Genshin Impact: Teyvat High School

The sound of hurried footsteps and panting echoed in the tunnel.

They ran wildly in a place where oxygen was scarce. Just when they were really short of oxygen and couldn't breathe, they finally saw the exit. The deep tunnel finally reached the end.

"Wow——!!!"

Paimon, who was in the front, flew out of the tunnel first. As soon as she came out of the tunnel, she slammed on the brakes and screamed.

Ying ran to the exit and slammed on the brakes, and then two people followed her and stopped.

Looking outside the tunnel, you will see a different world.

The railroad track was disconnected here, and underneath was a dark underground. Spiky stone pillars randomly surrounded a circle in the center. Wooden boards and cranes were mixed in among these stone pillars, and they were obviously damaged.

The cave was extremely large, with hazy fog lingering in the upper part of the cave, yet it seemed real. In the fog, they saw a huge blue cylinder suspended in the air, something they had never seen before. Four stone pillars extended from the ground to the blue pillar in the sky like ropes. If you look closely, you can also find four red auras spreading from all directions to the stone pillars. This place looks like the human world, but it is like hell.

These were things they could not understand, but when they looked back at the monsters, they had disappeared and did not seem to be catching up with them.

"What is this? This place is so weird!"

Ying looked at this scene in disbelief.

"This is... ahem... I know this... ahem... this is the twelfth... ahem... element [Divine Punishment]."

Zhiqiong kept coughing and pointed at the blue pillar to explain to Ying.

"Zhiqiong, what's wrong with you? You keep coughing?"

How could Ying not care when Zhiqiong was coughing so obviously?

"It's okay, it's okay, cough cough cough, I inhaled some wind and sand while running, cough cough cough..."

Zhiqiong smiled and waved her hands to explain, trying to reassure everyone.

But after Zhiqiong's explanation, everyone became even more worried. Everyone was wearing a gas mask, so how could they have inhaled the wind and sand? And why was it that only Zhiqiong coughed, but no one else?

there is only one truth!

"Zhiqiong, let me see how badly your mask is damaged."

After Jack finished speaking, he went over to look at Zhiqiong's mask.

"No, cough cough."

Zhiqiong dodged to the side upon seeing this.

Seeing Zhiqiong so unhappy, Jack must have thought that something must have gone wrong, but he just wanted to check the condition of the mask for her, as this was a matter of life and death.

Jack looked unhappy and reached out to take off the goggles on his mask.

"Hear, let me see!"

"No, Brother Jie, please don't! Ahem."

Zhiqiong was forced into a corner, with no way out.

"Brother Jie, please don't... cough cough... please don't..."

Finally, with the help of Ying and Paimon, Jack finally finished checking Zhiqiong's gas mask.

Jack said with a serious expression: "Zhiqiong, when did your gas mask get damaged? There's such a big hole in it!"

"Me? Ahem..."

Zhiqiong thought that it was at that time that the monster's gun flew over and scratched her face, tearing a hole in her mask.

"Ahem... It's okay, it's okay, I just inhaled some sand... Ahem..."

"Don't be ridiculous. How could it be as simple as just inhaling some dust? There is deadly poison gas here! Come on, I'll get you a new gas mask!"

Jack turned around anxiously to look for his backpack, and when he reacted, he was only holding a piece of torn cloth in his hand...

"Ahhh, it's over. My backpack was torn apart by the monster just now, and all the stuff fell out. I was so scared that I didn't realize it."

"Zhiqiong, go back. Sister Jinwu will treat you when you return to the camp."

At that moment, Ying saw Zhiqiong's ending. Although it was only a fleeting moment, it was hard for her to ignore it. She put her hands on Zhiqiong's shoulders, spoke earnestly, and then looked at her with sharp eyes.

"Yes, Sister Jinwu will definitely ask Haidifu to treat you. He is a scholar and a doctor. It's still early now. It's only a slight inhalation. It's still in time for treatment!!"

Jack also followed and persuaded Zhiqiong to return to the camp.

Zhiqiong looked at Ying in front of her and Jack and Paimon who were worried beside her. She then glanced at the deeper layer of rock with her peripheral vision.

She gently swept her arm off her shoulder and said with a smile: "Senior! Ahem, don't worry, I really just inhaled, ahem, some sand! It's really okay! Ahem, don't worry about me, ahem."

Zhiqiong said as he walked to the tunnel entrance and looked at the huge cave.

"And we shouldn't stay here. Ahem. As an adventurer, ahem. There will always be some small accidents when going out on adventures. Ahem. There's nothing to worry about. Ahem."

Zhiqiong kept coughing, but she still wanted others not to worry about her. Her persuasiveness was really low.

