The cardinal of the next door creaked obscurely, the candlelight took over in an instant, the eyes that had barely adapted to the darkness dodged, and the fat jailer impatiently knocked on the wooden gate with a stick, and the key hanging from his waist rattled, as if he was angry that his meal had been interrupted.

"You bedbugs who deserve maggots, don't make a fuss!"

He stabbed the nearest prisoner near the door, and the latter exclaimed in pain: "If you make any more trouble, I will stuff your mouths with pig manure and hang them, do you hear?" ”

The fat jailer burped when he talked about pig dung, which made me laugh out loud, and he immediately blew up his hair as if he had touched fire.

"Bastard! Who was laughing just now! I have to clean him up, sir, stand up ......"

The rest of the sound stopped abruptly, and became a muffled sound in the throat, and the knight who had killed people was familiar with the movement, and when a sharp enough knife cut his neck, the scorching blood poured into the trachea, and when it met the exhaled air in the lungs, it would make such a sound, and the noisy cell was silent for a moment.

The fat jailer touched his neck in disbelief, trying to plug the fountain's bloody wound, but as the blood flowed more and more, he finally lost his strength and collapsed to the ground limply, like a deflated rubber toy, which looked very large, and the result was a pile of rotten meat.

A slender black figure appeared silently behind the corpse, and before everyone could react, he put his finger to his lips and exhaled softly:

"Shh......h

Immediately after, one, two, and three black shadows walked down from their hiding place, with a deliberate and forbearant slaughter.

"Who are you?" I decided to stand up and speak first.

The other party was silent, and commanded his subordinates to remove the rusty lock on the door. Finger-thick chains fell to the ground, and the door opened, but no one dared to take a step forward.

"Your Excellency."

The mysterious black shadow spoke, and the fat jailer's burning candle reached him, illuminating his thin figure and tightly wrapped black short clothes.

"My lord, Leonardo-sama, let us save you." The shadow spoke, but refused to take off the hood that covered his face.

I squinted, racking my brain to discern the voice owner.

It's all too familiar, who is he? The question hovered in my mind, but I knew that without further ado, everyone had to hurry out and save the long night and dreaming too much, and be discovered by the patrolling soldiers.

"What's going on above?" I asked.

"It's already dark, there aren't many soldiers patrolling the courtyard, and the people brought by Baron Otto are all gathered in the lord's hall for the banquet."

The mysterious man sent by Leonardo will learn about the situation one by one.

"There are still a few of our men outside, ready to take down the patrolling enemy, please rest assured, nothing goes wrong."

"Don't talk much, go out first, move fast!"

I stood up against the wall, curled up for a long time so that my thighs were numb, and I almost fell down, the mysterious man quickly grabbed me, a pair of slender and powerful hands faintly transmitted strength through the layers of clothing, I was slightly stunned, this feeling is both familiar and distant, but no matter how hard I racked my brain, I can't remember when and where I have experienced it.

"Please be careful, sir."

The voice was half hoarse, half hoarse, unable to tell whether it was a man or a woman, and the other man's hood was so large that it almost obscured all the light that hit his face.

Who are you? This question was held in my heart, and I asked a series of questions:

"Leonardo sent you? Where is he? How's it going in Nijmegen? What about my family? ”

"There are a lot of people here, stay in a safe place, I will help you answer them one by one, so it's better to leave quickly!"

The mysterious man picked me up and walked out the door, leaving two men in black to deal with the scene.

Walking out of the dungeon, the fresh air outside moistened the spleen and lungs, making the whole groggy person suddenly feel a lot of energy, the sky was gloomy behind the dark clouds, so black that he couldn't see his fingers, it was the right time to escape from prison.

There were several bonfires burning in the square, soldiers carrying guns gathered in threes and threes to warm up, and the stone lord's hall in the distance was brightly lit and full of people.

Farther afield, the valleys are deep, the jungles are reckless, and the houses built in the shape of the mountains are completely dark, and they should have fallen asleep early.

"Wait, ...... over there"

I grabbed the mysterious man's arm and reminded him that he had completely ignored the soldiers patrolling the square, and went on a rampage.

