Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

"There's a ghost! There's a female ghost!"

The elegant blond lady opposite, elegantly dressed and with her hair tied in a bun, kept screaming. Her voice was too shrill and could easily attract more people, which would not be good.

Before she could smash the chair down, Esther finally pulled herself out of the mirror, freeing her hand to comfort the lady - Esther's right hand opened and closed, stealing the blonde lady's thoughts away .

The blonde lady's hand relaxed a bit, and seeing that the chair was about to fall, Esther quickly reached out to take it. However, her "vision" was still in a state of chaos. Her prediction was wrong, and she was still hit by the chair leg on her forehead, leaving a small bruise.

Before the blonde lady regained consciousness, Esther glanced at the mess on the floor and reluctantly threw two gold pounds by the dressing table. Then she slipped to the door and jumped out quickly, not forgetting to turn her head. He gave the blonde woman an apologetic look.

Although the other party won't have any memory even if they see it.

After several minutes, the blond lady looked around the room blankly and saw the broken mirror and perfume on the floor. She once again let out a high-pitched scream and added heart-wrenching curses.

After leaving the big bedroom where the blonde lady was, Esther passed through a luxuriously decorated living room. After her eyes passed through the blue outside the closed window, she had a clear understanding of where she was. make accurate judgments.

Is this a boat? No wonder I always feel a little shaken. It turns out it's not a sequelae of traveling through the mirror world.

Esther silently digested the few stolen memories and learned that this was a freighter that departed from South Wales and passed through East Tucker County to Pulitzer Harbor, carrying some passengers. In an age when steam trains were more convenient, usually only holidaymakers not in a hurry took the sea route.

The ship will arrive at Pulitzer Harbor according to the planned route in the early morning of the day after tomorrow. Esther will then find a hotel that does not require identification, and she can also catch up with the Tarot meeting on Monday afternoon without having to talk to Mr. Fool. asked for leave.

She quickly walked out of the cabin where others lived, stepped on the soft red carpet spread on this long corridor, followed the wall and walked along the stairs at the end to the deck.

Someone seemed to have heard the lady's scream. Two people dressed as sailors passed by Esther. Esther sensed that someone was approaching, so she smiled and nodded at them, so the two people also acted randomly. He nodded in response to her, glanced at Esther, and hurried to the guest room without taking her to heart.

The moment Esther stepped out of the cabin, the sea breeze blew onto her face, and she could still smell the unique salty smell of the sea.

Such rare senses that have not been stolen allow Esther to retain the comfort of being in the real world.

Esther approached the bulwark at the edge of the deck that acted as a guardrail and looked down. She could not fully see the color of the sea water and the splashing waves. She could only imagine the scene that it should have been from the occasional floating lines.

"Hey, stay back! It's very windy today!"

After Esther heard this voice, she immediately let go of her hand on the railing as if she was electrocuted, and followed the other person's advice to take two steps back.

The speaker came over, and when he looked Esther up and down, Esther also tried hard to outline his image in her perception:

Light-colored clothes, middle-aged age, and strong will, Esther focused her attention on this gentleman. She could vaguely make out that he was wearing an old kitchen hat. There was a smell of smoke and fish on him. More details But she couldn't distinguish the parts.

The head chef of the "Blue Gull" scratched his beard that hadn't been shaved in a few days, pretended to be casual, stubbed out the cigarette butt in his hand and threw it out of the side of the ship. Because he noticed that Esther's eyes were still out of focus, the weather-beaten wrinkles on his face gradually unfolded, and the original stern look softened slightly:

"Are you okay, seasick?"

Esther smiled sheepishly and waved her hands repeatedly, but she was completely unable to answer the gentleman's question.

"Are your eyes bad?" The chef stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Esther's eyes twice. When he found that her eyes would not move at all, he couldn't help but ask, "Where are your family members? What's the guest room number? I'll go there. Call them."

Esther pointed to her closed mouth and shook her head vigorously. Her dull eyes looked extremely sad and melancholy, as if she might burst into tears at any time.

This inability to communicate made the chef even more irritated and scratched his beard. He cursed a few times, then turned to Esther and said, "Then you can at least understand what I'm saying." ?Stay here, don’t wander around, stay away from the side of the ship! I’ll call someone.”

The head chef complained vaguely and quickly returned to the cabin along the other side door.

Esther rubbed her useless eyes, feeling sad about her current situation. She looked at her left hand, and the remaining black threads of the curse on it were finally completely dissipated.

The evil spirit whose fate was devoured by her just disappeared from the world, and Esther could only say thank you to "her" from the bottom of her heart.

She tried to open her mouth, but couldn't move at all.

Will I always be like this?

Esther stood quietly on the deck. The smell and touch of the sea breeze gradually filled the world in her perception, allowing her to feel a limited connection with reality.

