N-A-A Chapter 772 Xumi City (6)
Chapter 772 Xumi City (6)
Ranger Tinari led Ying and his group on the road to Xumi City, taking the official road.
Then Ying and his group were attacked by a series of enemies on the official road, including mushroom beasts, treasure-stealing groups, and the gilded brigade.
After repelling another group of mushroom beasts, Paimon finally exploded:
"Tinari! Are we really taking the official road?"
With Ming Yuan's relationship and the fact that they have been traveling together for some time, the relationship between everyone and Tinari has become much closer.
Paimon was angry at this time, so he spoke very rudely.
Tinari put away the Hunter's Path and said helplessly, "I'm sorry, but this is the official road from Omos Port to Xumi City."
"Then why are there so many monsters along the way!" Paimeng Xukong stomped his feet and said, "What on earth is Xumi like?"
Tinari took a deep breath and said:
"I'm sorry for giving you a bad experience."
"But don't worry, Xumi City is just a little way ahead."
Ying silently collected the spores that fell from the mushroom beasts. She had seen this stuff in Mingyuan's clinic. It seemed to be a medicinal herb in Xumi, and it could be sold at a good price.
Only after collecting all the fallen spores did Ying stand up and say to Tinari, "Although I don't mind collecting materials, this is a bit too frequent."
"Tinari, I'm not questioning your Xumi's measures to prevent monsters, but this... there has to be a reasonable explanation, right?"
[I think this paragraph is a bit too harsh...]
【Don’t be mean to my little one! 】
[This actually makes sense. For your information, even in Inazuma, a country that has been connected for hundreds of years, its official roads have always been unobstructed. Monsters? That doesn't even exist.]
[It's not obvious in the game, but this plot seems to be deliberately explaining that Xumi's public security is poor.]
In the past, when she was doing commissions in Mondstadt, Liyue, and Inazuma, she would sometimes be attacked on the official roads.
But the frequency is not as frequent as Xumi.
It was almost as if Xumi's law enforcement agencies hadn't done any preventative work to expel the monsters.
Tinari sighed and said, "To be honest, I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but we in Xumi don't actually have a formal law enforcement agency."
"We usually leave things like exorcising monsters to mercenaries or the Adventurer's Association."
"Rather, mercenaries are our law enforcement agencies."
Treating mercenaries or adventurers from the Adventurer's Association as law enforcement agencies means that if no one accepts the task of clearing a certain section of the official road, the monsters in that section of the road will occupy it.
Paimon opened his mouth in surprise and said, "Huh? There's not even a formal law enforcement agency. It's really reasonable that the public security is like this now."
Ying thought of the dedicated law enforcement officers in Mondstadt, Liyue, and Inazuma, and nodded with deep understanding.
Tinari gave a helpless smile: "Xumeru values knowledge and wisdom, and focuses its energy on urban governance."
"However, under normal circumstances, the safety of the official roads can still be guaranteed. Recently, there have been unusual incidents. I suspect this may be due to the recent changes in the weight of the Council of Religious Affairs."
“Weight percentage?”
Tinari nodded, and then explained the current situation of his Order House to Ying and his group:
"Ever since the Great Kindness Tree King mysteriously disappeared 500 years ago and the Little Auspicious Grass King assumed the position of Grass God, the Order of the Lords has been split into two major factions."
"Led by the Great Sage, there are the royalists who want to welcome back the Great Compassion Tree King. Led by the Caesar Sage, there are the reformists who want to help the Little Auspicious Grass King take control of the Council of Ecclesiastes."
"The open and covert struggles between the two factions have never ceased since 500 years ago, and this struggle has indirectly affected changes at the grassroots level in Xumi. Take this official road, for example."
"If the Great Sages dominate the Order Institute, the cost of hiring people to eliminate monsters will be reduced."
"It's euphemistically called a tilt in research funding."
"If the Caesar Sage faction were to dominate the Order of the Lords, then Caesar Sage would order the mercenaries in Xumi City to complete one monster extermination commission on time every month."
"There will be corresponding subsidies for completing the commission."
【Ah, I don’t understand this, but I’m deeply shocked. 】
[It's against the will of heaven that the civilians have to pay for the factional fighting. ]
[When the Liyue clan split up, they never treated their own civilians unfairly, to be honest.]
"I see. That's why there are so many monsters on this official road." Ying suddenly realized, "So the Great Sage faction is in control now?"
Tinari shook his head. "I'm not sure. The situation in the House of Lords has been very complicated recently, and the conflict between the two factions has become increasingly intense."
"It was because I wanted to stay away from these political games that I chose to serve as a forest ranger in Huacheng. Therefore, I don't know which faction is currently leading the Ordinance Court."
"Let's get going."
After saying that, Tinari continued to walk forward.
Ying and his group looked at each other, then followed Tinari.
After a while, Tinari suddenly stopped, his expression becoming serious, and said, "There is a dead zone ahead."
He said in a serious tone: "Be careful!"
Then Tinari explained the news about the Dead Zone to everyone.
Little did they know that Ying and his companions had already learned the basic information about the words from Ming Yuan.
The dead zone is a dangerous natural phenomenon in Xumi. It will cause monsters to go berserk, constantly eroding the surrounding environment and causing plants to wither and die.
Paimeng flew to Ying nervously and asked, "Why does this dead zone appear near the official road?"
"Could it be that the factional fighting among the coaches led to omissions in the observation of the dead zone?" Ying speculated reasonably.
Tinari shook his head and said:
"Impossible. Regardless of which faction is in charge, the House of Lords will strictly monitor the Dead Zone."
"Whether it's the Great Sage or the Caesar Sage, they both understand that factional struggles are factional struggles, but the ecology of Xumi is a top priority that cannot be ignored."
"So no matter which faction, when facing the Dead Zone, they all have the same attitude: destroy it immediately."
"I think the dead zone we are encountering now probably appeared not long ago and has not yet been observed by the Order."
[Okay, these people are still sane.]
[I can't believe these people actually have a sense of severity.]
[It can be seen that the problem of the Dead Zone is so serious that it can bring two irreconcilable parties to an agreement...]
At this point, Tinari couldn't help but sigh and said:
"Recently, the phenomenon of the dead zone in Xumi has become more and more frequent... I don't know what's going on."
"Wait a moment, I'm going to clean up the dead zone."
As he spoke, Tinari took out the Hunter's Path. As a ranger, clearing the dead zone was his unshirkable responsibility.
However, some people are faster than that.
A flash of fire passed by, and Iya, who had been tired of fighting and had remained silent, rushed towards the dead zone.
The glint in the little guy's eyes was a sharpness that Ying and Paimon had never seen before.