“It’s already been taken care of.”
Si Xuan returned to his room and suddenly found himself missing something.
Their atmosphere seemed more lively than before?
Si Xuan’s mind just came up with this thought, and immediately denied it to himself.
He was a legendary diplomat after all, the one who formulated the diplomatic rules between countries for the past five hundred years.
How could he be a buzzkill?
Si Xuan took a seat, and everyone else stopped discussing.
“We’re discussing the next plan of action, do you have any suggestions?”
Alhaitham spoke. Of everyone present,
only Si Xuan knew the full picture of the Sage and the Doctor’s plan.
So his suggestion was very important.
“We’re short of people. Just the few of us trying to bring down the Sage is unrealistic.
So the best way is definitely to find help,
of course, the ultimate goal of the first phase is still to release the Dendro Archon.
Now the problem in Sumeru is not just the plans of the Sage and the Fatui,
there are two even bigger crises waiting for Sumeru.
If the Dendro Archon isn’t released, even if those Sages create a false god,
they’ll have no way to save Sumeru from the crisis.”
Whether it’s the contamination of the Tree of Dreams, or the Erebos being corrupted by forbidden knowledge,
these two problems can only be solved by Lesser Lord Kusanali.
As for that idiot Ah-Hat, he’s neither qualified nor capable of solving it.
“What? Are there other crises in Sumeru?”
Paimon exclaimed. She had always thought that the ultimate enemy was only the Sage.
Cyno’s indifferent eyes swept across Si Xuan.
“What do you know?”
“Asking more is a paid service. If you want to know, it’s 1 million Mora.”
In the real world, after a day of cooling off,
Bing Tang Xue Li started a new chapter of the story.
At this time, her live stream was already being flooded with messages.
The dialogues in the previous chapters were all cryptic, each character was like a riddle man,
saying things in a roundabout way.
But Si Xuan was different, everything was priced.
As long as you pay, I’ll tell you.
How honest.
This made many people excited.
【Give it to him, let him spill, am I the kind of person who lacks 1 million Mora?】
【Big bro, hurry up and spill the beans, I really want to know what the crisis in Sumeru is】
【One possibility is the problem with the Tree of Dreams, but what’s the other?】
【1 million Mora is nothing, Paimon eats 300 thousand Mora a month.
We don’t lack Mora, okay, I’ll give you 3 million Mora,
will you tell me the plot of Fontaine too?】
Netizens now wanted to open their accounts,
then take the Mora out of their bags and stuff it into Si Xuan’s mouth.
Then they would say viciously to Si Xuan:
“Mora is yours, what else do you know, tell me everything.”
At the village chief’s house.
Si Xuan’s words immediately silenced the group.
Lumine wanted to buy the news,
but when she thought of her big eater who ate 300 thousand Mora a month,
she also abandoned the idea.
Alhaitham simply didn’t have the money, because he had lent it to a certain idiot.
As for Cyno, with so much money, wouldn’t a limited edition card be more worthwhile?
This wasn’t to say that Cyno wasn’t patriotic.
It was just that he thought that problems that needed the gods to step in,
were something he couldn’t solve alone.
It was better to spend the money wisely.
When they released Lesser Lord Kusanali, if even she didn’t know,
it wouldn’t be too late to buy it from Si Xuan.
“To get back to the point, what you lack most now is manpower,
you can’t command the mercenary groups of the Akademiya, so you can only seek other help.
There are people who are not only powerful in combat, but also hate the Akademiya to the core.”
Si Xuan was clearly telling them who to find.
So everyone turned their attention to Dehya and Candace.
Dehya was dumbfounded. How did it come to me?
“It’s not very feasible. Cyno and I are both considered people of the Akademiya. The helpers you’re talking about also hate us to the core.”
Dehya understood what she was saying.
“You actually have some self-awareness.”
Paimon threw the problem back to her good partner.
“So, who are they talking about?”
Lumine looked at Paimon in surprise.
Did the brain that ran away a few days ago not come back yet?
“You don’t know? It’s that… who…”
“So who is that ‘who’ anyway?”
Ignoring the two who were joking around,
Si Xuan waved his sleeve.
“Alright, the sandstorm outside has calmed down, and any plan without finding help is nonsense.
So you might as well go out and scout for information,
help out, maybe you’ll find something useful.”
Si Xuan’s words angered Paimon.
“We’re all going to work, what are you going to do?”
“Of course, I’m going on an inspection. I’ve provided Aaru Village with 5 million Mora worth of supplies, I have to go check.
See if my subordinates are embezzling or stealing anything.”
The supplies had already been checked back in Fontaine.
Si Xuan was just trying to slack off.
Candace, however, got up and smiled at Si Xuan, understanding.
“If that’s the case, please follow me, Mr. Si Xuan.”
A few of them went their separate ways. Lumine wandered around Aaru Village for half a day,
but didn’t find any useful information. She happened to run into Alhaitham reading in the corner.
“Sit down, there’s something I want to talk to you about.”
When she met Cyno, Cyno had told her not to trust Alhaitham too much.
So when she saw Alhaitham peacefully talking to her, Lumine thought he was going to remind her to be careful of Cyno.
But to Lumine’s surprise,
Alhaitham didn’t mention Cyno, but instead spoke of Si Xuan.
“That diplomat… I suggest you avoid having too much contact with him.”
Paimon, the God of Mouth, immediately asked a question.
“Why? I think he’s pretty good, even though he’s a little stingy.”
In Paimon’s view, Si Xuan first appeared to help them block the Doctor.
Then he repelled the pursuers in the Gandharva Ville.
Now he had agreed to cooperate with them.
Although he was a little stingy and greedy,
that was just a minor flaw.
Alhaitham sneered, “A wonderful disguise has made you lose your judgment.
That diplomat, while not a bad person, is definitely not a good person either.”
Lumine saw that Alhaitham’s expression was not without reason, so she found a box to sit on.
“About four hundred years ago, Sumeru suffered an unprecedented economic crisis,
except for a bunch of academic materials that were useless at the time,
the entire country had only 3 million Mora available,
not even enough to support a long-term academic study.
Countless merchants either left Sumeru,
or chose to jump off the mountain.
Even the Thirty-Three,
almost had to go back to the desert to resume their old line of work.”
Just from Alhaitham’s description, Lumine could imagine how difficult it was for Sumeru at the time.
“What happened then?”
“Then? The diplomat from Fontaine,
came to Sumeru with 30 million Mora,
said he was providing some financial support to Sumeru,
in exchange,
Fontaine could take thirty academic research成果 from Sumeru every year.”
“Isn’t that pretty good?” Paimon rubbed her head.
It wasn’t easy to get Si Xuan, a penny-pinching 铁公鸡, to fork over 30 million Mora.
Lumine shook her head slightly at Paimon,
she had a vague guess in her heart, but what the truth was, she still had to listen to Alhaitham continue.
“Sumeru fell into an economic crisis,
the diplomat of a neighboring country, with a spirit of friendly mutual assistance,
brought a large amount of Mora,
to alleviate the Akademiya’s urgent needs,
it sounds like a good story, but if you say
that the person responsible for this crisis is precisely this diplomat, what then?”
“What? You’re saying that Si Xuan is the one who caused that crisis?”