Alice is a witch famous throughout Mondstadt, no, the entire continent of Teyvat.
She is the legendary woman who blew up the Wind Dragon Ruins into Stormterror's Lair.
Her mind is filled with countless strange ideas, and those ideas are often extremely dangerous.
For Alice, art is explosion.
Even Albedo, who rationally analyzes things, directly stated that the damage caused by Klee is far less than a fraction of Alice's.
The little loli often causes small troubles, while the big loli often causes big disasters.
They are indeed a mother and daughter.
However, speaking of which, Klee has not yet been born in the current timeline.
Alice has not yet become a mother; at most, she can only be considered a mature and intellectual older sister.
Recalling his thoughts, Makoto also introduced himself: "Ms. Alice, my name is Makoto."
"The little girl next to me is Qiqi, and the other unreliable guy holding a lyre is named Venti."
Alice has an excellent memory and quickly wrote down the names of the three.
Then she asked with a smile: "Are you also here to blow up the snowy mountain?"
"On this point, our ideas truly coincide!"
As she spoke, joy shone in Alice's beautiful eyes, as if she had found a like-minded companion.
"This place is covered in heavy snow all year round; for Mondstadt, it has no practical value whatsoever."
"But if we flatten this place, Mondstadt will gain a large area of usable land."
"At that time, we could grow crops here, or opening a factory wouldn't be bad either."
Alice was already considering what to do after flattening the snowy mountain, and the more she spoke, the more excited she became, full of anticipation.
Meanwhile, Venti next to her felt a bit like he wanted to cry but had no tears.
How could a snowy mountain be blown up just by saying so?
Too many things are involved here.
Blowing it up could easily lead to major problems.
Looking at Venti's hesitant expression, unsure how to speak, Makoto couldn't help but laugh.
Indeed, every dog has its day; finally, someone can rein in Venti, that old trickster.
However, mockery aside,
Makoto was also aware that the snowy mountain had to exist for Mondstadt.
If it were rashly destroyed, it might not be beneficial to Mondstadt.
Recalling his thoughts, Makoto looked at Alice and slowly said: "Miss Alice, I'd like to share my opinion."
Alice immediately showed an expectant expression: "Mr. Faxun, have you thought of a good explosion method?"
"Are we going to flatten the snowy mountain in one go, or in several stages? Personally, I prefer the former!"
Alice had just witnessed Makoto breaking open the large ice block.
She greatly admired Makoto's bombs.
She felt that, to some extent, their understanding of bombs was similar.
She found the bombs in Makoto's hand very interesting.
Perhaps they would find many common topics because of bombs.
Looking at the enthusiastic Alice, Makoto couldn't help but say with a wry smile: "Actually, what I was thinking is that the snowy mountain should be preserved."
Alice said somewhat unexpectedly: "Hmm? You mean not to blow up the snowy mountain?"
"But this snowy mountain is of no use to Mondstadt; it's better to blow it up and flatten it."
Makoto was torn between laughter and tears; Alice had a great obsession with blowing up the snowy mountain.
He could only explain: "Back then, Wind God Barbatos blew away all the wind and snow in Mondstadt, leaving only this snowy mountain."
"I believe Barbatos must have had his reasons for doing so."
Venti also nodded along: "Ah, yes, yes, yes."
Alice showed a thoughtful expression: "I hadn't considered that possibility. Listening to you, it does make some sense."
Seeing Alice's persistence waver, Makoto struck while the iron was hot.
He continued: "To flatten the entire snowy mountain would require a lot of bombs, not to mention the time and effort, and the aftermath of the explosion would affect the surrounding area."
"If the snowy mountain were really blown up, it might have the opposite effect of Miss Alice's initial idea."
Venti nodded along: "Exactly, exactly, that's it, that's what I wanted to express, ehe~"
Alice was silent for a moment, then put away the bomb in her hand.
"Alright, Mr. Faxun, you've convinced me."
Makoto was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously asked: "What?"
Alice's face was full of innocent purity; she said somewhat confusedly: "You've convinced me, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I misheard." Makoto smiled and shook his head.
Indeed, twenty years ago, Alice was just an older sister.
Her mind was innocent and pure, like a blank sheet of paper.
Makoto couldn't bear to lead her astray.
