Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

"You want to know about the recent situation here?" The bartender scratched his beard twice and asked doubtfully.

At the bar, the man wrapped in a black cloak nodded slightly: "Is there anything unusual in this bar? Or something unusual happened?"

The bartender suddenly raised his eyebrows: "No! This bar is very nice. How could something weird happen? Don't talk nonsense!"

Esther took two more sips of beer: "I heard something happened here before."

"Oh, that was all many years ago! But it seems you have inquired... Okay, okay, it's just over a year, long enough, right? It has no impact at all. Look at so many people in the store, I The business is doing well!”

The bartender slammed an empty wine glass on the counter and glared angrily at the weirdo at the bar. He didn't go over to pour new beer for others until a customer called him from the other side.

Esther looked around the store. The business here was indeed not bad, but it was not as good as the bartender boasted. Most people frowned while drinking.

After swallowing the last sip of the watered beer in the glass, Esther saw that the bartender was free again. Esther tapped another one-penny coin on the table. The sound of the copper plate hitting the wood immediately attracted his attention.

The bartender blew his beard hard, and his hedgehog-like double chin trembled twice: "What are you doing?"

"It's better to add less water to the wine from now on, the taste is too weak."

The coin rolled across the bar, and the bartender snorted, put it in his pocket, and ignored the comment.

Because Esther did not lower her voice deliberately, several drinkers sitting near the bar heard this and laughed at the bartender, asking him to adopt this suggestion as soon as possible to avoid being beaten one day.

Esther stood up from the bar. In the center of the crowd on the other side, the iron cage was trampled by crazy rats and dogs. It kept making noises until the drinkers shouted, and several people began to curse the unfulfilled dog loudly.

There were many people, and in her chaotic vision, the distorted and superimposed blocks of color gradually dispersed. She did not find any traces of extraordinary power, nor were there any black hole-like silhouettes or shadows clinging to others.

These are ordinary people here, and this tavern is also ordinary - except that the things sold in the store are too watery.

Esther's premonition was silent, which was not a surprise to her. Even if there is a clue, it has been soaked in the watered wine for so long, and there is no way to trace it.

She wrinkled her nose and stepped out of the noisy tavern.

The moonlight on the street was clear and her vision was covered in crimson. This scene still made her subconsciously disgusted.

Esther looked up at the moon. After the blood moon that suddenly became full last night, its light was no longer so bright tonight.

Obviously the crimson moon is still a symbol of the goddess. Why do I feel familiar when facing the dark night, but why am I so resistant when facing this kind of moonlight?

Esther shook her head and quickly walked towards the end of Iron Cross Street. She fumbled in her satchel and placed her finger on another copper penny.

This was the coin she had used for divination before. At the end of the divination, the coin was suddenly attracted and tried to fly towards her forehead.

Rather than accidental, Esther felt that it was more like a trap. The other party deliberately left behind a means to target the fortune teller.

If Esther hadn't been the one doing the divination at that time, the Sequence Nine Extraordinary would most likely not have reacted in time and something would have happened on the spot. Even extraordinary people who react quickly will inevitably be exposed to the pollution on it.

For the official Beyonders of a small city, the highest team leader among them is often Sequence Seven. Sequence Six is ​​already the leader of the team and is often transferred to more important areas.

Without stronger external assistance, such contamination may spread rapidly and may cause the parties to lose control. This is fatal to the official Beyonder team.

Such dangerous people are now lurking in Tingen.

Esther took out the coin and held it in her hand. She gradually eliminated the chaotic emotions in her heart and completely gave up her direction to the uncertain "premonition".

A faint red light pulsed in her palms for a moment, as if her heart was beating for the last time. Esther turned one street after another and dismissed the police officers who came up twice to ask questions by stealing ideas.

The black cloak she wore was a bit distracting, but if she had been wearing that red cloak, the security patrols would have stopped her more often.

It was very easy for Esther to get rid of them. She did not want to conflict with these ordinary police officers.

However, as Esther got closer and closer to the dock area, something unexpected happened to her. She met another person first.

Benjamin Jacob walked out of a bar. He was not wearing the round glasses, and his slightly raised eyebrows showed his arrogance, because there was no longer a smile on his face, and his lake-green eyes looked distant and cold.

However, he seemed to notice the gaze falling on him. He picked up the pair of glasses from the edge of his breast pocket and put them on his face again, regaining his polite, gentle and friendly temperament.

Then he lifted his feet and walked straight towards Esther.

