99. Following Xia Yi Led To A Full Stomach Of Prison Food
"Well done, Cabbage, quietly drag this guard to a secluded room," Xia Yi continued to command.
"Your Highness Rice Cake, what exactly are you planning to do…" Elly hesitated.
"I feel like this isn't right, it's as if I'm doing something bad!"
"Cabbage, this isn't bad, it's just a prank, no worries. Hurry up, otherwise if other guards come over and discover us, it'll be hard to explain."
"Alright! Your Highness Rice Cake."
Elly had no choice but to obediently drag the guard away.
Under Xia Yi's orders, Elly dragged the unconscious dragon guard into a dark room.
"Cabbage, tie up this guard, use magic, don't let him break free."
"This…"
"Don't tell me you can't! If you didn't have this kind of strength, you wouldn't be able to join the royal maid team!"
"Wuwuwu, I understand!"
Elly found some rope and tied the dragon guard up, applying sealing magic on top of it.
"Then, strip his clothes."
"Ah?"
"Don't be nervous, Cabbage, we're not doing anything bad," said Xia Yi. "If I remember correctly, your Green Dragon race has a certain degree of transformation ability, right? You can mimic others."
"Your Highness Rice Cake, what are you planning to do?"
"Nothing much, just for you to temporarily disguise as this guard."
"But, the transformation spell isn't very reliable, it only looks similar on the outside, it's very easy to be seen through! And it can't be maintained for long, at most one hour…"
"One hour is enough, I need you to help me check something. During this hour, wear the guard's clothes, act like him, and once you find out, come back as soon as possible, return the clothes to him, and when he wakes up, he won't know what happened."
"…Really?"
"Trust me, Cabbage!"
"Okay!"
Elly did as she was told.
She stripped the dragon guard's clothes and put them on herself, then used the Green Dragon's unique transformation spell to change into the same appearance as the dragon guard.
Elly fixed the guard's badge and put it on, now she was a dragon guard.
But if she was exposed…
She would definitely be caught as a spy, right?
Suddenly, she felt like she was courting death!
"Good, start the mission, Elly, go to the archives!" Xia Yi was very satisfied.
…
Disguised as a dragon guard, Elly, using the guard's badge, successfully entered the archives.
Because others thought the dragon guard was patrolling, they didn't pay much attention.
"Your Highness Rice Cake, I've entered the archives!" Elly reported. "I was scared to death just now, I met so many people along the way, but luckily I wasn't exposed…"
"Very good, Cabbage, your performance is becoming more and more satisfactory to me, perhaps you have the makings of a dragon traitor!"
"Your Highness Rice Cake, this really isn't something to be happy about…" Elly said with a downcast face.
"I have something I want to look up."
"But Your Highness Rice Cake, many important documents seem to be locked, if touched carelessly, it will trigger the alarm system."
"It's okay, I'm only looking for ordinary documents, don't worry about those secrets!" Xia Yi explained.
"Your Highness Rice Cake, you could have just come yourself! Or, you could have just sent me directly. I could have spoken to the guards, and they would have let me in. There was no need for such a roundabout approach!"
"You don't understand, Cabbage."
Xia Yi could indeed have come by herself, but her actions would have been too conspicuous, and someone would surely have reported it.
Now, Elly wasn't yet a full-fledged member, and if she approached the archives, the guards would report to Lucia.
Following the trail, Lucia would find out that it was Xia Yi who was up to something.
Only by having Elly wear the skin of a dragon guard could they avoid drawing attention.
Although it was indeed a bit of an overkill, it would prevent Xia Lulu from noticing anything unusual.
This dragon princess, who could act with impunity, was being overly cautious!
"Look up the records of trivial matters in the Dragon Palace, especially those related to Xia Lulu, like the frequency of different types of sweets in her afternoon tea, or what she does in her leisure time…"
"Um, I understand, Your Highness." Elly nodded.
That was her plan.
To find out what Xia Lulu liked the most.
Everyone lowers their guard when faced with their favorite things.
For instance, she herself was powerless in front of osmanthus cakes.
Similarly, there must be something that Xia Lulu couldn't resist.
Xia Lulu's guard against her was too high?
