Mystery: The Stars Returner

The name King in Yellow is quite familiar to Klein. After all, anyone who knows something about the Cthulhu mythology system will basically know the octopus-headed Cthulhu who lives in the depths of the sea, and The King in Yellow Dressed in Ragged Yellow Clothes.

Although he did not specialize in the Cthulhu mythology in the original world, he had a little understanding of it and knew that the King in Yellow was one of the common incarnations of the old god Hastur.

Wait, if the figure in ragged yellow clothes last night is really the King in Yellow, then he is most likely the incarnation of the outer god Hastur walking in the world?

An old incarnation of the Outer God...

Klein was suddenly very glad that he did not follow his curiosity to find out what happened last night, but left in time to avoid the danger zone, and did not use divination to reconstruct what happened last night afterwards.

"Sure enough, one can't have too much curiosity."

Klein breathed a sigh of relief, but soon he thought of something important again.

The King in Yellow and Hastur. If the King in Yellow exists, then Hastur. I once met a Earl named Hastur Campbell in Backlund. He felt extremely mysterious to me. .

No, it should just be a pure coincidence, right?

Klein's heart beat rapidly. He quickly suppressed this strange feeling and did not think about this matter in depth. Who knows if the other party also has the ability to have everything he says must be known.

The ship, which traveled two days and one night, soon arrived at other nearby ports, and nothing happened along the way.

When Klein went to collect information about other pirates with bounties on his head, he heard another interesting thing.

Recently, a new pirate-hunting combination appeared on the sea. It is said to be a combination of three people and one dog. Its members are: the whip of judgment, the brain of wisdom, and the dog of fantasy.

Klein frowned slightly. The business of hunting pirates was becoming increasingly difficult, and now there were new people joining in to compete with him.

Calculating his gains during this period, the debt owed by Miss Messenger has dropped to 1000 gold coins. He still has a deposit of nearly 4000 gold coins, which is quite a lot, but the money is not enough to go to Backlund to buy a set. A nicer house.

"It seems that we can only risk hunting those pirate generals so that we can accumulate wealth in a short period of time."

Klein was sitting in a well-informed bar, drinking a 2-penny cheap beer with an unfamiliar face, thinking about his next move.

While he was thinking silently, there was a noise outside the bar. It was said that someone had captured a ship of pirates and was exchanging bounties with the Church of the Storm personnel at the port.

Although the bounty for each pirate is not high, it can't handle the large number of people, and there are many ordinary pirates who are worthless inside.

The crowd started talking. This approach seemed to be what the three-person and one-dog combination liked to do.

It is said that every time this new group arrives at a port, they will unload a bunch of pirates from the ship, exchange them for bounties to buy daily necessities, and then continue to leave.

There were many well-known pirates who wanted to dampen the momentum of this new group, or to become famous.

But without exception, these well-known pirates became living bounties at the next port.

This also makes this new group more and more famous.

Klein just listened silently, with no particular interest, but the other party seemed to be heading on the same path as him, heading towards the mysterious island where Emperor Roselle was revealed.

"Even the job of hunting pirates is getting involved these days."

Klein sighed and had no intention of continuing to rest. He had to speed up his intelligence collection, otherwise all the pirates with bounties on the sea would be robbed.

In the sea, on the Hope, Hugh, Forsi, Audrey, and Susie were dividing the bounty.

"The total bounty we obtained this time is 2780 gold pounds. Including the cash found on their boats and on their bodies, the total is about 3400 gold pounds."

Hugh started counting and dividing the money according to each person's contribution.

She and Audrey took the majority, each with 30%, and Forsi and Susie each with 20%.

"Wang!"

Susie used her paws to pick up the money that Xiu had shared, counted it carefully, and then motioned to Audrey to save the money.

After getting along for a long time, Xio and Forsi have gradually understood Susie's extraordinary side, and they are no longer surprised at Susie's anthropomorphic performance.

Forsi went from being ashamed to be tied with Susie at the beginning to feeling lucky that he was not left behind by Susie.

It would be a real shame if one day Xio, Miss Audrey, and Susie each shared 30% of the bounty, and she could only share 10%.

"The closer we get to the legendary location of Emperor Russell, the greater the probability of a famous pirate appearing. I can't wait to go on a hunt!"

Xio narrowed his eyes and waved his fists excitedly after earning 1000 gold pounds.

"You still have to be careful to avoid accidents." Forsi was as calm as ever.

