Esther hadn't slept that night, she had considered that it would drain her physical strength too much, but she was more worried about the existence of "Amon".

After blocking the emptiness of the thirst for food in her body with fish and shellfish, she moved her position to the bottom of a Teyana tree, clutched her satchel, and looked out at the sea as if waiting for a ship that only existed in her imagination.

The crow crouched on top of Esther's head again, closing her eyes, but Esther knew it wasn't sleeping.

Xiao Qi does not need to eat or sleep, its physiological needs are dispensable, and it does not need these to maintain his physical signs.

Mythical creatures......

Esther realizes that she is not sleepy, and that her exhaustion comes more from yesterday's extraordinary abilities and the weakened spirit that has been in danger one after another.

This made her heart sink a little, as if she had sunk into the secluded sea with the crimson moon rings. Even though she was used to it, Esther still didn't like the moon, especially the strange color, which made her feel sick all over.

It's almost dawn.

Esther blinked her parched eyes, and out of her stone-like stiff stillness, her fingers moved, turning her keyboard out of her satchel.

She took a deep breath and began to play.

This is a Cantonese song in Li Xing's memory, which sounds quite energetic "Red Sun", she can only blow out the approximate tune of this old song, and remember the silly inspirational lyrics.

But who taught her to sing, Esther couldn't remember at all.

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

Esther's gaze swept over the motionless jungle and sand, and the only few fish gathered at the water's edge.

There was a crab crawling slowly a few steps away.

Esther sneered, put the harmonica away, and asked the crow overhead, "Sequence 4 of 'The Thief' can also be parasitic on creatures, right?" Not just crows, anything else? ”

"Of course," replied the raven, with a playful look in his eyes, "do you have anything to parasitize?" ”

"Nope. I don't need to be anyone, I just like to be myself. ”

"Boring notions." The crow smacked its lips.

Before it could finish speaking, another male voice came out of the woods: "I agree, what a very boring person. ”

The crow snorted coldly: "You want to say you're ready?" ”

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

"Yes, the game has begun. You're looking for a snake, a key, a heart and a symbol, and according to the rules, give them to 'me' at the end, understand? ”

"Live snakes?"

Amon seemed to be amused by the question: "Dead." You're not afraid of snakes, are you? I knew I would have kept it. ”

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

Esther's eyes glanced behind Amon, and she vaguely sensed that there was movement behind her, but Amon on the other side was very alert, and just took a step in the direction of her gaze: "No." ”

"Will you do it in the meantime?" Ace gestured to the position behind him.

The Amon looked surprised and lifted his monocle: "Oh? You noticed. We're not going to break our game, at least not yet. ”

Then He turned back and said to the forest, "You have heard her and dispersed." ”

All sorts of noisy creatures murmured, or banged on the trunk of a tree to express some kind of dissatisfaction, but apart from a few birds flapping their wings, Esther didn't see exactly what the creatures were, which made her feel even more furious.

This guy can't parasitize all the creatures on the island, right!? It's crazy!

Amon smiled at Esther again, and then turned around and walked into the jungle, and after his figure disappeared into the trunk of the tree, Asther immediately asked Xiao Qi:

"Amon has no upper limit to parasitism!?"

"For this island, pretty much."

Esther felt a sense of despair that was about to pass away: "That is—"

The raven tapped the jungle with the tip of its wings: "Whether you enter it or not, they are watching you everywhere." ”

The white-eyed crow suddenly shrank its head, it could feel that there was an obvious murderous aura rising on Esther's body, if it weren't for the fact that it was still pretending to be Esther's "friend Xiaoqi", it would really laugh out loud.

"Zoya" is so full of humanity? It's so interesting how He did it. By the time tonight's game gets into earnest, his reaction is even more exciting.

Esther put away the pieces of iron and stone beside the fire, grabbed her freshly sharpened spear, took a deep breath, and finally looked at the vast and calm sea, and she turned and stepped into the shadowy woods.

The shadows obscured the sunlight overhead for a moment, there were no insects or birds, and the forest was so dead and silent as if there was no life, but Esther always felt the prying eyes cast at all the corners of her vision, making her brow furrow tighter and tighter.

Snakes, keys, hearts, symbols, all this nonsense, can't even be hinted!

As soon as Esther stepped into the jungle, she quickly calmed down, and she had to watch out for the creatures that were parasitized in the shadows. Even if the other party said that he would "not do anything", Esther did not expect much credibility from the other party's words.

Even Xiao Wu and Xiao Qi, who are close to her, often only speak half of their words, if it weren't for Esther's keen intuition that can always catch the abnormal, maybe she would have been planted in the pit a long time ago.

There was a crawling sound under the blades of grass, and Esther stabbed the wooden spear out with her backhand, and a crab was nailed to the ground by her, and it quickly stopped moving.

Esther made a judgment in her heart, this place is already more than ten meters away from the beach, and crabs generally do not run into the depths of the woods away from the coast, it seems that the other party is indeed parasitic with various creatures, and stay by her side as an eyeliner.

Thinking of this, she felt even more chilled, 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 the top of Esther's head cocked her tail and looked in the direction to the left: "There seems to be a mark on the trunk of the tree there." ”

"Mark?" Esther picked through the grass with her wooden spear and saw a stout trunk of a three-man tree hugging each other, and the black crow flew over her head and landed on the clumped roots of the tree beside her.

The trunk of the tree has a clear mark carved in the center, palm-sized but distinct, made up of half a voyeuristic eye and twisted threads of transformation.

