After two hours, Orion had finally exhausted his eloquence to successfully persuade everyone who knew the truth.
Now, he was sitting alone, massaging his cheeks with both hands.
Shenhe and Skirk had actually come out once after preparing the room, but seeing the chaotic scene outside, Skirk had dragged Shenhe back in.
Shenhe recalled everything he had just seen with a blank expression, and after a moment, asked Skirk, "Orion looks like he's being besieged; doesn't he need help?"
Skirk opened his mouth, not quite knowing how to put it, and finally squeezed out, "Whom do you want to help?"
Shenhe immediately replied, "Help Orion."
Skirk imagined the scene of Shenhe getting into a verbal dispute with the other girls and shivered.
Skirk had not experienced current cultural baptism; he didn't have that concept in his mind, nor did he know that if Shenhe, in certain circles, really wanted to lift a finger, the girls waiting to be "fingered" could line up for miles.
Shenhe's finger-exercising equipment, jpg.
Skirk just felt that ever since he met Orion, he often lamented his lack of expressive ability.
Finally, he said to Shenhe, "I think if you go over, you should probably be helping them deal with Orion instead."
Shenhe: "???"
Is it that complicated? Would his stance be immediately determined once he joined the battlefield?
Shenhe thought that if his master told him to integrate more into the crowd, it would at most be just wandering around Liyue Harbor.
Unexpectedly, looking at it now, the master's suggestion for him to stay by Orion's side probably really had her own little clever thoughts; the interpersonal relationships around Orion were much more exciting than that tiny place like Wanmin Restaurant.
That statement wasn't wrong; after all, Wanmin Restaurant looked at the common people's lives.
Orion's place was just full of BT.
Thus, Shenhe made up his mind that he must observe Orion's interpersonal relationships more in the future; he would definitely benefit greatly!
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Orion hand-crafted a row of lazy sofas and then carried everyone present onto them one by one; otherwise, the ground was too cold, and it would be easy to catch a cold after sweating.
After all, it was just a verbal dispute, and it was almost entirely Orion lecturing them unilaterally, so everyone was in relatively good condition.
Those with good physiques like Lumine and Yunli walked over to rest on their own; they even had the spare energy to sneak snacks while being lectured. Lisa, Jean, and Eula, the three big sisters, had somewhat weak legs, but they were still okay; Noelle even had the strength to take care of others.
Setting aside the somewhat muddled Clara, Mona, who had inexplicably entered the Strange Domain square midway, was the weakest.
"Stop! Stop, stop, stop, my leg is cramping, don't move, don't move."
Orion supported Mona as she stood in place for a good five minutes before she finally recovered, and in the end, Orion had to carry her over.
Paimon, who had been inexplicably teleported back to the room as soon as the lecture started, was finally unbanned. He flew to Orion's side and threw a fit, asking why Orion never brought him along whenever there was something fun. Orion looked astonished.
If I really treated you like a wooden block, you'd be quiet.
However, after everyone recovered, the weakest one, Mona, suddenly raised her hand feebly: "Orion, I have something to say!"
"Hmm? What's wrong?" Orion asked suspiciously.
"The Ley Lines in Mondstadt are very strange today." Mona summoned her hydro astrolabe and showed him the hexagrams that Orion couldn't understand at all: "Look, at this point in time today, the coverage of the statue of the seven in Mondstadt suddenly expanded! And it wasn't an active expansion; it was more like the water in a sink decreased, and the water here was forced to flow over!"
Orion widened his eyes: "You didn't say such an important thing earlier?!"
Mona slapped the sofa and sat up: "Did you let me speak? Ever since I came in, you've been showing off that tongue of yours. Did I have time to speak?"
Orion:...
Okay, that seems to be the problem here.
Eh? Wait, Mondstadt's scope expanded... Holy crap, this seems to be my fault!
Orion broke into a cold sweat behind his back. He didn't dare say that this matter had to do with him fooling Zhongli, and he wasn't sure if this would have a major impact.
The three big sisters of the Knights of Favonius on the side also looked over upon hearing this. What was going on? Their national territory expanded while they were having afternoon tea?
Was this land so ambitious?
Orion felt somewhat guilty, but he mustered up the courage to ask: "Is this change in national territory you mentioned serious?"
