"Your eyes are full of lies, they betray you. You know what I think, you wastes are of no use at all. I want you all to die in this hellish place as the price for your deception.
Come on Polonius, you are a smart man and time is running out. Say something that will gain my sympathy in exchange for your life. "
The human stick Polonius choked and breathed hard and opened his mouth to say something. The leader's boot kicked him in the stomach again, causing his whole body to be kicked away like a ball. , hit the inner wall of the carriage and fell heavily.
Fear forced him to speak quickly. "I know, I know what to say!" He cried and roared, turning his face covered with blood to face the leader Claudius.
"That girl... that red-haired girl is a dragon whisperer. She can understand bird songs and dragon calls! Someone will pay a high price to buy her. She is worth a lot alive and dead. It is better than our entire circus tied together. All valuable!
With this money...you can do whatever you want..."
"You really think I'm crazy..." Captain Claudius shook his head, pulled out the whip from his waist and walked towards the human stick. "There are no dragons in this world."
"It's true! It's true! Look into my eyes, I'm not lying! Both of their identities are not simple, there must be a way to survive... You know where to sell her, just like we often did before Like that, give it a try, you won’t regret it!”
The leader stared at him, his expression obscured by his red scarf, his golden eyes shining strangely, and the carriage suddenly stopped at this moment.
The dwarf put down the reins, climbed out of the carriage, and ran for his life into the woods next to him.
He heard what the leader said. The leader was crazy. If he didn't run away, all of them would die here. He didn't want to die, so he wanted to escape from here quickly. His short body dashed left and right in the dark woods, but he couldn't. Within a short time, he was bruised and bruised by tree trunks and branches.
"I don't want to die... I don't want to die..." the dwarf muttered numbly, and suddenly fire lit up from behind him and illuminated the dark woods. He didn't dare to stop, but he couldn't help but look back.
Hearing the hissing sound of the venomous snake spitting out its seeds, he just turned his head, and his pupils instantly trembled and expanded with fear. A burning venomous snake quickly crawled in the grass behind him, and there were burning flames everywhere it went. .
No matter how hard the dwarf's short legs tried, they couldn't match the snake's crawling speed. The snake rushed behind him, raised its front body and bit the dwarf's ankle.
The severe pain was only short-lived. What was terrifying was that the flames on the snake's body burned along its fangs and onto the dwarf's body. In just an instant, the dwarf's body was wrapped in flames.
"Ah - ah -" The blazing heat made him scream and struggle. He fell to the ground desperately and rolled repeatedly in an attempt to extinguish the flames. However, the fire burned and cracked like a ghost haunting him.
The clothes on his body melted and stuck to his skin, his flesh and blood dried up, and his muscles broke. His screams became smaller and smaller, and his struggles became calmer.
Like a lonely pile of firewood burning in the forest, the crackling sparks and the chirping of insects filled the quiet and peaceful night. The wind gently blew the fire, letting it burn slowly and unhurriedly. When the flame gorilla When it was extinguished, only a nameless char was left in the forest.
The carriage driven by Cesare slowly stopped in the forest at this time. His body seemed to have reached the limit and he had no strength at all. He was breathing hard. Everything in front of him was darker than the night itself.
Cesare couldn't even see Anya's face clearly, and could only feel the warm hands wrapping the wound on his shoulder with cloth, but Cesare also knew that the current problem was far from being solved by bandaging.
"Hey, Cesare, do you want to dance?" Anya gently held Cesare's face with both hands and said with a smile. She couldn't have noticed that Cesare's blood vessels were infected with hyphae all over his body. But she still asked naughtily, just as inexplicably as before.
Although it was just a joke, Cesare could not see anything clearly in his blurred vision. Anya's words reminded him of the scene when he first met Anya at the ball.
That hateful spotlight, countless eyes, and the beautiful red-haired girl inexplicably invited me to dance...
Cesare could only smile bitterly, raised his arm that he could no longer tell whether it was a finger or a claw, and gently touched the side of Anya's face. The girl in front of him seemed to be wearing the dance skirt of that time again.
"Anya...do me a favor, please? Help me find my family, they will find a way to save me...The next journey through the forest will be faster...and hiking will only delay me more. Time, they have horses...it would be faster to have them come to me.”
"Yeah." Anya smiled and nodded. "Don't touch Cesare-san, and don't die. I will be back soon."
"Do you see how I can move..." Cesare said jokingly, and suddenly felt Anya's face was very close to him. He didn't know what the girl wanted to do, so he could only talk to Anya silently. Clear and translucent turquoise eyes looked at each other.
Suddenly, Anya gently protected Cesare and kissed him on the lips.
The girl's lips were so soft and extremely warm, but they also caught Cesare off guard and his body instantly stiffened. For the first time in his life, he was frightened and his eyes widened.
