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Story Tuesday · 9 June
Reverse: 1999
Version: 3.5 · The Turquoise Serpent Club
3.5
The Turquoise Serpent Club
Event Story 绿松石蛇俱乐部 (lù sōng shí shé jù lè bù)

I finally started the story, I love it!! I’m watching on bilibili instead of playing in-game, I wish I could just listen to it and not have to always look at the screen, but it’s too difficult. I can follow quite well, but I need to read the subtitles in Chinese.
I love Loggerhead the most, I love her voice so much, so melodious! Then I also really like 野木蓝.

Post Tuesday · 9 June

I don’t know why but the total number of pages on weixin dushu never stops to increase as I read. These are e-book pages, but I didn’t change the font nor the size. I noticed this with all the books I read on the platform.

Summary Tuesday · 9 June
暗黑者2：宿命
暗黑者2：宿命
周浩晖
552 pages
第十章 诱饵与枷锁 (contains spoilers)

Zeng Rihua found the identity of the so-called journalist who interviewed Wu Yinwu: his name is Du Mingqiang. The police found a death notice at his address and he is currently being detained. The date of the execution is smeared with ink and is not visible. Du Mingqiang is pretentious and arrogant, thinks himself a genius and sees the death notice as an opportunity for a scoop rather than a threat.
The team discusses the plan to protect Mingqiang. Mu Jianyun knows that Luo Fei intentionally revealed the details of Wu Yinwu’s death to Wen Chengyu to bait him to attack the journalist. But she also thinks that Chengyu used a pre-existing smear to hide the date, because he saw through Luo Fei’s plan. He is now forcing the police to protect Mingqiang for a whole month while he can fully concentrate on finding the truth behind his father case.
For Luo Fei though, the priority is to find the two witnesses: himself and Jianyun will look for Ding Ke while Yin Jian and Rihua will look for Chen Tianqiao. Liu Song is tasked with protecting Mingqiang.

Vocabulary Tuesday · 9 June
Genshin Impact
Version: Luna VII · 虚空劫灰往世书
WordReadingDefinition
过家家 guò jiā jiā to play house

I saw this word in Prune’s story, and I had to look up what “to play house” actually mean because I dont’ think I ever heard this before. I don’t even know what’s the equivalent in French…

Post Tuesday · 9 June
暗黑者2：宿命
暗黑者2：宿命
周浩晖
552 pages
蹙
cù
to knit (one's brows); wrinkled (of brows)

Saw this character in 暗黑者2, and it feels like I never saw it before. I know 皱眉 with the same meaning, it’s probably more common.

WordReadingDefinition
蹙眉cù méito frown
皱眉zhòu méito frown
Post Tuesday · 9 June
暗黑者2：宿命
暗黑者2：宿命
周浩晖
552 pages

There’s something with Zhao Haohui’s writing style I always find strange. We’re always following the same characters, but sometimes (or rather often), the author conceals their identity for a while (like the first paragraphs of a new section), sometimes even describe them (appearance, age, etc.), and after a while says: this man is Luo Fei, and the young man beside him is Zeng Rihua.
I don’t know, I find it odd every single time, I don’t know what purpose it serves, because usually the reader already knows which character we’re talking about, there’s no surprise.

New Character Tuesday · 9 June
Genshin Impact
Version: Luna VII · 虚空劫灰往世书
Summoned
Lohen
Lohen came home!

I went to pity and won my 50/50, it’s such a relief! :sparkle: My primogems count has never been so low… :broken-heart:
As usual, I haven’t pre-farmed at all so it might take all the second half of the patch to build him and find him decent artefacts. And I don’t know what his best team is, but I do have Nicole and Durin, so it’s probably okay.

