I was the system, and I was panicking.
Now this bastard of a host wanted to squeeze out the last of my value. What should I do?
Waiting online. Pretty urgent.
Why did this guy want to get rid of me now, after I fulfilled his fantasy of transmigrating?!
Didn't I have any dignity?
The system watched Jiang Xiaofeng wipe out an entire Hilichurl camp and absorb all the cells.
Another hundred cells. If it weren't for that little blue guy...
Sigh, the only good news was that this guy couldn't kill me. Hahahaha!
Please treat everything above as bullshit.
Jiang Xiaofeng was merely imagining how the system would react if it knew he wanted to get rid of it.
But the more he thought about it, the more plausible it seemed.
Jiang Xiaofeng shook his head and stopped dwelling on it.
Host obtained: Legendary Scroll of Power ×5, War Javelin, Bow of the Big Dipper, Wrecking Ball, Snake Fangs, skill: Nightblood, skill: Leg Hugger.
Jiang Xiaofeng nodded.
Even if the system really was conscious, it certainly didn't skimp on the rewards.
Jiang Xiaofeng found a comfortable spot nearby, sat down, took out the scrolls, and raised them overhead to begin absorbing them.
The next moment, Jiang Xiaofeng lay sprawled on the ground, twitching...
After quite a while, Jiang Xiaofeng slowly climbed to his feet.
"Tsk, Tactics scrolls don't get much everyday use."
Jiang Xiaofeng took out Acceptance and swung it around.
He wielded it with ease and composure, nothing like before, when all he knew was how to overpower everything with brute force.
Though that move really did work well...
After a moment's thought, Jiang Xiaofeng took out another Acceptance.
"Hiss..."
Jiang Xiaofeng swung the two Acceptances around, but it always felt a little stiff.
"Tsk, looks like even the power in the scrolls didn't teach me how to dual-wield Acceptance..."
"Forget it. It's still pretty good."
Jiang Xiaofeng put Acceptance away and tried out all his rewards.
Snake Fangs... he couldn't see its effect yet.
The arrows fired from the Bow of the Big Dipper could kill a Treasure Hoarder in one shot, and its innate effect marked the other Treasure Hoarders nearby, weakening them.
Jiang Xiaofeng couldn't bear to watch them still trying to pick up their weapons and stay on guard in their feeble state, so he simply took their lives with one arrow each...
Jiang Xiaofeng tested them one by one...
Finally, Jiang Xiaofeng put on the Hayabusa Gauntlets and Hattori's Katana.
"Ha, look at this set of weapons. Feels pretty good."
Jiang Xiaofeng spoke excitedly.
Then Jiang Xiaofeng jumped straight down and found a few Treasure Hoarders to test how they handled.
"You made the wrong..."
"Crack!"
Jiang Xiaofeng sent one Treasure Hoarder flying with a kick, punched back the fat man holding an "oar," and went straight into a backflip, forcing the surrounding Treasure Hoarders back.
Then Jiang Xiaofeng delivered a spinning kick, sending the hammer-wielding Treasure Hoarder who could still get up flying.
"Damn it..."
Several Treasure Hoarders saw things going badly, threw down smoke bombs, and fled. Only one fellow who refused to give up charged at Jiang Xiaofeng, only to be kicked to death by him.
"Not bad. The close-range attacks feel great."
Jiang Xiaofeng murmured.
This outing could certainly be called a fruitful one.
Jiang Xiaofeng felt satisfied, too, so he went to a Waypoint and returned to Liyue Harbor.
Come to think of it, did the Primo Geovishap really not have any special power for me to absorb...?
Jiang Xiaofeng thought as he returned.
Soon, Jiang Xiaofeng returned to the Northland Bank.
Unless something unexpected had happened, Childe should still have been staying at the Northland Bank.
But reality often changed.
"He went to pick up the recruits?"
Jiang Xiaofeng asked the manager at the front desk.
"Yes, that's right. Lord Childe went to get the recruits in order. He isn't here at the moment."
Jiang Xiaofeng nodded and asked, "Then how long is it until Liyue Harbor's Rite of Descension?"
After getting the precise answer of two months, Jiang Xiaofeng left.
Two months. Jiang Xiaofeng felt he could keep showing off for quite a while...
Just after Jiang Xiaofeng left, a figure emerged from the back.
"Who was that just now?"
The manager hurriedly answered, "Someone Childe has confirmed poses no danger. Rest assured, Lady La Signora."
Yes, La Signora had returned.
Jiang Xiaofeng didn't know exactly what La Signora had been doing during this time. He merely assumed she had important business or had returned to Snezhnaya with Venti's Gnosis.
If Jiang Xiaofeng knew La Signora was here, he would definitely ask her for the Gnosis.
The problem was that Jiang Xiaofeng had completely forgotten he had a map he could check...
Jiang Xiaofeng left the Northland Bank.
Then he went to Tian Tie Zui's.
"Still taking it easy as ever, Mr. Zhongli."
Jiang Xiaofeng greeted him casually.
Zhongli looked at Jiang Xiaofeng waving to him and nodded.
The people around them, including Tian Tie Zui, had long since stopped finding it strange.
After all, if the knowledgeable and well-traveled Mr. Zhongli wasn't making a fuss, what was there to worry about...?
"How have you been lately, young friend?"
Jiang Xiaofeng sat down beside him and spread his hands.
"Nothing much. Just took a trip to The Chasm and brought back some fun things."
"Want to take a look, Mr. Zhongli?"
At this, Jiang Xiaofeng grew excited.
"That won't be necessary."
Zhongli took a sip of tea and calmly declined.
"All right."
Jiang Xiaofeng's enthusiasm cooled.
After a long while, Jiang Xiaofeng said, "Mr. Zhongli, has the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor... not had any business lately?"
Zhongli's tea-drinking hand paused.
"Why do you ask?"
Jiang Xiaofeng smiled. "There must have been quite a few accidents among those miners in The Chasm. Even though the mines have been closed, there are still people who aren't afraid of dying going down there..."
"I saw quite a few down in The Chasm myself, but there wasn't much I could do."
"I feel like having Director Hu go send them off would make for a big order."
Jiang Xiaofeng said this with a smile, showing not the slightest awareness of respecting life.
That was hardly surprising. After all, Jiang Xiaofeng couldn't be killed; the only one who could make The Beheaded die was himself.
So Jiang Xiaofeng had gradually stopped feeling anything about the loss of human lives.
No, rather, he had felt a little guilty at first, but afterward, he had no reaction at all.
Zhongli nodded slightly. "I will pass that on to Director Hu."
"Then, young friend, is there anything else?"
Jiang Xiaofeng nodded. It was time to get down to business.
"Then, Mr. Zhongli, did you know something happened to Mondstadt's Anemo Archon?"
Zhongli nodded. "Didn't you and that Fatui Harbinger snatch away his Gnosis right in front of that Traveler?"
"That fellow even wanted me to put you in your place, saying you had ties to the Abyss..."
Jiang Xiaofeng nodded.
"I do have a connection to the Abyss."
Zhongli's hand paused.
He clearly hadn't expected Jiang Xiaofeng to admit it outright.
"I want to find the Abyss to deal with these two things on me."
"After all, the Abyss isn't exactly good, but calling it bad doesn't quite fit either."
"As for helping a Fatui Harbinger steal the Gnosis... that was purely because Venti kicked me while I was down."
"Besides..."
Jiang Xiaofeng took out the Cursed Sword.
"Can you tell what this weapon really is, Mr. Zhongli?"
Zhongli shook his head.
Jiang Xiaofeng let go of the Cursed Sword and put it back in his backpack.
"This is also what gives me confidence."