Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

Esther stared nervously at the black-haired young man opposite. She didn't even have a weapon to defend herself, and the wooden gun had already been thrown out.

run?She didn't even have the confidence to run away.

Make superficial negotiations first?He seems to be afraid of the "Zoya" in my mind, so he never directly steals any ideas, and he doesn't even try to parasitize me. If He really wants to fight, then I will steal my ideas and let "Zoya" "take over!According to what Xiao Qi said, this place is far away from Backlund anyway, so it doesn't matter if things get serious...

Many thoughts of Esther flashed through her mind. She took a deep breath and looked back at the smiling young man opposite: "Are you really Amon?"

"Of course, all of us are Amon," the young man clasped the hard-shelled fruit on his hand with his knuckles, "If someone says no, then they are really defrauding you."

His gaze turned to the white-eyed crow above Esther's head.

The crow immediately lowered his body and whispered to Esther: "Don't believe what he says, he is driving us apart!"

Of course, Esther noticed the pronouns used by the crow, and the tension in her heart rose several degrees, her heartbeat became more and more violent, and she subconsciously stepped back, but she still managed to maintain her composure:

"No, Xiao Qi is Xiao Qi, it's different."

The crow with white circles lying on top of Esther's head suddenly opened its eyes slightly, and then showed a clear expression. A trace of vigilance flashed in its black glass-like eyes where Esther could not see.

The crow noticed that there was a potential deviation in his cognition, and quickly adjusted it back.This is the most special anchoring ability of "Zoya" - because he has such a firm belief, "fate" itself will be distorted accordingly, the stronger and clearer his cognition of the other, the degree to which the other is affected will become stronger with time.

Under the angel, it may be difficult to notice such a special thing, let alone the avatar in the state of circular seal, it is simply an easy thing to be led away from the main body by her.

Even if the other avatars were somewhat sensitive, it was difficult to be vigilant enough, and then quickly forget this matter in the untenable fate of "Zoya".

So the relevant news has not been informed of the main body of the Land Abandoned by God...

The young man on the opposite side was not in a hurry to say anything, but was waiting for the crow's next signal.Seeing that the crow was thinking about something, he threw out the fruit in his hand, and let it roll across the beach, just in front of Esther.

The opponent's action made Esther take two steps back, avoiding the fruit: "What do you want?"

The young man straightened his monocle: "It depends on what you can give me, but are you in charge? Strictly speaking, you can't even be considered a 'stealer', you just accommodate the extraordinary things that belong to others." characteristic."

His smile is reckless and joyful, as if he is not trying to break the disguise of the person opposite, but is discussing how beautiful the beach and blue sky are: "Without Him in your mind, of course you are nothing."

"I'd rather not have 'Zoya'! I'm just an ordinary person, I don't know why I'm here!"

Esther didn't know where the anger in her heart came from. She shouldn't be so emotional. She should have been more cautious and careful when facing this "King of Angels", but she couldn't control this emotion , instead of throwing aside reason and getting angry like this.

The young man glanced at the crow above Esther's head, and nodded in distress: "Okay, I can see your determination, how about we play a game?"

game?

The crow patted Esther's head with its wings: "Be careful!"

Esther replied in a low voice: "I know, He has bad intentions, how could such a good thing happen..."

Then she loudly asked the young man opposite: "I won't promise you easily!"

Hearing the "negotiation conditions" implied in Esther's words, the young man snorted: "Since it is a game, there will naturally be rewards and punishments. I will hide four things on the island. Correspondingly, you have four days to Come and find them. Before the sunset on the fourth day, you have to send them to 'me', and the game is over. If you can meet this condition, I will of course send you back to Backlund, and even give you a more suitable gift. How about a Extraordinary item from the 'Zoya' path?"

Esther's eyes lit up, but she would not be easily overwhelmed by this desire, she did not believe that the other party would easily let herself and Xiaoqi go: "Such a simple rule?"

"This is related to punishment," the young man's smile deepened. "If you can't find it, I will take away something that belongs to you every night."

Esther's right eyelid twitched: "My things?"

"Remind you first, it may be anything, don't say I didn't understand it when the time comes."

The young man's tone was very innocent, his tone of complaint and jokes was exactly the same as that of Xiao Qi.

"Do I have an option not to play this game?"

The young man's smile deepened: "Of course—no. I can't hurt your life, because I don't want to directly awaken the sleeping power in your body. If you are still awake after the fourth night, then you will be free."

The crow above Esther's head suddenly spoke: "We are on a certain island in the south, aren't we?"

