The cardinal smiled slightly when he saw this, and turned back to look in the direction of the door to make sure there was no sign of anyone eavesdropping. "Logically speaking, I should say nothing. I can only reveal that they are still alive for the time being. As for more things, it is inconvenient to reveal them."
The bishop stood up. It could be seen that he was also affected by his age. He involuntarily supported his lower back with his hands. "Please don't try to get too deep into this matter, forget about it, trust the church's decision, and everything will be fine."
As soon as he finished speaking, the door was pushed open again, and the person who came in this time was a mysterious man wearing a white robe with a white gauze on his face. He bowed respectfully to the cardinal and then spoke.
"Bishop, the Pope urgently summons you."
The rain continued intermittently all night long, and the temporary shelter lasted for most of the night, but in the end, a hole was exposed due to the wind and rain, and thin water droplets seeped in and fell on Cesare's face.
Opening his eyes, it was already dark and he could continue on his way. He reached out to the side with his hand, and Cesare quickly stood up. The room next to him was actually empty. The dents where Anya had slept could still be vaguely seen on the haystack next to him, but A living person, but I don’t know when he disappeared.
Here you go again, what are you doing again? Cesare crouched down and walked out of the shelter impatiently. As soon as he came out, he saw Anya standing not far from the shelter with her back to him.
The girl had her hair braided and her clothes were neatly dressed. She held her shoulders and tilted her head, as if she was looking straight at something.
"Anya? What are you doing?" Cesare smoothed his hair, which was messed up while sleeping, and walked towards Anya's direction while moving the joints of his hands and feet. As soon as he took a few steps, Cesare froze on the spot. His eyes went around Anya's body and saw what Anya saw.
Is that a person? Cesare couldn't make an accurate judgment at the moment. There was an adult man standing in the grass facing Anya. However, the man's head was very small, a kind of morbid and deformed atrophy, and the position of the brain was almost a crooked one. The human body is sunken inwards.
Cesare first put his hand on the bone staff on his waist to prevent it from being a monster infected by mycelium, so that he could react immediately if the other party wanted to make any move.
As Cesare got closer, he could see the man's face more clearly.
The eyes protrude outward, the pupils look in completely different directions, the nose is dripping, the yellow teeth are exposed, and the saliva is drooling. Mud and black spots can be seen everywhere on the neck and joints. He is also wearing a woman's yellow dress.
It didn't seem like a monster, but it wasn't much better. I don't know how long Anya and this freak looked at each other like this.
Anya raised her eyebrows slightly, wrinkled the tip of her delicate little nose, watching the weirdo standing in the grass shaking his head left and right, his expression confused and confused, his eyes sometimes narrowed and sometimes widened. It's like constantly coming up with new answers and constantly rejecting yourself.
Seeing Cesare coming, Anya put her arms behind her chest and put them behind her with a cute and silly smile. "Are you awake? How did you sleep? Are you still comfortable?"
"Not bad." Cesare responded calmly. "Then what's going on? Is this a friend you picked up?"
"I don't know. He has been standing here since midnight last night watching us sleep. He didn't run away when I found him. He didn't eat or drink and didn't move." Anya's eyes lit up and she had an idea. "Can we keep it? Please!"
"Absolutely not." Cesare never likes to answer boring questions, but this time he must veto the proposal personally, not to mention how ridiculous the idea is, and not to mention what the other party is, just because of his appearance. It’s really hard to describe.
Pulling Anya back to prevent the freaks from staring at each other for too long, Cesare scolded the guy with the deformed head. "Either explain why you're here, or get out of here."
Just as he was about to stretch out the bone staff from his waist, the freak immediately realized something and immediately protected his shrunken little head, squatting down and trembling.
"Uh... don't hit me... I remembered, there are cats, they can bite..."
"What cat? What are you talking about?" Cesare couldn't understand what nonsense this man was talking about. Seeing his sudden pitiful appearance, he couldn't bear to hit him. At worst, he would just leave him standing here. , let’s continue on our way.
Just as he was thinking about it, the freak covered his face with his hands, opened a gap between his dirty fingers, exposed his eyes and looked at Cesare, and said something as if he was about to cry out of grievance.
"It's coming...in the back..."
"What? Who?" Cesare and Anya turned around and looked behind them at the same time. In the open space where there was only a shelter just now, a majestic beast appeared. Its fist-sized eyes were shining with golden light. , with its golden fur shining brightly in the morning sun, its huge body and spectacular mane, it was a...
Cesare repeatedly confirmed that this was not an illusion, that it was not a pattern that only appeared on badges, nor was it a representative of courage and strength in the legend. It was a real lion, one prostrate, showing off its power to the two children. toothy beast.
Even Anya couldn't help but scream slightly, but it didn't sound like fear, but like excitement.
"Should this thing appear here!" Let alone Hunyadi, there has never been a case of a real lion attacking a person in the entire Papal State, but in such a situation, Cesare's eyes died. Staring at the beast, paying attention to every little move.
