Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

Outside the "Brave Bar", when the taxi drove past the door, the window rang slightly twice, and a figure was outlined in the carriage, condensing from illusion to reality.

Esther, who was sitting next to Klein, widened her eyes and subconsciously retracted her hands and feet. She instinctively moved her fingers in preparation for "stealing" to be prepared for this lady who appeared out of nowhere.

This pale lady wore a long black palace dress, her pale blond hair was tied into a retro-style bun with a small soft hat on top. This outfit made her delicate face look particularly elegant.

Excluding the fact that she suddenly appeared in the car, this was a classical beauty that surprised Esther.

Esther glanced at Klein's unchanged expression from the corner of her eyes and knew that this was the Extraordinary friend he was going to introduce. Then she relaxed slightly and put her hands back on her knees.

The lady opposite had no expression at all, staring at Esther like a doll without speaking.

"Good evening, Ms. Sharon, this is my friend..." Klein hesitated for a moment.

Esther immediately understood his hesitation and answered automatically: "Esther, just call me Esther."

Since she is a trustworthy friend of "Sherlock", she doesn't care if the other party learns her commonly used "real name".

"Extraordinary?" The voice of the lady opposite was also ethereal, crisp and cold, as if it would disappear from the air at any time.

Esther nodded: "Sequence 5 'Stealer', I hope you won't mind my accompanying you."

Ms. Sharon didn't seem to be used to Esther's overly straightforward communication. She just nodded slightly and didn't express any opinion. Esther could tell that she didn't want to talk about her own sequence.

Klein cleared his throat: "Well, I'm ready. I brought Esther, just in case."

There was no change in expression in Ms. Sharon's blue eyes: "Tonight?"

"If you don't have a problem, I don't have a problem."

"Okay." Sharon nodded slightly, then became quiet again. She seemed not used to talking.

Afterwards, Klein asked Miss Sharon for clues about "Mermaid". This was the first time Esther saw Miss Sharon speak more than one word in a sentence tonight.

It felt amazing, but no matter what Sharon said, her tone of voice had no emotional ups and downs, and it was difficult for Esther to feel that she was a human being.

The taxi continued forward, heading for Williams Street at the junction of the West End and Queens Boroughs.

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On this street, there is a small church that has been abandoned for a long time. As the midnight bell echoes, a figure is working hard to dig a tunnel. Like a busy worker ant, he is going in and out of the tunnel, covered in stains. of soil.

The dust that occasionally fell from between the rocks could not cover his eyes, which were shining with excitement and full of ambition. When the opening was expanded enough to accommodate him, he immediately leaned in and crawled diagonally downwards. , not caring that the skin of his elbows was scratched on the rough stone.

He kept digging down until everything was clear. Below was a dark and solemn underground palace.

The man's eyes became more and more fanatical. He suddenly grabbed a black iron coat of arms, pulled up his collar and wiped it again and again, as if he was grabbing some kind of scepter leading to honor, and almost kissed it directly.

There was indeed a hand holding a scepter on the coat of arms, and the man couldn't wait to hold it to his heart - all illusions were shattered, and he was still in the narrow passage excavated, with only dirt and stones in front of him.

There was only one person looking at him quietly, and that was a person with no facial features at all.

The man backed away frantically, not even taking away his excavation tools or the lantern for lighting. Even though his elbows were rubbed with large blood marks, he felt no pain at all and just wanted to get out of here as quickly as possible!

But when he returned to the dark church, under the dim crimson moonlight, another shadow passed directly through the wall and walked toward the man.

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When Klein and Miss Sharon went down to intimidate their target, Esther could only squat outside a broken wall where she could observe the entrance of the cave, monitoring whether anyone was approaching.

In the middle of the night, the probability of someone coming to a place like this is much lower than the chance of money falling from the sky.

Esther couldn't help but think so.

Although she really wanted to participate in Klein's plan, she really didn't have the ability to cooperate with the script. If Esther comes forward while playing with a dagger, then this is not a horror movie, but a martial arts movie. Klein and Sharon don't want to hurt each other's life, they just want to scare this person away.

