Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

There was a little weight on her shoulders, which always made Esther subconsciously want to turn her head away, but when she touched the white pattern in the corner of her eye, she quickly gave up the idea.

The magpie's body is slender and lighter than a crow, but more substantial than a small group of skylarks, letting Esther know that it is standing on her shoulders at every moment.

The rabbit looked at the magpie with a strange look: "So, he has controlled this bird?"

"No, this bird is me now." The magpie raised its slender black tail feathers and nodded at the rabbit with its white wing feathers. "Your mind really doesn't look bright enough. How did you survive in the East District?" ?By good luck?”

The rabbit raised his eyebrows at the magpie and turned away without saying a word.

Esther let out a long sigh: "Don't always laugh at the rabbit, Mr. Benjamin, you are just bullying others."

"I'm not wrong, he is indeed not smart enough and is not even as good as you." The magpie raised its head reservedly, revealing its white chest and abdomen, expressing its disdain for the boy.

Esther subconsciously raised the corners of her lips, but quickly suppressed her smile. Benjamin's words were not deliberately intended to please, but rather stated the facts he determined, and had no intention of "deceiving".

But when he said this, it always made Esther feel faintly worried.

She didn't go too far when she saw a strange arched tombstone - there was no photo of the deceased on it, a Möbius strip symbol was engraved on it, there was no year of birth or surname, only a name stuck in the year of death.

Rabbit looked at this strange tombstone. Although he didn't recognize the words on it, he felt that this tombstone missed a lot of information, and the format was different from other tombstones.

The magpie sitting on Esther's shoulder flew to the ground and whispered the epitaph on it: "Four tablespoons of butter, half a cup of cocoa powder, two eggs..."

But Benjamin stopped mid-reading. Magpie looked at the Rune text below and shook his head: "I said, why on earth did you put the recipe on the tombstone? Even for an epitaph, this is too weird. No one would want to make a dessert from a cemetery recipe."

Esther touched the dented mark on her tombstone, her fingertips resting on the word "ice cream" at the end, and smiled gently: "But it may bring a little good mood to the people who see it, if there is really someone Once it’s done, at least they’ll have an extra taste of surprise.”

"I don't see any surprises. To be honest, this recipe looks too sweet." The magpie tapped the edge of the tombstone twice, making a light sound.

Esther placed her palm against the symbol of the Möbius strip, feeling the coldness coming from her palm. Her eyes were in a trance, as if she were looking at the more distant past.

"I think it sounds delicious." Rabbit subconsciously refuted Magpie's words. He didn't even know what the complete recipe was, but he just wanted to go against Benjamin.

The magpie didn't even give the rabbit a look, but looked up at Esther, staring at the sadness and longing in her eyes: "So what are you going to do?"

"Take it away," Esther said softly.

Her right hand that was originally attached to the tombstone suddenly closed, and the heavy arched tombstone disappeared in an instant, leaving only a narrow pit with turned soil.

Rabbit's eyes widened curiously, and his eyes kept moving between the ground and Esther's right hand, but he never saw the existence of the tombstone: "How on earth was this done? It just disappeared!"

The magpie kicked off the ground and flew back to Esther's shoulders: "You always make such a fuss, which only makes you look more stupid. There are many more spectacular scenes than this, she just 'stole' a piece Just a tombstone.”

"Steal..." Rabbit muttered this statement several times in a low voice. Even though his face was full of curiosity, he suppressed his curiosity and did not pester Esther to ask what happened.

Esther retracted her hand and grabbed the ground again, stealing the sudden gap in the soil and closing it completely.

Using her shoes to flatten the ground, Esther looked at the coffin. After hesitating for a moment, she looked at the rabbit: "Let's go."

The magpie turned back and stared at the empty space behind: "Aren't you going to take the coffin away too?"

"No one will come to dig it up," Esther flexed her fingers. "It has already been dug up once, so it won't be dug up a second time, right?"

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but smile again.

Seeing that Esther's mood seemed to be getting better, Rabbit couldn't help but look more at the patch of soil where grass sprouts were growing: "Has it been dug up before? So you were dug out at that time..."

Esther laughed softly when she heard the rabbit's words, and then her laughter became louder and louder, which seemed quite weird in this cemetery.

Magpie couldn't help but dig her shoulder with his claws: "Calm down, if you keep laughing, other corpses may get up."

The rabbit looked around in panic: "Wait, will other corpses get up too!?"

With a smile in her eyes, Esther poked the magpie's beak with her backhand: "Okay, okay, I'm just feeling a little emotional, please don't..."

