Chapter 434 Return to Winter
Hearing the sound of the camera, Columbia looked back, but didn't pay too much attention.
"Since Tartaglia released the Whirlpool Demon, the cooperation between Liyue and Winter Solstice has broken down, and most of the soldiers on the ground have been withdrawn."
"As for you, I guess Puccini has given up on you. After all, he won't pay the price of the Liyue Seven Stars to bring you back to the surface."
As the third executive officer, Columbia is very familiar with these matters and the personalities of each executive officer.
And she was not one to mince words, and pointed out directly that the Ninth Company had been abandoned by Rooster Pucciniella.
The commander of the 9th Company opened his mouth and then remained silent in response to Columbia's statement.
They were similar to Mondstadt's expeditionary force, marching from Solstice into the depths of the Stone Abyss in order to resist the dark disaster beneath the ground.
When they first set out, people from both countries thought they were heroic troops who sacrificed themselves to protect others.
However, two months ago, the heroic troops had been abandoned.
In fact, they were caught from under the abyss by the rock dragon lizard after they escaped from Jueyunjian after Ruoli's punishment was over.
They were also affected by the Rock Dragon Lizard riot two months ago, and after the Rock Dragon Lizards retreated, they found that they had lost contact with the Thousand Rock Army on the ground.
At first they thought it was just a problem on the ground that had not been resolved and that they would soon be able to restore contact and get supplies again.
Until they were caught here by the Rock Dragon Lizard again, they had waited for nothing and were almost wiped out by the dark monsters due to lack of supplies.
To be honest, Ruoli saved them when she caught them.
In this way, the people of the 9th Company followed Columbia's orders and lined up in three rows.
"Send them back."
Columbia then turned around and spoke to Liu Bai.
"okay."
Liu Bai nodded, then looked at the earth vein transmitter in his hand, then looked at Columbia, and immediately walked behind her carefully.
"...???"
The Fatui lined up with their eyes wide open as they saw Liu Bai stripping off Columbia's executive officer's coat.
Although from the young lady's words we can infer that this man with a Liyue face is most likely the new executive officer in the rumors, but he is being too presumptuous...
Click——click——
"Why are you taking off my clothes?"
The pink fox next to him was still taking pictures, while Columbia spread the little wings behind his head and looked very furious.
It's just that the way she closed her eyes and stared at others, she inevitably looked a little cute...
"I'm going to send them back to winter. It's so cold in winter. Can they wear more coats?"
Liu Bai said this as a matter of course, and then put on the executive officer's coat, which made the soldiers of the 9th Company's eyelids twitch.
After putting on thick clothes, Liu Bai walked up to the group of soldiers.
"Listen to my command, everyone put your hands on the shoulders of the person on the right and in front of you!"
Liu Bai gave orders to the soldiers.
After receiving the order, the soldiers immediately focused and acted according to Liu Bai's command, connecting everyone together by putting their hands on the shoulders of other soldiers.
Liu Bai then nodded with satisfaction, put a hand on the company commander's shoulder, and activated the earth vein transmitter.
The next moment, Liu Bai and the person he touched with his right hand disappeared from the spot, and when they reappeared, it was already the snowy field in the middle of winter.
"..."
Looking at the captain of the 9th Company, who looked at a loss as he was being pressed on the shoulder and blown by the cold wind, Liu Bai looked down at the earth vein transmitter on his wrist in confusion.
At this moment, a projection suddenly appeared on the earth vein transmitter, forming the image of Nashida in mid-air.
"What happened? I suddenly received an alarm."
Nashida's projection asked Liu Bai in confusion.
This was a new function she added when she modified the earth vein transmitter after making a rice cooker for Liu Bai last time. Before this, it could only perform simple positioning.
"I don't know, girl, just now..."
Although Liu Bai didn't expect to see Nashida suddenly, he accepted it quickly and immediately explained the situation to Nashida.
"I see. Do you remember that the earth vein transmitter needs to be recharged every time? Its energy consumption means that it cannot carry too many people at a time. It should have failed to connect just now."
"Also, it's not a good thing to have too many things that shouldn't be there running around in the earth veins at once. Don't bring so many people next time."
Nashida nodded in understanding and explained the reason to Liu Bai.
"All right……"
Liu Bai scratched his head. In this case, he could only find another way to bring them back.
After hanging up the call with Nashida, Liu Bai took a deep breath, put one hand behind his back, and raised his right hand towards the distance.
Then...
"Here comes the sword... oh no, here comes the person! I picked this up!"
……
Soon Liu Bai brought all the soldiers back to Dong.
While they were still in shock and unable to recover even with the cold wind blowing, Liu Bai told the company commander to go back to the city on their own, and then activated the already charged earth vein teleporter and returned to Liyue.
After landing from the teleportation anchor point, Liu Bai easily found the cave where the ancient rock dragon lizard was lurking.
"?"
The ancient rock dragon lizard was stunned for a moment when it saw Liu Bai. It looked at the underground entrance, then looked at Liu Bai, and was a little confused for a moment.
Liu Bai didn't even say hello to it, but jumped directly into the underground entrance and soon returned to the Rock Dragon Palace which was still being slowly excavated.
"Then you are responsible for this area."
"What are you looking at? Don't think I don't know you're looking at me if you don't open your eyes. It's you who let all my people go. Besides, digging is such a fun job. If I wasn't in a hurry, I wouldn't assign it to an outsider like you."
When Liu Bai came back, he happened to see Ruoli stuffing a hoe into Columbia's hands and assigning her work.
Columbia weighed the hoe in her hands with both hands and looked back at Liu Bai who had just returned.
"..."
"I'm still cold, but I can take it off if you hit me."
Liu Bai immediately explained seriously and wrapped his coat tightly around him.
"Hmm, I'll let you go this time."
Looking at Liu Bai's reaction, Columbia couldn't help but smile and threw away the hoe in her hand.
"Hey, you didn't listen to me at all!"
Ruoli, who found herself being ignored, spoke angrily, then ran to pick up the hoe.
This hoe is no ordinary one. It is a golden hoe forged by her own hands by melting 100 million Moras of Zhongli.
Even if you dig up very hard rock on the ground, ordinary people can break it up with a hoe, and mining is less labor-intensive than farming.
"Ally, how about I help you dig? I haven't tried mining yet... uh, I think I tried it in Fontaine... Anyway, let me try!"
Liu Bai came up to her with some anticipation and touched the golden hoe in Ruoli's hand.
"No, no, you are my ally. I don't need your help with such a small matter."
Ruoli shook her head and refused.
Columbia glanced at the pink-haired fox holding the camera next to her, then walked over to Liu Bai.
"Stop mining. This is my first time in Liyue. Why don't you accompany me for a walk?"
Columbia came up to Liu Bai and made a suggestion to him.
After saying that, she stretched out a hand and placed it on Liu Bai's shoulder.
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