Page 66
She chose to transfer her consciousness at this time in order to avoid revealing too many flaws.
Because now is the time to get off work. Although Catherine is a puppet, they still have working hours.
Generally, Catherines will use this time after get off work to take care of themselves or simply daydream.
"Miss Catherine is off duty?"
"Thank you for your hard work, Miss Catherine."
"When will Miss Catherine come to my house for dinner? I bought some special ingredients for the winter!"
……
When the people in the archives saw that the puppet was about to leave, they all greeted him.
Although everyone knows that Catherine is a puppet, they subconsciously ignore this identity of hers.
After all, every aspect of Catherine is so human-like that there is no sense of mechanicalness at all.
Not only that, Catherine is the first one to arrive at work and the last one to leave. She is beautiful and kind, and treats people sincerely and warmly.
Almost everyone who has worked with Catherine speaks highly of her, so it's no wonder that she is so popular.
The puppet responded one by one with some discomfort. She didn't need to do that in front of the Fatui. As an executive, she had to bow to others.
The puppet came out of the General Affairs Department with some difficulty. There were many bottles and jars on the puppet's body. They were given to Catherine by everyone in the General Affairs Department.
“Is it so popular?” The puppet looked at the items in her arms. Most of them were unique to Liyue, and many of them she had never seen before.
"Should I say it's passion or stupidity to have such inexplicable feelings towards dolls?" The puppet threw these things into the trash can on the street and walked towards Catherine's usual residence without looking back.
Catherines from each country live together in the same room because this makes it easier to maintain and repair the Catherines.
Likewise, it is convenient for what to do next.
"Master Puppet." Catherine from the Adventurer's Association bowed her head and greeted herself.
The puppet nodded. There were only two Catherines in Liyue. Although they were puppets, it would cost a lot to make one as realistic as Catherine. Therefore, the Kingdom of Winter did not produce too many Catherines.
"Is that guy still in Liyue now?" Mudikko asked, looking at Catherine.
"Your Excellency, Mr. Ember went out to sea with the Southern Cross Fleet some time ago." Catherine lowered her head, was silent for a while, and then replied.
"When can he come back?" The puppet frowned. It would be funny if everything was ready but the real owner disappeared.
"It should be here soon." Catherine said. It has been some time since the Southern Cross Fleet set sail. Under normal circumstances, they should be back soon.
The puppet felt relieved after hearing this. She instructed, "For the next period of time, you go to the General Affairs Department, and I'll go to the Adventurer's Association."
"I understand." Catherine lowered her head.
"Okay, it's none of your business now. Get ready and don't reveal any flaws tomorrow." The puppet felt that there was nothing to worry about, so he let Catherine leave.
Catherine retreated to her room upon hearing this.
Catherine's room was a bit crowded, with many strange things piled up in it. They were all found by adventurers from Liyue from somewhere, and then inexplicably came into her hands.
Catherine was sitting upright on the bed at this time. She glanced at the darkness outside the window, then turned off the phone and waited for tomorrow to come.
Chapter 88 Chance Encounter
2023-08-28
"Oh, I'm finally back." On a beach, the corpse lying on the beach stood up and finally returned to the land.
He looked at the still prosperous Liyue in the distance and nodded with satisfaction. It seemed that the direction he was sailing in was still very accurate.
So, Yu Jin rushed to Liyue City. Liyue was very big, and there were still many places he had not visited.
Walking unsteadily, Yu Jin returned to Chihu Rock and came to the Adventurer's Guild of Liyue.
There was no other way. If he didn't have any purpose, Yu Jin would always feel like a street urchin. He felt that this was not a good idea, so he subconsciously came to the Adventurer's Association.
Anyway, the Adventurer's Guild is never short of commissions, so you can just take one from within the city and do some work while going shopping.
"Ms. Catherine, do you have any good commissions to recommend? It would be best if they are in the city." Yu Jin came to the front desk of the Adventurer's Association and asked Catherine in front of him.
"Towards the stars and the abyss." The puppet first said Catherine's classic lines, and then began to think.
She looked at the embers in front of her and waited for several days, but she couldn't let him get away like that.
"Any good commissions in the city..." The puppet turned around and rummaged through the filing cabinet.
Then she took out a commission letter and explained to Yu Jin: "Most of the commissions in the city are not very good, but I have a commission that looks good."
"Tell me about it?" Yu Jin was not too discouraged. Liyue is more than just Liyue Harbor. He had never been to other places, so it would be nice to go there.
"It's a request from Tianqiu Valley. There seem to be many more monsters there, and the Qianyan Army is short of manpower."
"How about it? Mr. Ember, will you answer it?" The puppet said and looked at Ember with a smile.
"Is that so? Of course I'll take it." Yu Jin took the letter of authorization and accepted the commission. He had never been to Tianqiu Valley.
Then he looked at the puppet. This person was pretty good. If she hadn't talked a little more than Catherine, he really wouldn't have been able to tell that Catherine had been replaced by someone else.
But before leaving, Yu Jin seemed to remember something and said to Catherine behind him meaningfully: "Miss Catherine is in good condition today. Should she be in better condition in the future?"
The puppet looked at the departing embers, feeling somewhat surprised. Was that a warning just now? But when did he realize that something was wrong?
