Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

Chapter 7 Monsters
Accidents are the best antidote to a boring life for some people.

For individuals who like to maintain the status quo, accidents represent a departure from the usual track and are often inseparable from chaos.

Esther doesn't hate accidents, but she hates troubles, such as the current situation.

The blood, as crimson as the full moon tonight, was spreading on the ground, soaking the soles of Esther's shoes.The victim was a young girl, her skinny limbs were twisted out weirdly, a cut was made on her chest and abdomen exposed to the air, and the internal organs were being torn apart by the monster.

The monster was still laughing, its body was covered with cracks, like a ceramic puppet that was smashed and glued together, and the pulsating muscle fibers below could even be seen from the gaps.

But Esther intuitively recognized that it was the leader of a well-known pickpocket gang on Iron Cross Street, a middle-aged man named Brick.He took a group of orphans by his hands, taught them to steal, and then threatened them with fists and bread to hand over the proceeds to satisfy his daily expenses, alcoholism, and sex.

In the corner, there were still a few children huddled together. They were trembling, not even daring to cry, and their eyes were full of despair.Although Brick usually punches and kicks these children, he never really kills them, after all, dead people can't make money.Today's situation is different, he seems to have completely lost his mind.

How did Brick become a monster?Esther didn't know, but she knew she had been found.

The monster looked back at her, his eyes were scarlet, glowing coldly under the crimson moonlight, there were few "human" features on that face, his lips and nose were swollen, as if they might burst open at any time, leaving A hole dripping blood.

Esther really wanted to just run away, anyway, how many people died didn't matter to her, but the redemptive eyes of those children made her unable to listen to Xiao Chongzi's urging and leave the scene like this.

They will all die, at least I still have a little bit of agility and finger dexterity, so I can fight for a while.

In the end, she just heard screams near the back door of the bakery in the middle of the night, so she put on her coat and came out to take a look for fear of affecting Wendy—it might as well not look at it, and leave the bloody incident to the police the next morning to worry about.People who live in this area know the survival principle of not being busy, and of course Esther knows it too, but the scream made her heart palpitate too much, and she couldn't ignore it.

So she got into trouble.

Esther dug out the blade she had found in her purse at the time. She had been carrying it with her ever since she met a hooligan. In order to detect the screams here, she even had a kitchen knife pinned to her back at this time.

It's over, if you can survive, the broken kitchen knife will definitely not work after killing the monsters, and next week's salary will also fly away.

Esther's face darkened in an instant. She originally wanted to use the salary to order newspapers and find a delicious small restaurant near the Church of Evernight to try something new.

It's all gone!

The monster Brick turned into seemed to be wary of something, and he didn't rush towards Esther for a long time, but the children behind him were blocked in the alley, unable to escape at all.

Esther decided that she would break the stalemate and create opportunities for the children to escape first.

The cold blades flew through the air. With the proper control of her wrist and fingers, Esther successfully ejected the two blades and stabbed them into the face of the monster. The head was better than she expected.

The monster let out a roar after eating the pain, raised its legs and rushed towards Esther, Esther led him out of the alley, ran to the street, and shouted at the dumbfounded children behind: "Run!" !Run away! Pull up your friends! Hurry up!"

After she confirmed that the monster had identified her, she ran another ten meters away. The main street was empty in the middle of the night, and the shops that were crowded during the day were all put away. There were only countless crates or wooden shelves piled up on the street. On both sides, next to the old houses that are quiet and have dark windows.

After the monster decided to run towards Esther on all fours, the distance between the two was quickly shortened.Esther followed her intuition to warn, and suddenly turned around and ran in the opposite direction, and quickly pulled out the kitchen knife in her hand. The not-so-sharp blade slammed on the monster's sky cap, as if it had hit a hard piece of wood. on bricks.

This time Esther's hand was off, and she could feel her limbs trembling slightly due to the surge of adrenaline. The kitchen knife failed to cut into the monster's eyes, but just sliced ​​into a piece of skull, and then got stuck in its skull. .

bad luck!bad luck!Bad luck!

Esther's heart was crazily echoing all kinds of bad words in Loen language, Chinese and English, but she didn't dare to stop at all. She stepped back quickly and left the unmovable kitchen knife on the monster's head.Taking advantage of the moment when the monster was dizzy and maddened by the severe pain, he opened the distance between him and it again.

Those children supported each other, and the small figures kept running, rushing to the other side of the street.

That's good, at least they won't have an accident.

Esther kept picking up things along the street, bricks, gravel, half-planks, dead fish that were starting to rot, anything she could use to throw, leading the monster in her direction, not letting it go. It notices the children who run away.

Her plan couldn't be said to be very successful, because the monster seemed to have taken a grudge against her, howled crazily under the severe pain, stared straight at Esther, and rushed in her direction again.

