King Ember's Journey to Tevat

Chapter 754: The Young Master's Journey to Mount Sumeru

"Sumeru...it seems like there haven't been any major changes."

Walking on the streets of Xumi, the young master shook his head and looked around. It must be said that this place perfectly fits all his stereotypes of Xumi.

The hot and humid weather, the swarms of mercenaries, and the lingering fragrance on the streets...

It doesn't look like the situation is anywhere near enough to warrant an officer's investigation.

"I heard that even the doctor escaped in a panic. How interesting." The young man touched his chin pretentiously, but in fact he could not see anything.

Originally, considering how tired the young master was, he could have rested for a while, but the sudden throbbing in his heart not long ago made him unable to rest.

The whale that he had once seen in the dark crevice now reappeared in his mind, and it was countless times clearer than before.

So the young man did not delay for a moment and immediately set out to follow the guidance in his heart, and his first destination was Sumeru.

But what the young master never dreamed was that the throbbing in his heart would actually shift location.

Before, he could vaguely feel that the throbbing was pointing towards Xumi, but when he arrived, it was actually pointing towards Fontaine, making the young master run across half the continent in vain.

What's even more terrible is that seeing that he was in Xumi, Zhidong gave him a new task and asked him to explore Xumi.

[What is there to investigate? There are nothing but trees!] The young master muttered to himself. He decided to deal with it casually and then go about his business.

The destined whale, the fierce battle, and even the whereabouts of the master... The young master vaguely felt that these things were all realized under the guidance of his heart.

"Goo~"

But before that, it is more important to fill your stomach.

The young master left in a hurry, and he didn't take anything with him. But he was not worried. As an executive, he was a super customer of Northland Bank, and he couldn't even count the zeros behind his account!

Wandering back and forth on the streets of Xumi, the young master easily found the location of the Northland Bank - wherever the most magnificent and golden is, that is the Northland Bank's branch!

As the largest bank on the continent, the Bank of the North has never found a rival when it comes to spending money - perhaps only Tianquan Ningguang, the leader of the Seven Stars of Liyue, can occasionally suppress the Bank of the North.

He found the Northland Bank, but he was not eager to go in. The seal on the bank door was so glaring that he gave up the idea of ​​withdrawing money.

"Hey! What are you doing? This is a restricted area. Stay away from here!" The two guards at the door saw the young master standing there in a daze and couldn't help but waved to him.

"I... I was just passing by and taking a look." The young man paused for a moment, then smiled, scratched his head and left.

"Strange guy..." The guard couldn't help but mutter a few words when he saw the young master running away in a hurry.

But he didn't care about it. After all, they had seen quite a few strange people in these days.

In order to get the treasure in the Northland Bank, people from all walks of life took action, making the thirty people very worried.

……

"Has Northland Bank been screwed again?"

"Huh? Why did I say again?"

The young master talked to himself in confusion, but soon he shook his head and threw all these strange things out of his mind.

It seems that Xumi is not as simple as it seems, and a huge change has indeed occurred here.

"Phew..., what a trouble!" After cursing inwardly, the young master decided to be a little more serious.

After all, he has a mission to accomplish, and no matter how careless he is, he should at least give a reasonable explanation.

He twisted and turned in Xumi City, like a tourist who had just arrived here.

Unconsciously, the young master had walked to a corner of Xumi City. There were few people here, and the prosperity was not as good as before.

Leaning casually against the wall beside him, he tapped the wall absentmindedly with his fingers.

"Da da da!"

There were quick and short knocking sounds, not very loud. Even if someone heard it in this remote corner, they would probably just think it was a fox, a weasel or something like that climbing the wall.

“Boom! Boom!”

Some time after the knocking stopped, a long and short response came from the other side of the wall.

The young master couldn't help but smile when he heard this. It's not that easy to completely wipe out the Fatui. With disdain for Xumi and joy that someone was available, he pushed open the door without thinking.

Then the young master was greeted by an iron chain as thick as a thumb.

"We've caught it. Everyone, stay alert. The one that responds to this signal must be a big fish!"

The young master shuddered when he heard this. Even if he was a calm person, he knew that he had fallen into an ambush.

After reacting, he tightly grasped the iron chain around his neck with both hands. This thing seemed to be specially made and had the effect of suppressing elemental forces.

But the ambushers obviously did not expect that they would catch such a big fish as the executive officer.

"Drink!"

"boom!"

Even without using elemental power, the young master was able to break the thumb-thick chain after struggling with the ambushing mercenaries for a while.

"call!"

The guard in the hut only saw a flash before his eyes, and the trapped figure had already escaped from the spot.

"Run away?" One of them shook the exploded chain in his hand, seeming a little unbelieving.

"No..., he can't run away." Another mercenary shook his head. Beside his ear, the void terminal was emitting a fluorescent green light.

……

"Huh...Huh...I didn't expect that even the code could be cracked?"

The young man ran a long distance, gasping loudly and patting his chest in fear.

Fortunately, he was alert, otherwise he would have been caught by others.

"What on earth did Doctor...do...that he deserved the hatred from both heaven and man?" Thinking back to the thrilling scene just now, the young master couldn't help but have such doubts in his mind.

He had no idea that Liyue's Fatui were also tricked by him in the same way.

"Outside guests?"

"You... are you?"

A curious greeting came from the side, almost scaring the young master to jump.

"Oh, I'm just the officer on duty at the Teaching Court today. I saw that you didn't have a void terminal, so I came to ask."

The scholar in his scholarly robe placed a leaf-shaped device in the young master's hand and explained:
"This is the newly modified Void Terminal by Lord Grass God. It contains all the knowledge of Xumi. If you have any questions, feel free to ask it."

"So magical." The young man put the void terminal on his ear doubtfully. He muttered in his heart, "Why should we hunt down the Fatui?", and then a lot of information appeared in front of him.

The scholar had left, leaving behind the young master who was having a lot of fun playing with the Void Terminal.

"Give me an investigation report... The topic is the changes in Xumi in the past month!" The young master played with the void terminal for a long time, and finally the truth was revealed.

In fact, he had been thinking about using it this way since he got the Void Terminal. With such a thing, wouldn't he be able to stop doing clerical work altogether?

Unfortunately, the response from the void terminal dealt a heavy blow to the young master.

[Since it involves academic questions, Xukong cannot answer them. However, we can provide you with relevant research materials.]

The expectation on the young master's face instantly turned into disappointment, but he didn't even have the chance to be sad.

Because in his eyes, densely packed guards had already surrounded him.

"Damn it! How come they react so quickly!" Young Master Wu was shocked. He had almost crossed the entire Xumi City, and now how long had it been, and the Xumi guards had already found their way here?

And from the looks of it, it seems that he had already determined his position!

"The wind is so tight!"

The young master shouted loudly, then ran away and disappeared.

(End of this chapter)