Genshin Impact: The Sharpshooter of Teyvat

In the city of Hua late at night, except for the forest rangers who were on duty and were still patrolling diligently, most people were asleep.

Shao Yun was no exception. At this moment, he was lying on a warm and comfortable bed, breathing steadily and evenly, and fell into a deep sleep.

However, just when he was sleeping soundly, a faint sound suddenly rang in his ears.

At first, the sound was faint, but as time went on, it became clearer and louder, as if someone was whispering the same words in his ear.

"I have something to tell you, come and see me." These words echoed in Shao Yun's ears over and over again, tirelessly.

At first, Shao Yun didn't take it seriously, thinking he was just hallucinating.

But gradually, the sound became more and more annoying, pulling him out of his dream.

Finally, Shao Yun couldn't stand this harassment anymore. He opened his eyes and muttered.

"What the hell? Who is chattering in my ear?!"

At this moment, the voice came again.

"I have something to tell you, come and see me."

This time, Shao Yun woke up instantly. He widened his eyes and looked around, trying to find the source of the sound.

When his eyes fell on Ying, who was lying beside him and hugging his arms tightly, his heart couldn't help but tighten.

Ying was still sleeping soundly, unaware of the abnormal situation around her.

And the voice suddenly disappeared.

Shao Yun took a deep breath, thinking that he was just hallucinating, maybe some kid was playing a prank.

He gently broke free from Kaiying's arms, carefully got out of bed, then tiptoed out of the tree house and looked around.

"I have something to tell you, come and see me."

The voice came again, and Shao Yun instantly felt a chill crawling up his spine. This was not some childish prank, the devil was here again!

"too crazy……"

……

Shao Yun came to the top of the hill south of Huachengguo. The man in the tall hat was standing quietly on the edge of the cliff, with his hands behind his back, looking at the quiet and peaceful Huachengguo below.

Shao Yun bit his lower lip tightly, the anger in his heart was instantly ignited. He quickly stepped forward and shouted angrily: "What on earth are you doing in the middle of the night, you deserve to be cut into pieces!"

The man in the tall hat ignored Shao Yun's anger and continued to stare at the city wall below.

After hearing Shao Yun's question, he slowly turned around, looked at Shao Yun with a meaningful look, and asked softly: "What do you think?"

Shao Yun frowned, glanced impatiently at the lush rainforest around him, and muttered unhappily: "Did you call me here just to give these mosquitoes a good meal?"

The tall-hatted man seemed to be oblivious to Shao Yun's complaints. Instead, he cast his gaze towards the lush rainforest surrounding him and muttered to himself, "The environment here is very similar to Guarma Island..."

Shao Yun became more and more angry when he heard these meaningless words. He asked with wide eyes, "What tricks are you trying to play?"

Facing Shao Yun's questioning, the man in the tall hat remained calm and shook his head gently, as calm as a lake.

"I'm not playing any tricks."

Shao Yun had long been accustomed to the demon's ambiguous answers and was no longer surprised at this moment.

However, now that it had appeared before his eyes, it gave Shao Yun an opportunity to ask a question that had been bothering him.

"Why did you give Cole your portrait?"

The voice of the man in the tall hat sounded calmly and steadily.

"As a reward for calling you here, I can answer your questions."

It paused for a moment, then slowly glanced at Shao Yun, and continued, "You must be aware that most people in Xumi, under the influence of the Order of the Church over the years, have been respecting and praising the deceased Great Kindness Tree King, but have been ignoring the Little Auspicious Grass King who is in power now."

"To me, those lambs who are determined to break away from the protection of the shepherd and leave the flock are like ownerless things. Whether they are willing or forced, they are already mine."

At this point, the man in the tall hat narrowed his eyes slightly and continued, "However, some sheep are still under the protection of the shepherd. I will not challenge the shepherd's authority."

"On the contrary, in this case, I felt that I should assist the seemingly weak shepherd in taking better care of her sheep."

"As a reward for helping, those lambs that voluntarily leave the shepherd and wander around will naturally belong to me."

Shao Yun couldn't help but recall the metaphor about shepherds that Wendy and Zhongli had once said, as well as the souls that Alice mentioned that disappeared inexplicably after being killed by him.

However, the reason why this demon in front of me wants to take my soul is too strange.

"This is purely wishful thinking on your part! The Great Kindness Tree King and the Small Auspicious Grass King are the incarnations of the World Tree!"

