Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

Esther stared nervously at the black-haired young man across from her. She didn't even have a weapon to defend herself, and the wooden gun had already been thrown out.

run? She didn't even have the confidence to run away.

Negotiate superficially first? He seemed to be afraid of "Zoya" in my mind, so he never directly stole any ideas, or even tried to parasitize me. If He really wanted to fight, then I would steal my own ideas and let "Zoya" "take over! According to Xiao Qi, this place is far away from Backlund anyway, so it doesn't matter even if things get serious...

Many thoughts passed through Esther's mind. She took a deep breath and looked back at the smiling young man opposite: "Are you really Amon?"

"Of course, all of us are Amon." The young man clasped the hard-shell fruit in his hand with his knuckles. "If someone says otherwise, they are really deceiving you."

His gaze turned to the white-rimmed crow above Esther's head.

The crow immediately lowered his body and whispered to Esther: "Don't believe his words, he is driving a wedge between us!"

Of course, Esther noticed the pronoun used by the crow, and the tension in her heart increased by several degrees. Her heartbeat became more and more violent, and she subconsciously stepped back under her feet, but she still managed to remain calm on her face:

"No, Xiaoqi is Xiaoqi, it's different."

The white-rimmed crow lying on Esther's head suddenly opened its eyes slightly, and then showed a clear expression. Where Esther couldn't see it, a trace of alertness flashed in its black glass bead-like eyes.

Crow noticed a potential shift in his cognition and quickly adjusted it back. This is the most special anchoring ability of "Zoya" - because he has such a firm belief, the "destiny" itself will be distorted. The stronger and clearer his understanding of the other person, the greater the degree to which the other person will be affected. It will become stronger and stronger with time.

It would be difficult for an angel to notice such a special thing, not to mention that it would be extremely easy for a clone in a loop-sealed state to be guided away from the original body by her.

Even if other clones are somewhat aware of it, it is difficult for them to be vigilant enough and then quickly forget about it in the face of "Zoya's" untenable fate.

Therefore, the relevant news has never been informed about the identity of the God-Forsaken Land...

The young man opposite was not in a hurry to say anything, but was waiting for the next signal from the white-eyed crow. Seeing that the crow was thinking about something, he threw the fruit out of his hand and let it roll across the beach, stopping just in front of Esther.

The other party's action made Esther take two steps back to avoid the fruit: "What exactly do you want?"

The young man adjusted his monocle: "It depends on what you can give me, but are you the master? Strictly speaking, you can't even be regarded as a 'thief', you just accommodate the extraordinary things that belong to others." characteristic."

His smile is wanton and joyful, as if he is not revealing the disguise of the person opposite, but exploring the beauty of the beach and blue sky: "Without Him in your mind, of course you are nothing."

"I'd rather not have 'Zoya'! I'm just an ordinary person. I don't know why I'm here!"

Esther didn't know where the anger in her heart came from. She shouldn't be so emotional. She should have been more cautious and careful when facing this "King of Angels", but she couldn't control this emotion. , instead of throwing aside reason and getting angry like this.

The young man glanced at the crow above Esther and nodded in distress: "Okay, I can see your determination. How about we play a game?"

game?

The crow patted Esther's head with its wings: "Be careful!"

Esther whispered back: "I know that He has bad intentions, how could such a good thing happen..."

Then she loudly asked the young man opposite: "I won't agree to you easily!"

Hearing the "negotiate terms" implicit in Esther's words, the young man snorted: "Since it is a game, there will naturally be rewards and punishments. I will hide four things on the island. Accordingly, you have four days. Come and look for them. Before the sun sets on the fourth day, you have to deliver them to 'me', and the game ends. If you can meet this condition, of course I will send you back to Backlund, and I can even give you a more suitable gift. How about an extraordinary item from the 'Zoya' pathway?"

Esther's eyes lit up, but she would not be easily carried away by this desire. She did not believe that the other party would let herself and Xiao Qi go easily: "Such a simple rule?"

"This is related to punishment," the young man's smile deepened, "If you can't find it, I will take away something that belongs to you every night at night."

Esther's right eyelid twitched: "My things?"

"Let me remind you first, it could be anything. Don't say I didn't understand it when the time comes."

The young man's tone was very innocent, a bit complaining and playful, just like Xiao Qi.

"Do I have a choice not to play this game?"

The young man's smile deepened: "Of course - no. I can't harm your life, because I don't want to directly awaken the sleeping power in your body. If you are still awake after the fourth night, then you will be free."

The crow above Esther suddenly spoke: "We are on an island in the south, right?"

