Genshin Impact: Funina's Official Pastry Chef

Looking at the bustling crowd in front of them, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and their originally hanging hearts were finally able to put their minds at ease.

For them, what they had just experienced was more or less...a little too dangerous.

Paimon looked at the crowd in front of him, took a deep breath, then turned to look at Chang Ming and Funina and asked:

"Chang Ming, Fu Nina, what on earth was that monster we just encountered? Why did it suddenly appear?"

Hearing Paimeng's question, Chang Ming raised his head slightly, as if he was thinking about the question, and replied after a while.

"Strictly speaking...the armor just now is not a monster in the traditional sense. They are also one of the things left behind by Lemuria."

"W-what?! Doesn't this mean... that big guy just now is also an antique from the Lemurian era?!"

"That's understandable. After all, the consciousness that should have existed in the stone statue has long been worn away by time and gradually replaced by those evil thoughts."

"After being replaced by evil thoughts... they became monsters in the true sense of the word and were no longer Lemurians."

Chang Ming's words left Paimeng silent, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.

Although they had seen armor with human consciousness before, the Black Snake Knights they had seen before at least had some remaining will, but these guys...

It is pure destruction, a true monster.

As if sensing that the atmosphere was not right, Ying turned her head slightly to look at Funina beside her and asked softly:

"By the way, according to common sense...this matter shouldn't alarm you, Funina, right? Why do you suddenly want to get involved in this matter?"

Ying asked a question that had been in her mind since she met Funina.

Every god she had met so far was not as simple as they seemed.

And she didn't quite believe... that the Water Demon would come and get involved in this matter simply because she was worried about her subordinates. She must have some other purpose.

When suddenly called, Funina was stunned for a moment, as if she was thinking about how to answer.

There was no way she would say something like "I want to investigate the history of the Lemurian period to see if I can find some solution to the prophecy."

Because once such words are spoken...it confirms from another perspective that "the water god is helpless against prophecies."

——If you already have a solution, why keep looking for it?

After thinking for a while, Funina turned her eyes to Chang Ming and said immediately:

"Ahem, you just came to Fontaine and you may not understand the importance of Chang Ming yet."

"Ever since Chang Ming became the regent, he has been involved in all matters big and small at Fontaine, and this situation has lasted for nearly five hundred years."

"If something happens to him, Fontaine's operating system will be completely paralyzed within three days, and it will take three months to recover in the best possible condition."

"As the god served by Chang Ming and the owner of Fontaine, I naturally cannot allow such a thing to happen in the country I govern."

After hearing Funina's explanation, Paimeng nodded as if he understood, then turned his gaze to Chang Ming beside him, looking him up and down.

"Wow... So this is why Chang Ming has been working overtime, even on his days off?"

"Oh, right! I have always wanted to ask Chang Ming a question. The labor law you yourself promoted prohibits the people of Fontaine from working excessive overtime, but why do you work overtime every day?"

"Wouldn't this... be illegal?"

Paimon's words instantly aroused Ying's interest, and her golden eyes stared at Chang Ming in front of her with some curiosity, as if she was expecting his answer.

And Funina also secretly focused her attention on Chang Ming. After all, she also wanted to know...how this regent who knew the law but broke it would deal with such a problem.

Feeling the curious or expectant gazes of the crowd, Chang Ming suddenly felt his face stiffen. After thinking for a while, he said:

"To be precise... labor laws do not protect me because I am not a true... Fontaine person."

“Huh?! Could it be that Chang Ming is really from Liyue?!”

Paimon asked in surprise.

"Well... that's not the case. I have lived in Fontaine since I can remember. The key point is... the word "people" at the end."

Chang Ming stretched out his index finger and scratched his face, then continued:

"According to the Fontaine Law, there are only two races that can be defined as Fontaine people: one is human, and the other is Melusin."

"I am neither a human nor a Melusin, so... I am not protected by the Fontaine Law in terms of my identity."

Hearing this, the corners of Ying and Paimeng's mouth twitched, as if they didn't know what to say about the answer given by Chang Ming.

"Uh... That's an unexpected answer..."

Paimon scratched his head and complained quietly.

After a brief silence, Chang Ming raised his head slightly and said:

"In that case, we will return to Momang Palace first. I will ask you two to bring Claude here later. We will discuss this matter in the reception room."

"Yes! Okay! Thank you for your hard work, Chang Ming~"

......

Fifteen minutes later, in the conference room on the second floor of Momang Palace.

After listening to the perspectives of "Boethius" represented by Chang Ming and "Cassiodoro" represented by Ying, Claude fell into deep thought.

After a while, Claude nodded slightly, then asked:

"That is to say... Boethius's overall development path is a process of counterattack, from being bullied to becoming a major lawyer."

"Although he was ultimately controlled by the thing called Phobos, judging from his personal development path, he is indeed a rare genius."

"As for Cassiodorus... Although he is also a genius, his development path is too smooth, so that the climax of his personal experience is after the destruction of the Lemurian Dynasty..."

After saying that, Claude fell into a long silence, with a conflicted look on his face.

"With this kind of basic material...if it were a few years ago, I might have written an opera with Cassiodoro as the main character."

"His life possesses all the elements of a traditional opera: the first half of his life is stable, the middle part begins to take off, and finally he writes his own legend at the end of his life."

"But today's audiences don't like this anymore..."

Claude sighed slightly, and turned his gaze to Chang Ming, as if he was not looking at Chang Ming at this moment, but Boethius.

"Boethius' life... is what they want to see."