Mona fiddled with the hydro astrolabe for a while: "It shouldn't be serious, right? It seems like the information in the Ley Lines just got a bit jumbled, and nothing else should be the matter, and it has already recovered now. I'm telling you mainly so you guys would pay attention. I was reading in the library these past two days and discovered that Mondstadt had actually lost a statue of the seven before! I don't know if this has anything to do with it."
Speaking of books, Lisa wasn't sleepy anymore: "There does seem to be a record of that matter, but it happened a long time ago. I'm afraid only the church's records are relatively complete, right? Looking at the timing, it's unlikely to be related to this incident. Mona, are you afraid that Liyue also lost a Statue, which caused the coverage of the statue of the seven to be disordered?"
"Yes, but it seems to be fine now."
Orion also secretly wiped his sweat. It seems his business wouldn't be exposed; it was just jumbled Ley Line information, so it shouldn't cause any big trouble, right? It must be fine.
At this time, Jean seemed to suddenly remember something and clapped her hands: "Speaking of Statues, I came here today specifically to find you for something."
"Oh? What is it?"
"It's Ven... ahem, it's the church that received an oracle from Lord Barbatos, saying that he hopes you will pay attention to the movements of the moon?"
Orion scratched his head in confusion: "What movements of the moon?"
Jean didn't seem to know very well either; she shrugged: "I'm not very sure either. I only know it roughly says that Dvalin seems to have received some kind of calling, and this calling seems to be related to moonlight. It seems that—dragons might riot while bathing in moonlight, or something like that."
Orion was also confused. What moon? What does the moon have to do with dragons?
Eh? Wait, that's right! He had eaten a moon before arriving in Teyvat!
Teyvat's three moons were all celestial weapons created by the previous planetary will agent, nibelungen, which were later stolen by the invading Great King Fa, and the three Moon Goddesses also rebelled together.
He vaguely remembered that in the Nordkale plot, it seemed like the Moon Maiden Columbina mentioned that his moon was still in the sky, which meant that the one he ate was Columbina's moon?
Then, as a new generation Dragon King born in Teyvat's [Original Wind], it was too normal for Dvalin to react to a moon created by nibelungen.
In other words, did Venti's words actually mean "Orion, you are carrying a moon in your pocket, getting close to dragon species will have a bad effect on them, stay away from dragons in the future"?
Makes sense, it makes a lot of sense.
"Thank you, Jean, I already understand what it means." Orion answered with absolute certainty.
Liyue also had a Dragon King, but unlike Neuvillette and Dvalin, who were clearly second-generation Dragon Kings, Orion wasn't sure if Azhdaha was a reincarnated second-generation dragon or a first-generation Dragon King who had been crippled by Great King Fa during the war.
But the fact that Azhdaha was now extremely weak was definitely true.
In other words, he could not get close to that area of the Fulong Tree in South Gate of Heaven, to avoid the moon in his body being sensed by Azhdaha, thereby catalyzing Azhdaha, who was already about to break the seal in the plot, and accelerating his rampage.
Sigh, he had originally thought about taking Shenhe back to her maiden home from time to time, and he always had a feeling that going to Cloud Retainer's home would make him remember something important, but now it seemed he couldn't go.
After all, compared to the True Monarch whom he could visit anytime, it was more important to maintain the stability of the plot and not let this guy Azhdaha suddenly go on a rampage. Presumably, as long as he, the moon-carrier, didn't go over, everything would be foolproof!
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"Miss Columbina, ahead is our dojo."
"Out of courtesy, we should invite you in to sit for a while, but well, we two still have some matters to handle in our temple. How about this, in a while we will send you to that guy Cloud Retainer's cave dwelling. She has a disciple who often runs to Liyue, so we'll let her disciple take you to Liyue Harbor then, how about it?"
Moon Carver and Mountain Shaper were, after all, two old foxes of several thousand years. On the way to bringing Columbina to Liyue, they had originally thought about walking slowly to take care of the little girl, but hey, guess what?
This little girl didn't look like a human at all.
She also had a magical power similar to space manipulation; who knows, she might even be some ancient remnant God!
The two old guys calculated together that such a dangerous person definitely couldn't be directly let into Liyue Harbor, and this was a hot potato, so it was better to throw it away quickly. Then, let's go, let's go!
Columbina had no objections; she felt that these two people seemed really anxious, so she followed them to the foot of Mount Aocang.
However, as the two old guys looked up, both of them made sounds of surprise:
"Eh? This, where did Cloud Retainer get the leisure to plant so many flowers on the mountaintop?"
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