Chapter 31: The Mysterious Man in the Book of Mountains and Seas
The next morning, after the deer hunter had finished breakfast, Feng Wuwu had been waiting for someone to show up. Fortunately, it didn't take long for a young man with brown hair to walk up to the synthesis table.
Seeing this, Feng Wuwu left his seat and walked towards the other party.
As usual, Timaius came to the workbench early to prepare for today's alchemy project. Although it is likely to be another accumulation of experience, he always enjoys it, and his dream is to become the greatest alchemist in Mondstadt...... One.
Timaeus is planning to resemble the goddess of fate (Yae-yoko?) As he prayed, he was greeted by a smiling child.
As an alchemist, memory and observation are basic needs, and he knows this child, because the other party's hair color and eye color are really rare, all of them are black.
Maybe it's a foreign kid, that's what he thought.
And what impressed him the most was that this child seemed to like the food of the deer hunter very much, and he couldn't wait to eat three meals a day, how much does it cost, could it be that this child is the son of a wealthy merchant, but the son of a rich merchant turned out to be an adventurer, why not become an alchemist, it is really a waste to spend Mora on food.
While pondering, the boy finally walked up to him.
"Hello, my name is Wind Worry-free."
"Oh oh hello, I'm Timaeus."
"Do you know where Sucrose is now?"
"Are you looking for Senior Sister Sucrose? She is not in Mondstadt now. ”
"Absent?" The wind froze for a moment.
"Yes, senior sister, she went to the snow mountain."
"Snow Mountain?" Feng Wuwu confirmed, "You mean Longji Snow Mountain?" ”
"yes." Timaius was also very curious about what the child in front of him was looking for the master, so he asked casually, "Do you have anything to do with the senior sister?" ”
"Just wanted her to help identify something." Feng Wuwu continued to ask, "By the way, do you know when she will come back?" ”
Timaus shook his head, "I don't know, senior sister, she didn't say it." ”
"Okay......"
Timaus found that the young man in front of him seemed to be a little absent-minded, as if he was hearing the word Snow Mountain.
"You...... You okay? ”
"Ah, it's okay, it's okay." Feng Wuwu waved his hand and thought for a moment, "...... Well, please let me know when Sucrose will come back, I usually eat at the deer hunter in the morning. ”
"Oh, that's fine."
"Thank you~" Feng Wuwu was just about to turn around, and unexpectedly noticed that Timaus looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, and stopped turning around.
"Anything else?"
"That...... Can you show me that thing you're talking about? "Curiosity about the unknown is also a strength of Timaeus.
Feng Wuwu was silent for a moment, and wanted to pat the other party's shoulder but found that he couldn't reach it at all, and the outstretched arm was so stiffly stuck in the air.
"Ahem, you said I could leave, okay, thank you."
Timaeus: "I ......"
Timaus opened his mouth, and was about to say something, only to find that the other party was left with only a rapidly disappearing back.
......
The word snow-capped mountain reminded Feng Wuwu of someone on the mountain, the son of chalk - Albedo. He is Sucrose's master, a more powerful alchemist than her, and the most powerful alchemist in Mondstadt. If it weren't for the mention of the snow-capped mountains, he would have forgotten that there was such a skilled alchemist there.
"It's a pity that it's not the time to go to the snowy mountains, and I still have a lot of things to figure out."
After that, Feng Wuwu returned to the library to read books, and it was also quite an interesting experience to find some old stories from the books, especially some personal biographies, and I could always understand between the lines the total hardships and hardships of the parties, and the stories of ultimate failure or success.
Among them, "The Legend of Vanessa" is the most classic, this part is divided into two parts, the first part mainly tells the story of Vanessa, the founder of the Knights of Favonius, who was enslaved in Mondstadt in her early years.
At that time, Montchamp was controlled by the foolish aristocracy, slaves were everywhere, and there was a young girl in the prison who came from the wilderness of the south.
Born free but shackled, and though physically held by a tyrant, the pious maiden never gave up praying for the freedom of her people, for Mondstadt, and for vanity.
And this is Vanessa's early tragic experience.
The next part tells the legendary story of Vanessa's acquaintance with Barbatos, the god of wind, defeating the demon dragon and overthrowing the nobles.
In addition to this, he was also fascinated by the stories of some adventurers, including a book called "The Book of Mountains and Seas", which tells the story of an adventurer named Leonard who climbed a mountain.
This book makes Wind carefree a little concerned, because most of the contents are obscured by some kind of stain, but it can still be seen between the lines that his lifelong desire is to conquer a mountain called 'Pinnacle Peak'.
At first, Feng Wuwu didn't pay much attention to it, since some of it was not clear to him, it was forgotten, until he accidentally saw such a paragraph-
[Injured again, *** very serious, I don't know if I can ......
My *** seems to be broken, but fortunately it was only a slight fracture, and I almost ****** scraped into the abyss, but luckily I am still alive.
It seems that **** has failed.
There seems to be a new guest outside the village, the villagers are very ***, I heard that it is a ***, but his *** is really ****, ha~ I really hope he can ***.
It's amazing, how did he do it, the first time I saw ****, he was really ****, ****, I don't know how to describe it, he****
I tried to ask for his name, he ****, I want to *** but he ****, ****
......】
Although the handwriting in some places is not legible, it can also be seen that it is nothing more than the story of being injured while climbing the mountain peak and then returning to the village to recuperate.
In the book, he spends an entire page describing the man, and in this biography, which focuses on mountaineering, it is all too obvious. Unfortunately, there are so many missing words on this page, and the key points are always blurred, as if they have been deliberately erased or really worn out by time.
In the end, it is not even clear whether this person is a tourist from afar, a down-and-out nobleman, or an adventurer in ancient times.
When Feng Wuwu wanted to continue to look down, the description directly became a record of the next mountain climb, and there was no connection between the front and back.
"What's going on, why is it gone?"
"Do you mean....... Is some of the content missing, or ......?"
"Found it, it's a torn trace."
Between the two pages remained the torn remains of the paper, and more than one.
"Was it accidentally damaged during the preservation process, or is it ...... What about the deliberate erasure......"
Feng Wuwu suddenly became curious about this mysterious man, and he carefully flipped through the rest of the book, but unfortunately there was no more information about that person described in the later text, and the only record was the page just now.
"Tsk, it's the same as the dog author who broke the chapter, it's really unpleasant." Looking at the broken book on the table, Feng sighed faintly, put the Book of Mountains and Seas back on the shelf, and then immediately chose a book from the side and continued to read.
There is no complete book in the first place, let alone how many books can be preserved after hundreds or even thousands of years, this is not the first 'out of chapter' book that Feng Wuwu reads, nor is it the last, but is this really the case......