Chapter 6 An Unwelcome Goodbye
"...?"
"Actually, I still have a small wish that has not been fulfilled. Look at my empty hands. Is there something missing?"
Hearing Columbia's words, Liu Bai suddenly raised one hand and asked her.
This familiar words made Columbia feel a little uneasy...
“I picked this up!”
The next moment, a soft, white, hollow eye mask, which still retained some of the girl's body temperature, appeared in Liu Bai's hand.
"Haha! I told you not to help me last night! I'm going to Liyue! Bye~!"
After getting the blindfold, Liu Bai ran away, leaving Columbia standing there in silence without the blindfold. The little wings behind her head drooped again, and she was thinking about pushing this man back into the snow in the dark one night and suffocating him to death...
After leaving Columbia's house, Liu Bai walked skillfully in the cold wind to another executive, [Puppet] Sandoni's residence, or rather a machinery factory, not far away.
Coming in front of the girl and the huge machine, Liu Bai walked in front of her without hesitation, and then said seriously:
"Step on me!"
"What the hell? Are you really stepping on it?!"
Seeing the huge machine raising its foot and stepping towards him, Liu Bai was so scared that he quickly dodged to the side.
With a bang, the solid ground was shattered into pieces by the huge machine.
Then the machine continued to chase Liu Bai relentlessly, as if it was determined to complete the kick Liu Bai requested.
"I was just playing Landlord with the pigeons and I didn't call you! Is there any need to be so fierce?"
Liu Bai shouted in panic and ran outside.
"I'm going to Liyue soon. Bye!"
After shouting at the door, Liu Bai hurriedly fled into the distance.
Before Liu Bai could run far, several rockets were fired towards him.
boom--! ! !
After leaving Sandone's residence in a panic, Liu Bai used the teleportation skill during the explosion to reach the next stop, [Ms.] Rosalin's residence.
"Hey, dear lady, are you having afternoon tea? Would you mind preparing a set of bowls and chopsticks for me as well?"
Arriving at Rosalind's elegant and leisurely tea room, Liu Bai, who looked somewhat embarrassed, sat opposite her, talking to himself.
Rosalin and Columbia have a pretty good relationship. It was Rosalin who played Landlord with Liu Bai and Columbia last time.
"It's morning now. And why are you here? What's your business?"
Rosalin was not frightened by Liu Bai's sudden appearance. She just took a sip of black tea gracefully before asking.
"Oh, I'm going to Liyue soon, so I came to say goodbye to you. Don't miss me too much."
Liu Bai picked up the dessert on the table with chopsticks, then dipped it in the black tea poured by the servant next to him and started eating.
"..."
Rosalin felt like hitting someone. Where did the chopsticks come from? Are you eating dumplings?
"You can go if you want. We are not familiar enough to say goodbye."
After calming down her desire to hit someone, Rosalin took another sip of tea and spoke coldly.
"Okay, I'll be leaving now. Good night."
Liu Bai had no choice but to nod his head, picked up a piece of dessert with each pair of chopsticks, and then left without looking back.
Rosalin was left sitting there, speechless.
……
"You suddenly came to me, do you want to help me test the latest experimental results?"
Seeing Liu Bai rushing into his laboratory with a chopstick in each hand, [Doctor] Dotole looked at him with a smile.
"Hiss...Aren't we familiar with each other?"
Liu Bai wanted to say goodbye to Dotole, but was stunned after hearing his words.
"Maybe."
Dotole chuckled and ignored Liu Bai.
He was once interested in Liu Bai, but was later warned by the Queen.
"Excuse me!"
Liu Bai always felt that the atmosphere was not right, so he turned around and slipped away.
……
"Captain! I'm here to say goodbye to you! Thank you for taking care of me over the years! I give you a heart!"
"…Are we familiar with each other?"
"You're not familiar with me either? Aren't you my captain?"
"...Leave quickly."
"Oh my god... I thought everyone had a good relationship."
Finally, Liu Bai visited the mayor again and said goodbye to him before returning to his residence.
……
"Girl, look what good stuff I brought you. Come and try it!"
"I'm not hungry, I'm not hungry. I've already eaten outside. This is specially for you."
Returning to the small house he rented, Liu Bai handed two chopsticks with desserts on them to Nashida.
Other executives are big spenders, and Rosalyn's desserts are all high-end pastries, which Liu Bai can't afford on a normal basis.
"Thank you, but if you eat too much sweet food, you will get sick of it very quickly. I'll just have one piece."
Nashida shook her head gently and only accepted one chopstick.
Liu Bai had no choice but to take the other chopsticks with great reluctance. He could eat one of these cakes in one bite, and he had to admit that the taste was much better than the cheap cakes he bought...
"Well, we've had enough to eat and drink. As the saying goes, when we're well fed, we need silver and jade. Girl, get ready. Let's go to Liyue to get some funds!"
