Genshin Impact: A Red Teyvat Life Starting from Zero

What's peculiar is that they have virtually no combat capability, their high technology is mostly in the form of academic papers and PowerPoint presentations with little mass production, their gods are weak and offline (from the perspective of the Sumeru people), and their defense is outsourced to the Cult Academy, which relentlessly exploits and oppresses the desert people, who are mainly composed of mercenary groups.

They control water and food resources, and completely deprive desert dwellers of their right to education.

And under these circumstances, the desert did not resist at all.

Not only did they not resist, but the various tribes and mercenary groups in the desert were even busy expelling each other from the sand and red king registers, almost fighting each other to the point of brain damage.

All his energy was directed at his own head.

If they had just united and launched a direct attack on the Order House, or even just fled to the rainforest to find a secluded spot and establish themselves as kings, they wouldn't be in this mess now.

Of course, it wasn't like this from the beginning, but gradually evolved into its current deformed form over the five hundred years following the calamity.

They were just short of completely cutting off water and food, plunging the desert people into the lowest point known as death.

According to the general laws of historical development, if no one or any other leader improves the living environment of the desert and eliminates discrimination and injustice, then over time, the desert will eventually be forced to unite and launch a revenge against the rainforest.

This is an inevitable historical trend.

As for the outcome, and what will happen to the Sumeru people of the rainforest, it's hard to say. The Church may have some trump cards, but the desert people also possess the relics of the Red King.

Although the Red King has passed away, his steel remains.

However, this is ultimately an internal affair of Sumeru, and Haiqi Island, which is currently preoccupied with its own affairs, cannot interfere with it.

The problems they face are far greater than those in the desert.

At least there is no Thunder General in the desert.

They need to prioritize addressing their own development issues.

This brings us to two very different working groups.

One group consisted of diplomats; the other group consisted of military personnel.

One group entered the Sumeru Rainforest through official channels and made contact with the Order of the Church; the other group entered the Sumeru Desert through "secret" channels.

The strategy adopted for rainforests is primarily academic exchange.

After all, in the rainforest, academics are highly valued, knowledge is pursued, and the best way to obtain what one wants is to offer an equivalent exchange of knowledge.

Secondly, there's Mora. After all, it's quite remarkable that an agricultural country like the Church can support so much high-tech research without translating it into practical applications, especially since most people aren't exactly rolling in money.

However, the High Priest Azhar of the Council of the Church seemed uninterested in them, and sent them away after only a few words.

It was only after the changes in Liyue became known in Teyvat that things started to change, at least they began to talk about serious matters with them.

However, after hearing their description of the power system, Hazard changed his attitude again.

His words still didn't seem to take it seriously, and even carried a hint of disdain.

This change in expression is comparable to the magic tricks of Liyue.

This left the working group members completely baffled.

They personally accompanied the Liyue team; the Liyue Seven Stars take this very seriously.

I heard that my colleagues in Mondstadt and Fontainebleau have also received a lot of attention.

These countries are no less advanced than Sumeru, especially the Fontaine Academy of Sciences, which is a research institution on par with the Order of the Church. Why is the Order of the Church so arrogant?

The problem is that you're so dismissive, yet your achievements, aside from your papers, are practically nonexistent.

So, what kind of things could possibly catch the eye of this great sage?

They can't say for sure.

However, this attitude led the Rainforest working group to unanimously agree that the focus should be placed on the various mentors under the Council of Instructions, rather than on the Great Sage Azar.

And that's exactly what they did. With negotiations with Azar yielding no progress, they began contacting various mentors at the Order of the Order, searching for those interested in taking on projects or collaborating, and, with the help of the Sumerians who possessed Void Terminals, looking for research that might be of interest to them, referring to the technology catalog.

As for the small army that went to the desert, their main task was archaeology.

Red King Technology, truly awe-inspiring!

At this stage, we can't expect to find anything in the desert, since they didn't bring any soldiers, scientists, or engineers with them.

Their actions also made it inconvenient for them to seek assistance from scholars in the Church of Christ.

Therefore, their mission is simply to collect some remaining Red King technology and send it out, first to Liyue, and then distribute it as needed.

Considering their unfamiliarity with the environment and their lack of knowledge about the combat capabilities of the mechanical creations in the Red King's Ruins, they chose to hire locals, namely the Gilded Brigade, as their helpers.

Although they also carried weapons, these weapons were not used to deal with Red King Technology, but were reserved for the Gilded Brigade.

After all, you have to be extra careful in the desert environment.

“Hey—”

With a roar, the mercenaries of the Gilded Brigade smashed a metamorphic construct in the sand.

