The Journey of the Demon Hunter

"I thought these things were good enough." The demon hunter shrugged. He had seen the speed of cannon shooting. Considering his power, it was a good siege weapon compared with the trebuchet, but this kind of artillery fired a shot. , Pokia’s artillery can fire two shots. At least Zelin knows that no matter how good a soldier is, it is impossible to increase the efficiency of an ordinary catapult and ballista by more than twice. "Is there anything better than this?"

"Well, if it hadn't been for the knowledge that the equipment of the Pokya family is much better than ours, I would have suspected what you were doing around the cannon." The mercenary spat down from the tower.

The outside boxing match was divided. The winning group got the card by drawing lots. The lucky guy got the card

The man took the card, read it again, read it again, patted his hands, laughed, and said, "Hey! Okay! I'm hit!"

The dejected mercenaries around, unconvinced, slapped them over with a slap "Damn beast! What did you get?". Everyone could not help laughing when they saw this look.

"You seem to like this card, don't you?" Zelin asked the question he really wanted to ask while he was talking, "Do you really like playing this thing?"

"What?" The mercenary looked down at the artillery, and the demon hunter turned his head, and he understood. "Those colorful things? How could it be possible, we don't know what words are written on them, let alone what they are painted. Strange things, how can you like to play with this thing." The mercenary clapped his hands.

"But they are fighting for that card."

"This kind of weird card can sell for three ducats in Rome. The rich in Rome are really weird. Buying these inexplicable paintings and going back, do you think they are stupid, or they may be richer? Nowhere to spend. Hey, what is your look?"

"No, nothing."

Chapter 174 Rome: Closed

The undercurrent surging in the city of Rome.

Zelin never thought that an army would be attacked in his camp in a city that was obviously not in a state of war. Until noon he stayed in the mercenary camp in Bartolomeo.

When it was lunch break at noon, he was still asking mercenaries about how the artillery works, and he heard some new terms, such as gunpowder. Yanan’s guns don’t need gunpowder. They use mercury and blood as weapons. In this world, although the weapons are the same, they use something called gunpowder to make the guns work.

Just as most of the mercenaries vented their energy for the whole morning and were exhausted preparing to rest, the soldiers of the Pogia family relied on the tower near the mercenary camp to launch a surprise attack on the mercenary camp of Bartolomeo. But the battle lasted for a short time. Bartolomeo's men were all good swordsmen. They quickly repelled the Pokiah soldiers who had entered the camp, and even took the opportunity to hit the Pokiah family tower. .

Zelin just stayed in the camp. When Pokia's soldiers broke into the camp, they used steel swords to deal with a few guys who seemed to be looking for soft persimmons. Ha~ How much combat power can an elderly mercenary have? Never judge the strength of opponents by appearance. This sentence of the Demon Hunter instructor was originally just to warn them not to underestimate the enemy or feel scared because of their size when facing monsters, but now it seems that this sentence is still valid in this world.

He stayed on the observation tower and could see from a distance, Ezio quickly climbed up to the ten-meter-high tower, and easily solved the musketeers above and provided help to the mercenaries below. He has been watching how the assassin climbed up to such a high place. This may be an interesting technique, and the demon hunter has no small interest in it.

In fact, he is very interested in many strange things in this world.

I have to say that the income of the new-style casino is very impressive. Originally, his concept of money in this world was still a bit vague, until he learned about the money allocated by the casino and the price of a cannon. Zelin couldn't help even suggesting to Ezio whether he could open more gambling bases. As long as gambling is not a prohibited activity in Rome, the demon hunter is happy to make more money for himself. For an ordinary demon hunter, it is good luck to be able to earn bread money and horse fodder fees by entrusting him. If it hadn't been for a long-term commission from the previous Warlock Order, otherwise he couldn't believe that he could build a real academy.

Of course, Zelin soon realized the feelings of other Roman citizens.

"We all have the same idea, but the Pogia family will never allow anyone who does not kneel in front of them to operate a shop. Have you seen those towers? This is the Pogia family's tool to monitor Rome, and it is their oppression. symbol of."

All in all, it is impossible for Zelin to encourage Ra. Bolpe to open a new gambling game within the surveillance area of ​​the Pogia family tower, whether it is La Bolpe or anyone else, the leader of the Pogia family. In Caesar's eyes, there were only surrenders and rebels. However, Zelin wanted to make money, but he would never surrender to the man called Caesar, and the demon hunter would not surrender to anyone.

"The Brotherhood must destroy these towers, otherwise Rome will always live under the close control of the Pogia family."

