Teyvat Survival Guide

Chapter 133 The Relativity of Sensation

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——In the central area of ​​Mondstadt, on a bench in the Fountain Square.

White doves landed on the stone floor of the square along with the midday sun, and the sound of water flowed from the fountain behind them.

People of all kinds laugh and chat here along with the melodious music played by the bards.

A scene of relaxation and harmony.

At this time, a young man with navy blue short hair, wearing a black and blue gradient short-sleeved, lotus-edged knight's outfit that was completely different from Mond's clothing, was reading the latest newspaper in his hand to the person next to him in an official narrative tone:

“…Finally, the Pope of the West Wind Church, Saint Samuel, saw through the conspiracy of the Abyss Order and led many knights of the Knights Order to rescue the temporary team that was in danger.

“Your Majesty purified the abnormalities in them. Acting Headmaster Jean Gunhild captured Schubert Lawrence, who had escaped from prison by accident and now joined the Abyss Cult, and obtained many clues about the Abyss Cult. This evil incident has come to an end.

“Currently, the main perpetrator of the case, Schubert Lawrence, is in the cell of the Knights’ headquarters awaiting trial, and the knights of the Knights’ Order are trying to get more information about the Abyss Cult from him.

“I believe that the Knights and the Church will eventually give the people of Mondstadt a satisfactory verdict.

"As for the current situation of the knights who were infected by the power of the abyss while performing their missions... Please pay attention to the 'Popular Newspapers' of the Steambird Newspaper Agency. Our reporters will continue to report to you..."

As he read, he shook his head in a pretentious manner, and his brown tassel earrings swayed as his head moved.

"So, so, so, so..."

The dark blue-haired boy murmured in a low voice, and then sighed to the person next to him:

"Mond has really been in turmoil recently. Just when we were on our way to Mondstadt at night, such a thrilling incident happened outside Mondstadt."

"See, I was right." He rolled up the newspaper and said to the person beside him with a smile, "There have been so many strange things happening here recently. Maybe there are some evil spirits that are not afraid of your pure Yang body?"

He waited for a moment, but found that the other party showed no sign of paying attention to him. He just stared blankly at the scene in the fountain square in front of him.

"Chongyun, what are you looking at?" He picked up the newspaper roll and waved it in front of the other person.

The light blue-haired boy sitting next to him, called "Chongyun", finally came to his senses and spoke slowly:

“…looking at the scenery here.

"My family has lived in Liyue for a long time. This is my first time to be outside of Liyue."

The dark blue-haired boy recalled for a while after hearing this, and then continued:

"I do go abroad on business with my father and brother occasionally, but not often.

"Just like this time, my brother worked hard to get me the opportunity to accompany the Liyue representative to visit Mondstadt and handle the business situation here."

“…Xingqiu.”

"Huh?" The navy blue-haired boy paused when his name was suddenly called.

"...Next time you want me to accompany you, just tell me directly." Chongyun muttered, expressing his dissatisfaction, "Why tease me by saying there are 'evil spirits that are not afraid of my pure yang body'..."

"I just went to inquire, and there are no evil spirits in Mondstadt..." he added with some disappointment and anger.

"No way, I clearly said 'maybe' at the time." Xingqiu defended himself with a smile, and also passed the blame to Chongyun, "After all, this is outside of Liyue. I can't be sure myself. It was you, Chongyun, who didn't hear clearly and got excited."

"You--" Chongyun was about to refute, but suddenly realized that he was not as eloquent as the other party, so he gave up.

I could only hold my chest and sulk.

Seeing this, Xingqiu stopped teasing him and apologized in a gentle voice:

"Okay, don't be angry, I was wrong.

"I'm just afraid that I'll be too lonely on the road, and that you'll be too busy to have time, so I resorted to this desperate measure."

Chongyun glanced at him and snorted.

"Don't do this again next time. Just say what you want to say."

"Okay, it's all up to you."

As they were talking, a bard next to them finished playing the prelude and began to recite the poem.

Xingqiu, who loves poetry, was very curious about this. He had asked Chongyun to sit here just for this reason. Seeing this, he began to listen attentively.

After listening for a while, he realized that it was talking about how Saint Samuel saved Mondstadt from the dark wolf disaster two months ago.

He had also heard about this disaster. After all, such a big thing had already spread to the neighboring country of Liyue.

As a result, Mond's economy declined, including the various chambers of commerce and businesses in Mond at the time.

His visit to Mond this time also had the purpose of handling some previously delayed business matters for his Feiyun Chamber of Commerce.

