Chapter 515 Cage
Chapter 515 Cage
It's raining.
The autumn rain is like a kitten's tongue, and when it falls on your body you feel a slight pain like being scratched by its barbs.
Febio looked up at the sky. She knew that Loretta wanted revenge. Loretta would not compromise, would not calmly accept Valerie's death, and would not let Gideon go.
The look Loretta gave her before she entered the room was a sign for her to leave with Altair.
Femeiou hates Rainier. She has never liked this place. She thinks Rainier is a primitive country. She can't see the order and civilization that belong to humans. She only sees animality.
She looked at the blood on her body, not knowing which was hers and which was Valerie's. Death wasn't exciting, she just felt pain. It was the pain of muscles dissolving and skin breaking apart.
She came to Lanier to save Loretta.
Loretta was going to walk out of the palace alive today.
Femeiou didn't cry. She looked at Altair who kept wiping his face, and the guards who were watching her and Altair warily.
She is Fei Mei O. She is a mutant vampire who has always longed for chaos, war, death and gambling. She must have a way.
She had to find a way to get out alive.
Fei Meiou spoke softly.
"Altaïr, I know you fear violence. You fear death."
Altair didn't know why Femeiou suddenly said that.
He looked at Fermione with his swollen eyes.
"Femeiou, you..."
"You're a coward. Altaïr, I'm going to tell you a secret. I'm a mutant vampire. I can bask in the sun, and I can do things many vampires can't. But at the same time, my physical fitness isn't very strong. I only have one weapon. When I start sucking blood, I release a deadly toxin.
I know you don't dare to kill anyone. That would be too hard for you. You would have nightmares for a month straight.
So, let me do it."
Altair looked at Femeiou in panic.
Femei'o smiled at Altair.
"You can fly, right? In a moment, I need you to fly as hard as you can. Even if your wings are broken, you are not allowed to stop. I place my hope of our survival on you. Altair, don't look back."
Femei'o didn't give Altair time to react. She quickly pounced on an eagle, revealing her sharp teeth.
Death happened silently.
Fei Meiou thought that in the face of death, male eagles and female eagles were the same.
Altair took flight.
But he didn't leave immediately, he asked Loretta in panic.
"Where should I go? The palace is under martial law and I can't get out!"
Feimei'o spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Go find De Ling!"
"I don't know De Ling! Where is De Ling?"
"In the palace! The pregnant royal princess! We must find her no matter what and tell her Loretta is in danger!"
This was the last method that Feimeiou thought of.
Valerie had said that if anything dangerous happened, she should go to Loretta, or to Deling. She had heard that name before, at Rainier's estate, at Rose Hall. She loved to listen to the conversations of the adults, the ones involving rivalry and intrigue.
De Ling is her last hope.
Altair flew away quickly, with some eagles following closely behind him. Femeiou could only pray that Altair flew fast enough.
She is constantly causing death.
The raindrops were getting bigger and bigger, and she was hit so hard that her movements became slower.
The eagles hated her even more because of the death of their companion, and she was forced into a corner by the eagles.
She had no strength left.
Being caught was the outcome she had expected a long time ago, she was just stalling for time.
Femei's face was bruised. She wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. She had already lost a lot of blood today, and this was no difference. She looked up calmly at the eagles that were about to kill her.
"I'm a vampire. My family is powerful. If I die, you'll all die. Vampires are most protective of their younger generations. Have you heard of the Vampire Foundation? It was set up for us. If you kill me, my compatriots will avenge me until the last gold coin is used up, and the fight continues until death."
The eagles hesitated.
But soon, they whispered to each other, unwilling to let her go.
“Who has ever heard of this foundation?”
"I do not have."
"Our brothers' deaths cannot be in vain."
"She must die."
……
Femei'o gasped. She didn't know if such a threat would work, but it didn't matter. She had thought of the worst-case scenario.
She let Altair go with the determination to die.
The group of eagles seemed to have reached a conclusion through discussion.
Fermione was cowering in a corner, with no way to escape.
The rain was getting heavier, like the sky was wailing.
"Pull out her fangs!"
The eagles shouted and sent one with pliers close to her.
Femeiou didn't move.
She had no strength left. She had used all her strength to restrain most of the eagles.
