Section 12 Demons and the Fallen

"Hmm~ It's so fragrant."

It didn't take long for the fresh and elegant aroma of tea to drift from the inner room to the table. Xu Yun's stomach was so grunting that it caused Landis, who was sitting opposite, to let out a chuckle.

The two of them kept moving in their hands and quickly completed the first round of drawing cards and energy cards.

Taking advantage of the time that Xu Yun was familiar with the three randomly selected character cards for his own lineup, Landis stared at the cards drawn in his hand, combined with the lineup of character cards that Xu Yun put on the table, and silently constructed his own tactical plan.

As the two begin their second round, Floya returns with a beautiful wooden tray. On the tray are ceramic tea sets with beautiful patterns and white cube-shaped refreshments on a wooden plate.

The bedside table was limited in size, and Floya could only place the tray on the bed next to Xu Yun.

"Ah~ Fu, you are really my savior, I'm dying of hunger." Xu Yun smiled gratefully at Floya, and with her free hand pinched a piece of tea from the wooden saucer and threw it into her mouth.

The cube is just the size to put in your mouth, pinched in your hand and hard to the touch, and the taste brought by chewing in your mouth is crispy and fluffy, and the teeth only use a little force to bite the hard and smooth shell on the surface, and the soft and dense body inside emerges with the natural fragrance of wheat, nuts and milk, and a sweet taste that is slightly different from the taste of sugar.

Xu Yun turned into a hungry ghost, swallowed the biscuit in his mouth after three or two chews, and then threw the second piece into his mouth.

"Eat slowly, you haven't eaten for three days, eat so quickly and be careful to choke you to death." Floya glared at Xu Yun and stood aside to pour a full cup of tea with a teapot.

Woo ~ woo ~ woo

What to say, as soon as her words fell, Xu Yun was really choked, and took the teacup handed over by Floya in time, and she didn't care about the heat, so she raised her head and poured the whole cup.

Hum~

Floya shook her head, picked up a new cup and filled it with tea and handed it to Landis across the table. Rantis quickly took the teacup flattered, took it under his nose and sniffed it gently, and then took a sip elegantly, with an expression of enjoyment on his face.

"It's a bit like a soda cookie, and it's a bit like a cookie, and it's so delicious. I swallowed my tongue for refreshments. I didn't expect Teyvat to have such a great food. Is this what you did? In addition to being an alchemist and a doctor, you are also an amazing foodie. Xu Yun breathed a sigh of relief and praised it.

"It's just a snack that I usually use with tea in my hometown. I just used a few ingredients that were easier to find here, and slightly improved the recipe from my hometown.

There's a lot to eat in Teyvat, but there's not much Mondstadt can get his hands on. When it comes to food, Liyue is the most popular. I've heard that they have several genres of cuisine alone. Floya nodded reservedly, but there was a smug smile on her face that could not be hidden.

Hearing Xu Yun's comment, Landis instantly felt that the tea in his hand was not fragrant, and he began to stare at the refreshments in the wooden saucer with burning eyes. But Floya stood by and was too embarrassed to reach out.

At this moment, Xu Yun pinched a piece of biscuit and handed it over.

"Come, Landis, you can taste it too, of course everyone should share the good things."

Landis gladly accepted, and his affection for the teenager he met for the second time increased in his heart.

The interior is as warm as spring, and the snow is covered with snow outside the window.

Playing cards, drinking tea, and eating snacks.

The good times went by in a trance.

Unconsciously, the game has been carried out to the third game, the first two games have their own winners and losers, so the third game of the two cards have become cautious, and the time to think before the cards becomes longer.

"Landis, have you wiped out that tribe of hilichurls?" It was Landis's turn to play his cards, looking at Landis who was still thinking about strategy, Xu Yun asked.

Trash talk is also a combat weapon for players.

"How could it be, just break them up. At that time, the situation was urgent, and in order to rush to support in time, I used a trick to fly over.

In fact, I have been cultivating myself in the past few days, and the elemental power has been overused at one time, and it will take time for the Vision of God to naturally recover the elemental energy. Landis said casually.

"Won't the hilichurls you scattered reunite again and pose a threat to the Plains of Dawn?" Xu Yun

"There is a threat, but it will not be as dangerous as it was before. I killed two shamans and five warriors from that tribe. The remaining two warriors who fled, plus the ordinary hilichurls, even if they regrouped, would not be as threatening as before. After all, without the shaman's command, their ability to move will be greatly reduced, as long as they are not really hungry, there is no need to worry about taking the initiative to attack the surrounding villages. ”

"In a few days, when my Vision elemental energy is completely restored, I will organize the clan knights and guards to enter the mountains to launch an encirclement and suppression, and sort out the threats in the surrounding mountains and forests again."