Esther instinctively turned to the alley next to her, wanting to take a shortcut to the main street next door, but Benjamin ran all the way and squeezed in front of her: "Good evening, where are you going?"

"...Good evening. We don't know each other."

"Miss Hamel, this is very boring. I have told you my name several times, but we are still not friends?" Benjamin said with an innocent face.

Esther put the crimson-dyed coin into her pocket: "It doesn't count."

But Benjamin stared at her pocket: "You seem to have got something very wonderful?"

"You are just an antique dealer, not obsessed with money." Esther's face was shrouded in shadow, but just by hearing her voice, Benjamin could imagine her frown.

"When we encounter valuable items, we always have a special reaction, don't you?"

Esther thought about it carefully, and it seemed that she did not have an increase in this aspect, but if we dig into the reason... it may be because the most valuable things are in her hair, or even in her head, so her perception of other things is not. become insignificant.

"Maybe I'm slow." Esther replied with a smile and continued to go deeper into the alley.

But Benjamin obviously would not give up this opportunity just like that, especially when the boy was not there and Esther was alone. He was curious about what Esther was doing, so he followed closely: "I didn't know Miss Hamel was coming. What does Tingen do? Oh, maybe I should call you...Esther?"

Esther's footsteps suddenly stopped.

Benjamin quickly explained: "I learned this when I was parasitizing that boy! Don't worry, I don't mean anything else! I have to find somewhere else to learn about things you don't want to talk about, not to mention this is just a It's just a name, right? You can continue to call me Mr. Jacob, if you mind so much."

Esther stared at Benjamin for several seconds. Benjamin was very patient. He always felt that his patience was better than "others", and the most important thing he, they, lacked was time.

Before Esther could give any further reaction, their perceptions were triggered at the same time, and a third party alien appeared.

Benjamin hates the timing of the arrival of uninvited guests. Hostility naturally develops after the fun is interrupted, which makes his eyes as cold as Esther's.

A drop of liquid with a fishy smell fell from the sky, falling exactly into the small gap between the two of them.

"Crack."

A black shadow fell down immediately afterwards, but the moment it touched the ground, it shattered into a pool of black and red blood foam.

Esther raised her head like Benjamin while reaching for the zipper of her waist bag.

There was an eyeball floating above the alley. If it weren't for the good eyesight provided by the extraordinary power, the two of them might not be able to see it clearly.

The eyeball was just in front of the red moon, as if it was overlooking the two people.

But that eyeball is not static. Its exterior is constantly twisting and shaking, and the remaining nerves and blood vessels on the back are slowly growing into the air, like vines stretching their buds, expanding out of thin air against rationality, spreading out evil Extraordinary fine mesh.

"You go up and I go down." Benjamin made a corresponding judgment instantly and said softly.

The guy who tried to attack the two people was nearby, and was using that eyeball to set up a closed restriction. As we all know, normal people have two eyes, including the victim last night, so the other eyeball should not be close too far.

The black cloak on Esther fell to the ground in an instant, and the red cloak almost came alive in the palm of her hand. Before Esther could shake it off, it attached itself to her body. The nails on the collar fastened on their own: "You really talk a lot."

Her hands opened and closed, and the cold touch of the "pale bone nails" quickly calmed down Esther, and the anger previously stirred up by Benjamin subsided.

Benjamin glanced at the bone sword in surprise: "It's a good weapon."

"No loan."

After Esther said this, she stole most of the gravity from her body with her backhand, and just jumped on her feet, then threw herself against the wall.

Using strength one after another, she quickly jumped up to the roof, observed the eyeball at close range, and tried to use the ability of the "decryption scholar" to detect the best way to crack it or destroy it.

Benjamin clicked his tongue and looked away from the red cloak. Now was not the time to think about that matter.

However, he was very familiar with the dirty smell on the cloak, and it was not even much more restrained than the evil feeling coming from the eyeball. Especially at the moment when Esther was in crisis, the red cloak had a faint tendency to activate.

"The Hanged Man" gave her a favor full of favors, and what did he want to use Esther to do? Does He want to use such a half-hearted "parasite" to fight against me, or us?

It's just ridiculous.

There was no need for me to delve into the thoughts of such a crazy person. Benjamin raised his hand and adjusted the lens in front of his right eye so that the frame would be more stable on his ear.

As expected, I am more accustomed to wearing it in my eye sockets. No matter how long you stay as "Benjamin Jacob", you are happiest when you are yourself.

Benjamin smiled. He clenched his glasses and looked around. Black shadows squirmed under his eyes, and his green eyes gradually became cloudy.