Genshin Impact: Teyvat High School

"Ying! You're back!"

When Paimon saw Ying and Dain coming back together, he flew over to greet them.

"Okay, okay, it's been so long since we last met!"

Ying stretched out her hand to block Paimon who was flying over to hug her.

Seeing that Ying didn't appreciate it, Paimon said, "I'm just afraid that you'll die. If you fall from such a high place, I think you'll be smashed into a paste..."

Paimon even put his hands on his hips proudly.

"I've even thought about your life after death! Ying, look how much I care about you!"

Ying couldn't help but roll her eyes.

"Thank you so much for your concern!"

Ying saw Jack lying quietly in the corner of the room.

Ying pointed at Jack and asked Dain worriedly.

"What's up with him?"

Dain looked at it but said quietly:

"He's fine, he just fell asleep. We should wake him up now. We should go..."

Paimon: "Huh? Why?"

Dain didn't say anything, just turned his head and looked at the high wall behind him.

They both looked back and saw a monster with a strange green body and holding a big sword.

The monster stood on the high wall, quietly looking at the people below.

"Wow! Monster!!"

Paimon started to fuss again.

The two men were wary of the monster, and Paimon had already flown behind a rock to hide.

But the monster just stared at them, making a small hoarse sound in its throat.

Several people just looked at each other.

Finally, it was Dain who broke the deadlock. He turned to the other two and said, "You two should retreat first. He seems to be different."

When Dain finished speaking and turned around, the monster had disappeared.

"Disappeared……"

Paimon floated out from behind the stone only after he heard that the monster had disappeared.

Ying still looked at the place where the monster had just stood, as if she had some ideas.

"Dain, what's going on with that monster? Does he have something to say?"

How could it be… How did he manage to remain conscious despite the [expletive]… And that troubling, inexplicably familiar aura.

Dain pondered for a moment.

"Dain, maybe it recognized you."

"Just call it a coincidence."

After saying this, Dain turned and looked towards the corridor exit.

"We should go, towards the direction of [the heart], where we can go up and return to the ground, and it is also the only exit."

Then he looked at Jack who was still sleeping.

"Wake him up, too."

……

The three followed Dain out of the corridor, but were once again shocked by the scene before them.

Because what appeared before their eyes was an inverted building.

The building is shaped like a castle and looks very dilapidated, but the entire castle is a stone roof hanging upside down, and huge tree roots penetrate the walls of the castle and extend to all parts of the cave.

Below the castle was dark purple mud, much of which had dried and hardened into a pile of purple stones. The cave was filled with a pungent medicinal smell.

"This is the [Doomsday Building] that was left when Heavenly Law cleared away the [Elemental Doomsday]. It was once where the [Nightmare] lived, but now it's occupied by [Doctor] Dotore."

Dain explained quietly as he looked at the upside-down building.

"As for why it is hanging upside down, I can't explain this phenomenon. Perhaps this is also a way of heaven..."

"God's will?" Paimon thought for a moment. "Dain, have you seen her?"

"No, it can be said that in this virtual world, only two people have seen her. The first is her apprentice, who calls himself the Heavenly Justice Maintainer, and the second one..."

Dain slowly paused and did not continue speaking.

"Who's the second one?"

Paimon asked, and Dain suddenly became serious.

"alert."

The command startled Paimon.

"Hey...what's wrong? What's wrong?!"

Dain simply turned and looked into the corridor, then said two words coldly.

"Enemy attack."

By the time the two of them reacted, several monsters in full armor were standing in the corridor, holding weapons, staring at them hungrily.

"Wow wow wow——Didn't someone just leave? Why is there another one?!"

Paimon screamed in surprise again, making a lot of noise.

"Back off, these monsters are different from the one just now. These ones have lost their rationality."

Dain put his hand in front of Paimon and Ying, and faced the monster alone.

Roar--! ! !

A hollow, hoarse, and rotten sound came from the monster's throat, and it rushed over with its weapon in hand.

……

In a blink of an eye, many monsters had been knocked down by Dai Yin, but the monsters only fell down, and after the black air in their armor disappeared for a short while, they were resurrected again.

"They've resurrected! Dain, be careful!"

Paimon said as he hid behind a rock.

While they were in a trance, a group of monsters appeared from nowhere behind them and surrounded them.

Roar--

The monsters that had lost their black aura fell to the ground, making low, decayed sounds, and then stood up again.

"There's no end."

Facing wave after wave of monsters, Dyne seemed exhausted.

He looked back at Ying and found that an iron sword had appeared in her hand at some point, and Ying was fighting with him.

