Genshin Impact: The Sharpshooter of Teyvat

Shao Yun slowly opened his eyes and found himself in a strange space.

Everything around was shrouded in a soft blue-green light, as if entering a dreamlike world.

This space is full of mystery and unknown, with no obvious boundaries or exits.

Shao Yun lay quietly on the ground, feeling a powerful energy flowing around his body.

The feeling was both strange and reassuring, as if the whole world had merged with him.

He couldn't help but wonder where this mysterious space was and why it appeared here.

After an unknown amount of time, Shao Yun suddenly heard a slight sound of footsteps.

As the sound got closer, he saw a familiar figure approaching.

The man in the top hat was still wearing his black suit and a pair of shiny leather shoes.

The man in the tall hat walked to Shao Yun, stopped, looked down at Shao Yun lying on the ground, and said softly: "It's time to get up."

Shao Yun looked at the demon expressionlessly. He recalled what happened before, the Tassel Sand exploded, and then he appeared here.

He took a deep breath, kept calm, and asked, "Am I dead?"

The man in the top hat was slightly stunned, then laughed out loud, and his laughter echoed in the empty space.

He bent down, approached Shao Yun, and said in a mocking tone: "If you died, I would be very happy. Unfortunately, God doesn't seem to want you to see Him so soon."

Shao Yun, who was lying on the ground, looked at the man in the tall hat and asked calmly, "If I am still alive, then where is this place?"

The man in the top hat raised his mouth slightly, revealing a mysterious smile, and replied: "There is a very beautiful lady who wants to see you, and she has paid a huge price for this, so come with me."

As he spoke, the man in the tall hat stretched out his hand, which was rare, and tried to pull up Shao Yun who was lying on the ground.

Shao Yun stared at the man in the tall hat's hand for a while, then he stretched out his own hand and let the man in the tall hat pull him up.

When Shao Yun stood up, the man in the tall hat stretched out his hands and patted Shao Yun's shoulders gently, as if a king was tapping a knight's shoulders with his sword to knight him.

However, Shao Yun did not pay attention to this action, but silently followed the man in the tall hat and walked in one direction.

Along the way, Shao Yun carefully observed the surrounding environment, and a strange feeling arose in his heart.

The scene here seems familiar, just like the place where Baalzeb and General Thunder had their final battle in Thor: Legend II.

After following the man in the top hat for a distance, the man in the top hat suddenly stopped, looked around, and said loudly: "We have arrived at the right place, beautiful lady, please show yourself!"

Hearing this, Shao Yun was stunned and muttered to himself: "Beautiful lady? What on earth are you talking about?"

Shao Yun heard a gentle call, a woman's voice, coming from behind him.

He turned around and saw a woman standing there.

The woman had long dark purple hair, the color of which gradually transitioned from dark to light and finally became a light color.

She tied her hair up with a pink shimenori and let it fall behind her.

She also has a folding fan on her head as decoration. She is wearing a white and purple kimono with a red belt around her waist.

The overall look is very elegant.

Shao Yun observed her carefully and found that she looked very similar to Baalzebub, but also a little different.

Shao Yun looked the woman up and down in front of him and asked calmly, "You are not Baalzebub. She has pigtails. Besides, she wouldn't dress like this. Are you Baalzebub's sister?"

The woman smiled and nodded in agreement. She said, "My name is Ba'al. You can also call me Lei Dian Zhen, or just 'Zhen'."

Shao Yun began to look around. He knew where he was. It should be the secret area below Yingxiang Mountain.

"So, is this a place similar to the consciousness space?"

Bal nodded again and said softly, "Almost. That's the way it should be understood. Shall we sit down and talk?"

Shao Yun nodded in agreement.

At this moment, Lei Dianzhen gently waved the sleeves of his kimono, and a coffee table and two cushions instantly appeared in front of Shao Yun.

Lei Dianzhen was seen kneeling on the cushion gracefully and began to fiddle with the tea set skillfully, wanting to make a pot of good tea for Shao Yun.

Seeing this, Shao Yun unceremoniously sat down opposite "Lei Dian Zhen" and stared quietly at the former Thunder God in front of him.

Lei Dianzhen picked up the tea set on the coffee table and began to fiddle with it carefully.

Not long after, she prepared a cup of fragrant hot tea for Shao Yun, picked up the teapot, and slowly poured a cup of steaming tea for Shao Yun.

Shao Yun looked at the steaming cup of tea in front of him and couldn't help feeling a little confused.

