Chapter 2 Nashida's Request
In the midst of ice and snow, Liu Bai appeared out of nowhere carrying Nashida without any warning.
"hiss--"
After using the teleportation skill three times in a short period of time, the accumulated side effects gave Liu Bai a splitting headache. He quickly put Nashida down from his shoulders, then squatted on the ground, scooped up the snow on the ground with both hands and smeared it on his face.
"are you OK?"
After being put down, she regained her freedom. Nashida's white little feet stepped on the still soft snow, but she didn't feel cold at all.
"It's okay, don't worry, girl..."
Liu Bai washed his face with the snow and felt much more comfortable.
"Winter City is just ahead. Let's hurry over there, girl."
Liu Bai stood up again and took Nashida's hand again, pointing to the town standing on the ice field not far away.
At this point, Nashida didn't say anything and let Liu Bai pull her. After all, she couldn't resist.
In my current state, am I being... kidnapped?
And in the blink of an eye, we can reach the Winter Realm...
Who is he?
As Liu Bai held her hand and walked towards the town ahead, Nashida couldn't help but feel curious as she looked at him.
……
"Hey hey hey, go out and pick up a loli!"
In the City of Winter, Liu Bai took Nashida and walked on the cold and windy streets. Although his body was shivering from the wind, he looked very happy.
Quickening his pace in the cold, Liu Bai returned to the small house he had rented while doing odd jobs before joining the Fatui.
This small house is indeed a bit old in the middle of winter, but it is still sturdy and draft-proof. It is just hard to believe that the person living here is the Fatui's newly appointed 12th Executive Officer.
However, although the house is small, it has everything you need. The bedroom and living room share one room, and there is a kitchen, bathroom and toilet.
After Liu Bai turned on the heater in the house, the small house quickly turned into a warm little home.
"You seem to be very afraid of the cold. Don't you live in Winter?"
After being put down by Liu Bai, Nashida did not choose to escape, but looked curiously at Liu Bai who was squatting in front of the stove and warming himself by the fire.
"I just moved to Winter from Fontaine three years ago. It's normal that I haven't adapted yet."
Liu Bai sat down on the plush cushion in front of the fireplace and said this as a matter of course, then patted another cushion next to him and signaled to Nashida.
Nashida hesitated for a moment, but still moved over and sat next to Liu Bai. The firelight from the stove in front of her made her little face flush.
"You have the power to instantly teleport from Xumi to Zhidong without relying on the earth veins. You must not be an ordinary person. Then what is your identity in Zhidong?"
Nashida imitated Liu Bai's posture of stretching out his hands to warm himself by the fire, and turned her head to look at him and asked.
"As for me, I am just an ordinary Fatui executive. I am worried about the mission that Her Majesty the Queen has asked us to take the Heart of God. I don't even know which country to go to."
Liu Bai pointed at himself and then explained helplessly that the weather here made him want to stay at home for the rest of his life, but the prerequisite was that he had to hold a heater by his side.
"What about you? Why are you in jail there?"
After explaining his identity, Liu Bai also asked Nashida questions.
"I...well, I was locked up because I didn't have enough knowledge."
Upon hearing that Liu Bai was actually the executive of the Fatui and that the Ice Queen asked them to seize the Heart of the God, Nashida hesitated and did not explain that she was the current Grass God.
"what?"
"I've heard that Xumi is a country of wisdom. So if you're not smart enough, you have to go to jail? Fortunately, I'm not from Xumi, otherwise my brain would be sentenced to life imprisonment sooner or later..."
Liu Bai showed a shocked expression and then patted his chest in relief.
Boom boom boom!
At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the small house. Liu Bai had no choice but to leave the heater helplessly, hid his hands in his sleeves, and walked towards the door with his neck shrunk.
"Hello, this is the sheriff's office. We have received a report that a guy with a lewd face is walking over here with a little girl. Please accept our investigation."
Outside the door, the soldier from Zhidong who was in charge of maintaining public order showed his identity card to Liu Bai.
"Ah? It's a misunderstanding! How could I, a righteous man, be that wretched guy! What girl? Where is the girl? Why didn't I see her?"
