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"Then do you know Ba Che?"

Hearing this extremely familiar, even unforgettable, name, Osel looked at Lu Xiu in surprise.

"Why are you asking Ba Che?"

Seeing Osel's surprised expression, Lu Xiu knew he had asked the right person.

Sure enough, it would be faster to wake up Osiel directly than to wait for a reply from Tartaglia.

"I need her help with something."

"help?"

Upon hearing this, Osel immediately became alert and looked Lu Xiu up and down with narrowed eyes. A human who summoned a wither beat him up, and now the human who controlled him suddenly came looking for his wife. What good could come of this?

"Even if I tell you the specific reason, you still don't understand. Just tell me if you know where she is."

Osel hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

For no other reason than that he wanted to free Ba ​​Che from the seal. He himself had already escaped from the seal, but his wife was still sealed in the deep and invisible sea.

"She is also sealed in the sea area of ​​​​Guyun Pavilion, but it is a little far away from the formation that sealed me."

This gave Lu Xiu a headache. If he had known this information earlier, he should have taken advantage of that time to get rid of Ba Che. In that case, he would have unlocked the block permissions by now.

But now that things have come to this, there is no time to rush.

Anyway, we are just one step away from unlocking the permissions, so a little delay is okay.

Now that he had magic crystal ore as a substitute for diamonds, and could also make an enchantment table, it was just right for him to replace all his equipment, get a full set of protection level 4, and enchant his weapons, making it easier to deal with Qi Ba Che.

Although he has Osel in his hands, Osel is now seriously injured. He is obviously not enough to face another demon. In the end, he will probably have to go into battle himself, so it is better to be fully prepared.

Faced with Lu Xiu's request, Osel could not and would not refuse. He took this opportunity to rescue Ba Che!

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At the edge of the harbor of Liyue Harbor, Tartaglia returned here after disguising himself. It was raining at this time. He stood at the harbor holding a black umbrella as if waiting for someone.

In the rain, a small boat quietly docked at the shore. Tartaglia looked at the style of the boat, walked forward a few steps, and looked into the cabin of the boat.

Under his gaze, a young man in a coat and a half-mask on his face bent over and walked out of the cabin. He walked to Dartalia in the rain without an umbrella, with a smile of complacency on his lips.

"Sir, I didn't expect you to ask me for help. It's really surprising."

Chapter 4: The Doctor: Behind the portal must be Lu Xiu's lair! (K chapters)

"To be honest, I don't want to look for you either. After all, I can't get along with people like you."

Facing the arrival of reinforcements, Tartaglia's attitude was not very good, and one could even see a bit of disdain for this "reinforcement" in his eyes.

"Don't say that. Haven't we had several pleasant experiences of working together on missions before?"

The man didn't care about Tartaglia's bad attitude at all. He walked to under Tartaglia's umbrella with a gentle smile on his face, but his tone of voice revealed an unquestionable arrogance.

"Let's go. It's not easy to chat in the rain."

Tartaglia tutted in dissatisfaction, but when he thought about the fact that he needed help from the other party, he chose to obediently lead the other party towards the North Country Bank.

The two of them shared an umbrella as they walked along the streets of Liyue. Although it was raining heavily, there were still many vendors on both sides of the street shouting out their wares. The older people were sitting in various shops chatting, while the younger generation of men and women were laughing and joking as they lingered in front of the stalls holding umbrellas.

"Liyue is truly a wonderful country. No wonder the [Rich] are so obsessed with it. If we conduct experiments here, I'm sure we'll get good feedback, right?"

"Doctor, I advise you to be more restrained." Tartaglia looked at him coldly and said to him with a hint of sarcasm, "Although there are many ancient relics left in Liyue, they are not only left behind by dead things, but also powerful immortals."

The doctor, however, looked indifferent, as if he didn't take what Tartaglia said to heart at all.

"Sir, gods and immortals are merely creatures with strong bodies. No matter how powerful they are, they cannot go against common sense. Everything in the world has long been restricted by established rules, and I will be the one to comprehend and utilize these rules."

"is it?"

Tartaglia originally wanted to tell the doctor about Lu Xiu, a person who existed against common sense, but seeing his arrogant attitude, he felt a little uncomfortable.

"Doctor, is this your original body or some slice of it?"

