Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

November 9, 1348.

Tingen City, Ahowa County, Loen Kingdom.

The cold wind of late autumn blew into Iron Cross Street. At the intersection of the street at three o'clock in the morning, no one stayed on the street except homeless people or drunkards in a coma. It will be at least around five o'clock that the vendors who are struggling to make a living will come out to prepare for a new day of business. It is their rest time now, and only rats crawl out of the sewer openings.

The broken board hanging on the "Vulture Bar" was swaying in the wind. Suddenly, a crackling sound came from the half-open door. The rusty iron chain in the upper left corner of the sign suddenly broke and half of it collapsed.

No one would come to see it. The tired people were taking advantage of the time before dawn to huddle under their blankets and rest. The alert small groups all knew that the owner of this pub disappeared out of thin air half a month ago. After the bartender took away the cash, , the remaining things that can be exchanged for money have been divided up by them. In a place like this, disappearing out of thin air is basically equivalent to death. No one will bother to run this run-down shop. Maybe in a few months, there will be a new owner with a brand like "Vulture Bar". Once again filling the basement with watered down bad alcoholic beverages.

At this time, in this empty underground storage room, a girl was slowly lifting her body from the ground.

Li Xing was startled awake by the explosion in front of her face. When she opened her eyes, her right hand was blocking her right eye, holding something tightly in her palm. She did not let go, but used her fists to prop up her body so that she could sit up and take a deep breath. She seemed to have been holding it in for a long time, and she felt as if she had just crawled out of the bottom of the sea.

His body was so stiff that it almost didn't feel like his own. Li Xing shook his head vigorously, trying to wake up from the inexplicable feeling of dislocation.

A candle in the center of the floor provided her with enough light, but the candle was almost burned out.

[This is...where is this? How do I dress...]

Li Xing murmured to herself. She raised her arms and glanced at the dusty and wrinkled suit on her body. This suit didn't fit at all. Her shoulders and arms were a bit longer than hers. She shook her head and looked. As for the hair hanging on the bridge of her nose, it was not the black she was familiar with, but a light cinnamon yellow with a slight curl, almost like golden frost and moonlight.

Li Xing suddenly shuddered, and wanted to use her free left hand to pull more hair from her head, but she used too much force and tore off several hairs. She stared at the hair between her fingers, feeling terrified. He crawled up his spine and climbed up to the back of his head: [Is this, is this nonsense? ]

What a nonsense.

Li Xing has read a lot of time-traveling online articles. She is also a person who is keen to kill time on various software. Those fantastic and exciting articles will also make her smile. But Li Xing never wanted this kind of thing to happen to her. For an ordinary person with a fixed social circle to disappear out of thin air would be too cruel to those close to her. Nagging parents, raised civet cats, good colleagues, college classmates who meet occasionally, netizens who enthusiastically share their interests - how will they face her disappearance?

Just thinking about it for a moment, the memories suddenly began to fade, and the details continued to drain out like a broken hourglass. The faces and names of people who should have been extremely familiar in Li Xing's memory gradually blurred, leaving only the scene that made her heartache: the face of her parents. She cried over the belongings she left behind, and brought home her tabby cat that loved to chew charging cables. Colleagues complained about the work she left behind when she suddenly disappeared, and friends sent text messages to her social account, but nothing came of it. When will she come back?

The extremely sad despair that she felt almost overwhelmed Li Xing.

Li Xing couldn't hold back her tears. Being alone in this completely unfamiliar environment, more and more panic and loneliness overwhelmed her. She covered her mouth and sobbed softly.

Tears flowed down Li Xing's right fist and into her palm.

Something seemed to be squirming inside, and Li Xing realized that she had clenched her fists tightly before for some unknown reason, as if she had forgotten to release her hands.

So Li Xing opened his palms - this was a translucent little bug with circles and circles of circular patterns on its body. It looked like it had no head or tail at all, but this little bug was arching its body at this time. Lift up one end and swing it back and forth on Li Xing's hand.

Although this little bug didn't make any sound, Li Xing did "hear the message" from it.

It was despising Li Xing's tears and expressed dissatisfaction with suppressed anger towards her, making Li Xing feel like she had been scolded inexplicably.

