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Otherwise, Lin Ye would have looked for Yan Fei, because she knows magic and could help.

Lin Ye needs to exercise on his own and cannot rely on his teammates every time he goes out.

What surprised Lin Ye was that Guru asked to go with him. It seemed that they were going to go on an adventure together.

Before Lin Ye set out, he asked Ningguang to send someone to Wangshu Inn to find Xiao. Lei Yasha was buried in the Layered Rock Abyss and was not missing, which happened to be a good opportunity to understand Xiao's wish.

Lin Ye used the Shining Time as much as possible to speed up the journey, and arrived at the Layered Stone Abyss three days later.

Looking down from the sky, the Abyss is a huge pit, like a giant's eye, or like the legendary passage to hell, with no bottom in sight.

Lin Ye was received by Mu Ning, the Commissioner of the General Affairs Department.

Lin Ye is a special envoy from Tianquan Star. He has a handwritten letter from Ningguang in his hand, so Mu Ning treats Lin Ye very well. In the game, it was Catherine who gave the Traveler a commission to be a miner in the Stratum Chasm, and for this reason, the Traveler went to the Stratum Chasm.

For safety reasons, Mu Ning refused to allow travelers to enter the Layered Rock Abyss.

Lin Ye was different. Mu Ning didn't know what Lin Ye was going to do inside the Layered Rock Abyss, but the order Mu Ning got from Ningguang's handwritten letter was to assist Lin Ye in completing the task. When he heard that Lin Ye was going to enter the Layered Rock Abyss, he hesitated and then told him the method.

There is a Seven Star Formation in the large mine at the center of the Chasm. It was set up by the Liyue Seven Stars to prevent accidents when it was blocked.

If Lin Ye wants to enter, he needs to break the things around him called "Pan Keys", which are used to connect and fix the energy flowing in the formation.

The Layered Rock Chasm is huge, with spiral steps on the outside, and miners need elevators to get around. In short, handling the [Pan Key] is very troublesome.

At this time Mu Ning continued.

"I suggest that you go talk to Zhiqiong. She is an adventurer hired by the General Affairs Department. She used to be a miner here and is very familiar with the terrain. She also knows the location of [Panjian]."

Mu Ning recommended Zhi Qiong to Lin Ye, and in order to show his reliability, he praised him.

"Zhi Qiong is a law-abiding person. She is not like other adventurers who run around everywhere. She is very disciplined. The previous adventurers always liked to commit suicide and wanted to break the seal to enter the interior, but Zhi Qiong would not do that."

Zhiqiong?

It turns out that she had been in the Layered Abyss for so long.

Lin Ye's understanding of Zhi Qiong was average. When the Initial Rock Abyss was opened, Lin Ye was on the verge of quitting the game. In the Demon God quest, Zhi Qiong played the role of a guide. Lin Ye did not have the energy to play her subsequent world quests.

At first, Lin Ye’s favorite map was Mondstadt, an endless plain. Later maps became more and more gloomy, and it was very troublesome to run around. Lin Ye lost his former love for the game and became a retired player.

Lin Ye's impression of Zhiqiong is that he is an ordinary person with ambitions. He does not have the divine eye, but he dares to go deep into the inside. Lin Ye still admires him very much.

Lin Ye has a personal experience of the powerlessness and struggles of ordinary people in the extraordinary world.

"Where is Zhiqiong?"

Lin Ye found Zhiqiong and took out the receipt written by Mu Ning.

Zhiqiong looked at it carefully and smiled.

"I understand!"

Then she asked curiously.

"Can you tell me why you went to the interior of the Layered Chasm?"

Lin Ye looked at Zhiqiong and saw her expectant expression. It seemed different from what Commissioner Mu Ning had introduced. It wasn't that she didn't want to go to the Layered Rock Abyss.

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Faced with Zhiqiong's curiosity, Lin Ye didn't intend to say much. Before he opened his mouth to act as a riddler, Zhiqiong took the lead and acted as the riddler.

"Actually, I know why you are here, Special Envoy."

Lin Ye:? ?

Only he and Ningguang knew about the search for the missing Sister Ye Lan. Sister Ye Lan was Ningguang's informant, and Ningguang didn't want to cause trouble and be discovered.

Commissioner Mu Ning was only ordered to cooperate.

Seeing Lin Ye's confusion, Zhiqiong chuckled to herself and said cheerfully.

"Special Commissioner, are you here to look for someone?"

“How come you see?”

Zhiqiong answered in a low voice.

"After the Layered Abyss was sealed off, the miners left one after another. The ones who stayed here were basically the Thousand Rocks Army stationed here, as well as scholars and explorers."

"I am an explorer hired by the General Affairs Office. I am responsible for surveying the terrain and drawing maps. I am also one of them. I have been around for a long time, so I know everyone."

