Mystery: The Returner of the Stars

Chapter 306 Puppet, Sharon

It's dawn, what else can we do?
It seems that nothing can change the current predicament.

The four members of the Red Gloves team looked at each other, each lost in thought.

After the sun rose, they went out to do errands as usual, to see if they could hide it from those people in the dark.

After the morning time passed, they returned to the hotel room to gather and began to discuss countermeasures.

After testing in the morning, they didn't find any suspicious people around them, nor did they encounter any suspicious things.

This made them feel that the person who was secretly watching them would be 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 here, they could invite rescuers.

Some people also wondered whether the dream last night was directed and acted by the old man himself, or maybe nothing happened from the beginning to the end.

Finally, they were divided into two teams of two people each.

One team stayed here and did not move, the other team left by land, and the other escaped Puning Harbor by sea.

In the afternoon, they boarded their carriages and boats without a hitch and left.

At night, the two members of the Red Gloves team who stayed in the hotel and continued to wait, waited for the teammate who had just left for more than five hours.

Four people gathered in the room again.

There was a moment of silence at first, and the man who drove away 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.”

"Without a carriage, I just wanted to leave here on foot, and then set off for the villages and towns near Puning Harbor 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 returned to the same place again. This is absolutely abnormal, so I went back to the hotel first, thinking about discussing with you again."

After he finished speaking, the people on 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 the ship had been circling in the nearby waters due to the fog on the sea, unable to find the original channel, and had to turn back.

The captain, who lived at sea all the year round, said that some of them might have displeased the Sea God, and it was the Sea God who stopped them from going out to sea.

The captain and crew believed in such statements, so he was sent back to shore.

coincide?accidental?
This can no longer explain what happened to them tonight.

"The noble goddess will not sit back and watch her believers suffer. As long as we don't write a letter and send it back on time, the church will know that we are in a difficult situation."

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

"Let's rest for one night first, and think about how to solve this dilemma tomorrow."

……

At ten o'clock at night, under the dim light, Hasta was sitting at the desk, flipping through the new book sent by Mrs. Lisa, which was another book praising the great king in yellow.

It mainly focuses on the stories that the king in yellow walks in the world as an incarnation, and encounters some stories. It has a style of both fairy tales and a little bit of dark reality.

Personally, Hastur still thinks the writing is very good, and Mrs. Lisa seems to have a lot of talent in this respect.

After reading the book, Hastur moved his body a little bit, and was about to take a bath and take a rest, when Azshara came out of the window excitedly, meowing twice towards the dark night outside.

Sharon is back?
With a smile on his face, Hastur came to the window, only to see a window flashing in front of him, and a figure appeared in the window.

"Meow."

Azshara scratched the window glass with her small paws, as if trying to get Sharon inside out, but she couldn't succeed.

Bang!

Azshara, who was too forceful, scratched the stained glass on the window, and half of the stained glass fell towards the ground.

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

Azshara's blue pupils widened, unable to comprehend the miraculous scene in front of her.

After looking at it for a while, it wanted to stretch out its paws again, but seeing broken glass all over the floor, it took the cat's paws back again, and then let out a grievous cry.

Soon, the figures of Sharon in the glass gathered together, and then came to another piece of glass on the opposite side.

"Meow?"

Azshara leaned closer, her eyeballs almost touching the stained glass.

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

Entering the glass for the first time, Azshara looked very excited, happily lying in Sharon's arms, only showing a small head.

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

After playing for a while, Sharon moved from the remaining glass to the mirror on the tabletop, and then walked out.

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

Sure enough, before she was promoted, she was already a puppet without emotion.

Although she is playing with Azshara now, her face is so calm that there is no emotion fluctuation, and her eyes are as clear as water, and there is no emotion flowing.

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

Hastur observed for a while, then said with a smile, "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 indifferently: "Maybe they are just a routine."

Sharon didn't speak, eyes 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." Hasta had no choice but to explain, and then spoke with Sharon with a playful smile. Looking at each other, "Speaking of which, I was also on their investigation list because of your involvement."

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, the members of the Red Gloves team couldn't lock him, even the Goddess Eye.

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

In other words, Sharon's distress during this period was caused by herself.

Hastur's gaze was always on Sharon's face, but she couldn't observe even a little bit of emotional fluctuation from her face. At this moment, she was really like a real puppet.

Although she can talk, she is just a large and delicate puppet in terms of restraining her emotions.

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, it is better not to involve Sharon too much in the matter of the monk in yellow.

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

Hastur laughed. "It's really annoying sometimes, but it's kind of useful."

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

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

Seeing that Hasta insisted on keeping 008, Sharon didn't continue this topic.

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

"very good."

"that's it?"

"Ah."

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

"Meow."

Azshara also followed suit.

"Have you ever seen a talking puppet?"

"Yes, I have."

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

"In the novel I wrote to you, the seemingly cold and emotionless puppets have fire-like enthusiasm in their hearts, and they are also eager to communicate with other people."

"..."

"You see, although Azshara can't speak human language, when we talk, it always likes to interject. It can be seen that communication is a biological instinct."

"Meow!"

Azshara glared at Hastur angrily, and ran to Sharon, covering her eyes with her small 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, which was due to Sharon's nature.

But when playing a puppet, Sharon can easily assimilate herself with the puppet because they are too similar.

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

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

Sharon who can laugh and cry is cuter.

"Ah."

Sharon nodded, her eyes seemed to be much gentler.

"Why don't you try laughing again?"

Sharon ignored Hastur's obviously selfish suggestion.

After staying for about twenty minutes, Sharon left here.

Her arrival tonight is to tell Hasta that she has been promoted successfully, and to remind Hasta a little bit.

Just as Sharon left, 008, who was lying in the pencil case pretending to be dead, began to jump up and down, clamoring to come out.

(End of this chapter)