Genshin Impact: A Mortal's Ascension to Godhood

When Li Tao in Liyue Harbor dragged his tired body to wipe out a group of slimes in a slime settlement outside the city, he would always think of an afternoon when he sat quietly in Pizza Hut on Blue Star and took photos with the Genshin Impact collaboration meal.

It was a very good day. Li Tao strolled out of the rental house and found a nearby Pizza Hut that was linked to Genshin Impact. When he saw the portraits of Amber and Eula pasted on the window glass, a lewd smile unique to Genshin Impact players appeared on his face.

He then walked into Pizza Hut, and after he sat down, a waiter wearing a mask came over and shouted: "Traveler, welcome to the Pizza Hut Genshin Impact theme restaurant!"

The waiter was wearing a mask, so it was unclear whether he could hold back his expression or not. However, as an original poster, Li Tao never cared about it. He cheerfully said the slogan of the joint action: "Win when the wind rises, come as promised!"

Then, the waiter recorded some of Li Tao's information as a matter of routine and asked Li Tao to order: "The relevant game gift package code will be sent to you after you finish your meal."

Li Tao then ordered a single meal for 89, then sat down and browsed his phone while waiting for the food to be served.

His seat was by the window, and he could see the characters of the original god on the window and the pedestrians and vehicles outside when he looked up, with a good view. So after browsing his phone for five minutes, Li Tao raised his head and stretched his neck, and glanced out the French window.

It doesn't matter if you don't look, but you'll be shocked if you do. Li Tao suddenly saw a piece of transparent plastic sheet under the sun, flying towards him quickly.

Whose plastic sheet is this? Who has such bad manners to throw garbage everywhere? This was Li Tao's first reaction, but then he realized something was wrong - was the plastic sheet too big?

He watched helplessly as the plastic sheet swelled in the wind, filling the entire city's sky in a very short period of time.

A strong fear seized Li Tao's heart. He stood up suddenly from his seat and wanted to go out of Pizza Hut to see what was going on. Some people in the store also noticed the strange phenomenon in the sky and looked up at the flat "plastic sheet" covering the entire sky.

As for why Li Tao thought it was a piece of plastic sheet, it was because through it, Li Tao could see the sun, the white clouds, and the flying birds... At the same time, it was floating lightly in the air, and it really looked like a piece of plastic sheet.

Could this be a new type of weapon from another country? Li Tao was not a military fan, and he was not familiar with the development of military technology. He just made a blind guess, ran out of Pizza Hut, and stood at the door looking up at the sky. Some other people in the store also ran out with him, looking and talking about it. No one knew what this was, but there was no doubt that this unknown made people feel panic and fear.

Some people called the police, some took photos and posted them on WeChat Moments, and some just looked at it for a while and then walked back to the store... Only Li Tao patiently observed the specific situation of the "plastic sheeting".

Soon, he saw a scene that shattered all his three perspectives—

A bird, maybe a crow or a magpie, flew very high, and its specific appearance could not be seen clearly. As it flew, it touched the "plastic sheet". In just a few seconds, it turned into a flat creature. But it did not die, and continued to fly as if nothing had happened.

The "style" of the bird changed from three-dimensional to two-dimensional. Some details were reduced to lines, and the bird's legs seemed to have become a few lines.

This is fucking two-dimensional foil!!!

What made Li Tao feel even more desperate was that after the two-dimensional foil came into contact with the object, it began to sink slowly.

Li Tao numbly opened his phone. It seemed that the truth about the "plastic sheeting" had not yet been revealed on the Internet, and netizens were still discussing the "plastic sheeting" issue. So Li Tao, with a strange pessimistic mentality, posted a post about the truth about the "plastic sheeting", and left a sigh of "We will all die at the hands of the singer civilization", and then leaned against the door of Pizza Hut in a daze.

According to the speed at which the two-dimensional foil was falling, it would only take half a day at most for everyone to become two-dimensional creatures. No one knew what would happen by then. Thinking of this, Li Tao couldn't help but feel sad: I always felt that my life was full of regrets, and I had to start over before it even began!

Li Tao is not an orphan, but he is better than an orphan. When he was in the fourth grade of elementary school, his father cheated on him, and they divorced. The court awarded him to his mother. But his mother didn't care about him, so she threw him to her brother, Li Tao's uncle. His uncle and aunt also had children at home, and Li Tao always felt that it was a bit awkward for him to live with them. After reading "Dragon Clan" in high school, he felt more and more that he was as unlucky as Lu Mingfei. It's just that although his uncle and aunt didn't love him, they didn't hate him either. They just simply raised him with the child support from Li Tao's mother. Therefore, Li Tao felt that in this regard, he was better than Lu Mingfei. But in other aspects, Li Tao thought he was just an ordinary person-he couldn't slay dragons, and he wasn't good at playing games; no American colleges recruited him, and no girls ever liked him.

His college entrance examination score was just over 211, and he got into a university by chance. During his four years in college, he only focused on studying and playing Genshin Impact. He was very socially anxious and had few friends. However, he had a good personality and got along well with his roommates. When he was years old, Li Tao's mother found a second marriage with an overseas Chinese abroad. She told Li Tao that she was ready to start a new life, put the living expenses on the card, and gave it to Li Tao in one lump sum. After that, the two had no more contact. Li Tao had to try to be a tutor, take the postgraduate entrance examination, take the civil service examination, and participate in various job fairs... Fortunately, he was transferred to a non-key university through the postgraduate entrance examination, and he could still stay for another three years.