"It's not a good thing."

He dragged me to the city gate and replied succinctly and directly: "That's our man." ”

Sure enough, the soldiers who baked the fire still drank and chatted happily regardless of the noise made by a group of people fleeing from the courtyard, and no one even looked back during the whole process, and the training was quite quality.

In order not to alarm the enemies in the lord's hall, the city gate was not fully opened, and the iron gate only rose to a height that could be passed by one cat's waist, and the twenty or so prisoners who had just escaped from the dungeon really wasted a long time before they came out one by one, and quickly disappeared into the dark night under the leadership of the person who answered the door, and everything in the city returned to normal again.

I didn't know how long I had been running, but through the dense forest, the scene suddenly opened up, and a river that meandered like a silver belt coiled down, forming a shallow beach made of small pebbles.

"Let's take a break here."

The man in black signaled to stop advancing, and the crowd, who had long been exhausted and collapsed, immediately lay down on the ground, and the strange chirping of mountain owls echoed in the valley, adding a little mystery to the night.

"My lord, please drink some water."

The man in black handed over the skin of the new river water, and I eagerly snatched it and poured it into my mouth, irrigating my dry and smoking throat.

"Can you tell me Leonardo's whereabouts now?"

I wiped the corners of my mouth and whispered while no one was looking, "...... them Are they all still safe? ”

The man in black did not answer, his breath was as dull as a gossamer, I stared into his eyes, hoping to read the answer I wanted from it, but unfortunately I gained nothing, this man's heart was as heavy as the sea, and it seemed to be endless, but he built a heavy wall in the most important place, and put a firm lock on it.

"Your questions are too many, my lord."

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, the black-clothed man slowly spoke: "Which one do you want me to answer first?" ”

No one dares to talk to me like this, the words are full of doubts and rhetorical questions, for the minions, it is their duty to honestly answer the master's questions, but the person in front of me, the same scene, the same stubbornness, the same temper, where did the déjà vu appear, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration in my mind, and the back that I couldn't forget and couldn't love slowly emerged, flickering far and near, and looking detached.

"Are you...... Arya? ”

After all this time, I still have a reflexive sensitivity to the name, like an ice cube in my mouth.

"Is that you, Miss Crescenty?"

The man in black still kept silent, but the wall in the depths of his eyes had begun to crumble and disintegrate, revealing forbearance emotions, I knew that I guessed correctly, the person in front of me was the one who was difficult to face and had to face!

Arya. Oliveiras. Crescenti, daughter of Duke Crescenti I of Ravenna, sister of Medida, Count of Ancona, the only honorary knight to be crowned by the Pope, the woman whose family was ruined, killed by my own hands, and pushed into the sea of misery.

"Really, long time no see."

I've imagined countless reunions, and I've thought about what I've been saying over and over again. But when everything happens unexpectedly, it is such a simple sentence that is spoken.

"Long time no see"

Contains a thousand words, I want to say more than this, but I can only stop there.

"Now is not the time to catch up, Lord Duke, and Arya has been dead for a long time, and there is no Arya now. There was only code name four, and I inherited my father's code name. ”

Arya, no, Codename Four bluntly rejected my kind greetings, and perhaps the mustard in my heart has not been eliminated.

"This time the enemy is stronger than ever, and knows and knows Nijmegen far better than we do, in other words, they are ourselves." Her businesslike attitude made my heart ache like a fish in my throat.

Concentrating, following the deep meaning of the words, I naturally remembered another group of mysterious beings: "Ourselves? What do you mean......"

"Remember an old Jewish dealer named Isaac?" Codename's face was calm, as if there was nothing in this world that she didn't know.

Old crook Isaac? I remember the cunning of that guy who had escaped from the Poles' prison and identified Enides.

"Did he do this?"

I frowned, unable to believe the words of Code Name Four: "He's ......"

"Yes, he is Enides, but a shameful traitor, who has betrayed the Order's self-reliance along with the lackeys of the depraved faith."

Codename Four continues her unfazed narrative......

"I am afraid that Lord Leonardo knows more about the story of the split of Enides than I know, and you can ask him for all the details, as the sword of Enides, I am only responsible for carrying out the orders of my superiors and destroying any dangerous enemy."

