Chapter 13 Treasure Map
"Absolutely not allowed! The Leon territory has been the land of our Leon family since the founding of the country. Even the king cannot take it away at will. This belongs to me!"
In the lord's villa, Lord Leon roared like a wounded lion, smashed the gold cup filled with wine, and scattered the bright red wine on the floor.
The housekeeper looked at the good wine scattered on the ground with a heartbroken look, and softly comforted:
"Lord, why do you say that?"
"Why? The princess talks to the common people to find a handle on me. She worships the Demon King and God to use the power of religion to corrupt the people and make them push me down!"
If it was for this purpose, there would be reasonable explanations for Princess Viola's strange actions instead of recruiting troops in the Leon territory.
"But sir, the power that defeated the bandits a few days ago..."
"That was Viola's performance! Did you see the Demon King take action with your own eyes!"
The housekeeper indeed didn't see it. When the bandits came, he was hiding in the castle with the lord, relying on soldiers loyal to them to defend it, and did not go to the city wall at all.
Li Chengqi literally struck too quickly. Even the civilians in the city didn't see how they repelled the bandits. They only learned about it from the soldiers who were on the city wall at the time.
"Nobles all have some precious private treasures. As a member of the royal family, it is normal for Viola to have a magic item that can repel bandits. Yes, that must be the case. She relied on that magic item to escape from the royal capital. Now use this magical item to impersonate a god and turn the common people against me!"
The more Lord Leon talked, the more excited he became. Under the combined influence of alcohol and anger, he lost his mind. He quickly pulled out the long sword hanging on the wall, as if he was going to the castle to fight the princess.
"Sir, calm down! Please calm down! We still have a chance!"
The butler's persuasion made Lord Leon calm down a little, or maybe it was the cold April wind hitting his face as soon as he opened the door that made him regain some sense.
Lord Leon sat heavily on the chair, and the butler diligently picked up the gold cup and refilled it with wine.
"Sir, as long as we can get in touch with the four-nation coalition, Princess Viola will no longer be a threat to you. Instead, you should hold her firmly in your hands as a bargaining chip in future negotiations."
Taking a deep breath, Lord Leon picked up the wine glass:
"Have the people sent to contact you responded?"
"Not yet. Her Royal Highness the Princess used magic to blow up the only canyon road when she entered Leon's territory. The messenger needs to cross the mountains and ridges to get through, and it will take some time."
"Well, you have to be prepared for everything."
The butler was about to ask what the preparations were, but suddenly caught a glimpse of Lord Leon's cold eyes, and immediately trembled and did not dare to ask any more questions.
"No third person can know about this, do you understand?"
"Of course, my subordinates know."
"Um"
Looking at the national emblem of the Demonic Kingdom of Avarus and his own family emblem on the wall, Lord Leon knew that a new one would have to be replaced on the wall soon...
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"No third person can know about this, do you understand?... But I have already seen it."
Looking at the master and servant plotting on the screen, Li Chengqi couldn't help but complain.
Li Chengqi got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. When he came back, he couldn't sleep, so he simply opened his laptop to see what was going on in the game.
As for why I saw Lord Leon?
This was mainly because in the dark Leon Fortress, only the lord's villa was still lit, which was too conspicuous.
So don’t complain that bad guys in movies and TV shows always don’t turn on the lights when they’re plotting. Lords of Leon suffers from having to turn on the lights.
Having said that, Li Chengqi remembered that when he saw Viola having a meeting with her knights a few days ago, he was already very wary of the lord. The princess also knew that the lord had a bad reputation.
But what if you can't do it in the dark?
Seeing as they were planning to poison, this was hard to guard against.
Li Chengqi stared at the two-headed lord who was drinking on the screen, and a thought suddenly occurred to him.
Otherwise, just crush him to death with one finger?
Although they are all NPCs in Li Chengqi's view, they are still different. Princess Viola has more of a protagonist's style of painting, and is also the number one believer of the demon king played by the player. What's more, the vertical painting of Princess Viola is beautiful. In contrast, Lord Leon's portrait almost has "I am a bad guy" written on his face.
It's normal to favor your favorite NPCs. There are often a lot of characters available in the game, but players will only use a few that they like. So Li Chengqi stretched out his finger to Lord Leon who was drinking. He almost touched the screen, and then retracted it.
No, there will be trouble if you do this.
Viola had just arrived and had no foundation in the local area. Once the lord died suddenly, it would not be conducive to her control of the territory.
In other words, the lord cannot die now, and he needs to be a mascot to stabilize the territory. After Viola slowly takes control of the territory, the lord will be useless.
After thinking for a while, Li Chengqi remembered that the list of magical spells that could be given included the two magical spells of 'neutralizing poison' and 'detecting poison'. At worst, he should inform Viola and give her another magical spell, and there should be no more. question.
On the screen, the lord seemed to have drunk enough. He blushed and asked the butler to help him out of the room.
You can save your life.
Li Chengqi pressed the alt key to see what was in the lord's room.
Suddenly, a row of names such as such-and-such famous paintings and such-and-such luxurious furniture appeared on the screen.
The common people can't even afford white bread, but the lord is so rich?
Li Chengqi's bad impression of this Lord of Leon deepened.
However, among the names of a row of expensive furniture and decorations, Li Chengqi suddenly saw a line with the words "hidden safe" hidden inside.
This piqued his curiosity.
Zooming in on the location where the safe was hidden, a portrait appeared on the screen, and it was also painted in a pixel style with two heads.
The safe should be right behind the painting.
Li Chengqi reached into the screen, could feel his fingers touching the frame, and then moved it aside.
A dark safe with a wheel-type lock plate appeared in front of him, and it was stuffed into a secret compartment in the wall.
"By the way, how do you open this thing? Do you want me to take it out and study it slowly?"
He stretched out his hand and tried it. The safe was extremely heavy. Li Chengqi tried to lift it but failed to move it.
Li Chengqi held his chin while thinking about countermeasures. He suddenly thought that when the bandits first attacked the city, clicking on the ladder with the mouse would cause it to break. He wondered if clicking on the safe would be useful.
Moving the cursor to the keyhole of the safe, Li Chengqi clicked several times.
With each click, the pixel safe on the screen jumps slightly, and the rotating lock disk also rotates.
After clicking seven or eight times in succession, the safe slowly popped open with a soft click.
"Only one book?"
Li Chengqi thought there was some gold and silver in it, but it turned out there was only a book.
He reached out and took out the book from the screen. The words on it were still spelled words that he had never seen before, but they were still distorted in Li Chengqi's eyes and turned into familiar Chinese characters.
"Incoming and outgoing bills, receipts, kingdom aid lists, land deeds? Proof of transactions? Damn it, this can't be the lord's hidden ledger, right?"
No wonder it is placed in a hidden safe.
Li Chengqi took a few casual glances and found that the Lord of Leon requested tax reductions from the capital on the grounds that the territory was barren, and often requested relief funds from the capital on the grounds of disasters. As a result, all the tax exemptions and relief funds from the capital went into the lord's personal pockets.
Sure enough, he is not a good person.
After casually flipping through two pages, a piece of paper fell out of the notebook.
Li Chengqi lowered his head to pick it up and was surprised: "What is this? A treasure map?"
He clicked on the map function in the game and took a look, but because the open area was too small, Li Chengqi couldn't find a corresponding place.
He yawned.
Forget it, let’s talk about it tomorrow.
After casually stuffing the treasure map into the account book and then stuffing the account book into the bedside table, Li Chengqi closed the laptop and fell asleep immediately.
(End of chapter)