The sound of banging on the door was very regular.
It only rang once every two minutes, and with Darent's loud voice, Hitzfeld estimated that even the neighbors would have woken up.
That's great, luckily she only has one neighbor.
After another 20 minutes, the knocking on the door stopped.
There were footsteps at the stairs, and the door was opened with a swish, revealing the overly thin face of Maps-Dyrant.
"You did that on purpose, didn't you?"
He glared at the girl at the table in displeasure, "It's always like this... I left you time to wash and dress, but you didn't inform me when you were done? You just let me play the role of a cock down there?"
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Mr Mapes-Dyrant."
Hitzfeld said without turning his head.
"I saw you come so early every Saturday - after all, it's not even 6 o'clock now - and I thought you were different from normal people and had endless energy, and that knocking on the door was also a training technique you invented."
"Mao's exercise skills!" shouted Darent.
He closed his eyes, waved his hands vigorously, and walked back and forth behind the girl.
"Borrowing the power of the ring allows you to choose one day a week to fall asleep, but you can't go to bed at 6 o'clock in the evening and not wake up until noon the next day, right?"
Walk to the left after a while.
"Look at what you look like now... You are afraid and obsessed with dreams. Is there any difference between you and those mortals?"
Walk to the right after a while.
"I'm doing this for your mental and physical health!"
He rushed to the girl again, spread out one hand and spoke loudly.
"You have to get used to this way of sleeping! It's just a means for you to replenish your energy! A means!"
"I understand all——"
Hitzfeld closed the book in unbearable pain.
Then he muttered quietly: "But I can only sleep once a week, and according to your requirement, it can't exceed 12 hours. This is not enough sleep..."
Yes, she can sleep now.
Although Dr. Dent-Blum was unable to cure her insomnia in the Balvik Phantom Case, she still got a fake blood-patterned gold ring by chance.
This ring seals a power that comes from the real evil god's magic ring. Its source belongs to the god of desire, Morguna-Rora-Flucadanzo. In other words, this power can influence people's hearts if used well.
Of course, Hitzfeld would not do such a thing. After returning to No. 12 Flo Street, she wrote an application under the guidance of Darent - a two-foot-long parchment - in which she listed and analyzed her determination to overcome evil thoughts and the reasons why she must possess this dangerous item. Then, based on her contribution in the Balvic Phantom Case - it can almost be said that only two people were able to seal the evil god's curse - she obtained a special permit: she would be eligible to own this ring.
The prerequisite is that every time she uses the ring, she must be accompanied and monitored by Level 6 Agent Maps-Dalent to ensure that she only uses this power to hypnotize herself and not do other bad things.
"I think this is just making a mountain out of a molehill."
Hitzfeld was very unhappy about this.
In fact, she had secretly tested the ring, and she didn't know whether it was due to excessive energy loss or the thing was biased against her, but since it came into her hands, the magic power it displayed was only a few hundred thousandth of the original.
Changing the terrain, placing a curse on a town?
No, she shouldn't even think about it.
This thing can now only be used to hypnotize small animals, such as squirrels or birds.
Of course... that also includes Hitzfeld.
Slightly larger animals wouldn't work, such as big dogs like Dewey. She tried it before leaving Balvik, and the way Dewey looked at her made her suspect for a moment that she was mentally retarded.
This is not a behavioral issue, but rather - why is she considered a small animal like a squirrel or a bird in the eyes of the ring?
She speculated that it might be because of her body... This body had adapted to her left eye not sleeping for a long time, causing her spirit to be exhausted and depressed to a certain extent.
Well, it’s on the same level as little squirrels and little birds.
It made sense logically...but Hitzfeld found it a little unacceptable.
In order to improve her status as quickly as possible, she always wanted to take a little longer nap during her weekly sleep, in an attempt to restore her spirit to normal standards as soon as possible.
"The longer you go without sleep, and then sleep too much in one go, the worse it is for your body!"
Darent banged his bang on the table, "I really don't understand, your smart head is very good at reasoning and memorizing things, why can't you understand such a simple truth?"
Hitzfeld said nothing.
You don't understand my sadness.
And it wasn't like she really wanted to mess around.
this is not……
cough.
Isn't it that every second day there is a human-shaped alarm clock to wake her up...
Darent lectured for 10 minutes before he remembered that he hadn't eaten anything.
Under his eager gaze, Hitzfeld read leisurely until seven o'clock, then went out with a basket to buy groceries, and came back to make two fried pork chop cheese sandwiches.
Darent quickly scanned his own copy, then stared eagerly at the one in the girl's hand.
There's nothing you can do about it.
Hitzfeld closed his eyes and sighed, then used a dinner knife to cut the bread in half, isolating the part she had bitten and pushing the rest to the other side.
