The traveler and Paimon looked at each other, each seeing confusion in the other's eyes.
"This is the first time I've seen it so close."
The little boy's attention was obviously still on the ruins guards. After sighing one after another, he finally turned around and faced Yingmei and Paimon: "Are you also here to see the one-eyed treasure?"
Only then did Yingmei have the opportunity to carefully observe the little boy's appearance.
He has orange-brown hair and blue eyes full of innocence. Perhaps children who don’t know the truth can easily regard the ruin guard as a reliable machine. At this moment, the traveler only thinks of the Mondstadt Bridge and regards the ruin guard as an imaginary friend.
rice.
But why does this child look familiar?
Although travelers can understand the feelings of children who love to make friends, if they make friends with such a very lethal ancient machine, they may not be able to see the sun tomorrow morning.
"Of course...but be careful, it's difficult to deal with."
For the sake of children's mental health, the travelers did not deliberately emphasize the dangers of ruin guards.
"Hey, that's right!" The little boy's eyes flashed with admiration, "The one-eyed baby is super powerful, and no bad guy can escape its grasp."
"One-eyed baby? Is there such a cute name?"
Hearing this title again, Paimon felt very strange.
"Yeah! My brother told me! My brother is the best toy salesman, specializing in selling this kind of toys! He now works at the Toy Research Institute in Liyue, where the one-eyed baby was born."
If the ruins guard was intelligent, he would have tilted his head and raised a question mark at this moment, and then after realizing that he was being treated as a plaything, he would have started spinning around in anger, knocking the traveler, Paimon, and this kid flying into the sky.
After all, calling the ruins guards a toy made even Yingmei, who boasted that she had traveled around the Teyvat continent for a long time and seen everything, feel a little confused for a while.
The child obviously didn't know what the traveler was thinking. Instead, he continued to stare at Paimon who had just spoken to him with starry eyes: "Sister, you should also like toys, right? Is this the latest model floating around you?
He can actually talk!"
Although he had some doubts about the little boy's world view, he should still seize the opportunity to persecute Paimon, so the traveler nodded naturally: "Well, be envious, this is the latest smart toy developed by the General Affairs Department!"
Paimon, who was used as emergency food and then turned into a smart toy, was really angry and stamped his feet: "Hey! Why have I become a new strange thing again!"
Just when Paimeng was fuming, Dai Pai came over after completing his patrol mission.
"Thank you for your hard work. Do you have any clues from the investigation... hmm? Who is this foreign kid?"
Dai Pai, who arrived later, obviously didn't understand the situation and called the "One-Eyed Baby" a killing machine. He only got a loud protest from the little boy. Seeing Dai Pai struggling to carry out his work, the travelers also felt a little helpless.
As expected of daily commissions, they are all strange and weird things.
But the little boy seemed to have a good impression of the traveler. Perhaps he regarded her as a new playmate with high-end toys?
Except for the scene of eating roasted pigeon with Timmy, Yingmei felt that she had accumulated a lot of experience in dealing with children during her travels, so she could only comfort Dai Pai with a few words and asked him to leave the child to her.
At this point, the mission of clearing out the ruins guards was changed to an escort mission.
Watching Dai Pai walk away, the little boy jumped up and down with excitement: "Hmph, the one-eyed little treasure scared away the bad guy again!"
The corner of Yingmei's mouth also evoked a slight smile, but looking at the child's eyes that were as blue as lake water and shining with crystal water, she always felt a little familiar:
"Kid, what's your name and where is your family?"
"Ah, my name is Tok! I came from the Winter Solstice Kingdom to find my brother, but Tok doesn't know where my brother is..."
When Tok mentioned his missing brother, his initially excited mood suddenly dropped.
"Hey! Are you actually from the Winter Solstice Kingdom!?"
Paimon circled Tok twice in surprise, while the traveler became more and more confused.
It is unlikely that such a young child could have traveled by boat from the winter solstice to Liyue alone, right?
At this time, the kid who called himself Tuoke suddenly seemed to remember something important, clapped his hands and picked up something:
"By the way, at this time...here, here!"
