A few minutes earlier,
"Hey, what are you guys doing here?" a sewer worker shouted when he saw a group of suspicious people near where he was supposed to work.
"Turn back and pretend that no one is down here, except you!" one of the men in the black suit said.
(So these guys are dangerous mafia or something, I better turned back and called the police.)
"Feed him to the crocodile!" the worker suddenly heard his death sentence from the leader of the suspicious group.
"Wait...wait..."
Before he could say anything more, a big bulky man caught him and lifted him up.
"What are you trying to do? Put me down!"
The big man brought him to near the water, the poor worker looked down and saw something in the water.
"No, no...please spare me, I beg you..." the man began to cry.
Without saying anything, the big man threw him into the water.
The poor man kept crying out "HELP!" and "SAVE!" while he was trying to move far from the monster and get back to the ground. But as the water was deep, he couldn't get on the ground easily. Had it been a ladder there like in he pool, he might have escaped.
The beast devoured the poor man as a whole. In the process, its big teeth managed to cut his arm off his body, which was full of blood.
Even some of the men in black felt sorry for the poor worker. He was just here by chance and now he was dead, becoming crocodile's food.
===
After the arm had floated far away, Alexy stopped covering Klee's eyes.
"What was that? Why is your face so white, Brother Alexy? And you too, Kaeya?"
"Ah no, nothing. Let's proceed." said Alexy, although he really wanted to turn back. But he knew if he turned back, and when the deadline for the mission passed, disaster would happen.
---
"Shhhh, be careful of your step, go softly!" said Kaeya, with a voice as low as a whisper.
"Ah, OK!" replied Alexy.
They went to the corner and hid behind it, only show their face a little to look at the "group of people" as described to Alexy by the system.
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"Here's the plan. The day after the day after tomorrow, we will use this rock power of boss to break the road and returned to the surface, bringing the crocodile with us. And we must hurriedly attack the Griffin Palace before the military could react. Killing the president and disable the whole government of the entire country." said Sebastian, the butler.
---
(I thought their plan would be sophisticated. Turn out it is very simple. Huh, I want to yawn...no, stop...)
"Y-A-W-N!" Alexy yawned loudly.
And the whole group of people turned and looked at the corner.
"Who's hiding there? COME OUT!" Mr. Karasu shouted.
"We are discovered!" said Kaeya.
Alexy and co. didn't have any other choice but to come out of their hiding.
And the composition of the group made the people in black feel weird: a dark-skinned young man, a masked man and a...loli!
"Awwwww, boss. Can I keep the loli?" one of the men said. "She is so cute."
And the rest of the men in black, together with Mr. Karasu, turned and looked at him, like they wanted to call the FBI on him.
"Kill them ALL!" Mr. Karasu shouted.
But Klee had acted first while they turned to look at one of them weirdly, she had thrown bombs at them.
"What are these? So CU-TE..."
BOOM BOOM BOOM
Nearly all the men in black were blown to the wall or the water. Because the bomb's sound was too loud, the crocodile came out of the water, opened its mouth and roared.
(OMG, what's with this super big crocodile? And I thought crocodiles don't roar.) Alexy thought.
===
Being the center of the capital city, the main road leading to Griffin Palace is always lively, even at night.
In a small bar, a young black haired man sat down in front of the bartender.
"Welcome! What can I get you?" the bartender smiled and asked.
"Dandelion Wine!" the young man replied almost immediately.
---
(Hmmm...the Dandelion Wine here is good, but it can't beat the unique Dandelion Wine of Mondstadt.) the young man began to remember the past. (No, it's not the time to think about the past. I must find the boy. I can sense that the system is near here, but where?)
===
Meanwhile, under the sewer,
The crocodile began to attack Alexy's group. However, Kaeya simply used "Frostgnaw" and the crocodile was frozen...partly.
"WHAT!" Mr. Karasu was dumbfounded.
"Since the crocodile has just come out of the water, its body is wet, using Cryo element will turn it into an ice sculpture." Kaeya turned to Alexy and said, he was teaching the boy about an elemental reaction.
