Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

Chapter 138 A Prank
The rapidly changing scene in her line of sight made Esther more and more dizzy, feeling nauseated.

When everything stopped, she found that there was a boundless sea in front of her.

sea!

There are no dusty buildings, no panting steam trains, no streets trampled by pedestrians and horses, and no smog that pollutes the air for years.

Esther couldn't believe it, but looked at everything in front of her in amazement:
In the distance, the blue and rolling sapphires reflect the cut surface of the sun, and the scattered crystal diamonds are deeper and farther than the clear sky, and they are connected into a line in the distance.

The frothy waves climbed and fell until they touched the nearby golden sandy beach, where they faded and disappeared.

The fine shells are buried at the bottom, and only after the salty waves linger and recede, they shyly reveal a corner, watching the vast and refreshing blue world.

This is a kind of shock that Esther can't describe. It comes from the tiny perspective of an individual and feels from the wider world of freedom.

Her eyes were a little moist, perhaps from the sand, or perhaps from the pain of the curse in the wound on her left hand.

A hermit crab squeezed a corner of the shell, with its slightly whitish right eye, slowly crawled over Esther's shoes, completely unafraid of the statue-like humans who were in a daze.

Esther smelled the pure sea breeze without the gloomy mist of Backlund. The smell was more vivid than she remembered. She could almost taste the bitter and salty sea water in her mouth. She didn't hate such a strong smell. Sensory experience, even quite immersive.

Only one thing, she really wants to yell now, she wants to use her voice to drown out the white noise of the endless waves day and night.

Since no one was around, Esther did exactly that:

"Where is this——"

However, she forgot that there was a crow nearby, so the hoarse voice with a smile sounded above Esther's head the next moment:
"Beach. It's far enough away from Backlund, so it's safe here."

Esther pointed to the beautiful line of sea and sky opposite: "Of course he *knows* that this is the seaside!? How did we come here? The mysterious lady just gave me a very familiar feeling, she won't hurt us! Why? We will suddenly flash - or teleport or something, and run here!?"

The white-eyed crow flew down from Esther's head, landed on a nearby coconut tree, and turned its head around leisurely, as if looking at the surrounding situation:
"Even if you ask me that, I can only guess."

"I really, really want to avoid that guy named Amon, but I don't want to go straight to 'Rosson Crusoe'! Do you still want to change the name to 'Friday'?"

Esther turned around twice on the beach irritably, looking around, but did not see any figures or ships, only two seagulls with black eye circles passed over her head and got into the lush forest behind her.

The warm sea breeze blew on her cheeks and brushed her silver-white hair, causing Esther to sigh deeply.There is no longer the bitter cold wind of Backlund in winter. If the time and place were changed, Esther might enjoy this kind of trip very much. This was something she had considered for a long time.

But now everything is messed up.

"Friday? What kind of story is this?" The crow tilted his head curiously, as if he was not worried about the current situation at all.

Esther glared at it angrily: "The story of cannibalism!"

"It's corny and doesn't feel interesting enough."

"You still have the heart to comment? We might be trapped in a ghost place that doesn't even have a name!?"

Esther looked at the primitive jungle full of savage atmosphere, saying that this place is not a bird shit is an exaggeration, because there were seabirds flying over just now, but it was hard for her to believe that there were other people in this place.

Even if there are, maybe they are savages who are difficult to communicate with... They don't really eat people, do they?From another perspective, if there are extraordinary people in this world, maybe there are extraordinary animals or even monsters on such an island?

I can't think about it anymore, I can't scare myself anymore!

Esther patted her forehead with her palm, trying to calm down her emotions. After calming down a little, she glanced at the lush forest and decided not to stand still.

Breaking off a branch about one meter away, Esther found a sheet of pebbles and shells, and after simply cutting off the corners of the top, she grabbed the extremely crude weapon and started walking to the side of the beach.

If it weren't for the fact that she had been sluggish for too long before, and the stolen frost ability had dissipated, Esther wouldn't have made her own weapons in such a embarrassing manner.

The black thread on her left hand has been dissipating slowly, but very slowly. Although the pain is obvious, it is still within Esther's tolerance. From time to time, a ring will appear and disappear in her palm, resisting the erosion of flesh and blood. curse.

The crow flew over and squatted on Esther's head again, happily watching her every move: "Is there nothing useful in your bag?"

"No, my short sword fell off! Then we suddenly appeared here again..." As Esther said, she picked up several stones that were larger than the size of a fist nearby, and made a circle around the edge of the forest here. I made a mark to locate my starting point, "That woman is the 'witch', isn't she?"

"Of course, of course," replied the crow casually, "do you know how to build your own boat?"

