Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

Esther knocked on the door and waited for two seconds, but received no response.

"Snapped!"

The moment she heard the snap of fingers coming from inside the house, Esther stole the distance between her and the door on the first floor and stood inside the door.

She happened to step on some blank pages.

Barnabas was actually still in the house, with a backpack tied to his body, ready to welcome her in.

This made Esther, who thought he was trying to escape through flame jumping, stunned for a moment.

The black-haired man still had that bohemian and exaggerated smile on his face, and his dark eyes under gray-rimmed glasses were covered with coldness and alienation.

Then what was the purpose of that snapping finger just now? When this question popped up in her mind, Esther quickly activated her ability and stole Barnabas' thoughts at that moment.

But all she got were repeated thoughts:

Snap your fingers, burn, snap your fingers, burn…

Esther spread her fingers and twisted her wrist in the direction of Barnabas, but what fell into her palm was a delicately cut paper man with a big smiley face painted on it.

He recovered from the thought of stealing extremely quickly, as if... he had special training to deal with it.

In other words, he has repeatedly deduced similar combat situations in his mind and trained himself the corresponding reflex mechanism. As long as he sees the hand of the "thief" enemy moving, he will quickly change his position.

Banabei's man was already leaning against the window, and at the same moment, he made a second clear snap of his fingers.

The moment a few pieces of white paper burned under Esther's feet, she stole the distance and dodged to the side.

At the same time, there were screams outside the door, which were chaotic and panicked.

Esther's eyes dilated slightly: "You——"

There were cigarette butts scattered everywhere in the room, and Barnabas' figure moved in the small space, avoiding the direction of Esther's theft.

He did not leave the confines of the room directly, but occasionally spilled playing cards from his pockets and cuffs. Barnabas shook his wrist to throw them out, and the blade-like playing cards were embedded in the ground, making a soft "tuk-tuk" sound.

In contrast, Esther had to dodge further.

She did not activate her parasitic ability because she was concerned about the opponent's desperate struggle.

Esther was indeed not afraid, but there were other people in the hotel, and there were Mateo and Vika downstairs. If Barnabas chooses to self-destruct in order not to be controlled regardless of the danger to his life, then Esther cannot guarantee how many people here will survive.

It's impossible for him to have no magical items at all. If he really gets to the point of being parasitized, he may decisively turn himself into a barrel of explosives.

Esther had a premonition of this outcome.

Barnabas did not want to risk his life, and even maintained a relatively tacit understanding with Esther in this regard, not destroying the load-bearing walls of the room at the first contact, but the furniture gradually began to be covered in flames.

Barnabas' hands never stopped moving. While Esther was having more thoughts of grabbing and stealing, he took the opportunity to quickly snap his fingers twice and raise the corners of his mouth even more exaggeratedly.

During the few times when the theft was successful, Esther prioritized stealing Barnaby's "air bullet" ability, which was the most dangerous for her who was used to close combat.

Then she successfully stole the flame jump, so that Barnabas could no longer quickly change positions through the cigarette butts scattered in the room. Instead, Esther suddenly appeared next to him.

This forced Barnabas to stick to the window, and the hem of his tuxedo had been torn by the flames on the curtains.

The smell of burnt smoke at the end of her nose became more and more choking, and Esther heard an indistinct scream again.

"Ordinary people are going to die."

After saying these words that distracted Esther, Barnabas smashed the window and fell directly to the ground. Esther jumped to the window and saw his figure turning into a light paper man in the air, and Barnabas stepped firmly on the ground.

He raised his hand and made a crisp sound, and the smiling paper man falling to the ground was reduced to ashes, erasing its mystical connection with Barnabas himself.

Before Barnabas ran away, Esther stole his thoughts for the last time and heard this:

May the god of luck favor them.

There was a look of indifference on Esther's face, and she was holding another paper figurine with a smiling face in her hand. Barnabas probably didn't expect that this paper figurine did not burn together.

She stepped on the flames on the gray and black paper figures in the room, stole the increasingly strong fire in the room with her backhand, opened the door and stepped into the corridor.

The potted plants at the end of the corridor and the wooden door in the next room were burning crazily, and thick smoke was constantly coming out, but it was far from uncontrollable.

Esther grabbed the flames on the potted plant with her backhand and stole the flames on the wooden door. With a roundhouse kick, she broke the charred and rotten door. The door handle immediately fell off, allowing Esther to rush into the house.

There was no one in the house.

Her expression was stagnant, but her face looked a little better: "That thoughtful bastard..."

The scream was an illusion created by Barnabas from the beginning, so it was interrupted when the idea was stolen, but the fire burning in the hotel was real.

