The count was dumbfounded. Are you crazy? Do you know how much a third of the treasure costs? The Crusades back and forth plus the taxes levied by the Knights in various territories over the years, the gold and silver part of the treasure alone can provide an entire family with luxury for at least three lifetimes! Now I can't even sleep if I don't take a look at the place where I temporarily hide my money every three days. Brother, you actually said no
"Master..." His title to Tianyi had already changed: "Then what do you need as reward..." The count came to his senses a little. This guy doesn't want money. Could it be that he wants the "treasure" in the treasure? Partially.
Tianyi didn't need to read the book of the heart. He knew the changes in the other person's thoughts just from the subtle changes in his eyes and tone. He gave the earl a reassurance in time: "Don't worry, the things you think are precious may, in my opinion, It’s worthless, and what I need may be worthless in your eyes.”
Listening to this philosophical nonsense, the count found it difficult to talk to him. He waited for Tianyi to say that he wanted to be paid.
Tianyi said unhurriedly: "Let's go step by step. First, you have to choose which problem to solve first." He paused and gave the other party a certain amount of time to think, and then said: "I personally I suggest you deal with your own personal safety issues first."
The Count recognized the meaning of this and asked, "Am I not safe in Rome?"
"You are not safe anywhere, my Earl. As long as 'that guy' is still following you, you will never be able to escape tracking." Tianyi replied.
The Earl glanced back almost instinctively, but it was obvious that there were only two of them in the bookstore at the moment: "What do you mean, who does 'that guy' refer to? Is he the king's (Philip IV) spy?" "
"I can't continue to disclose it. I'm just giving a suggestion. If you need me to help you solve this problem, I will tell you the content of the deal." Tianyi said.
He talks empty talk, but can easily lead others by the nose. He sees through all the weaknesses of human nature. Fear, insecurity, greed, selfishness, even extremely subtle emotional fluctuations can change a person's decision.
The count thought for a while; "Okay, tell me your conditions."
"My conditions are very simple. Go out of my shop and walk five streets east. You will see a private clinic. Outside the door lies a man of about twenty years old named Vollio. He is in Rome. There are no family or friends in the city. For some reason, he is injured at the moment, but cannot afford the medical expenses and is turned away." Tianyi said: "I want you to pay the money for him and ensure that he gets Just treat and leave. That's not difficult for you, right?"
The count thought for a while: "Why don't you go by yourself?"
"I don't want to answer the question, I just want to hear your answer."
"Is that Vollio a wanted criminal? Or...infected with leprosy?" The count was still uneasy.
"With all due respect, Mr. Earl." Tianyi smiled: "Even if he is a wanted criminal, you are a bigger wanted criminal than him. Even if he has leprosy, leprosy is nothing compared to the threats you receive. Fatal. What else are you worried about?"
The count thought for another minute or so. He really didn't understand what the purpose of this strange wizard was, but since he was a weirdo, it was reasonable to make some strange requests without purpose.
"Okay, I'll take the deal, do you need me to finish before you tell me about 'that guy'?"
Tianyi replied: "No need, I can help you solve this problem now." He suddenly put down the cup and stood up.
The count felt a little panicked, and when he saw Tianyi walking around the table, he even wanted to run away.
Tianyi put his hand on the earl's shoulder: "Can you feel it?"
"What...what?" The count trembled involuntarily as he spoke.
"Sight!" Tianyi said the word loudly.
The count suddenly became excited and turned around again. This time, he actually saw an eye!
A huge human eye, as big as a giant's eye, with yellow pupils surrounded by bloodshot eyes.
"Ah!" the count yelled, instinctively wanting to step back because the eyes were almost close to his face.
However, the shoulders held down by Tianyi could not move at all. The count could only turn his face back and gasp for breath. He couldn't help but feel horrified at the thought of having such a thing floating behind his neck all the time.
"You have always had such an eye on the back of your head. Its owner can check your whereabouts at any time when needed, such as now." Tianyi described calmly.
"He... is he watching now?" The count's whole body was trembling with fear.
"Don't be afraid. He can only see, not hear what we say, and he can't hurt you." Tiandao said, "But your performance just now must have alarmed him."
"What should we do?" asked the count.
"What should I do? Hehehe... hahahaha..." Tianyi laughed. In the strange light in the room, his expression was also very scary. "I said I would help you solve it, so of course I will."
Before he finished speaking, Tianyi's right hand reached out like lightning. The count felt a strong wind blowing against his cheek, and then he heard a clear "pop" in his ears, as if something's internal organs were punctured. the sound of.
