Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

Esther didn't sleep that night. She considered that this would consume too much of her physical strength, but she was more worried about the existence of "Amon".

After using fish and shellfish to fill up the emptiness in her body that longed for food, she moved her position to the bottom of a Tyana tree. She just hugged her satchel tightly and looked at the sea, as if waiting for a ship that only existed in her imagination. of ships.

The crow squatted on Esther's head again and closed its eyes, but Esther knew very well that it was not sleeping.

Xiaoqi does not need to eat or sleep. Its physiological needs are dispensable and it does not need these to maintain physical signs.

A mythical creature?…

Esther realized that she was not sleepy. Her fatigue came more from her weakened spirit after using her extraordinary abilities and being in successive dangers yesterday.

This made her heart sink a little bit, as if it was sinking into the quiet sea with the crimson moon. Even though she was used to it, Esther still didn't like this moon, especially the weird color, which made her feel sick all over.

It's almost dawn.

Esther blinked her dry eyes, breaking away from the stillness of a stone statue. Her fingers moved and she pulled out the harmonica from her bag.

She took a deep breath and started playing.

This is a Cantonese song that Li Xing remembers. "Red Sun" sounds quite energetic. She can only play the general tune of this old song, remembering the silly and inspirational lyrics.

But who actually taught her to sing, Esther couldn't remember at all.

Amidst such loud harmonica sounds, the warm red sunlight fell on her body. Until the end of the song, it hung high in the sky, telling people on the earth to welcome a new day.

Esther's eyes swept over the motionless jungle and beach, as well as only a few fish gathering at the water's edge, and she felt reassured.

A crab slowly crawled past a few steps away.

Esther sneered, put away her harmonica, and asked the crow above her: "Sequence 4 of 'Stealer' can also parasitize living things, right? Not just crows, but anything else?"

"Of course," the crow replied with a playful look, "Is there anything you want to parasitize?"

"No. I don't need to be anyone. I just like to be myself."

"A boring concept." Crow smacked his lips.

Before it finished speaking, another male voice came from the woods: "I agree, he is a very boring person."

Crow snorted coldly: "You want to say you are ready?"

Esther looked at the suspicious "Amon" and saw the bright smile on his face.

"Yes, the game has begun. What you are looking for is a snake, a key, a heart and a symbol. According to the rules, give them to 'me' in the end. Do you understand?"

"Live snake?"

Amon seemed to feel more interesting because of this question: "Damn it. You are not afraid of snakes, are you? If I had known, I would have kept it."

"No, but won't it rot in this weather?"

Esther's eyes glanced behind Amon. She vaguely noticed something moving behind her, but Amon across from him remained very alert and just happened to take a step in the direction of her line of sight: "No."

"Will you take action during this period?" Esther pointed at the position behind him.

Amon looked surprised and adjusted his monocle: "Oh? You noticed. We will not break our own game rules, at least not now."

Then He turned around and said calmly to the forest: "You have heard her words, so disperse."

Various noisy creatures murmured, or simply beat the tree trunks to express some kind of dissatisfaction, but except for a few birds that made a lot of noise when they flapped their wings, Esther didn't see the specific creatures, which made her even more confused. My heart goes crazy.

Could this guy have parasitized all the creatures on the island? ? It’s so heartbreaking!

That Amon smiled at Esther again, then turned and walked into the jungle. His figure disappeared behind the tree trunk. Esther immediately asked Xiao Qi:

"Amon's parasitism has no upper limit!?"

"For this small island, that's about right."

Esther felt a sense of despair that she was about to lose her breath: "That is to say——"

The crow tapped the jungle with the tip of its wing: "Whether you can get in or not, they are watching you everywhere."

The crow with white circles suddenly shrank its head. It could feel the obvious murderous intent rising in Esther. If it weren't for Esther's "friend Xiao Qi" who was still pretending to be Esther, it would really laugh out loud.

"Zoya" is actually so full of humanity? It’s so interesting how He did it. When tonight's game enters the official stage, His reaction is really even more exciting.

