People in Mondstadt, starting to develop black technology

The wind spirit was stained with fire, and its fiery red wings were exceptionally beautiful amidst the flames, with each flap of its wings emitting bursts of fire elements.

"The wind is stirring!"

Ying rose up into the air, and a small tornado formed beneath her body. As she swung her sword, the tornado quickly moved forward, continuously absorbing wind elements in the air and becoming larger and larger.

She pulled out her Cerberus pistol and fired a Ten-Direction Thunder bomb at the advancing tornado.

boom--

The thunder tornado rushed into the wind field of the fire element wind spirit. The thunder and fire overloaded and immediately produced a more violent explosion. The shock wave blew away a circle of ice and snow.

Qin used the wind element to blow away the smoke. The two relic motorcycles had already turned into a pile of scattered parts under the concentrated fire of the crowd.

What is a saturation attack?

Sandang found two Chaos Furnace Cores in the wreckage and happily brought them back to Shen Qin.

"Eula, there shouldn't be any other trouble here, right?" Amber looked at Eula with an unfriendly expression.

"It's really gone this time." Eula shook her head and led everyone to the center of the square.

"Qin, please blow away the ice and snow."

Qin nodded and blew away the layer of ice and snow covering the surface, revealing a thick layer of ice underneath. There seemed to be a cave under the ice.

"The seal is right below. Wait a moment, I'll break it." As she said this, she clenched the sword in her hand.

"and many more……"

Amber saw her movements and tried to stop her, but she had already jumped off the skateboard, and her sword was deeply embedded in the center of the ice. Cracks extended outward from the point where the sword landed, spreading to the entire ice layer.

"drink--"

She stomped her foot hard, drew out her greatsword, and crushed the ice completely.

The broken pieces of ice fell into the cave below, revealing an ancient ice seal inside the cave, while she gracefully stepped back onto the skateboard.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped! ...

Ying, Paimon, Kaeya, and Klee clapped their hands very considerately.

Amber sighed: "Eula, have you forgotten that we still have the Inferno Bomb? It only takes two shots to melt a hole big enough for us to pass through this ordinary ice layer."

"I, I..." Eula blinked. She had indeed subconsciously ignored the Purgatory Incendiary Bomb, because the last time she came here, Shen Qin had not yet developed the grenade launcher, and she used the method just now to enter the cave.

"As expected, Miss Eula is the only one among us who can use a two-handed greatsword. She is so strong that she can move mountains and has unparalleled courage!" Kaeya praised.

But she felt something was wrong, as if he was being sarcastic to her.

"Sister Eula is so amazing!"

Well, Klee's praise is genuine.

Eula silently held a grudge against Kaeya and Amber in her heart, and... also Shen Qin who invented the grenade launcher.

"Ying, I'll leave it to you from now on." Qin looked at Ying.

"Ok!"

Everyone entered the cave to look for the deep red stone, and Shen Qin and others also came to the top of the cave.

Looking at the huge hole in front of him, Albedo compared the position of the seal and the top of the snowy mountain and said, "This hole should have been smashed out by the fragments of the Frost Nail. It directly penetrated the thick soil and accurately hit the roots of the Silver Tree buried deep in the earth."

"It seems that the Frost Sky Nail came prepared!"

"Well, the god who cast the Frost Nail is very familiar with the snow-capped mountains and the silver trees, so I am more inclined to believe that he is the god who taught knowledge and wisdom to Shar Findenir." Albedo looked up at the sky covered by the blizzard.

"What? You also want to attack Sky Island?" Shen Qin said with a smile.

Albedo shook his head: "We still don't know the truth about Teyvat, the Abyss, Sky Island, and the gods. It is impossible to judge the right and wrong."

"What if the gods want to destroy Mondstadt?"

"Fuck him!"

Albedo's answer was powerful.

While they were chatting, Ying had already shattered the first Deep Red Stone. She came to the seal and placed her palm on the ice as before.

Closing her eyes, her consciousness was pulled into a dark space again.

After being surprised, she began to feel delighted. If she had the chance to see the princess again, many of her doubts would be easily solved.

She trotted all the way, hoping to enter the princess's dream again, but when the darkness faded, all she saw was a dead sapling, but no trace of the princess.

