From the moment Dadatis became Zhang Heng's teacher, the old man's first request was to let Zhang Heng hide his relationship with the Balance Blade.
In the words of Dadatis, this is how assassins survive.
Especially two hundred years ago, the appearance of traitors not only failed the plan of the Balance Blade to assassinate Octavian, but also the core members of the organization were exposed one after another. They are all the top assassins in the world, possessing extraordinary assassination skills However, once placed in the sun, surrounded by the state machine in the front and assassinated secretly by hounds in the end, very few people can survive in the end.
Therefore, Balance Blade has also learned a lesson from it, and the core members no longer reveal their identities to each other. Only the speaker of the Assassin Council and the priest of Kleiss know the identities of all members. Of course, the organization does not prevent members from privately Interact with each other, and if you find someone who has a bad temper and is trustworthy, you can tell each other your true identity.
"Priest, you have already met. Now the chairman of the Assassin Council is my old friend, the Faceless Man. The two of them know your true identity. In addition, there is Hyacinth."
"Hyacinth, who is he?" Zhang Heng asked.
"What you should ask is who she is. You haven't passed the test and officially become one of us, so I can't tell you too much about her." Referring to the expression on Hyacinth Dadatis's face It seemed a little strange, with warmth and wariness, and at the same time mixed with a trace of guilt, "We don't have much contact, but she visited you in person not long ago, because I need more people to support you to join the Balance Blade, Hyacinth Well connected within the organization, she has at least three votes in her hand, from her and her admirers."
"ha."
"Anyway, you don't need to care too much about her. She doesn't like me, and she probably won't like you too much, but you can rest assured that she will not betray your identity to others." Dadatis said, "And apart from the three people I mentioned above, no one else in the organization knows your identity. The information about you that I have released to the public only includes your potential and lack of belief, especially your attitude towards balance. It’s something I can’t and shouldn’t hide.”
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Although Dadatis left the city of Rome for some time, Zhang Heng did not forget the old trainer's advice, so even though the megaphone unexpectedly chose to side with him on the second floor of the tavern, Zhang Heng also guessed that the megaphone was probably the same. It came from the Blade of Balance, but when the microphone tried to test Zhang Heng with the teachings of the Blade of Balance, Zhang Heng denied it immediately.
This is mainly because Zhang Heng didn't want to have too much involvement with the Balance Blade, especially when the two old enemies, the Balance Blade and the Hound, were about to start a war. For Zhang Heng, he didn't want to get involved in this war that didn't belong to him. , Dadatis has been sent far away and left the city of Rome, which also means that there is no one Zhang Heng cares about in the Balance Blade.
Therefore, Zhang Heng didn't have any deep intentions about the identity of the microphone. He didn't even ask the priestess to verify the identity of the microphone. This is why a week later, the group of the microphone basically concluded that Zhang Heng was not the person of the balance blade. Because in the past, Balance Blade recruited members with high requirements for belief and sense of belonging. They didn't expect that there were still people fishing in it.
However, Zhang Heng, who was fishing in the battle between Blade of Balance and Hound, was very concerned about another matter.
It has been almost two months since he came to the southeast city, in other words, the next round of evaluation is coming.
In the following week, Zhang Heng has been preparing for this matter, because the result of this assessment will be related to whether he can return to Commodus quickly.
Although there are still a lot of things to do to develop the new forces he formed in the southeast city, Zhang Heng has cleared the most important obstacles for the development of the new forces. He believes that Zao Zao, Marcus and others should be able to deal with the increase The situation is down, and he can also withdraw from it and start investigating the whereabouts of Ortrus.
Therefore, in this evaluation, Zhang Heng needs to achieve good results as much as possible.
The person in charge of assessing the work of the patrol team was a young nobleman in the Senate named Fabino, who was known for his integrity and selflessness, which was why he was unanimously elected as the assessor.
Firstly, everyone felt that he was the only one who could do this job well without fear of offending people, and secondly, it was possible that this evil star was sent to the patrol team to avoid the reason why he would find fault everywhere in the Senate.
Fabino began to assess the work of the patrol teams in each block half a month ago. He has basically completed most of the city of Rome, leaving only the southeast city as the last stop.
The reason why the southeast city was put at the end was because Fabino felt that there was really nothing to see here.
Well, in the southeast city, everyone in the city of Rome knows what kind of ghostly place it is, full of criminals and villains, try not to set foot in it if you can, but Fabino heard a lot about it when he first became an assessor. There were rumors about this place, but they didn't know how powerful they were, so they ran to inspect the work with only two guards.
As a result, he was robbed before he reached the gate of the patrol team. The two guards were not a group of vicious opponents on the opposite side. Not only did Fabino throw away all the valuables, but he was also punched twice in the stomach. The patrol team also failed to help him catch the criminal and get the things back.
It’s not surprising that Fabino gave the patrol team in the southeast city the lowest score every time, and in all fairness, he couldn’t even say that this was a public revenge, because Fabino felt that he was a little dereliction of duty every time he scored the lowest score. I couldn't find a lower score to accurately describe what I saw with my own eyes.
"That place is doomed and hopeless, and the Senate is indifferent to it. I bet someone here has accepted bribes, so they will turn a blind eye to this situation." Fabino said to himself When the last friend complained, he said, "I really don't want to see that ghost place again."
But having said that, the dedicated Fabino still has to let his eyes be polluted every two months, but after the first lesson, he has learned to be good, and now he comes to the southeast city for inspection. He has two guards, and he will also bring a team of family guards armed to the teeth, so as to ensure that the previous tragedy will not happen again.
So in the early morning of this day, Fabino appeared on the streets of the southeast city with his luxurious guard group.