Although Lu Xiao said he wanted to fight Dante, the hidden gun hidden in his right arm armor fired first at Marco, who was slumped on the ground and wailing.
The screams stopped abruptly, Marco's wide-open eyes fell back, and there was a small hole on his forehead with a blackened edge.
"You! Looking for death!"
His employer was killed in front of him. Dante, who had a simple thinking circuit, angrily raised his sword with both hands and attacked Lu Xiao.
"call!"
The heavy two-handed sword struck down on the head, and the fierce sound of the wind as the sword blade cut through the air made Lu Xiao dare not take a hard hit. She rolled sideways to the left and nimbly dodged the sword.
It was not Lu Xiao's style to only defend but not attack. With the hidden gun in his right hand retracted, Lu Xiao held a short knife in each hand and stabbed Dante's side with both hands.
Dante is not wearing armor, and his movements are more flexible than those of a heavily armored warrior.
After retreating to avoid Lu Xiao's attack, Dante skillfully turned his epee back and slashed Lu Xiao diagonally from bottom to top.
With the retreat blocked, Lu Xiao exerted further force with his feet, using the forward momentum to rush behind Dante. The short knife in his left hand cut through his lake green noble coat, and the short knife held behind his back in his right hand hit him on the back of the neck with the handle.
Dante is nearly 2 meters tall, which is much taller than Lu Xiao. Lu Xiao cannot reach the opponent's head in the forward charging position and can only aim at his neck to attack.
Although Dante's fighting instinct was still there, the damage to his brain affected his fighting strategy, and he fell into Lu Xiao's tricks and lost the opportunity.
"Ugh!"
The hit on the back of the neck made Dante let out a muffled groan, but the big man did not fall unconscious on the spot as Lu Xiao expected, and continued to lift his leg and kick backward despite the pain.
"This guy's physique is too buggy!"
After escaping Dante's counterattack, Lu Xiao distanced himself again and looked at Dante with one hand covering his neck in surprise and another hand holding a giant sword.
'Fortunately, I killed Marco first, otherwise I would have ignored the last hit on him when fighting Dante.'
Faced with such powerful warriors who are powerful but not too smart, the best way is to outwit them.
Lu Xiao observed the height difference in Marco's room and thought of the next step while avoiding Dante's attack.
"Whoa!"
Throwing the rock climbing hook made by Leonardo da Vinci towards the roof beam, Lu Xiao pulled himself up with his arms, and soon jumped on the beam and disappeared from Dante's sight.
Dante, who was short of brains, was stunned for a few seconds before he realized what he should do. He banged the door open with his shoulder and planned to chase outside.
"Brush!"
As soon as Dante stepped out, he stepped on a ball of iron chains. Before he could react, the chains immediately tightened, and Lu Xiao pulled Dante upside down under the beam.
"Tsk! This guy is so heavy!"
After struggling to tie the other end of the hook lock to the supporting column of the castle, Lu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and walked to a position five meters away from Dante to observe from a distance.
"Despicable! If you still think you are a warrior, put me down, and we will decide the outcome in an upright manner!"
Lu Xiao ignored the hanging Dante's angrily swinging swords with both hands, and said with a smile: "You seem to have made a mistake. I am not a warrior, but an assassin. Why should I confront you head-on?"
Assassins pursue results. Just like what the creed says, everything is allowed. As long as victory can be achieved, any means can be used, including but not limited to frontal combat.
Lu Xiao originally planned to give Dante a happy life to free him from this miserable life, but Dante's extraordinary sixth sense gave up his idea.
Dante had an extraordinary physique, but after all he was just a human being. After being hung upside down, he made random moves without common sense to speed up his blood circulation. Not long after, he rolled his eyes and fainted due to congestion in his brain.
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With Marco's death, there was no commander in the small castle to issue orders and coordinate the overall situation.
When Lu Xiao hung Marco's body on the castle tower for public display, the morale of the private soldiers of the Barbarigo family immediately collapsed. They dropped their weapons and surrendered on the spot, trying to obtain leniency from the governor.
The next work was not the area that Lu Xiao was responsible for. He handed over the bargaining with Governor Mosenigo to Antonio. Lu Xiao handed the unconscious Dante to Bartolomeo, who was also very strong, and asked him to give this
Take the stupid guy back and lock him up temporarily.
Dante's wife Carlotta was not brought to the small castle by Marco, who had a cold nature. After learning that Dante was safe and sound, this middle-aged beauty who was already quite old but still charming hurriedly left from Barbary.
The Ge family's manor came flying over.
Leonardo da Vinci examined the unconscious Dante and found a huge scar on the back of his head that spanned most of the back of his head.
"He was attacked on the back of the head. It's a miracle that he survived. It's impossible for him to recover his memory."
A mysterious smile appeared on Lu Xiao's face: "This is usually true, but... Leonardo, you also know that there are some things in this world that are unreasonable."
Da Vinci's face changed: "You mean, the Artifact of Eden?"
"That's right, I'm going to contact Giovanni and Mario and try to use Dante to test the effect of the Shroud."
Teodora frowned and asked: "Are you sure that the Shroud can be useful for old injuries in the past? The Brotherhood still hasn't determined the true function of the Shroud, right?"
Bartolomeo was also not optimistic about Lu Xiao's decision: "There is another problem. According to the research of Giovanni and Mario, only people with the blood of the Forerunners can resist the side effects to a certain extent. Dante...he
Do you have this qualification?"
Lu Xiao nodded: "When fighting Dante, I found that his sixth sense is very sharp, and his physical fitness...don't you think it's beyond the standard?"
Bartolomeo nodded hurriedly: "This guy is simply a monster. I think he is extremely powerful among ordinary people. When Dante tried to escape before, I felt powerless when wrestling with someone for the first time. Fortunately, Carlo
Ta arrived in time and persuaded this guy."
Although Dante has lost all his past memories, he still instinctively listens to Carlotta's words, and only Carlotta can convince him to calm down.
Antonio heard the hidden meaning in Lu Xiao's words: "In other words, you are planning to leave Venice? When? We haven't had time to thank you yet."
Lu Xiao waved his hands repeatedly and said: "We are both members of the Brotherhood, so there is no need to be so polite. Besides, I still have some things to deal with in Venice, so I won't leave immediately."
"By the way, Rosa, come here."
Having said this, Antonio waved to a pretty female thief outside the door to come in and put a stack of familiar book pages on the table.
"Agostino handed over the seven pages of Altaïr's Codex in the possession of the Barbarigo family as promised. We have locked the locations of the remaining four pages and should be able to obtain them smoothly in the near future."
"Also, we have determined the location of the assassin's tomb you are looking for based on the hidden skull mechanism. They are located in the Church of Our Lady of Visitors and St. Mark's Cathedral."
Antonio and the three of them gave Lu Xiao a sincere hug, "Since you don't want to hold a grand celebration banquet, we will repay you with practical actions."
"During your exploration of the two Assassin tombs, the Venetian Brotherhood promises to retrieve for you the four remaining pages of the city."