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"Haha, there is an old saying in Liyue: Seeing once is believing. Today, I, Pantalone, have experienced it." The rich man laughed dryly again.
This intelligence officer is not simple. He originally thought that he could fool Ye Lan and Yu Jin, but now it seems that he can only try to minimize the losses.
"Tell me your conditions." Now it depends on how much Ye Lan wants to eat and how much he wants to vomit.
As for Yu Jin? Sorry, I didn't care. In the eyes of the rich, it was him and Ye Lan's home court next. People like Yu Jin and Mu Gu who didn't understand politics and games should stay where they are.
"Damn, are they going to fight again?" Yu Jin leaned against a big tree, looking at Ye Lan and the rich man who were spitting in the distance, and felt that these two guys might fight again.
"Hey! Let me ask you, do Catherines share the same consciousness or do they have their own consciousness?" Yu Jin asked, looking at the puppet with its eyes closed.
As an adventurer, he felt that he should know more about his colleagues.
"They're just puppets, why do you care so much?" The puppet just said a word, and there was no more to say.
Yu Jin felt bored, so he turned his head and looked around. He rubbed the tree behind him, but unexpectedly broke it.
He turned his head and looked at the trees behind him. They had been full of life not long ago, but now they looked like rotten wood.
"Why are you doing this?" Yu Jin looked around. Under the influence of the doctor, this land had now become a dead place.
The puppet opened her eyes, and then she saw the embers being planted and fertilized.
She just felt a flash before her eyes, and then there was a hole and a sapling on the ground, and these saplings were fertilized, and she didn't know where the organic fertilizer came from.
Ye Lan and the rich man were arguing, Yu Jin was busy with ecological restoration, and the puppet was watching Yu Jin doing the ecological restoration.
Soon, some green appeared on the ruined land. The puppet saw the approaching embers and stepped back unconsciously.
"No." Yu Jin stretched out his hand, and there was no trace of organic fertilizer on it.
The puppet retreated further.
Yu Jin looked at the puppet. He had never thrown chocolate (shit) at anyone else since he came to this world, but this guy in front of him seemed like someone he could throw it at.
But Yu Jin looked at the puppet and thought, well, it was using Catherine's body. So forget it, Miss Catherine still helped him a lot.
While I was bored, the sun was setting.
Ye Lan and the rich man finally finished their argument, and the two men slowly approached. Judging from the expressions of the two men, Ye Lan seemed to have taken advantage of them.
"Tell me your conditions, Yujin." Ye Lan walked to the squatting Yujin and said to him.
The discussion she had just had with the rich man was more about advance negotiations between Liyue and Zhidong, and Yu Jin, a lone man who obviously did not belong to any force, was naturally not taken into consideration just now.
Ember stood up from the ground, looked at the rich man and the puppet, pointed at the sapling behind him, and said:
"First, you Fatui, take good care of the saplings behind me. You guys have to clean up the mess you made!"
Everyone looked in the direction of the cinder's finger and found that the originally broken ground had been repaired at some point, and there were many saplings of unknown species planted on it.
"Of course, no problem." The rich man suppressed his desire to complain and agreed to the request. Just send some people, a simple request.
"Secondly, since no one was killed, I will be magnanimous. If you apologize to me, I will reluctantly forgive you." Yu Jin folded his arms, waiting for the rich man and the puppet to apologize.
"I'm sorry to trouble you."
"Yes...I'm sorry."
The rich man felt his scalp tingling. This request was simple, but he still felt it was weird. Could something like this be just let go by apologizing?
Then Yu Jin saw Ye Lan running away. From the faint sound of her laughter, it seemed that she was very happy.
"Third, I want you to ensure Catherine's safety. This is also my last request." Ember nodded and accepted the apology from the rich man and the puppet.
The rich man looked at the puppet, but the puppet didn't move at all. He realized that this request might not be fulfilled.
However, the rich man did not care too much. Originally, this negotiation was only to reduce the impact of this incident on the relationship between Liyue and Zhidong.
Compensating Yu Jin was just a side job. If it weren't for Ye Lan, he and the puppet would have abandoned the two puppets and sent their consciousness back to Dongzhi.
"No problem." The rich man agreed to Yu Jian's last request.
Chapter 94 Dandelions and Freedom
2023-08-28
"Goodbye."
"Bye-Bye."
On the outskirts of Liyue, Yu Jin, Catherine and Ye Lan separated at a fork in the road.
After the negotiation, the puppet ended its conscious descent and returned control to Catherine. The puppet controlled by the rich man was burned directly after his consciousness returned.
Yu Jin looked at Catherine who was following closely behind him and asked, "Ms. Catherine, what is your job in Liyue?"
"Ah?" Catherine didn't react until she bumped into Yu Jin. She woke up from a dream and said, "Mr. Yu Jin, can you say the question again?"
Yu Jin turned around and was very surprised. Miss Catherine could actually make mistakes. It must be because the puppet had occupied Catherine's body for too long. Yu Jin naturally put the blame on the puppet.
"I say, does Miss Catherine have a job in Liyue?" Yu Jin spoke a little louder.
"Yes, but it's probably off work now. If you don't mind, Mr. Ember, you can come to my house and sit for a while." Catherine looked at the starry night sky and knew it was already late at night.
