Genshin Impact: Teyvat High School

"Floating...She..."

He looked at the debris scorched by lightning on the ground and clenched his fists.

He hated his own incompetence. He once again watched his brother disappear in front of him, and he was powerless to do anything.

"Let's go. Don't mourn for your elder brother. I have investigated for you. What was just presented was only Fushe's soul. His body had long since perished. So as long as he wakes up, he will instinctively consume his soul. This is a good ending. At least this way he won't be used as a tool by the doctor anymore."

Ye Lan stood aside and persuaded Xiao.

Although Xiao had a blank expression on his face, the scheming Ye Lan could immediately guess what Xiao was thinking.

"Let's go, let's find a way out together. Zhongli told me there is a place to get out, let's find it together."

……

"Where are we..."

Ying climbed up from the rubble in a daze, and she found that the mask on her face was damaged beyond recognition.

"Ah! Shit, gas mask!"

She was surprised and took a few breaths of air and found nothing unusual.

When she came to her senses again, she found herself in a basement and everyone had disappeared.

"Everyone……"

She brushed off the dust on her body, stood up with her painful body, and looked into the basement; it was spacious but dark. She looked at it through the faint light that came from nowhere. It was very dilapidated, as if an explosion had occurred here, which should be related to the loud noise she heard before.

The air was filled with a pungent smell of medicine and a slight smell of grass elements, but there was no smell of poison, so she walked in it boldly.

"Paimon? Jack? Are you there? Zhi..."

She was about to call out the name but stopped. The image of that cute and stubborn girl appeared in front of her.

[Senior... Let's go find the treasure together!]

She felt in her pocket and pulled out an adventurer's medal.

Fortunately, it was not lost.

She breathed a sigh of relief, held the medal to her chest and slowly recalled the girl.

At that time, the huge pillar above the girl's head was about to fall, and a giant mechanical snake sprang out from behind her, but the girl did not run away. She just turned around and said to this senior who was only one year older than her:

[Senior...please leave with my hope...]

Afterwards, the girl helped her solve the threat in front of her, but the girl stayed there forever.

tick-

She suddenly found that her hand had caught a drop of water. Those were tears, the tears she shed when she recalled Zhiqiong.

"Yes, Zhiqiong... already... No, this is not a reason for me to cry. I can't let Zhiqiong's sacrifice go to waste. I... must escape from this layer of rock!"

She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and saw light coming through a door. Her intuition told her that the person she was looking for was there.

She...walked there.

……

"I found it."

Ye Lan found a relatively intact disc in the ruins next to an elevator shaft.

Xiao stood nearby and looked at the thing in confusion. He crossed his arms and looked at the thing and asked, "You've been looking for this for so long? I don't understand."

"You are so ignorant, my junior. This is the Taiwei Plate. Inspector Zhong used this to lead us away."

After hearing this, Xiao began to take this thing a little more seriously.

"So how do you use this thing?"

Ye Lan stood up without answering him. She turned and walked towards the elevator shaft and placed the Tai Wei Yi Plate into it. The Tai Wei Yi Plate actually floated there.

Ye Lan held up the bracelet, and the blue bracelet emitted blue light, lingering on the Taiwei Plate.

"The stars are spread out, and the mighty spirit descends quickly..."

The Taiwei Plate suddenly lost its light and became dim.

Ye Lan was still a little confused. She stared at the Taiweiyi Plate for a while, then turned back to look at Xiao behind her.

"Did Zhongli give you anything?"

Xiao leaned against the wall, looked at Ye Lan, and then silently took out the Nuo mask.

"this?"

Ye Lan looked at the Nuo mask and her expression improved a little.

"Well, that should be okay."

Ye Lan looked up at the dark ceiling again and talked to herself.

"Next, we will face the most dangerous place of our trip... facing the [Heart of Grass]."

Ye Lan stretched out her bracelet, and a green line appeared on the Nuo mask. Ye Lan used some of the incomplete life-thread to pull the line of the Nuo mask to the Taiwei instrument plate.

The Taiwei Plate was constantly vibrating due to the influence of two forces...