No problem, as long as she found out what Xia Lulu's favorite thing was.
She had only been a dragon princess for six years, which was too short. Her knowledge about things related to Xia Lulu was very limited.
But the records here were different; they documented trivial matters in the Dragon Palace for hundreds of years. Although most of them were insignificant, there must be clues related to Xia Lulu.
As long as she got hold of them, she could use Xia Lulu's favorite things to create a moment of weakness for her!!
"All of them?" Elly asked.
"Yes, all of them. Flip through quickly, stop if there's anything related to Xia Lulu, skip if not, most of the content is irrelevant to her."
"Your Highness Rice Cake, this is too much, I can't finish in an hour!"
"It's okay, just look through as much as you can, just pick a record from six years ago and start there!"
"…I understand."
Elly picked a record of trivial matters in the Dragon Palace from six years ago. She flipped through the pages at lightning speed, using some techniques to stop whenever there was a mention of the Silver Dragon Queen, and then read it to Xia Yi.
After Xia Yi listened, she continued to flip through the pages.
"She didn't like sweets in her afternoon tea before, and the tea was mostly bitter, even though the tea she drinks now isn't bitter at all!"
"The number of times she borrowed books from the library is too few, which is strange, she usually loves reading, doesn't she?"
"So before I came, Xia Lulu didn't have pets…"
Listening to Elly's report, Xia Yi gained new insights into Xia Lulu.
The Xia Lulu of the past was quite bland and indifferent, without many entertainments or hobbies. It seemed that she only started to change after Xia Yi arrived, becoming the Silver Dragon Queen that Xia Yi now knew.
"In the year 35763 of the Morning Star calendar, the Queen visited an old friend in the Purple Kite Valley and returned to the Dragon Palace within a day. That day, Sera, who had just become a novice royal maid, accidentally confused salt for sugar in the kitchen…"
"Wait, an old friend?!" Xia Yi was very interested.
Where did Xia Lulu have friends from?
Thinking about it, in the six years she had been here, she had never seen Xia Lulu meet with any friends, nor had any friends come to visit her.
She has friends…
Unbelievable!!
Throughout the dragon race, there was only awe and fear for the Silver Dragon Queen.
The year 35763 of the Morning Star calendar was several hundred years ago. Had Xia Lulu not sought out that old friend since then?
"Not good! Your Highness Rice Cake, my transformation time is almost up!" Elly warned.
"What?"
"One hour is almost up, I can't stay here any longer. If I'm discovered, there's no way I'll be able to explain!"
"I need to think…"
"Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip!"
Elly was already panicking and almost talking nonsense.
It seems she really reached her limit.
Now that she has obtained extremely useful information, let's leave it at that.
"Elly, let's retreat."
…
"Uh, ha, ha… That scared me to death!"
A tall dragon race guard turned into a little green dragon maid, and the dragon guard's clothes were also returned to the original guard.
"Your Highness Rice Cake… That was close, if it were any later, I would have reverted to my original form in front of the other guards, and then I would definitely be captured!" Elly reported.
Xia Yi was pondering.
Xia Lulu's… friend?
The original plan was to have Elly sneak into the data room continuously to search for useful information.
Simply put, it was like drawing a lottery!
As long as you keep drawing the lottery, you will eventually find useful information.
And she won the lottery on the first try.
Xia Lulu's friend, she had never heard anyone mention before, she felt that she might go and meet that friend.
"Your Highness Rice Cake?"
"Yes, I'm here, what's up?" Xia Yi responded through the magical device.
"What should we do with this guard?"
"He should be waking up soon, just throw him back to where he originally was," Xia Yi instructed.
"Got it."
Elly quickly stuffed the unconscious guard into a sack, left the dark room, and dumped him back where he had fainted before, then ran to a place where no one was around.
She was exhausted.
This little green dragon maid had never been so tired after entering the Dragon Palace.
"Your Highness Rice Cake, the matter is settled, so I'll be leaving—"
"No, you can't go."
Xia Yi, who had been hiding and commanding, now appeared in front of Elly, blocking her way.
"Not yet?!"
