167: The traveler is attacking your workshop.

"How did you get up there at the time?"

"Huh? Jumped up there?"

"You really just jumped up there."

At night, in Huo Xi's bedroom, the girls wearing various pajamas were brainstorming for Lumine.

To refer to the wisdom of predecessors, Lumine still prioritized asking Huo Xi, and then Huo Xi told him that he really just jumped up.

"Can't you just have someone who can fly take you up?" Hyacine pointed at Skirk: "Can't Skirk fly? Why not let him take you up?"

As expected of an alien, his thinking is jumpy, but Skirk, who was sitting on the sofa, shook his head: "I can't, I don't intend to show myself in Liyue."

Everyone fell into thought again, but Huo Xi couldn't lie still: "Hey, no, it's one thing for you sixteen to gather here, but Shenhe and Skirk, why are you two here?"

But he was silenced by Eula's hip movement halfway through: "We called people over to discuss things, why are you interfering? Shut up and stay there!"

Barbara, who was face-to-face with him, also slapped his abs hard: "Don't move around, it'll be hard for me to treat you later!"

Huo Xi: ...

This room full of people, Lumine, Jean, Lisa, Eula, Barbara, Sanzomon, Mona, Fischl, Noelle, Big Griseo, Griseo, Hyacine, Clara, Yunli, Rosalyne, Eunectes, and Shenhe and Skirk, a total of eighteen women, sixteen of whom have [Riding EX].

Pressing down on Huo Xi until he couldn't breathe.

It's only lucky that everyone waited until Paimon was asleep before coming over.

While they kept switching people to mute Huo Xi, and kept pressing him, suddenly a hand hooked Clara's little pajama skirt and handed her a note.

Clara was startled at first, but turned back to find Xiangling had pushed the door open, which relieved him. He looked at Xiangling's note and understood Xiangling's intention; Xiangling didn't want to be discovered by Huo Xi.

So he spoke for Xiangling: "Why don't we ask Brother Huo Xi to help ask Sister Keqing? Sister Keqing is also one of the Seven Stars of Liyue, he should have a way, right?"

"Oh right!"

"Clara, you're so smart!"

"Eh? Why are you here, Xiang— woooo—"

"Shh! Don't say I'm here."

Skirk stood up: "Alright, if there's nothing else, I'll go first... Shenhe, aren't you leaving?"

Shenhe was expressionless but blushing. He looked at Skirk, then at Huo Xi's side: "I intend to watch a bit longer."

Skirk looked at Xiangling again, and Xiangling also shook his head.

Skirk sighed and sat down too.

Xiangling secretly moved a table over, then took out a deck of Fontaine playing cards bought from the Feiyun Commerce Guild, and the three of them started playing cards while watching the livestream.

Because Huo Xi was not only muted but also had his vision blocked, he didn't know who was next to him all night. It wasn't until morning that Skirk, Shenhe, and Xiangling walked out of the room together. The relationship between the three had inexplicably improved quite a bit.

Xiangling thoughtfully took out the mental and physical recovery medicine that Huo Xi gave him, and shared one pill each with Skirk and Shenhe.

After taking the medicine, he breathed in the morning air and felt refreshed.

"Stimulating!"

...

"Huh? Didn't Ganyu tell you how to get up?"

Facing Lumine and Huo Xi's questions, Keqing was speechless.

—Did he forget things again? I told him to rest more when there's nothing going on, why doesn't he listen?

But in the end, Keqing still told Lumine how to get up.

"You go to that... building with golden glazed tiles at Yujing Terrace, you've seen it, right? Go there and find a floating platform, ask the person next to it, 'Excuse me, do you sell the moon here?', and he will ask you how many you want, then you just say, 'The quantity is not convenient to disclose'."

Having obtained the secret code from the Yuheng, Lumine and Paimon rushed towards Yujing Terrace and successfully boarded the Jade Chamber.

Oh my, you wouldn't know until you went up; once you were up, you were shocked. This visit was truly eye-opening.

Ningguang also expressed his feelings and revealed some minor intelligence to them.

For example:

The entire Wangshu Inn is filled with his people.

Guyun Stone Forest is not a natural landform, but the tail end of the Geo Archon's stone spears thrown down a thousand years ago, remaining after years of erosion and weathering.

The land all over Liyue may have various Gods, cut by the Geo Archon, sealed underground, and Guyun Stone Forest is one of them.

The seven Orders of Teyvat will not collapse; after the Geo Archon passes away, no one knows when a new Geo Archon will take his place.

But in the end, there was only one core issue: the situation is treacherous, telling Lumine to be careful of the Fatui and not to just stand on the side of the Adepti.

