It Wants to Come Home with Me! Lynette: It Doesn't!

Looking at the poorly cooked, slightly charred grilled fish before him, Wu Wanghai admitted that this was his first time grilling over an open flame, and he lacked experience.

"Um..." Wu Wanghai hesitated before speaking.

Seeing the grilled fish on the stick in Wu Wanghai's hand, Furina hurriedly waved her hands and shook her head, her face full of resistance. "No! I'm not eating that!"

"Haha." Wu Wanghai gave a dry laugh and took a bite himself.

Honestly, aside from the lack of flavor—meaning, the lack of seasoning—the fish was quite tender.

Overall, it was still edible.

Next time he went out, he definitely needed to buy a pile of ingredients and seasonings, and bring a pot along too.

After filling his stomach, Wu Wanghai dusted himself off, stood up, and started thinking about going back into the water.

"Don't tell me you still want to kill fish." Furina put her hands on her hips again. "I don't know what you mean by leveling up, but I won't allow you to destroy the marine environment so recklessly!"

If Wu Wanghai kept killing them like this, all the fish would probably go extinct before long.

"I won't kill that many. The higher my level gets, the less these fish give me. Some fish have even started giving only a tiny bit of experience." Wu Wanghai scratched his head. He was troubled by it too.

These fish and monsters were only useful for grinding during the early stages, when they could still provide improvements. Later on, he would definitely need more and more experience while monsters gave less and less.

"There are so many monsters on land. What's the point of only killing fish?" Furina folded her arms. "And we can't stay in the water forever. What will you do if we encounter enemies on land?"

"As everyone knows, Teyvat's monsters dissolve easily in water."

"???" Furina was baffled. Where had this guy gotten such a bizarre conclusion?

Wu Wanghai suddenly remembered that he still had an ultimate he had not used. "Come to think of it, after fighting alongside Charlotte for so long, my ultimate still wasn't full! Does Charlotte generate so few particles? Do my summons generate so few too?"

Furina did not understand. "What do you mean? Ultimate?"

Maybe he used gaming terminology too often, and people in Teyvat could not understand it. Wu Wanghai could only patiently explain, "Like when Charlotte uses Explosive News, and then three Wriothesleys appear and go bam bam bam, and it can heal too. That's her ultimate."

Furina nodded in understanding. "So that's what you mean. But isn't that just her using the power of her Vision? And I've seen her use what you call an ultimate at least a dozen times."

"Right? Right? She's used it so many times already!" Wu Wanghai nodded along.

"So where's yours?" Furina asked again without thinking.

"This is it. My energy is only halfway full right now! Damn it!" Wu Wanghai looked at the ultimate icon that appeared in the lower-right corner of his vision at his command.

It was worth mentioning that there was also an icon for his summons' skill beside it. It was rather user-friendly. This game-like field of vision let him see his current condition more clearly.

"That's it! I know! Besides my level, there's another reason my damage is so low." Inspiration suddenly struck Wu Wanghai, and he found the key.

Equipment: Empty.

Yes, exactly!

"Equipment means artifacts, right? Then I think I should go get some artifacts. This character is really suited for a skill set and the Emblem of Severed Fate! And I need Energy Recharge Sands for both. I'm desperately short on them!"

"..." Furina had no idea what to say. It was another pile of things she could not understand.

"Come on, come on! I know where we need to go now!" Wu Wanghai paced excitedly around Furina.

"Where are we going?" Furina asked doubtfully, watching Wu Wanghai keep circling around her.

"Uh..." Wu Wanghai paused. He had forgotten what the place was called too. "To that... that harbor?"

"There are plenty of harbors in Fontaine." Furina shook her head.

"The one connected to Sumeru, with that huge waterfall."

"Oh, you mean Lumidouce Harbor!" Furina immediately knew the place Wu Wanghai meant. "But it's quite far from here. We'd better take the Aquabus, the Clementine Line."

Wu Wanghai said nothing and simply looked at Furina.

