Chapter 1311: April is your lie, Rose is a rose

Yan Fei left quickly.

Jiang Yi originally wanted to invite her to visit Xumi City, but Yan Fei said that she still had some work to do, and it would not be too late to visit after she finished her work.

However, Jiang Yi could no longer be a tour guide at that time.

He responded vaguely.

I stayed in Jingshan Palace for a long time.

Then, he went to the Joruri Workshop to see Yuanshang experimenting with the power of "Mechanical Demon, Loom of Destiny".

This time, the "Reversed Statue of Filth" was placed into the body of the God of Righteousness. The huge dark power drove the special power of the "First Eye of the Tiller", and the ground veins around the workshop underwent a huge movement.

Nashida finished all her affairs and made plans for the next three months.

"The feelings and knowledge are completely different, and it is difficult for me to describe it in clear words."

"But I think..."

"It is as infinite and endless as knowledge."

In the meditation room, she spoke softly to the life force flowing there.

The divine power of the Great Compassionate Tree King's life echoed with a sigh.

What would a person who predicts that his death is approaching do?

Jiang Yi walked in Xumi City.

Without invisibility or hypnosis, he walked openly on the streets of this city of wisdom.

Like a drop of water merging into the sea.

He bought all the delicious food that interested him, tasted every kind of wine in Xumi City, and listened to Xumi City storytelling in the cafe.

Compared to the storyteller from Liyue, this storyteller from Xumi is obviously having a miserable life.

The locals showed little interest in his story, and the foreigner got up and left after listening to the beginning, saying he was bored.

It's not as fresh as the stories of the ancient battlefields in Liyue, such as the gods descending from the sky, the maid knights fighting against mechanical monsters, etc...

The traditional, ancient stories of heroes who are both civil and military are outdated.

Jiang Yi became the only guest and heard the whole thing to the end.

Leaving behind the only huge reward.

It seems rare to see a handsome foreign man with his eyes blindfolded.

But people did not associate him with the human god.

Firstly, the jade slips had not yet become popular in Xumi, and there was no information about Jiang Yi on the void terminal. Secondly, only the Xumi people in Xumi Aru Village had seen the appearance of the Human God. Thirdly, the blindfolded image was not uncommon in Xumi, as basically every desert person was dressed like this.

As for the foreigners... Jiang Yi did not change his appearance, but changed the style of his feather robe, turning it into a more plain white robe like the ones worn by ordinary people.

Some people may be suspicious, but dare not recognize it.

In the vast continent of Teyvat, there are so many ordinary people. When I go out to travel, the gods are right beside me? This is an incredibly low probability event, even lower than the probability of winning 10 million Mora in the lottery.

Besides, according to rumors, no matter where the God of Man goes, there will always be at least one beautiful girl by his side.

Anyone who is alone is definitely not a human god!

Jiang Yi enjoyed the extreme peace of mind.

The humanitarian memory in the Yin-Yang Tiger Talisman delayed him for a while, so that he, who was about to lose control of his "new life", did not have to leave Xumi City and head for the desert too hastily.

He looked at his own shadow.

Slowly pour in the wine, and all the wine sinks into the dark ripples.

In Xumi's "Thousand Nights Stories", there is a story about a shadowless man.

The story says,

The secrets of the soul are hidden in the shadows. Without shadows, there are no dreams.

The words in the story were full of metaphors, and Jiang Yi didn't want to delve into them at the moment.

But from the simple perspective of the world.

The dead souls have no shadows in the sun.

Therefore, shadow is a symbol of life and existence.

Distinguish between death and life.

Jiang Yi looked at the shadow and saw "himself".

Dark, twisted, indescribable—the embryo.

Shadow is a dark realm.

It covered everything, and everything turned into the final nothingness.

But at this moment, it is also the realm of life and soul.

The embryo undergoes seven changes in one day, and seventy changes in ten days, which is the ultimate evolution of all life.

"Hmm--" Jiang Yi covered his forehead with his hand, his expression dazed. The dark color rose from the soles of his feet and spread to his body little by little, turning his fair skin into an ominous black color as if it was cursed.

He walked to the Grand Bazaar.

Leaning against the side wall of the passage, clenching his palms, he looked at the door at the end of the passage.

After half a day, he shook his head in self-mockery.

I haven't even said goodbye to my friends in Mondstadt, Liyue, and Inazuma, so why should I add to the girl's troubles here?

Meeting once may not be that important.

The external scenery cave and "Record of One Hundred Ghosts" on his body had been taken off again and handed over to Yandora who stayed in the Church Order Institute.

So are the little fairies on my body.

Now, only the silent Shin and Heulia remain in the body.

Oh! They... like the remaining souls of the demon gods, were entangled in the melody of the song of life and could no longer leave.

"I'm really... sorry!" Jiang Yi looked at the sky of Xumi.

The mad scholar who touched the forbidden aura of the World Tree often looked up at the sky and whispered.

Just like the sky is full of magnificent and mysterious mysteries.

"Creaky!" The door of the Grand Bazaar passage slowly opened.

The girl with long red hair is wearing a white top and a blue skirt, looking bright and lively.

The exposed calves are slender and beautiful.

She looked at the blindfolded man standing outside the passage in confusion.

The other person's body seemed to become stiff in an instant.