In the next few seconds, Tianyi had already walked behind the count. The count did not look back. He did not dare to look. He heard all kinds of disgusting sounds, vagina flowing, soft tissue being squeezed, etc... Tianyi's side Tossing the eyeball, the earl thought about his method.
This went on for about two minutes.
"Okay, 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. Surprisingly, they were very clean. "You... what did you do?"
Tian Daodao: "It's just a projection, not an entity. But I think the owner of that eyeball will never be able to see things with his left eye again, whether it's far away or close in front of you."
The count said: "This is witchcraft! It's a curse! When exactly did it happen and who cast it on me?"
Tianyi replied: "I think he followed you before you left France. In the past few months, you have been assassinated many times, but the other party didn't want others to see that this was an assassination, so he used many obscure methods. Your entourage and cronies are very loyal, and several of them have protected you with their lives, but you can't tell that they were assassinated."
The count suddenly realized: "Who is it?! Who is the owner of those eyes?"
"The owner of the eyes is just a hired person. There is someone else behind him. The trouble is, that person is not your Majesty the King. Haha... You know, there is no one in this world who wants you to die. In the minority." Tianyi's words were ambiguous, and he still did not name the other party: "Now, Mr. Earl, I have solved part of your security problem. But Voleo can't wait too long, please go first. Send him to a doctor and come back, and then I will continue to fulfill my remaining obligations."
"Okay." The Earl calmed down and wiped his sweat with a handkerchief, "I will be back soon."
"No hurry... no rush..." Tian Yimu sent him out, then stepped forward and closed the door, saying to himself: "I was seen, but whether he used a fast horse or a homing pigeon, he had to notify others to catch me, at least We have to wait until tomorrow morning... To be on the safe side, it’s better to move.”
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At the same time, screams and curses came from the basement of a manor in Florence.
"Ah!!! Ah!!! Bastard!! Bastard!!" A man in monk's robe covered the left half of his face, rolling on the ground in pain: "I curse you!! Black-haired, black-eyed wizard !!!Damn the devil!!!”
While he was struggling, he accidentally kicked over the holder of a brazier containing charcoal next to him. A pot of charcoal fell onto his back, and he heard a stinging sound. Soon, he heard that the robes of the holy monks were stuck. The stench of human flesh mixed together.
Then there was another round of rolling, another round of screaming, and another round of cursing... Then, this unlucky guy actually encountered another brazier...
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It didn't take the Earl much time to find the clinic. In the corner not far away from the clinic, there was actually a man who looked about twenty years old lying. His hair was shorter, his beard was trimmed neatly, and although his clothes were a bit... Dirty, but still well dressed.
"Hey! Are you okay, young man?" The Count squatted down. When he looked closer, he could see that the man's injuries were quite serious. His left rib seemed to have been stabbed by a sharp knife, and blood had soaked through the left half of his shirt. .
"What do you think? Man." His eyes were bright, very different from those homeless drunkards with disheveled hair lying on the street.
The earl thought this young man was interesting. Most people would be begging for help when someone was talking to them when they were losing a lot of blood and could faint at any time. However, this boy actually spoke like this, and his eyes were different. There is no despair.
"Are you Vollio?" asked the count.
"Yes, sir," Vollio replied, "Do we know each other, sir?"
"We don't need to know each other." The count grabbed one of his arms and hung it on his shoulder: "Come on, young man, I think you need a doctor."
"I have to remind you, sir, that I am penniless." Vollio said as he stood up with difficulty.
"I know," replied the count.
"Then it seems I have to thank you for your kindness and generosity." Vollio said.
The earl said, "Don't worry about it." Although Tianyi asked him to come, it felt good to save someone's life and be thanked.
The doctor in the clinic wore a doctor's robe suit, with basically no skin exposed except for his hands and neck. He wore a hat on his head and a black crow mask on his face. This kind is called the beak doctor or the plague doctor. The original Italian name is medico della peste. They would stuff stuffing such as cotton 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 kind of clothing only appeared after the 16th century, but anyway, things happened in my fictional parallel universe. If there are any discrepancies, please just treat it as a slight difference between parallel universes.)
The count sent Vollio to the clinic, paid the remaining medical expenses, and asked about Vollio's injuries. After learning that Vollio's injuries were not life-threatening, he said a few words to the doctor, basically saying, "You should also take the money." Now, you have to take good care of him. If he dies, I will set your shop on fire.