But the next development was different from what they expected.

This man actually misunderstood Miss Sharon as the evil spirit in the ruins, and urgently asked them for help. He even mentioned the "Black Emperor" and "Blood Emperor", but Esther felt that his words were strange. There is no logic at all, just falling into a desperate situation and heading towards madness.

After Sharon answered "I refuse" indifferently, the anxious man wanted to continue to say something to persuade her, but his eyes suddenly fell into silence. He suddenly took a few steps sideways and came to where Esther was leaning. Near the stone wall.

Esther quickly rolled close to Klein and Sharon's position, facing the man who was behaving strangely. All three of them realized that something was wrong with him.

Esther held the dagger in her right hand, and opened the fingers of her left hand, ready to launch "steal" at any time. Klein pulled out his revolver and pointed it at the man, while Miss Sharon raised her hand slightly, letting the crimson moonlight fill the room. A piece of ruins.

The man didn't even look at the three of them. He just hit his head hard against the stone wall.

"Boom! Boom!"

Esther quickly grasped and grasped with her left hand, taking away his movements, fearing that the man would commit suicide directly.

As a result, her body acted accordingly and suddenly hit the ground directly. Fortunately, Klein reacted in time and grabbed Esther's collar, preventing her from kissing the ground directly.

Although the man stood there stunned for two seconds, blood was already flowing down his forehead. His closed eyes suddenly opened, and they were filled with bloodshot eyes like crisscrossing tree roots.

The action of wiping his forehead with his palm and licking the blood set off alarm bells in Klein's heart. Sharon still had no expression on her face, but Esther felt a weak and vaguely familiar power. Occupying the body of the digger.

Why does it feel familiar? Esther was sure she had no dealings with the evil spirits here, and this made her feel increasingly uncomfortable.

Then, the evil spirit made it clear that Klein was a "person with secrets" and tried to provoke a tacit understanding between the three people to deal with the enemy. However, Esther had known this for a long time, and Miss Sharon had no reaction, which made him alienated. The plan didn't have much effect.

The evil spirit immediately changed tactics and instead made a request for them to help him out, in exchange for helping Miss Sharon get promoted, and then showed Klein a "magical and precious item."

He used the crimson moonlight to condense an illusory scene, presenting a tarot card depicting a male priest in a chariot wearing crimson robes.

Esther's pupils gradually dilated. She had seen something similar.

It was during a Tarot session before God.

Although Esther didn't understand what it was, and others already knew the answer and no one mentioned it again, Esther understood that since it was something that even the Fool and the gods valued, there must be a huge secret hidden.

The evil spirit noticed Esther's expression, and his eyes naturally fell on Esther: "As for you, sneaky little thief, it's not easy for you to survive to this stage. What I can give you is a precious piece of advice. , when you get promoted, quickly switch to an adjacent path, lest you become someone else’s toy someday.”

This was the first time Esther had communicated with him since the evil spirit appeared: "You mean the head of the Amon family?"

The corners of Evil Spirit's mouth gradually turned upward: "Then you should also know that there is only 'one person' in that family, the head of the family."

Body and alter ego.

Esther silently filled in what the evil spirit had not said.

The evil spirit turned to Sharon again and tried to persuade her with the potion of Sequence 4 of the Abyss Pathway, but Sharon turned her head and looked at Klein, signaling that he should respond.

After Klein thought briefly, he asked his question: "Then how should you remove your seal?"

The evil spirit asked them to find the direct descendants of the Sauron, Einhorn and Medici families, take ten milliliters of blood each, as much as they could, mix it with holy water and sprinkle it into his room.

What makes Esther confused is, why three families? The key to breaking the curse also comes from three people?

Klein did not hide the confusion on his face, and Esther knew that he showed it to the other party on purpose: "I know about the Sauron and Einhorn families, but I have never heard of the Medici family."

Esther recited the name silently, and the feeling of familiarity became stronger and stronger.

The evil spirit said contemptuously: "It's normal. They always like to hide in the shadows. They are contaminated angels. They have established an extremely secretive organization. That organization is called -"

"Redemption Rose."

