He changed Tiwat

"Go and fetch the Chief Executive..." she thought to herself.

But she didn't finish her sentence.

To the astonishment of her subordinates, Natashka realized that something had slit her throat.

It was a sword.

A sword without an edge.

Ying had just unleashed not three bolts of lightning, but four; the fourth was the sword in her hand. She threw the sword.

If you're fast enough, even a bladeless sword can kill.

Natashika covered her throat, unable to utter a complete sentence.

Ying landed lightly and gracefully in front of her, reached out and pulled the long sword stuck in her throat, bringing with it a spray of blood.

“I originally only wanted to take you back for questioning, but you even killed your own subordinates... so I changed my mind.”

Although she hadn't been a squad leader for long, Ying was well-liked by her subordinates in the "Swordfish Second Division"... In addition, she knew that Teppei had always longed to become a squad leader.

She remembered that Zheping once excitedly held up a book and told her that he was learning how to be a squad leader.

Furthermore, Zheping had emphasized to her that as a team leader, the most important thing was to be considerate of her subordinates.

She always remembered.

Natashika fell backward, her eyes beneath the black mask filled with hatred and curses.

She was so outstanding and hardworking... she was so close to being promoted to captain... she abandoned her lover, abandoned her friends, abandoned her humanity, and climbed to where she is today by stepping on countless dead bones.

But destroying all of this only takes a few minutes.

She was truly unwilling to accept it.

Traveler... do you think... you can escape the wrath of the Winter Kingdom...?

"Lady"... will avenge me...

With this final thought in mind, Natashika stopped breathing.

The Palace Attendant of the Evil Eye Factory was assassinated!

Some researchers in the adjacent laboratory witnessed this scene and hurriedly broke the alarm on the wall.

The alarm blared loudly.

After calling the police, they all instinctively crawled under the table, trembling with fear, and prayed to their queen...

The blond-haired fiend, carrying a blood-dripping longsword, walked into the next laboratory.

"Ring ring ring..."

As the alarm rang, the lights in the corridor turned a blinding red.

Borrenka stopped in surprise: "What happened?"

Han Fulai knew what had happened, but "Nathan" did not.

So he also feigned surprise: "Is there a malfunction in the machines at the factory?"

“Please don’t let it be a machine malfunction… This is the highest level red alert, which usually only corresponds to two situations—either the blast furnace has exploded, or someone has broken in…” Borenka clicked his tongue. “Sorry, Mr. Nathan. It’s my duty, I have to go and take a look.”

He pointed ahead, and not far away stood a large wooden gate inlaid with ornate jade ornaments.

Han Fulai nodded understandingly.

Borrenka turned and ran off, not forgetting to add as he left, "Lord Nathan, please report to Lord 'Skirmisher' that my mission has been successfully completed!"

Han Fulai smirked at his retreating figure, thinking to himself, "When you find out this alarm was triggered by the 'new recruit' you brought back, you'll be begging me not to say you brought him back..."

It seems that Ying and Xingqiu have already made their move. He could actually skip meeting the "scattered soldiers" and instead go to support Ying and Xingqiu.

On the other hand, the strongest force of the Fools here is the "streakers" who are the executors. Having them hold off the "streakers" might be the best support.

Besides, since he's already here, why not at least meet him? Anyway, if he wants to destroy this Evil Eye Factory, he can't avoid the "Scout" executive officer.

He also remembered his brief encounter with the "scatterers" in Mondstadt last time.

At that time, the "scatterer" shook hands with him and they briefly sparred during the handshake.

The result was a draw.

He's much stronger now than he was back then. So, how has the "Scattered Soldier" changed now that he's obtained the secret of the "False Heaven"?

With that thought in mind, Han Fulai walked toward the ornate wooden door.

The Evil Eye Factory has no resident executives, and of course, there is no "executive office".

The place where the "scattered soldiers" were located was actually the factory's auditorium, the kind of place where leaders would give speeches on a stage while the people below stood and listened.

