Su Yuan and Aether once again arrived at Mona's residence and explained the purpose of their visit:
"Honorable Astrologist Mona Megistus, great astrologer Mona, we're sorry to trouble you again…"
"This time, we'd like to ask you to help us divinate Dottore's whereabouts…"
"After all, that scumbag Dottore has been hiding somewhere within Mondstadt, constantly making us feel uneasy! We must find him, defeat him, and eliminate this threat!"
Naturally, Mona didn't refuse Su Yuan and Aether's request.
She immediately summoned her mirror and began the divination…
Soon, Mona received one result… or rather, several results!
"The results on the mirror show something that's a bit beyond what I expected…"
Mona said with a puzzled yet serious expression:
"I tried to divinate Dottore's location, and it actually pointed to more than a dozen possible locations!"
"Could it be that Dottore has more than a dozen segments in Mondstadt?"
"That's impossible," Su Yuan said.
"Dottore's segments require very rare materials to create. From all the times I've dealt with him, the most I've ever seen in one place is two or three segments."
"More than a dozen segments in Mondstadt? Are segments now being sold wholesale? How is that even possible?"
"Well, if we follow Su Yuan's reasoning, then there's another possibility…"
Mona pondered:
"That is, these locations might be places where Dottore has stayed before. If we want to track his movements, we could look for clues at these sites."
As she spoke, Mona took out a map of Mondstadt from her drawer and, referencing the results on the mirror, marked several points on the map.
"Although the mirror showed more than a dozen results, I think many of them are unlikely. So I've only marked the locations I consider most important…"
"And among them, the most suspicious location is here!"
Su Yuan, Aether, and Paimon followed Mona's finger and looked at the map, only to find that it pointed to a small island far from the Mondstadt mainland.
"Here… isn't this Musk Reef?" Paimon exclaimed.
"I remember this place—there are lots of ruins and monsters on it!"
"That's right. If I were Dottore, I'd definitely hide my base somewhere remote and hard to reach," Aether nodded.
"And Musk Reef fits that description perfectly."
"So, our next target is to gather our forces and head to Musk Reef?" Su Yuan asked.
"But if Dottore isn't there, wouldn't that be a wasted trip? It might also leave Mondstadt's defenses weakened, giving opportunists a chance to strike."
"True, Dottore is powerful, but he's not an opponent for a Eerie. As long as we bring Eula, we should be able to handle him without much trouble."
"Then let's not waste any time—we depart immediately!" Aether said to Su Yuan.
Afterward, Su Yuan and Aether returned to the Knights of Favonius, gathered Eula, and prepared to go to Cape Oath, where they could use a portal to reach Musk Reef.
"Hehe, Traveler, I remember the first time we went through that portal—it really gave us a fright!" Paimon said.
"But it wasn't because of any accidents. Just discovering that portal, given our stamina at the time, it would have been hard to fly straight from Cape Oath to Musk Reef, right?"
Hearing Paimon, Su Yuan thought she was right.
After all, even in the game, without unlocking more stamina through Anemo Sigils, it would indeed be very difficult to fly directly there.
When they arrived at Cape Oath and saw the entrance to the suspended portal, Aether started looking around and said: "I remember there's a mechanism nearby. If we hit it, it creates an upward wind field, and we can just open our Wind Wings to enter the portal!"
"Su Yuan, this is your first time actually using the Wind Glider—are you sure you're okay?" Aether asked.
"Hehe, don't worry, Aether, it's a piece of cake!" Su Yuan replied confidently.
"Although I haven't passed Amber's flight license test yet, so technically I'm flying without a permit…"
"But I'd like to think I've got the basics of Wind Gliders down perfectly!"
Then, everyone spread their Wind Gliders and took off, flying toward the portal suspended in midair…
But the moment they entered the portal, they all felt a chaotic, disorienting sensation.
Clearly, something was not quite right!
"Traveler!!! What's going on???" In the chaos, Paimon felt dizzy and disoriented, exclaiming, "When we went through the portal before, did we ever experience anything like this?"
"Why does it feel like the world has turned upside down? I'm spinning in all directions!"
"I don't know either!!!" Aether looked equally stunned and panicked.
The current situation was clearly beyond anything he had expected.
Su Yuan, meanwhile, thought that since this portal is called a time tunnel, could it be that they had encountered a temporal turbulence?
In most films and stories, when temporal turbulence occurs, the original intended destination can change.
If people don't hold onto each other, they might end up being transported to entirely different locations!
So Su Yuan forced himself to calm down and shouted to the group:
"Everyone! We've probably encountered a temporal turbulence!!!"
"We must hold onto each other's hands, or we risk being separated and sent to different places!!!"
Hearing Su Yuan's warning, the group—tossed and turned upside down—struggled to adjust their posture and grasped each other's hands.
Only after doing this did Su Yuan allow himself a small sigh of relief.
That way, they shouldn't get separated, right?
After more time of turbulence, a faint light seemed to appear ahead.
Everyone instinctively knew—it should be the exit!
The only question was, after going through this temporal turbulence, would their destination still be Musk Reef?
Soon, the dazzling light burned Su Yuan's eyes, and the disorienting sensation vanished.
He knew they had emerged from the temporal turbulence.
Feeling that he was still holding Aether's hand, Su Yuan breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank goodness, Aether, holding hands actually works! We didn't get separated!"
But very quickly, Su Yuan realized that Aether hadn't responded.
Aether had left something behind…
Indeed, Aether had left only one hand—still dripping blood—firmly holding Su Yuan's hand, while his body had long since vanished…
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