As his heart beat faster, his pale cheeks also regained some rosy color, and his eyes changed from feverish and weak to a different kind of blur.
It was as if the hyphae in the body that were eating Cesare were shocked and stunned by this sudden happiness.
When Anya stood up, she couldn't help laughing at Cesare's reaction, and touched her red and hot cheeks with both hands. "Then I'll set off. Be sure to wait for me when I come back, Cesare-san."
After saying that, Anya jumped off the carriage and continued running towards the woods to the west without looking back.
Cesare didn't sigh until Anya was nowhere to be seen.
Turning around, he saw four curious little heads popping up neatly in a row. They all looked at Cesare with surprised expressions. They seemed to want to say something, but without tongues, they could only hesitate. My voice.
"What are you looking at...what are you curious about?" Cesare resisted the stiffness of his body and stood up. His flesh and blood seemed to be covered with plants, making a clicking sound every time he moved.
"You guys can use this carriage to run away soon... Follow the map and if you can get out of the forest, if you can't get out, find a town with people and find a job..."
Cesare slowly got off the carriage. He knew his situation better than anyone else. It was already too late...
The hyphae in his body are fighting for the ownership of this body, and he may turn into something terrible at any second... The apparently simple action of getting out of the car is extremely difficult for him now, and he even almost falls.
Seeing that he seemed to be leaving, several child workers were so busy that they got out of the car to stop him, but Cesare stopped him with a shout.
"Don't stop me..." Cesare pulled out the bone staff. The hyphae that had just turned into a sickle had already melted, or in other words, had melted into his body and were ready to take over. At this time, the bone staff turned into a bare stick again. of monster bone sticks.
"Hurry up...or the monster will catch up, but don't blame me for not warning you..."
Several child laborers were stunned in the car. They didn't dare to stop Cesare anymore, but they didn't drive the carriage away. They just watched Cesare leaning on his bone staff as he walked into the mist in the opposite direction of Anya's departure. , disappeared into the night.
But what Cesare didn't know was...
Not long after Anya left, the warm smile on the girl's face gradually disappeared. She ran nimbly in the forest. The distance she passed through the forest in a straight line and Anya's agility would not be slower than the speed of the carriage.
The sad choking was accompanied by tears. Anya knew clearly what kind of mutation was taking place in Cesare. It was the kind of infection that the old woman's son in the abandoned town experienced and turned into a monster lizard.
Hurry up, hurry up, and find the other members of the Hunyadi family before it's too late. They must be nearby. As long as you hurry up, it's still too late.
"Cesare...wait for me...I'll be able to..." She whispered to herself, and suddenly Anya's body stiffened and she stopped in place.
"Uh..." I only felt that something had hit my throat. A leather whip came out of nowhere and suddenly wrapped around Anya's fair neck. She raised her eyes and looked up, only to see a pair of cruel golden legs in the dark night. Eyes.
The leader of the group, Claudius, appeared silently behind Anya like a ghost, his tall body like an eagle overlooking the sparrows.
He held the two ends of the whip with both hands and exerted force in opposite directions, lifting Anya's body directly into the air. The pain of suffocation doubled in an instant.
Everything happened too fast, and there was no time to react. He just ran as fast as possible, not paying attention to anyone's presence.
Anya's pupils were trembling in fear, and the whip around her neck was already very tight, strangling her so hard that she couldn't breathe at all. Blood-red marks were exposed on her skin, and her legs were stretched and relaxed as they tried to find the ground.
It was difficult to think calmly when the brain was deprived of oxygen, but Anya still slowly touched the sword at her waist in order to fight back.
However, such a small move was noticed by the leader Claudius at a glance, and he did not deliberately stop it. He just tightened the whip harder. No matter how superb his skills were, he was just an ordinary little girl.
"Ah... uh..." A dying gurgling sound came from Anya's throat. The expression on her face changed from surprise to pain and then gradually collapsed. The twitching of her hands caused the blade to fall to the ground, with no hope of being picked up again.
It's just that his instinctive hands weakly grasped the fatal whip, tightening and loosening it. It was obviously a dying struggle, but it looked so cute in Claudius's eyes.
"Shh... don't be nervous." Captain Claudius stared at Anya who was getting weaker and whispered softly. "It's normal to want to cry when you think about the people you love and your home. I'm very experienced in this area."
Anya's face was already stained with tears, and her mouth opened desperately to absorb oxygen like a fish trying to breathe from land.
Finally, he slowly lowered his eyelids and looked down at the girl's lovely face. Captain Claudius cautiously and slowly released the whip. With a gentle movement, Anya fell into his arms, and he closed his eyes for the girl with his hands for the last time.
"Go to sleep when you're sleepy, dear, and let everything take its course..."
As Claudius's voice became smaller and smaller, Anya's consciousness went from blurred to dark.
