Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

Esther didn't sleep that night. She considered that it would consume too much energy, but she was more worried about the existence of "Amon".

After using fish and shellfish to block the emptiness in her body, she moved to the bottom of a Teyana tree, hugged her satchel tightly, and looked at the sea, as if waiting for a ship that only existed in imagination. ships in.

The crow squatted on top of Esther's head again, closing its eyes, but Esther knew very well that it was not sleeping.

Xiaoqi doesn't need to eat or sleep, its physiological needs are dispensable, and it doesn't need these to maintain its physical signs.

Mythical creature...

Esther realized that she was not sleepy, her exhaustion came more from yesterday's use of extraordinary abilities and the weakened spirit after successive distresses.

This made her heart sink a little bit, as if she also sank into the quiet sea with the crimson moon.Even though she was used to it, Esther still didn't like this moon, especially the weird color, which made her feel uncomfortable.

It's almost dawn.

Esther blinked her dry eyes, and out of the stone-like stillness, her fingers moved, and she pulled the harmonica out of her satchel.

She took a deep breath and began to play.

This is a Cantonese song in Li Xing's memory. It sounds like "Red Sun", which is quite energetic. She can only play the general tune of this old song, and remember the silly inspirational lyrics.

But who taught her to sing, Esther could not remember the slightest impression.

In such a loud harmonica sound, the warm red sun fell on her, until the end of the song, it hung high in the sky, telling people on the earth to welcome a new day.

Esther's eyes swept over the quiet jungle and beach, and only a few fish gathered by the water, and she understood.

A crab crawled slowly a few steps away.

Esther sneered, put away the harmonica, and asked the crow above her head: "The Sequence Four of 'The Thief' can also be parasitic on creatures, right? Not just crows, but anything else will do?"

"Of course," the crow replied with playful eyes, "do you have anything to parasitize?"

"No. I don't need to be anyone, I just like being myself."

"Boring idea." The crow smacked his lips.

Before it finished speaking, another male voice came out from the woods: "I agree, he is really boring."

The crow snorted coldly: "You want to say that you are ready?"

Esther looked at the suspicious "Amon" and saw a bright smile on his face.

"Yes, the game has already started. What you are looking for is a snake, a key, a heart and a symbol, follow the rules, and give them to 'me' at the end, understand?"

"Live snake?"

Amon seemed to feel more interesting because of this question: "Damn. You wouldn't be afraid of snakes, would you? If I had known it earlier, I would have kept it."

"No, but won't it rot in this weather?"

Esther's eyes glanced behind Amon. She vaguely sensed something moving behind her, but Amon on the opposite side remained very vigilant, and just took a step towards her line of sight: "No."

"Will you do anything during this period?" Esther pointed to the position behind him.

That Amon looked surprised, and raised his monocle: "Oh? You noticed. We won't break our own rules of the game, at least not now."

Then he turned his head and said calmly to the forest: "You have also heard what she said, so let's go."

All kinds of noisy creatures murmured, or simply tapped on the tree trunk to express some kind of dissatisfaction, but except for a few birds that flapped their wings more vigorously, Esther didn't see the specific creatures, which made her even more angry. I feel hairy.

This guy won't parasitize all the creatures on the island! ?It's crazy!
That Amon smiled at Esther again, then turned around and walked into the jungle. His figure disappeared behind the tree trunk, and Esther immediately asked Xiaoqi:

"Amon's parasites have no upper limit!?"

"For this small island, about the same."

Esther felt a sense of despair: "That is to say—"

The crow pointed at the jungle with the tips of its wings: "Whether you go in or not, they are staring at you everywhere."

The white-eyed crow shrank its head suddenly. It could feel the obvious murderous aura rising from Esther's body. If it wasn't for Esther's "friend Xiaoqi" who was still pretending to be, it would really laugh out loud.

"Zoya" is actually so full of humanity?How he did it is very interesting.When tonight's game enters the official stage, His reaction is really more exciting.

