Chapter 11: The Adversary!
Do you know how much a third of the treasure is? The Crusaders' back-and-forth crusades, plus the taxes levied by the Knights in various territories over the years, the gold and silver in the treasure alone can be used by an entire family for at least three lifetimes! I don't go to the place where the money is temporarily hidden every three days now, and I can't sleep, big brother, you actually say no?
"Master......" His address to Tianyi has changed: "Then what do you need as a reward...... The earl reacted a little in his mind, this product doesn't need money, shouldn't it be the "treasure" part of the treasure. No pop-up window update fast //
Tianyi didn't need to read the Book of the Heart, just from the subtle changes in his eyes and tone, he knew the changes in the other party's thoughts, and he gave the Count a reassuring pill in time: "Don't worry, what you think is very precious may be worthless in my eyes, and what I need may be worthless in your eyes." ”
Listening to this philosophical nonsense, the Count was not easy to talk to, and he waited for Tianyi to say that he wanted to be rewarded.
Tianyi said unhurriedly: "Let's go step by step, first of all, you have to choose which problem to solve first." He paused, gave the other party a certain amount of time to think, and then said, "I personally suggest that you deal with your own personal safety first." ”
The Count heard the meaning of this and asked, "Am I not safe in Rome?"
"You are not safe anywhere, my Earl, and as long as 'that guy' is still behind you, you will never be able to escape the track. "Tianyi said.
The Count looked back almost instinctively, but it was clear that there were only two of them in the bookstore at the moment: "What do you mean, who do you mean by 'that fellow'?
"I can't go on and on, I'm just giving you a suggestion, and if you need me to help you with this, I'll tell you what the deal is about. Tianyi said.
He has no evidence, but he can easily lead others by the nose, and he sees through the weaknesses of human nature, fear, insecurity, greed, selfishness, even the slightest mood swings can change a person's decision.
The Count thought for a moment, "Okay, tell me about your conditions. ”
"My conditions are very simple, go out of my shop, five streets to the east, you will see a private clinic, and outside the door lies a man of about twenty years old, called Volleo, who has no family and friends in the city of Rome, for some reason he is injured at the moment, but he cannot afford the medical bills and is turned away. Tianyi said: "I want you to pay for him, make sure he gets treatment, and then leave." It's not that difficult for you, is it?"
The Count thought for a moment, "Why don't you go yourself?"
"I don't want to answer that question, I just want to hear your answer. ”
"Is that Volleo a wanted criminal? or...... Infected with leprosy?" the Count was still not reassured.
"With all due respect, Monsieur Earl. Tianyi smiled: "Even if he is a wanted criminal, you are also a wanted criminal with a bigger name than him, even if he has leprosy, but leprosy is not fatal compared to the threat you are subjected to." What else are you worried about?"
The Count thought about it for another minute or so, he really didn't understand what the purpose of this strange wizard was, but since he was a strange person, he made some strange requests without a purpose,
"Okay, I'll accept the deal, do you need me to tell me about 'that guy' when I'm done?"
Tianyi replied: "No need, I can help you solve this problem now." He suddenly put down his cup and stood up.
The Earl was a little flustered, and he even wanted to run a little as he saw Tianyi walking around the table.
Tianyi put his hand on the earl's shoulder: "Can you feel it?"
"What...... What?," the Count shuddered involuntarily as he spoke.
"Sight!" Tianyi said the word in a loud voice.
The Earl was suddenly excited, and he turned his head again, and this time, he actually saw an eye!
A huge human eye, the size of a giant's eye, with bloodshot yellow pupils around it.
"Ah!" cried the Count, instinctively wanting to retreat, for the eye was almost close to his face.
But the shoulder that Tianyi held down could not move at all, and the Count could only reluctantly turn his face back, gasping for breath, and he couldn't help but be busy at the thought of such a thing floating on the back of his neck all the time.
"There has always been such an eye in the back of your head, and his owner can check your whereabouts at any time when he needs to, such as now. Tianyi calmly narrated.
He ...... Is he watching now?" the Count trembled with fear.
"Don't be afraid, he can only see, he can't hear us, and he can't hurt you. Tianyi: "But your performance just now must have alarmed him." ”
"What then?" asked the Earl.
"What should I do......? Hahahaha......" Tianyi laughed, and in the strange light in the room, his expression was also terrifying, "I said that I would help you solve it, so of course it will be done." ”
Before the words fell, Tianyi's right hand poked out like lightning, and the Count only felt a strong wind pass against his cheek, and then he clearly heard a "poof" sound in his ears, like the sound of something being poked through its internal organs.
