"What's so strange about hanging a Governor Venis?" Aske said disdainfully, "Ever since Constantinople was captured by the Crusader knights under the leadership of your governor Venis, the Cyres have hanged a Viceroy of Venis every week. ”

"That's verbal hanging!" The thief laughed, "It's just like illegally raising money and promising high interest, it's just foolish words." But this time we are really hanged by the Governor! Governor Enrique's successor, less than a year after taking office, was hanged in the port of the Venisians' own house! ”

"I've heard it was a pure-blood hermitage who did it." Asker said quietly.

He is well aware of how to deal with this kind of young man, and when he is collecting information, he has to put on an arrogant posture of "I know more" and "what you know is fake news" to arouse the other party's competitiveness.

Sure enough, the thief rowing on the opposite side immediately sneered:

"Not only that, but also a female demigod who has fallen into madness! Our citizens throughout the Tocello district have seen it! ”

Female demigods? That would allow Peggy to ask her master...... Wait, this crazy demigod can't be Agrippina, the flower of belladonna?

Asker suddenly had a strange premonition, and hurriedly asked:

"That demigod is a woman? Somewhat old and dressed up as a lady? ”

"And that's not all." The thief said playfully, "You're in good shape!" The plump plumpness, the slender slenderness, is comparable to the top brand in the Moulin Rouge! ”

Asker: ..................

As the boat approached the island of Riodo, the thieves made him lie down and paddle the boat down the shadows of the waterway, and soon passed through the bridges and into the dark river of a certain building.

Sure enough, no matter where you are, the thieves' guild and the city sewers are inseparable.

The sewers of Venis, in fact, are the system of dark rivers that run through the entire bottom of the city. When the city was built, concrete piers were driven into the shallow bottom of the sea and then paved with waterproof Istrian stone slabs as foundations.

The Istrian Slabs divide the whole of Venisia into two areas, with the sun-drenched neighborhood at the top and the thieves' guild at the bottom, near the sea, where the thieves' guild operates, with a variety of boats and planks to build a shadowy street market.

The girls of the Blue Sword and the knights of Albrecht were already waiting there. They stripped off their armor and put on absorbent gray/brown cotton robes, and hid their weapons underneath them, looking like devout believers preparing to worship at St. Mark's church.

After paying for the same disguise, and buying a stack of maps of Venis from the Thieves' Guild, Asker distributed the maps to the people, and then rented a dark room nearby for the secret meeting, and consulted with them:

"Next, we're going to split up."

"A team is responsible for representing His Majesty the Emperor and going as an envoy to negotiate with the Venis City Council."

"The other team is in charge of secretly investigating the truth about the 'hanging of Governor Venis'."

"Wait!" Albrecht questioned, "Your Majesty has explained this trip, because time is pressing, so we should still move forward with negotiations as soon as possible......"

"Okay, then you can preside over the negotiation and get it done within three days, okay?" Aske asked calmly.

Albrecht: ..................

"The reason why the previous envoys couldn't figure it out for a long time was because the Venis City Council, which negotiated with us, could not form a unified opinion on its own." Aske explained, "The hanged governor was the successor appointed by Governor Enrique before he joined the Crusade, and inherited enough political prestige by nature. And his death led to a temporary power vacuum at the top of the Venis City Council. ”

"Now the city council of Venis is divided into two groups, one is the Conservative Party, which advocates attachment to the Holy See and hostility to the Empire, after all, the Empire once supported Italy and the opposite city-state of Genova, and has long been in opposition to Venice in the Mediterranean trade, so they have no good opinion of the Empire."

The other group is the New Party, which advocates the digestion of the means of production plundered from the Eastern Solomonic Empire, the transformation and development of industry and manufacturing, and the diversification of industries. If manufacturing is to be developed, it is necessary to maintain good relations with the empire of the initial industrialization. ”

"With the death of the Governor-General, the political struggle between the Conservatives and the New Party is bound to intensify. I can make a definite assertion that Albrecht, even if you and the New Party give 10,000 reasons why the Reich and Venis should cooperate, the Conservatives will come up with 10,000 reasons to oppose it. ”

"To make matters worse, there is no political leader of sufficient prestige to unite the views of the New Party and the Conservative Party, so that the negotiations can only be delayed indefinitely. So the only key to breaking the game is to find out who is the murderer of the 'Governor of Venis'......"

"And then give this to the New Party as a credit? Let them quickly overwhelm the Conservatives in politics with the popular support they have gained through the truth, and thus push the Winyness and the Reich to cooperate? Albrecht, after all, was also of aristocratic origin, and immediately realized how important the political value of "catching the murderer of the Governor of Venis" was for the current Venisian leadership.

"To the New Party?" Aske looked at him like an idiot, "How can it be given away for nothing?" ”

"To be exact, to sell to them through an exchange of benefits...... Of course, it depends on how much they can give, after all, we also need to try to close the deal. ”

Albrecht: ..................

Well, he had forgotten that this was a mercenary.

As a mercenary mercenary, you can give up part of your interests in the transaction to ensure the quick completion of the business, but it is absolutely impossible to give it for nothing.

"How long will it take?" Albrecht groaned.

"Three or four days." "If we can't find out the truth in three or four days, it's going to be a tricky situation, and we're going to have to abandon that path and go for a riskier option." ”

"Okay." Albrecht didn't ask what the "riskier option" was, was the weapon hidden in the robes an ornament?

"Then how do you divide the team?" The honest knight asked again.

"Nola, Eleanor, Sheila, Mill." Asker quickly counted the personnel, "You are responsible for representing the Imperial envoys, going to the Venis City Council to negotiate, note that advancing the negotiation process is not your focus, your actual task is to figure out the distribution of the two parties in the Venice City Council as soon as possible, those are the diehards who oppose the Empire, and those are the grass on the wall, you have to figure it out." ”

Considering Eleanor's status as an imperial nobleman, Nola's ability to read minds, Sheila's clever mind, and Mier's personal protection, such a detachment was reasonable, so the four girls nodded solemnly and agreed.

"Medea, Sidlifa, Peggy, and Mia, you're in charge of following me into the investigation. Pay attention to try not to make extraneous branches in ordinary times, but when you have to fight, you must also fight neatly, and don't entangle with the other party to attract official attention, you know? ”

"Yes!" The other four girls said the same.

Here, Mia is in charge of investigation, Peggy is in charge of kidnapping, Sidlifa is in charge of torture to extract confessions, and Medea is in charge of soul torture, and the unscrupulous agent quartet was quickly and improvised under the leadership of the Great Demon King Asker.

"So, Albrecht, where are you going to follow?" Asker finally asked.

"Let's follow Her Highness Eleanor." Albrecht was quite self-aware.

After all, their purpose is mainly to supervise the negotiation process between the envoys and the Venice City Council, and as for the truth of the investigation of the case that Asker said, there are no suitable talents in his knightly team, and rashly following the past will only add to the chaos.

"That's good." Aske finally said, "Every night at 18:00, each team sends a representative to gather here in the Thieves' Guild to exchange information with each other, do you understand? ”

"Got it!" This time the girls and the knights all responded.