Furina: I Was Scared Out of My Wits!

After finishing the cappuccino in his hand, Wu Wanghai suddenly remembered something.

Chiori had only taken the figurine inside. He still had the box and the matching ring.

Hmph. Next time they met, he would tell her that unless she gave him a hundred... no, a thousand Primogems, he would not give it to her.

With a yawn, Wu Wanghai left the café.

As he walked, Wu Wanghai realized he had actually been thinking about something all morning. Now that he had Heavy Bunny, traversing the map was no problem at all.

And he could unlock teleport waypoints. As long as he reached a place and unlocked one, he could return to Fontaine anytime.

Should he go take a look at Mondstadt? Wu Wanghai muttered.

Honestly, aside from little Klee being there, Mondstadt did not have much that attracted him.

In his heart, he still preferred staying in Liyue. After all, Liyue had the most wives he liked.

Still, going to Mondstadt now had one advantage.

He could find out whether Lumine or Aether had begun the journey to find their sibling.

I'd better be Lumine. Aether can just stay a good little Abyss Prince.

If he kept loafing around Fontaine and waited for the protagonist to reach Fontaine, that would be way too boring! It would take at least several years!

Other than the main storyline, he had barely done any side quests in Fontaine. Honestly, he was not familiar with the place.

He had heard before that Mondstadt was still suffering from the dragon disaster. That meant the Traveler had not yet become an Honorary Knight.

Fontaine was quite far from Mondstadt. If he set off in the next few days and rushed all the way there, he should be able to catch up with Mondstadt's main storyline.

A sudden flash of inspiration struck Wu Wanghai, and he immediately understood his next objective. "Let me think about what tragedies there are."

The Fontaine plot he knew was pretty much at its end. If he wanted to continue, he either had to wait for the Traveler to unlock the map and come over, or find a whole lot of powerful helpers for Fontaine.

He had teleportation. When the time came, he could drag dozens of people to Fontaine and have them all join in. He refused to believe they could not get this done!

Wu Wanghai slowly rewound the game's plot in his mind, going back and back. He recalled what had happened in the four nations of Sumeru, Inazuma, Liyue, and Mondstadt.

Take the recent events in Sumeru. Should he just wipe out the Akademiya ahead of time and save the little Dendro Archon... Ah, no.

Wu Wanghai thought of Irminsul again, and of Greater Lord Rukkhadevata.

World... forget me.

He should wait a little longer. He could not touch that yet. At the very least, he had to bring the Traveler along. Otherwise, the Traveler would not even know about Greater Lord Rukkhadevata.

In the end, Wu Wanghai decided to put traveling to other nations aside for now. Fontaine's Vacher was only a small tragedy, an appetizer that could be resolved easily without much power. But some of the greater tragedies...

"Agh!" Wu Wanghai felt that a single person's strength had limits!

There were countless tragedies. How was he supposed to resolve the ones that were set in stone?

He was not even as capable as Lyney yet. He needed to save up more Primogems and build his strength as quickly as possible.

Once you started meddling with certain plots, tragedy would follow close behind and come crashing down without warning.

While the early plot was still relatively easy, he should leave those matters alone. Raising his level and pulling more cards came first.

Maybe if he accumulated enough, he could draw some crucial item later that would let him take back those tragedies.

He wanted Greater Lord Rukkhadevata to remain, accompanying Nahida rather than being forgotten. He could also find a way to keep Hanachirusato around to accompany Ei. And so on, and so on.

The only problem was that his current point in time was not ideal. There was truly nothing he could do about the tragedies from the Archon War, which had already happened.

Perhaps once he became stronger, he could recreate those who had passed away? Summon them directly?

At the end of the day...

Primogems! Primogems! He was desperately short on them!

Wu Wanghai walked to the street's edge and looked at the scenery below, then remembered something else.

Had he forgotten that wind gliders existed? After coming here, he had nearly started treating this place as a real world.

He could have simply jumped down from here and flown, arriving in no time at all! Yet he had gone out of his way to take the road down.

Good heavens. It looked like he really had to go to Mondstadt after all. He needed to deal with Amber and get a gliding license.

He would go to Mondstadt, but not now!

Even if the Traveler had already left Mondstadt by the time he went there and had just arrived in Liyue, where they were wanted, there would still be enough time.

Now, though.

Wu Wanghai already had a preliminary idea for obtaining Primogems.

He would use this method to quickly squeeze Fontaine's people dry of their Primogem reserves.

Once he had squeezed them nearly dry, he would go to Mondstadt to claim a wind glider and play with Klee.

Wu Wanghai arrived in the lower district, where there was a massive mechanism.

Just as Wu Wanghai was observing how the mechanism operated, a figure approached from afar.

"Oh? How did you find me?" Wu Wanghai asked in surprise. The person who had come was none other than Furina.

"Your phone told me. I followed the navigation on it and found you right away." Furina held the phone in her hand as she spoke.

"So that's how it is. Phones have that function too? Pretty nice." Wu Wanghai nodded.

He really had not used his phone much today. He had only taken it out briefly at the café when he brought out the figurine.

For the rest of the time, Furina could summon the phone into her hand whenever she wanted.

Then Furina bit her lip and said to Wu Wanghai, "Um... I'm never riding your Heavy Bunny again. I already put it back for you."

"Hm? What's wrong? Why did you suddenly decide you don't want to ride it?" Wu Wanghai could not understand Furina's sudden decision.

It would have been better if Wu Wanghai had not asked. After he did, Furina looked even more aggrieved.

"I didn't do it on purpose..." Furina lowered her head and poked her two index fingers together.

"Hm?" Wu Wanghai was puzzled. Had something gone wrong with the vehicle? He checked his inventory. Heavy Bunny was sitting quietly in its slot, with no strange status displayed on it.

Furina turned to look around and noticed there were still people nearby. "Um..."

Furina tugged Wu Wanghai toward a corner. Even after reaching it, she did not stop. She turned and kept walking.

"Where are you taking me? To eat little cakes?" Wu Wanghai followed behind Furina.

After walking for quite a while, Furina led Wu Wanghai into an empty alley. "No... listen to me."

Only then did Furina slowly explain, "Uh, this morning, didn't I take your Heavy Bunny to the opera house?"

Wu Wanghai's earlier guess had been right. "Oh, so you really drove it to watch an opera."

Furina waved a hand to cut him off. "Hey, that's not the point!... After the opera ended, I thought it was a rare chance, and Heavy Bunny looked really cool. So I wanted to drive it a little longer and took a detour."

"What's wrong with that?" Wu Wanghai chimed in from the side.

At that, Furina raised her head to look at Wu Wanghai and said pitifully, "That's exactly it, but who could have expected that person to suddenly appear in front of me?"

"From the sound of it...?" Wu Wanghai seemed to have guessed roughly what happened.

Furina nodded. "Yes. I was scared out of my wits at the time, and I pressed harder with my hand because I wanted to stop. But I never expected Heavy Bunny to go even faster. Then... then I crashed into them..." Only after finishing did Furina let out a breath.

"Good grief!" Wu Wanghai exclaimed like a comic straight man.