The "spiritual intuition" in her mind was touched again. Esther blinked and was surprised by the news Zoya told her:

Monday afternoon? Why did it recover at that time? Was it because of Tarot Club? Mr. Fool can help me! ?

Esther resisted the urge to pray to "The Fool" now, at least until she found a secret spot in Pulitzer Harbor before settling down. She also had to find a way to restore the previously exhausted light spots.

Until now, Esther's hair has remained silver-white, and she knew very well that the power consumed in the Backlund haze was far beyond the limit of what she could control.

If "Zoya" hadn't been willing to help, I don't know what would have happened. Esther tapped her fingers on her forehead.

I don’t know what’s going on with Klein now. He’s probably very disappointed in me… Where are Rabbit and Jayne? We don’t know how much impact the haze will have and how many people will suffer.

Esther couldn't help but think of Xiao Wu and Xiao Qi. She pressed her right eyebrow hard and chuckled.

A little sad.

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A few minutes later, the chef quickly walked back to the deck with several other people. Esther could hear him yelling angrily from a distance:

"How come there is such a bullshit family? Even Storm would not approve of such behavior! Such a weak girl! Even if she finds an ordinary family to marry, wouldn't it be better than throwing her on a boat? This means letting her fend for herself. That's right. It’s murder!”

"Okay, okay, old Jack, please keep your voice down, I'm not old enough to be deaf yet."

The leading man in his prime has short, inch-long hair and is covered with a boat-shaped hat. His hair on the temples is blue-black, his thick eyebrows are almost straight because of frowning, and his facial features are resolute, even if there are slight wrinkles, they look like they have been used. The growth rings left by the carving knife.

Even though he was wearing a thick gray and black coat, you could see that his arms and shoulder blades were bulging due to his muscular development, and his dark eyes were quite bright, giving people a clear sense of oppression.

If he changed his attire, many people would believe him if he said the captain was a pirate.

This captain has a distinct sea breeze-like aura about him.

He walked up to Esther first and straightened his hat politely. Then he realized that the lady probably couldn't see the hat-off ceremony, so he put his arms down again.

"can you speak?"

Esther shook her head repeatedly and made gestures around her mouth and eyes.

The sturdy captain also looked embarrassed. He sighed: "Alas, I am Reeves Black, the captain of the Blue Gull."

Esther nodded, indicating that she understood.

"Last night, the crew did notice that three people sneaked onto the ship while we were moving the cargo. But before we could disperse the people, they went down again. You were probably brought up at that time. .”

"Um?"

Esther was a little surprised. How come her fate was decided before she had time to make up a complete story background?

After thinking about it for a moment, Reeves proposed the method he had considered before: "In this case, can we arrange an empty room for you?"

Esther nodded repeatedly, took out a few sulers from her bag, gestured blankly at the captain, and looked at him doubtfully.

"You have money with you? But you are like this...do you have enough money left?"

Esther nodded vigorously.

Reeves took a few suler notes from Esther's hand and found that there were almost fifteen sulers, which was about the same as the young woman's two-day meal expenses and the half-way boat ticket. Reeves didn't bother to worry about it anymore. This woman couldn't see or speak, which was a big trouble. He didn't want to pay more attention to it.

Anyway, we will send her ashore in Pulitzer Harbor. She can go and do whatever she wants. Even if something happens, it will have nothing to do with the Blue Gull. As long as she didn't interfere with the ship's navigation and successfully arrived at Pulitzer Port for handover, Reeves didn't mind having such a half-blind passenger on board.

"Okay, then David, take this lady to the guest room of 407."

Esther raised her skirts to the people opposite, and the old Jack sighed and shook his head: "This world, bah!"

David is a much younger trainee sailor, with short blond hair that sticks up in a mess, and a round face with a little baby fat, but he is already quite tall. Although this young man was half a head taller than Esther, Esther felt that he was even younger than her appearance, about seventeen years old.

"Yes! Captain! I'll take her there right now!"

Esther followed the young man and refused his invitation to help her down the stairs with gestures. Although the things she saw were still chaotic and strange, she had gradually become accustomed to this state and could skillfully distinguish the environment.

Strangely, she seemed to smell something.

Esther sniffed again, and David, who was leading the way, didn't notice it, but enthusiastically introduced the configuration of the second-class cabin to her. Because this ship, which is mainly used for carrying cargo, does not have third-class cabins, the second-class cabins are narrow guest rooms with shared bathrooms. Most of them have no windows and are not as comfortable and decorated as the first-class cabins and have independent bathrooms.

However, as Esther followed David towards the bottom of the stairs, she vaguely smelled something that made her feel sick to her stomach. It was similar to the smell of blood, but sweeter.

She once sensed a similar smell on the island, coming from the "heart" sealed in the iron box.

There is something unusual aboard this ship.

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