Reborn as Xiao in another world, targeted by the little red bird

Huang Guxuan planned to find a high place to watch the battle. Although he was exhausted and it was inconvenient for him to take action, he was still happy to help Qiu Liuyun, a colleague he liked - the other party might not know that they were colleagues - if needed. The highest place around Liyue Port was Tianheng Mountain, but he didn't expect that someone in Liyue Port seemed to have the same idea as him, and this person had a long-lost feeling.

Hearing the voice, Zhongli turned around and chuckled: "Your Excellency's companions are interesting, but I am only a mortal now, and I am afraid I will disappoint them."

"Maybe they have already forgotten these remarks. Mr. Zhongli, are you here because there is someone you are worried about on the sea?" Huang Guxuan also smiled and looked towards the battlefield in the sea, but as if he suddenly felt something, he turned back abruptly and looked at Zhongli with a strange expression.

"What's wrong?" Zhongli looked at him in confusion as he behaved strangely.

"Ling Xiao."

As soon as Huang Guxuan finished speaking, a large red bird appeared above his head.

"Tell me, what do you want me to do this time?" Ling Xiao's voice was filled with impatience.

Huang Guxuan raised his chin in the direction of Osel and said, "Go and keep a close eye on these three people."

“Are you crazy?!” Ling Xiao was surprised. He stretched out a wing and pointed at the giant squid. “That guy is a demon god. You actually expect me to protect him from the demon god?!”

"uh-huh?"

"You are so cruel!" The man and the bird looked at each other for only a moment, and the latter was the first to look away, thus surrendering.

It glared at Huang Guxuan and muttered softly, "Call me for chores and call me for dangerous things. You only know how to order me around..." before gradually going away.

"What is this?" Zhongli looked at Huang Guxuan in confusion. Who knew that the latter would directly ask an unexpected question:

"Mr. Zhongli is not from here either, right?" Huang Guxuan was a little annoyed. If he had gone to collect information himself, he would have been able to see through this outsider who existed by relying on the "role" of Emperor Rock King earlier.

"Mr. Zhongli, don't rush to answer. Let me tell you my reasons first." He put away his previous casual attitude and replaced it with a solemn and respectful look.

"No matter how realistic everything here is, it is just the remnant of the past, filled with a sense of falsehood. But Mr. Zhongli, you have a different smell. My family has followed the king for generations, for nearly ten thousand years, and some things have long been engraved in our blood. Mr. Zhongli, you are the original of the "king" mentioned in this remnant... No, you are the incarnation of part of the power of the "king", right?"

"..." Zhongli remained calm, waiting for Huang Guxuan's next words.

"I have been looking for someone all along." Huang Guxuan opened his palm, and a light blue flame blossomed in it. This incomplete strange fire had told him many insignificant secrets, but the only thing he cared about the most was not among them.

"Hun Yan said that there have never been titles like 'Emperor Rock King' and 'Liyue Port' in the world. So in addition to the mortal world, the fairy world, the ancient wilderness, and the unknown space related to the Tongtian Road, there are other spaces, right?"

"Oh? Why can't I be from that unknown space?" Zhongli said with a smile.

“No.” Huang Guxuan lowered his eyes, his expression very firm, “There are no mortals or immortals there, so there can’t be Liyue.”

"..."

Osel, angry at being hurt by the ants in his eyes, burst out with surging divine power, which turned into a thick pillar of light that shot straight into the sky. Thick dark clouds formed a huge vortex around the pillar of light. Water bombs like meteorites broke through the clouds and poured down from the sky.

Zhongli looked at the scene and finally spoke slowly: "You guessed right. But... I don't know why I was disconnected from my original body and appeared here. If you have other related questions, I'm sorry I can't answer them. However, since I have answered your question, I hope you can also answer one of mine. After all, this is in line with "fairness."

"Please speak, Mr. Zhongli." Huang Guxuan said.

"After you get out, what do you think of Xiao?" Zhongli paused and added, "Don't be so reserved."

"Keep your original attitude and opinion. I just had a dream woven for me by the Eclipse Dream World. How can I take the things in the dream seriously?" After hearing what Zhongli said, Huang Guxuan suddenly felt relaxed. "Mr. Zhongli, do you want me to take better care of Xiao?"

"Haha, that's not necessary." Looking at the tower in the sky that stopped the undercurrent on the seabed, Zhongli smiled with satisfaction, "I believe in Xiao's ability, and he is here. He has always been the one guiding Xiao to get closer to the people he protects."

"Him?" Huang Guxuan was confused.

"A record reporter, he is completing everything here and restoring the truth. Now, the contradiction has begun to emerge. When it develops to a certain extent, you can leave."

Seeing Zhongli about to go down the mountain, Huang Guxuan asked: "What about you?"

"It is time for me to fulfill the 'contract to end all contracts'."

……

Before everyone in the Jade Pavilion could be happy about the effectiveness of the attack of the Return Machine, the advance team of the Fatui climbed onto the Jade Pavilion through the portal. They were not there to help fight the Demon God, but to help the Demon God interfere with the operation of the Return Machine.

Before Osel arrived, the three learned from Grandma Ping that the purple-haired girl with two horns on her head was named Keqing. At this moment, she raised her sword and shouted, "All the Thousand Rocks who can move, follow me!" and led the way. A flash of purple lightning passed by, and a debt collector fell under her sword.

"What the Fatui are doing...isn't that a declaration of war?" Helan Liuying controlled Shui Pang with an ice prison.

"Maybe? I don't know much about worldly affairs." Su Yunyan detonated the gun in the hand of a musketeer and added some fuel to it, so the rock gunner next to him was also blown away.

Paimon, who was hiding behind the traveler not far away, seemed to have heard their conversation and stamped his feet in anger: "Osel broke through the seal because of the Fatui!"

"I take back my previous assessment of the Fatui. If it were up to me, even if I don't fight back, I would at least take advantage of the situation and make a big profit from them." Qiu Liuyun wielded the Ice Sword, and wherever the sword light went, there was a biting chill, and even Fatty Bing couldn't escape the fate of being turned into an ice sculpture.

Ningguang continued to maintain the operation of the relevant functions of the Qun Yu Pavilion, while Ganyu stood beside her holding an ice bow, replenishing Guizhongji's firepower network while observing whether there were any casualties.

The demon-slaying spear tassel did not want to be stained with mortal blood, so Xiao appeared near Osel, waiting for an opportunity. Soon, he found a flaw, and suddenly turned into a ghost, quickly approaching Osel. When the three afterimages he left on the demon disappeared, he had already reached the top of the demon's head.

The emerald tip of the spear flickered with green light, and he stabbed the back of the demon's neck with a spear, splashing himself with liquid. The demon's body bent into an arc, as if it was about to be crushed by a heavy object. The head roared in pain, opened its deep and huge mouth, turned its head and bit towards "Xiao".

An icy flower bloomed on his face, causing him to freeze for only a moment. Then his huge mouth closed and bit off the remaining image.

With everyone's concerted efforts, it didn't take long for the first batch of Fatui who climbed onto the Jade Pavilion to be almost cleared out. At this moment, Osel exhaled towards the sky.