"Guoba was taken by the Treasure Hoarders?" As Keqing stepped into Wanmin Restaurant, she saw Xiangling holding a letter with an anxious expression and heard what she had just said.
Guoba had actually been kidnapped by the Treasure Hoarders?
"Yes..." Xiangling said with extreme anxiety, "What should I do... the Treasure Hoarders are truly capable of any evil... why would they take Guoba? Guoba never did anything to provoke them."
"Let me see the letter." Raiden Ei completely set down the work in her hands, her expression showing a hint of displeasure. They dared to kidnap Guoba right in front of her? Those Treasure Hoarders were truly bold.
"Okay."
When Raiden Ei finished reading the letter, her expression became very displeased, and her face looked somewhat grim.
"They're actually threatening me?"
The Treasure Hoarders kidnapped Guoba specifically to threaten her, demanding that she and her sister go to Mt. Tianheng.
Aside from Signora a while ago, she had never seen anyone so arrogant as to dare threaten her.
"The Treasure Hoarders kidnapped Guoba and want me and my sister to go to Mt. Tianheng, otherwise they'll harm him..." Raiden Ei's tone was filled with a murderous aura; she was already quite angry.
Normally, she didn't care about the provocations of mortals, but now the Treasure Hoarders were directly insulting her to her face. The last person who dared to be so arrogant in front of her had already been cut down by her sister.
"Why do the Treasure Hoarders dare to be so arrogant... do they really think we won't take action?" Keqing's expression was also quite unfriendly. She naturally knew about the Treasure Hoarders who spanned the Seven Nations. Liyue's Treasure Hoarders often stole treasures in the shadows, but because they usually stayed hidden, the Liyue Seven Stars hadn't dealt with them yet.
But now, the Treasure Hoarders had actually kidnapped Xiangling's Guoba right in Liyue Harbor. That was causing trouble right under the noses of the Liyue Seven Stars; she was feeling quite a bit of fire.
"What should we do... they won't hurt Guoba, will they?" Xiangling was extremely anxious. In her eyes, Guoba had always been just a little bear that could only breathe fire; she was very worried right now.
What if something happened to Guoba?
"Did the Treasure Hoarders demand that the two of you go together? Can I come along?" Keqing intended to give those Treasure Hoarders a good lesson; they were being far too arrogant now.
The Liyue Seven Stars not dealing with the Treasure Hoarders wasn't because they didn't dare to move against them.
"I want to go too," Xiangling said excitedly. "Those Treasure Hoarders are truly detestable; they actually dared to kidnap Guoba!"
"Master, let me go with you," Xiangling looked at Raiden Makoto very seriously. "Let's wipe out those Treasure Hoarders."
"Okay."
As they walked out the door, they saw Lumine and Paimon rushing over from the side.
Paimon looked at Raiden Makoto and Keqing with a face full of confusion. She could tell from Keqing and Xiangling's expressions that they seemed very angry.
"What happened, Keqing?"
"The Treasure Hoarders kidnapped Guoba," Xiangling said angrily. "Those people are using Guoba to threaten Master and Sister Ei, saying that if Master and Sister Ei don't go, they'll burn Guoba."
"Ah?"
"Are the Treasure Hoarders that arrogant?" Paimon blinked. "Actually kidnapping Guoba to threaten Sister Makoto and Sister Ei."
Paimon's mouth hung open; she found it somewhat unexpected that someone was threatening Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei again.
The last person to threaten Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei had probably already been turned to ash, right? Long gone.
"So you're planning to go settle the score with the Treasure Hoarders?" Paimon then looked at Raiden Makoto with curiosity. "Can Lumine and I come along?"
Paimon was just worried about having nothing to do, and now a good show had presented itself.
"Lumine, what do you think?"
Lumine nodded and said, "Those Treasure Hoarders are indeed quite detestable. Why don't we come along with you?"
"Alright."
...Meanwhile, at Mt. Tianheng.
"Boss, that thing that looks like a teddy bear... seems to be a treasure."
"Obviously... that bear is related to those two Inazuman women... when those two women show up, I'm going to avenge Zixiu," the Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader with a fleshy face said with a fierce look.
