Imperial Treasure

From here, it can be deduced that Pi Lu’s thieves guild isn’t particularly powerful; it can’t crush the Guard and can only be counted as part of the lower strata of collusion between officials and merchants. The merchant group is powerless to resist and dares not protest.

"Let’s go."

Ye Zixu takes care of matters without needing worry. Sui Yi casually manipulated a little bird in the park to fly over to Ye Zixu to act as a cell phone for contact, and then the three departed directly.

The sky was already getting dark; Rome couldn’t be built in a day. Sui Yi, with a hundred Spirit Currency on him, rented a small attic in the northern residential area of the 13th Administrative District.

"Hey, ladies, come and take a look. Although this place is remote, it’s peaceful! Judging by your demeanor and silence, you surely appreciate quiet places, and this is just right. Besides, the decor is quite nice... There are tables, chairs, beds, and five rooms inside, enough for you to sleep..."

A lady with a string of bells on her waist walked with vigor, introducing the cramped little yard and messy walls with a powerful aura as if pointing to rivers and mountains, but when she met Sui Yi’s gaze, she immediately became somewhat sheepish, removed a bell from her waist, shook it, heard its crisp ring, and then placed it on the door.

With a click, the door lock opened.

As the door opened, the dust surged forward...

"Hey, see, not bad, right? Puff puff, this dust isn’t too much, pfft pfft; once you get used to it, it won’t be an issue. You can clean it up yourselves... If you want, I can have someone bring over a few beds of cotton quilts. To be honest, in District Thirteen, renting a house, you’ll find mine to be the cheapest and most affordable. Look over there at the row of dwellings, each costing twenty Spirit Currency a night; mine requires only one day of real value...."

"Ten days, a hundred."

Sui Yi looked at her calmly.

The lady’s mouth twitched, seeming to want to curse, but when she met Sui Yi’s eyes...

She instinctively touched her arm: "Oh, well then, that’s wonderful, so it’s settled! I’ll have someone bring over the bedding in a moment, four beds, right..."

The lady left.

Pu Qinghan couldn’t help but laugh: "Using witchcraft to beguile people’s hearts, just to save fifty Spirit Currency; if those enemies of yours were to find out...."

Yi also smiled.

The typically unparalleled High Priest bargaining so fiercely is quite rare....

"But wasn’t it quite successful?"

But that’s because you directly used witchcraft to beguile them.

"There’s so much dust, do us the favor and use witchcraft to clean up," Pu Qinghan teased.

Sui Yi calmly responded with a tease: "Your wings can do that with a flap..."

Get lost!

Pu Qinghan, flustered and annoyed, smacked Sui Yi, who dodged; however, Nine Tails jumped out and cast a mental spell...

One person and one fox joined forces to try to subdue Sui Yi, while Yi quietly blocked Sui Yi’s path with a dagger...

——Is Gu Sansi sure they’re helpers for Sui Yi? It seems they’re out to undermine Sui Yi!

However, even though two people and a fox joined forces, they couldn’t stop Sui Yi in the slightest, and ultimately had to give up. Pu Qinghan pushed open a window and saw a flying reindeer outside. Behind it, neatly stacked on a small carriage were some quilts. The little dwarf driving navigated the reindeer to the window.

"Four quilts, hand them over and sign your name."

The little dwarf handed over a booklet, which Pu Qinghan gave to Sui Yi.

Sui Yi picked up the pen and casually wrote a word.

——Sui.

The quilts were handed in, and the little dwarf departed.

"I just thought... Santa Claus, what an interesting notion."

Pu Qinghan leaned against the window with a smile, touched the quilt, but frowned; the texture wasn’t that great.

Oh well, make do.

Sui Yi flicked his fingertips, pressing out a few calligraphic symbols; instantly, the attic’s dust swirled into small whirlwinds, gathered together, and settled into the corner of the yard, pressed into the soil.

The room was spotlessly clean, instantly elevating the place from shabby to retro.

"It’s only for ten days, it’s fine to live here casually."

In such a large nation with a highly concentrated population, regardless of effective or ineffective supervision, wandering outside is always risky.

Fortunately, none of them were picky people. Renting and living here, only Pu Qinghan slightly smiled, and with a twist of her fingertip, released wisps of purple aura from the window, which descended upon the chaotic and withered flowers and plants in the yard....

Then they bloomed, brimming with vitality, which Pu Qinghan casually shaped through her will, and the yard instantly appeared elegant and graceful.

"When I can afford not to be casual, I won’t be, at least to take good care of Mr. Sui."

Pu Qinghan’s words made Sui Yi smile: "There’s a market in the southeastern direction of this residence. Let’s go buy some ingredients... If we order from a restaurant, fifty Spirit Currency won’t cover our meals for a few days."

Upon arrival, they’d already sensed that the spatial factor in this world was quite different, the energy and physical strength consumption were higher. Put simply, it meant more consumption. Perhaps the masters of this world were accustomed to it, but Sui Yi and others came from the Outer Region and from the lowest tier of Earth, making this stark contrast quite evident—for instance, Void-breaking who typically hardly needed to eat now felt hunger.

