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

"His Highness hopes that you can understand our great wish and become a partner in saving the world together, so he asked me to introduce this holy tower to you."

The closed corridor was illuminated only by blue cold light. Jacob led Nanke and the skirmishers through the dark spiral staircase and climbed up to the next level.

"The name of this tower is called the Tower of Oneself. It is a creation that carries the time of disaster. About five hundred years ago, in order to seek an opportunity to change destiny, His Highness came to Fontaine and joined hands with us to build this tower. tower."

The entrance to the floor was a door engraved with the Black Sun Totem. As Jacob spoke, he sent a trace of abyssal power to the door, and the heavy stone door vibrated and opened to both sides, revealing gaps.

"His Royal Highness Abyss claimed to be from the future, and he witnessed that Fontaine was submerged by the great flood that dissolved everything five hundred years later. And we, our Narcissus Cross Society, also learned about the destined destruction through the calculation of the world formula, and we have already known it Determined to give their all to save the future, they hit it off immediately.”

"This library was excavated by His Highness from the long-burned Lost Kingdom in order to support our research. It is the Royal Library of Kanria."

The door opened, and the smell of oldness and decay spread out. Inside the door were neat bookshelves as high as the ceiling, displaying countless ancient books.

This library was also the library where Kongying and Reindot met.

Things changed and people changed. Nanke followed Jacob through the oxidized dark red wooden bookshelves and asked: "So, you are obviously an apostle, but you are not a subordinate of the Abyss Religion?"

"My posture is the result of the Teyvat people adapting to the power of the abyss. It is not unique to the Abyss Order. Rather, the technology of abyssalization was developed by us in cooperation with the Order."

Jacob said arrogantly. After searching for a while, he pulled out a stack of old manuscript paper from among the many yellowed books and handed it to Nanke.

"This is the manuscript of World Style. There is a sea of ​​life in Fontaine called the Original Sea of ​​Embryo. The root of all dissolution is there. Our original plan was to let the master who wrote World Style enter the sea of ​​life. We believe that the master has powers beyond ordinary people. The wisdom and perseverance of the people will definitely be able to rewrite the Fetal Sea and eliminate the disaster. However, hundreds of years later, there is no news after the master sank into the Fetal Sea, and the association was destroyed by the water god, so the plan naturally died."

Nanke opened the manuscript and saw countless complex calculations and diagrams. It was difficult to imagine the deductions that scholars five hundred years ago could make.

"Of course you will fail." The skirmishers sneered, "The Heavenly Law and the World Tree have long been integrated into one. It is the embodiment of the world's information torrent and the rules of time and space. Your every move cannot escape its discernment."

"So what? If we can only save 50% of the people, we will try our best to save the 60%." A trace of chaos escaped from under Jacob's mask, exuding a chill, "Gods, dragons, Outsiders, they can save us from disasters, and our wisdom and perseverance as humans far exceed theirs, so why not?"

Unlike Sora, Jacob seems to have other obsessions with saving the world.

As soon as the words fell, Jacob felt he had lost his composure, and quickly gathered the power of the abyss in his body, and changed his tone: "In short, we spread the prophecies and continue to look for partners to save the world - to this day, the water god Hao in charge of Fontaine Inaction really proves that people can only be saved by human wisdom after all.”

"His Royal Highness wrote down notes about the future he saw, so that people with lofty ideals can get a glimpse of the future." Before leaving, Jacob took them to the bookshelf at the back of the library. "I hope that after reading it, you can Understand our painstaking efforts.”

The skirmishers stared at Jacob's back and listened to the footsteps gradually disappearing: "The barrier outside the tower has the aura of the abyss. Killing this apostle might be able to resolve it."

"But there is also an aura of curse on it. If you attack him, you might be asking for trouble." Nanke pulled out a notebook from the bookshelf and opened it. "I want to know even more. They seem to be planning to make a fuss about the turbid water elf." , what is the connection between this and Jacob’s mention of the original fetal sea that melted the Fontaine people..."

In the notes left by Kong, Nanke read a story that was completely different from today's world——

In the last world, Kanria was destroyed, and Kong was injured in the battle with Tianli. Five hundred years later, he was awakened in Mondstadt by Dainsreb.

