Another week passed like this. After lunch, I heard a knock on the door.
"Ying is back so early today?"
When Arthur opened the door, he found that the person who came in was not Ying who had completed the mission and returned home, but a lady he hadn't seen for a while.
"anything?"
Arthur had already guessed the purpose of the lady's visit. Perhaps it could be said that the lady had never hidden her purpose and had even laid it out in the open during the bargaining. However, because the system was updated with the Eye of God, he did not agree to it.
"I will not be polite. On behalf of the Fatui and the Queen of the Kingdom of Winter, I want to make a deal with you. The content of the deal is the Heart of the God of Wind. You can name any price. As long as the conditions are within our acceptable range, I can make the deal directly."
It's just a casual mention. I didn't expect the lady to speak so loudly as soon as she came. It's just a casual mention. She's not afraid that Arthur the Lion will ask for a high price. But think about Mr. Zhong next door. It seems that he really doesn't care how much he pays for the Heart of God.
"Then I won't be polite. First, the raw stones. I need a lot of them, at least 30,000 pieces."
"Raw stones? Nice looking stones, yes, but 30,000 pieces is a bit too many. We need some time."
"No hurry. Also, I need recipes. I don't need any outrageous recipes. I just need some recipes for common dishes. You can decide on the quantity. There's nothing else to ask for."
"Is that enough?"
The lady didn't expect that what Arthur wanted was so cheap. The raw stone was okay because of its beautiful shape, so it had some value as a collectible, but it didn't cost too much. As for the recipes, although normal restaurants would not prepare those things, as the country with the strongest military among the seven countries, let alone recipes, they can even tell you some secrets.
The price paid this time was not even a fraction of the original compensation, which made the lady unable to understand Arthur's intention.
"That's all. I don't need anything anyway. If you think it's too little, I don't suggest giving you something else."
The lady left to prepare the raw stones, and the villa returned to its usual silence.
Arthur thought that the lady would be gone for a long time this time, but two days later, he saw the lady coming back with several Fatui members carrying boxes.
For some reason I felt a little pity for the Fatui, because the compensation that the lady had promised was indeed fulfilled, and all the personnel engaged in the fighting had been evacuated, leaving only a few clerks in charge of diplomacy and document processing. The lady certainly would not move things by herself, so this job was taken over by the clerks who stayed behind.
I watched several clerks carrying boxes one after another. They were not good at sports to begin with, and the sudden high-intensity work made them sweat profusely. When the last box was finished, the clerks who were in better condition held on to the wall next to them, their legs trembling constantly, while those who were in worse condition lay directly on the ground, and only the occasional twitching of their bodies proved that they were still alive.
Or maybe Arthur cast a cleansing and healing spell on them, so that they wouldn't have to stay here any longer.
He went back and forth and moved about thirty or forty boxes, each of which was about the same size as the boxes that Diluk and Qin had given him before.
Chapter 50: Heart of the Trading God
When Arthur opened the treasure chest, he found that five or six of the boxes were filled with raw stones. Although there was no exact number, according to previous experience, it was about 30,000. That is to say, the remaining 30 or so boxes were filled with other things.
If these are all recipes, even if not all the recipes are collected, there may be something else.
"We've brought everything you asked for."
Arthur put the raw stones together and let the system absorb them. The final result was about 3.2 raw stones. Half of them were used to buy the Heart of God, and the other half was pure profit.
The Heart of God purchased from the system was handed over to the lady. Just as the system said, there was no difference between it and the Heart of God. In this way, the lady's mission was completed, and the incident in Mond was truly concluded.
The next day, Ying, who had returned from Mondstadt, said that the lady had left Mondstadt and no one knew where she had gone. It seemed that the lady had already left to get the next Heart of God.
Arthur finally finished reading the book at hand, and began to open the boxes left by the lady. The boxes were placed by Arthur in the storage room on the third floor. On the third floor, he began to open the boxes one by one. Finally, among the remaining thirty or so boxes, most of them were recipes. Mondstadt and Liyue had the largest number of them. Mondstadt was due to its short distance, and Liyue was due to its large number of recipes. There were also many recipes from other countries. Generally speaking, this wave directly pushed his chef level to the maximum.
