During this time in Da Vinci's finishing workshop, Lu Xiao was not idle.

It took him half a month to go through the various areas of Venice.

The city of Venice is divided into 5 administrative divisions: Cannaregio, São Paulo, San Marco, Castello and Dorsoduro.

Among them, the castle area is where the Venetian army is stationed, and the defense is very tight, and Lu Xiao did not sneak in rashly.

The core area of Venice is the district of San Paolo and San Marco, and the important administrative organs led by the Doge's Palace are located in the district of San Marco.

Lu Xiao pretended to be a passerby, blended into the crowd and circled around the Governor's Palace, quietly looking for the best route to sneak in.

It's a pity that the defense near the Governor's Mansion is very tight, and there is hardly any space around this independent building that can be infiltrated, which makes Lu Xiao scratch his head a little.

According to Antonio's speculation, Carlo's start time should be in the near future, and Lu Xiao must hurry up and act.

Emilio Barbarigo's main area of activity was concentrated in the São Paulo district, where Venice's fairs and ports were located, and where Leonardo da Vinci worked.

Under the political umbrella of the Barbarigo family, Emilio even made no secret of his exclusion of dissent.

Lu Xiao saw a spice merchant who had gone to the Doge's palace to complain about Barbarigo's monopoly being ridiculed and beaten by the guards, and warned him not to offend the Barbarigo family.

'It's so lawless, and it's a shame that Governor Mocenigo can tolerate them, isn't he afraid that one day Barbarigo will cover the sky and calculate on his head?' ’

Lu Xiao was a little speechless at the magnanimity of Mocenigo's heart, the governor may have been too confident and lacked the necessary vigilance against the Barbarigo family, who were pretending to be deferential.

Now that he has decided on the first target, Lu Xiao will focus all his attention on studying the personality traits and action laws of the trio for the next period of time.

Coincidentally, the day after tomorrow, an overseas trading ship of the Barbarigo family returned from Istanbul with a full load, and Emilio would definitely go to the port in person to accept it, and Lu Xiao decided to set the time for the start on that day.

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The construction of the Sleeve Gun seems to be very complicated, and Da Vinci has been in retreat for a while and still has not finished it.

Fortunately, this kind of noisy firearm should not be used in this operation, and after Lu Xiao prepared his own armament, he went to Venice Port under the leadership of Antonio's thieves.

The vibrant port of Venice is full of ships coming back from all over the world to unload their cargo, and the rude shouts of sailors and the red-necked haggling of merchants are mixed with the sound of too little to communicate effectively.

Lu Xiao and the young thief who led the way didn't need to communicate verbally, and the other party pointed out to him Emilio's location through gestures.

Guarded by a large group of Venetian soldiers, an old man dressed in a splendid aristocratic costume stood in front of a dock with his hands behind his back.

The old man's appearance was nothing to praise, but the momentum of his long-term high position made the sailors and merchants on the dock subconsciously walk around him.

'The official Venetian soldiers used their weapons for private purposes like this? ’

Lu Xiao shook his head with a smile: "Mocenigo, the governor, is too disgraceful." ’

It is the official platform of Venice that allows Emilio to have all kinds of black hands against his competitors without fear of official punishment.

Waving his hand to let the thief evacuate early, Lu Xiao found a blind spot that no one was watching to climb.

After a few minutes of shifting the roof orientation, he finally came to the top of a civilian dock where merchant ships were being built, removed the longbow from his back, and aimed at Emilio, who was looking at the far end of the sea level.

Compared with the previous pure assassinations that avoided the sight of the crowd, due to the tight time for Barbarigo to launch the plan, Lu Xiao's actions this time were relatively high-profile.

The bowstring was full, and after calculating the direction of the wind, fine-tuning the angle of shot, Lu Xiao took a deep breath and held his breath.

"Boom!"

With a muffled sound of the bowstring, the feathered arrow flew across the long distance towards the ignorant Emilio, striking the temple with precision.

"Ahh

"Murder!"

Emilio was shot and fell to the ground in full view of everyone, causing screams and commotion near the docks.

With the blessing of clairvoyance and the perennial exercise of arm strength, Lu Xiao's shooting limit far exceeded that of ordinary archers, and the panicked guards scanned the farthest shooting range they could understand for a long time and failed to find Lu Xiao's trace.

Under the response of Antonio's thieves, Lu Xiao blended into the fleeing crowd and quietly left the port area.

Lu Xiao's assassination plan is not over yet, Emilio's body will definitely be moved back to the Barbarigo family's mansion for examination before being buried.

Marco was lucky that he didn't go out in the mansion today, but Silvio wasn't so lucky.

If nothing else, he should rush home as soon as he gets the news, and it is the best time for Lu Xiao to make a move.

The Barbarigo family's mansion is located in the district of San Marco, not far from the Doge's Palace in Venice.

Lu Xiao relied on the route that had already been calculated, and ran wildly from the roof to the target location.

Venice is not like Florence, the archers on the roof will not turn a blind eye to Lu Xiao, a stranger, and at this time it will be Antonio's turn to come out.

The agile thief climbed to the roof with Lu Xiao, and when Lu Xiao aroused the archer's alertness, the thief would take the initiative to divert the archer's attention.

With the support of the thieves' union, Lu Xiao finally arrived at the intended ambush site in the San Marco district, and Silvio just strode towards Barbarigo's house from the direction of the Doge's Palace.

Silvio was a fat man in a monk's hooded robe, and a gloomy expression could be seen under his hood, and it was clear that Emilio's death had made him not feel good.

Silvio, who was hurrying away, was also flanked by several heavily armed Venetian guards, and if he attacked from the ground, it would be difficult to penetrate the defenses of these guards and attack Silvio directly.

Lightly putting down the corpse of an assassinated Venetian archer, Lu Xiao crouched on the edge of the roof, throwing out the bloody Hidden Blade to prepare.

Using dynamic vision to calculate the advance of Silvio's walking, Lu Xiao jumped down from the air, and the sound of the stabbing agent being blown by the falling air stream aroused Silvio's vigilance, and he subconsciously looked up into the air.

"Boom!"

Lu Xiao, who fell from the sky, stabbed the Hidden Blade into Silvio's forehead, and without waiting for the surrounding guards to react, he immediately threw the smashing smoke bomb that Leonardo da Vinci had made when he was bored on the ground.

"Ahem!"

Lu Xiao had already prepared to hold his breath in advance, cover his eyes, and evacuate in time, but the guards were choked by the smoke inhaled and coughed repeatedly.

These smoke are lime powder that explodes in one breath, and if inhaled into the nose, it will cause a lot of damage to the body, and if it is not properly treated and cleaned with water after being pasted into the eyes, there is a great chance of burning the eyeballs.

By the time the lime smoke cleared, there was no trace of the enemy at the scene, except for a corpse with a pierced forehead and a few guards coughing in pain.

Frightened waterfowl took off in St. Mark's Square with a scream, and the nearby nobles and government officials noticed that a murder had taken place in the heart of the city.