On an ordinary and unremarkable day, Yu Jin was walking along the road.
As Yu Jin roamed the streets of Chihu Rock, he saw a crowd gathered around the Adventurers' Guild's quest board in the distance.
"Move aside! Let me see first!" Seeing this, Yu Jin didn't hold back and pushed his way through the crowd.
The Adventurers of Liyue often owed Yu Jin favors. Many of their daily commissions were completed with Yu Jin's help.
Daily commissions were a measure taken by the Adventurers' Guild to help Adventurers live better lives.
Generally, the Guild would assign miscellaneous tasks to specific individuals based on their abilities.
If completed, not only would they receive the normal Reward, but also an extra bonus. If not completed, it didn't matter; daily commissions were not mandatory, and every Adventurer could decide whether to do them based on their own circumstances.
It was precisely because of this that the Adventurers' Guild quickly became a transnational organization on par with the Fatui in Teyvat—mainly in terms of personnel distribution.
Treasure Hoarders and Adventurers are to humans what Mint is to plants, and what Hilichurls are to monsters—they're everywhere.
"Senior is here, it's a new group commission from the Guild." Zhi Qiong saw Yu Jin approach and initiative moved aside.
When she was surveying maps, Yu Jin had thrown her into the Sky many times. Although the process was painful, it was indeed very helpful for her to complete her work.
"Group commission?" Yu Jin narrowed his eyes and looked at the quest board; it was the first time he had heard of such a thing.
Just as Yu Jin was studying it, Katheryne walked out from behind the counter. Beside her was Lan, the head of Liyue's branch.
"Everyone, please quiet down," Katheryne shouted loudly.
The eager Adventurers then quieted down. Katheryne's words were more effective than Lan's.
Because Katheryne would speak gently, while Lan would only drag people along to look for some [sword].
Seeing everyone quiet down, Katheryne nodded and continued, "Everyone saw the meteor shower a while ago, right?"
"It was so beautiful! The meteorites."
"A meteor shower, this is my first time seeing one."
"Very surprised? They're just small pebbles!"
Yu Jin saw everyone's excited expressions and felt they had limited experience.
He had also seen the previous meteor shower, and in more detail. They were just a few small fragments, likely to burn up before reaching the ground.
"You have a lot of experience, they don't, so you can't generalize," Lan said with a helpless smile, seeing Yu Jin's complaining expression.
Yu Jin was arguably the most mysterious and powerful Adventurer Lan had ever met; he could complete any commission.
Unfortunately, he was unwilling to go with her to find the [sword]. If he were willing, she estimated he could find it easily.
Whenever Lan brought this up to Yu Jin, he refused.
The main reason was the condition she offered—nominating Yu Jin as the branch head. Wasn't that just setting him up for trouble? So Yu Jin decisively refused.
Katheryne, who was nearby, also nodded in agreement. She collected her thoughts and then said to the crowd, who had once again fallen silent:
"The meteor shower a few days ago was very strange; it fell in the border area between Mondstadt and Liyue. Recent reports indicate that many people have fallen into a deep sleep since the meteorites fell."
"Yujing Terrace suspects it's related to those meteorites, and considering Liyue's recent manpower issues, they specifically commissioned us to investigate."
Liyue's manpower has indeed been tight recently, as most of the Millelith have gone to guard the Fatui's "mining machines."
After Azhdaha awakened, he not only served as a consultant at the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor but also as a special consultant for the Huishan Hall, which oversees mining within the Seven Stars' eight departments.
With Azhdaha present, Liyue's mineral exploration volume increased significantly in a short period. With so many mines needing to be excavated, Liyue's miners immediately became insufficient.
So... of course, they activated the Fatui-brand "mining machines." These Snezhnaya-made cultivators are strong, powerful, and only need three bowls of rice a day—there's no more cost-effective machine than this.
