After Yunshang finished her conversation with the Fatui's [Childe] and [Regrator], the players thought the plot segment had ended.
But the text that appeared the next second told the players that things were not so simple.
[Switching to Jun Bai's perspective…]
"Dual-perspective narration? Interesting." Silver Wolf said with great interest, "And you can even trial Jun Bai? I'm going to test his strength right now!"
At this moment, the game perspective had already switched to Jun Bai's view.
It could be seen that the first character in Silver Wolf's team had been replaced with the trial version of Jun Bai.
As a strength enthusiast, Silver Wolf could no longer hold back her urge to test him, so she immediately skipped the plot, opened the map, and teleported above the Cryo Regisvine.
"Although I already knew about Jun Bai's talent effects from the preview livestream, when I actually see it, I still want to give this evaluation — absolutely broken."
Silver Wolf opened the character panel and sighed while looking at Jun Bai's talents: "If the future characters are all designed with this level of power, then it won't even take a year before the numbers start inflating."
[The power level of subsequent characters will definitely increase gradually, but it's not certain that a character of equal strength to Jun Bai will appear anytime soon. After all, Jun Bai was designed by the boss himself.]
[If Boss Jun weren't also a player, I suspect the production team would have hidden Jun Bai until version 7.0 on Celestia.]
[Thank you, Boss Jun! Boss Jun is so generous!]
After one version, 42 days of gameplay, Silver Wolf's Adventure Rank had already reached 50, and her World Level had broken through to Level 7.
Therefore, the trial Jun Bai's level was capped at the World Level 7 maximum of 80.
Talents 888, artifacts were the classic four-piece Noblesse Oblige.
All of this was within Silver Wolf's expectations, but the weapon was not the dark-red long spear Jun Bai used in the PV. Instead, it was —
An 80-level Favonius Lance.
[The most plot-accurate episode.]
[Actually, miHoYo, you didn't need to restore this kind of detail. Just give me the signature weapon to use.]
[You already let me trial Jun Bai, can't you let my baby use his signature weapon too?]
"It's fine. As long as it's not a Slime spear, I'm satisfied."
Silver Wolf was rather indifferent about it. She changed the team to a 6-star Pyro Archon Bennett, 6-star Hydro Archon Xingqiu, and 4-piece Instructor Amber.
She simply tested the damage.
Looking at the Vaporize damage that was at least three times the value of Diluc's burst, Silver Wolf became even more determined to pull for Jun Bai's full constellations and full refinements. Even if her finances were insufficient, she would still go for 0+1.
"It's a shame the burst is locked and can't be used. Otherwise the damage could be even higher."
After the test, she sighed and controlled Jun Bai to head to the Guili Assembly to continue the story.
The moment she teleported to the Guili Assembly, a cutscene immediately began.
The Millelith gave a passionate welcome as Xuanjian made a domineering entrance.
[That uniform, synchronized movement — you can tell at a glance these are soldiers from our great Shenzhou!]
[So this is my wife Yunshang's older brother, Xuanjian? That identical teardrop mole proves they're blood-related.]
[Am I the only one who thinks he looks really cool? Has no one noticed the pattern on this guy's clothes?]
[Is it really okay to embroider this kind of pattern on clothing?]
After a brief conversation, Jun Bai followed Xuanjian to a mansion in the central area of the Guili Assembly.
Jun Bai naturally sat down on the main seat.
Xuanjian naturally stood below.
[This seems to be Xuanjian's house…]
[For a moment I can't tell who the owner is…]
[Although in terms of status, sitting like this doesn't seem wrong, it still looks really funny.]
"…With the Marshal's blessing upon the land this year, it is once again a bountiful harvest year…"
"…The weather is favorable, the wind and rain are timely, and the common people live and work in peace and contentment. All of this is thanks to you, Marshal, Lord Dust God, and Rex Lapis…"
"…On behalf of everyone in the Guili Assembly, we extend our most sincere gratitude to you."
Xuanjian (passionate and fervent).
Jun Bai (calm and indifferent tone): "There's no need for polite flattery or nice words. If you truly respect me as you claim, then you'd best explain the pattern on your clothes first."
"Disrespectful to the gods, yet acting so devout."
"Same as always — if even one word out of every three sentences you and Yunshang say together is true, that would already be impressive."
[…So Jun Bai had already seen through Yunshang's lies earlier?]
[Don't tell me it really is an undercover story? Did Little Gui actually guess correctly? It can't be that Jun Bai knew Yunshang wasn't telling the truth but still deliberately went along with her words, right?]
[I'm a bit curious. According to Jun Bai, Xuanjian is probably in a similar position to Ningguang. If he hasn't said a single true word, how did he sit in this position?]
[I don't understand, but I want to say — trust Jun Bai's judgment. If Xuanjian didn't have something special, Jun Bai wouldn't have known his true nature and still let him sit in this position.]
After another round of dialogue between Jun Bai and Xuanjian, they began to recycle the PV footage.
"Marshal, the Rex Lapis has not passed away, correct?"
"Perhaps… it can be considered that he has passed."
——Teyvat
"I see, I understand." Xuanjian's eyes flickered as he stood up from the ground.
Jun Bai turned around and asked: "I'm very curious. If my answer had been yes or no, how would you have replied?"
Xuanjian's gaze was meaningful. Then he laughed loudly: "Of course I would believe whatever the Marshal says. I can always believe in you, Marshal."
"So you knew from the very beginning?"
[I listened to the conversation between these two but didn't understand anything.]
[Riddle speakers, get out of Teyvat!]
[It's not exactly riddles. If you think about it carefully, the information contained in their dialogue is enormous. It's just that neither of them intends to speak properly.]
Jun Bai turned around, one hand on his waist, and asked: "I thought the concealment work between me and Rex Lapis was done very well. How did you notice?"
"There are many reasons, but if I had to give the most direct one, it would be my intuition."
Xuanjian pointed at his own head as he spoke.
"..." Jun Bai quietly stared at Xuanjian.
Xuanjian smiled calmly.
"I understand. I'm going to deal with that thing in the sea now." Jun Bai walked out the door, spread his fiery wings, "If there's something you want to do, just go ahead and do it. That's an order from me."
Without waiting for Xuanjian's reply, Jun Bai transformed into a scarlet meteor and flew toward the seaside.
Xuanjian slowly walked out the door and watched the scarlet meteor that Jun Bai had become.
"Liyue Harbor remains safe and sound, the Archon's authority has not gone into turmoil, and no demonic residue has been produced."
"The adepti have not made any moves and have remained in the Guili Assembly."
"The Sky Phoenix Marshal, who is Rex Lapis's close friend, has still maintained his composure. And the most important point —"
Xuanjian opened his palm, and a golden [Contract] rose from it.
"The contract still exists, so the God of Contracts naturally has not fallen."
"If there's something you want to do, just go ahead and do it? Is this considered an order from the Marshal?"