"Trouble? What trouble?"
Lin Mo was taken aback, not quite understanding.
"Huh? Aren't you from Mondstadt? Haven't you heard of my exploits?"
Alice couldn't help but feel puzzled.
Only then did Lin Mo realize.
During this period, Alice, much like Klee decades later, had caused the Knights of Favonius a great deal of trouble.
No! The trouble Alice brought to Mondstadt even far exceeded Klee's!
However, Lin Mo simply shook his head and explained, "I'm a traveler from afar. I've heard your name mentioned in Mondstadt."
"A traveler!?"
Alice's eyes instantly lit up with wild joy. "Have you been to many places!?"
"Well... you could say I have," Lin Mo answered hesitantly.
Because the current Lin Mo hadn't truly traveled across the continent of Teyvat.
He had only traversed Mondstadt, Liyue, and Inazuma within the world of the game *Genshin Impact*.
But Alice seemed immensely interested in this topic, asking with a face full of curiosity, "Where have you been~? Tell me all about it!"
"Well... I've actually been to quite a few places." "Mondstadt's Starsnatch Cliff..."
As Lin Mo reminisced, he listed off all the map regions that appeared before version 2.4 to Alice, reciting them like a menu.
As Lin Mo narrated,
Alice's expression grew brighter and brighter.
Especially when he spoke of the Guyun Stone Forest, forged by the Geo Archon's stone spears, of Seirai Island shrouded in thunderclouds, and of the Skyfrost Nail, the highest point beneath Celestia.
Alice was already so excited that she tightly grabbed Lin Mo's arm.
Fortunately, the bones in Lin Mo's arm weren't injured.
Otherwise, with her immense strength, she would have surely caused him secondary injuries.
"Lin Mo!"
At this moment, Alice excitedly called out his name.
"Uh... what is it?"
Her sudden enthusiasm made Lin Mo feel somewhat flattered.
He saw Alice pull a book from her witch's robes and hand it to him.
Lin Mo looked down: *Teyvat Travel Guide • Volume One • Mondstadt*.
Oh, right!!
Only then did Lin Mo remember.
In the *Genshin Impact* storyline, Alice was indeed the author of the *Teyvat Travel Guide* series.
Just then.
"Liyue Volume!"
Alice pulled out another book and handed it to Lin Mo again, saying happily, "This is my second volume that's still unfinished!"
Lin Mo instinctively opened the book.
Sure enough, only the first page of this book contained text.
"Alice's Liyue Travel Notes"
[Dihua Marsh]
— The north-flowing Bishui River forms a wetland here, continuing south past the stone gate of Liyue.
— As far as the eye can see, reeds are everywhere.
— At the southernmost end is an inn built upon a giant rock — Wangshu Inn, also the highest point in Dihua Marsh.
— Looking south from here, one can see Guili Plains and the distant Guyun Stone Forest upon the sea.
— There's a strange young man on the inn's top floor; I've almost never seen him speak.
— The inn's lunch is very sumptuous, and the kitchen is fully equipped, perfectly suited for alchemical experiments.
— Speaking of alchemical experiments...
— Regarding explosive catalysts, I have a few new ideas.
— If nothing goes wrong, after my experiments, I will head to Guili Plains.
Reading up to this point, Lin Mo slowly raised his eyes and looked at Alice. "So... it was because of this experiment that you returned to Mondstadt?"
"No helping it~"
Alice shrugged helplessly:
"In Mondstadt, only Stormterror's Lair and Dadupa Gorge are considered dangerous areas." "Sparsely populated, conducting experiments there is less likely to accidentally injure travelers." "Because I don't want to provoke that dragon in Stormterror's Lair."
"So I chose Dadupa Gorge as the target~"
Only then did Lin Mo understand.
So his incredible bad luck
was actually because, during Alice's process of writing the *Teyvat Travel Guide*, he got caught up in one of her spur-of-the-moment explosive experiments.
Just as Lin Mo was curious why Alice had gone out of her way to explain this,
he looked up and saw Alice's gaze, full of anticipation.
"Lin Mo!"
Alice called his name again.
"I'm here." Lin Mo nodded.
"Since you're already a traveler with considerable experience, could you take me along with you?"
Alice continued, full of hope:
"I don't just want to complete the *Teyvat Travel Guide • Liyue Volume*~" "I want to travel across the entire continent of Teyvat~!"
"I also want to write the *Inazuma Volume*~" "The *Fontaine Volume*~" "The *Snezhnaya Volume*~"
"All seven nations! I want to go to all of them~"
Alice was already fantasizing about traveling across all seven nations.
She even tightly grasped Lin Mo's hand, earnestly inviting him once more: "So, Lin Mo! Let me become your companion." "Let's travel across Teyvat together, okay~"
Looking into Alice's burning, expectant gaze fixed on him,
Lin Mo remembered an extremely ironic phrase he had once heard back on Blue Star.
"You're done for. You're falling in love!"
Gazing into Alice's hopeful eyes, Lin Mo subconsciously nodded. "Mm, I promise you."
"Great!"
"Let's set off right away!"
Alice immediately jumped up excitedly. "Don't worry, during this time I'll definitely take good care of you! Once your injuries are healed, we'll go."
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
For this entire month, all of Mondstadt was astonished by Alice's good behavior.
The witch Alice, who usually caused trouble for the Knights every other day, was actually behaving!?
It's said... she even went to the church every day to chat with a man?
As the townsfolk gradually inquired with the sisters,
the name Lin Mo also entered the sight of Mondstadt's people, and even more so, the sight of the Knights of Favonius.
For the Knights,
they simply had no way to handle the immensely powerful Alice.
Only the high-ranking, authoritative Grand Master Varka could make Alice slightly wary.
But even he couldn't prevent Alice from causing panic in Mondstadt city every few days.
Yet, this month since Lin Mo appeared
was the most peaceful month Mondstadt city had experienced since Alice's arrival!
For this reason, Grand Master Varka personally came to the Church of Favonius, wanting to meet this man who had tamed Alice so thoroughly.
"Varka? What are you doing here?"
Alice asked warily. "Let me tell you, I've been very well-behaved lately, so don't even think about finding fault with me."
Varka smiled with great satisfaction, his gaze turning towards Lin Mo on the sickbed as he said with a gentle smile:
"Lately, the people of Mondstadt have been saying that a handsome traveler from afar has tamed the most beautiful girl in our Mondstadt."
"So, I wanted to come see for myself who is so capable, to have become Alice's boyfriend."
As he said this, Varka even smiled and extended a friendly hand towards Lin Mo, saying:
"I am Varka, Grand Master of the Knights of Favonius. Lin Mo, very pleased to meet you."
Alice: "Wait! What did you say!? Boyfriend!?"
Lin Mo: ???.
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