Audrey has been silent. She is no longer as interested in hunting pirates as she was at the beginning. Now she wants to explore the unknown parts of the sea.

At night, Audrey, who couldn't sleep, knocked on Hasta's door.

Hastur, who originally planned to go to bed, put on a set of pajamas and opened the door.

Tonight, Audrey's face was covered with a faint layer of sadness. She seemed to be troubled by something. Even the bright moonlight could not dispel the sadness between her eyebrows.

"Mr. Hastur, I'm sorry to disturb your rest."

"Facing the sea, people can easily become confused."

As Hastur spoke, he walked out of the cabin with Audrey and came to the bow deck.

Even at night, the entire ship kept moving forward slowly. A high-hanging fishing lantern barely illuminated the forward trajectory of the sea water discharged from the bow. Occasionally, some fish would gather in the light. Fish with strong phototaxis.

"Mr. Hastur, are you used to life in the sea?"

Audrey stood on the bow of the boat. The night sea breeze messed up her carefully cared hair. Hasta simply set up a wall of air to block the sea breeze and started chatting with Audrey about some interesting things on the sea.

Boredom is a threshold that people who have lived on the sea for a long time must cross.

People always give too much imagination to the sea, but in reality life at sea is boring and far less relaxing and leisurely than on land. The narrow scope of activities makes people feel out of breath at all times.

At this moment, Audrey should have experienced the gap between fantasy and reality.

There are many interesting things at sea, and Hastur can talk about them for a long time just by picking a few rumors at random.

Audrey listened carefully, sometimes smiling and looking at the starry sky reflected on the sea.

The tranquil sea, the reflected starry sky, and the various mysterious legends that were being told quickly made Audrey's somewhat confused mood become active again.

“Want to experience a different sea life up close?”

"Yeah, I think so."

Hastur, who was already thirsty from talking, opened a travel portal at the same height as a human in front of Audrey.

"Is this a portal?"

Audrey's eyes were bright. She had talked about it before, but had never really experienced it.

"This is a portal that can travel. It does have the ability to teleport."

Hastur stretched out his arm, and Audrey reached out to hold it, and his body naturally came closer.

"Wang?"

When the two figures disappeared from the travel portal, Susie, who had been following Audrey at a distance, ran over and stretched out her paw to wave at the place where the travel portal disappeared.

Finally, it chose to lie down and wait.

……

When Hastur appeared at the door of the Old Ross Style Bar with Audrey wearing a black magician's hood, it naturally attracted the attention of many people, and the noisy voice suddenly became quieter.

Their eyes mainly fell on Audrey. Her tall figure and mysterious classical magician outfit could easily arouse people's curiosity.

But it was only a brief glance. Before knowing the details of the other person, no one except stupid people would keep staring at others so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

Hastur led Audrey through the crowd. During this period, a drunkard wanted to secretly wipe his hand with his hand. A gust of wind seemed to come and easily cut off his palm, and blood spilled all over the floor.

The severe pain made him wake up from his drunken state in an instant. His cheeks turned pale, and he hurriedly wrapped the wound with clothes. Ma Liu picked up the severed hand on the ground and left here quickly.

If treated promptly, there is still a chance to save the palm.

Audrey noticed this scene, her cheeks hidden under the black hood were slightly hot and flushed. Did Mr. Hastur just take action to protect her?

When she came to the bar, the wall with various fine wines aroused a strong interest in Audrey.

Although she had seen a far more shocking wine wall in Count Hall's wine cellar.

But the wine wall here is like a symbol of enthusiasm and freedom. Just looking at it makes people's hearts surge, and they can't help but want to order every bottle of wine.

The surrounding atmosphere is gradually getting noisier, and some people are playing simple musical instruments and playing bold melodies, urging guests here to order a glass of wine and enjoy this lively night!

Feeling fresh and exciting at the same time, Audrey ordered three kinds of brightly colored wines in one go. Although she didn't know the taste of these wines, just looking at them made her very satisfied.

Hastur on the side has already begun to enjoy the excitement brought by the wine.

He turned his head slightly and looked at Audrey's expectant, excited and a little scared expression, and couldn't help but said: "The wine here is usually stronger, so it's better to drink less."

Audrey nodded, and finally selected a wine that smelled sweeter and more fragrant to take a sip.

Hastur glanced at the name of the wine, chuckled and shook his head. He had already foreseen how drunk Audrey would look later.