Chapter XXI: Progress of the Investigation

"Whew, whew, I'm tired...... Sophia, can't you just put a little bit of water? ”

Zheng Jiuye sat on the roof of the Assassins' Guild, gasping for air.

Even if Zheng Jiuye opened the skill of improving physical fitness, Zheng Jiuye still failed to catch up with Sophia even once - in the process of Zheng Jiuye's parkour around the city, Sophia ran around the imperial capital for seven laps, and after coming back, she also did two hundred chopping exercises and one hundred skill exercises on the roof, Zheng Jiuye just jumped from the roof of the opposite building and completed the practice of a circle around the city......

"But the teacher said that if I were caught up by you once, I wouldn't want to be a student......" Sophia replied with an innocent face, "That's right...... When you yelled at me earlier, told me that you took this from your backpack? ”

Sophia showed Zheng Jiuye a royal blue bottle in her hand.

"Yes, that's it," Zheng Jiuye took the bottle and took a big sip after taking a slight breath, "Anyway, it's strange that I can catch up with your speed of a 100-meter sprint!" Wouldn't that dead kidney be because I couldn't finish training in my life? ”

As soon as Zheng Jiuye finished speaking, his head was slapped on the head.

"Although I won't teach you now, you can also call me well...... Here you go. ”

As soon as Zheng Jiuye looked up, he saw that Yakso was holding a book rolled into a cylinder in his hand - it was obvious that Yakso had used this book to give Zheng Jiuye a head just now.

"Hey, it hurts...... Isn't it just a sentence of dead kidney deficiency, teacher, if you want to refute, you should be a little more energetic during the day......"

Zheng Jiuye rubbed his head and complained.

"Alright, don't be verbose...... Hurry up and take it for revision," Axo handed over the book in his hand, "You have an exam tomorrow, right?" Think about it, if you didn't pass the exam, you would be a year later than Sophia's stupid ......"

Zheng Jiuye: "......"

What is going on when you suddenly feel so scary......!

"But thanks to the teacher, in this way, I should be able to cope with the exam tomorrow......" Zheng Jiuye casually flipped to the number of pages he had read before and continued to read, "Otherwise, it would be really bad." ”

"Now I know to call the teacher, it's really ......" Yaxo yawned, looking sleepy, "Okay, I'll go back and catch up on sleep, teacher, and see you in the evening." ”

Zheng Jiuye: "......"

In the past, that guy was only out of breath in the daytime...... Is it finally promoted to day and night?

"Now, just now the teacher said that tomorrow's exam? That one, what are the exams? ”

Sophia pulled Zheng Jiuye's arm twice with her hand.

"What will you do? For example, who are the Seven Sages of the Empire? ”

Sophia looked dazed.

"I said, don't look at me with that quincy look...... Even if you don't know about other people, you should know Teacher Yanjin! Zheng Jiuye didn't act like someone who knew nothing at all ten days ago, "And Lilian of the assassin position is also a ...... of our guild."

"Then I won't do anything...... I grew up living with my master, and I left the forest for the first time when I was over 200 years old......"

Sophia looked cute.

"Regarding the exam, you don't have to take the exam, you are a special enrollment ......" Zheng Jiuye was speechless, "I asked Yan Hassan before, if there are two cases, the Imperial Noble Academy is an unconditional special recruit......

So when Zheng Jiuye was still here to review, Emperor Ou Sophia didn't even need to know that there was such a thing as an entrance exam to enter the academy...... This gap hurts Zheng Jiuye when he thinks about it.

Even if a fool has a foolish fortune, there should be a limit!

"Ah......? In other words, can I go directly to that academy after that? ”

"Okay, okay, go to bed quickly, don't affect my reading," Zheng Jiuye didn't want to explain to Sophia anymore, "You were specially recruited, but I still have to take the exam......"

Zheng Jiuye is ready to stay up late.

"Ah, that's ......"

Sophia listened to Zheng Jiuye's words, and prepared to go downstairs in a panic.

"Well, wait a minute," Zheng Jiuye suddenly remembered what he had obtained during the previous investigation, and took out a stone from his pocket, "Sophia, do you know what this is?" ”

"This? Isn't this the one on my chest? ”

Sophia took it and looked at it for a while, then replied.

Zheng Jiuye: "...... I could tell that kind of thing at a glance, and I was going to ask what the hell was this stone! ”

When talking to Sophia, there is always a feeling that there is no way to keep a channel with this guy......

"This stone...... Sophia looked at it carefully, frowning, "this one was probably originally intended to be used to carve something...... But it's not carved here, it's useless. ”

Sophia took it and looked at it carefully, then pointed to a tiny, slightly flawed notch and replied, "This may be an exercise ...... Because there was obviously a flaw, but I still continued to engrave it. ”

"Hmm...... Specifically, what is engraved? ”

Zheng Jiuye asked.

"Can't say ......"

Zheng Jiuye sighed helplessly. It's really not easy to get some information out of Sophia's mouth...... But I finally know something, that is, this stone in Zheng Jiuye's hand, if we can find a complete and flawless sample of similar singular engravings, there should be further clues.

As for the ...... in Zheng Jiuye's hand This stone, as it stands, should be a scrap according to Sophia's description. However, after all, this thing is the only related item in Zheng Jiuye's hand at present, so Zheng Jiuye still put this stone back in his pocket.

"Alright, Sophia, you can go back first......"

At present, the information obtained by the side I want to investigate has been stopped for the time being; All that's left is to wait until you enroll, maybe you can find the relevant content in the school library......

Zheng Jiuye muttered as he flipped through the books of aristocratic etiquette in his hand.

OK. At present, judging from the content of this book, the aristocratic etiquette in this world is roughly the same as the etiquette that needs to be paid attention to in the medieval West, so there is no doubt that the content of Zheng Jiuye's review has been greatly reduced; However, what is different is that the aristocratic etiquette in this world has basically been reduced to written records and examination content, but few nobles really abide by it.

"Well, in the end, after the duel of life and death, you should stand your sword on the ground, and the two sides will salute and pay respects to each other before going down......" Zheng Jiuye finally turned the book in his hand to the last page, "I'm so sleepy...... But then I have to try to look at two sets of test papers to confirm......"

"That, Zheng Jiuye? It's time, it's almost time for us to take the exam," Axel poked his head out from the roof, "...... I said, you wouldn't be reading a book all night, would you? ”

Zheng Jiuye stared at Yaxo almost the same, but the dark circles under his eyes were lighter and nodded at Yaxo.

Axol: "...... Are you sure you can still take the test now? ”