He wondered, in such a space of consciousness, could he really taste the flavor of this cup of tea?

However, he did not rush to pick up the teacup, but instead fixed his eyes firmly on Lei Dianzhen's beautiful face and asked directly: "Tell me, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Seeing Shao Yun being so direct, Lei Dianzhen stopped beating around the bush, put down the action of pouring tea for himself, and asked tentatively in a firm tone: "Can I use my life in exchange for Baalzebub's life?"

Shao Yun felt it was a little ridiculous when he heard this. Are you treating me like a child?

Lei Dianzhen only has a trace of residual consciousness now. If I don't kill her, I'm afraid she won't be able to survive for long.

Shao Yun touched his chin and said bluntly: "Excuse me, it seems that you only have a trace of consciousness left. As time goes by, you will disappear too."

Lei Dianzhen nodded slightly, agreeing with Shao Yun's statement, and responded with a smile: "You are right, I really only have a trace of consciousness left now."

"However, I sensed Yae Shinko's prayers and your affairs in Inazuma through the leylines, so I asked the one behind you to bring me to see you."

Shao Yun picked up the teacup, carefully observed the tea in the cup, and then put it back on the table. He said in a firm tone: "If your goal is just to exchange one life for another, then it seems that there is not much to talk about between us."

"After all, I have no hatred towards you. Although I may kill people, I always have a principle of vindictiveness and debt accountability."

After hearing this, Raiden Shin's expression dimmed slightly, and he asked softly, "Why did you want to kill Ying? Is it because she locked herself in a pure land, not caring about worldly affairs, and issued the Eye Hunting Order and the Closure Order, causing the people of Inazuma to live in hardship?"

Shao Yun slowly shook his head, his expression calm, and answered firmly: "No, I am not the Messiah who saves the world. I can help people with their sufferings if I want to, and I won't help if I don't want to."

Raiden Shin frowned slightly and asked again, "Then is it because of the Fatui? Because the two magistrates cooperated with the Fatui, you regarded Inazuma as an enemy?"

Shao Yun still shook his head and stopped beating around the bush, but stated the reason directly.

"It's just because your sister, Baelzebub, cut Ying, there is no other reason. In fact, her destroying Inazuma has nothing to do with me. It's just because she cut Ying, it's that simple."

Hearing this, Lei Dian was stunned, with a flash of surprise in his eyes, and couldn't help asking: "Just, is it such a simple reason?"

Shao Yun nodded seriously and explained: "First of all, Ying's problem is not simple. Secondly, many things do not require noble or complicated reasons. As long as I think it should be done, that's enough."

Lei Dianzhen was silent for a moment, and then asked the most crucial question, "So, Ying, does she support you?"

After hearing this, Shao Yun's body shook slightly. He slowly shook his head, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes.

He sighed softly, and then said calmly: "She doesn't support my decision. She wants to take me away from Inazuma and go to the next country so that I can forget everything that happened here."

Lei Dianzhen frowned and asked in confusion: "If that's the case, why do you insist on staying here?"

However, before she could finish her words, Shao Yun suddenly slammed the coffee table in front of him, interrupting her.

His eyes widened and he shouted emotionally: "This may just be a stupid game of revenge, but I am not a smart man!"

"I must kill Baalzebub, no matter what the cost. Even if Ying blames me or even kills me, I must do it."

Lei Dianzhen looked at Shao Yun in surprise. She couldn't understand why he was so obsessed with revenge. She couldn't help but ask, "Why are you so obsessed with this? Don't you have any other choice?"

Shao Yun took a deep breath, trying to calm the anger and pain in his heart, and slowly explained: "Ying's brother entrusted her to me. If I can't avenge this knife, then I can only end my life with a gun."

After listening to this, Lei Dianzhen lowered his eyes and thought carefully for a long time before raising his head and pointing out the crux of the problem with a firm gaze.

"So, to sum up, the conflict between you and Ying is only because she cut Ying, right?"

After listening to this, Shao Yun was silent for a moment, and after thinking carefully, he realized that this was indeed the case. Everything he did was just to avenge that knife.

Finally he nodded, indicating that he agreed with what Raiden Zhen said.

After receiving Shao Yun's affirmative answer, Lei Dianzhen smiled slightly, then slowly took out a special cherry tree seed from the sleeve of his kimono.

This seed is a light purple color, with delicate light patterns faintly flowing on its surface, as beautiful and mysterious as the twinkling stars in the night sky.