"Zhiqiong, this isn't just playing house..."

Zhiqiong directly interrupted Ying's words of persuasion and refused to go back.

"Oh, Senior! Ahem, I'm Zhiqiong! Ahem, no matter how serious the illness is, I can heal myself, ahem, it's totally fine, ahem."

"Aren't you just afraid of monsters? I'll take you back!"

Ying looked at the tunnel they came from, thinking that she might be scared and that was why she didn't want to go back.

"Senior! I told you not to worry about me! Ahem, as an adventurer, I know a lot! Ahem, I can handle all the weirdness in this cave, ahem, and I can help, so, ahem, let's not waste time here!"

"Silly girl, what are we doing..."

Zhiqiong interrupted Ying again and retorted even louder, very stubbornly.

"Seniors, I know you guys are concerned about me. Ahem, I really just inhaled some sand. Ahem, it's okay. It will be fine in a while. Ahem, it will be fine."

"Zhiqiong you..."

"Senior, if you do this again, ahem, I'll be angry! Ahem, get ready to leave!"

Zhiqiong interrupted Ying's persuasion again, and immediately found the way down after he finished speaking, without giving Ying any chance to persuade him.

Ying saw that her persuasion was futile and she really was powerless to do anything about this stubborn girl. Although she had already seen the ending, she still wanted to save the girl.

Zhiqiong stood on the dangerous bridge at the entrance of the tunnel and looked at the entire cave, and found that there was no way to go down.

"Look, there's no way to go now. Let's go back together, Zhiqiong."

Jack also walked forward to take a look, and then persuaded Zhiqiong to go with him.

"Who said there is no way? Ahem."

Suddenly, Zhiqiong took out a map from the small backpack he was carrying.

"Hehe, this is the map Sister Jinwu gave me. Ahem, it's the map that the miners used when they stopped digging. Ahem, it will come in handy at the critical moment. Ahem."

"..."

"..."

The other people didn't know what to say at this time. Anyway, it was futile to say anything in front of this stubborn girl.

Zhiqiong looked up and down at the map, then nodded while coughing.

"Well, this was originally a large mining airport. Ahem. The place where the work was finally stopped, ahem. Right there! Ahem. That round plate. Ahem."

Zhiqiong pointed to a round plate in the middle of a cluster of stone pillars at the bottom of the cave.

"Hmm... From this picture, ahem, there should be a hole there, ahem, why is it a disc-shaped ground now, ahem."

Faced with this situation, Zhiqiong continued to observe everything in the cave.

"I see. Ahem. There must be something there that is, ahem, incomprehensible. Ahem. So I used that to, ahem, cover the hole. Ahem."

"Then we still can't go down, let's go back."

Jack saw the opportunity and came over to persuade them to retreat, but Zhiqiong refuted again:

"Who said we can't go down? Ahem, have you seen that [Divine Punishment Nail]? Ahem, that thing can help us get down. Ahem, the red aura around us, ahem, should be the evil aura mentioned in the book, ahem."

Ying also remembered at this time that Zhongli had mentioned the twelfth [Divine Punishment] in the book, which was the most destructive physical element in the world.

Ying continued what Zhiqiong said: "The evil energy is made of the breath of [Nightmare]. The evil energy will corrode the fallen Divine Punishment Nail. The Divine Punishment Nail will gradually lose its mana when corroded, causing it to float up. However, judging from the appearance of this evil energy, it seems that it is not corroding the Divine Punishment Nail, but sealing it. So as long as we clear the evil energy, the Divine Punishment Nail will fall down and smash the disc."

After Ying said this, he suddenly felt that Mou Dun’s coffin was about to fall. Unfortunately, his research was useless in this fantasy world.

"What the senior said is very right, cough cough, but there is one more thing, cough cough, even if the Divine Punishment Nail has no evil energy, cough cough, it will float up by itself, cough cough."

"Well, of course I know that after the Divine Punishment Nail inflicts a divine punishment, its mana will drop significantly, causing it to float up and return to its original position. When it returns to its original position for the third time, the Divine Punishment Nail completely loses its mana and becomes an ordinary stone pillar that falls down."

"Yeah, then what are we waiting for? Ahem, let's go! Ahem, get rid of the evil spirit! Ahem."

After Zhiqiong finished speaking, she jumped off the dangerous bridge. Everyone was shocked by this scene and they all went to look at her.

As a result, Zhiqiong stood intact on the stone stairs under the dangerous bridge that were like a rope around the Divine Punishment Nail.

"What are you waiting for? Ahem, this is the only way. Ahem."

So everyone followed Zhiqiong and jumped onto the stone stairs.