At this moment, this is the biggest doubt in Zooey's heart.

Before that, she had already regarded Zong Shen as an adventurer who didn't care about trivial matters and liked to fight evil and help the weak.

The image of this persona had just filled up in her head, but now it collapsed.

Zooey suppressed the thought of asking Zong Shen, and stood silently behind him.

The reason is also very simple, after today's brief contact, she can feel that Zong Shen has no malice towards him.

If Zong Shen really wanted to do something, the strength shown by him, Joan of Arc, and the spellcaster named Canigia was enough to turn her into a corpse in a very short time.

In other words, if Zong Shen really wanted to harm her, there was no need to go to such trouble to take her to attack the Aldridge Dance Troupe's residence, and even open the portal to bring her back.

Of course, it is not ruled out that Zong Shen became malicious only after he knew her identity.

Try to take her here as a hostage, and take the opportunity to demand a ransom from your father!

Although they heard the name Zoe Babbitt, they didn't show any strange expressions.

But knowing people, knowing face, not knowing heart, as the youngest daughter of Earl Maren, her ransom is worth at least several million dinars. This is a huge fortune, and anyone will be tempted!

Standing behind Zong Shen, Zooey began to think wildly, and the more she thought about it, the more wrong she felt.

"Howie, let Vereesa come to the Lord's Fortress to find me."

"I have an important task and preparations for her."

Zong Shen waved his hands at Howie and Betty.

He could probably guess what Zoe was thinking, so he was going to invite her into the lord's fortress, and then have a good chat with her.

Zong Shen did not lie about the adventurer team of Breath of the Wild.

He plans to immediately dispatch the fighters in the territory to form a [Breath of the Wild] adventurer team, and invite Zoe to be the first member of the team!

He plans to hand over this matter to Vereesa. Before the team is formally formed, he plans to let Zoe hang out with him for a few days, cultivate some feelings, and then take the opportunity to throw an olive branch, let Zoe become a leader, officially Set foot on the thief ship.

If Zoe is unwilling, then Zongshen can only send her back to Winter Robin City.

Before that, he will send a letter to Earl Mullen.

Tell the honorable Earl that you only need to spend one million dinars in exchange for your precious daughter.

Count Mullen would be delighted to come.

As a money-grubbing handsome boy, Zong Shen's principle is that if he can't become a partner, he can only squeeze wool.

The one million dinars should be used as a lesson for Zoe, so that she can forget her absurd adventure dreams, lest she waste her future and youth just like Baron Bezos.

After receiving the order from Zong Shen, Howie bowed again, expressing that he had written it down.

Now the territory has more than one hundred heroes and a population of tens of thousands.

Zong Shen basically asked Mariel or Howie to help convey the order.

If it is an emergency, he will call the other party through the [communication crystal].

After explaining, Zong Shen gave Betty an encouraging smile.

Then he turned to Zooey and said.

"Miss Zoe, I know you still have a lot of doubts in your heart."

"Please come with me."

"All your doubts will be answered."

Zong Shen pointed to the lord's fortress in front of him and said softly.

At any rate, it is a seventh-level city lord's mansion that has been transformed by the fort route.

In terms of area alone, it may not be comparable to the central castle of the ruler of the state city.

But the defensive ability does not show much.

There are no fancy arrangements of gardens, grasslands, etc., and it looks compact and solid.

It looks like a small fortress.

Hearing what Zong Shen said, Zooey nodded.

So Zong led the way to the lord's fortress. Zoe behind him was entangled in her heart. While walking, she raised her hand to caress the storage pendant, and took out a precious space system scroll from it.

The level is not high, but it is full enough at critical moments.

[Third-order random teleportation volume]

Instantly after activation, Zoe can be randomly teleported to a place within a radius of 50 kilometers to 100 kilometers.

Even though it is only the third rank, Earl Mullen paid enough to get this scroll.

Its value in the market is no less than that of a fifth-order group attack magic scroll.

As for the kind of scrolls that can be sent tens of thousands of kilometers in one direction, there is no need to think about it. Only kings, grand dukes and those top nobles have them.

Before, King Ragnar used a high-level directional teleportation scroll to completely get rid of the pursuit.

