In order to prevent unnecessary trouble, everyone hurried along the way. It took most of the day to arrive at Venis.

The lack of chasers in charge of the prison made Aske regretful.

What do you regret? Albrecht complained silently.

The city-state of Venis, founded on numerous islands in the northern Adriatic Sea.

In the early Quaternary period, the city of Venisia was still on the mainland, but as the barbarian transcendent armies continued to invade the West Solomonic Empire, the residents of the nearby West Solomon were forced to flee to live on many islands offshore, and blew up the bridge connecting to the mainland, keeping only shipping and waterways for transportation.

In the end, he managed to survive the barbarian wave at the end of the Quaternary Age, and persevered until the rescue of the Eastern Solomonic Empire arrived.

In the middle of the Fifth Age, with the gradual decline and retraction of the power of the Eastern Solomonic Empire, Venis gradually gained an autonomous and autonomous political status from the tight control of the empire.

One of the most famous autonomous rebates is that Venysworth has adhered to the free port and duty-free policy for hundreds of years, attracting a large number of Italian-Canadian consortiums to invest in Venis, and eventually building Venus into an offshore financial center for the entire West.

On the economic front, well-developed multinational banks, securities markets, funds and trusts, insurance, financial leasing and futures businesses, as well as a variety of financial derivatives, are almost clustered together in this archipelago city-state on the northern shore of the Adriatic Sea. The princes and nobles of the mainland countries were also happy to deposit their property in the Venice Bank, or hand it over to professional managers for operation and value preservation.

As for the political aspect, as a white glove for the capital operation of Italy and the consortium, the city-state of Venis, in its heyday, was even able to openly argue with the Holy See and independently implement a policy of relaxation towards the transcendent, which is why the emperor gave priority to cooperation with the city-state of Venisia rather than the negotiation of force.

After all, the Saxony family also has assets in Venis!

The crowd rode to the shore and saw a huge bridge across the sea, which had been blown in two hundreds of years earlier.

This is known as the "Venisia Free Bridge", which completely separates the Venisian Islands from the mainland.

"How is this going to pass?" Albrecht was worried, this knight of the North Francons was also here for the first time, and had no idea how to get into Venis, "Do you want to cut down trees and build some canoes to row over?" ”

"And then you'll be sunk by their shore-based artillery." Aske complained.

"What then?" Albrecht asked.

"Find the Thieves' Guild." Asker said.

In the original game world, the first thing players do when they enter the map of a new town is to find the Thieves' Guild.

If you find the Thieves' Guild, you can figure out which places and NPCs in the city can take on quests, where are the hidden black markets and illegal gatherings of transcendents, and most importantly, how to kill the chickens of the residents by mistake, how to pay the guards a ransom to remove the wanted people, etc., all of them can be figured out in one go.

Asker walked to the shore, where the saltwater lake was overgrown with large reeds, and it looked desolate and quiet. He led the group along the reed field for about a kilometer, and finally found a simple pier, where a lean young man was sitting in a boat smoking a cigarette.

Seeing a large group of armed knights approaching from a distance, the young man's face changed for a moment, and he was about to jump into the water to escape, when suddenly he heard the sound of metal colliding.

The sound of coins colliding, to be exact, was a crisp and beautiful rhythm that he knew all too well.

Asker held a money bag and shook it in his hand carelessly, and the young man's eyes stared at the money bag for a long time, and finally he couldn't help but exclaim:

"Hey, what are you going to do?"

"We're looking for a way to get to Vinis." Aske said boredly, "I also prepared a large amount of boat fare, but unfortunately, I couldn't find a passenger ship." ”

"Hey, the empire has hit Italy recently, how can there be a serious passenger ship that dares to carry people in the Adriatic Sea? I'm afraid it wasn't forcibly requisitioned by Emperor Shinra. The young man laughed and threw the cigarette butt into the muddy field beside him, "If you can trust me, take my boat." ”

"You?" Asker also laughed, "How many people can you carry on this little broken ship?" We're all wearing armor and swords, and it's heavy. ”

"Don't look at my boat, the draft is shallow, but the bottom is wide!" The young man patted the side of the boat, "Including me, it will not be a problem to carry two more knights." ”

"That's good." Asker didn't bother to bargain with him, "Three silver marks, everyone." For every third of the number of people transported, you will be given one-third of the travel expenses. ”

"Only three silver marks?" The young man jumped up as if he had been humiliated, "This price is impossible!" You need to know ......"

"I know that in Viny, hiring a boat like yours for half an hour is only 80 coppers." Asker said with a sneer.

"That's the price in the city!" The young man didn't expect that this guy actually knew the freight rate in Venis City, and his eyes rolled and said, "From the shore to the island, there will be occasional strong winds and waves, and there will be guards to check, and the price will at least be doubled......"

"Then let's keep looking, there should be more than one ship along this coast." Aske looked back and said to Albrecht.

Seeing that this group of knights was really leaving, the young man finally couldn't hold his breath. Carrying people on the shore is considered a private job, and whoever pulls the money for the smugglers will belong to whom, so he is not the only one in the guild who wanders around on the shore.

If his companions were to accept the three marks of the freight, he would not have made the money.

So the young man stood up, raised one arm, and cried:

"Wait!"

The knights turned their heads and did not speak.

"The price of three marks is barely okay." The young thief said with a smile, "But outsiders have been strictly inspected in this city recently, and your equipment will definitely not be able to get in." ”

"I do know there is a safe place to smuggle, as long as you follow me. Of course, the shipping fee is the shipping cost, and other procedures can be charged extra, you understand? ”

"Okay." Seeing that he knew each other like this, Aske agreed very happily.

So everyone started to get on board. The boat can only carry two people at a time, so Asker arranges a knight + a girl to take the boat together and transport all the girls first.

This was to prevent the young thief from taking the risk of being a bully if two girls were to board the ship at the same time, thinking that the girls were easy to bully (although none of them were actually bullied).

The young thief silently watched his arrangement, thinking that this guy was really an old oilman, and he was not easy to fool.

After transporting everyone over, Asker was the last to board the ship.

"Do you know how to paddle?" The young thief asked, and threw the oar to him.

"A little." Asker picked up the oars and rowed.

"Ouch, veteran." Seeing his skillful handling of the boat, the young thief exclaimed, "You are a Norman oarsman!" ”

"You know the Normans, too?" Asker asked casually.

"Of course." The thief said, "Didn't the Norman pirates occupy Sicily, who doesn't know that Italy and the other side don't know that our Venice Navy has fought with them." ”

"You're from the Navy?" Asker asked.

"It used to be." The thief said, "But not anymore, it's too Fǔ Bài, and the veterans can't get mixed up." ”

Speaking of this, he seemed to be interested again, leaned over and said mysteriously:

"Did you know that our Governor of Venis has recently been hanged in the port of the city gates of Tocello!"