Genshin Impact: I'm The Envoy of Snezhnaya
Chapter 423: Sucrose's Most Precious Thing
The hunter, who had been all smiles at the sight of Mora, immediately changed expressions after hearing Sucrose's question.
"I don't know."
After tossing the snow boar leg to Sucrose, the hunter coldly replied with those three words and ignored her afterward.
Sucrose was very puzzled by this.
Later, she worked up the courage to ask a few other people for information, but all of them reacted in much the same way.
Holding a pig leg in her hands, she looked rather lost.
"Even if they knew, they wouldn't tell you."
Just as she was hesitating over whether to keep asking, a gentle voice came from behind her.
Turning around, she saw a man dressed entirely in black. Although the color gave off a somewhat unapproachable feeling, the warm smile on his face made him seem as refreshing as a spring breeze.
Even the tension she had been feeling disappeared completely.
Sucrose thought the man looked familiar, yet she couldn't remember where she had seen him before.
Still, judging by his harmless appearance, she tentatively decided to trust him.
"May I ask what's going on? Everyone seems very reluctant to talk about the Great Snowboar King."
Perhaps because she was speaking to a man, Sucrose didn't want her unusual hobby to be exposed, so she tried her best to hide the item in her hands behind her back.
"Come over here. Let's talk properly."
Bai Luo did not answer her question immediately. Instead, he invited her over.
Without thinking too much about it, Sucrose followed him to a nearby dining table and sat down.
"Harris, two bowls of Pearl Jadeite White Jade Soup."
"Coming right up."
Hearing Bai Luo name the dish made Sucrose a little uneasy.
Pearl, jadeite, white jade…
It sounded expensive. They had only just met, and he was already treating her to such a soup. Wasn't that a bit—
"Don't worry. It's just a very common vegetable soup from Liyue, not nearly as expensive as you're imagining."
Perhaps noticing her unease, Bai Luo explained.
Just as he said, the so-called Pearl Jadeite White Jade Soup was simply made from lotus seeds, horsetail grass, and tofu.
One serving only cost a little over a thousand Mora.
"Um… about the Great Snowboar King…"
Sucrose nudged the snow boar leg beside her a little closer and asked again about the Great Snowboar King.
"The Great Snowboar King is old news already. The reason these hunters came here in the first place was the same as yours—they heard rumors about the Great Snowboar King and came to look for it."
Tommy had mentioned before that the Great Snowboar King was a legend among wilderness hunters.
For hunters, forget actually killing such a creature—even owning one of its bones or tusks was something they could brag about for the rest of their lives.
If Sucrose were merely buying their prey, they would naturally welcome her warmly.
But if her target was also the Great Snowboar King, then the hunters obviously wouldn't give her a pleasant reception.
Once a customer became a competitor, the situation changed completely.
"Mm…"
This was something Sucrose had never considered. She had thought she was the only one with a fascination for bones and similar things.
However, from Bai Luo's words, she also deduced something else.
"Does that mean the Great Snowboar King's bones are already gone?"
Why did she think that?
These hunters had clearly arrived earlier than she had, yet they still hadn't gained anything.
That meant the Great Snowboar King's remains had probably already been divided up almost completely.
At best, the hunters staying here were simply trying their luck.
"Smart. In fact, aside from its value as food, the Great Snowboar King's bones and fur also possess extremely high medicinal and alchemical value. Coincidentally, the Fatui have been purchasing such materials recently, so they offered a price that nobody could refuse and bought the entire Great Snowboar King."
"..."
The moment Sucrose heard the words "the Fatui," her heart sank.
She knew all too well how difficult it was to retrieve something once it had fallen into the Fatui's hands.
After all, there was already Albedo's experience as a cautionary example.
Just as she was feeling troubled, Bai Luo spoke again, his voice carrying a hint of temptation.
"Do you want it?"
Bai Luo's appearance was deceptive.
When he killed, wearing his mask, he was like the Grim Reaper itself, mercilessly harvesting lives.
But once the mask came off, his easygoing personality and gentle smile made it very easy for people to lower their guard around him.
In a knight's uniform, he became the most reliable shield.
In an adventurer's outfit, he looked like the friendly older brother next door returning from a journey.
Even if he were dressed in prison clothes, people might find themselves wondering, "Could there have been some mistake?"
In short, unless someone knew him very well, nobody would ever associate him with the word villain.
"You... you have a way to get it?"
Upon hearing that Bai Luo might be able to obtain it, Sucrose's eyes immediately lit up.
She even changed the way she addressed him.
The fact that he knew the Fatui had taken away the Great Snowboar King already proved he was no ordinary person.
As for his claim that he could get it, Sucrose did not doubt him much.
After all, there were always extraordinary people like that in the world.
"That depends on whether you can afford the corresponding price."
Sitting up straight and interlacing his fingers, Bai Luo finally revealed his true purpose.
"If it's Mora, please rest assured. I can definitely offer an amount that will satisfy you."
Sucrose adjusted her glasses and replied confidently.
As one of Mondstadt's most renowned alchemists, second only to Albedo, Sucrose's wealth was anything but ordinary.
It would be fair to say she was quite well-off.
"I'm not interested in Mora. In fact, I've never really handled Mora. The happiest time of my life was when I was working as an instructor and earning five hundred Mora a month."
Strangely enough, he wasn't lying.
Whenever he spent money, it was usually put on a tab, and he rarely even carried Mora on him.
That was genuinely the reality of his current situation.
"Then... do you need some kind of potion?"
Other than Mora, alchemical products were the only valuable things Sucrose could readily offer.
Although her specialty was biological alchemy, she was also highly knowledgeable about potions.
"Do you have Wildgrass Essential Oil? Grass Resistance Potions would work too."
At first, Bai Luo had intended to reject the idea of potions outright, but after thinking of a certain possibility, he immediately asked.
"Wildgrass Essential Oil? Grass Resistance Potion? If you mean Dendro-related potions, they're called Forest Essential Oil and Dendrocide Potions."
Sucrose failed to notice anything odd about those names and patiently corrected him with the official terminology.
If it was only those two potions, she was confident she could make them.
Provided that Bai Luo could supply the necessary ingredients.
After all, she couldn't create materials out of thin air.
"Don't have them? Then use the most precious thing you possess as payment."
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