Compared with the grand group he came with, Bai Luo was not too ostentatious when he left, and he did not bring many people with him either.
A group of people died during the diplomat incident, a group of people were killed when Diluk took the blame for Collei, and another group of people were taken away when the missionary's men left.
If Bai Luo took anyone away again, Anastasia would burst into tears.
Before these people came, she could have overwhelmed the Knights in momentum, but after the hoped-for Harbinger came, why did the Fatui suffer a serious loss?
Now even a small general manager can bully her.
She couldn't understand.
Outside Mondstadt.
"Deputy Captain Jean, Kaeya, you don't have to be so polite."
Bai Luo still chose the slime carriage, but looking at the two people leading the way in front, he really wanted to say something to them.
Not really, really not!
After learning that Bai Luo was going to Liyue, Jean and Kaeya directly mobilized half of the Favonius Knights to escort him, and they were all elite soldiers, even Eula's guerrilla squad was dispatched.
You have to know that Bai Luo only brought four Fatui with him, and they were responsible for handing over to the Fatui in Liyue. Otherwise, Bai Luo would probably choose to go alone.
"No, no, no, you deserve this."
Kaeya was fully armed and even added a piece of iron plate on top of his eye mask. It was no exaggeration to say that he was armed to the teeth.
This also makes them look like they are not protecting Bai Luo, but if Bai Luo regrets his decision halfway and chooses to go back to Mondstadt, they will kill Bai Luo along the way.
[A/N: Poor Bai Luo, He even forced someone like Jean to such actions]
Bai Luo was very moved, and then silently drew out his dagger.
The journey was smooth, there were no treasure hoarders or Hilichurls blocking the way, and there were no Fatui... Well, there were Fatui, and they were right in the center of the team.
Even monsters like the Hilichurls would tactfully hide aside when seeing a knight group of this level.
They can still distinguish who they can afford to offend and who they cannot.
After passing the Dawn Winery, the knights stopped at the stone gate. They knew that if they went any further, they would alert the Millelith Army of Liyue.
It's not that they can't defeat the Millelith Army. Even if they mobilize half of their knights, if they still can't defeat a few border guards, they will probably be laughed at.
But if a war really breaks out, it will probably turn into a diplomatic incident, which is something that neither side wants to see.
Liyue and Mondstadt are neighbors, and Morax and Barbatos are close friends. If they fight, it will embarrass each other's gods.
Speaking of these two gods...there is actually an interesting legend.
It is said that when the old nobles of Mondstadt were desperate, they once wanted to betray Mondstadt and incorporate Mondstadt into Liyue through a contract, and the price was to save their lives from Barbatos.
Little did they know that the God of Contract who signed the contract with them was actually played by Barbatos.
This idle Barbatos once tried to imitate Morax's handwriting to tease the old man next door who had not yet retired, but he never succeeded.
I didn't expect that years of hard training would finally come in handy in such a strange place.
In front of the stone gate, under the vigilant gaze of the Millelith Army, Bai Luo got off the slime carriage.
"Thank you, everyone in the Knights."
"You're welcome!"
"Thank you for your hard work in escorting us all the way."
"It's not hard!"
"See you again someday."
"Goodbye!!!"
"..."
After Bai Luo and his men entered the stone gate in Liyue, the people of Mondstadt's Knights rejoiced, and some even hugged each other and cried.
He's gone!
He finally left!
Now that the [Instructor] is gone, Mondstadt is finally saved!
Now that the instructor is gone, Mondstadt will be at peace!
Their behavior also made the border guards of Millelith Army look at Bai Luo and his companions more and more strangely.
"Hello, I am Shao Yuan from the Millelith Army! Please show us your passes, household registration certificates, business permits and other valid documents!"
A Millelith soldier named Shao Yuan took the initiative to step forward and stop Bai Luo and his group while his other colleagues were looking at each other in bewilderment.
He naturally knew the identity of the Fatui, but judging from the reactions of those people in Mondstadt, these people were probably not good people.
"Come on, Shao Yuan, you're going to be transferred back to Tianheng Mountain in the next few days, right?Jiang'er has been thinking about you for so long, don't offend the Fatui at this time!"
Sleepy, nicknamed Big Airhead, saw that Shao Yuan was so stubborn and hurried forward to remind him.
Recently, Snezhnaya and Liyue are in a honeymoon period. I heard that among the people who came from Snezhnaya, quite a few have entered the Chasm. To them, the Fatui are now friendly forces.