"Although the great sage Azar thinks that the grass god is the second generation, the fact is that the Great Kindness Tree King used his purest branch to create the little auspicious grass king Nashida. Nashida is a part of the Great Kindness Tree King, but she will eventually grow into an independent tree. Your statement is a sophistry."

The man in the top hat stood firm to his point of view and continued without giving in: "These are the two gods, there is no doubt about it."

Shao Yun narrowed his eyes slightly and responded angrily: "But I'm telling you now, the two of them are one, so stop quibbling!"

Faced with Shao Yun's tough attitude and words, the tall-hatted man remained calm and retorted: "You are the one who is really making sophistry, the Ship of Theseus paradox?"

“Not only that, in addition to the lambs who have a firm belief in the dead shepherd, there are also some arrogant lambs who even try to let a lamb wear human skin to pretend to be a shepherd!”

At this point, the man in the tall hat paused for a moment, then continued in a sinister tone, "Since those foolish lambs were willing to seek shelter under a shepherd who had long lost his ability to protect them and the lambs wearing the shepherd's skin, then when the 'wolf' attacks, it can't be blamed on anyone else for ruthlessly taking them away."

When Shao Yun heard the flatterer's man use such vicious words to describe the current situation, the star map that Mona had shown him, which belonged to him, instantly emerged in his mind.

He quickly came to his senses, concealed his inner turmoil, and replied calmly: "What does this have to do with me? If you want to kill someone, do it yourself!"

The man in the flattering hat stared at Shao Yun, who seemed to know everything but was pretending to be calm, and asked back coldly.

"Are you really going to quit killing people?"

Shao Yun pretended to be calm and said with a tense face: "I will use all kinds of cruel means to torture those who oppose me and make them live a life worse than death!"

"And you, your wishful thinking is going to fail! The reason you came to me was just because you heard the conversation between me and Alice. You are anxious!"

However, his slightly trembling voice still betrayed his inner panic.

Can he really stick to his promise to Alice? The Inazuma affair did not end as others imagined.

The man in the tall hat standing opposite shook his head slightly, his expressionless face hiding endless meaning.

"But are you really a guy who likes to torture people? You keep threatening others, but in the end you either let them go or kill them directly."

"Things like torturing people to the point of being half dead, unable to live or die, are not your style."

Shao Yun's eyes began to evade, but he still stubbornly retorted: "I... I can change! Just because I haven't done it before doesn't mean I won't do it in the future!"

However, this excuse sounds so weak.

The man in the tall hat remained calm, his tone as quiet as dead water as he slowly stated a cruel fact.

"You can't stop killing children. People can't go against their own nature, just like they can't go against gravity."

Shao Yun shook his head desperately and shouted excitedly: "Nonsense! There is no basis for what you said! You just want to trick me into killing people so that you can take their souls away!"

The man in the tall hat was unmoved by Shao Yun's fierce reaction. He just said calmly: "Kindness will be seen as cowardice, and toughness will be seen as cruelty. You want to be a kind and merciful tyrant? Ridiculous idea."

At this moment, a terrified cry suddenly came from the city wall below the cliff.

A ranger on duty shouted in panic, "Oh no! The Death Zone is coming!"

When Shao Yun heard the sound, he quickly turned around and looked towards the dead zone.

What shocked him was that the death zone appeared without any warning and spread to the city at an astonishing speed.

Faced with such a sudden change, Shao Yun couldn't help but tremble in his heart, his eyes widened, his face full of astonishment, and he muttered to himself: "What is going on..."

Then, he immediately looked at the devil beside him, and subconsciously reached for his waist, quickly pulled out the cowboy revolver, and pointed the gun at the other party.

"We made a deal before! You must not set your sights on Ying and Paimon!"

However, facing Shao Yun's anger and threats, the man in the tall hat seemed unusually calm and composed.

It stretched out a hand expressionlessly, gently pressed down the barrel of the gun that Shao Yun was pointing at it, and responded calmly: "What happened just now is over; I didn't plan to hit those two girls, I was just acting according to an agreement."

Upon hearing this, Shao Yun's heart sank suddenly, and the scene of that night instantly emerged in his mind.

The scumbag made a shady deal with the terrible devil without telling him.

Thinking of this, Shao Yun couldn't help but take a breath.

"What! What kind of deal is this?"

Before Shao Yun recovered from his shock, the tall-hatted man continued to speak: "Now you have two options. Either you take the initiative to go to the area that has been invaded by the dead zone and bring Ying and Paimeng to Cole's room.