Li Xing cried even harder, holding the insect in his hands, and big tears fell on it: "I don't know either!" I don't even know why I'm here and where I am! ? I really want to go home, I don’t know why I am here, and I don’t want to have such an accident! ]

This scene looked very silly from the outside, but the insect seemed to feel Li Xing's emotions. It slowly lowered itself, and then curled up into a small ball, as if it had made up its mind not to talk to Li Xing anymore and let those tears go. washed over the body.

After Li Xing's outburst, her emotions gradually calmed down. After a few minutes, she finally stopped crying. However, when she tried to put the insect on the ground, it got into her sleeve at a completely unreasonable speed. In the mezzanine.

"Hey!" Li Xing panicked and shook his sleeves desperately, but the bug had no intention of coming out.

Li Xing hesitated for a moment, then decided to say: "Then don't move." ]

Of course, she received no response.

After Li Xing stood up, he tried to move his limbs. Fortunately, the whole thing was quite healthy and he didn't find anything particularly uncomfortable. In fact, she really wanted to find a mirror at this time to see what her "new identity" looked like.

After searching all the pockets on her body, except for a white handkerchief, Li Xing only found a dark brown wallet, but she didn't recognize the denominations of the coins and banknotes inside, and they didn't use the Arabic numerals she was familiar with. There were several extremely sharp blades hidden in the secret compartment of the wallet. Li Xing almost cut his finger when he touched it. There was nothing else inside, no ID card or driver's license, nor anything with contact information or place names.

He didn't touch his mobile phone. This was what confused Li Xing the most. Would a rich man wearing a suit have no money to buy a mobile phone?

Then she glanced at the candle on the ground and felt something in her heart: Even if this person doesn't have a mobile phone, there wouldn't be any circuits or networks here at all, right?

After rolling up his cuffs and trouser legs twice to make sure that he would not trip when walking normally, Li Xing picked up the copper base of the candle, reached the edge of the wooden stairs and walked up.

Fortunately, the wooden board above the underground storage room was lifted, so Li Xing did not need to move it by herself. She saw that there was a lot of brown liquid on it that was difficult to identify. Mellie walked to the front room. It was as messy as the back room. She could see a long bar with holes and some damaged tables and chairs. The floor was covered with thin dust, and the clearest footprints were consistent with the shoes she was wearing. of.

Li Xing didn't see any electrical appliances, but there was another oil lamp broken behind the bar.

Then she walked out of the house.

Facing the crimson red moon in the sky, Li Xing tightly covered her eyes, and uncontrollable laughter emerged from the corners of her mouth intermittently, gradually turning sad.

Despair was so clearly pressing in Li Xing's heart - this was definitely not the world she remembered.

Where could she go?

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Li Xing had been sitting on the empty crate at the door of the Vulture Bar until dawn. She looked up at the sky in silence, from the setting of the red moon to the rising of the sun.

Li Xing, who kept thinking about what to do, was afraid of the future. Such fear made her not move anywhere, hoping that no one would disturb her.

Li Xing felt that an invisible barrier appeared around her, isolating her from the outside world, but she didn't think about it.

Until the other end of the street started to gain popularity, Li Xing watched all kinds of people passing by, and the noisy shouts and footsteps gradually diluted the chill around her. But these people all have something very obvious in common - traces of poverty are imprinted on their clothes, words, deeds, and the darkness of their faces, and the most indispensable thing in such an environment is criminal behavior. This makes Li Xing curl up uneasily, Her eyes followed the others closely, observing them.

Fortunately for Li Xing, she could understand what these people said. She tried to absorb any information she could get from them, eager to understand the world.

Li Xing imitated several passers-by and tried to whisper to himself words such as "Good morning", "The weather is good today", "Praise the goddess", "The storm is above" and "Stay away from me, you little thief", so that To Li Xing's surprise, she found that she could actually speak this language, and she was so proficient that it seemed like she had been speaking for a long time.

But soon, Li Xing felt something twisting in her sleeves. She felt that the little bug understood what she said and was mocking her.

Li Xing spoke to it in a low voice this time in the language of others: "So do you know where this is? Or do you know me?"

This time, the meaning conveyed by the little bug was clearer and more specific. Li Xing felt that it disliked her for being an idiot. Although the tone of the words was not so intense, she could completely feel the other party's contempt and disdain for her.

Why is a bug so arrogant!

