Chapter 1211 Encounter, Bumping, Flower God’s Birthday

“If someone plucks out your tongue, you can still sing with your eyes.”

"If someone blinds you, you can still see with your ears."

"But if anyone dares to take away your freedom to sing and watch."

"——Then, absolutely no pardon can be granted."

In Xumi City, a harmless kitten got off the boat, humming a song in its heart.

It was like the wind flower of Mondstadt, the ancient oath of freedom.

On the ugly, one-eyed face, the azure blue eyes sparkled in the sunlight, as if a layer of dust had been wiped away, revealing the luster of a gem that had been moistened by water.

Unfortunately, this left eye seemed to be the only beautiful thing on his body. The hair was burnt by fire, charred, purple, and uneven. The gray-black scaly tissue structure was connected into pieces under the hair, with blood scabs that looked like rotten and pus-oozing.

Only a few tufts of white showed off the original color of the fur.

This is the port where ships from Xumi City stop. A green dome-shaped lighthouse stands tall, with ships coming and going below. Scholars, businessmen, and tourists from Inazuma, Mondstadt, and Liyue, as well as Xumi's local scholars, businessmen, and tourists... make up the prosperity of this place.

Each of them wears a "void terminal" and is connected to the "void".

And, even more so than Port Omos.

Because the port of Omos is the largest commercial port in Xumi, it is a mixed crowd. Some places are difficult for even the Council of Eminence to control. But in Xumi City, a city under the jurisdiction of the Council of Eminence, the sages can look down from below and see it clearly, like reading the lines on the palm of your hand.

Jiang Yi wrapped himself in the red cape that Kavi had draped over him.

After paying the money, Kavi got off the boat, picked up Jiang Yi and walked towards the "Bao Shang Street" in Xumi City.

Passing the wooden plank road at the port, we stepped onto the smooth stone-paved street, surrounded by shouting.

Jewelry, fruits, mushrooms, minerals, spices, antiques...all kinds of goods are displayed on the stalls and in shops, with both low and high prices available.

There are also mysterious stalls that help with divination and stargazing.

However, Jiang Yi felt like something was missing.

After looking around for a long time, I compared the music here with the strange drum music that filled the streets of Port Ormos. The music here was more melodious, but there were fewer Gilded Brigade girls performing dances.

The scholars in the Council of Ordinances were even more worried, as if they were troubled by their academic papers.

"I don't have any friends around me who can help me raise a cat." Kawi held Jiang Yi on the street, "Let's try here and see if anyone is willing to adopt you!"

Kavi considered a lot. The person who adopts Jiang Yi must be able to raise at least a cat, be an independent adult, and be loving. The family does not have to be too rich, but the atmosphere must be good.

This requirement is actually a bit high.

In the land of wisdom, adults are rational.

After Jiang Yi narrowed his eyes, the appearance of the animal was really average, and it also looked arrogant and ignored people. Even if it was given away, few people would choose to adopt it.

Raising a cat costs money, and they can have better options and raise a better cat with the same cost.

The loving children came over to watch, and were all frightened by Jiang Yi's ferocious right eye.

Kavi went to several places along the commercial street, but after half a day, he still couldn't find a suitable person to deliver the goods to. He couldn't help but rub his hair in distress.

"Do I have to take another day off?" He looked at Baoshang Street, which was filled with fragrant aromas and had arrived at lunchtime.

Standing on this busy street, he seemed to be alone with only the cat and Mehrak.

"Excuse me, are you looking for someone to help you take care of the cat?"

A voice suddenly came, and Kavi turned around in surprise.

"Huh? Are you Miss Catherine from the Adventurer's Guild?" He was stunned. He had always known that the Adventurer's Guild accepted all kinds of commissions, but now they took the initiative to come to them and look for "commissions"?

Jiang Yi opened his squinting eyes and looked at Catherine from the Xumi Adventurer Association.

Like Catherine in Mondstadt, Liyue, and Inazuma, she has short black hair that reaches her shoulders, a white and green dress, and a black corset and hem.

Her appearance is no different from Catherine from the previous three countries.

but……

Jiang Yi felt that the tone was somewhat familiar.

"Yes! Miss Catherine, do you have any recommendations?" Kavi thought that Miss Catherine, who dealt with all kinds of people, might be better at finding someone to support Jiang Yi than himself.

"When it comes to raising small animals, the residents of the Grand Bazaar may be a better choice!" Catherine said, winking at Jiang Yi.

Narcida?

Jiang Yi recognized the person inside Catherine's current body.

"Grand Bazaar?" Kavi pondered.

Compared to the Sumeru people on the ground who live in the sun, the "Grand Bazaar" is located in the tree hole of the towering sacred tree where the House of the Ordinance is built. The dome inside is like a wall. Although the area is not cramped, there is no sunlight.

However, I heard that most of the residents there are simple and honest, and more "humane" than the people in the Ordinance House.

"I have a candidate to recommend. Would you like me to take this kitten over and give it a try?" Catherine said, "All you need is to wait patiently in the dark for a while."

"Huh? Why in secret? Wait, is it because our House of Religious Orders has a bad reputation in the Grand Bazaar?" Kavi realized something, "Okay! I'll watch in secret."

He might be wary of strangers, but he was a little relieved about the adventurer, Miss Catherine, who was well-known in Xumi.

Catherine took Jiang Yi and touched his hair.