Then there were some remaining things. There was a box full of Moras. There wasn't a lot of them, about 200,000. The rest were some books, calligraphy and paintings and the like. Those that could be displayed were placed in the house, and the others that were not used were put in the warehouse.
"Nothing happened today, draw a card!"
I originally wanted to save some primogems for backup, but in fact, there are only two situations: either I have saved them but the number is not much and I can't control myself from drawing cards, or I hoard them and go from cute characters to cute primogems. I'm addicted to hoarding and don't want to spend them.
The remaining raw stones were converted into one hundred sources of entanglement, and as Arthur spoke, the system began to draw the results.
[This time you will receive a five-star reward, which includes a special skill: Smash Varudo.]
[Zhawarudo: After reciting the lines, the surrounding time begins to stand still, but at the same time, you cannot directly attack others. When another command is shouted or the duration ends, time begins to flow normally. ]
[This time you get a four-star reward: a one-time anchor point. After using it, you can light up the anchor point on the map and use the anchor point to teleport. ]
"??? Because of the influence of imaginary numbers before, you destroyed my reward, and I didn't say anything. After the update this time, you won't pretend anymore and just give me one directly?"
[System Tips: After this update, when a four-star item that is useless to the host appears, the reward will be converted into faith value and used for the special lottery in which the item God's Heart participates.]
[The current number of God's Heart Faith Value is 21 (four-star conversion), plus the Faith Value the host obtained from Mondstadt, the total is 211 points. At that time, a special reward opportunity was used to rescue the host. The current Faith Value is 111 points. A special lottery can be held every 100 points. ]
"Come, let me see what this special lottery you mentioned several times is."
After opening the special lottery interface, another familiar prop appeared in front of me. Yes, it was the long-lost cat machine.
Just looking at the list, you can see all kinds of strange rewards. Not to mention the various Mondstadt-specific materials, there are also some small notebooks with the black materials of certain nobles, the love novel hidden by Jean, and even an exquisite little box called "Babatus".
However, this card pool is more like the special card pool during the first draw. You can choose the type. For example, if you choose a weapon, it will list various weapons of Mond, including but not limited to five-star weapons such as the Sky Harp and the Wind Eagle Sword.
However, due to the difficulty in extracting and the fact that all items are disposable, it is better to keep them for emergency use.
I put the disposable anchor point in the storage room on the third floor and left an empty space for it. The location of the anchor point was shown on the map, but fortunately, the anchor point had no duration, otherwise it would only last for 7 days. I was afraid that if I stayed at home for a few days, the anchor point would expire.
The next day, Arthur found that he had read all the books in the house. This was because the lady had sent some of them, otherwise he would have probably finished reading them when she came.
The high-speed learning ability brought by the preference of the Imaginary Number Tree is indeed very useful when studying, but it is more like a mechanism of survival of the fittest. When used to relax, the speed of reading is also faster than that of ordinary people, so now suddenly there is nothing to do.
After staying at home for so long, it’s time to go out and move around.
When Arthur and Ying finished breakfast in the morning, Arthur proposed to go to the Adventurer's Guild with Ying.
After a long absence, Ying came to Mondstadt and brought Arthur to the Adventurer's Guild with ease. During the journey, no one stopped Arthur. Some people even greeted Arthur after he arrived in Mondstadt, and some people took out various things to give to Arthur.
In the end, Arthur declined and the two of them came to the Adventurer's Association.
She is still the same Miss Catherine who works all year round, rain or shine.
"Towards the stars..."
"Catherine, just give me the task directly. No need to say anything."
"Welcome to..."
"Task!"
Ying directly interrupted Catherine's spell. I didn't expect that I could see this scene in reality, but I felt that Catherine's smile when she looked at Ying was a little scary. It was clearly the same smile, but I had a feeling that Catherine was going to stab someone.
"Okay, this is your task for today."
After handing a note to Ying, Catherine turned and looked at Arthur.
"Long time no see, Mr. Arthur, are you here to take on the mission today?"
Arthur nodded. Although he was not short of money for the time being, it was still necessary to kill time.