"Use the excuse that Cole's room is far away and won't be affected by the dead zone, and spend the night there."

"Or, for your own safety, stay here for a while until the rangers eliminate the dead zone, and then go back. This way, you will be 'safe'."

"According to my agreement with you and my plan, those two girls and the girl named Ke Lai will be fine. But no matter which one you choose, you will be in big trouble."

Upon hearing that he would encounter huge trouble no matter what choice he made, Shao Yun could not help but purse his lips tightly and frowned slightly.

"What do you mean? You should know that I will go back to find Ying, why do you think I will stay here and hide?"

The man in the tall hat looked at the "Eye of God" with a skull carved on Shao Yun's waist and said slowly, "The thing on your waist is not the so-called 'Eye of God' in the true sense. I'm sure you know this."

"Because of this, you have no ability to resist the erosion of the dead zone. If you go back rashly now, you will be waiting for illness, and 'disease is not so easy to cure'."

At this point, it paused for a moment, then turned its gaze to Shao Yun and continued, "You can choose not to go back and stay here, but when the girl wakes up and sees that you are not around, can you explain clearly why you abandoned her when danger came? You know... Dutch van der Linde."

When Shao Yun heard this name coming from the other party's mouth, he understood what the other party meant.

It was too late to say anything now, so he just asked one last time.

"Why did you do that?"

In response to Shao Yun's question, the tall-hatted man simply replied, "It's just a simple transaction."

As soon as he finished speaking, in the blink of an eye, the devil disappeared again, leaving Shao Yun standing there alone.

Shao Yun clenched his fists tightly, and his knuckles made crackling sounds due to excessive force.

He tried his best to suppress the rage burning in his heart and asked, "Is this your plan with the devil? And is this what you once swore that you would stand by my side?"

A prompt message pops up.

[I had no choice. I didn't dare to gamble on your humanity. I couldn't defeat that devil, but I had to let you live! If only the disease could calm you down, then I could make this deal! ]

A piece of text flashed through Shao Yun's mind for a moment, and then he read it out loud without hesitation.

"If Arthur cannot be avenged, then everything will be as unreal as the dragon in Jack's storybook!"

The system obviously did not want to show weakness and immediately retorted.

[There is a price to pay on the road to a better world, but if you die, then all this will be meaningless! ]

Shao Yun slowly took off the hat of the Eastern Legend suit. Then, he took out Arthur's gambler's hat from his backpack and put it on his head solemnly.

"That's my answer!" Shao Yun said firmly, "Do you think illness will scare me?"

However, the system did not intend to give up, and it used its final and most deadly move.

[Ying is afraid that you will die! That's why she came out to stop you in the snowy mountains! ]

When Shao Yun saw this loser talking about that incident, he yelled at the top of his lungs, “Don’t talk about that!”

The system calmed down and gave a detailed explanation.

[I know what you are thinking. You will not let the scattered soldiers live! You will not forgive him for stepping on the sand! ]

[But what I'm thinking is, you can't poke a hole in the sky now! Don't be stupid like you did after the Blackwater robbery and then rushed to rob Cornwall! ]

[Solve Xumi's troubles, and as an "insurance" the disease will be cured. Finally, as a reward, you let the grass god hand over the scattered soldiers to the Yae Goddess, and she will help you deal with it! Isn't this also killing him? ]

[And you have also heard the devil's plan, you can't let the devil's idea succeed again! ]

After reading it, Shao Yun said calmly: "He asked the Fatui to detonate the Treading Sand to kill me! I don't believe that losing a soul fuel can cause the border of Teyvat to collapse?"

Seeing Shao Yun's look, the system had no choice but to quickly change the subject.

[That's why I don't dare to bet on your behavior! Yae Shinko wants Sanbing's life more than you do! Now, Ying is about to wake up! Do you still want to argue with me here? ]

When Shao Yun saw these words, he looked at the dead zone that was about to invade the city.

Then, he quickly changed back into the hat of the Eastern Legend suit and slowly said, "Okay, let's not talk about whether to kill the stragglers, or the devil's plan, or the 'insurance'! There is something I must remind you, you piece of shit."

"When a person is in a desperate situation, he may not choose to accept his fate. Instead, he is very likely to take more crazy and reckless actions to seek a ray of hope or turn the situation around!"

After saying that, Shao Yun went straight into the so-called "insurance".