Stray

If only this scene was an illusion.

Oliver still looked away as he couldn’t bear watching it any longer. The scene after the cage became more terrifying. There was no blood or pain, but cold numbness. Those sophisticated metal instruments and array weren’t specially design for malice. Every detail was full of calm organization, and everything was orderly.

There was no roar of pain and no look of resistance. Only a small cry subconsciously made by living things. The “common sense” in this castle seemed to have been redefined. It seemed that such treatment of humans was just a matter of course, and there was no need to make any ideological struggle.

This should be deliberate. No matter what their intention were, they did succeed in destroying most of his positive emotions. Oliver began to stare at the ground. The gray and smooth stony ground was clearly illuminated by a pale light.

He counted the gaps in the stone bricks and moved his legs to the most efficient way, trying to accumulate the only remaining physical strength his mind has left.

The road full of torture was extremely long. He may had been walking for a hundred years before the incomplete guide in front of him stopped. Oliver, who was counting the cracks in the bricks almost bumped into the man’s back.

The incomplete humanoid object turned around, and the arm that was no thicker than a bone shook for a while. A metal tag was drawn from the loose clothes— There was a shiny metal ring hanging at the end of the sign, half the size of a palm. Except for the long section of the thin chain between the ring and the sign, it was no different than those worn by the people in the cages just now.

The man threw the metal tag at Oliver randomly. The ring at the end of the tag moved like a living animal and got into Oliver’s collar through the gap in the armor. Then came the severe pain of his flesh being penetrated, accompanied by the feeling of warm blood flowing out of his skin. Just like those cages encountered, it should have also encircled his clavicle.

The metal tag on the other end of the chain was still dangling in front of his armor causing a fine noise of metal hitting metal.