After Giovanni left his promise and left, Lu Xiao fell into deep thought in his room.
'There are 30 pages of manuscripts in total, and they are scattered all over Italy. After so many years, it is impossible for me to remember the location of each manuscript clearly.'
'But there are only 6 assassin tombs that are different.'
Lu Xiao rubbed his chin as he was thinking, "If my memory is correct, two of the six assassins' tombs are in Florence and two are in Venice, a water city in northern Italy."
'The remaining two tombs are located in San Gimignano and a castle called Forli. Compared with the large number of codex, the difficulty of collecting Assassin's tokens is obviously much lower.'
Not to mention the water cities of Venice and Forli, there are three assassin tombs buried in Tuscany alone.
Among them, the tokens in the Church of Santa Maria del Fiore have been taken out by Lu Xiao, and Giovanni sent someone to return them to the Auditore Church.
'Next Ya will move faster.'
'Get the Assassin's token in the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella as soon as possible, and then look for an opportunity to go to San Gimignano. While searching for the Assassin's tomb, we will also search for the whereabouts of Rodrigo Borgia.'
…
After all, Giovanni, La Volpe and others are all middle-aged senior assassins. Years of experience have allowed them to develop their own set of values and outlook on life.
Although they were confused for a short time by Altaïr's criticism of Assassin's Creed, they all quickly came to their senses and reaffirmed their beliefs.
According to Lu Xiao's understanding, Assassin's Creed is not always static.
As the adage goes, everything is false and everything is allowed.
Sticking to the life creed you believe in and implementing it to the end is the correct way to inherit the Assassin spirit, rather than blindly falling into the endless struggle with the Templars and being unable to extricate yourself because of hatred and camp opposition.
In this regard, Lu Xiao is more sympathetic to the concept of a future traitor to the Assassin organization.
In the thousands of years of struggle between the Assassins and the Templars, there were times when the Italian Brotherhood in the 15th and 16th centuries upheld justice.
The Templars of this era have obviously gone astray under the leadership of Rodrigo Borgia. What the Assassins represent is justice and justice.
But where there is light, there is shadow. The Assassin Mentor of the New World branch of the Brotherhood in the 18th century made a big mistake because of his excessive obsession with the Artifact of Eden, which directly led to the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Lisbon, which claimed the lives of countless innocent people.
occur.
In the same way, the Templars did not always stand as villains at every point in history. They also had a period when they focused on guiding the world towards good ideas. There were even Supreme Masters of the Templars who were willing to cooperate with the Assassins to build a better future together.
Just like the moderate supreme ambassador of the French Knights Templar branch in the 18th century, François de la Serre.
Unfortunately, the fundamental philosophical differences between the two organizations made it difficult for the two parties to cooperate in the long term. Moreover, many people within the Templars were firmly opposed to cooperation with the Assassins, and the two parties eventually parted ways.
As an outsider, Lu Xiao can stand more calmly and soberly away from the hatred between the two organizations, and examine the ideas of both the Assassins and the Templars from an objective perspective.
Now that the Templars are trapped by their obsession and are running towards corruption under the leadership of Rodrigo, Lu Xiao is naturally willing to help the assassins bring order to the chaos.
But if one day the assassin goes to extremes for various reasons, Lu Xiao would not mind, like Shay Cormac, temporarily accepting the guidance of the Father of Insight and using another method to reintroduce the assassin to the right path.
After returning to normal, Giovanni continued to monitor Uberto Alberti, and he soon obtained some clues through careful searching.
It is almost certain that Umberto Alberti betrayed the Medici family and was secretly connected with the Pazzi family and a certain conspiracy group targeting the Medici.
Although Giovanni was deeply hurt by the betrayal of his close friend, as an assassin with firm beliefs, he adjusted his mentality as quickly as possible and shared the information obtained from Uberto's family with the Florentine Brotherhood.
"Umberto and the Cabal often meet in the secret room beneath the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella."
Giovanni gritted his teeth and blamed himself: "The party has been held secretly countless times, but because of my trust in Uberto, I have never doubted him. This is my dereliction of duty."
Lu Xiao had received relevant information from Giovanni before, and Uberto would go to Santa Maria Novella alone to attend mass every Sunday.
Paola waved her hand indifferently and said: "Giovanni, skip your self-examination for now and get back to the topic."
"Did you find out the identity of that cabal member?"
Giovanni glanced at Paola gratefully, nodded solemnly and said: "It has been basically found out that except for Umberto and Jacob, Francesco and Vieri of the Pazzi family, they are expected to participate in subverting the United States.
There are still four people in the cabal ruled by Diqi."
"They are Antonio Maffei, Francesco Salviati, Bernardo Baroncelli and Stefano Bagnone."
The cunning fox La Volpe rubbed his eyebrows with a headache: "They are all people who have a lot of energy in Florence or Tuscany. I know Bernardo among them better."
"My thieves have long found out that while he was a banker of the Patch family, he secretly smuggled some weapons into the city, but he didn't expect that he was actually a member of the Templars."
"In addition, Bernardo also goes to the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella for mass every Sunday. It seems that they use this opportunity to get together in secret."
"Sunday..." Giovanni clenched his fists and said decisively: "We must have more information about this conspiracy group, at least to know when and how they plan to subvert the rule of the Medici family."
Lu Xiao stood up at this time and said: "Leave this task to me. Recently I found a secret assassin mark outside the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella. It is exactly the same as the mechanism I found on the top of the Church of Santa Maria del Fiore. It is very likely that it is also a
Secret agency."
"I speculate that this mechanism should be connected to the secret passage into the assassin's tomb underground in the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella."
"oh?"
La Volpe said with some surprise: "What a coincidence, my thieves also discovered the assassin mark disguised as a skull."
"Lu and I have the same view. The assassin's tomb under the Basilica of Notre Dame should be connected to the church's basement. We can send people to sneak into the passage to search before Sunday. Maybe we can eavesdrop on some important information inside the tomb."
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After Lu Xiao volunteered to apply, Giovanni agreed to his suggestion.
Accompanied by La Volpe, the two went all the way to the secret agency of the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella.
"Click~"
Lu Xiao used the same technique to pull the skeleton, and the reorganized skull carving turned into an assassin's mark, and a secret passage to the underground was revealed in the sound of the machine's operation.
La Volpe patted Lu Xiao on the back and promised: "Don't worry, go in, the thieves and I will help you watch your way back."
"Everything inside the tomb is unknown. You must be vigilant when sneaking in alone."
Lu Xiao showed his thumbs up calmly: "No problem, I'll leave my back to you. Don't let anyone discover this secret passage."