"Precious Baby—" Stelle finally spotted Precious Baby's figure and quickly ran towards him, calling out his name.
He truly hadn't expected Precious Baby to have run so far; this was already outside the area of the ruins, making it quite a search for him.
At this moment, Precious Baby was intently searching for traces of Gods, so when he suddenly heard Stelle's voice, he was startled.
Of course, this was also due to his guilty conscience, but no matter what, startling someone was wrong.
Precious Baby's face instantly fell.
"I found a box. See if it's what you lost." Stelle came before Precious Baby and handed him the artifact from last week, which he had already prepared.
Precious Baby, who was originally angry and about to scold Stelle, saw the item in his hand and his eyes immediately lit up.
The anger in his heart instantly vanished by more than half.
Of course, this wasn't what he was looking for, but judging by the exquisite craftsmanship and the mottled traces on it, it seemed to be an old treasure.
Since it was discovered in the ruins, there should be no possibility of it being fake.
"Hehe... It really is an artifact. *Cough*, I mean, it doesn't look like the one I lost." Precious Baby almost misspoke and lightly coughed twice.
"This item is very valuable. Although it's not what I'm looking for, it can't just be left out like this. Let me, a professional, keep it for now." Precious Baby said contentedly.
Just as Soraya had expected, Precious Baby didn't recognize the intentionally aged item; instead, he treated it as a treasure and put it away.
"Not bad, not bad, you really worked hard." Precious Baby reached out and patted Stelle's shoulder.
He didn't expect this Damselette, who seemed so clumsy, could actually give him some unexpected surprises.
After the matter was done, he would let him off the hook... No, he would "reward" him.
Precious Baby carefully examined Stelle's face again, and the small flame gradually igniting in his heart grew fiercer.
As a member of the Treasure Hoarders, he could absolutely not give up on treasure.
Although he had no prior precedent of targeting people, such a beautiful Damselette was undoubtedly worthy of being called a treasure.
"It's getting late today, so you should head back for now. We'll continue searching tomorrow morning." Bao'er made up his mind and nodded.
Star had arrived late, and after all that trouble, an entire afternoon had passed. The sky was darkening, and it would become very unsafe in this area at night, so it was better to finish early.
"Okay… will the meeting point still be there tomorrow?" Star thought for a moment, then asked tentatively.
"Mm-hmm, right there." Bao'er replied casually, not finding anything unusual about Star's question.
She couldn't have imagined that the reason Star wanted to confirm it specifically was so that the Millelith could prepare in advance and set up an ambush tomorrow.
"Alright, then we'll see each other tomorrow." Star smiled slightly.
After tomorrow, the next time he saw Bao'er would probably be in jail.
He looked at Bao'er again, then shook his head subtly as he headed towards Wangshu Inn.
It was unbelievable that such a good girl was a member of the Treasure Hoarders.
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By the time Star returned to Wangshu Inn, it was already completely dark. Even with the use of a Waypoint, it still took some time.
As soon as he entered, Star was called out by the proprietress, Philgoated.
"Miss Star, please wait a moment." Philgoated waved at Star.
"What is it, proprietress?" Star walked over, puzzled.
"Miss Soraya has returned. I heard the general course of events from him. Thanks to you, he was able to return safely." Philgoated said with a smile.
"Yes, it was a coincidence that I happened to be there. Otherwise, it's hard to say what the consequences would have been." Star nodded, recalling how truly thrilling it was.
"The Millelith have already arrested all the Treasure Hoarders you knocked out and conducted a simple interrogation. From the information they provided, your client, that Bao'er, is very likely the Treasure Hoarders' Da Jie Tou known in the jianghu as Nan Changjie!"
"Uh, Nan Changjie?" Star strangely felt the title sounded familiar, but for a moment, he couldn't recall where he had heard it before.
"You might not remember, but in Mondstadt, you once apprehended North Weird Bird with that Outrider…"
"Oh, oh!" Star clapped his hands, finally remembering.
When he and Xiangling were apprehending that Monster Bird, the information seemed to mention that the Treasure Hoarders apparently had two major leaders, one being North Weird Bird and the other Nan Changjie.
"So Bao'er is that useless…" Star couldn't help but complain.
In Star's opinion, that Monster Bird had no combat power apart from flying fast; it was utterly pathetic. In terms of how difficult it was to deal with, it probably couldn't even compare to a Hilichurl archer.
The corresponding Nan Changjie, he thought, wouldn't be anything formidable either.
"Hehehe, to you, it probably makes no difference, but to us, the two major leaders of the Treasure Hoarders, North and South, are very cunning and difficult to apprehend." Philgoated covered his mouth and chuckled softly.
"Of course, Bao'er's identity is merely our simple speculation, because the people arrested today were all foreign Treasure Hoarders. They only had a cooperative relationship with Bao'er and didn't know much about him."
"Nan Changjie is different from North Weird Bird; he rarely appears in public. His identity is only circulated among the high-ranking members of the Treasure Hoarders. But no matter what, this Bao'er is an important figure, and we attach great importance to him…"
"Uh, speaking of which, proprietress, why do you know so much about these things?" Star suddenly realized that the proprietress seemed to know a bit too much.
He even knew that he had once apprehended Monster Bird in Mondstadt.
"Hmm? Don't you know?" Philgoated tilted his head, looking at Star with some confusion.
"What?"
"This Wangshu Inn is not our personal property…"
"Oh~ right, right, Ningguang seemed to have told me something about that." Star rubbed his head, suddenly recalling that Ningguang seemed to have told him that the entire Wangshu Inn belonged to him.
Looking at it this way, Wangshu Inn was more like an official intelligence organization that Liyue stationed at the border.
No wonder.
"The Millelith in this vicinity are also under my command, which is why I need to discuss tomorrow's apprehension operation with you thoroughly."
"No problem, I promise to give it my all in this matter." Star immediately nodded, patting his chest as he spoke.
"Good~ Then let's go up to your room on the second floor to discuss the details." Philgoated said with a smile.
"Mm-hmm… Huh?" Star's foot, which was about to step forward, paused instantly.
"What's wrong?"
"Just, just the two of us to discuss in detail?"
"And Miss Soraya. As an important witness in this matter, and also a foreign scholar who got involved, he also needs to participate."
"Oh, that's fine, that's fine…"
If there were three of them, it would be fine. That way, no one would act impulsively and make a mistake.
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