Chapter 531 Winter Invitation
"Oh, don't get me wrong, I gave it to a friend later."
"Although I heard the effect is quite good, the price made me feel bad for a long time."
Noticing Nashida's gaze, Mavica spread her hands and explained.
"Hehe, the things he sells are usually weird, so please don't mind it."
Nashida nodded and chuckled.
"By the way, let's talk about the invitation."
"Although I really want to congratulate you on your wedding, the Nata people will never leave the land of Nata in order to fight against the abyss. As a god, I am the same. After all, no one knows when the abyss will suddenly attack."
So many years have passed, and Mavica didn't care about the blind box. Instead, she turned the topic back to the invitation and explained it to Nashida.
"But don't worry, I will ask some foreign friends who are staying in Nata to go to Xumi to send their blessings."
After saying that, Mavica added another sentence.
Although it was the first time they met, since they were all colleagues, Mavica was very friendly.
"Yeah, that's okay, but could you please tell me about his experience in Nata? I'm curious about what he was like before."
Nahida nodded and then asked Mavica for help.
She was not yet born at that time, so she was inevitably curious about what Liu Bai had done then.
"Okay, in that case, the story must begin before I became the God of Fire."
Mavica agreed and began to tell Nashida what happened five hundred years ago.
The Kanreya catastrophe had not yet occurred at that time. Although Nata's earth veins had been threatened by the abyss since a long time ago, at least it was usually safe, just like Nata in normal circumstances now.
"My beautiful lady, may I ask which one you fell into the phlogiston magma, was it the golden silver or the silver gold?"
"Uh, your trouser leg is on fire..."
"Oh shit, help, help, help!"
"..."
"Ahem, beautiful lady, you saved me, and I have no way to repay you except to give you my body..."
"Hey, hey, hey, stop hitting me, I was wrong, I'm just a businessman passing by..."
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Liu Bai didn't know many people in Mondstadt, and he was not responsible for the official invitation on behalf of Xumi.
So after sending invitations to Venti and Klee, Liu Bai finally found Amber, the scout knight of the Knights of Favonius.
It was Amber who brought Liu Bai, Ying and the others back to Mondstadt, and later she went out to sea with Liu Bai and Nashida to look for Krewe.
In addition to this, Amber also has a Xumi friend whom she hasn't seen for a long time. Inviting her to Xumi can also allow them to reunite as friends.
"Is it your wedding?"
Looking at the two names on the invitation in her hand, Amber was stunned.
Narcida... is she still a child?
Amber began to hesitate whether to call for reinforcements from the Knights of Favonius.
But after thinking for a while, she remembered Nashida's identity. A god who has lived for hundreds of years just looks young, right... ?
"I, I went to participate."
After hesitating for a while, Amber had no choice but to nod and explain to Liu Bai, but she didn't know what she was thinking of, and her face was a little flushed.
"Okay, bye little rabbit, I have somewhere else to go."
Liu Bai nodded, waved to Amber, then turned and left.
Half a day had passed and he had only sent out three invitations. If he continued like this, he wouldn't have enough time to go home for dinner.
Liu Bai then left Mondstadt directly and returned to Winter Solstice without stopping.
The next invitation is for the Ice Queen.
"Your Majesty, an invitation."
In the Winter Palace, Liu Bai ran to the throne with the invitation in both hands.
The Ice Queen raised her slender jade hand, took the invitation and glanced at it casually.
"Wedding invitations?"
"I've heard about it. I'll send someone to congratulate you."
Then the Ice Queen put away the invitation and spoke to Liu Bai.
It was obvious that she had no intention of going there in person.
In fact, most gods generally do not leave the country they rule.
"Okay, thank you, Her Majesty. Your Majesty is the best. I will go find the little pigeon now~"
Liu Bai nodded happily, then waved goodbye to the Ice Queen.
"wedding……"
After Liu Bai left, the Ice Queen took out the invitation again and muttered something in a low voice.
……
After leaving the Winter Palace, Liu Bai took the key to Columbia's house with ease.
After opening the door, Liu Bai entered the house where Columbia lived. Since there were no servants here, Liu Bai arrived at Columbia's boudoir smoothly.
"Little pigeon! Are you up yet? Do you want to go to the feast?"
Liu Bai pushed open the bedroom door.
