"Did I really eat that fast? Cake... cake..."
Fu Xuan was originally wondering how she had managed to eat so quickly without remembering much of it, but she suddenly realized what kind of effect this cake actually had.
One of the main reasons the mara-struck flare up is emotional issues. So, if Jing Yuan were fed food that brings positive emotions every day, could it potentially slow down the onset of being mara-struck?
The next question was how to get that lazy guy to cook three meals a day for someone specifically.
Money?
If that guy wanted to make money, he would have opened a shop long ago. With his cooking skills and special abilities, he would have made a fortune by now.
Fame?
This guy didn't care about it at all, you couldn't even find a trace of him on social media.
Duty?
He was not a local of the Xianzhou Luofu, so he did not have much sense of belonging here. Even now, the friends he had made were merely nodding acquaintances.
Power?
He might not look down on lower-level positions, but middle-level positions and above could not possibly be given to an Outworlder.
Coercion?
Better not even consider such a stupid idea, that would be too foolish.
The more she thought about it, the more Fu Xuan's headache worsened, and she realized that the guy was completely impenetrable. These days, he was just like an old man doing a leisurely job. After finishing work every day, he would either go wandering around or go listen to storytelling.
Then he would go home to rest. You couldn't tell that he had any particular hobbies, and his highly regular lifestyle even made people wonder if he was an automaton.
After thinking it over again and again without any result, Fu Xuan decided to ask him in person.
The next day at noon, Caelus came to the cafeteria, preparing to finish his work and go listen to crosstalk in the afternoon. But before he could even change his clothes, Fu Xuan showed up at his door.
"You want me to cook three meals a day for the General? Oh, is it to reduce the pressure in the General's heart through my emotional cooking, to slow down the onset of being mara-struck?"
Caelus immediately understood Fu Xuan's intention.
"Yes, but after thinking about it, I still couldn't confirm what kind of reward you need, so I just came to ask you directly. Caelus, what kind of reward do you want? As long as it doesn't exceed my capabilities and bottom line, I will do my best to fulfill it."
"Give me permission to borrow all the books in the Divination Commission."
"No, the Divination Commission records too many secrets. Many things are basically classified information that Outworlders are forbidden to know, so they cannot be borrowed."
"Then I don't know what I want for the moment. After all, Master Diviner, you know that I am a traveler on the Path of Remembrance, but I'm not one of those Memokeepers from the Garden of Recollection who can directly obtain memories from other people's minds. So I like to read books and understand the past through the memories recorded in books."
"However, the books that an Outworlder can read on the Xianzhou Luofu can basically all be found in the library. But the books that can't be found in the library involve past secrets, which aren't suitable for me to read."
"And the principal in this matter is the General. Master Diviner, you should discuss it with the General first."
"...Sigh! Very well, go do your work first, I'll go ask the General."
Fu Xuan also felt that she had been a bit impulsive about this matter. Since things had come to this, she would go talk to the General first.
Caelus didn't really care about cooking three meals a day for Jing Yuan. Anyway, his main quest still looked inexplicable, he didn't know what it was.
[Main Quest: Trailblaze]
[Goal: Do not let the ending head toward The End.]
[Reward: 7,000 System Currency.]
Because of this baffling main quest, Caelus had specifically consulted the system. The system indicated that it could not reveal too much in this regard and could only tell him that something big would happen on the Xianzhou Luofu later. As for what would happen, and what he would get or do in that event, the system did not reveal anything at all.
"Hmm, so the current problem is, if Jing Yuan agrees to let me cook three meals a day for him, what reward should I get?"
"Got it, I'll just have him tell me about his past. After all, the past of a Lord Ravager of the Hunt is indeed worth recording."
Caelus had already thought it through in his heart, and then he continued to work.
Fu Xuan had already found Jing Yuan, who was handling official business at the Seat of Divine Foresight. After telling him her idea, Jing Yuan smiled and said, "Fu Xuan, Minister Fu, I have received your kind intentions. Thank you for your concern. However, as for the reward, I will pay it myself. After all, this matter is mainly for me."
"But, General, after my observations over the past few days, I really haven't found anything that the other party likes or desires. Even his seemingly favorite activities of drinking tea and listening to storytelling are just going with the flow."
"Don't trouble yourself with that, Fu Xuan, Minister Fu. I still have official business to attend to. See you later."
"Fine, anyway, that's your own business. I'm too lazy to care about you."
After Fu Xuan left, the smile on Jing Yuan's face faded slightly. He looked at a piece of classified intelligence. It showed that there had been undercurrents on the Xianzhou recently, and even the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus, who were thought to have been wiped out, had appeared.
And at this critical moment, an Outworlder had actually managed to infiltrate the Divination Commission with his extraordinary skills and wanted to get in touch with him, claiming that his so-called emotional cooking could slow down the onset of being mara-struck.
Didn't this kind of person look suspicious at first glance?
"Sigh! Luofu really is quite disaster-ridden." Jing Yuan said with a bitter smile.
(To be continued.)