People in Teyvat, starting from saving the grass god

Just as Rhodes was looking around with the lumen stone lamp in his hand, the lady's voice sounded faintly behind him.

For the sudden appearance of Ms.

Rhode was not surprised at all. He was still checking the map and confirming the environment. He just casually replied, "You sent my two brothers and your colleagues here just to talk to me about this?"

"Humph--"

Listening to the faint sound of the machine, the lady did not want to waste words with Rhode and spoke again: "Her Majesty the noble Ice Queen asked me to bring you a message. Are you interested in joining the Fatui and becoming a member of the executive officers to work together for the Queen's lofty ideals?"

Rhode paused and frowned, "You came all the way here after me, just for this?"

"Yes."

The lady agreed readily.

Hear this answer.

Rhode did not explore the mine any further. He turned around, looked into the lady's eyes, and asked seriously, "What if I don't agree?"

"The Fatui have no habit of forcing others to join."

The lady laughed and said, "Her Majesty the Queen just feels that a talent like you is wasted under that useless Grass God. It would be better for you to join us, Zhidong, where you will have a better chance to display your talents."

"Oh?"

"Then should I thank His Majesty the Ice God for his keen eye for pearls?"

Rhode was not angry, but said calmly: "Go back and tell your queen, I won't agree."

Not a surprising answer.

The lady said without changing her expression, "Her Majesty the Queen said that you will agree sooner or later."

"So confident?"

Now it was Rhodes' turn to be surprised: "What's the reason?"

"Because Her Majesty's ideals are the most noble will in the world."

"Only by following Her Majesty the Queen can you truly see the absurdity and indifference of this world, and truly rewrite the damn laws of nature."

The lady's voice became more and more fanatical, as if the Ice Queen's ideals were the only truth in this world.

Especially when it comes to 'damn justice'.

The pitch-black mask could not hide her ferocious face due to anger. Her whispers, as if she wanted to devour the justice in the sky, moved even Rhode.

only.

This fanatic's speech had no effect on Rhodes.

He still shook his head gently and said, "Sorry, I still have no intention of joining the Fatui for the time being. As for whether I will change my mind in the future, we will talk about it later."

"ignorance."

Rhodes' answer made the lady very dissatisfied, but she also knew that her recruitment this time had failed. She left a sentence "I hope you won't regret your decision today" and stopped talking to Rhodes, sinking into the darkness.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 221 You call this research?

(The ending of Chapter 143 felt a little inappropriate, so I have rewritten and revised it.)

The scholars of the Fatwa are all professionals.

After landing.

They formed groups of three or five, carrying professional instruments, and first observed the activity level of the sparrows, and then began to detect and take samples of the surrounding environment.

Before the second batch of scholars arrived.

The first preliminary test report was produced.

Although it is only a rough report, the content covers a wide range of aspects, and almost all aspects related to the subsequent exploration have a simple numerical result.

in summary.

The most serious one is that the air in the underground mining area contains toxic substances, and a small amount of components similar to the power of the dead zone has been detected.

For this report.

Rhodes responded by sniffing hard.

He thought that his previous operation had cleared away the power of the abyss around him, but he didn't expect that there would still be some left here.

"This lumen stone is very useful."

Tinari, who also read the report, also conducted a test.

The content is the ability of Lumen Stone to transform the power of the abyss.

The results of this test.

This is the reason why Rhodes missed a part of the power of the abyss.

Under the effect of the Lumen Stone, the abyss power near it will turn into snowflake-like substances and float around.

And after testing.

This transformed black snowflake will not cause any harm to the human body as long as it does not come into direct contact with the body.

same.

Once excessive intake of this black snowflakes, the damage caused to the human body is far greater than the harm caused by the dead zone.

With this report.

Including Seno and Tinari, they all put on the protective clothing prepared in advance and wrapped themselves tightly, leaving no skin exposed.

As for the Lumen Stone sent by Liyue, they treated it as a mining lamp and wore it on the hat ornament on their heads which had the same function as a safety helmet.

This will not affect the lighting, and can also ensure that the lingering power of the abyss will not find the gaps in the light of the lumen stone and sneak into the body.

However, the lady from Zhidong and Tartaglia ignored the test report that Rhodes kindly shared, and remained the same as when they came in.

Tartaglia is the same as Rod.

This bit of abyssal power had no effect on him. Compared with the burden of using the Demon God's Armor, he would be fine even if he just grabbed the black snow and made snowballs.

