Alien world

Chapter 1059 290. Martin guides Annan
Annan was ready to say "Olmedo sent me here!" as soon as he was exposed, and then smash the crystal while the Senate Chairman was distracted, activating all the amulets - including the one given to him by the Senate Chairman.

"You mean, it?" The Senate Chief raised his staff, which Annan almost thought was a prelude to an attack.

Annan observed the staff that did not come out of its mouth. At this point, he had to pretend to be surprised: "Mr. Councillor, it is talking to me again!"

The councillor was silent for a moment: "You are too tired."

"Is that so? I think I should get some sleep too... I'm so sorry to bother you."

Annan said goodbye to the chairman of the parliament and left the lounge.

I don’t know if I got it wrong…

"He actually lied to you. Little Annan has become a bad boy..." The Staff sighed and found that Irwin was still staring at him. "What's that look in your eyes? Are you doubting me?"

"You broke your promise."

"You can't blame me for this. You told me to protect little Annan, and I couldn't help it. When I saw him, I thought of little Olmedo. My poor Olmedo, sob, sob, sob..."

"do not Cry."

The councillor whispered, looking at the chessboard on the table.

"It seems your little Annan is here for it."

……

"If you fail, your cunning uncle will be hiding in the lounge, like a hunter sitting by a tree stump waiting for a stupid rabbit to bump into him."

Olmedo was not surprised: "Then don't take the risk."

"I think so too."

Now that victory is on their side, there is no need to take any more risks.

It takes a turning point to overthrow Kro. This turning point can be when the southern soldiers are at the gates of the city, or when Annan makes the new king a mess, but it is best if both sides advance at the same time.

Come to think of it, Chloe hasn't shown up for a few days...

Annan missed him a little. After all, everything about Cloro was traceable, and he always felt constrained after replacing him with the more difficult chairman of the Senate.

After returning to Babatod's manor and confirming that no thieves came to steal things, Annan continued to plunder his wealth that was comparable to that of a country.

So far, Annan has found more than 30,000 gold coins in the manor, not counting the collections whose value is hard to estimate at the moment. A rough estimate is that the total is no less than 200,000 gold coins...

Annan's heart bleeds when he thinks that one third of them will belong to the new capital.

Or should he delay time deliberately so that all these will belong to him after the kingdom is defeated?
But after the kingdom was defeated, the kingdom's wealth would still be theirs, so it didn't seem to make any difference...

Apart from the money, no clues were found.

Annan had no choice but to go to the palace dungeon with Maria again to find Babatod, who had lost several pounds.

"I asked, and I answered."

Annan's simplicity put Babatod into a state of honesty.

"That's all the money you have in your estate?"

Maria glanced sideways. Wasn't she going to ask for clues?
It was not the first time that Babatod had known about the greed of the rat people, but the greed of the rat people in front of him still made him marvel: "Sir, this is the wealth I have accumulated for decades, isn't it enough..."

Annan felt that it was not enough, but when he thought about it carefully, the speed of collecting 10,000 gold nars every year was indeed not slow, and it was already equivalent to the tax revenue of many large city-states.

"It's no use hiding those things any longer. It might even implicate your people." Annan pressed with a hint of threat.

Babatod had no choice but to confess: "I have a base in a secret valley outside the new capital... There are some treasures that I plan to use for my escape..."

"Where is that valley?"

Babatod was certain that Annan was not a local ratman: "That place is called the Secret Valley."

Babatod must be hiding something, but Annan is not in a hurry. He can just squeeze out Babatod's secret bit by bit like squeezing toothpaste.

……

The secret valley is about twenty miles north of the outskirts of the new royal capital, which is not far.

There might be treasures there, but there might also be dangers. So Annan took Terry and Martin with him, relying on Martin's good luck.

The new capital cannot be relaxed. Annan left Maria, Louise and his men in the Purification Court and asked Kyle to help keep an eye on them. In the early morning, the snowstorm that had lasted for several days weakened.

Annan set out in secret, secretly left the new capital and secretly headed for the secret valley.

Because of the heavy snow, no hunters came here in the past few days.

The snow between the pine forests undulated like hills, with animal footprints scattered around.

The accumulated snow made it easy for them to detect abnormalities on the surface, but it also made it difficult to find traces buried by the snow.

"Martin, I leave it to you."

Annan opened the car door and let Martin out.

Martin walked into the knee-deep snow, and Annan and Terry followed behind him, wandering around in the small valley like headless flies.

At one point, he seemed to be circling something.

Annan motioned for Terry to look inside the circle.

Terry walked over, wandered around for 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 fumbled for a while and poked the frozen soil with a dagger, revealing a stone slab.

After it was lifted up, a passage leading underground was revealed.

Terry went in first, and Annan handed him the magic scroll: "Be careful."

Babatod didn't say there was a trap, but who knows if he didn't say it on purpose.

Terry went into the tunnel and disappeared for a while. Then Terry's surprised voice came from inside: "Sir, it's safe! And there's a lot of money!"

Annan took Martin into the cave, and what caught their eyes was mountains of money, money, and money.

There was nothing else, it seemed that this was indeed the escape route that Babatod had prepared for himself.

"My lord, look at this."

But Terry discovered something and handed a note to Annan.

[Put the things in the old place, be sure to get them]

what?
The note didn't look like Babatod's handwriting, so someone must have left it in his secret retreat...

After they searched again and found no other clues, Annan collected the money, estimated to be about 20,000 gold nars, and went straight back to the new capital.

"What does the note mean?" Annan asked Babatod.

As soon as he finished speaking, Babatod's face turned pale: "Did you see him?"

"Who?"

"I……"

"Baba Tod, your only way out is to confess."

"I, I don't know who he is... He calls himself the mysterious man. I helped him after I became the Grand Duke. He said that one day in the future when I die, he will come to help me..."

"Where's the old place?"

"That's our special code. I have to see an eagle... a lion, a snake and a badger on the street, and then I can find him."

Annan couldn't take Babatod out, so he could only go out and try his luck.

As a result, after walking a few blocks, Martin's attention was attracted by the bakery across the street and he hesitated to move forward.

"Sir, look..."

Terry then pointed to the door of the bakery, where a child's random doodle was drawn: an eagle with two wings and a sharp beak.

Annan patted his cousin on the shoulder: "It's my fault for not trusting you."

"You are wrong, and I am right?" Martin said.

"That's true..."

(End of this chapter)