Chapter 23
"What you call the world's convergence is just people making the same choices under different circumstances."
"It doesn't matter how you interpret it."
Raiden Mei didn't even look at him.
""Okay. But are you always so serious? Didn't you look very... friendly when that man was here just now?"
Wendy sipped the naturally iced apple cider in her hand, looking at this expressionless girl who looked exactly like a younger version of Inazuma Raijin and could even control lightning.
"……"
"Well...it seems that your kindness is different for different people, and travelers are better." Wendy shrugged, feeling bored.
"OK? You mean the aspect that you took advantage of?"
"I mean friendly! I didn't take advantage of her. It's much easier to communicate with her than with you...especially your captain. Communicating with him is the most tiring."
Wendy thought of the scene of talking with Lidao and sighed deeply.
"He came over to us and asked us to show mercy to the enemy, but now he sighs like this... Only by being so sentimental can one become a bard."
Raiden Mei turned around, looked at Wendy, and asked without any doubt.
"I volunteered, his actions forced me to come……"Wendy retorted, and looked at Raiden Mei in confusion,"Do you really understand what that person wants to do?"
"not understand"
""Huh?" Wendy scratched her head,"but you seem to trust him?"
"Yes, the captain is trustworthy. That's all I can be sure of."
"He is so lucky.……"
It is undoubtedly lucky to have someone who absolutely believes in him.
"Trust does not come without reason. The word"lucky" is too sloppy and pale... Are you really a god?"
Raiden Mei frowned and looked at the green boy.
Three years was too short. She still remembered clearly how much that person had paid for her to gain her tentative trust, and how he proved step by step that her trust was not wrong.
The Herrscher believed in humans, which sounded like a joke in the collapse.
"It sounds like a lot of things happened between you. Well, everyone has their own story. I apologize. Seeing the look in Raiden Mei's eyes, Wendy knew that she was dissatisfied with her evaluation of him. She didn't explain and simply apologized.
"……"
The silent atmosphere became even more silent. Wendy felt a little headache. He didn't like this atmosphere.
……
Fortunately, the silence did not last long. A flash of lightning suddenly struck.
Wendy's hand was empty. His wine was taken away. The man who came was sitting on the ground, shouting at his wine."
"Hey! I saved my money to buy it! Give it back to me!"
Wendy rushed over immediately.
After a struggle, Wendy successfully took back an empty bottle without tears.
"I'm so thirsty from talking so much... The wine that the Wind God drank is my reward."
Li Dao lay on the snow and made himself into a"big" shape.
""Captain, are you okay? Did you fail?"
Raiden Mei rolled up her skirt, squatted beside Lidao, and mobilized the Honkai energy to repair the scar on his neck that seemed to have been cut by a knife.
"No, judging from the result, it was a success."
Soon, the injury was healed.
"Thank you, Mei"
"It’s nothing." Mei Raiden said softly,"Why would the captain be chopped off after he succeeded?"
"I also call this a thorn." Lidao knocked on her head,"It was because of this blow that I realized I had succeeded."
"So simple? Have you solved Rosalin's problem?"
Wendy poured the wine for a long time but couldn't pour a drop of it. She threw the bottle away helplessly.
"How is that possible? It's just a good start. At least next time we meet, I won't stab her with a knife, and she won't stab me with an ice spike."
Li Dao said, while gesturing with his hands to chop with a knife and stab with an ice spike.
"It sounds good, too? Here, this is for you,"
Wendy said, and took out something that looked like a chess piece from somewhere, which exuded a very soft but powerful"wind" force.
"I swear by that old man, you will really hand it over to the Ice Queen, right?"
"I said to hand it over to the Fatui."Lidao corrected him,"I swear in the name of Morax"
"Yes, yes... All the benefits are yours, and you won't suffer any loss."
Wendy looked very helpless and threw the Heart of God to the island.
"Really? But you knew I was using Tevarin and Rosalin to lure you in, but you didn't stop me, did you? You came here happily."
