In the backstage warehouse of the banquet hall on the third floor.
Zhongli leisurely looked through the list of auction items drawn up from the Yinyuan Hall and sighed with interest.
"Their descendants took out everything they had at the bottom of the box."
“The introduction to the collection is also well written, and it’s quite elegant to record these trivial matters, which really puts some thought into it.”
Seeing Zhongli's nonchalant attitude, Paimon, who was originally worried that Zhongli would be angry, became more curious.
"Eh? Zhongli, do you think it doesn't matter? This is your, uh... relic?"
Paimon thought for a moment and felt that the term relic sounded a bit strange, so he hurriedly waved his hand and explained:
"I mean, these are all gifts you gave to other people. Wouldn't it be a little bit..."
Paimeng thought hard about the organizational language. She wanted to say that this behavior did not seem to respect the Rock King Emperor, but Zhongli himself had no feeling about it, and was even a little relieved.
"I understand what you mean, Paimon, but you may need to think about this from a different angle."
Zhong Li looked through the auction list, slightly bent down and lowered his gaze, and then said solemnly.
"No matter what additional value is given, objects will always be just objects, and humans have the power to price everything in the world. No matter what, as long as you and I are willing, we can trade it fairly. Mora is the fairest trader
Notes."
"Contracts are the biggest driving force for Liyue's existence and development. Rather than putting these things that have been given excess value by the gods into the treasury and shelving them all year round, I would rather they circulate in the market and perhaps create something that belongs to human beings."
own value.”
Zhongli's voice was like gurgling spring water, clear and cold, and seemed to have the power to make people's hearts peaceful.
Although Zhongli's explanation was concise enough, Paimon still looked like he didn't understand.
However, the careless little Paimon quickly put this matter behind him and went on to look through the list in his hand.
Soon, the little guy found something he was interested in. Holding the paper in his hand, he curiously flew to Zhongli's side, pointing to the pictures on the list and asking him:
"Hey! Zhongli, look at these things. What's written on them is [Emperor's Royal Panlong Chopsticks and Imitation Lacquer Glaze Bowl] [Emperor's Royal Pendant Black Stone Gold Earrings]. They all seem to be your personal belongings?"
Zhongli is not a person who expresses his emotions easily, but after seeing the paper handed over by Paimeng, he couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth slightly.
As the god of the commercial capital, countless merchants and believers would try to analyze and understand the oracles of Emperor Yanwang every day, and infer the character of the god and the future policy direction of Liyue from the clues revealed by the god of Yan in the past years.
Therefore, when Zhongli announced the Oracle and Liyue's policies for the coming year, he often had to rely on the dragon body and the Qianyan Army and the Seven Stars to maintain a sufficient sense of mystery and distance.
But even so, there are still many fanatical believers who are keen to collect items used by the emperor and are proud of them, and even happily show them off to others, hoping that one day they will be recognized and appreciated by the Rock King.
However, this kind of behavior made Zhongli quite troubled. Although he had already entrusted all his efforts to Liyue and was alone, the snooping behavior of these fanatical believers still affected the daily lives of many immortals and demi-immortals around Yan Shen.
After all, people and immortals in Liyue lived together at that time without distinguishing between each other.
"This half earring was originally a gift from General Xin Yuan. It was accidentally lost during the Guili flood. I never expected to see it here..."
Zhongli looked at the introduction on the list and seemed to be recalling some past events. He was silent for a moment before explaining a few words.
While Paimon was talking to Zhongli, the traveler had already carefully read through the list of lots in his hand. In order to confirm the authenticity and details of the lots, he also opened many wooden boxes with specific numbers for inspection.
Although the Xumi-shaped object mentioned by Zhongli was not found, Yingmei, who used her little brains, made a bold guess:
"Mr. Zhongli, there must be some special reason why Yinyuan Hall collects these collections?"
"When Paimon and I were adventuring, we would occasionally find some holy relics. The will and memory of the former holder would be lodged on the items, forming a treasure with powerful power..."
Yingmei looked at Zhongli with her amber eyes, waiting for him to answer.
"As expected of a traveler across the sea of stars." Zhongli did not deny the traveler's statement, and even nodded appreciatively, "But what we are looking for is not a holy relic. What's more, the power of the holy relic must be exercised through people.
Without the human medium, no matter how powerful the holy relic is, it cannot function."
"The real function of that thing should be simpler. It is just a temporary earth line beacon used for rituals."
"Temporary leyline beacon?"
The traveler and Paimon spoke at the same time, repeating the keywords they heard.
"It's more troublesome to explain it in detail." Zhongli thought for a moment before speaking, "You can imagine the earth veins as a river that flows forever. The total water volume of this river is almost infinite. Extracting the memory of a certain period of time from the earth veins can probably
It is equivalent to using a spoon to fish out a specific spoonful of water from the sea of clouds."
"In this river, the objects that have accumulated memories are like navigation beacons on the river. Only with beacons can we determine the location of the spoonful of water and filter out impurities in the water."
Zhongli's explanation was simple and easy to understand, and after listening to the other person's explanation, Paimeng straightened up as if he suddenly understood.
"Zhongli, what you mean is... if the Yinyuan Hall wants to resurrect Heulia, it needs items related to the Salt God as beacons to filter out the memories related to the Salt Demon God from the earth's veins?"
"good."
Zhongli flipped through the list in his hand, looking up from time to time to make sure the crates were coded correctly.
"But... what is the relationship between the Salt God and Xumi?"
"And speaking of Heulia's relics... Humph, that guy Famas threw all those valuable salt rulers and cups into the salt ground of the earth..."
Mentioning the two treasures that could continuously produce snow salt, Paimeng's round little face was full of pain and sadness.
"But this should be considered a good thing, right? At least Wanyan didn't bring the Salt God's relics back to Yinyuan Hall, so..."
The traveler skillfully took the paper that Paimon had not finished reading, and opened his mouth to persuade the little Paimon who was still worried about this matter, but soon Yingmei seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly turned her gaze to the shelf standing on the shelf.
Zhongli in the corner.
"Wait a minute...Mr. Zhongli, you didn't know when you were in Salt of the Earth that Yinyuan Hall was going to use the relics of the gods to resurrect the Salt God, right?"
"Gods are not all-knowing and all-powerful, they just hit by mistake."
Zhongli shook his head and denied it, but his unfazed expression still made the traveler suspicious.
"Even if there are no Salt God relics, Yinyuan Hall can use other objects to establish earth line beacons...for example, the knowledge that the city's scholars are most proud of."
Zhongli turned to the last page of the list in his hand, folded the paper and handed it to the traveler.
The girl curiously took the list and discovered that on the paper was a picture of a bottle-shaped pottery with a special shape. The ring pattern painted on the utensil was colorful and warm. The double-ear design seemed to indicate that it should be a container used to hold items. The style was also similar to
Liyue porcelain is completely different.
"Is this the Sumeru product we are looking for?" Paimon leaned his head and asked curiously, then pointed to the number in the corner of the picture, "Well, let me see...it's container number 47!
"
As soon as Paimon finished speaking, the traveler raised his head in surprise.
Isn't this the crate that is taller than me?
After receiving the information, the three people quickly returned to the shelves. What was placed in the corner of the warehouse was the large container that was more than two meters high.
After reconfirming that the number was correct, the traveler looked at the comparison between the size of the emergency food and the crate, and suddenly had a wonderful idea: