It seems that Diognis is really discouraged to the peak, and actually has the idea of returning to the countryside, no wonder, he fought hard for three months to capture the empire's old enemy Bohemond, thinking that he had completed the emperor's mission, and could still get the corresponding honors and praises, but now? Bohemond was openly let go by the Imperial Caesar, and he was in an ulterior motive for his own purposes, which made it better for him to face His Majesty than to flee from a foreign country.

"No, Commander, I want you to take me and Gawain to Constantinople." Then Peter suddenly made such a request.

"You guys? What value can you have compared to Bohemond who was let go. Diognis's words were full of doubt and distrust.

Then Peter took out his jujube staff, twisted the top of it, and it was actually hollowed out for concealment, and then he took out a scroll of letters from it, unfolded it, and said to the captor, "In fact, I have been hiding this fact from Bohemond beforehand, that is, I am the secret envoy of St. Peter, and I have gone to Constantinople and Asia Minor to make careful reconnaissance and preparations for the coming Christian holy war. ”

Hearing the Pope of St. Peter, Diognis immediately stood and was silent, because at this time, although there were some gaps and estrangements between the churches of the East and the West, and there were some doctrinal disputes, they were far from splitting, and they were still called brothers to each other, while the Western Christian world still honored the ruler of Constantinople as "our Roman Emperor", and the Pope of Rome was also universally respected in the Byzantine world, and was regarded as the "Patriarch of the West", so the reaction of the Guardian was really normal.

In the golden afterglow, as if the parchment handed over by St. Peter's agent, it was covered with a layer of extremely sacred brilliance, and the catcher squinted at it, and sure enough, there was the golden triple crown seal of the Pope, and it was densely transcribed in triplicate in Latin, Norman, and Greek, and the catcher took it with trembling hands, and then Peter said to him, "I can appoint you to escort us to the capital, and ask to see His Majesty the Emperor, and to deliver the Pope's secret letter into His Majesty's own hands, The survival of Christendom as a whole is at stake, and I hope you will give me a clear answer after careful consideration. ”

"If the Pope's agreement could be brought with it, it would be a greater contribution than the capture of Bohemond - do you mean that Constantinople and the city of Rome are about to be reunited and wage a great war against the infidels, honorable monks?" The Commander's hands continued to tremble.

"Yes, my ideals have been approved by the Pope, and a committee will soon be convened to decide on this great matter, and I am confident that if His Majesty the Emperor is willing to help, the knights of the Holy War will expel the infidels entrenched in Asia Minor and return their territories to your empire." Peter said earnestly.

Speaking of this, the catcher nodded, "I am willing to protect you with my life to go to the capital, as long as the East and the West can be united, then the Norman bandits will no longer have a reason to invade the empire, and this is the only remaining contribution I can make to the country, I will be very happy." ”

After the two reached an agreement, they looked back at Gawain, but this one was nowhere to be found!

Peter was so frightened that he was sweating, so he searched with the captor, but at the corner of the courtyard wall, he saw Gawain clutching the wall with his hands, and Peter and Theognis followed his gaze - and saw that on the other side of the street, under the arcade of the shop, a little with chestnut hair, was looking at Gawain with black eyes, wagging her tail from time to time, as if she were leaving.

"Monk, why did I suddenly lift it up and hold it, is it normal to love dogs like this!" Gawain's sweat flowed down and he said to the hermit.

Peter immediately understood, and he hurriedly read the prayer, asking all the patron saints, including the Virgin Mary, to appear as soon as possible to help Gawain, who was suffering and suffering, to get rid of it.

But Gawain was still panting, and couldn't help but walk slowly towards the little,

Peter followed behind Gawain, still gesturing with his hands, shouting to the spirits of beasts and demons, to leave as soon as possible, and at this time the head of the captor was clearer, he stepped forward, snatched the rosary from Peter's hand, and then tied it directly to Gawain's neck - the crowd shouted again, Gawain shouted, and was dragged to the ground by the captor, unable to move, and then the captor saw that Gawain was struggling very strongly, so he took the chain from his subordinates, changed the rosary, and dragged him to the corner of the street with this thing, Directly tied the iron chain to a pillar.

Gawain, who received the control, continued to stand up and instinctively walked towards the pillar, which was his reaction when he saw the pillar, and he wanted to divide the "sphere of influence", but was stopped by Peter again

It wasn't until two days later that the genes about dogs in Gabriel had gradually disappeared, and the three of them walked out of the Gallipoli public inn where they were staying (Byzantium had such charitable facilities in all the larger cities) and arrived at the gates of the fortress to begin a new journey.

Looking back at the mansions, bazaars, churches, and monasteries in the city, Gawain, who was riding on the black mare, finally let out a long sigh, "I don't know where that Kabeamia has gone now, it's hard for me to smell her breath anymore, it's all dissipated in the sea breeze." ”

Then, in front of it were the endless wheat fields, which were also the most fertile and prosperous places in the whole Byzantine Roman Empire, and between each section of the wheat fields, about half a thousand miles, there were dark green woods that acted as a barrier to divide them, like a screen, so that large and large pieces of fertile soil stretched out in the northwest direction, sandwiched between the seas on both sides.

Gawain on horseback felt the winds coming at him in four directions: the moist and warm winds of the Aegean Sea, the furious and cold winds of the Eukhin Sea, the dry and full winds of Asia Minor, and the wheat-scented winds of Thrace.

He did not know what Constantinople, the city of Istanbul, which was still thriving in his original world, and the city of Istanbul, which he had visited many times, would look like in the present era under the shape of these four very different winds.