The clearly visible muscle lines on the male lion's body contain incomparable power that can be seen with the naked eye. When those muscles drive sharp claws across human skin, the end is not much easier than that of any monster.
"Look on the bright side, Mr. Cesare, he doesn't look hungry yet."
As soon as Anya finished speaking, the lion's front paws slapped the ground violently, and its mouth was as big as an arm's length. The roar was deafening, causing the birds in the forest to flee in all directions, and their saliva splashed all over the place. On Sarai and Anya. "Oh...it seems hungry now."
The muscles of the lion's body were tense, and its mane fluttered in the wind like its battle flag. When the huge pupils looked at Cesare, Cesare suddenly felt something bad. Sure enough, the lion pounced in his direction, the claws on its front paws standing up, but for some reason, this Cesare seemed to be somewhat adapted to the breeding scene.
He held the bone staff tightly in his hand. Cesare, who had never tested the possibility of such a battle, couldn't help but feel a little nervous, but time was running out, and he had to fight it no matter whether it worked or not.
Cesare knocked the bones wrapped in rags on the ground. A strong suction force wanted to bring the bone staff deep into the ground, but Cesare did not allow this to happen. Instead, he wanted to bring the power with him. Out of the ground.
When the bone staff was pulled out of the ground, countless hyphae attached to it were lifted up. From Anya's perspective, Cesare seemed to have summoned the evil hidden in the earth. The mycelium spread upward along the bone staff and climbed up Cesare's arm at an extremely fast speed.
This time, Cesare did not reject them, but allowed them to grow and extend, as if a layer of black exoskeleton or some strange-looking heavy armor had formed on Cesare's right arm.
The lion was about to hug Cesare's predecessor. The beast evolved at a speed that was difficult for any prey to react, but those hyphae seemed to be more agile than Cesare's thinking. They were glued to each other on Cesare's skin. , driving Cesare's muscles and bones and joints to move.
"Sure enough... it feels almost like magic." Cesare breathed a sigh of relief. Before anyone could react, the mycelium had completely covered Cesare's right arm into a monster claw arm. , using the bone staff as new bone and mycelium as new meat, the claw arm formed was a little further than an ordinary human arm, and it grabbed the lion's neck with strange force before it could hurt Cesare.
Hearing the roar of the lion, he casually threw the more than 300 kilograms of beast like a rabbit with a flick. Dangerous contact, but the hyphae continued to spread towards Cesare's chest.
Feeling something was wrong, Cesare quickly swung his arm to the outside, and the hyphae turned into broken mucus and scattered on the ground as if he had lost interest, and finally disappeared. Cesare, who was left intact, acted as if nothing had happened, holding the bone staff in his hand with lingering fear.
It seems like a powerful magic, but I always feel that... the risks far outweigh the benefits.
"Ahem, although I really don't want to disturb your mood of discovering the new world." Anya leaned next to Cesare, tilted her head slightly toward Cesare's shoulder, and pointed at the lion that had just flown out. "But the little kitty got up again."
The lion fell heavily on the soil and made a mud puddle. After a few howls, he got up again, shook the mane on his head, and bared his fangs at Cesare again, showing no intention of surrendering. .
"It's really troublesome..." The bone staff spun around in Cesare's hand, and Anya also pulled out the sword with her right hand and held the crossbow in her left hand. It seemed that whether it was cat meat or human flesh, she had to eat something today.
Both sides were ready for another round, imitating the stooping movements of the lions, accumulating strength, and preparing to attack or counterattack. Just when the nerves of both sides in the confrontation were tense to the extreme, the freak with a shrunken head suddenly separated Cesare and Anya.
Then he quickly rushed between the two of them, whether he was crying or shouting. The strange momentum scared the lion to the point of losing all its arrogance. It stared with big eyes and drooped its mouth, showing a frightened expression.
"No! Bite!" The weird man grabbed the lion's neck, and a heavy beast was knocked down instantly, which shocked Cesare so much that it was incredible.
I saw the lion struggling desperately, but the monster's arm was like a iron cuff, no matter how much the beast moved, it couldn't break free.
"Finally I found you! I don't have to be beaten! I don't have to be beaten!" The freak's demented face looked silly and happy, until finally the lion exhausted all its strength and collapsed helplessly, its tongue resting on the mud and panting. Sighing, Cesare felt a little sorry for the lion.
Freak pulled the lion's mane and forced it to stand up. At this time, the lion completely lost its arrogant and domineering ferocity. Instead, it really squatted next to Freak like a well-behaved kitten, but it felt like Out of some kind of fear.
"Thank you!" The freak was happy, watching the snot flowing into his mouth, flowing down his tongue and deeper into his throat.
Cesare took a breath and looked at Anya. This girl who usually always smiled could no longer laugh at this moment. She covered her mouth with her hands and her face turned blue. This look on Anya made Cesare very interesting. .
Not noticing the strange expressions on the two people's faces, the freak stroked the lion's fur with his hand, and suddenly said "Oh!", frightening Cesare and Anya to take a step back in unison. "I know! Come with me, we have a car! We have a horse! We have food and friends!!"
