Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

Chapter 6 Exceptions
Everyone's life is changing, and "better" is just a relative concept.

Some people make friends with similar interests because of their studies, some people master the secret of promotion because of talents or adventures, and some people keep slipping into the abyss under the temptation without knowing it.

Destiny is a very wonderful thing, and it has its own feedback in the dark.

Esther was so convinced that she walked out of the warm night church, wrapped her scarf tightly in the light snow flakes, hugged the newly bought notebook yesterday in her arms, and brought the animal-shaped baked biscuits to Ms. Langsha today. Made her quite happy, which gave Esther an added sense of accomplishment.

She has been studying with Ms. Langsha for almost a month.According to the original earth time, these days are about Christmas, so the biscuits baked by Esther are all decorated with raspberry jam.

Beginning this week, Wendy paid the hard-working Esther a salary. Although her weekly salary was only three soli, far less than Fiona’s twelve soli, it was already an accident for Esther. Happy.As soon as Esther got the money, she went to a blacksmith's shop, and with her own small treasury, she spent a whole five soli cutting a few small iron sheets to make a mold, and then took Fiona And Wendy baked cookies out of this.

Of course, this thing will become another feature of Silin Bakery in the future. Esther happily fantasizes that more and more things will be sold in the store, which will make both Fiona and Wendy happy. Esther thinks This is the best return she can make.

Even if she disappears suddenly one day, the products of Silin Bakery can continue to sell, allowing Wendy and Fiona to earn more money and improve their lives...

disappear suddenly?

Esther's eyes were blank for a moment, but she soon regained her senses.

"Did I just do something?"

Esther didn't expect to receive a response, but there was a quiver in the interlayer of her collar, and the little bug sent a very strange idea.

"No, don't think about asking me to use that kind of power again. I always feel that if I use too much, I will crash. After all, it's not you who hurt, I hate pain!"

"Downtime means? It's like my physical strength is not enough to support me to continue activities and enter a forced rest state."

"It's some sayings from my hometown. This kind of special local words are also the characteristics of my hometown."

"Where is my hometown... I don't know, anyway, I don't know now, maybe I will know in the future."

"You're just a little bug. How could you have been to countries all over the continent? There will always be places you don't understand, right? Just take it as words that come from there."

Esther walked towards the intersection of Narcissus Street while talking to herself.

There are more and more snowflakes, and the chill stays on the street, eroding the body temperature of pedestrians. According to Wendy, this winter is extraordinarily cold.

This New Year, Esther spent with Wendy.Fiona brought her son, daughter, and husband to the bakery, so Wendy prepared the food with extra care, and Esther used cream to pile a beautiful circle of white birds on the huge cake base, So the two children happily entangled her, asking Esther to pinch the desired small animals on the cake that Esther gave them.

Before returning to the bedroom, Esther cut off the knuckle-sized leftover cake, wrapped it in cream, dipped the tip of a fork in chocolate sauce, and spent several minutes barely painting a black bird on the top, at least barely visible out of shape.

Esther carried the little piece of cake up to the attic, being careful not to damage the pattern on the top, and then she put the teacup and saucer next to the bug's nest.

The little bug crawled out, stared blankly at the cake for a moment, and conveyed incredible emotions to Esther.

"Happy New Year," Esther rubbed her frozen hands, and smiled flatteringly, "It's for you! Look, it's the crow you mentioned. Has my drawing skills improved?"

The little bug looked at the dark pattern, and it was rare that he didn't mock Esther's stupidity.

After the girl fell asleep, the little bug ate the cake slowly. Compared with the various things it had eaten in its past life, this cake was not very delicious. Rare, but it makes it feel special.

Of course, this is far inferior to the joy and satisfaction of eating Extraordinary characteristics, so why?

It never expected to receive anything from Esther, and neither did this humble den, nor did this cake.

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Esther didn't think there was anything wrong with this ordinary life.

