"I am a person who also has the ability to teleport through space. I have been to more than one world."
After a brief silence, in order not to be rude, Xie Yuan still revealed some information: "Xili and I met in the same world by accident."
"Oh," Lambert suddenly realized, "So you, like her, have the blood of the elders?"
"No," Xie Yuan shook his head and raised his hands into fists, "Xili's teleportation mechanism is the space affinity power implicit in the blood. I am different. It uses technology and the concept of four-dimensional space, which requires a lot of It would take a long discussion to explain it clearly, so I won’t go into details here.
All you need to know is that Ciri's ability to travel causes far less harm to the body than my ability to travel. "
"Okay," Lambert didn't bother too much. After all, the concept of four-dimensional space he just heard made him confused. He really couldn't understand it and didn't want to hear it - because it would never be used. .
So he chose to find another way: "So, tell me how you met with Shirley?"
"Yes," Xie Yuan did not refuse, but soon looked at the other two people, Yennefer and Geralt, with a look of embarrassment, "But I have already revealed to you, this..."
"It doesn't matter." Geralt didn't care about this. "After all, you just briefly talked about Ciri's situation. I want to hear more details."
"That was quite an experience," Xie Yuan joked.
"And what we are most in need of right now is time, isn't it?" Ye Naifa also looked back provocatively... This was not flirting, but a response to Xie Yuan's excuse.
Looking at Lambert and Eskel with interested expressions on their faces, and then at Margarita with encouraging eyes... Xie Yuan can only be a storyteller once.
"Okay." Xie Yuan drank the wine in the glass, wiped his mouth, and opened his mouth.
"In fact, Xili suddenly broke in when I was conducting a space teleportation experiment..."
In order to make it easier for them to understand, Xie Yuan made the following modifications to his story.
First, he described himself as a member of the Kingdom's secret service force who had joined the Blue Guards, and gradually climbed to the position of a mid-level cadre.
During a battle that was as intense as the Second Nilfgaardian War, he saw too much damage, so he retired and made prosthetics at home.
...Basically, a whole bunch of things have been nihilized.
Then he stayed true to the record: Because of the good workmanship of the prosthetic limbs, the good service, and his connections in the military, Xie Yuan got a lot of orders, and thus expanded his business, gradually turning a workshop into a small and medium-sized company.
At a time when the international situation was changing dramatically, Xie Yuan also cautiously seized the opportunity to fight left and right, and joined forces with a big businessman with a dream to build a city similar to Novigrad.
"So you are still a..." Lambert thought hard about the words in his mind, but in the end he could only spit out one word, "Congressman?"
"Lambert, why are you insulting me?" Xie Yuan looked at the M-shaped bald demon hunter in confusion.
"So...not a congressman?" Lambert was a little apologetic, but more puzzled.
"I am equivalent to the four giants of the Novigrad Syndicate," Xie Yuan explained helplessly, "In other words, I am the permanent earl who has not been crowned, the MPs and even the managers of Novigrad... these people are all related to me The same hounds raised by the rich and powerful.
Lambert, you just compared me to a dog. "
"Sorry." Lambert apologized immediately.
However, Xie Yuan waved his hand and didn't care: "You don't understand, so it doesn't matter."
"You compared councilors and managers to hunting dogs..." Geralt looked at Xie Yuan with some discomfort, "What about the residents of that city?"
"Humans, lives, the same kind as us! What's wrong?" Xie Yuan didn't understand Geralt's dissatisfaction.
"What Geralt means is that as a city founder, you seem to despise the officials and managers selected in your city in terms of personality." Yennefer acted as Geralt's mouthpiece, "Does he think you also It’s the same attitude toward city residents.”
"The two cannot be confused." Xie Yuan shook his head, "I will not use this attitude toward the general public, the staff directly under my command, or even the non-staff staff, because the former is our pocketbook and foundation, and the latter is my family and brothers. Be sincere to them, and you will rarely get negative feedback for it - in general, the rewards can be greater than the efforts."
"But to put it bluntly, the income and allowances of the entire city's managers and staff come from taxes and donations - and 75% of these come from me and the powerful people with the same amount of wealth as me... So a certain sense"
Xie Yuan showed a smile that didn't deserve a beating: "It's like a saying I heard: My dog Wangcai is also very tough. He bites people when he sees people, but he just doesn't bite me. Why?! Because? I’m the one raising them!”
But the expression of wanting to be beaten disappeared in a flash, and Xie Yuan quickly returned to a normal and calm face: "I'm going too far, that big businessman died in the end - died of the assassination of the sponsor he brought in, because He was too particular about perfection and ruined many people's businesses.
Before his death, he and I were friends and potential enemies on the surface, but the chaos in the city a year later reminded me that for the sake of a good business environment created by order, big businessmen must only be my allies. "
"That day I swept all the gangs overnight, took their heads, and took over the logistics of the entire police station in the city."
Xie Yuan casually spoke thrilling words: "I restored order. Of course, my power has also increased. I also have a new goal - to establish the fastest way to reach the destination."
"Sounds like teleportation." After listening to the process, Geralt's emotions changed from disgust to excitement, and finally to calmness - he temporarily accepted Xie Yuan's story and began to understand.
"It's teleportation." Xie Yuan nodded in agreement, "For example, teleporting hundreds of tons of goods from one place to another."
"Impossible!" Margarita asserted directly, "This requires countless energy."
"I owned a city at that time, and the energy there could even make the night light up forever, and everything in the city could be used by me - especially the energy." Xie Yuan silenced Margarita with just one sentence... That's how rich it is. Unremarkable.
"Of course, this kind of transmission actually has huge disadvantages." As soon as the words changed, Xie Yuan looked helpless, "First of all, it consumes a lot of energy, and secondly, the survival rate of living creatures is too low and requires very strong physical fitness - I can use this Time travel, but you need immediate treatment after time travel.”
"Then the moment the device was run for the first time, a figure suddenly rushed out of the Latitude Gate and fell headfirst into the wall and fainted."
"That's Ciri?!" Geralt asked with concern, and Yennefer also showed a surprised look - she really didn't know this, "Is she injured? Is it serious?"
"It's Xili, but he's fine. He just fainted after being hit," Xie Yuan said, somewhat dumbfounded: "Next, a lot of elf soldiers rushed out very quickly to drag the person back."
"I killed them all, closed the portal, and then brought Xili back and nursed her back to health." Xie Yuan concluded.
"Then what?" Lambert expressed special interest and wanted to hear more.
But Xie Yuan pointed to the sky outside: "It's already midnight."
The focus then turned to Yennefer.
Ye Naifa rolled her eyes at Xie Yuan, but still revealed her plan seriously, and then——
"What are you talking about?!" Lambert jumped up in shock and pointed at Yennefer.
Just because Yennefer said one word just now: Trial of Green Grass.
And it was this word that directly broke Lambert's guard, causing others... mainly Geralt, and Eskel to also look worried.
Without him, the Trial of Green Grass is the "first embrace ceremony" of a demon hunter, but unlike the extremely high success rate of a vampire's first embrace, the Trial of Green Grass also has a high probability.
Probability of death. (End of chapter)
