"What's so strange about hanging a Venis Governor?" Ask said disdainfully, "Ever since Constantinople was captured by the Crusaders under the leadership of your Venis Governor, the people of Cyrus have been hanging a Venis Governor every week."
"That was just verbal hanging!" The thief laughed. "It's just like the promise of high interest rates in illegal fund-raising. It's just words to fool people. But this time our governor was really hanged! The successor to Governor Enrique was hanged in the Venetian's own port less than a year after taking office!"
"I heard it was done by the Pure-Blood Priory," Ask said calmly.
He knew very well that in order to deal with this kind of young people, he had to put on an arrogant attitude of "I know more" and "What you know is all fake news" when trying to extract information in order to arouse the other party's competitive spirit.
Sure enough, the thief rowing the boat on the other side immediately sneered:
"Not only that, but this is a female demigod who has fallen into madness! The citizens of the entire Torcello District have seen it!"
Female demigod? Then Peggy could ask her master... Wait, this crazy demigod, could it be Agrippina the Belladonna
Ask suddenly had a strange premonition and asked quickly:
"That demigod is a woman? She's quite old, and dressed like a noble lady?"
"Not only that." The thief said in a showy manner, "She has maintained a very good figure! She is plump where she should be plump, and slender where she should be slender. She is comparable to the top girl in the Moulin Rouge!"
Ask: …
The boat gradually approached Riodo Island, and the thieves asked him to lie down to hide his body, and rowed the boat along the shadows of the waterway. Soon, it passed through layers of bridge holes and entered the underground river of a building.
Sure enough, no matter where you are, the Thieves Guild and the city sewers are inseparable.
Venice's sewers are actually underground river systems that run through the entire city. When the city was built, concrete piers were driven into the shallow sea bottom and then covered with waterproof Istrian slabs as the foundation.
So the Istrian slate divided the entire Venice into two areas. The upper part was a sunny neighborhood, and the lower part close to the sea was the place where the Thieves Guild was active. Various boats and wooden boards were used to build a street market in the shadows.
The girls of the Blue Sword and Albrecht's knights were already waiting there. They took off their armor and put on absorbent gray/brown cotton robes, hiding their weapons under their robes, looking like devout believers preparing to go to St. Mark's Church for worship.
After paying for the same disguise and buying a stack of maps of the entire Venis from the Thieves Guild, Ask distributed the maps to everyone, then rented a dark room nearby for secret meetings, and discussed with everyone:
"Next, we have to act separately."
"One team is responsible for representing His Majesty the Emperor as an envoy to negotiate with the Venis City Council."
"The other team is responsible for secretly investigating the truth behind the 'Hanging of Governor Venis' incident."
"Wait!" Albrecht questioned, "Your Majesty has said that we should move forward with the negotiations as soon as possible because time is tight..."