"It's you!" Paimon pointed at the person on the tree and said, "It's the scout knight Amber I met yesterday!"

Amber jumped directly from the tree to the two of them and looked them over: "It seems that you are really not from Xumi."

"I've already said it's not true!" Paimon pouted in dissatisfaction, "Now you know it's not true, right? You can let us into Mondstadt, right?"

"If it's not Xumi, it could be from other countries. I still doubt you."

Amber's words made Paimeng stomp his feet in anger: "This still doesn't make sense!"

Amber ignored Paimon's impotent rage and demanded, "Where are you going?"

Paimon said angrily: "Humph, it's because you won't let us enter Mondstadt that we have no choice but to go to Qingquan Town to rest!"

"Are you going to Qingquan Town?"

"What? If you're not allowed to enter the city, are you going to control the town too?"

"Qingquan Town does not restrict the entry and exit of outsiders. I really can't control you going to Qingquan Town."

"That's great! So why are you in the tree?"

Amber replied normally: "I was just a little tired on the way to Qingquan, so I went to the tree to rest for a while."

"Hey? You're going to Qingquan Town too?"

Amber nodded. "Most of the people living in Qingquan Town are hunters. It is one of the important sources of meat in Mondstadt. However, the meat production in Qingquan Town has dropped significantly recently, and the price of meat in Mondstadt has also risen. It is said that due to the dragon disaster, hunters are afraid of accidents and rarely go out hunting. So this time I went to the town to investigate and see if the hunters need help."

It seems that because Amber confirmed that Ying and Paimon were not Xumi, she spoke more, but her attitude was still cold.

"It just so happens that you are also going to Qingquan Town. In order to prevent you from doing anything tricky, I will keep a close eye on you along the way!"

"Ahhh, you are such an angry person! You are saying that we will do something bad!"

Paimeng was angry, but Ying spread her hands indifferently. She had no intention of doing anything bad and she had a clear conscience. If she wanted to keep a close eye on him, then she could.

The three of them walked together towards Qingquan Town. Along the way, Paimeng couldn't stay idle and asked Amber, "Hey! You said Xumi was scary before. What else is scary about Xumi?"

"Although Xumi's blood mist rule has produced many strong people, the population of Xumi has always been sparse due to the excessive number of deaths. In order to alleviate this situation, Xumi's expeditionary forces not only deal with those who betrayed and escaped from Xumi, but also have another important task, which is to capture young children from other countries and bring them back to replenish the population." Amber glanced at Paimon and continued, "People like you meet the capture conditions of the Xumi expeditionary forces."

"what!"

Paimon hid beside Ying in fear. Seeing Paimon's frightened look, Amber withdrew her gaze with satisfaction, still speaking in a cold tone.

"If you see a Xumi person, you'd better stay away from him. Xumi people have been receiving cruel training since they were young. Do you know how they are trained?"

Paimon shook his head. He was only a half-baked person and knew a little, but not much. Ying also pricked up her ears out of curiosity.

Amber didn't have the habit of keeping people on suspense, so she said directly, "Those with talent in Xumi will be forced to join the academy and undergo brutal training. On the day of graduation, the academy's instructors will let the students kill each other. Companions who have been together day and night will be divided into groups of two until one of them dies of exhaustion."

"Ah? How cruel." Paimon couldn't help but make a sound, and Ying also widened her eyes and asked, "Why do you do this?"

Companions who have been together and studied together day and night will end up fighting each other to death. Is this the country of blood mist?

"It is to erase emotions and cut off useless feelings. The students who graduate in this way will be used as perfect killing tools to carry out missions for the country. Do you understand now? Every Xumi who successfully graduates has the blood of his companions on his hands. They are all extremely cold-blooded and terrifying."

“Is there no one who resists such a cruel policy?”

Amber sneered: "Why didn't anyone resist? Aren't there all these corpses hanging in the Xumi Forest?"

"Well……"

This world is not as beautiful as you imagine.

"Every year, there are people who want to escape from Xumi. Xumi's expeditionary forces are responsible for bringing back those who escape and hanging them on trees. The more they kill, the fewer people will resist. There are even some students who implement Xumi's blood mist policy to the extreme."

Amber continued with some fear in her eyes.

"A few years ago, there was a person who not only killed his designated companions at graduation, but also killed all his classmates at the same time."

