Reading poems from Teyvat

Although from the boy's perspective, she was probably just angry with herself.

Shen Zhigui hesitated for a moment:

"It's a bit too dark to eat noodles with alcohol."

Of course, Shen Zhigui himself didn't drink at all, so he had no right to comment on this. Eula just took it as his tacit agreement and took out a bottle of dandelion wine that she had treasured for a long time from her God's Eye space, and also took out the matching cups. In this messy room, it actually looked like it had a purely petty-bourgeois atmosphere in Shen Zhigui's eyes.

However, his feelings were soon shattered when Eula drank the contents of the cup in one gulp with great relish.

However, despite this, when drinking, Eula still maintained the reserved temperament of a noble lady, as if there was some historical origin behind each of her actions. Although Shen Zhigui thought it was just nonsense between drunkards, it was still interesting to see the expression on the face of a beautiful big sister like Eula change from sober to turbid, and her complexion changed from snow-white to pink. Although Shen Zhigui did not like drunkards to go crazy, he found it quite interesting to see people like Eula go crazy when drunk.

So he just waited and watched.

So soon, after Eula just kept pouring wine into her mouth, her expression became less sober, and a light blush appeared on her cheeks. She sat there with drunken eyes, as if she was calming down and pondering the ultimate questions of life such as who she was, where she was, and where she was going, but in the end she still grabbed the wine glass and poured the wine into her mouth.

So the ultimate meaning of her life is actually to drink and sing?

Shen Zhigui couldn't help but shook his head.

"Hey! Why are you shaking your head? Do you think I look ugly now?"

Eula finally relaxed a little at this time:

"Although I know very well that I look ugly now, and I am clearly the one being given charity, I always want to act useful, as if by doing that, I can truly live up to the name and stand by your side..."

"Actually, I never care whether making friends is useful or not."

Although he didn't seem to have the confidence to say so fundamentally.

Because his intentions were impure from the beginning when he approached these people.

But at his current level, he was too lazy to continue competing with others or gaining recognition from others. Although Shen Zhigui was more or less aware that if he could get the recognition of the other four gods among the Seven Ruling Gods of Teyvat, he would probably be able to obtain martial arts that were no less than the "Sword Art of Mountains, Rivers and States", but in fact, the ideological differences between the three martial arts he had obtained were enough to give him a headache. Perhaps having more martial arts could indeed broaden his horizons and allow him to do more things, but by then he would have to integrate all these martial arts into the same idea in order to make his ultimate leap in martial arts. But now he was not ready, so he just wanted to gain a place where he could stand calmly under the principles of heaven.

Although this inevitably made him look down on new acquaintances like Tinari.

So he could say this now, just like the legendary Young Master Wang, that he never cares about whether others are rich or not when making friends, because none of them are as rich as him. Although this is probably nonsense, because at that level, if he wants to maintain the scale of his family's industry, he can't avoid associating with people he doesn't like.

But Shen Zhigui just wanted to complete his own self-sufficient martial arts.

So to be honest, although Lei Dianying is indeed very useful to him at this stage, he is not associating with her because of Lei Dianying's usefulness. Although now it is difficult for him to explain why they can develop such a relationship, he has not even figured out until now what was the psychological reason for Lei Dianying's behavior towards him, and whether the two of them have shifted their relationship to the next stage. Speaking of which, he seems to have told Lei Dianzhen that he is not a machine-sexual or something. Lei Dianying's current way of existence is probably similar to that of a robot, right?

Although she does look like a human being.

It feels almost the same as a normal person.

I don't know what the actual structure is like...

Shen Zhigui was lost in thought for a moment and did not notice that Youla was getting more and more drunk.

Chapter 103: Let’s Drink Today (Part 2)

Although it was probably because of this cave, the "signal" of Lei Dianying and Lei Dianzhen's consciousness became weak, although they could make contact if they really wanted to, but to probe their consciousness into this world, they inevitably needed to pass Shen Zhigui's test. In this case, what was the difference between directly talking to Shen Zhigui? But all along, the two of them never probed their consciousness into it, so Shen Zhigui sometimes suspected that they just wanted to satisfy their voyeurism through dreams.

And Shen Zhigui was the person who was being spied on.

However, Shen Zhigui himself was actually troubled by his increasingly sharp perception angle and wider perception range recently. He was not sure whether gods like Lei Dianying had similar experiences, but sometimes he did seem to be passively prying into other people's privacy -

Although the signs of this actually appeared very early.

