Chapter 4

When Hales first arrives at Tomahawk Castle, he doesn't know anything about it, and he can only watch what Blanca calls a "game" with curiosity. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

That evening, it happened that a new batch of prisoners had arrived in the Royal Prison, all of whom had been trained British spies, and it was almost impossible to pry their mouths open, and they would rather die than tell the truth. The officers and soldiers who escorted the prisoners seemed to be at a loss, and they sent the prisoners to this hellish place in the hope that Blanca, the "hungry wolf who gnawed at the bones of death", would pry their mouths open. In the face of these spies who were like hard bones, Blanca's face couldn't help but have a vicious evil smile on his face.

Blanca, known as the "hungry wolf who gnaws the bones of death", seems to have been born specifically for "torture", he never acted according to the rules of the prison, and completely took matters into his own hands, ordering on the spot to cut off the hands and feet of a group of prisoners to feed the dogs. He also stripped a prisoner naked, hung him up, and then brought in a dog that had been hungry for two or three days, and let the dog gnaw on the prisoner's feet, and it would not be long before the prisoner died of excessive pain and bleeding. Blanca's cruel methods, even if the Grim Reaper saw it, would be terrified of him.

After arranging the new prisoners, Blanca duly invited Isabel and Hales to the highest stand on the playing field. This arena is different from the boxing arena in that it was dug into the ground, and the walls on all sides are smooth, with only three iron gates leading to the bunker, the middle one is the widest, made of heavy iron plates, and therefore the most sturdy, probably the entrance gate of large beasts, and the doors on both sides are iron gates, which are also the entrance gates for the participating prisoners. There are no referees and no guards in such a stadium.

With Blanca's order, two iron gates opened inward, and the prisoners who participated in the competition walked into the stadium one after another with cold weapons. One side is the African team, the other side is the European team, and the rules of the game are already obvious, that is, one team will kill the other team all, and only by killing the other team can you live. At the same time, there were also boiling shouts in the cells near the arena of the game, and there were countless prisoners who loved to watch this kind of game.

As soon as the two teams of prisoners were in an attacking stance, Blanca gave the order to start the game. Suddenly, the field was full of flesh and blood, and the sound of killing was overwhelming, attracting bursts of boos and screams.

For such a bloody scene, Blanca, sitting in the stands, is like the slave owners in the stands of the gladiatorial arena in ancient Rome, constantly clapping their legs. The attendants then brought delicious food such as wine, fruit, and seafood to the leader's stand, and Blanca picked up his glass like a madman and poured it into his mouth, causing blood-like red wine to spill out of his mouth and wet his clothes. The more bloody the scene, the more it whetted his appetite, and he ate eight oysters in one go, then tore off a turkey leg and began to eat it in a big way. He did not eat such a sumptuous meal, but beckoned Isabel and Hales to enjoy it with him, and sent some to the officers in the other stands.

As the arena grew more and more miserable, the European prisoners soon gained the upper hand, and when the African team was about to be slaughtered, one of the iron gates opened, and several black slaves armed with spears rushed into the stadium one after another, fighting side by side with their African compatriots. Whenever the Europeans were about to be wiped out, their white compatriots would rush into the stadium through another iron gate with weapons in hand to help them out. This bloody war of attrition was in this way, resulting in more and more casualties in the field, but fortunately the area of the field was large enough not to lead to piles of corpses.

Blanca munched on the turkey in his mouth and asked Hales, "Mr. Graeme, what do you think of the game here?"

Hales smiled faintly and jokingly replied, "The smell of blood here is too tempting." ”

Blanca laughed, and then asked, "It's much more comfortable to work here than to be with the lords and ministers." ”

"You'd better get some truth out of the mouths of those British spies, and just let them kill each other, it doesn't make any sense. Isabel said.

"These spies don't say anything, they either don't say it or they talk nonsense. Instead of grinding with them and listening to their nonsense, it is better to let them kill each other, and we can relax our minds. ”

At this time, someone in the other stands suddenly shouted: "The game is over, those are really powerful." ”

When Blanca, the supreme leader of the prison, heard this, he immediately turned his eyes to the playing field, only to see that there were only three strong black slaves covered in blood in the arena full of corpses, and their wonderful performance attracted warm applause from the audience.

After the applause, Blanca put the uneaten turkey leg on the plate, and then walked to the stands, he did not expect that the game would be in such a situation, these barbarians from Africa are indeed not to be underestimated, so he wanted to make good use of these three strong black slaves, so he shouted to the black slaves: "Although you Africans are inferior in weapons, once you use cold weapons, you will not be left behind." I've decided to put you in charge of carrying the castle's corpses, are you willing?"

The three black slaves exchanged glances, but did not answer.

Thinking that there might be a language barrier, Blanca asked, "Do you speak English?"

"We want to be free. One of the black slaves shouted in stiff English.