Women are much more luxurious.

She directly used elemental power to isolate the surrounding black snowflakes outside her body. She also dismantled the lumen stone mining lamp and carved the lumen stone, which was treasured by the people of Liyue, into a simple small accessory and hung it on her body.

This behavior consumes elemental power and wastes resources.

Naturally, this also caused dissatisfaction among some scholars.

They didn't dare to say it directly to the lady who was an executive of the Fatui in person, but they talked a lot about her behavior which was contrary to the professionalism of a scholar behind her back.

As the only one in the team who is truly unaffected.

After everyone is present.

Rhodes volunteered to be the pioneer, carrying a lumen stone mining lamp and going to the front of the cave to clear the way.

His idea is simple.

It is to devour the power of the abyss ahead of everyone else.

It would be better if Tartaglia didn't follow him around like this.

Of course.

Rhodes wasn't annoyed that he followed so closely.

He had a pretty good impression of Tartaglia, at least at this stage.

However, a good impression did not mean that Rhode could tolerate him asking him the same question over and over again.

"You really won't join us?"

Compared to the lady who gave up on recruiting immediately after Rhodes' rejection, Tartaglia seemed more straightforward and had a thicker skin.

No matter how many times Rhode clearly refused, he would come up to him and continue asking the same question after a while.

Fed up with this, Rhodes simply ignored him and focused on searching for the abyss power that was escaping from the mine.

As we go deeper.

The power of the abyss in the underground mining area becomes stronger and stronger.

But this richness was different from the one in the air at the mine entrance.

When Rhodes advanced to the area marked as the temporary main mine tunnel on the map, there was no trace of the power of the abyss in the air.

Instead.

It is the black mud that spreads on the rock walls and roads.

Looking around, you can see many monsters with black mist coming out of their bodies living in the black mud. It seems that they regard the black mud as their own nest.

"Would you like to have a competition to see who can clear the monsters faster?"

As soon as he saw these monsters, Tartaglia, whose only thoughts were about the Queen's orders and the duel, immediately showed an eager attitude to give it a try.

"Just wait a moment."

"I want to do an experiment first."

Rhode frowned, put the lumen stone lamp in his hand back where it was, and warned Tartaglia, "Please don't disturb me while I'm doing the test, or I'll lose my friends."

Say it.

Only then did he come to the black mud alone under Tartaglia's dissatisfied gaze.

Under the influence of the power of the abyss.

These monsters, which were relatively peaceful in the outside world, suddenly became violent and rushed towards Rhodes, wanting to tear him to pieces in this underground space.

Faced with the surging tide of monsters coming towards him, Rhodes had no intention of destroying them. Instead, he quickly grabbed a monster with the thickest black mist on its body, then he wiped the oil off his feet and quickly disappeared in front of these monsters.

When leaving.

He also did not forget to remind Tartaglia.

"gone."

"Come back later."

Wait until both of them are out of his sight.

The monsters that lost their target chased for a while and then all returned to their own black mud nests.

"What experiment are you going to do?"

Back in the quiet mine, Tartaglia looked at the slime in Rod's hand with curiosity.

This is a rock-attribute slime.

It is the most common monster in the mining area.

Under normal circumstances.

The Rock Slime is not very aggressive and spends most of its time sleeping underground. It will only attack when it feels threatened.

However, the rock slime that Rhodes caught.

Its desire to attack was so strong that even Tartaglia couldn't help but smack its lips. Even though it was imprisoned, it was still desperately ramming the cage, trying to attack Tartaglia who was closest to it.

However, Tartaglia had seen many creatures that had lost their rationality due to the power of the abyss, so she didn't show any surprise. Instead, she looked at Rhodes with great interest, wanting to see what experiment he was going to do with this thing.

A manic monster affected by the power of the abyss.

This thing has always been the most frequently appearing experimental subject in the Winter Solstice Laboratory.

The weapons and potions developed with these experimental subjects specifically to target the power of the abyss have always been standard equipment for the Solstice Army that has been fighting in the abyss all year round.

Tartaglia had spent a long time in the Abyss's army before becoming an executive officer.

Naturally, I am very familiar with these things.

So he became even more curious.

I'm curious about what Rhodes, a scholar who is not particularly outstanding in the official evaluation of Winter Solstice, can research from this rock slime.

However, what happened next almost made him pop his eyes out.