Chapter 405

I'll go out first. "Mary saw that the time was almost up, so she walked out of the room, leaving Lucius alone in the room.

"What do you mean? Madam, how is the master's condition?" After returning to the room, Randall looked at Mary and asked.

"As I guessed, the master's mental condition is not good now, just like dementia." She sighed.

"No wonder Orson and the others don't want me to contact the master. Are they afraid that I will leak the news? Or are they worried that I will take advantage of the opportunity?"

"I don't know." Mary shook her head, then looked up at Randall with a hint of determination in her eyes. "But this should be our best chance."

"It just so happens that Orson and Litt have given me another perfect excuse."

"Let me think about it. For the right of inheritance, the two children deliberately concealed their father's illness from their mother and controlled the affairs of the dukedom." Mary said this, tapping the table lightly with her fingers.

"If His Majesty the Emperor knew about this, it would be a serious crime, right? "At this time, Randall added. "At that time, they may even lose the right to inherit the dukedom. Then the only one who is qualified to inherit the dukedom is the child in your belly, madam, right?"

"Well, my child will not be able to manage the dukedom when he is young. At that time, the actual ruler of the dukedom will be me. "Mary said this with a smile.

She was an ambitious woman, and she had always regarded the Duchy of Antica as hers.

When Litt had just returned, she wanted to take the opportunity to instigate Orson and let the two brothers kill each other, but Orson unexpectedly rejected her proposal and was ready to support Litt instead.

In that case, don't blame Mary for being ruthless and attacking both of them at the same time.

As long as their reputations are destroyed, the power of the Duchy will naturally fall into Mary's hands.

Thinking of this, Mary hurriedly wrote a letter and prepared to send it to Saint Laurent City.

At this time, Mary's door was also knocked.

Vivian returned home with the jewelry she bought in the market.

"Madam, this is the jewelry you entrusted me to buy. "Vivian said this, put it on the table, then took two steps back, bowed to Mary, and left her room.

At this time, Vivian saw that the time was almost up, so she walked towards Lucius' room.

At this time, Lucius was still sitting in a chair in a daze.

"Good morning, sir." Vivian said this, looking at Lucius.

Lucius was still sitting there in a daze.

In the past few days, Lucius was not uncommon in this situation. Seeing this, she took a blanket from the cabinet and covered Lucius.

At this time, she glanced and saw the teacup on the table.

She reached out and touched it, and found that the teacup was still warm.

Vivian immediately became alert, she walked downstairs and came to the kitchen.

"Did anyone come to pour tea this morning?" Vivian asked seriously.

"Ah, that, only the lady came. "The maid in charge of the kitchen spoke.

Hearing this, Vivian frowned.

Then, she came to the second floor and knocked on Litt's door.

Walking into the room, Vivian reported to Litt what happened today.

"Master Litt, although I don't want to think about it, it is obvious that the lady deliberately sent me away."

In the family, everyone knows that Randall is Mary's confidant, and Randall's work basically represents Mary's intention.

And Mary took the initiative to send Vivian away, and personally went to deliver tea to Lucius. The meaning contained in it is self-evident.

Although they are all family members, Vivian is Orson's confidant. Orson asked her to keep an eye on Mary, so she must be on guard against Mary.

"I know, Miss Vivian, you have worked hard." Litt nodded after hearing this. "Mother really guessed that there was something wrong with my father. "

Leet said this and sighed.

She didn't know what Mary was going to do after she knew about this, but in Leet's opinion, she felt frustrated because Orson had not completed the task assigned to her properly.

At this time, she suddenly remembered that Orson had given her an envelope before leaving, asking her to open it when she encountered difficulties.

Leet thought about it, opened the drawer of her desk, took out the letter, and then read the contents carefully.

In an instant, her eyes brightened.

…

At night, Randall took Mary's secret letter and prepared to rush to Saint Laurent City. Not long after leaving the Duke's mansion, before leaving the scope of Antica City, Randall felt several eyes staring at him.

He hurriedly got into the nearby woods.

Unexpectedly, this drill directly played into the group's intentions.

Randall stepped on a trap in the woods and was hung upside down.

Then, several people got out of the shadows.

"Hello, Mr. Randall." Virgil was the first to speak. "It's so late, why are you in a hurry to go out? As a servant of the Duke's Mansion, do you want to betray the Duke? "

"No, no, how could that be possible." Randall heard this and shook his head quickly. "I just want to deliver a letter for the lady."

"Letter?" Virgil raised his eyebrows when he heard this. "Are you going to deliver a letter at this time? Is it some shameful letter?"

"How is that possible!" Randall retorted immediately. "This is Madam's letter, how could it be something shameful..."

"Then why did you choose to deliver it at night?" Virgil said, and quickly ordered his men to search him.

"What are you doing!? Do you know if you do this, my wife will be angry if she finds out!"

"Madam, I will naturally be there to apologize, but please understand that your actions are really suspicious."

"Besides, you can't return to Madam until you are sure everything is fine." With that said, Virgil ordered his men to take Randall away, then looked at the envelope in his hand and fell into deep thought.

…

"Virgil, are you sure the letter has not been dropped?" In Li Te's room, she looked at the letter in her hand and frowned.

"Well, I'm sure Randall only had this letter with him at that time." Virgil nodded. "There are no signs of loosening of the ink pad, so there is no possibility of it being swapped."

"That's weird..."

