"Ahahahaha, Your Majesty the Lord of the Red Sands, what a coincidence, you also come to the desert for tourism."

There is a feeling of being caught doing something bad, Ms. Alice smiled a little embarrassedly,

Wang Daoyi: ......

I'm here for a desert tour, Ms. Alice, are you serious?

"This is the desert, and I am the lord of the red sand." Wang Daoyi said angrily.

Lady Alice made a look of sudden realization: "Oh, remember, this is your home. ”

This delicate look doesn't look like a lady who controls powerful power at all, but has the feeling of a stupid girl next door.

Looking at Ms. Alice's innocent appearance, Wang Daoyi shook his head helplessly.

If someone else made this appearance in front of Wang Daoyi, he would definitely sneer and not believe it at all.

But Ms. Alice, she must have really shortcircuited her head, forgetting that the desert is the territory of the king.

"Ma'am, Nahida said you came to me?" Wang Daoyi wanted to get the topic to the point.

Alice patted her head: "Yes, when I saw Xiaoyu, I remembered my baby Klee, and I almost forgot about business." ”

Wang Daoyi smiled faintly, without any dissatisfaction: "Is there something you want me to help with?" ”

"No, no, I'm not here to ask you for help." Lady Alice waved her hand, then continued, "Last time I saw that you seemed to be interested in being out of this world. ”

Wang Daoyi raised his eyebrows slightly: "Huh? Could it be that there is some knowledge outside of this world? ”

"Not really, just a piece of news that might be of interest to you." Lady Alice first denied what Wang Daoyi said, and then looked mysterious, "When I was observing the world barriers, I found that a barrier near the desert was rapidly weakening recently. ”

Hearing Alice's words, Wang Daoyi was slightly stunned.

A situation has arisen in the weakness of the world barrier near the desert?

The world barrier is actually the eggshell left by the original one,

Protection that wraps the whole of Teyvat.

So, it's not just that there are barriers on the edge of the world,

Theoretically, any location in the whole of Teyvat can come into contact with the world barriers.

It's just that when the barrier is intact, the person is very high and ordinary people can't reach it.

There is a gap in the world barrier in the desert, and Wang Daoyi actually knows about this matter.

In the story of Apepe, he once sought knowledge beyond the world in the gap between the barriers of the desert region.

It was only later, discovered by the sky, and a spike fell, destroying the gap in the barrier here.

It was precisely because the gap in the world barrier was closed, and Apep could not obtain knowledge from outside the world from here, that he would cooperate with Amun.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the desert has a gap in the world's barriers.

He wondered why the repaired wall gap was weak again.

You must know that the place where the Tianzhu is repaired has never been damaged twice.

Whether it is repairing the abyssal gap or suppressing the earth's leyline anomaly, the heavenly nails that fall from the sky have never been wrong or missing.

But how did you get to the desert, and even such a thing as a gap in the world barrier can be repeated?

Wang Daoyi already had a vague guess in his heart.

"In order to prevent me from continuing to interfere in the prophecy of Fontaine, the sky directly opened the world barrier in the desert area?"

This is not unwarranted speculation, but the timing is too coincidental.

He confirmed a few days ago that the sky would definitely strike at him,

Then Lady Alice came and told him that the walls of the desert were weak.

At present, there are not many things in Teyvat that can attract the attention of Wang Daoyi, and the World Barrier is definitely one of them.

If the barrier in the desert is weak, it can definitely allow Wang Daoyi to devote all his energy to research.

Even, according to Wang Daoyi's preparations, it is not impossible for him to directly rush out of Teyvat when the world barriers are weak.

And the most important thing is, where is the weak point of the barrier this time?

So, Wang Daoyi raised his head, looked at Ms. Alice, and asked this question: "Do you know the specific location?" ”

Lady Alice shook her head: "It's still weak, and I can't do a specific positioning, unless there is a loophole, I can know the location accurately." ”

After a pause, she added, "However, this shouldn't be a problem for you. ”

Wang Daoyi looked at her curiously.

