Volume I: Chapter 51: Mary
Cesare dragged Anya hard in the direction of the carriage, unable to bear to look back.
The two worked together to untie the horse's rope as fast as they could to board the only remaining wagon, Cesare sat down and held the reins, but Anya asked uncomfortably as she looked at the terrible wound on his shoulder. "Are you sure you're okay?"
"If I can't do it, I'll replace you." Cesare gritted his teeth as he spoke, the pain in his shoulder not going away but increasing, but he wanted to keep his strength from going down while he could hold on, and he twitched the reins so hard that the horse pulled the cart and ran as fast as he could.
The flowers behind him seemed to have eaten a full meal, but the faces of the blood-stained people were still smiling hungrily, and the headless monster walked through the flowers with a firewood knife.
The sound of a woman crying came from the cut in its neck, and then it lowered its body and suddenly sprang up at an alarming speed, chasing after the carriage.
The fog was gradually dissipating, but the night was long and there was no dawn, so the oil lamp hanging from the front of the car could only light the way.
The headless monster was so fast that it simply discarded the hatchet, and directly returned to its most primitive posture and leaned down, using the human forelimbs as a run, like a headless hound chasing after the back of the carriage, rampage and even increasing speed.
The silver bells in hot pursuit reminded Cesare that the danger was not over.
The path in the forest has many forks, so it's no wonder that once you leave the Fog Village, it's hard to even go back the way you came, and it's even more impossible to catch up with the regimental commander Claudius's carriage.
Cesare was completely confused at such times, so he could only gamble his luck on the carriage and choose the road intuitively.
At this time, Anya observed the speed of the monster behind her, but saw a familiar figure streak across the night sky, it was the red-eyed raven.
The raven's cry of "Ahh
"Cesare, believe me, follow that raven!" Anya kept an eye on the raven's flight trajectory, lest its pitch-black feathers melt into the night.
"There's no one I can trust but you." Cesare shook his head and complained, believing that things wouldn't get any worse.
Having Anya keep an eye on the route, Cesare himself grabbed the straight gear and looked back at the speed of the monster, seeing that the headless creature was still in hot pursuit, and if it continued at this speed, it would soon grab the truck board.
At this moment, the tarpaulin on the board suddenly moved, and Cesare thought he had been dazzled by a mistake, but then four small gray heads emerged from under the fabric.
I thought it was the human head flower that had grown on the board of the car just now, but when I looked closely, those faces were extremely familiar, and they turned out to be the four mute child laborers who survived in the team.
They were also abandoned by the regimental commander, and they shivered in the chamburi that had been hiding in the van, and only then did they muster up the courage to poke their heads out to confirm the situation, and when they saw the creature that was pursuing behind them, they were busy trying to burrow back into the chamburi.
"It's useless to just hide! The car is too heavy, do you want to jump off yourself, or hurry up and throw the useless garbage down! β
Cesare yelled angrily, he didn't look like Anya had a smile on everyone's face. The child laborers looked at each other, and seemed to recognize the current situation, fighting monsters is not at all, but carrying things and doing rough work is a familiar way.
"Wait a minute! Don't throw the map! Cesare suddenly admonished, and the child laborers nodded their heads.
Tables, chairs, colored balls, flying bottles, Captain Claudius would be furious if he knew that his property had been discarded in such a haphazard manner, but nothing mattered at this moment.
Several child laborers lifted the magic table and threw it at the pursuing monster behind, but the latter was dodged by the latter's light position. But there's a lot of stuff on the truck.
The child is transformed into a temporary little trebuchet, the lighter the weight of the body, the faster it runs, and the monster is busy dodging the falling debris that slows down the pursuit.
"Left! Then the next intersection is to the right! Anya pointed to the raven in the sky, and the raven's hoarse cry was translated by Anya, and now both the weight was lightened and the direction was clear.
Cesare tightened his grip on the reins and allowed his horse to run as fast as he could, and with little visibility in the night, Cesare stared at the road ahead to avoid accidents.
The eyelids were obviously open, but the vision in front of him gradually darkened, his head sank, and he almost fainted directly, and the whole carriage swayed left and right in an instant.
Anya was so frightened that she grabbed the front handrail, and the child laborer behind almost fell down, but several children held hands to avoid the tragedy.
Cesare quickly shook his head to stay awake, his body aching and confused, and he had a high fever at this moment.
He subconsciously paid attention to his shoulder, the hyphae he used to collect blood had penetrated deep into the blood along the tooth marks, and indeed there was no longer blood flowing out, because it flowed out along the tearing crack...... It is a black mucus doped with hyphae.
Just like the scratches that Closia received, the wounds were infected by monsters, and they were definitely a hundred times worse than Kloshia's condition.
Cesare watched as the blood vessels around the wound were dyed black, spreading his entire arm at an alarming rate.
Unprecedented drowsiness swept through his brain, and a voice in his soul told Cesare that he should never fall asleep, and that if he did, he would become like those monsters.