"In other words, as long as you can destroy those towers, just like you used to do. Shop vendors near the towers can operate normally, on the other side?"

"Yes, when the time comes, the Brotherhood can send some people over to protect the civilians there from being threatened by the Pokia family."

"Okay. But I still don't want to be an enemy of the Pokia family. I need to remain neutral." Zelin touched the magic bomb that he has never used after touching his waist. "But I think we can talk about topics that are of interest to both sides." , For example, in my hometown, we will use a portable and efficient thing to blow up the nests of wild beasts. I guess you must be interested to find out."

Neutral, but by no means a neutral fool. Just as Zelin would protect non-human races in the Holocaust, he can say that humans are chasing elves, not demon hunters, regardless of his business; it can be said that the dwarves they are going to kill , It's not a demon hunter, it's not their business, but who knows one day when all the elves escape into the forest, and all the dwarves hide in the mountain stream, whether the crowd who loses their hate target at that time will point their fingers at the demon hunter.

"Forgive me, Ezio, sometimes the human heart is not so stable. Relying on the human heart is undoubtedly like building a house on the sand. It can collapse at any time." When the enemy is approaching the city, if the lord of that city or The mayor is a smart man, so he will repair the city wall, store cold water for fire fighting, enough food, clay and stones for repairing the city wall during battle, and the ammunition of the stone thrower and ballista, so that the soldiers can do it. Prepare. But if someone considers distributing weapons to the citizens, then he will never succeed in protecting the city in the hands of the enemy, because the citizens will only hide at home and wait for the end of the war.

"'Believe in the human heart,' this is the most important one in Assassin's Creed." On the way back to the city, Ezio patted his chest. "We should believe in the human heart."

It sounds like a very attractive idea, but Zelin's attitude towards this is just to listen to it. Please, as long as the villagers don’t use various reasons to reduce the promised commission after he completes the commission--for example, the commission says to hunt the dragon, but the demon hunter killed the pterodactyl- --He will feel very happy.

There are many things in this world that are worth learning for him, and there are many things that are meaningless in his eyes. Ezio said he wanted to unite everyone in Rome, not only thieves and mercenaries, but other people. During this period, he even saw a young architect called Michelangelo Bonarotti who was invited to help plan and repair the mercenary camp, a very talented young man. Such a young man, as well as an artist named Leonardo da Vinci, are all serving the Brotherhood of Assassins, but not assassins.

However, as for the Romulus, they seem to have disappeared completely. Not only did the believers disappear, the demon hunters found many places suspected of Romulus’ lair based on Machiavelli’s map, and traces of them can be seen in many ruins. They are good at taking away gold and silver, but Not good at cleaning up the traces behind him. It's just that they are indeed all gone, and the demon hunters' efforts to find them everywhere in the city are too slow. So before Ezio got up and went to Romagna. It was said that before he was going to deal with Leonardo's affairs, the assassin told the demon hunter a place to help him find information.

"Thousand red roses."

When Zelin heard the name, his speculation about this place had results in his mind.

"A brothel."

PS: This is yesterday, still four thousand words.

Chapter 175: A Kidnapping Case

Not only the Sleeping Fox Inn, another place in the Brotherhood looks extremely dilapidated like the Sleeping Fox Inn. If the Sleeping Fox Hotel is now a popular place for people in Pokiah, then Qianhong Rose, sorry, I’m afraid Pokiah’s people will not come here, just like they habitually avoid shanty towns when they patrol. , Qianhong Rose is a bit sorry for its due responsibility.

A few days after Ezio’s departure, the demon hunter came here. Unfortunately, the boss here, Surani did not trust him at all. After all, he is not a member of the Brotherhood, even with the exception of the few that Ezio introduced to him. People, he also doesn't know how many people there are in the Brotherhood. Although it seems that what Ezio did was to rebuild a brotherhood that had been almost defeated by Pokia.

Those mercenaries, Zelin didn't mind using his fists or swords to teach them what real fighting was, instead of relying on muskets. I have to say that the musket is indeed convenient and powerful enough to learn how to use it after only a few days of training. It is even easier than teaching a farmer how to stab the enemy with a spear instead of stabbing himself. The result is these mercenaries. Although their sword-using skills are second to none in Rome, they are far worse than the mercenaries in Zelin's world.

"I thought the Brotherhood had gone bankrupt."

"Porgia's control makes it difficult for everyone here, everyone."

