It was as if I had stumbled into the lair of a legendary dragon.
Countless gold and silver jewels and luxurious utensils were haphazardly piled up everywhere, along with various rare alchemical materials that were hard to find elsewhere, which were like idle garbage, almost completely blocking any passageways where people could walk.
More importantly, I did not sense the presence of any personnel stationed nearby, nor did I detect any hidden spells used for inspection or warning.
In other words, such an important place was left unattended and unsupervised!
That guy who left his valuables here must be way too confident in the security of this place!
I stood frozen in place, and I could feel the fledgling bird, which had been quietly perched on my shoulder, being startled for a moment. It spread its wings and circled the room once before finally burying its head in the hood, peeking out with only its little head sticking out, looking out with some curiosity.
Alice, however, suddenly brightened up and took a few quick steps, leaping directly into the sea of colorful luxury, exclaiming in amazement with great delight.
"Master, master~"
She buried herself in the pile of gold coins and struggled for a while, then suddenly looked up at me and said, "Why don't we empty this place out?"
Isn't this a bit inappropriate?
"No! This is a time when we shouldn't be thinking about ethical and moral issues!"
Alice retorted softly, "Besides, even from an ethical and moral standpoint, we should have the upper hand!"
"Even if I have no idea how these valuables were piled up here, from any perspective, they could only belong to those guys who don't care about the lives of ordinary people! Ordinary people would hardly even know that they put things here, let alone put them here, okay?"
"We're taking these things away now to take responsibility for them!"
...What kind of nonsense and twisted logic is this?
My speechlessness was obvious. The usually calm Fuyuki seemed to be pressing her forehead and shaking her head repeatedly, as if she had a headache.
Alice popped out of the pile of treasure with a gurgle and jumped over to put her arm around our shoulders: "You think about it, if no one is watching over these things, then they are ownerless, right? We just happened to be passing by and felt it was too inappropriate to let these things be left to waste here, so it's okay for us to take them, right?"
"Furthermore, the reason these things are stored here is likely because those arrogant fellows in the inner city arbitrarily exploited the residents they deem unworthy of being part of the Frozen Snow Capital. By taking them away now, we are effectively cutting off their financial lifeline. We can even secretly convert these resources into essential necessities for the residents, making their lives a little better, enabling them to become independent and self-reliant, and preventing them from having to sell themselves and their descendants' entire lives for simple medical treatment..."
"Isn't this a win-win situation for number one, two, three, four, and five?!"
Uh... this twisted logic suddenly makes sense.
Shen Xue showed obvious interest.
"Moreover, I can ask Little Lena to make many useful things for my master from those rare materials! Or I can exchange them for other items necessary for experiments!"
Great, she convinced me too.
“But there’s just too much stuff here. I don’t have that much space in my pocket.” I looked around at the amount of valuables in the room, roughly calculated their volume, and shook my head. “Plus, I already brought a lot of things with me when I left. I don’t know how much of this I can actually take.”
"This is easy, this is easy."
Alice snapped her fingers with a smile, then suddenly took off her cloak and reached out to pull open her clothes.
Her snow-white skin was almost spilling out, and I quickly tried to stop her: "What are you doing?"
The sly rabbit blinked and grinned slyly. "What else can I do? Of course, I'll pack things up! This little bit is a piece of cake for me~" she said, waving at me and Miyuki and pushing us back to the entrance of the room. "Hurry up and get out of here, remember to close the door."
A sudden realization dawned on him: this guy was going to use the same trick he'd used when he took Annie with him down the shaft in the stalactite cave.
Only then did I belatedly recall that lingering question that I had long forgotten:
Shouldn't Alice be a knight who has mastered the ultimate martial art, known as the power of a sword saint? Why does she use abilities that are similar to, but not entirely the same as, a mage's spells?
Then another lingering worry emerged:
Despite Alice's confident demeanor, could she really carry so many things, far exceeding her size? Wouldn't it put too much strain on her body?
The door closed in front of us, and Shenxue and I looked at each other in silence for a while. Soon, we saw the closed door open again in front of us.
Alice, who was tidying her clothes, walked briskly outside. The once brightly lit and overflowing room was now completely empty, without a speck of dust. The only puzzling thing was that the rabbit's belly was abnormally swollen, forming a hemispherical shape, and it was rubbing itself up and down like someone who had eaten too much.
I looked her up and down hesitantly, but couldn't sense anything wrong. In the end, I could only turn to look at Miyuki, wondering if this female swordsman, who had been learning techniques from that rascal rabbit recently, had any insights: "What... is wrong with her?"
Miyuki rolled her eyes silently, quickly walked past Alice, and headed deeper into the room.
"Oh dear, what else could it be?"
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