Chapter 25: The Flying Mechanical Slime Wants a Pet

Yi Bai, who had swept away a large number of abyss monsters, was now trapped in a more depressing environment.

The blue sky was dotted with a creepy dark red, and the ground seemed to have no end. It was littered with monsters he brought with him and space cracks one after another.

So troublesome...

Yibai thought that he could leave this space at any time, but he could not guarantee that these monsters would not follow the connection between spaces and tear open the rift again to return to Teyvat.

There is no guarantee that the people who released these monsters will not stop until their goals are achieved.

...At least let's solve these problems first before leaving.

Yi Bai glanced at his God's Eye and directly used the elemental explosion that had accumulated energy.

The sky was filled with mist-like water vapor that covered a large number of monsters. Along with large-scale defense reduction debuffs and direct damage, the monsters' health dropped by one third.

Countless long water vines gathered from Yi Bai's palms, wrapped around his wrists and fingertips, and quickly rushed towards the weakened monsters.

The strangulation of the vines seemed precise and ruthless. With Yi Bai's indifferent expression, surrounding the center of all the water flows, the abyss monsters within the radius of the vines' attack range had been swept away.

The dark purple curse on the vines was also completely eliminated by the purifying power of the water mist. As Yi Bai gestured, they were injected with a biting coldness, and finally stabbed out in the surroundings like countless ice spears, piercing through the enemies in all directions in the distance.

Huh... Yi Bai slowed down. The elemental power brought by the Eye of God had been consumed to a certain extent, and about half of the monsters had been dealt with. If it continued at this speed...

Suddenly, a new space rift opened up right behind Yi Bai, and a huge dark golden claw swung out, grabbing the tiny human in front of him.

Approaching, piercing.

But all that remained was a water-shaped phantom that did not cause any ripples.

Yi Bai, who had already left the spot, looked at the giant beast. Regardless of his violently beating heart, the corners of his mouth raised, revealing a smile of enlightenment.

He said worriedly, "Do you want me to die, or do you want to see something?"

No one answered, only the giant beast rolled up the rock wind again and swirled towards him.

If it is not necessary, Yi Bai does not want to use the power of rules. No one knows whether he will encounter more urgent situations in the future that will require the power of rules.

He must reserve enough balance for himself to pay for the next plan and to accumulate the energy to finally end everything and send himself back home.

He gathered the mist again and poured it towards the giant beast. Yi Bai, who had used the health bar visualization, realized the horror of this elemental explosion - after reducing the defense, the monster's health still dropped by about one third.

He curled his lips slightly. Is this the tyranny of the rules...? Is he some kind of Abyss Saint? It seems that... at least his Abyss usage rate will not be low.

A new round of outbreaks began again. The vines entangled the king beast's body, restraining its desire to charge, but he broke free with his roar.

As the lord of the beastly wolves, he will strive for a name for himself... The rifts are constantly opening, and it summons countless hidden claws of alien beasts to dissolve space for it, attempting to flatten the tiny human beings and the fragile land.

Looking at Yi Bai who was almost standing there in a daze and the large number of abyss beasts rushing out with their fangs and claws bared.

A cold and regretful sigh came faintly from the space:

"Can't you do it..."

…

On the other side, on Tevarin's back, the atmosphere among the five people was slightly silent.

Although he knew that traveling was always like this, and that he would say goodbye to countless companions and then start over again, Sora still felt worried about the soft, cute and mysterious boy.

He clasped his hands behind his back and looked absentmindedly at the azure sky and the white clouds.

Paimon approached from behind and asked doubtfully:

"Sora, your wings..."

"Um?"

Sora came to his senses and suddenly realized that the wings were still on his back!!

The blue and white feathers were gathered and hung down obediently behind the body. Kong was confused for a moment. It seemed that it sensed Kong's desire to break away from the wings. At the center of the wings, a water-attributed slime quietly gathered.

The flapping wings also turned into a point of light and dissipated in the wind. The tiny slime blinked its eyes, hopped around from behind, and dived into Sora's arms.

Kong was a little stiff. He gently lifted up the crystal-like little slime and asked in a low voice: "...Yi Bai?"

The slime didn't react at all, but just slid slightly in Sora's palm, as if expressing affection.

Wendy heard the sound and turned to look over.

Paimon's eyes widened, he pulled Wendy's collar and asked:

"Wendy, what is this...?"

"Hmm..." The bard thought for a moment, then stretched out his finger and pressed Jingying's little slime.

But the slime still didn't react and simply blinked.

“It doesn’t seem to be Yi Bai…

It doesn't have the intelligence that a living creature should have, and its reactions are even worse than those of a common water slime."

