There are many people who want to see the Sforza family die, such as the Visconti family, which was usurped by the Sforza family and usurped the Duke of Milan, although the Sforza family glorified the transfer of power purely because the Visconti family had no descendants to hand over the ducal crown, but it is difficult to believe that a large ducal family will not even be able to find a legitimate side branch successor, at least Visconti is still more or less related to the Anjou family, and it is really not possible to let a Frenchman inherit it.

But a man named Francisco Sforza wore the crown of the Duke of Milan on his head as a mercenary, and it was impossible for anyone who wanted to come to the Visconti family and their relatives to like this tyrant.

Another person who hoped that the Sforza family would be unlucky was the Venetian. Although it was a thousand-year-old feud with Genoa, the Sforza family was very successful in pulling the hatred of Venice on themselves for a time.

It is precisely because of this mutual hatred and desperate hatred that the Sforza family did something very unpopular, so that everyone began to want to see them die, and they lured the wolf into Italy to bring Charles VIII of France, the Italian scourge.

Speaking of which, even Giuliano della Roverre, who claims to be the biggest leader in Italy, is only different from the Sforza family, so there are too many people who want to see the Sforza family die.

It's just that compared to the woman in front of him, who was almost naked in the good darkness, neither the Genoese nor the Visconti family were too far away.

The anger and hatred in the voice of the woman in front of her gave rise to an unsettling feeling in the darkness, and Alexander could feel the hand on her shoulder trembling slightly when she said about the Sforza family, not because of the cold, but because of anger.

"Can you let me know why?" Alexander didn't say yes right away, he didn't really want to know why Connie hated the Sforza family so much, but wanted to hear the truth from her words.

Conneo's body moved as if she was holding her shoulder, and she turned and continued on, but slowly, with potholes under her feet, and a steep ramp every now and then, and her voice resounded in the dark cavern: "My father was a great man, he was fond of all kinds of knowledge, especially ancient documents, and at one time he used all his savings to buy them, and on several occasions he found many interesting things, He even did not hesitate to mortgage his family's house and borrow money to buy what he liked. ”

In other words, this is a guy who completely cares about personal preferences and doesn't care about the life of his family. Alexander mentally asserted Connie's father.

Alexander didn't like the kind of people Conneo described as her father.

Although he admires many people who devote their lives to personal interests and preferences, and even do everything to achieve their dreams, Alexander always feels that there must be a limit.

If a person reaches the point where he completely ignores the feelings of others, and even asks everyone around him to accompany him and make sacrifices for his dreams, Alexander feels that such a person is actually extremely selfish, or at least extremely egoistic.

Such a person is always very stubborn, or he does not take other people's feelings to heart at all, even if he finally realizes his dream, but the result is only for him to obtain satisfaction, this kind of person may be an example of ideological persistence and perseverance in the eyes of irrelevant people, but as long as it is related to him or is involved by him, he will find that this kind of person who does not hesitate to dedicate everything to the sacrificial altar for the sake of his dreams is not only hateful but even terrible.

Connieo's father is probably this kind of person, and there is another person who will sacrifice everything for the sake of his own will, and that is Savonarola, who is now entrenched in Florence.

"But my father is also in business, and his business is very large, he has his own fleet, and he has a high status in the Chamber of Commerce."

Listening to Connie's words, Alexander knew that he was about to get to the point.

"My father was once interested in pagan civilizations, and he secretly collected a lot of documents about the ancient Saracens, and asked his fleet to help him collect all kinds of things of interest in the East when he went to sea for business," Connie's voice showed undisguised pride, "My father was a very intelligent man, he could even work with some of the brightest people today, and I have seen him easily use a kind of measuring stick to find a safe route for his fleet, I've seen him talk to some of the greatest artists about their work, and there's no one who doesn't like him, and no one doesn't admire him. ”

Listening to Connieo's voice, which seemed to be proud of her father, but faintly uneven, Alexander shook his head secretly.

It was clear to Connie that her father was a near-perfect man, so she couldn't forgive those who had ruined her idol aspirations.

Sure enough, Connie's tone became angry: "But the Sforza family is jealous of him, and even began to hate him, and I know that his failure in business is actually the Sforza family's secret tricks, and Colombo is just an accomplice of the family, because they have a fancy to my father's huge fortune." ”

Alexander secretly pondered Conio's words, of course he couldn't believe this woman just by listening to what she said casually, after all, she had just deceived him and almost lost his life, thinking back that if he hadn't pulled this woman into the trap at that time, it was a question of whether he would have been able to get out alive.

Even now, he didn't believe that Connieo would be so honest about taking himself out.

The woman's telling of her "past" to herself, and even threatening to have a great grudge against the Sforza family, may not be another means of paralyzing him.

"I need someone to help me," Connieo said as if wishful thinking, "I know that although the Borgia family is related to Sforza, their relationship is not good, that Giovanni Sforza is a stupid person but he always wants to do something big, he is very stupid to trust Colombo, he doesn't know that his cousin has been cheating on him, and if the Sforza family is so stupid, I may not need anyone to help me at all." ”

"But aren't you also cheating Colombo," Alexander snorted in the dark, and from Conio's previous words, he could already tell that this woman really didn't care about Colombo at all, or that what she said was true, because of her father, she wanted to kill Colombo through him, or rather through the hands of his men, "If you hadn't accidentally fallen, wouldn't you have run to tell my people that I had been murdered by Colombo?" At this, he paused slightly, and his voice became low, "What about my guards, have your people already killed them all?" ”

There was a moment of silence in the mine, the darkness making it even more oppressive, and Alexander heard a slightly rapid breathing as he felt the woman's shoulders rise and fall faster under the palm of his hand.