Elly let out a wail, almost crying from being tormented, feeling like she was constantly committing crimes, falling into the traps of the little princess. If these baskets were to be exposed, she would definitely be doomed.
Following Xia Yi meant a guaranteed full meal in prison!
"You need to secretly take me out of the Dragon Palace; I want to go to the Purple Kite Valley."
As soon as Xia Yi finished speaking, Elly's face turned pale.
If she really secretly took the princess out of the Dragon Palace, that would be a grave crime of abducting a dragon princess!
"You're shaking me, Your Highness…!"
Xia Yi started to smile.
Elly suddenly felt a chill.
That smile, why did it look so much like the Queen's? Indeed, they were cut from the same cloth!
"Elly, I remember you want to be regularized, right? Now you want to join the royal maid group, but you're still on probation."
"Yes," Elly nodded, "but because of my recent performance, Lucia and the others have not been very approving of me… Also, if they find out about today's incident, that I smashed the portrait, I definitely won't be able to join the Royal Maid Corps, and I might even end up in prison!"
"Today's portrait-smashing incident, Lucia will definitely not know about it, I won't tell. Because Elly has already helped me, I will proactively go to Lucia and say I was the one fooling around in the corridor, it was all my doing."
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
Elly smiled.
"Actually, it's not just that, I can also help you with your regularization. If you can directly get the royal family's approval, isn't joining the royal maid group a sure thing?"
"That… indeed!"
In the palace, there are only two royals.
One is the Silver Dragon Queen Xia Lulu.
Naturally, there's no need to say more about the Queen. Before becoming an official member of the Royal Maid Corps, Elly would not be able to meet her at all.
To meet her, one must first become an official maid.
But how can one meet the Queen without being an official maid?
This creates a vicious cycle.
The other is the Silver Dragon Princess Xia Yi, and now Xia Yi is right in front of Elly, within reach.
"I can help Elly speak a few words to the Royal Maid Corps~"
"Really?!" Elly became excited, "If I get Your Highness's approval, then joining the Royal Maid Corps will be very easy!"
A mix of kindness and authority.
It's not just about intimidation; the actual benefits must be laid out.
That's how Xia Lulu educated Xia Yi.
She remembered it well.
"So, Elly just needs to help me with a little favor, take me, and quietly leave the Dragon Palace, and quietly sneak out of the Dragon Palace. I want to visit the Purple Kite Valley."
"This…" Elly hesitated.
"I'll be back soon, really, really, I swear, I won't run off!" Xia Yi said very sincerely, "I'll be back before it gets dark tonight. The Purple Kite Valley isn't too far from here, right? By then, no one will notice us."
"Are you sure, Your Highness?"
"Absolutely sure!"
Elly hesitated for a long time, wanting to refuse, but if she pushed the princess too hard, and the princess played the self-destruct card, she would be the one in trouble.
If she agreed, although there was a risk of being careless, she could directly join the Royal Maid Corps!
To become an official member of the royal maid group!!
Who says gamblers always lose?!
"Alright, Your Highness! You promised, don't forget about this matter!"
"Don't worry, don't worry!" Xia Yi patted Elly's shoulder.
If she left the Dragon Palace, she would definitely be followed, but with Elly's help, sneaking out would go unnoticed.
…
Elly pushed a cart towards the gate of the Dragon Palace.
The gate guards stopped Elly.
At the gate of the Dragon Palace, the guards would not maintain their human form but would be two ferocious dragons full of intimidation.
"Guards, hello," Elly said, "I need to go out to purchase some things…"
"You're from the Royal Maid Corps, then you may pass."
The gate guards allowed her to pass.
Success!
Elly breathed a sigh of relief.
And the silver-haired loli, hugging her legs, curled up into a ball, hiding in a bag on the cart, heard the guards' reply and felt almost certain of success!
Elly, with her head down, trying not to let the dragon guards see her expression, pushed the cart slowly through the gate, almost leaving the gate…
"Elly, don't go."
Elly was so frightened that she trembled all over, her legs went weak, and she almost fell to the ground.
And Xia Yi, hiding in the cart, hearing the familiar voice, felt her heart almost stop.
"Your Highness, it's her…! We… are doomed…"
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