Genshin Impact: Teyvat High School

"The place Sister Jinwu mentioned should be here!"

Zhiqiong walked down along the railroad tracks in the mine and finally stopped in front of a pile of rocks, but the railroad tracks under his feet extended all the way under the rocks.

It was obvious that a landslide had blocked the road.

Zhiqiong turned around and asked Jack who was at the end of the team: "Jack, are we going this way next? According to what Sister Jinwu said, we should go down to the deeper level of the Layered Abyss from here, but now the road is blocked."

Jack listened to Zhiqiong's words, walked timidly to the middle of the team, and looked up at the rock.

"Yes... we went down from here... we collapsed this place..."

The other three: “Huh??? Why?”

As soon as Jack said this, everyone looked at Jack in shock.

Jack realized that he had said the wrong thing, but he could only stammer and explain:

"Because... because there are things down there that cannot be understood by the world, they are extremely dangerous, and there are also strange things that have never been seen before. It is precisely because of the development of the mine that those things have led to the current situation. Then, during our last investigation, we encountered that monster, and then... we escaped, and Sister Jinwu took the opportunity to blow up the mine..."

Zhiqiong was speechless. She stared at Jack and said after a moment: "Is there any other way to go?"

"No...no more, but we can blow up these rocks."

When Ying heard this, she was shocked and asked Jack in surprise:

"Blow it up?! Are you kidding! And we don't have any explosives! How can we blow it up?!"

"Yes, there is a [rock blasting cannon] next to it. We can use it to blast the rocks away."

Jack pointed to a device located a little way away from the rocks.

A few people just discovered that there was a device placed there, so they walked over to take a look.

It really is a cannon, and it is an ordinary old cannon. The cannon has been placed here for some time and is covered with dust. However, dust in a mine does not mean anything. The main proof is the spider web on the cannon.

"I say, does this thing really work?"

Zhiqiong knocked on the old thing and felt that it would fall apart if he used a little force.

"Of course it's useful, otherwise what did we use to blast the rocks last time! But this thing currently has no shells."

Jack checked the results of the blasting.

"So what did you say? Hey, it looks like we can't go down today."

Zhiqiong shook his head in frustration.

"No, no, no, there are just no shells here. There are still many shells in the miners' equipment warehouse. We can go there and get a few."

Jack explained repeatedly, and then led everyone to the equipment room to get things.

"Wait a moment!" Zhiqiong called Jack, "Tell me where the miners' equipment warehouse is first!"

"In..." Jack looked back in the direction he came from, "near our camp."

Zhiqiong also looked back at the road he came from.

"No way, it's so far! And we have to run back!"

"What else can we do? Let's go quickly and don't waste time!"

Jack didn't want to do this either, but there was no other way. They couldn't go down unless they blew up the rocks blocking the cave entrance. This was the only way now.

Jack put on his backpack, turned around and walked back, and Zhiqiong followed him with complaints.

"Ying, hurry up and catch up!"

Paimon reminded Ying and followed Zhiqiong.

But Ying didn't. She stood there and looked back at the two figures.

Suddenly, Ying felt a headache. She stretched out her left hand to cover her aching head, but a voice kept ringing in her ears.

[Save me…save me…Ahhhhhh——!!]

The voice was wailing in pain, asking for help from her.

Then, Ying saw a picture...

In a room, there is an iron chair in the middle. A man is standing in front of the iron chair with a sneer on him. A girl in pink is tied to the chair. The wails of pain are coming from this girl.

Ying clearly saw that a tuft of the girl's hair faded from pink to white.

Ying recognized who it was, and her daily life with the girl kept flashing through her mind. Although it was very ordinary, it made her feel warm again after wandering for several years.

She knew once again what she should do. She recalled the girl's painful look and suddenly felt a burning sensation in her right hand. When she looked again, she saw two heavy and large gunpowder shells on the palm of her right hand.

She looked around and found nothing. The two shells in her hands appeared completely out of thin air. She only questioned it for a moment and didn't think much about it. She quickly called out to the three people.

"Hey--!!! I found the shells!!!"

The three of them looked back in disbelief, and saw the two shells in Ying's hands.

So the three of them ran back.

"Hey, senior, where did you find it?"

Zhiqiong couldn't believe it, but no matter whether she touched or looked at it, it was real shells.

"Uh……"

If Ying said it appeared out of thin air, they would definitely not believe it. She looked around and then pointed to an empty bucket next to her and said:

"I found it in this barrel."

"But I just looked at this barrel, and there are no shells in it!"

Jack asked, a little confused.

"This bucket was covered with dust when you checked it just now. I just discovered it when I overturned this bucket."

Ying was talking nonsense in a serious tone.

Jack looked at the shells again, but almost all the old-fashioned shells were black balls, so he certainly couldn't see any tricks.

"Okay! Comrade Ying, give me the shells. I can use this mountain-blasting cannon."

Ying nodded and handed the cannonball to Jack. After Jack put the cannonball on the ground and fixed it, he went to clean the cannon. He walked around the cannon, looked left and right, and finally put the cannonball in. Then he walked to the driving seat of the cannon, opened a series of safety measures, and finally aimed the muzzle at the rocks.

"Everyone, please step back! Be safe."

……

……

boom--! ! ! !

With a loud bang, rocks collapsed and dust flew.

……

Inside the room, the groaning had stopped.

The man looked at the unconscious girl lying on the chair. He did not continue to inject the medicine into the girl. He just leaned over and touched the girl's pretty but pale face, and then touched the tuft of white hair along her face.

The man held the tuft of white hair in his hand, and his smile gradually turned crazy.

Because this tuft of white hair represents the results of his experiment.

She is coming.

“Hehe, hahahaha… This world is about to undergo a new transformation! And then, I will become the master of the new world!!! Hahahaha…”

……

"Ahem——!!!"

Zhiqiong covered her mouth and nose and coughed; she was choked by the flying sand.

When the flying sand and dust cleared, the road leading to the deeper layers of the rock appeared...

“That’s the way to a deeper level!”

Zhiqiong looked at the tall cave entrance excitedly.

"Be careful, there will be poisonous gas once you enter there, come on, each of you get a gas mask."

Jack put down his backpack and distributed the gas masks in the backpack to everyone, and then reminded everyone.

"Before you go down, let me check whether you are wearing your gas masks, because the poison gas down there is deadly! You must take it seriously!"

The others nodded in agreement.

Jack waited until everyone had put on their masks and then checked them one by one. After a while, he finished the check and put on a gas mask himself.

"Our gas masks can only last for 72 hours at most, but that's just for reference. The actual duration depends on the extent of damage to your masks, so if there's any problem with your masks, please let me know! Got it?"

Three people: "Got it."

"Okay, let's head to the lower level of the Layered Abyss now..."