Chapter 20: Scare
In the dim light, the cell was eerily silent.
In the cell, Starmark leaned against the wall, Andre was side by side with him, the two were not shackled to restrict their movements, but were sealed with Xuanli, and this iron-blooded and ruthless general was also considered to be open.
"Hey, why did you say that at the end?" The star's words shattered the silence here. He already knew that he would be sentenced to death tomorrow, but Starmark was obviously more entangled in Andrei's last words calling him his younger brother, perhaps because he was still a big boy, after all, he was not yet sixteen years old today. If I were an adult, I am afraid that I would not be in the mood to care about what Andrei said before, but would be worried about tomorrow's execution.
Andre turned his head to look at the star mark, there was no expression on his face, and said lightly: "What did I say." β
Starmark looked at Andre's appearance and snorted lightly: "I didn't expect you to be so self-righteous, not only pretending to be my brother, but also trying to protect me." How important do you think you are in their eyes? You can't keep it, and after all these years, your IQ hasn't improved by half a point. β
Starmark's words were full of sarcasm, but Andre was not angry, but had a smile on his face. Star Scar's words made him suddenly recall his experience of being treated by this little guy again and again, and now that he thinks about it, it doesn't seem to be very depressed, but it has become some of his more interesting episodes over the years, after all, in the past eight years, all his time has been spent on cultivation and study, which is boring.
Starmark was a little annoyed by Andre's laughter, and said angrily, "What are you laughing at?
Looking at Starmark's slightly angry appearance, Andre felt that his mood was suddenly much better. And he was an orphan, and even he didn't know who his parents were, a person, and he had little to worry about, so he had to be relatively open about life and death, so that he was still in the mood to talk to Starmark.
"Who says my words don't work?" Andrei tilted his head and looked at Starmark with a funny look.
"Could it still work?" Starmark's eyes widened, and doubts appeared in his pale golden eyes.
Andre nodded, and immediately said with a serious expression: "Of course, tell you the general, don't say that I am my brother, even if I say that you are his son, he will not let you go." β
"Phew, who is his son, that old thing looks very upright, I didn't expect it to be so insidious, I followed him to the gate of the palace before I started, and watched him enter the palace before going back. I didn't expect him to come back from hibernation, this time it was really a miscalculation!" Starmark gritted his teeth, looking like if he gave me another chance, he would definitely succeed.
"Don't interrupt. Andre interrupted the indignant Star Scar and said: "Think about it, you hurt my brothers and almost lost their military status, if I don't say that you are my brother, let the general open up and lock us up together, and now they have already come over to attack you, even if they can't kill you, they have to beat you up and get angry." β
Starmark looked at Andre suspiciously: "Really? can you still come to the cell and beat people? Are you soldiers so dark?"
"Little brat, what kind of darkness is this? If it were you, you wouldn't want to retaliate? And we're a dragoon legion, we can come to the prison and teach you a lesson with any excuse, who else do you think you can beat if you've been sealed with Xuanli?"
Looking at Starmark's somewhat disbelieving gaze, Andre continued: "Also, the general's side also works, do you know what the crime of stealing the Overseer's Sword is?"
"What kind of crime? At most, I stole a national treasure. β
"Stealing a national treasure? That's light, but the Overseer's Sword can be involved in political disputes. If you steal it, the crime is the same as the crime of assassinating the emperor and treason, do you know what punishment will be imposed?"
Andrei's words obviously aroused Starmark's interest, and Starmark moved towards Andrei's side, leaned his head over and asked, "What criminal law?"
Andre said with a straight face: "The punishment of deboning!"
"Boning?" Star Scar asked curiously, he is still a child after all, although he is far more mature than his peers in life alone, but in fact, this is just a reflex to protect himself. Tracing the root of the problem, it still takes time to accumulate in the heart. So for new things, Starmark is still full of curiosity, especially these criminal laws that he has never heard of, let alone a child, even if it is an adult, it will arouse some interest.
Andre nodded his head and explained carefully: "The punishment of deboning, as the name suggests, is to remove your bones one by one, for example, if you come to steal, then there are thief bones, in order for you to no longer be a thief in the next life, so your thief bones will be removed, most people are to remove a section of the hand bones, the most ruthless is the whole hand." β
Saying this, Starmark's face had changed slightly, and although he tried his best to hide it, Andre could still see that he was secretly looking at his hand from time to time. After all, Starmark is still young, and he is not afraid of life and death because he doesn't understand it and doesn't have too much nostalgia. But this kind of thing is enough to make him feel frightened. Seeing this appearance of the star mark, Andre suddenly felt like a bad uncle who intimidated children, but this feeling was not only not ashamed for Andre now, but a little dark. As for why there is such an emotion, it can only be attributed to the fact that the subject is the star mark that has corrected him again and again.
