Genshin Impact: Please don’t bully me, fellow stragglers

The little gray rabbit looked at her without blinking.

Rabbits are extremely timid creatures.

Always curled up into a fluffy ball, it looks quiet and harmless at first glance.

I don’t know why, but alarm bells were ringing in my head.

Nanke put down the porridge bowl and backed away slowly.

The rabbit's soft gray fur had a sudden bulge on its back.

Immediately afterwards, a black claw tore the fur and poked out from the inside!

Nanke turned around and ran away.

"Humanity!"

"Woo!"

Nanke was knocked down from behind. He instinctively protected his head with both hands, but his forehead still hit the ground heavily.

The sharp claws on her back easily dug into her back, and her heavy breathing with the smell of blood brushed against her ears along with a few long white beards: "If you don't want to die, don't move."

"I won't move," Nanke endured the trembling caused by the severe pain, took a deep breath, frowned and looked back, "Are you the one who stole the food from the village?"

Lying on her back was a human-sized, dark, toothy, and furry... cat.

It's too big for a cat.

Nanke couldn't breathe, and his long black tail swept back and forth on the ground beside her impatiently, making a "rustling" friction sound.

"You have no right to ask me questions," a narrow black pupil stood up in Jin Cui's cat eyes, and the words imitating human pronunciation were mixed with a low growl, "Human, do you have a way to bloom a flower that can destroy the evil spirit? Come on, let me know. That kind of flower blooms, or I’ll kill you!”

He has been hiding in the little gray rabbit's skin for who knows how long, just to catch her when she is alone and make this threat?

Nanke's breathing was rapid and he didn't answer for a while.

The wound on the back must be bleeding.

Even if she wanted to, she couldn't prescribe Dendrobium without the presence of evil spirit around her.

"What do you want the flowers for?"

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up!" The sharp claws embedded in the flesh and blood of his back tightened.

"Hmm!" Nanke's face turned pale.

She can't die.

At least... she couldn't die where the skirmishers couldn't see her.

Nanke clenched his fingers and poured in the elemental power. His eyes instantly turned purple, and the electric light rushed behind him regardless of his body.

The cat demon screamed and was ejected.

A big hole was knocked out of the fragile wall, splashed with blood when the claws were forced out. Nanke was so painful that his vision almost went black. He bit the tip of his tongue hard and tried to get up while resisting the instinct of fainting.

Gotta escape...

The roar from behind came back with a gust of wind.

Nanke staggered into the nearest room, locked the door bolt, and fled to the window on the other side.

The wooden door made of paper was violently overturned. In just a few breaths, the cat demon broke in and pounced on Nanke on the window lattice.

There was no time for his right leg to retract, and a long wound opened up just because the tip of the claw passed over it. Nanke lost his balance and stretched out his hand to try to support his fallen body, but his wrist joint made a "click" sound.

Breaking out in a cold sweat, she curled up and looked at the cat's paw sticking out of the window above.

When no prey was caught, the claws were immediately retracted, and what was revealed next was the ferocious head of the cat demon.

Only then did Nanke notice that the upper part of the room - the originally invisible barrier was now glowing with a thin, bright purple light.

It must have been done by skirmishers.

Nanke's elemental power is too offensive, and the efficiency of its extraction is extremely low.

The elemental forces surrounding her were once intertwined with her flesh and blood. As long as she could squeeze out a little bit of strength to guide—

A thunderstorm broke out inside the barrier.

A thick roar of thunder struck on the unsuspecting head of the cat demon.

"Ouch——!!!" The beast's pitiful howl was ear-piercing.

The thunder element jumped with sparks on the black hair, and the huge demon body slowly shrank.

Nanke stood up, dragged his injured leg and continued to stagger away.

The open wound on his back dripped with blood all the way until his shoulder hit a smooth and unbreakable barrier.

Nanke was stunned and looked sideways at the enchantment flowing around him.

She actually... had a day when she was overprotected.

Nanke couldn't help but smile bitterly. He simply let out a long sigh and relaxed his body, leaning on the inside of the barrier to save energy.

It hurts.

A bitten tongue, scratches on hands, back, legs, and everywhere.

As soon as he relaxed, his vision became blurry and he was about to... faint.

The struck cat demon was paralyzed on the window, only half the size of a human being. It looked less scary from a distance of more than ten meters, but the golden green eyes that slowly raised remained stubborn and refused to retreat.

The cat demon jumped out of the window, his legs and feet were twitching, his steps were a bit sluggish, but he was unwavering.

Is the blood dendrobium something it must obtain?

"Even if...you kill me," Nanke gathered his consciousness and spoke, "it won't bloom."

The sound she made was like a breath, but the monster's five senses were so sharp. His eyebrows and nose were tightly wrinkled, and he stopped a few meters away suspiciously, staring at her.

"Besides, you can't escape from here." Nanke continued, his vision began to darken, and he opened and closed his lips with only hazy consciousness, "Can't we have a good... talk?"

"Eat it..." The cat's slender legs and feet moved again, "Eat it, it can solve most problems."

Is this the nature of monsters?

Nanke didn't dare to move, fearing that he would fall down if he moved. His eyelids dropped heavily, and he tried his best to lift them up and then fall again.

The light that fell into his eyes was thin and dim, leaving only two moving black paws and the cat demon's belly swaying slightly as he walked.

Covered in thick soft hair, the body is so swollen and round that it is incompatible with the slender limbs.

I probably got the news about Dendrobium from the woman.

In exchange, it gave the child demonic power and delayed the onset of the evil spirit.

Is it because of its belly?

Because they are nurturing new life, they also have compassion for human children?

It wants her flowers, after all...

"...At least it's something that has been contaminated by the evil spirits."

"Eat it."

If the evil spirits endanger the life of the cat demon itself.

So……

Nanke may understand.

But unfortunately, she had the experience of being eaten.

Dendrobium will be destroyed from the inside, making it impossible to survive.

Nanke stretched out his hand with all his strength to cover the fangs exposed under his already blurred vision, as if this would prevent its next move, and squeezed out two syllables: "...will die."

After all, she didn't have enough strength to control her body. She only raised her fingers an inch, and in a daze, she fell limply with her whole body.

There was no pain from being bitten on the skin.

In the only remaining ray of light, there was a loud bang like an explosion, and the black shadow paused in front of him was drowned by a purple light that was so dazzling that it turned white.

The exhausted body was picked up.

……No.

Don't hug her.

She was... covered in blood.

Immediately afterwards, all vision, touch and hearing were lost, and the world became completely silent.