Genshin Impact: Dionysus reigns supreme, all demons retreat!

Chapter 149 Watching the Purple Lightning and Thunder Fall

Xu Ning rubbed his temples in annoyance. So the fourth option would appear the same way no matter whether he chose it or not?

Xu Ning could almost see himself on a date with a beautiful woman, depicted in a comic strip and placed on Ning Guang's desk, with Ning Guang's angry and cold expression.

If Beidou sees this again, he might sail around Oath Cape, all the way to Eagle Flying Beach, and then run over from Windrise to cut himself down.

"Hmm? Why do you look so reluctant, little drunkard? This hurts your sister's feelings."

Lisa pretended to put her hand on her forehead, looking heartbroken. "If you really don't want to go, you won't be able to get the Ice Mist Flower, and then the promised reward will be for nothing."

Xu Ning sighed. Anyway, it was too late to back down now, and there was no need to waste another bottle of "cold resistance potion".

"Let's go, last stop."

The last person we needed to find was Donna, a helper at the florist.

Xu Ning walked up to her and greeted her, "Hello."

However, the girl's cheeks were flushed, her eyes were closed, and she murmured, "No, no, my mind is full of Lord Diluc..."

Xu Ning looked at the girl speechlessly. What was so great about that arrogant, cold-faced girl that you couldn't forget her?

Lisa laughed from behind, "Oh my, spring is such a perfect season for romance, don't you think, you little drunkard?"

Donna then realized there were people around her and quickly greeted them, "Hello, welcome to 'Flower Language'. Do you have any flowers you like? I can wrap them up for you..."

Xu Ning pondered for a moment and said, "Then please give me a bouquet of 'Lord Diluc'."

Donna was shocked and stammered, "Wh...what Diluc-sama? No, that's not what I meant. I meant...I've always hoped to bump into Diluc-sama here, and then..."

Lisa laughed and continued, "And then you hope he'll send you a bouquet of flowers, right? After all, a date without the scent of flowers is anything but romantic, isn't it?"

Seeing that Donna's face was already burning red, Xu Ning stopped teasing her.

"Please wrap me a bouquet of flowers, hmm, I'll have blue roses."

Donna exclaimed in surprise, "That's quite a coincidence! Flora, the shop owner, just bought some from a traveling merchant, enough for a bouquet."

Donna wrapped the blue rose and handed it to Xu Ning.

Xu Ning handed it to Lisa and said earnestly, "Blue rose, its flower language is dreamy and beautiful, it suits Miss Lisa best."

Lisa took it and smiled, "Little drunkard, you put a lot of thought into this. I thought I would never see Rose again in Mondstadt. Hmm, I like it very much."

Seeing that she was happily smelling the fragrance of the roses, Xu Ning turned to Donna and asked, "You should have Ice Mist Flowers here too, right? I need some."

Donna pulled Xu Ning two steps away and whispered, "Miss Lisa seems to often use lightning elemental power. If she comes into contact with the Ice Mist Flower, there might be some danger, right?"

Xu Ning smiled and said, "It's for my own use."

Donna nodded, went to the corner and brought out a flowerpot lined with a thick cotton cloth, and instructed Xu Ning, "Be careful not to touch it directly with your hands, you will get hurt."

Xu Ning nodded, and then revealed the real reason for his visit.

"That...that..."

Donna suddenly became hesitant and unable to speak.

When Lisa saw her expression, the joyful smile she had when she received the flowers slowly faded.

He asked casually, "I don't need to remind you of the book title, do I? 'The White Princess and the Six Dwarfs,' do you remember?"

Donna nervously clutched the hem of her clothes and whispered, "I lost the book. I was supposed to return it, but it just disappeared without a trace. It was right by my bedside the whole time, and I've been looking for it for days but I still can't find it."

Lisa's tone suddenly became somewhat amused. "Lost? It's not a book from the restricted section, just a storybook. Is there any need to steal it? What a strange possessiveness."

Seeing Tang Na's pitiful and timid appearance, Xu Ning comforted her, saying, "You don't need to be so scared. It's just a book you lost."

Donna's eyes widened, and she said plaintively, "That's all? Captain Kaia just forgot to return the book... He still often says that his left ulna is still numb..."

Upon hearing this, Xu Ning suddenly understood how that incredibly neat and orderly library came to be.

Fortunately, Lisa spoke up again: "Since that's the case, then I can't blame you. This debt will be settled with that book thief. I will make him pay back three times, ten times."

"Little drunkard, let's go find the lost book."

Lisa said calmly, "I marked each book with my elemental power, so it's obvious who took it."

Xu Ning focused the element of alcohol onto his eyes, activating his elemental vision.

A streak of lightning, intermittent and continuous, stretched from the residential area toward the main gate of Mondstadt.

Is that where you live?

After confirming Donna's location in the city, Xu Ning nodded to Lisa and said, "It seems the thieves are heading towards the wilderness."

Lisa sneered, "Looks like I have to go out. I haven't lost a single book since I became the librarian of Mondstadt Library."

Xu Ning gave Donna a suggestion: temporarily place the Ice Mist Flower in the Flower Language section.

Then, together with Lisa, they followed the path of the lightning element and headed into the wilderness.

"It seems the book thief lingered at the crossroads for a while before heading further in. Looks like he's gone quite a distance!"

The further Lisa walked, the denser the lightning element around her became, and it was clear that her anger was gradually increasing as the distance increased.

Xu Ning had already begun to silently mourn for the book thief.

"But why does this path look so much like the straight path that Amber took with me and Cole to Stargazing Cliff that day?"

As they explored deeper into the wilderness, the intermittent lightning elemental markers began to connect into flowing magic, pointing directly towards the vicinity of the teleportation anchor point that had been activated last time.

About fifty meters to the left of the teleportation anchor point, on the mountainside, Xu Ning and Lisa finally found the entrance to a ruin.

The portal was made of purple glass, and lightning flashed across it from time to time.

"They actually live in ruins? That reminds me of the behavior of some unpleasant troublemakers."

Upon hearing Lisa's words, Xu Ning suddenly pictured Ying in his mind.

"Miss Lisa, are you referring to the Abyss Mage?"

Lisa laughed and said, "Oh, you and I are thinking the same thing. These guys are unpredictable, and they seem to want to get involved in every bad thing."

"Moreover, the lightning element seal on this portal is clearly the work of an abyss mage. Using such meager elemental power to guard the gate is a gross underestimation of them."

Lisa waved her hand casually.

Xu Ning saw two bolts of purple lightning suddenly appear in the clear sky, striking the seal of the ruins with pinpoint accuracy.