Andre's voice became more and more calm, and he continued: "But you are unlucky, you stole the Overseer's Sword, as I said before, that is tantamount to rebellion, so you have to eliminate not only the thief bones, but also the anti-bones! Do you know where the anti-bones are?"
Starmark shook his head subconsciously, and at this moment, suddenly he felt a chill in the back of his head, and a cold hand was shocked on his head.
"Here is your backbone, they will cut your head with a knife, then peel your skin off little by little, and then slowly smash it around the back of your head with a small hammer and a pestle. During this time, you don't expect you to fall unconscious, or die first. They'll bring in a priest to give you a life, and they'll use a couple of mirrors to make you see your bones slowly smashed open and removed."
Speaking of this, Starmark's little face was already completely white, and he himself looked like a very quiet appearance, which made people unable to think of it with the cunning thief, and at this time, he was afraid, his face turned pale, and he added a little aggrieved look. On the other hand, the thick smile on the corner of Andre's mouth, if people see it, they will definitely think that Andre is an instigator who lured the teenager.
"Hahahaha, I didn't expect you to be so afraid of death. Looking at the appearance of the star mark, Andre finally couldn't hold back and laughed.
"You're afraid of death!" Seeing Andre laughing, Star Scar also knew what he looked like before, and obviously became the laughing stock of the other party, he suddenly felt ashamed and angry, and glared at Andre fiercely, don't look over.
Andre obviously didn't intend to let go of this continuation, and continued to tease: "Aren't you afraid of death, your face is so scared that your face is white?"
Starmark snorted, didn't look back, and said with his back to Andre. "I just think this kind of criminal law is too disgusting, I really don't know who came up with such a pervert. If I'm afraid of death, I'm not going to steal that broken sword. β
Hearing Starmark mention stealing the Overseer's Sword, Andre turned over, sat on the other side of Starmark, patted him on the shoulder, and asked curiously, "Tell me, why did you steal that sword? That sword is useless to you." You said that there was a buyer, that sword is not something that anyone dares to buy, and you are not quite clever, haven't you become stupid all these years? Don't you understand that even if you hand it over to the buyer, they will kill you, after all, it is a great crime to disrupt the government and frame the ministers of the court, and once it is exposed, no one can afford it. β
After hearing this, Starmark glanced at Andre: "You want to take care of it?"
Andre was not angry, waved his hand and said: "Okay, I don't care, anyway, we all came in, and there are still ten hours of work to be done, who cares about other people's affairs." But you should tell me where you've been all these years, and who did you learn your kung fu from? It looks like it was taught by the Thieves' Guild, but it's not, it's much more sophisticated. β
"Why tell you?" Starmark gave Andre a blank look.
"If you don't have to be stripped of your bones, you should tell me, right? Although hanging is not the most comfortable way to die, it is good, at least the pain time is much shorter, and you can leave a whole corpse. Andrei smiled casually.
Hearing this, Starmark's face changed slightly, and he glared at Andre, but he was relieved: "I have been living in the suburbs of Prontera all these years, and if you ask me who my master is, I don't know, he is very mysterious, he has always covered himself under his cloak, although I have studied with him for several years, but I have never seen his face." β
"So mysterious, and where did you meet him?" Andrei asked.
"I didn't meet him, he came to me. When I left the stinky old man that day, I thought that since he said that he wanted me to live with my own hands, I decided to show him my own hands. As I walked, I was thinking about how I could use his status as a disciple to get him into some trouble. β
Before Starmark finished speaking, Andre was angry and interjected: "You kid, Teacher Abner is a great sage, the greatest person, and you will become a stinky old man in your mouth, if it weren't for the fact that you didn't kill you when you fought with me, I would have to beat you up." β
Xingji snorted: "What a great sage, full of benevolence and morality, is nothing more than deceiving an ignorant bad boy like you to be good." Then I am inspired to be a righteous partner, and I am stupid to live for others for a lifetime. β
Hearing Starmark's words, Andre didn't get angry, but looked at him with a little pity in his eyes, sighed and said, "You still don't know the teacher, he is not what you imagined." He"
"I don't care what he does, anyway, my teacher is the one who taught me kung fu, do you still listen to it? Starmark directly interrupted Andre's words, and he didn't have a good impression of Abner to this day.
AndrΓ© wanted to explain to Starmark that it was because Abner had always taught them that his brother was a family, so he would say that Starmark was his brother at the last moment, but he knew that Starmark hadn't really gotten along with Abner, and he wouldn't listen to what he said.
Andrei sighed, shook his head, and said: "Forget it, don't listen, I'm asleep." So he rolled over and lay down.