When Liu Bai heard what the other party said, he became anxious and immediately started to defend himself.
Inside the house, Nashida stayed where she was and continued to warm herself by the fire. Her pointed ears twitched slightly twice as she eavesdropped on the sounds outside.
When she heard the sheriff's words, she couldn't help but chuckle with her hands covering her mouth, feeling a little gloating.
But she soon became confused again. Didn't Liu Bai say that he was the Fatui executive? Didn't these sheriffs know him?
At the door of the rental house, in order to prevent his "vulgarity" from being confirmed, Liu Bai racked his brains to stop the sheriffs outside the house.
Finally, he had to show his identity certificate as an executive of the Fatui. After the other party confirmed that it was authentic, he was so scared that he almost knelt down and kowtowed to Liu Bai.
To offend an officer in winter is no different from being sentenced to death.
However, Liu Bai didn't care about these things. He just stood firmly at the door to prevent Nashida in the house from being discovered and thus proving his "obscene" behavior.
After the sheriff fled away at Liu Bai's order, Liu Bai finally breathed a sigh of relief. He returned to the room, threw himself on the bed with some exhaustion, and hugged a faded sea otter doll on the bed.
"System, I'm hungry. I want to eat Haidilao for dinner. Please take me there..."
"Ding ding, the system can actually throw the host to the bottom of the sea and then fish it out."
"Dog system!"
"Ding Di, dog host!"
Liu Bai angrily exchanged a few words with the system on the bed.
"..."
With her hands stretched out and warming themselves by the fire, Nashida turned her head and looked at the bed with a confused expression.
Did he forget about me? Who is the system? Should I take this opportunity to escape?
Seeing Nashida's confused expression, Liu Bai seemed to have noticed something. He looked up at the fireplace, and their eyes met in the air.
"Where did this little thief come from? You are so bold! Don't you know that I am the executive officer of the Fatui? Now show your belly and apologize, and I can spare your life!"
Nasida: "..."
……
"I checked you out. Your consciousness and memory are very confused. Did your head suffer a strong impact before?"
Let Liu Bai lie on the bed, Nashida sat beside the bed and gently pressed his head, and asked questions after checking the condition of his brain.
"Hehe...press it a few more times, your little hands are so soft and comfortable..."
Liu Bai did not answer Nashida's question, but closed his eyes and spoke with a look of enjoyment.
"..."
Nashida had no choice but to remain silent and press him a few more times with her soft little hands.
"Well, it was a bump on the head. Let me think about it, it seems that there was indeed..."
Liu Bai, feeling satisfied, finally opened his mouth to answer.
"That was when I first arrived at Winter Solstice. I was tired, hungry and cold. I accidentally stepped on something and it fell down the hillside. I fell straight down headfirst."
Liu Bai said this and picked up the sea otter doll next to him and demonstrated the process of falling headfirst.
If it were an ordinary person, there would be a high probability that there would be no hope for him.
"Is that so? But your physical strength is obviously very high. It seems that the fall was more serious than you described..."
After hearing about how Liu Bai fell on his head, Nashida thought for a moment and then spoke.
When she was helping Liu Bai monitor his brain just now, she could feel the tremendous power in Liu Bai's body.
"Hehe, of course. I don't have any other specialties except that I'm stubborn."
"If Xiao Ge hadn't chased me away, I think I could have stayed at her house for another half a month and gotten something to eat..."
Liu Bai touched his head, feeling a little proud of his stubbornness.
"Little pigeon... who is that? Your friend? And this kind of behavior should be called shameless, right?"
Nashida was a little curious when she heard this strange name.
“…Yeah, who is that?”
Seeing Nashida's curious look, Liu Bai also became a little curious, and the two of them stared at each other again.
"..."
"Forget it, but there is one more thing I have to tell you."
Nashida was speechless about Liu Bai's symptoms. She got off the bed and walked towards the stove while explaining to Liu Bai:
"Given your physical strength, the severe cold outside will not have any effect on you. In other words... you are not afraid of the cold."
"..."
After hearing what Nashida said, Liu Bai stood there in a daze with his mouth slightly open, showing an expression of increased knowledge, but his brain seemed to be stuck.
