Genshin Impact: A Mortal's Ascension to Godhood

After the competition, the Chen Yugu team, which won the runner-up, will embark on the journey again.

But at this time, Li Tao took a book and found the caravan's chef, Lawrence.

"You are... the host of the finals? Uh, what do you want to talk to me about?" Lawrence stood at the door of his room, looking at Li Tao puzzledly.

Li Tao introduced himself again: "I am Li Tao from the Liyue Adventurer's Association. Just call me by my name, Mr. Lawrence. The reason I came to find you is because I saw your name in the Teyvat Adventure Guide about the Mondstadt region..."

Lawrence made a "shut up" gesture in advance and said with a look of disgust: "Stop, please don't mention the name of that family in front of me. I am no longer a member of the Lawrence family."

Li Tao looked at him with amusement, as if asking: But you are clearly still using the name Lawrence?

Facing Li Tao's gaze, Lawrence was a little angry and embarrassed: "Does my name have much to do with my family name?"

"At least now, I have decided to be a chef instead of a noble..."

At this point, Lawrence's tone gradually became depressed. He was silent for a moment, and said to Li Tao: "It's not good to keep chatting here. Let's go inside and talk."

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The room in the hotel was relatively clean, and except for some of Lawrence's clothes on the bed, it was almost exactly as it was.

Li Tao sat on a chair and looked at Lawrence: "In fact, Mr. Lawrence, I have some questions to ask you."

"You adventurers are just curious... What's the problem? Tell me."

Li Tao leaned forward and said slowly: "I also tasted your food at the Food Festival. At that time, I finally realized what Xiangling meant by cooking. Oh, by the way, Xiangling is my friend."

"You miss your hometown... but you have no desire to go back. You are also satisfied with your current situation. In that dish [Seared Bluefin Fish with Apple], I sensed your nostalgia for your hometown and your feelings for your companions... why is that?"

“Why? I want to ask you why you ask me this question.” Lawrence muttered, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and asked Li Tao in surprise, “Wait, you are not also a wanderer who left your hometown, right? But you clearly look like a Liyue person!”

Li Tao sighed: "I'll say the same thing to you - just because I look like a Liyue person doesn't mean I am actually a Liyue person. Does my appearance and temperament have much to do with my spiritual essence?"

Lawrence tapped the table thoughtfully. "No wonder you wanted to talk to me. But I probably don't have much to say. Because I've lost my memory."

"lost memory?"

Li Tao looked at him in confusion and asked, "What does that mean?"

Lawrence lowered his head and said, "I don't remember my origin, my upbringing, or anything else. I just opened my eyes one day and found myself in the Lawrence family's manor. But my family has fallen. In Mondstadt, 'Lawrence' is almost a byword for everyone."

"However, the old guys in the tribe were still arrogant. They insisted on clinging to the 'honor and pride of the nobility' and made me do things that were not in line with my wishes... In the end, I chose to escape. I followed this caravan and came to Liyue."

"You don't have any memories of the past?"

Lawrence nodded with a look of nostalgia on his face, "That's right. It was as if I was thrown into this world by the Seven Gods and was forced to be called 'Lawrence'. Do you understand now? Although that memory is extremely painful to me, it is my only memory and the only anchor of my life that can prove my identity."

Li Tao stared at him, and a bold guess emerged in his mind.

Sure enough, a moment later, Li Tao absorbed something familiar from Lawrence's eyes - fragments of memory.

These memory fragments told Li Tao exactly who Lawrence was.

That's right, the other party also came from Blue Star and was also an ordinary Genshin Impact player. But his luck was not as good as Li Tao's. When he was attacked by the two-dimensional foil, his memory was completely wiped out and he became a member of the Lawrence family.

He didn't know that the little girl in the family, "Eula Lawrence", would learn from her mistakes and become a Wave Knight of Mondstadt in the future, nor did he know about several major events that would happen in Mondstadt in the future. Ever since he traveled through time and space as a "Lawrence", he has been trapped in endless learning and training.

The Lawrence family was very strict with their descendants - they hoped to restore the glory of their ancestors through strict education of their descendants. But Lawrence was just an ordinary person before he traveled through time, so how could he withstand their torture? After enduring for a period of time, Lawrence was almost insane and was finally sent to the West Wind Order for confinement.

The monks of the West Wind Order felt sorry for him and quietly let him go. In this way, he boarded the caravan to Liyue in a trance...

We are indeed from the same hometown. Li Tao looked at Lawrence's gray hair and stubble, and couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Lawrence looked at the silent Li Tao and grinned: "I don't know what your experience is like, but my past experience is so ridiculous and miserable. However, even so, I still miss Mondstadt - I miss the Knights of Favonius who would play with children, I miss the pigeons that flew to my lap in front of the gate to ask for food, I miss the West Wind Cathedral with its tall dome that leaks sunlight, and I miss all kinds of delicious food in Mondstadt..."

"My experience in Mondstadt was like a dream filled with pain and tears, but also with a hint of sweetness. Now that I am awake from the dream, I still have to live on."

"Xiang Ling told me this through her cooking, and your questioning has made me more certain of this. No matter what time it is, the only thing I can grasp is now."

He looked up at the door, his expression no longer sad, but a smile: "As long as I am with my companions, I will be happy even if I am just a chef."

Would you rather be a happy chef than a miserable "Lawrence"?

Finally, Lawrence stood up, rummaged through his luggage for a moment, and handed him a note: "Adventurer, if you go to Mondstadt in the future... I hope this will help you."

Li Tao flipped through the notebook - it was a map of Mondstadt that Lawrence had drawn during his stay in Mondstadt. It was filled with various marks, and Li Tao saw many familiar names on it.

He closed his notebook and said, "Mr. Lawrence, I will keep your story in my heart. In the future, if I meet someone who is depressed and frustrated, I might tell him the story of 'Lawrence' escaping from Mondstadt."

"I'm not trying to encourage others to run away like me." Lawrence smiled. "I just want to say that the painful past and the graspable present constitute everything I am. We should not dwell on the past, but draw strength from the past to grasp the present."

And all the past, present and future constitute the human world.

The past is known, the present is recognized, and the future is longed for - our spirit always creates the world in this order.

Li Tao took out a pen and wrote on the title page of the notebook:

"I wonder if Mondstadt is not good? Wherever my heart is at peace is my home."