Genshin Impact: I'm Not a Bad Cat

"It seems that you have obtained the real villagers' token..."

Only after the man came closer and invited them did they recognize that this man was the villager who had reminded them to go to the ancestral hall.

"Sir, may I ask who you are? The fact that you are willing to help us shows that you are not in the same group with those people, right?"

Qin looked at the villager and asked the question in her mind.

"That's right, I am not in the same group with those people..."

The villager nodded and tapped his face.

Then, there was a sound of wood being knocked at the place where the villager knocked.

After hearing the sound of the wood being hit, Qin and the others seemed to understand something.

"You...are actually a puppet too, right?"

After Qin figured out the situation, she asked the question that was on her mind.

"That's right..."

The villager nodded.

"In this Huaimu Village, only the puppets are real villagers. Those who can only move under the blood moon like us are all greedy people in the past..."

After the villager finished speaking, he looked towards the flames that were spreading out over there.

"This is not a place for conversation. Please come to my humble abode and rest for a while..."

……

In this villager's home.

The villagers explained to Qin and the others the true situation of the village.

Huaimu Village was originally a puppet village.

There was originally no life here except for a locust tree. This locust tree was born with wisdom. Feeling the desolate environment around it, the locust tree was also ready to create a source of life to bring vitality to this desolate place.

The original villagers of Huaimu Village were the lives created by Huaimu.

These puppets living in the village were all born from locust trees and can be said to be the children of locust trees.

But later a group of humans set foot on this village where the puppets lived, and they discovered the magical locust wood. When they found that the puppets made of wood cut from the locust wood were so lifelike, they discovered a business opportunity.

As a result, human greed caused humans to cut down the locust tree.

The locust tree has living creatures that can absorb nutrients from the earth and grow back to where it was cut.

Humans also discovered this, so they kept the tree in captivity so that the locust wood could provide them with an endless supply of raw wood for making puppets.

The original puppet villagers also wanted to resist, but facing the taller, stronger and more powerful human puppet villagers, they had no way to fight back.

The powerless puppets can only hide and wait quietly for the opportunity for revenge.

But they did not have to wait for the time of revenge. When a blood moon came, the earth lost its nutrients, and the locust trees devoured the greedy humans.

At this point, these humans have turned into wooden sculptures, unable to move forever. Only when they sense the breath of a living person and a blood moon appears, can they move again.

But these humans suddenly discovered that under the light of the blood moon, they would never grow old, and would never die...

The desire for longevity made these humans decide to borrow the power of the locust tree to achieve immortality.

Who knows how many years have passed, and these people who have survived with the help of locust wood still exist, and these hidden puppets no longer know how many blood moons they have experienced.

……

"So... those villagers are the ones who got rich with the help of that locust tree?"

Qin asked this question after a moment's silence.

"That's right. They didn't know how many years they had lived and their memories were messy, so I used paint to make myself look like a human and blended in with them."

The villager nodded and looked at everyone.

"My dear friends, the way to leave here is actually not that difficult. You just need to take our token to your mother and you can return to reality..."

As the villager spoke, he pried open a floor in his house, revealing a passage.

"This passage leads directly to our mother. Don't worry, no one knows about this passage. Please leave quickly..."

Qin looked at the villagers in shock for a moment, then nodded.

"Everyone, let's go..."

As she spoke, Qin took the lead and walked into the passage.

After everyone entered the passage, the villagers closed the tunnel, and then...

A strange smile appeared on his face.

"Oh... you're so easy to deceive..."

The villagers pushed open the door and walked outside. Outside were the people who had been chasing Qin and the others.

"Let's go, let's go to the old place and wait. I can't wait to see their desperate expressions..."

After laughing strangely for a while, these people also walked in one direction.

However, they didn't know that after they left, the floor that had been put back in place was suddenly pushed away at some point.

"Ah... He's really cunning. If it weren't for this hint, I would have almost believed him."

The people who had gone in before came out one by one in reverse order. After Qin came out of the passage again, she looked at the greedy people who were leaving and were about to block them and said.

"Let's hurry to the locust tree..."

After Qin finished speaking, he led a group of people and moved towards the locust tree under the cover of night.

What happened?

Let's go back in time and take Qin's perspective.

"Mr. Sambo, don't I still have one more chance to give you a hint? Please check whether what this villager said is true or false..."

"Captain Qin is really smart. Well, Old Sangbo won't hide it from you. What the villager said just now was half true and half false. You can take the tokens of those puppet villagers to the locust tree and end this plot, but this passage does not lead to the locust tree..."

"Congratulations to Captain Qin for his prudence. I, Old Sangbo, appreciate you for this. For this, Old Sangbo, I will give you a reminder and a favor..."

"Captain Qin, you can walk into this passage. Although the passage will be closed by the villagers later, so that you can't open it from the inside, but Old Sangbo can use his power to open the closed passage for you. How about that? Old Sangbo is taking good care of you~"

"Thank you, Mr. Sambo..."

So the current scene appeared.

……

"Our top priority now is to quickly head to the locust tree and borrow the token given by the puppet villagers to leave here!"

As Qin led the group on their journey, she also mentioned their current primary situation.

Everyone nodded and followed Qin to the locust tree.

Just at this time.

There was a fire from the village...