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Affected by this, the original camp at the foot of Longji Snow Mountain has grown from a sparse population of two or three people to a size almost like a small town.
"What is this?" In front of a small stall in the camp, Yu Jin picked up a sweet flower and asked the somewhat shy Sugar in front of him.
"This is the octoploid sweet flower I developed. If Senior Yu Jin wants it, take it!"
The words of sugar explain why this sweet flower is so special.
"Oct...octoploid?!"
Yu Jin picked up the sweet flower in his hand, which was as big as a sunflower, and was a little shocked.
As expected of Albedo's apprentice, he easily accomplished what most other alchemists couldn't do!
"Not bad, you should keep it for yourself, Sugar. I'll try to make a bigger one in the future!"
Yu Jin put the huge sweet flower back. In just a moment, his palm was covered with nectar flowing from the stamens of the octoploid sweet flower.
"This is all thanks to the perfume bottle that Mr. Ember sent me." After hearing Ember's encouragement, Sugar touched her animal ears embarrassedly.
With her current technology, the best she could do was to cultivate a tetraploid sweet flower. As for the octoploid, she still relied on the perfume bottle.
This small perfume bottle seems to be specially made for holding plants and their extracts.
The perfume bottle can stimulate the activity of the plant matter in the bottle. For sugar that specializes in bio-alchemy technology, it is simply a great help.
"Is that so? Then you are pretty awesome yourself." Yu Jin understood after hearing this.
Perfumers are similar to sugar in some ways, but they focus more on how to combine various substances in plants to achieve various wonderful uses.
Sugar is used to improve plant traits.
Anyway, to Yu Jin, they are all the same and are all good things.
"Bye, let's try to make a sixteen-fold body!" In the distance, Cinders waved to Sucrose and left.
Walking in the camp, Dain looked at the embers who responded to others from time to time and felt that he was somewhat out of place.
"You seem welcome?" After another round of greetings, Dain asked Yu Jin who was still waving.
Yu Jin stopped what he was doing and said complacently, "Of course, if Mondstadt had a reputation level, I would definitely be at the highest level!"
He is a senior and his reputation is not earned in vain!
"Great." Dain responded indifferently.
"Thank you." Yu Jin nodded, then led Dain out of the camp and into the snowy mountains.
Dai Yin stepped on the thin green ground on the surface of the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain, looking at the faint golden light everywhere in the mountain, and for a moment he was a little dazed.
He had also been to the Dragon Back Snow Mountain, but at that time the snow mountain was no different from a dead place, with no animals or people to be seen.
but now……
With just a cursory glance, Dain could see several expedition teams composed of little green men.
The snow-capped mountains suddenly became lively.
Dain and Yujin walked in the mountains. The light pouring down from the golden tree was evenly spread without the slightest change. Walking in it, people forgot the passage of time.
"Finally we're here. This snowy mountain is still this high."
The narrow rock wall opened up, and what appeared before Yujin and Dain was a huge tree that almost filled their entire field of vision... and a small tent at the foot of the tree.
"Ding ding! Mondstadt's chief alchemist, Albedo is here!" Ember ran to the front of the camp, pulled Albedo out of the tent, and introduced him to Dain.
"This is your mother's fellow villager." Yu Jin leaned close to Albedo's ear and whispered to him.
Albedo's eyes suddenly widened and he stared at Dyne in front of him. Mystery and darkness were the first impression Dyne gave him.
Somewhat similar to his irrational "brothers".
"Dain. Your mother is..." Dain withdrew his gaze from the golden tree and extended his hand to Albedo.
Was it life created by an alchemist? Dain recalled the advanced alchemy technology of Kanreya and felt that although it was magical, it was not impossible.
However, since he can create artificial humans that are almost identical to humans, his alchemical attainments must be among the best in all of Kanreya.
Maybe he still remembers it.
Dain didn't mind helping Albedo, who was half a descendant of Kanreya.
"Rhinedort." Albedo said the name of his irresponsible master and mother indifferently.
Then he felt an extremely sharp breath coming towards him.
"Such a big reaction? Do you have a grudge against that Rhinedot?" Yu Jin saw the cloak on Dain's back moving without wind, and poked his cheek and said.
He was quite tough and could keep an expressionless face even when gritting his teeth. Yu Jin was somewhat impressed by Dyne's expression management.
The embers immediately knocked the wind out of Dain. The dark blue cloak behind him stopped flying and his clenched fists relaxed.
Casually slapping away the fingers that Yu Jin stretched out, Dain exhaled.
"Phew... Sorry, I lost control of myself."
"Your mother and I don't know each other." Seeing that Albedo wanted to ask something, Dyne blocked his mouth in advance.
