When it gets dark, the sky is not completely lit yet but there is already a weak light. The gentle wind wakes up everything in the forest. A few drops of dew fall off the branches and leaves as the breeze blows, and hit the linen tent with a slightly muffled sound. ring.
It was difficult to get adequate rest in the humid and cold environment. Cesare had a bizarre nightmare last night. He dreamed that he was back in the carriage again, and the door of the carriage was locked tightly, shutting Cesare inside.
In the dream, Cesare's sister Crocia was lying on the originally empty bed. The blond girl's eyes were closed tightly, her face was pale, her forehead was covered with sweat, and her body was shaking with high fever.
The wound infected by mycelium was clearly exposed on the girl's weak arm. Krosia moaned her brother's name, as if she was expecting her only relative to come back and save her.
Wanting to get close to his sister, the entire carriage seemed to be stretched several meters wide. No matter what, he could not get to the side of the bed. No matter whether he walked, ran, climbed or jumped, Cesare could only watch Crocia. Die slowly in pain and suffering.
The fear caused by powerlessness made the entire dream become darker. The portrait in the memory was replaced by his own appearance, and the back was empty. The helpless Cesare wanted to seek help and tried to call out to the human stick. Polonius's name also received no response.
At the end, he saw the white cloth. Under the white cloth were the specimen's shriveled feet, but now they turned into familiar boots...
Cesare uncontrollably opened the white cloth and saw that the specimen inside was no longer the old woman before, but had turned into a more petite girl...
Cesare felt desperate in his dream, his breathing became rapid, and his body seemed to be tightly bound by shackles and became extremely heavy, unable to move.
Under the white cloth, Cesare saw Anya's long-dead face... There were tears on the girl's face, as if she was crying why Cesare didn't protect her.
As she cried, her fair skin gradually lost its color, and her clear blue eyes began to melt strangely, turning into turbid tears flowing down her cheeks. There seemed to be the sound of wind whining in Kong Liu's dark eyes...
"Anya... Anya!"
The feeling of despair on the verge of suffocation and the sound of hurried footsteps rang in his ears. The moment he called out his name, Cesare suddenly woke up. When he opened his eyes suddenly, the reality of reality poured into his mind and drove away all the broken dreams.
He tried to recall the nightmare he had just had, and gradually found that the terrifying images had become blurry and less clear, as if a fog made it impossible to capture any details.
With the faint light of the morning sun, Cesare didn't have time to calm down his breathing and quickly turned over to look for something. When he confirmed that Anya's lovely face was still sleeping beside him, he slowly got out of the nightmare.
Anya fell asleep quietly, with only a few inches of distance between them. You could feel the girl's soft breath blowing on your face, which made her feel a little ticklish.
As if to confirm that it was no longer a dream, Cesare reached out involuntarily and touched a strand of bright red hair on the girl's cheek, feeling the soft touch and reassuring reality.
Anya's long and thick eyelashes trembled slightly, and her slightly closed eyes opened a slit. Her blue eyes shone with gentle light, like two clear lakes that had never been stained by any filth in the world. dye.
Anya and Cesare looked at each other, smiled slightly, and their lips were slightly red.
"Good morning, Cesare-san."
"Well...morning, Anya."
Cesare retracted his hand in embarrassment. He obviously didn't want to mention this matter again, and Anya didn't interfere. The two arranged their clothes and tied their hair, then got up early and walked out of the tent.
Everyone in the convoy woke up early. The robbers they encountered before may not always swallow their losses. Maybe they are still looking for the circus convoy along the road at this time. It never hurts to get going early, just in case.
The child laborers began to show off their nimbleness again. Not long after Cesare and Anya walked out of the tent, the four little guys rushed up to them. They couldn't say anything, they just made random gestures and cooperated to tear down the tent.
Seeing that everything around them seemed harmonious, it seemed that no one had discovered the whereabouts of Cesare and Anya last night. This was definitely a good thing.
Seeing that the child laborers were still working hard with sleepy eyes, Cesare also started working in order to speed up the preparations. After moving the tent, he brushed the horses.
Suddenly he saw a figure coming out of the woods from a distance. Although it was far away, Cesare could clearly see his short silhouette.
That was the dwarf who had been whipped by the regiment leader Claudius last night. I am afraid he had stayed in the wilderness all night, waiting for the convoy to move forward again before he dared to touch it.
His steps were swaying from side to side, his eyes were wandering, and the collar of his clothes was pulled up high as if to cover the wounds all over his body. When he reached a crowded place, he started to run again despite the pain.
