As Alexander changed his clothes and stood in front of the mine again, he saw Connie coming from the opposite side.

Because no one expected to prepare women's clothes, Conio was wearing a large man's coat outside, which was a bit big compared to her size, so when she walked around, it looked swaying and looking a little funny.

However, because Connie's face was gloomy, the originally funny scene was somewhat depressing.

It's just that Alexander isn't paying attention to her now, he's paying more attention to those who are standing far behind Connieo.

"What are you looking at?" Connie noticed his gaze, she looked back at her own men behind her, and then looked at Alexander, "How did you find my people?" ”

Connie felt compelled to get this straight, she couldn't tolerate having a spy around her, but she couldn't understand how Alexander could know that his men were hiding in that col.

In fact, when he came out of the mine, Alexander learned that the exit of the mine was not far from the col where the miner had found it, and he learned what had happened with the accounts of several guards who had fallen into the trap with him.

Alexander didn't guess wrong, the maid who seemed extremely timid in front of Colombo was not so simple, when Alexander and they followed Connie into the secret passage, the maid entered the secret passage through another secret door, but when she saw that when the maid opened the small door in the secret passage and was about to answer Connie, she saw that Connie O actually fell into a trap of her own design with Alexander.

The panicked maid could no longer care about the guards who had also fallen into the other traps, but by the time the guards got out of the trap, the maid had already escaped.

While the guards asked a man to deliver a letter to Carlo and Paolo Busako, they frantically searched the house for the entrance to the trap, but to their surprise, the entrance to the trap was not found, but they accidentally found the body of the owner of the mine, Colombo Jr.

Colombo died a strange death, he was shot in the forehead, the projectile made a hole in the door of his wide brain with short hair, and his whole head was black except for blood, and it was clear that his killer had taken advantage of his unsuspecting moment to shoot a musket directly at his head at a very close place, and the residue of gunpowder splattered from the muzzle of the gun even sprayed directly into the face of the hapless deceased.

"I'm surprised that you know me so well, and know that I prefer to use a musket rather than a sword, but that doesn't serve as proof that I'm the murderer." That's what Alexander said to Connieo when he mentioned it.

The guards were nervous and didn't notice anything suspicious about Colombo, but Alexander knew it wouldn't be that simple, and considering Conio's intentions in the mine, he believed that the woman must have some other way to make others suspect him.

"Tell me what you're up to." Alexander asked, "So that I don't care about the fact that you framed me before." ”

"Then you're going to tell me who told you the secret." Connie said bargainingly.

When he heard that Alexander was missing, Busako, who was quietly observing Connieo's secret camp, immediately sent someone to inform Carlo, while the maid, who had arrived at the camp earlier, told the people in the camp that her mistress had also fallen into a trap.

Carlo was aware of the incident when he saw the sudden tense in the camp, and when the guards arrived to tell him that Alexander had fallen into a trap and was missing, Busako realized that the men must have known about the incident.

While waiting for Carlo to arrive, Busako heard some of them shouting incessantly to get somewhere to rescue the woman.

Busako didn't know exactly what the men were talking about, but it was clear that they seemed to know the whereabouts of Alexander and Conneo, so he couldn't wait to follow them out of the basin and rush somewhere.

"My lord, I must admit that I was really nervous at the time, and even thought about the worst outcome more than once." This is what Bussacko said when he helped Alexander get dressed, "until they came to the mouth of this mine, and then heard that they seemed to think that they could find you by going in from here, and that they obviously thought you were ...... I wasn't so worried about the woman until she was still alive, but the next thing I was worried about was whether Carlo would be able to bring someone in time. ”

"I'm here anyway, and it's just in time." Carlo said with some pride, "Although my men are stationed at the foot of the mountain, they are ready to leave at any time, and since I have received the news, I have sent the Bohemians to set out first, although the Agreids are indeed late, but fortunately the soldiers have not lost time." ”

As for Carlo's pride, Connieo seemed a little annoyed.

"Your people have invaded the territory that belongs to the Malindao family, and although our family has lost the mine, this copper mine still belongs to our family. This is our family's earliest property, and it was through this mine that the Malindao family gradually developed, and I will never allow anyone to set foot in this mine at will. ”

Alexander was unimpressed by Connie's anger, and a large part of his attention was on her odd-looking men.

It didn't matter that the men were dressed in a somewhat alien style, but many of them spoke Greek or even Turkic, which made Alexander doubt his previous speculation.

When the worker said that these people were hiding flags with stars and crescent moons, the first thing that came to Alexander's mind was the Ottomans.

But when he calmed down, he felt that his inference was too unreasonable, at least for him to imagine how a group of Ottomans could hide on the continent.

But now, after seeing the alien style that these people could still be vaguely seen despite their deliberate concealment, and the plausible familiarity of hearing them talk, Alexander thought of a possibility.

"Are these people Romans," Alexander asked suddenly, seeing Connie's slightly stunned look, Alexander was sure that he should have guessed correctly, "A group of Romans from the east and places occupied by the Ottomans, tell me who you serve?" ”

The look on Connie's face became even darker, and her gaze began to sweep over Alexander and the Bohemians behind her, a look of hesitation in her eyes at the same time.