"It's just ahead!" Anya's voice relieved Cesare, and he twitched the reins for the final sprint, trying not to think about the change in his shoulder, was it the difference between claws and teeth that kept Closia going?
Or is it too stupid to stop the bleeding with hyphae yourself? Cesare gritted his teeth, his mind in pain and confusion as if it was constantly being punched, something definitely rushing up his veins and trying to compete with his mind.
His mouth was dry and he wanted to drink water, but the sheer fresh water could not satisfy his hunger and thirst, and the people in the car ...... Is there enough blood to drink?
Cesare was reawakened by the raven's chirping, and the raven hovered high in the air and shouted in a hoarse voiceβ"Never again!" Then he glided into the darkness and could no longer catch its shadow.
"And then......" Cesare asked weakly, his body so strange that he could barely lift his head, until he saw Anya staring blankly at the night sky with her eyes raised, and Cesare forced his neck up......
In the foggy darkness ahead, a pair of huge scarlet eyes stared at the carriage like the light of a lighthouse.
Before Cesare could see the whole picture of the huge creature, the deafening roar of the ravens shook the entire Hunyadi forest, and the massive body stirred its wings in the darkness like a hurricane.
It flew into the air and spread its wings in the moonlight, a massive raven, far less than the size of the legendary dragon, but far larger than any creature in the world.
The scarlet eyes were sharp and ferocious, and the black feathers that fell were longer and wider than a human arm.
Around the huge crow, countless crows circled around it, the crows almost completely obscured the sky, and the noisy crow chirped over the entire Hunyadi forest, and it flapped its wings majestically and looked down on the earth, like the lord of all crows without anger.
It was an extremely rare wurm creature, and perhaps it was really related to the dragon, but no one could tell. Anya brushed her blown hair away and watched excitedly as the behemoth soared into the sky, while several child laborers fell on the car board one after another in fright with four muffled sounds.
Cesare was also shocked by the creature in front of him, remembering the story Anya had told, and after witnessing such a magnificent and shocking creature, the nonsensical fairy tale seemed to have some convincing.
The carriage passed unharmed under the raven, and Cesare heard a loud bang behind him, and the raven landed on the ground and trampled the pursuing monster with its claws, burding it in the mud.
But then, the "garden" of human heads grew freely from the forest behind them, but Cesare and his carriage were already out of danger, leaving only the silver bells of the monsters and the chirping of crows far away.
It is rumored that there is a fog village in Hunyati, and the fog fills the place all year round, and the old people say that there are cannibalistic things in the fog, and if you travel alone at night, you will be at risk of going missing.
How many people in the town have been lost in the fog and never returned, but there is only one exception......
Many years ago, there was a woman named Mary in the town, who was lucky enough to get lost in the fog and returned to the town after a few days, but she went crazy and stayed at home all day tending to her garden.
Later, her husband and children disappeared, and Mary ran out of the house into the fog one night crying, never to return.
The townsfolk found the bodies of Mary's family in her garden, and since then the town has been going home every night when they hear the bell ringing, closing the doors and windows.
Because Mary's ghost is said to still haunt the night, she will take the homeless and nourish her garden......
After tonight, Mary's story was forgotten by the townspeople, and only one nursery rhyme was passed down to the future for a long, long time.
"Mary, Mary,
So capricious,
Ask if you climb all over the garden,
The silver bells move with the wind, and the shells ring softly,
Lovely old people lined up in ......"
On the other side, in another carriage.
The dwarf drove the carriage down the forest path, his face covered with beads of sweat, his short arms trembling as he held the reins and listened carefully to the movements of the carriage behind.
"Bang" Claudius's portrait of the head of the regiment was knocked out of a big hole by a stick, Claudius sneered and patted the ash on his hands, stepped on his boots and walked to the ground to wail and roll the human stick Bolonnis, and the little man without limbs was picked up again by the regiment commander with his collar.
At this time, the face of the human stick Polonis was covered with bruises, and a large handful of his hair had been forcibly pulled off, along with a layer of scalp had been torn off, and his face was covered with blood.
"Don't be like that...... Don't do this! Polonis trembled and begged for mercy. I can explain it, really! β
"Where do you start...... It's from the day I met you, so let's briefly explain what the fuck is going on right now! β
Captain Claudius raised his stick high and threw it down to the floor of the carriage, and the whole carriage shook and shook under the impact, and the dwarf who was driving it trembled even more.
The man had no arms to cover his face, and he was knocked out of two front teeth on the ground, and he wailed loudly in pain. However, the regimental commander slowly bent down again, tugging at the rest of his hair to make him lift his face.
Claudius, the head of the regiment, shook his head helplessly and sneered. "I remember you saying that the rumors in this forest are all false, and that if we can easily move through the forest we can evade the abrasive pursuers, then I ask you, Mr. Polognes...
What the hell is that thing? You know what's going to happen here, right? You've got something to hide from me. β
Captain Claudius pressed close to his face and stared into the other's eyes.