Now that podium has become a seating area for the "scattered soldiers".

He was sitting on the podium, his right elbow resting on his crossed right knee, his left leg hanging down naturally, looking rather swaying, and it was unclear what he was thinking about.

—If Ying saw this scene, she would probably say that the "scattered soldier's" sitting posture is very similar to that of the Thunder General in "Ichishin no Sora".

This is called the "half-lotus position," also known as the "half-lotus meditation position," which is the sitting posture of the Buddha when he contemplated the suffering of sentient beings.

However, there is no Buddhism on the continent of Teyvat. Although Inazuma has the lineage of Zen and Pure Land Buddhism, it only has shrines and no temples. Gods and Buddhas are not much different here, both belonging to the lineage of Raijin.

The reason the "scattered soldiers" were sitting like this was not to imitate the Thunder General they had never met, nor to pity the suffering of all living beings; it was simply a natural thing to do.

He was just bored.

The alarm had actually gone off in the auditorium, but the "scattered soldiers" thought it was too noisy and had already smashed it.

He hates humans, and he hates their noise even more.

At that moment, the auditorium doors were pushed open, and a person wearing a mask walked in.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Sixth Executive Officer of the Fools, 'Scattered Soldier'," the visitor said.

This is certainly not the etiquette a subordinate should show when meeting a superior.

"Skimp" raised an eyebrow and smiled.

A very sarcastic laugh.

"We meet again, Vice Minister Han of Liyue. Drop your ridiculous pretense."

Han Fulai's disguise was actually quite good; at least the Fools soldiers, including Borrenka, who were responsible for receiving him, couldn't see any flaws.

But the "scattered soldiers" recognize people not by their appearance or physique, but by their voiceprints.

No matter how one imitates another's voice and tone, the unique voiceprint of a human remains unchanged; even a master of disguise like Ye Lan cannot fool his ears.

This could be considered a minor convenience granted to him by his "doll" body.

"What brings you here?"

The "scattered soldier" maintained his posture, as if sitting high on a lotus throne, and asked Han Fulai a question.

Han Fulai took off his mask.

"I'm here to demand justice for those who were killed by the evil eye."

Chapter 127 Those who break their promises shall be punished with the power to devour rocks [4k]

"Seek justice for those people..."

The "scattered soldier" tilted his head and stared at Han Fulai below the stage. As he looked, he suddenly laughed again.

Judging by appearance alone, "Sanbing's" face is actually quite delicate; calling him a "beautiful boy" wouldn't be an exaggeration—provided he can't smile.

If there were a standard form for the description "a forced smile," it would be the current state of "scattered soldiers."

When he laughs, only the corners of his mouth twitch; the rest of his face remains still, as if his mouth and his face are not a single entity.

Humans cannot make such an expression.

Such a smile only makes people think he's not human.

Of course, the "scatterer" does not consider himself human, and indeed he is not human.

"You came here just for this?" he asked.

Han Fulai was actually prepared to go to war at any time, but the "scattered soldiers" were subtly a bit too talkative.

fair enough.

The longer they talked, the less pressure Xingqiu and Yingmei felt.

Han Fulai nodded frankly: "Yes, I came here for this very reason."

"For those tiny insects?"

The tone of the "scatterers" sounded incredibly incredulous, as if they had discovered some rare and unusual animal.

“I can see that you, like me, are already walking on the ladder to godhood. A person like you shouldn’t care about the lives of insects.”

"In this mortal world, the lives of ordinary people are nothing but grass. Even without the Evil Eye, they would still die. At least, the Evil Eye gives them the opportunity to fulfill their 'wishes.' With just a small price to pay, they can gain the feeling of controlling the world... Exchanging their lives for supreme power, isn't that a good deal?"

Han Fu looked at him and said slowly, "Whether it's worth it or not is not up to you to decide. Even a true god doesn't have the right to toy with people's lives, let alone you who are not a god."

The "straggler" was silent for a moment, then asked, "Are any of your relatives among those people?"

Han Fulai shook his head: "No."