The power of [End]? She probably doesn't know how to use it yet, so let her leave for now.

"Ying, you go first and run along the tree roots into the castle."

"But what are you going to do!"

Dai Yin did not answer again. He did not want to answer any more questions about what to do.

But Ying had no intention of leaving.

Forget it, she doesn't want to leave. What's the point of my persuasion? I should first find a way to lure these empty shells away.

"Roar--!!!!"

As soon as he reached out his hand, he was interrupted by a deafening roar, coming from behind him.

But the roar was very intimidating. Not only Dain, but even those empty shell monsters stopped moving and just stood there.

When Dain looked back again, the green monster had passed him by.

At that moment he was stunned, because he seemed to have thought of the past.

The scene of him and his friend passing by each other seemed familiar. …

[Hey, Captain Dyne! Leave today's mission to me!]

No, why should I remember this, why should I remember this, my lost friend...

He looked at the green monster again.

No, he is not dead, he is...always here.

The green monster stood there in front of us and roared again.

Then, the empty shells there seemed to understand what the green monster meant, and they all nodded and retreated... and disappeared into the darkness.

The green monster waited until the empty shell monster left, then turned and looked at Dyne, staring at him quietly without any movement.

Dain looked into the monster's eyes and said calmly, "Do you have anything to say to me, Halfdan?"

"..."

But Halfdan just made a hoarse sound from his throat, turned around and passed them again, Halfdan walked around Ying and went down.

"He's gone, but this time it's not like he just disappeared suddenly."

When Paimon saw the monster disappear, he flew out from behind the rock.

"He's signaling us to follow him. What do you think? Do you want to follow him?"

Dain looked in the direction Halfdan left and asked the other two people.

"Then let's go and take a look!" Paimon suddenly realized something, looked at Dain and asked, "Wait, Halfdan? Dain, do you know him?"

"He used to be a brother in my team, but he disappeared in [Elemental Apocalypse]. I think he was corrupted by the elemental virus."

Before they could grieve, Dain set off in the direction Halfdan had left.

Paimon left a message saying "Wait for us" and followed Ying.

……

The three of them walked together, following Dain, through the black mud. The stench was nauseating.

They quickened their pace and finally walked out of the black mud pile. Although the stench still irritated their noses, it was much better than before.

As they walked, Dain asked, "You haven't told me why you came here. Ordinary adventurers can't come here, and exploration teams can't come here either."

"Uh... all of this was just an accident..."

Ying recalled this ridiculous adventure and answered perfunctorily. No, to be precise, she didn't know how to answer this question because it was all a coincidence.

"Brother Dai...Brother Daiyin, we are all from the exploration team. We came here by accident to investigate the monster."

Jack dared to speak only then. When the Shell Monster and Halfdan appeared, no one knew where he had hidden.

"Are they all from the exploration team?"

Dai Yin looked at Ying beside him with a strange look. He continued for a while, then turned his head and looked straight ahead and said:

"Okay, you have to remember that the phenomena in this place are not something that ordinary people like you can bear. I will take you away in a moment. You will never be able to come in again."

"Okay... okay, got it... Brother Dain."

……

"arrive."

Dyne led everyone to a corner under the rock, which was a small cave to be precise.

"Halfdan disappeared from here. It looks like he went in here. Let's go."

Everyone followed Dain into the cave, only to find that there was a group of hillbillies inside the cave.

“Wow! There are so many Hilichurls!”

No one was scared by these Hilichurls. Instead, they were scared by Paimon's jumpy behavior.

"They are just a group of old hillbillies. They have no desire to attack, so there is no need to worry."

After Dai Yin explained, everyone calmed down.

Judging from the environment here, the Hilichurls have lived here for some time. There are many signs of life. Several Hilichurls who are approaching old age are slumped in the corner, quietly waiting for the end. Some of them have even lost their breath of life.

This is a simple camp of the Hillic people and also their cemetery.

"Is this what Halfdan wants us to see?"

Paimon asked after coming back from a walk.

Dyne looked around:

"He probably wants us to help these poor hillbillies." But he shook his head and said, "But there's nothing I can do about the curse. Let's go and not disturb their last moments."

Dain had no choice but to turn around and leave the camp.

Paimon looked curiously into the pots and bowls of the Hilichurls... They were empty, and there were even spider webs in some of the bowls.

"Don't these Hillichuls need to eat when they are dying?!"

Dain stood at the door and turned back to Paimon and said:

"They have difficulty eating due to the pain brought by the curse. Let's go, there are uninvited guests in [the heart]."