"Boss, what if they get the Seven Stars? With our..."
The fleshy-faced Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader glared at the lackey beneath him and then said very arrogantly, "The Seven Stars? If they dare to come, I'll make sure they never return."
"With the treasure left by the Fatui, what are the Seven Stars? If the Seven Stars dare to come, I'll wipe them out too... as long as those Adepti don't show up, who's afraid of who?" the Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader said arrogantly.
"The evil eyes left by the Fatui are truly treasures," the Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader said excitedly. With the evil eyes, his subordinates were each more powerful than the last.
The Liyue Seven Stars? Are they as powerful as his men?
"What does Rex Lapis count for? A piece of trash who failed his tribulation... even if Rex Lapis himself comes, I'll crush him!"
The evil eyes left by the Fatui had made that Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader completely overconfident. He said viciously, "Killing those two Inazuman women will also serve as a warning to the Seven Stars."
"When the Treasure Hoarders want to move against someone, even Rex Lapis being there can't save them. What kind of thing are the Seven Stars?"
"Understand?"
The subordinates below him nodded respectfully. "Boss, we understand..."
"Keep a good eye on that bear; don't let it run away from me." After the Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader finished speaking, he disappeared.
"Yes."
Guoba was looking around curiously, but when he turned his gaze to one of the Treasure Hoarder members, he frowned.
He even directly spat a mouthful of fire at that Treasure Hoarder.
"..."
"Boss, that bear, that bear can breathe fire!" If the man hadn't reacted quickly, he would have been burned by the flames Guoba spat out. He then looked at Guoba with extreme surprise and shouted toward the cave.
"That bear can breathe fire! Boss, come out and see!"
When the fleshy-faced Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader came out, he happened to see Guoba breathing fire at his subordinates.
"A bear that can breathe fire? Not bad... it really is a treasure." The Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader nodded with interest. "Not bad, you guys brought back a good treasure."
"Quite interesting."
"Keep it under control. After we deal with those two Inazuman women... we'll study it properly." The Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader was very happy. Some time ago, while searching for treasure with his men, he had discovered a cave in Mt. Tianheng.
Inside the cave were some items left behind by the Fatui. Like those strange objects called evil eyes, he later discovered that the evil eyes could make him and all his men stronger.
He didn't report these matters to the higher-ups of the Treasure Hoarders; instead, he continued to recruit more people to serve as his subordinates. With the evil eyes, he would be the boss of the Treasure Hoarders in the future.
Now that he had obtained 'Guoba', he was naturally even happier.
"Boss, it seems Yuheng Star Keqing has started investigating us... will she find us?" Just as the Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader was rejoicing, a normally dressed Treasure Hoarder member ran in and said with some worry.
"Yuheng Star Keqing? If she dares to come, I'll kill her too... once the army is formed, who can stop us?" the Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader said arrogantly.
"But..."
"You Treasure Hoarders are truly too arrogant." Keqing's face was very grim right now; she was somewhat embarrassed and angry.
With Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei, two Inazumans, present, Liyue still had such arrogant people.
She felt a bit ashamed; Liyue was under her governance, after all.
"Guoba!" Seeing that Guoba was unharmed, Xiangling breathed a sigh of relief. She then said indignantly, "You guys are so bad! How could you kidnap Guoba?"
"Boys, move out!" The smile on the Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader's face gradually vanished, replaced by a fierce expression on his fleshy face. A dozen or so Treasure Hoarder members immediately surrounded them.
Those dozen or so Treasure Hoarder members all emitted a dark red aura. Because of the appearance of that dark red aura, Keqing felt a significant amount of pressure.
"evil eyes?" Paimon was stunned. "How do the Treasure Hoarders have evil eyes too? It's not the Fatui causing trouble again, is it?"
"evil eyes?"
After the previous Osial incident, Keqing had also investigated the Fatui. She had discovered many of their secrets; those elite Fatui soldiers were all biochemical humans who had undergone modification.
And many of the Fatui used a very evil 'Vision' to gain power.
With the existence of evil eyes, the power of those Fatui members was not even weaker than hers or Ningguang's.
Guoba ran directly to Xiangling's side, his brow furrowed, and then he started muttering again.
