Sinmonger Chapter 12: The man in the center of the whirlpool

Chapter 12 The man at the center of the whirlpool

It was early in the morning when Count Beauger returned to his residence. The strange experience of this night made his nerves, which had been in a tense state for a long time, have a feeling of being broken after breaking through the boundaries.

He stared at him, unable to calm down for a long time, thinking that the black-haired man Tianyi was a real wizard, the earl's temples would jump.

Recalling the "teleportation" scene... The pot of boiling water exuded a disgusting horror, every material put in was saturated with evil, and the magic square on the ground was painted with Satan's symbols like graffiti. , those tongue-in-cheek and lengthy incantations are undoubtedly the notes from hell. And it happens that this combination is really effective! When the Count opened the bookstore again, he had come to another corner of Rome, far from the dirty alley.

As the sun rose, the earl began to grow tired, and he fell into a drowsy sleep with nightmares. When he woke up at noon, he had a terrible headache. After getting up, he ate something indiscriminately, and hurried out the door by himself.

The earl is going to see the person who sold him the information before. He wants to find out exactly what the origin of Tianyi is.

The well-informed intelligence dealer is called "Parrot", no one knows his real name, that's what everyone calls him anyway. He is in his fifties, has sallow teeth, and has never raised a parrot. I think even if he did, he would have eaten it for a snack long ago.

After going out, the journey went smoothly. The Earl came to the "chimney" bar in the city. It was a wooden house, a little distance from the road. Outside the door, a disheveled alcoholic was sitting on the ground with his back against the wall. , stretched out his hand and said, "A reward for a drink, sir."

Facing this kind of person, the earl naturally ignored it. When he pushed the door and walked into the tavern, he could hear the drunken scolding behind him in a low voice: "What a noble miser, if he has no copper odor on his body, It won't be of any use to people."

The house is as smoky as most pubs, and even though it's only two o'clock in the afternoon and the pub has just opened, the alcoholics have already filled most of the room.

The Count of Beauge walked straight to the bartender, a middle-aged man with a gray beard.

"What do you need? This gentleman." The bartenders at that time were basically vicious, and they often worked in dim environments, but they could accurately describe the kind of penniless, drunken The addicted pauper is distinguished from the rich man who walks in for a drink.

"I'm looking for someone," replied the Count.

"I don't have 'Someone' here for sale," the bartender replied.

A few golden coins were placed on the table by the earl, and the bartender's eyes lit up instantly. Before anyone noticed it, his big hand covered it, pressed the money, and quickly slid it to the place close to him. On the edge of the table on the side, the gold coins all fell into the palm of his other hand.

The bartender picked up one at random, stared into the earl's eyes, bit the gold coin into his mouth, looked several times, then put the money away and said, "Name?"

"I'm looking for 'parrot'," replied the earl.

The bartender knew, of course, that it meant a person, not a bird, but after hearing the name, his face became very strange: "He's dead."

"What?" said the earl in shock. He only saw the parrot yesterday morning and bought information about the "bookstore" with money.

"His body was found near the church yesterday afternoon," said the bartender.

"What about the cause of death?" said the Count.

"You should ask the sheriff about that." That's it for the bartender.

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Leaving the Chimney Bar, Count Beauger's heart was clouded again. The intelligence dealer he only met in the morning died in the afternoon. If it was murder, could it have something to do with him again?

For the past few months, the earl has been watching with an eye in the back of his head. It's fine if he doesn't know. Now that he knows, the earl has become suspicious. Everyone can be implicated by themselves.

But everyone is dead, so as a wanted criminal, Count Beauger is naturally inconvenient to investigate. There is no way, it seems that the understanding of the character Tianyi can only be believed by one's own eyes.

He arrived at the new location of the bookstore in an uneasy mood, pushed open the hidden door, and the Earl probed into it.

Tian Yi is sitting behind his desk, chin resting in one hand, elbow propped on an armchair, and reading a letter in the other.

"Master..." the Count called out to him.

Tian Yi yawned, put down the letter, and sighed: "Sad poet."

The Count knew what he was talking about, and asked casually, "Is it a poet who wrote to you?"

"It's just a poor man. He fell into the wrong house when he was a boy, he was on the wrong side politically, he was exiled, and he couldn't return to his hometown. Last year, Henry VII died in Siena, and the hope of this poor man was also lost. Finished with the fading Holy Roman monarch. I think he is destined to express his emotions in long poems in his life. He was like this when the woman left him twenty years ago, and he is still like this today. "..." Tianyi said in a helpless tone: "The backbone of these literati often makes people feel tragic and funny. I once told him that a compromising and servile villain would be more comfortable than him, but he answered me: go on your own. Let others tell you the way." Tian Yi smiled: "I think this sentence will become popular sooner or later, don't you think so? Mr. Earl."

The earl listened to it for a long time and didn't know what Tianyi was talking about. He just said with a haha: "I believe that the situation of your poet friend will eventually improve."

"No, I don't want his situation to get better. He's a genius, so he should die as miserably as possible. The night scene is desolate. It's the right way to die in a foreign country. Sympathy and lamentation are what the mediocre people in the world are happy to give. Only such an encounter will make him regarded as a great master by later generations and praised by countless people." Tiandao: "Remember, Mr. Earl, a successful person with a perfect life, often accepts only accusations, hostility and jealousy. , no matter what decisions they make or what they do, they will be singled out and treated as if they had other plans.

If one day, you live to the level of 'getting famous and enjoying the wind', you will see the filth of this world and the ugliness of human beings more and more clearly. You will re-examine and judge everything you do and see, everyone. In the end, there is only boredom, disgust... and helplessness. "

The earl felt as if blood was dripping from his ears. Tianyi's every word was like a sermon from hell. He even spread such a sultry voice to a remnant leader of the Knights Templar who believed in God. Inadvertently talking and talking, he brought it up.

