Chapter 15

Liuhuo saw that Baishu seemed to be asking herself this question, so she replied: "I know, but there is no point in telling you."

She thought Teyvat was pretty good and had no intention of causing trouble.

In fact... she decided that "immortality" could not be granted after she judged Baishu as a "well-behaved human".

——The reason is also very simple: bad people want to live longer, 800% of them want to make a profit...

What about good people?

Especially a doctor like Baishu, why does he want to live forever?

Zhongli, whose sleeve was pulled by Liuhuo, chose to let her let go of her sleeve and held her hand normally: "What price do humans have to pay for immortality?"

Liuhuo: "Pay? This is not a transaction. There is no price that humans need to pay."

"As long as humans can accept the consequences."

Zhongli lowered his eyes: "Sure enough..."

"Humans are very fragile," Liuhuo did not hesitate to express her point of view, "Even if they get rid of the body that will age and lose its vitality in the blink of an eye, they can't resist the wear and tear brought by time and memory, and will eventually only get closer... closer..."

The dark image flashed in his consciousness and he could only skip it: "Before the group enters a situation where there is no salvation, I am willing to weave a dignified death for them."

Fortunately, these words came from Liuhuo's mouth and only entered Zhongli's ears: "Unfortunately, you are not... a certain ethnic group... You can only rely on yourself..."

Zhongli completed the sentence: "...resist wear and tear."

"..." Liuhuo nodded, "You can complete it this way."

- At least it sounds similar in meaning.

Zhongli confirmed the direction: "I think... you are not in infancy?"

"... Maybe" Liuhuo was silent for a while, "Since instinct maintains the current form, I think... Teyvat is just a planet after all, it is too difficult to maintain the operation of the main body..."

Then he shook his head: "With the level of Nashida and... that person, they can invade the memory stream. Teyvat is more fragile than I expected..."

Zhongli heard her say this, and seemed a little helpless: "I hope it won't attract attention..."

Liuhuo continued to pull Zhongli's hand forward-she didn't want to suck the earth veins dry to feed herself, so she could only wait for "some existence" to find her and take her away in return.

Life is not easy, Liuhuo sighed: For a planet of Teyvat's size, let alone a full meal, it's not even a Snickers bar. She likes it here, there is really no need to eat it.

I thought there would be no follow-up after this conversation, but it was unexpected for Liuhuo that Kong brought Baishu to find her afterwards.

As the mouth of God, Paimon hurriedly told them that Baishu had helped them save his senior sister's husband, but the incurable disease and the remnants of the demon god were cured by the puppet brought by Kong. Then Baishu knew about their relationship and hoped to visit Liuhuo again through Kong.

"I... I think Baishu is right..." Paimon scratched his head, "If he can continue to be a doctor with Changsheng after he obtains Changsheng... I think this ending is not bad..."

Liuhuo tapped his face with his fingertips a few times: "I want to ask him a few questions."

Baishu agreed, and behaved politely. Changsheng on his neck did not dare to make a sound, which was far from the image of Paimon who liked to tease her.

"So, you just want to maintain your own and... Changsheng's survival, and you have no intention of giving "Changsheng" to others, right?"

Baishu gave an affirmative answer.

Liuhuo: "Even if you are tortured by "Changsheng" one day, you only want to die with dignity? "

Bai Shu once again gave an affirmative answer.

Liuhuo: "Until... you can no longer move forward as a human being... to an unknown end?"

Bai Shu's attitude was quite clear.

"Then become "■■"," Liuhuo opened his eyes on his chest, and Bai Shu saw black tears in a trance... It seemed as if it was a complete illusion, "exhaust yourself to find the answer, to prove that the road you took in the beginning was a dead end."

Liuhuo didn't remember where this power came from, but she could sense that this power, like a tree without roots and water without a source, constituted most of her "existence" - even at this time, Liuhuo could also distract herself to think about whether this was a foreshadowing of her own ending.

Kong and Paimon really didn't expect that Liuhuo's style of taking action as soon as she said it would be reflected even in such a big thing, and there was no chance to stop her. When Liuhuo turned back into a blue-haired, red-eyed loli again, the matter was over.

"Bai Shu? ... Are you okay? "

Paimeng didn't even dare to speak loudly, for fear of scaring something.

Seeing Bai Zhu thoughtful, Paimeng could only turn his head to look at Kong: "Is this all right?"

Kong also had this question, so he looked at Liuhuo again -

"Of course it's impossible," Liuhuo gasped in the spotlight, "every five or six hundred years, I have to lay eggs again, which counts as my next life."

Then she pulled out a container that looked like a landscape fish tank from somewhere: "Put the eggs in here. "

Bai Shu... Bai Shu has been silent.

