Mystery: The Stars Returner

Hasta really wanted to refuse the invitation, but he couldn't bear it. Audrey's expectant eyes were too lethal.

"Great. I have never dared to explore the depths. With Mr. Hastur accompanying me, I can completely reveal its mystery."

Audrey's excited tone did not conceal it. After speaking, she glanced at Hasta sheepishly, then turned around and showed a proud smile towards Susie.

"Wang."

Susie stood up from the ground, walked over, and rubbed Hastur's trousers, indicating that it also wanted to join this spiritual adventure.

"No, Susie can't join!" Audrey objected with a slight blush.

"Wang?"

Susie looked at Audrey with a puzzled expression, and Hastur also looked over.

After just a little thought, he knew what Audrey was worried about.

In that spiritual world, there must be some special places, such as unconsciously speaking what is in one's heart.

Audrey was probably afraid that Susie would inadvertently expose her little secret, so she resisted like this.

Thinking of this, Hastur immediately stood on the same front as Susie, "I also think Susie needs to experience it and develop its extraordinary abilities. And sometimes Susie's inhuman attributes may help us solve some difficulties."

"Woof." Susie wagged her tail happily.

"Ok."

Audrey could only reluctantly agree to let Susie participate, and was already thinking about how to provide Susie with emergency training.

Susie must not be allowed to expose all her secrets to Mr. Hastur in the spiritual world.

Soon, Audrey used the excuse of going back to her room to rest first, and took away Susie who wanted to talk to Hastur about psychology.

Since he and Audrey were going to explore that spiritual world tonight, Hastur did not refuse Mrs. Hall's invitation this time and chose to stay in the guest room of Earl Hall's house to rest for the night.

This made Count Hall's eyes darken, but he just looked at Hastur quietly and said nothing. Countess Hall was very happy and prepared a guest room for Hastur.

Alfred patted Hastur's shoulder with an inexplicable smile on his face, "Hasta, it seems that my family likes you very much."

……

At around eleven o'clock at night, after Hastur had a few drinks with Alfred and Earl Hall, he went back to his room and lay down in the guest room that had been prepared to rest.

After waiting for another half an hour, he appeared in Audrey's room in a spirit state.

Audrey was half lying on the edge of the bed, leaning her upper body slightly, reaching out to tease Susie's head. At the same time, she took the trouble to instruct: "Susie, you must remember the precautions I just told you, and don't take it to heart." There are random thoughts inside.”

"Okay, Audrey." Susie nodded affirmatively, "Audrey, you should believe me, and you should also believe Mr. Hastur. No matter what secrets I tell, it will not affect your stay in Hastur." The image in the heart.”

"Susie, don't you know that every girl should have her own secret?"

"Oh, what if you accidentally said it yourself?"

"Then I must have done it on purpose."

"Wang."

Susie said nothing more.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom."

The sound of knocking on the window was rhythmic, which was the code agreed between Hasta and Audrey.

Audrey, who had been waiting for a long time, opened her spiritual vision and saw Hastur who had come to the window.

This was the first time she saw Mr. Hastur in the spirit state. He only had a rough outline and no specific facial features. He must have been hidden deliberately.

After looking at it like this, he saw that he was exactly the same figure who knocked on the window last time.

Audrey smiled and took out the pivot crystal ball that could connect to the spiritual world from the bedside position.

In the past, if she wanted to enter that spiritual world, she only had to put the crystal ball under her pillow and enter it naturally.

But she had not yet tried to invite anyone else into the spiritual world, not even Susie.

In case something happened, she always asked Susie to stay outside so that she could be responsible for waking her up in case of an accident.

"Audrey, you lie down and rest as usual, enter the spiritual world first, and I will take care of other things."

Hasta gave a simple instruction, and Audrey lay on her back, slowly closed her eyes, breathed gradually and evenly, and soon entered the spiritual world.

"Susie, you should know how to get into other people's minds, right?"

"Wang."

After telling Susie what to pay attention to, Hasta took Susie into Audrey's spiritual world.

Then pass through the crystal stone hub and arrive at the silver-white spiritual tower.

Audrey had already been waiting here. When she saw Hastur and Susie appear, she greeted them happily like the owner of this place: "Mr. Hastur, Susie, welcome to the Silver Tower."

The Silver Tower is the name Audrey gave to this silver-white spiritual tower.

The weird forest outside also has a new name, the Twisted Jungle.

