bookbashuk Chapter 1352 Chasca: Come Once
Chapter 1352 Chasca: Come Once
Just then, Chaska's voice suddenly came from outside, breaking the warm atmosphere inside.
"Mr. Shao Yun, are you home?"
Upon hearing the familiar call, Shao Yun quickly responded, gently patted Xi, who was playing with Kong in his arms, gave Kong a wink, and then got up and walked towards the door.
"Oh, here it comes, here it comes!"
He opened the door and immediately saw Chaska standing in the yard, looking somewhat serious.
Shao Yun leaned against the doorframe and casually asked, "What's wrong, Chaska? Is it urgent?"
Chaska's gaze first fell on Shao Yun, and when she saw him wearing a loose white bathrobe, looking like he had just taken a shower, her eyes widened instantly, and she asked in surprise:
"Did you just take a shower?"
Shao Yun glanced down at his bathrobe, shrugged nonchalantly, raised his eyes and gestured with his chin, urging:
"Just finished working on the ranch, took a shower to relax. What's up? Just get to the point, don't worry about what I'm wearing."
Chaska withdrew his gaze, pointed behind him, and his tone returned to calm:
"Go change your clothes first, and then come with me to the Echoing Sons tribe. There's something I need your help with."
Upon hearing that they were going to the Echoing Sons tribe, Shao Yun immediately became interested. Raising an eyebrow, he teased with a humorous tone:
"Oh? Going to the Son of Echoes? What, did Xinoning have another fight with Mavica and elbow her? You, the mediator, couldn't stop it, so you have to ask me, an 'outsider,' to step in?"
Chaska neither denied nor defended himself, but simply said in a calm tone:
"That's another matter; it's been mostly resolved. I'm not here to talk to you about their conflict."
When Shao Yun heard that Chaska did not deny it, he was stunned, like Columbus discovering a new continent. This was truly amazing!
"So, Xinoning really did beat up Mavica?"
Six hundred and sixty-six, the inferior overthrowing the superior.
Upon hearing this, Chaska involuntarily recalled the scene from this morning.
It wasn't as grand as Shao Yun had imagined; it was far less intense than the scene when Cetalli and Marani followed Xinoning and listened to Mavica and Shao Yun talking against the wall.
She coughed lightly and described in a calm tone, "It's not as exaggerated as you think. It's just that Xining was so angry that she chased Mavica around a few times with a wrench, but she didn't actually hurt her."
Upon hearing this, Shao Yun immediately pictured Mavica running frantically with her head in her hands, and Xinoning chasing after her with a wrench in hand. He couldn't help but chuckle and shake his head, saying:
"Alright, alright, it seems like this bickering couple will just keep going like this for the rest of their lives."
The way these two get along is something that outsiders really can't interfere with.
Seeing that he was still joking, Chaska quickly waved his hand and urged him on:
"Alright, stop thinking about them and let's go. Xinoning specifically asked me to come and call you this time, saying she has something important to discuss with you."
"Okay, I understand." Shao Yun nodded, glanced down at his bathrobe, touched his still-damp hair, and smiled helplessly.
"I'm going to change my clothes, I'll be right back."
As he spoke, he turned and walked upstairs. As he passed the living room, Kong was sitting on the sofa with Xi in his arms. The little one was tugging at Kong's bathrobe collar, having a great time.
Shao Yun raised his chin and casually instructed, "Brother-in-law, I'm going to the Echoing Sons tribe. I'm leaving you to look after the place!"
Kong glanced at him and replied indifferently, "I know, go ahead."
……
Nata afternoon, the Echo Sons tribe, the Shinonin family workshop.
The area in front of the workshop was now a complete mess.
Wooden crates of all sizes were overturned on the ground, some with their mouths open, revealing rusted parts and yellowed blueprints inside.
The fabric rolls recording mechanical parameters lay scattered about, rustling in the wind.
There was also a thick stack of notes, piled up haphazardly on the steps, without even a stone to weigh them down.
Xinoning was squatting among the clutter on the ground, her hair sticking to her forehead with sweat, and her makeup was almost ruined... She looked like a big cat covered in dirt.
She was flipping through something while muttering something viciously under her breath.
"That Mavica is such a pain in the neck! If it weren't for the tribal rules, I'd sneak into the council chamber tonight and smother her with a pillow!"
Her tone sounded like she was just saying it out of anger, but the ruthlessness in her words made anyone suspect that she really intended to kill.
Just as Shinonin was grinding his back teeth, picking up a wrench, and wishing he could go and settle the score with Mavica right now, Chaska's voice came.
"Shinoning, I've brought the person to you."
Along with the voice, Shao Yun, dressed in the Eastern Legends outfit, arrived. It had been a long time since he had worn this outfit out...
Hearing the noise, Xinoning turned around abruptly, and the fierceness in her eyes subsided slightly when she saw Shao Yun.