……
Tianqiu Valley is a depression in the heart of Liyue. According to legend, it was once prosperous in ancient times, but was later destroyed by a "dragon disaster".
However, these are folk sayings passed down from generation to generation, and their authenticity cannot be verified.
At this time, the embers had reached the edge of Tianqiu Valley.
Tianqiu Valley is surrounded by mountains, with a huge lake at the lowest point in the center. Whether it is the towering buildings beside the lake or the scattered debris in Tianqiu Valley, they all tell of the former glory of this place.
Yu Jin opened the letter of authorization and looked at the location marked on it. Then he was pulled behind a large rock by a blue thread.
"you……"
"Ye Lan." It was Ye Lan's turn to speak first. She looked at the confused Yu Jin and asked quietly, "Why are you here?"
This is truly a place where few people go. She came here to discover the hidden trade routes of the rich, but why did this guy come here?
Ye Lan smelled an unusual scent from it.
"The commission said that a large number of monsters gathered here, so I came to clean them up." Although Yu Jin didn't know why Ye Lan spoke so stealthily, considering that Ye Lan did so, he had no choice but to cooperate.
"Monsters?" Ye Lan looked around and found that there were not many traces of monsters. Even if there were, they were only a normal number and there was no need to clean them up.
Yu Jin also discovered this, and now he felt that the guy who replaced Catherine was really unreliable. An error in the commission? This was a mistake that Catherine had never made before.
[Wang, there are four guys lying in ambush nearby. Two are very strong, and the other two are weaker.] Black Blade said to Yu Jin.
Yu Jin didn't say anything. As long as he didn't say anything, Heidao would not act rashly.
But he was still a little disappointed. He had originally had good intentions towards the guy who replaced Catherine. But now it seemed that this good intention was a little unnecessary.
"Be careful later, there is an ambush." Yu Jin reminded Ye Lan.
Ye Lan's eyes suddenly narrowed when she heard this. She was originally a little surprised that the rich man's business route was discovered so easily this time. Now after Yu Jin's reminder, she was even more certain of her thoughts.
After all, Yu Jin has an extremely terrifying intelligence organization under his command.
But she was not too worried. The embers were there anyway. Since the rich decided to expose this trade route, she would just eat it!
Soon, several carriages and a group of guys in cloaks appeared in front of the two men on the grass in the distance.
"Who are those people?" Yu Jin was a little surprised. How could there be a caravan in this remote place? Could they be doing business with the Hill people?
"Be careful, they might be the rich man's men!" Ye Lan looked at the slowly advancing caravan and clenched Ruoshui in her hand.
Fatui? Or the rich? Yu Jin suddenly understood what was going on. It turned out that they wanted revenge.
He was skilled and brave, and was the first to jump off the big rock.
"This is for the Adventurer's Association business. Put your hands on your head and squat down, otherwise you will be beaten!" Ye Lan only saw a black shadow flash in front of him, and Yu Jin appeared right in front of the caravan.
The speed was so fast that she was dumbfounded.
But she reacted quickly, and immediately activated the Eye of God on her waist, turning into a blue shadow and running over quickly.
"Subdue them first!" The blue shadow shuttled through the people in the caravan, and the life-binding silk immediately wrapped around them, making them unable to move.
"Bang!" The water shadow exploded, and Ye Lan walked out of the shadow, "Prevent them from destroying the evidence!"
She seemed to be speaking to the embers, or to the black knife in the darkness.
But Yu Jin scratched his head after hearing this. He didn't think that much. If you want to mess with him, you have to be prepared to be messed with by him. There is no need for so many twists and turns.
While Ye Lan was busy collecting evidence and Yu Jin was busy educating everyone in the caravan.
On a high ground, a group of executive officers were watching everything below with great interest.
"Haha, your technique is pretty good, but it's a pity you can only use it once." The rich man moved the doll's body a little and said in admiration.
"Is that Tianquan's special intelligence officer, Ye Lan?" The puppet did not respond to the rich man. She controlled Catherine's body and came to Tianqiu Valley.
"Yes, that woman is very powerful and has ruined many of my plans." A mechanical voice without ups and downs came from the doll's body. The rich man has now adapted to this body.
"Oh? Between her and Ember, who caused more damage to you?" The doctor asked the rich man beside him. In fact, the rich man had the biggest conflict with the two guys, and he and the puppet were just doing things for money.
As for the young master, he was just tricked into coming here to fight.
"Almost. He can turn Mora of Northland Bank into that state. Haha, a very strong guy." The rich man looked at the chattering embers below with a hint of hatred in his eyes.
The money lost by the embers was not a small amount. Even if he was a rich man, it would not be easy to earn it back.
……
"Hey, answer your question!" Yu Jin knocked on the head of the person in front of him and found that he didn't respond at all.
"Hmm? It feels wrong!" Yu Jin immediately noticed the abnormality of these "people". He lifted his cloak and found out that this guy was actually a puppet!
Moreover, Yu Jin suddenly found that the coats under these puppets began to shake. Then, mechanical birds emitting black air flew out from under the coats of the caravan members.
They either stood on the carriage or jumped on the treetops, and large patches of black air rose up, as if attracting something.
"Tsk, I didn't expect you to be so cautious. It seems that before the formal battle, we have to watch a boring drama." The young master looked at the monsters gathering from all directions, feeling a little unhappy.
Chapter 89 Monster Controller