The earl's hair stood up when he heard it, and said to himself: I shouldn't take the poet's words at all, no! I shouldn't have spoken at all! Next time I have to wait for him to speak first, or I will greet him when he is free.

"That...Master, about what we said yesterday..." The Count wanted to bring the topic to the point. The content of his transaction with Tianyi last night was: he went to send Volleo to a doctor, and Tianyi solve his personal safety issues.

But the safety of the earl is not something that can be solved in a short time, because there are many people who want to kill him, or the forces that are chasing him are really many, and they are mixed, and those forces may not necessarily be among them. Knowing the existence of the other party, the situation can be described as very complicated.

"Where did we say yesterday... oh, yes, secretly wanted." Tian Yi said.

Here I have to go back and say something. Europe in the early fourteenth century was a period of intense struggle between kingship and clergy. Before 1314, Italy was divided into two factions, the imperial party and the papal party, fighting each other. It's a lot of fun, and it's impossible to make a deal. Then Henry VII, the first German king of the Luxembourg dynasty, joined in and entered Italy in 1310. Mediation between the Emperor's Party and the Pope's Party to expand its power in practice. And in Milan in 1310, he was crowned as the King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombard on his head; on June 29, 1312, he was officially crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in Rome.

Many Italians, including the poet who wrote to Tianyi, hoped that Henry VII would lead a divided Italy to unification. Unfortunately, the king died suddenly in 1313 and failed to conquer the Florence, the poet's hometown.

Since Henry VII is likely to restore the power of the feudal lords in Italy, of course, he will touch the scales of many people and affect the interests of those people. Among those who oppose Henry VII, including Pope Francis Reman V.

We can't ignore his contributions to church scholarship, but from a political point of view, this dude's deeds are really unflattering. As we all know, it has not been a year or two for Clement V and Philip IV to be in trouble. He was able to ascend to the position of the Pope entirely with the help of the French behind the scenes.

I don't know if it was because he had limited intelligence and couldn't hide it, or because he could be so unscrupulous at the time. Anyway, as soon as he ascended the Apostolic See, he immediately announced that 10% of the tax revenue of the French Church would be dedicated to Philip IV. . Later, the entire Holy See was moved to French-controlled Avignon. In order to strengthen his own strength and ensure that the future pope is monopolized by French people, Clement V also promoted nine French cardinals, five of them are his relatives, and three of these five are children... ... Even if you want to explain that Cheng Juxian does not avoid relatives, you must at least find an adult. It can be seen that when he uses his power, he really doesn't care much about other people's gossip.

Henry VII was crowned the Holy Roman Empire by Clement V himself, but at the last moment, he was betrayed by the pope. Looking at what he did to the Knights Templar later, it is enough to see that the pope would often betray others "under pressure".

In short, the relationship between the Pope and the King of France is already there. Philip IV, jealous of the rich wealth of the Knights, made a black hand on the Knights Templar in 1307, but the results were not satisfactory, why? ? Very simple, the news leaked, and the treasure of the Knights was transferred and hidden in advance.

It has now been seven years since the incident. During these seven years, both of their brothers have been kept in the dark, and it was only after seven years that the chief of the regiment, Morley, was burned to death. It was not until Beauger and his architects took the "treasure" part of the treasure from the hollow columns of the two tombs that Philip IV heard from some spies and some Templars from abroad. Such a gust of wind.

He wanted the Count of Kichet de Beauger in France, and used the charge of "Doomsday Heresy" on the head of the Knights Templar, and used the power of the Holy See to hunt down this Count throughout Europe.

However, Philip IV couldn't have announced anything about the treasure, so a fool would have done that. He also knew very well that Bore, this guy, 80% has already fled abroad. If the treasure is exposed, he will fall into the hands of anyone else, even a group of foreign thieves will not belong to him. French tube, when the time comes, I won't be able to catch a penny.

Therefore, Philip IV made a "secret wanted", and some things belonging to the underground world should be left to those experts to do. Many of those mysterious organizations in Europe are now eyeing the Earl, and the news has already been released. If you want to live, as long as you live, you can use your brain well.

In addition, there is an unknown force, which Tianyi discovered. The organization of the person who used the ability to use eyes was hired to take the count's life in an "unobvious" way.

The Count of Beauger and the secret behind him have undoubtedly become a whirlpool in the center of the European underworld. Numerous forces hidden in the dark are eyeing him. I am afraid that if he meets Tianyi a few days later, about the treasure history will be rewritten.

"Yes, secretly wanted." The Count looked at Tian Yi and replied: "Master~IndoMTL.com~ How dangerous is Rome now? How many pursuers are here? Can you allow me to bring Your entourage? I can make them wait at the door without disturbing you."

Tian Yi knew that yesterday the earl thought his whereabouts were secret and no one knew he was in Rome, so he dared to find the bookstore alone, but today, after learning so much inside, he was afraid, if not I asked him to come alone, how would he dare to go out without five or six bodyguards?

"Very dangerous." Tian Yi replied with a smile: "It's so dangerous, if you don't leave Rome, you may be captured or maimed every minute."

The earl's forehead is sweaty. Talking to Tianyi, every sentence he hears may cause a heart attack.

"It's up to you to bring your entourage, but I don't think it will be useful." Tianyi: "Don't even think about escaping from Rome, I tell you, if you don't move, you will die. Pretending to be ignorant, those who are lurking in the dark will continue to monitor. They only know that you have a big secret, but they don't know it's a treasure, so they have every reason to observe. But if you act rashly..."

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