Nightless Sky Huo Le
After bidding farewell to the strange naked man, Young Master Huoshu, at the Nightless Sky- Young Master Nightless Sky Fire Tree Bathhouse, Lin Yu, led by a maid, headed to the tea room.
"Lord Sherlock, this is the tea room."
The maid stopped at the doorway.
The closed door seemed no different from anywhere else, yet Lin Yu couldn't help but become a little more serious.
"Finally, I'm going to see Nightless Sky Huo Le..."
The real challenge has only just begun.
Even though President Paris is a shrewd and cunning old fox, and even though the Nightless Sky Huo Shu is not an easy person to get along with...
But these two guys are completely unfamiliar with Fu Luo —for this reason alone, Lin Yu doesn't need to worry too much.
Nightless Sky Huo Le is different.
All the information gathered so far, obtained indirectly, indicates that Nightless Sky Huo Le and Fu Luo have a relatively close relationship.
It seems that these two even have some very special way of getting along.
There's a high chance that Nightless Sky Huo Le saw through his disguise.
But even with the risks...
"Since we're already here, we can only take it one step at a time."
Lin Yu took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and then opened the door to the tea room.
He entered the tea room and gently closed the door behind him.
The aromas of flowers and tea mingled and filled the nostrils, bringing a sense of clarity and well-being.
Inside the elegant tea room, a young woman dressed in a plain white traditional dress embroidered with gold patterns sat gracefully at a tea table made of gold-threaded wood, skillfully brewing tea.
Her wide sleeves billowed like rolling waves, yet she skillfully avoided the teaware and splashing tea.
Hearing Lin Yu open and close the door, the girl slightly raised her head, her long, black, cascading hair in a hee-cut style trembling gently.
Her fiery red eyes reflected Lin Yu's figure, and a faint smile appeared on her face.
"Sherlock, you've finally come again."
Lin Yu didn't know how to respond to her, so he took off his Baseball Cap and bowed.
"Your Excellency, Lord Nightless Sky Huo Le, Sherlock greets you."
If Sherlock and the other party were of a strict hierarchical relationship... then this could be interpreted as him solemnly bowing to express his respect.
However, if the other person is closer to Sherlock, this could also be interpreted as him playfully using the gesture of greeting to be funny.
What exactly it is depends on the reaction of the Nightless Sky Huo Le.
The girl looked at Lin Yu's respectful demeanor and chuckled softly, "What's wrong? Why are you suddenly bowing to me? That's so inappropriate."
Nightless Sky Huo Le put down the teapot in his hand, got up, walked around the table, and personally pulled out the chair opposite him.
"Come and sit down. A new batch of excellent white tea just arrived," Nightless Sky Huo Le patted the back of the chair. "I only brought it out because I heard you were coming. Drink it to nourish your body."
Listening to the words of the Nightless Sky Huo Le, Lin Yu roughly understood the situation.
The relationship between the two was indeed relatively relaxed, casual, and equal.
He twirled the hat in his hand and put it on his head, then sat down in the chair.
Nightless Sky Huo Le Lightly sat back down in his seat and poured Lin Yu a full cup of tea.
The aroma of tea wafted up, and Lin Yu picked up the white jade cup in front of him. The tea inside was scalding hot, but the cup itself felt only slightly warm to the touch.
He gently blew on it, took a sip of tea, and his eyes lit up.
This tea is indeed of very high quality, befitting its status as a prized possession among the Miss of the Five Great Noble Families.
Of course, Lin Yu knew absolutely nothing about tea—even between two flavors of bottled tea drinks, he couldn't tell the difference without comparing them side-by-side.
The reason he was so impressed and confident in the quality of the tea was because after taking a sip, he felt much more relaxed, as if he had received a buff!
Moreover, this boost is almost the most powerful one Lin Yu has ever seen—probably comparable to the effects of [Lucky Sweetness] and [Stingy Rich Man].
[This the Virtuous and Frugal Drinkers (10 minutes remaining): It greatly enhances mental focus; when concentrating on thinking, it accelerates the speed of thought, creating a difference between the perceived flow of time and the actual flow of time.]
Although the duration was very short, Lin Yu tried it out...
This thing works similarly to "bullet time"—except that it doesn't increase his body speed.
In other words, this device allows him more time to observe, Memory, and think in emergency situations.
It's somewhat similar to a speedrunning technique called "TAS" used in the field of single-player Game speedrunning, which utilizes auxiliary software such as "speed boosters"—it doesn't increase the speed of command input, but it can achieve "optimal operation" at frame rate levels that is simply impossible for humans by extending thinking time and improving the precision of operation.
Lin Yu knew very well how powerful this thing was.
Because of this characteristic, 10 minutes isn't considered very short.
Without making a sound, he took out the "Closed Mind" from the "Blissful Immortal Pot" and replaced it with the newly acquired "The Virtuous and Frugal Drinkers."
At the same time, Lin Yu sighed again.
Fu Luo is indeed quite skilled... If he hadn't been in such strange places like the Snow Mountain or the Despair Train both times, he should have been able to easily clear any Instance once he was in the territory of the Truth Company, within the City That Never Sleeps.
I'm really lucky to be able to use his identity.
Putting aside Nightless Sky Huo Le can help me complete my mission, this cup of tea alone is enough to make me rich.
Nightless Sky Huo Le also poured himself a full cup of tea, looked at the surprised and satisfied Lin Yu, and chuckled as he spoke.
"How was my cooking? Pretty good, right...?"
Upon hearing the words of the Nightless Sky Huo Le, Lin Yu nodded slightly.
"It's truly excellent tea, and you brewed it perfectly."
"The drink made me feel so good, it went straight to the top of my head, I felt like I was flying... I'm not kidding, I really felt a bit weightless."
Lin Yu praised Nightless Sky Huo Le in Fu Luo's slightly exaggerated style.
Nightless Sky Huo Le was naturally very pleased and became smug.
"Of course, although my skills in calligraphy and painting are only so-so, tea ceremony is what I'm best at."
She picked up her teacup, took a small sip, and murmured, "This time it's really well brewed... and the tea leaves are excellent too..."
Lin Yu also picked up his teacup again.
The tea had cooled down a bit, so he quickly gulped it down again, trying to extend the duration of the buff.
Before he could even swallow his tea, Nightless Sky Huo Le spoke again.
"Anyway, it's good that you're back... Well, don't bow to me next time, it just feels weird."
"After all, you are, in a sense, my 'father'."
As soon as Nightless Sky Huo Le finished speaking, Lin Yu felt a buzzing in his brain and almost spat out all his tea.
As a prospective stage Actor with the qualities of Profession Actor, Lin Yu had to put in a lot of effort to control his expression this time.
He looked at the beautiful, noble, and elegant girl before him, like a daffodil, and a question arose in his mind.
Fu Luo, what exactly did you do?