"Okay, okay!" Yu Jin agreed immediately. He had never been to Catherine's residence.
Catherine nodded with a smile, then walked in front of Yu Jin and said, "Then please follow me, Mr. Yu Jin."
So, Yu Jin followed Catherine around Liyue City. Finally, the two of them stopped in front of a building with the Adventurer's Guild logo.
"We were created to handle matters related to adventurers, so most places related to us have the logo of the Adventurer's Association." Catherine saw Yu Jin looking at the logo on the door, so she explained.
Then the two of them pushed the door open and walked in.
The first thing that catches your eye is the living room, which is neither too big nor too small, and is in Liyue style, which is definitely enough for entertaining guests.
At this moment, there was another Catherine sitting in the living room, Catherine from the Adventurer's Association.
"You... are back?" Catherine from the Adventurer's Association looked at her other self, her eyes full of shock.
"Well... I guess so." Catherine was silent for a while, then said with a smile.
"It's all thanks to Mr. Yu Jin." Catherine pointed at the curious Yu Jin behind her. If it weren't for him, she wouldn't even have the chance to come back.
“Really…” Catherine from the Adventurer’s Association looked at her other self smiling and her voice gradually became quieter.
Yu Jin looked around the living room of Catherine's residence. He found that there were many strange things piled up in many places. He asked curiously:
"Why are there so many things piled up in your living room? Do you like shopping?"
"Haha, Mr. Yu Jin, you're joking. We don't have that desire. These things were sent by everyone. Although we can't use them, they are a token of our appreciation. We can't throw them away, so we just piled them up."
Katherine explained with a smile.
Yu Jin nodded. He had no idea where many of the things here came from. It would be difficult to buy these strange things.
Then he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have never given Catherine anything. After all, they had been colleagues for such a long time, and Yu Jin felt that he should give Catherine something.
He looked at Catherine and others who were discussing the maintenance of the machine not far away, and thought about what to send over.
Soon, he had his own ideas.
"By the way, I don't think I've given you anything yet?" Yu Jin interrupted Catherine and the others' conversation at the right time.
"Mr. Ember, you don't have to be so polite. We don't even need many of these things."
"It's enough for Mr. Ember to have a good adventure. There's no need to send anything."
As expected, the two Catherines refused. In fact, they treated everyone like this, but they couldn't resist everyone's enthusiasm.
Yu Jin pretended not to hear what they said. He looked at Catherine from the Adventurer's Guild and gave her a glass bottle.
The glass bottle was small enough to be held in the palm of one hand. But what surprised Catherine from the Adventurer's Association was that a dandelion was shaking quietly in the small glass bottle.
"You like dandelions very much in Mond, and I think you will like it too." Yu Jin said, and then put the glass bottle in Catherine's palm.
Then he scratched his head and looked at the other Catherine, "Um... I don't have much contact with you, so I don't know what you like."
"Then there's no rush. It won't be too late to send it to Mr. Yu Jin when he and I have more contact in the future." Catherine looked at Yu Jin's conflicted expression, smiled and shook her head.
Then she looked at the clock on the wall and said to Yu Jin: "Mr. Yu Jin, our shutdown time has come. Do you want to stay overnight or..."
After hearing this, Yu Jin waved his hand and said to the two of them, "Indeed, it's getting late. You can come to me if you have anything in the future."
Having said that, he walked out of the house.
"It's not shutdown time yet, right?" Catherine from the Adventurer's Association said, looking at the closed door.
“It’s true that it hasn’t arrived yet…” Catherine suddenly collapsed to the ground. Electric arcs began to flash across her body. Wisps of black smoke rose up, filling the entire living room with a burnt smell.
"But...but I can't hold on any longer. I can't...let him see the flaw. This...this is the order from Master Puppet." Catherine's consciousness became blurred, and she felt that everything in front of her eyes was spinning.
Catherine from the Adventurer's Association beside her fell silent after hearing [Puppet].
……
In the morning, the sun is shining brightly.
Today, Catherine stood at the front desk of the Adventurer's Association as usual, entertaining the endless stream of adventurers.
But as she was busy, a series of intermittent whispers sounded in her mind.
Catherines and others would not talk on the shared network during working hours, but this situation was clearly an exception.
Catherine's busy figure suddenly froze. She could tell that the voice was Liyue's other self.
"Self-destruction..., leaving no trace..."
"Miss Catherine, what's wrong?" Someone noticed that Catherine looked a little unusual, so they asked with concern.
"Nothing, what do you want to do?" Catherine was busy working while paying attention to the voice of her other self.
Is it on the verge of collapse so that the isolation between the shared network and the daily language module has failed?
"Go to Yaoguang Beach..."
The voice like whispering came from her mind again, and Catherine's palms clenched involuntarily.
She was originally wondering why her other self's body did not collapse on the spot when it suffered such serious damage last night. It turned out that it was all for this moment.
Go to Yaoguang Beach and fake an accident. This is the real purpose of the puppet to let the other self live a little longer.
"Why..., why..." The crying voice sounded again, causing Catherine's heart to tremble.
Catherine thought back to the days when she and her other self had worked together, when they had taken care of each other, cleaned the room together, or discussed what had been forced upon them that day.