Mudian Town was nearly a hundred li from the capital, which translated to nearly fifty kilometers. An off-road vehicle could reach a maximum speed of one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour.
Although the ancient roads were not highways and were rather rough, preventing the off-road vehicle from reaching its top speed, it could still cover seventy to eighty kilometers in an hour. Thus, Huangfu Yue reached the capital in just over half an hour.
Huangfu Yue had expected to reach the capital quickly, but Xiao Hei, who knew nothing about cars, had not. When it saw the faint outline of the capital's tall city walls in the distance, it was stunned.
“Master, are we arriving at the capital already?”
“Mmm,” Huangfu Yue nodded. Seeing its dumbfounded expression, she found it amusingly silly and curved her exquisite lips.
“This is too fast!” Xiao Hei was somewhat disbelieving.
“With your speed, couldn’t you also reach the capital this quickly?” Huangfu Yue laughed.
Calling this crow silly was indeed accurate.
At its fastest, it could fly five hundred li in an hour, which was one hundred and twenty-five kilometers, almost the same as the off-road vehicle's maximum speed. This meant it could also fly from Mudian Town to the capital in about half an hour, so there was no need for it to be so shocked.
Its surprised appearance made it look like a silly bird.
She felt a bit like a bad owner, constantly complaining about Xiao Hei.
Stop complaining, she had to be a good owner!
“Yes, with my speed, I can reach the capital this quickly. But I’ve attained sentience. How can this car also reach the capital so fast? Has it also attained sentience? Is it one of my kind?”
After nodding, Xiao Hei exclaimed, genuinely shocked that there was something in the world as fast as it was. It had always thought it was the only one this fast.
It looked around again, carefully examining every part of the car. It even extended its wings to touch the car and stomped on it with its feet.
It wanted to see if the car was alive like itself, capable of speaking, and if it was truly its kind, having also attained sentience.
Seeing its behavior, Huangfu Yue found it so funny that she couldn't hold back her laughter.
“Stop studying it. It hasn't attained sentience. It's an inanimate object, just a thing.”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Hei felt somewhat hurt.
To be an inanimate object, just a thing, yet as fast as itself, which had attained sentience, was a bit hurtful. Or rather, a hurt crow!
Seeing Xiao Hei’s dejected expression, as if it had been dealt a blow, Huangfu Yue’s smile deepened.
She glanced at the city walls that were gradually becoming clearer ahead and said, “Xiao Hei, we’re almost at the city gate. We can’t drive fast anymore. I’m afraid the soldiers patrolling on the battlement might see the car. Let’s get off. I need to put the car away.”
This off-road vehicle was too conspicuous, and it made noise. Although they were still some distance from the city walls, the patrolling soldiers on the battlements couldn't see it. But if they drove any closer, they would definitely be discovered.
They had to get off and walk now.
Xiao Hei immediately flew out of the car window that Huangfu Yue had opened. Huangfu Yue stopped shortly after and got out of the car.
After storing the off-road vehicle in her spatial dimension, Huangfu Yue said to Xiao Hei, “It’s your turn to take action. Fly to the battlements first to scout. Fly around the city walls a couple of times and find the weakest patrol points, preferably places where no one is around, so I can enter the city from there.”
She remembered the road from the capital to Mudian Town very clearly, and therefore knew exactly how to get from Mudian Town to the capital. That’s why she hadn’t asked Xiao Hei to lead the way, letting it sit in the old car and enjoy the ride with her.
But now, Xiao Hei needed to take action, and from now on, Xiao Hei would be leading the way.
“Yes, Master.” Xiao Hei immediately set off towards the battlements.
As a crow that had attained sentience, its night vision was unmatched by any human or animal. It was completely unaffected by the darkness and could see the battlements clearly from a distance.
Xiao Hei quickly reached the battlements. Through its eyes, Huangfu Yue quickly ascertained the height of the battlements, which was extremely high, reaching a full sixteen meters.
Good heavens, getting up there would be a bit difficult!
Huangfu Yue frowned slightly and thought to herself.
The city gate was closed. To enter the city without damaging the gate, one could only climb up the city wall from the outside and descend into the city from the battlement.
Through Xiao Hei's eyes, she could see that the city walls were very smooth, making it as difficult as climbing to heaven to scale them with bare hands.
Fortunately, she could use tools. She could make a grappling hook and throw it onto the battlement, then climb up using the rope. This would be easy for her.
Moreover, her spatial dimension contained everything, including a pile of materials to make a grappling hook. And at her speed, making a grappling hook would take mere minutes.
Thinking this, Huangfu Yue entered her spatial dimension to find the materials needed to make the grappling hook, while continuing to study the situation on the battlements through Xiao Hei’s eyes.
Even though she had entered her spatial dimension, her connection with Xiao Hei remained unbroken. She could still see what Xiao Hei saw and hear what Xiao Hei heard.
There were quite a few patrols on the battlements. Huangfu Yue counted through Xiao Hei’s eyes. Perhaps because it was the capital, the city guards were particularly numerous. There were a full five hundred people on the battlements, standing guard and patrolling.
If Huangfu Yue weren’t outside, seeing so many people on guard and patrolling, she might have suspected that someone was about to attack the city.
Huangfu Yue frowned. To pass through under the noses of five hundred people, without being detected, would be very difficult even for her.
Having found the materials to make the grappling hook, Huangfu Yue began to make it, thinking that all she could do now was hope Xiao Hei could find a weak patrol point with a brief absence of people.
Otherwise, if she wanted the soldiers on the battlements to let her pass through without noticing her, she would have to use sleeping drugs to incapacitate them.
However, Xiao Hei had flown around the battlements several times but couldn't find any place where the patrols were weak or temporarily unguarded. Every two steps on the battlements, there was a soldier standing guard, and two teams of soldiers were constantly patrolling back and forth.
“Master, I’m sorry, I couldn’t find any patrol points that were weak or temporarily unguarded,” Xiao Hei apologized, feeling guilty for not being able to help its master. “There weren’t this many people on the battlements before…”
“It’s alright, if you couldn’t find any, that’s fine. I have my own ways of dealing with it,” Huangfu Yue said.
Just as she was contemplating using sleeping drugs and thinking about asking the medical system to provide her with some, a voice suddenly sounded in her spatial dimension…
“Congratulations, Host. You have been using this spatial dimension frequently. As a reward, you are now being gifted a set of invisibility cloaks.” This was the voice of the spatial dimension.
Huangfu Yue was a bit stunned by the sudden voice from the spatial dimension. When she saw a set of black clothes that looked somewhat like nightwear appear before her, she finally reacted and let out a burst of happy laughter.
This spatial dimension was truly a treasure, gifting her invisibility cloaks at this very moment.
What she needed most now was invisibility cloaks. With invisibility cloaks, she wouldn't have to worry about the soldiers on the battlements or use sleeping drugs to incapacitate them. She could move through right under their noses while invisible.
Awesome!
Huangfu Yue, with a beaming smile, was unaware that further surprises awaited her.