"Wang."

Susie was very curious and searched around the silver tower.

Hastur stood at the railing of the high tower outside, looking at this hazy and strange spiritual world.

The last time, he overlooked the spiritual world from the perspective of the stars, and his vision expanded to a sea of ​​​​minds, but now, he is only on one of the small spiritual islands.

If there are any secrets and gifts in this spiritual world, they should be in the depths of the sea of ​​​​spirits, the place where the bones of the spiritual dragon fell.

"Mr. Hastur, here is the Twisted Jungle to the east, the Wordless Castle to the south, the Witch's House to the west, and the sea to the north. If we want to leave here, going north is the best choice."

Audrey brought Susie to Hastur and pointed to the areas in different directions to give a brief introduction.

"There has to be a suitable title." Audrey felt Hasta's surprised gaze and blushed slightly.

When she explores this spiritual world, she habitually gives distinctive names to some special areas or buildings.

For example, the name of the Silent Castle in the south comes from an old castle in the south. Entering the old castle, you will unconsciously close the door of your soul, as if you are completely isolated from the outside world, and you don't want to say a word.

As for the witch's house to the west... it's simply because there is an empty, empty cabin with candles burning.

She felt that it fit the place where witches would live in the wild.

north……

Hastur recalled the last time he saw the whole picture of this spiritual world. It seemed that the remains of the spiritual dragon were indeed in the north of this spiritual island.

Two people and one dog descended from the Silver Tower and headed north.

The roads were all areas that Audrey had explored before, so there was no danger.

It wasn't until she passed through a black forest and saw a crystal clear lake that Audrey slowed down, took a deep breath, and gave Susie a small look.

In this spiritual world, there is no crimson moon even at night, but there is a faint starlight falling.

Hastur guessed that this should be the change caused by the last time he came here as a star.

Under the dim starlight, the lake looked increasingly quiet and holy.

Hastur asked Audrey casually the name of the lake in front of her.

Audrey blinked lightly and said, "This is a wishing lake. Mr. Hastur can try to make a wish to it."

"Wow." Susie also echoed.

Hastur glanced at the man and the dog who were obviously hiding their thoughts, then walked a few steps towards the lake and came to the lakeside.

The originally calm lake surface was rippled with shallow ripples, and then they merged into the shape of a lake-blue elf.

Half of its body leaned out of the lake, with delicate facial features, pointed erect ears, and a pair of blue wings made of water on its back that flapped gently. Its eyes looked at Hastur with innocence and curiosity. After a while, it spoke: "Far traveler, do you need any help?"

"I want to know the hidden thoughts of a girl." Hasta said, pointing his finger at Audrey, who was about to watch a play.

"Mr. Hastur!"

Audrey panicked when she heard this. Her face was no longer as calm as before. She pinched the corners of her clothes with both hands and her cheeks turned red.

She just wanted to give Mr. Hasta a surprise, but unexpectedly, Mr. Hasta gave her an even bigger surprise.

"I can grant your wish, but you also need to answer one of my questions."

"no problem."

Hastur agreed to this small deal, and saw the lake spirit blending into the lake. Soon, a scene appeared on the calm lake.

It was the scene where Audrey stood by the lake and chatted with the lake elf.

"Can you leave the spiritual world and follow me? I really want to have a cute elf that can accompany me. It's so small that I can hold it in the palm of my hand at any time."

"Susie is indeed very good, but she has been too obsessed with studying knowledge recently. Obviously she is just a dog. This makes me have to work hard too, for fear that I will be surpassed by it accidentally."

"When I think of it looking at me with doubtful and disappointed eyes, saying 'Audrey, don't you even know this question?'..."

"Since you like to ask questions, next time, I will bring Mr. Hastur with me. His knowledge is profound and will definitely satisfy your thirst for knowledge."

"I kind of miss Mr. Hastur when he was still very poor. At that time, I could at least beat him in terms of money..."

Audrey's crisp and clear voice came from the lake, and Hasta and Susie looked at her at the same time.

What is it like to die?

Audrey now really wanted to jump into the lake and hide deep in the bottom of the lake to avoid the scrutinizing gazes of Hastur and Susie.

"Audrey, it turns out you are so sure of my hard work and wisdom." Susie happily wagged her tail, which almost reached the sky.

"..." Audrey tried her best to suppress her strange mood and turned slightly sideways, pretending not to hear Susie's proud voice.