In order to find Ying, they became travelers and embarked on a journey to the Seven Kingdoms to consult the gods.

During this period, Sora unexpectedly reunited with Ying, but Ying was regarded as a princess by the Abyss Cult and was determined to introduce the power and disaster of the Abyss into Teyvat.

It is the one who destroys the world in the forbidden knowledge.

Compared with Sora, who is now also known as His Highness Abyss, the Princess of Abyss whom Sora saw was more ruthless and cruel, and abandoned humanity.

Their first conflict was in Mondstadt. Ying stole a statue of the Seven Heavens God, and Kong Weiying apologized to Wendy.

The second conflict... was in Fontaine. With the help of the Water God, Kong and Dyne met Ying, but they got into a fight because of their differences in ideas.

The location is Merlo-Petersburg in Fontaine. At that time, many forces gathered there by chance. With them as the trigger, many conflicts broke out, shaking the original sea seal deep in the fortress.

The flood caused by the sea of ​​​​fetus immediately affected the entire Fontaine, and all the people of Fontaine were dissolved in the flood. The sudden disaster even attracted a giant whale that devoured corpses among the stars outside Teyvat.

In the end, the water god Fukalos and the beast of disaster died together, and Fontaine was completely destroyed.

No wonder Sora attaches so much importance to saving Fontaine.

Nanke closed the note and organized his thoughts.

Kong regarded Fontaine's disaster as his own fault.

A certain long-lost worry, along with the long-lost sense of powerlessness and unwillingness, also reappeared in Nanke's heart.

The history that has been witnessed will definitely repeat itself. Since the future flood has been witnessed by nothing, then if everything happens again this time, Fontaine may not be able to escape bad luck.

People will have such a desire to go back to the past to make up for their regrets.

However, when the price of wish fulfillment is that the past cannot be changed.

Who can say, is it an opportunity or another doom?

Nanke looked at the skirmishers.

While she was reading her notes, Skirmisher was also leaning on the bookshelf next to her, studying manuscripts about the world.

Skirmishers once had a connection with the World Tree and were unusually sensitive to these aspects.

Feeling her gaze, the skirmisher glanced sideways: "Do you want to listen?"

Nanke nodded.

"The master of Narcissus Cross Society is indeed a genius, but at the same time, like Dotore, he is also an anti-intellectual and anti-human lunatic." Skirmisher commented unceremoniously, "His so-called salvation plan is Cut off the connection between the human soul and the body, try to wipe out the consciousness of all Fontaine people, and reunite them as a whole. In this way, an individual powerful enough to control the sea of ​​​​fetus can be born. After successfully rewriting the sea of ​​​​fetus, he can Create new bodies for the absorbed souls and return them one by one."

"Working together to create slices is indeed somewhat similar to the doctor's slice plan." Nanke nodded.

"It's not surprising that such a ridiculous approach is opposed by the water god." Skirmisher said, "Where are you?"

"In Kong's experience, Fontaine was destroyed by floods." Nanke sighed.

The soldier's eyes narrowed slightly: "Does he think that if he goes back to the past and works hard, he will be rewarded?"

"Maybe Sora doesn't know yet," Nanke said with a complicated mood. "After all, this time, he succeeded in taking Ying's place, taking control of the Abyss Order, and writing himself into the earth. He may have thought that history can be changed. "

"... Ridiculous." The soldier frowned.

Nanke also smiled helplessly.

After all, they were losers before.

"But then I think about it, even if we know that we can't shake the fate, will we really sit still and wait for death?"

Nanke put Kong's notes back on the bookshelf and looked around at this treasure house of knowledge.

"The natural law that closed the shell of the world because it was unable to fill the hole. Reindot who created Albedo in order to seek a breakthrough. We are constantly struggling to make up for our mistakes. And the prophet who threw himself into the sea of ​​​​wombs joined forces to create a new arrival. The gods... all of them did it just to delay the disaster and to have one more chance of salvation. It is because of this tenacity that human beings can continue to live and breathe."

The skirmisher didn't answer, the emotion settling in his eyes was sharp and cold.

He hated unfair fate more than anyone else.

"Let's take a rest for a while." Nanke gently tugged on the sleeve corner of the skirmisher, interrupting his thoughts, "We're already here, let's just treat it as sightseeing and take a walk around this tower, okay?"