The stench of decay was everywhere in the gloomy dungeon, and suddenly it was like a light in the night, and the rich and sweet aroma of food permeated the dungeon.

The taste of the food is always mouth-watering, with a beautiful tray of corned beef with sweet cheese, some baked apples and a glass of hot fresh milk.

A gentlemanly and polite Mr. Ander walked to Cesare's cell with a tray and knocked lightly on the iron door with his hand knuckles.

"Are you okay Cesare?" Mr. Indel asked, but was slow to respond.

"I know you're definitely not feeling well right now, but it's okay not to eat all the time, I've brought you something to eat, you have an appetite first, and if it's not enough, there's a barbecue and brioche in a while."

Softly speaking, Ander knocked on the door again, listening to the unusual silence inside before tentatively pushing the door, finding that the door was hidden, slowly revealing a gap under the slight force.

"Cesare?" Mr. Ander frowned at the realization of something, but his tone remained unchanged, and he slowly pushed the door open as he spoke.

"Cesare, there's one more thing I forgot to mention, the Count seems to be an old man......"

Before he could finish speaking, Ander had fully opened the cell door, his hand holding the plate in a motionless position, his eyes slowly adjusting to the dark environment of the cell, and then scanning every corner of the space.

However, apart from the thick chains that were attached to the walls and floors, Cesare was nowhere to be seen.

Silent, he walked into the depths of darkness, looking at the chains as a whole, with no signs of being broken free, only possible to be opened by a key.

While Mr. Ander was meditating, suddenly footsteps sounded, and a man dressed in black and wearing a pure black veil on his face ran anxiously into the dungeon.

His body was completely covered by clothing, and he could only be judged by his attire that he was also a member of the Hunyati family's crow flock.

"Ander! Mr. Andrew! He hurriedly ran to the door of the cell, looked around, and finally saw Ander, who was standing in the dark prison without saying a word, and came over with two breaths.

"Finally found you, Mr. Andrew, something is wrong, that Laurien's little daughter escaped from her room, and she stole my key, and I didn't even know how she did it! She may ......"

At this moment, the man who spoke also noticed the chains that had been untied, and his tone was first shocked and then extremely remorseful silence.

"...... I didn't expect it to be a step too late, so I'm going to gather the crows and get the two of them back before something happens! ”

However, he was about to leave when Ander turned around and stopped him.

"Wait, we've been hunting for days on end and we're tired now, and I'm sure Cesare, kid, things haven't gotten to the worst yet......

Go and tell the servants in the castle to step up their patrols, the two children should not have left the castle yet. ”

The man in black hesitated for a moment, then he nodded, still choosing to trust Mr. Andrew's judgment.

"Yes, I'll go."

Neither of them realized it, and just as they spoke, one of them didn't notice and let the two agile little figures dodge out of the shadows in the dungeon.

The dungeon is located at the lowest level of the castle, which is dark and damp, covered with moss and vines, as if it has been forgotten for a long time. Only rats and reptiles of unknown species were scurrying around.

No natural light can penetrate the area, except for a few faint rays of light that illuminate the complex corridors and the main hall.

Anya took Cesare's wrist and ran softly through the dungeons, flanked by pitch-black prisons, some of which had a window with iron bars open on the doors, and every now and then a wail could be heard coming from the darkness.

Cesare put his black cloak back on, which was now battered and stained black and red with blood, but there was nothing better to wear at the moment.

Cesare also carried the gold coin with the mark of the knife in his bosom, although it used to be Claudius's belonging, but it was gold after all, and maybe it would be used for other purposes in the future.

The two of them walked through one corridor after another.

As Anya ran past one of the doors, a pair of withered arms suddenly reached out of the darkness and tried to break through the iron barrage and grab Anya by her ponytail.

Fortunately, the girl reacted quickly and dodged in time, but she was still startled and hurriedly jumped away like a frightened little sparrow.

"Help me......" A pair of aging eyes glowed eerily in the dark doors and windows, and the mycelium wriggled in its eyeballs, soon engulfing the last shred of color. Let me out......"

Before Anya could settle down, a tongue nearly half a meter long suddenly spit out from the door and window on the other side, and it was about to lick Anya's fair face.

The saliva that splashed out was all black mucus after being infected, and although it was dodged by Anya again, the spilled saliva still splashed on her face, and the girl didn't care too much and quickly wiped it off with her cuffs, which was extremely disgusting.

The people in the cell door clung to the railing, their facial features cracked and twisted, and there were even many black holes of unknown origin, and they couldn't tell where the eyes were and where the nostrils were.

But all the cracks were uniformly oozing black mycelium, completely dehumanized, its long tongue poking out of the cracks in the railings and dancing in mid-air outside the cell door.

The monster tried to break out of the cell door and touch Anya's body. "Lick it...... I'm so hungry...... Meat...... Just lick it......" Mycelium flowed freely down the cracked corners of its mouth, and its mouth was still speaking indistinct words.

If you look closely, the monster's fingers are also tied with silver rings that look like rings, but those silver rings have long lost the color of pure silver, but let the root hycelium be entangled.

It was clear that Cesare was by Anya's side, but the monster in the cell door insisted on staring at Anya, as if Cesare did not exist and did not look at it at all, perhaps in the eyes of the monster...... Cesare was already of his kind.

But Cesare didn't pretend it didn't exist, and his hands grabbed its long tongue with nowhere to put it, and it felt slippery and disgusting to the touch, like touching a rotting corpse.

"Want to lick? I'll let you lick it enough today! He gritted his teeth and pulled outwards hard, his tongue was straightened by the force, and the monster's face was embedded in the railing, screaming in pain.

"Don't ...... No...... Yes!!! The creature let out a terrible scream of sanity and instinctive pain, and its already distorted features became more distorted, and almost all the hollows in its face were huddled together and burst into a steady stream of mycelium.

Its pleas for mercy were heartbreaking, but there was no sympathy in Cesare's eyes, and he pushed harder, ten fingers tearing at his tongue and almost poking ten bloody holes in it.

Slowly, the greater pain made the monster unable to scream, only a piercing hiss, and even Anya, who was standing by and watching, couldn't help but frown, as if she could feel the pain in her heart.

"Otherwise, Cesare... Nothing. Anya stepped forward to dissuade her, but suddenly hearing the sound of her flesh cracking made her instinctively retreat.