Esther turned her head and ran, her legs crazily alternately landing on the ground. If she could run like this in her physical test in her previous life, she might have taken the physical education examination long ago.

The desire to survive can really make people explode with energy far beyond normal.

Esther didn't know how long the monster with its half-decapitated head could live, but after all this time, someone should have rushed to the scene to help.A special intuition told her that what she had to do was delay until someone who could help her arrived.

She didn't dare to use that special power. If she failed to deal with the monster successfully, it would be her weak self who would die.It's not the most desperate moment yet, Esther thinks she can hold on.

When the monster's claws grabbed Esther's calf, she lost her balance and fell to the ground.

Just as Esther raised her hand while kicking the monster's head fiercely, a chanting sound that seemed extremely weird at this time sounded. The low male voice was quite magnetic, and Esther recited a poem that was subtly familiar to Esther :
"Ah, the threat of fear, the hope of crimson!

At least one thing is true: this life flies by.

One thing is true, the rest is a lie,
After the flowers bloom once, they will die forever..."

There was a trance in the monster's eyes, and the sound echoed in the deserted street, surrounding the two people vaguely, like a lullaby that caresses the eyelids of a baby.There seemed to be something floating in the wind, like a group of black and knotted thin threads, which landed on top of the monster's head, causing it to stop in place in a daze, closing its eyes with the sound of reciting.

Esther felt physically sleepy, but there seemed to be a tight string in her brain that kept her completely unaffected.She kicked two more times viciously, pulled her leg out of the monster's claws, quickly got up and ran to the foot of the wall ten meters away, watching this scene in amazement.

The little bug didn't move, didn't give any instructions, and restrained itself as if it didn't exist.

Esther panted heavily, and after the monster didn't move for tens of seconds, she slumped on the ground, leaning against the wall and no longer had the strength to get up, crying because of the joy of the rest of her life full face.

Esther kept wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, crying and laughing at the same time.

It's great that she survived.Nothing is more important than surviving this messed up world.

There were footsteps coming from the corner of the street, and someone reached out to Esther. She raised her head and saw Miss Daly's face showing tender pity under the red moonlight.

Finally, Esther couldn't hold back anymore, she rushed up and hugged Miss Daly, and burst into tears under her sad eyes.

"It's all right, you're doing great, Esther. No one was hurt, you're all right."

Behind Daly, there were two piercing gunshots, and the panting sound of the monster disappeared completely.

Esther subconsciously turned her head to look at it, but Daly pressed her head down: "Shh, it's okay, can you take a nap? You can take a good rest."

"Miss Daly..."

Esther no longer resisted the intense drowsiness just now, she closed her eyes to ease her breathing, and let her consciousness sink into the darkness.Only then did Daly breathe a sigh of relief. She was worried that the ability to forcibly fight against the captain would damage Esther's spirit. After all, Esther had always been quite ordinary.

If it is a person with extraordinary ability, he will not be willing to work aimlessly in that small bakery, and will definitely pursue the move of upgrading the sequence.After communicating with the staff at the Evernight Church, Daly learned about Esther's situation from Langsha and Pastor Lost, and knew that this smart girl would go to the church to study hard every week.Since Esther was able to enter and leave the church frequently, the power of the Goddess of the Night's protection did not respond, and the Nighthawks who occasionally passed by did not notice her abnormality, it meant that Esther was basically not a threat.

Daly listened to the feedback from the nearby spirits. She had just been promoted to a psychic last year and was still familiar with her current power.But it was precisely because of the spirit monitoring the movement that was left near the bakery that Daly was able to call Dunn immediately and rush to the scene in time to rescue Esther.

Wrapped in a long black trench coat, a man with black hair showing a higher hairline came over, his gray eyes kept scanning the scene, but he didn't see any traces left by others: "Daily, what happened to the girl you mentioned ?”

"She fell asleep, the child must be terrified. That person on the ground seems to be a prisoner?"

"Well, it should be less than Sequence Seven, otherwise I may not be able to control his loss of control."

Daly patted Esther's head lightly: "I hope this matter doesn't cast a shadow on her..."

Daly's eyes were full of pain. She recalled her experience of joining the Nighthawks, saw Esther who was younger than herself, and remembered Esther's collapsed expression just sitting on the ground crying and laughing, Daly couldn't stop feeling sad.

"Captain! Ms. Daly!"

The man called the captain nodded: "Leonard, did you find anything over there?"

The green-eyed young man looked very bad. He covered his mouth, feeling uncomfortable in his stomach: "It's a murder case, and Ms. Daly may need to be psychic. A little girl was killed. The other children ran away. It should be because the out-of-control person was led away, and the mess of those footprints can be seen at the scene."

"What a crime..."

(End of this chapter)