The other two black slaves, perhaps a little afraid of death, immediately pleaded with Blanca: "We just want to live, we are willing to carry the corpses." ”

Blanca then ordered the two of them to be taken back to the fort, and then said to the black slave who wanted to be free, "Don't you want to be free? Yes, but you must accomplish one thing." ”

The brave black slave looked at Blanca in the stands with angry eyes, "What's the matter?"

"Do you see the heavy iron gate behind you?"

The black slave turned to look at the heavy iron door, then glared at Blanca again, "See." ”

"There's a red-eyed monster inside, and if you can kill it, I'll acquit you. ”

"Talking counts?"

"Not only you, but any prisoner is qualified to challenge that monster, and whoever can kill that monster alone can leave the prison and be free. ”

"Then get it out, I'm going to kill it. ”

"Okay, open that door of death and let it out. ”

Silence soon returned.

Isabel and several other officers in the stands leaned forward, eager to catch a glimpse of the red-eyed monster, Hales took out his pipe, intending to smoke to stabilize his emotions, and in the cells near the arena, the prisoners pressed their faces against the iron gates, as if they were looking forward to the monster's appearance.

A moment later, the heavy iron door rumbled inward, revealing a pitch black filled with death. The black slave gripped the spear in his hand and began to tremble in front of the dark monster cave, perhaps regretting his decision.

The first thing that came out of the dark cavern was the low roar of rolling thunder that only the big cats could come out of their throats before attacking. Then, two blood-red dots appeared in the dark cavern, then growing larger and clearer, making the bones stand on end. Everyone who saw it knew that it was the two eyes of the monster, which could indicate that the monster was walking into the arena step by step.

With the appearance of the red-eyed monster, the audience also held their breath.

The monster gradually emerged from the cave, and in the darkness came its hideous face, then its well-developed forelimbs, then its massive torso, hind limbs, and tail. It was a huge red-eyed tiger, three times larger than an adult Siberian tiger, a large feline that is not recorded in historical sources. Its black striped fur and silver whiskers were enough to give it the image of a majestic king, its eyes were like two infernal rubies with a death halo, its sharp teeth could easily crush the armor and shields of knights, its huge claws as large as elephants' palms concealed steel claws that could easily cut through the skin of a bison, its tail as powerful as a chain could tear a man in two, its appearance seemed to have lowered the temperature of the field so much that even the torches stuck in the walls were almost extinguished by the murderous aura it emitted, and as it walked into the field, the heads of many corpses were trampled into flesh by its giant claws。

The monster's ruby eyes widened as it stared at the black prey in front of it, and the white gas it exhaled mixed with the smell of corpses kept pounced on the face of the black slave who had been shattered. In the silence, the monster suddenly burst out with a roar like thunder and lightning cracking stones, which instantly echoed throughout the prison, and the crows perched on the roof rose into the air in fright, and flew into the night sky with a whoosh, and those vicious dogs that were accustomed to biting also lost their majesty when barking at the prisoners, and they all whimpered into their cages in fright; the officers and prisoners who rushed to see the monster in the playing field were so frightened that they did not dare to lean out to look at the monster again; Isabel's eardrum seemed to be shaken a little by the monster's roar, and she clenched her ears and retreated to her chair; this angry roar also made Hales's hands tremble, dropping his freshly filled pipe to the ground, and although Blanca was already sweating from fright, he remained calm.

Immediately afterward, there was a piercing scream in the arena, and the screams of the victims drowned out all the sounds around them, as if they were being tortured in a Sicilian bronze bull. You don't need to look or think about it to know that this must be the black slave torn to pieces by the monster.

Hales paused, picked up his pipe, and lit it. Isabel plucked up her courage again and leaned out, where she saw that the red-eyed monster was devouring the mutilated fresh corpses in the arena. When the monster's steel teeth crush the corpse, it's like a knife cutting a cake, effortlessly.

As the monster chewed on the corpse, the crackling sound of broken bones kept coming out of its mouth, a very beautiful melody for Blanca, who was used to abusing and killing criminals, and he closed his eyes and listened to this "pleasant" melody. Not long after, he opened his eyes and saw Isabel looking down on the arena, so he asked, "Isabel, what are you looking at?"

Isabel looked back at him, then at the monster again, and said, "This is the first time I've ever seen a monster like this." ”

"It's not a monster, it's actually a Greenland red-eyed tiger, a very rare species, only living in the north of Greenland, a forgotten species, and there is no record in the history books. ”

"How did you get it?"

"Set traps. ”

"It's already familiar with you, isn't it?"

"It's already familiar to my scent. ”

"You can't just give it dead human flesh, after a long time, it will lose its wildness. ”

"Don't worry, every five days, I'll feed it one to three people. It used to eat two African elephants, five Alaskan brown bears, five Siberian tigers, seven bison, twelve African lions, and thirty wild boars, and all of them were adults, so he had a big appetite, right? Now I have to keep it as a pet. ”

"The appetite is really big, and if you put it back into the wild, it's going to starve to death. ”

"No, Greenland is rich in produce, and when I first found it, it was eating a long-stranded blue whale. ”

"Tonight, my eyes were wide opener, and I got to know a new species. ”

"I gave it the name 'Greenland Red-eyed Tiger'. ”

"It's a good name, and since you're the one who discovered it, you have the right to name it. ”

At this moment, a soldier ran over quickly and whispered to Blanca, Blanca's expression instantly changed from smugness to shock, and he looked full of questions, "How is this possible?"