Inside the house, the girl was standing in front of a floor-length mirror. Her jade-white body was completely naked, and her long black-red hair slightly covered her smooth back.
Her clothes were scattered on the ground around her, her coat was placed on the bed beside her, and she was holding a dress in front of her body and comparing it in the mirror.
"..."
The small wings behind Columbia's head drooped, and she slowly turned her head. Through the hollow white eye mask, one could see that she opened her eyes.
"Little pigeon, put on your clothes quickly, or you will catch a cold..."
Liu Bai blinked and reminded subconsciously.
But before he could finish his words, he saw Columbia holding the dress with one hand to cover her chest, then turned around and raised her other hand towards Liu Bai.
The next moment, countless ice spikes protruded from the ground.
However, the ice spikes could not hurt Liu Bai and were shattered directly when they touched Liu Bai's body.
But even so, the ice spikes that did not hit Liu Bai directly still surrounded him and completely restricted his ability to move.
"Hey, hey, little pigeon, what are you doing? I'm here to invite you to a feast... woo woo woo?"
Before Liu Bai could finish his words, ice condensed on his face, sealing his mouth. Then another layer of ice condensed on his eye sockets, covering his eyes.
These ice cubes finally solidified into a mask covering Liu Bai's face.
After completing this step, Columbia turned around to look at herself in the mirror and began to put on her clothes.
After Columbia changed her clothes and turned around, she found that Liu Bai, whose movements were blocked by the ice spikes, had disappeared.
Just when Columbia was puzzled, she suddenly sensed Liu Bai's presence nearby.
When he turned around, he saw Liu Bai lying on the ground, greeting him with his head tilted.
"Get up, what do you want from me?"
Columbia walked up to Liu Bai and spoke to him.
After hearing what Columbia said, Liu Bai jumped up from the floor.
"Little pigeon, do you want to come to the feast?"
Liu Bai handed over the invitation to Columbia.
At this time, Columbia had already changed into the black dress that she had just compared in front of the mirror.
"Don't go."
Columbia answered before she took the invitation and put it away without even looking at it.
"Eh? Why not go?"
Hearing Columbia's refusal, Liu Bai scratched his head in confusion.
"No reason."
"By the way, this dress is what you gave me. Does it look good?"
Columbia answered calmly, but suddenly asked Liu Bai, holding up her skirt slightly with both hands.
"Well, it looks good..."
"I just feel like I'm going to catch a cold easily. How about wearing this?"
Liu Bai had no choice but to answer honestly, then reached out and picked up the coat that Columbia had placed beside the bed.
In a place like this in the middle of winter, wearing a strapless dress without sleeves does make people feel cold.
"Thank you."
Columbia took her coat and put it on herself.
"It's time for you to go."
……
After leaving Columbia's house, Liu Bai went straight to the Northland Bank and handed the invitation to Pantalone.
"Lerci's wedding, of course I have no reason to be absent, but the time is a bit tight..."
"I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you to use the earth vein to give me a ride."
Pantalone agreed immediately, but after looking at the wedding date, he couldn't help but propose to Liu Bai.
When he went to Liyue before, he had experienced Liu Bai using the underground teleportation to bring him along.
"No problem, Brother Fu. I promise to get you home on time."
Liu Bai immediately made an OK gesture. After all, the underground transmission would only take a few minutes, so he could make some time no matter how busy he was.
"Haha, that's good. I also wish you a happy wedding in advance."
Pantalone smiled and nodded his head in congratulations.
Then Liu Bai left the North Country Bank again, and his next target was Tartaglia.
However, Liu Bai failed to find Tartaglia. He only found out that he left a letter for his family and the Fatui, and then went to practice with his master.
In this way, Dadalia's invitation could not be sent out, so Liu Bai had to check the next invitation.
The next invitation was for [Servant], but Liu Bai went over to take a look and found that [Servant] was not in Zhidong either. After Rosaline's memorial service, she returned to Fontaine.
Liu Bai thought for a moment, put the invitation aside temporarily, and planned to see who the next invitation was from.
However, there was no name on the next invitation. Nashida left a hint for him to write down the name of whoever he wanted to invite.
Since Nashida did not investigate Liu Bai's past in the World Tree, she did not know every person Liu Bai knew, so she left an invitation with a blank name for him.