If he did this, he might be blamed by the coach and lose the chance to be transferred back.
Jiang'er has been in poor health since childhood. If Shao Yuan can be transferred back, it will be more convenient to take care of him. This is a position that the brothers have fought hard to obtain for him.
"You've seen the reaction of the Mondstadt people. Whether these people are the true Fatui remains to be verified. If we let any dangerous guys in... Liyue is more important than my own little family."
It can be seen that Shao Yuan also showed an expression of struggle.
Because his wife and children had been looking forward to his transfer back to Tianheng Mountain, and after finishing his post at Tianheng Mountain, he decided to resign from the Millelith Army and stay at home to treat Jiang'ers illness.
If they lost the opportunity to transfer back because of this incident, how disappointed would the mother and son be.
But no matter what, he will not regret the decision he made, just as he said.
As long as the country exists, the family will exist.
"Young men of the Millelith Army, don't be nervous. This gentleman has all the necessary documents. I can provide them for you."
The sound of footsteps could be heard, and a group of Fatui had rushed in from behind the stone gate, stopping a tragedy that was about to happen in time.
According to the progress, Bai Luo would have arrived at the same time as the Fatui sent by Liyue, but he still underestimated how much the Knights of Favonius wanted to send him out.
They basically did not stop along the way and went straight to the border.
The person who spoke was a Electro Cicin Mage. The company commander had already begun trying to explore the Chasm, and even the Tartaglia had gone in.
As an elite member of the Fatui advance team, she is by far the most suitable person to pick up Bai Luo.
Shao Yuan took the document handed over by the Electro Cicin mage and read it carefully. After confirming that it was a document signed by the Seven Stars of Liyue, he made way and let Bai Luo and his group enter Liyue.
Bai Luo took a deep look at the Millelith Army soldier, but didn't say anything. He followed the Lightning Cicin mage into the stone gate.
After they were far away from the Millelith Army, the leading Electro cicin mage and the people she brought with her saluted Bai Luo at the same time.
"A member of the Ninth Company of Fatui, the Lightning Cicin Mage Katarina Snezhevna salutes the instructor! Please give me your instructions!"
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[A/N: Does anyone else remembers the poor fate of Jiang'er and Katarina in genshin, just like the two of them, their are a lot of hidden tragedies in Genshin, which we might miss]
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ONLY READ FURTHER IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE CANON FATE OF KATARINA AND JIANG'ER. THIS IS NOT RELATED TO THE CHAPTER!!!!
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(1) Katarina's Original Fate:-
Katarina and her younger brother Nikolay were orphans raised in the Harbinger Arlecchino's House of the Hearth, where Katarina became close with fellow orphan Lyudochka Snezhevna. After they grew older, all three became members of the Fatui, with both Katarina and Lyudochka being trained as Fatui Electro Cicin Mages.
Katarina and Nikolay were members of the Ninth Company when it was dispatched to The Chasm to investigate the mysterious forces that arose after the miners discovered the Wish Granter, a fragment of the Chasm Nail that had somehow split off from the main crystal. However, the Ninth Company faced disastrous blows while attempting to address the Abyssal corruption they discovered in The Chasm, which resulted in Nikolay's disappearance when he used himself as bait to draw away monsters from the rest of the squad. Refusing to abandon her brother, Katarina elected to stay in the depths of The Chasm even after her comrades escaped to the relative safety of higher grounds.