"First of all, you are the lord of the desert, and the changes that have occurred in the desert should not be able to hide from you, and secondly, you only need to locate the location of the oldest ruins in the desert or the location of the spike.

The gaps in the world's barriers are generally found in ancient ruins,

And this time the situation seems to be a little different, you can pay attention to the Tiannail. ”

Ms. Alice explained.

Wang Dao nodded,

Indeed, the last time they were at the edge of the world, the rift in the world they closed was in an ancient ruin.

As for the nail, it does need attention,

Where the heavenly nail fell, there was still a situation where the world's barriers were weak, which must be abnormal.

Then there is the most critical regional anomaly problem, just like the situation at the edge of the world, there is a problem with the world barrier, which is likely to bring a wave of monsters, this situation needs to be paid attention to.

After thinking about everything, Wang Daoyi nodded slightly: "I understand, thank you for your notice." ”

Lady Alice waved her hand: "It's okay, it's because you're kind to Klee that I'm here to inform you, otherwise, I wouldn't bother to move." ”

Although Wang Daoyi and Ms. Alice have cooperated, they are at most nodding friends.

The biggest foundation of trust between the two is actually built on Klee.

Wang Daoyi likes Klee very much and dotes on Klee, and even Albedo thinks he is too spoiled.

And Alice, as Klee's mother, can naturally feel this love.

"Haha, Klee is cute, everyone loves her." Wang Daoyi said with a smile, and then remembered, "Oh, by the way, Albedo asked me to say hello to you." ”

"Huh, little Albedo? Hasn't he been in Mondstadt lately? "Lady Alice is interested.

Albedo and Alice have a good relationship, otherwise Alice would not have entrusted Klee to him.

According to the generational relationship, Albedo called Alice Auntie.

"I recently had a study that asked Albedo to come to the desert to help me, Mondstadt has been quiet for too long, and most of the research projects are not very bright, and it is too boring for Albedo."

Compared to the research projects offered by Red Sands, Mondstadt's alchemy projects are uninteresting.

There is Albedo, a master alchemist, but he has not carried out any major projects, which can be said to be very wasteful.

But as normal, Mondstadt has always been a very laid-back country.

This is also related to Barbatos's philosophy of governance,

Under the wind of freedom, most of the people of Mondstadt do not have a strong desire for power.

Wine and poetry are enough for the people of Mondstadt to live happily.

As a result, Albedo basically did his own small experiments in Mondstadt, and rarely had major projects at the national level.

And this is also the reason why Albedo is willing to promise Wang Daoyi to come to Sumeru to help every time.

Doing big projects is also good for Albedo's own skills.

"Research, what research, is it fun?" Ms. Alice's eyes lit up.

Her alchemical attainments are also the top of Teyvat.

Dolly, a big businessman in Sumeru, is because he has the exclusive right to sell Ms. Alice's alchemy creations, and he has accumulated a heritage that is unimaginable to ordinary people.

It is precisely this kind of background that Dolly doesn't care about the fine imposed on her by the Sumeru Akademiya at all, and she can earn it back soon anyway.

Wang Daoyi still remembered that Dolly had been hired by the Fatui to intercept the skirmishers who were pursuing Arechino.

Dolly uses Ms. Alice's alchemy products to trap the stragglers.

You must know that the skirmishers at that time were dropped from the state of ascending gods, and their strength was very strong.

One can imagine how powerful Ms. Alice's alchemy is.

"A study of an efficient vehicle that you should not be interested in." Wang Dao said with a smile.

Spaceship = Efficient Vehicle.

No problem.

Hearing this, Ms. Alice really lost interest, she preferred dangerous research,

There is no interest in any efficient vehicles.

Waving her hand, Lady Alice said, "Forget it, Your Majesty doesn't have to look at me, I'll just wander around and go to Mondstadt to see Klee in a moment." ”

It's also pitiful to say, Ms. Alice, as the top group of people on the Teyvat continent, doesn't have much time to spend with her daughter,

That is, Klee is an optimist by nature, otherwise, it would be another family tragedy.

