Chapter 177

Nahida looked at the Scaramouche hanging upside down, recalling the identity Li Yue had told her about them.

"Alhaitham, you can leave now. I want to talk to him alone."

"Lord Dendro Archon God, he hasn't made a sound since he was imprisoned. How do you plan to talk to him?"

Alhaitham did not go out immediately, but instead asked Nahida a question.

"Don't worry, I know how to wake him up."

That's right. You're with Aizen. This guy has been asleep ever since he was defeated by Aizen. It's only right that you wake him up.

Alhaitham didn't say anything more, but nodded and turned to leave.

The massive gate slammed shut again, leaving only Nahida and the sleeping Scaramouche in the room.

After Alhaitham left, another person immediately appeared in the room: Li Yue appeared next to Nahida.

"Alhaitham's performance was really good. I've been suspicious of you ever since I met you."

As soon as she appeared, Li Yue couldn't help but smile and speak to Nahida.

"Yes, I sensed that too. Alhaitham is very wary of us."

Nahida smiled and nodded. Although she said she didn't use mind reading, she could sense Alhaitham's gaze. This level of perception was something Nahida could easily do even without raising her hands to read minds.

"But isn't that exactly what we wanted? His personality is such that if you don't pull him in and force him to move forward, he'll be content with the status quo. Anyway, he has enough ability, so just let him do the work."

If it were Nahida before she went to Liyue, she would definitely disagree with this. She wanted to become a qualified god and felt that she needed to do many things herself.

But after following Li Yue for so long, especially after Liyue followed Zhongli for a while, she woke up!

Being a god doesn't require doing everything personally; it only requires fulfilling one's duties as a god. In particular, Inazuma's Raijin taught her a harsh lesson. Raiden Ei, who was not good at governing, brought great disaster to Inazuma.

Therefore, Nahida felt that if she encountered something she was not good at, she should never force herself to do it. After Li Yue recommended that Alhaitham help manage Sumeru, while she herself would supervise from a high position as a god, Nahida immediately agreed to this approach.

And the results showed that this choice was correct!

"Alright, we'll praise Alhaitham later. Let's wake this guy up now."

Li Yue stretched out her right hand toward the suspended Scaramouche, and a green light shone forth. The Scaramouche's body also glowed with a green light, and then he slowly opened his eyes.

The Scaramouche who opened their eyes immediately looked at Li Yue.

"Rock King Li Yue!"

The Scaramouche immediately recognized Li Yue's identity. At this moment, Li Yue was not disguised as Aizen, but appeared in his own form.

The Wrath Scaramouche tried to move forward, but found that their hands and feet were bound by huge chains.

"Damn it, how dare they bind me like this, bind a god!"

"Really? Do you think you're a god?"

Li Yue looked at the arrogant Scaramouche remained defiant even when locked up, and grinned with disdain.

"Then you're really weak as a god."

"You!"

The Scaramouche breached the defenses.

"Moreover, they're not just weak, they're also incredibly stupid!"

303. Taking in Scaramouche as dogs

"What do you mean!?"

"It means exactly what it says: you're stupid."

"Impossible!"

"You were created by Thor, deceived by the Doctor of the Fatui, and then joined the Fatui, starting to do Fatui without even knowing it, thinking you were taking revenge."

"What do you mean by that?!"

The Scaramouche sensed something, but instinctively chose not to believe it.

"Well, after all, your IQ is only so-so. You can be Fatui, so you definitely won't understand even if I explain it simply. So let's leave it at that."

Li Yue raised her hand and shook hands with the Scaramouche. Green light shone on the Scaramouche's body again, Scaramouche immediately fell into a deep sleep once more.

Previously, putting the Scaramouche to sleep was merely to lower his consciousness so that he couldn't do anything. This time, putting the Scaramouche to sleep is to let him see clearly what the Doctor did in Inazuma back then, especially the things he felt betrayed about.

After quickly reviewing the events of that time in his dream, the Scaramouche woke up again.

"How so!"

The Scaramouche, who had just woken up, immediately started shouting.

"Don't shout and yell all the time; it just makes you look stupid."

Li Yue spoke up to remind them, Scaramouche immediately looked at Li Yue.

"Was everything you just showed me true? Is that really the case?"

"That's right, you stupid cannon. You don't even know how to process the most basic intelligence. You have no ability to think at all. You deserve to be deceived."

"You!"

"And it's one thing that you were deceived, but you even helped the Fatui. You've been with the Fatui for so long and done so many things for them. Didn't you ever think that the Fatui are capable of all sorts of scams and deceptions? Didn't they also try to scam you when they recruited you?"

Li Yue's question stunned the Scaramouche.

Yes! How could he not have thought of that?

He used to be able to easily trust others, but he was unwilling to trust his own friends. After joining the Fatui, he witnessed and even actively led the Fatui to commit various evil deeds in secret and even openly. However, he never considered that his friends might have been framed.

