"Kid, where have you been these past few days?"
Yu Jin plopped down on Childe in the green belt outside Yujing Terrace, examining his clothes as he asked.
Childe's attire was unchanged from before, still the light brown scarf and grey-white suit.
Could it be that Childe's transformation doesn't involve tearing his clothes? What kind of transformation is that! Yu Jin's gaze towards Childe immediately became much more uninspired.
A transformation without torn clothes is imperfect!
"I didn't do anything. Get off me, I can't breathe!" Childe groaned, sprawled on the grass.
He had tried to stand up more than once, but Yu Jin's body seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. No matter how much Childe struggled, he couldn't move him an inch.
"Oh, my apologies. Your clothes are too high-class, very comfortable to sit on." Yu Jin immediately stood up upon hearing him.
One could only say that rich guys are rich guys; even the clothes they wear are different from others. He had never been this comfortable sitting on that Debt Collector before.
Childe got up, clutching his waist, and involuntarily took a few steps back as he looked at Yu Jin.
Recalling the past few days, Childe felt like crying.
These days, whenever he saw anything related to Northland Bank, those glaring words would incessantly pop into his mind.
This led to Childe, the actual leader of the Liyue Fatui, Harbinger Eleven, having to move out of Northland Bank, his base of operations!
Even more absurd was that he couldn't even use his own savings—Childe's savings were deposited in Northland Bank.
It was truly heartbreaking to hear, and brought tears to one's eyes.
"How is it? How does it feel to have your head filled with knowledge?" Yu Jin tapped his helmet and asked with a smile.
He could guarantee that Northland Bank had now implemented various measures and had undergone a complete transformation.
The power of knowledge was indeed that strong!
Childe's face turned green upon hearing this. These past few days, he had handed all his Harbinger duties to the Lady, and he had been constantly battling the words in his mind.
Fortunately, his will was still very strong. After several days of repeated torment, Childe finally learned to coexist with the words in his mind.
As soon as things improved, Childe couldn't wait to run out. Tartaglia was not one to sit still.
And not long after he ran out, he met Yu Jin again.
"Hehe, it's great." Childe chuckled without a genuine smile. Knowledge? Those words were purely meant to occupy his brain capacity!
"That's right, but why are you here? Aren't Harbingers busy?" Yu Jin nodded, his gaze filled with suspicion as he looked at Childe.
Aren't Harbingers supposed to be busy to death all day? How does Childe have time to run around?
"I have a lot of free time, and besides, can't I just look around?" Childe whistled and turned his head to look into the distance.
He couldn't possibly say he was really here to cause trouble, could he? If he did, Yu Jin would probably give Childe another public safety lesson.
Although Childe himself hadn't even thought about how to cause trouble, it didn't matter; Tartaglia was best at improvisation!
"Then you look! Bye bye!"
Yu Jin looked up at the clear blue Sky. Others might not feel it, but Yu Jin detected a unique aura hidden within.
It was the aura of gold and jade. Yu Jin knew without a doubt that Zhongli's avatar was in place.
This also indicated that the Rite of Descension was about to begin.
"Swish!"
Childe's vision blurred, and when he regained his senses, he found that Yu Jin had vanished.
"What speed!" Childe's pupils contracted slightly. He hadn't felt anything when Yu Jin left.
Childe jumped into a tree and turned to look at the bustling Yujing Terrace. There, Tianquan Star Ningguang had already led the master of ceremonies to the center of the Altar of Heaven.
Ningguang looked up at the Sky. The jade on her waist seemed to sense something and began to emit a faint glow.
"The auspicious hour has arrived!"
Ningguang's rhythmic shout instantly echoed throughout Yujing Terrace. The previously noisy crowd immediately quieted down.
"Hoo—" Ningguang looked at the huge censer in front of her and took a deep breath. Although she had rehearsed many times, when it came to presiding over the Rite of Descension herself, a hint of nervousness inevitably arose in her heart.