Fortunately, she had anticipated that each portion was more than she could finish.
But there was one thing she couldn't figure out.
"Why does a wooden man like to eat meat so much?"
"There are also many members of the plant kingdom that survive by eating meat."
Darente was talking big while chewing.
"Noctilucent grass, tiger rose, floating night lights...many herbs have the habit of attracting insects and then preying on them."
"Next time you have this kind of doubt, don't speak it out. I have a good temper... If you meet a weird wooden man, be careful not to be accused of racial discrimination."
"Strange wooden figure? Does that mean there are other wooden figures?"
"Of course, there is everything in the Wheel of Fortune."
"Are there any orcs?"
Hitzfeld's one eye sparkled.
"secret."
"Are there vampires?"
"secret."
"Are there any dragon people?"
"secret."
"Is there Groot?"
"Secret…Who is Groot?"
"Secret~"
"I see you've just woken up and are full of energy, Miss Hitzfeld."
Seeing the girl holding up the empty plate to cover her face and laughing secretly, Darent's eyebrows twitched.
"Very good, then I will come to check your Sao Ling Jue this morning to see how well you have mastered it!"
"bring it on."
Hitzfeld also raised his eyebrows.
"I've never been afraid of you."
and so……
This is her new life now.
At first, she was quite annoyed with Darent, and she kept wondering why Shadow Lion hadn't sent someone to summon her to the capital so that she could get rid of this guy and go find the seductive Miss Xia in her dreams...
But now she feels pretty good.
What Shadow Lion, what censorship.
It’s best not to come here in this life.
Chapter 2 Goodbye Changxia
How to systematically summarize Hitzfeld's new life?
Monday to Friday:
Go out in the morning to buy food for the day and walk to exercise.
After lunch, I closed my eyes and rested for 15 minutes, reviewing funeral customs and knowledge through the books and notes left by my wife.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, I arrived at the iron gate and turned over the sign that read "Do Not Disturb" so that the "Business Undertaking" side was facing up.
If someone needs funeral services between 3 and 220 o'clock - including but not limited to body splicing, body makeup, custom coffins, and burial - she will charge the customer a deposit of 1000 becquerels and then meet their needs within three days. The full process will not cost more than becquerels.
Of course, this varies. If she encounters someone with financial difficulties, she will usually try to give them relief during the funeral process.
The reason why I insisted on collecting the 1000 becquerels at the beginning was to fight against the scoundrels who liked to get things for free.
This is her regular business.
Then, after 5 ., after dinner, if she didn't need to work overtime, from then until dawn the next day, she would reserve her time for reading books and taking notes.
Funeral science.
Making incense.
There was also the various "common sense of extraordinary people" that Darent forced her to learn and recite, as well as a dazzling array of local customs and experiences... She also had to practice shooting, so her daily schedule was packed.
She can sleep and recharge her batteries Friday night and Saturday morning.
This was the privilege given to her by the counterfeit ring.
This time period is actually optional, for example, she can choose Monday to Tuesday, or Wednesday to Thursday.
The reason why it is chosen at this time is because when we wake up on Saturday it will be eternal night.
The city of Blackwood is now heavily guarded, with parish knights from the army patrolling the streets every day, and the public security couldn't be better.
But despite this, no one can guarantee that nothing will go wrong.
If something goes wrong, the chance of an eternal night is the highest. In addition, Hitzfeld's left eye can often hear more whispers and see more illusions during this time period, so she decided to sleep on Friday night.
This way, when she wakes up, she can face everything with full energy.
……
After dealing with Darent's test, eternal night descended upon long summer as promised.
From Saturday night until Monday morning, Darent would not leave 12 Flo Street, but would keep vigil with the girl.
"No incense making tonight?"
Darent watched with curiosity as Hitzfeld dragged the planks and toolboxes out of the cellar, placed them in the open gallery next to the yard, put on leather gloves and began hammering away.
"No more." Hitzfeld shook his head as he swung the hammer.
The lady's level of incense making is very high, and she can only learn the basics in a short period of time.
Currently, she can make 16 basic perfumes, all of which have very monotonous scents and come from various strong-smelling plants and flowers.
There are 2 kinds of mixed scent perfumes, namely lime and grass fruit. Their fragrance is not enough by extracting the fruits themselves, and other materials need to be added for fine blending.
1 functional perfume, which was the calming scent she had used on the Gebrina family before.
The calming incense requires a mixture of 22 kinds of plant essences and herbal juices, and she has mastered the production process.
If you want to make further progress, the next stage of functional perfume is soothing fragrance, which requires 36 different materials.
As for those normal perfumes that were recorded...all kinds of materials she had never seen before, they were not stored at home and could not be bought on the market at all.
