Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

Esther leaned under the tree that night, sitting in a very uncomfortable position and taking a nap.

She only slept briefly for two hours before waking up with the shock of being watched. The red moon hung high above the branches of the trees, making the shadows in the forest longer. It seemed that there were eyes looking at this place from every corner. .

She looked at her left hand. The black threads of the curse were still looming, but her palm had completely healed.

This really doesn't look like a human being.

Esther was hesitating whether to let "Zoya" out.

There is no one else around here, so Esther doesn't have to be afraid of attracting attention. If "Zoya" is allowed to fight Amon, she might be able to escape from this ghost place faster. However, Esther has something more fearful. , she was afraid that "Esther" would never exist again.

Praying to Mr. Fool for help? Esther could not find such an opportunity. Xiao Qi followed her closely, making Esther subconsciously reject such a choice. Especially after seeing the piece of bark with the mark of "The Fool", Esther felt that Amon was intentional, and that He was deliberately guiding her to connect with "The Fool".

It wasn't until after such interactions that Esther fully understood how bad "Amon's true form" was. No wonder Xiao Qi and Xiao Wu were quite complaining.

She rubbed her right eyebrow, thinking about what to do next. Tomorrow she would have to continue to investigate the other half of the island that she had not visited, but she could only endure the hunger and water issues...

The "obsessive-compulsive disorder tie" and the short knife were all gone, and all he had on him was the iron pieces of his harmonica, wind chime, and maracas. I still haven't seen what the flip mirror can do, and it's completely useless in battle. The suppression of low-ranking people by the same path is too strong, especially when I have not reached Sequence Four. He did not dare to parasitize me out of fear, otherwise he would not go through such a big detour to torment people, and just directly parasitize me. .

Esther glanced at the crow huddled beside her and sighed silently.

Crow seemed to sense something, opened his eyes and looked up at her: "What are you going to do next?"

Esther shrugged and tried to open her chin, but of course she still couldn't open it. She shook her head at Crow again.

"That's right, you have no choice but to continue this game."

The crow shook off the two grass stalks on his body, flapped his wings and stood on top of Esther's head. The playful smile in his black eyes just didn't fall into Esther's eyes.

As soon as day broke, Esther continued to search for the island. She followed the stream to the source of the underground spring, using it as a landmark to continue exploring the places she had not visited yesterday. She did not throw away the fruits wrapped in banana leaves, but kept yesterday's harvest for a rainy day. Even if she could not eat now, she planned to keep it for two days.

There were two seabirds squatting on the treetops. Esther glanced at them indifferently and ignored their noisy whispers. She grabbed a beetle crawling up her sleeve with her backhand and threw it in from a distance. among the trees.

Esther wanted to curse loudly to stop these idle Amon clones from bothering her, but even this kind of thing she couldn't do, it would only make her sullen.

There were more eyes staring at her from the darkness.

Esther picked out the sharpened wooden gun in her hand and crushed the head of a lizard that passed by her feet, and the whispers became slightly lowered.

She snorted, and her sharp eyes swept over the corners that touched the "spiritual intuition" in her mind.

And the crow above Esther chuckled.

But as time passed, and the sun reached its highest point in the clear, cloudless sky and then set, Esther could not help but feel a little irritable.

The hunger coming from her body almost reached a certain limit. Even though she avoided too strenuous activities and delayed her steps slightly, she still could not avoid this moment.

The burning sensation of desire seemed to burn through her stomach. This contraction and tightening like a towel was soon reflected on all her organs. Esther could feel that her heart rate was becoming unstable. Sometimes fast and sometimes slow, she would feel dizzy for a moment from time to time.

The crow clinging to Esther's head certainly didn't care about this. It grasped Esther's hair firmly and listened to her disordered breathing without saying a word.

There was a hint of darkness in Esther's eyes, but it soon faded away as she tried to suppress her breathing, returning to its original lightness.

At this moment, a rich aroma mixed with salty and sweet appeared in Esther's perception. It appeared quite suddenly, as if the long-blocked nasal cavity was suddenly ventilated, and the capture of this smell was restored.

The hunger almost drove her crazy. Esther subconsciously reached out towards the source of the strong smell, but she missed it.

The crow flew up and landed on the branch nearby, looking at her with a confused and innocent face: "Are you okay? Calm down! You don't want to eat your friends too, do you?"

Hearing this, Esther shook her head vigorously, but the salty and sweet taste in the surrounding air was still very strong. She had never liked the mixed taste of salty and sweet, but at this moment, Esther's appetite was whetted to the extreme. .

She sniffed subconsciously, but then realized that this was not the "real" aroma of anything, but an illusion born of desire and temptation. Esther raised her hand and pinched her nose. The smell still clearly enveloped her perception without weakening at all.