Kong and Paimon accompanied Bai Shu back to place the egg-laying container. Xiao Fenglun, who had been watching the whole process outside, came in. Perhaps he wanted to say something, but in the end he was silent for a few minutes, thanked him for his help several days ago, and left again.

People who visited Liuhuo came and went, but this did not affect Kavi's happiness - he brought Liuhuo back to Xumi with a new project and sufficient budget: the first thing he did was not to go home to rest, but to pull Tinari Seno and (who came to eat and joined passively) Elhaisen, and started talking about the new things they ate in Liyue, the interesting people they met, and - the notes they took while listening to the stories.

Tinari: It's for Elhaisen.

Seno: It's for Elhaisen.

Elhaisen: There are no scholars of the Cause Theory School here, so...

Kavi: "How about it! This note is enough to write three new papers! "

Tinari, who is good at smoothing things over, said, "Come to think of it, Cole told me that she is going to Mond to attend the Windflower Festival. Senor and I are going to accompany her. Kavi, you guys..."

Recalling the work Kavi was supposed to do, Tinari changed the topic directly, "Liuhuo, do you want to go with us? "

Kavi thought it was a good idea after hearing this - after all, he felt that Elhaisen couldn't take good care of Liuhuo, and he himself might often stay in Aru Village in the future. At this time, it would be reassuring to hand it over to Tinari.jpg

Liuhuo didn't know why Kavi agreed, but she didn't care where she was... How to say it, the whole of Teyvat was like a flat to her, and she didn't care which room she lived in - so she nodded in agreement.

"I see..." Kong and his group, who met them at the gate of Mondstadt, listened to Tinari's explanation and discussed the antidote for poisonous mushrooms and Seno's role-playing game... "Adventurer Seno, technical consultant Tinari, musician Cole... and..." Paimon couldn't help laughing, "The money-giving boy Liuhuo hahahahahaha..."

- Because the matter of exchanging the design for the picture frame was finally passed all the way to Seno, the two mentors of the Sulun School and the Zhilun School jointly bought the design of the hand armor. When tracing the source, the owner of the jewelry store was almost interrogated by the Grand Disciplinary Officer himself...

Anyway, because he always traded rare items for ordinary toys, Liuhuo's role in this role-playing game was directly decided.

Liuhuo: ... whatever.

Anyway, the butter fried fish for the picnic tonight is delicious.

As a person who also thinks food is delicious, Tinari directly asked Albedo for the recipe: Liuhuo thought Tinari would definitely not refuse his request to see it.

As for the jokes during the meal... it's okay, Liuhuo has mastered the high-end skill of being in a daze if he doesn't want to listen.

When the meal was almost finished, the smoke from the cooking attracted Cole's friends Amber and Eula - but this had little to do with Liuhuo, she was already working hard to clean up her own dishes.

After that, Cole seemed to form a temporary small team with Sucrose and Sora because of some prophecy story, and Liuhuo was also classified by them into the group of "people who don't lie" - after agreeing to write the answer and put it in the mailbox, Albedo also asked about the characteristic social relationship of Xumi's "academic family" - Tinari first explained that Xumi did objectively have this kind of "family", but they were not.

Senor added that they were simply like brother and sister, he was the oldest and Cole was the youngest - Liuhuo was more like the sister of Kawi and Elhaisen - and then Tinari refuted that Kawi was obviously taking care of Liuhuo as a daughter...

"As for age..." Tinari looked at Liuhuo and smiled, "Maybe Liuhuo is the oldest one."

Liuhuo: There is no need to add "maybe" to this sentence, Baroka Shuna.

- As for sister or daughter... Liuhuo's research on human social relations is not in-depth, I am afraid I can't give any reliable answers.

Tinari is now cooperating with Albedo in research, and Liuhuo followed Tinari to places such as Mond Library and Albedo's laboratory - Tinari also asked Liuhuo to do his share of Mond plant specimens - of course, he also took the time to draw a picture and put it in the Sugar Mailbox as an answer.

Well, by the way, Albedo also taught Liuhuo how to use the alchemy table - when Tinari noticed it, Liuhuo had already made a special charm potion.

"..." Tinari held his forehead with his hand... In this regard, it is the 'abnormal' Liuhuo that is much more difficult to deal with than Cole.

Liuhuo looked at Tinari's expression... and took out the special-grade life·wisdom potion.

"...Okay, I understand..." Tinari took the potion, "Thank you Liuhuo."

Liuhuo probably made so many bottles in order to try out the potion that is suitable for giving to them...

After that, Cole received the special-grade strength·wisdom potion, and Seno received the special-grade strength·agility potion - and Kavi and Elhaisen also looked at each other with the potions - this is all foreseeable, right?

Finally, with blessings for Cole, Liuhuo and the others returned to Xumi - well, Liuhuo hadn't thought at this time that it turns out that festivals are something that every country has...