The dinner came to an end in a relaxed and happy atmosphere. In fact, Commodus had already left in the second half, and Zhang Heng wanted to leave too, but considering the personality he created before, he had to wait until the dinner was over before he could leave. Lucilla's visit this afternoon also reminded him that as he became more and more famous, more and more eyes were focused on him.
A dinner like this is rare for every participant. It is an important occasion for exchanging feelings and making friends. If Zhang Heng wants to maintain his previous obsession with power, he must not leave too early.
Therefore, although Zhang Heng has no interest in this in his heart, he still has to pretend to be interested on the surface.
He didn't remember how many glasses of wine he drank. Roman nobles liked to drink wine from lead glasses. Aqueducts are often made of pottery and lead, as well as various tableware, kitchen utensils, jewelry, cosmetics, and lead products are almost everywhere... Not to mention that Roman ladies also like to use red lead or cinnabar (red mercury sulfide) to make lipstick.
It is not difficult to understand why the Roman nobles were so difficult to have children.
However, Zhang Heng doesn't care much about this. Anyway, he will only stay in this dungeon for a year and a half. When he returns to the real world, his physical condition will return to that before entering the dungeon.
Therefore, in theory, as long as Zhang Heng doesn't drink himself to death within a year and a half, chronic poisoning like this is nothing serious. However, Zhang Heng suddenly felt dizzy when the same young man was drinking.
If it was an ordinary person, they would probably only think that it was because they drank too much wine tonight. However, for a well-trained assassin like Zhang Heng, it is easy to realize that there is something wrong with the wine, not to mention that he trained with Persia not long ago. Zhang Heng met with his teacher, and the latter used the same method to plot against him once, so Zhang Heng would naturally pay special attention to similar situations.
So after taking the first sip, Zhang Heng reacted immediately, so while eating bread, Zhang Heng secretly spit out the remaining liquid in his mouth into a clay pot with honey, and then Zhang Heng pretended to be overwhelmed Liquor power, accidentally knocked the clay pot to the ground. Immediately a maid went to clean up the debris on the ground.
Another maid helped Zhang Heng up and said, "Your Majesty has told you that if you get drunk, you can rest in the upstairs room."
Zhang Heng hummed vaguely. Although he spit out most of the wine, he could feel that the small sip he drank before was already taking effect. Not only his head became dizzy, but his breathing also became dizzy. It started to speed up, and the pupils dilated. Fortunately, after all, the dose was small enough, and it was still within Zhang Heng's control. Zhang Heng estimated that he still had about 80% of his strength left. Compared to drinking all the wine, he could only be slaughtered , at least he still has enough power to protect himself in his current state.
Zhang Heng was a little surprised at the beginning, because this is the imperial palace, probably the most difficult place to poison in Rome, let alone so many guests tonight, and now it seems that he is the only one who has been tricked, which means poisoning The person must have controlled all the maids, and the other party even prepared a room for him.
This means that Commodus probably knew about it, or even if he didn't know, he acquiesced in the occurrence of this situation. Thinking that Zhang Heng had already guessed who the person who attacked him was, his heart was relieved.
The maid helped him to the upstairs room. Unlike the grandeur of the banquet hall below, this room was empty, with only two chairs facing each other.
The maid put Zhang Heng on one of the chairs, then turned on the lamp and left.
Zhang Heng closed his eyes immediately. He seized the time to feel the state of his body, and then analyzed what he had drunk before, so that he could try his best to act as if he drank all that glass of wine afterwards. .
Zhang Heng himself has lv1 herbal medicine skills. In addition, the knowledge taught to him by the old Persian trainer also has part of the content of poison science. Zhang Heng guessed the glass of wine he drank from his own physiological reaction. Possibly contains scopolamine.
Ordinary people may not know what scopolamine is, but most people should have heard the name of veritaserum.
The original veritaserum was discovered by an obstetrician and gynecologist. In order to reduce the pain of the mother, he injected some plant alkaloids extracted from scopolamine to the mother, and found that the mother would answer the questions truthfully in an unconscious state. In traditional Chinese medicine, there are also precedents for using scopolamine to treat mental mania and relieve pain.
Scopolamine has a stimulating effect on the respiratory center, and at the same time dilates the pupils and has an obvious inhibitory effect on the cerebral cortex. It can match Zhang Heng's previous physical reaction, but the smell has been synthesized by something. Fortunately, the one on the tongue The numbness is not deceiving. In addition, scopolamine itself is highly toxic. It stands to reason that taking scopolamine directly to achieve the effect of veritaserum is enough to kill people. However, from Zhang Heng's current feeling, even if the cup Drinking the wine shouldn't be enough to poison him.
In other words, the other party's purpose was not to take his life, there should be some means to neutralize part of the scopolamine's toxicity.
The above is the information Zhang Heng obtained during this period.
Then he heard someone calling his name in his ear.
Zhang Heng opened his eyes, but he didn't see anyone on the opposite chair. The voice calling him came from behind him.
"Don't worry, I just want to ask you a few questions." The person behind said.
"Who are you, what's wrong with me?" Zhang Heng muttered, he tried, but he couldn't seem to turn his neck.
"You drank too much alcohol, I think you should take a good rest, don't worry, I will take care of you, as for me, you should have heard my name. I am Otrus, just like you, They are all His Majesty's advisors."
"You are Ortrus, that guy who hides his head and shows his tail, and never shows his true colors?"
Otrus smiled when he heard the words, and seemed not to care much about Zhang Heng's words, but said, "Yes, I know some people said that about me, I don't care, you and I both We are consultants, we should know that our work is all for His Majesty, as long as His Majesty trusts us, other people's opinions are not important."
Otrus paused, and then said, "Okay, enough gossip has been said, let's get to the point."
"What topic?"
"Like I said, I want to ask you some questions, and you just have to give me the answers truthfully. Let's start with the southeast, where you've done a beautiful job, but I want to know how you What kind of agreement was reached with the Jewish gang? I know Lockyd, and I know that the old guy cannot be frightened by a thousand guards, so I want to know what you promised Lockyd, which is written autonomy Or something else?"
The fact that Lockyed wanted to deal with the elder Divobraye was a secret. Only the four people who were present at the time knew that Lockyd even made Zhang Heng swear that this matter could not be spread, otherwise it would be a secret under Divobraye's presence. The power of the Senate is likely to bring a lot of trouble to the southeast city.
Therefore, Zhang Heng originally planned to make up a lie to deal with this problem, but at the next moment he suddenly remembered the somewhat inexplicable words Lucilla said before leaving. It's the first half of the sentence. Don't think that no one knows what you do.
But now Zhang Heng suddenly realized that it was probably Lucilla who was reminding him of something, especially when the guy named Microphone from the Hive was also there, and the latter didn't know whether it was the Hound or the Balance Blade.
Zhang Heng realized that he had to make a choice. If this question was a test for him by Otrus, then if he answered wrongly, Otrus might soon find out that Veritaserum was ineffective, so Zhang Heng After a moment of silence, Heng said, "They asked me to deal with one person."
"who?"
"Senior Divobraye, he is too greedy. Lockyd doesn't like him. I shouldn't say it. I promised Lockyed that I won't say it."
Otrus snorted, and Zhang Heng tried to judge from Otrus's tone whether he knew about it a long time ago, but unfortunately Otrus also did a good job of hiding his emotions , Wen Yan just said softly, "It's okay, I will help you keep it a secret, we are friends, aren't we?"