Zhang Heng dealt with the priest as quickly as he could. After that, he came to the door of the temple and looked inside.
In contrast to the darkness of the Temple of Jupiter, the Temple of Juno was brightly lit.
Zhang Heng saw two attendants helping a priest sort out something. They should have gotten valuable information from the children just now.
The three of them were a little far from the door. Zhang Heng estimated that it would be difficult for him to get close to them before they noticed him. So, he took off the Pestilence Bone Bow from his back.
The first arrow accurately hit the throat of one of the attendants. Before the attendant could make a sound, his body slid down the marble pillar behind him. The other attendant next to him was awakened by the sound of the arrow piercing his body. He pulled out his weapon and opened his mouth to warn Zhang Heng. However, he did not expect that he would follow in his companion's footsteps. The second arrow came much faster than he expected, and it pierced his heart directly.
In order to get rid of the two attendants in the shortest time possible, Zhang Heng used an ordinary arrow for the first arrow and the Paris Arrow for the second arrow. He took a casual aim and immediately released his finger. The next moment, the Paris Arrow's automatic critical hit came into effect, and Zhang Heng was able to adjust his flight path.
When the two attendants fell to the ground, the priest who was busy sorting out the papyrus realized something. When he looked up, Zhang Heng's Persian sword was already on his neck.
"Where is Altrus?" Zhang Heng lowered his voice.
"Who?" The priest looked a little panicked. "I don't know who Altrus is. This is the temple of Queen Juno. We don't have much money. If you want to rob someone, you should go to the nobles at the foot of the mountain."
"You know I'm not here for money," Zhang Heng said.
However, as soon as he said this, he heard footsteps coming from behind the statue room.
A touch of joy appeared on the priest's face. He knew that someone was coming this way, and the man in black's stealth journey was about to come to an end.
But to his surprise, Zhang Heng reacted quickly when he heard the footsteps. He immediately stabbed the Persian sword in his hand into the priest's neck. The priest looked at the blood gushing out of his throat, and he seemed to be in disbelief.
Zhang Heng, on the other hand, was already standing at the entrance of the corridor.
Before the owner of the footsteps walked out of the corridor, he saw the priest covering his neck with his hand. So he subconsciously wanted to go closer to see what was going on. As a result, he saw a figure plunging into his arms, and Zhang Heng took the opportunity to stab a dagger into the man's heart.
So far, he had killed five enemies within one move. He tried his best not to let the dead make too much noise to avoid being discovered.
It was not that Zhang Heng suddenly wanted to pursue a five-star achievement of sneaking through the dungeon. It was because he knew that Altrus had a secret passage that led directly to Commodus' study, and the other end of the secret passage was probably connected to the temple. Besides, Zhang Heng did not know if there were other exits along the way.
In order to avoid trouble as much as possible, Zhang Heng certainly hoped to solve this problem before Altrus entered the secret passage. That was why he chose to fight stealthily.
So far, things had been going smoothly. Although he did not manage to get Altrus's whereabouts from the priest, fortunately, the temple was not particularly big. Zhang Heng put away the Paris Arrow and continued to walk along the corridor.
The oil lamps on the stone walls of the corridor were not as bright as the ones in the hall outside. Zhang Heng's shadow was projected on the wall, and it looked a little gloomy.
One or two stone rooms appeared from time to time, and they seemed to be quite old. They should be the rooms where the priests lived hundreds of years ago. Later, the temple was expanded several times, and now the priests had new residences. Hence, this place became a place to store files and sundries.
However, after Zhang Heng walked for a while, he realized something was wrong. First of all, he had walked a long way, and he could feel that the terrain was getting lower. Second, there were more stone rooms here than in the Jupiter Temple next door, and many of the stone rooms were connected to each other. It was like a maze. Therefore, Zhang Heng had to pay attention to the path he had walked when he was searching.
With a loud rumbling sound, Zhang Heng turned around and found that a boulder had suddenly appeared on the road where he came from.
At the same time, Altrus's voice sounded behind him.
"Who sent you to kill me?"
Zhang Heng turned around and looked at the place where the voice came from. However, there was only a stone wall, and there was no one there. At the same time, Altrus sneered again, "Don't waste your energy. You can't see me. Do you know where this place is?"
"I'd like to hear the details," Zhang Heng said as he walked to the stone wall and looked up at it.
"This is the Mansion of the Dead," Altrus's voice sounded a little gloomy. "Except for people like me who have died once, other living people will never be able to leave this place …"
"Hah." Zhang Heng knew about the Mansion of the Dead. It was not just a myth. In fact, there was a Mansion of the Dead in the Roman Square.
Next to the gilded pillar that symbolized the starting point of all roads, there was a small building. The Romans called the upper part the umbilical cord, and the lower part was the Mansion of the Dead. People in the city of Rome believed that the living world above the ground and the private underground world were connected by a crack. Every year, the Mansion of the Dead would open for three days, and these days were regarded as bad days.
Of course, Zhang Heng would not believe these things. He quickly found what he was looking for on the stone wall. It was a copper pipe, hidden between the cracks of the stone. Altrus relied on this copper pipe to transmit his voice to Zhang Heng, complementing the gimmick of the Mansion of the Dead.
Zhang Heng leaned close to the copper pipe and muttered a few vague words. He knew that Altrus, on the other side of the copper pipe, was listening carefully to what he was saying. After that, Zhang Heng took out a dagger and scratched the copper pipe a few times.
Altrus, on the other side, immediately experienced the enhanced version of chalk scratching a blackboard. He almost vomited his dinner because of Zhang Heng's sonic wave attack.
Zhang Heng wasn't here to cause trouble for Altrus. This time, Altrus was the victim of his own cleverness. He had shot himself in the foot. He wanted to use the name of the Dead and his ability to separate people's voices to scare Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng had to admit that this method was quite powerful in this era. Coupled with his indigenous truth-telling serum, Zhang Heng even felt that it was unfair for Altrus to be Commodus's consultant. He should have been an inventor or a scientific pioneer in the second century AD, enlightening all mankind.
However, Altrus's little spark of thought was nothing compared to Zhang Heng, who had received nine years of compulsory education and was close to the baptism of science. Moreover, Zhang Heng could tell that Altrus was not far away from him since he could hear him through the copper pipe.
Zhang Heng gave Altrus a set of sonic wave attacks, hoping to anger Altrus so that he would not rush into the tunnel and wait for him to come knocking on his door.
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