Holding the scroll in his hand, Jean followed Zong Shen up the steps of the fort and entered the hall of the fort.

At this time, the fort was empty, not even Luna, who was pregnant, was there.

As Zong Shen's woman, she has devoted herself to the construction of the territory,

And she also has the physique of a fourth-rank female hunting queen anyway, not as weak as ordinary people and not to the point where she can't go out.

As long as it doesn't involve combat issues, Zong Shen will let her go.

After entering the fortress hall, Zong Shen sat down at the round table in the living room.

"Miss Zoe, please sit down."

"Would you like some water or some wine?"

"I got a batch of good wine in the cellar before, Miss Zoe can have a taste."

Zong Shen greeted warmly, it is a fine tradition of the Chinese people to show the friendship of the landlord.

"No…"

"I...I'm not thirsty yet..."

Zong Shen was not surprised that Zoe became restrained again.

After all, she has not yet joined the territory, and she is still in a state of ignorance about many things.

Anyone will instinctively feel guarded and vigilant about things and environments they don't understand.

"All right."

"Then I'll just say it."

"First of all, I have to admit that I lied to you."

Zong Shen said calmly, but his eyes were on Zoe's right hand hidden under the hem of his robe.

Hearing what he said, Zooey frowned slightly.

Then Zong Shen continued.

"However, our meeting was indeed accidental."

"I know you are the daughter of Count Marlon, but I have no intention of doing so."

"As you can see, I am the lord here."

"Not long ago, this was just a part of the grasslands east of Avalon."

"Now it has a new life."

"And I also took in a large number of homeless people and gave them a safe place to live."

What Zong Shen said was true. The sources of his subjects were very complicated. Most of the farmers were from unclaimed territories, and most of the farmers in the hands of the lords were mainly displaced refugees and small-scale merchants at the village level.

Zooey frowned after listening to Zong Shen's words, and the expression on her face eased a little.

"But you still lied to me."

"You are not a so-called adventurer, and there is no Breath of the Wild adventurer team!"

This is the point that bothers her the most.

Whether Zong Shen is a bad guy or not is only one aspect of the question, what she is looking forward to is the adventure team!

Originally, she thought that she really met a powerful adventure team, who could start a passionate adventure life from then on, and travel all over the endless continent like Tim Eckling!

In the end, what I got was deception!

When Zong Shen heard it, he immediately understood Zoe's core appeal.

Instead of arguing, he laughed out loud.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"It turns out that Miss Zoe is worried about this matter!"

"Then I can tell you very clearly that what I told you about the adventure before is true, including the lion and skeleton knight Richardson, and I can even take you to see it."

"It just hangs around the Boneyard."

"There are also Azshara mines, mountain bunkers, Azshara city ruins, goblin tribes, and wild hoof tribes are all true!"

Zong Shen said confidently.

Because he does have the confidence.

All the adventure stories he told Zoe before were all experienced by him himself!

It is those explorations and adventures that allow the territory to rise rapidly!

Zooey said nothing, but her eyes flickered.

So Zong Shen decided to strike while the iron was hot.

"Also, I decided to set up a Breath of the Wild adventurer team!"

"You are the first adventurer in the team!"

"I will fully support the preparation of the adventurer team and provide you with manpower, clues, and supplies!"

As soon as these words came out, Zooey raised her head involuntarily.

"You... are you telling the truth?"

Zong Shen nodded solemnly.

"Of course, the little lies above are just for the chance to extend an olive branch to you."

"The development of the territory is inseparable from the development of the surrounding ancient ruins."

"I want to inherit the mantle of the civilization of the last era and establish a great territory."

"So, both I and my territory need an adventurer, an adventurer who loves adventure like Miss Zoe!"

After hearing his words, Zooey fell into deep thought.

She also understood Zong Shen's meaning, which is to form a "Breath of the Wild" adventurer team immediately.

It wasn't there before, but it's coming soon!

And she will also be entrusted with an important task and become the first member of the adventurer team.

When she was in Wintropong, she also had this idea.

In fact, with the strength of Bangcheng, an adventure team can be formed.

