Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

Keilal looked at Esther with more and more complex eyes, even full of confusion.

Esther stood there without saying a word, letting the bat lie behind her feet, hugging the edge of her boots and shivering.

The situation remained deadlocked for more than ten minutes, longer than the time Keilal danced just now, until Keilal lowered her head with a blank look on her face. She stared at the bouquet of red roses in her hand: "Thank you for your compliment."

"You're welcome, of course! It's the guest's honor to appreciate the master's dancing!" After discovering that the other party really had no intention of doing anything, Esther gradually started to let herself go. She said nonsense with a serious face, "I I have never seen such a beautiful dance, you deserve all these compliments!”

Keilal's expression was obviously violently distorted. The overly arrogant horse made this lady who was accustomed to the reserve of aristocrats feel at a loss. Her bloodless pale cheeks were gradually turning red, until the hand holding the bouquet suddenly exerted force and directly crushed a rose under her fingers.

The castle owner gave Esther a fierce look and threw the rose in Esther's direction with his backhand.

Of course, Esther would not pick it up. She was not stupid enough to "accept" the bouquet. Esther's fingers quickly closed together, and her figure had appeared on the other side of the rooftop, also keeping in touch with Keilal. A very long distance.

When Esther stole space and moved instantly, she also took the bat that was hanging on her trousers without leaving it in place.

The bouquet fell to the ground, and rose petals like lipsticks scattered and flew out. The next second, a large thorn bush with roses in full bloom took root on the stone bricks, spreading its thorns crazily to the entire platform, covering it in just a few seconds. Almost half the rooftop.

Esther grabbed it with her backhand several times, and her weight became as light as a feather. As she kicked hard on the ground, her whole body floated in the air, and the bat screamed in horror.

During the slow fall, Esther decisively stole the distance between herself and the tower hole and successfully got inside.

Keilal stood in the middle of the blooming rose bushes. Until the rose bushes flooded the entire rooftop and covered her dress, Keilal did not make any move.

She stared at Esther's figure with complicated eyes, and did not take any action to stop Esther from escaping back to the castle. She just gently broke off the nearest rose at hand, and red blood flowed from the break. Wearing Keilal's black lace gloves, all the way down.

"welcome……"

Keilal spread her hands toward the crimson moon in the sky, letting the full clear light envelope her. The rose bushes clung to her body, and the bright red buds covered her face, and then bloomed again.

The thorns suddenly sank, and the covered figures were gone. Kelal didn't know which corner of the castle he had returned to, leaving only more and more luxuriant rose bushes. They were growing wildly under the nourishment of the moonlight, but they were unable to climb up the mountain. High, far away from the opening of the tower.

Esther decided to enter this tower to avoid the coffin she had seen in the castle before. She even deliberately blocked the trap door with a cage. If she went back now, the rose bushes would definitely be tracked faster. .

In contrast, Esther directly chose this cave entrance, especially after seeing the bat and Keilal's fake "Benjamin", Esther felt that this place would not be more dangerous than down below.

Her intuition was not wrong, Marquis Kelar did not catch up, at least Esther escaped her attention briefly, Esther was not sure whether her "compliment" had any effect.

But the situation here was even worse than Esther imagined. The moment she fell into the tower, the torch that Esther had been holding suddenly went out on its own.

Not even the crimson moonlight could shine into this room, and there were densely packed gray-black balls hanging from the ceiling, some large and some small, almost completely integrated with the shadows. The largest black shadow was in the corner, nearly half a person tall, while the smallest one was not much bigger than a fist.

They will rock back and forth from time to time, making a slight "squeaking" sound.

The ground is dotted with white bones of various shapes, human or animal, and they look like they have been dead for who knows how long. There were also several iron cages in the corners that Esther had seen before. Inside were some withered white bones, and many smaller bats were lying on them. They were also hung all over the iron cages.

Esther leaned down, trying to pick off the bat at her feet and put it next to its kind next to the cage. As a result, the bat seemed to understand her intention. As soon as Esther's hand came closer, it lowered its head nervously. Wake up with a cry.

"You don't want to come back?"

The bat tightened on her trousers, expressing its resistance to it through actions, as if it wanted to get into Esther's boots. Esther had to give up the idea of ​​grabbing it, lest that happen.

The scream of the bat attracted more attention. The round ball hanging above Esther's head spread out, and more and more crimson eyes were revealed from the darkness, staring at this intrusion with confusion and curiosity. By.

