The escaped Lu Xiao was carrying a fat man on his shoulders, and the Templars following behind were also affected by heavy armor on their bodies. Both sides chased and fled at a speed of half a dozen.

However, Florence is the territory of the Metic family after all. He carried Rodrigo out of breath and turned several alleys, Lu Xiao finally entered a relatively empty church square.

The city guards here have cleared the nearby Templars and are pacifying and evacuating panicked civilians.

Lu Xiao, who had planned his escape route in advance, opened his voice and called out loud: "Guard! I was ordered by the lord adviser Giovanni Auditore to help me stop the Templars chasing behind me!"

Although the city guards cannot confirm whether Lu Xiao’s identity is true for the time being, the group of elite Templars following did arouse their ideas.

The head guard captain was stained with a lot of enemy blood. He waved his saber and pointed at the relentlessly chasing Knights Templars: "Stop them! Florence is not a place for the Holy See, for the sake of the American Empire!"

Hearing the sound of Italian swearing and weapons intertwining, Lu Xiao's tense nerves finally relaxed a little.

Just at this time Federico led several assassins to arrive hurriedly, and the eldest son of the Auditorey family did not forget to make a humorous joke in the crisis.

"Wow~ You seem to be very hard-working, but fortunately my father gave you this task, so I would rather carry a beautiful woman to elope."

Lu Xiao rolled his eyes in anger: "Stop talking sarcastic things, come and help me bring this guy back to the headquarters. This time I should be able to pry out a lot of information from him."

...

The rebellion between the Templars and the Patch family lasted for a long time, and the entire city of Florence was in chaos, and the war between the soldiers on both sides did not gradually stop late that night.

After controlling the situation, the Assassin Brotherhood hid back into the streets and alleys under Giovanni's orders and handed over the next chance to the lord Lorenzo.

The Templar's plan to assassinate the Metichi family ended in a crushing defeat, and even the highest master Rodrigo Bogia, who personally led the plan, was captured by the assassin.

The Italian Knights Templar Branch, which was based in Rome, was in panic. Some advocated immediately selecting a new Supreme Master to take revenge on the assassin as quickly as possible, while others calmly expressed their willingness to wait for subsequent news.

When Rodrigo woke up from his coma, he found his hands and feet tied to a chair, and several masked men and women with no appearance stood in front of him staring straight at him.

Rodrigo felt a chill in his heart. Seeing the scene in front of him, he had already guessed where he was.

Forced himself to calm down, Rodrigo said calmly: "Is it meaningful to wear these masks? Giovanni Auditore, don't you think we don't know who you are, do you?"

One of the masked men chuckled and pulled the mask down, revealing the face of a handsome and elegant middle-aged man.

"Rodrigo Bogia, welcome to the Florence Assassin Headquarters. You never dreamed that your plan would suffer such a tragic failure, did you?"

"snort!"

Rodrigo said that he was not losing the game: "I admit that we were a little too hasty in our actions. As expected, we should get rid of the Audi Torre family as planned."

Giovanni squatted down and looked at Rodrigo directly, without being sowed by the other party's words, and smiled calmly: "Don't be stubborn, the success of the king will be defeated, and the result will be that the assassin will win, the Templar will be defeated, and you will also fall into our hands."

Rodrigo looked at the rest of the people present, leaned back slightly and pressed on the back of the chair: "Don't waste your energy, you don't think that as the highest master of the Templar, I can't keep the secret, right?"

"In the name of my Lord, you can't help but find any information from me!"

Although Rodrigo spoke quite righteously, Lu Xiao saw Rodrigo's guilt in his flashing eyes.

Ra Volpe, who was wearing a mask, looked at Giovanni: "It's true that killing him. Killing a Templar Master will definitely boost the morale of the Brotherhood, and at the same time, you can take this opportunity to attack the Templars' unity."

Like all the secret organizations in the world, the Templars are not a monolithic part. With neutral and radical factions like Rodrigo, there will naturally be moderates who advocate slowing down conflicts with the Assassins.

Once news of Rodrigo's death spread, the Knights Templar, whose power was in a vacuum, would likely continue for quite a while of internal struggle until the next Supreme Master was elected.

Lu Xiao, who had been paying attention to Rodrigo, noticed that his pupils had slightly contracted. It was obvious that this guy's mentality was affected by the words of the cunning fox.

"Don't be anxious."

Paula advised him: "As the highest master of the Templar, Rodrigo is also a cardinal of the Holy See and future pope candidate. Killing him may completely break up with the Vatican, which was originally neutral, with the Brotherhood."

Although there are a large number of Templars in the contemporary Catholic Church headquartered in Rome, the Vatican is not completely controlled by the Templars.

According to the Brotherhood's data, there was a pope who had worked closely with the assassins in the past, and this possibility was not ruled out in the future.

If Rodrigo, who is the cardinal of the Holy See, will inevitably set a gap between the possible cooperation between the two parties in the future.

The mercenary leader Luciano was a rough man. He scratched his head irritably and turned to look at Giovanni who was in deep thought.

"Govanni, what do you say? Kill? Don't kill?"

Lu Xiao popped out the repaired sneaker sword and put it on Rodrigo's neck. The Spaniard subconsciously raised his head, and the flesh on his fat neck was cut with a trace of blood.

"His Excellency Cardinal, are you sure you want to be stubborn?"

Lu Xiao's gentle and low voice echoed in Rodrigo's ears like a devil's whisper: "Is it really good to think about the colorful world outside, think about the power and resources you can hold when you become a pope in the future, and give up before your life reaches its peak?"

"Gudong~"

Rodrigo swallowed his saliva nervously, and after hesitating for a while, he finally gave up and sighed: "What do you want to know?"

"Click~"

"This is what it means to know the current affairs."

Lu Xiao took back his sword with satisfaction and gave the position to Giovanni, the leader of the Florence Brotherhood.

...

Once a person's psychological defense is broken, subsequent persistence will be meaningless.

Rodrigo is not like the highest masters of the Templars in the past. He does not have that kind of extremely firm belief. Rather than being a religious leader, he is more like a qualified politician with a thick-skinned and capable of bent and stretching.

In order to save his life and enjoy a better life in the future, Roderick revealed all the important information he knew, including the whereabouts of some of the artifacts of Eden.

"Cyprus?"

"That's right." Giovanni said thoughtfully: "Most of the information about the fragments of Eden given by Rodrigo is relatively fragmented, and the most accurate one is a golden apple of Eden buried in Cyprus."

"Cyprus has no fraternity branch, but this island country hanging in the middle of the Eastern Mediterranean is close to Ottomans and Egypt. I will inform the local fraternity to send people to explore, and it should be rewarded soon."

"Oh, by the way."

Giovanni suddenly remembered something and said to Lu Xiao: "Rodrigo also mentioned the vague information of the Sacred Sword of Eden."

"After the loss of the Holy Sword in the English Civil War, the Templars gained some unverified intelligence."

"It is said that the Holy Sword was sent to Port Lille in northern France by a pirate ship of unknown origin, and later it disappeared completely."

Lu Xiao's eyes lit up: "Is France..."
Chapter completed!