Chapter 875 An Unexpected Meeting

The dinner came to an end in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. In fact, Commodus had already left in the second half. Zhang Heng wanted to leave too, but considering the character he had created before, he had to wait until the dinner was over before he could leave. Lucilla's visit this afternoon also reminded him that as he became more and more famous, more and more eyes were focused on him.

A dinner party like this is rare for everyone involved. It is an important occasion to exchange feelings and make friends. If Zhang Heng wants to maintain his previous power-obsessed appearance, he cannot leave too early.

Therefore, although Zhang Heng had no interest in this in his heart, he still had to act like he was interested on the surface.

He couldn't remember how many glasses of wine he drank. Roman nobles liked to use lead wine glasses for drinking. In addition, lead (red lead) can effectively reduce the sourness in wine, and in addition, it supplies city water. Aqueducts were often made of pottery and lead, as well as various tableware, kitchen utensils, jewelry, and cosmetics. Lead products were almost everywhere...not to mention that Roman noble ladies also liked to use red lead or cinnabar (red mercury sulfide) to make lipstick.

It is not difficult to understand why the Roman nobles had such difficulty in having children.

However, Zhang Heng doesn't care much about this. Anyway, he will only stay in this dungeon for a year and a half. When he returns to the real world, his physical condition will be restored to that before entering the dungeon.

Therefore, in theory, as long as Zhang Heng did not drink himself to death within a year and a half, chronic poisoning like this would not matter. However, when the same young man was drinking, Zhang Heng suddenly felt dizzy.

If you are an ordinary person, you will probably only think that it is because you drank too much tonight. However, for a well-trained assassin like Zhang Heng, it is easy to realize that there is something wrong with the wine, not to mention that he recently trained with the old Persian Zhang Heng would naturally be particularly concerned about similar situations.

Therefore, he reacted immediately after taking the first sip, so while eating bread, Zhang Heng secretly spit out the remaining wine in his mouth into a clay pot with honey, and then Zhang Heng pretended to be overwhelmed. He was so drunk that he accidentally knocked the clay pot to the ground. So a maid immediately went to clean up the debris on the ground.

Another maid helped Zhang Heng up and said, "Your Majesty has told me that if you get drunk, you can rest in the room upstairs."

Zhang Heng groaned vaguely. Although he spit out most of the wine, he could feel that the small sip he had taken before was already taking effect. Not only did his head become dizzy, but his breathing also became difficult. It began to accelerate and the pupils dilated. Fortunately, the dose was small enough and still within Zhang Heng's control. Zhang Heng estimated that he still had about 80% of his strength left. Compared with drinking all the wine, he could only let others slaughter him. , in his current state, at least he still has enough power to protect himself.

Zhang Heng was a little surprised at first, because this is the palace, and it is probably the most difficult place to poison in Rome, not to mention there are so many guests tonight. Now it seems that he is the only one who has been poisoned, which means poisoning. The person must have controlled all the maids, and the other party even prepared a room for him.

This means that Commodus is likely to know about this, or even if he is not aware, he has acquiesced in this situation. Thinking that Zhang Heng has already guessed who the person who attacked him is, he feels relieved.

The maid helped him to the room upstairs. Unlike the grand banquet hall below, this room was empty, with only two chairs facing each other.

The maid put Zhang Heng into one of the chairs, lit the lamp and left.

Zhang Heng immediately closed his eyes. He took the time to feel the state of his body, and then analyzed what he drank before, so that he could try his best to act like he drank all the wine in the future. .

Zhang Heng himself has level 1 herbal medicine skills. In addition, the knowledge imparted to him by the old Persian trainer also contains part of the content of poison science. Zhang Heng guessed the glass of wine he drank from his own physiological reaction. It may contain scopolamine.

Ordinary people may not know what scopolamine is, but most people should have heard of the name Veritaserum.

The original truth serum was discovered by an obstetrician and gynecologist. In order to reduce the pain of pregnant women, he injected some plant alkaloids extracted from scopolamine into pregnant women. He found that the pregnant women would answer questions truthfully without consciousness. In traditional Chinese medicine, there is also a precedent for using scopola to treat mental mania and relieve pain.

Scopolamine has a stimulating effect on the respiratory center, and it also dilates pupils and has a significant inhibitory effect on the cerebral cortex. It matches Zhang Heng's previous physical reaction, but the smell is mixed up by something. Fortunately, it is on the tongue. The numbing sensation is not deceptive, and scopolamine itself is highly toxic. Logically speaking, if you take scopolamine directly to achieve the effect of truth serum, the dose is enough to kill you. However, judging from Zhang Heng’s current feeling, even if he takes that cup The wine shouldn't be enough to poison him.

In other words, the other party's purpose was not to take his life. There should be some means to eliminate part of the scopolamine's toxicity.

The above is the information Zhang Heng obtained during this period.

Then he heard someone calling his name in his ear.

Zhang Heng opened his eyes, but he didn't see anyone on the chair opposite. The voice calling him came from behind him.

"Don't worry, I just want to ask you a few questions." The person behind him said.

"Who are you? What's wrong with me?" Zhang Heng muttered. He tried, but couldn't seem to move his neck.

"You drank too much. I think you should take a good rest. Don't worry, I will take care of you. As for me, you should have heard of my name. I am Otrus, like you, They are all His Majesty’s advisors.”

"Are you Otrus, the guy everyone says is hiding his head and showing his face, and never shows his true colors to others?"

Otrus smiled when he heard this, and seemed not to be too concerned about Zhang Heng's verbal offense. He just said, "Yes, I know some people say that about me. I don't care. You and I both We are advisors, and we should know that our work is to serve His Majesty, as long as His Majesty trusts us, it doesn’t matter what other people think.”

Autrus paused, then continued, "Okay, we've talked a lot about gossip, let's get to the point."

"What's the topic?"

"Like I said, I want to ask you some questions, and you just need to give me the answers truthfully. Let's start with Southeast City. You've done a great job there, but I want to know about you. What agreement was reached with the Jewish gang? I know Lockyd, and I know that the old guy can't be frightened by a thousand Praetorian Guards, so I want to know what you promised Lockyd, which is written autonomy. Or something else?”

Lockyd's plan to deal with the elder Divobraye was kept secret, and only the four people present at the time knew about it. Lockyd even made Zhang Heng swear an oath that he would not spread the matter, otherwise it would be difficult for Divobraye to do so. The power of the Senate is likely to bring great trouble to the southeastern city.

Therefore, Zhang Heng originally planned to make up a lie to deal with this problem, but at the next moment he suddenly remembered the somewhat inexplicable words Lucilla said before leaving. At that time, it sounded a bit like a threat made by Lucilla in anger, especially It's the first half of the sentence. Don't think that no one knows what you do.

But now Zhang Heng suddenly realized that this was probably Lucilla reminding him of something, especially when the guy from the Beehive named the Microphone was also present, and the latter didn't know whether he was a hound or a person from the Balanced Blade.

Zhang Heng realized that he had to make a choice. If this question was a test for him by Ortrus, then if he answered it wrong, Ortrus might soon find out that the truth serum had failed, so Zhang Heng After a moment of silence, Heng Zai said, "They asked me to deal with someone."

"who?"

"Senior Divobraye, he is too greedy. Lockyd doesn't like him. I shouldn't tell him. I promised Lockyd that I won't tell anyone."

Otrus snorted, and Zhang Heng tried to judge from Otrus' tone whether he had known about this for a long time. Unfortunately, Otrus was also very good at concealing his emotions. Hearing this, he just said softly, "It doesn't matter, I will keep it a secret for you. We are friends, aren't we?"