northernbook Chapter 510 Encounter with Tinari
Chapter 510 Encounter with Tinari
Xu Ning's face instantly turned even darker than that black cat, whose name was unclear—either Harut or Marut.
"Hey, are you sure you're seriously doing a divination and not just making fun of me?"
Nabiya felt extremely embarrassed after predicting a whole bunch of romantic relationships for people, so she ruffled the heads of the two cats with her little hands.
"Perhaps Harut and Marut messed up my divination. After all, I've never seen such an outrageous result before."
Paimon chuckled maliciously from the side, "Perhaps your divination is accurate?"
Xu Ning irritably shoved Paimon away, pulled Kong to face Nabiya, and said, "Give me a test too."
Kong was somewhat panicked. The results of the divination just now seemed to match his older brother quite well. If she were to give him the same results, wouldn't his older brother laugh at him in all sorts of ways in the future?
"I...I won't ask about marriage, I'll ask about...my health!"
After racking my brains for a long time, I still couldn't figure out what to ask for. I could only ask about my health like a normal person would, so at least I wouldn't offend anyone.
"Health luck? That's even simpler... I heard you, your body is extremely healthy, extremely healthy, your lifespan will be... ah? ah? How... how many tens of thousands of years from now? That's simply impossible!"
This time it was Xu Ning's turn to laugh, "Haha, perhaps your divination was accurate this time!"
They really are immortal beings! No wonder Ying said that the one thing they have in abundance is time. Suddenly I feel a lot of pressure.
"Okay, okay, I admit I'm not feeling well today, so I'll make an exception and not charge you. Come back next time when I'm feeling better."
The little girl turned around with a worried look and went to rummage for cat food in the box behind her.
"Harut, Marut, are you two hungry? Nobody can accept this result from divination!"
Xu Ning shook his head. It seemed that this little charlatan's abilities were also limited. He called to Kong and walked to sit down under the date palm tree.
This location is perfect for keeping an eye on both Lambad Tavern and Nabiya's fortune-telling stall, places Setale is said to be likely to visit, so it's guaranteed that her whereabouts won't be missed.
"Brother, what if Setare doesn't want to contact us or tell us anything?"
Hearing Kong's question, Xu Ning asked in surprise, "Do you think I would stop her and beg her to tell me about the Conspiracy of the Order?"
Kong was somewhat stunned. "But if we don't ask her, how will we..."
"Of course we should ask, but we can't do it this way. This Sumeru City is full of Void Terminals, or you could say the Church's spies are everywhere. If we want to ask her, we should find a quiet place to ask her slowly... Hmm? Why did he come here?"
Following Xu Ning's gaze, Kong saw a handsome young man with long-tailed fox ears walking towards the city.
"Tinari, over here, over here, what are you doing here? Where's Cole?"
Paimon had no qualms and immediately started shouting.
When Tina saw Xu Ning and Kong, she walked over with a smile.
"I was just wondering if I might run into you in the city, but I didn't expect to meet you here. What are you doing here?"
Kong was still hesitating about whether to tell Tinari about the Order of the Church, but Xu Ning had already asked in return, "You traveled all the way from Daocheng Forest to Sumeru City, is something wrong with Kolai?"
Tina's expression was somewhat grave. "Something has indeed happened, but it's not Cole, it's Haibasha who's in trouble, so I'm going to the Order of the Church to ask a teacher to take a look."
Xu Ning was immediately relieved to hear that it wasn't about Ke Lai's health.
"Some extremely unusual things have happened at the Order of the Order recently, and I feel it's necessary to inform you..."
Xu Ning had only said half a sentence when he suddenly saw the female scholar named Setare come down the steps and walk toward Nabiya's fortune-telling stall.
"Wait here for a moment, we'll go do something and be right back."
Ignoring Tina's utter bewilderment, Xu Ning and Kong quickly headed towards the fortune-telling stall.
"...So you can't even do divination? I wanted to ask when that project will finally be finished..."
After receiving notification that Nabiya was not feeling well and would be temporarily closing her stall, Setare was about to leave with some disappointment when she turned around and saw a very scary person.
In the experiment of "mass production of dreams", the Great Sage will not descend in his true form. Instead, he will always control the fake body of the Great Sage to move around in the dream.
And this very person holding the gourd of wine repeatedly tried to kill the Sage. After realizing that it would trigger a dream restart, he didn't hesitate to use plundering methods, and he was even more skilled than a seasoned bandit from beginning to end.
According to his colleagues who monitor the fluctuations in the data, his behavior elsewhere is even more appalling.