"Yes, this is the uninhabited island to the west of Bayam." The young man casually pointed in one direction, "If you swim down there, you may be able to find someone, but it will take many days and nights."

Esther didn't reply immediately, she keenly grasped the word that the young man deliberately emphasized, "sober".

Why is sobriety a condition of freedom?Does this have something to do with what the youth is trying to steal?
Even if thousands of people don't want to participate, she has no choice.

"I see."

"Then the game will start tomorrow, and you can move around freely." After the young man finished speaking, he walked leisurely into the primitive forest with his hands behind his back, without any intention of staying behind.

This made Esther slightly relieved, but soon she felt depressed again: "It's really a completely unreasonable game..."

"Why is it unreasonable?" The crow stood up on top of her head and jumped twice, "Isn't this pretty good? At least you still have a little hope."

"Equally matched is called a game!"

He is called abuse!I have no morals at all, bah!Esther added these two sentences viciously in her heart.

Esther took two steps forward and picked up the coconut-like fruit: "Xiaoqi, why didn't you leave then? I'm still implicated by me now, and ended up on such a deserted island."

The crow was silent for a moment, then chuckled twice: "Haha, I'm also curious about the answer to this question."

The sun finally dipped below the horizon, and the crimson moon rose on the horizon, and Esther glanced at it, tired.

She turned her eyes to the crimson sparkling sea, and decided to try to catch two fish later, crabs or razor clams were fine too. There were many such small things on the beach, and she had seen them before.

It would be great if I had the ignition skills of my hometown...

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The night was getting darker and darker, and the bright and dark starlight on the black sky was different from what I remembered, and Esther didn't have the leisure to watch the stars and the moon with the waves.

She piled the stones in a circle on the sand in a dry place, with a few branches piled inside, and a relatively complete empty shell and several pieces of debris beside it.According to Xiaoqi, the fruit is called "Teana". Esther thought it would be convenient to use it for cooking, so she tried to keep the shape of the second fruit intact.

She didn't have matches on her, but there were still some useful things in her satchel. After removing a part of the iron wind chime, Esther put the cotton in the box under the iron sheet, and then grabbed a piece with a rough surface. The gray-black stone was struck hard on it.

Good luck still favored her. After an unknown number of knocks, a spark burst out and ignited the piece of cotton. Esther quickly stuffed it to the side of the branch, and soon, a flickering flame was on the Light up on the beach.

"Huh...it actually works."

Esther breathed a sigh of relief, and pulled the Teyana shell over. There were two dead fish lying in it, and a few shells she dug up with good luck, which were left on the beach during low tide.

She left a little of Teyana's juice and cooked it as a soup base. The fish scales were simply scraped with an iron sheet, and the internal organs were dissected, making the simplest treatment.

The white-eyed crow has been following along, sitting on top of Esther most of the time, watching her so busy with a laugh.

The Teyana shells were held close to the fire, and the remaining juices in them were gradually bubbling away, becoming cloudier from cooking something else.

"Is it necessary?" it asked Esther, "Under such conditions, you can completely give up eating."

Esther used another piece of coconut shell to fiddle with the fish's hand, and said softly: "Get off my head, if you catch it again, I will really lose my hair."

The crow was noncommittal, and flew to the spare branches next to her, shaking its feathers: "What are you thinking?"

"I was thinking, something doesn't seem quite right with you."

"That's a cold accusation, are you doubting me?"

Esther poked the fish twice more, looking intently waiting for her dinner. The two finger-length fish were softening in the tumbling Teyana soup, and were broken into several pieces by Esther. A piece of shellfish opened its shell, exposing the soft and tender shellfish inside, which made the soup smell fishy, ​​but it didn't smell very good.

The crow squatted beside it quietly, with interest in its black eyes.

Under the reflection of the firelight, Esther's face was uncertain: "I sorted out what happened, you..."

She stopped halfway through her words.

The crow with white eye circles shook his head and spit out the two sentences in Chinese: [Today people don't see the moon in ancient times, but this month once illuminated the ancients. ]
This ancient poem was almost becoming a signal for Xiaoqi to connect with her, which made Esther's eyes gradually light up, but she didn't speak, just smiled.

The crow shook his head amusedly: "Last Chinese New Year, you even shared some cake with me in the Worm of Time form, and painted black crows on it, didn't you?"

There was a smile in its half-closed black eyes, and it looked extremely sincere:

"Thank you."

Esther also smiled back, and her mood immediately improved a lot. She lowered her eyes to stare at the fish heads that kept tumbling in Teyana's shell, fished them out and threw them into the fire.

The flames didn't care, and devoured anything that got into their arms.