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Chapter 124 My name is Shen He...

"Excuse me for asking, why do you call me 'Inner Demon'?" Chen Luo stood up from his seat and slowly walked towards the other person.

Chen Luo wasn't worried about the other person hurting him, since harming each other was prohibited in the Zero Point Bar unless Chen Luo gave permission.

Perhaps there really are people who can disregard the rules and make a move, but Chen Luo happens to know this woman, and in Chen Luo's understanding, she is not capable of breaking such rules.

After all, even Yakumo Yukari couldn't do it, so the opponent must be weaker than Yakumo Yukari.

"The gate that appeared out of nowhere has lingered in my mind ever since I saw it once, yet I can never see it again. What else could it be but a demon in my heart?" the white-haired woman coldly retorted.

"Just as Master said, the form of inner demons is ever-changing. It could even be a bar, and inside the bar is someone I've never seen before. Evil spirits are easy to exorcise, but inner demons are difficult to subdue..."

"You might have misunderstood. I'm not some kind of inner demon. I'm just an ordinary... a tavern owner," Chen Luo said cautiously.

"Skilled in words and feigning weakness, gaining trust by feigning sympathy—everything is just as Master said. Indeed, you are the inner demon." But the woman opposite Chen Luo stubbornly believed that everything Chen Luo did was just a pretense.

"It seems I still have a longing for the mortal world, which has allowed inner demons to invade me. Today, I will personally sever that longing."

"Ice Transformation into Godhood!"

After the white-haired woman finished speaking, ice elemental power gathered, and a talisman instantly took shape. The moment the talisman dissipated, an ice spirit-like being with a similar figure to the woman appeared beside her and charged towards Chen Luo together.

Although you cannot harm others inside the tavern, you can still use your own power.

"Sigh..." Chen Luo sighed.

Although the woman seemed a bit violent, Chen Luo, who knew a little about her, felt that it was already quite generous of her to talk back to him for so long before actually attacking.

As for why the other party would think that he is a demon in his heart?

Perhaps it was because they saw someone summoning the tavern.

Seeing the woman rushing towards him, Chen Luo spread his arms wide, making no attempt to defend himself.

If you can harm even a hair on my head today, I'll admit defeat.

But once the other party gets tired of hitting, they should be able to listen to what I have to say, right?

As expected, another problem child.

Don't you have any normal guests?

However, just as the woman's gun tip was about to touch Chen Luo's brow, the gun stopped a centimeter in front of Chen Luo's brow.

"Hmm?" Chen Luo looked at the woman with a puzzled expression.

Why didn't you hit yourself?

……

"My name is Shen He. I apologize for mistaking you for a demon." At this moment, Shen He had already put away his spear.

For some reason, just as Shen He was about to stab Chen Luo, he stopped.

Could it be that some inner demons even Shen He couldn't bring himself to harm?

Or is it that Shen He still harbors a little bit of attachment to the mortal world?

Of course, Chen Luo wants to reiterate that it is himself, not his inner demons.

"My name is Chen Luo, and I am not a demon."

“I already know that.” Shen He nodded slightly.

"But why did you stop at the last moment?" Chen Luo was very curious about this.

"The Eye of God".

"Ok?"

“You have a Wind-type Divine Eye at your waist.” Chen Luo and Shen He sat facing each other, and Shen He pointed to Chen Luo’s waist.

"Ah, because of this." Chen Luo subconsciously looked at the Eye of God hanging from his waist.

Although his Eye of God has undergone all sorts of insane modifications and absorbed countless amounts of Honkai, it is still the Eye of God, and it is also of the wind element.

To be honest, Chen Luo suspected that his Eye of God had absorbed more Honkai energy than he had ever done.

“Inner demons may appear in various forms, but the authenticity of the Eye of God is not so easy to imitate, especially since it is a wind-type Eye of God that has nothing to do with me,” Shen He said calmly.

Legend has it that the Eye of God is the gaze cast by the gods, and the gods are naturally difficult to imitate.

"Young hero, you have excellent eyesight." Chen Luo bowed respectfully.

"Young hero?" Shen He tilted his head slightly.