Tok took out a cloth bag from his pocket. There seemed to be some iron pieces in the bag. They rubbed against each other and made a sound of metal collision.
Paimon was extremely interested in the items contained in bags and boxes. When he saw the other person holding up the bag and handing it to the traveler, he immediately went to check it out.
"Hmm? Something sounds heavy...let me take a look."
Yingmei opened the heavy bag and was almost dazzled by the golden mola inside.
Just a cursory glance revealed that the bags contained at least half a million molars.
"My brother asked me to take these with me."
"Brother said, leave these to good people, and the good people will treat Tuoke well."
Tok looked at the shocked expressions of both Traveler and Paimon and smiled obediently.
For adventurers, the relationship between the initiator and the recipient of a commission is simply to get money to do things. If enough money is given to the adventurer, the adventurer can indeed help with the work.
But there are many bad people in this world besides adventurers. No matter how rich they are, not many people dare to let their younger brother take risks with their money and life.
What kind of big-hearted and reckless guy is Tok’s brother?
"Okay, it seems to make sense. Is this the reason why I can come to Liyue from the winter solstice..."
Little Paimon obviously didn't think as much as the traveler thought. She looked at a bag of mola, swallowed her saliva, and started her usual explanation work, "It seems that Tok is a child of a wealthy family. It turns out that selling toys is so profitable.
business?"
Hearing Paimon's words, the traveler couldn't help but sigh. Before Tok took out the Mora bag, she didn't expect that selling toys would be such a profitable business.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Then I will accept this bag of mola for now."
The traveler tightened Maura's pocket to reassure the children. In fact, he thought that he should return it to Tok after meeting his family. If the communication went smoothly, he might also discuss how to educate his younger siblings.
It is really dangerous to raise children like this.
Seeing that the traveler accepted the reward, Tok looked very happy and stretched out his little finger towards the good sister, obviously wanting to make an agreement with the other party. Yingmei also understood it, put the edgeless sword back behind her back, squatted down and extended it towards Tok.
Point out your finger.
The little fingers hook together.
"Don't change Lagou Lagou. If she does, throw her to the glacier. The glacier is cold, the snowfield is cold, and her lying tongue will freeze to death!"
The lyrics were of course sung by Tok, and the childish voice combined with the cold words gave both the traveler and Paimon an inexplicable creepy feeling.
"It's really a cruel nursery rhyme with the characteristics of the winter country."
Paimon was also rare and did not focus entirely on Mora. Instead, he was as troubled by the contents of the commission as Yingmei.
"In this case, I have to work as a nanny for a while... But, where can I find Tok's brother?"
After making an agreement, the traveler looked at Tok who was running towards the one-eyed treasure again. He always felt that his exotic outfit, hair color and eye color gave people a strange sense of instant recognition.
Yingmei has not traveled to the seven countries, so she doesn’t know much about Zhidong. To be honest, because of many conflicts with the Fools, travelers know that Zhidong’s reputation in other countries is not very good, and it is directly under the Ice Kingdom.
The Queen's Fools seem to have a diplomatic post in every country.
"If I want to talk about a place closely related to the Solstice Country...then I can only think of the Bank of the North Country."
Paimon thought for a long time, and as if suddenly enlightened, he proposed an area that travelers deliberately avoided.
It was Paimon's words that reminded the traveler of the details she subconsciously ignored during the conversation.
"Paimon, do you remember what Tok said his brother did?"
"Toy salesman, what's wrong?"
Paimon didn't know why.
"That special commission issued by Miss Catherine, what is Mr. Ajax's occupation?"
At this point, Paimon also reacted. Just as he was about to scream, he immediately covered his mouth. He stared at Tok who was cheering in front of the ruins guards with wide eyes and a look of disbelief on his face.
"You mean, Tok is the Young Master's younger brother?"
The traveler nodded and shook his head in disbelief.
"If that's the case, the person who issued the mission to find Ajax in the Adventurers Association should also be Tok."
"But the Adventurers Association generally does not accept entrustments from children...unless there is an adult as a guarantee."