"I remember a month ago, a strange older sister came to the Layered Abyss. I saw that Commissioner Mu Ning respected her very much. She came to me and asked me to help her enter the Layered Abyss."

"I see that the [Seven Star Formation] is still there, what's going on?" Lin Ye asked what he felt strange about.

Sister Ye Lan disappeared after entering the Layered Rock Abyss, but the seal on the abyss's mouth still exists. How can she get in?

Paimeng said: I can't get in no matter how hard I try.

Zhi Qiong shook her head. "I don't know. I didn't see her the next day. I thought she had left, so I asked Commissioner Mu Ning about it, but he kept grumbling and drove me away..."

"My adventurer's intuition tells me that something has happened." Zhiqiong's eyes were sharp.

Lin Ye held his forehead with his hand. This Zhiqiong is quite smart.

Ningguang knew very little about the disappearance of Sister Ye Lan. After all, there were no telephones or telegrams for communication, and the flow of information was relatively slow.

Could it be that Sister Ye Lan did not enter the Layered Rock Abyss?

According to Zhiqiong's description, Sister Ye Lan's disappearance was very sudden.

But what kind of dangers could there be on the surface of the abyss that would prevent her from leaving a message? You know, Mu Ning and Zhi Qiong were living well on the surface.

"From your reaction, I can tell that my analysis was correct."

"You don't have to call me Special Envoy. Just call me by my name, Lin Ye."

"Lin Ye?" Zhi Qiong was slightly stunned. She always felt that she had heard this name somewhere.

“In short, let’s break through the [Seven Star Formation] first and then enter the Layered Rock Abyss.” Lin Ye quickly made an action plan.

Remember that you need to deal with the Pan key to split the formation, so you will have to run around. Look for clues then.

Zhiqiong took Linye to the nearby Panjian. They looked up at the polymer floating in the air, wrapped in broken rocks. The exposed parts were as dazzling as amber, with rock elements flowing like ribbons.

Lin Ye then set his sights on several cage-shaped rock element polymers near Pan Jian. He was familiar with them. There were many of them in the game. Specific ores needed to be crushed to extract rock elements in order to activate them.

Zhiqiong noticed what Linye was looking at and praised him.

"What a keen observation skill."

"I was just about to tell you that if you want to destroy the Pan Bond, you can try to start with these cage-like rock element polymers. They can be affected by the mutation and undergo some form of disintegration."

"These strange aggregates have been troubling the General Affairs Department lately... They have been growing out of the bedrock of the Stratochasm in the last two years, and their properties are very similar to those below."

Zhiqiong introduced to Lin Ye.

The [thing] below?

What the hell… I was confused when I was exploring the Lin Ye Tong Layered Rock Abyss. I just followed the prompts one step at a time. A few scenes left a deep impression on me, but I forgot about most of them.

Lin Ye asked Zhiqiong what the "thing" below referred to?

Zhiqiong thought for a moment, organized his words, and answered.

"It was something incredible that the miners dug out. It was glowing and spherical. It was its appearance that caused the changes in the Layered Rock Abyss."

Lin Ye did not get a valid answer from Zhi Qiong's response. Maybe she did not want to be a riddle teller, but she did not understand it herself, so she called it "thing".

Lin Ye did not use Wolf's End, but took out the Qianyan Ancient Sword.

Then he felt as if he was being watched by someone, and there was more than one gaze, but it was gentle. Just as he was about to investigate, the gaze disappeared.

Lin Ye was thinking, is it the ancient Qianyan Army that died in the Layered Rock Abyss? It resonates with the Qianyan Ancient Sword...

Lin Ye used elemental vision to find strange ores nearby. His two-handed sword was very useful for smashing rocks. He collected rock element stars and gathered them into a cage-shaped rock element polymer.

Seeing this, Zhiqiong gave some advice.

"You can try hitting these polymers and use the fragments they release to affect the bonds."

Lin Ye nodded and did as he was told. The fragments released by the polymer destroyed the Pan Key. Then Lin Ye saw the rock element ribbon connecting the Pan Key to the huge mouth of the abyss disappear, but there were still four.

Lin Ye jumped down from the hillock and heard Zhi Qiong chirping like a sparrow.

"Hehe, my analysis is correct... Huishan Hall has investigated and found that these polymers are constantly absorbing the rock elements around the Pan Key. It's very strange, as if they are intentionally destroying the Pan Key."

"We used to clean it up every half a month... but these strange things quickly spread out, and they are happening more and more frequently recently..."

"Perhaps it has something to do with the anomaly below, which is why the Seven Stars sent us here to investigate."

"I forgot to explain. Because the strange things down there are so extraordinary, if we conduct a large-scale investigation, it will cause panic among the people... That's why we have to proceed secretly under the ban..."