"well--?"

Paimon made a surprised sound.

"Nothing to be surprised about. The people of Xumi are all crazy."

"How scary! Who is that person?"

Amber was about to answer when they heard the sound of running not far away. They looked in the direction of the sound and saw a middle-aged man dressed as a hunter running forward panting very fast, as if there was some ferocious beast chasing him from behind.

"Is it Duraf from Qingquan Town?"

Amber recognized the hunter, and the hunter also recognized Amber and ran towards Amber, shouting, "Help! Help!"

Amber blocked Durav behind him and asked, "What happened? Is someone chasing you?"

Before Duraf could answer, another cold voice came from the direction where Duraf had just run:

"I let you slip away from Qingquan Town without noticing. This is unacceptable. If my employer finds out, he will deduct my reward."

As the voice came, the figure of a tall woman wearing a cool belly-exposing outfit and carrying a huge sword on her back slowly appeared.

"This look, this outfit..."

Looking at the person who appeared, Amber's face became solemn.

"You are... Dishia, the blood-maned lion of Xumi!"

Chapter 42: Bloody Mane Lion Dishia

Hearing that her identity was directly exposed, Dixia pouted: "Am I really too famous?"

Paimon shook his little head and wondered in a low voice: "Bloody Mane Lion? Such a word is terrible. Do the people of Xumi like to give themselves such bloody nicknames?"

"Be careful. Remember what I said just now that one person killed all the students of the same class?" Amber said to Ying and Paimon while staring at Dishia warily, "It's her!"

"Huh--?"

Paimon was so scared that he jumped in the air and quickly floated behind Ying. Ying looked at him in surprise. This person looked like a good-looking beauty, how could she be so cruel?

Dishia muttered in dissatisfaction: "Even the people of Mond know about this. It's really troublesome."

Although there was only one person, Dixia acted very relaxed and comfortable, not taking the others seriously at all.

Amber said: "Of course, it's impossible not to attract attention if you do something like this, especially... your assassination of the Little Lucky Grass King shocked everyone in Teyvat at the time."

"Ah, ah, ah?" Paimon blinked and repeated what Amber had just said, "Assassinating the Little King of Auspicious Grass? If I heard correctly, she is also a Xumi person. Assassinating the god of her own country?"

A mortal dares to assassinate a god?

It turns out that all the people in Xumi are crazy, right?

"She did this because she was dissatisfied with the bloody rule of the Little Lucky Grass King, right? Is she also a good person?" Paimon thought so, but quickly rejected it, "No, if she was a good person, she wouldn't have killed everyone in the same period. How strange."

"Humph, is there anything hard to understand?" Dixia snorted with her hands folded in front of her. "We Xumi people have been trained to kill since we were young. The most important thing we learn is how to kill. Everyone can be a target. After I killed everyone in the same period, I thought, since everyone can be killed, then are gods also targets? I thought so and did it, but I didn't succeed."

"Well……"

These words made Paimon even more frightened. This man was indeed a lunatic!

Dixia said, "Okay, let's end this boring topic." She looked at Amber and said, "If I'm not mistaken, you should be Amber, the scout knight of the Knights of Favonius, right? Can you hand over the person behind you to me?"

Duraf stepped back in fear and said to Amber, "Amber, this is the person who suddenly appeared in our Qingquan Town half a month ago and controlled all of us and prohibited us from going out hunting. Even the meat we transported to the city was arranged by her."

Amber's eyes half-closed.

"Is that so? No wonder, Dixia, why did you do such a thing?" Amber remembered what Dixia had said when she first came out. "Employer? Who hired you?"

"It's not good for you to find out too much. It seems that you don't intend to hand the person over to me obediently. However..." Dixia smiled coldly, "Anyway, I didn't intend to let you leave from the beginning."

With this relaxed look, does he think he has us in his grasp?

Battle seems inevitable, but don't underestimate the Knight of Favonius!

Amber was about to take out the bow and arrow from his back when Dishiya suddenly rushed towards him. Although he was carrying a huge sword that looked very heavy, it did not affect Dishiya's speed at all. Before Amber took out the bow and arrow, Dishiya had already rushed to Amber and punched him in the face.

So fast!