Esther put away the iron pieces and stones beside the fire, grabbed the newly sharpened spear, took a deep breath, and finally looked at the vast and calm sea, she turned and stepped into the shadowy dense forest.

The shadow covered the sunlight above her head in an instant, there was no insect or bird singing, and the forest was so silent that there was no life, but Esther always felt that peeping eyes were cast in all the blind spots of her sight, making her frown more tighter.

Snakes, keys, hearts and symbols, what a mess, not even hints!

After Esther stepped into the jungle, she quickly calmed down. She still had to guard against those parasitic creatures in the dark.Even if the other party said "can't do it", Esther didn't expect the other party's words to be credible.

Even Xiao Wu and Xiao Qi, who are closely related to her, often only speak half of what they say. If it wasn't for Esther's keen intuition that could always catch the strangeness, maybe she would have fallen into a pit long ago.

There was a "swish" crawling sound under the grass blades, and Esther stabbed the wooden spear out with her backhand, and a crab was nailed to the ground by her, and it soon became immobile.

Esther made a judgment in her heart. This place is already more than ten meters away from the beach. Crabs generally don't run to the depths of the woods away from the coast. It seems that the other party is indeed parasitized with various creatures and stays by her side as an eyeliner.

Thinking of this, she felt even more chilly, and she didn't know how many things that were parasitized by Amon were hidden under the cover of green leaves.

The white-eyed crow on Esther's head cocked its tail and looked to the left: "There seems to be a mark on the tree trunk there."

"Sign?" Esther used a wooden gun to pick through the grass, and saw a thick tree trunk with three people hugging each other. A black crow flew over her head and landed on the twisted roots of the tree next to it.

There is a clear imprint engraved in the middle of the tree trunk, although it is only the size of a palm, it is very clear. It is composed of a half-peeking eye and twisted lines of transformation.

This is the symbol behind Mister Fool's high-back chair!

Esther's eyes widened the moment she saw the mark clearly, but she didn't know that all her expressions fell into the crow's eyes, making it jump twice happily.

From this point of view, there is indeed a candidate for the new secret. "Zoya" once tried his best to conceal the matter of Xiao Qi and Xiao Wu, and it was he who was constantly in contact with that person.

"Is this the 'symbol' of one of the four things?" Esther stepped forward, and after confirming the feedback from the "spiritual intuition" in her mind, she started to break the bark.

There were obvious signs of decay around this piece of bark. Esther just used a little force to break off the engraving that took up a large area of ​​her palm, and then stuffed it into her satchel.

She clapped the sawdust on her hands: "I thought Amon would use the 'thief' symbol or the crest of his family."

"Who knows?" The crow casually perfunctory Esther, and then fell back on top of her head, "Maybe next time you can try to steal his ideas."

"Good idea, why don't I steal his monocle?"

The crow's rampant laughter resounded in the forest, "Esther" riding on its head was completely opposite to the completely emotionless "Zoya" in memory, and it was the first time that it felt the relationship between the two so straightforwardly. It's different, and it's different from the feeling when absorbing Xiaoqi's memory.

But the crow with white eye circles calmed down quickly, got out of the state of being subtly influenced by Esther, and replied to her with a smile: "You can try, maybe he will be very happy to give you a monocle .”

"You know I'm being sarcastic, right?"

"Of course I know, but what I said is not deceiving, it is true."

Esther let out a silent "pooh" in her heart.

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The good luck seems to end here. Esther spent most of the day wandering in the woods, also trying to turn to the "spiritual intuition" in her mind, but she still found nothing. The remaining three things had no clue. And so it passed.

Esther's greatest achievement was finding two wild plantain trees and accidentally digging up two pieces of taro. She even saw some mushrooms with white and tender caps, thicker than a finger.

Esther hesitated for a while, and gave up the idea of ​​letting Xiaoqi come to test the poison. If there is a chance to catch the creature parasitized by Amon, she can put some to try the effect.