This is the symbol behind Mr. Fool's high-backed chair!

Esther's eyes widened the moment she saw the mark, but her expression fell into the crow's eyes, causing it to jump twice with joy.

From this point of view, the new mystery does have a candidate, and once "Zoya" tried his best to hide the affairs of Xiao Qi and Xiao Wu, that is, he was constantly in contact with that person.

"Is this the 'symbol' of one of the four things?" Esther stepped forward and checked the feedback of her "spiritual intuition" before she proceeded to break the bark.

There were obvious signs of decay around the bark, and with a little force, Esther broke off the large area of the slap and stuffed it into her satchel.

She patted the sawdust off her hands, "I thought Amon would use the 'thief' symbol or his family's crest. ”

"Who knows?" The raven casually gave Esther a perfunctory remark and landed back on top of her, "Maybe next time you can try stealing his idea." ”

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

The crow's rampant laughter resounded in the forest, and the "Esther" whose head was ridden by it was the opposite of the "Zoya" who had no emotion at all in its memory, and it felt the difference between the two so bluntly for the first time, which was different from the feeling when absorbing Xiao Qi's memory.

But the white-eyed crow quickly calmed down, got out of the state of being imperceptibly affected by Esther, and replied to her with a smile: "You can try, maybe he will be happy to put a monocle on you too." ”

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

"Of course I do, but I'm not cheating, it's true."

Esther silently "puffed" in her heart.

——

Luck seemed to end there, Esther spent most of the day wandering around the woods, trying to turn to the "spiritual intuition" in her mind, but never found anything, and the remaining three things had no clue, and most of the day passed like this.

Esther's biggest catch was finding two wild banana trees, and she accidentally dug up two pieces of taro, and she even saw some mushrooms with white caps, thicker than her fingers.

Esther hesitated for a moment, and gave up the idea of letting Xiao Qi test the poison, if there is a chance to catch the creature parasitized by Amon, she can try the effect.

Sitting by the small stream that provided fresh water, Esther decided to take a break and sort out the route she had taken in her mind. Because she encountered some plants that could provide positioning, the map of the island she was able to sketch finally had an approximate area, but she still had no clue what to find, and the game was inexplicable from the beginning.

But Esther had no choice, she felt like she was being played with by a donkey.

With enough food to fight her appetite today, Esther peeled off the plantain in her hand and took a bite into the sweet, astringent flesh. The taste was not weird, it was a little better than the "Intith specialty" invented by Russell the Great, and it was still within her acceptable range.

"Is it delicious?" The raven asked with a smile, crouching on top of a bush beside Esther.

"Okay, do you want to have a mouth?" Esther habitually broke off a little and handed it to the crow's mouth, and when the crow opened to say something, she didn't wait for the crow's response, and threw the piece of crushed plantain into it with precision.

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

Esther smiled kindly, "I need to." ”

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

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

Esther threw away the plantain skin, her gaze piercing through the dense canopy to catch a glimpse of the blue overhead turning to purple.

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

Esther didn't move again, she lit a fire by the river, scorched a piece of taro, and regained on the spot the strength and energy she had spent today, barely suppressing the unbearable hunger in her stomach.

Time passed, and Esther, the crow, and other "people" soon appeared on the edge of the stream with the nightfall.

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

The young man stepped out of the bushes, smiling and clutching his monocle, when he paused abruptly, and then with a toe lift, a piece of plantain skin flew out and landed directly in front of Esther.

"Tsk, it's just a little bit." Esther muttered quietly.

The crow flew over Esther's head again, let out an unceremonious muffled laugh, and only spoke for a while: "Are you serious?" ”

Esther didn't answer, but looked at Amon with a strange expression on the other side, with a calm expression: "You said you were going to steal something, didn't you?" Come on. ”

Amon on the other side didn't say much, he raised his right hand and closed it one by one, and Esther felt the claw's claws on her head tighten a little.

Is Xiao Qi also nervous?

Esther sighed inwardly, but she didn't feel any change in her body, and she looked at Amon suspiciously.

The black-haired young man in the peaked hat just spread his hands at her, and turned decisively and walked into the woods, which made Esther even more confused, she checked what she was carrying, and then checked for anything unusual on herself, but did not notice anything wrong.

What exactly has been stolen?

The crow flew back down from the top of Esther's head onto the stone, looking at her with curious eyes, and just as Esther wanted to ask if Xiao Qi had noticed anything, she suddenly found that she couldn't open her mouth.

No way!?

Did that bastard steal my ability to open my mouth and speak? No, it's not! It's not even enough to eat! Drinking water doesn't work either!

"Hmm! Not! ”

Esther let out two muffled snorts in the direction Amon had left, both swearing.

The crow scratched at Esther's hair again, sounding puzzled, "What's wrong?" What do you want to say? ”

Esther immediately took some water from a banana leaf, and then dipped it in the water and wrote on the ground, although the handwriting was distorted by anger and not very clear, but the crow still understood what Esther wrote:

"I can't open my mouth anymore!"

The raven even felt sorry for Esther for coming up with a way so quickly, so that it was much less fun, and when "Zoya" woke up completely, there were a little less fond memories of being able to laugh at him. It looked at Esther with a pretended hesitation:

"But at least it doesn't matter if you can't speak, you can listen to me."

Esther rolled her eyes at it, kicked the handwriting on the ground in disgust, looked worriedly at the plantain and taro next to her, and then at the stream beside her.

She was rapidly losing faith in how long she could hold out.

It was only the first night.

Banana...... It's not tasty......