Modern Teyvat, bound to the Abyss Spiral

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"What did the two executive officers tell you?"

On the way to Li Qingping's house, Keqing couldn't help but ask.

"She said the Ice Queen was going to make an exception and appoint me as the twelfth executive officer. She told me to pack my things and go to Solstice to take up the position next month."

"Forget it if you don't want to talk about it!"

Keqing glared at him.

You are the twelfth executive officer, why don’t you go to heaven!

Li Qingping grabbed the seat belt, ready for Keqing to slam on the accelerator to vent her anger. She had always done this before, so Li Qingping already had experience.

But the familiar feeling of being pushed on the back did not come.

"Have you changed your gender?" Li Qingping asked curiously.

"You've changed your ways! I'm in a good mood today and won't argue with you!"

Keqing, who was about to stay for another night, said so.

"Is Uncle Chen open today?" Li Qingping asked.

"No, I can only stay one more night." Keqing tried her best to keep her tone calm, even deliberately adding a hint of sadness. "How about I sleep on the streets?"

I’m so sad. I can’t go home again. I’m going to lose my little pearls!

"Stay one more night, you are my good friend after all." Li Qingping didn't care.

Hey!

Keqing couldn't hold it in and laughed out loud.

"Did you just laugh?"

"No!" Keqing refused to admit it.

Li Qingping's house was right in front of her, and she didn't want to give up all her efforts.

Ding!Ding!

Li Qingping's cell phone rang. He took a look and saw that it was an unfamiliar call.

He had heard Xingqiu say that a life without receiving any strange sales or fraudulent calls was incomplete.

Li Qingping thought his life would be complete today, but then a sales scam call came!

"Hello, who is it?"

"I'm Keqing's grandfather."

Li Qingping's cell phone almost fell to the ground.

This isn't a retirement scam call, it's a death threat!

He kidnapped someone's granddaughter to work as a driver and even let her stay overnight. Is this the time to settle the score?

He quickly glanced at Keqing who was humming a song.

Will the young lady speak up for me? Just save a life!

Li Qingping asked seriously, "What do you want to talk to me about?"

"Please turn on the speaker. I need to talk to Keqing."

Old Yuhengxing's tone towards Liu Qingping was unexpectedly kind, but he was not so gentle when he mentioned his granddaughter.

"Who's calling?" Keqing didn't realize who was on the other end of the line.

Li Qingping turned on the external speaker and turned the volume to the highest, and at the same time, he made a mouth shape towards Keqing, but Keqing didn't hear it.

"I, your grandfather."

Keqing's hand shook and the car almost hit the wall. Fortunately, she was only driving 25 miles per hour and pulled the steering wheel back in time.

"Why did you call him? My car almost crashed." Keqing was anxious.

"If it's hit, just replace it with a new one. Besides, can you make a call?" Old Yuhengxing said slowly.

"..." Keqing didn't dare to speak. She deliberately played with her phone until it ran out of battery while eating and hasn't charged it since.

"Don't bother him tonight," Old Yuhengxing said again. "When he returns from Guiliyuan, I won't care what excuses you make."

One night for N nights?

It is not impossible.

"Please wait!" Keqing pretended to be very reluctant and accepted the condition. "I'm not making excuses! It was you who asked Uncle Chen to close the door!"

"Then I won't let Lao Chen close the shop anymore?"

"How can you go back on your word? I'll be right back!"

After dropping Li Qingping off at the doorstep, Keqing drove home with a pout.

"Drive slowly!" Li Qingping shouted.

"What could possibly go wrong at 25 yards? Do you take me for a fool?" Keqing said and closed the window.

Hard to say!

Li Qingping shook his head and went straight into the house.

"It's better to have a good rest and prepare to go back to Guiliyuan tomorrow."

Volume 1: 66. The Flower Has a Master & Entering the Cloud Sea Cave (5k)

The next day.

Li Qingping got up early in the morning, washed up, opened the door and saw Mi Nu waiting outside the house.

Mi Nu gestured for Li Qingping to get in the car, took him to have breakfast, and drove out of Liyue City.

Unlike the last time they went to the southwest gate of Qingxupu, this time they went through the north gate of Liyue City.

"Gui Liyuan is in Qiongjiye. We still have to drive for several hours to get there. You can sleep for a while."

Mi Nu, who was driving, reminded Li Qingping.

"Where's Shen He?"

Li Qingping slept very well last night, but he was not idle and lived in the consciousness space of the Fang of Osel, but was persuaded to retreat by the damn waterspout.

"I have already set off with Xianyun. The others have already arrived at Guiliyuan."

Li Qingping nodded silently, knowing that the other people Mi Nu was talking about were probably the Liyue immortals he had not met yet.

This matter concerns the Demon Lord Dust, an old friend of the Liyue Immortals, and they all take it very seriously.

Along the way, the cheerful Mi Nu didn't say much.