Esther put away the iron pieces and stones beside the fire, grabbed the newly sharpened spear, took a deep breath, and finally looked at the vast and calm sea. She turned around and stepped into the dense and shadowy woods.

The shadow instantly blocked the sunlight above her head. There was no chirping of insects or birds, and the forest was so silent as if there was no life at all. But Esther always felt prying eyes cast at all the blind spots in her sight, which made her frown more and more. The tighter.

Snakes, keys, hearts and symbols, it’s all a mess, it can’t even be a hint!

After Esther stepped into the jungle, she quickly calmed down. She still had to guard against the parasitic creatures in the dark. Even if the other party said "I won't do anything", Esther didn't expect the other party's words to be credible.

Even Xiao Wu and Xiao Qi, who are close to her, often only speak half of their words. If Esther's keen intuition could not always catch something strange, she might have fallen into a trap long ago.

There was a sound of "rustling" crawling under the grass blades. Esther stabbed the wooden spear out with her backhand. A crab was nailed to the ground by her and soon became motionless.

Esther made a judgment in her mind. This place was already more than ten meters away from the beach. Crabs generally would not go deep into the woods away from the coast. It seemed that the other party was indeed parasitizing various creatures and stayed by her side as an informant.

Thinking of this, she felt even more chilled, and she didn't know how many things parasitized by Amon were hidden under the green leaves.

The white-rimmed crow on Esther's head raised its tail and looked to the left: "There seems to be a mark on the tree trunk there."

"Mark?" Esther opened the grass with a wooden gun and saw a thick tree trunk with three people hugging each other. The black crow flew over her head and landed on the twisted roots of the tree next to it.

There is a clear mark carved in the middle of the tree trunk. Although it is only the size of a palm, it is very clear. It is composed of half a secret eye and twisted lines of transformation.

This is the symbol behind Mr. Fool’s high-backed chair!

Esther's eyes widened the moment she saw the mark clearly, but her expression all fell into the crow's eyes, making it jump twice with joy.

From this point of view, the new secret has indeed found a candidate. Once "Zoya" tried his best to hide the things about Xiao Qi and Xiao Wu, it was him who was constantly in contact with that person.

"Is this the 'symbol' of one of the four things?" Esther stepped forward and after confirming the feedback from the "spiritual intuition" in her mind, she started to break the bark.

There were obvious traces of decay around this piece of bark. Esther only used a little force to break off the engraving that took up a large area in her palm, and then stuffed it into her backpack.

She patted the sawdust on her hand: "I thought Amon would use the 'thief' symbol or the crest of his family."

"Who knows?" The crow said casually to Esther, then landed on top of her head, "Maybe next time you can try to steal his idea."

"Good idea, why don't I steal His monocle?"

The crow's wild laughter echoed through the forest. The "Esther" it was riding on its head was completely opposite to the "Zoya" who had no emotions at all in the memory. For the first time, it felt the connection between the two so directly. Different, this is different from the feeling when absorbing Xiao Qi's memory.

But the white-eyed crow quickly calmed down, got out of the state of being subtly influenced by Esther, and replied to her with a smile: "You can try it, maybe He will be happy to wear a monocle for you too. .”

"You know I'm being sarcastic, right?"

"Of course I know, but what I said is not a lie, it's true."

Esther silently said "poof" in her heart.

——

The good luck seemed to end here. Esther spent most of the day wandering in the woods, and tried to turn to the "spiritual intuition" in her mind, but she still found nothing. She had no clue about the remaining three things. So it passed.

Esther's biggest gain was that she found two wild banana trees and accidentally dug up two pieces of taro. She even saw some mushrooms with white and tender caps, which were thicker than a finger.

Esther hesitated for a moment and gave up the idea of ​​letting Xiao Qi test the poison. If there was a chance to catch the creature parasitized by Amon, she could put some in there to test the effect.