"Is this a surprise for me?"

"God of Man, His Excellency Jiang Yi."

Ni Lu, who was about to go out to pick flowers, looked at the man with a sweet smile.

I recognized him as Jiang Yi at first sight.

The cat she once raised, the star of Zubair Theater, Zeus.

"You...got the wrong person!" Jiang Yi didn't turn around, but spoke dryly.

"Oh!" Nilu nodded and thought for a moment.

"I don't think I made a mistake." She laughed.

It was as if he treated this denial as a joke test between friends.

"Wait, you're not embarrassed to see me because you've turned into a human, right? Zeus...cat." Ni Lu came to Jiang Yi, leaned forward, and spoke with a smile.

When you turned into a cat, you could come to my house with ease, but now you are so shy that you don’t even dare to enter the door of the Grand Bazaar?

Because you can't tell even if a cat is blushing.

If I were to become a human, I would be able to tell at a glance, right?

"Although cats look cute, they seem even cuter and more handsome when they become humans!"

"Dear God, would you like to go with me to pick Sumeru roses?"

The Xumi rose is bright, deep and fragrant.

It is pronounced as "qiangwei", but it is actually rose, which is often used to make essences and perfumes.

The summer starting from the end of April and May every year is the main season for roses and roses to bloom.

The market on Baoshang Street will be filled with the sweet fragrance of thousands of roses.

Purple flowers stretch from one end of the street to the other, and refreshing wine exudes intoxicating fragrance among the flowers on the stalls.

"Quickly abandon boring asceticism and be accompanied by roses and fine wine. Nothing is more important than this at this time of year!" Nilu held a flower basket in her hand. "In the poems and essays that are famous in Xumi, roses and fine wine are often mentioned together. They are classic images in Xumi literature."

"Although I am not a knowledgeable scholar in the Ministry of Education, I still know a lot about stories related to flowers."

“I first met Dina Zedai when I went to deliver flowers to Humayi’s family.”

On the way, people kept greeting Nilu.

"We went out so late this year that we've picked all the roses on the surrounding hills. Nilu! I'm afraid you'll have to run a long way!" People made good-natured jokes.

"Also, I've never seen this guy next to me before!"

"Nelu your new friend?"

"Are you a new employee at Zubair Theater?"

They cast curious glances at Jiang Yi who was standing next to Ni Lu.

Faced with Ni Lu's invitation and the girl's joyful and expectant emerald eyes, Jiang Yi couldn't and was unable to refuse.

He smiled and nodded to the people around him.

"Hey, guess what?" Nilu winked mischievously, "Actually... he's my old friend! You'd never guess where you've seen him before."

Pushing through the enthusiastic crowd, the girl and Jiang Yi walked into the dense forest outside the city.

The sun left behind broken gold, and the breeze raised the dancing dust.

Outside the golden spots of light, there are layers of shadows, shadows of clouds, shadows of treetops, shadows of flying birds...

Also, Jiang Yi’s shadow.

Along with Nilu's shadow, the soft ground was covered by leaves, leaving a variety of shadows on the road.

In the lush green bushes, squirrels, foxes, and beetles looked up.

The sparrow and the evening jay were singing on the branches.

Frogs swam in the stream.

"Roses bloom every month, but only at this time are they the most beautiful and the most fragrant..." Nilu reached out, gently picked a rose by the river, put it to her nose and smelled it.

Under the influence of Teyvat's earth veins, all things grow regardless of the season, and many plants glow with the fluorescence of the earth veins.

But the quality and quantity of flowers vary with the seasons.

"Smell it...be careful, don't be greedy and inhale too hard!" Ni Lu handed the rose to Jiang Yi.

The scent of roses can actually be smelled from far away.

If you put it close to your nose, the fragrance is too strong and it is easy to be intoxicated by the scent of the flowers.

But only by placing it at the tip of your nose can you taste the subtle differences in the scent of each rose in the mixed aromatic air.

Just as everyone has their own personality, so do roses!

How to choose the best, most popular, fragrant but not greasy rose is also a science.

The heart has the Tigers, fine sniffing the rose.

Even a busy and ambitious mind will be conquered by tenderness and beauty, and feel the beauty peacefully.

"It smells good." Jiang Yi sniffed.

"Is that so?" Nilu put the rose into the basket. The Eye of Water Element on her body gathered water vapor to keep the rose alive and fresh.

It is much more convenient than ordinary people who have to use various methods to keep flowers alive.

"In addition to making perfume, the petals of the Xumi rose are also often used in cooking."

"For example, Patisaram pudding, date honey, rose milk paste, rainforest salad, lambard fish roll..." Nilu introduced the functions of roses in detail.

"How about...we have grilled fish and rainforest salad for lunch later!"

"what do you think?"

When she came out to pick roses, Nilu was already prepared for a long battle.

As the girl whispered softly, for the first time, the barrier between the two sides was no longer just that between people and cats, but rather that between people themselves, and it was disappearing.

"Yes! I can catch fish." Jiang Yi nodded. "Remember the recipe for rainforest salad is Dun Dun peach, mint and Xumi rose! Leave the picking of Dun Dun peach and mint to me as well."

"Hmm!" Nilu's eyes curved, "Be careful when you go into the water! It would be terrible if you run into a big crocodile."