Modern Teyvat, bound to the Abyss Spiral

“…Sorry.” Xingqiu lowered his head.

Xingqiu was sent to a resettlement site, and after the seriously injured were sent there, they would be arranged to go to the hospital for a physical examination.

On the way, he saw Li Qingping outside the cordon.

Li Qingping made a move to make a sound.

The two were not far apart, and Xingqiu trotted to the cordon.

"How are you?" Xingqiu whispered.

"I killed that guy together with my senior sister, but I slipped out early because I was afraid of getting into trouble." Li Qingping explained.

"I asked if you were hurt!"

"Little Apostle of the Abyss, it's a little lacking."

"That's good."

"I also want to remind you not to tell anyone about me. Just say that it was Senior who did it alone."

"Are you crazy? You've saved so many people, you won't have to worry about doing anything in the future!" Xingqiu was a little anxious.

"I can't hide it now." Li Qingping spread his hands, "You said you had a friend."

"This credit must be yours, you can't escape it!"

"Okay, I won't accompany you in the cold wind."

Li Qingping bid farewell to Xingqiu and left the Debo Hotel.

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At 10 o'clock late at night, you could still occasionally hear the sound of sirens on the street.

Li Qingping took advantage of the moonlight and returned to Chihuyan, the doorstep of his home.

Li Qingping's home is on the edge of Chihu Rock. It is a small two-story building facing Yunlai Sea. You can touch the sea water just a few steps away.

There is a shipyard next to his house. Most of his neighbors work in the shipyard. They are all good people and take great care of Li Qingping.

After turning the door lock and opening the door, Li Qingping said "I'm back" to the empty house as usual.

Li Qingping paused and did not turn on the light.

The room was pitch black, but with the moonlight, one could tell there was no furniture inside.

An old television, covered in a white dust cover, had long since broken down and was now just a decoration. Opposite the TV was a flat-bed sofa, lacking even a stool. Besides that, there were two memorial tablets placed in the center.

Li Qingping knew what was written on the tablet without even looking.

The spirit tablet of my father Li Ping and the spirit tablet of my mother Li Qing.

The carving was not in accordance with the rules, but Li Qingping felt close to it and kept it like this for more than ten years.

There is an incense burner in front of the tablet, with a few incense sticks standing upright, and they are only half burned.

"It's not just some distinguished guest who's here." Li Qingping closed the door and walked into the house in the dark.

Someone comes into the house.

It couldn't be a thief, because everyone nearby knew that Li Qingping's house was penniless.

As for people who are farther away...no one would be so foolish as to come to Chihuyan to steal things. Wouldn't it be more profitable to make a living at Feiyunpo?

pat.

The switch behind him rang, and the moment the light came on, Li Qingping turned around and saw a woman.

She had short bangs, almond-shaped eyes, leather gloves on both hands, and was wearing a snow-white coat. She had a great figure and bust that could almost rival Lei Dianzhen's. She was the kind of beauty Li Qingping had never seen before.

"You wrote all sorts of fancy things on your resume, why don't you guess who I am?" said the woman.

After a little thought, Li Qingping roughly guessed the identity of the visitor.

"Sister Lan, good evening."

"Where are the things?" Ye Lan was not surprised that Li Qingping could guess it, so she asked directly.

This means that the other party already knew that he and Ren Siqian had left Liyue City in the afternoon and went to Qingxupu.

"I found two in total. I wonder which one Sister Lan wants." Li Qingping threw the pocket over.

Ye Lan raised a brow and opened his pocket.

Taking out the jade token, Ye Lan looked at it for a long time, frowning deeply, and put it down after a long time.

He took out the locked box again, and Ye Lan was suddenly startled. She quickly took out her cell phone and made a call.

"Help me investigate the attack on the Debo Hotel and who in the Abyss Cult was behind it!"

"Apostle of the Abyssal Water."

The person who answered Ye Lan was not the one on the other end of the phone, but Li Qingping.

"You...were there just now?" Ye Lan said.

"Yeah." Li Qingping said.

"This is troublesome." Ye Lan rubbed his forehead.

"Is there any connection?"

“It’s hard to say.”

Li Qingping tactfully stopped asking and instead brought up another matter: "So, have I passed the entry test?"

"What's on the note is not an entry test, but intercepted intelligence. I should have been the one to handle it, but I usually put intelligence like this that doesn't seem urgent at the end," said Ye Lan.

"But it looks very urgent now." Li Qingping came to this conclusion based on Ye Lan's reaction after seeing the thing.

Volume 1: 13. Sister Lan is tall and hard

"So Chu Yi, who assigned you the task, received his severance pay today." Ye Lan said, "Of course, your performance is excellent, so you can come to Yanshang Tea House to start work tomorrow."

Li Qingping felt that Ye Lan seemed to be hiding something, and there was a hint of heat in her eyes when she looked at him.

The heat was fleeting, but Li Qingping still caught it.

——We in the East Factory need talents like you.

Yes!

At the moment, Ye Lan is like the governor-general in charge of the East Factory. He wants to recruit the talents he discovered by chance, but he doesn't want to appear too deliberate.

"Why was Chu Yi able to easily obtain this information that should have been properly kept?" Li Qingping asked the question in his mind.

Either the internal structure of Yanshang Tea House is loose and the management is chaotic. That means joining Yanshang Tea House is not a wise decision.

Or maybe there was some special reason, Li Qingping wanted to know.

