Chapter 13 Treasure Map

"Absolutely not allowed! Leon Territory has been our Leon family's land since the founding of the country. Even the king cannot deprive it at will. It belongs to me!"

In the lord's villa, Lord Leon roared like a wounded lion, smashed the golden cup filled with wine, and the bright red wine spilled all over the floor.

The housekeeper looked at the good wine spilled all over the floor with heartache, and gently comforted:

"Lord, why do you say that?"

"Why? The princess talked with the civilians to find my handle, and worshiping the devil god is to use the power of religion to corrupt the people and let them push me down!"

If this is the purpose, Princess Viola did not recruit soldiers in Leon Territory, but instead did those strange actions, which have reasonable explanations.

"But sir, the power that defeated the bandits a few days ago..."

"That was Viola's performance! Did you see the devil god take action with your own eyes!"

The housekeeper did not see it. When the bandits came, he was hiding in the castle with the lord, relying on the soldiers loyal to them to defend, and did not go to the city wall at all.

Li Chengxi literally acted too quickly. Even the civilians in the city didn't see how the bandits were repelled. They only knew about it after hearing the soldiers on the city wall at that time.

"Nobles all have some precious private collections. It's normal for Viola, a member of the royal family, to have magic items that can repel bandits. Yes, it must be like this. She escaped from the capital with that magic item. Now I use this magic item to pretend to be a god so that the civilians can fight me!"

Lord Leon became more and more excited as he spoke. Under the combined effects of alcohol and anger, he lost his mind a little. He quickly drew out the long sword hanging on the wall, as if he was going to the castle to fight the princess.

"My lord, calm down! Please calm down! We still have a chance!"

The butler's persuasion made Lord Leon calm down a little. It might also be that when he opened the door, the cold wind in April hit his face and made him regain some reason.

Lord Leon sat heavily on the chair. The butler picked up the golden cup attentively and refilled it with wine.

"Sir, as long as we can get in touch with the four-nation coalition, Princess Viola will not be a threat to you. Instead, you should hold her firmly in your hands as a bargaining chip for future negotiations."

Take a deep breath and Lord Leon picks up the wine glass:

"Did the person sent to contact respond?"

"Not yet. When Her Royal Highness the Princess entered the territory of Leon, she used magic to blow up the only canyon road. The messenger needs to cross mountains and ridges to get through, which will take some time."

"Well, but you have to be prepared for everything."

The housekeeper was about to ask what the preparations were, but he suddenly caught a glimpse of Lord Leon's cold eyes, and shuddered and dared not ask more.

"No third person can know about this, do you understand?"

"Of course, I know."

"Yeah"

Looking at the national emblem of the Avarus Demon Kingdom and his own family emblem on the wall, Lord Leon knew that he would have to replace a new one on the wall soon...

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"No third person can know about this, do you understand?... But I have seen it."

Looking at the master and servant who were plotting on the screen, Li Chengxi couldn't help but complain.

Li Chengxi got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and when he came back, he couldn't sleep again, so he simply opened the laptop to see what was going on in the game.

As for why he saw Lord Leon?

This is mainly because, in the pitch-black Leon Fortress, only the lord's villa was still lit, which was too conspicuous.

So don't complain that the villains in film and television works always don't turn on the lights when they plot, Lord Leon suffered the loss of turning on the lights.

By the way, Li Chengxi remembered that when he saw Viola and her knights meeting a few days ago, he had already been on guard against the lord. The princess also knew that the lord's reputation was not very good.

But what if the open approach didn't work and they tried the covert approach?

It seemed that they were preparing to poison, which was hard to guard against.

Li Chengxi stared at the two-headed lord drinking on the screen, and suddenly an idea popped up in his mind.

Or, just crush him to death with one finger?

Although they were all NPCs in Li Chengxi's eyes, they were still different. Princess Viola had a more protagonist-like style, and she was also the number one believer of the Demon God played by the player, not to mention that Princess Viola's portrait was beautiful. In comparison, Lord Leon's portrait was almost short of having "I am a bad guy" written on his face.

It was normal to favor the NPC you liked. There were often a lot of characters available in the game, but players would only use a few that they liked.

So Li Chengxi stretched out his finger to the drunken Lord Leon, and he almost touched the screen, then retracted it.

No, there will be trouble if you do this.

Viola has just arrived and has no foundation in the local area. Once the lord suddenly dies, it will be disadvantageous for her to control the territory.

In other words, the lord cannot die now, and he needs to be a mascot to stabilize the territory. After Viola slowly masters the territory, the lord will be useless.

After thinking for a while, Li Chengxi remembered that there are two magic arts in the list of magic arts that can be bestowed, "neutralize poison" and "detect poison". At most, he can notify Viola and then bestow her magic arts, and there should be no problem.

On the screen, the lord seemed to have drunk enough, and with a red face, he asked the butler to help him walk out of the room.

You saved your life.

Li Chengxi pressed the alt key to see what was in the lord's room.

Suddenly, a row of names such as certain famous paintings and certain luxury furniture were arranged on the screen.

Ordinary people can't even afford white bread, so how can the lord be so rich?

Li Chengxi's bad impression of the Leon lord deepened.

However, among the names of expensive furniture and decorations, Li Chengxi suddenly saw a line that said "hidden safe" hidden inside.

This aroused his curiosity.

Zooming in on the location of the hidden safe, a portrait appeared on the screen, and it was also a two-headed pixel style.

The safe should be behind the painting.

Li Chengxi reached into the screen and felt his fingers touching the frame, and then moved it to the side.

A black safe with a rotary lock disk on it appeared in front of him, and it was stuffed into a secret compartment in the wall.

"By the way, how do I open this thing? Do you want me to take it out and study it slowly?"

He reached out and tried, the safe was very heavy, and Li Chengxi tried hard to lift it but couldn't lift it.

Li Chengxi pinched his chin and thought about countermeasures. Suddenly, he remembered that when the bandits attacked the city at the beginning, clicking the ladder with the mouse would break the ladder. He wondered if clicking the safe would work.

Moving the cursor to the keyhole of the safe, Li Chengxi clicked several times.

Every time he clicked, the pixel safe on the screen jumped slightly, and the rotating lock disk also turned.

After clicking seven or eight times in a row, the safe made a light click and slowly popped open.

"Only one book?"

Li Chengxi thought there was some gold and silver treasure in it, but it turned out to be only one book.

Reaching out and taking the book out of the screen, the text on it was still the spelling text he had never seen before, but it was still distorted in Li Chengxi's eyes and turned into familiar Chinese characters.

"In and out bills, receipts, kingdom aid list, deed? Transaction certificate? Damn, this can't be the lord's hidden account book?"

No wonder it was placed in the hidden safe.

Li Chengxi glanced at it casually and found that Lord Leon asked the capital for tax reduction on the grounds that the territory was barren, and often asked the capital for relief funds on the grounds of disasters. As a result, the tax reduction and relief funds from the capital all went into the lord's personal pocket.

He is really not a good person.

He flipped through two pages casually, and at this time a piece of paper fell out of the notebook.

Li Chengxi lowered his head to pick it up, and was surprised:

"What is this? Treasure map?"

He clicked on the map function in the game and took a look, but because the open area was too small, Li Chengxi did not find the corresponding place.

He yawned.

Forget it, I'll talk about it tomorrow.

He stuffed the treasure map into the account book and the account book into the bedside table. Li Chengxi closed the laptop and fell asleep.