"Don't be misguided, my musketeers are not easy to deal with," Alexander smiled as he looked back at the Agri, who had occupied the raised slope on one side of the basin, "and you should know that the Bohemians are not easy to deal with, and you don't seem to have as many people as I do." ”

The last sentence hit Conio hard, and she looked at the Agri who had occupied the slope and cursed in her heart.

Unlike the other women, Connie had a lot of experience due to her apprehensive experience, and she could even see that the terrain occupied by the musketeers was favorable, and although she was confident that her men would be able to defeat the musketeers who didn't seem to be very powerful in close combat, the bohemians couldn't help but make her feel unscrupulous.

And she could see that because of the favorable terrain, the Agri were somewhat of a threat to her men, and that victory would have to come at a price.

"Believe me, I told you before that I am not your enemy, and I don't care what you want to do." Alexander lowered his voice and said, "So you're really going to fight the two of us here?" ”

Connie's face was gloomy, and she pondered Alexander's words as she thought about how to get out of the current situation.

"You have to tell me who is snitching," Connie asked again, "I can take your advice, and none of us know what will happen in the future, do we?" ”

Alexander nodded, he agreed with Conio's words, the current enemy may not have a chance to cooperate in the future, since there seems to be no direct conflict between the two sides, there is really no need to fight each other.

But when he heard that his secret was accidentally discovered by a miner, the expression on Connie's face was first surprised, then suspicious, and finally angry.

"That's your explanation? You still want me not to plant Colombo's death on you? Connie glared angrily at Alexander, "I think you've noticed something special about my men, don't say you didn't see it, but you actually used this reason to prevaricate me, how can you make me believe you?" ”

In the face of Connie's anger and suspicion, the only explanation Alexander could give was to have the worker couple brought in.

As the couple shuddered to explain, Alexander saw an even more wonderful expression on Connie's face.

I really think it's so simple, and even coincidentally so incredible and funny.

When Connie asked him repeatedly, finally making sure that there really was no conspiracy at all, and that it had nothing to do with any of her imaginary enemies, she looked at Alexander with a strange look.

"I'm trying to take advantage of you." Connie was very frank.

"I know, I think you've been trying to take advantage of me from the moment I walked into your house," Alexander dismissed, "Actually, you've already planned that you'll take advantage of whoever comes, and I'm just the one who happened to let you meet." ”

Connie nodded silently admitting that this was indeed the case, and then a hint of helplessness flashed on her face: "But now it seems that I can't use you anymore, you have a secret of mine." ”

Alexander smiled, knowing that this was the time to start negotiations.

"I'll find another murderer for Colombo's death, and I need to do something for me with his death, and I hope you don't expose this."

"Then I'll keep it a secret for today's affair, your people are still safe, and I'm not interested in knowing who's behind you." Alexander naturally understood what Connieo needed.

As Alexander spoke, Connie had been watching him closely, trying to find any flaws in his small movements, but she was disappointed.

What made her even more angry was that although her secret might be revealed, there was nothing she could do.

It is clear that Alexander has the upper hand in this matter.

Staring at Alexander's face, Connieo suddenly smiled.

It was the first time she had smiled since the two met again.

"Maybe I'm a little unlucky, and yours is too lucky," Connie said, tugging his coat hard, "It's the first time I've had a setback, maybe you don't believe it, I've failed so far." ”

"I believe that."

Alexander nodded, he said this very sincerely, and he couldn't help but admit that Connie had indeed played him hard, especially considering that if he hadn't gone back to question her because he had discovered her secret, so that she had to use drastic means, maybe he had been inexplicably charged with killing Colombo, Alexander felt that this woman was simply a little terrible.

"But I'm sure we'll meet again, won't we?" Connie said with a smile, her gaze swept over the frightened miner couple next to her, although her gaze was calm and unusual, but Alexander understood what she meant.

This was a woman who was no inferior to a man in terms of means or scheming, and Alexander looked at the couple as well, and he saw in their eyes the ignorance and uneasiness that they did not yet know what fate awaited them.

Alexander knew he couldn't stop Connie from doing it, or that it was in their compromise.

The couple was pushed away by Connie's side, and they seemed to be only aware of the danger at this point, and their faces began to show panic, and they tried to call Alexander for help, but as soon as they opened their mouths, they were strangled by the people behind them with a rag rope that had been prepared earlier.

"I'm not going to make them miserable," Connie looked at them, then turned to look at Alexander, "Don't you want to guess who I'm serving?" ”

Alexander shook his head speechlessly, he really didn't want to know who this woman worked for, because no matter who the person behind her was, just think that this person was trying to provoke a war between Milan and Rome, and he knew that such a person was not something he could provoke.

"Then goodbye," Connie smiled again, and turned to walk slowly towards her own people, but before she had taken a few steps she turned back to Alexander and said, "I'm sure this won't be the only time we've dealt with each other, but you'll have to be careful in the future, for luck won't follow you forever." Alexandre Giuliante Cambrai, or should I call you George Modiglo? ”

With that, the woman turned and walked away.

Looking at Connieo's back, Alexander shook his head, knowing that he might have really gotten into big trouble.

Then he sighed again.

From the moment he decided to betray the couple, he felt that something inside him was dead.