Chapter 891

These air vents are not conspicuous. They are basically on the back of the statue. They can't be seen without winding around. Besides the air vents, the stone slab itself can also be seen. This means that the base of the statue is not solid, but is built with an arched structure like the Flavi amphitheater.

Zhang Heng moved the stone slab and saw that the space below was very narrow, which could only accommodate a child under 14 years old. In addition, Zhang Heng found some bread crumbs and a bowl of water in it.

But Zhang Heng couldn't find anything else, so he went around to the back of the temple, where the priests lived.

The young priest who had opened the door to welcome him now went back to bed and fell asleep. In addition to him, there were two older priests and six handyman attendants.

Without waking them up, Zhang Heng finished the search of their residence, but he didn't get much. Then he went back to the hall with the statue, opened the bronze gate and left the temple quietly.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhang Heng stood in front of the temple of Tin Hau Juno.

Just as he was about to do the same trick again, he threw out the stone in his hand, but the next moment, the door of the temple suddenly opened itself.

A woman dressed as a priest came out with a group of children.

Zhang Heng didn't have time to climb up the roof. In a hurry, he could only roll sideways and directly to the edge of the cliff. When the gate was fully opened, he hung himself directly on the cliff and climbed the cliff with one hand.

His action is very fast. However, because of the sudden incident, the child who was the first to step out of the door found something. The child stopped and looked at the cliff where Zhang Heng was hiding.

"Reverend Vera, I seem to have seen something."

The priestess named Vera looked in the direction shown by the child, and found nothing unusual. Then she said, "it's just the wind, mosmir. We'd better hurry. You'll all have to get up early tomorrow."

Mosmir blinked. He didn't think what he saw was the wind, but he listened to the priestess and went on, while the other children followed him.

When all the children left, the bronze door didn't close immediately, but a male priest came out. However, compared with the female priest just now, he didn't pay so much attention to etiquette. After watching the children leave, he went directly to the edge of the cliff, untied his trousers and was ready to release water.

But I did not expect that the first outflow was not his urine, but his blood.

A dark shadow with the smell of death came around him, cut his neck, and held him back, so that he could not scream when he died. The male priest reached out and grabbed the murderer's sleeve. He seemed to want to leave the murderer here. However, he only persisted for a few seconds and gradually lost his strength.

After that, Zhang Heng put the dead male priest aside. He grabbed the right hand of the other side and looked at it. There were many cocoons on the male priest's index finger and thumb, and there were scars on his arm. It was obvious that he had received strict military training before, and might even have participated in the war. He was not so much a priest as a soldier in a priest's coat.

Moreover, judging from his appearance and skin, he should not have been born in Rome. Not surprisingly, the elite brought by otrus from the frontier were also his most trusted bodyguards.

Zhang Heng knew that this time he was in the right place.

Zhang Heng would like to thank clinde for finding out the hiding place of otrus. If it wasn't for the information that clinde revealed when chatting with him in the dungeon that night, Zhang Heng really couldn't find it here.

Klindr describes the body of otrus as having witchcraft, which can enter a person's head and know what you are thinking. Zhang Heng thinks that klindr is talking about the use of emetic by otrus.

However, there are big problems in prying open a person's mouth with the botanical alkaloid in scopolamine. One is the problem of toxicity. Although we don't know what method otrus used to neutralize some toxicity, it doesn't completely eliminate the toxicity. It may not be a big problem to drink that cup of medicinal wine with Zhang Heng's physical quality, but it's hard for ordinary people to say.

In addition, in terms of efficiency, it's not a good way to collect intelligence. Ostrus needs to make the target drink the medicine and wine, and find a way to bring the target to a place where there is no one to start questioning. In this way, he can cross examine seven or eight people in one day. It's impossible for him to know the secrets of both civilians and nobles, as klindre said Dawn.

And Zhang Heng did not think that otrus would waste scopolamine on civilians.

He should have other means to collect intelligence, scopolamine is more like his special means in dealing with certain emergencies.

In addition, Clyde also mentioned that three years ago, otrus was shriveled. The dockers on the Tiber River asked for wages and paralyzed the traffic on the river. For such a big thing, otrus could not get any information in advance.It seems that these things can't explain anything when taken apart, but together, the answer is ready.

-- otrus is gathering information through the temple.

Temples and baths are probably one of the few places open to the poor and nobles, and they are also the two places where people like to discuss secrets. Believers will not hesitate to express their most secret wishes when praying. Similarly, many people like to talk about business and private affairs in baths.

What makes Zhang Heng exclude the bathing place is what clind said about the embarrassing incident of otrus three years ago. He can't get the news of the dockers in advance because most of the dockers are Jewish. They either believe in Judaism or Christianity, and they don't come back to the temple to pray to the Roman gods.

At the same time, Zhang Heng is more inclined to the temple. Another reason is that at that time, otrus was sentenced to death by a sentence of the court priest. If his father didn't finally soften his heart and send him away, he would have died at the age of four. In the end, although he survived, he also lost his status as a prince and could never live in the sun.

After many years, he returned to Rome and regained power. Zhang Heng did not believe that he would not retaliate against the priests in the temple. In this way, he could naturally control these temples and turn them into his own intelligence gathering place.

The hiding place Zhang Heng found under the stone pedestal of the statue of Jupiter is the best proof. The children who were taken away by the priestess should be the ears of otrus.

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