One of Li Tao's few hobbies is playing games. In the summer after graduating from high school, he first came into contact with the new game "Genshin Impact" that had just been launched by Mi Games. To be honest, Li Tao was not interested in Mi Games' games at first, because there were too many rhythms and the playability of the game itself was not strong. It was not until Genshin Impact appeared under the banner of open world and free exploration that he became slightly interested. So he tried to download and play, and accidentally played it until now, becoming a "glorious" original batch.

Now, Li Tao's life is about to end, but the one who stays with him till the end is not his family, friends, or lover, but the original God portrait of Pizza Hut. Even though Li Tao is a player of the original God, he is a little disappointed at the moment.

Li Tao walked back to his seat in Pizza Hut and watched the food delivery robot still delivering his ordered food to him. He then picked up the single meal and quietly enjoyed his last lunch.

But before he even finished eating, the waiter came over in a hurry and told Li Tao that Pizza Hut had closed urgently and he couldn't sit here. Li Tao was stunned for a moment, mechanically stuffed the last few pieces of chicken into his mouth, and stood up to leave.

A few minutes later, Li Tao walked back to the rental house that he could call home. After graduating from college, he didn't want to go back to his uncle's house, so he used the money he earned from tutoring to rent an apartment outside. Now, it has become Li Tao's final destination.

Li Tao sat on the bed, holding his phone. He called his mother, but the call didn't go through. He looked at the phone numbers of his uncles and aunts in the address book, but he didn't call them. Finally, it was his roommate who had shared a dormitory with him for four years in college who sent him a few messages of concern.

He lay on the bed, half crying and half laughing. The huge sadness hit his heart so much that he couldn't hold back his tears, which flowed down his face.

Maybe his life is really a failure, even though his life has just begun. But now, everyone's life will end in the next few hours. This is really a big joke, but no one can laugh, right?

Not sure what he was feeling, Li Tao turned on the TV and computer. On TV, there were no other programs, and the urgent news was playing over and over again; on the computer, in the forums and BBS, the discussion about the two-dimensional foil was in full swing, and everyone was expressing their opinions, including but not limited to criticizing Liu Cixin, who proposed the idea of ​​the two-dimensional foil, crazy literature, and the promotion of doomsday theory.

Li Tao’s expression at this moment: (Haha, he’s already in heaven)

Li Tao turned off the TV. He didn't want to worry about how the country and society would deal with this crisis. If they could get through it safely, it would be a blessing, but there was a high probability that there was no way out. Because when the creations in science fiction novels really appear, it is a "magical power" that transcends all existing technologies.

He started playing games. First, League of Legends, but after two games, he couldn't continue because no one was maintaining the server, and he couldn't queue up with anyone. Then he played some single-player games. After killing Ashina Isshin with a wolf, Li Tao turned off Steam. Finally, Genshin Impact. Although Genshin Impact is no longer maintained, the game itself is still playable.

Without thinking about the rhythm related to the original god, without thinking about the strength and equipment of the character, Li Tao teleported back to Mondstadt's Starfall Lake and walked through Teyvat again from the beginning.

From the Wind Rising Land, to Liyue Harbor, to the Eternal Island, to the dense forest of Xumi and the water city of Fontainebleau...all the stories since the launch of the Genshin Impact are replayed as if in the past, making Li Tao recall every little bit.

"At least in the game, I have come such a long way." Li Tao smiled self-deprecatingly, slumped in the chair, staring at the traveler's back in a daze.

At 5:00 p.m., someone on the Internet broke the news that the mountains, plateaus, and some taller buildings in nature had been completely transformed into flat two-dimensional existences under the compression of the two-dimensional foil. The people who stayed on the mountains, plateaus, and tall buildings had also completely lost contact.

At 7:23 pm, the UN online meeting ended, and the Security Council pessimistically announced that all conventional means of mankind were ineffective against the two-dimensional foil. The sky of the blue planet had been completely covered by the two-dimensional foil, and the three-dimensional human world and human civilization would be destroyed at around 10:40 pm Beijing time. Several nuclear-armed countries also issued statements that nuclear bombs were useless against the two-dimensional foil, and all human means of attack could only be turned into a two-dimensional object by the two-dimensional foil.

"Perhaps the survival of human civilization can only rely on the humans who survived in the space station...but humans are not prepared to face this sudden crisis." One netizen pointed out, "We can't imagine a future that becomes a two-dimensional world."

At 10:45 pm Beijing time, the two-dimensional foil had completely wrapped around the surface of the blue planet and began to transform the entire planet into sheets.

At this time, Li Tao was lying on the bed, watching himself being compressed into a two-dimensional image by a transparent two-dimensional foil. He couldn't move, but he retained his basic senses. He saw the apartment building become a piece close to him, and saw the street lights, trees, wild cats and dogs downstairs... Everything turned into a picture that could be seen at a glance.

Being compressed by the two-dimensional foil was not painful. On the contrary, there was no feeling at all. But Li Tao found that his memory was disappearing. He suddenly couldn't remember what his parents looked like, the names of his roommates during his four years in college, and the few awards he had won... The details of his memory were being simplified and gradually disappeared.

Li Tao was somewhat reluctant. Although he felt that his past life was terrible, at least he was not disabled or lost his life, and he managed to become a graduate student. If he lost all his memories of the past, he would really not be himself. So Li Tao tried to find something that could confirm his existence, but when he looked around, he only saw Keqing on his computer wallpaper.

“Damn it, we’re almost restarting and still thinking about the original god!”

Li Tao cursed himself while trying to remember all the memories about the original god. To his surprise, these memories did not disappear at all, but became clearer. Then, he felt dizzy and thrown into the computer.

The world was destroyed just like that, thanks to Er Xiang Bao. But the story about Li Tao has just begun.