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Summary Tuesday · 9 June
暗黑者2：宿命
暗黑者2：宿命
周浩晖
552 pages
第九章 弑父真凶 (contains spoilers)

The sniper of the Wen Hongbing case is called Zhong Jimin and is now working at a shooting club. Wen Chengyu talks to him and tries to get information on the case. Zhong Jimin reveals that he is not the one who shot Hongbing. Chengyu realises that it must be Yuan Zhibang, but as he was only a trainee, responsibility would have fallen on his superiors, so the shot was attributed to Zhong Jimin. He doesn’t know why Zhibang shot, and he couldn’t see the scene when it happened.
Chengyu makes his escape minutes before Luo Fei, Liu Song and Zeng Rihua arrive at the club.
Chengyu’s next step will be to understand why Zhibang killed his father. so the priority for the team is now to find Ding Ke and Chen Tianqiao who are the only two persons who know exactly what happened.
Chengyu had promised Zheng Jiao he would meet her every day after work, but he says he needs to do take care of something first and won’t be able to see her in the meantime. Her father was killed while working on a case, she says she wants to take revenge. Chengyu tells her he wants to pay for a treatment in the US that could cure blindness.

Quote Tuesday · 9 June
불빛 없는 밤의 도시
불빛 없는 밤의 도시
정해연
304 pages

민원전화 한 통마다 이런 식으로 해결 방법을 찾아 기획안을 올린다면 아마 공무원 생활 2년을 채 넘기기 전에 쓰러지고 말 것이다.

Characters Tuesday · 9 June
불빛 없는 밤의 도시
불빛 없는 밤의 도시
정해연
304 pages
불빛 없는 밤의 도시
재우 Other
Jae-uJae-woo
45, works at the Environmental Management Division Yeongin City Hall.
허승영 Other
Heo Seung-yeongHeo Seung-young
New employee, same department as Jaeu.
세현 Other
Se-hyeonSe-hyun
high school student (2nd year), Munsu’s son
문소 Other
Mun SoMoon So
Environmental maintenance worker that needs to work with a flashlight helmet because of the new regulations.
장덕현 Other
Jang Deok-hyeonJang Deok-hyun
police detective
Post Tuesday · 9 June
Genshin Impact
Version: Luna VII · 虚空劫灰往世书

I finished studying chapter 2 of 礁与浪的相逢, I only have chapter 3 left! I love this event! I also saw that the 幻友绮旅 event story is already on the Chinese wiki! I’m tempted to start it right away…
So my plan for the second half of the patch is to finish studying 礁与浪的相逢, then do 幻友绮旅, and maybe study Lohen SQ, but only if I like it enough. I don’t think I will study Varka SQ.

Post Tuesday · 9 June
불빛 없는 밤의 도시
불빛 없는 밤의 도시
정해연
304 pages

불빛 없는 밤의 도시 is a collection of short stories! I thought it was a novel. I’m super happy, because I actually wanted to read short stories in both Japanese and Korean while I was busy with 暗黑者2, but then I saw this book and really wanted to read it, so I chose this one even though I thought it was a novel… It’s a nice surprise!

Vocabulary Monday · 8 June
Genshin Impact
Version: Luna VII · 虚空劫灰往世书

Lohen presentation

WordReadingDefinition
狡兔三窟 jiǎo tù sān kū lit. a crafty rabbit has three burrows, a sly individual has more than one plan to fall back on (idiom)

This is from Lohen’s presentation. 狡兔 is his constellation, and the expression explains why he has so many hidden weapons.

Sentence Monday · 8 June
Genshin Impact
Version: Luna VII · 虚空劫灰往世书

Lohen presentation

远征军某神秘榜单出炉——恭喜洛恩荣登榜首！ 「谁是远征军里纯粹热衷战斗，不在乎是否能赢取荣耀的那个人？」 把这个问题抛给蒙德的大家，答案只有一个：某位喜欢嚼着泡泡糖恶作剧，却会在危机时刻站到最前方的少年——洛恩。
WordReadingDefinition
榜单 bǎng dān list of successful applicants for college admission; list of people or entities ranked highest according to some metric
荣登 róng dēng (of a list, music chart etc) to reach the top
榜首 bǎng shǒu top of the list
嚼 jiáo to chew
泡泡糖 pào pào táng bubble gum

Today I realised that I didn’t know how to say “to chew” and “bubble gum” in Chinese.

Post Monday · 8 June
Genshin Impact
Version: Luna VII · 虚空劫灰往世书

Lohen demo

Wow Lohen’s trailer… this guy feels like a mix of Sparkle and Jane Doe, clearly worth risking going to double pity for him.
I should also have two points of capturing radiance already, so it will help, because I do want Sandrone…