Chapter 213 An Exciting Place

After the Lantern Festival, Paimeng and Ying never went out of the house. They even asked someone to deliver their meals to them. The reason was that they were holding their phones to play "Genshin Impact II".

"Wow, why does Liusu update a new version every day? She has no time to go out." Paimeng couldn't help complaining while holding the game console, but his hands didn't stop at all.

"Then go out. I'm not stopping you." Ying glanced at Paimeng and said lightly.

"Well, today's plot has been updated to Xumi. I want to see what happens next." Paimeng scratched his head and said.

"Me too. The plot of "Genshin Impact II" is roughly the same as what we experienced, but my presence in this game is too low. It's just like a puppet, being led by Paimeng in it." At this point, Ying glanced at Paimeng next to him.

"Paimeng, tell me, if there is no Liusu in this world, will I be like in the game?"

"This, this." After hearing Ying's words, Paimeng's eyes were erratic, and he didn't dare to look at Ying's eyes.

"Actually, there is a reason for this. Let me explain it to you slowly."

"Okay, I know. You don't need to say it." Ying interrupted Paimon.

Paimon: "."

"Hmm? There is a commission, and it's the main line." Ying, who was playing the game, suddenly noticed a golden exclamation mark appearing in his sight.

"What main line?" Paimon asked in confusion.

"It's the demon mission. This mission should be about the Layered Abyss." Ying thought for a while and said.

"Layered Abyss? Impossible, reality is not a game." Paimon said.

After listening to Paimon's words, Ying couldn't help but complain: "Come on, Teyvat is more like a game than a game. Now I find out why this world is wrong."

Paimon: "."

"If it's a normal world, how can all this be explained? There are also elemental reactions, and the damage multiplier is still fixed." Ying continued.

"But, but we are real, we are not characters in the game." Paimon hurriedly explained.

Ying replied, "I know you are real, but this world is fake, so this kind of thing can happen."

"Hmm." Paimeng scratched his head, she couldn't deny this.

Seeing Paimeng scratching his head, Ying also knew a lot of information. She changed the subject and said, "Let's go, finish the main story of the Layered Abyss first, and then see when Xumi will be opened."

"How about we play for a while before going?" Paimeng said in a low voice.

Ying refused directly, "No, the main story in reality is more important. Besides, I don't know when the main story of Xumi will end. Let's finish the story of Layered Abyss first, and then come back to play, right?"

"Well, okay, I'll listen to you." Paimeng put away the game console and said a little uncomfortably.

Paimon said to Ying who was about to leave: "But Liusu is really amazing. She can actually predict the future."

Ying said: "After all, she is a character that does not exist in "Genshin Impact II". I guess Liusu is to us the same as the protagonist and Paimon in "Genshin Impact II."

"Hmm" After hearing Ying's words, Paimon scratched his head and did not continue.

After the two received the task from Catherine, the series of events that followed were like completing the plot again. This sense of déjà vu that appeared once every step made Paimon and Ying feel very uncomfortable.

Even the people they met and the conversations they had were no different from those in "Genshin Impact II". Ying felt like a puppet being controlled at this time. Although she knew what would happen next, she still had to follow this process.

"It's so weird." Paimon shrank to Ying's side and said in a low voice.

Ying replied lightly: "Isn't this what you want?"

"No, no, I don't think so. Although there are some other things that I can't tell you now, all this really has nothing to do with us." Paimon shook his head.

"So you mean these are all controlled by Liusu?" Ying asked.

Paimeng also answered somewhat uncertainly: "But, maybe?"

"Okay, after solving this blue mechanism, let's go down." Ying stopped and looked at the blue spherical object bound by several blue lights above his head.

"Is this really the same as the one inside?" Paimeng asked in confusion.

Ying replied: "If you want to decipher it, because I already knew it before, although the reality is much more spectacular than the game, it is basically the same."

"But there is no shadow of the Abyss Apostle here, how could an Abyss Apostle suddenly appear?" Paimeng continued.

"We will know when we activate the three mechanisms."

After Ying finished speaking, he walked towards the place where the three blue lights were emitted.

After a textbook deciphering, when the third mechanism was activated, the Abyss Apostle appeared in front of Ying again.

"Paimeng, what do you say?" Ying looked at the Abyss Apostle who suddenly appeared in front of him and said to Paimeng.

Paimon: "Hmm~"

Paimon was a little dumbfounded. Do you guys have to cooperate like this? You suddenly appeared just when the third mechanism was activated.

"Get down!"

After Ying enchanted his rock with green enchantment, he raised his sword and slashed at the apostle of the abyss in front of him. The apostle of the abyss had no collection value. Ying didn't want to spend too much time struggling with it, so he added the buff and killed it with one sword. With the holy attribute, the shield that made the apostles of the abyss difficult to deal with in the game was like paper under Ying's sword and could be broken with a single poke.

