Genshin Impact, I'm Slime

"One-eyed baby?"

The Traveler and Paimon looked at each other and saw confusion in each other's eyes.

“This is the first time I’ve seen it up close.”

The little boy's attention was obviously still on the ruins guard. After a series of sighs, he finally turned around and faced Yingmei and Paimon: "Are you here to see the one-eyed little treasure too?"

It was not until this time that Yingmei had the opportunity to carefully observe the little boy's appearance.

Orange-brown hair and deep blue eyes full of childish innocence. Perhaps children who don't know the truth tend to mistake the Ruins Guard for a reliable machine. At this moment, the traveler only thought of Timmy on the Mondstadt Bridge, who regarded the Ruins Guard as an imaginary friend.

But why does this child look familiar?

Although the traveler can understand the desire of children to make friends, if they make friends with such ancient machines with strong destructive power, they may not see the sun tomorrow morning.

"Of course... but be careful, it's tough to deal with."

For the sake of children's mental health, the travelers did not deliberately emphasize the danger of the ruins guards.

"Hey, that's right!" The little boy's eyes sparkled with admiration, "One-eyed Little Treasure is super powerful, no bad guy can escape from his clutches."

"One-eyed little treasure? So there's such a cute name for it?"

Paimon felt very curious when he heard this name again.

"Yes! My brother told me! My brother is the best toy salesman, specializing in selling this kind of toys! He is currently working at the Toy Research Institute in Liyue, and that's where One-Eyed Xiaobao was born."

If the ruins guard had intelligence, he would have tilted his head and made a question mark at this moment, and then after finding out that he was being treated as a toy, he would have started spinning around in frustration and knocked the Traveler, Paimon and the little kid into the sky.

After all, calling the ruins guard a toy was something that made even Yingmei, who claimed to have traveled around the continent of Teyvat for a long time and seen everything, feel a little confused for a moment.

The kid obviously had no idea what the traveler was thinking. Instead, he continued to stare at Paimon, who had just spoken to him, with starry eyes: "Big sister, you must like toys too, right? Is the one floating next to you the latest model? It can even talk!"

Although he was somewhat skeptical about the boy's worldview, he still had to seize the opportunity to persecute Paimon, so the traveler nodded naturally: "Well, be envious, this is the latest smart toy developed by the General Affairs Department!"

After being used as emergency food and then turned into a smart toy, Paimon was so angry that he stomped his feet: "Hey! How come I have become a new weird thing again!"

Just when Paimeng was getting angry, Dai Pai, who had completed his patrol mission, came over.

"Thank you for your hard work. Have you made any progress in the investigation? Hmm? Who is this foreign kid?"

Dai Pai, who arrived later, obviously didn't understand the situation either. He called "One-eyed Xiaobao" a killing machine, which only earned him a loud protest from the little boy. Seeing how Dai Pa was having difficulty in carrying out his work, the traveler also felt helpless.

It’s worthy of being a daily commission, they are all strange and weird things.

But the little boy seemed to have a good impression of the traveler, perhaps treating her as a new playmate with advanced toys?

Apart from the scene of eating roasted pigeon with Timmy, Yingmei felt that she had accumulated a lot of experience in dealing with children during her travels, so she had to comfort Dai Pai and asked him to leave the child to her.

With this, the mission of clearing out the ruins guards was changed to an escort mission.

Watching Dai Pai walk away, the little boy jumped up and down excitedly: "Hey, one-eyed Xiaobao scared the bad guys away again!"

Yingmei's lips also curled up a little smile, but looking at the child's eyes that were as blue as lake water and shining with crystal light, she always felt that they were familiar:
"Little boy, what's your name and where is your family?"

"Ah, my name is Toke! I came from the Kingdom of Winter to look for my brother, but, but Toke doesn't know where my brother is..."

When Toke mentioned his missing brother, his originally somewhat excited mood suddenly dropped.

"Hey! Are you from the Kingdom of Winter?!"

Paimon circled Tok twice in surprise, but the traveler became more and more confused.

It’s unlikely that such a young child could have traveled from Zhidong to Liyue by boat alone, right?
At this moment, the kid who called himself Toke suddenly seemed to remember something important, and he clapped his hands and started looking for something:
"Oh, right, at a time like this... here, give it to me!"

