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This process probably takes less than ten minutes, right?
“I placed the fairy Ellie’s special translation module inside her body,” Jiang Ningna explained calmly.
—As an armed doll, Fairy Airi's body is composed of many modules and parts.
The 'vocal cord' module, in particular, has the function of parsing and recompiling.
Although the parts of the armed doll are obviously not very compatible with humans, this is not a problem at all with a little adjustment.
"If we had a Sumeru Void System, it would be much more convenient."
The blue-and-white-haired girl showed a hint of regret.
In reality, this approach is more of a temporary measure; the truly appropriate method is to let Ying truly master the language of Teyvat.
But to do that, it would involve instilling and injecting ideas about 'reason'.
Under the premise of avoiding the use of external forces as much as possible, the most suitable tool for doing this is the Sumeru Void System, which can artificially instill knowledge to a certain extent, saving a lot of unnecessary time.
Of course, it doesn't matter.
After resolving Ying's language issue, the next priority was to investigate her situation. Unable to contain herself, Funina immediately wanted to learn about the Fontaine prophecy through her, but Jiang Qiao stopped her.
Under Funina's puzzled gaze, the girl slowly spoke:
"The fates of people in this world are intertwined, thus forming a predetermined narrative."
"And the only ones who can change the predetermined trajectory are 'descendants' who do not belong to this world."
"....What's the meaning?"
Fu Ningna was a little confused.
She was certainly not stupid; her rich experience had accumulated considerable wisdom. However, due to the wear and tear of time, mental pressure, and even her fear of prophecy and complete ignorance, she was quite blank about this issue.
"It means—she's the one who can change your destiny, not the one who can answer your questions." The blue-and-white-haired girl took a sip of steaming black tea, feeling somewhat helpless towards silly Fufu.
"But more specifically, for some reasons I'm not going to explain it to you in too much detail."
Funina bit her lip, and although she was puzzled and somewhat unwilling, she still nodded.
Having already set a precedent of 'playing the water god,' even if she didn't know the details, she would choose to accept it as much as possible—after all, there might be some reason behind it.
Jiang Ningna smiled with satisfaction at this.
This time, his excessive concealment of information from Funina and others was not due to any so-called mystification or a perverse sense of humor, but rather because of the unique nature of this world.
The continent of Teyvat is based on Gnosticism, which advocates keeping the lower classes in a blissful and happy life through an absolute and beautiful material order.
People can achieve a prosperous life without working too hard.
Correspondingly, all their lives will be transformed into destiny stars and projected into the starry sky, running along a predetermined trajectory, which is what is known as 'destiny'.
The 'fate' that sustains the operation of this system is essentially a special 'matrix calculation device'.
This is what is known as the 'eggshell'.
During this process, all interactions between people will be captured by the eggshell, and even stars that have deviated from their predetermined paths can be corrected by the supercomputing power.
This is why Fucarus hides in the shadows as the sixth brother.
Once 'fate' discovers what she's doing, then 'fate' will definitely intervene with all its might, hindering and ruining this five-hundred-year wait.
And this is precisely why Funinna absolutely cannot be exposed—because in the eyes of 'fate,' she is now the true water goddess.
Even though it's rather clumsy and strange, in the mute judgment of 'fate', the equation Frinina = Fkalos holds true.
If exposed, 'Fate' will discover that Frinna is not the same as Fucarus (the water goddess). Given the necessity of the Seven Rulers of the Mortal Realm for the current order, she will definitely expose Fucarus hiding in the shadows and bring him back into 'Fate'.
"You've really had a lot of bad luck." After comforting Funina a little, Jiang Qiao learned about her experiences from Ying—including, of course, the matter of the Keeper of Heaven's Law and her blood relatives, which Ying was very concerned about.
When he heard about the rather tragic experience, even Jiang Qiao couldn't help but marvel—in fact, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.
This is definitely not my problem, but rather it is the nature of this [Frinna] body (I'm certain of it).
"...Didn't you run into that guy?"
In her moments of joy, the blue-and-white-haired girl would sometimes rest her chin on her hand as if deep in thought.
When the game becomes reality and the world expands exponentially, the original probability will naturally decrease exponentially—but in Jiang Qiao's judgment, that emergency food was definitely placed next to Ying on purpose.