Liu Bai thought about it for a moment and decided to invite other executives he knew first, and then set out to Fontaine to find the [servant].
Thinking of this, Liu Bai took out Captain Qin's feather pen and wrote his name on the blank space on the invitation.
[Miss]
After writing down the name, Liu Bai immediately went to Ms. Rosaline's residence.
But I found that this place has been blocked and a white ticket has been posted.
"Sir, the lady's estate has been sealed up according to the order of Her Majesty the Queen. No one is allowed to enter without permission."
The Fatui soldiers outside the door had to stop Liu Bai and explain.
"The lady is dead?"
Liu Bai was stunned for a moment and then asked.
"Yes, sir."
The soldier nodded.
"…Which lady died?"
Liu Bai was stunned again, and then couldn't help but ask.
"Uh……"
Liu Bai's questioning left the soldiers at a loss.
But in Liu Bai's impression, the lady was not dead...
After several confirmations, Liu Bai finally confirmed that the lady the soldier was talking about was the lady he knew.
"Alas, we have worked together in three countries to obtain the Heart of God. Why are you leaving so quickly..."
Liu Bai sighed helplessly, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and left Rosalind's house.
After walking away, Liu Bai took out the invitation, crossed out the name on it, and wrote a new name at the bottom.
[puppet]
After writing his name, Liu Bai set off for [Puppet] Sandoni's machinery factory.
The moment Liu Bai entered the door, the surveillance device on the wall was aimed at him, and the alarm sounded throughout the factory.
"What's going on? Is there a fire?"
Looking at the shrill alarms and the flashing red warning lights everywhere, Liu Bai scratched his head in confusion.
Just when Liu Bai was confused, a group of self-disciplined agencies ran out of the factory and pointed their machine guns at Liu Bai.
Da da da--
"What the hell?"
Liu Bai was startled and dodged quickly. The bullets could even leave a small hole on the ground. Their power was much more terrifying than ordinary bullets.
While dodging the bullets, Liu Bai looked inside the factory and saw Sandoni sitting on the hands of a large robot.
"Don't hit me, look what I brought you, candy."
Liu Bai shouted towards Sandoni and took out a lollipop from the snack plate in the Little White House.
"Come over here for some candy!"
["Sandoni" has been assigned to eat "candy".]
The next moment, the big robot behind Sandoni suddenly had red light in its eyes and moved, throwing Sandoni towards Liu Bai.
Sandoni: “……?”
Sandoni in the air tilted his head, and then as if possessed by a ghost, he opened his mouth and took the lollipop in Liu Bai's hand.
Da da da--
However, the autonomous agencies had not stopped shooting yet, and Sandoni, who was thrown over, became Liu Bai's shield for a while.
Noticing this, Liu Bai quickly stretched out his other hand to hold Sandone's waist and helped her avoid the incoming bullets.
The autonomous organs also detected that their masters were within the attack range, and the speed of the machine guns began to slow down and soon stopped.
"It hurts! Why did you bite me?!"
Seeing that the self-discipline agency had stopped attacking, Liu Bai finally breathed a sigh of relief and stopped. However, before he could stand firm, Sandone, who was in his arms, had bitten his shoulder viciously.
"Woo..."
Sandoni didn't answer, but just covered his mouth with a stiff expression on his face, then glared at Liu Bai fiercely.
Her teeth hadn't even started to cry out in pain yet, but Liu Bai actually started to cry out!
With her staring at him like that, Liu Bai had no choice but to let her go.
After landing, Sandoni raised one hand, and the autonomous agencies that attacked Liu Bai retreated one after another. Only the big robot slowly walked forward, stretched out its hand and let Sandoni sit on its hand again.
Although Sandone is an executive officer, her athletic ability is not good, so she usually uses this big robot to get around.
Although there seemed to be signs of losing control just now, she knew it must be Liu Bai's doing.
This guy is the enemy of all machines!
Thinking of this, Sandoni glared at Liu Bai fiercely again.
Liu Bai thought for a moment and had to hand over the lollipop that Sandoni had taken a bite of.
"..."
After hesitating for a moment, Sandoni opened his mouth and put the lollipop in it.
She didn't know why, but she felt that the lollipop tasted very good.
……