...Listening to the local bard in Mondstadt recounting this incident, it is indeed more emotional than the one in Liyue.

Xingqiu could sense gratitude and respect in the bard's eyes and the tone of his voice as he recited his poems.

The Pope of the West Wind Church, Saint Samuel, is indeed a very compassionate person...

Unlike the merchants in Liyue, who are always trying to find loopholes in the contract to make a profit...

Well... we can’t make that analogy. After all, the followers of the God of Wind, if converted to Liyue, should also be immortal-like existences.

Thinking about this, Xingqiu suddenly had an idea to share his insights with his friends around him:

“Speaking of which, although His Majesty Saint Samuel does not consider himself a knight-errant, in my opinion, he has a chivalrous heart.

As he spoke, he picked up the newspaper and showed it to Chongyun:

"Look, the proposal to allocate relief funds for disaster victims, the proposal to build an academy, the proposal to provide every Mondstadt resident with a course to protect themselves - don't read the expression on your face when he eats whatever he wants, those are all titles made by those who are after money to attract attention and promote their restaurants..."

The white-haired boy wearing a crown in the newspaper had a gentle smile, and the reporter was good at taking pictures. In front of the Temple Square in the cathedral city, the light from the thin clouds fell softly on him.

The breeze blew up the boy's shoulder-length, slightly curly white hair, and also blew up his noble and pure white church robe.

And behind him is the sacred, solemn, dignified and magnificent Temple of West Wind.

The biggest difference between Steambird Newspaper and other newspapers is that their reports are all accompanied by a photo, the quality is very good, and they like to comment on or name each photo.

Under this photo of Samuel, there is a line of small words that comments:

"He stood there, as if he was the tranquility of the whole world."

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The Cathedral Quarter of Mondstadt, the Pope's European-style courtyard, and Samuel's room.

His Holiness the Pope, who was praised by the Steambird newspaper reporter as "the tranquility of the world", was now sitting at his desk processing official documents.

After he realized something was wrong last night, he went to the political building of the Knights' headquarters and discussed with Captain Qin, who was still processing official documents late at night, about taking someone to take a look.

Qin originally wanted to put his safety first, but under his insistence, she still followed his wishes and temporarily called on the knights to follow him.

Well, Captain Qin has always been "advising" him on what to do, and although he always listens, if he insists on doing something, Qin can only go along with it.

After all, he is the most powerful person in Mond besides Lord Barbatos.

And it turned out that his persistence was right.

Apparently, the Abyss Cult did not take Lord Barbatos into account, forgetting that he, the "God's representative on earth", could "listen to the voice of God".

After following the guidance of the wind and reaching the destination, the strong and thick power of the abyss almost blinded Samuel's eyes.

He acted decisively and activated the crown to purify the pollution on the knights, and fortunately the effect was good.

After Captain Heqin and many knights surrounded Schubert, they found a lot of clues about the abyss from that cave.

There were strange magic circles that had not been completely wiped away, various ritual materials filled with evil auras, and incomplete pieces of paper with some information recorded in incomprehensible words...

But what impressed Samuel the most was a piece of deep gemstone fragment located in the center of the magic circle, which exuded the same evil power as the abnormal objects and the evil power that tainted Eula Albedo and the other knights.

It is now in the custody of the Order, carefully sealed in a glass bottle blessed by Lord Barbatos.

In addition to the above, the Knights also found a lot of other valuable information, which deepened their understanding of the Abyss.

The harvest this time was quite rich. It was probably because the Abyss Cult did not expect that he would suddenly bring people here, so they could only temporarily destroy some of them and run away.

...Well, looking at it this way, does it mean that Schubert, who was not taken away, was sold out by the Abyss Cult?

Thinking of this, Samuel couldn't help but feel sorry for Schubert, but when he thought about what he had done, he felt that he was so hateful.

Not to mention that he had previously handed over Mondstadt's city defense map to the Fatui in order to regain the so-called "glory of the old nobility."

Just take this time, in order to regain the so-called "glory of the old nobility", he actually joined the Abyss Cult, attempting to fill the entire Mondstadt with weirdness and terror and suppress the people of Mondstadt with violence.

Samuel, who didn't claim to be well-read but knew something about Mond's history, thought it was so pathetic.

The Lawrence family first overthrew the rule of the Lone King of the Tower during the period of resistance, together with the other three families of Imon Lorca, Gunhild and Ragenfind, and Lord Barbatos, who was still a ray of hope and turning point at that time, and swore an oath to "eternally protect Mondstadt", thus obtaining the title of nobility.

