In the middle of the night, as one of the many viscounts in the Roman Continent, the vast Tatt capital government and military center, the council hall of the Tatdu capital was still brightly lit and heavily guarded, but the servants and officers in the fortress were much scarcer during the day.

In a spacious dark stone bedroom in the west corner of the second floor of the council hall, Zhang Lisheng, who had just received a sumptuous reception from the assistant chief manager of Viscount Tatdu, opened his eyes and stared intently at the brazier above his head that emitted the last trace of residual warmth, thinking about the breakthrough to win the trust of Viscount Tatdu.

Suddenly, I heard a faint 'rope...' sound coming from the wall next to the extinguished fireplace across the stone bed covered with thick animal skins.

Alertly came back to his senses, frowned and looked in the direction where the voice came from, with his eyesight far beyond ordinary people, Zhang Lisheng saw an unexpected familiar face, sneakily poked out of a secret door that slipped open from the stone wall, tiptoed towards him, his heart moved, and he closed his eyes.

After a few seconds, he first felt a cold, sweaty palm press to his mouth, and a slight and rapid cry came from his ear, "Honorable guest, distinguished guest, wake up, wake up..."

"Well, well..." Zhang Lisheng's body trembled, vividly pretending to wake up from his sleep, his covered mouth made a frightened muffled sound, and then he heard the voice in his ear become more urgent and panicked: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, distinguished guest, it's me, it's me Hedland, Hedland."

Let go of my hand now, and you must not scream, nor speak loudly, and listen to me, Lord Viscount wants to see you. ”

"Sir Hedland. Are you saying that Viscount Tatedu wants to see me, now?" In the gloomy night, Zhang Lisheng opened his eyes wide and showed a look of surprise, and said in a low voice.

"Yes, my honorable guest, please come with me. Hedland nodded, and without explaining much, he pulled the black-haired young man who hurriedly put on his clothes, and walked lightly into the secret door of the bedroom wall, and entered a dark corridor.

I don't know how long I walked along the road and turned around. The lord of 'Tathdu' stopped suddenly. After fumbling around the stone wall on the right for a while, he triggered the mechanism and opened a secret door.

A dim light peeked through the dark corridor from the opening of the secret door, and Zhang Lisheng stood behind Hedland. He whispered a sentence with a strange expression. "Lord Hedland. Your memory is so good, you can't even get lost in such a dark secret passage. He craned his neck to look at the source of the light. At once, I saw the fat, tall body of Viscount Tatto.

"Honorable guest, it is not easy to become an assistant and personal manager of a Roman lord noble. Hedland's face exposed in the faint light unconsciously showed a trace of emotion, "Honorable guest, please come in, Lord Viscount and Master Etefago have been waiting for you for a long time. ", guiding the black-haired youth behind him out of the secret door.

The secret door connected to a small secret room, no more than twenty paces long and wide, and the whole space seemed mysterious and oppressive under the light of a blazing copper basin hanging from the low stone ceiling.

"Researcher Zhang Bingqi, no, it's time to call you the director," Viscount Tatdu looked at the black-haired young man from the other world who was hesitantly approaching and said casually, "The country you live in is really strange for us Romans to call for the title of a superior person.

But I know that the Director is more noble than the researcher, and congratulations on your higher status, my friend. ”

"Ah, Lord Viscount, I live in a country where all people are equal, and there is no such thing as superiority, so I think it is even more strange for Roman to rule the people here by a powerful samurai class, horsemen, generals, and knights...

I don't mean to offend you, I mean we live in a, a chaotic time, and we have to accept a lot of new things all the time, you know what I mean.

By the way, in fact, in my country the status of researcher and director is the same, the difference is one is a job title, the other is a job title ...

Forget it, I'll explain to you how they are different, and thank you for your congratulations. Zhang Lisheng smiled a little nervously and said a bunch of nonsense, and finally asked, "But it's so late, do you want to see me for something?"

"Of course, my friend," Tate said with a sincere gaze as he looked at the black-haired young man from the other world, "I believe you should have some premonition when you saw me in such a secret room in the middle of the night."

Yes, although I am still the guardian of the whole territory of the Tatt Territory, my situation is already very bad, and it can even be said that in the near future, I will inevitably lose my title.

As a lord who once held the highest authority in the territory, once he abdicated, his fate was often not as simple as losing his power, and it was likely that the cemetery was the only destination. ”

"You must be joking, Lord Viscount, ha, haha..." Zhang Lisheng had a flash of inspiration in his mind, vaguely grasped the context of some secret matters, and said with an even more unnatural dry smile on the surface: "At noon today, the Grand Staff Officer of Willand also said that the Tate Commander has just won a victory that is rare in a century, and your enemy has been defeated..."

