Master Diviner Fu was not as lively as Qingque.
When Noldrei chatted with Qingque, he could still tease the young lady when he was happy, and Qingque didn't mind these small things. But Fu Xuan was different. She spoke in an archaic manner and liked to throw in a riddle or two from time to time.
It was a good thing the Synesthesia Beacon was so useful. Otherwise, Fu Xuan's way of speaking would have gotten her roasted by people on the street.
"You've been flipping through your communicator this whole time. Are you chatting with someone?"
Fu Xuan, of course, knew who Noldrei was communicating with. It was precisely because she knew that she had come to anxiously watch these outsiders.
"Cloudford. He told me I could find the people who are actively looking for me in Cloudford."
"If nothing unexpected happens, I should have a chance to meet the people I want to meet today."
Fu Xuan's eyes lit up slightly when she heard Noldrei's words. "Then I'll follow you for now, but before that, I need to change my appearance."
She first led Noldrei back to his residence, and then Fu Xuan quickly changed her attire.
Not only did she change from her initially 'graceful' dress to a very conservative blue one, but she even let her hair down and tied it up simply, with her bangs covering the gem-like object on her forehead.
"Very good. This way, I can go to Cloudford for a good look. My identity as the Master Diviner is very troublesome, and quite a few people recognize me, so dressing up appropriately is very useful."
Fu Xuan looked at herself in the mirror. Even she could hardly recognize the girl-next-door before her.
Noldrei asked with great confusion, "Aren't you the head of the Divination Commission? What are you following me for? If it's just to simply keep an eye on me so I don't cause trouble, wasn't Qingque doing a good job? Why did you switch her out? Was it just to add to her burden?"
Fu Xuan was at a loss for words. She couldn't very well say that she had actually divined the fortune—good or bad—of Noldrei's arrival.
And then she subconsciously wanted to follow this fortune to observe the situation.
There was another thing she wanted to know even more.
If the result of a divination was "Great Misfortune"—even if it seemed like all the preparations were being made very well, but the final result was still "Great Misfortune"—then could one think of it in reverse? If the result was "Great Fortune," would the final outcome still be "Great Fortune" no matter how recklessly one acted?
Fu Xuan wasn't quite sure about this. After all, she had never done a similar practical experiment before.
These outsiders, like Noldrei, seemed less than proper. Coupled with the suddenly-emerged, inherently improper Disciples of Sanctus Medicus within the Xianzhou, under normal circumstances, a meeting between the two should have turned out badly.
But the result she had divined was "Great Fortune."
This truly baffled the Master Diviner.
Especially after learning from Jing Yuan about Noldrei's true intention to probe the internal situation of the Xianzhou, she felt even more strongly that she should go and see for herself how things would develop.
While the Master Diviner was very confident in her divination abilities, she was also very worried that her participation would lead to an unavoidable outcome.
"This one... er, I also have important business to attend to."
'Your important business is following me?'
Noldrei thought to himself that he had been transparent enough, making it clear what should and shouldn't be said.
He was just a barbarian from beyond the pale in the eyes of the Xianzhou people. Was he really worth being watched by one of the Six Charioteers of the Luofu Xianzhou?
Noldrei looked at Fu Xuan suspiciously and asked, "You don't have some secret plan, do you?"
Fu Xuan retorted angrily, "You should be the one with a plan!"
Unsure what he had thought of, Noldrei suddenly remembered that Fu Xuan seemed to have the ability to divine so-called future trends. Then, theoretically, Fu Xuan should also be able to divine what he was planning to do.
'Oh no, could it be that she's divined my intention to further expand Proliferationism?'
Seeing Noldrei's grave expression, Fu Xuan also grew a little worried that her own thoughts had been exposed.
'Oh no, could he know that I already know the outcome of what he's going to do?'
The two of them stared at each other with grave expressions, both afraid that their plans would be accidentally leaked.
"You..." "You..."
"You first!" "You first!"
The two of them's expressions changed at the same time, and they both took a step back.
Noldrei asked, "Did you divine something?"
Fu Xuan shook her head. "This one did not. I just want to follow you and see."
Noldrei grew agitated. He pointed at her and asked, "Nonsense! You've clearly divined something! You definitely know what I want to do, don't you?!"
Fu Xuan was very displeased, feeling that her character had been insulted.
She could barely manage to divine a simple fortune right now. With the Matrix of Prescience not yet repaired, she couldn't perform any deeper divinations.
Seeing Noldrei so anxious, Fu Xuan also began to grow suspicious.
She asked cautiously, "You... you're not really planning to do something, are you?"
Noldrei also felt insulted. He had always been open about his actions.
But there was no guarantee that Proliferationists didn't exist in this corner of the universe. Perhaps even a conservative place like the Xianzhou had learned something about the history of Proliferationists.
Noldrei was just using Proliferationism to bring about the opposite effect.
If the other party divined that the entire future of the Xianzhou would change after Noldrei's efforts, wouldn't that be a huge problem?
"No, you're overthinking it!"
"You're definitely planning to do something!"
Fu Xuan was even more certain now. She immediately began to divine.
"Yin rises and Yang falls, the Oriole and the Magpie share the forest?!"
Fu Xuan divined again. This time, she was absolutely certain it was indeed 'Yin rises and Yang falls, the Oriole and the Magpie share the forest.'
This meant that the oriole and the magpie would be companions, but because of the oriole's mischief, it would ultimately lead to trouble.
"I never thought, I never thought..."
Fu Xuan looked at Noldrei with a complicated expression and said, "I never thought you were the oriole, a villain causing trouble!"
Noldrei looked at Fu Xuan in shock, thinking, 'With your Xianzhou's level of governance, you think you're worthy of my meddling?'
Your Xianzhou built spaceships, developed biotechnology, and even implemented a so-called aristocratic co-governance system internally that led to your own people rebelling.
You clearly had such good technology, but in the end, you only distributed scraps to your own people—not even scraps. Instead of thinking about how to help everyone advance as quickly as possible, you just thought about fighting and killing outsiders every day.
You turned the original Xianzhou into what it is today, and you dare to call me, an outsider, a villain?
"How insulting! Even the slaves we capture back home have a better worst-case living standard than the ordinary people here!"
"And you dare to call me a villain?! You're the villain! If you weren't a villain, why are you so short!"
Noldrei's outburst almost made Master Diviner Fu spit blood.