Although it is small in size, it exudes a powerful force that makes people feel awe.

An invisible wave quietly spread, allowing people to feel the extraordinary nature of this seed.

Lei Dianzhen carefully held the seed in his palm, looked at Shao Yun intently, and said softly: "This is the seed of the sacred cherry tree that the ruler of time, Istaru, gave me five hundred years ago."

"It contains a trace of time power that can travel through time and space and return to the past. If you are willing, I can use up my last bit of power to help you return to the past."

Shao Yun looked at the seeds of the sacred cherry tree in Lei Dianzhen's hand, with an expression of surprise on his face.

He asked doubtfully, "Are you going to use the seeds of this sacred cherry tree to send me back to the past? But then, what about the sacred cherry tree? What about Inazuma?"

After all, if I used the power of the seeds of the sacred cherry tree, the sacred cherry tree at Narukami Taisha Shrine would be gone right?

Raiden explained calmly, "We have already considered this issue. As long as you go back to the past and reset the timeline, the sacred cherry tree will be replanted in the past by Ying one day in the future."

Shao Yun turned his head and looked at the man in the top hat who had been standing next to him in silence, with a questioning look in his eyes.

However, the man in the top hat did not respond, as if he was waiting for something.

Shao Yun helplessly looked at Lei Dianzhen again and continued to ask: "So, you mean you want me to go back in time and stop Ying from completing the commissioned task, so that she won't be hurt by Baalzebub?"

Lei Dianzhen nodded slightly to show his agreement.

There was an anticipation in her eyes. She believed Shao Yun would be tempted by the chance to change the past.

At this moment, the man in the top hat who was acting as a background suddenly moved. He took out a revolver from his pocket calmly and spoke in a calm tone.

"Or you can take this revolver and kill Baalzebub according to your plan." After saying that, the man in the tall hat showed the revolver in his hand to Shao Yun.

Shao Yun examined the weapon carefully.

He found that the pistol was very old, the gun body was made of black steel and was covered with traces of time.

The red skull pattern on the gun handle is particularly eye-catching, and a string of mysterious letters is engraved on the barrel.

Shao Yun couldn't help but frown, a sense of familiarity surged in his heart, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Just as Shao Yun was lost in thought, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

This looks like Micah's revolver!

At the same time, "Lei Dian Zhen" also showed a surprised expression. She looked at the man in the tall hat in disbelief, her lips trembling slightly, as if she wanted to say something but didn't know how to start.

The man in the tall hat looked at the look on "Raiden Zhen"'s face, raised a scornful smile on his face, and then explained as if nothing had happened: "My deal with you is to bring him here and have a chat with you, not to help you persuade him to put down his butcher knife."

Hearing this, Lei Dianzhen's face turned pale, and a trace of despair flashed in his eyes.

She turned her head and looked at Shao Yun earnestly, and said anxiously: "Follow your own inner choice, you have a chance to save everything!"

The man in the tall hat stood nearby and agreed nonchalantly.

"There are only two paths before you."

"Either you accept the cherry tree seeds handed to you by this lady, then travel back in time to the day when the Eye Hunting Order ceremony was held, stop your girlfriend from leaving home at all costs, and change the course of history;"

"Or take this revolver from me and kill Baalzebub as planned."

Lei Dianzhen slowly stretched out his palm in front of Shao Yun and persuaded him earnestly: "You still have one chance, you can go back to a certain day in the past, stop Ying, and persuade Ying calmly with the little fox!"

"Let Ying see for herself what Inazuma looks like now. I believe she will realize it and make changes. Why bother with me anymore?"

The man in the top hat did not take the initiative to hand the revolver to Shao Yun. He just took it in his hand nonchalantly and continued to talk to himself: "Think about it carefully and make your decision."

Shao Yun took a deep breath, stretched out his hand, and hesitated between the two items, unable to make a decision.

His eyes moved back and forth between the seeds of the sacred cherry tree and the revolver, his heart filled with conflict and struggle.

Shao Yun slowly closed his eyes, constantly asking himself in his mind what he should do.

If you choose the God Sakura Tree Seed, everything will change, but is it really a good idea?

All the contradictions and conflicts originated from the fact that Baalzebub killed Ying. If we could go back to that day and prevent Ying from being attacked, then the subsequent events might not have happened.

Then, according to the original plan, through the introduction of Yae God, he, Ying and Paimon will be able to meet General Raiden smoothly, and everything will change...