"Because of Mr. Arthur's performance in Mondner, the Adventurer's Association will relax the restrictions on accepting quests. This is today's commission list. Do you have any you would like to accept? The number can be no more than four."
After a final look, I selected four relatively easy tasks. As for Ying, she had already left to do her own task.
"Miss Catherine, aren't tasks assigned but self-selected?"
Seeing that Ying accepted the mission and was given a task list and it was over, while he could choose freely, Arthur was a little curious.
"It's like this. Except for some difficult or designated tasks, adventurers can accept tasks freely. But Miss Ying felt that choosing tasks was too troublesome, so she just asked me to give her four tasks every day."
How should I put it, this is indeed Ying’s style. After getting the mission information, Arthur also went to complete his mission.
Chapter 51: The Wolf is Coming
Three of them are combat missions, mainly to use them to smash Varudo. After all, many people who have watched JOJO have dreamed of having a Stand, or being able to use the power of Star Platinum or The World.
Especially that line, so cool.
Being strong is a version of something, but being handsome is for a lifetime.
The first thing was to clear out the Ruin Guards of the Thousand Winds Temple. The person who issued the commission was actually Qin. It seemed that the Ruin Guards that were defeated at that time had recovered. However, as few people would go to the Thousand Winds Temple, Qin did not send anyone to solve the problem. Instead, she chose to issue a commission. One was to let the Adventurer's Association see if anyone could solve the problem, and the other was to remind other adventurers that there were Ruin Guards in the Thousand Winds Temple, so they should pay attention to safety.
When I arrived at the Thousand Winds Temple, I saw a Ruin Guard wandering around. It was still the same one as before. It was just right, so it wouldn't be a waste to use my ability on the Ruin Guard.
When they arrived at the ruins guard, the ruins guard was forced to stop his action as soon as he discovered the enemy's attack.
"Smash Varudo."
The surrounding scenery suddenly became dim, and everything around me remained still except for myself.
After all, it is to use skills to reminisce the classics, but because there is no steamroller, we can only use some ordinary props.
Arthur took out a large number of low-star spears that he had won in the lottery. He had once complained that there were so many types of weapons, but why were all the low-star weapons spears? Now the chance to use them has come.
He flew into the air with the help of the wind and threw a spear at the ruins guard with force. The spear was nailed to the spot just after it was thrown. Then one, two, three, ten, and finally densely packed spears surrounded the ruins guards in every corner. Only then did Arthur put down the spear to continue the attack.
"Then time started to flow."
Finally, Arthur turned his back and said what he had wanted to say for a long time. When he first watched Jojo and then Gensokyo Re:The Last Airbender, the scene where the pad captain flew to surround the enemy and then turned around and left in style, made Arthur dream of having the ability to stop time.
Now that I have the opportunity, of course I have to realize my previous ideas.
The surrounding scenery returned to normal, and the thrown spear also regained its power. The gun body was still wrapped in green airflow. This was the technique to improve shooting power that Arthur learned from Wendy, but it was used here.
Looking back at his masterpiece, it seems that this time the ruins guard will never recover. After all, he has been pierced like a sieve, with all kinds of holes pierced by spears all over his body.
Finally it can be summed up in one word: awesome!
Sure enough, stopping time is the romance of men. (Those who think of strange things, please reflect on it.)
The remaining two battle commissions are ordinary Hilichurls. There is no need to stop time. Just manipulate the wind to attract all the surrounding enemies, and then manipulate the Honkai energy to continuously compress the absorbed Hilichurls and easily solve the enemies.
The last commission is almost a must-have task for novice adventurers, because the task is simple and the distance is short, so it is loved by novice adventurers.
It was to drive away the pigeons on the bridge, but there was an obstacle, that was the little boy, Timmy. Everyone was complaining, because it was Timmy who attracted the pigeons. After the pigeons were driven away, Timmy kept complaining. It was a task that couldn't be easier, but Timmy had to bother them all the way. So when the adventurers were no longer newcomers, almost no one took the job.
"Oh, since my people are troubled, I must solve the problem once and for all."
Maybe the impact of the previous second-year behavior has not dissipated. Fortunately, there was no one else around, otherwise there would be a few more people mysteriously missing.