The stragglers continued, "Do you have any friends?"

Han Fulai shook his head again: "No."

The stragglers were now puzzled: "What does this have to do with you?"

The Evil Eye was issued to the resistance forces on Haiqi Island, not to the Liyue and Thousand Rock armies. Whether the deceased were from Haiqi Island or Hachiman Island, they were not from Liyue.

It's understandable that Xin Hai from Coral Palace came here seeking justice, but what justice are you, a Liyue person, seeking here? What does it have to do with you?

This is utterly absurd!

In response, Han Fulai simply replied calmly, "It has nothing to do with me, yet it is also related to me."

The "scattered soldier" frowned.

This way of speaking reminded him of that old man, the fifth executive officer of the Fools, "Rooster" Puccinira.

That person also likes to use such ambiguous statements, and such people usually hide conspiracies behind their words.

For example, the "rooster" would often pass on messages to the "young master" who was on a mission, saying something like "Your family is all well"... But anyone with a brain could see that the subtext was "Your family is under my control".

So, what was the subtext of this Deputy Minister Han's statement?

The "scattered soldier" thought for a few seconds and decided to give up.

I hate riddles.

He had never been able to understand the thoughts of those bureaucrats... The bureaucrats of the Shogunate four hundred years ago were like that, the bureaucrats of Winter four hundred years later were like that, and the bureaucrats of Liyue in front of him were still like that.

The "straggler" only knows that this kind of person never tells the truth.

But Han Fulai was telling the truth.

"I'm not talking about a riddle, but stating a fact."

“Some people think that everything in this world can be defined with ‘what’s it to you’ and ‘what’s it to me’—in cruder terms, ‘none of your business’ and ‘none of my business’. I guess you’re one of those people. So in your view, those dead have nothing to do with me, and I have no reason to seek justice for them.”

"Isn't that right?" the "scattered soldier" retorted.

“No,” Han Fu replied. “At first glance, the saying ‘what does it have to do with you? What does it have to do with me?’ seems to make some sense. It seems that many things in this world have nothing to do with a single human being… But upon deeper reflection, one will find that this is not entirely true.”

"To give a simple example: to a miner working in the Snake Bone Mine, the farmers in Hiki Village may seem irrelevant, but if those farmers didn't cultivate the land, could the food the miners eat be dug out of the mine? The miners in the Snake Bone Mine were contaminated by the 'evil spirit,' could the farmers in Hiki Village have escaped the same fate?"

"Let's broaden the scope of this example. For instance, the entire Inazuma is now shrouded in thunderclouds, and the 'Isolation Order' binds all the people of Inazuma—because of these thunderclouds and this order, Inazuma has been artificially turned into an 'isolated island' on the Teyvat continent."

"Why don't the islanders of Haizhi continue to live as peaceful, starving corpses, but instead, under the might of Thor, emulate the mantis that raises its arms? Because those who become 'isolated islands' cannot survive; they have no choice but to rebel."

"The 'seclusion edict' created a rebellion and caused a war. Can you say that the shogunate's policies had nothing to do with the people of Umiji Island?"

Ultimately, everything in this world is interconnected.

"Similarly, this 'lockdown order' has also affected Liyue's commerce. Merchants who do business with Inazuma have lost their business, their shops will go bankrupt, and their employees will lose their jobs. This has become a problem that the Liyue Labor Association and the Seven Star Council have to solve. This is all part of my job. Do you think this has anything to do with me?"

“And I also heard from Nathan that the ‘Eye Hunt’ and ‘Isolation Order’ in Inazuma were orchestrated by you Fatui. You also spread evil eyes among the rebels to prolong the war and extend the ‘Eye Hunt’ and ‘Isolation Order’. The bastards you’ve done in Inazuma have harmed the livelihoods of my Liyue people. Tell me, shouldn’t I go after you?”

When Han Fu looked at the "scattered soldiers" with a hint of pity, he said this.

That look reminded the "scattered soldier" of another executive officer, "The Doctor".