He really didn't know Rhinedorth. Although the captain of the palace guard sounded powerful, he was actually just the captain of the security team.
Compared with people like Rhinedot who can influence King Kanria, he is still far behind.
"Is that so? It seems that even her news is so hard to find."
Albedo gave a bitter smile and said, "Master, master, where are you?"
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"Are you looking for her?" Dain looked at Albedo, who had a pen next to his ear and a notebook in his hand, and was a little confused.
This doesn't look like the attitude of looking for someone.
"Hmm..." Albedo thought of what Rhinedot said before he left, and more wrinkles appeared on his face.
"Almost, but there's little hope."
Albedo sighed. He hadn't even scratched the surface of the "truth of the world".
"But we can't give up, right?" Dain inexplicably felt a fondness for Albedo.
Perhaps this is a kind of sympathy to some extent?
"Indeed. By the way, let's not talk about this for now..." Albedo nodded, and then he turned his head and shouted to the embers in the distance as if he remembered something:
"Ember——, there is something wrong with the fruit of the golden tree."
Ember, who was interacting in a friendly manner with the branches of the golden tree, looked up and said, "What? Are you done talking? When fellow villagers meet, shouldn't their eyes be filled with tears? Where are your tears?"
"Mr. Dain and I shouldn't be considered fellow villagers, right?" Albedo complained.
He was created by Rhinedort after the Cataclysm. To be honest, he can only be considered half a descendant of Kanria.
“As far as I know, this is Liyue slang. I’m not from Liyue, so it doesn’t apply to me.” Dain crossed his arms and twitched his lips.
Tears in his eyes? Dain hadn't even been like this during the fall of Kanria, let alone just meeting a strange Albedo.
"Okay, what's the matter? Say it again, I was just playing with the golden tree and didn't hear it clearly." Yu Jin pressed down the branches of the golden tree with his big hand.
"Let's go take a look at the tree. It's a little hard to explain." Albedo thought for a moment and led Cinders and Dain towards the trunk of the golden tree.
As the huge tree trunk got closer, the textures on it mixed with golden light became clearer and clearer, making people unable to help but stare at it.
Dain came under the tree trunk and looked up at the sky. He could not see anything except the endless golden ocean.
Even the Sky Island that had been floating in the sky disappeared under this brilliance.
"What on earth is this?" Dain reached out and touched the trunk of the golden tree. It felt the same as that of an ordinary tree.
Just as he was stunned, a suction force came from his palm that was in contact with the golden tree, and Dain found that his power was being devoured by the big tree in front of him.
"Hiss—" Dain immediately retracted his hand, and the suction force disappeared.
"What's going on?" Albedo looked at Dain's strange behavior beside him in surprise. He had never had such a reaction to the Golden Tree of other people.
"No, it's nothing. It just might not like the smell of me." Dain said, and took a few steps back.
"No, it's just that the Golden Tree is hungry and wants to eat." Yu Jin turned his back to the two of them and dug a hole in the ground. He threw something in it and then buried it in a flash.
Albedo took a quick glance and saw something that seemed to be an indescribable mass of pitch-black and flesh-red.
Rubbing his eyes, Albedo felt that it would be better to forget those things.
Ember first clapped his hands, then walked forward and patted the tree trunk.
"These are all the food I have in stock. If you get hungry next time, you can figure it out on your own."
"call--"
For some reason, a sigh seemed to ring in the ears of Dain and Albedo. Under the influence of this sigh, they felt that the golden light of the golden tree seemed to dim a lot.
"Why are you sighing? When you grow up, you have to find food for yourself! Oh, there are a lot of things underground. You can dig deeper. I think you can find a lot to eat."
"At worst, I'll allow you to make a small hole to get out. Just make sure nothing leaks in."
"Whoo~"
The sigh seemed a little happier, but still frustrated.
There is nothing you can do about being depressed. The golden tree just wants to eat "meat", as for its appetite...
Is there anything in Teyvat that can rival the Golden Tree in appetite? Ember has reservations.
This hole cannot be opened. Once it is opened, it will be the end. Then the embers will have nowhere to find fun.
"Ember looks... very familiar with this tree? Also, why can humans communicate with trees?" Dain found it a little magical when he saw that Ember was communicating with the golden tree without any hindrance.
Why does Ember know so much? The Golden Tree didn't say anything. Well, if the phantom voice beside my ear can be considered as talking.
"This tree was planted by him. You have never seen a golden tree grow. It is simply a miracle."
Albedo said with emotion when he saw Embers discussing something with the Golden Tree.
Do gods have such terrifying abilities? Albedo has never seen it, so let's just assume they do.
"But if you're talking about communicating with the golden tree, I can do that, too."