Longcrest Snow Mountain, Albedo’s camp.

The brush slides on the white paper, and one beautiful snowflake after another appears on the paper.

This is a pure white snow field, and in the middle of the snow field stands a young girl with her hands raised in the air and an excited expression.

The girl had brown twin tails and a pair of plum blossom pupils shining brightly. She stretched out her hands vigorously and let the flying snowflakes fall into her palms.

At this moment, the person standing in front of the drawing board is not Albedo, but Ningzhe.

Abedo was standing behind Ningzhe, holding his chin with his hand and carefully observing Ningzhe's painting.

When he saw the excited girl, he showed an understanding smile.

Regarding Ningzhe's current emotional situation, he heard Kaiya mention it... That girl should be the master of the Rebirth Hall in Liyue Port, right?

Well, it is indeed suitable.

There aren't many opportunities to see Ningzhe painting, so it seems like he got the benefit of the doubt today.

"Hu Tao likes Xue very much, but it's a pity... The Hall of Purity is busy with affairs, and she has too many things to sort out after the Auxerre Rebellion, so she doesn't have the chance to come here."

After painting the last snowflake, Ningzhe lit up the plum blossom pupils of the girl in the painting a little more, and then put away the brush.

"Things will always be taken care of."

Hearing this, Abedo just offered a symbolic word of comfort, and then began to look at Ningzhe's paintings seriously.

The main color of this painting is pure white, with some green grass growing in the snow, and the lively girl is standing on the left, stretching out her hands to embrace the snowflakes.

"I have to say that although there are many areas for improvement in your painting from the perspective of painting skills... but if you really use a better technique to depict it, the soul of the painting will be lost."

After reading it, Abedo smiled.

The paintings he admires most are like this, which do not require the best techniques and the most exquisite layout, but express feelings with pure emotion.

but...

"Haha... There is a blank space on her right side. There should be someone there."

Spotting Ningzhe's little thoughts at a glance, Albedo immediately said in a funny tone: "Since you have this idea, why don't you draw it?"

"..."

Looking at his painting quietly, Ningzhe chuckled, then stood up and said slowly: "It's not the time yet, the painting will have no charm now."

"Instead of painting... let's do business. How are you doing with the data?"

Hearing this, Abedo also put away his smile and put on a serious expression.

"That's exactly what I want to say. During the time you were painting, I looked at how well the previously found objects fit those crystals, and then I found... they couldn't match at all."

Mentioning this matter, a rare seriousness appeared on Albedo's face.

"If it is just a simple incompatibility, then it can be explained by the passage of [time], but they cannot match together at all..."

"It's completely impossible to match..."

After hearing what Abedo said, Ningzhe also became interested.

They got clues from these accessories, so they could find the location of the crystal step by step... But now they can't match?

"And the interesting thing is, while they don't match, they're not mutually exclusive either."

At this time, Abedo slowly added.

Neither matching nor mutually exclusive...

The moment he heard this, Ningzhe ran to the alchemy research table and looked at it carefully.

The ring-shaped accessory is placed in the middle, but the melted crystals are tightly attached to the periphery of the accessory, without any trace of it getting stuck in the accessory.

"..."

Sure enough, as Abedo said, they cannot blend together, and there is no obvious rejection...

"Then it can only explain two problems."

After thinking for a while, Ningzhe said with some hesitation: "First, although the materials of these two things are different, they are definitely from the same era, and their aura cannot be faked."

After a pause, Ningzhe continued: "Second, they are each affected by different infections. Although their breaths are similar, their essence has changed..."

"In other words, there may be a third party involved."

Having said this, Ningzhe looked at Albedo with a questioning look in his eyes.

He knew that Albedo's teacher was the alchemist Reindot, who was known as "Gold"... But Ningzhe couldn't tell this until Albedo personally decided to confess.

At this point, Ningzhe suspected that the so-called third party here was Reindot, and the only person who knew about the matter might be Albedo.

"..."

Hearing something in Ningzhe's words, Abedo sighed, but he didn't seem to intend to hide it.

After a moment of silence, Albedo finally spoke: "The Demon Dragon Dulin was created and controlled by my master... As for why he came to Mondstadt, I have had many guesses."

"But judging from the ending, this seems to be just an experiment. Dulin's understanding was modified by my master. The blessing he thought was actually a curse, and the beauty he wanted to bring to the world was actually destruction..."

"But what is his purpose in doing this?"

Hearing this, Ningzhe couldn't help but interject.

"My master... wants to understand something."

Abedo was silent for a while, then looked at Ningzhe and stretched out his hand.

"He wanted to understand whether certain established procedures would be changed under the influence of strong personal will."

Personal will and established procedures...

"etc..."

Ningzhe seemed to have thought of something terrible. He looked at Albedo, unable to conceal the shock on his face.

"Yes, what he really wants to study is the [Eye of God]."

Abedo said something that could be called rebellious, but he didn't seem to care about it at all.

"Since the [Eye of God] is a gift from the gods to the person they look at, then...can the individual's will change everything?"

"Although Dulin is not a pure human being, he has emotions... Creatures with emotions will undergo mutations because of this thing. Does [Original God] have to be human?"

"The qualification to become a god is basically to have the eye of god. Currently only humans can do this..."

Abedo's expression was extremely calm. These words did not seem to cause him any emotional ups and downs. He just repeated these words.

"I think it's almost done. If I say more, [Wind God] may come knocking on the door..."

Ningzhe swallowed, unable to hold back on these remarks.

Everything that happens in Mondstadt will be seen by Barbatos, and what they say here...

"Yohoo, hello you two!"

At this moment, a frivolous voice sounded at the door.

Abedo and Ningzhe looked up subconsciously and found that the person coming was a bard dressed as a knight-errant.

"Bard?"

Abedo frowned. He was just a little surprised that a bard would come to Longcrest Snow Mountain at this time?

Compared to Albedo's calmness, Ningzhe's reaction was much greater.

He was so frightened that he jumped up, and after seeing clearly who it was, he forced himself to calm down.

This is not an ordinary bard...
Chapter completed!