One hundred and twenty. The cat and the bird and the girl
The bandaged hands held the iris and showed it to Lu Li, waiting for praise.
"Meow~"
Lu Li's black cat eyes reflected the tilted iris bird.
Claire was put into the exquisite birdcage brought by the lizard maid, and the food trough was filled with grain and water. Claire only pretended to drink a few water, and she was still greedy for the pastries on the terrace table.
"Be patient and wait for me to come back."
The head maid put Lu Li down, placed the birdcage on the dressing table, and left the room with the lizard maid.
click
The bedroom door closed and the footsteps gradually moved away.
"Let me out."
Claire clung to the side of the birdcage, holding onto the cage bars with her wings and shouting.
Lu Li jumped onto the dressing table, and Mao Wei easily opened the birdcage.
Claire couldn't wait to fly out of the birdcage and landed next to the patio door, and continued to urge Lu Li to open the door.
Click.
The patio door opened, and Claire squeezed through the gap and landed on the patio table.
"Birds get hungry easily... maybe I haven't eaten yet... do you want to come with me?"
Claire invited Lu Li while pecking at the pastry vaguely.
"So what's the good news and the bad news."
Lu Li jumped onto the terrace table and sat down on the edge with his tail hanging down.
"The good news is that I sneaked into the castle. The guards and servants are not strong, and the head chef is a dwarf who only knows how to cook."
"Here's the bad news."
"That Viscount's perception is as sharp as a 'beast'." Claire angrily emphasized the word "beast" and even temporarily stopped eating. "I am just a bird, and I am hundreds of meters away from it and dozens of meters high.
can be found in the air..."
"But there's good news just now." Claire said immediately.
"What."
"This maid is more powerful than I thought."
"You can't beat it?"
"I only need a punch to get close." Claire commented: "But it can control the wind. If it flies, no one can reach it, and then it can easily kill us."
Sounds like the difference between a sword and a musket.
"What does it have to do with the good news?"
"She regards you as family!" Claire returned to eating: "We can use this to make her betray the viscount."
"Using a girl?"
The tail hanging from the edge of the terrace table swayed.
"Don't you know? She died a long time ago. It was just a monster that took over the body and became confused because of the memory..." Lu Li's quiet black eyes made her speechless: "Well, this is just a guess, maybe
I was wrong, maybe she is still herself."
"But there is no harm in letting... her... it be on our side. The Viscount and its lord are destined to be dealt with. Do you want to watch it be killed by other players?"
"The head maid may not choose humans."
Lu Li replied, telling Claire about the special feelings for the Viscount in the diary.
"So the head maid can't help us, no, is she helping little Remy fight against the viscount?"
"Um."
Lu Li calmly told Claire the clues he got after they separated.
Claire seemed to be full, and her mouth opened like a chirping bird: "I thought of two good ways. The first one is
The lords go to the castle to report their duties every morning, so we can take this opportunity to ask the head maid to take us there."
"The second way is to provoke conflicts among the lords and ask the head maid to help us weaken the viscount's power... It would be better if we can lure him out of the castle."
"The second method will alert the enemy."
"Well! So we have to start from the first method. Let's do this...chirp chirp chirp chirp."
Lu Li quietly looked at Claire, who was as lively as a real bird: "You only said 'chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, lively, lively like a real bird'
Claire is usually not like this. She is relatively sensible and smart in front of familiar people, but she disguises herself as reckless in front of outsiders.
"But they are all secret words like this in novels...wait for me first." Claire flew back to the bedroom, fell into the birdcage, flew out with grains in her mouth, and spat out the guardrail, pretending to eat the grains.
When the trough became empty, Claire jumped to Lu Li with the cream on the edge of the bird's beak: "Please, little Remi, help me wipe my mouth."
Lu Li gently swung the tip of his tail and remained unmoved.
"Little Remi, the head maid will find me stealing pastries when she comes back!"
Lu Li moved his gaze to the castle guarded by the garden at the end of the dark forest.
"Your Excellency the Exorcist, are you willing to accept the commission of a poor bird to help it get rid of its troubles?"
Claire jumped next to Lu Li, tilting her head and looking up at him pitifully.
Lu Li silently raised his tail and brushed against Claire's beak. After a slight pause, he pressed it on the pastry to cover up the traces, but the tail was also stained with cream.
Close the patio door and return to the dressing table. When Claire gets back into the birdcage, Lu Li closes the door with his cat's paw, sits in front of the birdcage and talks to Claire.
A cat and a bird plot their plans.
"...The head maid will patrol the territory every day. At this time, you have to follow up and take me with you first, so that she can gradually accept the following until she takes us to the castle tomorrow... We don't have much time, and the players will advance as soon as tomorrow.
Go outside the manor. The two plans must be carried out at the same time. If the first method doesn't work, start the second one immediately."
"Deal with the Viscount. This is your only chance to save the little maid. Once they get close, it will be too late..."
"Meow~"
Lu Li felt the breeze blowing through his hair faster than the sound of footsteps.
"Chirping?"
At the same time Claire understood, the bedroom door opened.
"Little Lemi is so good."
The head maid hugged Lu Li approvingly, but when she noticed the cream on his tail, she turned to complaining and ordered the lizard maid to prepare hot water.
According to the plan, Lu Li opened the birdcage during the gap, and Claire flew out of the birdcage and landed on Lu Li's head to show it to the head maid.
"Remi, you made new friends so quickly?"
The head maid rubbed Lu Li's hair, while Claire moved away as if frightened: "Remember not to bully your friends, or they won't play with you."
After preparing the hot water, Lu Li was carried by the head maid into the wash basin. Lying in his arms, he looked back at the bedroom. Claire in the birdcage covered her eyes with her wings.
Dozens of minutes later, Lu Li, whose hair was slightly dry, was carried out by the head maid, placed on the bed and wrapped in a blanket.
"You stay at home with your new friends, and your sister has to go out to do some errands."
The head maid rubbed the reluctant Lu Li's cheek in farewell and left through the bedroom door.
"Chirp"
cried Claire in the birdcage.
Lu Li got out of the blanket, subconsciously shook off the half-dried hair stuck to his body, jumped on the dressing table, released Claire, and opened the patio door with ease.
Lu Li and Claire stood on the guardrail, watching condescendingly as the head maid floated off the ground and walked away surrounded by the lizard maids.
"Follow me quickly."
Claire stretched out her wings and patted Lu Li on the head.
Lu Li jumped to the ground with a bounce, followed closely by Claire, who landed on his head and chased the head maid who was walking away.
