The Doctor's appearance makes the audience curious amid their annoyance. Didn't The Doctor leave by boat? He's not an Cryo Vision holder who can freeze the sea to walk on it, right?
What, your eyepatch covers both eyes, so you're double Kaeya?
Obviously not. The Doctor might have stayed in Inazuma too long and has a 'close' relationship with Scaramouche, so he also has a bit of a loose tongue.
Or perhaps, he's just too confident and doesn't care about revealing some of his 'trump cards'.
So he tells Nahida that in the past, he preserved 'segments' of himself from various ages and operated them as independent individuals.
This act is nothing less than an insult to 'life'. If in Sumeru, it would already count as breaking precepts.
Yet The Doctor did this merely out of 'curiosity'—he was curious about what different perspectives his selves from various ages would have when looking at the same issues.
But now, he somewhat regrets it. Reconciling with oneself is too hard, let alone with selves from different ages.
For example, the him in the story wants to negotiate, but one of 'him' as an audience right now wants to just act directly.
This Doctor is the one responsible for voicing Lucian, so he hasn't been erased yet and can still watch the movie.
Now he thinks 'himself' in the story is too procrastinating and conservative—getting what he wants is what matters.
Conflicts like this are everywhere, so The Doctor has grown impatient with his own segments.
Conveniently, the Nahida in the story also wants to destroy his segments, and incidentally brings out her bargaining chip—Heavenly Principles!
If the 'Gnosis' is destroyed, will Heavenly Principles awaken? Perhaps no one knows the answer except Lucian—and clearly, The Doctor doesn't want to gamble on that possibility.
Although the Fatui Executives each have their own goals, at least on the surface, they are all loyal to Her Majesty the Tsaritsa and can't ruin Her Majesty's plan against Heavenly Principles.
Moreover, the price Nahida mentions is 'destroying all segments'—this hits exactly what The Doctor wants.
The one who came here is The Doctor's most selfish segment; he's long been fed up with the other segments. Now he has a justified reason.
In reality, The Doctor's segments are almost all gone; the only two remaining are temporarily kept because of Lucian, and they're watching the movie now too.
It seems no matter the experiences, the final fate converges to one.
'The Doctor' feels no irritation about impending erasure; instead, a new 'curiosity' ignites—can this seemingly inevitable fate be broken?
Unfortunately, he ultimately has no chance to research this curiosity, because after the movie ends, he will also be destroyed.
This segment somewhat satisfies the people of Sumeru a bit—well done, Lord Lesser Lord Kusanali, 'killing' so many Doctors at once.
Especially when Nahida connects to The Doctor's segments' consciousness, they can still hear their complaints—the audience feels even more refreshed.
Complain, complain harder—we just want to see you complain endlessly yet be powerless, hahaha!
But if anything, in this deal, The Doctor doesn't lose, Nahida doesn't lose, even the Raiden Shogun who lost her Gnosis doesn't lose—who loses?
Besides Raiden Shogun's Gnosis, there's another Dendro Gnosis—this one isn't used to deal with The Doctor but exchanged for a piece of intelligence, intelligence that even Nahida doesn't know.
Nahida's knowledge comes from Irminsul. Irminsul records everything in Teyvat, but the 'starry sky' is an exception.
Coincidentally, The Doctor has researched the starry sky; this matter is also recorded in 'Unreconciled Stars'.
[The Doctor says: "You who hold all knowledge—have you heard this rumor? It seems to go like this... 'The skies of Teyvat's false'."]
["That is the secret about the entire world's 'truth', hidden by Irminsul..."]
The audience has indeed heard this intelligence before—from Scaramouche.
So this is something even the God of Wisdom doesn't know? Scaramouche just casually mentioned it back then.
No one even asked him; he said it himself, making us not realize how precious this information was.
This information is indeed very precious, but Nahida also knows about the false starry sky. What truly piques Nahida's curiosity is the 'truth' The Doctor mentions afterward.
Scaramouche didn't say this part, so everyone is very curious too.
However, there's no follow-up—a black screen, with a line of subtitles: 'The secret flows together with the dark truth into the mind of the wise. Then... everything falls silent.'
That's it—just gone, cut off again at the part everyone is most interested in.
Flows into the mind of the wise—so at this moment, Lumine is sound asleep; not a bit of knowledge flowed in—her waterproof system is top-notch.
The audience is somewhat dissatisfied: What does that mean? Are we not wise enough?
Furina is unconvinced—she might not be smart enough, but there are plenty of smart people here; telling them would be fine too!
Lucian, bad!
Mona is even more anxious, grinding her teeth—this kind of intelligence, and you don't tell me?
This most curiosity-piquing intelligence, and you actually hide it from me!
Am I not wise? This genius isn't wise?! I demand access!! Let me access!!
So Mona, Furina, and others turn their gazes to Scaramouche—you know something, right?
Scaramouche feels the stares, but he ignores them—because he really doesn't know this.
He's not a scholar; he was just responsible for investigating.
As for what answers were researched from the investigation content, he doesn't know.
Clearly, Lucian doesn't want to tell everyone what this 'answer' is—so what can be done?
Nothing can be done. With the current Lucian, even if you capture him, it's useless—who would interrogate him?
Cyno? Impossible—Sumeru owes him too much. Furina? Even more impossible; her not giving him special treatment already counts as impartial.
Yelan and others wouldn't either—because even disregarding Lucian's strength, his network is already too widespread.
Everyone has no way with Lucian and can only resentfully glance at him.
Lucian and Nahida are in the consciousness space; it's consciousness connected—their bodies are still outside.
But not looking is fine; looking gives a fright—how is there an extra person!?
A woman quite similar to Lesser Lord Kusanali appears beside Lucian.
This isn't right? Even if you two have a child, the child can't be bigger than the mom, right?
Now, everyone has already forgotten Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, so no one recognizes her identity—only feeling through appearance that she's closely related to Nahida.
However, everyone just glances once; the next second, Lucian and the other disappear from sight together.
Running so fast—wonder if he prophesied that everyone wants to 'beat' him. Truly worthy of being a prophet.
Hu Tao, Furina, Mona, Navia, and others sigh, hands itching unbearably.