This trace of nervousness did not linger in Ningguang's heart for too long. Soon, she composed herself.
Taking a step forward, Ningguang's mind stirred, and the jade used for the sacrifice flew from her waist, circling around her.
Liyue values stone, so whenever a sacrifice is needed, in addition to ordinary long incense and yellow paper, jade is also indispensable.
"Clang, clang, clang!" The jade flew and accurately embedded itself into the indentations of the censer.
Then, the giant censer in the center seemed to receive some instruction, and a pillar of light shot up from within, reaching straight to the Sky.
Around the pillar of light, dense clouds gathered. Countless converging clouds swirled and intertwined, forming a giant vortex.
"Not bad, Zhongli, this guy has quite the presence!" Yu Jin praised, standing on the roof of a Yujing Terrace pavilion, looking at the magnificent scene before him.
Putting everything else aside, just the grandeur of this entrance was definitely maxed out.
"Uh..., something seems a little off?" Yu Jin said, squinting slightly as he looked at the giant vortex in the Sky.
No sooner had he spoken than a pitch-black hue began to emerge in the originally pure white vortex in the Sky.
The darkness grew larger and larger, eventually dyeing the entire Sky incredibly gloomy. Within the dark clouds, streaks of crimson lightning flashed, looking quite oppressive.
"Wh-what's going on? The Rite of Descension in previous years never had this!"
"These red lightning bolts, these dark clouds, don't they look like the legendary tribulation?"
"Lord Rex Lapis wouldn't be in any trouble, would he?"
...The strange phenomenon in the Sky caused the people below to discuss animatedly.
Not to mention the onlookers, even Ningguang, who was presiding over the Rite of Descension, looked somewhat flustered. Such a scene had never appeared in any records.
"Boom!"
The gloom did not last long. With an explosion, a dark figure fell from the Sky, and the immense force it brought not only shattered the censer in the center of the Altar of Heaven but also caused the entire Yujing Terrace to tremble slightly.
As the grey smoke dissipated, Ningguang hurriedly looked at the dark figure that had fallen in front of her. Then, her eyes widened.
Lord Rex Lapis is dead~
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Yu Jin scratched his head, is that it? Did Zhongli die too hastily? One might even think he fell to his death.
After a brief inspection of Morax's "corpse," Ningguang stood up, waved her hand, and shouted:
"The Lord has been assassinated! Seal off the entire area!"
Accompanying Ningguang's shout, Millelith, both overt and covert, poured in, surrounding the entire Yujing Terrace.
At the same time, Ningguang was not idle; her side was also surrounded by a crowd of people. It seemed those people were the leaders of various Millelith squads.
Under Ningguang's command, the Yujing Terrace, which had been chaotic due to the Lord's death, quickly returned to order.
The Millelith performed their respective duties; some guarded key passages, some questioned pedestrians, and others scouted around... "Hey! You up there! Come down!" A patrolling guard looked up and saw Yu Jin picking his feet on the roof of a Yujing Terrace building.
"What?"
Yu Jin took a big leap, jumping directly from the rooftop, startling the guard in front of him.
"Come with me to see Tianquan!" The guard scrutinized Yu Jin's strange attire and then looked at the broken floor on the ground.
Even if this person wasn't the murderer of the Lord, he was definitely guilty of damaging public property!
"No problem, I also want to ask her what she thinks." Yu Jin nodded. Ningguang was surrounded by a crowd of people; he was just wondering how to find her!
Looking around, Yu Jin saw Lumine and Paimon in the distance.
"You two! How was the viewing?"
Yu Jin waved from afar, but it made the sneaky Lumine and Paimon jump.
The two seemed to have seen the Millelith next to Yu Jin and turned to run!
"Hey! Don't run!"
Seeing Lumine and Paimon sprinting away, the guard immediately shouted and chased after them.
Yu Jin looked at his empty surroundings, scratched his head, did he just prank Lumine?
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