Esther paused as she walked to the right of the beach: "You think too highly of me, don't you?"

"So you want to swim back?"

Esther almost wrote a huge question mark on her face: "Who gave you such a great illusion? I don't even know where we are, where am I going? Heaven?"

"Hey, it's not impossible." The crow flapped its wings twice, showing off its flying ability.

This made Esther feel that the center of her right eyebrow began to throb again. If it wasn't for the inconvenience of holding the wooden stick with her left hand, she would definitely reach out to rub it.

What shocked her was that the spiritual intuition in her mind came out with "uneasiness". This kind of warning was vague but did not point.

Esther didn’t change anything on the surface. On the surface, she was guarding against the beasts that might emerge from the island’s jungle, but at the same time, she began to secretly watch out for the “little seven” above her head, just because it was also included in this “ Uneasy" warning.

Not far away, a lizard with a slightly blackened right eye circle sticks out its tongue, disappears in the grass leaves behind the tree roots, and crawls deep into the island.

Moving at the same time, there are all kinds of tiny reptiles and flying insects.

A few crabs dragged their bodies along the sand, covering all the messy footprints.

Not long after, a few seabirds with black eye circles flew here, grabbed the group of stones that were used as marks, and brought them all back to the jungle.

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The sun was too glaring, and the temperature rose very quickly. Although Esther was not very afraid of the heat, it would consume the little energy she had left. Soon she had to take off her cloak and tie it directly. At the waist, it doesn't interfere too much with her hand and foot movements.

She walked into the sunset feeling bouts of exhaustion, but didn't seem to be back where she started.

Esther rubbed her arms, and the circular wheel appeared on the skin under her sleeve and disappeared quickly.Before she knew it, this process was repeated many times, completely shutting down Esther's physiology.

This is also a great help to Esther, there is no bathroom on such a deserted island.

It's hard for Esther not to think of the abnormality brought by "Zoya" before, and wonder if it has something to do with that time.

There were traces of broken branches everywhere on the edge of the forest, but Esther never saw the circle of stones, and the beach was still stretching forward, which made her suspicious.Esther didn't think the island was so vast. She walked very fast, but she had been walking down for at least three hours, and she still hadn't returned to the starting point.

"Xiaoqi, you can see farther away. Is this island big?" Esther couldn't help asking the crow for help.

However, her on-site support was quite negative, and the crow blinked innocently: "It looks quite big, I didn't notice it. But there is not much movement in the jungle, it should be quite safe, do you want to go in and find a place to spend the night?"

"Well," Esther was a little hesitant, she looked around, "I think I should prepare something to eat first, or I will really start thinking about grilling you."

The eyes of the white-eyed crow are full of jokes: "Oh? The fruit on the tree over there is a special product of the archipelago, and humans can eat it."

Esther looked at the slender tree that looked like a palm, and there was indeed a huge hard-shelled fruit hanging from the top. She narrowed her eyes and looked at it for two seconds: "It looks like a puffed coconut..."

"So, cough, let's go, Almighty Xiaoqi!"

"No."

"Really indifferent."

Esther just made a joke casually to cheer herself up. She really didn't expect the crow to do her best to help her. Since it landed on this island, it has been keen to watch her jokes.

"Then get out of the way, don't get smashed."

The crow chuckled, as if mocking Esther's stupidity, but it also got up from above Esther's head and flew to a bush a few meters away, keeping a distance from Esther's target.

"Thinking about it is really torturous. That Amon can steal the distance, but I can't, otherwise I'll catch it directly."

Climbing a tree is impossible, and Esther's left hand can hardly support such activities, so she can only think about knocking down the fruit.

Esther picked up a few stones from the beach, raised her head to stare at the position of the fruit, took a few steps back, then flicked her wrist suddenly, and hit one of the stones, the fruit shook twice and then stopped moving.

Esther repeated this action several times. After analyzing the approximate strength and angle, she stepped forward and twisted her body, throwing the wooden gun up.

"Boom!"

The not-sharp tip of the wooden gun slammed into the oval fruit hard. Under such an impact, the heavy branch made a cracking sound, and soon the fruit fell to the sand. Next, the one next to it also fell.

The wooden gun drew an arc in the air and stuck in the sand pile on the other side.

Before Esther cheered, another person's palm had already covered the coconut-like fruit and picked it up from the ground.

The black crow with white circles fell back on top of Esther's head, and expressed the question in her heart for Esther: "Why are you here? You sent us here?"

The black-haired young man wearing a crystal monocle tossed and caught the Teyana fruit in his hand, smiled and said to Esther:
"To be honest, I've always been here."

(End of this chapter)