The gap was so apparent it made them somewhat uncomfortable, but when in Rome, the Void-breaking of this world probably couldn’t escape the appetite for food either.

But just as Sui Yi suggested it, Ye Zixu returned.

Carrying several large bags of stuff in her hands.

Everything to eat, drink, use... even some daily products for women were all packed in there.

Ye Zixu put the items on the table and then took out some bills from his chest.

"That person gave ten thousand Spirit Currency as a reward. I bought some stuff, and this is the leftover money..."

Then he picked up a bag of ingredients and another clay pot by himself.

"I’m going to the kitchen to prepare something. Can we have hot pot later?"

What can I say, the thoughts of the three women present were perfectly aligned—having a good buddy was necessary for home and travel. (I personally really like Ye Zixu’s character setting, haha, a quiet, considerate, handsome man, cold outside but warm inside.)

Half an hour later, four chairs around a table, with four people sitting on the loft balcony having hot pot. Of course, this world doesn’t have hot pot seasoning...

But Sui Yi and the others did.

Because Ye Zixu had bought some condiments from the market and mixed them himself.

"You even know how to make hot pot seasoning?" Pu Qinghan was surprised, knowing that Ye Zixu wasn’t someone from an ordinary background; he belonged to the Sect and had a cold and indifferent personality. It seemed unlikely for him to research such things, right?

"I prepared a book on this before coming. You can say what you want to eat. It’s not difficult at all."

Ye Zixu put the book on the table. Wow, it was thicker than the Oxford Dictionary.

——"Essence of Eastern and Western Cuisine"

It’s even the essence version.

Obviously, Ye Zixu saw himself as someone who had to take good care of the three girls’ clothing, food, shelter, and transportation.

Of course, the three girls present felt a bit embarrassed about how Ye Zixu could make such authentic hot pot seasoning by just glancing at a book.

Sui Yi: "I now feel that bringing Zixu was the most correct decision... compared to the two next to me..."

Pu Qinghan and Yi: "..."

Is it really okay to say this in front of us?

However, what else can be said? Sharing a hot pot while out and about together is indeed the best way to deepen friendships. Pu Qinghan and Yi didn’t know Ye Zixu well before, but after eating the hot pot he made and dipping the sauce he prepared, their friendship blossomed. They ate and drank like college classmates...

While eating, the four people with good hearing heard swallowing sounds.

Sui Yi turned his head to look and saw a girl with a watermelon haircut on the balcony of the small loft next door. Both of her feet were on tiptoe on the floor, and both hands were grabbing the railing, staring intently at the hot pot on the table... Her mouth was almost on the railing....

That gaze was so green...

Well, her eyes were indeed green, her hair was reddish-brown, and she wasn’t very tall, just over 1.5 meters. She looked very delicate, but with pointy ears and a pointy nose, it was obvious she wasn’t of the Human Race.

Seeing Sui Yi and the other three looking over, she was startled, shrank back into the house, and the door clicked shut.

"A Foreign Race?"

"Probably, her aura doesn’t resemble that of the Human Race."

However, with so many races even on Earth, not to mention the Dragon Ape World, Sui Yi and the others didn’t care much about it.

It was only the next day when Sui Yi woke up early to go to the market that he happened to see the girl selling vegetables. Sui Yi was surprised. The other party was also surprised to see Sui Yi, but she was very shy and instinctively avoided eye contact.

"Hello"

Sui Yi walked to her stall and saw that the ingredients were still very fresh, but the prices were very low. Strangely, there weren’t many buyers—

Shouldn’t there be many people buying them?

Sui Yi picked quite a few vegetables and handed over three Spirit Currency. The girl seemed even more surprised and a bit wary: "You want to buy?"

"Yes" Sui Yi placed the three Spirit Currency on the table.

However, he heard many vendors and customers shouting nearby.

"Miss, don’t buy her stuff. Green-eyed Goblins are ominous! You’ll be poisoned eating her vegetables!"

"That’s right, this Little Fairy is shameless, even daring to sell vegetables here! If it weren’t for the regulations against discrimination and exclusion between races, we would’ve beaten this Little Fairy to death already!"

The insults were endless. The Little Fairy gritted her teeth, revealing two sharp little canine teeth, which incited even more curses from many people.

The girl said nothing, packed up her things and was about to leave.

However...

"Do you still want to buy?"

She returned the three Spirit Currency.

Sui Yi put the vegetables into the basket, smiling slightly. The Little Fairy glared, stubbornly saying, "This is what you wanted to give me, I didn’t force you. It’s a fair trade, even if you’re poisoned, it’s not my fault."

Then she left....

Sui Yi watched her back thoughtfully, surrounded by people’s insults and the suggestion to throw away the ingredients and buy fresh ones from them....

Sui Yi glanced at these people, then went to another area to buy some meat.