"Yes, this is the uninhabited island to the west of Bayam." The young man pointed in a direction, "If we keep swimming along there, we might be able to find people, but it will only take many days and nights."

Esther didn't reply immediately. She keenly caught the word that the young man deliberately emphasized, "sober".

Why should staying sober be a condition of freedom? Does this have anything to do with what the young man wants to steal?

Even if she didn't want to participate, she had no choice.

"I see."

"Then the game starts tomorrow, and you can move around freely." After the young man finished speaking, he walked leisurely into the primitive woods with his hands behind his back, without any intention of staying.

This made Esther feel a little relieved, but soon she felt depressed again: "It's a completely unreasonable game..."

"Why is it unreasonable?" The crow stood up on top of her head and jumped twice. "Isn't this good? At least you still have some hope."

"It's a game when we're evenly matched!"

This is called abusing vegetables! There is no morality at all, bah! Esther added these two sentences viciously in her heart.

Esther took two steps forward and picked up the fruit that was somewhat similar to a coconut: "Xiao Qi, why didn't you leave then? As a result, you are still implicated by me, and you ended up on such a deserted island."

Crow was silent for a moment and chuckled twice: "Haha, I'm also curious about the answer to this question."

The sun finally dropped below the horizon, and a crimson moon rose on the horizon. Esther glanced at it, feeling deeply tired.

She turned her eyes to the crimson sea and decided to try to catch two fish later. They could also be crabs or razor clams. There were many such small things on the beach and she had seen them before.

It would be great if I had the fire-ignition skills of my fellow countrymen...

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The night was getting darker and darker, and the intertwined light and dark stars in the dark sky were different from those in the memory. Esther did not have the leisure to watch the stars and the moon along the waves.

She piled the stones in a circle on the sand in a dry place, with a few branches piled inside, a relatively complete empty shell and several fragments next to it. According to Xiao Qi, the fruit is called "Teana". Esther thought it would be convenient to cook with it, so she tried to keep the shape of the second fruit intact.

She didn't have any matches on her, but there were some useful things in her bag. After removing a piece of the iron wind chime, Esther put the cotton in the box under the iron piece, and then grabbed a piece with a rough surface. Gray black stone, knocked hard on it.

Good luck still favored her. After the unknown number of knocks, a spark burst out and ignited the piece of cotton. Esther quickly stuffed it to the branch. Soon, a swaying fire appeared. The beach lights up.

"Phew...it actually works."

Esther breathed a sigh of relief and pulled the Tyana shell over. Inside were two dead fish, as well as a few shells she had dug out by luck and were left on the beach at low tide.

She left a little of Tyana's juice and used it as a soup base. The scales of the fish were simply scraped with an iron sheet, and the internal organs were cut out and treated in the simplest way.

The crow with white eyes was always following him, sitting on top of Esther most of the time, watching her so busy in a funny way.

The tyana shell was placed very close to the fire, and the remaining juice inside gradually bubbled and became more and more turbid as other things were cooked.

"Is it necessary?" it asked Esther, "Under such conditions, you can give up eating completely."

Esther fiddled with the fish meat with another piece of coconut shell and said softly: "Get off my head. If you grab it any longer, I will really lose my hair."

The crow did not comment, flew to the spare branches next to her, and fluttered its feathers: "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking something doesn't seem right about you."

"This is really a cold accusation. Are you doubting me?"

Esther poked the fish twice more, looking like she was concentrating on waiting for her dinner. Two finger-long fish were softening in the tumbling Teana soup, and they were broken into several pieces by Esther. The shell of a piece of shellfish was opened, revealing the soft and tender shellfish inside, which gave the soup a fishy smell, but it didn't smell very good.

The crow squatted quietly beside him, his dark eyes full of interest.

Esther's face was illuminated by the firelight, and she said, "I sorted out the story of this matter, you..."

She stopped mid-sentence.

The crow with white circles shook his head and spat out the two sentences in Chinese: [People today cannot see the moon of ancient times, but the moon of today once illuminated the ancients. ]

This ancient poem almost became Xiaoqi's secret code for connecting with her, which made Esther's eyes gradually light up, but she didn't speak, she just smiled.

The crow shook his head in a funny way: "Last year during the Chinese New Year, you even gave some cake to me in the form of the Worm of Time, and you even painted it with black crow, right?"

A smile appeared in its half-closed black eyes, looking extremely sincere:

"Thanks."

Esther also smiled back, and her mood immediately improved a lot. She lowered her eyes and stared at the fish heads that were rolling in the shell of Tyana, took them out and threw them into the fire.

The flames didn't care, engulfing anything that came into its arms.