Sitting by the small stream that provides fresh water, Esther decided to take a break and sort out the route she traveled today in her mind.Because she encountered some plants that could provide positioning, the island map she could outline finally had a rough area, but she still had no clue what she was looking for, and the game was inexplicable from the beginning.

But Esther had no choice. She felt like she was being led around.

The food she found so far is enough for her to resist her appetite today. Esther peeled off the skin of the plantain in her hand, and took a bite of the sweet and astringent flesh.This taste is not weird, it is a little bit better than the "Intis Special Dishes" invented by Emperor Roselle, and it is still within her acceptable range.

"Is it delicious?" The crow asked with a smile, it was squatting on the top of a bush next to Esther.

"It's okay, do you want to have a mouth?" Esther broke off a bit habitually, and handed it to the crow's mouth. When the crow opened his mouth to say something, she didn't wait for the crow's response, and directly took the piece of broken plantain. It was thrown in accurately.

The crow coughed twice, swallowed the pulp, and stared at Esther in embarrassment: "So I told you, I don't need to eat."

Esther smiled kindly: "I need it."

The crow's eyes flickered, and he glanced at the plantain in Esther's hand, but he didn't continue to dwell on the matter: "I have to remind you, it's getting late."

"I know, but I can't let the sun hang back and never set."

Esther threw away the plantain peel casually, her gaze pierced through the dense forest canopy, and she caught a glimpse of the blue above her head changing to purple.

Her words startled the crow, followed by a long silence.

Esther didn't leave again, she lit a fire by the river, scorched a piece of taro, recovered the physical strength and energy spent today, and barely suppressed the unbearable hunger in her stomach.

As time passed, Esther, the crow and other "people" soon appeared by the stream along with the night.

"Then according to the agreement, I will implement today's punishment time."

The young man walked out from the bushes, holding his monocle with a smile on his face. He paused suddenly under his feet, then raised his toes, and a piece of plantain peel flew out and landed directly in front of Esther.

"Tsk, it's almost there." Esther murmured softly.

The crow flew to the top of Esther's head again, let out a muffled laugh unceremoniously, and said after a while: "Are you serious?"

Esther didn't answer, but looked at Amon, who had a strange expression on the opposite side, with a calm expression: "You said you wanted to steal something, didn't you? Come on."

Amon on the opposite side didn't say much. He raised his right hand and retracted it. Esther felt the crow's claws on his head tightened.

Is Xiao Qi also nervous?
Esther sighed in her heart, but she didn't feel any changes in her body. She looked at that Amon suspiciously.

The black-haired young man in a peaked hat just spread his hands at her, turned around decisively and walked into the woods, which made Esther even more confused. She checked the things she was carrying, and then checked whether there was any abnormality on her body, but she didn't pay attention to any ominous omissions.

What exactly was stolen?
The crow flew from Esther's head to the stone again, looking at her curiously, just as Esther wanted to ask Xiaoqi if she noticed anything - she suddenly found that she couldn't open her mouth.

I rely on! ?
Was it my ability to open my mouth that the bastard stole?No, not right!This time I can't even eat!I can't even drink water!

"Mmm! Mmm!"

Esther groaned in the direction that Amon left, both of which were swear words.

The crow scratched Esther's hair again, sounding confused: "What's wrong? What do you want to say?"

Esther immediately used a banana leaf to hold some clear water, then dipped in the water and wrote on the ground. Although the handwriting was distorted due to anger and not very clear, the crow still understood what Esther wrote:

"I can't open my mouth anymore!"

The crow even felt sorry for Esther thinking of a solution so quickly, which made it a lot less fun, and when "Zoya" woke up completely, he would have less good memories to laugh at him.It looked at Esther pretending to be hesitant:
"But at least it doesn't affect other aspects. It's just that it doesn't matter if you can't talk. You can listen to me."

Esther rolled her eyes at it, angrily kicked away the handwriting on the ground, looked worriedly at the plantains and taro next to it, and then at the stream next to it.

She is rapidly losing confidence in how much longer she can last.

It's just the first night.

Plantains...not tasty...