Our family is in decline

Audrey didn't know how long she had been in a coma. It all seemed like a dream, from a carefree childhood to a nightmare marriage, to a decadent and luxurious life after breaking free, until she glimpsed the other side of the world... …

I don’t know how long it had been since she had such a relaxing sleep without any distracting thoughts, but Audrey was not happy at all, because... she was arrested!

The moment Audrey opened her eyes, the memory of being arrested completely occupied her brain. She observed the current environment. The thick brick walls, the riveted iron doors without any gaps, and even the fist-sized ventilation holes were sealed.

There is no doubt that he was locked in a dark cell, and all his equipment was taken away. There was nothing extra except a simple bed.

She was so courageous that she could dig graves alone at night, go down to the spooky tombs alone in the middle of the night, and take away various things from the dead in the midst of various dangers.

But this situation made Audrey start to panic.

Because for someone who likes to pursue excitement and freedom, when she thinks about being imprisoned in such a dark and small space for the rest of her life, she feels strong regret in her heart, and the despair seems to make her breathless.

I don’t know whether he regretted provoking Hamlet, but he definitely regretted being caught.

Audrey wanted to escape from this place from the moment she woke up. She could dig through masonry-enclosed tombs with a shovel and a pickaxe, but could she knock on those walls with her hands without tools?

The entire large iron door is sealed, leaving no gaps for her. There are no chains. It is completely physically isolated. No matter how good your skills are, it will be useless.

But what made her even more unbearable was that those people refused to give her anything to eat or drink. No matter what noise she made, no one paid attention to her. During this time, she was already so hungry that she had no strength.

Audrey had thought that she might die in a trap like the tomb robbers, cursed with poison, and then die in obscurity in a certain tomb.

But I never expected that I would be caught stealing a piece of clothing and then starve to death.

It's too awful……

Lying on the bed in a daze due to hunger, she didn't know whether she was dying or a hallucination. She seemed to hear the sound of the iron door opening, as well as human voices.

Lance and Greendale opened the door and entered, looking at the unresponsive guy lying on the bed, they couldn't help but smile.

Everyone who enters the sanatorium must be starved for three days. This is a rule. This is equivalent to a killing stick, and it is also to weaken their condition. After all, no one who can be locked up here is simple.

Then I eat a fist-sized piece of black bread every day, as long as I don't die, and I have a glass of water.

The last time it was still a duo from the church, but the mendicant monk and the candle-burning priest were ascetics from the church, so being hungry for a few days was nothing at all.

But Audrey's reaction to not being very hungry was naturally much more obvious. It hadn't even lasted three days, so it was like this.

"Wake up, it's time to eat." Lance kicked the foot of the bed to wake her up.

Ordinary people can't die without water and food for three days, let alone an extraordinary person, which is more of a strange thing.

Audrey climbed up from the bed with difficulty, resisting the hunger in her body and looked at the two people who came in. There was a bit of resentment in her eyes.

Lance didn't lie to her, he actually took out an ordinary bread and threw it over. At this moment, Audrey grabbed the bread as if she was resurrected, and gnawed it up and swallowed it without much hesitation.

Only at this moment did she feel the aroma of roasted wheat. She had never thought that bread could be so delicious, and she almost cried.

But after not drinking water for such a long time, he started to choke without eating much. Lance was very considerate and handed over a bottle of water.

"Here, drink some water."

Audrey grabbed it and drank it in big gulps. She finally swallowed the food in her throat. Without even looking at Lance, she quickly swallowed the last mouthful and then looked at the two people who came in.

To be honest, she had never seen the lord, because Hamlet had already sorted it out when she arrived and missed those situations, so naturally she could not see the lord.

When he was captured and brought to Lance, he was knocked unconscious by a sap, and then he was influenced by Amanda who drank a potion before he woke up, and was finally hypnotized by Lance.

So she has never met the lord, nor does she know Lance.