The squad leader of the leading soldiers looked at the energy construct with some heartache.

He stepped forward and said to the leader of the gilded brigade, "Can't you think of a way to preserve a complete one for us? We would prefer to obtain a structurally intact elemental construct."

"..."

The leader of the gilded troupe responded with silence.

"In fact, if we drag this out for too long, the machine monster will go into an 'invisible' state, and it will be very troublesome to fight it then."

Gerald, the vice-captain of this gilded brigade, stepped forward to explain.

The squad leader glanced at Gerald's expression, and the two exchanged a brief look, their understanding becoming clear at a glance.

"We can add money."

Gerald glanced back at the commander, who nodded, and replied, "No problem."

Class monitor: "..."

Money power is really useful.

"Speaking of which, you're not the first people to want to acquire the relic machinery. Could you tell me exactly what you need?"

Gerrard appeared to be very talkative.

The class monitor pondered for a brief moment.

Then, they took out their task list and handed it to Gerald.

Gerald took the task list and started flipping through it.

The class monitor gave him a surprised look.

"You can read?"

"I am not very talented, but I once went to Fontaine by chance and stayed for a while, where I took the opportunity to learn some things."

The group continued their journey deeper into the desert while talking.

Chapter 131 A Naive Ideal

"Fontainebleau is beautiful, but the desert is, after all, my homeland!"

When asked by his class monitor, "You can read, you can talk about so many profound principles, you are good at studying, you can be considered a cultured person, so why didn't you stay in Fontainebleau and instead came back to the desert?" Gerald gave his answer.

“I’ve seen a much wider world, so I feel that this place shouldn’t be like this,” Gerald said to himself.

"People often say that the gilded guilds of the desert are arson, murder, robbery, backstabbing, treachery, and wickedness. In the eyes of the scholars in the rainforest, we are good for nothing but fighting and are the scum of this world. But if given a choice, how many people would want to live such a life?"

"No one is born evil, and no one is born wanting to live in such a dog-eat-dog world. We just don't have a choice. Even among the same gilded troupes, there are groups of thirty, right? Look at them in the rainforest, they don't have as much sin as we do. So, people just follow their environment."

"The harsh environment and scarce resources of the desert have forged the ruthlessness of the desert people, but this is not how it should have been. Under the leadership of the Red King, the desert also had a glorious civilization. It was the golden age of the desert, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as a paradise on earth. The desert people at that time were no different from the rainforest people of today."

The class monitor turned around and looked at him again, surprised.

"You actually know about the history of the desert?"

Studying history is also part of education, which is strictly prohibited by the Council of Education.

"I don't know. I only saw some research findings from the Fontainebleau Academy of Sciences when I was in Fontainebleau. They believe that the Red King's technology was very advanced. The desert people in the Red King's era were probably already able to produce using mechanical power, and everyone could enjoy relatively abundant resources, instead of having to live like they do now. Isn't that paradise on earth?"

The class monitor fell silent.

This seems to be exactly what they are currently pursuing.

Have you ever wondered why the desert has become like this?

After thinking for a moment, the class monitor spoke up and continued talking to Gerald.

"Perhaps it's because we lost the Red King," Gerald replied without hesitation.

"In the centuries since the loss of the Red King, the rainforest's hostility and discrimination towards us have grown daily. In the oral history passed down through our lineage, the rainforest people initially helped us, but later..."

Gerrard didn't say anything more.

The class monitor had already understood his logic.

For a period of time after the Red King's death, the rainforest people were still helping the desert people. However, as time went on, this gradually turned into discrimination and hostility, which coincides with the timeline of the Red King's death.

"But the Great Tree King has also passed away."

"Perhaps it's because the Tree King has also passed away."

After saying that, Gerald didn't continue to answer the squad leader's question, "Why did you come back to the desert?" Instead, he turned around and started talking to the squad leader about their task list.

After explaining the basics of the desert, the ruins, and the energy machinery of these ruins to the squad leader, and also giving a brief explanation of the difficulty of obtaining the mission objectives, Gerald once again walked in front of the squad leader and led the way for his squad with the Gilded Brigade.

The squad leader watched Gerald's retreating figure and asked him, "So, you gave up Fontainebleau and returned to the desert because you wanted to change something?"

“Of course,” Gerald replied without turning his head.

The class monitor didn't say anything more.

"A naive ideal," the class monitor thought to himself.

The group fell silent until, much later, they arrived at a set of ruins.

"This is our destination. We can't open the second gate inside, so we can only operate on the outside. However, this is enough to get what you want," the leader of the Gilded Brigade said to the squad leader and the others.

"No problem, we understand."

"Then let's go in."