Swinging her stubby calves tightly from side to side for fear of being noticed by others, she trotted all the way to the driver's seat of the cargo carriage.
Can you still set up a carriage like that? Cesare couldn't help but feel worried. But after thinking about it carefully, it seems that this is not the first time he has experienced this kind of thing.
As soon as he untied the horse, he saw a clumsy figure emerging from the woods. The man's body was tall and strong, and his head was as flat as a top. At first glance, he was "Fool" Rosen, but he Why did you come out of there?
Cesare was curious when he saw the fool walking towards Anya with three steps and one turn.
Anya was still chatting happily with the cardinals on the branches about some topic that normal people couldn't understand. The fool's approach scared away the birds, leaving Anya standing there without knowing why.
"Hey! Don't go, I haven't finished talking about what happened to your uncle!" Looking back, she found that the stupid guy had just raised his arm to touch her shoulder.
"Huh? What's wrong?" Anya looked up at the other person's dull and drooling expression and asked relaxedly.
"Uh...this, thing." The idiot stumbled and said something incomprehensible. The other hand hidden behind his back slowly stretched out and took out a small white flower. "give you……"
That flower was not beautiful to look at, and even after being touched by stupid Rosen's dirty hands, the stem was covered with black mud. But Anya looked very happy after the surprise. She took the flower and put it in her red hair without any disdain, and smiled and thanked her.
"Thank you Rosen, you are so kind." His tone sounded like he was communicating with an unenlightened child, but Rosen's face flushed happily after hearing this, and he dazedly touched the back of his head with joy. With.
Cesare, who was watching from a distance, thought that the fool would do something dangerous, but now he breathed a sigh of relief and patted the horse's neck gently. He raised his leg and was about to leave when suddenly a man came to his ears. The sound made all the nerves in the body tense instantly.
"Did you sleep well? Young Master."
Turning his head to the side, he saw a pair of golden eyes exposed on the red scarf. Just now, Cesare was only paying attention to other people, and did not realize that the leader of the circus, Claudius, had unknowingly stood in front of him. Next to him, and almost close to his side.
Cesare couldn't imagine how this living person could approach him like a ghost. His reaction was not too slow, and he didn't notice it at all.
The leader of the group, Claudius, was nearly two meters tall. When he spoke, he leaned forward and put his mouth close to Cesare's ear. His golden eyes were cold and gleaming, which was incompatible with the kind and gentle tone in his mouth, as if his The eyes and voice came from two completely different souls, and he himself seemed to have an invisible force oppressing the surrounding air.
Cesare was stunned. He recalled the truth he knew last night and the woman under the white cloth. He didn't know how to react to such a close contact.
Seeing Cesare's silence, the group leader Claudius raised his body and looked in the direction of Anya and idiot Rosen.
"That's a nice girl, isn't she? Beautiful, funny, energetic, and kind-hearted. Girls like that are truly more precious than gems in this world."
As he spoke, the leader Claudius lowered his head and looked into Cesare's eyes. "Please forgive my curiosity and presumption, are you... lovers?"
"No, it's just a classmate." Cesare ignored the pressure coming from the other party and tried hard to stay calm.
"Oh...that's such a pity. But you know what? I have learned some divination knowledge from people I know before. With my pair of eyes that can see people very accurately, sometimes I can see through other people's souls and see some things." …something deeper.”
The leader of the group, Claudius, secretly chuckled a few times. "That girl is really not something that ordinary people can get. Her soul is like a fierce horse. She will never be satisfied with the grassland right now. If you want to get her, you have to accompany her to a more distant place."
Cesare still didn't respond, thinking that silence would make the other party understand that he was just asking for trouble. Unexpectedly, the leader of the group, Claudius, had not finished speaking and he continued to speak.
"She reminds me of the cat I once had. That cat was lively and active, always clinging to me. It was so cute... To be honest, in the most difficult stage of my life, if I didn't have that cat to accompany me, Maybe he went crazy."
The leader of the group, Claudius, raised his eyebrows and showed a little sadness in his eyes. "That cat is amazing. He always likes to climb to high places and jump off without being hurt. First it was a short tree, and later it was a roof."
"I even built a tall tower for it to perform high-altitude jumps during the circus show. Until finally, during our trip, it found a towering tree. I thought it would be fine and let it climb up. , it went up confidently, and jumped down as usual...The impact instantly shattered its internal organs, and not long after that...it died."