When she came to the dead tree, she realized that it was the branch of the silver tree that the princess had planted but which ultimately did not survive.

But isn’t this the princess’ dream? Why can’t the owner of the dream be seen?

Suddenly, her attention was drawn to a box next to the dead tree. She opened the box and found a note with scribbled words inside - DO NOT UNSEAL!!!

The world shattered, and consciousness returned.

Ying suddenly withdrew her hand and stood there gasping for breath.

"Ying! How are you? Did you enter the princess' dream again this time?" Paimon flew to her side.

"No... that shouldn't be a dream."

Chapter 175: Paimon, are you possessed by a clever ghost?

Because of the note that was suspected to be left by the princess, the work of unsealing the ancient ice was temporarily suspended, and everyone returned to the Mingguan to discuss countermeasures.

Judging from the growth status of the sapling, this timeline should be after Ying's last meeting with the princess. However, the first time the princess hoped that Ying would help revive the honeysuckle tree, but the second time she showed a completely opposite attitude.

Did something special happen? Or was the note not actually left by the princess?

"We cannot determine the authenticity of the information Ying received. It is also possible that someone tampered with the earth veins and deliberately dragged her into a trap, giving her misleading information."

Shen Qin looked at Ying: "And the current information cannot be transmitted to the past - this is the answer given by Zhongli. I know some inside information and we can trust him completely. So the one who talked to Ying was definitely not the princess from three thousand years ago."

Sandang thought for a moment and said, "You mean, the people who were talking to Ying were actually other people who were in the same time as us?"

"No, she may indeed be a princess, but she is the current princess." Albedo and Shen Qin looked at each other and understood what he meant.

Amber asked suspiciously, "Huh? But didn't the princess die more than three thousand years ago?"

"It's the ley lines!" Sucrose finally figured out the key to the problem and said excitedly, "The ley lines record all the information on Teyvat. When Ying lifted the seal, her consciousness was pulled into the ley lines and read the information recorded at a certain time period three thousand years ago!"

"But Ying and the princess did interact. They held hands and talked to each other. The note they left behind also targeted our current actions. If we simply read the information, these would be impossible to achieve!" Paimon quickly found the unreasonableness.

Kaiya looked at her in surprise: "Paimon, are you possessed by a smart ghost?"

"What? Why are you asking such a weird question? Aren't we discussing business now? Also, what the hell is a smart ghost?"

Amber snickered, "Paimon, what he meant was why you suddenly became so smart!"

"So that's how it is!" She suddenly realized, but immediately reacted and looked at Kaiya angrily: "You are so rude! I'm not stupid at all! Ying, tell me, have I always been smart?"

"Yes, little Paimon is super smart!" Klee said very supportively.

Ying looked into Paimon's eyes, smiled and shook her head.

"I'm so mad that Lian Ying won't help me!"

Paimon was angry, but was coaxed into silence by Haro using the snacks in his stomach.

Shen Qin turned his gaze back from Paimeng, with a smile on his face: "Sandang is half right, Paimeng is also right, simply reading information cannot achieve the interaction between Ying and information... Well, a more accurate conclusion requires more evidence to support it, so let's not discuss this for now."

He looked at everyone: "Now we have to make a decision, should we continue to break the seal of the Frost Sky Nail fragment?"

Albedo: "We don't know what will happen after the seal of the Frost Nail Fragment is lifted, but if we allow the leylines to continue to be disordered, blizzards will become the normal climate in the snowy mountain area, and the snowy mountain will become a forbidden zone for life."

"Moreover, the chaotic earth veins are too unstable. If something unexpected happens, half of Mondstadt may be torn to pieces by the violent earth vein energy."

"We can first unlock this seal and see if the situation of the leyline will improve, and then decide whether to break the last seal of the Xingying Cave."

Kaeya also gave his own opinion: "I think we can operate according to Albedo's idea. After all, only Ying can break this seal. As long as the last seal is intact, the initiative is still in our hands."

"I agree."

"Agree!"

……

Except for Shen Qin, everyone voted in favor. Qin could also accept Albedo's suggestion. She asked Shen Qin, the only one who had not expressed his opinion, "Shen Qin, what do you think?"

