Chapter 664: The Fatui's Corporate Culture

"Rest assured, I know that if I truly killed them, you certainly wouldn't forgive me."

"Since I have come to negotiate with you, I naturally wouldn't do anything as dangerous as damaging the relationship between both sides."

The Doctor crossed his arms and began to soothe her.

…

Sanctuary of Surasthana.

"It seems it's not a hostage situation~"

Seeing this, Lumine and Paimon immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

They had almost become a burden!

Trading a Gnosis to get her back was already absurd enough!

If it required another one...

That would truly be unprecedented and never to be repeated!

But having said that, is the Doctor actually here to negotiate?

This caught the two of them by surprise.

But fortunately, Nahida's safety was no longer an issue.

It's just that they didn't know how she had counterattacked and seized the initiative!

Thinking of this, Lumine and Paimon were incredibly curious.

Immediately, they hurriedly looked at the light curtain.

…

In the light curtain, the scene continued.

"Negotiate with me?"

Hearing this, Nahida also dropped her defensive posture.

However, she remained vigilant in her heart.

"I heard that you had already left Sumeru before; why have you appeared here now?"

"The one who left Sumeru was me, and the one who remained in Sumeru is also me!"

"Even the God of Wisdom is bound by the inertia of cognition; it is truly disappointing!"

As he spoke, the Doctor sighed and shook his head.

Upon hearing this, Nahida rested her chin on her small hand and fell into deep thought.

"Are you saying... there are many different versions of you in the world?"

"Hmm, not a bad guess!"

The Doctor offered a word of praise.

Then he continued.

"Even for the same individual, different ages will have different perceptions."

"A long time ago, I made a major decision, hoping to preserve all perspectives of observing the world."

"Observation is the first step of experimentation."

"However, observing only in the current world does not satisfy me."

"Because one important dimension is still missing."

"That is—time!"

"So I saved slices of myself at various ages and operated them as independent individuals!"

"That is how it is!"

"I am very curious how the God of Wisdom would evaluate this approach of mine, which has the pursuit of knowledge as its goal."

As he spoke, the Doctor's gaze looked earnestly at Nahida.

…

And at this moment, after seeing this, many people in the chat group were shocked.

(PS: The previous chapter mentioned Diluc knew about the Doctor's segments; this has been changed to him not knowing!)

【Transcendent Chat Group】

【Lumine: What the hell? Segments of different ages?? That means there are Doctors of different ages on the Teyvat continent???】

【Paimon: This... this is too crazy, right?】

【Collei: This guy not only experiments on me and others, but he actually experiments on himself?!!】

【Alice: It's just that there are no divine materials available, otherwise this guy would probably have started on that directly!】

【Miss Miss Keqing: And just like that, he even pulled off an artificial god...】

【Yae Miko: And yet his goal is the pursuit of knowledge; he really is a madman~】

【Kamisato Ayato: He has no bottom line left in his pursuit of wisdom! Such a person is the most terrifying! (Cautious. jpg)】

【Furina: Should I say as expected of someone from the Akademiya? (Sigh. jpg)】

【Alhaitham: Compared to this one, Azar is just a child! He was played in the palm of his hand from beginning to end!】

【Dehya: I get it! The one who left in the original future was just a segment! The one appearing now is another segment! (Suddenly enlightened. jpg)】

【Tighnari: To some extent, the current Doctor has as many lives as he has segments! Very difficult to deal with!】

【Cyno: Yes! Even if you know about it, it's completely useless! An unsolvable trump card!】

【Diluc: Damn it! At this rate, he can never be killed off!】

【Kaeya: Don't be anxious, let's keep watching first! Perhaps Lady Lesser Lord Kusanali has some way!】

【……】

After witnessing the Doctor's trump card, everyone was terrified.

They were shocked by the other party's madness and ruthlessness!

And they also had a headache over how difficult the other party was to deal with!

For example, Diluc!

After all, he and the Doctor have a grudge!

But he had no way to deal with it either!

He could only clench his fists and continue watching.

The others in the chat group were the same!

…

In the light curtain, the scene continued.

After hearing the Doctor's words, Nahida lowered her hand, her expression turning serious.

"You are insulting the very concept of life!"

"Life itself possesses many rules, and each one has its own meaning and reason for existence."

"It is not something that can be broken at will just by relying on arrogance!"

Hearing these words, the Doctor laughed in a rare display.

"Heh, very good!"

"Remarkable!"

"Indeed! For humans themselves, reconciling with oneself is already a difficult thing!"

"Let alone oneself from different periods!"

Nahida did not continue this topic further.