But Audrey is not stupid. She can feel that the temperament of these two people is not like ordinary people, especially the man with a smile on his face.

Just seeing it made people feel ashamed, and people couldn't help but worship him. She subconsciously wanted to dodge that gaze.

"It seems you don't know me, so why did you steal my clothes to provoke me?"

Lance took the initiative to open the topic, and this sentence made Audrey understand that the man in front of her was the legendary lord.

If she is not caught, she will express it casually and arrogantly - I am the queen.

But now, her eyes suddenly became clear. Regret and shame were intertwined on her face, and her head was drooped, as if she was admitting her guilt and accepting punishment.

It doesn't matter how much of this is true and how much is fake, because it's impossible for Lance to believe her.

"I know you like adventure and excitement, right? Now I'll give you a choice. Do you choose to go to jail here? Or do you help me complete the task and get a reduced sentence?"

"The second one! I choose the second one!"

Audrey blurted out without even a trace of thinking. At the same time, her face also showed a yearning for freedom.

She didn't want to stay in this damn place for a second. As long as she could get out, she would agree to anything.

Lance was not surprised by her reaction, but it could be seen from this that she was obviously pretending just now.

It also shows that you really can’t believe a word this guy says...

"You think you can get rid of us as soon as you get out?" Greendale understood her mission and immediately exposed her face.

"How could it be! Everything before was all a misunderstanding. I'm not that kind of person." Audrey was not embarrassed at all by being exposed. On the contrary, she kept emphasizing something.

"Really? I don't believe it~" Greendale decided to give her a little natural shock, and handed the mouse over with a smile, "Take it, it will tell you the answer."

These mice, which have been bred in the laboratory for more than ten generations and specially selected and purified, are not very aggressive.

Because they have plenty of food when they are born, they do not need to fight, they have never eaten raw meat, and they have been exposed to human feeding for a long time. They are not afraid of humans, but are very docile.

Because individuals who show aggressive behavior will be eliminated.

As for where? These clean-bred rats are the best snacks for the pregnant she-wolf and Fergus, and after Laura comes to Hamlet, her falcons don't have to prepare food.

Audrey looked at the rat that was squatting in the palm of her hand. Although she didn't understand, she felt a little contempt in her heart. Are you kidding? She is not one of those noble ladies. Want to scare her with a rat?

He reached out and pinched the fur of Shushu's neck and picked it up. It looked a little cute~

But the next second, I didn't think so, because for some reason, Shushu started to struggle hard, as if he was resisting Audrey.

In this situation, most women would have screamed and let go, but Audrey's character obviously would not let go easily. Instead, she grabbed it harder in her hand, pinching the rat's head with her thumb and index finger.

At this moment, Audrey suddenly seemed to understand something. Could it be that she wanted to express that she, like this mouse, could not escape from their grasp?

But the development of the matter was completely beyond her understanding, because she suddenly felt that the power of the rat's struggle was rapidly weakening, and at the same time, there was a strange "vitality" in her hands.

When she came back to her senses, she saw a green sprout sprouting from Shushu's mouth, and a trace of blood could be seen on the tender green.

Then the green shoots grew at a speed visible to the naked eye. At this time, Shushu had no reaction, because countless tiny grass roots penetrated the fur and grew out. It was hard to believe that the tender white roots had such power.

Including extending from the mouth, eyes and ears until it was covered with red eyeballs, but the eyes actually moved. At this moment, an indescribable weirdness and evil filled her brain.

"ah!"

Audrey was startled and immediately let go. There was uncontrollable fear on her face, and even her breathing became rapid. There was no trace of acting at all.

Because her eyes were still fixed on the thing that fell to the ground, because it was still growing, and the price was that Shushu's body quickly shriveled up until it was completely occupied by grass roots, and a green weed grew out of its mouth.

This scene had a huge impact on Audrey, but Greendale was still explaining slowly.