Things get complicated, and what was once a simple imperial civil war escalates into chaos between the different factions of the Enides organization.

"Why should they help the enemy attack me? Who is behind this? "I sorted out my thoughts and decided to calm down first and find out the real opponent.

Codename Four shook his head: "We are still tracking, but unfortunately there are no clues, it's like looking in a mirror, there are exactly the same people on both sides of the mirror, and our every move reflects each other's movements, all in each other's expectations." ”

She pursed her lips in rare annoyance, revealing helpless frustration: "This is also the reason why Nijmegen did not get any news before the enemy's operation, he made us blind and deaf. ”

The price of being deaf and blind was too great, and I lost my beloved wife, my lovely son, and my happy home. Now we're the same, Arya, I shook my head self-deprecatingly, a bitter smile on my lips.

She noticed the change in my expression, her eyes seemed to fluctuate, but she quickly succumbed to her terrible reason, what kind of harm did the past and reality bring to a person to completely change her original nature, and her miserable and melancholy today, will it also be the tomorrow I can look forward to?

"Anyway, I have to go back."

Codename IV nodded his head, like emotionless steel: "I exist to fulfill all your orders. ”

She put her hood back on, and her entire face disappeared into the shadows again.

I asked for no reason: "Where is Leonardo?" Is he okay? ”

"Lord Leonardo's hiding place is very hidden, it is a safe house handed down from ancient times, so I don't know the exact location, he activated a special line to get in touch with the surviving subordinates on the periphery, and continue to remotely direct the operation of Enides."

Codename Four's voice blends perfectly with the silence of the night, and she belongs to the night.

"Although the split Enides organization has differences with us in some identities, it has never seen each other in a hundred years, the two sides have always maintained basic restraint, and do not cross the bottom line that they know each other, the division of the organization is a family matter, and it is a big deal to hide and go their own way, and it will never escalate into a bloody conflict, but this time, they first violated the rules, and once the rules are broken, I am worried that the outcome will be out of control."

She paused: "Towards self-destruction." ”

We are accustomed to forgiving and tolerating the mistakes of outsiders, but we are obsessed with the small faults of our own people, which is the root of human inferiority.

"After I set out on a warship of the Eastern Roman Navy, I was attacked by unknown pirates off the coast of Tuscany, and I fell into danger and saved the danger several times along the way to escape, they are all Isaac's people, right?"

"Their purpose is to kill you and completely destroy the organization in Nijmegen."

Codename Four is a little excited, she has lost her father and brother, and Enides is her only home and sustenance, and a person cannot lose her home twice.

"Kill you, destroy Aeneas's prophecy, but then?"

"And then? And then I was alive, and Aeneas's prophecy continued. ”

Code Number Four stopped asking, "What do you want to do, my lord?" ”

"Revenge, let those who deserve it pay, they, every murderer in front of and behind the scenes." I gritted my teeth and spat out the words, pouring out my anger in my answers.

The night wind blew slowly, stirring the moaning of countless treetops, and the two people with their own hearts were speechless, and silence at the moment was worth a thousand words.

"Can you contact my troops, according to the plan, they should almost ambush nearby, ready to join us inside and outside to take Martini, and open the main route back."

I tidied up my messy outfit and firmly issued my first command: "Find them!" ”

The sword of Enides solemnly bowed to his master, the chariot of revenge moved, Codename Four took two steps away, and looked back at me as if he remembered something, no longer hiding the tenderness between his eyebrows: "Master Leonardo asked me to tell you that little Martin is safe with him." ”

My son is still alive! The news seemed to be poured into the mouth of the dying patient's hanging ginseng soup, instantly restoring hope from the clouds.

"My son...... My dear little Martin......"

Two lines of tears burst out of my eyes, and then poured into a surging momentum, and I bit my lip, and the smell of blood rushed straight to the top of my head very clearly, and also reminded myself that the joy of this moment was real.

"Dad will come back to you as a victor, all the enemies of the past, present and future, let me help you clear them once and for all!"

(End of chapter)