Tok took out a cloth bag from his clothes pocket. There seemed to be some iron sheets in the bag, which rubbed against each other and made a sound of metal collision.

Paimon was extremely interested in the things in the bags and boxes. When he saw the other party holding up the bag and handing it to the traveler, he immediately went over to take a look.

"Hmm? Something that sounds heavy... Let me see."

Yingmei opened the heavy bag and was almost dazzled by the golden Mora inside. With just a quick glance, she knew that the bag contained at least 500,000 Mora.

"My brother asked me to carry these with me."

"My brother said, if you give these to good people, they will treat Tok well."

Tok looked at the shocked expressions on the Traveler and Paimon's faces at the same time and smiled obediently.

For adventurers, the relationship between the initiator and the recipient of a commission is simply one of paying for work. Giving adventurers enough money can indeed get them to help with things.

But there are many bad people in this world besides adventurers. No matter how rich one is, I am afraid not many people would dare to let their younger brother take risks with his money and life.

What kind of careless and reckless guy is Tok's brother!

"Okay, that seems to make sense. Is this the reason why I was able to come to Liyue from the Winter Solstice..."

Little Paimon obviously didn't think as much as the traveler. She looked at the bag of Mora, swallowed her saliva, and did her usual explanation work, "It seems that Toke is a child from a wealthy family. Is selling toys such a profitable business?"

After hearing what Paimon said, the traveler couldn't help but sigh. Before Tok took out the Mora bag, she had never thought that selling toys would be such a profitable business.

"Then I'll take this bag of Mora for now."

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The traveler tightened Mora's pocket to reassure the child. In fact, he was thinking that he should return it to Tok's family after meeting them. If the communication went smoothly, maybe he should also discuss how to educate his younger brothers and sisters.

It's really dangerous to let children roam free like this.

Seeing that the traveler accepted the reward, Tok seemed very happy and stretched out his little finger towards the good sister, obviously wanting to make an agreement with the other party. Yingmei also understood what he meant, put the edgeless sword back behind her, half squatted down and stretched out her finger towards Tok.

Hook your little fingers.

"Hang on, don't change. If you change, throw her to the glacier. The glacier is cold, the snowfield is freezing, and the tongue that lies will be frozen to pieces!"

The lyrics were of course read by Tok. His childish voice combined with the cold words made the Traveler and Paimon feel inexplicably creepy.

"What a cruel nursery rhyme that is typical of the Kingdom of Winter."

Paimon rarely focused all his attention on Mora, but was troubled by the content of the commission just like Yingmei.

"In that case, I'll have to be a babysitter for a while... But where can I find Tok's brother?"

After the finger-hook agreement, the traveler looked at Tok who was running towards the one-eyed little treasure again. He always felt that his exotic outfit, hair color and eye color gave people a weird visual feeling.

Yingmei hasn't traveled around the Seven Kingdoms yet, so she doesn't know much about Solstice. If she has to say something, it's because of the many conflicts with the Fatui. Travelers know that Solstice doesn't have a very good reputation in other countries, and the Fatui, who are directly under the Ice Queen, seem to have a diplomatic station in every country.

"If I were to talk about a place that has a close relationship with the Kingdom of Winter, then the only place that comes to my mind is the Northland Bank."

Paimon thought for a long time, and as if he had suddenly realized something, he proposed an area that travelers deliberately avoided.

It was Paimon's words that reminded the traveler of the details that she had subconsciously overlooked during the conversation.

"Paimon, do you remember what Tok said his brother did?"

"Toy salesman, what's wrong?"

Paimon didn't understand.

"What is Mr. Ajax's occupation in relation to that special commission issued by Miss Catherine?"

Having said that, Paimon also reacted. He was about to scream but immediately covered his mouth, staring in shock with wide eyes at Tok who was cheering in front of the ruins guards, his face full of disbelief.

"You mean, Tok is the younger brother of the "Master"? "

The traveler nodded, then shook his head in disbelief.

"If that's the case, the person who issued the commission to find Ajax in the Adventurer's Association should also be Tok."

"But the Adventurer's Guild generally does not accept commissions from children... unless there is an adult to guarantee it."

(End of this chapter)