Then she withdrew her hand as if she had been burned.

Esther realized that the action just now was too intimate. She and Benjamin were not that familiar. Such an action could even be said to be rude. It was entirely because after coming here, she was evoked too many clear memories and habits. Sexually, he reached out and slapped the bird's beak.

"Sorry." Esther said softly, the previous smile completely dissipating from her eyes.

Magpie tilted his head: "Why do you need to apologize?"

Esther did not respond to the magpie's gaze: "Nothing, we should go."

She gestured to the rabbit to follow quickly. The rabbit rolled his eyes at the magpie on Esther's shoulder, and then walked quickly beside Esther.

Rabbit's thoughts were very simple. Since the expression on her face became so indifferent, Benjamin must have made Esther unhappy somewhere!

The magpie looked back at the place where the tombstone used to be.

Benjamin knew why Esther acted that way. She unconsciously regarded Magpie as another doppelganger and Benjamin as Xiao Qi. This is the prompt from the "premonition" itself to Esther, stemming from the similarity between the clones, and even Zoya's familiarity with "Amon".

If Zoya was in a normal state, Esther would have been able to get the "spiritual intuition" prompts and identify Benjamin Jacob's weirdness.

As a bystander, or as another clone, Benjamin could clearly detect the specialness of Esther's actions.

Esther didn't, she just looked at the way she came and walked out of the cemetery.

The magpie opened and closed its curved beak twice, and finally lowered its head, not biting the hair swaying slightly in front of its eyes.

Benjamin always felt a little dissatisfied with Esther's apology, but he couldn't explain why.

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"You like this small city very much?" Sitting on the carriage returning to the city, Benjamin still did not break away from the parasitism of the magpie.

After the rabbit sat next to Esther, the magpie directly occupied the empty seat opposite the two people. The coachman was just in a daze for a few seconds, as if he didn't see the magpie anymore, and asked where Esther was going. The place.

Because Esther hired the carriage according to the time, the coachman had been waiting outside the cemetery. Esther reported the name of the hotel in Jinwutong District, and the carriage soon set off along the road.

Esther looked out the window, and the afternoon sunlight filtered through the simple linen curtains and fell into the carriage: "I should like it here very much."

"You're not sure," Magpie shook his body and walked back and forth, "but I have to say, this place is too small, so small that just a little strong external force is enough to completely destroy its tranquility."

Esther sat up straight and turned to the magpie: "As you said, it does not have the ability to take those risks. I understand what you are referring to, those struggles that transcend mortal life."

"Is it the same as the East District? I mean Backlund." Rabbit doesn't have such a good imagination, so he can only try to compare with places he is familiar with, "But we have also seen many places that are better than the East District. Tingen is better than The East End is bustling.”

Esther smiled and nodded: "You can say that, but Backlund is much older than Tingen, and there are more people dedicated to protecting Backlund."

The magpie fluttered its feathers twice: "I don't agree with the metaphor of the East District. Backlund's hidden power is quite huge. This has nothing to do with a certain district."

Esther looked at the magpie: "You are just proud and don't value the weak. You can even say you are contemptuous."

The magpie walking back and forth suddenly stopped, confusion reflected in its clear eyes: "I'm not 'disdainful' as you said, I just don't really care. They have nothing to do with us."

"My guess is, Benjamin, you don't have many friends."

"Then you guessed wrong. I have quite a lot of friends." To a certain extent, we know each other's alliance and family very well. Benjamin muttered inwardly.

Rabbit didn't quite understand where the conversation was going, so he looked at Esther quietly, waiting for her to explain.

Esther pointed at the magpie and told the rabbit: "This is a negative example of your attitude towards others. Don't imitate him."

Rabbit didn't understand, but that didn't stop him from hearing that this was an accusation against Benjamin, so Rabbit nodded repeatedly.

The magpie sighed: "But as far as the current situation is concerned, isn't this boy a drag on you? You don't even parasitize others, because that will make him confused or even scared."

"I'm not afraid!" Rabbit retorted subconsciously, "I'm not afraid of Esther!"

Esther chuckled and said nothing.

The magpie unfolded its pure white feather tips and pointed impatiently in the direction of the rabbit: "You really have no consciousness at all. Extraordinary people have too many ways to make others die silently, not to mention you are such a non-relative." A homeless kid for no reason.”

"Esther won't hurt me, why should I worry?"

The magpie's eyes were full of ridicule: "If you stay with her for a long time, she might harm you, do you understand?"

Rabbit thought of the unconscious lady with blood on her body, and her original determination was shaken. (End of chapter)