But unlike Ailiya, Saifei'er found this place quite ordinary; after all, in her previous life, what grand scenes hadn't she witnessed? Just a common market, a piece of cake!
However, the overly noisy environment made Saifei'er's ears droop, to reduce her hearing, otherwise, it was simply too loud, making her head throb.
Although there were many pedestrians on the road, it was almost shoulder to shoulder, and logically, people bumping into each other should be very normal.
But Saifei'er was as agile as a loach; whenever someone was about to touch her, she would skillfully dodge with a minimal movement. Although these passersby weren't intentional, a brush or a bump was nothing, but she just didn't want strangers to touch her.
In contrast, in just a short while, Ailiya had already ‘elbowed’ several people consecutively.
The cause was someone accidentally bumped into her, and Ailiya instinctively immediately stepped back and said ‘sorry’, but as she stepped back, she bumped into another person.
Then she apologized again, and as a result, she elbowed a passerby to her side.
Don't let Ailiya's slender arms and legs fool you; she was quite strong, and the person she elbowed immediately showed an expression like a pain mask.
However, these passersby were also quite good-natured. After seeing that Ailiya wasn't intentional, they all covered their stomachs and waved their hands, forcing themselves to say, “It's fine, it's fine.”
Saifei'er was speechless and quickly pulled Ailiya's arm, leaving this troublesome place.
The two walked and looked around like this. After a while of shopping, Saifei'er bought a single-shoulder bag, as well as some personal daily necessities: a comb, a towel, soap, and some chewing grass. The price wasn't expensive; it only cost her five silver lions in total.
Just when Saifei'er thought she was almost done, she suddenly smelled a fragrance. Turning her head, she saw a row of stalls selling various snacks. Her eyes instantly lit up, and she pulled Ailiya towards the snacks, “Ailiya, let’s go check that out!”
For Saifei'er, the biggest regret since coming to this world was definitely ‘not being able to eat the delicacies of her previous life’. Eating white bread and dried meat every day, she was almost sick of it. Now that she finally saw something new, how could she not be excited?
A moment later, Saifei'er held a string of ‘roasted eggs’ in her left hand, a ‘freshly roasted chicken leg’ in her right hand, and even had a ‘special fruit’ wrapped in her tail.
These things were still far inferior to the delicacies of her previous life, but compared to the white bread she had eaten for five consecutive days before, they were definitely many times more delicious.
Saifei'er took a big bite of the chicken leg, her cheeks slightly puffed out like a hamster. She squinted her eyes, showing a very happy expression, looking extremely cute.
Saifei'er thus pulled Ailiya and strolled around this snack street, buying almost all the delicacies until she was so full that she couldn't eat anymore.
She stroked her small belly with one hand, her tail wagging gently behind her, looking incredibly happy.
‘So, Sister Saifei'er likes to eat these things?’ Ailiya, who was beside her, silently made a mental note. She hadn't bought anything along the way, watching Saifei'er eat the entire time, mainly because the prices of these foods were not cheap.
Saifei'er spent only five silver lions buying a pile of daily necessities, but she spent nearly one gold dragon buying a round of snacks. For Ailiya, instead of satisfying her momentary craving, it was better to use the money elsewhere.
Of course, Saifei'er didn't think so much. After she had eaten and drunk her fill, the two returned to the Adventurers' Guild. Time slowly passed, and as night fell, Saifei'er was ready to officially act.
She told Ailiya that she was going out for a bit but didn't state the reason, and Ailiya didn't ask. She simply left the Adventurers' Guild.
As the de facto owners of Stone Pine City, the Brown were certainly very famous in this place. By casually asking a passerby during the day, Saifei'er learned the location of the current Viscount, the Brown Patriarch, Aleksei Brown, who was the biological father of the previous employer, Pike Brown.
Saifei'er lightly leaped onto the rooftop opposite the Adventurers' Guild. Her body leaned forward, her tail straightened, her long cat tail almost forming a straight line with her back, and she sprinted in a posture that was almost tilting forward.
In less than two minutes, Saifei'er had traversed most of the city's distance and arrived near a luxurious mansion.
The place was surrounded by a nearly three-meter-high fence. With a quick glance, she saw at least six people on patrol. These people were in pairs, carrying kerosene lamps. Saifei'er twitched her cat ears and heard them talking.
However, it was all just idle chatter with no substance, ranging from ‘Is the Viscount's administrative order a bit too harsh?’ to ‘What are we eating for breakfast tomorrow?’, with an extremely wide conversational span.
As one patrol team left and the next had not yet arrived, Saifei'er stealthily approached the edge of a fence, lightly leaped, and flipped inside.
This mansion had four floors, and she certainly couldn't use the main entrance. Saifei'er went to the side of the house, looked up at the wall in front of her, and flexed her fingers.
In her previous life, in a certain well-known Ubisoft IP, the Assassin's Creed series, the protagonist could climb by using minor irregularities on buildings. In reality, a few parkour and rock-climbing experts could do similar things. Although she hadn't tried it, it should be fine, right?
With a light running jump, Saifei'er directly reached the window ledge of the second floor, supporting her entire body weight with just ten fingers.
Then her toes lightly pushed off the wall, and her hands also exerted force, allowing her to jump more than three meters higher on the almost flat vertical wall, hanging onto the window ledge of the third floor.
She repeated this until she reached the window on the fourth floor. Saifei'er first poked her small head inside to look. It was pitch black inside, but with her cat's eyes, she could still clearly see the room's layout. This seemed to be a study.
After confirming no one was there, she slowly opened the window. Obviously, no one would be bored enough to lock the fourth-floor window. She thus easily entered the mansion.
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Her golden high heels landed on the ground without making any sound. Saifei'er first walked around the study, picked up the kerosene lamp on the desk to examine it, and then tried to see if any books on the bookshelf could be pressed in. As she randomly fiddled, with a ‘click’, one book was indeed pressed in by her.
Immediately after, the bookshelf in front of her slowly moved a distance to the right, revealing an entrance just wide enough for one person to pass through.
Saifei'er was stunned, “Ah… huh?! There really is a secret room!”
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