The scenery on both sides of the car window kept changing, from steep cliffs to plains and wilderness, and Guiliyuan was right in front of us.

Perhaps it was the so-called "homesickness makes one more timid" that Li Qingping saw veins bulging on Mi Nu's hands gripping the steering wheel.

At nine o'clock, Mi Nu drove the car from the national highway into a fork road and passed several checkpoints guarded by the Qianyan Army.

They finally arrived.

Li Qingping got off the car, and the first thing in front of him was a camp. There were high concrete walls and steel fences outside the camp, and more than a dozen buildings inside, with all kinds of facilities.

The Qianyan Army flag was hung in the square in the center of the camp. The camp was filled with Qianyan Army vehicles. Other vehicles were parked outside the camp. Even Mi Nu did not drive his car in.

Two Qianyan soldiers were standing at the entrance of the camp. Judging from the clothes they were wearing, they were of high rank.

"Liyue has set up an outpost here to guard the ruins. The Thousand Rocks troops here are all transferred from the Layered Abyss and are experienced in many battles.

Of course, they are definitely not as good as you in a one-on-one fight, but if you meet them somewhere else, you can still call them "sir."

At this point, Mi Nu's heart seemed to have calmed down, and he had the leisure to joke with Li Qingping.

"According to the organization, I'm still a small clerk in the General Affairs Department. I have to call everyone "sir"."

Li Qingping has great respect for the Thousand Rocks Army, not only because of his deceased parents, but also because there is still a war in the Layered Rock Abyss, and they are guarding Liyue's current peace.

When Li Qingping approached, the two Qianyan soldiers who were of high rank as mentioned by Mi Nu saluted Mi Nu.

"General!"

Li Qingping had anticipated this. No matter how high his level was, could it be higher than the immortal next to him?

Mi Nu nodded at the two of them: "Is everyone here?"

"Including the ones around you, all 16 people who entered the ruins are here." The Qianyan Army on guard replied.

"Let's go, we're the only ones missing."

Mi Nu brought Li Qingping into the outpost. The security was very tight along the way and no one other than the Qianyan Army was seen.

But the two of them, dressed in ordinary clothes, moved freely in the outpost and finally arrived at a large conference room.

"Rest inside for a while. Someone will come to notify you later. Give the things to me first, and I will take them to Xianyun."

Some preparations are needed to open the ruins, and Li Qingping had been informed of this in advance. He nodded, took out the thing from Mi Nu's mouth, and handed it to him.

It is the key to the ruins of the end.

Mi Nu took the key and left.

Li Qingping knocked on the half-open door and walked in.

The conference room was even bigger than his school classroom. All the people who were going to enter the ruins were inside, and it seemed crowded even though they were scattered in groups of three or four in various corners.

Shen He was sitting alone in a corner in a daze, with a long box on his back. When he saw Li Qingping opening the door and coming in, he immediately stood up to greet him.

The other people in the conference room also set their eyes on Li Qingping, the latecomer.

Obtaining the Demon God's inheritance is such an important matter, yet he is so unconcerned!

This guy is definitely not going to make it.

"My name is Li Qingping, and I'm an employee of the General Affairs Department."

Li Qingping didn't take it to heart and just went through the motions to introduce himself to a few people.

When they heard that Li Qingping was just a small clerk, the disdain in the eyes of some people became even stronger.

He is still a small character, and no one knows what connections he used to get into this business.

There are a total of 16 people entering the Dust Demon Ruins this time. The Seven Stars of Liyue each recommended 2 people, which accounts for 14 places here.

As for the remaining two places, Qixing explained that they were randomly selected from the right people.

It's not really random, but it's fate.

The fact that the Demon God of Dust is about to be activated is a direct oracle from the Rock Emperor, and the Seven Stars are the ones who are notified to choose the candidates.

The oracle directly confirmed the places for Li Qingping and Shen He, and left it to them to figure out how to fill the rest.

This is a posture that has never been seen in all the history books of Liyue!

The Seven Stars knew that this was a serious matter, so they didn't say much to the people below. They just hinted that they should do their best and leave no regrets.

"Shen He, student."

Shen He arrived early, but she had a cold personality and naturally would not take the initiative to introduce herself.

After Li Qingping introduced his identity, she said a few words.

It has to be said that a beauty like Shen He can attract attention wherever she goes.

Fortunately, there were more women in this group, so I only received six enthusiastic glances.

The only six men in the room besides Li Qingping were mostly in their thirties, had some connections in Liyue, and were on the rise in their careers.

They believed that they still had a chance to inherit the Demon God of Dust, so they were all full of confidence and wanted to come up and talk to Shen He.

"Oh, little Shen He is so popular. I feel so much pressure." Li Qingping spread his hands helplessly at Shen He.

"...Do you want me to deal with them directly?" Shen He touched the box behind him.

"Don't bother with that. Just give me your hand."

"it is good."