"That's it?" Paimeng asked in disbelief as he watched Ying Yijian turn into the apostle of the abyss.

"Otherwise? How about finding an ice elemental to break the shield with a grass elemental companion?" Ying replied expressionlessly.

After listening to Ying's words, Paimon scratched his head and said: "Well, isn't it true that the water apostles of the abyss in "Genshin Impact Ⅱ" are too difficult to deal with. They can only use ice and grass elements to break the shield. Other elements It’s so annoying running around.”

"This is reality, not a game." Ying said calmly.

After hearing what Ying said, Paimon couldn't help complaining: "But, didn't you say before that this is also a game world?"

"Although this is an illusory world similar to a game, I can feel that I am real, so the place where I am is reality." Ying replied.

Paimon: "."

You are awesome and everything you say is right. I don’t even want to refute you, although what you say does make sense.

"That one is going to fall." Ying said, looking at the blue sphere that was constantly gathering energy.

As soon as Ying finished speaking, the gravitational force holding the blue light ball suddenly dissipated, and the heavy blue light ball fell heavily.

Boom~

A loud bang resounded through the rocky abyss, causing Paimon and Ying, who were originally aware of it, to quickly cover their ears.

"Let's go, let's jump down." After Ying said that, he jumped directly into the deep pit created by the blue ball of light.

Paimon belatedly shouted to Ying who had jumped down: "Hey, wait for me!"

Ying's figure fell rapidly in the pit. When he was about to land, Ying summoned his wings to stabilize his figure in mid-air.

After she landed, she walked towards the cliff not far away. What she saw was a scene that was more terrifying and uncomfortable than what the game screen depicted.

After Paimon landed, he flew towards Ying's location. Looking at the scene in the distance, he couldn't help but sigh: "This is really a city!"

"And it's in the air, upside down."

Ying said with a shocked face: "It is indeed a shocking sight."

Paimon shrank his neck and continued: "Well, I feel weird. The atmosphere here is so uncomfortable, just like the filthy reverse statue I encountered before."

“It’s weird, it’s upside down, and it’s also a bit shocking.”

At this moment, Ying noticed an energy fluctuation behind him and said calmly: "Deinsreib, you really showed up on time."

Deinsreib: "."

"I didn't expect to meet you here either."

Looking at the man who greeted him with his back turned, Dainsreb thought of the bad memories he had with this traveler again, and he couldn't help but cover his forehead.

Dainsreb looked at Ying, who was standing quietly not far away with his back to him, and he had the illusion that the person in front of him was the one who dominated the abyss.

"Long time no see, Dain," Pamon greeted Dainthreb, "But why did you appear in the Strata Abyss?"

"The Strata Abyss...Is this under the Strata Abyss? It's a place that even I have never set foot in...So that's what it is." After hearing Paimon's words, Dainsreb came back from his trance and murmured road.

"I have something to ask you." Ying turned around and said expressionlessly to Deinsreib.

Dainsreib coughed twice and replied: "The meeting and parting were a bit hasty. I can understand your mood."

"You can't understand my mood at this time." After listening to Dainsreb's words, Ying smiled at him and shook his head.

Dainsreb looked at Ying with a puzzled face and asked, "What?"

Ying looked at the purple filth in the distance and said excitedly: "You know, I am very happy and excited at this time. This is a paradise of energy."

Dainsreib: "???"

"Ying, what are you talking about?" Paimon couldn't help but complain after hearing Ying's words.

"Ahem, doesn't this liven up the atmosphere?" Ying replied with a smile on her face.

After hearing Ying's words, Dainsreb said with a smile: "Ahem, the way the travelers liven up the atmosphere really makes people a little nervous."

Dainsreb suddenly thought of something and said to the screen: "By the way, after the eyes of the first cultivator were taken away by the gods you know well last time, there is no need to figure out the true face of the so-called loom plan of destiny. Worried that it will fall into the hands of the abyss.”

Ying watched the plot being revised again, her eyes flickered, and she said to Deinsreib: "In that case, please introduce yourself again, Sword of the End of Light."

"Huh, do you remember this name?" Deinsreib glanced at Ying in surprise and said, "It's not that I intentionally concealed it. This name once bathed in the glory of Kanreia, but now..."

"...It's more like a satire, a curse."

"As the captain of the palace guard who has witnessed the destruction of his country, I think I have a reason not to mention this name again."

"Well, they are exactly the same." After listening to Dainsreib's words, Paimon scratched his head at Ying next to him with some distress.

"What happened between you?" Ying continued to ask.

Dainsreb replied: "We were traveling companions. It was a journey full of pain and searching for destiny, but... we failed to reach the end together."