Wendy explained softly:

"If I were to make an analogy... it feels more like a mechanical slime that has been given a fixed program. It will only approach the air after its wings fall off, wait to be collected, and then simply blink its eyes."

Paimon asked anxiously, "Then... did Yi Bai leave this to convey some message to us?"

Kong carefully picked up the water slime and turned it over gently, but didn't see anything special.

Wendy looked at the cute little slime and said after thinking:

"I can feel that it contains a kind of energy. If I'm not mistaken, when you want to use it again, you just need to let it drill into your back, and it may give you the ability to fly to a certain height and time."

Sora was silent for a moment: "That is to say..."

Wendy smiled:

"Perhaps this is simply a gift from Xiaobai for you."

“Ahhhhhh I’m going to make a scene! My little Bai!”

"How can this be! Where is the script?! I have been enduring this for so long!"

"It's already this late, you still want to strike back, right?"

"Although I know that Xiaobai should be fine, but..."

"Vendy can't guarantee that Xiaobai is okay! There are so many abyss monsters, and there are still monsters escaping from the space rifts..."

"I can only trust Wendy. Since the scriptwriter didn't mention the knife directly, it should mean we can still meet."

"After all, there are still so many mysteries about Yi Bai that have not been revealed. There will definitely be more plots later. He hasn't even entered the pool yet."

"I was really scared when Ibai turned into a slime. I almost thought he really sacrificed himself..."

"I don't care. I want to send razor blades, razor blades, razor blades."

"He still remembers to give us gifts..."

"Oh, I'm really in love with you."

"There were a lot of comments asking for these wings before...but they didn't tell me this is how to give them to me!"

"Now it's good. It sounds like these wings are quite useful. Hum, now every time you open these wings, you will remember the cute little white that was swept away..."

"..."

"Your intentions are sinister!!"

"And that little water slime is so cute, I put it right into my backpack."

"Ahhh my Shiro! Bursting into tears!!!"

In the independent space, Yi Bai, who felt a large amount of rule power rushing into his body, finally raised his head. With a proud smile, he looked at the monsters that were pressing down on him like mountains.

He said softly: "That should be about right now."

He stretched out his hand, and the remaining mist after the elemental explosion, combined with the large bursts of pale blue starlight, gave the entire space a dreamlike atmosphere, but the light spot carried a strong and irresistible force of rules.

They fell, tilted, and merged into all the monsters in the space.

As the rules took effect, the monsters gradually restrained their ferocious nature. They stopped in confusion, looking at the dark sky dotted with blood red and the dilapidated, pitted gray ground around them.

The huge golden king beast subconsciously retracted its giant claws that were about to swing at the boy, took two steps back with guilt and confusion, and let out a low roar in a lowered voice.

Yi Bai stood there, his blue pupils deep and calm.

He looked into the hidden space in the distance and spoke slowly:

"After all this trouble, is this what you wanted to see, [Golden] Rhinedot?"

The space in the distance split, and the woman with long golden hair stepped out of the space step by step. She teleported to a place not far above the ground and looked at the calm but young human in front of her.

"You know what I want?"

Yi Bai straightened his sleeves and ignored the pitiful giant beast crawling on the ground. He spoke:

"Whether it's Durin of the Snow Mountain, Brother Albedo, Mondstadt's chief alchemist, or Melusin, who was born from the corpse of Erinas and can live in peace with humans..."

"Isn't it obvious what you want?"

The woman was silent for a moment, then she looked up at Yi Bai:

"Few people know this. You surprised me a little."

Yi Bai did not explain, his voice was calm, as if he had known the ending from the beginning, but he continued:

"Then, do you want to dissect me and continue your alchemy research... or let me go and wait for me to grow to the point where you need me?"

Rheindot sighed:

"You are really an amazing little guy..."

"From the very beginning, from the moment you contacted Albedo and told him that you could handle his loss of control, I wanted to capture you and conduct a thorough study."

Yi Bai didn't react. He looked at this alchemy "witch" who was sometimes crazy and sometimes gentle.

"Unfortunately, Alice stopped me. She said... you are her precious daughter's new best friend. There is really no other way. I can only give up this idea for the time being."

But now, looking at this little guy's insightful words and calm attitude, she began to wonder if he was deliberately planning to make friends with Klee first and then approach her child Albedo?

Yi Bai didn't have much to say. He didn't care what Rhinedot's final plan was or whether her position was good or bad.

Since he chose to go to such great lengths to use a large number of rules to change the perception of the abyss monsters, there must be some conspiracy behind it.

He looked at the huge but obedient and confused golden beast beside him, and initiated a trade request to Rhinedot not far away:

"So, can I have this dog?"