It's just that her father, Earl Mullen, doesn't approve of it, and this is also a small wish of hers.

Now with Zong Shen here, it seems that there is an opportunity to realize it.

Just as she was thinking, there was a knock on the door.

"grown ups."

Vereesa's voice sounded outside the gate of the fortress.

"come in."

When there are no guests, Vereesa usually comes in directly.

But this time Howie told him that there were guests in the castle hall, so she knocked first.

Vereesa came in front of him and bowed in salute.

Zong Shen said to her straight to the point.

"Let me introduce, this one is Miss Zoe Babbitt."

"What she looks like now is just a distorted disguise."

"I decided to form an adventure team in the territory."

"This adventure team is called Breath of the Wild."

"You will take Miss Zoe for a stroll around our territory in a while."

Zooey got up and shook hands with Vereesa.

"Then Miss Zoe, let Vereesa take you to the territory to relax."

"You will sleep in the fortress tonight. There are many empty rooms."

"Tomorrow I have an exploration operation, so why not join me then."

Zong Shen accepted it as soon as he saw it, and didn't let her make a choice on the spot.

Hold on to Zoe first, let her think about it for herself, and then experience life in the territory.

Zong Shen happened to have an adventure plan tomorrow, and that was the ruins of Azshara's sewers in Poison Swamp.

As for the ruins of Azshara below the Rogue camp, he can only arrange it later.

After Zong Shen gave her a step down, Zooey also heaved a sigh of relief and quickly nodded in agreement.

She felt that she was a little confused and didn't want to make a decision right away.

Seeing Zoe and Vereesa leave the lord's fortress, Zong Shen also relaxed.

Immediately, I felt a lot more relaxed, and stretched my waist.

Today he didn't want to go out for a walk anymore. Taking advantage of the divination coin's [Great Fortune] effect to possess him, he had to open the treasure chests he had accumulated in the past few days, as well as the remaining 10 [V-level lucky bags].

Thinking of this, he opened the storage compartment and found that there were quite a lot of treasure chests.

Among them, [Platinum Treasure Chest × 1], [Gold Treasure Chest × 6], [Silver Treasure Chest × 14], [Bronze Treasure Chest × 22], [Black Iron Treasure Chest × 23].

These treasure chests have not been screened, and they come from the Goblin tribe, the remains of the coalition garrison in the north, and the barrenhoof centaur tribe.

Zong Shen took a glance and screened out three trap treasure chests.

Usually trapped chests only appear when there are several chests in the same location.

So far, Zong Shen has not seen a trap treasure chest that exists alone.

These three trap treasure chests are [Gold Trap Treasure Chest x 1], [Silver Trap Treasure Chest x 1], [Black Iron Trap Treasure Chest x 1].

The traps in each trap chest are different.

The first is the [Gold Trap Treasure Chest], which contains an indiscriminate fifth-order frost group attack magic.

After it is turned on, everything within a radius of 30 meters will be frozen directly, forced to freeze for 0~36 hours, and cause 800 points of frost magic damage.

The reason why it starts with 0 is because the freezing effect will be affected by the actual situation, and it can be thawed in advance, not a mandatory freezing that ignores the basic rules.

This kind of trap treasure chest has indiscriminate damage, but if Zong Shen can know the details in advance, there are many opportunities to use it.

The [Silver Trap Treasure Chest] contained a time trap.

After it is turned on, it will make the surrounding 100 meters in a stop state for 20 seconds.

It is also a time stop without difference, but it is a one-time stop, unlike [Time Stop Orb], which is continuous.

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The purpose of this thing is a bit cheating.

Zong Shen hasn't figured out how to use it for the time being, so he can only store it away first.

As for the [Black Iron Trap Treasure Chest], it is simple and straightforward. There is an explosive trap inside.

Can cause 100 points of explosion damage.

For Zong Shen, 100 points of explosion damage was nothing but tickling.

Even most ordinary lords are not afraid now.

Unless you go back in time and go back to when you first landed.

This trap treasure chest, Zong Shen is going to let Mariel put it up for sale in the 【Market】.

Dispose of it as a treasure chest blind box, at least you can get some resources back!

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