Genshin Impact is a big stage, come if you dare

Kong and Paimon brought the dolls into the Jingshan Palace and met the little auspicious grass king.

The puppet greeted the god of Xumi politely and obediently, "...Hello, it's a bit sudden for you to visit..."

Paimon immediately interrupted, "Anyway, we found this guy! But he doesn't seem to remember anything."

Leave this guy to Nashida and the others so that we can quickly go find Su!

Nashida smiled at Paimon, and Paimon and Sora's void terminals lit up.

After reading the message Nashida had just sent, the two became less anxious and began to face the situation patiently.

Nashida asked the puppet about his situation, and the puppet answered honestly.

Nashida summarized the situation. "You have been wandering around Teyvat for hundreds of years and practicing. Recently you came to Xumi. The name or nickname you gave yourself is Wanderer..."

The puppet-wanderer nodded, "Yes. This name is more suitable for someone like me... It sounds like a plant without roots."

This was how he spent the hundreds of years that were unremarkable in his memory, until today, when he met someone he had never seen before but who definitely knew him.

He also met... the girl whom he had never seen before in his memory, but from the moment he saw her, he instinctively kept shouting "Hurry up and grab her!"

The wanderer looked at his empty hands, "I...actually have a past beyond my memories, right?"

"Rather than saying it's the past... well, it's a bit difficult to explain." Nashida thought for a moment and said, "I don't like to use such words, but in your case, perhaps it should be called 'previous life'."

Wanderer: "Then may I ask... what kind of person was I in my previous life? What was my relationship with her... and you?"

Everyone was silent.

The wanderer understood something from this silence, "It seems that my life in my previous life must not have been so satisfactory."

A secret box with a halo of light appeared in Nashida's hand. "After Sora told me the situation, I found a record hidden in a corner from all the information I had saved."

“Ever since Sue told me the fairy tale of The Wild Boar Princess, I have found a way to ‘hide’ history. That is to transcribe what you really want to express into a fairy tale whose images and metaphors have special directions and meanings.”

Changing the information of the World Tree means rewriting Teyvat. However, the World Tree cannot change the information that has been deliberately hidden in advance.

The secret box she found, which had been hidden in her deep dreams at some point in time, only proved that what Kong said was true.

This record must be the backup she left before [Scattered Soldiers] entered the World Tree.

From this perspective, letting Sora, Paimon and the [Scattered Soldiers] enter the World Tree together should be another layer of insurance she arranged.

Nashida opened the secret box she had set up, and the fairy tale picture book unfolded in front of everyone.

There are many foxes living in the jungle, most of them have warm caramel fur. They are warm and friendly, and are greeting a bloated "fox" with white fur.

"Nashida's picture book is so well drawn! The colors are fresh, and the animals are so cute!" Paimon praised, but then showed a look of resistance, "That white one... Ugh! Why does it have a head on its chest!"

A black monster with red eyes and a pointed mouth appeared in front of the chest of the white-fur "fox" - the "white fox" was actually a monster in disguise!

"A monster wearing the fur of a wild fox mixed into the fox group. They kept each other company day and night, called each other friends, and got along well with each other." After Nashida finished talking about this page, the picture book turned to the next page.

The "white fox" half shed its skin, revealing its monster head, and admired its true face in the dark river.

Several small monsters that looked very similar to it were surrounding it, but the reflection of the river did not show any trace of the monsters.

"Occasionally, the monster would take off its fox skin at night and lament to itself in the water: I am so weird, but they are too stupid to see the truth, what a pity."

Paimon: "...My fist is hard."

The big foxes, the little foxes and the "white fox" surrounded the kitten squatting on the tree stump, as if welcoming the new members.

"But the monster soon let it go, because it was not the only outlier in the fox group. There was also an abandoned kitten carved out of a white tree."

Sora was stunned when he heard this. The kitten carved out of white wood...

So... the raw material of the doll is actually from the same source as the World Tree? !

No wonder… No wonder even though he didn’t have much divine power left, he was still able to do those things. Even though he was not completely deleted like the Great Compassionate Tree King, he still shook the history of the entire world.

Moreover, since such information was recorded in the fairy tale picture book that Nashida hid in advance to avoid being influenced and modified, it also shows that this incident was indeed under Nashida's control.

Nashida continued, "The kitten wanted to become a fox, but its tail was too thin and it couldn't grow colorful fur. When the other foxes saw this, they consoled them, saying: Even so, you are still our companion."

The next page of the picture book is still in the hand-painted fairy tale style, but the colors and content still make people feel horror and depression.

The whole page was filled with dangerous red and thick black. At the back of the large flame was the terrifying figure of a monster controlling everything. Under the flame were trees that had been destroyed by humans and a fox that was fleeing in a panic.

They were led by a monster in white fox skin towards a darkness more dangerous than fire.

"The monster hated this perfection and lit a fire in the mountain. The animals were extremely panicked. In order to put out the fire, they had to make sacrifices."

"A gray fox stood up and talked to the monster. He said: You are so smart, you will definitely think of a way to help us."

"The monster smiled and took the gray fox to the fire and killed it. The heart of the gray fox was made into a crystal clear, beautiful, spotless drop of water."

"The monster gave the water drop to the kitten and told it: Everyone has decided to sacrifice you. Take this and die for your fox companions."

The weeping kitten held the drop of water in his heart and went into the darkness.

"The fire was put out. The kitten left and lived with a bird with broken wings. They agreed to depend on each other, but the bird's life was too short and it died in an instant. After the kitten buried it, it left the mountain."

In the dark night, the lonely kitten became defiant, his purple eyes flashing blood-red light.

"It no longer loved any leaf or animal in the mountains. It wandered every night, grinding its teeth in the moonlight."

"It wants to swallow the moon and chew up all the moonlight. As long as everything returns to darkness, it will feel happy and at ease."

"I will become the new moon, the only one for everyone. Then no one will know that there are birds, foxes and cats in the world, let alone the difference between them."

Nashida finished her picture book story. She looked at the wanderer and told him the answer, "You were once the kitten in the story."

"You almost died because of a human, and caused others to die because of you. You were not born human, you hated gods, and you hated humans. In the end, you did many things that can be called evil."

"Are you sure you want to retrieve this "past life"? Now that you have a chance to start over in life."