As Shen He walked through the mountains and forests, she occasionally performed acts of chivalry. Some people called her a fairy, some called her a witch, but this was the first time she had ever been called a young hero.

"Well, don't worry about it, but may I ask why you think I'm a demon?" Chen Luo asked curiously.

"This one……"

"Of course, if you're concerned about privacy, then you don't need to think about it."

"It wasn't about privacy. A while ago, I was meditating on the mountain. When I reached the top, I suddenly saw a strangely decorated building in an open space in the distance. It looked like a tavern. A woman came out of it and then jumped straight off the cliff."

"But when I realized what had happened and went to the tavern, I found that it had vanished without a trace, and the woman had jumped off the cliff and disappeared. Since then, the tavern has been like an illusion, frequently appearing before my eyes."

"I asked my master about this matter, but he said he didn't notice anything unusual on the mountain and suspected that I was being haunted by my inner demons, so he told me to focus on my cultivation."

"But the more I left the matter of my inner demons, the more it disturbed my cultivation. Finally, today, when I was troubled by the tavern, the tavern appeared."

Shen He didn't continue talking about what happened next, but Chen Luo had already guessed it.

As for the woman, although Shen He was vague, Chen Luo had some guesses.

Who else could it be but Mona?

Excluding Shen He, there are three guests on the Teyvat continent: Venti, Mona, and Yura. It's impossible for Yura to be killing monsters in Mondstadt every day. Venti can fly to other places at will, but it's probably unlikely that she'll go to Liyue, because she'll get beaten up by the Geo Archon.

Moreover, if Chen Luo remembered correctly, Mona first came to the bar after escaping from a secret realm. He heard that the mountain was covered with Qingxin plants, which sounded very much like the mountain where Liuyun Jiefeng Zhenjun lived.

So Mona is definitely the culprit.

"Alright, since it's not a demon in my heart, I should be going now." After clearing up the misunderstanding, Shen He stood up.

It seems the other person didn't intend to stay in this bar for long.

"Wait, all guests are welcome. Would you like to have a bowl of noodles before you leave?" Chen Luo suddenly called out to Shen He.

Why are you walking so fast?

Moreover, Chen Luo felt that if Shen He were to be let go like this, Shen He might never come to this bar again, since Chen Luo had a general understanding of Shen He's personality.

In Liyue, a method similar to astrology is divination, which can predict one's fate. There are two fates that can be considered extremely unlucky in Liyue.

The first is the Lonely Star, and the second is the Calamity Star. Shen He is affected by both, thus he is destined to have the Lonely Star and the Calamity Star.

Therefore, the immortals used the Red Rope Soul Binding Technique on Shen He, binding her fierceness and murderous aura, while also seemingly imprisoning many of the emotions that originally belonged to a human being.

Simply put, it's a man-made three-nothing (no brand, no quality, no service).

Therefore, the other party doesn't have high desires, and if they really leave like that, they will basically never come to the bar again.

Letting a customer slip away like that is not the behavior of a competent store manager.

"Hmm? Noodles...? But I don't have any money on me today." Shen He hesitated for a moment and then shook his head.

Although Shen He had been cultivating on the mountain with the immortals since he was six years old, he still knew that buying things cost money; after all, he wasn't a fool.

Normally, who carries money when hiking in the mountains?

Shen He only prepares some money when he needs to go down the mountain to experience the world; otherwise, money is truly just an external thing.

"It's alright, no money needed, let's just consider it fate." Chen Luo shook his head.

Who cares about money? Chen Luo's family was never short of money, especially since Chen Luo had emptied someone's vault in Changkong City.

What Chen Luo lacks now is raw stone and crystal.

Although Chen Luo now possesses the powers of the Ruler of Domination and the Ruler of Knowledge, both of these are more auxiliary.

If possible, Chen Luo would like to acquire an offensive skill.

"Fate? Okay." Shen He paused for a moment, then sat back down in his seat.

The master spoke of fate a lot, and this might be a special kind of fate.

"Of course it's fate. Not just anyone can come to my bar. It's a bar that connects different worlds. You might even see non-human things in this bar. There are very few customers in the bar, and most of them come after 8 pm."

"If something unexpected hadn't happened today, I wouldn't be in the store right now, and we might have missed each other."