Rubbing his stomach with satisfaction, Liu Bai turned around and said something to Nashida who was taking sips of the pastry.
"..."
Nashida's limited knowledge told her that Liu Bai said something strange and used it in the wrong place.
"Are you really going to Liyue? That place... might be dangerous for you."
Nashida was still a little worried, but her worry had changed from being worried about herself getting into danger to being worried about Liu Bai getting into danger.
"Don't worry, I don't have any other abilities, but I'm stubborn. I want to see which is harder, Morax's rock spear or my skull."
Liu Bai rubbed Nashida's head, then patted his chest with confidence.
Although he didn't know much about the Seven Gods, he at least knew their names.
"Well... I hope you can come back here with me in one piece."
Nashida was suddenly rubbed on the head and said this with a little dissatisfaction.
"Come back together? It turns out you like me quite a lot, girl! I don't even want to go back to Xumi!"
Hearing this, Liu Bai danced with joy.
"...?"
Nashida wanted to ask herself if this was what she meant.
Unable to change Liu Bai's mind, Nashida had to help him pack his luggage.
Then the two of them left the small house together and walked onto the streets of Zhidong.
"...Girl, do you see this iron railing? This thing is sweet in winter!"
On the way leaving Zhidong, Liu Bai thought of something and suddenly leaned over to Nashida's ear and whispered a reminder.
A few minutes later, Nashida turned her head away with a blushing face and refused to pay any more attention to Liu Bai, but at least... the truly interesting bits of trivia had increased.
……
"Ding, Demon God mission released - Liyue: Take the Heart of God from Morax."
"Success reward: random concept skill, failure reward: obliteration."
Above Tianheng Mountain, when Liu Bai appeared out of thin air holding Nashida in one hand, the system prompt sounded in his ears at the same time.
"Accept."
Liu Bai responded, and at the same time, he and Nashida fell freely from a height of 100 meters.
Randomly wrong height...
Thinking this in his mind, Liu Bai put his empty hand together and made a sword finger with a slight move. A long sword condensed from sword energy appeared under Liu Bai's feet, quickly stopping the speed of the two people's falling.
Then Liu Baicai flew to the top of Tianheng Mountain on his sword.
"Does your teleportation ability... require self-harm to activate?"
Nashida immediately reached out and removed the dagger that was still stuck in Liu Bai's clothes. After finding that there was no wound, she asked in some confusion.
She was teleported by Liu Bai twice, and both times she saw Liu Bai stabbing her in the heart with a dagger.
"Yes, this knife is specially used by me for suicide."
Liu Bai nodded in acknowledgement, took the dagger from Nashida's hand with his other hand, and put it back into the narrow pocket he had sewn on the inside of his clothes. Then he looked towards Liyue Harbor under Tianheng Mountain.
Looking at the Liyue-style buildings and roofs from afar, Liu Bai had an illusion that he had traveled back to the ancient times of his previous country.
I had the same feeling the last time I came here, but I only stayed for half a day, took the hairpin and left...
"Is this Liyue Harbor? This is my first time here."
Looking at the bustling and prosperous Liyue Harbor, Nashida was also a little curious.
Her understanding of Liyue Harbor, apart from occasional information she heard from the people of Xumi, was at most mentioned in some economic research papers.
"Come on, girl, let's go downstairs and go to the Northland Bank to get the funds for the operation. Then I'll treat you to a delicious meal!"
Liu Bai couldn't wait to take Nashida's hand and walked down the mountain.
“Does this count as a malicious use of funds?”
Nashida quickened her pace to catch up with Liu Bai, and couldn't help asking a few questions. She didn't know much about the internal affairs of the Fatui.
"Not really. Our job is to get the Heart of God. We don't have to rob it. If we have a good relationship with the God, the God might give it to us for free. So, anything we do to have a good relationship with the God is considered a reasonable use of funds."
"Take Liyue's Geo God for example. If treating Geo God to a meal can improve my relationship with Geo God, I would rather treat Geo God to a meal every day."
Liu Bai has some experience in how to use funds reasonably.
"Hmm, I see. I was feeling a little guilty about using your money for food and drink, but I'm relieved to hear you say that. Please continue to treat me well in the future~"
After listening to Liu Bai's words, Nashida raised her other hand to cover her mouth and chuckled.
"Ah? It's nothing. After all, it's a bit unethical to charge the hostages for extra food."
Liu Bai was obviously stunned for a moment, then replied subconsciously.
After all, Nashida was the "hostage" he kidnapped in Xumi.
"Well……"
Nashida thought for a moment, then revealed an unpredictable smile on her face, and continued to cover her mouth lightly and said: "If that's the case, then I can feel more at ease~"
But then, Liu Bai couldn't help but start thinking seriously.
Is it immoral to charge hostages for food?
He didn't notice that he was originally holding Nashida's wrist, but now Nashida took the initiative to hold his thumb.
……