After threatening the doctor, he stood up and left without even announcing his name. This is called good deeds leaving no name, and they were withdrawn so quickly that the doctor even wondered if it was him who stabbed him
The count was eager to return home. Even if he didn't want to see anything happen to this young man, he must have been more worried about his own life and death with this stranger he had just met.
When he returned to Tianyi's bookstore, he found that the door was locked from the inside. He patted the door, but there was no sound. The count's heart suddenly lifted. He didn't know what would happen next. What happened tonight was really... There are so many strange and strange things that 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 inside the house. Not long after, Tianyi opened the door. He only opened the door a crack, revealing half of his face: "Oh... you'll be back so soon." , come on, come in, come in." Tianyi let the earl in, stuck his head out, looked around, and after confirming that no one was following him, he locked the door again.
After entering the house, the count heard the sound of the door locking behind him, and became nervous again: "Master? Is there something else going on?"
"I want to change places." Tianyi said.
This sentence was a bit incomprehensible, and the Earl asked puzzledly: "What do you want to do?"
Tianyi replied: "I want to move this bookstore to another place."
The earl was stunned: "You want to move?" He then thought about the eye thing just now: "Oh, yes, it is not safe here. It should have been discovered. You should leave as soon as possible. I can help you. Tomorrow morning... No , I will hire a few carriages tomorrow morning and call a few reliable people to help you..."
"No need, I'll move it now." Tianyi said, detouring behind a nearby bookshelf.
The count raised his feet and landed lightly, trying not to step on the book and followed him, "Now? At this night? You..." He was about to ask, why did you lock the door instead of moving? A magic circle came into view.
"God bless..." The count crossed himself on his chest: "Master, what are you doing?" He now understood why Tianyi didn't come out when he knocked on the door for the first time. It turned out that he was busy with this. hear.
"I want to move this house to another place." Tianyi replied.
"Where?" The answer the Earl thought of was - hell. No way, Tianyi's black-robed wizard appearance, black hair and black eyes, and various neurotic behaviors, in the eyes of medieval Europeans, he would definitely not be a figure representing justice and heaven.
"Don't panic." Tianyi said.
The earl was not surprised why the other party knew that he was panicking. He did not deny it, but just said: "Your... um... spell, is it dangerous?"
"This is 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 was telling the truth. As history progresses, Tianyi's bookstore also keeps pace with the times. In every era, he will find some suitable candidates and share the black technology in the bookstore with them to transform and upgrade the bookstore's configuration.
Seeing that the count's shrewd image was gone, and he stood there stupidly like a country bumpkin entering the city, Tianyi added: "There is no danger, you can rest assured, it will be over soon. I will still teleport to Rome, just It’s just a change of place.”
"God bless..." The count crossed himself again.
This is the importance of faith. A person with faith, in the face of adversity, will put his hands together and say: "Namo Amitabha", or make a sign of the cross and shout the name of Jesus. People who have no faith can only shout: "What a scam!"
"Let me see... celery, onions, greasy wigs, fat guys' double chins..." Tianyi added "ingredients" to a pot of bubbling boiling water in the middle of the magic circle.
The count looked at the last thing he threw in, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "Excuse me... is the fat man's double chin a human..."
"... dried intestines... ah? What did you say?" Tianyi asked, while pulling out an extra long intestine from a sack like a fire hose. No matter how it looked, it looked like in humans…
"No... it's nothing..." The count stopped asking. He felt that his spitting point was too low. He almost couldn't hold back when he heard the sound of the big eyeball being fucked. Compared with the current situation, what he could only do just now was It's a small scene.
"Horse hooves, wheat, musk, women's hair..." Tianyi grabbed a bunch of brown hair and said, "I personally like brown-haired girls, but the prostitutes here smell too much, which makes people uninteresting." He said and threw his hair into the boiling water.
The count had given up on asking where these things came from. He vaguely felt that he had provoked someone very powerful.
Everyone knows that the Templars, the Pope, and the King are just a bunch of mortals, but at this moment, what they see in front of them is a living King of Hell, who is ruthless, murderous, and really knows witchcraft!
The earl's world view has been completely subverted. Don't think that people in the Middle Ages have really seen supernatural phenomena just because they mentioned supernatural phenomena. When they saw it with their own eyes, they would definitely be much more stimulated than modern people, and their psychological endurance would be much weaker.
"Okay, I'm going to start teleporting." Tian Yi threw all the required materials into the pot, stood in the middle of the magic circle, shook his head and recited a series of incantations that probably only birds could understand.
The next second, the count felt that the ground beneath his feet was shaking...
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