"Anyway, have you investigated the reason for the migration of the hilichurl tribes? I heard from the knights of the patrol squad that they had come down from the Dragon's Back Snow Mountain. ”

"Definitely. Therefore, the mountain villages around Longji Snow Mountain should be affected this time.

But rest assured, the patrol has reported the situation, and the Knights' clearance troops should be in the mountains in the next two days. After all, heavy snow blocked the road into the mountains, and it would take time to clear a road that could be used by a large army. This time the crisis was discovered very early, and the damage should not be very large. ”

Landis flicked out the energy card in his hand and activated the character card character skill. This is followed by an event card and two starter cards are drawn. Looking at the newly drawn hand, a satisfied smile appeared on his lips, and it was clear that the new hand was exactly what he needed.

"As for the migration of hilichurls from the Dragonspine Snow Mountain, there are no more than two reasons, one is that the natural conditions in the mountains are so bad that they cannot survive, and the second is that more terrifying monsters have appeared, occupying their original homes and driving them out."

"Although the hilichurls are not very powerful, they have a strong sense of territory like most high-level monsters, and even between tribes and tribes, the division of territory is very clear."

"They obviously have the appearance of humans, why do you call them monsters?" Xu Yun waited for Landis to finish this round of cards, and it was his turn to play the cards, and he continued the conversation while pinching his hand and thinking.

"You see the same view as some anthropologists in the past, and some linguistic and historical scholars believe that hilichurls are a race with their own language and civilization, and should have the status of intelligent beings equal to us humans. We can try to communicate and even live in peace. ”

"But that's not the case."

"I don't deny this view on the mere point of being civil. This is also something you will learn later in the preparation of knight training, and it is okay for me to tell you about it in advance. ”

"As warriors, we distinguish them as monsters for a simple reason, because they are entangled in dark and depraved forces, inextricably linked to the abyss.

The forces of darkness and depravity will corrupt the earth and nature, destroying the ecology. The power entangled in the hilichurls is not very strong, so to a certain extent we will still acquiesce to them to inhabit the wilderness and mountains beyond our reach. ”

Floya, who had been silently watching the two of them play cards on the side, spoke at this time: "Some extremely powerful monsters, the dark power they carry will affect the surrounding environment, causing the forest to wither and plants to die. Polluting water sources turns them into poisons that can cause illness and even death if consumed by ordinary animals. Not only that, but the animals that survive the sewage will also be polluted by the dark and become new monsters, spreading the pollution.

Monsters, they are like the lesions of this world, if they are not removed and cleaned up in time, they will destroy the originally healthy natural environment. ”

Landis said, "But the most terrifying thing is that whenever they are polluted and become monsters, they also possess the elemental power of the dark attribute, and their own strength has increased significantly. Fortunately, these contaminated ordinary monsters are fine, some high-level monsters born directly from the cracks in the polluted leylines, and they have a powerful power that is comparable to or even surpasses our human Vision warriors. ”

"The most terrifying situation I'm talking about is not these high-level monsters, but the fact that they have more powerful power after being polluted into monsters.

Some Fallen will do whatever it takes to reach out to the Richen Rift after being contaminated by the dark in order to gain great power, and those who survive the ritual of contact will have a powerful dark elemental power, although not as powerful as us formal Vision warriors, but the dark power in them also has the property of pollution, which is as dangerous as the plague. ”

"These degenerates have existed for thousands of years in official records, but in reality their history is almost as long as the abyss, and in this day and age, the degenerates have multiplied and developed from generation to generation, and their numbers and power have long been large enough to form a race on their own. It's no longer appropriate to call them the Fallen, so now we'll call them demons. ”

"Demons, I really didn't expect that there was such a race in this world." Xu Yun was slightly confused, which was slightly different from the setting of the Teyvat world in the game he had been exposed to before.

"I guess there must be a Majin event in Mondstadt, right? Since there are two ways for them to develop members, it is impossible to just nest in their own turf and have children obediently. A thought flashed through his mind, and he asked.

"Indeed, the demons who only thrive in their own territory and ordinary people are actually fine, although they will be excluded and suppressed by the seven ruling states in the present world, but in fact, the origin is only the offspring of the first generation of those degenerates, and they are forced to become demons from birth, so relatively speaking, they get along with ordinary people, and their attitude is relatively mild.

Most of the time I am referring to the demons I refer to them.

However, those who have developed believers and used rituals to transform into demons are different, and they are more dangerous in their pursuit of power, with extreme personalities and radical actions.

In the darkness of the Seven Kingdoms, they are active everywhere. Landis knocked on the table, urging Xu Yun to play his cards.

Xu Yun smiled, a dazzling round of cards, his character card played elemental skills, cut people, released skills, and produced elemental reactions. A series of operations directly knocked out the character cards on the Landis field, and used the other two backstage character cards to use their own character skill mechanics to beat them into half-blood.

