Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

This was Esther's first night at the Kroger Hotel. After the half-sobbing that she encountered when she entered the door, nothing happened until she lay down on the down pillow.

So Esther covered herself with the quilt, listened to the occasional sparks crackling in the fireplace, and quickly fell asleep.

She didn't expect that she would have an extremely long-lost dream.

This is a barren and empty plain. There is nothing but dark and hard stones under the feet, not even the weeds that will take root in any stone crevices.

Esther stretched out her hand and picked at it twice. These stones seemed to be fixed and not affected by external objects at all. They firmly performed their duties as background boards.

So she raised her eyes and looked farther away. The dark and fuzzy sky seemed to be covered with a curtain, so chaotic that no shape could be outlined. The clearest thing was a towering tower on the edge of the horizon. The tower was so dark that it could not reflect any light. A giant silver-white snake was coiled on it, its head hanging slightly, as if it was taking a nap.

There are no snake scales on the giant snake. The outer layer of its body is covered with dense patterns full of mystical significance, forming various strange wheel-shaped symbols. These wheels are connected to each other and surrounded by more dazzling symbols. filled with logos. The snake's head and tail each have only half of the wheels. Unless it holds the tail below, it will form a completely complete shape.

When Esther looked at it, the giant snake made no movement and its eyes were closed.

There was nothing else around, and Esther couldn't stand still, so she raised her legs in the direction of the giant snake, wanting to get closer to the black tower and take a look.

She probably only took a dozen steps before the giant snake suddenly opened its eyes and turned its head in Esther's direction in shock.

Its red vertical eyes were quite cold, but because they were full of shock and even panic at this time, they seemed less scary.

Esther immediately paused on the spot, not knowing whether to continue moving forward, but the snake gradually raised its body and leaned its upper body back. The posture was very similar to the preparation movements that snakes would make before attacking.

There were extremely human emotions and thoughts in its eyes, which made Esther want to test whether the other party could communicate, so she took another step forward, hoping to go to the bottom of the spire to meet this giant snake.

The giant snake's body bounced up, and it bit its tail violently, completing the incomplete half of the circle.

The touch around Esther became sticky, as if something invisible was wrapped around her body.

The next moment she opened her eyes from the quilt. There was still an hour before dawn, and the charcoal in the fireplace was almost gone. The red light on it dimmed and brightened, and it would not take long for it to be completely extinguished.

"Why are you dreaming again..." Esther rubbed her eyes and buried her face under the quilt, which was much warmer than the outside.

Xiao Qi, who was lying on the cushion, heard her chanting and opened his eyes. He happened to see a blurry and bloody human face in the landscape painting hanging above the bed.

It is not accurate to say that it is a human face. There is no skin on this flat face, only blood-red muscle fibers are exposed, and tears are still leaking from both sides of its eye sockets. A pair of dark gray eyeballs are tightly pulled by muscles, protruding like a goldfish with bulging eyes. They are covered with fine orange-red blood filaments. It seems that they may burst from the painting at any time, spilling blood and tears into the real world.

But those eyes were now full of panic and fear. If it hadn't been difficult to move, it might have disappeared long ago.

Xiao Qi met it's eyes silently.

The skinless face in the painting shakes its head desperately, with an expression full of begging.

Xiao Qi understood what it meant. The other party wanted it to pretend not to see it and not want to attract any attention.

So Xiao Qi nodded towards the spirit who was extremely afraid of Esther——

"Esther, look at the painting above your head."

He mercilessly woke up Esther who was still trying to stay in bed.

When Esther heard this, she sat up in a daze, looked back at the "flower field landscape painting", and saw a human face without skin floating in it.

Her eyes widened.

The eyes of that human face were wider than hers. If it weren't for the difficulty in moving, it might have shivered and shrank into a corner. This situation made Esther couldn't help but smile and shake her head.

No wonder spiritual intuition didn’t call the police at all. It was much more frightened than me.

"Is there anything you want to say?"

The spirit's expression seemed to be in a trance. There were more and more tears on its face, and it let out a slight sob: "Help me, help... help me!"

It was a hoarse and shrill female voice. Esther sat cross-legged on the bed, looking at the spirit trapped in the painting, and she always felt something was wrong. It is said that the blood-stained mirror has been taken away by the "police". From Esther's understanding, there is a high probability that the "Mechanical Heart" responsible for managing this place is responsible for handling this suspected extraordinary event.

Didn't the other party find this remaining spirit? It shouldn't be. According to the process, the entire room should be "sterilized" in mystical terms.

Esther didn't care about the horrifying face in the frame. She felt that it was not much different from the muscle photos of mannequins after seeing it too much. She reached out and knocked around the frame, and found that the painting was embedded in the wall. This may be one of the reasons why it was not taken away. Most of the other things in the room had been replaced.

