As a result, Orion's first day of work was not spent intimately with Director Hu, but rather drinking tea with Zhongli all day.
"But Zhongli told me not to show my strength to the Seven Stars too quickly, and not to hand over the trump card of 'acting for Liyue' to the Seven Stars so soon... So, in what capacity will I face Ningguang and the others later? Just as an ordinary Traveler?
Speaking of the Traveler, I heard from Zhongli that Lumine has recently become quite famous in Liyue, even personally participating in the core preparatory work for the Rite of Descension. So, when the Geo God is assassinated and the entire area is sealed off, wouldn't she have no reason to escape?"
Once it involved the main plot and system rewards, troublesome matters came one after another.
Orion sighed heavily. He wasn't a smart person and couldn't plan everything out like a holder of a God-Tier Villain System. He felt that obtaining stones through Hangout Events might be more suitable for him.
After walking a few steps, from Tian Ironmouth's place to Wanmin Restaurant, Orion saw Shenhe preparing to beat up a man with a lecherous appearance.
No, is it this frequent?
Orion walked over with his hands in his pockets: "What happened again?"
Xiangling quickly ran over when she saw him: "Orion! You came at just the right time! Shenhe is being harassed again!"
Chef Mao also walked over, holding a cleaver: "There's no helping it. These past few days, many customers have been attracted by Shenhe's beauty. Our Wanmin Restaurant benefits from this beauty, so naturally, we'll also encounter trouble stemming from it. Little friend Orion, keep an eye on Xiangling. If those bastards touch my employees, I'll make them realize that cutting pork and cutting human flesh feel the same!"
"Hey, hey, hey! Chef Mao, don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive!" Orion quickly stopped Chef Mao. Chef Mao hadn't practiced martial arts and had no sense of proportion with his hands; he always chopped meat with full force.
Orion had Xiangling and Guoba hold back the furious Chef Mao, and he walked over to the dining table alone.
"Shenhe, are you alright?"
Hearing this, Shenhe turned her head. A smile, like a few pixels, actually appeared on her usually indifferent face: "Orion, you're here."
Saying that, she pointed to the leader of the seven or eight people at the table next to them: "Look, I was just about to do as you said and break his arm."
Other diners:...
So this 'arm-breaking sister' was taught by you?!
For a moment, many people began to whisper.
"This one also looks quite handsome. With that attire, is he a magus?"
"A magus wearing this? Shouldn't magus wear Taoist robes?"
"That's our local magus. Look at him, he's clearly a foreign magus."
"These two, one dressed passionately like fire, the other with a style as cold as ice, they're so well-matched!"
"Could this be her boyfriend?"
"The immortal maiden doesn't look very young either. Perhaps they're a married couple?"
Shenhe also heard the discussions. She had common sense and knew what a married couple was—the kind of relationship her parents had.
She and Orion as a married couple?
She saw Orion standing before her and recalled seeing her father kneeling by the bed, tightly clutching her deceased mother's hand, when she was a child.
But it was also this father who became deranged after her mother's death and eventually personally offered her as a sacrifice to a demon.
What kind of relationship exactly is a married couple? What was that man, who abandoned her and offered her as a tribute to a God's remnant, truly thinking in his heart?
Returning to Orion, he looked down at the man who had just been grabbed by Shenhe's collar and almost hit by an iron fist. The man, surprisingly, dared to glare back.
"Damn it, what are you looking at?! Is this chick your woman? I'm telling you, apologize to me nicely, and let your woman come over and have a few drinks with us. Then this matter is over. Otherwise, don't blame us for being impolite!" The man's face was flushed red as he shouted at Orion, looking just like a barking dog.
Orion narrowed his eyes. Liyue truly deserved its reputation as a region where some darker stories gradually started to be written into world quests. In the present, where the world has detached from the game and become self-contained, although Liyue's overall atmosphere is still similar to Mondstadt's, people who bully men and women, not featured in the main story, have begun to appear.
For people like this, their fate was usually sealed in the game. If they weren't arrested by the Millelith, they were most likely scum harvested by the Fatui's debt collectors.
It's just that Childe had his legs broken by Dain just for saying "Wanna spar?", which is why the Fatui probably haven't had the leisure to bother with these scumbags, right?
