Mystery: The Stars Returner

It's daybreak, what can I do?

It seems that nothing can be done to change the current predicament.

The four members of the Red Glove Team looked at each other, each lost in thought.

After the sun rose a little higher, they went out to do errands as normal as yesterday to see if they could hide it from those people in the dark.

After the morning time passed, they gathered back in the hotel room and began to discuss countermeasures.

After testing in the morning, they did not find any suspicious people around them, nor did they encounter anything suspicious.

This made them think that the person who was secretly watching them might have been lured away by the old man last night?

Someone proposed to take advantage of this opportunity to try to leave Puning Port. If they could leave Puning Port, they could invite rescue.

Some people also doubted whether the dream last night was directed and acted by the old man. Maybe nothing happened from beginning to end.

Finally, they split into two teams of two people each.

One team stayed here and stood still, one person from the other team left by land, and one person escaped from Puning Port by sea.

In the afternoon, they boarded their carriages and boats and left smoothly.

At night, the two members of the Red Gloves team who stayed in the hotel and continued to wait for their teammates who had just left less than five hours ago.

The four people gathered in the room again.

There was silence for a while, then the man who left in the car coughed lightly and began to talk about his experience tonight.

"The horses in the carriage I was in in the afternoon suddenly went berserk on the road, knocking the whole carriage to pieces. The coachman could only let me get out of the carriage and walk. I wanted to wait and see if there were any other people leaving Puning Harbor. The carriage, but after waiting for an hour, I didn’t see any other carriages.”

"There was no carriage, so I just thought about leaving here on foot, and then set off to the villages and towns near Puning Port as shown on the map. In order to avoid being discovered, I deliberately avoided the main road and walked on the dense forest path."

"After walking for more than an hour, I came back to the same place. This is definitely not normal, so I went back to the hotel first and wanted to discuss it with you again."

After he finished speaking, the people who went out to sea in the boat also talked about what happened to them tonight.

Everything was normal at first, but after about two hours, the captain told them that it might be due to fog at sea, and the ship had been circling in the nearby waters, unable to find the original channel, and had to return.

The captain, who has been making a living on the sea all year round, said that some of them might have caused the displeasure of the Poseidon, and it was the Poseidon who prevented them from going to sea.

The captain and crew believed this story, so he was sent back to shore.

coincide? accidental?

This could no longer explain what happened to them tonight.

"The noble goddess will not sit idly by and watch her believers suffer. As long as we do not send the letter back on time, the church will know that we are currently experiencing difficulties."

"Now, the most important thing for us is to survive safely and wait for the church's support."

"Let's all take a rest for the night and think about how to solve this dilemma tomorrow."

……

At around ten o'clock at night, under the dim light, Hastur was sitting at his desk, flipping through a new book sent by Mrs. Lisa. This was another book praising the great King in Yellow.

It mainly focuses on some stories encountered by the King in Yellow when he walked around the world in his incarnation. It has a fairy tale style with a little bit of dark reality.

Hasta personally still feels that the writing is very good, and Mrs. Lisa seems to be very talented in this aspect.

After reading the book, Hastur moved a little and was about to take a bath and rest. Suddenly, he saw Azshara coming to the window in excitement and meowing twice into the dark night outside.

Sharon is back?

With a smile on his face, Hasta came to the window and saw the light flashing in the window in front of him, and a figure appeared in the window.

"Meow."

Azshara scratched at the window glass with her little paws, as if she wanted to pull Sharon out, but was unable to do so.

Bang!

Azshara used too much force and scratched the stained glass on the window, and most of the stained glass fell towards the ground.

The broken glass remaining inside the window frame had more than a dozen cracks, and Sharon's figure appeared in every small piece of mirror.

Azshara's blue pupils widened, unable to understand the magical sight in front of her.

After looking at it for a while, it wanted to extend its paw again, but when it saw broken glass on the ground, it took its paw back again, and then let out an aggrieved cry.

Soon, Sharon's figure in the glass gathered together, and then came to the other piece of glass on the opposite side.

"Meow?"

Azshara came closer, her eyes almost touching the stained glass.

Sharon in the glass stretched out her hands, picked up Azshara and entered the mirror world.