"Well, then I'll go talk to Albedo and let him go back with you, Klee probably hasn't seen her Albedo brother in a while." Wang Daoyi hesitated for a moment, and then spoke.

In fact, I was afraid that Ms. Alice would sneak up on small moves.

When Lady Alice visited Liyue, Zhongli didn't even leave her side, for fear that she would sink the clouds.

How could Wang Daoyi rest assured.

Alice probably sensed Wang Daoyi's unease, gave him a blank look, and then nodded: "Then I'll wait here for a while." ”

Wang Daoyi smiled apologetically, then turned and disappeared.

underground base,

Wang Daoyi quickly found Albedo: "Put aside your work for now, go shopping with Lady Alice, and then go back to Mondstadt to see Klee." ”

Albedo: ?

After being a little puzzled, he immediately reacted: "What kind of research is Aunt Alice going to do in the desert?" ”

High Emotional Intelligence: Engage in research.

Low EQ: Sabotage.

The corners of Wang Dao's mouth showed a hint of helplessness: "Lady Alice is going to pour water from the canal into the Red King's Tomb to explore the Red King's Tomb." ”

"Poof." Nicholred didn't hold back,

Wang Daoyi and Albedo looked at him.

Nikored hurriedly waved his hand: "Ahem, cough, in fact, the idea is still very good, and the hidden passage in the Mausoleum of the Red King can be speculated based on the spread of the waterway." ”

He was trying his best to make up for Miss Alice's thoughts.

Wang Daoyi and Albedo gave him a blank look and ignored him.

"Let's go, then." Albedo nodded at the royal road, then looked at Nicholred again, "You continue to calculate the ship's maneuver data. ”

Nicholred nodded: "Don't worry." ”

……

Wait for Wang Daoyi and Albedo to return to the canal,

I saw a ...... floating in front of Miss Alice Dragon.

It's Apepe.

The corners of Wang Daoyi's mouth twitched, it really deserves to be you, Alice.

How did you pull the apepra out?

"Roar, damn it, Lord of the Red Sands, let this woman let go of me." Apepe's doppelganger saw Wang Daoyi and let out an angry roar.

As soon as Wang Dao walked in,

Milky white circles of light swirled around Apep's doppelganger, imprisoning it firmly.

"Lord of the Red Sand, you still raise dragons, it's amazing!"

Alice gave a thumbs up to Wang Daoyi.

Wang Daoyi was helpless: "Ms. Alice, let go of Apep's doppelganger first, otherwise his body will wake up, and I won't be able to stop it." ”

Can't stop it is kind words.

When Alice heard this, her eyes rolled, and she didn't know what the hell she had come up with.

He smiled and waved his hand: "Okay, I'll let it go." ”

The milky white aperture disintegrated one by one, revealing the imprisoned Apep clone.

On the doppelganger's body, there are still some traces left by being imprisoned.

The scales showed some breakage.

Wang Dao glanced at Alice, saw that she had secretly put away the broken scale armor, shook his head slightly, and did not say anything.

"Aunt Alice." Albedo stepped forward.

"Yo, little Albedo, let's go, let's go." Alice grabbed Albedo and turned to run.

She was afraid that the Lord of the Red Sand would ask her for scale armor.

Seeing Lady Alice pull Albedo away,

Wang Daoyi looked at the angry Apep clone on the side: "Why did you let Alice catch her?" ”

"Damn, who was that woman just now? It's so hateful. The Apep clone was indignant.

And then let's talk about what happened just now.

It turned out that Apep had been sleeping in the palace,

His palace was not only built under the desert, but also between the physical world and the world barriers.

"I felt that the barriers of the world seemed to have changed, so I thought I would come and talk to you,

And then I met the woman on the canal,

She shamelessly attacked me and imprisoned me, who is she, I want to tear her apart. ”

Apepe's doppelganger doesn't actually have much power, or rather, it doesn't have the terrifying power of his body.