Like a stone falling into the water, it stirred up a thousand waves in Esther's mind, and a tiny bit of memory that did not belong to her surfaced, but even if it was blurry, it was still full of power enough to drive Esther mentally crazy.

The buzzing sound was almost a roar in her head, as if a steam train was running over her soul, washing away any sense of the outside world she had.

The dagger slipped from her palm, and Esther pressed her temples and lowered her body little by little. Beads of sweat quickly formed on her forehead, and all the blood faded from her cheeks.

If Esther still raised her head and opened her eyes at this time, Klein could see the ink swirling in her eyes and the flickering glimmer inside.

The evil spirit on the other side didn't seem to expect that just throwing out a name would cause the young girl in the "Stealer" sequence to have such a big reaction. Although she knew "Amon", she didn't look like he was being parasitized. Otherwise, she would have recognized him immediately. Why would she act like she was ill...

"'Red Angel', Medici?"

This title is in giant language.

The bloodshot eyes of the evil spirit became slightly lighter, and the evil aura coming from the man's body was quickly converging. He moved his hands hesitantly, and because his condition inexplicably became stable, he confirmed the identity of the other party. This made the evil spirit turn around. A moment of ecstasy:

"Little Sparrow!? Why are you here in Backlund? Is Ourolius also there? Did the Lord send you here?"

Sharon stepped back a short distance. Under her gaze, Klein also slowly backed away like her.

There was something wrong with Esther's state, which made Klein feel several times more nervous than when he saw the evil spirit just now.

"I don't, I'm not... some sparrow..."

Esther didn't even know that the Giant language words came out of her mouth just now. The language she used to communicate with the other party returned to Rune language again. She was trying her best to endure the tearing pain in her mind.

Several light spots floated up and down from Esther's hair, and she tried her best to restrain them. She spoke intermittently with a breathy voice: "I don't know either, what you said..."

The evil spirit stared at her with a complicated expression, and the joy on his face gradually returned to indifference. He showed a smile full of ridicule and contempt: "That's right. Seeing that you are a 'thief' now, the brothers must have also tried their best to steal you." Pulled into their camp.”

The buzzing in Esther's mind quickly subsided, as if a snail had retracted into its shell after being touched, giving room for reason and thinking to Esther herself again: "I am not the 'him' you know. , I...I don’t know what you are talking about.”

The evil spirit scratched his face with his hand and scraped out two clean areas where the blood on his forehead was stained. His hands were quite strong, leaving a grin-like blood mark on both sides of his cheeks:

"Look at me, Zoya, look at my fate! This is the plan of those brothers! How good do you think you can be!?"

Esther felt anger rising in her heart, and she immediately shouted back: "I told you I'm not 'Zoya'! I don't know who you are talking about!"

The evil spirit glanced back and forth on her face, and then looked at Klein again as if nothing had happened, but his tone was much colder than before: "As long as you trace the organization that believes in the 'True Creator', you can always Contact the 'Rose of Redemption' and find the person you are looking for. If you have no clue, go to Binxi Town."

Klein asked where the location was, but the evil spirit didn't answer him.

Klein glanced at Esther, whose expression was gradually returning to normal, and asked about another matter about the battle between the four emperors, and learned that the crazy "Blood Emperor" was Alistair Tudor.

The evil spirit seemed unwilling to communicate further, only saying that he could tell Klein more history after the seal was lifted.

He glanced at Esther who picked up the dagger again and held it tightly in her hand for the last time.

The evil spirit stared at the vivid anger and fighting spirit in Esther's eyes. After being silent for several seconds, he suddenly let out a chuckle.

Then his body fell back limply, like a puppet with its strings cut off. After losing its strings, it collapsed on the ground. The evil spirit broke away from the body of the descendant of the Tudor family.

Esther's hands were still trembling slightly. She had not recovered from the too weird incident before. She clenched her fists hard and then unclenched them, trying to relax her tense nerves.

She should know who "Medici" is, at least the one in her mind knows him.

But what Esther couldn't figure out was the meaning of the evil spirit's last laugh.

His laughter was full of ridicule, but Esther could hear a hint of pity.

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