The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

According to Ember, the souls of the newly born Kanria survivors are still in a state of "contraction," and the junk information from the Abyss Passage cannot penetrate their consciousness at all.

This is why Yuan Shang and his group could so easily throw these newly purified citizens into the abyss passage.

With so many people, if we really had to rely on Yuan Shang and his group to transport them one by one, then the group of four from Yuan Shang would probably have the heaviest workload.

"Where did these people go?" Ye Lan finally couldn't help but ask when she saw the scene before her.

She had witnessed similar scenes before, but at the time she was focused on gathering intelligence and did not make any unnecessary moves to alert the enemy.

Now that we've gathered all the necessary intelligence, it's time to find out where these humans went!

“Of course they should go to someone who can support them!” Yu Jin glanced at Ye Lan and shrugged.

"The number of people who can support them?" Ye Lan pondered, stroking her chin. The number of humans purified by Yu Jin and his group was not small. There were probably not many organizations that could support such a large number of people.

"Have you partnered with the Fools?" Yelan's gaze sharpened. Thinking of the Fools here, she felt that this was the truth.

Only the Fools would be interested in a project like "Purifying Hilichurls".

"Um... if the Fools came after me, I wouldn't do it!" Yu Jin felt that Ye Lan must have misunderstood something.

"Who's calling us?" Anton's muffled voice came through, sounding quite puzzled.

"Nobody called you guys, what's up, another big haul?"

"Hmph, don't underestimate the Fools." Anton crossed his arms, looking very confident.

After gloating for a while, he lowered his arm and said to Ember, "But besides the Hilichurls, we had some extra gains."

"What? What good stuff have we found again?" Ember looked around. The Abyss of Layered Rocks was a treasure trove, where antiques could be unearthed from time to time.

Although these antiques were eventually temporarily kept by Yelan under the official name of Liyue.

“No, it’s one person.” Anton waved his hand behind him, and then the Fools carried out a person.

"Zhiqiong?"

Yu Jin saw a figure and exclaimed in surprise.

Chapter 618 Can this really make you high?

2024-04-20

"What? You know him?" Anton raised an eyebrow, looking quite surprised.

It's surprising that everyone I randomly found in the corner of the Abyss of Laminaria was connected to Ember. It seems this guy wasn't exaggerating when he said he had many friends.

"Of course, you didn't even bother to find out where I work," Yu Jin said matter-of-factly.

"Where did he work?" Anton was a man who listened to advice, so he immediately asked Yelan about the origins of Yu Jin.

“He’s from the Adventurers’ Guild,” Night Orchid replied helplessly. Ember truly embodies the image of an adventurer—always wanting to roam the world.

"Hey? Isn't that Zhiqiong? What's she doing here?" Ying and Paimon, who had just returned, saw the crowd gathered here and squeezed in as well.

Like Ember, they recognized Zhiqiong at a glance. The reason was simple: of the total amount of adventurer commissions, Ember had taken five dou, Ying had taken three dou, and the other two dou were completed by the other adventurers.

With such enthusiasm for their work, Ember and Firefly have met the most people in the Adventurers' Guild.

Zhiqiong was naturally among them.

"What's wrong with her? Why is she lying on the ground?" Paimon asked worriedly when he saw Zhiqiong's eyes were closed and her face was contorted.

"I don't know." Yu Jin squatted down, and he vaguely heard Zhi Qiong muttering something.

"What? Zhiqiong, what did you say?" Yu Jin put his ear closer, and then he heard it much more clearly.

"A golden city... a black palace... cough cough! The messenger from heaven has departed..."

Yu Jin followed Zhi Qiong's moving lips and said what she was muttering, which puzzled everyone.

"What does this mean?" Paimon asked, puzzled. Zhiqiong seemed to be talking in his sleep, her words incoherent.

“This is a view from high above. I’m curious how a mere adventurer like you knows this.” Dain, standing to the side, looked at Zhiqiong, also puzzled.

"Wait, she spoke again." The group discussed for a long time but couldn't come to any conclusion.

Fortunately, Zhiqiong's lips moved again, and Yu Jin leaned down once more.

"Cough cough... A big brown mushroom... Delicious! I want to eat a big mushroom!"

As Yu Jin repeated Zhi Qiong's words, he scratched his head with a black line on his face.

"Could Zhiqiong be hallucinating from eating mushrooms?" Yu Jin wondered, seeing Zhiqiong constantly muttering things like "huge mushrooms" and "mushrooms taller than people." She was seeing tiny people in the mushrooms.

"That's possible. So even though I was starving, I didn't let the team members eat mushrooms."

Anton nodded in agreement. There were many mushrooms in the Layered Rock Abyss, and even the last remaining natural light was emitted by these mushrooms.

But Anton dared not try these glowing mushrooms, even when his stomach was rumbling.

Eating the wrong mushroom can cause illness faster than you can imagine, so Anton dared not relax his vigilance in the slightest.

"Sigh! I wish she had met me. I'm the best at identifying mushrooms." Ichidou walked over and shook his head as he looked at Zhiqiong, who was babbling incoherently on the ground.

He, Araki Ichito, was a master at finding mushrooms—mainly because the Araki faction was often short on funds, so Ichito could only lead his brothers out to find mushrooms to eat. Over time, he developed a keen eye for spotting mushrooms!

"Alright, boss, have you forgotten the experience of our entire Wildwater Faction being hospitalized during the lockdown? I remember that was after we ate the [Super Invincible Giant Mushroom] that you found."