"You are born to do our job!" Ye Lan no longer concealed her eagerness and praised Li Qingping.

It would be a shame not to follow her since she guessed the hidden story so quickly.

"Let me give you a brief introduction. Yanshang Teahouse is, in principle, a subsidiary organization of the General Affairs Department, but it actually directly connects with the Seven Stars of Liyue. I'm temporarily serving the current Tianquan Star, gathering intelligence for her."

Turtle!

Li Qingping couldn't help but take a breath. This was really the East Factory!

"Why is it temporary?" Li Qingping asked in confusion.

"Because the candidate for the next Tianquan Star is the one I favor. Now this is called adapting to the position in advance, so that you won't be left in the dark after the current Tianquan Star abdicates." Ye Lan found a place to sit down.

Don't say important things so easily!

Li Qingping was already thinking about how to avoid being silenced.

"Don't be nervous. Once you enter the Yanshang Teahouse, you're all one with us." Ye Lan understood Li Qingping's thoughts very well. She patted his arm and said comfortingly, "Some time ago, I discovered that someone had planted spies in the Yanshang Teahouse."

Nails are spies. Li Qingping first learned about this thing when he was working part-time in Liyue.

That day, he saw with his own eyes a young man who started working at the same time as him holding a pot of hot water, sneaking around, preparing to kill the money tree that was growing well at the door while the boss was out buying goods.

Li Qingping stopped the man and told his boss what happened.

After hearing this, the boss shook Li Qingping's hand and called him his savior, then turned around and walked out the door. He stood at the door of his colleague next door and cursed for a long time.

The only line that managed to pass muster was this one: Planting the seeds, sending spies to play business warfare, huh? Just wait!

Li Qingping still remembers this vividly because his boss secretly paid him an extra 300 Mora afterwards.

"From other countries, or the Abyss Cult?"

He was sure to get into the Yanshang Teahouse, and Li Qingping could only comfort himself that at least it was a stable job.

"It's not the Abyss Cult, but I'm not sure about the others. That's why I've been almost defenseless in the office these past few months, just to find that nail." Ye Lan said.

"Can't it be Chu Yi?" Li Qingping asked.

"I've narrowed down the target to three people, not including Chu Yi," Ye Lan continued. "I think they've become alert, so I'm not going to continue. Of course, there won't be any more blunders like yours at the Yanshang Teahouse."

Treating the task of handling the Abyss Cult as a new employee's employment assessment, it can only be said that Chu Yi's dismissal was not unjust.

"One of your tasks is to help me find the nail secretly." Ye Lan said.

"Aren't you afraid that I'm also a nail?" Li Qingping asked curiously.

"If you are a nail, then I can't do this job. There are only a few useful people in the whole Liyue." Ye Lan smiled.

She investigated Li Qingping thoroughly and found that his resume was impeccable.

The only thing worthy of suspicion is the martial arts he learned without a teacher and the traces of elements left in Qingxupu.

Ye Lan stood up and walked around Li Qingping.

Well, there is indeed no Eye of God.

But after confirming Li Qingping's legal guardian, these doubts became irrelevant.

She has decided on this man!

"Keep this." Ye Lan pulled out a cell phone from her pocket and tossed it into Li Qingping's hands. "It's a work phone. There are two SIM cards with numbers saved in them. One is for your daily life, and the other is for a one-way communication with me."

"I asked someone to modify the machine. Now it has dual SIM cards and dual standby, so there is no need to worry about being eavesdropped." Ye Lan said again.

Li Qingping was stunned after taking the phone.

This is the 6S Plus that Ren Siqian urged Li Qingping to buy during the day, and it seems to be the top-of-the-line version.

As expected of the East Factory...Bah!

As expected of the unsung hero who guards Liyue in the dark, Sister Lan is simply tall and tough!

He wants to work in Yanshang Teahouse for the rest of his life!

"Do you know what this thing is made of?" Ye Lan played with the box that Lin Qingping found in Qingxupu.

"I don't know, but it's made of the same material as the Abyss Mage's staff." Li Qingping said.

"If I'm not mistaken, there is a fragment of an unknown demon god inside. Keqing's family has been attacked by the abyss for generations. The people sent by the Abyss Cult always carry this kind of demon god fragment and stab it into the target's body." Ye Lan's eyes were sharp and he spoke with a cold tone.

"Is it recorded in the Liyue archives?" Li Qingping asked.

"No, this is the conclusion I reached through my personal investigation. Currently, only you and I know it."

No, Boss! Next time before you share this kind of confidential information, could you please give me a heads-up?

I don’t want to know anything that I shouldn’t hear!

Li Qingping thought to himself that he had just passed the entry test of Yanshang Tea House and was not yet at the level where Ye Lan could confide in him.

"You and Keqing teamed up to deal with the attacking Abyssal Water Apostles. So you're already involved in this. You can't escape even if you want to."

"Sister Lan, you update the information too quickly." Li Qingping complained.

You have to know that Ye Lan didn't even know who attacked the Debo Hotel just now.

"I have an informant inside the Liyue Police Department. According to him, the Qianyan Army is already discussing how to reward you." Ye Lan glanced at her phone and said lightly.

"What a mistake! I managed to take care of Senior Keqing, but I didn't expect it would be my deskmate who exposed me in the end." Li Qingping said, "Can you help me suppress this? Just reward me, don't report it."