"So it really is fate that we were able to meet."

Chen Luo said as he entered the small kitchen.

Or rather, the connection between Chen Luo and Shen He was largely due to Mona.

If Chen Luo hadn't encountered Mona, who was nearly starving to death, when he sent the Herrscher of Knowledge to Changkong City, he wouldn't have stayed in this bar for long. And if he hadn't stayed, he naturally wouldn't have waited for Shen He to come.

If it weren't for Mona, Shen He wouldn't have caught a glimpse of the Zero Point Bar, let alone considered it his inner demon.

A series of coincidences led to an inevitability, which is truly rare.

A short while later, Chen Luo brought out a bowl of noodles.

“This is…” Shen He was startled when Chen Luo placed the bowl of noodles in front of him.

Looking at the heart-shaped eggs arranged on the table, Shen He was unusually lost in a moment of reminiscence.

“This is Lianxin noodles, you can try it, it should be delicious,” Chen Luo said.

"Should?" Shen He couldn't help but feel a little doubtful.

Shouldn't a peddler be full of praise for what he sells? Why is this person's explanation so vague?

"To be precise, this isn't noodles I made, it's noodles you made." Chen Luo walked over to Shen He with a glass of juice and placed it next to Shen He's bowl of noodles.

Seeing Shen He's puzzled expression mixed with a hint of shock and nostalgia, Chen Luo began to explain: "Sometimes when a person's longing and desire reach their peak, a wish will be created. This tavern captures that wish and creates special delicacies, like the bowl of noodles in front of you."

"I don't know exactly what this bowl of noodles tastes like, but I know it must be the most important food in your heart."

"Now, please try it." Chen Luo gestured for him to try it.

That's right, this is Hua Chenluo's 5 Origin Stone, a dish specially made with mom's cooking, and of course, it's also Shen He's special dish in the game - Lianxin Noodles.

"It doesn't sound like a legitimate method; it sounds more like the method of a wild god who lives by faith in the mountains," Shen He said, taking the chopsticks Chen Luo handed him.

"It's not that it's a wild god, but this tavern is indeed quite peculiar."

Since Chen Luo had offered the dish to the other party on his own initiative, the other party did not make any request. However, Chen Luo felt that if he could keep this customer, the five primal stones would be well spent.

Although everything happening before him made Shen He slightly wary, for some reason, he found the young man in front of him quite pleasing to the eye.

Moreover, Shen He was confident in his own strength and judgment, and at least he did not see any malice in the eyes of the boy opposite him.

Under the boy's gaze, Shen He reached out with his chopsticks to the bowl of noodles in front of him that looked both strange and familiar.

Staring at someone while they eat is somewhat impolite, but Shen He didn't seem to mind Chen Luo staring at him; perhaps the other person didn't see anything shameful about it.

Chen Luo kept staring at the other person. Besides the fact that the other person was the only guest at the moment, the more important reason was that the other person's eating manner was comparable to that of Yulandel, but with some differences.

If we were to use a rather inappropriate analogy, it would be like the feeling of an orphan who lost both parents at a young age eating a bowl of noodles from their memories.

Both the "Mother's Taste" and "Void Wine," priced at only 5 Primogems, do not come with any special effects, but for some people, the recreated taste alone proves everything.

Nostalgia, disbelief, reluctance, melancholy, obsession, relief, and finally, it seems as if nothing was left behind.

A bowl of noodles reveals the myriad aspects of life.

Although Shen He displayed a variety of emotions while eating the noodles, Chen Luo was somewhat relieved that he seemed to be quite satisfied with the dish.

Unfortunately, the only downside was that the other person only ate two bites of their bowl of noodles.

Even finishing 1/10 of it would be difficult.

"What's wrong? Is it not tasty enough?" Chen Luo asked with concern.

For Chen Luo, every guest is precious.

The bar originally only had Wendy as a customer, yet it still managed to earn dozens of Primogems every day. Later, as the number of customers gradually increased, it wasn't impossible to earn 500 or even 1000 Primogems a day if there were enough clever tricks. Of course, this only applies to special circumstances.

Leaving aside cases like Wendy bringing people along, Chen Luo discovered that everyone who came to the bar on their own was a high-quality customer.