Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 13 Treasure Map

"Absolutely not! The Leon Territory has been our Leon family's land 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 and smashed the golden cup filled with wine, spilling the bright red wine all over the floor.

The butler looked at the spilled wine on the ground with great pain, and said softly:

"My Lord, why do you say that?"

"Why? The princess talks to the common people in order to find something to hold against me. She worships the devil god in order to corrupt the people with the power of religion and make them push me down!"

If this was the purpose, then Princess Viola's strange actions instead of recruiting soldiers in the Leon territory would have reasonable explanations.

"But sir, the force 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 butler indeed did not see it. When the bandits came, he and the lord were hiding in the castle, relying on soldiers loyal to them to defend the castle, and did not go to the city wall at all.

Li Chengxi acted so quickly in a very literal sense that even the civilians in the city did not see how the bandits were repelled. They only knew about it from what the soldiers on the city wall said.

"Nobles all have some precious private collections. It's normal for Viola, a member of the royal family, to have a magic item that can repel robbers. Yes, it must be like this. She escaped from the capital with the help of that magic item. Now she uses this magic item to impersonate a god so that the common people can fight against me!"

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

"Sir, calm down! Please calm down! We still have a chance!"

The butler's persuasion calmed Lord Leon down a little, or maybe it was because the cold April wind blowing on his face after he opened the door that made him regain some sanity.

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

"Sir, as long as we can get in touch with the Four-Nation Alliance, Princess Viola will no longer be a threat to you. Instead, you should hold her firmly in your hands as a bargaining chip for future negotiations."

Taking a deep breath, Lord Leon picked 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 the mountains and hills to get through. It will take some time."

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

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

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

"Of course, I understand."

"Um"

Looking at the national emblem of the Avarus Demon Kingdom and his own family emblem on the wall, Lord Leon knew that it would not be long before a new one would have to be put on the wall...

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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 conspiring on the screen, Li Chengxi couldn't help but complain.

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

As for why I saw Lord Leon?

This was mainly because, in the pitch-black Leon Fortress, only the lord's villa had lights on, which was too conspicuous.

So don’t complain about the bad guys in movies and TV shows who never turn on the lights when they are plotting. Lord Leon suffered the consequences of not turning on the lights.

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

But what if the open approach doesn’t work and the secret approach doesn’t work?

It looks like they are planning to poison us, which is hard to guard against.

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

Or, why not just crush him to death with one finger?

Although they are all NPCs in Li Chengxi's eyes, they are still different. Princess Viola is more like the protagonist, and she is also the number one believer of the Demon God played by the player. What's more, Princess Viola's portrait is beautiful. In comparison, Lord Leon's portrait is almost like "I am a bad guy" written on his face.

It is normal to favor your favorite NPC. Often, there are a lot of characters available in the game, but players only use a few that they like. So Li Chengxi stretched out his finger to the drinking Lord Leon, and he almost touched the screen, then retracted it.

No, that would cause trouble.

Viola had just arrived and had no foundation in the local area. If the lord died suddenly, it would be detrimental to her control over the territory.

In other words, the lord cannot die now, and he is needed as a mascot to stabilize the territory. After Viola slowly gains control of the territory, the lord will be useless.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Chengxi remembered that there were two magic arts in the list of magic arts that could be bestowed: "Neutralize Poison" and "Detect Poison". At worst, he could just notify Viola and then bestow the magic arts on her. There shouldn't be any problem.

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

You're lucky to have 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, certain luxury furniture, etc. appeared on the screen.

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

Li Chengxi's bad impression of Lord Leon deepened.

However, among a row of names of expensive furniture 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, also in a two-body pixel style.

The safe should be behind the painting.

Li Chengxi reached his hand into the screen and could feel his fingers touching the picture frame, then he moved it to the side.

A black safe with a rotary lock dial appeared in front of him. 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 to try, but the safe was very heavy. Li Chengxi tried hard to lift it but failed.

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 cause the ladder to break. He wondered if clicking on the safe would be useful.

Li Chengxi moved the cursor to the keyhole of the safe and clicked several times.

With each click, the pixel safe on the screen jumped slightly and the rotating lock dial turned.

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

"Only one book?"

Li Chengxi thought there was some gold, silver and treasure in it, but there was only a book.

He reached out and took the book out from the screen. The words on it were still spelled in characters he had never seen before, but they were still distorted in Li Chengxi's eyes and turned into familiar Chinese characters.

"Income and expenditure bills, receipts, kingdom aid list, title deeds? Proof of transaction? Holy shit, could this be the lord's hidden account book?"

No wonder it was placed in a hidden safe.

Li Chengxi took a few casual glances and found that Lord Leon asked the capital for tax reduction on the grounds that his 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 sent by the capital all went into the lord's personal pocket.

He is indeed not a good person.

I flipped through two pages casually when a piece of paper fell out of the notebook.

Li Chengxi lowered his head to pick it up, and was surprised:
"What is this? A treasure map?"

He opened the map function in the game and took a look, but because the open area was too small, Li Chengxi couldn't find the corresponding place.

He yawned.

Forget it, let’s talk about it tomorrow.

He casually stuffed the treasure map into the account book, and then stuffed the account book into the bedside table. Li Chengxi closed his laptop and fell into a deep sleep.

(End of this chapter)