She didn't want to struggle. She wanted to conserve her strength. She didn't want to die. Before she reached her limit, she wanted to do whatever she could to stay alive.
The eagle holding the pliers was getting closer and closer to her, and the raindrops fell on the pliers, making a cold sound.
Femei'o stared at the eagle.
"I curse you. I curse anyone who hurts me."
Phoebe's hair plastered to her cheeks as she realized she couldn't say that. She threw aside her pride and showed weakness to the eagle holding the pliers.
"You don't need to do this - you were pushed out. They don't want to take responsibility, so they let you hurt me - then you will be the only one who will be retaliated. You don't want to do this, I know, I'm still a child -"
"I just like killing kids."
The eagle chuckled softly.
"Nice try, but you're mistaken. I wasn't pushed out. I volunteered to pull out those two fangs of yours."
The eagle moved quickly, and before Femei could resist, her chin was grabbed.
The sound of teeth breaking was like stone cracking.
Fei Meiou had no way to control the pain. Blood flowed from the corners of her mouth to her neck. She couldn't help but scream in pain, and all she could see was blinding white.
She couldn't lose consciousness.
Febio pinched her leg and stared at the grinning eagle, engraving his image firmly in her memory.
The eagle holding the pliers began to hum, he looked at Femei O and told her with a smile.
"There's one more."
Femeiou did not retreat, but as the eagle approached her, her body trembled subconsciously.
She couldn't speak, her mouth was filled with cold, fishy blood. When she swallowed, the slippery blood would flow into her throat.
She knew that the eagle was torturing her.
The rain was getting heavier, blurring the original appearance of the world.
Femei'o opened her eyes, gathering her strength. She was going to kill the eagle.
Just before she was about to pounce, the loud sound of a door opening ended everything.
"What are you doing! Get over here! Things have gotten out of hand. Loretta is dead. Hurry! Think of a solution!"
Through the rain, the figure of the person speaking was vague and swaying, and his face could not be seen clearly. But the clothes he was wearing were indeed the same ones that Jidi had worn before.
All the eagles ran towards their masters, and Femei was left in the corner.
Fei Mei Ou stared blankly at the blurry figure.
She hadn't been crying the whole time, but when she heard the words "Loretta is dead," she suddenly burst into tears.
Tears and rain mixed together, and her cheeks were swollen.
The blood is still flowing.
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Loretta immediately searched Giddy's room after killing him.
She didn't find what she was looking for.
Jedi has returned to his original form.
Loretta retracted her dagger. She looked at Jidi's clothes, at Jidi's communicator, at Jidi's room.
She has no choice.
Loretta was going to die today. She was going to be Gideon. She had to be Gideon.
She put on Gidi's clothes and jewelry, then pushed open the door.
The rain blocked out the sounds, and she thought that Femei'o and Altair had left, but it was obvious that someone was surrounded by Gidi's lackeys.
Loretta shouted in a raspy voice, gathering all the guards to her side.
The eagles had no doubt that she was not Giddy. Their discrimination against the female eagle had deprived them of the opportunity to find the truth, and the pouring rain had masked her shortcomings. She asked the eagles to fetch the expensive God's Stone to save "Loretta."
The God's Stone, specially provided by the royal family, can bring back the dead. She wants to save Valeri.
She took the God's Stone and closed the door again.
She stumbled to Valerie and placed the God Stone on Valerie's body. She hugged Valerie and put her ear to Valerie's heart.
When she was little, she often asked Valerie to hold her. When she couldn't sleep, she would lie in Valerie's arms and put her ear to Valerie's heart so that she could hear Valerie's heartbeat.
Gentle and powerful, one sound after another.
she asked Valerie then.
"Will you stay with me forever?"
"Of course, my little kipper, I'll always be with you."
Loretta's tears wet Valerie's wings.
"Liar. Why can't I hear your heartbeat, Valerie? I can't sleep. Valerie, you said you would be with me forever, you can't lie to me."
Loretta buried her face in Valerie's feathers.
"Move, Valerie, please, please, talk to me. Musa bought a house in Remiaz for us to live in. What style do you like? If you don't answer, Musa will mess it up, and you will definitely be very uncomfortable living there. Valerie, don't leave me. If you leave me, everyone will bully me. Don't you feel sorry for me? Valerie, you raised me, you have to be responsible..."
