Genshin Impact: The Beginning of the Wind

"And don't forget, I have two Hearts of God in my hands."

Compared to Ying's wariness, Nashida herself didn't care much about the Doctor. She simply stated the conditions she currently had and asked the Doctor to give her a price. The Doctor, who was originally prepared to lie down and let her have her way, felt a headache after hearing this.

After all, the conditions given by the other party and the conditions set by oneself are two completely different things.

Nasida could never know what Zhidong actually possessed, so even if she could offer conditions, it would at most revolve around something like the resources of a mortal. For Zhidong, no matter how much she paid, she would accept it as long as she could get two Hearts of God in return.

But it's different when the Doctor sets the terms himself. After all, he is the executor of the Fatui and the second seat in charge of research. He knows best what Winter has to offer, so even if it's just to save face for the gods, he has to offer something truly good.

Is it impossible to lie down comfortably?

This cunning answer left the doctor somewhat helpless, but he had no choice but to give the conditions.

"Then... what if I were to exchange knowledge for these two Hearts of God—for example, the false heaven above us..."

Chapter 52 Nasita seems to have forgotten her family?

"These guys in winter are quite troublesome."

After the Doctor completed the transaction with the God of Knowledge and Wisdom and left with the two Hearts of God, Narcida offered this sarcastic remark.

It seems she doesn't particularly like the cunning doctor who exchanges knowledge for the Heart of God.

This is quite normal, after all, Winterfall is now almost the convergence point of all the raging currents and dark waves in Teyvat, and who knows when the Winterfall Queen will step out and give everyone a huge 'surprise'.

Moreover, the Doctor has brought no shortage of suffering to Sumeru. If it weren't for the Winter and Ice God behind him, Narcida would have preferred to bury the Doctor in the ground to be used as fertilizer for the Sacred Tree.

Unfortunately, we can't do that now, and Sumeru doesn't have enough strength to fight against Zhidong.

Furthermore, although Narcida did not know what the Queen of the East wanted to do, since Wendy and Zhongli had both chosen to give away the Heart of God, it was not unacceptable for her to give it away in return after receiving a certain reward.

The key point has never been what kind of reward was received, but rather what kind of name was used to hand over the Heart of God.

She might not know the answer, but copying homework from her seniors wasn't difficult. Besides, the Great Tree King also suggested throwing this thing away, so she just had to do as he said.

Since the Wind God was 'robbed', the Rock God was 'contracted', and the Thunder God was simply 'a servant who couldn't be a retainer', then as the youngest of the gods, it seems possible that she could also have been coerced by someone using forbidden knowledge?

Yes, that's certainly a good reason.

"Then the next step is to stabilize the situation of Sumeru. After the forbidden knowledge is removed, Sumeru should become much more stable, right?"

In short, after sending away the guy who was most likely to cause trouble for Sumeru, Nasita breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that she has been exhausted lately.

That's understandable, though. Nasita, who has never managed a country before, suddenly has to start thinking about all sorts of national issues, which is a bit of a challenge for her.

Even with the Great Tree King as a reference, it's the same.

Unfortunately, when faced with Nasita's relieved expression, Su Feng shook his head with a hint of malice.

"The work isn't finished yet, Nasita can't rest now!"

A casual remark immediately made Nasita glare angrily at Su Feng, who was still lying in mid-air. If it weren't for the fact that Su Feng had just saved Xumi, she might have bitten him right away.

However, Su Feng simply ignored Nasida's utterly harmless gaze.

"Although the forbidden knowledge of the World Tree has been dealt with, and the Dead Zone and Demon Scale Disease will no longer appear in Sumeru, have you forgotten that the World Tree cannot delete things that have already appeared?"

"So...aren't you going to help your family members? You know, their homes used to be taken over by the Dead Zone, and now they can only make their home in dreams!"

Su Feng shrugged and reminded Nasita to pay some attention to her familiars—although the Lannaros were only active in the rainforest, they had paid a huge price to fight against the Abyss.

Su Feng had met that cute little guy before, and those little guys didn't seem like they could solve all the problems they faced on their own.

"..."

"Hey!"