Sometime after The Chasm's closure two years ago, and before the events of the Liyue Archon Quests, Signora made a deal with the Liyue Qixing which included a Fatui-Qixing collaboration to investigate the strange occurrences at The Chasm. The Ninth Company was dispatched to The Chasm under the impression that this operation was a mutually beneficial agreement free of any other conspiracies or objectives. Unfortunately, while that was true of their operation, the same could not be said for Tartaglia's mission (and Signora, who was using Tartaglia to complete her mission): To obtain Morax's Geo Gnosis by any means possible.[1]
Following Tartaglia's resurrection of Osial and the threat that the Fatui posed to Liyue Harbor, the Qixing nullified their prior agreements with the Fatui and cut off the Ninth Company's supply lines.[1][3] Meanwhile, the Ninth Company had met disastrous results in their investigation themselves. While they had ultimately discovered the Chasm Nail, the Mokosh Device they brought to purify the Abyssal corruption was overloaded and destroyed instead,[4] while nearly half their original 64 members were killed in action, including their Captain.[1] While searching for a path to the Chasm Nail, Katarina may have been the "Snezhevna" who rang one of the Ancient Bells in the Nameless Ruins, which caused the Abyss Lectors Egill and Agnarr to emerge from the dark fog and incur heavy casualties for the Ninth Company.[5]
In the chaos, Nikolay used himself as bait to lure their enemies away from the rest of the squad and disappeared. Refusing to abandon her brother, Katarina decided to stay in the depths of The Chasm, even as Anton and other survivors moved back to relative safety in higher ground. By this point, they realized that their supply chain had been cut, but had no way to find out what had occurred on the surface.[1][2]
Eventually, the Traveler discovered Katarina during their own investigation of The Chasm. Taking each other for enemies, the two attack each other, with the fight drawing to a close after the Traveler defeats her and she begs for them to stop. Due to the classified nature of the Fatui's operations, Katarina refuses to divulge much about their situation, when they attempt to interrogate her.[6] Eventually, however, she discloses that she had gotten lost in her search for Nikolay and asks them to search for him, or evidence of where he had disappeared to. The Traveler only found fragments of his diary and his bloodied insignia in the southern ruins at Stony Halls, and with the only path ahead blocked by fallen rocks, his survival was uncertain. Katarina thanked them for their findings and decided to go look for him.[2]
It is implied that Katarina encountered a Shadowy Husk on route to Nikolay's last known location provided by the Traveler, resulting in her leaving behind Nikolay's letter. Her fate remains unknown.[2]
(2): Little Jiang's Original Fate:
[Spoiler Alert] Dark secret behind Childish Jiang's hide & seek quest?
Many of you should have met Childish Jiang on top of a mountain and completed the hide & seek quest. You might have figured out Jiang's parents most likely died and Jiang still not realizing it due to his mental illness. There are many theories out there about the full story of Jiang's parents death, but no one knows the truth. The most common one I read online is that dad got killed by a monster on his last mission, and mom got killed by a bunch of robbers who happens to come up the mountain where they live. Could the full story be this simple, or there's more depth behind the scene? I came up with this theory based on the facts I see in the game, and this could be much darker than you think.
**Fact 1**: Jiang mentioned his dad is a Millelith (soldier of the Liyue government), and there's no one better than him at being stealthy
**Fact 2**: Jiang mentioned his dad hid a lot of stuff behind the house and didn't tell mom. However, at one point his dad told mom all the hiding spots before leaving the house. Dad must have noticed something at that point
**Fact 3**: One day mom told Jiang to play hide & seek. Jiang hid and heard loads of people came up to the mountain and mistaken them as mom's friends. Afterward, his mom went missing
**Fact 4**: Jiang's family live on top of a mountain all alone. In the note with missing pages, dad mentioned they have been living in a care and vigilance life. The note also mentioned dad planning to retire after the last mission. If the ministry deny this request, he planned to take his family away from Liyue and live a carefree life
**Fact 5**: Assuming seelie is the spirit of a dead person and the spot of seelie wandering is the place where they died, we find mom's seelie at the cliff where their gravestones are, and dad's seelie on top of Mt. Tianheng. There is an ancient robot monster in sleep mode sitting around dad's seelie spot, and will attack anyone who comes close
**Fact 6**: The Milleliths brought over Jiang's parents gravestones and put them at the spot where mom's seelie is, which could be the spot of where mom died assuming the spot of seelie wandering is the place where they died
So first of all, many questions can be raised when digging into Jiang's family background. Dad is a Millelith, which basically means he's working under the government of Liyue. For someone who works under the government, why would his family be living on top of a random mountain, not inside the city? Dad is really good at being stealth despite the fact that he is a Millelith, whose normal duty should be the city guard. What kind of a city guard needs to be good at being stealthy? Also, why does Jiang's family have to live a care and vigilance life away from the city, despite the fact that dad is working under the government? Why would dad thinking about running away from Liyue with his family if the government deny his retirement request? Why does dad's note have missing pages? Did someone tear off the important information in the notes to hide something? Dad's last mission was sent to the top of Mt. Tianheng for some reason, and presumably dad was killed by the robot monster there. The fact that the robot is still alive and starts attacking us once we get close this tells me that no one has ever defeated this robot yet. Why would the Liyue government send dad all the way up to the mountain? Why would dad tell mom about all the hiding spots with his stuff all of a sudden? Did dad notice something bad was going to / could possibly happen in the near future and told mom to run away with the important stuff in case of emergency?