As for not going? Fine, first calculate the Fatui's illegal activities in Liyue; then calculate their unauthorized production of counterfeit talismans of everlasting moral restraint; and finally, calculate the Fatui's unauthorized release of a God and their plan to forcefully attack the Jade Chamber with a portal... Adding all these things up, the Seven Stars could directly arrest all the Fatui in Liyue and feed them to fish.
Just making them miners was already giving the Cryo Archon some face.
"Everyone, please note that the Guild has never seen this kind of situation before, so it's best to work in pairs to avoid any accidents!"
Katheryne saw the eager expressions of the "little green people" in front of her and quickly urged them.
"Bye-bye! You guys team up, I'm taking off!" As soon as Katheryne finished speaking, Yu Jin's back disappeared into a cloud of dust.
"Miss Katheryne, Senior Yu Jin he..." Zhi Qiong couldn't help but worry as she watched Yu Jin's retreating figure.
"Phew..." Katheryne composed herself. Yu Jin was still as unpredictable as ever.
"Don't worry, Mr. Yu Jin should be fine."
[Not'should be,' but 'will absolutely be fine.'] Katheryne smiled at Zhi Qiong, saying silently in her heart... Dihua Marsh. This is a large marsh, and one of the border areas between Liyue and Mondstadt.
Although it's a marsh, compared to the marshes Yu Jin had seen before, Dihua Marsh was exceptionally beautiful.
Reeds, stripped of their catkins, swayed with the gentle breeze. Interspersed among the reeds were purple Horsetail, a sight that filled one with a sense of peace and joy.
"Swoosh!"
A gust of wind blew, startling the white dew in the reed beds.
Yu Jin was running wildly along the road. Dihua Marsh had an official road that led directly to Mondstadt, preventing people from getting lost in this large marsh where reeds grew as tall as a person.
Suddenly, a slumped figure appeared on the deserted path in the distance, causing Yu Jin's sprinting footsteps to slow down involuntarily.
Approaching the figure, Yu Jin looked closely and found it was a Mondstadter.
He looked around, then rummaged through the goods on the cart next to the person. Yu Jin estimated that this person was probably a porter from a Mondstadt winery.
The goods on the cart were all related to wine.
"Is this the sleepy meteor Katheryne mentioned?" Yu Jin picked up a blue stone from the cart and scratched his head, saying.
Can only say it's truly a different world, huh? The meteorites here are all shiny like gemstones.
Unlike The Lands Between, where fallen meteorites were either large lumps of iron or various bizarre alien creatures.
"It should be."
Yu Jin looked at the fist-sized stone in his hand and felt he had found the main culprit.
The stone seemed to carry someone's will; that stubborn yet powerful consciousness radiated directly through the stone.
The comatose people Katheryne mentioned were most likely affected by this consciousness after coming into contact with the meteorites.
"In that case..."
Yu Jin lowered his center of gravity, holding the meteorite he had picked up, extending his arm in a shotput-throwing stance.
"Fly for me!"
"Bang!"
A bright blue light flashed in the Sky again, but this time it was actually in the opposite direction of the previous one.
The blue light flashed, getting higher and higher, and smaller and smaller, until it was no longer visible.
"That's better," Yu Jin nodded with satisfaction. This move of his could even be called mending the Sky.
Although this Sky is fake.
Yu Jin suddenly realized that he should probably find a way to wake up those people on Celestia.
As for the reason... big sister, your projector is broken, are you going to fix it?
How's that for a reason? Or maybe he could call Patches over; he'd definitely know how to handle such precise gadgets.
Leaving aside everything else, just the fact that Patches could calculate the positions of the Greater Will and Dark Moon, those cosmic Gods, right before Yu Jin's eyes, made Yu Jin feel like he knew everything.
Although Yu Jin couldn't understand what those coordinates meant with data like "pulsar rotation period," "galactic center distance," "pulsar to God millisecond distance," and so on.
Thinking about it this way, it doesn't seem very urgent? Yu Jin abandoned his previous idea and decided to slack off for a while first!
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