"But Commissioner Mu Ning has always been timid. Fortunately, you, Lin Ye, are here and have released the constraints on [Pan Jian]." Zhi Qiong said with a smile.

Lin Ye is a special envoy of the Seven Stars. He is acting under orders and can naturally destroy the key set up by the Seven Stars.

"As for what's next, there are four more places to rock climb. I drew a map with three locations marked on it." Zhiqiong handed Lin Ye a map.

"Why are there three places? Haven't you found the fourth rock climbing location?" Lin Ye asked puzzledly.

"Oh, it's because after the miners evacuated, a leakage accident occurred in the mine and the column was submerged under water. I can't tell the exact location now, so I need to search again."

"Okay." Lin Ye nodded.

"Oh, right, let's go get the Lumen Stone first. It's closer here. Lumen Stone can be used for lighting inside the Stratum Abyss, but it's currency. It's currently in the warehouse, gathering dust, haha..."

Next, Zhiqiong took Linye to the warehouse. In the game, the traveler encountered a treasure-hunting group, but now the timeline is different, and Linye did not encounter them, otherwise they would have to end their treasure-hunting journey in the Abyss ahead of time.

Lin Ye held the Lumen Stone in his hand, and Zhi Qiong put the other Lumen Stones into his backpack, talking as he put them away.

"If we find a way to break the Pan Key, we will soon be able to enter the Layered Rock Abyss. Sister Jinwu and the others also need this."

"Who is Sister Jinwu?"

"Safety technical specialist here, the lumen stone in your hand has not been processed and the lighting is limited. Give it to me and I will take it to Sister Jinwu. She will process the lumen stone." Zhiqiong said.

Lin Ye handed the Lumen Stone to Zhi Qiong, and the two left the warehouse.

Turning back, Lin Ye looked at the dilapidated warehouse. After the miners retreated a few years ago, the wooden buildings left behind were uninhabited and unmaintained, and quickly fell into disrepair. This warehouse didn't even have a door!

Lin Ye couldn't help but complain to Zhi Qiong.

Zhiqiong laughed and said without taking it seriously.

"The warehouse is well guarded. Although some treasure-stealing groups covet the Lumen Stone, they will not succeed!"

"So, where are the guards?" Lin Ye spread his hands.

Zhiqiong was stunned for a moment, looking thoughtful, then he knocked his left hand against his right hand and suddenly realized something.

"I seem to be in charge of guarding the warehouse."

“…Is dereliction of duty really permissible?”

"Haha... What adventurer would waste time on such a boring thing? Besides, no treasure-stealing group showed up when I was on guard. Now that I'm away, it's okay... Yeah."

Zhiqiong was stubborn, but as she spoke, she suddenly spoke loudly.

"So... please don't tell Commissioner Mu Ning!"

"I won't be absent from duty anymore. I'll prove it with my actions! I wanted to go with you to deal with Pan Jian..."

Lin Ye thought about it and decided that his goal was to find Sister Ye Lan, so he didn’t bother to care about this matter and agreed.

When it opened and shone, Lin Ye jumped into the air in front of Zhiqiong's surprised gaze and destroyed the Pan key according to the location on the map.

The three Pan keys were near Dansha Cliff, Liuli Peak and Fuao Valley respectively. Lin Ye used the shining time to move very quickly. It turned out that a mining area with a scale no less than Liyue Harbor was moved there. Lin Ye finished in an hour and returned to the warehouse.

When Lin Ye destroyed the Pan key, he found no trace of Ye Lan.

He looked down from a high altitude at the mine that the people of Liyue were proud of. The exposed ground was a purple-red layer of hard soil, with many ores breaking out of the ground. At its peak, there were tens of thousands of miners working here at the same time, but now there was only the echoing howling of the wind, making it look so desolate.

Liyue has a well-developed jade culture and is also known as the Land of Glaze. Its rocky abyss is rich in a type of glaze crystal sand whose mineral composition is almost the same as that of lumenite. The reason why Liyue's porcelain is so precious is that it is made from this crystal sand.

Liyue Harbor is a well-known place where thousands of merchants gather, but in addition to commercial trade, the people of Liyue also make a living by mining. There is also the Black Rock Factory, which has been shut down and blocked near Tianheng Mountain, and the Layered Rock Abyss. Many Liyue people use their blood and strength to chisel through the stubborn rocks, supporting their families while supporting many of Liyue's industries.

The forest fell.

When Zhiqiong saw Lin Ye coming back, he hurried forward, his eyes shining, staring at the lapis lazuli wings behind Lin Ye.

"What style of wind wings is this? They are completely different from the ones on the market. Are they custom-made? Wind wings need wind to lift them up to fly, but I saw you fly without wind, and at a very fast speed. You disappeared in the blink of an eye!"

It was difficult for Lin Ye to explain the origin of the Shining Time in a few words. The simple explanation was that it was customized and had special abilities.