"Pfft" Tarasius, who was lying on the ground, vomited out a mouthful of blood again and woke up.
He looked at the sky, which was filled with stars and the bright moon was shining brightly.
His consciousness gradually recovered, and he knew that it was still night and that he was not far away from unconsciousness.
How long will it take?
Waves of severe pain in his chest kept hitting his nerves.
He felt that not only his body had been severely damaged, but also his spirit.
His mental strength seemed to have shrunk by more than half.
It was definitely not easy to recover from the mental trauma.
It's a matter of fact, and with the current medical technology in the West, it is simply impossible to fully recover from this level of internal injury.
Tarasius gently held his chest and stood up unsteadily.
He endured the severe pain and mental fatigue and observed the surrounding situation.
He soon discovered that this place was not far from Hagia Sophia, but slightly remote.
"Who on earth attacked me?
Why did the attacker do this?
What should I do now?
Should I return to Saint Sophia Cathedral or find another place to live?"
Tarasius couldn't help but start thinking about his whereabouts.
There is no doubt that Hagia Sophia is one of the safest places.
A considerable number of elite church warriors and priests from the entire Eastern Roman Empire's Orthodox Church are gathered here.
However, these church forces have no effect at all in front of the attackers.
The enemy Still ignoring these forces and sneaking in easily The Saint Sophia Cathedral sneak attack knocked him out and took him away.
Tarasius knew that he was not the strongest in the church, but he could be considered a first-class master.
This enemy's skill was beyond his imagination. , so Hagia Sophia looks safe, but is not actually safe "Why didn't the other party kill me and just injured me?
Did the other party just want to give me a warning, or say that I am still useful, or that someone saved me?"
Tarasius thought of this again, and he didn't think about it even after thinking about it.
He wanted to understand, and the more he thought about it, the more headaches he got.
His spirit had been severely damaged and he needed to take a good rest.
Now thinking about these problems made him even more burdened.
He quickly decided to leave Hagia Sophia temporarily.
After reciting a complicated spell, Tarasius disappeared without a trace.
This was actually a teleportation magic, but it took a certain amount of time to activate this magic, and it was impossible to do it as easily as Zhao Ziliang.
After Tarasius disappeared, Zhao Ziliang and Taoist Qingsong quickly appeared again.
Zhao Ziliang asked: "I didn't expect that Alasius was so cautious and knew how to use magic in this area.
Old Taoist, is there any way to do it?"
track" Taoist Master Qingsong said: "He was severely injured and his strength was greatly reduced.
Even if he activates such a spell, the landing point will not be too far.
I think it should be nearby.
As long as we can find the magic energy fluctuation point, we should be able to track it." , with his injury, it is impossible to continuously activate this kind of spell, otherwise it will aggravate the injury, let me give it a try."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Okay, I'll leave the tracking to you, I'll check for another clue."
Qingsong asked: "What clue?"
Zhao Ziliang said: "What happened last night was undoubtedly caused by Seldot.
If she didn't come forward directly, it must be the assassin organization that her men came forward to find.
Then the person who came forward should be her confidant.
I I want to start investigating from this aspect.”
"Okay, let's go separate ways.
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It's okay for you to be alone.
If something happens to you here, I'll be totally ruined."
Zhao Ziliang cursed: "Go away, the person who can kill me has not yet been born."
After the two separated, Zhao Ziliang came to a tavern in the city alone.
It was a mercenary tavern.
The oil lamps in the tavern were very dim, and a dozen mercenaries gathered in twos and threes to drink, chat, and spank.
After Zhao Ziliang walked into the tavern, the mercenaries stopped and looked at Zhao Ziliang, but they quickly lost interest.
There were many mercenaries making a living in Constantinople, and there were also many Easterners.
Zhao Ziliang's appearance here was not unusual.
Strangely enough, these mercenaries quickly lost interest in him and continued chatting.
Zhao Ziliang sat down at an empty table, and a bartender came up and asked, "What do you want?"
Zhao Ziliang threw a silver coin on the table: "Let's have some wine and meat."
"Wait a moment."
The bartender didn't say much.
He put away the silver coins and turned around to leave.
One silver coin was enough to have a full meal in such a pub.
The tavern at this time was not as smoky as in later generations.
Tobacco had not yet appeared.
There was wine and some food on the nearby mercenary's table.
The food included black bread, melons, dried fruits and barbecue.
The wine was beer.
General mercenaries He couldn't afford to drink wine, and mercenaries with a little money could only drink some low-quality wine.
Moreover, the taste of beer at this time was not complimentary.
The taste in the mouth was indeed not very good.
After Zhao Ziliang took a sip before, That's clear.
The waiter brought a few pieces of bread, a pile of melons, a pile of dried fruits, a roast leg of lamb and a jug of bad wine.
At this time, the West was not unable to brew low-alcohol liquor, but it was due to the lack of productivity.
At this time, the productivity of the West was very low, and the food produced could not even fill the stomach.
