Genshin Impact: Hello! Traveler

earlier.

"Boom boom boom——"

"I'm so annoyed, so annoyed, so annoyed..."

Under a tree, a purple-haired woman kept hitting the tree trunk that the three men were hugging with her bare hands, muttering to herself.

The slender fist made the tree shake violently, and the scene was extremely incongruous.

"Why do I have to be her..."

Recalling the conversation with Yae Miko in the shrine.

Her indifference towards herself pierced Mei's heart like a sharp sword.

……

"You are the descendant of the Raiden Clan. As a descendant of the Baichen lineage, I cannot truly control the power of Inazuma. Only you can do that." Folding his hands, the Yae Godson looked at Mei leisurely below the stage. (There is no so-called Raiden Clan. The Godson created it himself. After all, General Zhenying and the young man in Xumi have too many similar characteristics.)

What kind of talk is this? Look how ridiculous it is.

"Isn't there that Thunder General?"

"How long can the general hold on? As a puppet, she doesn't even have the ability to repair herself. After she dies, she will gradually age in a short time, and then the position of Inazuma God will eventually be vacant."

“I’ll give you two choices. One is to succeed your predecessor as the new Inazuma God Raiden, and the other is to continue to be your carefree Raiden Mei.”

Mei was a little irritated by the Son of God's calm and composed attitude of a superior, tapping his arms and wrists with his fingers in a regular pattern.

"..." Upon hearing this, Mei lowered her head in silence, clenching her fists.

"Don't you want to draw a line between you and her? Come on, the choice is yours."

Mei couldn't understand what her expressions and actions meant, but she felt that Shen Zi could see her thoughts clearly.

I don't know what she meant by saying this.

"What do you mean?"

"It's nothing. The situation is like this. I'm just talking about the facts."

The two of them were confronting each other vaguely, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.

"Oh... it's okay if you don't want to be one. No one can stop you and Sora's journey."

This one sentence immediately ignited Mei's anger.

"Him?! Why would I want to be with him, thinking I'd be hopelessly dependent on him like a fool like you guys?!"

"I have been enduring your vague and distant attitude towards me. Why can't I get what you expect? Now that I think about it, it's nothing. Now that you've come to me, I'll tell you the truth—"

"God, I don't deserve it!!!"

……

My mind is in a mess and I just want to vent.

Why do you have to make a choice, why.

Precisely because too much pain comes from choices, can’t we stop at the moment before the choice?

Escape, just want to escape.

Escape from the place where she felt like a fake.

Leave the shrine and leave that woman.

Leave Ming Shen Island and leave the area under her jurisdiction.

Before I knew it, I arrived at Bayun Island.

That’s good, after all, this place is sparsely populated and suitable for relaxing.

Who am I...

Mei couldn't explain it clearly either.

The General Raiden described in those novels - his predecessor, was aloof and arrogant, and his strength was unmatched by Inazuma.

In the words of travelers, she is a silly girl who is not good at expressing emotions and is a little dull.

A god who carries too much heavy baggage.

She is no longer here, but the new me has to accept all this...

Was he really like those reincarnation novels, Liyue novels, where he had invaded her and taken over her body...

How can one be reincarnated as a thunder and lightning general and become invincible?

Even I can't tell who I am...so pitiful.

I feel annoyed and tired. I really want to have a good sleep.

When I woke up, all the unhappiness disappeared. When I woke up, I found that I was really the mortal Mei written in the novel, and not the god General Raiden.

Unfortunately, in reality, I am a god... Raiden Mei.

Ugh...

Well, if I can't be the mortal Mei, then I'll just try my best to imitate the mortal Mei.

As time went on, Mei could feel that she could use more and more of her body's strength.

Even my soul is gradually fitting in with this divine body, but my thoughts are running counter to it...

I am not Raiden Movie, I am Raiden Mei...

With a thought, a wooden sword appeared in his hand.

Although he didn't understand why there was such an ordinary wooden sword in his Pure Land, it was surprisingly easy to use.

"I remember that Mei's wooden sword in the novel sprouted..."

……

Coming to a deserted village, Mei walked along the path.

She had changed her clothes a long time ago. She was no longer the girl next door, but was dressed as a swordsman based on the description of Mei in the novel.

The left wrist is bandaged.

Don’t ask why, just answer that it’s cool.

I heard that this is a gathering place for the notorious and dangerous samurai ronin from afar, but why are there almost no people here?

Wait—there’s murderous intent.

His eyes focused, his hand pressed on the knife, and he prepared to draw the knife.

In his perception, an old man with an extremely heavy blood energy was sitting cross-legged in an inconspicuous little house.

It seemed like I was listening to him saying something like drinking, drinking.

Don't kill a person whose origin you don't know. Just listen to what he says.

So Mei secretly lurked outside the door and eavesdropped on what the old swordsman said.

The most heartbreaking words from a true mortal swordsman.

