Chapter 770 The Gods' Game: Card Swapping 14
On the rooftop opposite the small building, an elf sat on the edge of the eaves, her two long legs dangling in the air and swaying back and forth.
"She looks a lot like you when you were little, but she's much cuter than you."
As the aged voice spoke, a dwarf emerged from the shadows behind the elf.
The dwarf, who appeared to be about the same height as the elf's calves, with her full head of silver hair styled in a beautiful bun, questioned, "Was that the apprentice you chose for me before?"
Zhu Ri smirked unhappily: "What do you mean 'your apprentice'? This is my apprentice. I'm still looking for your apprentice."
The dwarf raised his foot to kick the elf, who dodged it. The dwarf said, "Didn't you send me a message saying you found three cubs with excellent potential and I could choose whichever I wanted? Where are those three cubs?"
He pretended to be dead and remained silent day after day.
The dwarf sneered, "I can make Monbas stop cooperating with the little games you've arranged for your apprentices with just one word."
Knowing his teacher's personality well, Zhu Ri stopped wasting words: "...Say it, what do you want?"
Dwarf: "Your apprentice is quite good, give him to me."
Zhu Ri was neither angry nor impatient: "If you have the ability to make her betray me and become your apprentice, then she is yours."
Dwarf: "Sure, you don't mind if I make your little game a bit more difficult, do you?"
"She's not even your apprentice yet!" Zhu Ri was truly offended this time. She said seriously, "You can't interfere with the teaching plan I devised for her so early... No, didn't you interfere in the arena too?"
The dwarf didn't refute, but suddenly, like a truly elderly person, stared blankly at a certain spot with cloudy eyes. She tilted her ear slightly and asked, "Huh? What did you say?"
day by day:"……"
She began to complain irritably about the dwarf; this elf could be terrifyingly talkative at times…
The dwarf rubbed his ears with a pained expression, endured it for five minutes, but couldn't take it anymore.
She said, "You made me lose my favorite apprentice, you have to compensate me with one."
The intense and vibrant emotions she felt earlier receded like the tide, leaving her unsure how to respond to the statement. So she simply stared blankly into space.
Rather than indifference and resistance, it's more accurate to describe it as helplessness.
Seeing her in such a wretched state, the dwarf couldn't help but kick Sun Chaser before taking a step back and disappearing into the shadows.
...
On the first morning of the trial, Yu Xunge hardly dared to change her position. She hid in the small locker and observed the occasional employees passing by outside through the gaps.
The light wings that illuminated her at night became a drawback during the day.
These wings are so eye-catching; whether it's day or night, they resemble flowing flames, and even a casual glance will quickly grab someone's attention.
The thought of having to observe and collect information from at least two employees every day, and to learn their every move, made Yu Xunge anxious.
It wasn't until the next day, after Yu Xunge had figured out the general work scope and behavior patterns of these employees, that she began to step out of the lockers. She kept changing positions to observe the etiquette and behavior of each employee and to eavesdrop on their conversations.
She soon realized how naive her plan to observe two people each day had been.
Constantly changing locations to track two employees is too difficult and would also cause you to miss information about other employees.
The best approach is to divide the building into sections, then systematically observe each employee in each section, extract various information from their conversations, and then summarize and organize it.
To this end, Yu Xunge even picked up a few pieces of paper and pens that had been thrown into the trash can to record and correct mistakes.
When it's late at night and everyone is quiet, she still practices and corrects the etiquette she has learned in front of the bathroom mirror over and over again.
Posture, walking posture, speaking speed and tone, word choice and sentence structure, etc...
This process was extremely difficult.
When she came out of the arena, whenever she stopped and stood still, she would turn slightly to the side, gripping a dagger in her right hand, always on guard, as if she might suddenly attack someone at any moment.
However, learning those aristocratic etiquette rules is like shattering and rebuilding the person you were last month.
She needs to learn to be relaxed, graceful, and at ease.
She could feel herself changing every day in the mirror.
Unlike when she spent 40 minutes daydreaming during 45-minute classes at school, she now has a strong sense of self-management and teaches herself until 1 or 2 a.m. every day before going to sleep.
She's only been in this world for less than three months, but she can already forget what she looked like when she was still on Earth...
After finishing her etiquette lesson, she would take a cold shower to wash away the sweat from the day's tension and hiding in the cramped space, so as not to give herself away because of her body odor.
Clothes are difficult to dry. Zangar is located south of Astrana, and spring is very humid. Even the innermost layers of clothing will only be half-dry overnight, leaving a damp smell.
The nobles had incredibly keen senses; by the third day, they noticed something was wrong and asked each other if something had gone bad.
Xiao Yu Xun Ge gritted her teeth, thinking to herself, "These nobles can be really mean sometimes."
Fortunately, the spice recipe that Mistblade taught her back then helped her a lot. The ingredients were not complicated. The key to this recipe was the special production method. After finding some substitute materials, she made the spices overnight and carried them with her, thus solving the problem.
Food is the biggest problem. The people in this building are too picky. They only eat fresh food every day, so she has no way to find their food storage in the middle of the night. Besides, near the end of the workday, goblins will come to collect all the scraps and garbage.
She can only act during the day. She targets 8 to 9 people each day, stealing a little food from each target to maintain her sustenance and keep up with the consumption of her stealth skill.
Moreover, after stealing once, she wouldn't target the same person again for at least five days.
She tried hard to recall everything that had taught her each day.
Zhu Ri had a bad temper, and as she said, she only ever said things once.
Yu Xunge didn't understand much of it, so she could only force herself to memorize it and then recall it again and again, trying to figure out the logic and reasons behind it.
However, something unusual happened recently.
In this building, a noblewoman named Hill is being deceived by another noblewoman.
It's about trading a skill book.
Judging from their words, Hill's family agreed to this expensive deal entirely for Hill's sake. If they discovered that they had spent a lot of resources to buy counterfeit goods, Hill would be exiled to a place like Caladom.
When Margot delivered the news in a sarcastic tone, Yu Xunge, hiding in the chimney, silently crushed the cookie in her hand.
What is a place like Karadom?
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