Jiang Yi looked at the Void wearing on Catherine's left ear. He had been in the commercial street for so long, and although he was just a cat, he had been recorded by the Void many times.

Stay some distance away from Kawi.

Jiang Yicai said, "How did you recognize me, Nashida?"

His voice was so soft that it only floated in Catherine's arms.

"Then how did you recognize me, Bodhi?" Nashida called mischievously.

It seems very interesting when one person says the other person's real name and the other person says his or her nickname.

"When all the clues point to the most unlikely answer, then that answer is the answer itself." Nashida talked about her own deduction, from paying attention to Jiang Yi to discovering Jiang Yi.

"But now I can't transmit my voice into your consciousness. Is it because of... this?" Nashida pointed at Jiang Yi's right eye.

She originally wanted to communicate with Jiang Yi directly with her consciousness, but Jiang Yi's spirit was like a date palm wrapped in a thick shell, unable to let her break through.

Even if it's a dream.

"I saw that you would encounter disaster, but I don't know the specific reason and what the disaster itself is." Nashida said, "I sensed the power of the sky in you... How could it be? The law of heaven has fallen asleep! Did the law of heaven leave some backup plan?"

Jiang Yi looked at Narcida who was possessing Catherine.

"It's just usurpation!"

That's the reason for everything.

"..." Nashida's hand gently touched Jiang Yi's right eye, "Usurper, pay the price. Are you responsible for everything you have saved and changed?"

"The color of you is full of pain."

"Faced with death and his current fate, he has been reduced from a dazzling 'human god' to a mortal creature with almost irreversible injuries. He can only run on the ground and peek at the world with his only eye."

"Why... don't you cry!"

"This kind of injury, from the peak to the bottom, I have seen many people who were once strong break down and cry when they are alone."

"Just because you are the 'god' that everyone believes in?"

"So... you don't cry? You can't cry?"

"Then cry in my arms! I won't tell anyone else."

She tried to comfort Jiang Yi with clumsy words.

She had comforted many children, but this was her first time comforting a god.

It is obviously a very familiar thing, but when I do it now, I don’t know what to do.

"Meeting friends is a happy thing, why should I cry?" Jiang Yi's eyes were blue, "Gods can shed tears, but I think... the me in the past and the me today don't need to shed tears. Because I am not alone, because I am realizing my dream."

In the chaotic, forward and backward time dimension, he saw the Sky Island. Why couldn't he turn that scene into the future and form a time loop with a predetermined destiny?

That dream is a foreknowledge and a memory. Where there is foreknowledge, the future can become reality; where there is memory, it can also become history.

Formation...his destiny is to step into the "Sky Island".

In Greek mythology, three generations of gods predicted their own doomsday, but were unable to stop it, except for Zeus in the third generation.

"I need to hide myself from everyone now, Moon. Let's call each other by code names from now on! But I suggest you call me 'Zeus' now."

"Ah! Have you changed your code name?" There was a faint green light on Nashida's hands.

"Put away your strength! You need to save your strength for more important things!" Jiang Yi interrupted. When Nashida carried him over, she had been secretly using her strength to heal him.

"I'm doing something more important now!" Nashida said seriously.

"No! At least my life is not in danger at the moment. You need to save your strength to deal with future accidents." Jiang Yi said seriously, "I have found a way to recover myself. The help you gave me is enough."

"Your method may not have a 100% success rate." Nashida looked at Jiang Yi's right eye, where there was a thin layer of hyphae that was invisible to the human eye and attached to the cat's eyelid.

"You and I have been talking for long enough, Moon." Jiang Yi said, "Why can I recognize you? It's because the bionic doll Catherine of the Kingdom of Winter usually does not leave the Adventurer's Association."

Behind the Adventurer's Guild is Winter Solstice, and the Catherine of each Adventurer's Guild is a bionic doll with a keyhole behind its neck.

Nashida has many abilities, including possession, but she usually does not borrow the human body because possession would allow her to eavesdrop on people's thoughts, and she is embarrassed to do such a thing.

But the bionic doll is slightly different.

After she left, Catherine had no memory of this period of time.

"But Xumi's is different..." This was not the first time that Nashida used Catherine's body. "Okay! Next time we meet, let's discuss knowledge related to mushrooms."

She raised her head and saw a girl with long red hair and twin ponytails. She was slender and wearing a dancer's belly-baring outfit. Her emerald green eyes were filled with a hint of uneasiness. She entered a store holding a package.

After a while, he came out again with a package.

The girl exhaled softly, and her previous trepidation turned into determination: "Dina Zedai sold one of her dresses to me to support the 'Birthday of the Flower Goddess'. I absolutely cannot let her down."

"However, we are still short of a little bit of funds. We at Zubair Theater will overcome this difficulty together. Come on!"

She encouraged herself.

Nashida smiled and said to Jiang Yi: "The Great Compassionate Tree King is the first generation of the Grass God of Xumi. She is the real sun. In the eyes of the people of Xumi, she is a symbol of wisdom, kindness and omnipotence."

Jiang Yi had heard this statement before in Weimo Manor.

"The Great Kindness Tree King disappeared in a disaster several hundred years ago. The sages of the Temple of the Lord found the new Grass Goddess and took her back to Mount Sumeru. To celebrate the recovery of the god, the sages called her 'Little Auspicious Grass King' and let her live in the Pure Palace."