Menma and Hashirama, what happened in Teyvat

After discussing all relevant matters at the Dawn Winery, the people who were called the "Tevarin Protection Association" by Paimon temporarily separated and went to make their own preparations.

Qin, Sora, and Paimon quickly returned to Mondstadt. The former went to the Knights' headquarters to deal with some recent emergencies, and informed the Church of West Wind of the situation of Sky Qin and quickly drafted relevant documents for them. At the same time, he ordered the Knights to guard everything in the city and issued a series of orders until all matters in the city were settled.

The latter came to Schutz's Blacksmith Shop and found Wagner, who happened to be working the night shift, to make modifications to the weapons and equipment.

After all, in reality, Kong couldn't just wield an ordinary bladeless sword and slash around. His equipment was also updated in real time. For example, the weapon he was using now was a travel sword he got on an adventure. And he couldn't always use the fine forging ore to upgrade his weapon, so he could only go to the blacksmith and pay for it.

Although the blade of the Travel Sword was a bit brittle compared to other one-handed swords of the same level, it was at least much stronger than the Edgeless Sword. However, to be on the safe side, Kong paid extra money to buy a silver sword from Wagner.

"It's so expensive..." After Sora upgraded the travel sword and bought the silver sword, Paimon couldn't help but complain when he heard the total price mentioned by Wagner.

"You get what you pay for." Wagner, who was still working on the ironwork, said without raising his head, "My craftsmanship never produces defective products, so this is the price I charge."

"Oh, okay..."

Although Wagner's words were very impolite, it was undeniable that what he said was right, and his forging skills could indeed support his confidence. Despite this, Paimon still felt a little disappointed. After all, if he used these Moras to buy delicious food, he didn't know how long they would last for him and Sora.

After paying the money, Kong didn't have much Mora left. If nothing unexpected happened, after everything related to the Wind Dragon was over, he would start to enter the "Adventure Pioneer" and "Commission Maniac" mode to enrich his wallet.

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(On the other side, the Knights' headquarters, the leader's office)

"Qin, can you tell me what exactly happened?" Looking at Qin working at the desk in front of her, Lisa, who had already heard the news and came to the leader's office, asked.

Although Jean usually works very hard, Lisa still noticed that she was anxious and anxious, as if she wanted to finish the work as soon as possible. Moreover, the search for the Sky Harp was suddenly stopped, and Jean sent someone to deliver the documents related to borrowing the Sky Harp to the West Wind Church. In addition, Jean had disappeared alone for a short time before...

Combining all the above factors, as long as you think about it carefully, even a person with a dull mind can know that there must be a story behind this, not to mention Lisa, who is Jean's best friend and knows Jean inside and out.

"Oh, okay, I knew I couldn't hide it from you..." Qin sighed and began to confess everything to Lisa. Anyway, she couldn't hide it anymore, and Lisa was definitely one of them, so there was nothing that couldn't be told between the two of them.

"...Sure enough, some of the details are similar to my guess." After listening to Qin's brief account of everything, Lisa put her hand on her chin and nodded, "So next, are you going to continue to act alone?"

"Yes." Qin nodded. "Although I have made large-scale reforms to the Knights in many aspects during this period, some things are still not so easy to do. Therefore, I can only keep my actions this time a secret from everyone, and only participate in it in my personal capacity..."

"Qin."

Before Qin could finish her words, Lisa, who was standing opposite her, suddenly put her hands on the desk and called her name in a tone that was not serious but contained a hint of unquestionableness, thus interrupting her words.

"Eh? How..."

"I say, next, do you still want to continue...acting alone?"

"Uh..." Seeing Lisa's expression, Qin felt a little confused, "Lisa, I don't quite understand what you mean..."

"Such an exciting thing, are you planning to eat it all by yourself?" Lisa suddenly lost her previous unquestionable look, and a familiar smile appeared on her face again, "I am really sad that you didn't think of me first when doing something like this, but only wanted to enjoy it by yourself..."

“???” Qin’s face was immediately filled with question marks. Is this still the Lisa she knew?

Putting aside the question of whether she would have used such a disdainful tone towards herself in the past, let's just talk about her clear expression of willingness to help: you have to know that Lisa is a person who is extremely afraid of trouble. If it weren't for an extremely urgent matter or a situation that touched her inner reverse scale, her resistance to overtime would be even stronger than that of Sister Rosalia of the West Wind Church.

Although Lisa had never told anyone, including Qin, about her true physical condition, Qin knew that she hated working overtime and annoying things, as well as her usual work and rest habits. Today, Lisa actually took the initiative to ask to follow her to do something that sounded tiring enough in terms of physical labor. For Qin, it was like the sun rising from the west.

"Lisa... why do you suddenly have this thought?" Since she knew it was abnormal, Qin would naturally ask directly, "You usually... don't..."

"That was just my past." Lisa waved her hand. "I am different now~"

"What...what do you mean?"

"Haha, do you really want to know?" Lisa said with a smile, "If it's you, no problem~"

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(Cherry Morning)

Except for the few people who returned to Mondstadt, Diluk, Cripps and Venti stayed here.

This is Diluc's base camp. Even if he wants to prepare for the next action, he will choose to do it here. As Diluc's father and the former owner of the Dawn Winery, Klips naturally has the same reasoning.

As for Wendy...he was just here to drink.

After all, they were going to summon the Wind Dragon, and Venti was the main force in this regard, so Diluk, knowing that he loved drinking, gave him a little privilege: before the operation officially began, he could drink a lot in the winery. There was plenty of dandelion wine, cider, and the like, as long as he didn't get so drunk that he couldn't even hold the Sky Harp.