After all, Luminous is one of the few variables who possesses the status of a Spirit Slayer. Her appearance is a huge variable for the constant system of Teyvat. Just like the so-called butterfly effect, every person and every thing that Luminous comes into contact with in this world will add immeasurable variables to 'fate'.
If the number is small, it's fine, but if the number becomes large, the entire 'fate' system will be at risk of collapsing.
Therefore, those responsible for maintaining this order will inevitably intervene, or at least need to guide it—judging from the actions of that young woman who found new employment at the film set next door, she clearly had her eye on the latter.
The unidentified flying object, which is clearly connected to Sky Island, plays this role; it is responsible for guiding Luminous towards the future that someone wants to see.
Of course—this doesn't mean the little creature was taking advantage of Ying; it's possible it genuinely knew nothing and was simply accompanying the traveler.
But aren't those who are ignorant and naive often the easiest to exploit?
—Let's observe first.
Jiang Qiao plans to observe the situation for a while before taking any further action.
Meanwhile, Funina, both amused and delighted, said:
"In that case, Ying definitely can't be the culprit behind the serial disappearances of girls."
Knowing Ying's importance, she valued the girl highly and racked her brains trying to figure out how to help her get out of trouble.
After all, if a verdict is reached, it will be troublesome to deal with it even in the name of the Water God. Although it is not impossible to force it, the justice that Fontaine upholds will become a joke.
Even the programmed surface couldn't be maintained.
However, the alibi provided by Ying was enough to exonerate her from the case.
"Are you sure?"
"But that alone cannot determine that she is innocent."
"After all, this is hardly an alibi, is it?"
Ying's experience does sound quite pitiful—but that doesn't change the fact that she was at the crime scene when it happened.
If you can prove where you are with just one sentence, then such evidence is really unreliable.
"Ha, which side are you on anyway!" Fu Ningna glared at 'Jiang Ningna' with some dissatisfaction.
"I stand on the side of justice."
The blue-and-white-haired girl shrugged and spread her hands as she spoke.
Without a doubt, it was very damaging to Miss Funina.
She gritted her teeth.
You bastard, you're making a mountain out of a molehill, aren't you?!
I wasn't this majestic when I was the water god!
The furious Miss Funina wished she could pin this scoundrel to the sofa—and then take her body back in a more forceful way.
But with the thought that "since we've already changed, why not take this opportunity to enjoy a period of comfortable life instead of rushing back to jail?" Funina suppressed her urge to teach the person in front of her a lesson.
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"Once the real killer of the serial disappearances of young girls is caught, everything should be resolved, right?"
“Indeed—that’s why you think this case is so difficult!” Funina nodded in agreement, then rolled her eyes: “This case has been stuck for over twenty years!”
If the serial disappearances of young girls were easy to solve, Fontaine wouldn't have had to struggle with the case for over twenty years.
Even with the combined efforts of the Shadow Chasing Court and the Law Enforcement Court, they still had no clue what to do.
There are millions of people in Fontainebleau; who knows where that despicable murderer might be hiding?
"...Wait, do you know who the culprit is?"
Fu Ningna, who was using the Jiang Qiao device, suddenly paused, looking at the blue-and-white-haired girl sipping her tea with some surprise and uncertainty. The latter chuckled softly:
"Guess what?"
"...You actually know that!"
"Well... you do know about me. So, is there anything you don't know?" The thought that this guy knew her secrets didn't surprise her, but she was also curious, even having the illusion that 'there really is something this guy doesn't know?'
"Of course I don't know everything. Even a god probably couldn't do that. I just happen to know some things that I should know."
"I will definitely add the ban on riddle tellers to the laws of Fontaine!"
"He was in the audience."
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"...You mean, the culprit in the serial disappearances of teenage girls is in the stands?!"
"Hehe, murderers are always worried about whether they will leave any traces, aren't they?" the girl said calmly.
While it might seem a bit strange for a murderer to go to court to see the trial he caused, those who know the atmosphere in Fontainebleau understand it all. Besides, if he hadn't personally gone to sell the stolen goods and eliminate clues, that guy would have been exposed long ago.
"Then why didn't you expose him when you were on stage!" Funina said, somewhat annoyed.
If we just caught them, wouldn't the problem be solved on the spot?