Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

In an environment of absolute silence, the internal sound of the human body can become quite noisy. Without external sound, the sound originating from oneself will also appear in the individual's feelings, and sometimes it can even be disturbing.

And a completely silent world will only make people who are used to hearing the noise extra panic. After being completely cut off from receiving information from the world, the first thing that comes out is confusion.

Esther gently tilted her ears.

Her subconscious action caused the young man wearing a monocle to bend over with a smile. He waved at Esther, and his figure disappeared behind the trees again.

Esther felt that the crow above her head seemed to be nagging her head, and she could only guess what it said, but she couldn't hear the sound at all, which almost cut off the possibility of communication.

Esther took two steps out of the woods, and it was already the edge of the beach.

She saw a circular mark made of several stones, but the map formed in her mind clearly showed that this was not the place where she left the mark in the first place. at opposite ends of the diagonal.

What is His purpose in proposing this sick game?To see me tortured?Waiting for me to crash?
The more that Amon was like this, the more Esther wanted to grit her teeth and persevere, not wanting any of his plans to succeed.

Esther pulled out the iron sheet and wrote on the sand:

"I can't hear, what He stole is the sound"

The crow flew down from her head, and skillfully drew another line of writing on the ground with its claws: "No wonder you didn't respond at all when I talked to you, so what should we do now?"

Esther weighed for two seconds, then clenched the iron piece again:
"I have to keep looking for the rest"

The crow nodded after Esther turned her gaze to it, and flew back above her head.

Esther stood up again, put the iron piece back into the interlayer of the satchel, and she looked into the distance where the sea and the sky meet.

Everything was no different from the first night.

It's just that without the never-ending sound of waves, such a vast and boundless sea is extraordinarily lonely.

As the night was dark, Esther used a wooden stick to push aside the grass. In a way, she had to thank that Amon for his parasite, which kept her from being disturbed by wild animals or mosquitoes.

After losing her hearing, her perception of the outside world became dull. This was a situation she had never experienced before. Even though she could see the scene, but could not feel the sound, she lost the last false sense of security.

There is only silence, so quiet that it makes people feel bored and panicked, and the heartbeat is still beating when the palm is pressed on the chest, but the beating of the heart cannot be heard at all.

Esther would subconsciously pick out her ears, tap on obstacles in sight with a wooden gun, hammer a tree trunk twice or vigorously turn over bushes, she would grab the stones on the ground and throw them hard, The ground smashed a hollow in the opposite tree trunk, and a large number of leaves fell—silence, silent silence, all the sounds from the outside world were completely isolated, only the silence that was so quiet that people were about to go crazy.

Can quietness be such a frightening thing?
Esther crushed a branch under her feet, imagining the crisp sound it should make in her mind.

The voice of "spiritual intuition" suddenly became clear. This process did not need to be heard, but was directly instilled into Esther's perception.

[… feel. ]
He spoke Chinese, Chinese that jumped out of the world language system. After hearing the vague raving in her mind, Esther silently recited these two words in her heart.Her thinking had become the only remaining voice, which allowed Esther to get rid of the anxiety just now and rethink the meaning of this reminder.

Even if she knew she was going to "feel", what could she do now?
Esther walked to the source of the stream again. She squatted by the water, put her hands into the flowing stream, took a handful of clear water and buried her face in it.

The temperature of the water was cooler, effectively restoring Esther's composure.

The crow with white eye circles flew to the rocks by the stream, and kept its eyes on Esther's expression until she turned her head. The crow tilted its head curiously and did not speak.

Even Esther couldn't hear it, so it let out a chuckle unscrupulously.

However, Esther's gaze suddenly changed. Her face was full of disbelief, and she subconsciously took a step towards the crow, staring at it suspiciously.

The crow didn't move, and didn't make any more noise.

In places where Esther couldn't hear, there were a lot of voices, because Esther's hearing was stolen, they became more and more unscrupulous, and even some unknown creatures were laughing at the unlucky sojourner who was caught before crab.These discussions were full of enthusiasm, like the audience watching a wonderful circus, giving suggestions to the crow one after another, such as suddenly intimidating Esther.

The crow raised its head and swept across those guys in the shadows indifferently, and Esther followed suit, biting her lips subconsciously, which made the voices of those talking a lot quieter.

Of course Esther didn't hear those voices, but she could still "smell" the intensified salty-sweet fragrance, and knew that there were many creatures parasitized by Amon hidden nearby, and they surrounded them again.