She casually placed the wrench she had picked up on the wooden box with a clanging sound, stretched as she stood up, and heard a slight clicking sound from her back. Her voice carried an undeniable weariness.
"Mr. Shao Yun has arrived! Welcome!"
Shao Yun raised his hand and casually gestured to her, his gaze sweeping over the messy workshop entrance, and said in a particularly humorous tone:
"Shinonin, I heard from Chaska that you chased Mavika all over the tribe this morning. So, did you really beat her into a pulp?"
Upon hearing this, Xinoning's face immediately showed a look of "disappointment and frustration," and he leaned against the door frame, pouring out his grievances.
"I really wanted to beat her to a pulp! That girl cheated, she was practicing on a scooter, I chased her for three laps but couldn't catch her, and I couldn't hit her either, in the end I could only watch her run away, I was so angry I almost ground my teeth to powder!"
Upon hearing this, Shao Yun glanced at the ravaged surroundings of Xinoning's house and raised an eyebrow, remarking:
"So, you couldn't catch up with Mawika, so you wrecked your own house in frustration? I'd say your temper isn't like a cat's, it's more like a husky that destroys the house."
Upon hearing Shao Yun's novel line of thought, Xinoning's round leopard ears twitched instantly, as if she were annoyed by his words, and she retorted irritably:
"What are you talking about! Even though I look like a leopard cat and like to curl up in a tree to sunbathe when I'm not busy, it doesn't mean I'll cause trouble like those little wreckers who destroy things!"
As she spoke, she kicked the wooden box beside her feet in frustration, making the parts inside rattle.
Immediately afterwards, as if she didn't want to dwell on the topic any longer, Xinoning waved her hand impatiently, indicating that the matter should be put to rest.
She pointed to the corner of the workshop, where there was a rock about half a person's height, and a humanoid maid robot was sitting on the rock.
"Let's not dwell on those unpleasant things. By the way, Mr. Shao Yun, do you know this maid robot?"
Shao Yun was taken aback upon hearing this and looked in the direction Xinoning was pointing.
The female-looking robot sat quietly, its metal shell covered in dirt and sand, and it made intermittent, mechanical electrical noises that sounded particularly strange.
He walked up to the robot, looked it over, touched its cold metal arm, and finally shook his head.
“I don’t know any maids like that. There are only two, one of whom is named Noelle, but she passed the knighthood exam a long time ago and is now a full member of the Mondstadt Knights, so she can no longer be considered a pure maid.”
"The other one is Adeline, the head maid of Diluc Winery."
Shao Yun stroked his chin, recalling that capable lady, and couldn't help but add another sentence.
"She's called the head maid, but I think she handles almost all the work inside and outside the Dawn Winery by herself. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call her the winery's butler."
Seeing that Shao Yun didn't recognize the robot either, Xinoning scratched the back of her head, feeling quite troubled. Her already messy hair became even more disheveled.
"Then why does she keep repeating the names of the Knight of Honor, Paimon, and you? From the time she was discovered until now, she's been using only these few names over and over again."
Upon hearing the words "Honorary Knight," Shao Yun's expression changed instantly, and an idea immediately formed in his mind.
This title is related to Mondstadt. Throughout Teyvat, only the Knights of Favonius of Mondstadt use this title to refer to Luminous.
He couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Honorary Knight... isn't that the title of the Knights of Favonius?"
"Heh, speaking of which, this title was the beginning of all the trouble. But it's alright, at least I have a proper identity, so I won't be mistaken for a savage when I leave Mondstadt..."
After muttering to himself, he looked up at Xinoning and then replied:
"I don't know where this robot comes from. But 'Knight of Honor' is a title exclusive to Luminosity, so maybe this robot was made in Mondstadt?"
"Could it be that amazing Abedo? After all, he was quite skilled in alchemy."
Upon hearing this, Xinoning raised his hand and tapped the robot's metal head, the crisp metallic sound echoing through the workshop.
She frowned, pondered for a moment, and mumbled indistinctly:
"This robot's structure is too complicated. It has the precision of Fontaine Machinery, but also incorporates some unfamiliar technologies that I don't recognize. It feels like several different styles of technology have been forcibly put together..."
"Sigh, it's impossible to figure it out in a short time."
Hearing her say that, Shao Yun couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, teasing her as if he didn't want the drama to end:
"Even you can't see it? That's a bit of an insult to your reputation as 'comparable to Hephaestus, the voice of fire and craftsmen.' I thought there wasn't a machine in Nata that you couldn't understand."
Xinoning rolled her eyes at Shao Yun's teasing, turned around, put her hands on her hips, and retorted irritably:
"I'm just an ordinary craftsman, not some mechanical god. How could I possibly see through the structure of this robot at a glance? If I really had that ability, I would have built a mecha for Mavica long ago, so she wouldn't bother me and disturb my rest."
As soon as she finished speaking, she began to study the maid robot in front of her, at least to get it working.