"You're scared," Alexander leaned forward slightly, and when he felt the touch of his cheek against his cheek, he whispered in Conio's ear, "Listen, I can forgive you for trying to harm me by any means you had, but from now on I will not forgive you for even the slightest betrayal of me, or I will make you regret it, you should already know that I will not be soft because you are a woman." ”

Connie's body trembled slightly in the darkness, not because of the cold but because of fear, she had never felt so scared as she did now.

The fear of suffocating when the neck was choked just now crept up again, although she had long been accustomed to the madness and cruelty of the nobles, and she was an expert in intrigue and intrigues, but it was the first time that Conio had really faced the threat of death, and the fear of the momentary horror of her life in the hands of someone else made her tremble all over, and she was completely desperate at that moment.

"I won't betray you," Conio tried to make her voice seem natural, but when she said this, she realized that she was so nervous that her throat was so tight that she couldn't listen to it, "I just want to avenge my family, my father is not only destitute and humiliated now, I will never forgive those who hurt him, I think you should be able to help me, in fact, I thought so before we fell, but you came too quickly, I had to deal with you in order to protect myself." ”

"So you were going to work with me when you came to me last night?" Alexander asked with a slight sarcasm.

"No," Connie's mood seemed to have calmed down by this time, and she turned her head slightly to rub her cold, smooth cheek against Alexander's chin, "I did what Colombo told me to do, and I don't care about making out with you if you take the bait, I know I've done it more than once." ”

Connie's confession surprised Alexander, but Connie's next words surprised him even more.

"Or rather, it was my idea," Connie leaned back, "I offered to tempt you, and I told Colombo what I would do." ”

Feeling the snuggling of his back, Alexander's brows furrowed, and he realized that he really didn't understand this woman.

Conio seemed to laugh in the darkness, but perhaps because it was too cold, it sounded like her teeth were chattering.

"I need someone strong," Connie said, and then, as if feeling a little inaccurate, added, "at least to help me." ”

"You think I can help you now?"

Alexander deliberately accentuated his tone when he said "now", listening to the woman walking silently in front of him breathe softly, and he was about to continue to speak, but Connie in front of him suddenly stopped.

Alexander's hand on Connie's shoulder slid forward, sliding down her shoulder, the edge of his palm brushing over the bulging part of his chest, his forehead touching the wet hair on the back of the woman's head.

"I have to know if you can help me, it's important to me, I don't care what you think of me, I don't care what anyone thinks, I'm going to help my father, there's nothing more important to me than this."

Connie shook her head slightly, and the water in her hair splashed on Alexander's face as if in a wordless protest.

"But I don't think you're a good collaborator, and you've just hurt me." Alexander wouldn't trust this woman easily this time.

In fact, he never believed her from beginning to end, but he never thought that this woman would go crazy and would rather risk dying with him to trap him.

Now that I think about it, if I hadn't been able to drag her into the trap in a hurry, maybe I would have really let this woman calculate.

Thinking so in his heart, Alexander's hand couldn't help but strain slightly, but he was a little worried about what tricks this woman was playing.

With such a force, Connie couldn't help but moan softly, and her body couldn't help shaking.

"Are men so useless, you're no different from Colombo," Connie said in a slightly mocking tone, "he's always thought he was smarter than Giovanni's idiot, but even the slightest risk scared him." ”

"And your so-called little adventure is to make him betray the Sforza family?" Alexander sneered under his breath.

Although he did not know how this woman seduced Colombo, he thought that what else could be called an adventure other than encouraging him to betray Sforza?

Thinking of this, Alexander's heart suddenly moved, and a thought quickly flashed through his mind, but for a while he couldn't be sure because he felt a little ridiculous.

But once the thought comes to mind, it never lingers.

He glanced at the back of the woman who was staggering forward in the darkness in front of him, and for a moment he wondered if his idea was a little too absurd, but thinking about what this woman said, and the bold means she had used before, Alexander felt that he really couldn't speculate on this woman with common sense.

The cave seemed to never finish, but Alexander felt that at first there was only a slight sound of wind in the mine, and by this time the oncoming wind had become stronger and stronger.

Just as Connie shivered slightly, a light that appeared unusually striking in the darkness appeared far away from the mine.

The light seemed so far away that it might even make one suspect that it might never end, but for the two people who had been groping in the dark, it was like seeing a holy light from heaven.

"God, it's finally coming out." Connieo let out a cheerful cry, and her steps quickened toward the light, her backlit back reflecting a blurred curve in the darkness.

Even the farthest way had come to an end, and when Connie reached out to block the glare of light in front of them, they were already standing in front of the low-looking mouth of the mine.

"We can get out of here."

Connie raised her hand as she spoke, patting the stone blocking the entrance of the cave in front of her, but her words were suddenly blocked by Alexander's short sword across his neck.

"What are you going to do?" Conio's eyes brightened in the light, she was nervous because a sword was at her throat, but she wasn't afraid.

If you look closely, you can even see a slight excitement in her shining eyes.

Alexander stared carefully into the woman's eyes from a very close place, and then he lowered his voice and said, "If I guess correctly, when we walk out of this mine, there will be hundreds of people waiting for us, and Colombo would never have imagined that these people he regarded as betraying Sforza's trust were actually your accomplices, right?" ”