Lidao took the Heart of God and handed it to Raiden Mei for safekeeping.
"Let me correct you. I didn't come here with a happy face, but with a sad face. I don't like your behavior."
Wendy stretched out a finger and waved it, indicating that she was not happy.
"I'll buy you a drink if I can."
"Great!"
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On the way back to Mondstadt, Wendy left early because he felt uncomfortable talking to Lidao.
"Why does the captain want the Heart of God? What use is this to us?"
Raiden Mei asked puzzledly, playing with the small chess piece in her hand.
"If I must say, no."Li Dao shook his head,"Its only use for us is probably to improve the favorability of ladies?"
"I hate this effect"
"Ahahaha...I'm just joking, don't take it seriously, it has other uses"
"Well, the captain didn't plan to kill the lady from the beginning, but planned... a strategy?"
Raiden Mei spit out the word"strategy" in an inexplicably sour tone.
"You know very well that this is not a strategy, Mei, I don't like her, but she has her value... As for the plan, this thing is never fixed, because things will always change in an unknown way... I really plan to kill the lady, but the current situation is also within the plan.
The choice is not mine - if the Wind God does not appear, then I will stop the lady from escaping, and she will definitely die under the claws of the Wind Demon Dragon, even if she is killed by the claws of the Wind Demon Dragon.
If the Wind God appears, things will turn out like they are now... Sooner or later we will come into contact with the Fatui, and the unknown malice is too dangerous. I don't want to put you in danger again. The lady is a good breakthrough point and source of intelligence for the Fatui."
Lidao patiently explained to Raiden Mei
"I see. But the captain knows that the Wind God will not sit idly by and watch them go by, so the only option left is the second one?"
"No, Mei, I can't rule out the possibility that the Wind God will really sit back and do nothing just because the probability is relatively small. There are too many examples of low-probability events happening... After all, this plan is not thorough, and we have to be thorough if we want to do it, and we must consider both killing and keeping them."
Lidao has been in Mondstadt for too short a time. If there was enough time, he would also like to arrange for the Mondstadt people to denounce the dragon and the witch in public opinion; he would not use"I Am the Only One" to do it himself.
It is undoubtedly much wiser to arrange a scapegoat, incite rumors, and attack. What
Lidao has to do is to choose to kill the scapegoat before or after the lady's death... This also depends on whether Wendy appears. In this way, the origin of the weapon is reasonable, the lady will be avenged, and it may also gain Wendy's favor, and the matter of transferring the Heart of God can also be discussed... This is much wiser.
Unfortunately, in terms of time, this is impossible, and it will be exposed immediately.
"Did the captain treat me the same way before, considering killing and keeping at the same time?"
Raiden Mei stopped and looked at Lidao with a smile.
"Absolutely not! I am sincere to you, Mei, and I have never thought of hurting you! Please believe me!"
Lidao looked into Raiden Mei's eyes seriously, righteously, and with great righteousness.
"Humph, who knows~ Everyone is good at saying nice things."
Raiden Mei took a step and walked to the front of the island:
"Got plans for me too?"
"Well, sorry.
Although I will prove that your trust in me is absolutely correct, after all, I gained your trust by deceiving you first... This is my habit, and it is also my selfish and arrogant side."
"I understand. I'm glad the captain tried his best to stand by me.……"
"Right, it would have been good if you hadn't chopped me down at that time. I wanted to stand by you, not fall beside you."
"Hum~ So the captain failed when he used the"plan" to face the Herrscher of Knowledge?"
Raiden Mei, who was in a good mood, thought of the captain's ending and the Herrscher of Knowledge for some reason, and wanted to make things difficult for her.
"As for her... no, I didn't have any plans at that time, because she was the Herrscher of Knowledge, and I knew I couldn't lie to her, so that was probably the first time I showed my true feelings directly...
Maybe it was retribution for me always using deception to gain trust...
My sincerity... was ridiculed."