After all, he himself had long since used his "Tongyou Mingtong" to observe the colors of other people's souls.

But that statement was too abstract. Although he had begun to slowly get used to that kind of vision, he only regarded it as a rather peculiar experience, similar to the mind-reading of the Little Auspicious Grass King. But now his martial arts had advanced to such a level that he could almost judge the state of a person's body under his clothes from the intensity of light, the strength of smell, and even the temperature, which were things that ordinary people could not distinguish.

Just like now, he turned to look at Eula. Although he felt it was really rude, he couldn't help but guess that after she was drunk, the blood flowing throughout her body dyed her skin the color of cherry blossoms. Her body, which should have been as white as snow, became weak and powerless due to the effect of alcohol. However, in her body, the cold ice element had been hidden and not revealed. As long as she wanted, she could recover from this state in an instant.

Although human consciousness is the least controllable among them.

Because if she really wanted to be sober, why would she let herself get drunk?

Although Shen Zhigui had gotten used to this kind of meticulous perspective, he felt it was a bit immoral to use Eula to get used to it, so he glanced away. However, Eula had already finished her bottle of wine, and seeing Shen Zhigui looking away, she thought that Shen Zhigui was too lazy to pay attention to her, so she walked up to him, stood there, looked down at the boy sitting there, and said softly:

"Although I know I look ugly..."

"If I'm being honest, you're much cuter than your usual awkward self."

Shen Zhigui just said it casually.

Of course, it is hard to say whether he really meant what he said.

Because to some extent, he would rather deal with Eula, who was awkward but behaved in a very measured way, than deal with the drunk who suddenly reached out and turned his face away, forcing him to look at her:

"Since you are like this, why don't you look at me? Your Lord Yuhengxing is now far away in the sky, Miss Shenhe did not follow you to Xumi, and Lord Gongsi just lazily stayed in the rain forest. Now the person who accompanied you to the desert and came here for the purpose you casually mentioned is standing in front of you, why don't you look at me carefully?"

Shen Zhigui frowned immediately:

"Are you sure you haven't been reading too many romance novels with your good friend Captain Qin?"

"At this point, you'd rather mention her than look me in the face?"

"I just think this is not like your usual self at all."

"But isn't the time when I'm most like my usual self the time when I'm furthest away from you?"

Shen Zhigui couldn't help but look up at her. For a moment, it was difficult to tell whether the drunk in front of him was pretending or not. Although her attitude seemed to have been revealed a long time ago, he also suspected whether this person was pretending to be drunk at that time. But after all, if a person wanted to pretend to be drunk, no one could wake her up, right?

"So come close to me, what can you do?"

Shen Zhigui just sighed and said.

"But if you need a reason to even get close to someone, then it proves that you were lying before."

"Before?"

"Didn't you say before that you never consider whether a person is useful or not when making friends?" Youla stood there shakily, as if she wanted to hold Shen Zhigui in her arms. Although Shen Zhigui could guess her shape and touch from her temperature and breath without actually touching those parts of Youla, she didn't do it after all. She just said, "But now you say that I'm close to you because I want to do something——"

"Because that's what you might be thinking."

Shen Zhigui just said what he thought.

"But don't people's ideas always change?"

"But can drunken words be taken seriously?"

"But for this kind of thing, isn't it enough for the person who says it to believe it when he says it?"

If the alcohol smell coming out of her mouth was not so strong that it could suffocate people, Shen Zhigui would not believe that she was really drunk. Of course, this could not be used as evidence, because some people, such as the idle wind god Barbatos, were the type who could drink a thousand cups without getting drunk. He could just quickly adjust his state to the point of being half drunk and half awake, but the one in front of him...

Shen Zhigui was about to say something, but suddenly his vision went dark. The already shaky figure suddenly fell down, but hugged his neck, whispering softly in his ears: "So, at this time, what I was thinking was, if I could escape from Mondstadt, if I could escape from the Lawrence family, if I was not born into that family, but was just an ordinary person in Liyue..."

"Such an assumption doesn't make any sense, does it?"

Shen Zhigui hesitated for a moment, but finally reached out and embraced the woman in front of him to prevent her from sliding down further, but he still said helplessly.

Although he had dreamed earlier that he was actually a rich second-generation, such thoughts really didn't make sense because such dreams were of no use in changing reality.