Randall did send a letter to Mary, but the content of the letter was very simple, which was to invite Mary's noble lady friend in Saint Laurent City to come to the Duchy of Antica to reminisce about the past.

Just looking at the content of the letter, there is indeed nothing wrong with it.

It’s not like we really arrested the wrong person, right?

Just as Leeteuk was thinking this, there was a knock on the door of the room.

Then, Mary walked into Leeteuk's room.

"Li Te, I asked my servant Randall to deliver a letter to the inn for me yesterday, but he hasn't come back yet. Have you seen Randall's movements?"

"Ah, I'm so sorry, mother. I don't know where Randall has gone. If possible, you can wait at home. He might just have other things to deal with, so he hasn't come back yet."

"Okay." Mary nodded after hearing this. "If Randall hasn't come back by then, I hope you can mobilize the city defense troops to help find him. That letter was sent to a friend by me. It's obviously just an ordinary letter..."

Listening to Mary's words, Lite felt a little guilty for some unknown reason. After all, as family members, they shouldn't plot against each other, right?

Could it be that Mary really didn't do anything and just wanted to pour Lucius a cup of tea that day? Was she simply overthinking it?

But when he thought of the letter Orson left for him, Lite couldn't tell Mary what he had done.

She still believed in Orson more than Mary.

…

And on the other side, the city of Saint Laurent.

Emperor Odysseus and Giovanni are chatting.

When Giovanni went to Beijing to report on his duties today, he suddenly mentioned the matter of the Duchy of Antica.

"Oh, Emperor, let me tell you, the eldest son of the Duke of Antica, Orson, is really a genius." Saying this, he did not hide his praise for Orson at all.

"We have never, never achieved such a beautiful and clean victory in a war against the orcs."

Of course, Giovanni was talking about the main battlefield. If those pig teammates hadn't appeared on the secondary battlefield, this war would have been smoother.

"Well, yes, Orson's performance is indeed good." Odysseus nodded after hearing this. He looked at Giovanni curiously, not knowing what he was going to say.

"I think that in order to honor such people, we should hold a large banquet in the Dukedom of Antica to celebrate our victory." Giovanni stated his purpose. "Although there was a celebration banquet held on the front line before, your Majesty, as well as several of our dukes, did not all attend the celebration banquet.

Come on. "

"I think that for such a meaningful event, we should go to the Duchy of Antica to congratulate Duke Lucius. That would be great!"

"Well, what you said makes sense." Odysseus nodded, "That's it, I'll write to Lucius today."

"Okay, thank you Your Majesty." Giovanni said with a smile.

Chapter 23: Feng Sha Ping and Family Crisis (1.7W two chapters in one)

On the other side, Orson was still chatting with the shaman.

"By the way, this is my first time coming to the temple. I would like to ask, besides this main hall, does the temple have any other branches?"

"No." The orc shaman shook his head. "We only worship the great Limusa here."

"Then... may I ask, are there any sacred objects in the temple? Or are there any places that we must not go to?"

"If you want to ask this, I really can't think of it for a while..." The orc shaman thought for a while, and then said: "The temple originally had a basement, but for some reason, no one could enter it. The basement, gradually it was abandoned, and we didn’t know what was in the basement.”

"Okay, I understand, thank you very much." Orson said, thanked the other party, and then led Lena into the temple through the side door again.

"Hey, brother Edward, haven't we already visited the temple?" Lena asked doubtfully as she watched Edward lead her back into the temple.

"Yeah, but I have other things to do." Orson said, looking into the temple again.

The book records that Limusa used up his last divine power to turn the desert into what it is now. In other words, if Limusa's divine power dissipates, the wind and sand that protect the orcs will dissipate along with it.

Then, as a medium for storing Limusa's divine power, it must exist in the temple.

After hearing the news about the basement from the shaman, Orson took Lena back to the temple.

At this moment, Baru has finished his confession, and he has to go back to complete his task of unifying the orc tribes.

Only Orson and Lena are left in the temple.

"Brother Edward, are you looking for that basement? But the shaman has already said that you can't get in..."

"Do you really believe him when he says you can't get in? Let's try it, just in case we can get in."

"Okay." Lena sighed after hearing this.

Then the two of them went around the temple and finally found a door on a wall.

There was an ancient text engraved on it, which was also the ancient common language. Orson could barely understand what it meant.

[To open this door, you need the blood of Hela's followers]

Hela's followers? Does it mean humans?

But why does the holy land of the orcs need human blood to open?

Orson was very puzzled, but he did it anyway. He cut his finger with a dagger and then smeared the blood on the door.

However, the door did not move at all.

Lena looked at Orson's actions and felt a little strange.

"Brother Edward, you don't think that you can open the door by smearing blood on the door like in the adventure story, right? Pfft, the big brother who looks super reliable actually has a day of failure." Lena said this and smiled.

"But it says that the blood of Hela's followers needs to be smeared on it." Hearing this, Orson shrugged helplessly.

"Hela's followers? Who is Hela?" Lena asked curiously.

"It's the goddess of life that humans believe in." Just as Orson finished speaking, he suddenly thought of something.

He quickly cut open his finger that had just stopped bleeding, and then painted a symbol on the door with blood.

This symbol is the symbol of the human church, an upright cross, representing the believers of the goddess of life.

Then, as expected, as Orson finished drawing the pattern, the blood pattern emitted light.

Then, with a creaking sound, the door to the basement opened.

"Uh..." Lena looked at Orson with a strange expression.

"Brother Edward, you actually guessed it?"