How could there be excess grain to brew liquor, and there was no In this aspect of technology, even if there are other wines, they are all brewed with fruits.
Even the beer that is popular among the lower class people is brewed with inferior rye.
Anyway, these spoiled ryes can only be brewed if they are not used to brew beer.
Feed the livestock.
The other mercenaries around him were a little envious when they saw such rich food and wine on Zhao Ziliang's table.
Some even wanted to come over to play the Autumnal Equinox, but gave up the idea as soon as they thought of something.
Zhao Ziliang grabbed the roasted lamb leg and started to eat it.
Not long after, Wan Qingming came in from outside and sat next to Zhao Ziliang.
Zhao Ziliang asked, "Have you eaten yet?"
"Nothing," Wan Qingming said, waving to the waiter: "Just like this, have one."
He threw a silver coin, and the waiter caught the silver coin very accurately.
People who work in this kind of place have some skills. , and he is also very clever.
Food and drinks were quickly delivered, and Wan Qingming grabbed the leg of lamb and gnawed it like a starving ghost.
Zhao Ziliang swallowed a mouthful of mutton, picked up the wine bowl, drank a bowl of low-quality red wine, and asked: "How did the investigation go?
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Wan Qingming said while chewing the leg of lamb: "I have some clues.
The assassin organization that attacked last night is called the Fallen.
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It has been established for about two hundred years, but it has only become active in the past hundred years.
It has frequently attacked the Eastern Roman Empire.
Many influential assassinations in the past hundred years were carried out by this assassin organization, mostly due to political factors.
What happened last night caused a sensation in the mercenary community in Constantinople.
Did you not notice this tavern?
Is business very bleak tonight?
If so At this time in the past, there were at least fifty or sixty people in this tavern, but tonight there were only a dozen people.
The mercenaries who disappeared last night all died inside and outside the office.
Two days ago, someone was recruiting people in various mercenary taverns in the city late at night, and the price was very high.
Gao, although this has attracted many lone travelers and mercenary organizations, some people feel that it is not simple.
If people at the national level recruit mercenaries for combat, they will usually recruit openly in broad daylight instead of secretly in the middle of the night. to recruit, so there are very few Countless mercenaries who were not short of money were worried that something would happen, so they did not go, but these people inadvertently knew the identity of the recruiter, who was the contact person of the Fallen.
However, I have not yet found out who the contact person of the Fallen is.
Although this is not a secret. , but not many people know the identity of this contact person.
Most of them are clients who have business dealings with the Fallen.
It is obvious that the person who hired the Fallen to assassinate us must be Seldot, but she will definitely not come forward personally to contact him.
Contact the fallen person's contact person and come forward to pick up the The person she contacted must be someone she can trust.
I checked and found that although Seldot was the emperor's mistress, she had no actual rights.
This woman had provoked many nobles and high-ranking officials before she met the emperor, but these people None of them can be called confidants.
Many of Seldot's things were handled by her housekeeper, so I think Seldot might have left such important things to her housekeeper.
If my guess is correct, that housekeeper should have known about the corruption. the location of the person’s contact person” Zhao Ziliang gnawed on the leg of lamb and nodded: "Well, it looks good.
It seems we have to go to Viscount Chitra's Mansion to find the housekeeper tonight."
Wan Qingming hesitated for a moment and asked: "Sir, since you know that the widow Seldot is behind this, why don't you chop her up directly?
I think finding the Fallen Assassin Organization is not the most important thing."
Zhao Ziliang shook his head: "I have reached an agreement with Irina.
We do not need to do anything.
Seldot will not survive for three days.
If Irina dares to break her promise, I will naturally make her pay the price.
Investigating the Fallen Assassin Organization will become our last resort."
Things that need to be solved urgently.
We don’t have much time here.
We must deal with the fallen before we leave.
Even if they cannot be completely eradicated, at least they must be seriously injured.
We hope that the Eastern Roman Empire will track down this assassin organization.
I don’t know what to do.
Wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.”
Wan Qingming ate the lamb leg quickly.
After chewing two kilograms of meat, he couldn't eat anymore, so he had to put it down, picked up the wine bottle, poured a glass of low-quality red wine, and drank it.
"You can't eat anymore, give it to me."
Zhao Ziliang said, throwing down the bare lamb leg bone in his hand, and then reached out to take the remaining roasted lamb leg from Wan Qingming in front of him and gnawed it.
"You don't mind it," Wan Qingming muttered in his heart, but then he laughed, but he immediately remembered something and said: "I received news that Constantine has sent troops to capture Viscount Chitra's mansion for disrupting the market.
She was surrounded and prohibited from going out until the matter was investigated.
It was ostensibly under house arrest, but in fact it was to protect her and prevent her from being killed secretly by us.
We only wanted to enter Viscount Chitra's mansion and bring out the housekeeper.
Afraid of some difficulties” Zhao Ziliang said: "We'll go over there first after we finish eating.
I'll do the work of going in and bringing the housekeeper out
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