"But if that were the case, I could follow Yan Fei freely and walk around the streets of Liyue at will, instead of having to hide my feelings through words like I did in Mondstadt. I wouldn't have to pretend to have a bad relationship with Jean to deal with people's prejudices, and I wouldn't have to worry about the survival of my family and the decadent etiquette of the nobles. I could even meet you earlier..."

Chapter 104: Let’s Drink Today (Part 2)

I'm afraid such an assumption is still meaningless, right?

So it was probably just drunken talk.

When she wakes up, she will probably just put all of this aside and continue to worry about those issues that, in his opinion, are actually not important at all.

Of course, Shen Zhigui could only say this because it had nothing to do with him. After all, his current situation was irreversible. Although he had thought about returning to his original world one day, he was essentially a mortal. Of course, he did not have the mentality of "not returning to his hometown when rich and powerful is like walking in the night in brocade clothes" as said by Xiang Yu, who was said to be a monkey in a human crown. In fact, his interpersonal relationships in his original world were very weak. In his opinion, he did not need to show off to those he already had a good relationship with. As for those with whom he did not have a good relationship, there was actually no need to associate with them.

Although perhaps this mentality was the fundamental reason why he achieved nothing in his original world.

Because, after all, the essence of man is the sum of all social relations.

In the huge network of relationships in the original society, all he could do was to act as a small cog. The weaker his interpersonal relationships were, the fewer links he would serve as for transmission and transition, so his replaceability would naturally be very high. Therefore, the disappearance of a part like him, in the original world, would probably be nothing more than a topic of conversation among idle people, except for his closest relatives and a few confidants who would feel sad.

Although it doesn't mean that he can live in this world with peace of mind.

Perhaps for a long time, he has always maintained a kind of distant attitude with these people. It is also because of this hidden thought that makes him a little unclear about his own position. In addition, he has always prioritized the improvement of martial arts as his primary goal. Only in this way can he build his own utopia in which world he is in, and not be dispensable like he was in the original world.

Although the more he observed the "void" of this world recently and the more he wanted to fulfill his "destiny", the more he could recognize the essence of this world, and the more he could realize how majestic the barrier between the two worlds was. He firmly believed that the two worlds were actually connected, otherwise everything in this world would not be reflected in his original world, although sometimes he would rather believe that this was actually an illusion like "Zhuangzi's dream of a butterfly in the morning".

But even if he was dreaming, he had to make himself believe that he was still in reality.

But the reality is, the towering barrier of the two worlds stands before him. Not to mention that he has not yet completed the summary of his martial arts, even if he really completed the integration of the three completely different martial arts ideas of "Sword Art of Mountains and Rivers and States", "Song of the Blue Sky and Yellow Springs" and "Sword Song of Penglai", and completed his last leap at this stage, he still can't see the hope of breaking this barrier.

To be honest, maybe there is hope, but that's just like him wanting to build a lightspeed spaceship engine to achieve interstellar travel in his original world.

Although he is now only one step away from achieving immortality.

But if he needs to spend an infinite number of years to achieve that goal, and also has to take into account the "wear and tear" that the native gods of Teyvat avoid, and it only takes thousands of years for them to become like this, then Shen Zhigui naturally has no way of imagining what he will be like thousands of years later. Will he one day be like Lei Dianying, creating a void in his heart and hiding there to while away his time?

But if he has to wait thousands of years before he can go back, what’s the point in him going back?

Thinking of this, Shen Zhigui couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Although he would use this proposition to torture himself many times in the dead of night.

Therefore, he actually hoped that he would have a more wonderful encounter in the future, which would allow him to break through that barrier in just a few years just like the progress he had made in the past six months. But now, he also understood that this was not very realistic, because the past "Index of Forbidden Martial Arts Books" was essentially a tool provided by the system for him to recognize and transform himself. The reason he could make rapid progress in a short period of time was only because he had some kind of abnormal paranoia about this kind of extraordinary power that was unique in the original world, so he studied it day and night, hoping to master this method as soon as possible.

And he did use some tricks in this process.

For example, by doing things like hunting down the sea ghosts, one can achieve progress to the highest point in the sky and the lowest point in the underworld.

Now he is preparing to achieve progress in "Penglai Sword Song" by hunting down the doctor.

But this method is ultimately just a shortcut.

Not to mention that at the end of the martial arts provided by these systems at this stage, Shen Zhigui could not find a way to break through the barriers of the world.