Li Xing curled his lips and looked at the stalls set up on the nearby streets. The shops were all open, and the aroma of baking bread wafted over. Li Xing touched his stomach and surprisingly found that he was not very hungry. Li Xing immediately decided to save the money. She didn't know how much the money could buy, so she had to save as much as possible.

As this small street became more and more lively, it also began to become chaotic. Someone threw smelly rotten fish into the ditch not far away, and a pungent smell gradually came over. Li Xing didn't like such an environment very much, but because she had nowhere to go, she could only sit on the uncomfortable crate and continue to feel all this.

Fortunately, no one noticed here, Li Xing said with emotion, as if they couldn't see me.

Wait, she won't become a ghost, right?

Just when Li Xing was thinking wildly, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd, and a female voice shouted: "Catch that thief quickly! It's that child!"

Almost at the moment when the boy in the gray shirt wearing a beret approached, Li Xing thought about catching the thief, and her hand reacted far beyond her thoughts. She accurately clasped it on the boy's forearm and quickly The running boy was almost dragged down by her. The boy's hat fell to the ground, and he looked at Li Xing in shock, as if he had just noticed that there was someone here.

Li Xing, on the other hand, was shocked by his reaction speed and stared at the boy. The child's skinny cheeks looked like they had never been full, not to mention the bruises on his forehead and chin, which made Li Xing subconsciously relax. The shouts from the crowd behind were getting closer, and the boy slammed away from Li Xing and ran forward. The moment Li Xing stepped back, she subconsciously put her hand in the boy's arms, and then she let the boy run. Entering the crowd in the other direction.

"Catch the thief! There is a thief - phew..." The gray-haired middle-aged woman beat her waist with her hands. She finally squeezed out of the crowd, but lost track of the boy. The woman was holding on to the crate and breathing heavily. Thinking that she had lost this week's salary and that all the money for food at home was gone, she was so aggrieved that she almost cried.

At this moment, the spinner's rough red cloth bag was handed to her. The woman snatched it away and held it tightly to her heart. Then she looked at the girl opposite: "Thank you, thank you, thank you, very much." grateful……"

Li Xing shook her head, but out of caution she didn't speak. She just smiled at the woman, and then she squeezed into the crowd and walked toward the street slowly.

The sense of invisibility that had been ignored before disappeared, replaced by a faint feeling of fatigue. Li Xing rubbed his eyes and between his eyebrows, feeling a small amount of empty stomach coming over him. It was not the daily physiological hunger for food, but more like In order to replenish the consumption just now, the body's own reminder appears.

Li Xing was reviewing what she had just done. The invisibility effect, the quick reaction when grabbing the boy, and the quick snatch at that moment all showed that she had some abilities beyond ordinary people.

But in Li Xing's memory, she was just an ordinary modern person.

While feeling strange, Li Xing also felt a little more at ease with her situation. With such a "skill", how could she try to find some part-time jobs to make money, right?

Li Xing glanced at the fruit stalls. Many of them were things she had never seen before. The red fist-shaped fruits looked similar to apples. I wonder what the difference in taste was?

When Li Xing was thinking this, she subconsciously glanced at the owner of the fruit stall. The bearded owner was impatiently dismissing a couple who were trying to bargain, and his attention was not here.

Then Li Xing's hand took action again before she realized it. By the time she reacted, there were two red fruits stuck between her bent arms and her body. The unpaid fruit was completely blocked by Li Xing's oversized sleeves and could never be seen from the outside. However, she didn't stop at all and had already walked several meters away with the flow of people.

Li Xing continued to walk among the crowd stiffly, full of panic about his instinctive stealing behavior just now: Could it be that this body is still a habitual offender! ? How come I just had an idea and immediately started stealing things!

Return the fruit? That's hard to explain. Li Xing doesn't even recognize the coins here. She doesn't know how much she should pay.

With random thoughts in his mind, Li Xing did not stop walking and finally walked out of this messy street. Since she couldn't find any source of clean water, she could only wipe the red fruit in her hand with the inside of her shirt several times before she dared to put it in her mouth.

The fruit is crisp and has sweet flesh. Although it is not as sweet and delicious as the apple in Li Xing's memory, the taste is not very strange, at least it is not a taste that transcends human cognition.

But what next?

Li Xing stood at the intersection, confusedly looking at the words on the intersection sign that she didn't recognize at all, and fell into confusion again.

She needs literacy! Very necessary!

[ ] are all "non-universal languages" that are spoken.