Chapter 139: Meeting Alessio Again (Part 2)

The Governor's Palace is located in the center of Agrippina, which is also the highest point of the city. The surrounding roads are like blood vessels, connecting to this heart.

It was a time of war, and the outer city walls and all the neighborhoods where the Governor's Mansion was located were breached by the Bagaudas. The shouts and cries that rose to the sky seemed to be a sound barrier that tightly enveloped the place. The Bagaudas soldiers were like those black molecules stained with poison. They gathered together to become streams of black blood, flowing through the streets like blood vessels, desperately trying to break through the outer barriers and completely kill this still beating "heart".

There is a large flat area on this high ground, all paved with polished stone slabs. The Governor's Palace is right in the center, with white marble pillars. This is probably the only intact building.

"Get up, Luke!"

Fred lifted me up and gently touched the wound on my neck. With such a gentle touch, a sudden tingling sensation was like a shot in the arm, making me feel that this body was finally under my control.

“It hurts, it hurts!”

I covered the wound on my neck, luckily it wasn't deep, otherwise I would have died long ago. I looked at the centurion behind me who wanted to kill me. This guy was still looking at me and Fred without changing his expression, as if he didn't feel any guilt towards me. I'm afraid he was sure that Fred and even Aresio couldn't do anything to him. Yes, he was so confident! "Hey, let Andrew go!"

Fred pointed at Andrew, who had stopped struggling and was pinned to the ground, and said to the centurion, "They are guests of Governor Aresio."

"Heh." The centurion sneered. He seemed to not take Andrew seriously at all, but he had to obey the orders of Governor Aresio no matter what.

He was not convinced, and gave Fred a fierce look, then turned around and ordered the five soldiers, "Let him go."

The soldier understood and let Andrew go. Andrew struggled to stand up from the ground. He brushed the dust off his body and glared at the centurion.

But Fred didn't think much of him, or he didn't care about such a very rude behavior. He smiled awkwardly at me, shook his head and said, "Let's go, the Governor has no patience."

He ignored the centurion and took Andrew and me slowly towards the gate of the Governor's Palace.

Before the war was taking place, the once peaceful stone ground in front of the Governor's Mansion was already filled with soldiers running back and forth, including heavily armored soldiers and archers wearing only loose shirts and long trousers. They were busy rushing to their battle posts.

"First of all, I'm very sorry, Mr. Luca. I'm under the order of the Governor-General, His Excellency Aresio. He actually expected something like this to happen recently, so he took precautions."

Although the soldiers on the road were in a hurry, they would give way to us when they saw us, no, it should be said that they would give way to Fred to allow us to pass normally.

It was only a distance of a few dozen steps. Andrew and I followed Fred and arrived at the door of the Governor's Palace in a blink of an eye.

No matter how critical the situation was, the front door of the Governor's Mansion was still guarded by fully armed soldiers. When they saw Fred coming, they immediately opened the door of the Governor's Mansion without saying a word. The door was indeed heavy, and it must have been considered for defense. The soldiers guarding the outer door shouted a few words inside, as if they were giving secret signals. Only a clanging sound was heard from inside the door, and the wooden door was slowly opened by six strong men.

"Okay, you guys go in. I have something else to do, so I won't go in."

Fred stopped in front of me and turned to look at the two of us.

I don't know what I was thinking at this moment. I just blamed Alessio. If he hadn't found us escaping and caught us and asked us to guard the outer wall, we wouldn't have fallen into the hands of the Bagauda members. If it weren't for the leather armor he gave us, which made us look so different from them, we would have been almost killed. I felt that all this was Alessio's fault, and he had framed me. I really couldn't imagine what kind of outrageous ideas they would come up with now.

"Okay, let's go in!" I nodded to Fred and waved to Andrew, and we both prepared to walk into the Governor's Palace, which I had been away from for ten days.

"Hello, Mr. Luca."

Just as I was about to enter, Fred called me from behind. I turned around and looked at him in confusion. He lowered his head and pondered for a moment, twisting his ten fingers together, and said to me with a guilty look on his face: "Mr. Luca, you don't have to, um, blame the Governor for anything, or for putting you in trouble. In fact, he has his own difficulties. After all, he is still not very, not very..."

"You don't quite believe in our identities, do you?"

I thought he was taking too long, so I interrupted him. A flash of surprise flashed across his face, but he quickly regained his composure and opened his palms to me, as if he was finally being honest with me.

"Well, that's probably the idea. You know, there are Bagoda elements everywhere. God knows how many spies are hidden in the city, not to mention those brought in from outside. Anyway, Mr. Luca, the Governor-General is a good man, I think so!"

After saying that, he nodded at me, then took two steps back, turned around and left. He must have been assigned to a defensive team to help Aresio resist the Bagaudah soldiers.

I watched him walk far enough away before I led him. Andrew walked into the Governor's Mansion. As I expected, the light dimmed instantly as soon as he entered the room. It felt extremely quiet and a little weird. This was very Aresio. He was as mysterious as the Governor's Mansion. The dim fire burned slowly in front of us.

“Boom!”

The wooden door behind him was slammed shut, and along with it, the noisy shouting and screaming outside the house.

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The surroundings were completely dark, as if the whole world had become quiet. The only thing in the world was the slowly burning oil lamp on the table in front of me and the flickering flame on it.

“Here I come.”

A familiar voice suddenly sounded, right in front of us. Andrew was so scared that he trembled all over, but I didn't react as much as he did. I guess I was familiar with this guy's methods. The words were brief, and there was no more, and the whole room returned to calm.

“Here I come.”

I answered him, raised my head, and in the darkness before my eyes, slowly closed my eyes, forgetting the pain on my neck, and listened quietly. In the darkness, I heard breathing sounds, and it was not just one person's breathing. Aresio was prepared.

"Light the fire, I know you're there!"

I calmly looked at the darkness before my eyes, even though I couldn't see anything except the faint firelight.

“Huh, hehehe…”

There were strange laughters coming from the darkness, like ghosts. Then the laughter stopped, and there was a "boom" sound. Several torches instantly lit up in the darkness, lighting up the spacious hall.

As expected, it was not just Aresio hiding in the darkness, but also a large group of fully armed soldiers. Aresio was still wearing a loose white robe, still lying lazily on the gorgeously decorated bed on the highest platform. The fully armed soldiers were expressionless, standing on the left and right of Aresio. Like Aresio, they stared at Andrew and me closely.

(End of this chapter)