So, is this actually his idea of ​​“Life is not even a hundred years long, but we always worry about a thousand years”?

So, right now we should actually think “the days are short and the nights are long, why not go out with a candle?”

Although walking around at night with candlelight was actually a form of entertainment in an era before the invention of light bulbs, after all, in the conditions of ancient times, the entertainment of ordinary people after dark was probably just to study how to make a little man in bed with others -

Although the current situation is that Eula's well-shaped body is pressed against him, the plump touch even through the clothes can make Shen Zhigui feel some kind of amazing bouncing force squeezing him.

And in this secluded paradise, the whole world was so quiet as if there were only the two of them. The drunken noble lady in front of them seemed to want to eliminate the sense of boundary between them by being drunk, or she actually didn't know how to get closer to Shen Zhigui. Even according to her past experience, she could only tell this boy her true feelings after being drunk and then get a little closer to him, so now she probably just wanted to repeat the past.

I think if Shen Zhigui did it reluctantly, she would probably agree.

At this moment, the faint fragrance coming from his nose, the warmth coming from her body and the amazing touch were all stirring Shen Zhigui's heartstrings, making him feel an impulse. He believed that anyone who saw this scene would not remain indifferent, but in the end he just said softly after a long silence:

"Go to sleep. May you have a good dream. Or rather, may you experience everything you wish for in your dream."

Chapter 105: Holding the Sword and Moving the Stars (Part 1)

But at this time, Eula did not let her remaining rationality continue to slide into the abyss of loss of control and let herself fall asleep. She heard Shen Zhigui's words close at hand, so she sat on the boy's legs and whispered in her ear: "But if I have a choice, I would rather choose to rewrite the status quo than just dream."

"But for you who have always been tangled up in those messy things, isn't the current situation like a ball of thread that you can't untie because you can't figure out where the thread ends?"

Shen Zhigui was too lazy to figure out whether she was sober or really drunk, he just said it casually.

"Yes, so I am preparing to do the same as Alexander in the story you mentioned. I am looking for a sword sharp enough to completely untie the knot of Fugia, which is like the nine links of Liyue that you mentioned."

Shen Zhigui did tell such stories in Mond’s tavern. Of course, these were just topics for him to deal with bards like Wendy. He could only remember such random and bizarre stories as topics for conversation. If you really asked Shen Zhigui to talk about Alexander’s life, I’m afraid he would be shocked. But he still remembered the little stories like “If I were not Alexander, I would like to be Diogenes”. However, he believed that for ordinary people, they would probably prefer anecdotes like Columbus standing an egg on a cup rather than the significance of the great geographical discoveries to history. So although he did not sing any songs during that period, he was in a sense the most popular bard.

Although the storyteller is more appropriate.

But at this time, Shen Zhigui was just surprised when he heard her say this: "Alexander's way of untying the knot was to cut it open with a sword. For you, I'm afraid that's impossible to avoid, right?"

Although he had heard Eula complain when she was drunk that sooner or later she would completely end the history of the Lawrence family, but complaints were just complaints after all, because her people were just annoying. Even if her uncle did collude with the Fatui, it was just because he was confused. It did not mean that all the members of the Lawrence family that has continued to this day are such scums, not to mention that she still wanted to regain the glory of the nobility in the past, so for now she just had to muddle through.

Under such circumstances, Shen Zhigui found it hard to believe that Youla was going to use that method to change the status quo.

"But reality is not a ball of thread that sits there passively. It is changing all the time. I am also changing all the time. We are just small boats floating in the long river of time and space, going downstream with the changes of things around us."

However, Eula just said it lightly.

Although at this time, the postures of the two people had become quite ambiguous.

But the original posture wasn't much better.

"so?"

But Shen Zhigui just responded casually.

"So as long as there is a sharp enough sword beside me, as long as that person who can do everything originally and I have established some kind of connection, if he has done it, doesn't it mean that I have done it? At that time, can't I accept that false reputation with peace of mind? Because that false reputation originally belongs to that person, if he is willing to share it with me, then after such a deep connection is established, naturally there is no difference between us, and I can accept it with peace of mind, right?"

Eula immediately distanced herself from the boy in front of her and stared at him with her amber eyes that were already filled with cloudy and blurry colors, but her focus was not on him. She just spoke in an unusually vague manner.

“But if you don’t care whether the reputation is illusory or real from the beginning, that so-called deep connection is actually not necessary.”

"But if I don't care, it would be denying my previous life."