Chapter 117: Sharing Accommodation

Xiao Fen had no idea there was so much gossip in the courtyard; he had always been indifferent to such things. Frankly speaking, apart from his parents, he was very distant from everyone else in the courtyard.

It sounded very funny. In the Trial World, Xiao Fen was willing to fight bravely for strangers, and he would feel sad and angry for a girl he did not know, but in the Real World, he was out of place with the people around him.

Although this out-of-place feeling was often caused by the people in this courtyard, who excluded Xiao Fen and secretly mocked him, after experiencing so many things, Xiao Fen also knew that this had something to do with his own indifferent personality.

However, now was not the time to think about personality. The two walked to the gate. Xiao Fen suddenly let go of Du Juan’s hand. What made Du Juan even more exasperated was that at this moment, Xiao Fen actually acted childishly, taking out a tissue himself to wipe his hands first, as if Du Juan’s hand was very dirty.

“Hey, that’s enough. I spoke up for you, and this is how you treat me?”

Du Juan said angrily, while stretching out her hand and saying, “Hand it over.”

“What?”

“Nonsense, the tissue.”

At this moment, no matter how slow Xiao Fen was, or how much he pretended to be slow, he would not really hand the used tissue to the blonde girl in front of him. A woman’s patience has a limit, not to mention that the girl in front of him was actually a ruthless girl.

Taking out a pack of tissue handkerchiefs from his pocket and throwing it to Du Juan, Xiao Fen turned his head to look at the bustling street and asked, “Where to next?”

Du Juan took out sunglasses from her handbag and put them on, saying, “To leave this city as quietly as possible, we must achieve a few things: bait, quick action, and strategy.”

Xiao Fen frowned and asked, “What do you mean?”

“It means I must stay in this city as bait, so that the other families of the Council of Elders do not know exactly what I am doing, but they must be careful about what I am doing, focusing all their attention on me, thereby allowing you to arrive at Fuyuan City unnoticed.”

Looking at Xiao Fen, Du Juan asked, “Understand? I need to drive my Aston Martin and wander around all the cities in this province so they don’t know my real purpose. As for you, you go to Fuyuan City first to conduct a secret survey. After determining the approximate range, come back here.”

“And then?”

“Then you draw out the range you think it is for me, and I will go to Fuyuan City to compare the ranges determined by the two of us. The overlapping area is the initial survey range. This is the first phase, and it is also the safest phase.”

“Is there a second phase?”

“Of course. Besides the third phase of actual excavation, you need to further determine the location of this Access Point with me. If possible, perform an access. As I said before, the more precise the positioning, the higher the reward you get.”

Xiao Fen nodded and said, “So, there is no problem with the first phase. The most difficult and dangerous part is the second phase.”

“Exactly. In the first phase, we only perform a rough scan. People from other families, especially the non-Huaxia Council of Elders families, may not know where our real target is at all. But by the second phase, everything will be revealed. It is impossible for other members of the Council of Elders not to know where we are. All secrecy will lose its meaning by then.”

Xiao Fen frowned and asked, “When everything is revealed, is it also the moment the dagger is revealed?”

“Correct understanding. In the second phase, we have at most 24 hours of undisturbed time. After this time, Fuyuan City will become a gathering place for wind and clouds. Not only from the Asia region, but Trialists from all over the world will arrive continuously, engaging in secret bloody battles there.”

Du Juan patted Xiao Fen’s shoulder and said, “There is only one standard to prevent this seemingly unnecessary slaughter.”

“Actual access?”

“Yes, actual access. The party that performs the actual access first is determined to be the family that found the Access Point first. By that time, all interest exchanges will immediately ease up. The major families of the Council of Elders will quarrel and exchange with each other for the remaining benefits. But at that stage, no matter how tense the Council of Elders is, there will be no fighting between the Trialists.”

Xiao Fen rubbed his eyebrows and whispered, “I am a novice at sensing Access Points.”

“It is precisely because you are a novice that I considered finding you first. Since novices have not learned those specific rules, their intuition is actually sharper. Do you know that among the Access Points dug up over so many years, half were found relying on intuition and half relying entirely on survey rules?”

“It sounds like those survey rules are meaningless.”

Du Juan shook her head and said, “When you have a lead, I mean, when you find a main Rhizome of Yggdrasil and dig up new Access Points along this main Rhizome, at that time, survey rules will play a huge role. But now, we don’t know which Rhizome of Yggdrasil the Access Point in Fuyuan City belongs to at all. Without a lead, in this situation, I prefer to trust a novice’s intuition.”

Xiao Fen nodded and said, “Alright, then I will go to the train station next. I hope I can help you.”

“No, you are coming with me next. Tonight, you must stay by my side, so that the people of the Council of Elders do not suspect anything because I suddenly appeared at your house and you immediately separated from me. Then tonight, you leave from the hotel, go to the Imperial Capital first. After you arrive there, submit your admission letter and handle the subsequent admission procedures.”

Xiao Fen shook his head slightly and said, “What a hassle.”

“The more hassle, the safer. The other families of the Council of Elders will let their guard down because of your enrollment. After enrolling, you can propose going home. On the way back, you get off halfway. Other families cannot waste satellite resources just to monitor a novice. In this way, you can arrive at Fuyuan City without anyone noticing and conduct the survey of the first phase.”

“Then I come back?”

“No, you must return to the place where you got off the train from Fuyuan City, and then take a later train back here. Moreover, you cannot go home; come back here directly and draw out your survey range. After that, do not leave this hotel until I come back and the second phase begins.”

“Sounds even more like a spy than a spy.”

“If you want to survive, and survive longer, Xiao Fen, maintaining enough vigilance and caution is your best choice. Remember, when you appear in Fuyuan City for the first time, try not to meet any acquaintances.”