Cesare aimed the crowbar at the iron hoop on the barrel. After swallowing, he began to use force carefully to avoid hurting Anya. Fortunately, the barrel was very old and the iron hoop on it had long been rusty. It loosened a lot with just a few pries.
Upon seeing this, Cesare put the crowbar aside, and instead pulled the edge of the bottom of the barrel with his hands, trying to loosen the wooden planks fixed by the iron hoops, so as to free Anya's head.
After breaking it twice, the gap between the wooden boards was not moved at all, but Cesare suddenly felt something was wrong, and his face suddenly became uglier. He effortlessly lifted the barrel upwards, and Anya's face The fair and lovely face was immediately revealed in front of Cesare's eyes under the faint light.
I saw Anya blinking her blue eyes and pretending to be innocent, tilting her head to look at Cesare, and a lock of red hair stuck on the barrel gently fell back to her at this time. face.
"You're kidding me." Cesare said with a cold expression. "I should have thought of that, it was a really good performance."
"Good evening Mr. Cesare, it's so nice to see you again." An innocent smile filled Anya's face.
When Cesare let go, the barrel slammed back again with a muffled sound, and the inner wall hit the back of Anya's head hard. Anya was so painful that she wanted to hug her head tightly, but she only hugged the barrel. , after waiting for a while, he lifted the bucket and threw it out casually, not forgetting to pat his hands back and forth.
Then Anya walked sideways around Cesare as if she had completely forgotten about it, and walked straight back to the mechanical heart. "Where did we talk just now? Crows, bad news, the earth, riddles from the ancient empire?" Anya picked up the mechanical heart with one hand, threw it into the air and caught it with the other hand.
"Oh, maybe the Crow family emblem has something to do with this. It's really interesting." Anya smiled slightly and threw the mechanical heart towards Cesare without any warning. In the dim environment, only a small black shadow could be vaguely seen coming from It passed through the air, and Cesare quickly took two steps forward and stretched out his arms to protect it accurately.
"If you really want to fix it, please don't throw it around." Cesare said angrily. "I want you to understand that this device is much more delicate than it looks. Any slight damage may be the reason why it cannot operate normally. Please! Alas... Although this was taken by your father, at least it is Please be gentle." As if he was used to Anya's character, Cesare's tone became calm.
"Okay, okay, my bad." Anya stuck out her tongue playfully, then put her hands behind her back and shook her body slightly from side to side. "So, since I helped you once at the dance, can you fix this?"
Cesare lowered his head and looked at the mechanical heart in his hand thoughtfully. Even if it was not to repay the favor of the ball, this strange device alone made him very curious. He learned from the auction that it was Hunyadi From the moment he created it, Cesare wanted to study the heart carefully to see what secrets he could unearth.
"I can give it a try, but I can't guarantee that you will be satisfied with the final result. Even if the device is forced to operate, it may not be effective, but I will try my best to make sure that its price in the market will not let Laurie Earl En is losing money.”
"Losing money?" Anya covered her mouth and laughed. "Mr. Cesare, you seem to have misunderstood something. I am not asking you for help to help my father manage his finances."
"Isn't it?" Cesare was a little doubtful, as if his thoughts had been taken too far by Sandino's dream of getting rich.
"Of course not! Although I have to admit that money is very tempting, I can buy a boat, or Director Anri's wine glass! I have been attracted to that wine glass for a long time, but the dean always holds it as if it is sticky. It’s like I have it in my hand.” Anya said to herself as she turned to look at the map on the table.
"Anyway, I want you to help repair this thing simply to satisfy my curiosity." Anya raised her arm and pointed to the location of Carl Flow on the map. "Our city, Carlius, is located within the Duchy of Orsini, and right next to us..." Anya's finger moved to one side, pointing to the adjacent territory.
"It's the earldom of your Hunyadi family. It's a vast territory but almost no one has been there. It's just because of those... terrible rumors. I remember there were cannibalism, kidnapping, unicorns and so on."
"I've never heard of unicorns. It sounds like you just made it up." Cesare had just finished his casual response. Anya pushed the table and circled to come to Cesare with a smile on her face. Close to Cesare's face, so close that the tips of their noses almost touched, so close that Cesare could clearly feel the temperature of the girl's breath and the faint body fragrance.
"I want to know the truth about the Hunyadi family. Can you help me? Classmate Cesare?"
Crows neighed, and the endless fields that had been abandoned for a long time were shrouded in darkness. Thick fog cast a mysterious veil on the moonlight. Rotten ears of wheat covered the ground. Most of the corpses of plants and animals had turned into black mud and fell into the soil. It was strange and unpredictable. Crows hovered in the night, and looming ghosts lingered in the mist. The scene as far as the eye could see has been reduced to the paradise of death, and no living creatures will visit it anymore.