When we returned to Mondstadt, we did see pigeons on the road and a little boy feeding the pigeons.
I recalled the story about Timmy. When he was doing the mission, he said that his father was like a pigeon that would never come back. He felt a little guilty at the time, so he killed one less pigeon.
Now that he has seen this task, he needs to let Timmy reflect on himself and find a way to prevent him from causing trouble for others. As for the method, Arthur has already thought of it in his mind.
Arthur came to the middle of the bridge and came to Timmy's side. When the pigeon saw someone coming, he was about to run, but was controlled in place by Arthur who secretly used Honkai energy.
"You guys...eh, the pigeon didn't run away?"
Timmy was about to complain, but when he saw that the pigeons were not scared away, he forgot his lines for a moment.
"Sorry, I thought the pigeons were scared away again."
After hearing Timmy's apology, it seems that although many people dislike Timmy for his handling of pigeons, he actually has a good personality and is very polite if there are no pigeons involved, so everyone just ignores him.
"It's okay, but why do you feed pigeons on the bridge? It will only hinder people passing by."
Because it was related to pigeons, Timmy brought up his strange childish theory again. Maybe it was because the pigeons did not leave. He did not mention his father, but just said that he regarded the pigeons as friends and did not want the pigeons to get hurt.
"Well, can I tell you a story?"
Without waiting for Timmy to answer, he began to tell Timmy a story.
"A long, long time ago, before Mondstadt was built, there was a little boy named Nicolmat in a human tribe. He had many good friends, but because his family was busy with work, he unknowingly developed a habit of teasing others."
"The first time, when several people were playing hide-and-seek, Nicolmart suddenly shouted to everyone, "A wolf is coming!" Everyone left in a hurry, and some went to ask adults for help. Then they found that there was no wolf at all. Because it was the first time, everyone chose to forgive his joke."
"Then the second time, when his friends were chasing each other in the field, he shouted to everyone, 'The wolf is coming.' Once again, everyone ran away, but did not go to find the adults. After a while, they found out that he was lying again. No one said anything, but just left unhappily."
"Then after one joke after another, everyone gradually stopped taking the boy's words seriously, until one day, a real wolf appeared. No one believed him, and everyone stayed where they were. When the boy came back, he found that all his friends were gone, and only blood and torn clothes were left on the ground. No one saw the boy again. Some said that he went to seek revenge on the wolf, while others said that he was a spy sent by the wolf and now he has returned to the wolf pack."
Arthur told Timmy the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf with a modified ending. Timmy, who originally wanted to say that he was not a child and did not need to listen to stories, was slowly attracted to the story.
Chapter 52: Leaving
"So, Timmy, just like in this story, the people here refer to the pigeons, and you are the boy. You make the pigeons believe in you again and again and attract them to you, just like in the story of the boy who cried wolf. Every time you feed them, they choose to believe you, but you make them lose their trust in you again and again. In this way, the pigeons will not believe you in the end, and even when they are scared away by others, they will think that those people were attracted by you."
Although the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is essentially a lie, Timmy attracts pigeons to traffic arteries again and again, and scares the pigeons away again and again. Isn't this a deception to the pigeons that trust him?
"So it was my fault. Did I deceive the pigeons?"
Because of Mond's liberal education and life philosophy, the children's ideas are very unique, and Timmy is the weirdest among them. A distorted theory directly leads him by the nose.
Fortunately, Arthur's action was well-intentioned, otherwise if the deceiver was the Fatui, Timmy would probably be the material in the laboratory tomorrow. But it is also possible that Timmy was fooled because of Arthur's identity. Because the words of the hero, no matter how strange, will be regarded as unique and admired.
"Then what should I do? I didn't mean to deceive the pigeons!"
Timmy was indeed fooled, but this was exactly what Arthur wanted. It seemed that this task, which was said to be a must-do for novices, would come to an end today.
"If I remember correctly, there is a small gate on the east side. There are only some woods and a small ferry there. You can feed the pigeons in the woods. They will even roost there in the future. You don't have to worry about scaring them, and it will be more convenient for you to settle down there."
"Thank you, brother. I will leave with the pigeons now."
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