Genshin Impact: Confession successful? They couldn't believe it

Chapter 258: The Executives Who Can't Even Get a Single Raw Stone

"How is the collection of raw stones going? Have you collected all 200,000?"

In winter, the silvery white ice crystals constantly refract the light, creating a glittering palace.

At the very end of the palace, behind a screen curtain painted with a snow-white mountain scene, it was their Queen of Winter who was asking questions.

Lady Rosalin had a bitter face, while the rich man Pantalone leaned against a pillar. The young girl Columbia and the puppet Sandone were also standing in front of the palace.

Everyone was silent. Finally, the lady who was in charge of the Heart of the Wind God nervously reported to Her Majesty the Queen above: "My Queen, we have almost emptied the entire Winter Kingdom in the past few days, and finally collected 60,000 raw stones."

“Sixty thousand!!!” Everyone saw the figure of the Ice Queen suddenly stand up from her seat behind the screen, her voice filled with anger.

"Aren't they just stones that can be found everywhere? How come so few are collected!" As she spoke, the Queen's figure gradually shrank, and she moved away from the crowd and came to the deepest part, then bent down.

Then everyone saw a large ice-blue box coming from above the screen, and the box was surrounded by extremely cold ice elemental power.

The remaining power in the box was so terrible that it caused the ground around the box to freeze.

Only the girl closest to her, Columbia, didn't take it seriously at all. She stretched out her hand without hesitation and opened the box. The cold air instantly surrounded her hand.

But it didn't last for half a second before disappearing completely.

Rosalin looked at Columbia's hands. Fortunately, she didn't open them herself, but someone helped her open them. Otherwise, she would have consumed a lot of energy.

Then everyone looked at the box filled with beautiful, sparkling raw stones.

The Ice Queen then said, "These are the stones I have been hoarding. Oh, they are called raw stones. There should be more than 20,000 of them. You can take some to make up the number!"

Pantalone, a wealthy man with an extremely sharp eye, could tell at a glance that there were indeed more than 20,000 raw stones in the box.

Add to that the number of raw stones they collected.

Pantaro curled his lips slightly and said softly, "Okay, we now have 86,310 rough stones."

"Only 80,000??? I am talking to the Ninth Seat Pantalone. The reserves of raw stones in our Kingdom of Winter are so small? Even I, the Queen, have more than 20,000 stones in just a few hundred years." The Ice Queen in front of everyone hugged her chest and spoke at the same time.

She actually walked around the curtain in front of her and came out wearing her usual casual short-heeled shoes with crystal flowers.

Finally she reached a platform in front and looked down at the four of them.

The four people's nerves suddenly tensed up. Oh no! It was a rare sight for the Queen to come out and actually stand in front of everyone to talk to them.

It can be seen how angry and furious the Queen is at this moment.

Everyone quickly lowered their heads, daring only to look at her two white feet.

What is this! Lady Rosalin's mess even involves the rich man Pantalone!

"Please calm down, Queen. I have already offered 10,000 Mora for one raw stone, but after that, I have only collected less than 8,000 more from the people."

After a long while, everyone heard the Ice God in front of them, Her Majesty the Queen, sigh softly: "It seems that I am too naive. It is really difficult for you to collect 200,000 raw stones in a short time."

"But even the 100,000 he wanted couldn't be gathered!" The Queen said, shaking her head slightly and looking at Columbia, the only girl who raised her head and stared at her face without any scruples.

"But fortunately, we have other options. Since we can only collect more than 80,000. It can't meet his requirement of 100,000. Then the third seat Columbia and the seventh seat Sandoni. Who of you two will go with us???"

"Ah?" Sandone was stunned when she heard that. She was very busy in the winter and really didn't want to go out.

"Hmm?" Columbia tilted her head. Is this true? Does the Ice Queen dare to let her leave the Kingdom of Winter?

Sandone was anxious. She knew that if she had to choose between her and the third girl, Columbia, she would definitely go abroad with the lady to meet the man.

Sandoni said, "We still have some Fatui scattered around the world. Let them collect some as well. I think we can get him a hundred thousand soon."

"Hmm..." The Ice Queen began to weigh the pros and cons. It would be too ostentatious to mobilize the Fatui distributed throughout Teyvatri.

Rosalin, the lady at the side, also wanted to drag other executive officers into the water without hesitation. Anyway, she had already asked three to help, so a few more would not be a big deal: "We have only collected the common people now. The workers in the underground factory managed by the fifth seat, the rooster, and the Hearth House outside the Winter City managed by the fourth seat, the servant, have not yet been there."

Ms. Rosalin only knows about these two, and doesn’t know much about the others. It’s not a big deal, and there’s a high chance that rough stones will appear in crowded places.

The Ice Queen pondered for a moment and felt that there was still hope for the 100,000 stones: "Well, let's call all the executives currently in Winter Solstice to have a meeting."

So another while passed.

Piero the clown, Capitano the captain, and Puccini the cock are present.

Then there was a random person from the Kingdom of Winter, a clone of a certain Dr. Slice Dotore. His real body was still in the laboratory and had not been available to come out.

And the last person was the executive officer's servant, Alechino, who walked in on high heels.

Seeing that everyone was present, the Ice Queen explained the situation without further ado.

After listening to what happened, Alechino spoke first: "Raw stones? Well, I'm sorry, the raw stones of the children of Hearth House were taken away by two of the children in Fontaine before. Now it is estimated that there are only less than one or two hundred raw stones left."

"Fontaine... Oh! So that's how it is." The Ice Queen understood immediately. The man who holds the Heart of the Wind God came from Fontaine.

The short and stingy long-nosed cockerel, Master Pucciniella, said: "That stone? No! Your Majesty, you know that in our winter, the workers' property is controlled and belongs to the collective. It is not allowed to store common property privately."

The Ice Queen nodded in agreement and looked at the next person: "You are right! So, who is the next one?"

After that everyone had their own story.

Even the doctor was very busy with his experiments, and the broken stone was not within the scope of his experiments, so he couldn't take any of the stones out.

In the end, there was nothing left for him to do. After listening to everyone's opinions, he talked to the Ice Queen and withdrew from the meeting after obtaining her consent.

He simply shattered and disappeared on the spot, and no one knew how he left.

“So, you have so many executives, but you still can’t even take out a raw stone. Don’t you collect them in boxes when you see them?... You are really useless!” The Ice Queen slapped the table in front of her and stood up.

The clown Piero, who was the executive officer, said helplessly to the Ice Emperor: "Who would have thought that someone would want these stones! If we had known this would happen, we executive officers would have saved them and not thrown them away."

The rich man couldn't help but shake his head. "Yes, these stones seem to be everywhere, but there aren't that many to collect. It's hard to collect them with Mora now. If he asks us for Mora, I can give him tens of billions."

"Inform everyone that from now on, keep all these raw stones safe!" The last Ice Queen could only do this. It's never too late to mend the fence after the sheep have been lost.

Therefore, before the last 100,000 raw stones were collected, the Ice Queen turned her attention to Columbia and Sandoni.

Collecting raw stones from foreign countries and bringing them back to Winter Solstice is also a huge project. It would be easier to make a compromise and let one of them go with them to get the Heart of the Wind God.

As for why the Ice God requires everyone to start saving up original stones after this wave.

That was because she had a premonition that she would make a deal with the man who was the God of Water in the future.

Isn't this much simpler than trading the raw stone for the Heart of God, or than going to so much trouble to get the Heart of God?