Alice felt a bit strange, but couldn't pinpoint why.
"Then I won't blow up the snowy mountain for now today,"
Alice paused, her gaze falling on Makoto in front of her.
"Mr. Faxun, after our brief chat, I find you quite interesting. Would you consider joining my bomb squad?"
"At that time, I'll make you a large bomb, and I'll make a compressed bomb. We'll grow bigger and stronger, how about it?"
Looking at Alice's adorable expression, full of longing and anticipation,
Makoto chuckled and nodded: "Sounds good, let's join forces."
Hearing Makoto agree, Alice was overjoyed, her eyes curving into a smile.
"Then it's settled, okay? Next time I see a place that needs to be bombed, I'll tell you in advance."
"That's all for now; I'm going to prepare the explosive formula."
After Alice finished speaking, she directly waved goodbye to Makoto.
Then her figure disappeared on the snowy road.
As a witch, Alice arrived silently and disappeared in the blink of an eye when she left.
Makoto still wanted to say where he lived, as Alice didn't know, how would she find him?
But then he thought, Alice is a witch, so finding Makoto shouldn't be a problem.
As long as she wanted to, she could appear before Makoto.
And watching Alice's departing back, Venti let out a long sigh of relief, his suspended heart finally settling.
Alice talking about blowing up the snowy mountain earlier had truly terrified him.
But thankfully, Makoto had stopped it all.
"Mr. Faxun, thank you so much for successfully convincing Alice not to blow up the snowy mountain anymore."
"Hehe, as a token of my gratitude, I'll treat you to some Apple Cider later."
Makoto wasn't very interested in drinking; he asked: "Barbatos, actually, I'm very curious,"
"Why did you blow away all the snow and high mountains in Mondstadt back then, but left this one snowy mountain untouched? What was your reason for doing so?"
During this time, Venti and Makoto had become increasingly familiar with each other.
Venti had also made no secret of his identity as the Wind God.
So, when no one else was around, Makoto would directly call him Barbatos.
Venti scratched his head and said somewhat awkwardly: "If I said the reason was to leave a snowy mountain so it would be convenient to watch the snow and have snowball fights in the future, would you believe that reason?"
Looking at Venti playing dumb, Makoto said irritably: "Do you think I'd believe that? Do you think I'm as easy to fool as a three-year-old like Qiqi?"
Qiqi, who was nearby, immediately became a little upset upon hearing this.
She pouted, defending herself: "Makoto… Qiqi is not a three-year-old child."
"Alright, alright, Qiqi isn't a three-year-old child; Qiqi is already four."
Upon hearing this, Qiqi's little mood improved somewhat.
"That's more… like it…"
Under Makoto's gaze, Venti also scratched his head: "Alright, alright, then I'll reveal a little bit of information to you."
"I can only tell you that beneath this snowy mountain, there is a large door,"
"I once slept behind that door, and I slept for decades."
At this point, Venti did not continue speaking.
As one of the Seven Archons, he couldn't reveal too much.
Makoto also knew that Venti really couldn't continue speaking.
That guy would rather give all his Apple Cider to Makoto than talk about the door.
Makoto knew Venti had said all he could say.
There was a very special large door within the snowy mountain.
What exactly was behind the door?
Makoto wasn't that curious.
Because for him, it wasn't an important matter.
Soon, Makoto found the spiritwind luminescence marrow in the cave using the treasure compass.
The so-called spiritwind luminescence marrow was a medicinal insect ground into powder.
However, that type of insect is now long extinct.
But due to the unique climate of the snowy mountain, that insect was unexpectedly frozen.
This allowed Makoto the opportunity to find such a rare medicine.
He Melted the ice, took out the insect inside, and put it in his pocket.
Then he looked up at Venti again, and asked confusedly: "We came up the snowy mountain on Dvalin; how do we get down now?"
"Or, could you call him over again?"
Venti, upon hearing this, scratched his head, his face full of embarrassment: "Dvalin left angrily earlier; he's the type that can't be appeased."
"I guess even if I play a tune again, he won't come."
"Then what do we do?"
"Hehe, this snowy mountain isn't very high, Mr. Faxun, let's fly down~"
Feeling drained, sitting in front of the computer with a blank mind, I'll only update once today and think about the plot later.
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