"The seeds of devil's grass will germinate when they enter a warm and humid environment. They will be eaten by animals and then take root in their bodies.

It grows by sucking the blood of the parasite. Eventually, the root system will completely cover the inside and it will grow out.

This process is lengthy because the parasitized organism does not die immediately and the plant requires you to move farther away to spread the seeds.

It's just that during this process, you can feel the crazy pain that the roots will penetrate into your internal organs and flesh and blood little by little, growing inside your body.

No one would want to experience this. Only some ancient barbarian tribes discovered the reproduction method of this plant and would use it to torture their enemies. It was a kind of torture. "

These words sounded to Audrey's ears as if she had seen such a terrifying scene, but Lance smiled and joked about the last shot.

"It's like eating something you shouldn't eat, but who has nothing to do to eat this kind of thing?"

Isn't this just a mockery of yourself looking for trouble to steal blood clothes? And eat...

wrong! What did you just eat?

Audrey immediately cried and kept making retching looks, but she hadn't had any food or water for several days, so how could she vomit that little thing out so easily.

"Actually, it's okay to eat. After all, no one can react so quickly. It usually takes two or three days." Greendale took the words like a compliment, looked at Audrey and added with a smile: "But some special ones Potions can speed up the process, and it only takes a few words for the parasite to take root.”

Her words made Audrey relax a little one second, but the next second they kicked her from heaven back to hell.

Audrey was not stupid. She immediately reacted as soon as these words came out. She suddenly lowered her head and looked at the thing she was drinking from just now. Why did it look like a medicine bottle?

At this moment, there was no light in Audrey's eyes.

Now she understood why the mouse would tell her the answer. It turned out to be like this...

"It seems you have finally come to your senses. Are you starting to feel something?"

Greendale picked up the rat on the ground and looked at it as a work of art, but it was a little distorted.

As if the seeds in her body could hear these words, Audrey actually felt a slight sting, which made her body tremble uncontrollably.

"Okay, if you drink this, the devil's grass will go dormant, but the effect is only seven days."

Lance handed over a universal potion, and the guy took it from his hand and drank it without hesitation.

I don’t know if it was really effective or something, but the strangeness was relieved. However, this did not make Audrey feel relaxed. On the contrary, she felt a little sad, covering her face with her hands and sobbing.

She really regretted why she had to provoke him when she had nothing to do, and now she was tied up here.

Lance and Greendale looked at each other and could see Lezi's smile.

She believed it! She really believed it!

There is a hammered devil's weed, just like when adults said that eating watermelon seeds would sprout and grow in the stomach when they were children. All of this was made up by Lance and Greendale to fool Audrey.

The sprouted rat was completely controlled by Greendale, and the strangeness in Audrey's body was caused by Lance, who could easily play tricks on Audrey.

Lance was not going to have a heart-to-heart talk with Audrey, she was not qualified.

Lance even originally planned to use her to fill lines and feed his ancestors, but later gave up. It happened that Geralt was about to leave, so let's use the waste.

It's useless to tell her more. This kind of person cannot be bound by a contract. She must suffer a little.

Look, aren't you quite honest now...

"What do you want me to do?" Audrey was cruel after all, and she quickly reacted. Her stiff expression revealed that her mood was not stable.

"Help us explore the ruins." Lance looked at her like that, a little curious if she was like this when she planned to poison her ex-husband.

That resentment was hidden deep, but it was unobstructed in front of Lance.

But he always didn't care. With a wave of his hand, all the equipment belonging to her appeared out of thin air.

"Okay, I'll give you an hour to prepare, and then we'll set off."

Lance had no intention of wasting time on him. The battle on the ruins front line was probably started now. If it weren't for Geralt, they would have already started.

He also had to act quickly, he had to be faster than his ancestor.

Greendale glanced at Audrey. After turning away from Lance, her expression was terrifyingly cold and full of warning. She had obviously sensed Audrey's resentment.