Cangnan City, villa district.
Inside a detached villa, a white furball watched a video filmed today using water manipulation.
"Here, here, and here!" Furina excitedly clipped several parts of the video: "These few pictures are simply perfect! But if I release them, won't Qiye and Old Zhao try to kill me?"
In those clipped pictures, Lin Qiye and Zhao Kongcheng appeared extremely intimate. If Furina didn't have the original video, she would have suspected these two really had some special preferences.
"Good things should be appreciated by everyone, so I need to find a good reason to send these pictures out."
Just as Furina was racking her brain on how to send these pictures out, Aha, who was in the Serenitea Pot, suddenly spoke:
"Little Fu Fu, I've found you another gift, you'll definitely like it."
A gift? What good thing could Aha, that guy, give me? Confetti all over me, or a jack-in-the-box that suddenly pops out to scare me?
Thinking this, Furina's mind stirred, and she entered the Serenitea Pot.
As soon as she entered, Furina saw a red mask floating in front of her, with a gift box on either side of it.
"My dearest Little Fu Fu, I've brought you a gift. Guess if your gift is in the left gift box or the right gift box?"
Furina crossed her arms, looking at Aha with an expression that said, "I've seen through everything."
"I guess the gift you prepared for me isn't in either of these two gift boxes."
As soon as she finished speaking, Aha, as if anticipating Furina would say that, immediately replied: "Ah hahaha, my dearest Little Fu Fu, you guessed wrong."
Upon receiving Aha's answer, Furina's eyes immediately widened, her blue pupils filled with disbelief:
"Impossible! How could Aha really put the thing he's giving me in a gift box? Aren't you looking for fun anymore? Or is an Aeon of Elation not looking for fun, itself a kind of fun?"
Aha shook the two gift boxes next to him and continued to ask: "Then, my dearest Little Fu Fu, do you guess the gift is in the gift box on my left or the gift box on my right?"
Furina carefully looked at the gift box on Aha's right, then at the gift box on Aha's left, and finally uttered a single word: "Right."
Aha shook his mask: "No, Little Fu Fu, you guessed wrong."
"Then left?"
"Not that either."
"...So you didn't prepare any gift for me at all, did you?" Furina looked at the red mask, slightly taller than herself, with dead fish eyes.
"Ah hahaha," Aha suddenly burst into maniacal laughter: "Little Fu Fu, you are truly too interesting, you managed to step on every single trap."
Saying this, he opened both gift boxes: "Actually, the gift I prepared for you was split into two and placed in the two gift boxes."
After those two gift boxes were opened, a blue energy flew out of each, then converged.
"This is the method for crafting Light Cones that I obtained from the Fount of Recollection. How about it, Little Fu Fu, do you want it?"
"Yes, yes, yes, praise Elation, praise Aha." Furina blinked her blue eyes, gazing at the ball of blue energy.
"That's right, go ask around the universe, who doesn't know how exceptionally... good I, Aha, am to my subordinates." Before Aha could finish speaking, Furina in front of him quickly fused with the energy and said to Aha:
"Aha, you're so good. Goodbye, Aha."
With that, she exited the Serenitea Pot, leaving the utterly humiliated Aha behind, laughing maniacally: "Ah hahaha, Aha is so humiliated, Aha's devotee didn't even look Aha in the eye, Aha is so humiliated, ah hahaha."
...Back in the villa, Furina carefully recalled the information from that energy and exclaimed: "Is this the method for crafting Light Cones? It's too amazing. The Path of Memory, unfortunately, I haven't embarked on it yet. But I can use that energy to craft one."
Saying this, she looked at the pile of photos she had taken in the past few days: "How about... I tinker with one first, just for fun?"
After some tinkering, Furina successfully crafted the first Light Cone in the Slay the Gods world:
[The Trickster and the Tricked] ☆☆☆☆☆
Light Cone Effect: Each attack by the wearer will apply one stack of "Defense Break" to the enemy. Each stack of "Defense Break" lasts for ten minutes. "Defense Break" can stack up to five times.
When an enemy deals damage to you, you will gain one stack of "Trickery." Each stack of "Trickery" lasts for ten minutes. "Trickery" can stack up to five times.
"Defense Break" Effect: Increases the damage received by the bearer of "Defense Break" by 5%, stacking up to 25%.
"Trickery" Effect: Increases the speed of the bearer of "Trickery" by 5%, stacking up to 25%.
Light Cone Story: Zhao Kongcheng extended an invitation to Lin Qiye: "Do you want to become as handsome as me?"
Lin Qiye cruelly refused and prepared to run away: "No. My backpack is still over there, can I go get it first?"
Zhao Kongcheng fell into self-doubt, wondering if his charm was gone, so without much thought, he waved his hand at Lin Qiye: "Go, go."
Lin Qiye no longer hesitated, turned and left, without a trace of hesitation and never returned... Furina looked at the Light Cone she had just created and exclaimed: "Good, so strong. A full 25% increase in attack and 25% increase in speed. Is this the power of a five-star Light Cone?
It's a pity it's not very suitable for me to use. I'll just carry it for now, no harm in using it if it's free."
Furina placed the Light Cone on her waist; it adhered tightly like a Vision.
Furina happily patted the Light Cone at her waist, but she soon let out a yawn. The wall clock now pointed to midnight, 12 AM.
Furina looked at the clock, then at the pile of photos on the table, and finally chose to sleep first, dealing with everything else after she woke up... Peacekeeping Agency.
After the others left, Wu Xiangnan immediately pulled Chen Muye aside and shared the information he had found:
"It can currently be confirmed that the owner of that unknown Forbidden Relic is named Furina, from Shangjing, sixteen years old. Her parents' identities are untraceable. But after her parents passed away, she transferred to Cangnan Second High School for unknown reasons.
Her relationship with the Seraphim Agent is that of classmates, and they even sit in front and behind each other. As for why she appeared that night, one possibility is curiosity as to why Lin Qiye came to school with his eyes covered. But she could have gone with her classmates, so we can temporarily rule out this reason.
The second possibility is that she might have known Lin Qiye was going to awaken that night. I think either she has precognitive abilities, or she sensed the gaze of the Seraphim. Although both of these possibilities are very small, they are the only two explanations that make sense."
Chen Muye nodded, agreeing with Wu Xiangnan's deduction: "Then you go and contact her, and Old Zhao can handle the Seraphim Agent."
Wu Xiangnan, who had nodded affirmatively upon hearing the first sentence, completely deflated upon hearing the second half: "Captain, why don't I just contact both of them? Old Zhao is really not suitable for recruiting people."
Chen Muye frowned when he heard Wu Xiangnan say this: "How can you exclude a team member like that? Old Wu, you have to believe that Old Zhao is no worse than anyone else."
"No, Captain, you don't understand..."
"No need to say more, it's decided."
Wu Xiangnan: ... (● — ●)