Chapter 23: Imprisonment of Keqing
Seeing Liu Bai throw away his clothes, Keqing tried to raise her hand, and the next moment the Eye of God on her clothes staggered towards her.
Normally, the Eye of God cannot be abandoned or stolen, unless the holder is no longer determined in his or her desire, or is suppressed by divine power like the Eye Hunting Order, otherwise the holder can have the Eye of God returned to him or her at any time.
"Hmm? I found this."
Seeing Keqing's little move, Liu Bai simply raised his hand again, and the half-flying Eye of God immediately disappeared and appeared in Liu Bai's hand.
It’s just that Liu Bai’s skill is to bring items over, but whether he can hold them depends on his own ability.
The next moment, the Eye of God trembled, disappeared from Liu Bai's hand out of thin air, and teleported back to Keqing's side.
"Eh……?"
"You bastard! Take this!"
Lightning suddenly appeared from inside the house, and a hairpin mixed with strong lightning was thrown towards Liu Bai.
Then, Keqing took out a weapon called Xiali Longyin from her Eye of God, and at the same time let the element of lightning spread throughout her body, using the purple elemental power to condense a shape similar to clothing to cover her body.
"It's the Lightning Element again. I have a conflict with the Lightning Element, right? The Great Disciplinary Officer, the Scattered Soldiers... and now there's a purple-haired female thief."
Liu Bai muttered unhappily, then wrapped his arm in white sword energy and stretched forward.
[Divine Shadow Hand: One of the supporting skills of “Sword Qi of Selflessness”]
The arm ignored the lightning element attached to the hairpin, and Liu Bai easily grasped the hairpin and took it away.
"The light of the sword is like mine, cutting off everything!"
Faced with the guy who stripped her clothes off after a disagreement, Keqing did not hold back at all and used her strongest move right from the start. Several lightning shadows slashed towards Liu Bai like thunder.
"What a coincidence! I also know this trick."
Liu Bai smiled slightly when he saw the Raikages of those girls, put his sea otter doll into the host's utility room, and then he started moving.
His body also transformed into several white shadows, each of which held a different weapon, either a two-handed giant sword, or a blunt weapon, a dagger, a katana, or a lightsaber.
[Phantom Sword Dance: One of the supporting skills of “Selfless Sword Qi”]
Each phantom also moved with Liu Bai, and the weapons in their hands were swung to easily cut off Keqing's lightning shadows and slashes, breaking her Tianjie Parade one by one.
'How can it be……'
Keqing was a little hesitant when she was about to make the final blow as her proudest move was cracked so easily.
At this time, Liu Bai's lightsaber was already on her slender neck, and the white shadows merged into and disappeared behind him.
"The sword will not hesitate."
Seeing Keqing's hesitation after her trick was broken, Liu Bai said this subconsciously.
“You… ah?!”
Keqing came back to her senses and wanted to say something, but Liu Bai gently pinched her wrist with his other hand, and the pain forced her to let go of the Xia Li Long Yin in her hand.
Liu Bai took it and threw it to the back with a clang.
Both the hairpin and the sword were taken away. Now Keqing has no other weapons except the Eye of God which cannot be truly taken away.
"So, my lovely little thief, can you give up your resistance now?"
Liu Bai also put away his lightsaber, crossed his arms and looked at Keqing who took a step back and asked.
He was not worried that the other party would take the opportunity to escape. Although he seemed unable to really snatch the Eye of God away, she would lose her elemental power the moment it was snatched away. If she dared to leave, Liu Bai would make her go out naked.
"Haha, I'm a thief? It was you who stole my hairpin first!"
Keqing, who was in trouble, tried her best to stay calm and think about how to escape. After hearing Liu Bai's words, she immediately sneered.
"Hairpin?"
Hearing this, Liu Bai looked at the box that Keqing had just pulled out from under the bed, and then looked at the hairpin that he had thrown aside.
Oh, no wonder this girl in front of me looks so familiar, it turns out I have secretly observed her before...
Liu Bai finally understood something.
Because his conceptual skills require confirmation of the target's location, in order to take away Keqing's hairpin, he naturally secretly observed Keqing for a period of time.
"Yes, that's right, I stole it."
"But you dare to rob me! Don't you know that I am a member of the Fatui?!"
After confirming that he was the one who stole it first, Liu Bai admitted it without any pressure, and then spoke to Keqing in a bad mood.
[Didi, a man and a woman are alone in a room. Facing a female thief who breaks into a private house, the host decides...]
[A: Imprison Keqing and train her to be an absolutely obedient pet, making her disappear from the world, and reward "Random Skills x3"]
[B: Imprison Keqing until she is tortured to reveal the method of meeting the Rock God, and be rewarded with "Random Items x3"]
[C: Let Keqing go, and get the reward "One-time Favorability Forced Modifier - Keqing (between -50% and 500%)"]
[D: Give up, reward "Eradicate"]
After Liu Bai admitted it, the system popped up new options in a timely manner.
"...One-time favorability modifier? System, what does this percentage mean?"
Since option C was the only reward clearly displayed, Liu Bai couldn't help but ask the system in his mind.
