Chapter 11

Yet they had to play a science video for the cloud players about their world.

Making it seem as if their world were some kind of game.

This left people a bit baffled.

Boothill: "Holy shit, we're all people in this Railway Realm, who'd not know the basic info of their own world?"

Boothill: "Just skip ahead to the main event, all this dawdling is damn annoying."

Boothill was a bit speechless,

Watching a video and they still had to start with some pointless science explainer first?

Scaramouche: "What, you say skip and we skip?"

Scaramouche: "Who the hell do you think you are?"

Scaramouche saw the person who'd called him a native pop up again,

And immediately couldn't hold back from firing back.

Boothill: "Oh, forgot you primitive man were still here, oops, holy shit, my bad for hitting a nerve."

Boothill certainly wasn't going to let Scaramouche off easy, and said it in a passive-aggressive tone.

Lumine: "Uh.. feels like I got dragged into this for no reason."

Hu Tao: "Mr. Boothill, we have no objections to you looking down on this person called Scaramouche."

Hu Tao: "After all, he really does seem a bit uncultured."

Hu Tao: "But still, stop opening and closing your mouth with words like 'primitive man' and 'native,' alright?"

Hu Tao: "If he's a primitive man, then we're all primitive men."

Hu Tao spoke her mind quickly, expressing her displeasure.

Boothill: "What? You guys are actually from the same world as him?"

Boothill: "Weird... how'd so many nativ— ahem!"

Boothill: "I mean, Miss Hu Tao is right, I didn't mean to discriminate against you guys! From now on, I'll watch what I say."

Boothill considered himself a cultured person,

Normally cursing people without using dirty words,

So he humbly accepted Hu Tao's suggestion.

Scaramouche: "Little girl, who are you calling uncultured? Know what it means to bring disaster from your own mouth?"

Scaramouche held a grudge over Hu Tao calling him uncultured.

Paimon: "@Zhong Li, your Hall Master is being threatened, and you're just going to sit and watch?"

Lumine: "@Zhong Li +1"

Venti: "@Zhong Li +2"

Zhong Li: "...."

Zhong Li: "Mr. Scaramouche, please do me a favor and stop making things hard for our Hall Master."

Zhong Li: "The Hall Master is still young, speaking in general terms, her words are those of a child who knows no restraint."

Zhong Li was @'d by the three deliberately mischievous people,

And had no choice but to start speaking up for Hu Tao.

Scaramouche: "Do you a favor? And who the hell are you?"

Scaramouche laughed, now any random cat or dog could ask him for a favor.

Zhong Li: "..."

Xiao: "How dare you disrespect the Adeptus!"

At Wangshu Inn, Xiao looked at Scaramouche's words,

And immediately wanted to grab his weapon and rush up to Scaramouche's face.

However, a light, drifting voice came,

And made him stop in his tracks.

"When I have the time, I'll go over personally."

That voice was as calm as water, yet carried a hint of authority.

"Yes, Rex Lapis!" Xiao obeyed as if it were law, and vanished back into the inn.

"Tch, this Scaramouche sure has guts, even daring to curse at the Geo Archon."

"Now, we might not have to lift a finger ourselves to rescue Nahida."

Lumine watched the scene with amusement, feeling Scaramouche really knew how to court death.

"What if Zhong Li just doesn't come?"

"You know, he's basically a useless member of society now, every day either walking his bird or listening to storytelling."

Based on Paimon's innate impression of Zhong Li, she felt Zhong Li wouldn't bother making a special trip to Sumeru for something this trivial.

"Let's wait and see, maybe Scaramouche is stubborn enough to keep provoking him?"

"If provoked enough, Zhong Li won't be able to hold back either, right?"

Lumine shrugged, thinking this was hard to say.

The barrage of comments quieted down along with Zhong Li's silence,

And the video continued playing in an orderly fashion.

【I believe everyone understands the concept of the universe, and the Astral Express is a world with a vast, boundless universe as its main body.】

【And within this universe, there exist all sorts of incredible miracles.】

【The first thing to tell everyone about is... the Aeons!】

【In the world of Honkai: Star Rail, there exist great beings known as Aeons.】

【Aeons are the embodiments of highly condensed philosophical concepts, they are....】

The video's editor chatted on at length,

explaining the basic worldview of the Honkai: Star Rail universe in a very detailed and efficient manner.

Dr. Ratio: "Nicely explained. Very suitable as material for an introductory primer."

General Jing Yuan: "Mm, the logic is clear, the language is concise — indeed very well explained."

Hook: "Wow, so the universe is this huge! After listening to this big brother's explanation, Hook yearns for the universe even more!"

March 7th: "Then hurry up and grow up, then come to the Astral Express and be a Nameless!"

March 7th: "That way you can personally measure the size of the universe yourself."

In the video, a certain Blue Planet uploader's explanation,

received unanimous praise from everyone in the Honkai: Star Rail universe.

Lumine: "It really is explained very well..."

Lumine: "But... this doesn't seem to be describing our world?"

Lumine could now confirm that what the video had just explained was fundamentally not the world she was in.

In her world, there were none of those things that sounded so outrageous.

Boothill: "Not your world? What kind of Woof-Woof joke is that?"

Boothill: "Could there really be another world out there?"

Boothill: "If you ask me, your hometown is just too remote, never connected to the interstellar network, so all this sounds like a fog to you."

Boothill: "Look, isn't the Astral Express right here? Just have them drive it over to your place and pioneer a route, hook up the Star Rail and that'll fix it."

Boothill first rebutted Lumine a few times,

then pointed out a clear path for them.

Paimon: "H-hook up the Star Rail?"

Paimon: "C-can it really be done?"

Paimon was somewhat swayed by what was said,

after watching the popular science video, she already knew how vast the world beyond Teyvat was.

And the vaster the place, the more delicious food there must surely be!

PS: New book, please send flowers — even one is love!