Chapter 150
After Tu Lan finished dealing with the foreign creatures and flew a circle back to the entrance of the dungeon, she found Yu Xun Ge blindfolded, sniffing around.
Tu Lan transformed back to the size of a phone and quietly flew over, extending her dragon foot right in front of Yu Xun Ge's nose.
Yu Xun Ge suddenly yanked off her blindfold: “Did you step in strawberry ice cream last night and not wash your feet?!”
Tu Lan quickly retracted her dragon foot, using her little hands to bring it to her nose and sniff: “I cleaned it up! It smells so good~”
Yu Xun Ge could no longer hold back; this little ice dragon was even less clean than the cat in the backyard! She pulled out a pot, tossed in a few water balloons, and yanked Tu Lan over, tossing her into the pot to wash.
Tu Lan rolled around, crying out, “I don’t want to wash! I’m clean! This is my dragon aura; you’ve washed away my dragon aura!!!”
Yu Xun Ge snapped back, “Dragon aura my foot! Every time you finish in the bathroom, I tell you to wipe, and you don’t do it, do you?”
Tu Lan replied, “Didn’t you say a pound can sell for 7 silver? So if I wipe, that’s money gone! How can I wipe?”
Yu Xun Ge couldn’t take it anymore and gave Tu Lan a few swats on her backside: “I knew it! That’s why the pillow smells bad!” She thought she was just imagining things from collecting dragon droppings every day…
Tu Lan flailed around, trying to control her strength so she wouldn’t send Yu Xun Ge flying, angrily shouting, “But my hands can’t reach! I can’t wipe at all… You’re just making it hard for me! And maybe that smell is just you drooling in your sleep, matching the scent of dragon droppings!”
Yu Xun Ge: …
She remembered when this dragon first came home, she wasn’t this much of a troublemaker!
Back then, she adorably said, “I~ am~ Tu~ Lan~”…
And now?!
After giving the little ice dragon a good talking-to in the dungeon, Yu Xun Ge took the sniffling Tu Lan, who was howling without shedding tears, to the mall. Under her guidance, she bought ten tubs of every flavor of ice cream.
In return, Tu Lan promised to “definitely wipe after using the bathroom.”
For this, Yu Xun Ge had to place a wet towel next to the dragon’s toilet at home, so Tu Lan could clean herself after using it.
This was indeed her fault; she had only considered making the child wipe after using the bathroom without thinking about Tu Lan’s short arms…
Who told her to be so nimble with her wings that she overlooked the fact that her arms were short!
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**Chapter 193: “A Century-Old Brand” (Rare Item)**
On the 9th, calculating the time, it had been ten days since she went to Yuehu City to steal books.
She wanted to make a trip back to Zelan. Finding Hufflepuff for classes was a small matter; she needed to gather information about the Moon Fox and, at the same time, move her teleportation array to a location only she knew for peace of mind.
But before that, she could first ask Zhao Shuying about the situation in Zelan.
**[Yu Xun Ge]: Have the people captured in Zelan been rescued?**
**[Zhao Shuying]: If you’re planning to go to Zelan soon, you can wait a couple of days and go with our special affairs bureau team.**
**[Yu Xun Ge]: What’s going on? Are you forming a team again? Is it nationwide or just for S City?**
**[Zhao Shuying]: Of course, it’s our S City branch. We usually manage our own affairs.**
**[Zhao Shuying]: We’ve established a new base underwater in Zelan.**
**[Yu Xun Ge]: Underwater? Isn’t that the territory of the Sea Demon tribe? Isn’t their main city underwater?**
**[Zhao Shuying]: Near the underwater volcano. That area is a dead zone for Zelan, with no magical energy, making it a wasteland for foreign creatures. The Sea Demons won’t go there. The nearest main cities are two: one is the underwater city of Yas, and the other is the coastal city of Yuesen. Yuesen is about a two-hour trip; if you can breathe underwater, Yas is closer, just an hour’s swim.**
**[Yu Xun Ge]: The special affairs bureau is my most precious friend! ∠(°ゝ°)**
**[Zhao Shuying]: Are you paying for the travel expenses now or settling up later?**
**[Yu Xun Ge]: (°ゝ°)**
**[Zhao Shuying]: What do you mean? Are you not being polite?**
**[Yu Xun Ge]: ? I just scratched my head a bit; what do you mean by being polite?**
**[Zhao Shuying]: Haha, it’s free! Are you coming or not?**
**[Yu Xun Ge]: ∠(°ゝ°) Anytime, anywhere, I’m at your service!**
**[Zhao Shuying]: (°ゝ°)**
**[Yu Xun Ge]: How are you dealing with the sub-city lord of the Dark City, who can see a person’s memories from the last 30 days?**
**[Zhao Shuying]: For now, we have no way to deal with that. We’ve got a picture of the sub-city lord, so for now, we can only avoid him. Remember to check your phone later; I’ll send you his photo.**
**[Yu Xun Ge]: Oh, why don’t you just send resources by mail? Going back and forth seems risky.**
**[Zhao Shuying]: It’s obvious you’ve never worked a day in your life… When it comes to procuring and transporting valuable resources, everything has to be done face-to-face under supervision or with witnesses to confirm the handover.**
**[Yu Xun Ge]: You guys have stories.**
**[Zhao Shuying]: Just accidents.**
Now, those qualified to go to Zelan were all screened; half were spies gathering information, and the other half were responsible for procuring resources.