The sound of horse hooves coming from a distance broke the dead silence here. Two skinny horses were carrying an adult man and a young-looking girl respectively. They were both facing the fields and stopped at the edge of the wasteland. Both of them were wearing pitch black cloaks, with veils covering their faces. Only the girl's silver hair was faintly exposed under her hood.
The man was holding a thick hemp rope in his hand, and the other end of the hemp rope was tied to a living person and dragged along the ground. He was a slightly fat man, without shoes, and his clothes were riddled with holes, revealing scars all over his body. His back was bruised and bruised from being dragged all the way, and he could only cry out for mercy with a weak voice.
"Please...please Janos...I don't want to be a rabbit, anything else is fine, just please don't let me be a rabbit..." Listening to his weak wailing, one of the two escorts The silver-haired girl tilted her head to look at him, but no expression could be seen under the tightly woven veil.
After another adult man named Janos got off his horse, the tied man was still begging for mercy. "I didn't mean it...I never thought about betrayal...You know me, I never wanted to leave here..."
"Yes, you did not." Janos responded with a regretful tone, but his expression was also invisible. "You should have brought the money back after selling the core, instead of being smart and hiding it and lying about it being robbed."
"I'm sorry... I'm really sorry... but I really need those few silver coins... My wife is sick. You have seen her. If she has a chance to be cured, she needs a little money... I can pay the money back quickly. For everyone..." The man choked, with tears in his eyes, as if talking about this topic was more painful than the torture of the scars on his body.
"You don't need to say sorry. I'm sorry for you. I have to handle this matter accordingly." Janos grabbed the man's neck and forcibly lifted his broken body up, untied the rope around him, and pulled him Pushing towards the fields. "You know what to do, just keep running, and once you get across the field to the woods, you're safe."
"That's impossible... That's impossible! No one has ever been able to do it!" The man almost collapsed and yelled, but then, a pair of huge pairs of people slowly emerged from the fog behind Janos. Scarlet eyes, and a black bird's beak half as tall as a man loomed in the man's eyes, so frightened that he immediately stopped and roared.
"You brought it too...? No... don't do this, you can't do this to me, I also have Hunyadi in my name! I am also a Hunyadi! I am also a member of the crows! You forgot János, we were friends once, I, I even saved your life!"
"Gaber, this is the most glorious punishment for Hunyadi's family! Don't worry, I'll be there soon." After saying that, Janos took off a short crossbow from the saddle. "I don't want to hold this against you. Please don't force me. You know very well that we have no choice."
"Janos, for the sake of our previous friendship... please cure my wife's illness... This is my last request, can you..."
The fat man choked with tears, and then vented his unwillingness and fear through loud roars, cursing the cursed field with a nameless anger, and then ran, with his hands bare. He stepped onto the muddy soil, roaring and running hard towards the boundless fields, like a living being making his last protest against death.
Within a moment, the man's figure disappeared into the mist, and the hoarse roar gradually faded away...until a terrifying scream tore through the night sky, and the cruel wailing made people's eardrums tremble. Only the sound beyond death could be heard. Fear can make people's vocal cords emit those almost deformed howling sounds, but the two people at the edge of the field seemed to have known the result for a long time, looking calmly at the direction of death, motionless.
Soon, another man in a black cloak rode up to Janos' side and said in a somewhat anxious tone: "Three of them were lured out. We may not have enough manpower."
"Where's the big one?" Janos turned his head and asked, and the person who responded shook his head slightly. "Just three ordinary ones, one of which is the rabbit from before."
"I'll go with you, and I'll kill at least one of you before dawn." Janos turned around and mounted the horse, pulled the reins and was about to leave when he was stopped by the silver-haired girl beside him. "I'm a Crow too, and I want to go with you."
"I admire your courage, but your death date is not today. Girl, I have a more important task for you." Janos continued: "You go to Mr. Leopold immediately and ask him to bring the nearest The books should be cleared. If necessary, go to Kalliu in person to solve the boy's tuition problem. You are one of the few reliable people, so don't let this matter go wrong again. "
The silver-haired girl did not respond immediately after hearing this. Instead, she lowered her head and tightened the reins, looking very hesitant. "I don't understand... The money is enough for us to eat for at least a few months. Is that boy that important? He is not even real..." Before the girl could finish her words, she was immediately interrupted by Janos.
"Don't question the count's decision. One day you will understand that that boy's life is far more important than all of us, of course, provided that you can survive to that day." After that, János and another rider He rushed towards the fields and disappeared into the heavy fog without any news. After a moment of hesitation, the silver-haired girl sighed slightly, twitched the reins, and drove the horse in the opposite direction.
When everyone left, the moonlight caressed the earth, and a few more corpses were added to the dark night, waiting to rot.
