Confused, Ezio followed Giovanni with Lu Xiao in disbelief, watching his father activate the hidden mechanism in the study and descend a staircase to the basement of the mansion.

After Giovanni lit the room, Ezio looked at the furnishings in the basement in amazement, having lived in the Palazzo Auditore in Florence for more than ten years, and had never known that there was such a secret room underneath his house.

Ignoring the surprised Ezio for a moment, Giovanni turned his gaze to Lu Xiao and glanced at the bloodstains on his stabbing body.

"Lu, did you infiltrate the Patch family's market stronghold alone?"

"Hmm."

Lu Xiao took out the pages of the Codex from his arms and handed them to Giovanni: "Fortunately, the rookie in charge of guarding is Vieri, and with an experienced general, I'm afraid I won't be so easy to get it." ”

"Vieri?"

Ezio couldn't help but interject in loneliness, and he asked with a confused expression, "What are you talking about?" Infiltrate a stronghold? What's going on with the red marks on Lu Xiao's body, these can't all be blood, right? ”

Giovanni raised his hand to stop the second son's 100,000 and asked: "Calm down, Ezio, I will explain to you in detail later, please be quiet for now." ”

Looking down at the pages of the Codex that still had the temperature in his hand, Giovanni sighed softly: "Unexpectedly, our understanding of the Creed is not as good as that of you, a newcomer who has just joined, and this adventure has worked hard for you." ”

"There's one thing I want to ask you, though."

Giovanni looked at Lu Xiao seriously: "What do you think of Altaïr's questioning?" Do you also think that there is an inseparable contradiction between the creed we have held for many years and the reality? ”

"Hmm......" Lu Xiao scratched her head, "Mr. Giovanni, my opinion may be a bit deviant for you veteran assassins. ”

"I believe that the fundamental purpose of both the Templars and the Assassins was to guide humanity forward, and the only difference was between us and the Templars in the way we wished to go."

"The Assassins pursued free will and innovation, which I call Chaos, while the Templars advocated the use of power to control the hearts and minds of the people, which I call Order."

"Order and chaos, this world can't do without any party."

"The lack of order will allow us to relive the chaos and immortality of the primeval era, and the lack of chaos will make our society dead and uncreative."

"From this point of view, a landslide victory for either side of order or chaos is not a good thing for our world."

Giovanni frowned, "That is, you think that the Templars are also necessary for this world, and you do not approve of the idea of certain members of the Brotherhood to completely eliminate them?" ”

"Yes."

Lu Xiao solemnly expressed his opinion: "In the past few thousand years, my motherland has experienced many times when chaos overwhelmed order, and order counterattacked chaos. ”

"Whichever side has the absolute upper hand will trigger a new round of social upheaval, and calm will return only when the balance between the two forces is re-established."

"From the perspective of our Eastern Brotherhood, what the world needs is not pure order and chaos, but what we seek is a subtle equilibrium that is in line with the Eastern philosophy of 'moderation'."

Giovanni lowered his head and pondered for a long time, and finally exhaled and said, "I see, although I can't fully accept the idea of the Eastern Brotherhood, I will try to discuss it with Mario." ”

"Perhaps, Altaïr had similar views to you, which is why he left his doubts and reflections on the Assassin's Creed in the Codex."

"It's a pity that we haven't been able to get a glimpse of the ideas he realized in his later years until we have collected the Codex."

Lu Xiao smiled and pointed to the page of the Codex in Giovanni's hand: "Isn't there just another page here?" It seems that this page is also mostly written records, and there may be some important information. ”

Giovanni finally smiled: "Yes, I have worked hard for you tonight, for your personal safety, it is best to seek the assistance of other Brotherhood members before acting in the future." ”

Glancing at Ezio, who was about to lose his breath, Giovanni said with a smile: "You go and rest first, I still have something to say to Ezio, this kid looks like he can't wait." ”

……

As a young man, Ezio was reckless and dissolute, and he was very immature without much experience.

Lu Xiao had little interest in the conversation between the two fathers and sons, and he could probably guess what Giovanni was going to say to Ezio, and even Ezio's possible reaction.

Back in his room, Lu Xiao replaced the blood-stained stinger and handed the blood-stained clothes to a middle-aged maid named Anneta to wash alone.

Anneta was also a member of the Assassin Brotherhood, the sister of Paula, the Florentine courtesan chieftain, who had previously been in prison with Paula for an accusation, but was saved thanks to Giovanni's rescue.

In order to repay her kindness, Anneta volunteered to stay behind and serve as the maid of the Auditore family, disposing of some shady items for the Assassins in the family.

After dealing with a series of chores, Lu Xiao calmed down and looked at the random task rewards released by the system.

"System, what is the principle of random task triggering? Prompts are only given when they are done inadvertently? ”

"No, random missions may also be released before the host's action, as described in the face of the meaning, all random."

"Oh?"

Lu Xiao asked playfully: "In other words, the rewards are also random?" ”

"Yes, depending on the difficulty of the random mission, the reward quality will also fluctuate."

Looking at the remaining lottery chances above the excellent level in the world in the system panel, Lu Xiao decided to use it now.

"System, turn on the lottery wheel."

According to Lu Xiao's observation, the size of each grid of the lottery wheel that emerged in the void was the same, and there was no such thing as who had a greater chance of winning the lottery and whose chance was smaller.

Passive and active skills, weapons and armor, medicines, and props classified into miscellaneous items are included in the raffle, and there is no thank you for patronizing, and there is a guarantee as the system says.

As the turntable rotated at a speed that was difficult for claireyes to capture, Lu Xiao closed his eyes and waited silently for a few seconds before speaking again.

"Stop!"

The turntable slowly slowed down under Lu Xiao's orders, and the pointer swiped over skills such as underwater breathing, adrenaline, and props such as primary healing potions, and finally stopped at an excellent quality weapon and equipment.

"Congratulations to the host, draw a pair of leather boots (boot blades)."

"Boot blades?"

Lu Xiao immediately took out the prize from the prize space.

This is a pair of leather boots that look ordinary, but after reading the system instructions, Lu Xiao's face showed a look of surprise.

"Isn't this one of the pocket weapons exclusive to the Eastern Brotherhood of Assassins?"

The Bootblade, an evolution of the Eastern Brotherhood of Assassins' use of the Hidden Blade, uses the same principle as the Hidden Blade to eject blades from specially crafted leather boots and launch attacks on enemies by surprise.

"Boom!"

After putting on the blade of the boot, Lu Xiao conducted a test indoors with great interest.

The blade hidden in the soles of the boot will not affect the wearer's daily walking, and will only be used by the user to trigger a pressure trap to eject damage to enemies if needed.

"Now the question is, how am I going to share this sudden appearance with the Italian Brotherhood?"