In a hurry, Amber had to give up taking out the bow and arrow and stretched out a hand to block Dishiya's fist. Dishiya showed disdain on his face, and his fist suddenly turned downwards and accelerated, hitting Amber hard in the lower abdomen.

Amber's face changed, what a great strength!

"Well……"

He made a sound of pain from his mouth, and was knocked flying by the punch. He hit a tree and fell backwards to the ground. He hurriedly got up from the ground and half-knelt on the ground, using one hand to steady his body and the other to cover his lower abdomen. He raised his head and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. It seemed that taking this punch was not pleasant.

Paimon opened his mouth wide and said in surprise: "One punch, one punch knocked Amber away!"

Although I don’t know how strong Amber is, but to be able to beat someone like this with just one punch, and he wasn’t even using his full strength, this Dixia is definitely not weak!

Will the Traveler be her match?

Paimon was a little worried, and Ying also took out a one-handed sword and pointed it at Dishia. Although he seemed to have nothing to do with the other party's affairs, the other party had just said that he wanted to keep everyone here and obviously would not let him leave. He could only help Amber fight.

Dixia flexed her wrist and said, "You are really a flower in a greenhouse. Didn't your archery teacher tell you that fists are much more useful than bows and arrows at such a close distance?" Dixia said with disdain, "Is this the only strength of the knights of Mond? Well, I can't expect too much from a knight who is only responsible for reconnaissance."

As he spoke, Ying swung the sword towards Dishiya, who stretched out a hand and grabbed the weapon in Ying's hand with one claw like a lion playing.

Damn it, I can’t swing it!

Not to mention swinging the sword, Ying couldn't even draw back her weapon. The sword in her hand was easily grabbed by the opponent and stopped.

"You are not a member of the Knights Templar, are you?" Dixia asked Ying.

"Of course not!" Seeing Ying in trouble, Paimeng said hurriedly, "Ying is just a traveler and has nothing to do with this matter!"

"Traveler? It doesn't matter whether it's irrelevant or not at this time. If you want to blame someone, just blame your bad luck for running into me. Traveler, your journey ends here!"

This...sounds familiar.

Ying remembered that she had said the same thing when facing the strange god.

Dixia clenched her other hand into a fist and was about to hit Ying.

It won’t stop here, I still have to look for my brother!

"Wind Blade!"

Ying shouted, and the wind element surged up and filled the sword. Dixia let out a surprised "Huh?" and stepped back to look at Ying, looking her up and down as if she wanted to find something on her body, but she found nothing, and finally her eyes stopped on Ying's face.

"You don't have the Eye of God, how do you use the wind elemental power?"

This seemingly silly girl seems to be quite extraordinary.

Ying steadied himself and pointed his weapon at Dixia again: "Why?"

"Huh? Why?"

"Why did you kill people? I heard from Amber that you killed all the students of the same period. Although I have never been to Xumi and don't know much about Xumi, I know that you will be helpless in such an environment, but why did you kill so many people?"

You can graduate by killing just one person, why would you do this?

"Ha-?" Dixia opened her mouth, as if she heard something funny. "What stupid things are you talking about?"

Chapter 43 You guys saved your life!

"What a naive statement! Are you not from this world?"

Paimon interrupted, "Yes, Ying is from outside the world."

Dixia: ...

I'm just saying, so you're really not from this world?

"Listen carefully, this is how the world is. Either you kill or you are killed. It's a simple truth. If you don't want to be hunted by others, you must learn how to kill!"

Dishia's cruel words.

Ying frowned. What kind of nonsense is this?

Just as Ying was about to continue speaking, Amber on the other side endured the injury and pulled up the longbow, shooting two arrows at Dishiya. However, Dishiya, who was experienced in combat, moved her ears slightly and noticed the movement, and dodged to the side. The two arrows missed the target, and Dishiya's eyes turned cold.

"I see. Are you trying to buy time with me to create opportunities for your companions?"

"Ah, no."

"Ah."

Obviously, Dishiya didn't believe Ying's words. Amber was about to pull the bow again when he missed the first attack. Dishiya took out the big sword from his back and threw it at Amber like throwing a dart. The heavy sword was easily thrown away by Dishiya. Amber rolled to the side, but the longbow in his hand was still hit by the big sword and a corner was cut off. Obviously, it could no longer be used.

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