Kuki Shinobu mercilessly exposed Ichito's deception. She vividly remembered her previous bout with diarrhea and vowed never to eat any mushrooms Ichito had found again.

"Cough cough! It was an accident! It was an accident!" Ichidou coughed a few times and quickly waved his hand to explain.

Unfortunately, no one believed him, not even Paimon, who was the easiest to fool.

"Hiss... Why do I feel like there's something in her mouth?" Yu Jin circled around Zhi Qiong a few times, and then he felt that Zhi Qiong's mouth was a bit strange.

Zhiqiong shouldn't be so fat that her cheeks are bulging, right?

Yu Jin pinched Zhi Qiong's somewhat chubby cheeks, then reached out and poked at them with his finger.

"???!!!"

Yu Jin looked at the black, ordinary, mud-like substance on his fingers, then used his other hand to scrape it off, revealing a glimmer of white amidst the darkness.

Squeeze it; this white piece is quite resilient, and there's a very obvious teeth mark on it.

"Where did this guy find mushrooms that can grow in pitch-black mud?!"

The scene before him made Yu Jin let out a snort of disbelief. This thing really was a mushroom, and a peculiar one at that, that could grow in the mud that surged up from the bottom of the giant rock abyss!

Without a word, Yu Jin began frantically scraping at Zhi Qiong's mouth. Soon, Zhi Qiong's cheeks were sunken, and Yu Jin held a pile of unswallowed mushrooms and mud in his hand.

"How hungry is Zhiqiong? Ying, let's make her a big meal!"

Paimon saw the white mushroom in Ember's hand and couldn't help but feel sympathy for Zhiqiong.

How hungry would someone have to be to frantically gnaw on some unknown giant mushroom?

“No problem, watch me!” Ying and Paimon agreed immediately, and then they ran to the side to start a fire and cook.

On the other side, Ember was not idle either. After being doused with the Holy Grail Dew and baptized by the principle of reversion, Zhiqiong finally woke up from her previous dazed state.

"Am I...am I dead?"

"Not necessarily, but if you keep eating mushrooms indiscriminately, then who knows?"

Yu Jin waved his hand in front of Zhi Qiong, surprising and delighting her.

"Senior Yu Jin?! What are you doing here?!"

"I also want to ask you this: how did an ordinary person like you get to the Laminar Abyss?!" Yu Jin tapped Zhi Qiong on the head, then looked at Ye Lan. Wasn't the Laminar Abyss supposed to be a heavily guarded area of ​​Liyue? Is it such an easy place to enter?

"Don't look at me. I'm only responsible for patrolling the Abyss of Layered Rocks. It's not my job to watch over the comings and goings of people." Ye Lan felt a little embarrassed, so she turned her head and explained.

“I didn’t sneak in.” Zhiqiong shook her head, then continued to explain, “The General Affairs Department sent us here.”

"Seven Stars recently had the idea of ​​lifting the ban on the Layered Rock Abyss, so they sent people down to survey and map the Layered Rock Abyss."

"So? Don't tell me this arduous task is being assigned to you alone." Yu Jin raised an eyebrow. If Zhi Qiong were really left to survey the terrain of the Layered Rock Abyss alone...

All that can be said about Yu Jin is that Seven Stars has a bit of a sense of humor.

"Of course not, they sent a small team down, led by Sister Jinwu." Zhiqiong waved her hand, Qixing wasn't as ruthless as Yu Jin thought.

"And then? Your entire squad was wiped out?" Ember glanced back at the Fools behind him.

Anton understood immediately. He stepped forward, shook his head, and said, "We searched, but we didn't find any other traces of her nearby."

"So what happened? Did something go wrong with the mushroom, forcing you to eat it?" Yu Jin poked at the mushroom slice that Zhi Qiong had bitten off on the ground with a stick, wondering what kind of mushroom it was, since it was still so tough and elastic.

Ember thought this wasn't a mushroom, but rather an excellent material for making bowstrings.

"This... this... it's a long story, can I not tell you?" Zhiqiong stammered, then forced a smile at Yu.

"Oh, I see. You couldn't stay still, so you ran out on your own, didn't you?" Yu Jin nodded, resting his chin on his hand, as if suddenly realizing something.

"Huh? Senior, how did you know?" Zhiqiong's eyes widened and her mouth opened, looking extremely surprised.

However, this surprise didn't last long before turning into begging for mercy.

"Stop hitting me! Stop hitting me! Senior, I know I was wrong!"

Chapter 619 The Amazing Mushrooms That Can Exist in Mud

2024-04-20

"Shhhhhh!"

"Stop hitting me! Stop hitting me! Senior, if you keep hitting me, I'll go crazy!"

In the deep abyss of layered rocks, Ember, holding a handful of colorful rainbow stones, was giving Zhiqiong "special training."

He flicked his finger, and a pebble-shaped rainbow stone came hurtling towards him, hitting Zhiqiong squarely on the head.

Zhiqiong jumped up and down on the small flat ground, but unfortunately she couldn't dodge any of the rainbow stones that bounced towards her. Before long, several big red bumps appeared on her body from the embers.

"Will you run off by yourself again next time?"

Zhiqiong quickly shook her head at Yu Jin, afraid that a few more pebbles might fly out from somewhere.

"That's more like it. You can't even dodge the pebbles I flick, and you want to be a great hero in the Abyss of Layered Rocks? Are you out of your mind?"

Yu Jin weighed the remaining rainbow stone in his hand a few times and said to Zhi Qiong with some helplessness.