To thank Lumine and Paimon for agreeing to this, Ningguang also indicated that they could take any piece of intelligence from the wall next to them.

This sentence made Paimon very happy! He was wondering how to get one before, and didn't the opportunity come? This was all his money!

He flew over first to look left and right, then immediately locked onto a piece of paper at the very top!

"Clouds like clothes, flowers like faces, the spring breeze brushes the railing, the dew is thick. If you don't see it on the top of the Jade Mountain, you will meet it under the moon at the Jade Terrace! Wow, Lumine, come and see, this poem looks like it can be sold for a lot of money!"

Ningguang almost fell over.

He coughed twice: "Uh, that, that poem was given to me by a friend. I copied it down and put it up there when I had nothing to do, so that's not intelligence. Anything other than that poem is fine."

"Ah? Okay." Paimon was a little disappointed; he quite liked that poem. However, after taking the poem down, a piece of paper pressed underneath it immediately caught Paimon's attention.

"The Fatui are gathering somewhere and seem to be planning something? This is Childe's subordinate, right? It feels so unsettling, Lumine, shall we go check this out?"

Faced with money and major principles, Paimon ultimately chose the more important side.

After the two left, Ningguang let out a heavy sigh.

At least the result is correct, isn't it?

...

"Lord Childe!"

Behind the Northland Bank, a Fatui knelt on one knee and saluted Childe: "The people investigating the Golden House have returned. A few days ago, the Seven Stars did indeed close the Golden House and the road leading there for a period of time under the pretext of 'maintenance of equipment'. The Exuvia is very likely there!"

"Good!" Childe put down the antique he was playing with, slowly stood up, and said to the people behind him: "Pay more attention to the movements of the Adepti in the next few days, and also the movements of my new friend! When the Adepti make trouble for the Seven Stars, that will be the time for us to act! However, if my new friend is still in Liyue Harbor at that time, find a way to lure he away; he is also a variable. If he is not there at that time, then everyone will be happy."

The reporting Fatui was stunned and said awkwardly: "My Lord, actually there is one more thing related to your friend."

"Oh? What is it? Isn't he preparing for the Rite of Descension with Zhongli?"

The Fatui stammered: "You, your Traveler friend, I don't know where he found our workshop for rerunning the Talisman of Forbidden Covenants, and destroyed all the Talisman of Forbidden Covenants we reran."

"Destroyed them all?!" Childe was a bit dumbfounded: "What about the ones shipped out?"

"Also destroyed. He was like a mad dog, turning on his elemental sight and hacking at anyone he saw!"

"Oh my God." Childe covered his face and sat down: "How many do we have left?"

"Only the dozen or so left at your place from the last batch."

"This is useless..." Childe was really speechless.

Their plan wasn't just to go down one path; they had backup plans.

The first tier is to let the Adepti make trouble, Liyue Harbor falls into chaos, and they seize the Gnosis.

The second tier is in case someone messes up, use the Ruin Guard imitated by Dottore to launch a riot, let the Adepti and Seven Stars deal with those, and then take the opportunity to act.

The third tier is to use a small portion of the Talisman of Forbidden Covenants to attract the Dependants of the Vortex Demon God Osial sealed under Guyun Stone Forest, and let that group of Dependants hold back the Adepti.

The last tier now doesn't need to be used, because that was for Morax, which was to use all the Talisman of Forbidden Covenants to blow up Osial's seal, release the Vortex Demon God, and then let Morax and Osial suffer both losses.

Now you tell me all the Talisman of Forbidden Covenants are gone, and the key Dottore's workshop is also blown up. How to play this?

And how did Lumine happen to blow up their talisman workshop so coincidentally? Plus, he went to Ningguang's Jade Chamber in the morning, surely Ningguang was meddling in it!

"Lord Childe." At this time, another Fatui next to him suddenly spoke: "Actually, there are still talismans, but they are not the Talisman of Forbidden Covenants. This box of talismans was obtained by Lord Dottore intercepting the Millelith. A total of two boxes were seized, but Lord Dottore only needed one, so we moved the remaining one over. Now the box at Lord Dottore's side has vanished into smoke along with the workshop, so this box in our hands is the only one we can use at the moment."

"Oh?" Childe was a bit curious, so he asked his subordinates to move the talismans up.

Soon a box of talismans was moved over, and a group of Fatui surrounded it.

Childe asked: "What kind of talisman is this?"

The Fatui shook his head: "I don't recognize the characters of Liyue Harbor, but judging from the number of characters, the Talisman of Forbidden Covenants has four characters, and this talisman also has four characters written on it. I think it should be about the same."

"Alright, alright, I recognize Liyue characters, let me see."

Childe said as he opened the box and took out a talisman, frowning.

"Simulated Black Hole? What does that mean?"