After a long while, Liu Bai came to his senses. He quickly turned around, opened the door and ran out.
"Fuck it's really not cold!"
……
"It's a bit late, girl, I'm going to cook noodles."
While Nashida was speechless, Liu Bai realized that it was getting late, so he shook off the snow on his body and went back into the house, rubbing his stomach while walking towards the kitchen.
Nashida had nothing to do, so she sat in front of the fireplace, looking towards the kitchen. She observed Liu Bai from afar while flipping the flower rope.
But just when Liu Bai entered the kitchen for a while, an uninvited guest suddenly visited...
Lightning passed through the crack in the door and gathered behind it strangely.
Then, a young man's figure gradually emerged in the lightning. The purple-haired boy was wearing a loose executive coat. The circle of white fur on his hood was fluffy, making him look a bit like a cat with its fur standing on end.
But under this warm executive coat, he can be seen wearing inappropriate short-sleeved shirt and shorts.
"Ok?"
The young man observed the situation in the house, and finally his eyes fell on Nashida, who was sitting alone by the fireplace, flipping through the flower ropes.
Nashida also noticed something and turned to look at the purple-haired boy at the door.
"...Little Lucky Grass King."
The young man pondered for a moment, frowned and read out Nashida's identity.
Nashida felt a little uneasy when she was recognized at once, and quickly put away the flower rope in her hand.
"Girl, I cooked beef noodles. Do you want to try it? Xiao Liu... Xiao Niu Liu beef noodles!"
Just at this moment, Liu Bai came out of the kitchen carrying a big pot of steaming beef noodles.
After walking out of the kitchen, Liu Bai also noticed the boy at the door.
"Hey, isn't this a scattered soldier? What brings you here?"
Liu Bai greeted the soldiers at the door, then sat down on the sofa with the noodles in his hand and put the pot on the table in front of the sofa.
"Lerchi, what's up with this girl next to you? Don't you know that she is the grass god of Xumi?"
The soldier's eyes shifted away from Nashida, and he raised his hand with a sneer, pointing at Nashida and reminding Liu Bai.
"Lerch" is the official name of the Winter Solstice given to Liu Bai after he joined the Fatui.
"Ahem...?! Grass God? Are you the Grass God?"
Hearing this, Liu Bai, who was eating noodles, choked and looked at Nashida beside him in surprise.
"…I didn't mean to hide it from you."
Nashida spoke to Liu Bai apologetically.
"Is there such a good thing? Her Majesty the Queen asked me to grab the heart of God, and I brought God with me. She must be so happy now!"
After confirming Nashida's true identity, Liu Bai said with surprise.
When Nashida heard Liu Bai's words, she subconsciously shrank back.
"You are right, Lerch, but now use your ability to take away her Heart of God. I want to see if you are really qualified to cooperate with me."
"Of course, if you can't do that, then just hand her over to the Queen."
Sanbing came here with the intention of cooperating with Liu Bai. Seeing this situation, he simply pointed at Nashida and made suggestions to him, wanting to use this opportunity to see his abilities with his own eyes.
"Please, please don't hand me over to the Ice God. I am too weak and can't even protect myself. I can't resist anything she wants to do..."
Nashida stretched out a hand and grabbed the corner of Liu Bai's clothes, looking at him with some fear and begging.
She did not know any of the seven gods, and even as the god of wisdom, she felt an instinctive fear of the unknown due to her own weakness.
After all, she hasn't grown up yet...
Liu Bai lowered his head to look at Nashida who was standing beside him with a pleading look on her face. His weak brain barely managed to recall the scene of him forcefully kissing her not long ago, and he subconsciously raised his other hand to touch his lips.
[Host faces the persecution of colleagues, you choose...]
[A: Give Nashida to the Skirmisher to present to the Ice Queen and receive the "Heart of the Grass God" as a reward]
[B: Present Nashida to the Ice Queen in person and receive the "Heart of the Grass God + random items" as reward]
[C: Refuse to hand over Nashida, and be rewarded with a "random item"]
[D: Give up the choice and reward "Erasure"]
……