"I never thought that I would see the day I could fight alongside you, Diluk." Cripps said as he wiped the Iron Shadow Broadsword in his hand.

"If possible, I would prefer not to have any battles during this operation." Diluk, who was sorting out his gloves, responded, "After all, our goal is to bring back the Wind Dragon's sanity, not to engage in combat with it."

"That's true." Krips nodded and placed the Iron Shadow Broadsword on a chair beside him. "But, no matter what, we can't let our guard down. If we hadn't been so careless back then, we wouldn't have fallen for the Fatui's schemes."

The series of events caused by the Doctor's mechanical bird attracting the attack of the dragon Ursa has always been a thorn in Krips' heart that he cannot let go.

Because of this incident, many people in the caravan, including himself, died. Diluk became what he is now. Kaeya suffered too much pain that should not belong to him. The Fatui and the "Doctor" reaped multiple benefits. Mondstadt's diplomacy and defense were largely controlled, taken over and infiltrated by the Fatui. Even many Mondstadt children were indirectly abducted by the "Doctor" and became the material for his various inhumane human experiments. To this day, many people's lives and deaths are still unknown...

Although he didn't know many of these things at first, and only heard them from Diluk after his "resurrection", these things still made him feel very guilty.

If I had been more careful at that time and expelled or destroyed the mechanical bird at the first moment, then perhaps everything would have had a different ending.

"Don't think too much, father." Diluk, who had his sword of the West Wind slung across his back and sensed his father's thoughts, said, "We must be extremely careful in future battles. As for those scum of the Fatui... we will do everything we can to make them pay for what they did."

"Yes." Klips nodded, stood up, put the Iron Shadow Broadsword on his back, and hung the Fire Attribute Evil Eye on his body again. "When the time comes, I will go with you. After all, I still have my own murderous vengeance to avenge them..."

"Poet, wake up." The two walked into the hall and saw Wendy lying on the ground surrounded by a pile of empty bottles. Diluk sighed and walked over to Krips, who looked amused, and kicked him. "Let's get ready to go."

"Hehehe...drink...drink more..."

"If you don't get up, you'll never be able to drink my wine again. I won't sell it to you even if you pay me."

“Eh… Eh?! No no no no no!! I I I will get up right now!!!”

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[Let’s calculate, it’s almost time…]

Menma thought so while thinking about something near the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain. At this moment, he held a piece of paper covered with calligraphy and paintings in his hand. It was the reward for the mission given to him by Harris, which was the recipe for the dish "Vegetable Stew with Thick Sauce".

Snow pigs are indeed delicious, especially when they are what Harris defines as "cold fresh meat." For this reason, snow pigs were hunted to the brink of extinction by hunters hundreds of years ago, and Menma can fully understand this.

After tasting the thick vegetable stew with Harris, both of them praised this bowl of food worth hundreds of thousands of Mora. To show his sincerity, Menma simply took out a whole slaughtered snow pig (the source of the meat) and gave it to Harris.

This scared Harris a lot. At first, he refused to accept it, until Menma said that this was considered making friends with Harris and was only used for Harris to cook for himself. He also helped find a secret place and dug a snow pit to hide the snow pig. Harris then reluctantly agreed.

So, as agreed before, Harris copied a recipe for thick vegetable stew and gave it to Menma as a reward. Not only that, he also wrote a recipe for the "Pearl Jade White Jade Soup" that he had learned from Liyue before, and gave it to Menma as well.

Although Menma was very happy to get a new recipe, the most urgent thing now was to think about how far the main storyline had progressed. As for these two dishes, since the recipes were in his hands, it was only a matter of time before he could learn them.

"What are you thinking about, Menma?" At this time, Hashirama, who was standing nearby, saw Menma's look and asked.

After calling out to him thousands of times in his heart, Hashirama was finally released from the Kamui space by Menma as he wished.

As soon as he came out, Hashirama gave Menma a beating. In order to solve the communication problem between the two, Menma had to take out the Book of Seals and open it, and went through the Flying Thunder God Technique at a very fast speed.

Although this is certainly not enough for Menma to fully learn this move, at least in terms of "using chakra to make marks", Menma has really learned it.

In order to solve this urgent problem, Menma had to split the Flying Thunder God Technique and only took out this part to focus on learning and mastering it. Now, Menma has left such a mark on the back of Hashirama's right hand. As long as Hashirama stimulates it slightly with chakra, Menma can sense it.

As for the matter of the four White Zetsu, Hashirama had already informed Menma and arranged a meeting between them. He also instructed the White Zetsu to respect Menma as their master of equal status.

At this moment, Bai Prajna, Dazuihua and Aristolochia, the three Bai Jue, had been sent by the two men to lurk in Longji Snow Mountain, Qingquan Town and Dadaupa Valley respectively, and were always trying to find out the news from these places for them.

As for Zetsu, the most calm, composed and rational White Zetsu, was kept by his side after the two discussed it.

Of course, no matter what the specific situation was, Menma did not forget to leave the same mark on these four White Zetsu, so that he could use this mark to confirm the news and location when something happened.

After sucking Zetsu back into the Kamui Space and letting it take care of the unformed White Zetsu on the legs of the Outer Path Demon Statue, Menma took Hashirama and began to walk towards the Star-Picking Cliff.

After all, after being busy elsewhere for so long, it’s time to get back to the main line.