A strange world

Chapter 444 Chapter 101. Three Keys

Annan, who was the last to return to the camp, attracted attention.

Annan ignored them—he found nothing anyway. After putting Lily down and letting her go back to the tent, he went to the still deserted tavern, chose a glass of juice and sat in the corner, ready to listen to the bragging of the gold diggers.

"Master Champion, I'm going back first." Flas ran out of the tavern, probably to tell the camp leader.

Annan didn't care either, because the Nuggets were coming.

They began to show off what they had gained in the city of Solrengo, some of which were quite legendary, such as the jewelry hidden in the latrine, the treasure map left behind by the rat men who could not understand, and a closet full of women's pajamas——

Usually in places where ratmen are infested, there will be no food or anything that looks like weapons left. Eventually, the ratmen who form a rat tide will have all kinds of messy things in their hands.

The girls also wore thin cloth clothes in the not-so-warm tavern to solicit business. They followed the gold diggers out one after another and came back a few minutes later.

With a lustful aura, he cast a flirtatious look at Annan. It's just that the boy is not interested in them, otherwise even if they pay, it will be fine.

At night, when Annan was about to return to his tent, the blond woman came to the tavern and sat down in front of Annan.

"You haven't left yet?" Annan looked at the blond woman's old aristocratic attire and praised: "She does look like a vampire..."

"You like vampires very much?" She held her chin.

"Just curious what a real vampire looks like."

Wood doesn't count. The only difference between him and humans is that humans eat everything, while he only drinks blood.

"If you like, I can also suck some blood part-time..." The blonde woman's other hand reached out to Annan.

"Slut!"

"Bitch!"

"Deserves to be burned at the stake!"

The peeping girls in the tavern cursed, but Annan, who was worried about them, stood up, avoided the unknown woman, said goodbye to the guests in the tavern and returned to the tent.

"When shall we act?" Farias asked.

The Earl over the hills could hardly wait any longer.

"Let's leave it to tomorrow."

After two days of staring, the leader must have lost interest.

Farias suddenly whispered: "Where the forest is thick, where the streams are raging, where the singing is loud."

"What's this?"

“Three puzzles about the three keys needed to unlock a legacy.”

"...You know I'm not a mage, right?"

"You need three keys to open the inheritance, and three puzzles correspond to three keys." Farias said in a way that normal people can understand.

"How do I solve the puzzle?"

"It's in the museum."

"What if the key is picked up by the Rat Man?"

"The key is kept in a very secret place."

"So the inheritance can't be opened if the key is gone?"

"Um……"

"Hopefully the Skaven won't put the key in the mace."

Annan was not interested in asking how Count Ulmit knew these secrets... He was just the executor and only wanted to get what he deserved.

On the third day, significantly fewer rat people were lured away by bait on time in the morning than on the first day. Annan followed the Nuggets' team into the city.

The peek hidden in the dark disappeared, replaced by Flass who followed Annan directly.

Annan let Flas follow because he couldn't figure out the meaning of the puzzle.

Wandering through the empty museum after looting, and scanning the empty halls, Annan couldn't help but wonder how to find the key if the puzzle was related to those collections.

Or does the key have nothing to do with the collection...

Annan strolled through the corridors that Fermi had scoured, and Flas next to him looked sad.

"Are you a violet?"

"No, I'm a Montabul Locke..."

"Then why are you sad?"

"Damn ratmen...all the human treasures have been robbed by them."

Annan had no such sentiments. Compared to places like museums, city lord's mansions, and manors, the burned-out and collapsed houses and nameless wreckage aroused his sadness more.

"Do you know Mad Dog Archduke?" Annan walked into the lounge on the second floor of the museum.

"Mad dog...?"

"That's Grand Duke Gilles."

"Your title is very appropriate...that's a bastard." Flas gritted his teeth.

Annan then learned about the deeds of this "mad dog archduke" who had taken away his territory - including but not limited to promulgating harsh laws, imposing unbearable taxes, forcibly recruiting residents to fight, and plundering the properties of nobles and merchants. ——This is the only place Annan agrees with.

"Those nobles didn't do anything?"

"The Mages Association and the Principality Guard both listen to that mad dog."

With the behavior of this mad dog archduke... maybe he will continue to cause trouble in Gem City.

Annan, who was walking out, suddenly kicked something and lowered his head. A key was hidden in the dust.

Annan picked up the copper key painted with musical notes: "Femi, you and Flass can continue searching. I'm going to rest for a while."

"I'm with you," Fras said immediately.

An looked at him with a gradually cold expression: "Are you spying on me?"

"Of course not! I just... want to protect you." Fras explained in a panic.

"You are not my servant yet, so you don't have to follow me all the time." Annan waved his hand and asked the frightened Vlas and Femi to go elsewhere, and then handed the key to the speechless Farias: "Don't tell This is one of the three keys."

"Yes...it's the singing key."

"Where is this?" At this time, Annan was still thinking that maybe he was dug out by the Rat Man and brought here.

"The curator's wife's bedroom."

"how do you know?"

"There is a map at the entrance to the museum."

Annan searched the room again and found a hidden grid on the wall where the mural should have been hung.

This is where the key is placed

Bedroom...bed...singing...

Annan suddenly felt that he had guessed the answer to the riddle full of evil taste...

"Where are the changing room and bathroom?"

Annan followed Farias to the adjacent dressing room, where there was also nothing left - the clothes in the closet were either snatched away by looters or worn by ratmen.

The dressing room did not have a hidden compartment like the bedroom. Annan asked, "Are there any other dressing rooms?"

"The maids' dressing room."

"take me."

Arriving from the second floor to the first floor, I happened to see Fras who was being punished by Fermi to clean up the garbage pile.

Letting the guy who was actually the leader of the camp continue, Annan went to the changing room and found the second key: the dense forest.

"How did you know?" Farias exclaimed.

Annan had no choice but to tell him it was "a warlock's intuition."

There are three bathrooms in the museum: those for guests, those for servants, and those for the curator and his wife. It's just that none of the three bathrooms have the same hidden compartment.

Finally, I found the third key in the head maid's cubicle.