Chapter 1059 Chapter 290. Martin guides Annan
Annan is already prepared to say "Olmedo asked me to come!" as soon as he is exposed, and then smashes the crystal while the council leader is stunned, activating all Amulets - including those given to him by the Councilor.
"You mean, it?" The chairman of the parliament raised his staff, and Annan almost thought it was the precursor of an attack.
Annan observed the staff that had not come out of the mouth. At this point, I had to pretend to be surprised: "Sir, it is talking to me again!"
The chairman was silent for a while: "You are too tired."
"Is that so? I also think it's time for me to take a nap...I'm very sorry to disturb you."
Annan said goodbye to the chairman of the parliament and exited the lounge.
I don’t know if I have fooled you or not...
"He is actually lying to you. Little Annan is a bad student..." The staff sighed and found that Irwin was still staring at him, " What's that look in your face? Are you doubting me?"
"You have broken your promise."
"You can't blame me. Who asked you to ask me to protect little Annan? I just can't help it. When I see him, I think of little Olmedo. My poor Olmedo whines..."
“Stop crying.”
The chairman whispered and looked at the chessboard on the table.
"It seems that your little Annan is here for it."
……
"If it fails, your cunning uncle will be hiding in the lounge, like a hunter sitting by the tree stump waiting for the silly rabbit to hit him."
Olmedo was not surprised: "Then don't take risks ”
“I think so too.”
Now that victory is on their side, there is no need to take any more risks.
It takes a node to bring down Crowe. This node could be the soldiers from the south approaching the city, or it could be Annan making the new king's capital a mess, but it is best for both sides to go hand in hand.
Speaking of which, Crowe hasn't shown up for several days...
Annan misses him a little. After all, everything about Crowe was traceable, and he always felt that his hands were tied after being replaced by the more difficult to deal with the chairman of the council.
Returning to Babataud's manor and confirming that no thieves came to steal anything, Annan continued to search for his wealth comparable to that of a country.
So far, Annan has unearthed more than 30,000 gold nuggets from the manor, not counting the collections whose value is hard to estimate for a while. By rough estimation, the total would not be less than 200,000 gold coins...
Annan's heart was bleeding when he thought that one-third of them would be returned to the new royal capital.
Or is he deliberately stalling for time? After the kingdom is defeated, all these will belong to him?
However, after the kingdom's defeat, the kingdom's wealth also belongs to oneself, and there seems to be no difference...
Except for the money, no clues have been discovered for a long time.
Annan had no choice but to go to the palace dungeon with Maria again and found Babataud who had lost several pounds.
“I asked, and I answered.”
Annan's brevity put Babatado into a state of honesty.
“That’s the amount of money you have in your manor?”
Maria looked sideways, didn’t she want to ask for clues?
This was not the first time that Baba Tod knew about the greed of the rat man, but the greed of the rat man in front of him still amazed him: "Sir, this is the wealth I have accumulated for decades, isn't it enough... …”
Annan felt that it was not enough, but if he thought about it carefully, the speed of amassing 10,000 gold naars per year was indeed not slow, and it was already enough to meet the taxes of many large city-states.
"It's useless if you keep hiding those things, you may also harm your tribe." Annan pressed with a hint of threat.
Baba Tod had no choice but to reveal it honestly: "I have a base in a secret valley outside the new royal capital...there are some treasures there that I plan to use for my escape..."
"That valley Where?”
Baba Tod was convinced that Annan was not a local rat man: “That place is called the Secret Valley.”
Baba Tod should be hiding something, but Annan was not in a hurry. You can squeeze out Baba Todd's secrets bit by bit like toothpaste.
...
The secret valley is about twenty miles north of the outskirts of the new royal capital, not too far away.
There may be treasures there, and there may be dangers. So Annan took Terry and Martin with him and relied on Martin's luck.
The new royal capital cannot relax. Annan left Maria, Louise and his men in the Purification Court, and asked Kyle to help keep an eye on them. In the morning, the snowstorm that had lasted for several days subsided.
Annan left the new royal capital secretly and headed to the secret valley secretly.
Due to heavy snow, no hunters have come here these days.
The snow among the pine forests is undulating like hills, and there are some animal footprints scattered there.
Snow makes it easier for them to detect abnormalities on the surface, but it is also difficult to find traces buried by snow.
"Martin, leave it to you."
Annan opened the door and let Martin go.
Martin walked into the knee-deep snow, and Annan and Terry followed behind, like headless flies wandering around in the small valley.
At a certain moment, he seemed to be spinning around something.
Annan motioned to Terry to go and have a look in the circle.
Terry walked over, wandered a few times, then pushed away the snow under his feet, jumped on the spot, and said to Annan: "There seems to be something underground!"
Annan tore open the magic scroll and let the strong wind blow away the snow. Terry groped for a while, then poked the frozen soil with his dagger, revealing a slab of stone.
After opening it, a passage leading to the underground was revealed.
Terry went in first, and Annan handed the magic scroll to him: "Be safe."
Babatod didn't say there was a trap, but who knows if he didn't say it on purpose.
Terry got into the tunnel and disappeared for a while, and then Terry's surprised shout came from inside: "Sir, it's safe! And there's a lot of money!"
Annan took Martin into the cave, and what he saw was mountains of money, money, and money.
There is nothing else. It seems that this is indeed the retreat prepared by Babatado for himself.
"Sir, look at this."
But Terry found something and handed a piece of paper to Annan.
【The things are in the same place, be sure to get them】
What?
The note did not look like Baba Tod’s handwriting, so someone had left him a secret escape route...
After they searched around again and found no other clues, Annan put away With a visual estimate of about 20,000 jinnar, he went straight back to the new royal capital.
"What does the note mean?" Annan asked Babataud.
As soon as he finished speaking, Babatado's face turned pale: "Have you seen him?"
"Who?"
"I..."
"Baba Tod, your only way out is to confess."
"I, I don't know who he is either. ... He calls himself a mysterious man, and I helped him when I first became Grand Duke. He said that one day I will die and he will come to help me..."
"Where is the old place?"
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"That's our special code. I can find him if I see an eagle...a lion, a snake and a badger on the street."
Annan could not take Babataud out, so he had to first Go out and try your luck.
After walking a few streets, Martin's attention was attracted by the bakery across the street and he hesitated.
"Sir, look..."
Terry pointed to the door panel of the bakery at this time, and drew the child's random graffiti: an eagle with two wings and a pointed beak.
Annan patted his cousin on the shoulder: "It's my fault that I don't believe you."
"You are wrong, then I am right?" Martin said.
"That's true..."
(End of this chapter)