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Chapter 7 The Curse of Aetius (1)

"Please give me the privileges to make the Republic safer and more stable." - Augustus often said this to the Senate

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When they were very tired, but still came to the Kitchen God Temple in the rain, Crasus gurusted, took off his robe in the altar hall, wiped the rainwater on his head, and the statues in the shrine on the walls were burning. Under the burning of the holy fire, he "looked down" everyone in his expression. Crasus's entourage, because of status, could only hold his clothes in his hands and wait in the mud under the temple's shaped steps. At this time, the side doors of the altar wall at the bottom of the main hall were guarding the holy fire. Zou Yi, wearing white clothes, hurried out and saluted Crasus and Li Bida, and then told the other party that he could wait a moment. Li Xilia was inspecting the Virgin House opposite, and would come to meet after the end.

"After the expedition, a great king will rise in the East. He and his son will surely obtain the glory of the entire ocean and land. Of course, his son will be one year late." After Li Xilia came, after hearing Crasso's request, she consulted Sybil's Prophecy in the inner hall and came to this conclusion.

Crassus's face was flushed. Even when he stood next to the altar of the Holy Fire, he was still shaking like a cold. The rain in the colonnade outside wove a hazy curtain, but the old man paced on the floor, and everything prophesied was constantly in line with his own psychology: Lissia did not say "Dick Thiddor" in the Roman world, but said "king", "he and his son" meant his father and son? "his son will be one year late". She responded even more to herself - the cavalry team of Little Crassus would not end the winter camp in Gaul the following year. She came to Syria to join him, and that was the time to attack.

After saying this, Li Xilia smiled slightly at Li Bida, who was standing opposite the corner of the column, and then held the prophecy in her hand. After saluting Crassu, she brought this mysterious but undoubted book into the inner hall. It is said that there are two cabinets with lacquered gold locks to place this infamous prophecy delirium story divided into two volumes.

All the right to explain is on the lips of these virgins. Listening to Li Xilia talking nonsense, Li Bida finally understood that the greatest power of prophecy is based on the ambiguousness. It only gives the prophet some psychological guidance and hypnosis to the prophet, "making him believe what he hopes to believe." Li Bida leaned on the pillar and thoughtfully: Does the passage just mean himself? The things in this prophecy, just "Gonailius is king", have already made many people crazy and even died.

After about a market, more than 30,000 civilian soldiers returned by Caesar, the team flocked to the Roman Citizens and began to vote around the Senate, allowing Crassus to get the power to step down and go to Syria. Even though the two civil guards, Terry Ali, had further escalated the street fight with Claudi. But one of them was Pompei's hound and the other was Caesar's thug. Since the master had reached harmony on this matter, the vote below received no interference at all. In the end, Crassus won the vote with absolute advantage and achieved his wish. He took off the consul's white robe contemptuously, just like a man who had just walked into the steam room, and ordered all his entourage to add fascist axes to the rod, because he was about to leave Rome, and these axes mean that he could kill infinitely many Oriental Parthians.

But with the efforts of the civil guardian Etius, the dirty facts behind the vote of the People's Congress were revealed, and the upright citizens and nobles were shocked, and then they could not help but feel angry: a provincial governor sent his soldiers back to manipulate the vote, and the war in the Republic was also played with by several monsters at will. The angry people blocked Crassus and his entourage at the gate of the city and loudly questioned the truth of the incident. Among them, Etius stood directly on the tower of the city wall and shouted, "Citizens, officials, use your power to arrest the illegal war dealer Marcus Lisini Crassus and throw them into prison."

Crassus was furious and publicly intimidated the public, saying that since his fascism had an axe, he was not afraid to execute some ungrateful guys on the scene.

At this moment, the flames of the Paladin Mountain rose again, and everyone looked in surprise in the direction of the fire. It was Cicero's mansion, which was burned for the second time, but the arsonist was the same person: Claudi.

Because Crasus deeply suspected that Etius's actions were instructed by his friend Cicero, he instructed Claudi, and the other party was addicted to burning the beautiful houses of the orator, so he hit it off. About a moment later, thousands of street hooligans from Claudi drove to the city gate, beat the people who were blocked with iron rods and other weapons. The flesh and blood flew across Rietius hurriedly put on a black cloak similar to a wizard, sat next to the city gate, staring at Crasus and Claudi, biting his fingers, writing various strange words with blood on the scroll of paper, and singing a scattered song loudly,

It means that he hopes to summon all evil spirits and evil gods to punish Crasus. At the moment when the street gangsters rushed up to beat Etius, the civil guard threw the cursed scroll into the small stove brought by the fireworks and ashes. He was beaten to pieces, his hands were burned, and finally he hired a mule cart to pull him home. Although Roman law stipulated that the civil guards could not receive any harm, Claudi's reason was still full of reasons. "As we all know, if the cursed person is unlucky, the cursed person will pay the price of his body to repay the ancient evil gods. I am just showing off the spell of Etius."

Of course, Claudi dared to say this publicly after Crassus brought his staff to Brindisi.

At this time, Li Bida had already taken the lead and returned to Cyrene Harbour. His Qi's fleet base had basically taken shape. The ships and paddlers who were originally in Alexander City gathered here. They started with Qi's island as the starting point and carried out fleet tactical practices at the mouth of the Tostone River and in the giant lakes. They would not slacke in the autumn and winter.

In the fortress of Barca, Li Bida touched Mathia's head beside him. The child knew how to hand over the letter from the box, and then handed it to Anthony opposite him by Li Bida. "This is Curio's letter. He hopes that you will not go to the east, but follow the Thirteenth Legion's Thousand-man team to return to Rome to participate in the triumphal ceremony. He will soon seek the position of commanding the cavalry in Caesar's Gaul."

"Why?" Anthony actually asked Li Bida.

"Because there is a high possibility of survival and death in battle when going to the East."
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