"So you're just a brainless idiot. The only reason you've survived until now is because your body is a high-level puppet created by Thor that can withstand the Gnosis. If you were an ordinary person, you would have died countless times already."

After joining the Fatui, the Scaramouche became a complete test subject for the Doctor. In order to gain power, Scaramouche was willing to become a test subject. He was sent to explore the Abyss, used by the Doctor for human experiments, and later used as a test subject for artificial gods.

Li Yue's words successfully silenced the Scaramouche. He closed his eyes, lowered his head, and remained silent for a while before finally raising his head to look at Li Yue.

Give me a chance.

"Give you a chance?"

"I want revenge!"

"I thought you were going to say you wanted to be a good person."

Li Yue was making a joke that the Scaramouche wouldn't understand at all.

"I have no intention of being a so-called good person."

The Scaramouche didn't get Li Yue's joke, but they were very clear about their own understanding.

"Give me a chance, and I'll do anything for you, just give me a chance to get revenge!"

The Scaramouche looked at Li Yue with a serious expression. He was filled with anger, not at anyone else, but at the Doctor.

"I don't know your true identity, but you control Sumeru, so you must have your own purpose. Not only Sumeru, but you also control Liyue and even Inazuma. You pretended to be a good person and controlled several countries in succession, and you even have the power of gods. You also act as a god for Liyue and Inazuma. You must have your own purpose. I'm not interested in your purpose, but in the process of achieving your purpose, you must have a lot of things to do in secret, just like the Aizen you became before."

"I can do these things for you. The people you want to kill, I can kill for you. The things you want to do as an evil person, I can do for you! Just let me kill Dottore!"

"Besides, the reason you kept me here must be to use me, right? Just like you said, I'm an idiot who's easily fooled. In that case, I might as well just do things for you!"

Li Yue looked at the Scaramouche with some surprise.

"It's surprising that you've become so smart at this time."

"You... Hmph!"

The Scaramouche, whose intelligence had been looked down upon by Li Yue once again, wanted to lash out, but because they needed Li Yue's help, they held back.

"You say you're willing to help me, but how can I trust someone who so easily suspects their friend of running off with someone else?"

Faced with Li Yue's questioning, the Scaramouche's eyes narrowed.

"You can seal the power within me, so you should be able to control me too, right? Besides, Beelzebul is with you. You can have Beelzebul modify me, or you can control me yourself. You can even remotely control my life and death, as long as you can get me to deal with Dottore!"

"Interesting. It seems you're willing to risk your own life for revenge."

"That's right! As long as you give me a chance for revenge, I'll go and kill the guy who turned me into this clown!"

Li Yue looked at the resolute-looking Scaramouche with amusement.

In the original storyline, this fool, after coming into contact with the World Tree, even decided to erase himself in order to change the past, so it's not surprising that he's willing to risk his life for revenge here.

But Li Yue wouldn't give him the chance to contact the World Tree. He didn't need any so-called "whitewashed" Scaramouche. Could they be whitewashed? No! Those who died because of him were gone forever. Although the World Tree could modify information in Teyvat, it wasn't omnipotent. The World Tree couldn't create something from nothing, nor could it make something disappear from something. The World Tree could only modify information within a certain range.

Therefore, Li Yue would never allow the Scaramouche to come into contact with the World Tree, nor would he allow Scaramouche to whitewash their past. The only reason he kept the Scaramouche was because he needed a dog that he could use.

"Very well, since you're willing to pay with your life, then I'll give you a chance!"

Li Yue raised her chin and looked at the Scaramouche.

"I will give you the chance to kill Dottore, but not now, because you are too weak right now. Having lost your divine power, you can only be the Sixth Seat and are not capable of killing Dottore, who is the second seat."

The Scaramouche frowned as they listened.

"However, I will give you hope. Just as you, now a god, are weak and powerless before me, I can also make Dottore weak and powerless before you. As long as you can do as I command, I will give you the power to kill Dottore!"

"Good!"

The Scaramouche agreed without hesitation.

304. The Reactivation of the True God

Li Yue discriminates against the Fatui, that's right, she does discriminate.

Given the nature of the Mithril family, in the Teyvat universe, they will probably all be redeemed in the end, with the ending being that "although I've been doing villainous things, my purpose is to save the world."

There are two villains in Teyvat continent at the beginning. One is the Abyss Order. The Abyss Order's plot is related to Cainrea. Although some of Cainrea's plot has been revealed, the most important part has not yet been fully shown, so we will not talk about it for now. After all, Dain still thinks that the Seven Archons are the culprits who destroyed Cainrea and has always maintained a disdainful attitude towards the Seven Archons.

The other one is the Fatui, who immediately tried to steal the Gnosis from others and, relying on their superior weaponry, were extremely aggressive. They were incredibly arrogant in Mondstadt.