In the next few seconds, Tianyi had already walked behind the Earl, the Count did not look back, he did not dare to look, he heard all kinds of disgusting sounds, liquid flowing, soft tissues being squeezed, etc...... Tianyi tossed the eyeball, and the earl made up his hand while making up his hand.
It took about two minutes like this.
"Well, it's gone. Tianyi said, "If you want to vomit, please don't vomit in my store." He walked back to his seat and sat down.
The Earl glanced at Tianyi's hands, which were surprisingly clean and clean, "You...... What did you do?"
Tianyi: "It's just a projection, not an entity. But I don't think the owner of that eyeball will ever be able to see with his left eye again, whether it's far away or near in front of him. ”
The Count said, "It's witchcraft, it's a curse, when and who did it on me?"
Tianyi replied: "I should have followed you before you left France, in the past few months, you have been assassinated a lot, but the other party doesn't want others to see that this is an assassination, so he used a lot of obscure methods, and your entourage and cronies are very loyal, and a few people have protected you with their lives, but you can't see it,"
The Count suddenly realized, "Who is it?!, who is the owner of the eye?"
"The master of the eye instructed the hired little character, and behind him there was someone else, and the trouble is, that person is not your majesty. Hehe...... You know, in this world, there are not a few people who want you to die. Tianyi's words were ambiguous, and he still didn't say the other party's name: "Now, Mr. Earl, I have solved some of your security problems. But Volleo can't wait long, so please go and see him before he returns, and then I'll do my best work. ”
"Okay. The Count steadied himself and wiped his sweat with his handkerchief, "I will be back soon." ”
"No hurry...... Don't be in a hurry,...... Tian Yimu sent him out, then stepped forward and closed the door, and said to himself: "I have been seen, but whether he uses a fast horse or a carrier pigeon, he will have to wait until at least tomorrow morning to notify others to arrest me...... To be on the safe side, it's better to transfer. ”
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At the same time, in the basement of a certain estate in Florence, there were terrible screams and invectives.
"Ah!!h!!!!!!h
As he struggled, he inadvertently kicked over a brazier stand with charcoal next to him, and a pot of charcoal fell on his back, only to hear a stabbing sound, and soon there was the stench of the monk's robe sticking to human flesh.
Then another round of rolling, another round of screaming, another round of swearing...... Then, the unlucky guy actually ran into another brazier......
............
It didn't take long for the Count to find the clinic, and in the corner not far from the clinic lay a man who looked to be twenty years old, with short hair, a neatly trimmed beard, and a little dirty, but still neatly dressed.
"Hey, are you alright, young man. The Count crouched down, and when he looked closer, he could see that the man's injuries were quite serious, and that the left side of his shirt seemed to have been stabbed with a sharp blade, and the blood had soaked through the left half of his shirt.
"What do you think? man. "His eyes were insightful, and they were very different from those vagabond drunkards who fell on the side of the street, with their hair disheveled.
The Earl felt that this young man was a little interesting, and in such a situation of massive blood loss and the possibility of fainting at any time, if he met someone to talk, he would definitely beg the other party to help, but this kid actually spoke like this, and his eyes did not despair.
"Are you Volleo?" asked the Count.
"Yes, sir. "Do we know each other, sir?"
"We don't need to know. The Count took him by the arm and hung it on his shoulder: "Come, young man, I think you need a doctor." ”
"I have to warn you, sir, that I am penniless. Volleo said, struggling to his feet.
"I know. The Count replied.
"Then I seem to be thankful for your kindness and generosity. Wallio said.
The Earl said, "Don't worry. "Although Tianyi asked him to come, it is naturally a good feeling to save someone's life and be thanked.
The doctor in the clinic wears a doctor's robe, with little skin except for his hands and neck, and wears a top courtesy on his head and a black crow mask on his face. This is called the Bird's Beak Doctor, the Plague Doctor. The Italian word for medid is that they would stuff cotton and other fillings into the mouth and nose of the mask to act as a gas mask to treat patients infected with the plague. (There is also a saying that doctors in this costume did not appear until a century later, but anyway, it happened in my fictional parallel universe, and if there is a discrepancy, please consider it a slight difference between the parallel universes.) )
The Count sent Volleo to the clinic, paid the surplus medical bills, asked Volleo about his injuries, and after learning that there was no danger to his life, he said a few words to the doctor, and to the effect that you have taken the money, you have to take care of the people, and in case he dies, I will set fire to your shop.
After intimidating the doctor, he got up and left, without even giving his name. This is called a good thing without leaving a name, and it was withdrawn quickly, and the doctor even wondered if this knife was stabbed by him?
The Earl was like an arrow, even if he didn't want to see anything happen to the young man, but presumably this stranger he had just met, the Count was obviously more worried about his own life or death.
