These vents are inconspicuous, they are basically on the back of the statue, and they are basically invisible without going around, and in addition to the vents, you can also see that the stone slab itself can also be moved, which means that the base of the statue is not solid, but is built with an arched structure like a Flavi amphitheater.

Zhang Heng removed the stone slab and saw that the space below was very narrow, basically only able to accommodate a child no more than fourteen years old, and Zhang Heng also found some bread crumbs and a bowl of unfinished water inside.

But other than that, Zhang Heng couldn't find anything else, so he went around to the back of the temple, where the priests lived.

The young priest who had opened the door to welcome him had gone to bed and was asleep, and in addition to him lived two older priests and six attendants who were doing odd jobs.

Zhang Heng completed the search of their residence without waking them, but he did not gain much, so he retreated to the main hall where the statue was standing, opened the bronze door, and quietly left the temple.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhang Heng stood in front of the temple of Juno, the queen of heaven.

He was about to repeat his old trick and throw the stone in his hand, but the next moment the door of the temple suddenly opened by itself.

A woman dressed as a priest came out with a group of children.

Zhang Heng didn't have time to climb onto the roof, so he could only roll sideways in a hurry, rolled directly to the edge of the cliff, and hung his body directly on the cliff when the gate was fully opened, climbing the rock wall with one hand.

His movements were very fast, but because of the suddenness of the incident, he was still discovered by the child who stepped out first, and the child stopped and looked at the cliff where Zhang Heng was hiding with some doubts.

"Priest Vera, I seem to see something."

The priestess named Vera glanced in the direction the child had indicated, but found nothing unusual, and then said, "It's just the wind, Mosmir, let's hurry up, you'll all have to get up early tomorrow." ”

Mosmere blinked, not believing that what he was seeing was wind, but he obeyed the priestess and walked on, while the other children followed him.

When the children left, the bronze door did not close immediately, but a male priest came out of it, but compared with the priestess just now, he did not pay so much attention to etiquette, and after watching the children leave, he walked directly to the edge of the cliff, unbuttoned his pants, and was about to release the water.

But I didn't expect that it was not his urine that flowed out first, but his blood.

A dark shadow with the breath of death came around behind him at some point, slitting his neck and hugging him as he leaned back so that he couldn't scream when he died. The priest reached out and grabbed the murderer's sleeve, as if he wanted to leave him here, but he only lasted less than a few seconds before he gradually lost his strength.

After that, Zhang Heng put aside the male priest who had turned into a corpse, he grabbed the other party's right hand and looked at it, there were many calluses on the male priest's index finger and thumb, and there were also scars on his arms, obviously he had received strict military training before, and he may even have participated in the war, not so much that he was a priest, but that he was a soldier dressed as a priest.

And judging from his appearance and skin, he should not have been born in Rome, if nothing else, the elite brought by Orterus from the frontier, and he is also his most trusted guard.

Zhang Heng knew that this time he was in the right place.

Speaking of which, Zhang Heng was able to find Aoterus's hiding place thanks to Clinder, if it weren't for the information revealed by Clinde chatting with him in the dungeon that night, Zhang Heng really wouldn't have been able to find here.

Clinder described Outrus's body as like witchcraft, which can enter a person's head and know what you are thinking, and with the experience of being drugged before, Zhang Hengdang thought that Clinder was talking about Oterus's use of truth-spitting potions.

But there is a big problem with using the plant alkali in scopole to pry open a person's mouth, one is the problem of toxicity, although I don't know what means Aotrus used to neutralize some of the toxicity, but it did not make the toxicity disappear completely, with Zhang Heng's physical fitness, drinking that cup of medicinal wine may not be too much of a problem, but it is difficult to say what ordinary people say.

In addition, in terms of efficiency, this is not a good way to gather intelligence, Ortrus needs to make the target drink the prepared medicinal wine first, and also find a way to take the target to a place where no one can start questioning, so that he can interrogate seven or eight people in a day, and it is impossible for him to know the secrets of both commoners and nobles as Clinder said.

And Zhang Heng didn't think that Ortrus would waste scopole on civilians.

He should have other means of gathering intelligence, and scopole is more of a special means for him when dealing with certain emergencies.

In addition, Clinder also mentioned the incident of Otrus being deflated three years ago, the dock workers by the Tiber River begging for wages, paralyzing the traffic on the river, such a big thing Ortrus actually didn't get any news in advance.

Taken together, none of these things seem to explain anything, but when taken together, the answer is about to come out.

- Ortrus gathering intel through the Temple.

The temple and the baths were probably one of the few places open to both the poor and the nobles, and they were also the two most popular places for people to discuss secrets, and believers did not hesitate to express their most secret wishes when praying, and many people liked to talk about business and some private matters in the baths.

And what made Zhang Heng exclude the baths was what Clint said about Otlus's troubles three years ago, and he couldn't get the news of the dock workers in advance, because most of those dock workers were Jews, they either believed in Judaism or Christianity, and they didn't come back to the temple to pray to the Roman gods.

At the same time, Zhang Heng is more inclined to the temple, there is another reason, that is, Otlus was sentenced to death by a word from the court priest, if it wasn't for his father who finally relented and sent him away, he would have died at the age of four, and in the end, although he survived, he also lost the identity of the prince, and he could never live in the sun again.

When he returned to Rome after many years and regained power, Zhang Heng did not believe that he would not take revenge on the priests in the temples, and in this way, he could logically control these temples and turn them into his own intelligence gathering places.

The hiding place that Zhang Heng found under the stone pedestal of Jupiter's statue before is the best proof of this, and the group of children who were taken away by the priestess before should be the ears of Ortellus.