Sneaking into the palace was surprisingly easier than expected.

During the short few days of working, Igula and others not only measured the terrain of Nabistine on site, but also discovered a very important point: all the staff were substitutes for Gospel.

Even though some of the workers are not underground people, but respectable Nabistin people living in surface cities, they are also "gospel employees" and their service is all about technique, without a trace of emotion.

It can be boldly inferred that the servants in the palace should also be 100% automated. Although there are possibilities full of traditional dregs such as "real people's service is more noble", "service to the royal family is not allowed to be entrusted", and "being a dog for Yisu must be cherished", this crude plan is a risky gamble. With such uncertainties, we can only bet that the Yisu royal family is not so feudal.

Apparently, Annan won the bet. At the palace dinner hosted by the royal family, all the servants were "gospel employees". The Yisu royal family really embraced modernization. However, the palace servants were not recruited part-time from the underground city. They were all the main jobs of the local natives of Nabistin. People like Yaxiu could only sweep the streets of Nabistin, and the ground of the palace was an exclusive contract area for the upper class.

But there is a problem here: all "gospel employees" are assigned specific jobs through the gospel, and the palace does not interfere in personnel arrangements.

This was a huge loophole that allowed the purple moth to easily slip through - don't forget, more than a month ago, An Nan was the head of an office specializing in blaspheming the gospel!

The specific operation is actually very complicated. According to Yaxiu's simple understanding, An Nan swapped their shifts with those of the palace servants. The palace servants replaced them to sweep the streets, and they replaced the palace servants to attend the palace dinner!

When An Nan put his arm around his shoulder and boasted about how cleverly and brilliantly she had completed this crucial step, Ash suddenly had a strange idea -

Now An Nan can exchange their jobs. If the 'Gospel Employees' system is further expanded to the level of 'Gospel Life', then wouldn't An Nan be able to exchange their lives?

Of course, Ash didn't have a problem with Annan. When Annan asked him for credit, he even high-fived Annan. And Ash's idea was just empty talk. After all, even the "Gospel Employee" system was limited to Nabisteen, and it had not yet allowed the people of the country to enjoy the fun of "automated work", let alone the further "Gospel Life".

He was simply terrified of the possibilities.

As for how the funeral staff could get out of the state of being "gospel employees", it was actually much simpler.

Because the "Gospel Employees" are not in a managed state throughout the entire process. After all, there will always be unexpected accidents that even Gospel cannot solve - for example, in Belldette Happy World, if a staff member is asked by a child where the bathroom is, he or she can answer instantly, but if a child asks questions like "How do I get to my sister's heart?" or "Can you accompany me to the ** swing?", Gospel will not take over, but switch the employee status to manual service and let the employee handle it themselves.

An Nan spent some Gospel points to make Gospel mistakenly believe that they had encountered a very difficult guest, so the work status of the funeral staff was locked in manual service, and they were naturally able to maintain their self-awareness.

After a simple make-up disguise, Ash and the others entered the palace openly, which was easier and safer than any previous infiltration. There was no elf leader with a red hat coming to beat them up, nor was there a blue-haired rich woman with a blue beard coming to force them to work. It was as smooth as entering the next neighborhood.

Exchanging tasks, switching states... Although Annan spent different costs to exploit these two loopholes, the core idea is the same: follow the rules of the gospel, use the rules of the gospel, and satisfy the rules of the gospel.

"It's not that hard to deceive Gospel," Annan once whispered to Yaxiu about her work secret: "It's a lot like you. As long as its needs are met, it will just lie down and let us play with it."

At that time, Ash couldn't tell whether Annan was being insulting, flirting, or serious.

Although An Nan had perfected every detail of the plan as much as possible, mistakes were inevitable when it came to actual action.

They couldn't leave.

To be more precise, they cannot leave their posts without permission and must faithfully perform their duties as servants while on duty.

According to the original plan, they should have invaded the princess's boudoir immediately after sneaking into the palace and tried to return to the hotel to celebrate before dinner. However, they have been staying in the banquet hall until now to provide manual services to the guests.

The reason is simple. Gospel does not allow employees to slack off. Although Gospel allows them to switch back to manual service, it does not mean that Gospel will really give them back their freedom - even the boss will come to the office from time to time to monitor whether you are working hard enough. How can Gospel, which can monitor the whole country, watch its direct employees leave their posts?