So here is my theory about the full story of Jiang's family and their death. I think dad is not just any regular city guard, but an assassin or spy working under the Liyue government behind the scene. For the stuff dad does most of the time, they could be shady things that cannot be exposed to the public. In order to hide from the enemy, or for the sake of disclaiming they have nothing to do with dad if he ever got caught, Liyue government ordered Jiang's family to live in a hidden area outside the city. One day dad is thinking about retiring from his job so that he can take care of his family and live a carefree life. However, he thought about the possible consequences based on his knowledge about the government's dark side, he decided to tell mom about where he hid the important stuff, and be ready to grab them and run away with Jiang if something bad happens. That could be why dad made up his mind to run away from Liyue with his family if his retirement request got denied after his last mission.
Unfortunately, the Liyue government might have noticed dad's intention. They probably did not want to risk the possibility that dad may expose their secrets after retirement, so they decided to shut his mouth forever. They sent dad alone to the top of Mt. Tianheng knowing there is a dangerous monster residing there, but without telling dad about this fact. After they confirmed dad was killed by the monster, they sent over other Milleliths to Jiang's house trying to erase any kind of evidence/secrets there could be, which would explain why the notes have missing pages. Mom saw Milleliths coming up the mountain that day, and remembered what dad told her about the possible consequences they might be facing. She did not see a window to run away with Jiang, so she decided to let Jiang hide away at the very least. Poor Jiang thought the Milleliths are mom's friends who are helping her to find him, so Jiang hid even further away from the house. This could be why Jiang did not witness the death of his mom.
During this time, the Milleliths most likely pushed mom off the cliff either to make the death scene look like an accident, or they really accidentally pushed her off the cliff during while questioning her. In any case, this would explain why mom's seelie is wandering around the cliff edge, and the Milleliths who bring over the gravestones know the exact death spot of mom. They even put the gravestones right at where mom's seelie is, the exact spot where she technically died.
Uncle Tian, who is now taking care of Jiang by bringing him food once in a while, is probably a relative of mom's family, and he didn't know anything about dad's shady deeds with the Liyue government nor the truth behind the parents death. He probably got told by the government that both of Jiang's parents died in accident. The government knows Jiang has mental issues and does not know anything about his dad, so they decided to spare Jiang's live. This concludes the full story of Jiang's family death with my theory, but this is not the end.
In the main quest story when you just got to the Bank and talk to Childe about the assassination of Rex Lapis, there is an option for you to choose "You think the Qixing did it and they're trying to pin it on someone else?"
Even though there's no proof yet, I think this suspicion can be very likely to be the case. So far we know the Qixing is a group of seven people who are technically controlling the entire Liyue, acting like the government. However, they are just seven top individuals from their own enterprise, which means they most likely joined hands together to form such a leading group on a business relationship level. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the sevens in this group do not agree with the majority opinions. Perhaps one of the Qixings is secretly planning to overtake the full authority in controlling Liyue, and part of the plan was to assassinate Rex Lapis so there would be no god can give guidance to Liyue every year, which leaves an opening for a new god/ruler to be born in the future. Jiang's dad most likely is working directly under this traitor Qixing behind the scene. Perhaps their plan are running smoothly and also afraid the other Qixings would get information from Jiang's dad after he retired, they killed Jiang's parents and made them both look like accidents. The Milleliths who pushed Jiang's mom off the cliff probably were the co-workers of Jiang's dad, who were also working directly under the traitor Qixing. They probably feel really bad about doing this to their former co-worker's wife, but they had no choice but to follow. That could be the reason why they spare Jiang due to his mental illness, and also bring the gravestones for Jiang's parents and bring food to Jiang once in a while.
Please correct me if I get any fact wrong, and I understand there are many other theories that are also sounding. I'm not trying to convince everyone to believe in my theory, but only want to bring up the possibility of a different version of this story. This side quest story is the only story so far in Genshin that caught my attention this much. I like how they are leaving piece of clues here and there, but not straight up giving out the full story in the game, and have the players to choose what version of the story they want to believe in. Feel free to leave comment to discuss!
TL;DR: Jiang's parents death might not be a pure accident, but was planned by the Liyue government!?
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