After hearing Su Feng's reminder, Nasita remained silent for a long time before letting out a rather cute exclamation. Clearly, this unreliable god had almost forgotten about her own followers.

As a deity, Nasita is somewhat unqualified, but this cannot be entirely blamed on her, since she is still relatively young.

Furthermore, although Lanaro is her familiar, she was also created by the Great Tree King, so it's not strange that she sometimes can't remember her...right?

Although she comforted herself with these thoughts, Nasita quickly looked at Su Feng with a mixture of embarrassment and expectation, as if she hoped Su Feng could help her.

After all, although she was a god, Nasita had devoted all her power to the cyber realm. However, while these methods were very effective against mortals, they were quite limited in their effectiveness against the Dead Zone and the Abyss.

As for the Great Tree King—now only a little information flow and consciousness remain, the Great Tree King doesn't seem like someone who can be used for battle, so Nasita naturally and instinctively focused her attention on the person with the highest combat power on the field.

"I think you should consider Ying. If I were to handle it, I would just send the Dead Zone and anything else related to it to the heavens!"

However, when faced with Nasita's charming gaze, Su Feng simply spread his hands and pushed Ying forward. Ying, who had been watching the show from the sidelines, was suddenly assigned a task and looked at Su Feng in confusion.

“Don’t look at me. I don’t think you’ll just stay here during your time in Sumeru. As long as you wander around, you’ll definitely run into those cute little guys, and with your personality, you’ll definitely get involved in it.”

"So what's wrong with accepting the mission right here?"

Su Feng said this in a way that was almost like sophistry, and Ying was speechless when she heard this explanation. What made her even more helpless and wanting to cover her head was that Paimon next to her actually nodded seriously, as if she thought Su Feng's words made a lot of sense!

As expected, this emergency ration was no good. I'll have to teach them a lesson when it's just the two of them alone later!

Although she was secretly thinking about teaching Paimon a lesson, Luminous did not refuse the task assigned to her. After all, when Narcida opened her bright green four-leaf clover eyes and looked at you, no one could say no, right?

Anyway, Ying couldn't refuse.

"Then I will give you a blessing and a piece of music. Just play this music in the forest, and the Lannaros will naturally come to you."

After receiving Ying's affirmative answer, Nasita couldn't help but smile. She also hoped that Sumeru could leave a good impression on Ying.

"Since I have things to do, I'll leave now. Just remember to contact me if you need anything."

Now that she had received the mission, she naturally had to complete it as soon as possible. So after receiving Nasita's blessing and music, Ying simply set off with Paimon. Although there was no evidence, Ying felt that this mission might not be so easy to complete, so she decided to take advantage of the free time and get started!

Chapter 53: How to deal with stragglers?

Although it's quite embarrassing to accidentally forget your family members, at least there are now remedial measures, so the matter has been put behind us.

Yes, that should be over by now.

Narcida believed that Ying would be able to help Lanalo and the others resolve the problems left over from the past. She only needed to provide sufficient assistance when necessary, which was not difficult for Narcida.

"So now... what are you going to do with this guy?"

The situation on Lanaro's side wasn't troublesome, but the other guy Su Feng brought out now was not so easy to deal with.

Even Nasita felt overwhelmed when she saw the stragglers being carried by Su Feng.

This puppet cannot be disposed of casually. After all, it is still a creation of the Shadow, and directly destroying it would be somewhat disrespectful to the Shadow.

Moreover, after retrieving the skirmisher's past experiences from the World Tree, even Narcida couldn't help but feel sorry for the guy's pitiful fate.

This child's life was almost a tragedy from beginning to end!

However pitiful they are, the sins committed by the traitors after they turned to the dark side cannot be so easily erased.

Although she was a kind-hearted deity, Nasita knew that simply forgiving the soldiers was not only irresponsible to Sumeru, but also to those who had suffered even more tragically under the soldiers' madness.

But... how exactly should we deal with the stragglers?

Nasita was hesitant. She really didn't know how to make the Scatterers pay for the sins they had committed—letting the guy die was definitely not an option, not only because he was the Shadow's puppet, but more importantly because even if the Scatterers died now, it wouldn't undo what had happened.

"This child... I don't know what to do. Do you have any ideas?"

