I, the leader of the esoteric sect, am doing great things in the infinite world!

This aroused the curiosity of various nations, who secretly speculated about which force had provided support to the Unity Movement.

Is it Colombia? Or Victoria? Or perhaps the distant land of Yan?

None of the above are the answer. The real mystery lies in a pharmaceutical company called Rhode Island.

The first executive officer of the Reunion Movement, "Doctor," personally acted as a go-between. Under extremely high secrecy, Rhodes Island's research department spent only a few days analyzing the necessary components to suppress Oripathy from Koschei's remains, thus making a leap forward in the treatment of Oripathy.

Dr. Warfarin, the attending physician at Rhodes Island, exclaimed from the bottom of her heart: "Killing one immortal being benefits millions of infected people."

It is said that on that day, she proposed the plan to hunt down the immortals to Kal'tsit, the chief physician of Rhodes Island, and was then hung up by Kal'tsit on the Cambridge of Rhodes Island to be exposed to the wind.

In any case, this was the first time that an infected person could walk normally in the sunlight.

Now, Chernobog has begun to widely promote these identity bracelets. As the leader of Chernobog, Talulah is undoubtedly number 1, while Patriot, Doctor, and Alina are ranked number 3, 4, and 5 respectively. Many people are wondering who the number 2 person of the Reunion Movement is.

Only Talulah herself knows to whom this bracelet, which can never be given away, truly belongs.

Whenever she woke up in the middle of the night, she would always remember that sigh that had quietly sounded in her ear. Strangely, after that, she would never have a sudden headache again, and her memories would no longer fade. Everything became bright again, and everything was on the right track. Only the person who created all of this never returned.

Talulah gave up coffee, and the last time she passed by the tactical department under the Kingslayer's command, she noticed that the Kingslayer also seemed to have stopped shaving.

As the light gradually dimmed, twilight slowly painted the horizon, a blend of cool gray-blue and pale purple hues. The crimson setting sun disappeared behind the evening glow, creating a startling sense of desolation.

As she gazed at the rising moon outside the window, she suddenly remembered a poem she had heard in Longmen when she was a child. Now that she was older, she could not remember most of it clearly, only a few lines.

"Relatives may grieve, others may sing. What can be said of the dead? Let the body rest with the mountains."

Talulah thought for a moment, then got up from her chair. However, the instant she left the chair, boundless darkness came from all directions, and vast starlight surged from the void in front of her, instantly engulfing her.

On the other side of the city, in the tactical department under the control of the Kingslayer Lyudmila, the Kingslayer had just finished her dinner and picked up her plate. Suddenly, a vast, colorless starlight surged from her palm that was touching the plate, covering Lyudmila and the object she was touching.

As the starlight faded, a familiar voice came into view.

"Damn, it's you guys?"

Talulah instinctively slapped herself on the head, while the Kingslayer beside her, holding a plate of food, involuntarily lowered his head and dipped his finger into the remaining meat sauce on the plate.

It was just the right amount of salty and bland; the taste was absolutely delicious.

With a clang, the plate in the kingslayer's hand fell to the ground.

Miss Nian stood beside Li Lin, curiously looking at the familiar faces before her: "It's really strange. I was just working in the forging field, and now I'm here in the blink of an eye."

Only then did Talulah and the Kingslayer have a chance to assess their surroundings.

They seemed to be atop a sharp, towering mountain, surrounded by flat land covered with waist-high withered yellow grass, and as far as the eye could see, only ruins remained.

It seems that long ago, a magnificent building once stood here, but now only broken steps, shattered huge stones, massive stone pillars with only their bases remaining, and broken statues are left. What force erased them from this place, leaving only ruins everywhere?

The cobalt blue night fog and wind flowed in the distance, and more mountains loomed in the cobalt blue light in the distance. Nian raised his head and looked in another direction, while the firelight and temperature of the forging ground were in another direction.

Orientation loses its meaning in Mansu; only altitude remains.

This mountain is higher than the territory granted to her by Sichen Bai Ri Forge, which may prove that the master of this mountain has far greater authority than she does.

Is it some illustrious immortal, or someone with a name, or perhaps...?

"Mentor, where is this?"

Talulah's question interrupted Nian's thoughts.

Li Lin pondered for a moment: "From a general rational point of view, this should be Mansu."

53. Master of Crosstalk (a type of traditional Chinese comedic performance)

It's easy to get Talulah and the Kingslayer to accept that they've come to another world. After all, the world of Arknights is never short of ghost stories, and there are plenty of legends like Alice's Rabbit Hole and the underwater dragon palace of the Eastern Kingdom.

However, explaining the concept of "mansu" to these two people was quite difficult.

After all, even after so many years in the world of the esoteric religion, no one has been able to give a precise definition of Mansus. The Key Hunter's Notebook refers to Mansus as the Astral Plane, because every dream and world contained within Mansus is a star, and the cosmic darkness surrounding Mansus is the Woodland. Some mysterious groups, on the other hand, call Mansus a temple hidden behind the world, where the gods reside, like a loose pantheon.

Li Lin, who was always eager to stir up trouble, added fuel to the fire and created a terrifying atmosphere: that one had to eat a person alive and feel full of remorse to enter the Mansu, and that the residents of the Mansu were all talented people who would take revenge on the same day. After three days, only ashes remained on the other side. At first, Talulah and Lyudmila were intrigued by the story, but after a few half-true and half-false tales, they felt a chill run down their spines and told Li Lin to shut up.

Nothing is more frightening than knowing you are in danger but not being able to see the danger.

At this moment, the cobalt blue light in the distance faded slightly, the mist dispersed, and a magnificent river came from the horizon. It was so vast that it resembled an ocean, rippling with new green and amber waves.