But why painting? Esther reached out and poked the glass shell in the corner outside the canvas, which made the spirit almost roll its eyes in fear, fearing that her fingers would get any closer.

Xiao Qi also flew over from the sofa, landed on the quilt, and looked at this scene with a smile: "She is too weak, only instinct, I am afraid it is just the remaining spirituality attached to this place after a tragic death. The mirror that was taken away should be is the key."

Esther took back her hand, looked at the painting and asked, "Do you have anything to say?"

"Help me..." This resentful spirit really has no power. Apart from sobbing, it kept repeating this sentence, which proved that Xiao Qi's words were quite correct.

Esther suddenly raised her hand and clasped it with her knuckles next to the resentful spirit's eye, making a small muffled sound. Her movement was so sudden that Xiao Qi didn't expect it, let alone the one trapped in the painting. A resentful spirit.

She let out a half-stern cry of "Help—" and then pursed her lips tightly, trying her best to hold back her sobs of grievance. Tears fell down desperately, but she didn't dare to cry at all.

"It doesn't look fake." Esther said to Xiao Qi.

Xiao Qi looked at her in shock. : "Why did you learn so badly?"

Esther shrugged: "Just stimulating her, maybe it will induce some abnormal reaction? It's not convenient for me to smash the painting if she stays in it..."

But she already had an idea in her mind. She tapped her forehead, and a dozen light spots instantly floated up, as if a small star had risen in the room. Ignoring the increasingly panicked look in the resentful spirit's eyes, they flew straight through the glass into the frame, and then flew out again lightly.

After retracting these light spots, Esther lowered her eyes and "listened" to their feedback.

"It's not the painting that traps her, but this layer of glass... She seems to have been an extraordinary person once. Do you know the 'Witch'?"

"Ha, the 'witch' without her beauty? Who would recognize her?"

Esther muttered "beautiful women are white bones" in a low voice. Because it was in Chinese, Xiao Qi didn't understand it. He knew that she was speaking a language that he didn't understand.

"'Witch' refers to the mid-to-high Sequence Extraordinary of the 'Assassin' sequence. This suffix is ​​only found from Sequence Six and up. But the weak spirit in front of you should only be a 'Witch' from Sequence Seven, what you said The 'Witch' is probably the real culprit behind making her become like this."

"I see, so she still has her obsession with the murderer and wants to convey it to others?"

As if feeling a glimmer of hope, the human face in the painting spoke again, eagerly repeating those words: "Help me, help me..."

Esther rolled her eyes at the painting: "Forget about beauty, we are discussing how to deal with you."

The resentful spirit immediately fell silent.

Esther is indeed still hesitant and doesn't want to get involved in this matter. She already has enough troubles. The doubts caused by the dream just now are still lingering in her heart. Now a "witch" pops up and even more... With the high-sequence "Witch" involved, Backlund can change its name to "City of Extraordinaries".

The main reason is that Esther doesn't want to keep this face anymore. She doesn't like to be stared at by others all the time while sleeping, even if the other person is "harmless".

Now Esther is weighing several options in her mind:

The first is to directly destroy the painting, use a dagger with purification function to directly obliterate the resentful spirit, and then compensate the boss, pretending that he accidentally broke the painting frame, vaguely cover up the matter, and immediately after staying here for a few days Leave the hotel; secondly, try to find other carriers, try to use the ability of light points to tear and isolate spiritual power, transfer the resentful spirit from the picture frame glass to other places, and then continue to live here with peace of mind; Third, inform the front desk boss about this matter, ask him to call the police, and transfer this "supernatural incident" to the local "Machine Heart", but what will follow will be the other party's interrogation and arrest, Esther did not Any identification and carrying extraordinary items can easily arouse the other party's suspicion, so this is the last action she is likely to take.

"Xiao Qi, do you think it is necessary to keep her?" Esther looked at the face in the frame. After getting used to it, she no longer felt the discomfort she felt at first sight.

The light spots around her were floating up and down and were the main light source in the room.

Of course Xiao Qi shook her head: "Although the charm or curse of the 'witch' is probably ineffective for you, they can also cause a lot of damage on the physical level. It is best not to contact them if possible."

"Then it's still..."

Esther looked into the eyes in the frame and saw the despair and sorrow in them.

Xiao Qi raised her head: "Don't be soft-hearted, Esther. Even if she is just a 'witch' in Sequence Seven, you don't know how many people she has harmed and how many innocent lives she has taken away. Isn't this something you have always despised? Something?"

"I know," Esther's voice sounded cold, "I'm just thinking about how I can use her."

She's getting better at lying.

Xiao Qi thought so.

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