The stench of decay was everywhere in the dark dungeon. Suddenly, like a ray of light in the dark night, the rich and sweet aroma of food filled the dungeon.
The taste of the food is always mouth-watering. On the exquisite tray, there is corned beef with sweet cheese, some baked apples and a glass of hot fresh milk.
The gentlemanly Mr. Andel carried the tray to the cell where Cesare was held, and gently knocked on the iron door a few times with his knuckles.
"Are you okay Cesare?" Mr. Andel asked, but there was no response.
"I know you must be uncomfortable now, but it's not okay not to eat all the time. I brought you some food. You can whet your appetite first. If it's not enough, there will be barbecue and butter bread later."
Andel spoke softly and knocked on the door again. Hearing the unusual silence inside, he pushed the door open tentatively and found that the door was ajar, and a gap was slowly exposed under the slight force.
"Cesare?" Mr. Andel realized something and frowned, but his tone remained unchanged. He just slowly pushed the door open as he spoke.
"Cesare, there is something else I forgot to mention. The count seems to be..."
Before he finished speaking, Andel had already fully opened the cell door. The hand holding the dinner plate remained motionless. His eyes slowly adapted to the dark environment in the cell and then scanned every corner of the space.
However, except for the thick chains fixed to the walls and the ground, which remained in their original positions, Cesare was nowhere to be seen.
In silence, he walked into the depths of darkness and looked at the iron chains, which were intact and showed no signs of being broken apart. They could only have been opened by keys.
While Mr. Andel was meditating, footsteps suddenly sounded, and a man wearing black clothes and a pure black veil on his face ran anxiously into the dungeon.
His body was completely covered by clothes and his appearance could not be seen. It could only be judged based on his clothing that he was also a member of the crows in the Hunyadi family.
"Andel! Mr. Andel!" He ran to the door of the cell anxiously, looked around, and finally saw Andel standing silently in the dark prison. He took a breath and walked over.
"Finally I found you, Mr. Andel. Something bad happened. The little daughter of the Lauryn family escaped from the room. She also stole my key. I didn't even realize how she did it! She possible……"
At this time, the man who spoke also noticed the chains that had been untied. His tone was first shocked and then filled with regretful silence.
"Damn it... I didn't expect it was too late. I'm going to gather the crows right away and I will find them two before something happens!"
However, just as he was about to leave, Ander turned around and stopped him.
"Wait a minute, we have been hunting for several days and we are all very tired now. I believe that for Cesare, things have not reached the worst point yet...
Go and notify the servants in the castle and ask them to step up patrols. The two children should not have left the castle yet. "
The man in black hesitated for a moment, then nodded and chose to trust Mr. Andel's judgment.
"Yes, I'll go right away."
And neither of them realized that while they were talking, an inadvertent move caused two nimble little figures to duck out along the shadows in the dungeon.
The dungeon is located at the lowest level of the castle. It is dark and damp, covered with moss and vines everywhere, as if it has been forgotten for a long time. There were only rats and indescribable reptiles scurrying about.
No natural light can penetrate here, only a few weak lights illuminate the complex corridors and the main hall.
Anya held Cesare's wrist and ran softly through the dungeon. There were dark prisons on both sides of her side. Some cell doors would have a window with iron bars fixed on them. From time to time, she would hear cries coming from the darkness. outgoing.
Cesare put his black cloak back on his body. Although the cloak was riddled with holes and stained black and red by blood, there was no better clothing at the moment.
Moreover, Cesare also put the gold coin with the knife mark in his arms. Although it once belonged to Claudius, it was gold after all, and it might be used for other purposes in the future.
The two passed through one corridor after another.
When Anya ran past one of the doors, a pair of withered arms suddenly stretched out from the darkness and tried to break through the iron bars to grab Anya's ponytail.
Fortunately, the girl reacted quickly and escaped in time, but she was still startled and jumped away like a frightened little sparrow.
"Help me..." A pair of aging eyes glowed strangely in the dark door and window. Mycelium squirmed wantonly in its eyeballs and soon swallowed up the last trace of color. "let me out……"
Before Anya could settle down, a tongue nearly half a meter long suddenly came out of the door and window on the other side and was about to lick Anya's fair face.
The saliva that splashed out was all infected black mucus. Although Anya dodged it again, the saliva still splashed onto her face. The girl couldn't care less and quickly wiped it off with her sleeves. It was so disgusting.
The person in the cell door was holding on to the railing tightly, his facial features were cracked and distorted, and there were even many unexplained black holes, and it was impossible to tell where the eyes were and where the nostrils were.
But all the cracks were uniformly filled with dark mycelium, which had completely lost its human appearance. Its long tongue poked out from the cracks in the railings and danced in mid-air outside the cell door.
The monster tried hard to break out of the cell door and touch Anya's body. "Lick one...I'm so hungry...meat...just lick one..." Mycelium flowed freely along the corners of its cracked mouth, and it was still saying indistinct words.
If you look closely, you can see that the monster's fingers are also tied with silver rings that look like rings. However, those silver rings have long since lost the color of pure silver, and instead have roots of mycelium wrapped around them.
Obviously Cesare is beside Anya, but the monster in the cell door insists on staring at Anya, as if Cesare doesn't exist and doesn't even look at it. Maybe in the eyes of the monster... Cesare is already it. of the same kind.
However, Cesare would not treat it as if it did not exist, and immediately grabbed its long tongue with nowhere to rest. It felt slippery and disgusting, like touching a rotten and oily corpse.
"Want to lick? I'll let you lick it all today!" He gritted his teeth and pulled hard, his tongue stretched straight by the force, and the monster's face was embedded in the railing, and he screamed in pain.
"Don't... don't... ah!!!" The remaining reason and instinctive pain caused the monster to let out a piercing scream. Its already distorted facial features became even more distorted, and almost all the holes on its face were squeezed. Together they burst out a steady stream of hyphae.
Its begging for mercy was heartbreaking, but there was no sympathy in Cesare's eyes. He worked harder, tearing at the tongue with ten fingers, almost poking out ten bloody holes in it.
Slowly, the pain became even greater, making the monster unable to scream, leaving only a harsh hiss. Even Anya, who was standing nearby and watching, couldn't help but frown, as if she could feel the heartbreaking pain.
"Otherwise, forget it about Cesare...it's okay." Anya stepped forward to dissuade him, but suddenly she heard the sound of flesh cracking, which made her instinctively retreat.