Orion walked over expressionlessly, glanced at the somewhat cooled hotpot on the table, and snapped his fingers. The flames beneath the hotpot reignited, quickly boiling the soup base.
The leading man looked at this scene with some confusion. What just happened? Why did the water boil?
Then, he saw Orion firmly grab his right hand: "Did you just try to touch my person with this hand?"
The man looked bewildered. Before he could reply, he saw Orion grab his hand and shove it into the scalding boiling water.
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!! What the f*ck, ah ah ah ah ah! Let go! You f*cking let go!!!"
However, Orion's expression remained unchanged, and his hand didn't budge. Not only that, but the people nearby could also see that the hand Orion used to grab the man's right hand was also in the pot! But Orion's expression was incredibly calm.
Soon, Orion took the man's hand out. His entire hand was purplish-red, and a scent of cooked meat wafted from it. The area between the good and bad skin was covered in large and small blisters.
In contrast, Orion's hand was as fair as before, without any signs of scalding.
Orion threw the man to the ground. The man couldn't catch his breath and actually fainted directly.
"Boss!!!" Two of his subordinates quickly ran over to check on him. On Orion's side, Shenhe and the other two also rushed over.
"Orion! Are your hands alright?"
"Oh my, little brother Orion, how could you put your hand directly into boiling water! Let me see if you're alright!"
"Are you okay?"
Three people, three different attitudes, but their words were full of concern.
Orion smiled and waved his hand: "It's fine, it's fine. See, no problem at all."
Just then, one of the subordinates behind him suddenly lunged, swinging a long bench and smashing it onto Orion's back. The bench split with a crack, but Orion was completely unharmed. He simply turned his head to look at him quietly.
The subordinate stared blankly up at Orion, swallowing hard: "Bro, I, I saw a mosquito on your back."
Orion smiled at him: "You're quite humorous, young man! Your tongue would definitely taste good boiled."
Then he grabbed his hair and pressed his face into the boiling water.
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah gurgle gurgle gurgle."
The man's screams came out with the sound of bubbles, but this time Orion didn't hold him down for long; he basically just dipped him in the water and pulled him out.
The others all stood up with a start, then immediately squatted back down.
They didn't dare to approach... At this moment, some passersby called the Millelith. When the Millelith officers arrived, they saw the scene and exclaimed, "Good heavens, how did it get this bad?" They immediately came over to understand the situation.
Shenhe and the other two were a bit worried. After all, Orion had injured someone. They were concerned that Orion would be taken away by the Millelith. Shenhe even had an impulse to stab anyone who dared to approach her with chopsticks, as her Solitary Eclipsing Star power was acting up.
Orion looked around and said to Chef Mao with some apology: "I'm sorry, Chef Mao, this will probably affect your business here."
"It's fine!" Chef Mao patted Orion's back: "In this world, there are just some unruly scumbags. If you don't deal with them today, they'll come back to cause trouble tomorrow. Strike one punch to avoid a hundred punches."
No sooner had he spoken than shouts came from behind Chef Mao: "Well done! Young man!"
"Good hit! Those rotten dogs should have been straightened out a long time ago!"
"Chef Mao, this young man is really something!"
Unexpectedly, the diners and onlookers who were passing by began to cheer for Orion, which made both Orion and Chef Mao show surprised expressions.
Meanwhile, the Millelith finally understood the situation. It was indeed these idle individuals who had behaved improperly first, but... it was too brutal; that arm would be deboned if boiled a little longer.
Following protocol, the Millelith had no choice but to take Orion with them to see how to handle the matter.
So, the leading officer approached Orion and said: "Mr. Orion, right? Due to some procedural reasons, we'll have to ask you to come with us."
Orion didn't want to make things difficult for the Millelith soldiers and was about to say he would go with them when he suddenly heard a voice from above.
"Wait, you don't need to take this person."
Everyone looked up and saw a cold woman standing on the eaves, staring down with indifferent eyes.
Her blue hair was slightly curled, and black horns grew from the sides of her head, curving backward, with red patterns on them.
Ganyu, the General Secretary of the Yuehai Pavilion and a half-adeptus, looked at Orion with a clear, cold voice and said: "This person is the man Lady Tianquan specifically asked to see."
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