"Jili gulu."
"Oh? You're Yuheng Star Keqing?" The Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader looked at Keqing with interest. Her features were too obvious; he recognized at a glance that the purple-haired girl was the yuheng star of the Liyue Seven Stars, Keqing.
He then laughed loudly again. "So what if you're Keqing? With the help of the evil eye, I'm not afraid of anyone."
As his eyes turned dark red, a dark red aura also emerged from within the Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader's body.
His power was completely released with the help of the evil eye. At that moment, the Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader even gave Keqing a very strong sense of pressure.
Furthermore, as the Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader released the power of the evil eye, more and more Treasure Hoarder members appeared around them. They even directly surrounded them, and every one of those Treasure Hoarder members possessed a evil eye.
"This is bad."
Keqing's expression was grave. With her power, she seemingly couldn't stop so many Treasure Hoarder members.
She could only pin her hopes on Lumine. Xiangling should also have some combat ability, and the three of them had to protect Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei.
As for Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei, she didn't hold much hope. The two sisters were people who had only just obtained Electro Visions; how could they have any combat power?
In fact, Raiden Makoto gave Keqing the complete feeling of a gentle young girl; she felt that Raiden Makoto probably had no combat power at all.
Fortunately, they had come along with Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei. If they hadn't, Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei would certainly be in danger.
"Inazuman woman... you're the one who killed Zixiu, right?" The Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader had a face full of fierce expression. His gaze toward Raiden Ei and Raiden Makoto was filled with killing intent. "I'm going to make you pay the price!"
"Your looks are quite good, though..." The Treasure Hoarder Sub-leader's eyes revealed a hint of lewdness.
The evil eyes had almost amplified the desires in their hearts.
Raiden Ei already had anger in her heart, and since those Treasure Hoarder members dared to harbor such thoughts, her anger was completely stirred up.
"Even Morax being here can't save you..." Raiden Ei had originally been considerate of Morax and was reluctant to use her full power, but now she wouldn't care about that anymore.
Besides, she had caused a massive explosion right in front of Morax back then. Since Morax didn't mind then, he probably wouldn't mind now either, right?
As she drew Musou Isshin from her chest, in an instant, dark clouds gathered, and the surrounding air completely stagnated at that moment.
Lightning began to shine in Raiden Ei's eyes. As she swung her blade down, endless thunderous light began to spread. The towering Mt. Tianheng was directly split in two under that strike, and the Treasure Hoarder members in front of her were all turned to dust.
Because the power of that strike was too great, and Mt. Tianheng was split in two, the earth of Liyue began to tremble.
"Ei!"
Raiden Makoto was somewhat speechless. Was it really necessary to use full power to eliminate Treasure Hoarders? Raiden Ei's strike was comparable to the one she used to slay Orobashi in the past.
"Sister... they actually dared to insult you..." After that strike, Raiden Ei said with a bit of a pout, "That was a lesson for the Treasure Hoarders."
"You didn't have to..." Raiden Makoto was completely speechless. She felt that Raiden Ei was deliberately venting. Since slaying Orobashi, Raiden Ei had seemingly never used her full power again.
Now that she had suddenly used a large portion of her power, she suspected her sister did it on purpose. "Don't you think Morax might care? He didn't mind you blowing up the competition venue, but he might mind you splitting Mt. Tianheng in half."
"After all, this is Morax's territory; why are you being so willful?" Raiden Makoto rolled her eyes. Fortunately, she noticed that Raiden Ei had held back; otherwise, a full-power strike wouldn't have just split Mt. Tianheng, it could have split Liyue Harbor as well.
At least it was just splitting a mountain, and the citizens of Liyue weren't injured because of it. Morax probably wouldn't mind, right?
Well, probably not.
But Raiden Makoto was still a bit speechless. She looked at Raiden Ei, not knowing what to say.
"You really are too willful."
Meanwhile, Keqing, Xiangling, Lumine, and even Paimon on the side all had their eyes wide open.
Lumine and Paimon were okay, as they were somewhat prepared mentally, but Xiangling and Keqing were truly caught off guard.
Raiden Ei actually split Mt. Tianheng with a single strike?
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