The corners of Landis's eyes twitched, his tactics were all built around the character cards of the previous battlefield, but he didn't expect Xu Yun to chat quietly, and after a round of crazy output, he directly knocked out his main station.

It's not impossible to turn the tables in this game, but it's obviously going to be very difficult. In the previous round of attacks, Xu Yun's character card standing in front of the stage was already bloody, and he only needed one round of ordinary attacks to kill him.

But Landis looked at the energy cards in his hand, and the two energy cards were not enough to attack. He can only choose to end the round helplessly, at least he will end the round first, and he can shoot first at the beginning of the next round.

"I'm wondering if the changes on the Dragonspine Snow Mountain will have something to do with the fallen in your mouth." Xu Yun first threw out a 'shift' card, and then put the last two energy cards in his hand on the table.

The character in front of the stage unleashes a shield skill that is out of hand, and because of the change card, the current character will automatically switch to the next subordinate character after casting a skill or attacking.

He brings the character placed in the front row to the back row, and pushes a full health rock character in the back row to the front of the stage, and this rock character card inherits the shield released by the previous character.

"End of round."

That character card has completely become a super meat shield, Landis stared at that card with twitching eyes, even if the character card in his hand starts to gather fire with all his strength in the next round, it will at most beat it into residual blood, and it can't be harvested at all.

Landis's face immediately turned depressed, and it was clear that he realized that the tide was turning.

Xu Yun covered his mouth and snickered. Landis is actually quite easy to understand, when he plays cards, he doesn't catch a good card in his hand, just look at his expression and you can understand it in seconds.

Landis gritted his teeth and bent his cheeks together, obviously not wanting to give up just like that, and to fight one last time.

The two begin their next round of drawing energy cards and cards.

"If you say that, it seems that a month ago we did receive news that the Majin caravan had entered Mondstadt. It seems that the caravans split into small groups after entering Mondstadt, and each traveled to different towns to trade.

This is normal, on the surface, the ruling country governed by the seven gods in the mortal world does not allow demons to operate within the territory, and even regularly issues orders to encircle and suppress. But the demons have reached this point, and they also need trade and survival, and the wild land they live in is rich in gem minerals and special medicinal resources, as well as furs from monster beasts.

The ordinary merchants below will still trade with them secretly, and over the years, it has gradually evolved into the point that even local lords like us will turn a blind eye to them, after all, the beauty of gems can be used to please women, and the fur of Warcraft is a rare and excellent material as long as it is processed properly, and it can often be made into special items with characteristics related to Warcraft.

For example, the canine monsters that produce evil flames reported in the report of the Captain Tima Knights, their fur is the best material for making winter boots, and with such a pair of boots, you don't have to worry about frostbite on your feet even in cold weather. ”

"It's a bit far, in short, in this era, except for the main city and a few important military fortresses, the caravans of the demons can trade normally in other secondary towns. So it's normal for them to go to different towns separately. ”

Grab the cards in your hand, this round he played the cards first, put a shield on himself when he came up, and then ate a life-restoring food card. Then he threw four energy cards, unleashing the character card's free move.

It was Xu Yun's turn to play the cards.

"Hehe, these mice in the shadows, the best at taking advantage of other people's carelessness. Maybe one of them went up to Longji Snow Mountain, before the heavy snow closed the mountain.

I heard Jack, the captain of the patrol knight squad, say that there is an abyss seal on the Dragon's Back Snow Mountain. Xu Yun pursed his lips disdainfully.

Landis, who was originally leisurely crossing Erlang's legs, sat up straight, stared at the substitution card thrown by Xu Yun, replaced it with a wind element character card, and dropped the card in his hand with a slight frown.

"If you say that, I think I think I saw the name of 'All Things Doom Society' appear in the newspaper before, and the time was a month ago."

"No, I must hurry back and sort out the information, and if your judgment is correct, I think we have found the cause of the matter. If a whole team of Fallen Demons did sneak up on the Dragonspine Snow Mountain, things would be more serious than we expected. ”

"Although the winner of this game has not yet been decided, since I am the one who wants to leave first, even if you win. This set of cards is yours, Timmy. ”

"You're really an incredible guy, it's been a great time today, now I have to go, I'm looking for you to win it back." Landis stood up and picked up the long trench coat that was on the hanger.

"Thank you for hosting Lady Floya, and I'll take my leave." He bowed slightly to Floya and said.

"Don't talk so much nonsense if you want to go, haven't you found something more important? Time is precious, and what is there to delay here. Floya waved her hand casually, urging him to leave.

Landis was not angry, smiled and glanced at Xu Yun again, and then strode out of the door with long legs.

With the sound of going downstairs, the footsteps gradually faded away.

"It's really vigorous. What kind of storm will he set off when he leaves? Xu Yun threw the card he was holding on the table, turned his head and paced to the window.