After a moment, Furina understood. After struggling internally for a while, she slowly nodded. "Fine, fine. I'll take you there. But we should try our best to avoid what happened this morning."

"Maybe I could secretly buy you a black coat? Let you disguise yourself? Then sneak onto the boat?" Wu Wanghai looked Furina up and down.

"I'm Fontaine's biggest star. I'm a god. Why should I do something so sneaky?" Furina asked with a clear conscience. She faced things openly and led Wu Wanghai toward the Court of Fontaine.

After walking for quite some time, they neared the Court of Fontaine. Furina suddenly stopped and grabbed Wu Wanghai's sleeve with her right hand.

"Th-then... disguising myself once in a while is acceptable too." Furina did not know why, but she suddenly began to panic again.

Along the way, she had once more noticed countless passersby staring at her.

It was a one-hundred-percent head-turning rate. And those looks were truly unbearable... It was all his fault!

"All right." Wu Wanghai nodded.

Then... since Wu Wanghai was unfamiliar with the roads, Furina ultimately led him to the entrance of some opera troupe's base.

Furina told Wu Wanghai to wait at the entrance, then pushed open the door and went inside.

Inside the base, a young girl could be seen singing.

"Ah, Lady Furina!" The girl who had been practicing music suddenly stopped because she had actually seen Furina walk in.

I'm not dreaming, am I?!

"Ahem. I came to see how you were doing. How is that musical you mentioned last time coming along?" Furina lightly cleared her throat, displaying the majesty of the Hydro Archon.

Yet at Furina's question, the girl frowned. "I'm sorry, Lady Furina. There are still many areas that need improving. The plot is only a rough outline, and we're lacking a great deal of inspiration for what comes next. And..."

"Is that so? I understand!" Furina nodded perfunctorily. "I'm looking forward to your performance later. Keep it up!"

Furina turned her gaze toward the costume cabinet. "Oh, right. I need to borrow that, um... witch's cloak of yours. Don't worry, I'll pay the appropriate Mora."

"No, no, if Lady Furina wants to use it, please take it. It's only a costume." The girl waved her hands.

"How could that do!" Furina forcibly gave the girl a large amount of Mora, then said, "Use it well. The birth of a good musical cannot be separated from financial support. I hope you'll let me see an outstanding musical afterward."

Seeing the pile of Mora on the table, the girl was even more moved. Her faith in Furina became even firmer.

"I will, Lady Furina..."

When Furina came back out, she was already draped in a black cloak and wearing its large hood. Her entire body and face were hidden within it. Walking by the roadside like this, there should not be any problem now.

"Meow!!! Meow!!!!!"

Miserable meowing kept ringing in Furina's ears.

Furina turned to look, only to see Wu Wanghai crouching on the ground, one hand grabbing a white cat by its front leg and pulling it toward himself.

"Oh, Fufu, you're out. Look, this kitty really looks like you. White fur, different-colored eyes, hahaha." Noticing Furina emerge beside him, Wu Wanghai turned and called out to her.

Furina broke out in a sweat as she looked at the white cat, which was desperately trying to back away but could not. "Why did you suddenly grab the cat? Can't you see how strongly it's resisting?"

"No way! It likes me a lot." Wu Wanghai looked at the cat, which had its mouth open and was shaking its head from side to side, then grinned. "Found a cat~~~ Everyone! Isn't it way too adorable? It wants to come home with me!!"

Wu Wanghai used to watch cute pet videos every day. He loved watching every kind of adorable animal.

Unfortunately, he had never had the energy to raise one before. He could only watch through the screen and keep pets virtually.

Now that he had come to Teyvat, how could he not catch one to raise?

"Meow! Ah!!" Unable to bite the hand holding it, the white cat began crying miserably again.

Before Furina could say anything, a humanoid cat approached and said, "Let go of that cat! It says it doesn't want to go home with you."

Wu Wanghai turned to look. It was a girl with cat ears and a cat tail, with an enormous green bow tied behind her.

Without a doubt, that girl was Lynette.