Chapter 45: Confinement

"What!" Holm was taken aback, "no way, Uncle Luda, are you in the wrong place." It's in the pump room on the second floor of the main building!" After saying that, he slipped down the hole.

Count Grude looked at the Knight of Angsai, who shook his head helplessly, then sighed and followed Holm again, burrowing down from the hole he had just climbed up. The Count groaned, told the others to stay at the entrance of the cave, and followed the knight of Angsai down to the cave by himself.

Holm ran wildly, stumbling through the narrow passages, but paying no attention to the pain of the collision. He used his speed to return to the place where the body had been found with Diarlando not long ago. It was business as usual, just the corpses on the ground, the tarpaulin with the skulls and pus, and the white wire mesh that covered the entire pump room.

He searched around in disbelief, but the oil pot was still hanging on the hook, but the gauze stained with oil was gone. In addition to the pungent smell of pus left by the previous cocoon, there was also a faint smell of something burning.

The sound of Knight Angsai's heavy breathing came from the patio, and when he was about to exit, he shouted: "Young Master Home, pull me, I'm so tired today that I'm choking, you kid!"

With a puzzled face, Holm pulled the sturdy Angsai Knight up, and below was his frosty father. He tried to reach out to help, but his father waved him away.

When the knight came up, he leaned against the wall and gasped a few times, and then began to wink at Holm, but Holm didn't understand what he was doing.

When Earl Grude came up from the patio, he did not speak, but circled the entire pump room, and then began to stare at Holm silently.

Holm looked at his skeptical eyes and immediately began to describe the scene in detail. Where the corpse was poured, where there were calluses, where the oil pot fell, how the white silk like a spider's web was entangled.

"The pustule inside the cocoon also had long tentacles like blood vessels sticking out, and it went straight through the water pipe......

"That's enough!" Count Gruod's face darkened the more he listened, and Zuihou scolded Holm angrily, telling Holm to shut up.

Holm was pointing to the small hole in the water pipe that he had stuffed with a cloth and explained, trembling at his father's reprimand.

"This hole ......," he wanted to continue, but his father's fierce and disgusted eyes suppressed the words from his mouth.

"This hole?" said Count Grude, pulling out the cloth plugged into the wall of the pipe, and pointing to a notch that was clearly made by the long sword, "How many swords did you poke this hole to get out?"

"......!" Holm was surprised to find that the hole in the pipe had been re-moved, and it had been a small smooth oval hole, but now it had become a gap like a long sword. He hurriedly defended: "I didn't get it, what I saw at the beginning was such a big oval ......"

"Young Master Holm is just naughty for a while, don't be angry, sir......" The knight of Angsai on the side walked over, stopped between the father and son, and began to persuade. "Young master, you too, you are so busy today, everyone has something to do, don't be mischievous. Come on, apologize quickly......"

Home's face flushed, "What I said is true, you smell it! Look at the oil stains on the ground, and this sword hole in the wall......" he said as he searched for the sword hole caused by Dearrando's sword just now, only to find that a piece was missing from the wall. A piece of rock the size of a plate was chiseled off, leaving a fresh breakage.

Count Grude glanced coldly at his emotional son, wrinkled his nose to smell the pungent smell, and then climbed up the patio to the pump room on the third floor. Holm looked at his father for some reason, and walked under the patio.

He was about to climb up when suddenly a black object fell from top of it and grazed the tip of his nose. With a "snap", the thing fell to the ground and cracked, emitting a foul smell.

It was a bag of kitchen waste, which had been tied up in a leather bag, but the impact of the landing had dispersed, and the rotten fish guts and vegetable scraps and the feet of the cattle were mixed together, and hundreds of white maggots were tumbling in the sticky water. In such a confined space, the smell is almost suffocating.

"Uh......" Although the knight of Angsai covered his face, he was also disgusted at the moment, and said with a bitter face: "This...... This is too much!Young master, this is so troublesome to clean, and it pollutes the water supply system, and the whole castle will be very troublesome!"