Is something that delivers this kind of taste really edible...

Esther frowned and waved her hand at the black crow, telling it not to get too close.

However, the crow didn't seem to understand her expression and gestures at all, and flew directly to Esther's head, and said very concernedly: "It's okay, it's okay, I was worried that you were going to lose control. Let's go, let's continue to look for the next thing .”

"Well!"

The aroma became stronger, and Esther was very annoyed, but she couldn't keep the other person away. She stretched out her hand and patted her head twice. But as soon as Esther lowered her palm, the crow immediately landed back on top of her head and stood there unswervingly.

"Uh-huh!"

After Esther squeaked in annoyance, she had to take out a piece of iron and write on a piece of bark: "Stay away from me! I might really eat you!!"

The crow shook his head resolutely, and his words were full of certainty: "I believe you will not eat me! How could you eat your own friend? You can't even open your mouth now, I will not be in danger .”

Esther didn't know when "Xiao Qi" became so stubborn. She angrily trampled the writing on the ground and turned her attention to the smell nearby that attracted her.

It seemed that her expression was too obvious, and the surrounding smell quickly faded a lot.

Esther groaned in amusement and distress, knowing that those Amon clones had hidden further away for self-protection.

However, after the alluring aroma around her faded, Esther sensed another highly recognizable smell, like rotten meat soaked in blood. The feeling of disgust that made her spontaneously feel very familiar.

What the hell?

Esther followed the source of this perception and touched a huge stone that was as tall as a person. She spent a lot of effort to push the stone aside, revealing the plowed soil underneath.

Esther dug twice with an iron piece. After touching a hard surface, she carefully switched to digging with her hands.

Buried here is an old iron box slightly larger than a fist, covered with rust and occult symbols, and the smell is constantly coming from inside.

"Well!"

Esther vomited twice.

However, this smell effectively diluted the sweet and salty aroma of the crow. Although it could not completely suppress Esther's hungry appetite, it calmed her twitching internal organs a lot.

It's best not to open it, it's disgusting. Esther thought like this, wrapped the thing in banana leaves, and then tied it with a cloak on her back.

When I got the second item, I didn’t know whether it was a key or a heart, but for the disgusting feeling it gave me, it was probably the latter.

The crow flapped its wings excitedly: "Isn't there still hope? There are only two things missing!"

Esther suddenly threw herself into the bushes nearby. Her sudden move caused the crow to fly into the air and land on the stone pier next to it.

Esther's left hand grasped, stealing the conch shell hermit crab's idea of ​​​​escape, and then her right hand quickly grabbed it into the palm of her hand. She struggled for two seconds, letting the hermit crab become weak. The pliers were clamped on her fingers, and then Esther closed her eyes forcefully. When she opened them again, she had made up her mind.

Crow watched this scene quietly, taking in the light that flashed through Esther's eyes, knowing that "Zoya" could no longer bear the strong sense of desire.

And everything that happened next was pretty much what the crow thought.

An extremely weak point of light lit up on the hermit crab, and it began to dance swayingly. It uncontrollably got close to Esther's forehead, blended in and disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, the hermit crab in the shell quickly lost its vitality, and the shadow of a worm with twelve links separated from it, and then quickly dissipated into the air.

Esther endured the pain that was like a hole in her forehead, but soon, the unusually weak light spot was swallowed up by the light ball in her mind, causing the hunger in her stomach to quickly subside. She rubbed her right eyebrow in a daze and leaned tiredly on the tree trunk next to her. It took a long time for the ringing in her ears to calm down.

The crow did not speak, but quietly observed the changes, thoughtfully.

There was the sound of branches being trampled, and Esther immediately stood up and turned in that direction alertly.

It was getting dark, and He came to carry out the second night of punishment.

The young man grabbed it casually, and the few grass blades on the edge of the black robe disappeared. He smiled politely at Esther, but he did not come out completely like yesterday. He just stood behind the bush and followed Esther. Maintained distance.

The crow flew down onto Esther's head, grabbing her hair tightly to steady herself.

Esther couldn't laugh at all. She could hear the slight whispering on the branches and her own heartbeat that was getting more and more intense. Her breathing became heavy because of the tension.

She tightened her grip on the wooden gun in her hand and lowered her left hand slightly.

"Good evening, I hope you had a good time."

His right hand opened and closed again.

Esther also made the same movement with her left hand, trying to steal the opponent's ability to "steal distance". However, good luck did not favor her. Sequence suppression stood between the two, which was an insurmountable gap.

Esther saw the young man grinning. He should be making a mocking sound. His lips moved slightly, but Esther didn't hear anything.

What was taken away this time was hearing.

All sounds disappeared from Esther's perception.