"Didi, minus 100% is a mortal enemy, positive numbers from 0 to 30 are strangers, 30 to 60 are friends, 60 to 99 are relatives and lovers, and 100% is the everlasting love of this life."
"If it reaches over 101%, her brain will list everything about the host as the only thing she needs to remember, and she will no longer be able to think rationally."
The system simply explained the above favorability to Liu Bai.
"Wow, then I can use it to complete the first option... if you, the dog system, let me choose two options at once."
Liu Bai became slightly interested in this favorability modifier.
If the system is not unhappy, after selecting C, you can use it to complete A...
"...Now let me take the hairpin and leave. I won't hold you responsible. Otherwise, you will be wanted by the Qianyan Army."
As for Keqing, after hearing Liu Bai admit it without any shame, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and threaten Liu Bai.
"That's right, you are one of the Seven Stars of Liyue, so we can't let you go..."
At Keqing's reminder, Liu Bai immediately rejected the option of letting the other party go.
Although the modifier seems to be very useful, if I let her go first and then use the modifier on her, although I can control her, I won't be able to complete option A. Wouldn't I just lose an option?
Thinking of this, Liu Bai gave a wicked smile.
"What do you want to do..."
Looking at Liu Bai's smile, Keqing raised her hand uneasily and controlled the lightning element.
Although she lost her weapon, she still had elemental power and was not completely powerless to resist.
"Nothing, but I think... a Yuheng Star should be very valuable, right?"
Liu Bai rubbed his hands, and five flying swords appeared behind him again.
"Why not let the other seven stars of Liyue come to redeem him? The price can be negotiated."
Liu Bai smiled and pointed at Keqing, and five flying swords flew towards her.
In the whole set of skills mastered by "Wuwo Sword Qi", there is a move called "Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin". The second effect of this skill is to use the flying sword's sword energy to lock the target, which can cause a forced control effect on the target and make it float in the air and unable to move.
He had used it on Zhenjun Xueyue Zhuyang before, but the effect was not very obvious.
But how could Keqing's power possibly compare to that of an immortal?
When five flying swords surrounded and aimed at Keqing, Keqing immediately felt an invisible force suppressing her body. Her whole body froze in place, and she couldn't even move a finger. She could only barely maintain her elemental power to prevent herself from returning to the naked state.
Then, her body rose slightly into the air, and the feeling of having nowhere to land made her feel a little helpless.
"..."
While being imprisoned, Keqing also lost the ability to speak. She could only stare with wide eyes in horror at Liu Bai who was walking towards her.
"hey-hey……"
Liu Bai rubbed his hands and found other things from the side.
Huh?! You actually blocked my mouth with a rag! Damn it!
Wait... the rope... what is he trying to do?!
……
By the time Liu Bai released the control effects of the five flying swords, Keqing had been tied up and thrown onto the bed.
"Woo!"
With her hands and feet tied, Keqing was forced to remain kneeling, staring at Liu Bai with humiliation on her face. With her hands tied behind her back, she secretly tried to control the element of lightning in an attempt to break the ropes.
These ropes were obviously just picked up by Liu Bai, and it would be easy for her to destroy them with her elemental power.
"..."
But she knew she couldn't escape in front of Liu Bai, so she had to pretend to struggle but couldn't get free, waiting for the time when Liu Bai's attention was not on her.
However, at this time, when Liu Bai looked at the clothes on her body that were made of condensed thunder elements, he always felt that they were a bit dazzling and too bright.
After thinking for a while, Liu Bai walked forward.
"Woo?!"
Under Keqing's panicked gaze, Liu Bai took away her Divine Eye again.
The lightning elemental power that covered Keqing's body also lost control and disappeared...
"Woo!"
With tears of humiliation in her eyes and a cry of shame and anger, Keqing immediately twisted her body and turned towards the wall, facing Liu Bai with her smooth back. This was the only thing she could do.
"Don't think about taking the Eye of God back, or I won't mind throwing you out on the street."
Liu Bai warned Keqing and threw the Eye of God on the table in the bedroom. Then he pulled up the quilt and threw it to Keqing. As for how much of her body it could cover, it depended on her own efforts.
Although the Eye of God cannot be taken away under normal circumstances, if the holder does not want to use elemental power and is not far away from the Eye of God, it will not want to fly back immediately. This is why Liu Bai was able to throw it on the table.
"Woo!"
Keqing didn't dare to move anymore. Her hands, which were tied behind her back, tightly grasped the sheet covering her body, fearing that it would slip off her body. At the same time, she turned her head and stared at Liu Bai.
If looks could kill, she would have already killed everyone with her eyes.
“Aaaaah… My skin is pricked by these thorns and it hurts…”
"This damn guy! When I escape, I will definitely settle accounts with you fools!"
Keqing bit the rag stuffed in her mouth and stared at Liu Bai with her eyes as if she was about to spit fire.
"Well, let's wait for the girl to come back. I don't know how to torture her..."
Liu Bai sat aside holding his sea otter doll, staring at Keqing on the bed and muttering to himself.
Since the girl is the god of wisdom, I think she should know how to torture the other party to make him speak, right?
In addition, since Liu Bai is still stuck at the first step, the system cannot tell which option he is selecting, so the reward has not yet been credited.
……