Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

The rapidly changing scenes in her sight made Esther increasingly dizzy and feeling sick to her stomach.

When everything stopped, she found that there was an endless sea in front of her.

The sea!

There are no dusty buildings, no panting steam trains, no streets trampled by people and horses, and no haze in the sky that pollutes the air for years.

Esther couldn't believe it, but looked at everything in front of her with amazement:

In the distance, blue and rolling sapphires reflect the sun's rays. The scattered crystal diamonds are deeper and more distant than the clear sky, and they are connected to a line in the distance.

The frothy waves rose and fell, until they touched the nearby golden sand, then faded and disappeared.

The finely broken shells were buried underneath, and only after the salty waves receded, did they shyly reveal a corner, gazing at the vast and refreshing blue world.

This is a kind of shock that Esther can't describe. It comes from an individual's small perspective and feels from the broader and free world.

Her eyes were a little moist, maybe because of the sand in them, or maybe because of the pain from the curse in the wound on her left hand.

A hermit crab squeezed open a corner of the shell, slowly crawled across Esther's shoes with its slightly white right eye, completely unafraid of the statue-like human being who was in a daze.

Esther smelled the pure sea breeze. Without Backlund's gloomy mist, the smell was more vivid than she remembered. She could almost taste the bitter salty taste of sea water in her mouth. She didn't hate such a strong smell. A sensory experience, even quite immersive.

There was only one thing, she wanted to shout now, she wanted to use her voice to cover up the sound of the waves that was like white noise day and night.

Since there was no one around, Esther did this:

"Where on earth - is this -"

However, she forgot that there was a crow nearby, so the hoarse voice with a smile sounded above Esther's head the next moment:

"The seaside. It's far enough away from Backlund, so it's safe here."

Esther pointed to the beautiful sea and sky line opposite: "Of course he knows that this is the seaside!? How did we get here? The mysterious lady just now gave me a very familiar feeling, she will not hurt us! Why? Are we going to suddenly flash——or be teleported or something, and just run here!?”

The white-eyed crow flew down from Esther's head and landed on a nearby coconut tree. He turned his head left and right leisurely, as if he was sizing up the situation nearby:

"Even if you ask me that, I can only make a rough guess."

"I really, really want to avoid that guy named Amon, but I don't want to go straight to a 'Robinson Crusoe'! Do you still want to change your name to 'Friday'?"

Esther turned around twice on the beach irritably, looking around, but she didn't see any figures or ships. Only two seagulls with dark circles passed over her head and got into the lush woods behind her.

The warm sea breeze blew on her cheeks and brushed her silver hair, making Esther sigh deeply. There is no longer the biting cold wind of Backlund in winter. If the time and place were different, Esther might enjoy such a trip. This was something she had been thinking about for a long time.

But now all hell breaks loose.

"Friday? What kind of story is this?" Crow tilted his head curiously, seemingly not worried about the current situation at all.

Esther glared at it angrily: "The story of cannibalism!"

“It’s very cliche and doesn’t feel interesting enough.”

"You actually have the heart to comment? Maybe we are trapped in a ghost place that doesn't even have a name!?"

Esther looked at the primitive jungle that was full of wild atmosphere. It would be an exaggeration to say that there were no birds in this place, because there were seabirds flying over just now, but it was hard for her to believe that there were other people in this place.

Even if there are, they might be savages who are difficult to communicate with... They can't really eat people, right? From another perspective, are there extraordinary people in this world? Then maybe there are extraordinary animals or even monsters on such an island?

I can’t think about it anymore, I can’t scare myself anymore!

Esther patted her forehead with her palm, trying to calm down her emotions. After calming down a little, she took a look at the lush forest and decided that she could not stand there stupidly.

Breaking off a branch about one meter long, Esther found a piece of flaky pebbles and shells. After simply cutting off the top edge, she grabbed this extremely crude weapon and started walking towards the side of the beach.

If it hadn't been for being sluggish for too long and the stolen frost ability had dissipated, Esther wouldn't have been so embarrassed to make her own weapons.

The black silk on her left hand was slowly dissipating, but very slowly. Although the pain was obvious, it was still within Esther's tolerance. From time to time, a ring would appear and disappear in the palm of her hand, fighting against the erosion of flesh and blood. The curse.

The crow flew over and squatted on Esther's head again, happily observing her every move: "Isn't there nothing useful in your bag?"

"No, I dropped my dagger! Then we suddenly appeared here again..." As Esther said, she picked up several stones larger than the size of her fist nearby and formed a circle around the edge of the woods. He made a mark to locate his starting point, "That woman is the 'witch', isn't she?"

"Of course, of course," the crow replied casually, "can you build your own boat?"