Yu Xun Ge was still the only lone wolf invited by Zhao Shuying from the special affairs bureau, so she could understand the bureau’s base in Zelan. In case she discovered any news about new bases in the future, she could catch on quickly.
Otherwise, if Yu Xun Ge learned about the underwater volcano but didn’t know there were people from the special affairs bureau there, and missed the chance to report, that would be a hell of a joke.
Since Zhao Shuying said to wait a few days, Yu Xun Ge decided to do just that. When the time came, she would check the situation there. If the area near the underwater volcano was indeed safe, she could set her teleportation array there.
A two-hour journey might seem long to others, but for her, it was just a matter of shadow stepping.
After tossing Tu Lan onto the sofa, Yu Xun Ge went to check the cat nest. The whistle and the soda can she found last time were nice, but when it came to satisfaction, the turtle jade from the wishing pool was her favorite. However, she hadn’t been to Zelan much lately, so she hadn’t used it.
After petting all the little cats that came to rub against her legs, Yu Xun Ge squeezed into the corner of the cat house and felt around inside. What did she find? A wooden plaque?
With great anticipation, Yu Xun Ge pulled the plaque out of the cat nest. It looked a bit old, about the length of her forearm and slightly wider than her palm. It was engraved with a few words: “A Century-Old Brand.”
Looking at the item description…
**[A Century-Old Brand] (Rare Item): Raise this item above your head and shout, “I’m a century-old brand!” After that, the first dish you make will have a score of +10, with a cooldown of 1 hour.**
Yu Xun Ge fell silent.
It felt like when her manager told her she was trending in the top ten, only to find out it was all her funny videos.
She was famous, but not entirely.
Yu Xun Ge stuffed the plaque into her bag, calmly returning indoors with her hands behind her back. As she passed Tu Lan, she affectionately asked, “Are you eating?” Then she turned on her heel and headed for the stairs, making a beeline for the study on the second floor.
Tu Lan, who was on the sofa digging into ice cream with a spoon: ?
Something felt off; the mood was all wrong.
Why did it feel like a thief had entered the house?
What was little Yu feeling guilty about?
Tu Lan furrowed her brow, stuffing the ice cream bucket into her belly space, flapping her wings to fly upstairs. Just in time, she heard the sound of the study door locking.
Tu Lan: !
She turned and skillfully flew out the window, circling around outside, shrinking smaller and smaller until she was the size of a coin. Only then did she fly back into the study from the balcony.
Landing silently, the little ice dragon pressed herself against the wall of the balcony, inching sideways toward the floor-to-ceiling window. Finally, she peeked her little head around the corner.
She saw Yu Xun Ge clearing off her desk, pulling out various cooking utensils and ingredients from her game backpack, arranging them one by one. Finally, she pulled out a wooden plaque, took a deep breath, raised it high above her head, and shouted, “I’m a century-old brand!”
Tu Lan: …
Tu Lan: “Pfft.”
Yu Xun Ge: … She slowly turned her head to look at the balcony outside, quickly scanning the area, and finally spotted a tiny, tiny, tiny head peeking from the corner of the floor-to-ceiling window…
Tu Lan turned and bolted outside.
Yu Xun Ge rolled up her sleeves and chased after her: “I won’t stop until I get that ice cream out of you!”
Tu Lan flew around in the air: “I~ am~ a~ century~ old~ brand~”
Yu Xun Ge: … You’re dead meat.
In the end, the two of them fought for two hours, with Yu Xun Ge’s magic missiles aimed squarely at Tu Lan’s backside.
Tu Lan had learned her lesson, avoiding big moves and instead using some quick-casting skills.
But she still missed every shot. Even when her skills were flying through the air, Yu Xun Ge would teleport away.
Even if she rewound time and predicted Yu Xun Ge’s moves, it didn’t help. Yu Xun Ge was a master at escaping; even if she found herself in a new location with skills already on their way, she could still lean back without changing her expression, buying herself half a second to continue teleporting and dodging.
Tu Lan: How shameless!
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**Chapter 194: “I’m Not!”**
Having completed five level 13 dungeons, Yu Xun Ge got her second skill crystal for **[Cut and Paste]**. With a lot of free time on her hands lately since she couldn’t go to Zelan, she decided to stir up some trouble and planned to find Yu Xun Huan.
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