The most terrifying thing was the result of my investigation: this person was actually a powerful high-ranking official in Liyue, and it was said that many of Liyue's current external policies were related to his many actions outside the country.
Despite having such a sensitive political identity, he acts without any scruples. It's unimaginable what would happen to him if he were targeted by such a person.
Xu Ning realized that Setare wanted to call for help, but Kan Kong had already blocked Nabiya's view in a flash. He then extended a finger and touched Setare's forehead, and a hint of alcohol made her drunk and unconscious. He then casually tossed her into the Dust-Hidden Cave.
In the instant the two crossed paths, they abducted a living person into the cave. Apart from the focused Tina, no one else on the entire street noticed.
"Beautifully done!"
Xu Ning gave Kong a thumbs-up, and the two of them walked happily toward Tina, who was looking exasperated.
"The strange things you just mentioned about the recent events at the Council of the Church... you don't mean that there are two robbers in this city kidnapping scholars from the Council of the Church in broad daylight, do you?"
Xu Ning paused for a moment, then laughed and said, "So, Tina, you can be so sharp-tongued too. Come on, let's find a quiet place, and I'll give you a complete explanation."
"There's a deserted hill behind Lambad Tavern," Tinari sighed. "Let's go there."
As expected of someone who studied in Sumeru, the area behind the tavern is indeed quiet and pleasant. What's even better is that it's surrounded by all sorts of gnarled tree trunks, so no one can see it from here.
Xu Ning placed the Dust Concealment Gourd, had Paimon hold Kong's head, and put his hands on Tina and Kong's shoulders, leading them into the cave.
Xu Ning injected very little alcohol into Setare, which only made her dizzy for a moment.
Setare has now awakened in the cave and is standing in the center, gazing at the beautiful scenery within.
"We're all old acquaintances, so let's not keep things to ourselves."
After Xu Ning entered, he went straight to Setare and asked, "What project is the Council of the Church undertaking?"
Setare shook her head decisively and said, "I don't know."
Xu Ning chuckled and said, "The Order of the Order used the void terminal to pull everyone into a dream, almost causing those patients with Demon Scale Disease to die in the dream. As a participant, you still haven't shown any remorse..."
Tinari exclaimed in surprise, "What? Died in a dream? What did the Church do?"
It was only then that Setare discovered that Tinari was also there. She still held a certain degree of respect for this scholar of the bio-theory who had once been hailed as a genius.
"I don't know more about engineering than you do. I'm only in charge of the design of 'Dream Mass Production,' and we don't know exactly what they're used for."
Tinari repeated "mass production of dreams" several times, then suddenly asked, "So, when you were involved in the project at the Faith Academy, did you ever see my mentor, Lord Nafis?"
Setare's face was a little pale. "It seems that Lord Nafis appeared at the very beginning of the project and even had an argument with Lord Azar, but I haven't seen him since."
Tina's expression immediately turned serious. He knew his teacher's temper well; he was extremely difficult to deal with.
If the project the Academy claimed to be flawed were truly problematic, his mentor would never have been persuaded with just a few words.
"It seems something must have happened at the Order Academy. I originally came here to ask my teacher to help look after Haibasha, but now I'm afraid even my teacher herself is having some problems. By the way, have you seen Seno here?"
"Sino disappeared a few days before we arrived. Didn't you hear about it?" Xu Ning asked in surprise.
"Sino has disappeared?" Tinari seemed even more surprised than Xu Ning.
"Was his disappearance also related to this mysterious project?"
Xu Ning increasingly felt that this project involved a lot of things.
“Someone from the Order of the Church once came to invite me, saying that my mentor was involved in a very important project that seemed to be related to the restoration of the World Tree. They said that this was closely related to the topics of our Life Theory School and wanted me to go as well. You know what happened next. I found out that they were actually using my mentor’s name.”
"So I asked Sino to find out what my mentor was doing. But now even Sino has disappeared, which is really troublesome."
After listening to Tina's account, Xu Ning shared the information he had obtained with him.
“Yesterday I scouted around the Church of Christ and accidentally bumped into the Winter Fools. They were their very special executives, and they seemed to be involved in the Church of Christ’s projects. Wherever they are, nothing good will happen.”
Setare, who had been left aside, was surprised when Xu Ning mentioned the "Fools". She said, "We didn't cooperate with the guys from Winter's End. Although the Church did send someone, it is said that he used to be a scholar of the Church, but we don't know what happened in the past that led the Church to expel him. Now it seems that he has brought some things that the Church urgently needs, so the Great Sage allowed him to rejoin the Church's research."
This must be the Doctor, but the most important thing now is what he brought and what the Order of the Church is doing.