After all, it's just a clone who came to report to Wang Daoyi, so there is no need to bring too much power.

That's why it will be easily handled by Alice.

"She's Alice, and she's currently in charge of repairing the world's barriers." Wang Daoyi replied casually.

He didn't think Apep could threaten Lady Alice,

It's very simple, as long as Ms. Alice wants to hide, Wang Daoyi can't find her.

Hearing Wang Daoyi's words, Apepe's doppelganger was slightly silent,

The power and responsibility to repair the world's barriers.

His dragon's eyes twinkled, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"By the way, you said that you noticed a change in the world barrier, can you confirm what the place is?" Wang Daoyi asked.

If Apep could confirm the location of the change, then he wouldn't have to look for it.

Wang Daoyi's words diverted Apep's attention,

The doppelganger Xiaolong flicked his tail: "I don't know anywhere else, but it's certain that there must be something wrong with my palace,

Near my palace, the world barrier is already very weak, which gives me the feeling that I can break through the world limit with a little force. ”

Then He spoke of the recent changes,

"First the barrier became weak, and then the spatial barrier also faintly felt fragmented, in short, it was very wrong."

The Apep clone is still very good at talking, and it doesn't have the oppressive feeling of the ontology.

Of course, Wang Daoyi didn't feel that Apep's body had any oppression on him.

"I see, can I go to your palace and have a look?" Wang Daoyi asked.

He hadn't been to Apep's palace yet, but he had taken a look at the door, and he didn't know what it was inside.

Xiaolong shook his head and waged his tail: "You have to tell my body about this, I can't decide." ”

Apepe's doppelganger, who is only transformed by his scale armor, has a certain sense of self-sufficiency, but can't make any big decisions.

Matters such as inviting the Lord of the Red Sand into the palace can only be decided by Apep himself.

"Well, then I'll go to your body and say." The royal road is a little head.

At this time, a white light flashed on the little dragon's body, and it was about to dissipate.

"Hmph, I wanted to take a look around, but I blamed the woman just now."

Each cell of Apep has a corresponding will,

Each cell is a different garden.

Don't look at this little dragon as just a clone, but it has an independent will.

Originally, it was sent out to contact the Lord of the Red Sand, and it wanted to take this opportunity to look around.

As a result, he was caught by Alice and lost time to look around.

"Heh, when you are reborn in the garden, I will let Apep let you out to see." Wang Dao said with a smile.

Xiaolong wagged his tail and gave him a blank look: "Don't, the consciousness of rebirth is not me, why let it take advantage." ”

Wang Dao was speechless, but this one was clear.

As he spoke, the little dragon gradually dissipated, turning into pure elemental power.

Waiting for the passage of time, this elemental power will return to Apep, and then gather in the [Home], and finally grow back into an intelligent elemental life.

Apep's own existence is a large ecosystem.

Wang Daoyi sometimes suspects that Tianli did not kill Apep after the War of the Thrones,

It is estimated that he was kept and used as an ecological backup system for the Teyvat world.

One day there was a major collapse of the Teyvat ecosystem,

Pulling Apep out directly and using him for ecological replication can greatly accelerate ecosystem restoration.

However, this speculation Wang Daoyi did not tell Apep,

He was afraid that Apep would learn the news and be humiliated, and he would not think of committing suicide.

"Let's go to Apep first, maybe, the world's weak barriers will give me another chance to leave the world of Teyvat."

Wang Daoyi shook his head slightly, turned into a streamer and disappeared on the canal.

meanwhile

Fontaine,

A three-way meeting is taking place on a large ship.

The representative traveler of the Momang Palace,

Navia, the owner of the Thorn Rose Society,

and the Rinny siblings, representatives of the Fatui.

People who weren't supposed to get together finally got together.

And their purpose is only one - to make the water god Funina speak, and then work together to save Fontaine.

(End of chapter)