Mount and Blade

Day 25 in Grant's prison.

In the cell, there were only five people left in the originally crowded space. Their eyes are empty, their bodies are thin, their skin clings to their bones, like walking skeletons. Hunger has pushed them to the brink of collapse, their sanity has been eaten away bit by bit, leaving only the most primitive instinct - the desire for food.

That's a hunger that's enough to drive everyone crazy...

On the fifteenth day, the Shadowhands no longer gave them vegetable soup, but replaced it with animal blood.

The smelly raw fish meat, the unpalatable blood...

In such days of living like hair and drinking blood, suffering from hunger and cold...

They were completely turned into beasts. The children had almost forgotten who they were, where they came from, and where their home was...

The only consciousness in the darkness is endless hunger, so hungry that I feel unbearable abdominal pain, so hungry that I vomit pink gastric juice...

Green huddled in the corner, his stomach contracting and spasming continuously, and bursts of heartbreaking pain came from him. You can even feel your heartbeat gradually slowing down, and every beat feels like you are using up your last bit of strength. There was always a voice echoing in his mind: "Hungry... hungry... hungry... ah..."

"...Why are you so hungry? You are obviously strong enough to enjoy food alone..." The demonic whisper kept lingering in your ears, and it seemed that even its minions were clinging to it like a dragon. body. Perhaps, that is the most primitive animal nature in the heart driving the body's instinct.

If you lose your animal nature, you will have nothing...

"...Abandon that child, you two just met by chance." "You can't even take care of yourself!!" "噷巷巷(hèn)..."

As time goes on, the children's behavior becomes more and more animal-like. They started fighting over scraps of food, even at the risk of hurting their own companions. There is no longer any human emotion in their eyes, only greed for food and desire for survival.

In the darkness, Green felt an unprecedented loneliness. His heart was struggling, his body was craving food, but his reason was telling him that he couldn't give up! ! Green began to desperately recall his past, recalling the training he had with Gus and the beautiful memories that existed in his life.

But in this situation, all the short-lived happiness and memories are so pale! ! !

On the contrary, countless memories full of negative emotions came flooding back...

"...The broom star, it's all your fault!!" "If it weren't for you, how could your mother die..." "The disaster star... will bring misfortune..."

Reason is on the verge of collapse, pain...sadness...unwilling...

I'm not...I'm not! !

Memories flooded in, including the punches and kicks from my father and the fights between his peers, the painful whip marks, the sinful and bloody hands...

"It's not like you've never killed a child before. Why are you hesitating?! It's just to survive!!!" The beast in his heart kept roaring, and the voice seemed to be full of despair and an extreme desire to survive.

The raging beast in his mind roared manically and showed its fangs. The only place where light could be seen in the darkness was where the food was delivered. When the food was delivered, the children rushed to it with pairs of hands.

The body...involuntarily, like a beast, showed its sharp claws and pounced forward. The smelly fish meat became the only sweet rain, and the blood became the ultimate taste bud enjoyment.

Sorry...sorry...

When the animal nature takes over, the body already performs its most instinctive behavior naturally. Fight, bite, gnaw, chew, swallow...

When the body is only a hair away from death, the most primitive desires in life are always selfish.

The long-lost feeling of fullness...I'm finally not so hungry...

No...why? It's so quiet today...them? Why don't you continue to fight for food with yourself?

A smell of blood filled the cage. Green looked back and saw that the group of children were competing to eat the corpses of their companions! !

Green looked at the scene in front of him in horror. He couldn't believe that these children could do such a cruel thing.

He tried to calm himself down, but the fear inside him kept rising.

"...What on earth are you doing?!" Green roared almost desperately. Their morals have been completely degraded to the point where they cannot be called human beings.

Every child is desperately trying to get nutrients for their body. They are gobbling, biting, and gnawing almost crazily...

What about Hanks? ...where did that skinny boy go?

Green glanced at the faces of the children one by one in the dark cage. The blood-covered faces and eyes showed the madness of rarely getting food.

Where is the child among these three people! ! The one being eaten was the little Hanks who was thin but could always tell fresh stories! !

The only existence that can maintain sanity in despair has disappeared...

"Ahhhhhhh!!!"

"You deserve to die!!!"

The totem on its chest glowed with a fierce red light, and the golden part on the dorsal fin of the totem completely turned scarlet. It seemed to be waking up, and the vertical pupils it opened also lit up with a blood-red omen.

This was a one-sided massacre...

Blood-red dragon scales covered a large area of ​​his hands, and his nails became extremely sharp. An extreme desire for killing suddenly arose in his heart. In the blink of an eye, the sharp claws had hollowed out the chest of the evil eater, and the organs were crushed in his palms and turned into foam.

"...I want blood!"

The fang has been thirsty for blood for a long time, and it seems that at this time... it is difficult to distinguish who is the real monster.

The splashing blood dyed the prison bars opposite red in spurts, and even they, who had been kept in animal form for a long time, were trembling for a long time.

In that cage...it seemed like a terrible monster was born.

They have never yearned for the solidity of the cage here as much as they do now.

.........

In complete contrast to Green's situation is an unassuming private residence in Wyndham.

The sunlight shines through the half-covered curtains onto the wooden floor, creating mottled light and shadow. Here, far away from the hustle and bustle of the palace and the struggle for power, there are only the sounds of wooden swords clashing outside the window and the gentle guidance of the old man.

"...The speed is not agile enough, Your Highness."

The old man was once an outstanding palace swordsman, and now he was holding a one-handed wooden sword and practicing swordsmanship with a silver-haired boy.