When An Nan and his friends chose to work part-time through Ark Plaza, they had a contractual relationship with Gospel. Even if it was a part-time job, there was a detailed labor contract. Under the constraints of the contract, they could not do anything unrelated to work.

Here we need to briefly explain what the "cannot" of the contract is - it is not an indirect coercion of the contractor through mental suggestion, electrical stimulation, intimidation, etc. It is very direct. The specific feeling is like when you are holding your urine, when you realize that you will urinate if you move again, you will immediately tighten your sphincter and dare not and "cannot" move.

When Ash tries to slack off, all the nerve signals in his body will send out warning signals, physiologically preventing Ash from taking further action until Ash returns to his post.

Because this is an area of ​​deep flesh and blood that only the weak factions would delve into, Igula, Harvey, Annan and others all said they were powerless to do anything about it.

However, just in case, An Nan arranged very easy jobs for them. As long as they were a little smart, they could pretend to be normal employees. For example, Ash, the 'cake waiter' - who would eat cake in an occasion like this!

So when Ash was dragged into the private bathroom by Qinna, he was still very confused: "How did you recognize me? Even if I was a little slow, you wouldn't immediately think it was me, right?"

Ash is not being cute, he is truly confident.

Not to mention that the "Distortion Mask" can distort any means of investigation, he also has the silver blessing "Observer's Appearance" that can reduce the sense of presence, the gold blessing "Listener's Sorrow" that reduces hostility, plus the "Mysterious Power" that makes him natural in any role...

In short, when you try to identify Ash, you have to go through four tests:

Did you use any magic to perform miracles?

Yes, the result was tampered with by the "distortion mask". No, next question;

Are you paying attention?

Not concentrating, "Observer's Appearance" makes you ignore Ash. Concentrating, next question;

Are you paying attention to him out of hostility or kindness?

If you have hostility, "Listener's Sorrow" will make your hostility disappear. If you have no hostility but only good intentions, next question;

Is his current behavior inconsistent with his status?

If they match, the "mysterious power" will make you feel that he is real. If they don't match, you will have a little doubt about him.

To be honest, Ash felt that he was almost impeccable in terms of lurking and disguising. No one could penetrate his four lines of defense. Not to mention the palace servants, even if he put on the queen's new clothes, everyone would only think that the new queen's eyebrows and eyes looked quite human!

The only loophole is that in the eyes of outsiders, Riasi is always wearing a mask. However, An Nan considerately arranges a position of cake waiter for him, so that the mask has enough reason to exist.

Qinna locked the bathroom door, opened the Gospel, clicked a few times, and said slowly: "Violet Iris."

"ah?"

"Violet iris, top note of lemon, middle note of violet, base note of cedar, but it is blended with An Nan's own body fragrance." Qinna glanced at him and said, "You are full of An Nan's perfume. I can smell it as soon as I get close to you."

"But it could also be Panji or Igula and the others—"

"Although you may not feel it, Panji himself has body odor. After all, he was the Echo who made it onto the Weaving List fifty years ago with his own beauty." Qinna looked in the mirror and adjusted her clothes: "As for the others... Annan's relationship with them is not good enough to stick the perfume on them, right? By the way, the top and middle notes are okay, but if you want to stick to the base notes, you can't do it without long-term close contact for more than ten hours."

Ash's face turned pale, and he quickly explained: "I haven't actually--"

"'Not yet'?" Qinna emphasized the word and said with a smile, "I'm not blaming you. What do you have to explain to me? But the word 'not yet' is used very cleverly. I can roughly guess how you have been spending the past few days."

Ash said awkwardly: "I'm just afraid that you will misunderstand..."

"Why are you afraid that I will misunderstand? Because I am An Nan's mother? Or..." Qinna took a step closer, and Ash was instantly forced to the wall: "...Are you worried about your image in my mind?"

The spirit's breath was already on his face, and Ash felt his whole body tense up, and he could no longer tell whether it was the contract that was restricting him or just pure nervousness. He wanted to slip away, but now he was a servant and Qinna was a guest. As long as Qinna was willing, she could pull him into any room in the name of "service"; and Qinna had blocked all his routes.

"This is different from what happened at the Sennheiser Building, and it's also different from what happened at the Beldate Manor." The elf's voice penetrated his ears like a tentacle: "There's only you and me here, no one else, and I just set up a silent barrier, which means no one will know what happens."

"So……"

Ash's heart couldn't stop pounding. He watched Qinna put her right hand gently on his neck, leaned over and whispered in his ear:

"Tell me your plans."