"

Azshara, who was squatting by the window, found that Hastur had woken up, took two small steps with graceful steps, and then jumped over directly.

This distance is about two meters.

Although Azshara should be able to do it in normal times, it would not be as easy as now.

This should be the physical transformation given to it by the assassin's potion, making its limbs more powerful and dexterous.

"Are you hungry?"

"Meow!"

Hasta understood this call, it was really hungry.

He got up with Azshara in his arms, walked out of the room, handed it to the maid responsible for taking care of it, and went to the bathroom to wash up.

After finishing his work, Hastur carried Azshara, who was already full, downstairs.

After dinner, Hastur asked Butler Neal if there were any mice in the house.

Butler Neal was embarrassed and said that there were indeed traces of rats in the kitchen recently. Although he had ordered the servants to take corresponding rodent control actions, rats still appeared occasionally.

This is not a problem that their family can solve, this is a problem for the entire Backlund.

Although the sewer pipes have solved Backlund's problem of water accumulation on rainy days, they have also become a natural home suitable for rats to inhabit and breed.

Therefore, a special profession was born, that of rat catcher.

They were commissioned to capture rats at their employer's house.

Occasionally, officials will organize personnel to inspect and clean sewer pipes and other places where dirt and evil practices hide.

It is said that this is one of the measures actively promoted by Emperor Russell, saying that this can effectively reduce the occurrence of plague.

The plague has become a common understanding among many people.

In response, Hastur said that Azshara could try it.

Butler Neil quickly refused, saying that the rats that emerged from the sewers were too dirty. Azshara ate cat food specially provided by humans every day. If she accidentally ate rats, serious problems might occur.

Hastur thought the same thing. Someone must have put a lot of rat poison around here. If the poisonous rats were accidentally eaten by Azshara, it would be very dangerous.

It would be better to wait a few more days until Azshara learns not to eat rats and only concentrates on hunting.

Before leaving, Hastur left Azshara at home and asked the maid to take care of it, before taking a carriage to Gray Lint's house.

Because Gray Lint was a beast tamer, Hastur didn't want Azshara to meet him at this moment to avoid a stress reaction.

When they arrived at Gray Lint's house, Gray Lint happily took Hastur to the back garden, saying that he wanted to show him the results of his recent training.

The beagle, under the command of Gray Lint, performed very well in how to pounce on prey and find traces of prey.

The only pity is that this place is not in a forest after all, so the training effect will be greatly reduced.

Gray Lint said that he needed to go to the forest for training in order to further train the beagle.

"This is a very good suggestion. Let's go to the suburbs this Saturday." Hastur proposed.

"No problem, my Hauge has been looking forward to this day for a long time."

Haug is the name of the golden retriever dog raised by Gray Lint.

"What do you think about inviting Miss Audrey?"

"Of course. It's just time for my Hauge to compete with Susie to see who is smarter."

Gray Linte touched the head of the golden retriever Haug, looking very confident.

Hastur glanced at him with a look of imperceptible pity.

If I remember correctly, Susie should already be a Sequence 8 mind reader, right?

This golden retriever trained by Gray Lint would definitely not be Susie's opponent if compared to him.

Thinking of this, Hastur smiled and told Gray Lint to try his best to do some fancy things, such as walking upright with a plate in his mouth, walking on wheels, jumping through fire hoops, etc.

He was looking forward to how Susie would face it when the time came.

Before leaving Gray Lint's house, Hastur made an agreement with Gray Lint that he would be responsible for inviting Audrey.

This time Hastur plans to invite Earl Hall as well.

Since the last time he went to Earl Hall's house for a meeting, he had never contacted Earl Hall and Audrey again. This time was a good opportunity.

If he could take this opportunity to bribe Earl Hall, his briber's potion would be almost fully digested.

The Bribery sequence does not have many secrets for Hastur, and it is relatively easy and simple to play.

As for the promotion to Sequence 6 Corrupted Baron, we already have a clue. We just need to wait for Count Gill to die and then go and grab it from the Church of Steam.

Calculating the time, it’s almost time.

……

At night, Hastur's invitation was sent to Earl Hall's house.

The invitation was named for Audrey. Although Earl Hall knew about it, he did not stop it.

In the room, Audrey read the contents of the invitation, and then looked at Susie lying in the corner.

"Susie, Mr. Hastur invited us to visit the manor in the countryside, and you are also invited."

Susie said without raising her head: "I am not happy about this. On the contrary, I have always been a little afraid of Mr. Hastur."

"Why? Mr. Hastur is a very nice person."

"I didn't say there was anything bad about him, I just thought he was dangerous."

Audrey thought for a while and said, "Compared to Mr. Hastur or Gray Lint, who is more dangerous?"

"Graylint."

After Audrey's teaching, Susie has already remembered many people.

"Graylint was also invited to this trip to the suburban manor. He also said that he would cultivate a golden retriever that is smarter than you."

"Audrey, can I refuse?"

"No."

The corner of Audrey's mouth curved. The invitation mentioned that the golden retriever Haug trained by Gray Lint had many outstanding little skills, just like the performance of an acrobatic troupe.

It was a good opportunity to divert Susie's attention away from the book for a short period of time so as not to learn too much.

After chatting with Susie for a few words, Audrey got up and walked out of the room, heading to the room where Earl Hall was.

The invitation did indeed invite her to play in the suburban manor, but it also mentioned inviting Earl Hall.

In Audrey's opinion, this was the last time Mr. Hastur was frightened by the respected Earl Hall, so he chose to communicate with Earl Hall through her.

When Audrey explained her intention, Earl Hall was quite surprised and said, "He wants to invite me to hunt in the forest on the outskirts?"

"Yes, Baron Campbell also said that he recently trained a good hunting dog. Although it is still relatively young, it is already a good hunter."

"I may not have time this Saturday."

"Then I will help the busy Earl Hall refuse Baron Campbell's invitation."

"Forget it, I haven't gone out hunting for a long time. Some things can wait until next week to complete."

Audrey blinked and smiled: "Are you worried about your lovely daughter being alone in the suburbs?"

"I do have concerns about this, even though I have grown up."

"Then please, the respected Earl Hall has been busy and worried."

Finally, Audrey left with a smile.

On the way back to the room, she met Hibbert. After some questioning, when she learned that she was not invited on the invitation, Hibbert immediately said that he and Greco were going to visit the suburban manor this Saturday.

Such improvised reasons cannot be hidden from an audience at all.

But Audrey didn't expose it. When she returned to the room, she started writing a reply.

Speaking of which, this was the first time she had written a serious reply to Mr. Hastur, and she needed to think about it carefully.