The dinner party was coming to an end in a relaxed and happy atmosphere, in fact, Commodus had already left in the second half, Zhang Heng also wanted to leave, but considering the character he had created before, he had to wait until the dinner was over to leave, and Lucilla's visit this afternoon also reminded him that as he became more and more famous, more and more eyes focused on him.

A dinner party like this is rare for every participant, it is an important occasion to exchange feelings and make friends, if Zhang Heng wants to maintain the previous appearance of being obsessed with power, he can't leave too early.

Therefore, although Zhang Heng is not interested in this in his heart, he still has to act like he is interested on the surface.

He also doesn't remember how many glasses of wine he drank, the Roman aristocracy liked to drink in lead glasses, in addition to the fact that lead pill (red lead) was also effective in reducing the acidity in the wine, and the aqueducts that supplied the city's water were often also made of clay and lead, as well as all kinds of tableware, kitchen utensils, jewelry, cosmetics, and lead products were almost everywhere...... Not to mention that the ladies of Rome also liked to make lipsticks from lead or cinnabar (red mercury sulfide).

It's not hard to understand why the Roman aristocracy was so difficult to have children.

However, Zhang Heng didn't care much about this, anyway, he would only stay in this copy for a year and a half, and when he returned to the real world, his physical state would return to before entering the dungeon.

Therefore, theoretically, as long as Zhang Heng does not drink himself to death in a year and a half, it doesn't matter if he is chronically poisoned like this, but when the same young man was drinking, Zhang Heng suddenly felt dizzy.

If it was an ordinary person, it was estimated that he would only feel that he had drunk too much wine tonight, but for a well-trained assassin like Zhang Heng, it was easy to realize that there was something wrong with the wine, not to mention that he met with the old Persian trainer not long ago, who had plotted in the same way once, Zhang Heng would naturally be particularly concerned about similar situations.

Therefore, after drinking the first sip, he reacted immediately, so while eating bread, Zhang Heng secretly spit out the remaining wine in his mouth into a clay pot with honey, and then Zhang Heng pretended to be too strong to drink and accidentally knocked the clay pot to the ground. Immediately a maid went to clean up the debris from the ground.

The other maid helped Zhang Heng up and said, "Your Majesty has an explanation, if you are drunk, you can rest in the upstairs room." ”

Zhang Heng mumbled, although he spit out most of the wine, but he could feel that the small sip he drank before was already taking effect, not only his head became dizzy, but also his breathing began to accelerate, and his pupils dilate, fortunately, after all, the dose was small enough, and it was still within Zhang Heng's control, Zhang Heng estimated that he still had about eighty percent of his strength left, compared to drinking all the wine, he could only be slaughtered by others, and in his current state, at least he still had enough power to protect himself.

At the beginning, Zhang Heng was a little surprised, because you must know that this is the imperial palace, and it is probably the most difficult place in the whole of Rome to poison, not to mention so many guests tonight, now it seems that only he has been tricked, which means that the person who poisoned must control all the maids, and the other party even prepared a room for him.

This means that Commodus is likely to know about this, or even if he didn't know it, he acquiesced to the occurrence of this situation, thinking of this, Zhang Heng had already guessed who the person who did it to him, and his heart was relieved.

The maid helped him upstairs to the room, which, unlike the opulence of the banquet hall below, was empty, with only two chairs, facing each other.

The maid put Zhang Heng into one of the chairs, then lit the lamp and withdrew.

Zhang Hengxuan immediately closed his eyes, he was seizing the time to feel the state of his body, and then analyzed what he had drunk before, so that he could try to behave like drinking all the wine in the future.

Zhang Heng himself has lv1 herbology skills, in addition, the knowledge taught to him by the old Persian trainer also has a part of the content of poison, Zhang Heng speculated from his physiological reaction that the glass of wine he drank probably contained scopole.

Ordinary people may not know what scopole is, but the name of the truth elixir should be heard by most people.

The original elixir was discovered by an obstetrician and gynecologist, in order to reduce the pain of the mother, he injected the mother with some plant alkaloids extracted from scopole, and found that the mother would answer the questions truthfully in an unconscious state, and there are precedents in Chinese medicine to use scopole to treat mental mania and relieve pain.

Scopolamine has a stimulating effect on the respiratory center, and at the same time, it will also dilate the pupils and have a significant inhibitory effect on the cerebral cortex, and Zhang Heng's previous body reaction can be matched, but the smell is synthesized by something, fortunately, the numbness on the tongue will not deceive, in addition, scopole itself is highly toxic, it stands to reason that if you want to achieve the effect of spitting the truth directly, the dose is enough to kill, but from Zhang Heng's current feeling, even if he drinks that glass of wine, it should not be enough to poison him.

In other words, the other party's purpose is not to take his life, there should be some other means to dissipate the toxicity of a part of scopole.

The above is the information that Zhang Heng got during this time.

Then he heard his name being called in his ear.

Zhang Heng opened his eyes, but he didn't see anyone on the chair opposite, and the voice calling out to him came from behind him.

"Don't worry, I just wanted to ask you a few questions." The man behind him spoke.

"Who are you and what's wrong with me?" Zhang Heng muttered, he tried, but he couldn't seem to turn his neck.

"You've drunk too much, I think you should have a good rest, don't worry, I'll take care of you, as for me, you should have heard my name. I am Ortrus, and like you, I am an advisor to His Majesty. ”

"You're Ottrus, the guy everyone says hides his head and never shows his true face?"

Aoterus smiled when he heard this, and didn't seem to be very concerned about Zhang Heng's verbal offense, but said, "Yes, I know that some people say that I came, I don't care, you and I are both advisors, we should know that our work is for Your Majesty, as long as Your Majesty trusts us, as for other people's opinions, it doesn't matter." ”

Ottruston paused, then continued, "Alright, that's a lot of gossip, let's get down to business." ”

"What's the point?"

"Like I said, I want to ask you some questions, you just have to give me the answers truthfully, let's start with the southeastern city, you've done a beautiful job there, but I want to know what you agreed with the Jews, I know Lockyd, I know that the old guy can't be scared by a thousand Janissaries, so I want to know what you promised Lockyd, written autonomy or something?"

Lockyd's desire to deal with the Senator Diwobraye was confidential, and only the four people present at the time knew about it, and Lockyd even asked Zhang Heng to swear that he could not spread this matter, otherwise Diwobuleye's power in the Senate was likely to bring great trouble to the southeast city.

Therefore, Zhang Heng originally planned to make up a lie to deal with this problem, but in the next moment, he suddenly remembered the somewhat inexplicable words that Lucilla said before leaving, which sounded a bit like a threat to Lucilla in anger, especially the first half of the sentence Don't think that no one knows what you did.

But now Zhang Heng suddenly realized that this was most likely Lucyla reminding him of something, especially since the guy named Microphone from the Hive was also present at that time, and the latter didn't know if it was a Hound or a Balance Blade person.

Zhang Heng realized that he had to make a choice, if this question was a test of Aotrus on him, then once he answered wrong, Aotrus might soon find out that the elixir had failed, so Zhang Heng said after a moment of silence, "They asked me to deal with a person." ”

"Who?"

"Elder Divobraye, he's too greedy, Lockyd doesn't like him, I shouldn't have said it, I promised Lockyd that I wouldn't say it."

Aoterus snorted, Zhang Heng tried to judge from Aotrus's tone whether he had known about this matter a long time ago, but unfortunately Aotrus also did a good job of hiding his emotions, and just said softly when he heard this, "It's okay, I'll help you keep it secret, we're friends, aren't we?" ”