Miliastra Wonderland.
Orion was rescued by Skirk and the others.
That's right, rescued.
In order to determine who was superior, Barbara and Hyacine had actually forced Orion to activate a thirty-fold time dilation within a single room!
Afterwards, the two became even more competitive, starting to compare whose healing could provide better buffs to Orion!
To be honest, if Lumine, who was also a Descender, had been there, he would have quickly noticed the time flow was different and rescued Orion, but none of the people present were Descenders. In the end, it was Skirk who managed to find the room.
As for the result, both Pure White Barbara and Colorful Barbara felt they had won.
Barbara: "What kind of healing is that? Every time she uses a skill, she needs us to... It's truly shameless!" Note: A portion of Hyacine's healing requires the character to take damage.
Hyacine: "What kind of healing is that? Every time she uses a skill, she gets her clothes wet... It's truly shameless!" Note: Barbara's small skill gets herself and her teammates wet.
The two walked out of the room, exchanged a glance, and then quickly turned their heads away.
"Hmph!"
Two people who looked remarkably similar, and were both known for being gentle and considerate, had actually been hissing at each other for so long today.
Afterwards, the two were taken away by Noelle to change their clothes, while Skirk and the others gathered in a circle, standing on the bed and looking down at Orion.
Yunli tilted her head: "Why are you in such a sorry state today?"
Clara crouched down to wipe the water off Orion's face. After Orion thanked her, he said: "I'm afraid of water; I can't swim. Halfway through the competition, Barbara started using her element skills on me. Once I get splashed with water, I don't dare to move."
Skirk nodded upon hearing this: "When you first arrived in Teyvat, it seems you were fished out by Lumine. So, you really can't swim."
Shenhe secretly made a note on the side: So Orion can't swim; next time he falls into the water, he must go save him.
Of course, for Orion, being unable to swim was just a psychological issue left over from his previous life. If he really fell into the water, he had plenty of ways to handle it in this life, but he couldn't exactly use those methods on Barbara and Hyacine.
He still had to go to Keqing's place today to draw talismans for him. Orion, having been bombarded by the older and younger Griseo and the two-colored Barbara, had already entered a state of 'sage time,' but at the thought of Keqing's medium-mass black hole, Ganyu's supermassive black hole, and Hu Tao's quasar, Orion suddenly felt he could go again.
"Yunli, Clara, could you help me relay the matter about the degraded version of Crystal Valley later?"
"Huh? What matter?" Yunli didn't quite understand, but Clara seemed to grasp it. She tugged on Yunli and said.
"It must be about the fact that both Barbara and Hyacine have gained immortality, right? Let's go notify everyone separately."
The two little girls walked away hand in hand.
Orion shook his head, feeling dizzy from everything. He decided to go take a bath.
After Orion walked into the bathroom, Shenhe, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, suddenly asked Skirk: "They have also become like that."
"?" A question mark appeared over Skirk's head: "What are you saying?"
"That day, after the Sanzomon used Joyful Zen, everyone was like that." Shenhe continued: "So, what does that act of colliding with each other actually mean? Is it sparring?"
Skirk fell silent. She didn't quite know how to explain it, so she simply stood up and walked out.
Shenhe watched Skirk's retreating figure and fell into deep thought, but suddenly heard Skirk's quiet reply: "Just consider it a ritual performed by two people with an extremely close relationship."
Shenhe blinked, and then her eyes gradually lit up: "If the relationship gets better, that happens. I understand!"
Afterwards, she also stood up and followed her out.
As the door closed, there were no other figures in the room, only the sound of running water from the bathroom where Orion was bathing.
Not long after, in the corner, at a large suitcase—specifically, at the zipper of the suitcase—a pale, delicate finger poked out.
This finger hooked onto the suitcase's zipper and slowly pulled it open until the entire suitcase was unsealed, and an arm pushed the suitcase open from the inside.
Inside the tipped-over suitcase, Xiangling, wearing an orange gauze dress, arms wrapped around her jade-like legs, with her hair loose, slowly turned her head.
"...Thrilling!"
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After washing up, Orion dropped Shenhe off at Wanmin Restaurant and met the spirited Xiangling, who then told him that the bottle of energy-restoring pills he had given her last time was gone.
Orion:??? Gone?
Didn't I give you an entire bottle? Are you not sleeping at night and eating the medicine like a meal?
He frowned, and linking this to his suspicions about Xiangling over the past few days, he squinted at her.
—Could this guy really be going out as a war correspondent every night?
However, having the battles recorded was a minor issue; ruining Xiangling's health was a major one. This time, Orion didn't hold back and directly gave Xiangling the highest-grade pills, finally giving her a few worried words of advice before heading to WangSheng Funeral Parlor.
Zhongli had worked overnight to produce a large batch of talisman templates—several boxes worth, bundled up!
He was now standing tall and proud, looking quite smug, as if to say, 'I've actually done the work this time! You guys have nothing to say now, right?'
Then, carrying his birdcage and twirling two walnuts, he went off to listen to music.
Afterwards, Orion packed the boxes of talismans into the kings treasure, and carrying the ever-present (passed out) Hu Tao on his back, he rushed towards the Guili Plains.
You ask about the others from WangSheng Funeral Parlor? They were all living at the construction site.
Then you ask why Hu Tao didn't live there?
Hu Tao: "I already have someone to carry me; if I went to live there, wouldn't I have hired this consultant for nothing!"
When the two arrived at the construction site, the subsequent work became tedious.
Orion needed to infuse power into the talismans one by one, then hand them over to the members of the Yin-Yang Division and the Spirit Script Division on site to complete the final cloud seal drawings.
You ask if Orion, the dignified ORT, couldn't just infuse the power all at once? He could, brother, he could.
But...
"consultant, are you tired? Want a bite of fruit?"
"Comrade, do you need a rest? Oh my... there are no extra pillows here, tsk... eh?" (Suddenly realizing she had a pair of thighs.)
"Mr. Orion, after working for so long, are your hands sore? Shall I knead your shoulders?"
Orion took the opportunity while finishing one talisman to eat the fruit Hu Tao handed him and thanked her, booked a lap pillow from Keqing and thanked her again, and finally, feeling the soft hands on his shoulders and the soft sensation against the back of his head from Ganyu not managing her distance well, he gratefully said thank you.
Orion wiped the sweat he had forced out from his forehead, gulped down a few mouthfuls of a drink, and then instructed the people below to distribute the finished talisman papers.
He heaved a heavy sigh in his heart.
It was just the Hall Master's order.
She even called me comrade.
Ganyu is an auspicious omen; one must not move rashly when an auspicious omen descends.
Sigh... If I do not enter hell, who will!
How great is Huo Yeke.
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