If she can seize the opportunity, she doesn't mind adding a little more "energy".

She stood up again, stretched herself, fighting spirit appeared in her eyes again, she wanted to try to train that "feeling" according to the guidance of "spiritual intuition" while looking for the next thing.

Just like when I saw Xiao Qi smiling just now, I seemed to barely receive a kind of information. Although it was very like a trance illusion, if I try to amplify that feeling, maybe I can get rid of the "hearing" situation. Be aware of the outside world!

Esther made a conclusion in her heart, and realized that the situation was not at an impasse, she patted her stiff cheeks twice to cheer herself up.

The crow felt a little uncomfortable. "Esther"'s overly positive attitude was departing from his expectations. If "Zoya" still refused to appear, the development of this game waiting for the arrival of the main body would be somewhat boring.

What is the ontology dawdling about?The avatar who sent the message should have arrived a long time ago, why hasn't he come here? Could it be that he was entangled by someone?

Esther waved at the crow, and it immediately spread its wings and flew down on top of her head. At least this position made the crow very satisfied, much better than her shoulders...

It squinted its eyes again, dispelling the distortion brought by Esther's cognition.

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When the sun of the new day penetrated the shade of the tree and fell on Esther's eyes, she suddenly stopped and stopped the action of picking up the vines.

She wasn't sure if it was because she was too quiet and had been thinking and talking to herself for too long, so she had some kind of illusion.Esther seemed to "hear" something, a weak and small raving, even quite far apart, it just appeared for a moment and then disappeared, making it difficult for her to identify clearly.

To go or not to go?As soon as this idea came up, she made up her mind to investigate, and Esther, who had lost her hearing and speech, was particularly concerned about any touch.

Esther's sudden firm footsteps caused the crow above her to smack its lips in dissatisfaction.

After walking a few hundred meters in this direction, Esther sensed the faint call again, and she couldn't wait to quicken her pace, quickly turning over the bushes and collapsed tree stumps blocking the way.The terrain here is much more rugged than the last time she passed by, and it seems to have been damaged by external forces. Esther quickly bypassed two potholes covered by grass, and picked out several thorny thorns on the road .

Such a childish trap made her feel funny, more like deliberately annoying Esther, who should know that such things are useless.

Could it be because of that piece of banana peel?Or is it my attempt at stealing?It's naive and petty.

Esther shook her head, and followed the direction of the "call", and the voice that was directly transmitted to her perception became more and more clear, like a childish scream.

Her heart suddenly tightened.

Esther rushed to the side of the thorn bush, and after watching a few times, she picked up another branch from the ground, and used the wooden gun and the branch to stir it back and forth, tearing away all the thorns covering it, gradually revealing There was a mass of something underneath, wrapped in an off-white bandage.

Esther couldn't wait to reach out and fish it out, her fingers trembling slightly, and after using the iron piece to pick apart the bandage full of decay marks, the contents inside were soon revealed.

It was an egg with a yellowish shimmer inside, as if it had been put together impatiently, and some kind of resinous substance was used to glue the cracks on the outside of the eggshell, making it barely maintain its shape.

That call came from within.

Esther just exerted a little force, and the outer eggshell shattered into several pieces along the crack, and a bird carcass that seemed light as nothing rolled out and fell into her palm, and then quickly melted into pieces as time passed again. powder.

A cluster of light spots flew out of the powder, leaping joyfully towards Esther, dyeing a strand of hair on her forehead with light cinnamon yellow.

Esther's fingers rested on the restored hair, feeling their longing for return across the millennium. After losing her hearing, Esther captured the voices of these daughters so vividly for the first time.

This is... something that Amon stole from "Zoya"?He stole the offspring of "Zoya"?

Esther looked down, and there was a slender thing lying quietly among the broken eggshell fragments, which was in the shape of a clock hand as a whole.

"Spiritual intuition" tells Esther that this is the "key".

Only the last snake was missing.

The crow above Esther's head was a little dissatisfied with her reaction. It was expecting a crying scene, but it didn't expect Esther to be so indifferent.

Esther picked up the pointer-like key and stuffed it into her satchel, feeling like she was playing some kind of exploration game.She reached out and rubbed her ears again, if only the punishment in this game wasn't so vicious.

She couldn't see the crow above her head, suddenly turned her head, and cast a look at the woods behind her.

The white-eyed crow felt that the progress of the "game" was a bit fast, and it was time to stall for time.

Cheating?How can it be considered cheating?
From the beginning, it was just entertainment while waiting, no game.

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