"What is that?" The naive Little Dragon Girl and Lyudmila boldly approached the edge of the mountain, standing on tiptoe to look at what looked more like a sea than a river.

“I’ve stirred up a storm—” Li Lin suddenly spoke up from the side.

“This is the river in the painting,” Nian said. “It was created by a certain Sichen before leaving Mansu; He painted this river.”

"You mean this river was drawn by someone?" Lyudmila repeated unconsciously.

“Not human, but god.” Nian cautiously looked around and explained simply after confirming that he was not being watched.

Mansu is the residence of Sichen. Mentioning Sichen's name rashly may attract their direct attention, especially since after Nian was granted permission by Sichen to reside in Mansu, all the Sichens who cast images have bestowed blessings upon her.

The cobalt blue mist rolled in again from afar, filling the gap in the distance and once again concealing the magnificent scenery of the river in the painting behind the drifting light and mist.

“In other words, in this world, Sichen is a truly powerful god. To rashly utter their name will bring disaster.” Talulah muttered to herself unconsciously, “Why does it sound... somewhat similar to Koschei? No, I should say Koschei and Sichen are similar.”

Nian kept rolling his eyes. Who says the father is like the son? Even a wounded immortal like Koschche could be easily beaten by any alien species found in the woods with one hand.

“Hey, you can’t say that.” Li Lin patted Nian’s shoulder. “As the saying goes, ‘Sichen has no dreams, and the immortals strive to have no dreams. The immortals are supposed to learn from Sichen and not be human. You have a high position under you in the training ground. Tell me, isn’t that the truth?”

“That makes sense,” Nian nodded.

Li Lin clapped his hands: "That's settled then. In this Mansu, the Sichen are the big brothers. If they tell us to go east, we dare not go west; if they tell us to chase a donkey, we dare not catch a chicken."

Master Li gave a thumbs up.

Nian nodded: "Yes, that's right."

Li Lin: "Just before I met you, I passed through the woods. Wow, it was pitch black, you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, and there were big fluttering moths everywhere. The aliens there were also blind."

Nian: "Hey, that's true, that's how it is."

Li Lin looked disgusted: "Just now, I saw a strange creature called a nymph."

Nian Zuo looked surprised: "Wow, that's not simple."

Li Lin: "Of course! It's a big worm with dozens of tentacles under its belly digging in the mud in the woods. It looks like it's starving."

Nian: "Looks like they're starving."

Li Lin: "I guessed so. Well, I'm a kind person and can't stand seeing it eat vegetarian food, so I added some ingredients to it."

Nian asked in surprise, "Oh ho, so you're actually a kind person?"

Li Lin: "Of course, I went over in the dark to pet its head, and fed it stones while petting it. You have to say, this is the real yellow banner of the forest. When it puts these big stones in its mouth, it crunches and crunches and tastes really good."

Nian feigned fear and put her hand to her mouth, asking, "Ah—this stone, can I eat it?"

Li Lin waved his hand: "He can eat! No wonder he's a member of the Forest Plain Yellow Banner. What are Kosich and Haisi like? If they were in the Forest Plain, they'd be begging outside the Fifth Ring Road. He ate all the stones I had in my pocket. The little guy is greedy. He's never eaten meat before. His tentacles were just scratching at me a moment ago."

Talulah and Lyudmila looked on, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.

Li Lin continued, "Then I thought to myself, this won't do. I've come to the woods, so I should bring you some local specialties. I won't feed it. But I also thought that the boss of the woods is the Sichen Moth, and I can't do this in front of Him."

Nian clicked his tongue and said, "That's not easy."

Li Lin proudly pointed his finger: "So I called for Sister Furnace, the head of our training ground. I told that little worm, 'When Lord Sichen is handling matters, the child shouldn't cause trouble.' As soon as I said that, the child crawled away."

Nian: "Heh, quite well-behaved."

Li Lin: "I was just wondering about this when something commotion broke out in the woods."

Nian: "What's wrong now?"

Li Lin: "A bunch of moths came out of the woods and said that I fed some food to a child and made him sick."

Nian clapped his hands: "It was perfectly fine just now!"

Li Lin: "Yeah, it was eating so deliciously just now that it even ate the stone I was sitting on. The woodland moths wouldn't have it and insisted that I stay there."

Nian looked at him suspiciously: "What are you doing?"

Li Lin: "When I asked, they planned to make me their child groom. The fluttering moths said that the Yellow Flower Bug's innocence couldn't be ruined like this, and they wanted me to take responsibility."

Nian glanced at him sideways: "Then why did you run out?"

Li Lin grinned mischievously and leaned in to touch Nian's small hand: "I just can't bear to part with you."

Nian laughed and cursed, "Get lost!"

The two audience members looked at each other in bewilderment. Lyudmila chuckled, while Talulah looked somewhat puzzled.

"Is it funny?" Little Dragon Girl asked Lyudmila.

"I find it very interesting... What's wrong?" Lyudmila was completely unaware that Talulah's face had darkened.

Xiaolongnu took a deep breath and decided to give Lyudmila a hard time when they got back.

Fortunately, after being immersed in traditional art for a while, the group, who had become a little estranged due to the short separation, returned to their original state.

"At least we've confirmed one thing: this place seems to be on the border of Mansu. Although Sichen's power can cover this area, it's limited. In short, even though there is protection here, we still shouldn't casually utter Sichen's name."

The immortal said solemnly.

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Talulah nodded, then suddenly saw Li Lin puffing out his cheeks and blowing bubbles into the air. Just as she was about to say something, a square bubble slowly emerged from Li Lin's mouth.