He and Albedo are the leaders of this operation and are everyone's brains, so his opinion is crucial.

But Shen Qin still had some doubts. He felt uneasy and thought he seemed to have overlooked a key factor, but he couldn't remember it.

Hearing Qin's question, he hesitated for a few seconds, but still nodded: "Let's follow Albedo's plan first."

Do it first, and then solve problems if they arise. No matter whether the outcome is good or bad, everything is arranged by fate.

Of course, there is an old saying on Earth: man can conquer nature.

The proposal was passed unanimously, and Ying immediately took action.

After being unsealed three times, the fragments soared into the sky and reached the top of the snow-capped mountain. The Frost Sky Nail became further complete, and the powerful mysterious force was transmitted into the earth veins, stabilizing part of the energy of the earth veins that was jumping out of Blind Jill.

Everyone in the Snow Burial City found that the blizzard had visibly weakened and had returned to normal. This made everyone excited because it proved that their actions were effective.

Shen Qin opened the bracelet and shook his head: "The turbulence in the earth veins still exists, and the information cannot be transmitted."

Albedo: "Normal. After all, we have only lifted two seals, and there is a high chance that the Honeysuckle Tree has not revived."

"So where should we go next? Go to the Starlight Cave to lift the last seal or return to the Snow Road to check on the honeysuckle tree? The roads leading to them are in completely opposite directions." asked Eula.

"Let's go back to the Snow Road first to check on the honeysuckle tree, and then go back to the foot of the mountain to consult Wendy's opinion." Qin made the safest decision.

With the warning on the note, she was also somewhat worried that after completely breaking the three seals, the situation on the snow mountain would undergo unpredictable changes.

But at this moment, the blizzard suddenly stopped completely, and a powerful energy fluctuation that they were extremely familiar with came from the top of the snow-capped mountain - exactly the same energy fluctuations as the previous two times the seal was lifted!

"Someone has unlocked the last seal!" Amber's eyes widened.

Ying was also a little bit unbelievable. Apart from her, who else could remove the seal of the ancient ice? !

Her heart suddenly skipped a beat, and she couldn't help but shout out, "Brother!"

Shen Qin felt bitter in his heart. Oh my god, I said I seemed to have forgotten something. It turned out that I forgot about Kong among the twins. He also possessed the same mysterious power as Ying, so he could naturally lift the seal of the Frost Sky Nail fragment.

It is even possible that he had already lifted three quarters of the seal on the Star Glow Cave before they arrived at the Snow Burial City, and was just waiting for them to lift the seal on the Snow Burial City before he could complete the last quarter.

Even if they didn't think of removing the seals on the three fragments, he could still complete the unsealing work by himself, which would be unsolvable.

Therefore, there is a great possibility that he had contacted the princess before Ying, and the princess left a note for Ying under the dead tree, asking Ying not to lift the seal.

All of this was planned by the Abyss!

Unfortunately, the lack of intelligence prevented everyone from grasping the message the princess wanted to convey.

Chapter 177: Reunion

"Brother?" Paimon widened his eyes.

"That's right. My brother, Kong, and I are the only ones on Teyvat who possess this special energy." Ying's face showed both surprise and worry. "My brother may have fallen into the hands of the Abyss Cult. They must have forced him to break the seal in the Xingying Cave!"

Girl, you think too much. Kong now holds a high position in the Abyss Cult. It is possible that he was the one who planned and led the disruption in the snow mountain.

However, Shen Qin would naturally not tell the truth and embarrass herself. When they meet, she will naturally understand everything.

What you see with your own eyes is far more credible than his words.

Keli said happily: "Then let's quickly go and rescue Sister Ying's brother from the bad guys!"

"But we are still a long way from the Xingying Cave. By the time we get there, they might have already left." Shen Qin poured a bucket of cold water on everyone with great rationality.

Paimon said anxiously, "But...but, what if they haven't left yet? Even if there is only a one in ten million chance, we have to give it a try..."

Qin made a decisive decision: "The snowstorm has stopped, and the temperature in the snowy mountains is gradually rising. Since the situation has improved and is no longer so urgent, we can definitely take some time to go to Xingying Cave to rescue Ying's family!"

Everyone had a smile on their face and they all agreed to go to the Star Glow Cave.