Azshara looked very excited after entering the glass for the first time, happily lying in Sharon's arms, with only her little head exposed.

Hastur looked at this scene and didn't bother to argue with Azshara about destroying the stained glass.

After playing for a while, Sharon moved the tabletop from the remaining glass into the mirror, and then walked out of it.

Sharon, who was successfully promoted to Sequence 4 Puppet, is not much different from before in terms of appearance and temperament.

Sure enough, before she was promoted, she already looked like an emotionless puppet.

Although she was playing around with Azshara now, her face was so calm that there was no emotion at all. Her eyes were as clear as water, and there was no emotion flowing through them either.

It became increasingly difficult to see Sharon's true inner thoughts.

Hastur observed for a while and smiled: "Welcome back."

Sharon nodded, then placed Azshara in her arms on the table and said, "Many people came to investigate me."

Hastur raised his eyebrows slightly and said nonchalantly: "Maybe they are just doing it as a matter of routine."

Sharon said nothing, and her eyes, which were almost the same color as Azshara, just stared at Hastur.

"They came because of Ince Zangwill's incident. They recognized the breath and traces you left that night." Hastur had no choice but to explain, and then talked to Sharon with a playful smile. They looked at each other and said, "Come to think of it, it was because of you that I was put on their investigation list."

That night when he shot Ince Zangwill, he had his own secrets, and after snatching 008 away, he eliminated all breaths and traces.

Logically speaking, members of the Red Gloves team cannot lock him, even with the Eye of the Goddess.

They must have noticed themselves through Sharon, based on her movements.

In other words, Sharon's troubles during this time were problems of her own making.

Hastur's eyes always fell on Sharon's face, but he was unable to observe even a little bit of emotional fluctuations on her face. At this moment, she really looked like a real puppet.

Although she can talk, when it comes to controlling her emotions, she is just a large and exquisite puppet.

The only pity is that I can't play any dress-up games, ahem...

Hastur suppressed those abnormal thoughts, paused and said: "I am also thinking about how to deal with them."

Although Mrs. Lisa is now handling this matter, Sharon should not be involved too much in the matter of the monk in yellow.

Sharon said calmly: "008 is an unknown sealed object, it's best to stay away from it."

Hastur laughed, "It's really annoying sometimes, but it's still somewhat useful."

Now, 008 is still lying quietly in the box in the corner of the desk.

It was only because of Sharon's presence that he didn't jump up and object.

Seeing that Hastur insisted on keeping 008, Sharon did not continue the topic.

Hastur asked Sharon to sit down first, and then said: "Tell me about your experiences during this time."

"very good."

"that's it?"

"Ah."

"Miss Sharon, you are more precious with your words than before."

"Meow."

Azshara also echoed.

"Have you ever seen a puppet who talks a lot?"

"Yes, I have."

Hastur answered in the affirmative, causing a rare flash of astonishment in Sharon's eyes.

"In the novel I wrote for you, the seemingly cold and emotionless puppets have fire-like passion in their hearts, and they also long for communication with other people."

"..."

"You see, although Azshara cannot speak human language, she always likes to interrupt when we are talking. This shows that communication is the instinct of living things."

"Meow!"

Azshara glared at Hastur angrily, and ran to Sharon. She felt aggrieved and covered her eyes with her little paws, as if she was crying sadly.

"Look, even a cat can have such vivid expression changes, how can a human be inferior to a cat?"

Hastur also pointed out that he knew that he didn't like to talk or show emotions. This was Sharon's nature.

But when she plays a puppet, it's easy for Sharon to completely assimilate herself with the puppet because they are so similar.

It's easy to get in, but it's not so easy to get out.

He didn't want Sharon to end up as a person who had lost all emotions.

Sharon who can still laugh and cry is cuter.

"Ah."

Sharon nodded, her eyes seemed much gentler.

"How about you try to smile again?"

Sharon ignored Hastur's obviously selfish suggestion.

After staying for about twenty minutes, Sharon left here.

Her arrival tonight is, firstly, to tell Hastur that she has been successfully promoted, and secondly, to give Hastur a little reminder.

As soon as Sharon's front legs left, 008, who was lying in the pencil case pretending to be dead, started jumping up and down, clamoring to come out.