Window.

Landis rolled over and stepped onto the tall, black horse that the soldier had brought with him, his legs clamped around the horse's belly, and he flicked the reins. The horse let out a neigh, raised its front hooves, and kicked its hind legs out with force.

In the courtyard of the camp that was already at dusk, only the back of a fiery red ponytail remained.

"What kind of organization will all things be when they die?" He whispered to himself.

"Cults, a group of madmen who believe in the perdition of all things in the world." Floya walked to the window and looked side by side with the boy at the distant back, the green-haired head half taller than the boy.

"Let him get busy, the next thing has nothing to do with you, your task now is to stay here honestly and obediently recuperate."

Inexplicably, Xu Yun suffered a brain collapse on his forehead.

"I didn't want to participate, I was just a wounded and dying child."

"You still know you're a kid, huh? The thing that has been thinking about all day is either fighting the hilichurls or the conspiracy of the demons, listening to the conversation you just had, what is like a child? Floya snorted lightly and threw the back of Xu Yun's head.

"Fu, do you still have cookies? I didn't eat enough. ”

"Don't even think about it, you've been asleep for days and just woke up, and you can't eat much food at once. After the next meal, I'll get you some digestible food. ”

"Hey~~? How is this~ My gluttonous worm was just hooked by you, and you ran away. ”

"Kill you little scoundrel."

Florya happily packed up the tray of tea utensils and returned to the room. After a while, melodious music and the soft humming of a girl sounded in the room.

"It's 'Dream Aria', one of Mondstadt's main themes, and I can't help but think of the door to the login screen that enters Teyvat." Xu Yun sat on the back chair that Landis was sitting on, closed his eyes and listened quietly, his left hand and right hand raised in the air, as if he was hitching on a mouse and keyboard.

Three days flew by.

Xu Yun's seven-day observation period had expired, but no one from the Order had come to pick him up from the camp. Under the guard's questioning, he chose to stay with Floya to continue to recuperate between going to Dawn Winery to recuperate or staying in the blacksmith camp.

When she opened her eyes, she was taken care of by the beautiful elf lady, and Florya's cooking skills were indeed proportional to her age, so there was no reason for her to choose to leave this temporary residence that made her extremely comfortable and go to a strange environment to readjust.

If he can not contact people, he still doesn't want to contact more people. The days of staying at home, Meizizi~

Unfortunately, there is no mobile phone, no computer, and no Internet.

"I haven't done the daily task for eight days, and I haven't received the monthly card for eight days, so the loss is huge!"

The rest of the day was uneventful and comfortable, the camp was in the middle of nowhere, a deliberately hidden weapons workshop for the Legunfender family, and because of the winter, it was almost isolated.

As the days passed, the winter snow melted and fell, and the gates of the camp were always closed, and no one went out or visited.

On another sunny winter day after the snow, the gate that had kept the camp isolated from the outside world finally opened slowly again with the crunch of winches and ropes.

Although it was a sunny day, the temperature was much lower than the previous days, and it was clear that it was late winter.

Thinking that he had fully recovered, Xu Yun was practicing the basic swordsmanship posture he had learned from the soldiers in front of Floya's wooden building.

Although I know a lot of swordsmanship, but those are the ordinary attacks used by the characters in the game, and the characters in the game want to have a strong basic attack, so they naturally don't need to hone their skills, just smash the Mora and upgrade materials and skill books, and you can have the superior force to sweep the monster group.

As for myself, I can only practice from scratch. Without the repeated training of sword after sword, his swordsmanship moves would only end up being reduced to a ridiculous showcase.

When the door opened, he naturally found it as soon as possible, and when the door was fully opened, the team of people standing outside the door waiting met Xu Yun's eyes.

It's the members of the Patrol Knights and the five-member group of Tima, and Landis with a bandage on his head.

All wore a white lily-like Cecilia flower on their chests.

The black horse on which Landis sat led the way, and the six large horses entered the camp in turn.

Looking at the faint expressions on their faces, it can be seen that the mood is not high.

So he took the initiative to meet it himself.

"Yo~" He stretched out his hand and waved, greeting everyone like an old friend who had not seen him for a long time.

"Timmy, you're right." Landis dismounted, and spoke his first words. "We have encountered the Death of All Things in the depths of the Dragon's Back Snow Mountain."

"Jack... He died? Xu Yun paused slightly, and tried to ask. I said I couldn't beat the guy who had no problem running away, but that's it. In the story, everyone who planted a flag must receive a boxed lunch, and I didn't expect to encounter it in person. ’

Seeing that everyone didn't answer, he sighed: "That guy still owes me a deck of cards and a win, and people will..."

"No, Jack was just injured. It needs to be cultivated at home. Tima quickly interrupted, not knowing what unlucky things Timmy would say.

"Then what are you wearing white flowers for?"