Jean naturally understood the meaning behind Chen Mo’s words.
Perhaps she had been a little too strict with Klee on ordinary days.
She merely glanced at the little girl beside her, yet that alone frightened Klee into straightening her posture.
“In that case, let Klee show you around the city.” Jean helplessly rubbed her forehead, but in the end, her heart softened.
“Really?
Klee doesn’t have to face the wall anymore?” The little girl’s eyes lit up, her gaze toward Jean filled with expectation.
“Mm.
Klee must obediently show our guest around.
Consider this your punishment for going out to bomb fish.” “Yay!” She bounced toward the door on her little feet, bursting with energy like a small rocket that never ran out of fuel.
“Big Brother Chen Mo, let’s hurry!
Klee will definitely be a good guide for you!” “Mister Envoy, I’ll have to trouble you to look after the little one.” Seeing that Klee looked as if she was already preparing to cause more trouble, Jean’s eyes revealed an exhaustion she could not hide.
“This child is terribly mischievous.
Please don’t let her get into any trouble.” “Understood.
I’ll bring her back before sunset.” After closing the office door, Chen Mo led Klee outside the Knights of Favonius Headquarters.
He summoned the system and checked the affection values.
The first impression he had left on Jean was only a mere 5 points, while Klee’s had reached 15 points.
Wait.
Why was Klee’s affection value appearing on the list?
Was Klee also one of the targets?
Chen Mo’s thoughts fell into disorder.
Refusing to believe it, he carefully checked the characters on the system list again.
He had not looked closely before, so he had not noticed.
It was not only Klee.
Yaoyao and Qiqi were also on the list, and even Changsheng’s name was clearly there.
He cursed inwardly.
This damn system did not intend to spare children, and it did not even plan to let a snake go either!
“Big Brother Chen Mo, what’s wrong?” “N-Nothing.” For a moment, he stammered, and his voice weakened considerably.
“Then let’s hurry up and go!
Mondstadt City has lots of fun places!” Klee was like a little airplane.
With a whoosh, she darted away.
Chen Mo kept chasing behind her, and now he finally understood why Jean always looked so troubled when it came to taking care of children.
He watched as Klee’s affection value on the list quickly rose from 15 to 30 points, leaving him confused.
What exactly was going on?
He clearly had not had any inappropriate contact with Klee, so why was the little girl’s affection rising so quickly?
Damn system!
Come out and take a beating!
[Host, didn’t you call her a little girl yourself?
Of course her affection rises quickly.] What does that mean?
[It means that the calculation logic for a child’s affection is fundamentally different from that of an adult.] [Their affection value is purely a measure of like or dislike.
It does not contain any complicated emotions.] [That is why it rises quickly, and also falls even faster.] Chen Mo became distracted again, to the point that even when Klee called him from the side, he stood there like a block of wood and gave no response.
The little girl puffed out her cheeks, somewhat unhappy.
The system’s explanation was confirmed at that very moment.
Klee’s affection dropped from 30 points straight down to 25, and it still showed signs of continuing to fall.
He snapped back to his senses and instinctively tried to stop the loss.
“I’m sorry, little Klee.
Big Brother just suddenly remembered that he hasn’t eaten lunch yet, so he’s a little hungry.” “Really?” Klee’s affection value stopped at 23.
She put her hands on her hips and narrowed her eyes halfway, as if trying to see through whether Chen Mo was making up an excuse to fool her.
“I heard Mondstadt’s grilled fish is quite good.
I suddenly feel like trying some…” “Grilled fish!” “Mm.
Big Brother will apologize to Klee and take Klee to eat grilled fish, all right?” “Okay, okay!” The little girl immediately regained her energy, hopping up and down in place.
“The fish from Cider Lake are really tasty!
Klee likes them the most!” Children really were emotional.
Just one promise that had not yet been fulfilled was enough to make Klee’s affection return to 30 points.
Chen Mo did not dare imagine how much her affection would drop if he secretly hid her Dodoco right now.
The sky gradually darkened, and in the blink of an eye, sunset arrived.
On the way to send Klee back, Chen Mo happened to run into Eula, who was also heading to the Knights’ headquarters.
After handing the little girl over to her, he entered the Goth Grand Hotel alone.
This was the most luxurious hotel in Mondstadt City, so the guests it received were all important people with status and influence.
That included envoys from other nations.
However, ever since a large number of Fatui moved in, the atmosphere here had clearly changed.
Within the first quarter of an hour after stepping through the hotel doors, Chen Mo sensed no fewer than ten pairs of unfriendly eyes on him.
“Hey, did you hear?
Alexei just took office in Liyue some time ago and already handled several debts worth over a hundred thousand mora!” “Really?
Then wouldn’t he make a fortune just from commission alone?” “Aren’t Liyue people all like that?
They have no ability, yet they love arrogantly borrowing money from us to do business!” Several Fatui stopped talking and looked contemptuously at Chen Mo, the only Liyue person present.
Ever since Snezhnaya’s diplomatic affairs in Mondstadt had been handed over to Rosalyne, the Fair Lady, the Fatui’s diplomatic methods toward Mondstadt had become increasingly forceful.
The Goth Grand Hotel was almost turning into Snezhnaya’s embassy in Mondstadt, and this situation was the most obvious example.
Before entering the hotel, Chen Mo had expected to encounter some unpleasant matters, but he had not expected these Fatui to be so undisguised.
He did not want a simple business trip to turn into some diplomatic incident, so he simply pretended not to hear anything.
Ignoring them, he headed upstairs on his own.
“Hey, Liyue man!
Who allowed you to stay here?” Just as Chen Mo was about to close his door, more than ten Fatui suddenly barged into his room.
“This hotel is Fatui territory!
You have three minutes to get out!” “This is Mondstadt City.
Since when did it become Fatui territory?” His expression remained calm as he continued, “Besides, there are other guests here who aren’t Fatui.
Why aren’t you going after them?” The Fatui leader did not care.
“If you’re unhappy, you can go complain to the Knights of Favonius!
Let’s see whether they’re willing to protect you!” He crossed his arms and sneered coldly.
“Everyone says the Acting Grand Master of the Knights of Favonius is someone impressive, but in front of our Harbinger, she still doesn’t dare say a word, does she?” At that moment, a man from Sumeru passed by outside the room.
He bowed and scraped before the Fatui outside, handed them a large bag of mora, and only then left in a hurry.
“If you want to stay here peacefully, that’s also possible.” The Fatui waved the mora in front of Chen Mo.
From inside the money pouch came the crisp sound of coins colliding, full and heavy.
It was easy to see just how much profit could be squeezed out of this.
No wonder not a single one of these people had said anything when he checked in.
They had clearly already dug this trap and were waiting for him to fall into it.
“So after all that, you just want money?” Chen Mo took out the mora he had seized from the hilichurl camp during the day and tossed it into the Fatui’s hands.
It was only a small amount of money anyway.
He did not really care.
The Fatui leader weighed the mora in his hand and felt that it was considerably more than what the Sumeru man had given.
He carefully sized Chen Mo up and concluded that the other man’s calm appearance was nothing more than a bluff.
In reality, he must have been terrified.
Otherwise, why would he hand over such a large amount of money all at once just to avoid trouble?
This was a fat sheep.
He could not let him get away so easily.