"You said that you want to unite everyone, can you say that this is also included?" Zelin glanced at the dilapidated brothel. Should we recruit more fighters?" In terms of Zelin's idea of ​​rebuilding the Demon Hunter Academy, since it is an academy, he should consider the issue of the Academy instead of something completely unrelated to the Demon Hunter. How should the brothel get in touch with the assassin, he really couldn't understand, "But now, the assassin of the Brotherhood is you alone. How can you rebuild a...Brotherhood? "

Just a year ago, Zelin was only thinking about finding an apprentice who could inherit his knowledge and skills. There are almost no demon hunters going to imagine rebuilding the Demon Hunter Academy. After all, there are too many of them. not enough. Not only the Demon Hunter, the Warlock Association, or the Druid Cult, if there are only more than twenty people left, no one will believe in the restoration of the glory of the past, just as no one will mention promise. The matter of the Vigre Alliance, the treaty signed by the warlock, king, druid, and priest, has long since become the dust in time.

"The Brotherhood hasn't died yet, all I need to do is to reinvigorate it."

"But if you are the only one left. I see you looking for allies everywhere, but your Brotherhood now has only those allies left."

"That's enough, the brotherhood will not perish! Not only those who are oppressed by the Pogia family will join us" Ezio waved his arm vigorously "Because I am still standing here, I Ezio, Ezio . Auditore!"

Ezio is familiar with this place than Zellin. After all, it can be regarded as one of the strongholds of the Brotherhood, but he still pushed open the door of Qianhong Rose with a little doubt on his face. What I saw was a plump girl in a silk dress. Seeing a customer coming, she wore a professional smile on her face that would make people understand at a glance. "Welcome, sir, welcome to Qianhong Rose." She looked suspiciously at the Demon Hunter, because the Demon Hunter's clothes are really good. It's not like someone who has money to come here to play.

Zelin didn’t like the clothes recommended for him by the Roman tailor, and eventually he chose a dress that was similar to the usual clothes of the mercenaries of Bartolomeo to replace the griffin skin that would attract too much attention. First. A blue long-sleeved top and black loose pants. The workmanship is good, and the jacket he brought from his own world can withstand the cold of autumn nights. If it weren't for the Pokia family in this world, then this is a perfect and peaceful world.

"What do you want to play today?" The girl smiled and just said to Ezio.

"Well... can you call your boss?"

The girl immediately narrowed her eyes, and the smile on her face gradually faded, "Boss Surani? She is not here now."

Alas, the standard process. Zelin recalled what he had done before and couldn't help but shook his head. Not bad.

The demon hunter held his chest and leaned against the door of Qianhong Rose. Although the straddle-style hall seemed very spacious, it would make people entering here feel a little depressed. The boss here seems unwilling to spend much. He has been here twice, this is the third time. The candlestick in the hall is always empty, and there is no trace of wax oil on it. They don’t know how long it has been quite depressing for this piece. The sensational hall provides lighting.

There are few guests and the footprints on the ground are obvious. Excluding Zelin and Ezio, there are only three pairs of footprints. Two of the smaller ones should be the outgoing boss of Surani. Maybe she brought another person. As for the remaining wide shoe print with water marks on it, Rome has never rained in these days. There will be water marks to infer that this person may often haunt the riverside dock. Since the water marks on the ground had not disappeared, and the hall was gloomy, Zelin estimated that they would not leave for more than two hours.

"That's it" Ezio paused. "Then do you know where she is now?"

"Outside." After confirming that Ezio was not here to spend the money, the girl's face was obviously colder.

"Please, this is a brothel. You can't do this." Zelin patted Ezio, who was indifferently rejected. He thought that at this time, he should tell the assassin a little life experience. The demon hunter is still in this regard. Some experienced "Trust me, if you want to inquire about the news here, you must never make you look like just an inquirer, pretending to be a real client, and you still have a lot of gold coins in your pocket." Guests, you can’t imagine how much they will know when the time comes."

"Well, okay, it sounds like there is nothing to lose to me." Ezio adjusted his mood and made the most attractive smile. Through this smile, the demon hunter could imagine that when Ezio was a little younger, he was definitely not a young man who abide by the rules. Unfortunately, the girl had no chance to appreciate his smile, because at this moment, the door was suddenly opened and another girl ran in. She had disheveled hair, disheveled clothes, and her eyes were full of fright, as if she had been frightened.

"It's not good! It's not good!" She cried, "Boss Surani, she, she..." Before she finished speaking, she began to choke.

"Lucia?! What's the matter? Didn't you just go out to socialize with your boss? It's only more than an hour, why are you back?" The girl who just rejected Ezio hurriedly asked, "Say quickly , What's going on?"