"Hello Ganyu, goodbye Ganyu."
After Yu Jin said two inexplicable sentences to Ganyu, who was about to take a photo, he directly turned his chair around and ran away.
"Wait! Mr. Yu Jin, please stay!" Ganyu immediately called out to stop Yu Jin as he left.
"Wait for what? I don't think I'm suited for this job." Yu Jin hadn't actually intended to run away.
Are you kidding? Does the wooden box need Mora? Does the note need Mora? If he really left, all that money would have been wasted.
"Did I offend you in any way?" Ganyu looked at Yu Jin, who had sat back down, and asked with a puzzled expression.
She had clearly followed all the proper etiquette just now. Could Yu Jin have some special taboos?
"No, not at all." Yu Jin shook his head, then tapped his helmet and said, "You want me to take off my helmet? That's absolutely impossible."
"This..." Ganyu's face showed difficulty. Employees of the Ministry of Civil Affairs are public and transparent. From high-ranking officials on Yujing Terrace to minor clerks in the eight gates, all maintain basic information, without exception.
Actually, there was an exception. Yelan didn't leave any information in the government registry. Or rather, the information she left was fake.
However, only Ningguang knew about this.
Ganyu was undecided. She turned to look at Ningguang and Keqing. These two were Qixing; they were the ones in charge.
"In that case..." Keqing stopped her movements. She was now struggling. The duties of the Qixing and her respect for her senior were battling within her, and for a moment, neither could gain the upper hand.
"Can you tell us why?" In the end, Ningguang had to speak. She looked at Yu Jin, who was shrouded in armor, and felt a surge of curiosity.
Yu Jin's attire was quite peculiar. Even in Liyue, where foreigners circulated most frequently, Ningguang rarely saw such a unique dress.
"Well..." Yu Jin scratched his head when he heard Ningguang's words. Then he sat up straight, clasped his hands together, and said seriously:
"Actually, I'm very ugly, and I'm afraid of scaring you."
Ningguang's mouth twitched when she heard this. She sighed, saying helplessly, "Since Yu Jin, you are unwilling, I won't force it."
"Ganyu, please just take the picture like this."
"Understood." Ganyu nodded to Ningguang, and then with a "click," the Kamera finished its work.
Yu Jin watched Ganyu, who was adjusting the Kamera, casually picked up the form from earlier, and while filling it out, said carelessly:
"Actually, besides being ugly, my reason for not taking off my helmet is similar to Ganyu's."
"Huh? Me?" Ganyu looked up. Why had the topic suddenly shifted to her?
"Yes, it's you. Why don't you reveal your true form?" Yu Jin's hands moved quickly as he nodded and said.
"Reveal my true form? There's no need. I have a secretary job on Yujing Terrace, and maintaining my human form allows me to perform this job better."
Ganyu shook her head and explained to Yu Jin.
"Really?" Yu Jin turned to look at Ganyu, his face full of suspicion.
"Rea... really." Ganyu met Yu Jin's gaze, feeling a strange sense of guilt, but she still nodded to confirm.
"Alright, I believe you." With the last stroke finished, Yu Jin picked up the form and said to Ganyu, "Done? Just need to attach the photo."
"Done... done." Ganyu lowered her head and operated it a few times, and a still-warm photo was ejected from the Kamera.
But before Ganyu could even look at the details, Yu Jin snatched the photo away.
Yu Jin wiped his hand over the photo and then immediately pasted it onto the form.
Ganyu looked closely; it was indeed a headshot of Yu Jin. But her angle just now clearly wasn't for a headshot. Why did a headshot come out?
Perhaps she had been sleeping too little recently.
Ganyu nodded almost imperceptibly, then suddenly perked up and asked, somewhat incredulously:
"Mr. Yu Jin, how did you know I wasn't human?"
Ganyu possessed the bloodline of the divine beast "qilin," a fact little known even in Liyue. How could Yu Jin, who had barely lived in Liyue for a month, know this?
"Heh, a bit slow on the uptake. If you didn't ask, Ningguang would have." Yu Jin grinned. Had she finally noticed something abnormal?
Then he pointed to his eyes and said easily, "My eyes are quite powerful; I saw it."
"I have many differences from you, and I'm afraid of startling you." Yu Jin clapped his hands, finally finished.
He brought the form to Ningguang and said to her, who was still deep in thought, "Alright, there are no other procedures now, right?"
"No more." Ningguang took the form and examined it carefully.
This file was almost identical to the one Yelan had summarized earlier. If it weren't for that headshot, Ningguang would have almost thought it was the previous one.
"I just don't know if it will still be burned," Ningguang sighed inwardly. The only regret this time was that they still hadn't found any trace of the Black Robe Man.
But this was normal; their intelligence capabilities were something even Yelan greatly feared. For Ningguang to think of finding them on her own was somewhat wishful thinking.
"So when will there be news?" Yu Jin asked with some anticipation. In any aspect, he was definitely up to standard; he didn't believe he could be rejected even like this.
"We will do our best." Ningguang nodded to Yu Jin. She was now also in a state of hesitation.
Originally, Ningguang would never have agreed to Yu Jin's request, but now the strength he displayed was a bit too formidable.
Ningguang was worried that directly refusing Yu Jin would anger him, which would definitely not be a good thing.
"That's good. I'm leaving, bye bye!"
"Wait, Mr. Yu Jin, what do you mean by 'I have many differences from you'?" Ganyu once again stopped Yu Jin, who was about to leave.
"What do I mean? The literal meaning. My differences from you are much greater than your differences from 'humans'."
"As a senior, I'll give you a piece of advice. Escaping definitely won't work. You can try making friends, many friends."
"It doesn't matter if you can't keep them, and it doesn't matter if they die. Just walk in the direction your friends want you to."
"Although their traces might disappear, at least you still carry their traces, don't you?"
After the last sentence was spoken, by the time the three of them came back to their senses, Yu Jin's figure had already vanished.
"Escaping..." Ganyu savored Yu Jin's words. Escaping, indeed, she had been escaping for three thousand years.
Was Ganyu so devoted to her work entirely out of passion? Perhaps partly, Ganyu herself couldn't say for sure.
Many times, she was more like a Slime burrowing into the ground, burying herself in data and reports to escape time.
With a lowered head and a raised head, a youth turned into an old man, and the people around her changed batch after batch.
"Ganyu..., are you alright?" Keqing saw Ganyu looking a bit down and couldn't help but ask worriedly.
Ganyu was the Chief Secretary of the Qixing, independent of the Qixing. And she, as a person, was very much like her duties, hanging isolated outside.
"I'm fine." Ganyu shook her head and smiled at Keqing. These matters, she would think about them when she had free time; what was important now was to complete her work.
It must be said that while escaping was shameful, it was effective. Ganyu had unconsciously employed her great method of escape once again.
"Ganyu, is he an adeptus?" Ningguang pondered Yu Jin's words. In her impression, it seemed only adepti fit the description.
"No, Mr. Yu Jin is definitely not an adeptus." Ganyu shook her head decisively.
Adepti were few in number; although they lived in seclusion in the deep mountains, communication among adepti was very frequent.
As a half-adeptus, Ganyu could say with certainty that there was no adeptus like Yu Jin in Liyue.
"Is that so? A mysterious origin!" Ningguang uncharacteristically tugged at her hair. This feeling of doubt was very annoying.
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