And now, Schubert, a descendant of the Lawrence family, actually wants to suppress the people of Mond with violence in order to regain the "glory of the nobility."

Looking back now on the oath their ancestors made to "forever protect Monde", doesn't it seem sad?

This kind of behavior, in which he only cares about his own selfish desires and does not care about others at all, while still making high-sounding statements like "taking back the glory that belonged to the old aristocracy", is enough to show what kind of person he is.

The Abyss Cult probably didn't take Schubert seriously. Samuel was present when the Knights interrogated him last night and discovered that Schubert only knew that the deep gem fragments could infect the thoughts of ordinary people and how to use the evil power generated by the deep gem fragments, but he knew nothing else.

From this perspective, Schubert should be just a chess piece that can be discarded at will for the Cult of the Abyss.

The "experiment" mentioned by Deinsleib should refer to the kind of power that can make people lose their minds and be controlled by others.

From this, we can imagine what the purpose of the power that remains on Eula's items and causes them to become abnormal items is.

It should be similar to what Albedo guessed at the time, some kind of trap set for him.

Although subsequent investigations found that if that power was to achieve the effect of making people lose their minds, it would need to be used in conjunction with some kind of evil magic circle in the cave, but it would also have a certain impact on ordinary people.

If he had really used his vertical pupils to observe at that time, it would probably still have triggered the weirdness attached to the abnormal object, which would have had a certain impact on him.

So that’s why Lord Barbatos told him “Don’t look” at that time…?

Thinking of this, Samuel pinched his nose unconsciously, and took a deep breath while looking at the document in front of him that he had almost finished reviewing.

These documents were obtained after he discussed with Captain Qin. Qin made a concession due to his unwavering determination and handed over the unfinished details and activity plans of the Wind Flower Festival to him.

He referred to the rules of the previous Wind Flower Festival and copied them, and added some of his own ideas.

...It should be pretty good. As a beginner in event planning, Samuel has arranged everything he could think of, and also made a lot of changes to the original traditional festival charter, which can be considered as optimization.

Well... although some of these changes actually include some of his own selfish motives.

For example, the "Star of the Windblume Festival" selected by the Knights Templar and the Church is usually awarded to those who have made great contributions to Mondstadt or have performed outstandingly during the Windblume Festival.

The Star of the Wind Flower Festival has the right to represent all the people of Mondstadt and present the "Wind Flower" in their hearts to Lord Barbatos, the God of Wind.

But that is no longer the case after his changes.

The Star of the Wind Flower Festival has the right to represent all the people of Mondstadt and present the "Wind Flower" in their hearts to Pope Saint Samuel.

then.

His Majesty Saint Samuel then presented this "Flower of Wind" to Lord Barbatos, the God of Wind.

He didn't know why, but he felt uncomfortable at the thought of someone presenting flowers to Lord Barbatos on behalf of all of Mondstadt.

So I picked up my pen and changed this point.

Hmm... maybe some unknown emotion is at work.

After Samuel finished reviewing the last document, he put the quill pen back into the ink bottle and said loudly in the West Wind Church etiquette:

"——Praise Master Barbatos!"

Sister Giuliana, who happened to walk in with a tray of snacks and tea, was startled by his sudden praise.

After a moment, she reacted, slowly placed the plate on the table beside her, cleared her throat, followed the greeting, and shouted devoutly:

"Praise Lord Barbatos!"

Then, the two looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

"Your Majesty, you must have worked hard reviewing official documents." Giuliana smiled and placed the snacks and tea on the plate on Samuel's desk, and asked with concern, "Can you take a break?"

Samuel nodded with satisfaction and took a sip of the black tea that Giuliana had brewed.

After the Abyss Cult's plan was disrupted this time, the next action will probably be delayed again and again.

It feels so good not to have to worry.

As Samuel was basking in the sunlight coming in through the window and enjoying the harmony and tranquility of midday, Gilliana spoke:

"Your Majesty, today is Sister Victoria's law and regulations course. Seeing that you were busy this morning, I asked Sister Victoria to go back and wait.

"Have you finished your work? If not, shall I discuss the afternoon classes with Victoria?"

The corners of His Holiness's mouth, which were slightly raised in enjoyment, froze.

...Yeah, he even forgot about the class.

Samuel suppressed his reluctance, put down his teacup and said to her gently:

“…No, I’ve finished my work. I’ll let her know that she can come to class this afternoon.”

At Giuliana's respectful nod, Samuel appeared calm on the surface, but in fact he was filled with grief and indignation as he stuffed a dessert into his mouth and chewed it.

It's a bad feeling to have to worry about something.