However, based on the current plot development, it can be basically determined that the Snezhnaya Tsaritsa wants to fight against the Heavenly Principles by collecting the Gnosis, which is an open rebellion against the Heavenly Principles.

However, the Snezhnaya Tsaritsa is the Snezhnaya Tsaritsa, Fatui are the Fatui. Just as Li Yue has always emphasized, gods and men are two different things.

The Snezhnaya Tsaritsa may be compassionate and want to defy the Heavenly Principles for the sake of humanity, but her Fatui utterly inhuman.

The Harbinger of the Fatui are all inhuman, harming their own people and people from other countries; they are capable of anything.

If you have to sacrifice some people for the future of Teyvat, people might understand afterward. But the problem is that most of the sacrifices caused by the Fatui are completely unnecessary. They are entirely self-planned by the Fatui's Harbinger to achieve their own goals, and they even call it "for the Tsaritsa!"

If this happened on the set of another movie, that guy would definitely say to Tsaritsa Snezhnaya, "Look what you've been protecting!"

Take the Inazuma incident as an example. The Fatui caused such a big mess in Inazuma, tricking Raiden Shogun into closing the country off, tricking Raiden Shogun into issuing the Vision Hunt Decree, then providing the Delusion, and even instigating a rebellion on Watatsumi Island, indirectly or directly causing countless deaths and injuries among the people of Inazuma.

Based on all this, Raiden Ei could have directly led the Tenryou Commission to wage war against Snezhnaya! It's just that Raiden Ei is stupid; after killing a La Signora, he acted as if nothing had happened.

If you want to collect the Gnosis, you can collect it from the gods. In particular, the first few gods secretly support you. The two old gods of Mondstadt and Liyue secretly support the Ice God, and the Thunder God abandoned the Gnosis to the fox a long time ago. If you want to get it, you can just negotiate and exchange it with other things.

However, the method used by the Fatui is to forcibly affect ordinary people, causing them to suffer, and that is where you are wrong.

This shows that the Snezhnaya Tsaritsa isn't very bright. Apart from her decent taste in the cloak worn by the Fatui during their winter night prank, she's really not very smart. But considering that this is Teyvat continent, it seems to make perfect sense.

So far, in Li Yue's eyes, the only reliable members of the Seven Archons are Venti and Old Deng. In fact, after Old Deng's retirement and rule by man, Venti has become the most reliable one. A guy who is unreliable all day long and only knows how to drink is the most reliable one, which is really hard to deal with.

Therefore, Li Yue decided to take in the Scaramouche, this vicious dog, and let him disgust the Fatui!

The Heart of the Anemo Archon Gnosis and the Gnosis of the Geo God were given away by the two old men themselves, so Li Yue wouldn't interfere. Now, Li Yue plans to keep the Gnosis and the Gnosis of the Dendro Archon for himself.

If the Fatui want to take it, they can, but they'll have to pay a heavy price!

However, the Scaramouche won't be released so quickly, because Li Yue needs to make sure he can control them first. After all, the Scaramouche's behavior means Li Yue is unlikely to trust them enough. Therefore, before the Scaramouche are released, Li Yue needs to make sure he can completely control them.

As for how to control him, that's something Raiden Ei needs to solve. After all, what Li Yue learned from Morax was sealing techniques, the same techniques used to seal Azhdaha and the seafood. As for remote control, Li Yue doesn't know them yet.

However, Raiden Ei has temporarily returned to Inazuma and will need some time to come to Liyue. During this time, the Scaramouche will need to continue staying in the prison.

After leaving the Scaramouche in their cells, Nahida and Li Yue left for another laboratory.

Below the cell where the Scaramouche are imprisoned, there is another huge space. This space is where players fight the complete form of the True God in the Scaramouche weekly battle. The Scaramouche are imprisoned in the upper part, which is the first stage of the weekly battle, where the True God only has an upper body. The second stage is when the upper and lower bodies of the True God combine, and then it's a full-scale battle.

The True God, whose head was severed by Li Yue in the guise of Aizen, has been retrieved from the river by the Sumeru people and is being kept here.

The enormous the True God was fixed in a standing position with giant metal fasteners. Its towering body made it impossible for Li Yue and Nahida to see its head, no matter how tall or short they were. Oh, its head had been cleaved off by Li Yue with a single stroke, so neither of them could see it.

"What a pity, I cut off the driver's cab."

Looking at the empty head of the True God, Li Yue couldn't help but shake his head. This was a Gundam! Although it was a bit ugly, it was still a large robot, wasn't it? Every boy had dreamed of piloting a Gundam, or rather, a large robot. Unfortunately, when he slashed it, he used too much force and directly chopped off the head that served as the cockpit.

Li Yue can guarantee that she had restrained her strength as much as possible at that time.

Unlike Li Yue's helplessness, Nahida, standing next to her, pondered for a moment.