Cesare's brain felt another convulsive pain. The man standing on the ceiling flickered several times, and the hallucinations disappeared and reappeared frequently.
"You're not really Claudius...can you please stop annoying me..."
After realizing that these hallucinations would not go away, Cesare's voice became weak. Sometimes he couldn't tell whether he was really talking to hallucinations or if it was just a dream in a coma.
"Just think of it as your own random imagination, Cesare." As he said that, Claudius's hallucination was walking around on the roof again.
"At that time, I was still wandering around with a group of magicians. The male owner of a farmer's family went to a far away place. I sneaked into his house to steal some valuable things, but I was discovered by his wife who stayed at home. Already..."
As Claudius spoke, he stretched out his hand again, and blood slowly dripped down his nails "tick-tock-tock", dripping from the roof to the ground and then disappearing.
"I strangled the woman to death, and because I was afraid that someone would be discovered, I threw the body into their pigsty and fed the body to the pigs. For many days after that... once I fell asleep, I could dream of that woman staring at me and smiling. , I laughed so much that I felt panicked..."
Suddenly Claudius clenched his fists, and the dripping blood stopped abruptly.
"Until I killed the second person...the third person, I was no longer afraid of dead people. I understood that life is precious but the lives of others have nothing to do with me. Later, I dreamed about the person I killed first. woman.
In the dream... I strangled her to death again, and her eyes looked at me with the same fear as before. I never dreamed of her again. "
Cesare ignored it, just as the hallucination himself said, these could not be what Claudius actually experienced, they were just some fantasies that he had while fighting the infection in his body... None of them were real, sooner or later. It will disappear...
Claudius's phantom jumped slightly, and his body fell from the roof. His straight body, head down, passed Cesare's eyes in an instant, and fell straight into the floor.
Looking around, just when Cesare was glad that the hallucination finally disappeared, Claudius's voice suddenly came from behind Cesare.
"Praying to God cannot eliminate sins. If you want to get rid of the torture of conscience, you can only make yourself more cruel."
Claudius bent out of Cesare's body. He passed directly through Cesare like a ghost and turned back to look at Cesare.
"Do you know why you are always deceived, Cesare? Because your heart just looks cold. You mistake kindness for a common human nature. Trusting others is essentially a lie to yourself.
The trajectory of your destiny must be controlled by yourself. The first trick to make the coin land on heads is not to let others toss the coin for you. "
"What are you trying to say..." Cesare's impatience was about to reach its limit, and he would definitely go crazy if he continued talking to Hallucination like this.
"I just want to say that the little maid named Ilona will not come back. You know, the Earl you know never leaves the castle. If she really went to find the Earl, she should have come back long ago.
Or...it's because she knows that you two siblings are incapable of being infected, so she doesn't dare to come back and face you, so she just leaves you here to fend for yourself. "
"Ilona... is not that kind of person. If she knew something, she would definitely tell me..." Cesare retorted weakly.
"Yes, that little maid who is always following you, that playmate who will agree with you no matter what you do, think about it, how long has it been since you last seen her?
You know people change over time. You've lived in this castle for so long, and your so-called family...
Those crows never told you their true identity. Now that girl has become a member of the crows and is not worthy of trust at all. "
Claudius's eyes smiled slightly and he walked towards the cell door gracefully.
"You have to get out of here Cesare. You have to find the count yourself. You can't wait any longer before it's too late."
"Of course I want to leave too!" Cesare struggled and shook the chains all over his body. "This is impossible! Even a bull can't break free!"
Claudius's shadow became more and more transparent, as if he would disappear completely in the next second, and his voice became as if nothing. "Nothing is completely impossible."
Claudius stopped about to leave, turned his head and looked at the shining gold coin on the ground... looking at the coin lying there quietly, keeping its face up.
He smiled strangely, waved his hand, and the illusion completely dissipated into the darkness, as if nothing just happened.
Cesare's headache also eased a lot at this moment. It felt like he had survived the most difficult period of the fever. His brain began to slowly wake up at this moment, but he still couldn't tell whether it was a hallucination or a dream.
There was a sound of light footsteps outside the cell door, and Cesare's attention immediately followed. Maybe Ilona is back?
He stared closely at the locked cell door in the darkness, listening to the "click" sound of the key being inserted into the keyhole, but then... what he heard was the sound of the cell next door being opened.
Just when he was feeling discouraged, the girl's voice suddenly came from outside.
"Have another good evening, dear Cesare...classmate? Sorry to bother you, I seem to have made a mistake."
That familiar voice was undoubtedly Anya, which surprised and confused Cesare. It was impossible for the Hunyadi family to let her run around in the castle. How did she find this place? Why does she have the key?
Is there no place in the world where this crazy girl can be imprisoned?
There was the sound of the key unlocking again.
As the cell door was slowly pushed open, the light from outside shone in and splashed on Cesare's face. Cesare, whose eyes had already adapted to the dark environment, was temporarily blinded by the light and could not open his eyelids.
But in order to see Anya's appearance clearly, he shook his head and tried hard to open his eyes.
The familiar red-haired girl stood in the light with one hand holding her waist, and the other hand turned a large iron ring, which was covered with keys of different sizes. The blood stains on her rosy face had long been washed away. Only a confident and happy smile remains.
The clear outlines of Anya's body were reassuring and definitely not an illusion. Both parties seemed to be relieved of their worries the moment they saw each other.
"How did you...?" Cesare was both curious and felt that this was nothing to Anya. This weird guy was not something that ordinary people could handle.
Anya just smiled happily, waving the key in her hand and walked towards Cesare. "Anya Lauryn will never be trapped and die somewhere, or if she does die, it will be on her way to her next adventure."
With that said, Anya found the keyhole on the chain lock. Just as she was about to try the key ring in her hand, she looked at Cesare hesitantly.
"After I untie you, you won't eat me, right?"
Anya's question also made Cesare hesitate for a moment, and he thought for a long time before finally speaking out. "If I am still hungry after being controlled by mycelium...I will let you run away in advance."
The words that clearly sounded very insecure made Anya laugh out loud. She leaned down and touched Cesare's nose gently, smiling slightly, as if to say that no matter what happened, she would be there. around.
"That's good, welcome back to our adventure, Cesare-san."
