Creed of the heavens

The highest priority is not Marco, the head of the Barbarigo family, nor Silvio, the prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Venice, but Emilio, a businessman.

Emilio is the money bag of the Barbarigo family. He manages the most important financial entry and exit of a large family.

Moreover, all the materials needed by the Barbarigo family for assassination and treason were purchased through Emilio's connections and smuggled into Venice through smuggling channels.

Antonio's thieves recently discovered a batch of strange goods. Emilio purchased a large package of herbs that could not be sold at an unprecedented price, which was seriously inconsistent with his previous business philosophy of sacrificing money.

"herb?"

Lu Xiao subconsciously thought of the quick-acting poison recorded in Altaïr's handbook: "Could it be that the Barbarigo family intends to assassinate the governor by using poison?"

Chapter 49 Blessings come unparalleled

During the period when Da Vinci was tidying up the workshop, Lu Xiao was not idle.

It took him half a month to go around the various areas of Venice.

The entire city of Venice is divided into 5 administrative divisions, namely Cannaregio, San Paolo, San Marco, Castello and Dorsoduro.

Among them, the castle area is where the Venetian army is stationed, and the defense is very tight, so Lu Xiao did not sneak in rashly.

The core areas of Venice are the San Paolo District and the San Marco District, and the important administrative organs headed by the Doge's Palace are all located in the San Marco District.

Lu Xiao pretended to be a passing pedestrian, mixed into the crowd and walked around the Governor's Mansion, quietly looking for the best route to sneak in.

It's a pity that the defense near the Governor's Mansion is very tight, and there is almost no gap around this independent building where you can sneak in. This conclusion made Lu Xiao scratch his head.

According to Antonio's guess, the time for Carlo's attack should be near, and Lu Xiao must seize the time to act.

Emilio Barbarigo's main activity range is concentrated in the San Paolo district, where the market and port of Venice are located, and Da Vinci's work is located in a corner of the market.

Under the protection of the political power of the Barbarigo family, Emilio did not even hide his behavior of excluding dissidents.

Lu Xiao saw with her own eyes that a spice merchant who went to the governor's mansion to sue Barbarigo's monopoly was ridiculed and beaten by the guards, and warned him not to offend the Barbarigo family.

It's simply lawless, thanks to Governor Mocenigo being able to tolerate them, aren't you afraid that one day Barbarigo will plot against himself?

Lu Xiao felt a little speechless about Mocenigo's big heart. Perhaps the governor was too confident and lacked the necessary vigilance against the Barbarigo family who pretended to be submissive.

Now that the first target has been decided, Lu Xiao will focus all his attention on studying the character traits and action rules of the trio for a while.

It just so happened that an overseas trading ship of the Barbarigo family returned from Istanbul with a full load the day after tomorrow, and Emilio would definitely go to the port to inspect and accept it in person, and Lu Xiao decided to set the time to do it on that day.

The structure of the Hidden Gun seems to be very complicated, and Da Vinci has not completed it after retreating for a long time.

Fortunately, this kind of noisy firearm should not be used in this operation. After Lu Xiao prepared her arms, she was led by Antonio's thieves to the Port of Venice.

In the vibrant Venetian port, there are ships returning from various places docking to unload their cargo at all times. The rude shouts of sailors and the bargaining of merchants with red necks are mixed together. If the voice is too low, there is no sound here cannot communicate effectively.

Lu Xiao and the young thief who led the way did not need to communicate with each other. The other party pointed out Emilio's location to him through gestures.

Under the escort of a large group of Venetian soldiers, an old man dressed in gorgeous aristocratic costumes stood in front of a pier with his hands behind his back.

The old man's appearance was nothing to be commended, but the aura of being in a high position for a long time made the sailors and businessmen on the pier subconsciously walk around him.

The soldiers of the Venice government just use public weapons for private use like this?

Lu Xiao shook her head dumbfounded, Mocenigo, the governor, must be too shameless.

It was Venice's official platform that allowed Emilio to do all kinds of tricks on his competitors without fear of official punishment.

Waving the thief to evacuate early, Lu Xiao found a dead corner where no one was watching.

After a few minutes of changing the orientation of the roof, he finally came to the top of a civilian dock where merchant ships were being built, took off the longbow on his back, and aimed at Emilio, who was looking at the far end of the sea level.

Compared with previous pure assassinations that avoided the attention of the crowd, Lu Xiao's actions this time were relatively high-profile due to the time constraints for Barbarigo's plan.

The bowstring was fully drawn, and after calculating the wind direction, he fine-tuned the shooting angle. Lu Xiao took a deep breath and held it.

"Boom!"

With a muffled sound of the bowstring, the feathered arrow flew across a long distance towards the ignorant Emilio, and hit the temple precisely.

"what!!"

"Murder!"

Emilio fell to the ground with an arrow in full view, causing screams and riots near the pier.

With the blessing of clairvoyance and the exercise of arm strength all the year round, Lu Xiao's shooting limit far exceeds that of ordinary archers. The panicked guards scanned the farthest shooting range they could understand for a long time but failed to find Lu Xiao's. trace.

Under the support of Antonio's thieves, Lu Xiao blended into the fleeing crowd and quietly left the port area.

Lu Xiao's assassination plan is not over yet. Before Emilio's body is buried, it will definitely be moved back to the Barbarigo family's mansion for inspection.

Marco was lucky, he happened to be in the mansion today and did not go out, but Silvio was not so lucky.

If there is no accident, he should rush home as soon as he gets the news, which happens to be the best time for Lu Xiao to make a move.

The residence of the Barbarigo family is located in the San Marco district where dignitaries gather, not far from the Doge's Palace in Venice.

Lu Xiao ran from the roof to the target location relying on the route he had already calculated.

Venice is not like Florence, the archers on the roof will not turn a blind eye to a stranger like Lu Xiao, at this time it is the turn of Antonio's thieves.

The nimble thieves followed Lu Xiao to climb up to the roof. When Lu Xiao aroused the alertness of the archers, the thieves would take the initiative to divert the attention of the archers.

With the support of the thieves' union, Lu Xiao finally arrived at the scheduled ambush location in the San Marco district, just as Silvio strode towards the Barbarigo mansion from the direction of the Governor's Palace.

Silvio, a fat man in a monk's hooded robe, with a gloomy expression visible from under his hood, was clearly in a bad mood after the news of Emilio's death.

Silvio, who was in a hurry, was also accompanied by several heavily armed Venetian guards. If he attacked from the ground, it would be difficult to penetrate the defense of these guards and directly attack Silvio.

Gently put down the body of an assassinated Venetian archer, Lu Xiao crouched on the edge of the roof, and ready to pop out the bloody Hidden Blade.

Using dynamic vision to calculate the advance of Silvio's walking, Lu Xiao jumped down from the air. The sound of the assassin's customer being blown by the downdraft aroused Silvio's vigilance, and he subconsciously looked up into the air.

"Crack!"

Lu Xiao, who descended from the sky, stabbed the Hidden Sword into Silvio's forehead, and before the guards around him could react, he immediately threw the cannon-style smoke bomb that Da Vinci made when he was bored on the ground.

"Cough cough!"

Lu Xiao had planned to hold her breath and cover her eyes in advance to evacuate in time, but the guards were choked by the inhaled smoke and coughed again and again.

The smoke is lime powder that exploded in one breath. Inhaling it in the nose will cause a lot of damage to the body. If it is sprayed into the eyes and washed with water improperly, there is a high chance of burning the eyeballs.

When the lime smoke dissipated, except for a corpse with a pierced forehead and a few guards coughing in pain, there was no trace of the enemy.