After stabilizing, the Taiwei disk suddenly turned into a huge blue translucent disk.

"Okay, let's go up to the upper level and grab the [Heart of Grass] before that woman comes."

Xiao said nothing but silently moved and stepped onto the disc, and Ye Lan followed suit;

Then the disc started up and carried them into suspension.

……

"Paimon? Jack? Are you there?"

Ying wandered around in this empty and complex basement.

She had been searching for a long time, but still didn't find anyone. She only found someone else's body...

"Paimon..."

"No need to shout."

Suddenly a man's voice came from behind her, and she turned her head in shock.

"Wow——Who are you?!"

The man sat on the stone, quietly looking at the girl in front of him.

When he saw the girl had discovered her, he stood up naturally and said in a very calm tone: "I am Dainsleb, your two companions are here with me, so it's useless for you to shout."

Ying looked at the strange man in front of her. She hesitated for a while, then slowly asked: "Who are you? Do you know me?"

Dainsleb looked at her straight in the eyes, as if he was speechless to her.

"I have already answered the question of who I am. Of course I know you, but I won't tell you why now. But do you really not remember anything? For example, the Kanreya Cataclysm."

This question took Ying a long time to recall, but it seemed as if there was a missing piece in her memory.

In her memory, she had a wonderful childhood, and she still remembered her life at that time, but when she graduated from junior high school, her memory was blank; like a piece of a puzzle was missing; but for the Kanreya disaster.

She shook her head silently.

After seeing Ying's reaction, Dainsleb seemed to be thinking about something, and it was unclear whether he was talking to Ying or to himself.

"It seems that you haven't found the missing piece yet, so it's natural that you don't recognize me. It seems that the impact of the Kanreya disaster..." Dain suddenly turned around and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to find your friend."

"Hey? Why should I believe you!"

Dain ignored her and didn't care whether she followed him or not. He just kept walking on his own.

Ying looked around and decided it would be better to follow him, so she hurried to catch up.

"Hey! Wait for me!"

"Your journey. No one will stop for you."

……

She followed Dain to a corridor with rooms without doors on either side.

Ying looked at the empty rooms on both sides as if she was visiting a tourist attraction.

"Wow——!!!"

"what happened?"

Dain turned around and looked at Ying who was making a fuss.

Ying pointed to a room and said tremblingly: "There is a monster in this room."

Dai Yin followed the direction of Ying's finger and saw several hairy humanoid monsters sitting in the room, and all of them were wearing broken masks.

"Just a few hillbillies."

"Hicchu people? Were they once human?"

Ying looked at these hillbillies carefully and found that they indeed had many human characteristics. They even knew how to use fire, as evidenced by the extinguished fire next to them. However, seeing some rotten fruits next to them, it seemed that they had not eaten for a long time.

"Yes, they used to be human like us. The reason they became like this is because [Doomsday] cursed them with immortality, turning them into inhuman monsters. They endure the pain of the world. They can't bear this pain, so they lose their minds and become monsters that attack wantonly. But [Doomsday] is over, why are there still Hillichurls..." Dain crossed his hands and pondered for a while, "Maybe it's [Doctor's] masterpiece."

"Well, do you know why the Hillichuls wear masks?"

Dain asked again.

Ying shook her head and said, "I'm not sure..."

"Because they are avoiding their current appearance, afraid of their reflections in the water... After all, compared to their memories, they are too ugly and too desperate."

After Ying heard what Dai Yin said, her attitude became a little different when she looked at the hillbillies again.

"As expected, the Hilliards are also..."

"The curse of immortality is actually... not really permanent [immortality]."

Ying heard this and looked at Dai Yin and asked, "Is there still a chance of reversal?"

Dain shook his head.

"No. It is the effect of [wear and tear]. The soul and body will still be worn away, even if it is not in the form of [death]."

He looked at the hill people...

“When those hill people realized that their own end was approaching, they seemed to instinctively seek a quiet and dark corner to bid farewell to hundreds of years of pain.”

Dain turned around and continued walking: "Let's go, let's not disturb their last moments."