Chapter 454: You’re Awake? The Surgery Was a Success—You’ve Already...

Chapter 454 -456: You’re Awake? The Surgery Was a Success—You’ve Already…

Genshin Impact: I’m The Envoy of Snezhnaya

Chapter 456: You’re Awake? The Surgery Was a Success—You’ve Already…

“If you can’t do it, that’s fine. Just keep trying.”

Bai Luo didn’t say anything like, “You have to succeed!” Instead, seeing Silver fall silent, he simply offered him some encouragement.

After all, it wasn’t anything particularly important.

“If we’re just talking about a simple life-form—something that doesn’t need a soul or self-awareness—could you make something like that?”

Perhaps unwilling to give up, Bai Luo continued to ask.

This time, Silver didn’t remain silent.

He walked to one side.

Under Bai Luo’s curious gaze, he returned carrying a flowerpot and placed it in front of him.

Bai Luo: “…”

All right, I know plants count as living things… but I was hoping for an artificial human, not a potted plant.

Growing flowers? I can do that too.

Ignoring Bai Luo’s somewhat bewildered expression, Silver gently cradled the flowerpot in both hands and slowly closed his eyes.

A faint glow spread from his palms.

Stimulated by that light, a tiny sprout broke through the soil.

It grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, rapidly developing into a young sapling about as thick as a forearm.

As Silver continued channeling his power, a single Sunsettia gradually formed among the branches.

The bright red fruit weighed down the little tree, bending it until it nearly fell. Silver caught it before it could hit the ground.

This was the simplest application of the Art of Khemia, a technique Silver had painstakingly figured out on his own despite lacking the crucial knowledge.

However…

“Silver… that’s not something you should be playing with.”

Looking at the little Sunsettia tree before him, Bai Luo felt his PTSD threatening to kick in.

Collei and Teppei had at least awakened other elemental powers before eventually obtaining Dendro Visions.

But Silver?

Good grief…

I haven’t even gotten you a Vision yet, and you’re already pulling tricks like this.

After handing the fruit to Bai Luo, Silver obediently sat back down.

This was already the limit of what he could currently accomplish.

If he truly wanted to create life, he’d either have to obtain whatever Gold had left behind for Chalk, or continue studying and improving for a much longer time.

Otherwise, he’d have to keep relying on shortcuts like the Whopperflower method.

Bai Luo didn’t put any more pressure on him.

He simply rubbed Silver’s head before walking over to the books he had borrowed from Albedo.

As for Silver…

Although Bai Luo had done his best while trimming his hair to keep loose strands from falling inside his clothes…

Hair has an uncanny ability to find even the tiniest opening.

So now his body felt a little itchy.

Picking up a towel from nearby, Silver walked into a small side cave that he had excavated himself after Bai Luo had left.

After spending so much time around the Fatui, he had gradually learned what ordinary humans were supposed to do.

Simple personal hygiene, for example.

He didn’t bother heating any water.

Instead, he scooped up the melted snowwater beside him and repeatedly poured it over his head.

He didn’t untie the ponytail Bai Luo had tied for him.

The icy water trickled down his hair, slid across his flat abdomen and his body—which bore no distinguishing sexual characteristics whatsoever—before dripping onto the ground.

“Nothing much. I just used to cut someone else’s hair.”

“A girl.”

“…A girl…”

Silver turned toward the pool of melted snowwater beside him.

The rippling surface reflected his own face.

A face whose gender couldn’t be discerned.

So… am I a boy?

Or a girl?

. . .

“…Mmm…”

The moment Diluc regained consciousness, the first thing he noticed was the cool sensation on his tongue.

The surrounding temperature was also rather low, stirring up memories of a certain experience.

Back then…

He had been in Snezhnaya.

Snezhnaya… the Fatui… the Aus—

Ausbilder!

As though his soul had suddenly snapped back into his body, Diluc’s eyes flew open.

He gasped desperately for air.

“Meow…” ℯℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

The sound that came out of his own mouth immediately told him exactly what had happened.

That damned Ausbilder…

He used that potion on me again.

“You’re awake?”

As his vision gradually came into focus, a figure wearing a face mask and holding a pair of scissors and a scalpel appeared before him.

That figure was none other than the Bai Luo he had been thinking about all this time.

“The operation was a success. These two things were successfully removed. How would you like to dispose of them?”

Bai Luo lightly shook a glass jar containing two strange fleshy spheres.

The lumps weren’t perfectly round, but one thing was certain—they had definitely been removed from the body of some living creature.

The tiny blood vessels, made even more visible after soaking in preservative, were not something that could be easily faked.

These were…

After several seconds of “booting up,” Diluc’s brain finally finished restarting.

The relevant information was retrieved from the “C drive” that was his memory.

“Meow?!”

The instant he realized what they were, Diluc lunged at Bai Luo.

However, Bai Luo had anticipated this reaction long before.

Diluc’s four limbs were tightly bound with steel wire, making it impossible for him to launch any kind of attack.

Meanwhile, Sharaf, watching everything from the side, wore an oddly subtle expression.

At last, he understood why Bai Luo’s was so fond of pulling these morally questionable pranks.

Watching it happen to someone else was actually incredibly entertaining.

“Grrr… Rrrrow…”

Diluc fixed Bai Luo with the fierce eyes of a wild beast.

The sharp claws hidden within his furry paws slid out.

Low, threatening growls rumbled continuously from his throat.

After transforming into a cat so many times, he had become exceptionally adept at using a cat’s body to express himself.

“Don’t want them?”

Bai Luo unscrewed the lid of the jar.

Picking up a pair of forceps, he carefully lifted one of the fleshy spheres out and dangled it back and forth in front of Diluc.

All Diluc could do was continue growling furiously.

As for Sharaf…

He had already climbed out of his little nest and trotted over.

With both front paws tucked neatly against his chest, he wore a grin as broad as a lucky beckoning cat while enjoying the show.

“Let’s see… Should I boil them in water? Or maybe grill them over charcoal?”

Diluc’s reaction to Bai Luo’s suggestion wasn’t especially dramatic.

Instead, it was Sharaf—who had merely been watching the excitement—whose eyes suddenly lit up.

Having spent so much time living alongside Silver, he knew this cave like the back of his paw.

He scampered around with practiced familiarity.

A moment later, to Bai Luo’s slight surprise, Sharaf returned carrying a small alcohol burner in his mouth.

Heh.

It can’t always be me who’s the one suffering.