Genshin Impact: A Mortal's Ascension to Godhood

Missing Eternity (Part 1)

After the ship carrying Li Tao arrived at Liyue Harbor, he was surprised to find that the dock was packed with people. There were not only reporters and officials from Liyue Harbor, but also idle people who came from nowhere to watch the fun, and two of the Liyue Seven Stars themselves who came here in person - they were Tianquan Star Ningguang and Yuheng Star Keqing, who Li Tao was familiar with in the game.

Oh, the girl with short blue hair and black horns with red stripes in the crowd, it seems that Yue Haiting’s secretary Wang Xiaomei is here too.

What happened today? All the famous bosses of Liyue came to Liyue Harbor?

Li Tao hadn't realized that this was all thanks to the Emperor. Although Xiao would never show up at such an event, the message the Marines sent back to Liyue said it all. The Emperor personally intervened, so wasn't this something that the Liyue government should pay attention to?

Of course, Li Tao and other members of the Marine Aid Team only looked at those noble figures from a distance, and were arranged to get off the ship to receive the reward for this mission. This time, the Liyue government also spent a lot of money. The Marine Aid Team members who can complete the mission and return to Liyue will be given a mission bounty of 5 million Mora. If they are unfortunately killed or injured in the mission, the casualty subsidy will be increased by 3 to 4 million Mora, and the insurance company with life insurance will be ordered to pay the corresponding insurance money immediately.

Moreover, the three groups with different divisions of labor in the Haiyuan Team have different bounties, and different levels of personnel also have different levels of rewards. Li Tao calculated it himself. After deducting taxes, he could get a total of about 9.5 million Mora, which directly made him a member of the Liyue middle class. As for why he was a member of the middle class, this money was enough for Li Tao to live a very carefree life, but he couldn't buy a big house on the bustling streets of Liyue Harbor. According to the housing prices in Liyue Harbor, he could only buy a small shop of 50 to 60 square meters, but this was already very arrogant.

All in all, the Liyue government spent hundreds of millions of dollars to pay the marine aid team, and the Maritime Department was going to bleed a lot. Because the Seven Stars could not pay the lion's share, and each department could only pay some pensions at most, and the Maritime Department was the organizer and executor of this mission. After the mission was successful, whether it was the pressure of paying the money or the subsequent responsibilities of the mission, it would be the Maritime Department that had to deal with it.

Li Tao didn't think about these things for the time being. Because after he, Jiang Miao and Shanhai from another ship got off the ship, they were happily welcomed back to the Adventurer's Association by the adventurers guarding the port, and the others had already prepared a celebration banquet for them.

So the host and the guests had a great time again. At the banquet, Li Tao and the other two told the adventurers the story of this adventure - the senior adventurers all lamented the difficulty of this mission, the new adventurers were both envious and afraid, and the Liyue adventurer veterans like Sister Lan, Xiao Qian and Tian Tian started to give people chicken soup... After drinking, the adventurers began to while away the time in a more restrained way, playing cards and chess in the association until late at night, and then left one after another.

Li Tao, one of the guests of honor at the banquet, also saw off the last few adventurers. He felt a little dizzy and found Sister Lan, who was also drunk and had red cheeks. He asked her for the key to the Adventurer's Association's regular room, returned to the room, fell headfirst on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.

......

The next day.

Because of his restraint, Li Tao did not drink too much - although he was used to talking and drinking with adventurers, he had consciously paid attention to his living habits since the last time he got drunk. Therefore, after Li Tao woke up, he felt warm all over and had no discomfort. He washed up as usual, and during this time he began to think about how to spend the money.

"I still have to buy a house... But forget about buying a house in Liyue Harbor. It's expensive and not cost-effective. It's better to build a good one outside. At worst, I can go to Qingce Manor, but that's too far from the association..."

Li Tao wanted to buy a house not because the real estate certificate could be used to change his Liyue household registration, but because it was one of the non-essential conditions for the adventurer class upgrade. As the saying goes, the proletariat has no perseverance. Many adventurers have the courage and energy to adventure when they have no place to live, but this also forces them to rely on the assistance of the Adventurer Association. Once they become [Association Assisted Adventurers], they must unconditionally accept some tasks issued by the Adventurer Association and cannot refuse - this was what Li Tao did before. As an [Association Assisted Adventurer], you must complete certain indicators to continue to live in the association for free. Once an [Association Assisted Adventurer] achieves economic freedom, he can buy a house and get rid of the identity of [Association Assisted Adventurer]. Over time, adventurers jokingly said that buying a house is one of the conditions for becoming a [Senior Adventurer].

I have to say here that there are [experienced adventurers] in the Adventurer's Association, but it is not good to live in the Association all the time, because there is no canteen here, and adventurers have to find food in nearby restaurants; there is no place to take a shower, and if an adventurer in the Association wants to take a shower, he can either go to the bathhouse or buy a bucket to boil water himself. So there are many troubles in the rooms in the Association, it is better to rent or buy a room by yourself, but the cost-effectiveness of renting a room is sometimes not as good as living in the Association...

Whenever thinking about these things, Li Tao would always think of the scene when he was looking at the dormitories of various companies on the eve of his graduation. At that time, he was also constantly weighing the choice between renting a house and living in a dormitory... It was really "so similar".

However, when Li Tao walked out of the room and was about to see where the house prices were lower, he got a letter from Sister Lan - the person who wrote the letter was actually Wan Ye, with whom he had a good relationship during the bandit suppression mission.

The letter said:

"Brother Li:

I am the boatswain of the Southern Cross Fleet, Wanye. I am currently living in a room on the second floor of the Blue Corner Foot House in Liyue Harbor. The fleet I am staying in is still sailing on the sea, but I will return to the fleet soon. Before leaving Liyue Harbor and returning to the sea, there is something I want to ask you for help. It is a commission from the fishermen..."

In the letter, Wan Ye explained the situation in detail. It turned out that after the Liyue high-level officials took back the Sea Aid Team with great fanfare yesterday, the people in the Sea Aid Team became a little famous in Liyue, including Wan Ye and Li Tao. Even the porters at the Liyue Harbor docks knew the names of these adventuring heroes, and even the fact that Li Tao had carried bags at the docks before was revealed.

At this time, several fishermen who heard about the heroes' deeds came to Manye and wanted to entrust him with something. They wanted Manye to collect some flowers for them to commemorate their relatives and friends who were kidnapped by pirates and turned into meat.

However, although Wan Ye has a high level of cultural and artistic accomplishment, is good at swordsmanship, and is an awakened Wind God's Eye, he is not very familiar with Liyue's biological environment. Moreover, he has been at sea for a long time and has not been in contact with flowers and other things, so he is a little at a loss. At the same time, Wan Ye also explained to them that they should not look for him if they have a commission, but should go to the Adventurer Association. But the fishermen did not listen, and just kept saying that they did not believe that Liyue could help them fulfill their wishes, so they only wanted to entrust Wan Ye to complete this matter. Wan Ye was pestered and had no choice but to write a letter to Li Tao, hoping that as an adventurer, he would give him some advice or come to help him.

After understanding the whole story, Li Tao was a little amused, but he knew that this kind of thing was indeed within the scope of the Adventurer Association's business. So he did not reply to the letter, but directly picked up the letter, found the illustrations of relevant materials in the association's library, and then went to the port with the book under his arm.