"Oh, every age group's 'slice' is me, why are you asking that?"

"It's okay, just curious."

At this moment, the smile on Tartaglia's face became extremely bright. Since it was just slicing, there would be no psychological burden in cheating him.

However, the mission comes first, so he will still say what he needs to say. As for how much he says...it all depends on his mood.

After walking for a while, the two arrived at the location of the Northland Bank. The doctor looked at the closed door of the Northland Bank. This unexpected situation made him frown.

"What's going on? The Northland Bank is actually closed. It should be open at this hour. For the Roosters and the Rich, losing even a second of profit would make them beat their chests in grief. You're closing the Northland Bank like this. Aren't you worried about them asking questions?"

"There's nothing I can do about this. Come in and take a look yourself."

Tartaglia pushed open the door of the Northland Bank and gestured for the doctor to come in. The doctor walked in with some suspicion. The first thing that caught his eye was the artificially dug underground passage in the middle of the hall, which looked like a staircase.

"You chiseled it?"

The doctor subconsciously turned his head and asked Tartaglia beside him.

Tartaglia rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Come on, why would I dig this if I have nothing better to do? Do you think I have a lot of free time? Besides, if I dig a tunnel like this in the hall, I'll have to pay for it myself. I'm not that stupid."

"That means it was someone outside who dug this hole open. If I remember correctly, there's something like an interrogation room down there, right? What were those people here for?"

"No, according to witnesses, those people appeared out of thin air."

Tartaglia closed the umbrella, shook off the water droplets on it towards the door, then put it aside and closed the door of the Northland Bank.

"Let's go down and show you something."

Tartaglia bent down first and walked into the tunnel leading downwards, and the doctor followed behind him.

After going down to the basement, Tartaglia went straight to the previous interrogation room and led the doctor in.

"Look, this is what I want you to see."

Tartaglia pointed at the extinguished hell portal in the interrogation room, looking at the deep purple obsidian in the dim room, which gave people the illusion of staring into the abyss.

"Never-before-seen substances..."

After the doctor expanded his elemental vision and observed the obsidian for a few seconds, a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes. He walked over quickly and raised his hand to touch it carefully.

"I advise you not to touch it."

At this moment, Tartaglia spoke up and reminded him, "Earlier, I ordered some Fatui to chisel off this eyesore and take it away. As a result, one unlucky person accidentally touched this strange stone, and his hand was burned by the eyes."

"is it?"

The doctor just replied lightly, but his hands continued to move. He ignored Tartaglia's warning and pressed his palm on the obsidian.

Suddenly, the chilling sizzling sound of frying meat was heard. A burst of eyes rolled in the gap between the doctor's palm and the obsidian, and one could even faintly smell the aroma of meat.

Even Tartaglia couldn't help but look painful and took a half step back when he saw the doctor's crazy behavior.

But the doctor seemed to feel no pain, and the excitement in his eyes became more and more intense. After a while, he withdrew his palm that had been burned to a charred color and excitedly told about his discovery.

"It feels icy cold to the touch, yet it can burn my palm... It also contains a large amount of fire element. This is a completely new substance I've never seen before. How did it appear here?"

Tartaglia pressed his head in silence and sighed, "I just said that those who dug the tunnel suddenly appeared here, and it was this portal that helped them get here. This portal also appeared out of thin air, but now they have extinguished it."

"Oh? Who are the 'they' you are talking about?" The doctor became interested when he heard that the portal was opened out of thin air under the Northland Bank by someone else.

"Lu Xiu, a man who appeared out of nowhere, and Zhongli from Wangsheng Hall and the hall master Hu Tao."

"Okay, I'll just take note of these names for now. Let's talk about something else first."

The doctor pulled a chair over and sat down, crossed his legs, put his hands on his thighs, and looked up at Tartaglia who was still standing.

"Don't you want to sit down and talk?"

Tartaglia also pulled a chair over and sat down, getting straight to the point: "Osel has been kidnapped."

The doctor's fingers trembled on his thighs, his expression still as impassive as before. "So this is some explosive news right off the bat? Who took him away? I doubt it was the Liyue immortals or Morax. They painstakingly sealed Osel in Lonely Cloud Pavilion a thousand years ago. They can't possibly have taken him away now."