Esther paused as she walked to the right side of the beach: "You think too highly of me, don't you?"

"Then you want to swim back?"

Esther almost had a huge question mark written on her face: "Who gave you such a great illusion? I don't even know where we are, where should I go? To the sky?"

"Hey, it's not impossible." The crow flapped its wings twice, showing off its flying ability.

This made Esther feel that the center of her right eyebrow began to throb again. If it weren't for the inconvenience of holding the wooden stick in her left hand, she would definitely reach out and rub it.

What frightened her was that the spiritual intuition in her mind conveyed "uneasiness". Such a warning was vague but had no direction. To be more precise, it seemed to foretell that dangers might be hidden in all directions.

On the surface, Esther has not changed at all. On the surface, she is guarding against wild beasts that may come out of the island jungle, but at the same time, she begins to secretly be wary of the "Xiao Qi" above her head, just because it is also included in such " "Uneasy" warning.

Not far away, a lizard with a slightly black right eye circle stuck out its tongue, disappeared into the grass behind the tree roots, and crawled deeper into the island.

Moving at the same time as it, there are all kinds of tiny reptiles and flying insects.

Several crabs dragged their bodies on the beach, covering all the messy footprints.

Not long after, several seabirds with dark circles flew here, grabbed the stones that were used as markers, and took them all back to the jungle.

——

The sun was too dazzling and the temperature rose quickly. Although Esther was not afraid of heat, enduring like this consumed her little remaining energy. Soon she had to take off her cloak and tie it up directly. On the waist, this will not affect the movement of her hands and feet too much.

She walked towards sunset, feeling exhausted again and again, but it seemed she had not returned to where she started.

Esther rubbed her arms, and the cyclic wheels appeared on the skin under her sleeves and then quickly disappeared. Unbeknownst to her, this process was repeated many times, causing Esther's physiological functions to completely shut down.

This also helped Esther a lot. There was no bathroom on such a deserted island.

It was hard for Esther not to think of the abnormality caused by "Zoya" before and wonder if it was related to that time.

There were traces of broken branches everywhere on the edge of the forest, but Esther never saw the circle of stones, and the beach was still extending ahead, which made her suspicious. Esther didn't think the island was that vast. She walked very fast, but it had been at least three hours since she walked down, and she still hadn't returned to where she started.

"Xiaoqi, you can see farther. Is this island very large?" Esther couldn't help but ask Crow for help.

However, her on-field support was quite passive. Crow blinked innocently: "It looks quite big, I didn't notice it. But there isn't much movement in the jungle, so it should be quite safe. Do you want to go in and find a place to spend the night?"

"Well," Esther hesitated a little. She looked around, "I think I should prepare something to eat first, otherwise I will really start thinking about roasting you."

The eyes of the white-rimmed crow were full of teasing: "Oh? The fruit on the tree over there is a specialty of the islands and can be eaten by humans."

Esther looked at the slender tree that resembled a palm, and there was indeed a huge hard-shelled fruit hanging from the top. She squinted her eyes and looked at it for two seconds: "It looks a lot like a puffed coconut..."

"So, come on, almighty Xiao Qi!"

"don't want."

"It's so cold."

Esther just made a joke casually to cheer herself up. She really didn't expect the crow to do its best to help her. From the moment she landed on the island, it had been keen on watching her jokes.

"Then get out of the way and don't get hit."

The crow chuckled, as if mocking Esther for what she said was stupid, but it also got up from above Esther's head and flew to a bush a few meters away, keeping distance from Esther's target.

"It's really torture to think about it. That Amon can steal distance, but I can't, otherwise I would just capture it."

Climbing the tree was impossible. Esther's left hand could not support such an activity, so she could only think about knocking the fruit down.

Esther picked up a few stones from the beach, looked up and stared at the position of the fruit, took a few steps back, then suddenly flicked her wrist and hit one of the stones up. The fruit shook twice and then stopped moving.

Esther repeated this action several times. After analyzing the approximate force and angle, she stepped forward, twisted her body, and threw up the wooden gun.

"Boom!"

The sharp tip of the wooden gun hit the oval-shaped fruit hard. Under such impact, the weight-bearing branch made a breaking sound, and soon the fruit fell to the sand, even with the remaining force exerted by the wooden gun. Next to it, the one next to it also fell down.

The wooden gun drew an arc in the air and was inserted into the sand pile on the other side.

Before Esther could even cheer, another person's palm had already covered the coconut-like fruit and picked it up from the ground.

The black crow with white circles fell back on Esther's head, and expressed the question in Esther's mind: "Why are you here? Did you send us here?"

The black-haired young man wearing a crystal monocle threw up and caught the Tyana fruit in his hand, smiled at Esther and said:

"To be honest, I've always been here."