Daiinsreb's words made Ying couldn't help but sneer and said: "The journey has no end at all, because the sea of ​​stars is boundless."

"You are right, but before you ask other questions, I need to remind you." Dainsreb continued after answering: "When I was chasing your blood relative before, I didn't catch him, but was teleported to another place."

"This makes me feel that the transmission of the abyss is not a fixed transmission between two points, but is equivalent to the existence of a transmission network, and they can freely control the destination of this transmission network. If my guess is correct, I just happened to be teleported here."

"That proves that in the eyes of the Abyss Cult, there is value in setting up a transmission node here."

"Then what do you want to express?" Ying listened to Dainsreb's analysis and asked lightly.

Dainsreb replied, "I feel that we are very likely being watched by the abyss at this moment."

"I'll believe you for now." Ying said.

After hearing what Ying said, Dainsreb nodded and said, "Oh, wise. There seems to be a fire near the rock wall over there. Let's go and take a look."

Ying and Paimon followed Dainsreb to the fire he mentioned.

"There are some traces of hillock people living here. Could they be the hillock people involved in the commission?" Paimon said as he looked at the situation not far away.

After hearing what Paimon said, Dainsreb was puzzled and said, "Commission? Speaking of which, you haven't told me yet... Why are you here? Ordinary travelers have no reason to set foot under the abyss of the layered rocks."

"We received a commission from the Adventurer's Association, saying that something strange happened here, and then we walked all the way here." Paimon organized his words and answered.

"Do you want to know the answer?" Dainsreb said after listening to Paimon's explanation.

"Dain, you know?" Paimon was puzzled.

Dainsreb nodded and said, "I just happened to know, because the environment here has the effect of reducing the curse."

Paimon suddenly realized, "Curse! I heard before that Dain, as a citizen of Kanreya, has an immortal curse on his body."

"For hundreds of years, the pain brought by the curse has been haunting me every day. But when I came here, my body felt a moment of respite." After hearing Paimon's words, Dainsreb couldn't help but sighed and said, "At this moment, my body is also expressing a strong desire to me, that is-stay."

Paimon continued to play her role and asked Dainsreb, "Weakening the curse. Why does this place have such a magical effect?"

Dainsreb replied, "This is what I want to find out, but as far as I know, the Abyss Cult has not yet had the technology to achieve similar effects."

"In this case, it makes sense that so many hillocks gather here." Paimon nodded and analyzed.

"Do you know why the hillocks all wear masks?" Dainsreb suddenly asked.

"I know a little bit, because they are avoiding their current appearance and afraid of their reflection in the water," Ying said.

After hearing Ying's words, Dainsreb nodded and said, "Yes, after all, compared with their memories, they are too ugly and too desperate."

"However, the immortal curse is not true immortality." Dainsreb continued.

"Is there still a chance of reversal?" Paimon asked hurriedly, hoping to hear a different answer from Dainsreb than what he knew in his heart.

But she was disappointed. Dainsreb shook his head at her just like in the plot and said, "No, but under the effect of wear and tear, the soul and body will still be worn out, even if it is not in the form of death."

"When those hill people realize that the end of themselves is coming, they seem to instinctively find a quiet and dark corner to say goodbye to the pain of hundreds of years. This place that can weaken the effect of the curse must be the best coffin for them."

After listening to Dainsreb's words, Paimon scratched his head and said, "Sure enough, it's still like this"

"Enough of small talk, alert!" Dainsreb suddenly said.

Paimon hasn't recovered yet, and asked Dainsreb in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"Enemy attack."

As Dainsreb's voice fell, several black snake knights suddenly appeared in front of everyone, and Ying had already rushed up the moment the black snake knight appeared. After all, all this is points.

Watching Ying and the Black Snake Knights fighting, Paimon knew that the other party was trying to gain contribution points again, so he turned to Dainsreb and asked, "What are these? Why did they suddenly appear and attack us?"

"The Black Snake Knights were once part of the Kanreya Palace Guards." Dainsreb explained.

Paimon asked, "Are these your subordinates? Do you need Ying to hold back?"

Dainsreb looked at the Black Snake Knights who were holding weapons and only knew how to launch a mindless attack on Ying, shook his head and said, "No, because they used to be, but now they have a strong curse aura on them, and a fighting style that abandons all honor."

"Okay, keep moving forward." Dainsreb said as Ying finally eliminated the Black Snake Knights with one sword.

"Does that person over there need to be dealt with?" Ying pointed her sword at a knight in green armor who appeared above.

The knight in green armor, Jian Ying, pointed his golden sword at him. The sword emitted a strong and uncomfortable aura that made him feel palpitations, causing him to take a step back involuntarily.

Dainsleb heard Ying's words, looked up, and saw the behavior of the knight in green armor. He hurriedly said, "Wait a minute, he seems a little different."