However, because the crocodile was too big, it was only frozen partly. After just a small attempt of escaping from the ice, it broke the ice with ease.
"Uh oh!" said Alexy.
Mr. Karasu wore his glove on and transformed into Geochanter Bracer. He turned to the crocodile and hopped on its back. Then he pointed his staff towards Alexy and Co., the staff shot out 3 Geo shot heading towards Alexy, Klee, and Kaeya respectively.
Kaeya dodged the attack easily, Klee was just too short for the attack to touch. However, Alexy was hit by the attack.
"Ouch!"
"Brother Alexy, are you ok?" asked Klee worriedly.
"Honestly, Alexy, you should learn how to dodge!" said Kaeya.
"How dare you make Brother Alexy hurt?!" Klee said and threw out a lot of bombs at the crocodile.
The crocodile, after all, is a beast, and it fears explosion, so it tried to get away from the source of the explosions.
Mr. Karasu slammed his staff on the crocodile's back, a giant Geo shield was created, protecting both him and the crocodile's head. Bombs thrown by Klee touched the shield and bounced back.
"Uh oh!" said Klee.
BOOM BOOM
Fortunately, Kaeya had grabbed Klee and Alexy and dashed out of the bombs' scope.
"Hahaha, taste your own destructive power!" laughed the Geochanter Bracer. And amber aura started to surround him, forming a Geo shield.
Seeing itself being protected, the crocodile became more aggressive, it huge body trampled some poor men in black.
"What do we do now? We can't attack!" said Alexy.
"Actually, we can. Only attacking from outside the shield doesn't work. We can walk through the shield and attack inside of it." said Kaeya. "However, if we walk through the shield, there's a high chance we will be devoured by that creature."
===
Above the ground,
"Maybe I have drunk too much...hiccup...I'm drunk now!" the Gacha God mumbled while walking on the pathway on one side of the main road leading to Griffin Palace.
"Hiccup..." the drunk deity stepped on a manhole. He suddenly stop walking and looked under his feet.
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"Hey, what are you doing?" a police officer shouted when he saw a black haired young man lifted up a manhole. (This guy's probably drunk. Ugh, I hate drunkards.) he thought.
But before he could apprehend the drunkard, that same drunkard roared into the hole leading down to the sewer.
===
"I think you should go in, Kaeya, try to deceived it to open its mouth. Then Klee would come in and throw a bomb into its mouth." said Alexy.
"Ahaha, I didn't know you were such a slacker, 'Master'."
Suddenly, they heard a loud roar from above.
Right after hearing the roar, the crocodile began to act more aggressive. It turned to the hole where the roar came from. It began to attack the ceiling of the sewer.
"Wait, what are you doing?" the Geochanter Bracer shouted before he fell off its back.
"It is trying to get up there!" shouted Alexy when he realized what was going on. "That roar must have provoked it."
"Hey, com back, you fool!" said Mr. Karasu.
But the crocodile trampled on him with its big body.
===
"Stop, making trouble, drunkard!"
On the surface, five police officers were trying to detain the black haired drunkard.
Suddenly, cracks appeared on the ground.
"ROAR!"
The crocodile appeared from under the ground.
"AAIEEEEEEEE!" some people screamed.
"It's a crocodile!" some others shouted.
"Just like in the horror movie. Quick, record this!" some others behave more weirdly.
And that was one second before disaster happened.
===
"What have you done?!!!" Madame Ping said, her tone was serious and contained anger.
"Helping that boy, of course!" said the Gacha God, looking at the mouth of the crocodile, full of blood, from afar.
"Sometimes, I forget that you are a merciless deity!" said Madame Ping, remembering the bloody past of the Gacha God.
In the Archon War, the Gacha God could have defeated all other Gods, including the powerful Morax, or Barbatos, and got all the 7 Gnoses for himself. But no, he decided to sit back and watch Gods fought each other.
He is the one who created the system called gacha, and deliberately and secretly give people what they don't want. Consequently, many people went to the summit of some mountain just to jump off and commit suicide.
"As long as you suffer." said the Gacha God
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AR: 3 (355/800 EXP)
Primogems: 200