"I ...... I didn't! I didn't make it. I'm going to lie, I'm going to say that there are man-eating parasites in the castle! Dom's cause of death is the same as the caravan that was killed, Uncle Luda, didn't you say that you saw with your own eyes that those people had traces of worms!"

The Knight of Angsai shook his head, and his voice came muffled from under the stubby palm: "Alas, I wouldn't have told you about the Kenda Knight autopsy that day...... Instead, you will come up with such a ......" The bearded middle-aged man did not continue, and sighed heavily.

"How did I come up with it! it's the truth!!" Holm frantically franted, but he couldn't confess to Deirlando. And with Deirlando's current fake identity, it doesn't have the slightest weight to be spoken, but it is possible that he will be angry with his father.

"That's right...... That's right! corpse ...... If Dom isn't dead, then where are the others?" Dom had seen himself die in front of him, and even if someone had removed the body and covered up everything here, there would never be a living person.

A heavy thud rang out behind Holm, and Count Grude jumped straight down the patio with a black face, and landed beside the puddle of filth.

Holm looked at his father with a look of hope, "Father, we have Bran spies in our castle, and there are more than one, so they can cover everything up after I find the body." They can move the corpses, but they can't make a living Dom! We're going to send everyone out to check on them, there's bound to be a monster nest like this......"

"Smack!"

Holm's words were interrupted by a hard slap, and he staggered backwards, slamming into the glove rack on the wall and knocking off the oil can. With the loud sound of ping-pong, he fell to the ground along with a pile of tools and debris.

"Ahh......h A trail of blood trickled down Holm's forehead, a wrench had smashed his head, and half of his body was covered in black grease from the falling oil pot.

Holm's head was a little dizzy, covering half of his numb face, and he didn't react to what was happening for a while.

Earl Grude's cold voice sounded: "Bran Spy?parasitic monster?hehe...... Both Luda and Adele persuaded me that you are still young and therefore emotionally unacceptable, and asked me to give you time to understand. You're making up a lie about Bran's spy, a parasitic monster, to frame someone else...... What is the motto of our Grud family?"

"Honesty, integrity, honor is more important than everything!" Holm reflexively straightened up and shouted out the family motto as he did when he was a child.

"Very well, it seems that you remember! Your actions today have brought the Grud family to shame, but fortunately, not many people know about it. Seeing his son's miserable appearance, Count Grude's tone gradually softened, and he looked at the knight of Angsai.

Knight Angsai immediately said: "As soon as I heard what the young master said, I immediately brought two guards over, but I didn't tell anyone else to check anything along the way, so no one else knew about it." ”

"Hmph...... You're in luck. Count Grude snorted coldly and glared at his son, whose face was gradually swollen, and then said to the knight of Angsai, "Luda, you immediately lock him up on the rooftop, and you are not allowed to give him treatment or food or drink." I sentenced him to 24 hours of confinement in the hope that he would learn his lesson. ”

"It is a very bad act to slander a lady out of jealousy and resentment. Knowing that rumors are now rife in the city, they still continue to tell right and wrong, fabricating some parasitic monster that eats human internal organs, which is the behavior of villains and fools. How can I rest assured that I'll hand over the city to you in the future?"

Count Grude put his hand firmly on Home's young shoulder, which was not broad and strong enough, and said bitterly: "I did not care enough for you before, and neglected to discipline you, which caused you to be so stubborn. Hope this is a mistake you zuihou once made. You'll turn twenty next month, you'll be an adult, and I don't want to kick you out! ”

Holm looked at his father in despair, and wanted to say something. Count Grude stared at him and said, "Go out and talk another word of nonsense, and I'll let Luda knock you out and lock you up as a madman, and our Grud family can't afford to lose this face." ”

The knight of Angsai nervously separated the father and son with their faces close to their faces, and then asked, "What about that Dom, do you want to look for it, maybe, what the young master said is true......

"If he can come up with such a lie, won't he find a way to get people out of the city? Count Grude sneered, looked at his son, who was all depressed, and sighed, "...... Wisdom is not placed on the right path. ”

With that, he shook his head and left the cramped, foul-smelling, oppressive little room.