"It was this victory that brought me to a desperate point, my friend," Tatedu interrupted the black-haired man with an irrepressible expression of grief and indignation on his face, and a low voice screamed, "It was this victory that made the most loyal minister who had been saved by me on the battlefield, who had been favored by me from among the civilians and restored his honor, choose to betray!"

"Lord Viscount, you, what do you mean...", confirming in his heart that the inspiration that flashed his mind was correct, Zhang Lisheng pretended to be dumbfounded and stammered.

"Director Zhang Bingqi," Standing beside Viscount Tatdu, wearing a black robe, because of his thin appearance, he looked extremely tall and almost up to the ceiling, and Etfargo, who was hidden in the shadows of the flickering firelight, suddenly spoke, awkwardly addressed the black-haired youth, and said tactfully: "The rules of our Roman Continent are different from your world.

A territorial nobleman who is unable to set foot on the battlefield or even stand up on his own strength will not be able to rule his territory steadily without the protection of a powerful 'superior lord', no matter how heroic he once was.

Since the complete independence of the Tate Commander from the Silorian Territory three hundred years ago, there is no protection of the 'High Lord', and it can be said that the Viscount can keep the title for nearly three years after being injured can be said to be a miracle of the longevity of the Martial Order, and now after his younger brother Sir Hostan proved his worth with a great victory, it is a luxury for the Lord to not be inferior to the throne. ”

"That's the case, that, that's really bad, in this case, can the alliance between Tate and the Earth continue in the future, why are you looking for me so late, what can I do?" confirmed his conjecture from the mouth of the great wise man of Tate, Zhang Lisheng was ecstatic in his heart, but asked incoherently and blankly on the surface.

"You may not be able to, but your people do, my friend," Tate said in a hoarse voice as he stared at the black-haired youth with greed and longing in fear, "My warriors have witnessed in their attacks on the Western Lorians who are guarding the Earth Mission, and your fellow citizens with magical powers have brought several of the Sillorian warriors whose spines and knees have been shattered back to their feet.

I need that magical power to help me heal my wounds, and as long as I can step back on the battlefield, no, as long as I can get back on my feet, no one will be able to take the power of 'Tatto' from me. ”

"Miraculous power, the miraculous power to treat Yan zhòng's external injuries, I, I have indeed heard that Taoist researchers and researchers from the Religious Affairs Bureau can do this with spells..."As if intimidated by the gaze of Lord Tatdu, Zhang Lisheng took two steps back, trembled and said, and then showed a suddenly realized expression, "Could it be that this qiē was all planned by you."

You, you saved me, you have done so many things with all your heart, and you don't really plan to form an alliance with Huaguo at all, but you want to heal your injuries. ”

"You're right, researcher Zhang Bingqi," seeing that the black-haired young man had guessed the truth, Etfargo didn't deny it, and said in a calm and frank tone: "This qiē is indeed a lie strictly speaking.

Ever since he learned that your compatriots were in possession of a miraculous healer that did not exist in the Roman Continent, the Viscount ordered the Chinese to be reconciled through various channels on the grounds that he could not allow the despicable Silorians to have an exclusive alliance with the powerful states of the other world, and you were the beneficiary of the order that had only been issued for three days.

So it can be said that it is the lie that saved your life, made your identity more noble, and will bring you more wealth and higher status in the future.

"You fed me poison, deceived me into using all kinds of relationships to open up the joints, and brought the Huaguo Mission, and now say that it is nothing bad for me!" Zhang Lisheng covered his head and bowed his head in silence for a while, and suddenly burst out: "How can I trust you, how can I trust!"

Who knows if after saving the viscount, I will suddenly become an ally of the damned Silorians from an honorable guest, and should be beheaded for public service..."

Hearing the angry roar of the young man from the other world, pondering the meaning of his words, Lord Tattdu not only did not get angry or frustrated, but showed an expression of ecstasy, "I will never do that, dear friend, as long as you can get me back on my feet, I will publicly swear by the prestige of my ancestors and martial arts to put you under my protection forever."

Please believe in my sincerity at this time, by the way, I promised you the status of Sir Roman, and then tomorrow morning I will canonize the territory to you.

A person like you, who has been awarded a 'knighthood' as a scholar and for special merits, like Master Etefago, has no obligation to set foot on the battlefield, and will never be degraded at will by the 'superior nobles', otherwise the foundation of the entire realm will be shaken. (To be continued......)