Chapter 769 Gods' Game: Card Swapping 13
Before Yu Xunge could ask further questions, she preemptively asked, "It's my turn to ask a question. Why are you so sure I'm amazing? Aren't you afraid you've ended up with trash?"
A creature's fighting style and the choices it makes during battle can reveal its personality and nature.
In the arena, Little Oak Owl never gambles on her opponent's mistakes. This isn't a habit she developed after suffering losses; she seems to have been born with a preference for stability and a dislike for risk.
Such a young owl would never easily choose itself just because it hasn't seen a more powerful opponent.
Seeing that Little Oak Owl was still trying to play dumb, Zhu Ri frowned and said, "Whether the purpose is to benefit oneself or others, being smart is never a mistake or a flaw. I will not hate you because you are cunning. I only hate stupidity and being self-righteous."
Yu Xunge immediately answered honestly, "Because you said that many guys in Caladom were eyeing us, but you stopped us in Caladom, and in the end, only you came looking for us. No one tried to steal your prey."
That means that in Karadom, a hub town frequented by treasure hunters and traveling merchants, Zhu Ri could not be an unknown figure. With her reputation and strength, anyone else would give way to her if she set her sights on something.
Just like in the animal kingdom, when the prey is targeted by the strongest predator, no other animal dares to steal it.
She then mentioned a second point: "Also, you discovered that we had magical items bound to us, but you didn't dwell on it or feel frustrated. Once you realized you couldn't take them, you immediately gave up."
This suggests that these magical items weren't actually that valuable to Zhu Ri. Although it's unclear why she would target the three cubs, it probably wasn't for money.
Yu Xunge didn't explain her meaning too clearly, but she believed that Zhu Ri would understand.
Zhu Ri understood everything. She laughed and praised him generously: "Very good, he's definitely not a fool."
After saying that, she raised her chin with a happy expression: "Let's eat. After we eat, I'll take you to your second class."
"What class??"
"Etiquette, performance, disguise, reconnaissance, infiltration."
"Is this a class?!"
"It is possible."
Yu Xunge had assumed it would be some kind of formal, systematic tutoring class, similar to the ones Qiu Guo had enrolled her in.
But Zhu Ri simply took her out of the city again and spent several days teaching her how to sneak, observe, imitate, and hide her whereabouts, etc. The cub was dizzy from learning.
On the afternoon of the fourth day, she brought the little oak owl to Zangar.
This was Yu Xunge's first time entering a real city. Although it wasn't a large main city like Draenor, Zangarmarsh was a real city, many times larger than Karadom.
But she wasn't given time to wander around and broaden her horizons. She wasn't that considerate. Less than two minutes after entering the city, she carried Little Oak to the vicinity of a three-story building.
The building was luxurious and exquisite. Through the windows, you could see people dressed in suits, who looked like successful people, coming and going.
As Yu Xunge was marveling at the variety of races she was seeing, she heard Zhu Ri tell her, "You will be hiding in this building for 21 days."
The little oak owl, its feet lifted at least a meter off the ground, stared wide-eyed: "Huh?"
"This building is a not-so-important office with a total of 51 employees, most of whom are branches of noble families or fallen nobles. There are no powerful figures in it."
After a brief introduction, Zhu Ri put down Xun Ge and returned her tattered spatial backpack: "There are three days' worth of food in here. You'll have to find a way to get the rest yourself."
He tossed her a blue diamond earring: "This magical item has a skill called [Stealth], which allows you to enter an invisible state when you have no magic. Each use allows you to remain invisible for 2 minutes, with a 10-minute cooldown. It will consume your stamina."
Yu Xunge took the earring. She couldn't see anything special about it, but as Zhu Ri spoke about the skill, she could clearly sense the [Stealth] ability within the earring.
Just like what Zhu Ri said, each use consumes 1% of your health instead of stamina.
She dared not be careless, and directly pierced the earring onto her earlobe, wiping away the blood without changing her expression.
Finally, Zhu Ri took out a mask, showed it to her apprentice, and then put it away. She said, "This magical item can transform you into the appearance of one of the creatures in this building, but I won't tell you who this mask will make you into right now."
"I will find you in 21 days and put a mask on you. You will then work and live in this building with your new identity for the entire day without being discovered by anyone."
"If discovered, the best outcome would be immediate execution; the worst would probably be being sold to a garbage dump, which is not much better than the gladiatorial arena."
"If it's the former, I'll help you collect your body; if it's the latter, I'll visit you when I'm in a good mood."
Every day, he bent down, smilingly patted the apprentice's head twice, admiring the serious and earnest look on the apprentice's face.
Yu Xunge had already realized the difficulty of this lesson.
The daily tasks are full of randomness, which means that she has to observe, learn and imitate the words, actions and habits of every living being in the building, and understand and remember the information of every living being.
She now understood why this lesson still involved etiquette...
Because the creatures walking in the small building, even a minotaur, all looked very refined; they were all nobles. And as I imitated and observed them, I was taking a lesson in etiquette.
In addition, she only has enough food for three days, and she has to take care of her most basic needs of eating, drinking and relieving herself without alerting anyone.
The young apprentice's face grew increasingly bitter.
I'm starting to understand why the old lady liked to mess around with herself back then; it was indeed quite amusing.
"Don't say I won't help you. I'll take you in after dark."
"Oh my god, this has really helped me a lot."
"Are you being sarcastic?"
No! Absolutely not!
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That night, Yu Xunge was once again lifted more than a meter off the ground and carried by Zhu Ri into the air. She whispered, "I can actually fly by myself."
Zhu Ri clicked his tongue impatiently, but still explained, "I used a stealth skill. You can only enjoy the effect of the skill if you come into contact with me."
Yu Xunge obediently shut his mouth.
At the top of the small building, near the chimney, the young apprentice craned her neck to look down. She couldn't help but ask her teacher, "If I get arrested, what should I say when they ask me if I have any accomplices?"
He looked at her with a half-smile: "What do you want to say?"
Yu Xunge: "Do you have any enemies? How about I tell you their names?"
Yu Xunge's response was a kick to the butt; she was kicked straight down the chimney.
The moment she fell, Yu Xunge regained her balance and looked up.
She didn't know how she felt; she just flew up to the middle of the chimney and looked at the square chimney opening in the sky above.
She waited and waited, and a long time passed until the moon occupied that part of the night sky, but the elf's sour face, as if someone owed her millions of gold coins, never appeared.
That damned elf walked away without looking back.
Yu Xunge pursed her lips and flew downwards.
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