Esther stood by the entrance of the cave, feeling a little nervous, but judging from the behavior of the bat, these creatures might be able to understand what she said?

So Esther bowed slightly and asked very politely: "Can I pass through here?"

Several bats with large heads spread their wings and emitted sharp and piercing chirps. Even if Esther couldn't understand what they were saying, she could sense the warning and deterrence contained in them.

With their hostile start, more and more bats were awakened from their slumber. They screamed, but none of them flew up to Esther. They simply joined in the harmony and expressed their feelings. Not friendly.

As the half-human-tall shadow let out a heavy sigh, all the screams stopped instantly, and scarlet eyes everywhere turned and fell in the corners, and Esther was no exception.

Even though the room was quite dark, her eyes could clearly see everything around her. As the bat wings covering her body spread out, another pair of larger, more rational and peaceful scarlet eyes appeared in the shadow.

It was a human head, with a layer of short gray-black hair growing around the cheeks, and beyond the neck it was completely the body of a bat. The man's head turned up and down, constantly changing angles to look at Esther, who was standing by the door. Then he released his claws hanging from the ceiling and fell to the ground silently.

Based on the appearance of the middle-aged man and the sound he made just now, Esther judged that he was probably a man, or a male bat, but she thought his face looked familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere.

"You are my mother's guest and you should not disturb us."

The first time the giant bat spoke, Esther suddenly recognized his voice. It was exactly the same as the voice of the "butler" at the gate of the castle.

She tried hard to recall the glimpse of the vision, which kept overlapping with the appearance of the human face on the bat. Finally, Esther was able to confirm that the bat and the housekeeper might have been "the same person."

"Sorry, I didn't mean to disturb you. I didn't expect..."

There are so many bats here, it would give someone trypophobia. Esther sighed inwardly.

The bat holding Esther's hind legs suddenly tilted its head, revealed its head from behind her, and called out twice to the huge bat.

Among the howls of the previous bat group, this bat's voice was completely drowned out. At this time, the surroundings were quiet, and its weak and trembling voice became clear.

Esther couldn't understand what the bat was saying, but the "housekeeper" obviously did.

The "Butler" opened his mouth, revealing his fangs similar to those of Marquis Kelar, and his voice became deeper: "No one can leave here, and no one can leave mother! This is everything to us!"

The bat clinging to Esther's body screamed. I don't know what it shouted. All the other bats suddenly screamed. The sharp and noisy sound could almost tear the eardrums. Esther couldn't help but frown. He frowned and took half a step back, approaching the edge of the hole in the wall.

"Quiet, quiet down!" Finally, the "Butler" spoke up and let out a low roar before the other bats stopped. The "Butler" breathed heavily, but his scarlet eyes were very indifferent, "The heir is the heir, It is impossible to escape from the mother’s arms.”

The "Butler" looked at Esther, and his voice gradually returned to calmness: "Guest, you should leave here as soon as possible. You smell terrible, which will make the heirs more likely to be frightened."

"Um... I'm sorry, can I come over?" Esther didn't know how to respond, so after apologizing, she pointed to the door behind the "butler". When the "butler" lay on the ground, the original door The blocked iron door was exposed.

Esther had previously met another "vampire" who complained a lot about "vampires", so she knew that she had a strange smell in the vampire's sense of smell. From this point of view, the bats here may be related to the vampires. ?

The "butler" looked at Esther for a moment, then lowered his head slightly and arched his black-haired back, as if he was bowing: "Yes, you are a well-behaved guest."

But when the "butler" raised his head again, a very scary smile appeared on his face: "More importantly, the heirs are unwilling to eat you."

Esther also showed a smile: "Thank you."

She stepped on those bones with her feet, without deliberately slowing her steps. As the white bones under her feet continued to make crisp sounds, Esther walked past the "housekeeper".

The "housekeeper" made a very low "hissing" sound. If it weren't for Esther's special hearing, she would never have been able to capture the meaning of that sentence: "Only death..."

Esther did not look back, but kept looking through those scarlet eyes. She pushed open the iron door in the corner and finally walked out of the room.

The "Butler" coughed twice, and the eyes on the ceiling closed one after another, returning to sleep.

The "butler" looked at the moonlight outside the cave entrance, retreated to the darkest corner, and blocked the iron door with his body.

"Miss Marquis...heirs and mother..."

As he closed his eyes, the restless chirping of all the bats in the room became completely silent.