When he returned to Tianyi's bookstore, he found that the door was locked from the inside, and when he tapped the door, there was no sound, and the earl's heart suddenly lifted, he didn't know what would happen next, there were too many strange things about tonight, and it wouldn't be strange if he suddenly woke up and found that everything was a dream.
After trying to knock on the door a few more times, the Count finally heard footsteps from the house, and after a while, Tianyi opened the door, and he only opened a crack in the door, revealing half of his face: "Oh...... Come back so soon, come on, come in, come in. Tianyi let the Count in, poked his head out, looked left and right, and after making sure that no one was following, he locked the door again.
When the Earl entered the room, he heard the sound of the door locking behind him, and became nervous again: "Master, is there something going on?"
"I'm going to change places. Tianyi said.
This sentence was a little inexplicable, and the Count asked suspiciously, "What are you going to do?"
Tianyi replied, "I'm going to move this bookstore somewhere else." ”
The Earl was stunned: "You want to move?" He immediately thought of the matter in his eyes just now: "Oh, yes, it's not safe here, it should have been discovered, you should leave as soon as possible, I can help you, tomorrow morning...... No, I'll hire a few wagons tomorrow morning, and call a few reliable people to help you......"
"No, I'll move now. As he spoke, he made a detour behind a bookshelf next to him.
The Count lifted his feet and landed lightly, and followed as little as he could tread the book, "Now, in this evening?" you ......?" he was about to ask, why did you lock the door when you moved?
"God forbid......" The Count drew a cross on his chest: "Master, what are you doing here?" He now understood why Tianyi didn't come out and open it when he first knocked on the door, because he was busy with this and didn't hear it.
"I'm going to move this house to another location. "Tianyi said.
"Where?" replied to the earl's brain. There is no way, Tianyi's black-robed wizard's appearance, his appearance with black hair and black eyes, and all kinds of neurotic behaviors, in the eyes of medieval Europeans, it will definitely not be a character who represents justice and heaven.
"Don't panic. Tianyi said.
The Earl didn't wonder why the other party knew that he was panicking, he didn't deny it, but said, "Your ...... Well...... Spells, is there any danger?"
"It's not my spell. Tianyi actually replied, but he immediately said, "The person who designed this magic circle is the most outstanding magician of this era. He is telling the truth, with the course of history, Tianyi's bookstore is also advancing with the times, in each era, he will find some suitable people, share the black technology in the bookstore with them, to transform and upgrade the configuration of the bookstore.
Seeing that the count's shrewd image was gone, and he stood there stupidly as if a hillbilly had entered the city, Tianyi added: "There is no danger, you can rest assured, it will be over soon." I'll still be teleporting to the city of Rome, just in a different place. ”
"God forbid......" the count drew another cross on his chest.
This is the importance of faith, a person of faith, in the face of adversity, will fold his hands and recite the phrase: "Nam no Amitabha", or just draw a cross and shout the name of Jesus. And those who have no faith can only shout: "What is the cheating"!
"Let me see...... Celery, onions, greasy wigs, fat guys' double chins...... "Tianyi added "ingredients" to a pot of bubbling boiling water in the magic array.
The Earl looked at what he threw in last, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "Excuse me...... Is the fat guy's double chin a human ......?"
“...... Sun-dried intestines...... What are you talking about?" Tianyi asked, pulling out an extra-long intestine from a sack like pulling a fire hose, how do you look at this thing like a human body......
"No...... Nothing ......" The Earl didn't ask, he felt that his vomit point was too low, and he almost couldn't hold back when he heard the sound of his big eyeballs being ravaged just now, compared to the current situation, it was only a small scene just now.
"Horseshoe, wheat, musk, women's hair......" Tianyi grabbed a lump of brown hair: "I personally like brown-haired girls, but the smell of prostitutes here is too great to make people sexually interested." As he spoke, he threw his hair into the boiling water.
The Count had given up on asking where these things had come from, and he had a vague feeling that he had provoked something terrible.
What Templars, popes, kings, everyone knows in their hearts that they are just a bunch of mortals, but at the moment what is in front of them is a living Hades, ruthless, murderous, and really good at witchcraft!
The Count's worldview has been completely turned upside down, don't think that people in the Middle Ages just shut their mouths and talk about the paranormal, they have really seen the paranormal. When they see it with their own eyes, they are definitely much more stimulated than modern people, and their psychological capacity is much more fragile.
"Alright, I'm going to start teleporting. Tianyi threw all the materials he needed into the pot, stood in the middle of the magic circle, and shook his head and muttered a series of incantations that I was afraid only birds could understand.
In the next second, the Count felt that the ground under his feet was shaking......