"That's true. The soldier said.

"Okay, I got it. Blanca then called the game to an end, asking Isabel and Hales to accompany him to the storage room, as he had just learned that there was a lot of gold missing.

The trio soon arrived in the storage room, where Blanca asked the soldier to open the two large chests containing gold coins, only to find that each box was about a third less than a third, much to his bewilderment. He asked the soldiers, "Have you been staying here?"

"Yes. The soldier replied.

"That's weird. ”

Hales looked around and saw that there was only one corridor leading to the door of the storeroom, so he quickly analyzed it and said, "There is only one corridor leading to the door of the storeroom, and the thief who stole the gold coins must not be able to escape, and besides, this thief has brought so many gold coins." ”

"yes. Blanca grabbed a handful of gold coins and threw them into the box one by one, ordering all entrances and exits to be sealed to find out the truth about the thieves.

That night, the military dog team was all dispatched, and after searching for two hours, no trace was found, and the person who stole the gold coins seemed to have evaporated from prison. Blanca ordered a thorough search of every cell, even digging three feet into the ground to find the stolen gold coins, but nothing was found. In a fit of rage, Blanca imposed the crime of theft on some foreign spies who had been imprisoned for many years, and he ordered all the foreign spies who had been held there for more than eight years to be taken to the sea and shot, and then their bodies thrown directly into the sea. That night, two hundred prisoners were executed, and the beach smelled of suffocating blood.

The next morning, many of the corpses were soaked and flocks of gulls, crows and wild dogs came to the beach to enjoy the terrifying "corpse feast".

Despite Blanca's madness, no one stopped his atrocities. Hales did want to put an end to such atrocities, but he felt that he was an outsider and had no right to interfere in the matter, so he could only deliberately ignore it. However, Isabel was a little concerned about such atrocities, and she feared that if the news spread to the countries of Europe, it would have a serious impact on the king's reputation, so she tried to persuade Blanca to stop the atrocities and wait until the person who had stolen the gold coins was found.

In order to analyze the whereabouts of the thieves and the lost gold coins as soon as possible, Isabel analyzed for a whole day, she began to analyze the British spies who pretended to be the French Strange Barracks, she thought, it is impossible for the British spies to make such a low-level mistake, and let a few fools who did not even know the battle of Jena come to pretend to be the people of the Strange Barracks, and put up two large boxes of gold coins in vain. Now, so many gold coins are missing, and the whereabouts of the lost gold coins and thieves are unknown, and there are soldiers and military dogs guarding the inside and outside of Tomahawk Fort, even if someone thieves steal gold coins, it is impossible to slip under the sensitive nose of military dogs.

Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, she immediately went with Hales to meet Blanca and demanded that all the soldiers and dogs guarding the prison be gathered together.

As the supreme leader of Tomahawk Castle, Blanca would not listen to an assassin who was promoted by the king. It was a very serious matter to let the soldiers and military dogs in the prison suddenly assemble, so he asked Isabel to give a proper reason, otherwise, don't want to let the soldiers gather.

Isabel could not give a suitable reason for a moment, she could only say: "I feel that a very strong enemy is lurking in the prison, for the safety of the soldiers, please give the order to all the soldiers to assemble in the square." ”

Blanca wondered, "What the hell did you come up with?"

"I suspect that there is something else in those two large chests besides the gold coins. ”

"What do you mean? ”

"Do you think the gold was really stolen?"

"I don't think prisoners who can't even get out of their cells are going to steal gold. ”

"So you're suspicious of the soldiers? You're not going to want to gather the soldiers and interrogate them one by one, are you?"

"No, the soldier naturally doesn't steal. ”

"And what do you mean?"

"In addition to the gold coins, could there be people hidden in the box?"

Blanca was stunned for a moment, his expression stiffened, "How is that possible?"

"Isn't it possible? Maybe there were people hiding in those two boxes, but we didn't find them. The reason why there were so many fewer gold coins was because the person who had hidden in the box sneaked out. ”

Blanca thought for a while, suddenly put away his stiff expression, and gave Isabel a sneer, "Don't scare yourself here, you're scared by the British, right?"

"Blanca, how many soldiers do we have?"

"Five hundred. ”

"What about military dogs?"

"Two hundred. ”

"What about the prisoners?"

"Sixteen hundred. ”

"Once these more than 1,000 prisoners are suddenly released, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

"Then I will kill these sixteen hundred prisoners, so that they will not rebel in the future, and we may leave this filthy place early. ”