She likes that Fiona and Wendy smile at her, responding and helping every guest in the bakery makes her feel at ease, Esther also likes being praised by Ms. Langsha for her progress, she can now fully recite the night The scriptures of the church and most of the stories of the church have almost read all the books in the church school.

"Esther, you can already graduate, and this expense is no longer necessary for you."

Ms. Langsha persuaded Esther in this way, but Esther was still very reluctant to visit her in the church school: "But I still have questions that I don't understand, and I am looking forward to seeing you."

Ms. Langsha shook her head amusedly: "You can come to church at any time, you can believe in the goddess to worship, you don't have to come to study, right?"

But Esther doesn't want to believe in the Goddess of the Night, so she always keeps silent on this proposal from Ms. Langsha.It's hard for her to say whether scientific atheism is at work. Even if Esther knows that there is a "true God" in this world, she doesn't want to believe in anything. She always feels that it will be dangerous for her to understand deeply.

This is all Esther's wonderful intuition guiding her. Since she came to this strange world, her intuition has never been wrong. rogue guests.

Since the new year, the frequency of the little bug's communication with Esther has obviously increased, but most of them are concentrated at night when Esther is alone, which reminds Esther of chatting with her roommates in the middle of the night in the high school dormitory.

The memories of the modern city are gradually blurring, but the feeling of nostalgia is too deep. Whenever this happens, Esther can't help but chat with Xiao Chongzi.She didn't care if Loen language could express what she said clearly, she just confided in her head, treating the little bug as a "tree hole".

Esther also likes to hum songs. Li Xingben was a very good singer in his memories, and even dreamed of becoming a singer when he was a child.Most of the time, she blurred her words and only hummed the tunes she remembered, so that it wouldn't be strange even if she was heard by Wendy and the others occasionally.

The little bug would often ask Esther the name of the song after humming it, and Esther would tell him the song title translated into Loen, and the little bug would secretly memorize it.

There are too many doubts about Esther, which makes the "imprisonment life" of the little bug more interesting. If there is a chance, it will try to parasitize with a clone above a demigod, and make those things in Esther's mind different from the world. The vastly different memories and knowledge are all dug out.

But now it is still surrounded by an invisible force, and it can only barely maintain the form of the Worm of Time, and it can't even stay too far away from Esther, otherwise the force will swallow it completely in an instant.This feeling of being regarded as a "reserve food" made this little bug always want to speak ill to Esther. It had never felt such a threat, and even the connection with the main body or other clones was cut off.

Even the term "reserve grain" was learned from Esther.

The little bug tried to instigate Esther to abuse her abilities. If the extraordinary power of the thief frequently appeared here, other clones would naturally be attracted.But Esther is extremely stubborn in this regard. She would rather save money like a clumsy ordinary person, and maintain a minimum of food and sleep, rather than use the thief's ability to improve her situation.

Some kind of stupid human nature.Since it is possible, why not use it?

Esther's answer was: "Others are working hard to live, and I can't encroach on the fruits of other people's hard work."

She's pretty stupid indeed.The little bug thought so.

Capable people should live a better life and make themselves better. This is the instinctive pursuit of biology.

It wasn't until the weather warmed up and spring came that Esther realized that she had been living in Sling's Bakery for several months.

When Daly walked into the store, Esther was pouring the freshly fried sweet potato balls into the woven basket. The bread crumbs on the surface exuded a strong oily aroma, which made the green-eyed young man behind her sniff.

Esther greeted the two warmly. Over the past few months, Daly has become a frequent visitor to Silin Bakery.

"Today's new product! I didn't make it so sweet, do you want to try it?"

The young man looked at Da Li expectantly, which made Da Li amused: "If you like it, let Esther decorate it for you. The new products she researches never taste bad."

Esther directly scooped up two with a shovel and handed them to them: "It's okay, I'll treat this as my invitation to you!"

Wendy winked at Daly from the side: "If it's delicious, don't forget to advertise for us, Miss Daly."