"Well, the person who took Osel away was the Lu Xiu I mentioned to you earlier."

"It's him again?"

The doctor originally thought that Lu Xiu was just a minor character, and even the summoning of the portal might have been done by two other people. It turned out that he was able to capture Osel, so his inference was wrong.

Tartaglia continued, "He first summoned a terrifying creature from the formation that sealed Osel, severely injuring him. Then he attacked the two monsters simultaneously, and finally captured Osel. That's roughly what happened."

Although what Tartaglia said was brief, it was detailed enough.

"But I have a question. Why do you know so much? Did you realize from the beginning that something was wrong with that guy named Lu Xiu?"

The doctor looked at Tartaglia with some suspicion. How could a martial arts fanatic like him have such a brain? Could this be the so-called martial arts intuition?

"Of course not." Tartaglia said calmly, "Because I was the one who took him to find Osel."

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Even the usually calm Doctor couldn't help but cough violently when he heard that it was Tartaglia who personally led Lucius to find Osiel and successfully ruined his own plan.

After taking a few breaths to calm himself down, the doctor raised his head and asked Tartaglia with a frown, "Did you do this on purpose or by accident?"

Tartaglia blushed and awkwardly hooked his cheek with his index finger. "I didn't know he had this ability, so I called you to help, didn't I?"

The doctor looked at Tartaglia deeply, and finally sighed helplessly: "Okay, so if you have any information now, it's best to tell us all at once."

"Also, my backup target, Ba Che, has also been targeted by Lu Xiu. However, I told him to wait for a while. He has no other choice but to rely on me to find Ba Che."

"So, we need to deal with the Ba Che before we start repairing the road, right?"

The doctor heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this. "Fortunately, I arrived just in time. Although Ba Che is much weaker than Osel, I happen to have a technique that can enhance her strength. I can also use her as an experiment to pave the way for my future plans."

"What's the next plan?" Tartaglia was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, "It's the project with the Sanbing, right?"

"Huh? How did you know?"

The doctor squinted at Tartaglia. He had never mentioned this project to anyone except the Skirmishers, especially other executives, because this plan would likely lead to opposition from within the Fatui and even from Her Majesty the Queen.

Tartaglia spread his hands and said, "Last time, when I was about to challenge that brat Sanbing, I overheard you guys chatting for a bit. But all I heard was that you were conducting an experiment to make Sanbing extremely powerful, but because of a lack of something, the experiment has been stagnant. So, is there something you're missing?"

"Don't worry about that. You just need to get Morax's Heart of God."

Seeing that Tartaglia had only heard the basics of the plan, the doctor felt relieved.

"Please arrange for more people to help me prepare some equipment and materials over the next two days. Once the preparations are completed, you can go find Ba Che."

The doctor then informed Tartaglia of the names of some of the instruments and materials needed. Tartaglia nodded and carefully wrote them down in the notebook.

"That's all, right?"

Tartaglia stopped writing and handed the small notebook filled with a whole page to the doctor. The doctor took it, took a look at it, and returned it.

"Well, just prepare according to the instructions."

"Okay, just a little thing. I'll have it ready for you in a minute."

Tartaglia casually called one of his men, handed him a notebook and asked him to prepare the materials, then turned to look at the doctor.

"So are you going to start preparing now?"

"Do not."

The doctor suddenly stood up from his chair and walked over to the extinguished portal to Hell. "Now I'm more interested in this portal. Since you said it suddenly appeared here, it means that the other party has no control over where it leads to. Combined with this, it seems that the other party went somewhere first to complete their business and then used this portal to return."

"It's very likely that the other party went to another dimension. Otherwise, there would be no need to use such a random portal. I'm curious about where the person who was able to capture Oser had been before."

The doctor came to the portal to hell, squatted down, and looked at the obsidians carefully, trying to find some pattern from them, especially the way these obsidians were placed. Why did they have to be placed in the shape of a rectangle?

There must be some pattern here!

Tartaglia also walked to the doctor's side and squatted in front of the hell portal, imitating him.

"But, do you know how to light this portal?"

"I don't know, but everything in the world must have its own laws."

The doctor looked down at his left hand which was burned black, and suddenly he understood.

"Hmph, there's a large amount of fire element inside, so I guess it wasn't ignited by repelling elements. It's more likely to be fire element."