The God's Stone did not work.
It had been too long. It had been too long since Valerie's death.
Loretta stood up in a daze, talking to herself.
"Why isn't it working? What's wrong? Valerie, I don't understand. Can you tell me? Valerie, I want to go home. Take me home."
Valerie would not answer.
The knock on the door sounded like thunder.
"Your Highness, Your Highness! Is everything alright?"
Of course not.
Loretta looked quietly at the body of Giddy not far away. He had just died, and the God's Stone was useful to him.
Loretta didn't move.
She hugged Valerie's body tightly, so tightly that it seemed as if she wanted to embed Valerie into her bones.
Then she slowly stood up.
Loretta is completely dead now. If it was Gideon who died, there would be no end to this day.
There was no war now. She would protect the future Valerie wanted. She would take over Valerie's job—she would become Gide. She knew Gide, better than the king knew him.
How can it be enough if only Gidi dies? The king must die too.
She wants revenge.
Leaving Rainier, friends, mother... all of these are far away from her. Jidi will not leave Rainier, Jidi will not have a female eagle friend, and Jidi's mother has passed away long ago.
She would stay in the palace. She could never wear the hairband Musa bought her.
And Musa lost both her friend and her daughter today.
The door was suddenly kicked open.
It was Deling who was found by Altair.
With a cold look in her eyes, she brought Altair and Femei'o to find Gidi.
"Jidi, you take Luo..."
De Ling saw Loretta, she was stunned for a moment, then reacted quickly and closed the door.
Febio also recognized Loretta. She rushed over, hugged Loretta, and burst into tears.
Altaïr was wiping his tears. Loretta saw him and reached out her hand to him.
Altair also ran over, hugged Loretta and Femeiou, and cried hysterically.
Deling rubbed her brows and looked around, finding the bodies of Valerie and Gide. She had already figured out what had happened from Altair's account.
She felt that this was too cruel for Musa. But she still wanted to persuade Musa to let it go - the king would definitely give her the job of comforting Musa in the end. The premise was that it was Loretta who died, not Gidi.
It's almost time.
Deling forcibly separates them and asks Loretta if she knows what it means to be a Jedi.
"There will no longer be a 'you' in this world. You must always remind yourself that you are an eagle. You cannot recognize Musa, and you cannot leave the palace. Before the king dies and Lanier changes the situation, you cannot show any clues. From now on, you are just Jidi. Are you ready?"
Loretta wiped her tears and nodded.
"I'm ready."
"You didn't. You don't know how much pain you'll suffer later, but there's no other way. I'll take care of the rest. Now, you're Jeddy. You'd better transform yourself into a decent eagle before the king comes looking for you."
The king hadn't seen Gidi for a long time. He didn't remember Gidi's face, but he remembered you. I have a magic tool that can change your face into something else. Whether you are bathing or sleeping, you must carry this magic tool with you.
Now, I will take Giddy's body to the king and tell him it is Loretta. And you two children, take Valerie's body and leave the palace."
De Ling made a firm decision on the subsequent developments.
Femeiou wanted to say something, but Loretta pushed her and Altair hard.
"You can't help me here. Leave the palace and tell Musa the truth.
Thank you, Femei'o and Altair."
Loretta smiled. Felicia wished she was crying. It was too bitter.
Loretta gave Valerie a final kiss on her wings, then handed her over to Fermio.
De Ling didn't give them much time. She opened the door.
Outside, the rain was pouring down. De Ling looked coldly at the guards of Jidi.
"Get rid of them. Leave no one behind."
Deling gave these instructions to her subordinates and sent her trusted female eagle to escort Femeiou and Altair out of the palace.
As Phoebe left, she saw the eagle that had broken her tooth was dead. Her tooth fell to the ground, quickly becoming caked with mud and water. She didn't pick it up. She held Valerie in her arms.
Her face was severely swollen and her eyes were squeezed to a thin line.
She held Altaïr's hand and followed the female eagle that Deling had assigned them, silently walking towards the palace exit. Altaïr had a fever, his hands were burning, and he walked unsteadily, but he never uttered a word.
Before stepping out of the palace, Fei Meiou looked back.
The palace in the rain is like a cage.
And Loretta was trapped in a cage and couldn't get out.
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