Sitting by this small stream that provided fresh water, Esther decided to take a break and sort out the route she had taken today in her mind. Because she encountered some plants that could provide positioning, the island map she was able to outline finally had a rough area, but she still had no clue what she was looking for. This game was incomprehensible from the beginning.

But Esther had no choice. She felt like she was being led as a donkey.

The food she found so far was enough to resist her appetite today. Esther peeled off the skin of the banana in her hand and took a bite of the sweet yet astringent pulp. The taste was not weird, it was a little better than the "Intis specialties" invented by Emperor Russell, and it was still within her acceptance range.

"Is it delicious?" the crow asked with a smile. It was squatting on the top of a bush next to Esther.

"It's okay, do you want to talk?" Esther habitually broke off a little bit and handed it to the crow's mouth. When the crow opened its mouth to say something, she directly took the piece of broken banana without waiting for the crow's response. Throwed in accurately.

Crow coughed twice and swallowed the pulp before staring at Esther in embarrassment: "So I told you, I don't need to eat."

Esther smiled kindly: "I need it."

Crow's eyes flashed and he glanced at the banana in Esther's hand, but he did not continue to dwell on this matter: "I have to remind you that it is getting later and later."

"I know, but I can't let the sun hang back and never set."

Esther threw away the banana peel casually. Her gaze penetrated the dense forest canopy and caught a glimpse of the blue above her head turning to purple.

Her words made the crow startled, and then there was a long silence.

Esther did not move again. She lit a fire by the river and roasted a piece of taro. She recovered the physical strength and energy she had spent today on the spot and barely suppressed the uncomfortable feeling of hunger in her belly.

Time passed, and the "people" such as Esther and Crow soon appeared on the edge of the stream as the night fell.

"Then as agreed, I will carry out today's punishment time."

The young man walked out from among the trees, smiling and holding his monocle. He suddenly paused at his feet, then raised his toes, and a piece of banana peel flew out and landed directly in front of Esther.

"Tsk, just a little bit." Esther muttered softly.

The crow flew over Esther's head again and let out a muffled laugh without politeness. After a while, he said, "Are you serious?"

Esther did not answer, but looked at Amon, who was looking strange across the way, with a calm expression: "You said you wanted to steal something, didn't you? Come on."

Amon didn't say much. He raised his right hand and opened and closed it. Esther felt that the crow's claws above her head tightened.

Is Xiaoqi nervous too?

Esther sighed in her heart, but didn't feel any changes on her body. She looked at Amon in confusion.

The black-haired young man wearing a pointed hat just spread his hands at her, turned around decisively and walked into the woods, which made Esther even more confused. She checked the things she carried, and then checked herself for anything strange, but she didn't notice it. to the absence of anything amiss.

What was stolen?

The crow flew from Esther's head to the stone again, looking at her curiously. Just when Esther wanted to ask Xiao Qi if she noticed anything - she suddenly found that she couldn't open her mouth.

Holy shit! ?

Did that asshole steal my ability to open my mouth and speak? No, that's not right! Now I can’t even eat! Not even drinking water!

"Uh-huh! Uh-huh!"

Esther grunted in the direction where Amon left, both of which were curse words.

Crow scratched Esther's hair again, sounding very confused: "What's wrong? What do you want to say?"

Esther immediately used a banana leaf to hold some water, then dipped it in the water and wrote on the ground. Although the handwriting was distorted due to anger and was not very clear, the crow still understood what Esther wrote:

"I can't open my mouth!"

The crow even felt sorry for Esther who thought of a solution so quickly. As a result, it lost a lot of fun. When "Zoya" woke up completely, there were fewer good memories to laugh at her. It looked at Esther pretending to be hesitant:

"But at least it won't affect anything else. It shouldn't matter just that I can't speak. You can listen to me."

Esther rolled her eyes at it, kicked the writing on the ground away angrily, and looked worriedly at the plantains and taro next to it, and then at the stream next to it.

She was rapidly losing faith in how much longer she could hold on.

This is just the first night.

Plantain...not delicious...