The moment the young man threw the croquette into his mouth and bit it down, his expression froze for a moment, and soon he returned to normal, chewing a little weirdly, and Daly picked up another one suspiciously, the crispy outer skin combined with the soft inner layer Together, the taste is rich and sweet, which is quite delicious.

"Leonard, don't you like this?"

The young man looked at Esther a little embarrassedly: "I...can I have another one to try, I didn't taste much just now."

Esther couldn't help snickering, seeing that Wendy didn't intend to stop her, she scooped out another croquette: "It's not bad for this one, you can buy it if you eat it."

After eating the croquettes this time, the young man showed a very satisfied expression: "I want half a pound!"

Esther choked: "Half a pound? Half a pound is too much. This kind of fried food will not be fresh the next day. If you eat too much, you will get tired."

Daly waved her hand indifferently: "It's okay, we will take it back to the captain... our colleagues to eat."

Wendy happily urged Esther to pack the bags, but Esther didn't insist. It's all about business anyway, and everyone is happy to sell more.Daly then ordered the store's signature lemon cake and a pack of cranberry animal biscuits. The young man stood by the side holding a bag containing croquettes, and ate several more while waiting.

The young man's stealing action suddenly stopped in mid-air. He stared at Esther who was helping to weigh the biscuits and calculate the price. Esther's right hand subconsciously rubbed the center of her right eyebrow while she was calculating.

But this momentary sense of déjà vu was like an illusion. After the old voice in the young man's ear said "Hey", he didn't speak any more.

The young man covered his mouth with his hands as if stealing food: "Old man? What's the matter?"

"Be careful with that girl, she's not quite right."

After that, the elderly voice didn't give any explanation, leaving the young man full of doubts. He could only wait for Daly to settle the bill, and left the bakery with her.Although the young man tried his best to observe Esther and everything around him, he didn't notice anything unusual, instead Daly gave him a weird glance.

When Esther returned to the back kitchen, she felt that the inner pocket of her clothes was wriggling, and the little bug popped out again. Usually, it seldom communicates with Esther during the day.

"what's wrong?"

Esther sensed it carefully, and the little bug reminded her that there was something abnormal about the young man, which made Esther immediately worried: "Could he be dangerous? Wouldn't it hurt Ms. Daly and her colleagues? "

Then she was rejected again.

Only then did Esther know that Ms. Daly, who she always thought was very handsome in gothic makeup and black dress, was not an ordinary person.

"Are there many Extraordinary people in this world?"

"Since there are not many, why would Ms. Daly and her colleagues be?"

"I've seen that young man? How come I don't remember it."

"The church... so it is like this."

Esther felt that her mind was working very fast, connecting many tiny traces. In fact, she didn't have to go to the Church of Evernight to study, but she accepted Wendy's proposal with joy at that time, and didn't even think about other things at all. Local Head Start courses.

And after she arrived at the Church of Evernight, apart from the increase in favor with the church staff, nothing special seemed to happen. During that time, her life was quite stable.No, just that night, Esther was stopped in an alley, and after using a strange extraordinary ability, her head almost exploded. At that time, she ran away in the direction of the Vulture Bar, and then encountered Here comes Ms. Daly.

Something about Ms. Daly soothed her.

"Esther? What are you in a daze for? Help me go to the warehouse to bring a new bag of flour." Fiona came over suddenly and patted Esther's shoulder forcefully, bringing the girl back from her daze.

"Okay, I'll go right now!"

Esther managed to calm her mind. She rubbed her uncomfortable eyebrows and walked towards the warehouse behind Silin's Bakery, trying to put the uneasiness behind her intuition.

"I don't know, but it shouldn't matter. The night won't hurt me."

After blurting out this sentence, Esther felt more and more wrong.

night?Who does the night refer to?
The little bug shook his head and retracted into Esther's pocket.

"Yeah, I also think I'm... weird."

Esther's voice was soft, with a subtle smile.

(End of this chapter)