The biggest role of the flames on the white paper at the door was to mislead Esther to accurately judge the fire situation outside the door. It was not really used as a sneak attack.

Because the time between the two of them was very short, Esther rushed out to put out the fire now so that the flames would not completely spread to the entire building.

Judging from the location of the fire, Banabei had stuffed the cigarette butts in the cracks between the potted plant and the door.

Low quality!

Esther glanced at the scorched door frame and felt troubled by the follow-up processing. She even went to the front desk to perform a play, but was countered by Barnabas.

The only good thing was that it was still dinner time and most of the guests in the hotel were dining out and not upstairs, so the fire did not cause panic.

However, the strong smell of smoke still permeated from the corridor, including the sound of breaking the window, which would definitely attract the attention of the people downstairs.

Not long after, Esther heard the sound of "thump, thump, thump" footsteps coming from the stairs.

She took a deep breath, her face turned pale, and she stood anxiously and in a daze at the door of the black house, looking very worried.

The person who came up was the tall and muscular lady, her eyes were bright with fighting spirit. She was holding a double-barreled shotgun in her hand, ready to attack at any time.

The first time she saw Esther, the tall lady believed her confusion, pointed the muzzle of the gun at the door, and shouted at this "young silly girl":

"What happened here!?"

Esther's eyes were filled with fear and wonder. She shook her head slightly, but as if she was suddenly awakened from a dream, she pointed at the burned and kicked door in front of her:

"D-were there any guests originally living in this room?"

The tall lady raised the barrel of the gun and pointed it at Banabei's charred room, roughly scanning the situation inside. There was no one in the room, but there were traces of being burned by the flames everywhere.

Then she turned the shotgun to the next room and slowly stood next to Esther: "You stand back, be careful because there is danger, no one lives here."

After observing quietly for a moment, she saw that there was no sound in the corridor or in the room. The tall lady took a breath and put down the shotgun: "It's been so many years, but I don't have the confidence to fight with those gangsters. What's going on?"

Esther quickly explained in a panic and made up a story that could not be verified:

"I originally wanted to talk to Mr. Barnabas, but I heard voices coming from the room near the door. What they were talking about about organization and extraordinaryness, I didn't understand.

"After I knocked on the door, flames suddenly burst out from the crack in the door, and there were some strange noises coming from inside. I didn't know what happened. Then someone suddenly opened the door and rushed out. It was a tall and thin stranger, wrapped in a In the cloak. Then Mr. Barnabas waved a fireball from his hand, and he ignited the flames directly from the air..."

Then Esther omitted the following words and looked blankly in the direction of the empty room next door: "Later, the door was also lit by flames, and the stranger suddenly disappeared. Mr. Barnabas was even able to extinguish the flames on the door. flames. When he kicked in the door, the sound of breaking glass suddenly came from the next room."

"Then Mr Barnaby chased him out of the window."

The tall lady was silent for a moment, then nodded: "I know, they are most likely pirates, or the kind of pirates with special abilities."

She glanced at Esther meaningfully again: "I won't go into detail about what happened, because he has run away now."

Esther didn't fully believe herself, but was inclined to leave the matter at that. Esther followed the tall lady as she entered Barnabas' room to inspect the damage.

She asked with a worried look on her face: "Have they caused you a lot of losses by doing this?"

The tall lady still looked serious. After confirming that there was no one in the room and there were no other abnormalities, she crushed a twisted cigarette butt with force:

"Yes, if Mr. Barnabas doesn't come back, the prepaid room fee he left at the front desk will be enough to make up for my losses. You know, after he won the gambler, he took all the gambling money and handed it over to the front desk. I owed the wine money yesterday, and all the remaining money was deposited at the front desk."

The tall lady bent down and checked under the bed, then straightened up and walked to the window, looking down at the dark alley below. The crimson moonlight was pale and deserted. She quietly vented her dissatisfaction:

"These bastard Extraordinaries who use their fists as law..."

Of course Esther pretended not to hear, and poked her head in the direction of the window by the door. She had already stolen several footprints that matched her own foot shape, and there were also traces of stains on her shoes, which were basically not visible. omission.

The tall lady turned around and put the double-barreled shotgun on her shoulder: "You are not injured, are you?"

Esther shook her head repeatedly, her embarrassed expression just right: "No, I'm fine! I know I'm worried about Mr. Barnabas, he seems very annoyed, and his whole person has become cold..."

The tall lady grinned and sneered: "You'd better go and ignore this matter. Banabei is probably a wanted pirate, or one with a large amount of money. After such a fuss, he will definitely not come back again. ”

Esther lowered her eyes and nodded slightly disappointed.

The tall lady patted her heavily on the shoulder: "Let's go! It's time to eat and drink. Don't have anything to do with him, then you won't have any trouble."