Birth, aging, sickness and death, fate is unpredictable...

Listen to the old man mocking his own rotten life and sighing about the impermanence of the world.

Hearing a mortal talking about gods, Mei felt extremely sad as she heard the relief expressed in the old man's voice.

All mortals will eventually grow old, get sick and die, but they only know that they have lived for thousands of years.

But this scene will never be experienced by mortals.

As if her heart was touched, Mei no longer concealed her aura.

Following the old man's question, she slowly opened the door.

……

A fragrant breeze blew past him, and the old swordsman discovered that the person who came was actually a girl who looked to be around 20 years old...

What's wrong with the world? Are women so powerful?

The Shiragiri of the Kamisato-ryu Kaiden, the almighty green-haired woman in ghost-faced armor from the Arata faction...even the cat demon who delivers the courier should not be underestimated.

Wait... this hair and face? ! !

Noticing the old swordsman's shock, Mei knelt down in front of him, put her wooden sword aside, bowed slightly, and said:

"I am slightly similar to the general, but I am just an ordinary person."

"..." The old swordsman remained silent as his cloudy eyes met Chen Che's purple eyes.

But after a few breaths, the old swordsman slowly spoke:

"This strength is already above mine."

As he spoke, he placed the wine glass that he had treasured from his travels in Liyue between the two of them.

"Can you drink strong liquor?"

"nature."

"That's good. Apart from wine and swords, I have nothing else to offer you."

He pulled out a small metal wine box from his robe, with the winter solstice logo on it.

Needless to say, it was the spoils that the old swordsman got from some unknown Fatui.

"It's autumn now, strong liquor warms the body and soul."

"Bang——" The two of them clinked their glasses and drank together.

The strong liquor went down the throat and burned the body like a flame.

"This winter wine is damn strong - haha..." Seeing Mei with the same surprised look on her face, the old swordsman couldn't help but laugh and scold.

"..."

Still savoring the moment, Mei didn't say anything.

"Hey, girl, what school did you learn from?"

"Without a teacher, one can form one's own school."

"My school..." the old swordsman muttered, his red face seemed to be reminiscing about something, and then he laughed at himself:

"Most of the schools in the world are from some frivolous people. Their sword styles are like acrobatics, flashy but not practical. When I was young, I also wanted to create my own swordsmanship, but I found that my swordsmanship was just as poor as theirs. The famous schools in the world were all passed down by the general. His understanding of the swordsmanship after thousands of years must be unmatched."

"I'm not saying this to mock you. I'm just thinking of my daughter who died more than 10 years ago. She was also from my school and her strength was first-rate. However, she died in the wilderness due to a conspiracy by a certain school, and her body could not be found."

"Before we left that day, I had a big fight with her..."

...The old swordsman seemed to have opened a long-closed topic box.

"..."

Gently shaking the glass in her hand which still contained some liquor, Mei did not answer, but just listened silently.

"What kind of god do you think General Raiden is."

Suddenly, Mei's words interrupted the old swordsman.

He stared at Mei with some surprise, thinking that they would just chat tacitly, but he never expected that she would be so straightforward.

"Him? I, an old man, would like to hear your attitude." The turbid eyes stared into Mei's purple eyes again.

"Just tell the truth." Mei didn't answer directly, and she didn't want to answer either.

"General Raiden... has protected Inazuma for thousands of years. His love for the people of Inazuma is obvious to all."

"But in my opinion, he is not a wise ruler."

"Appreciate further details."

"It is said that in the battle 500 years ago, Inazuma suffered numerous casualties and the top combat force was almost wiped out."

"In the past, there were still quite a few documents that mentioned that monsters were involved in the Three Magistrates. Now, they are almost extinct. I would venture to guess that with the heavy casualties and the completely different policies from five hundred years ago - are our gods also changing generations?"

"Let alone the past achievements, the stupid things we have done in the past five hundred years are countless."

"The first is for the people, with the desire to protect the country, the country gradually reduced foreign trade, and it has evolved into the isolation of the country not long ago."

"The second is the text. The inheritance is in the hands of the clan. Once it is destroyed, it cannot be recovered. There is no written record. It is only a single-line inheritance of craftsmanship. The decline of the Five Lightning Traditions also proves this truth: if the successor does not pass on the text, the craftsmanship will eventually be buried."

"The third one is a demon. After the chaos, the demon tribe was already weak, but we didn't support them and instead let them fend for themselves. As a result, Inazuma is now nine parts human and one part demon."

"The fourth is stupidity, the pursuit of the vague word of eternity. Everything has a mortal end, including gods. I guess he must have suffered a great setback to go to this extreme."

"After living in comfort and facing danger, the gods responded with this absurd response."

“Ignorant and willful.”

"Gods are very old, but they are not necessarily more insightful than humans."

"If you ask me, gods may have fewer troubles than humans."

"At least there's no such thing as getting old."

"How do you say that, General?"