After thinking for a long time, Nasita could only shake her head and say that she really had no way to deal with the stragglers. After all, even someone as wise as her was not sure if the stragglers could really turn over a new leaf.

"Then... how about we give him all the information about him that we extracted from the World Tree?"

"Although he's just a false god, he's barely been granted a divine throne. He might be of some use. After all, Sumeru is quite weak right now, so having someone like him could at least be of some help to you?"

"Moreover, letting him know what happened in the past is torture for him in itself."

After shaking the still unconscious soldier in his hand, Su Feng gave his suggestion.

The current state of Sumeru is indeed very weak. After all, compared to the previous three countries, the gods of Sumeru are somewhat less capable in combat. Although Sanbing has fallen from his divine throne, he was still someone who once stood on it, so his combat strength should still be barely acceptable.

This is definitely a decent fighting force for the currently turbulent Sumeru.

"Is that okay?"

Naxida hesitated slightly after hearing Su Feng's suggestion.

It wasn't that Nasita was worried that she was no match for the Scatter Soldier—even as the God of the Righteous Machine, it would only take Nasita a little effort to pull the Scatter Soldier into her dream and trap him. Moreover, the Scatter Soldier wasn't that powerful now, so it wouldn't be difficult for Nasita to deal with him.

But the soldier's awkward personality was really not suitable as a subordinate. Nasita even worried that one day if she wasn't careful, the soldier would fight the people of the Order of the River.

"You shouldn't need to worry about that. What you should be worried about now is whether this guy will become self-destructive and want to commit suicide after he finds out what happened to him."

"After all, his personality is quite extreme."

As Su Feng said this, he shook the soldier who had clearly woken up. He had deliberately said it to the soldier who was pretending to be unconscious, and just as he had expected, the soldier who had been pretending to be unconscious suddenly opened his eyes after hearing this.

"What on earth do you mean!"

Although he was still very weak, the soldier still tried his best to open his eyes wide to make himself look stronger—even though he knew that his actions had no effect on Su Feng.

"It means exactly what it says. We searched for your past information in the World Tree and unexpectedly discovered a lot of interesting things. So we were worried that you would choose to self-destruct after knowing this information."

"Although I don't really care about your life or death, I did promise Shadow to look after you a little, so self-destruction in Sumeru is not an option—if you really don't want to live, you'd better run to Shadow."

"If you challenge her to a duel, Shadow probably wouldn't mind destroying you, her test subject, herself."

Su Feng paid no attention to the angry glares of the stragglers; in fact, he deliberately stabbed the guy in the heart with every word he uttered.

As he expected, even though he was still extremely weak after hearing these words, the soldier still tried his best to gather the elemental power in his body and prepare to fight to the death with this guy who insulted him.

Unfortunately, before he could complete the use of his elemental power, a dark red force rushed into his body, and the soldier was immediately horrified to find that he had lost control of his body in an instant.

This is not surprising, after all, the consciousness of the scattered soldiers, which was riddled with holes after connecting to the void system and absorbing a lot of knowledge from the gods, was no match for Su Feng, who had already mastered the power of consciousness.

Moreover, the gap between the two sides is immeasurable. For Su Feng, controlling the consciousness and body of the scattered soldiers is just a matter of a thought.

"I think you'd better let me finish what I have to say. You really have a terrible temper. If you continue like this, then I'll really have no choice but to pack you up like a gift and mail you to Ying."

"I just happen to remember that Komahaya has started international express delivery now, so it shouldn't be a problem to mail you directly to Kage."

Knowing perfectly well that Sanbing was not mentally sound, Su Feng decisively began to threaten him, and Sanbing naturally became even more furious when faced with Su Feng's threats.

But the huge disparity in strength between the two sides left him with virtually no ability to resist.

Moreover, he is just a prisoner now. What can he do when facing Su Feng, who is even difficult for gods to contend with?

So the soldier had to suppress his anger before continuing to ask in a low voice, "What do you know? What wrong things happened in my past experiences?"

Although the Skirmisher is crazy and arrogant, it doesn't mean he's really a fool. He knows that the World Tree contains all the information about Teyvat, so it's normal for Su Feng to know things that he doesn't.