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He raised his hand filled with dark mist and clenched it hard at the Fools in front of him!

In an instant, the sky spun and the earth spun. Large pieces of rock rose from the ground and crushed down towards the Fatui like a collapsing mountain.

"Bang~" The sharp blade swung and chopped heavily on the neck of the black shadow. However, to the horror of the debt collector, his blade was easily blocked by the seemingly thin black mist.

Even the blazing flames on the blade failed to cause any disturbance to the black fog.

"Ha~" With a disdainful sneer, the black shadow lowered his head slightly, his blood-red eyes full of contempt, and glanced at the debt handler.

The black mist on his body trembled slightly, and in an instant, a terrifying shock wave emerged out of nowhere, sweeping towards the black shadow like a storm.

"Bang, bang, bang..." Driven by the shock wave, countless pieces of rubble flew out like bullets and hit the Fatui. The shield that the Rock Guerrillas had held up with all their might did not last even for a second before it shattered under the impact of the rocks.

Even the rock staff in his hand turned into waste.

A somewhat miserable cry of pain was heard, and within a breath, all the Fatui fell on the road covered with bruises, unable to move.

"Heh~" With another sneer, the black shadow raised his hand, as if to completely wipe out the Fatui in front of him: "You are just a bunch of bugs that took advantage of the garbage left behind by the losers. You dare to bark at me? You really don't know what you are talking about... Ugh!"

The movement suddenly stopped, and the black shadow covered his head in pain. Even the black mist on his body dimmed a little, revealing a slightly sturdy figure.

"Don't even think about it..."

'Ha, ha, give up, you can't resist me! You are destined to be a loser!'

As if talking to himself, the black shadow stood there and muttered, his breath fluctuating. Seeing this, the debt handler lying on the ground nearby had a flash of blood in his eyes, and then he got up without hesitation, waving the sacrificial knife and killing the black shadow.

"Puff~" With a casual wave of his hand, the debt handler was blown away. The black shadow seemed to raise his hand impatiently to kill him, but the action paused again.

Finally, the shadow put down his arm somewhat stiffly, and glanced at the Fatui with anger; "Humph, you are lucky!"

After saying this, he walked away with the miners behind him, leaving behind a mess.

Watching the black shadow leave, the seriously injured debt collector lying on the ground reached out his trembling hand and took out a porcelain bottle from his arms. He poured out a pill from it and put it into his mouth. After that, the injuries on his body began to heal quickly.

"Ahem, ahem... the blood-recovering pills sold in Liyue are really effective!" Standing up with some difficulty, the debt collector fed a blood-recovering pill to several members of the advance team, staring intently at the direction where the black shadow left.

"Sir, let's go next~"

"Cough..." He coughed lightly. It seemed that because he had just activated the evil eye, the debt collector's face looked particularly pale.

Ignoring the worried expressions of the advance team, he wiped his lips and said hoarsely: "Send a message to the North Country Bank and ask them to inform Lord Rooster that a suspected demon god has been found in Lingju Pass. Our team is tracking him. Please send professionals to investigate as soon as possible."

"Next, you two..." Nodding to the Rock Ranger and the Gun Ranger, the debt collector continued: "Follow me and track down that shadow. The rest of you stay where you are!"

'Yes! '

"What? They are looking for the Demon God, the Fatui, no, what do they want to do?!" Hearing the information from the debt collector, Keqing felt unbelievable: "Are they trying to start a war?!"

"Damn it! These guys have evil intentions!"

Keqing gnashed her teeth and stared at the debt collector's departing back. Just as she was about to follow him, the world in front of her suddenly shook, and then she found herself back in reality.

After a moment of hesitation, Keqing couldn't help but look at Yu Qi beside her. Although she didn't say anything, the doubt in her eyes was very obvious.

At this moment, she wanted to find out what the Fatui did afterwards, and what the situation was with the black shadow. Was it the demon god that was defeated by the Rock King who made a comeback? Or was it that the sealed demon god broke the seal and came out?

"That's all I can say." Yu Qi helplessly spread his hands and sighed, "Before, he not only overloaded the power of the evil eye, but in the end he even took the initiative to detonate the energy of the demon god residue in the slanted eye, trying to kill himself with it."

"Even though I stopped his behavior immediately, his soul was inevitably corroded, and all his memories after that have completely disappeared."

“Damn it, how could this happen!” Biting her lip unwillingly, Keqing took a deep breath and couldn’t help asking, “Is there really no other way? Did you accidentally miss something?”

"Feel sorry."

“No!” Shaking her head, Keqing finally calmed herself down and said with a wry smile, “I should be the one to apologize. You finally found such important information. I pushed it too far. I’m sorry.”

"fine."

The two were talking, but at this moment, hurried footsteps suddenly came from the ruins not far away, and kept approaching here, which made Yu Qi and Keqing instantly alert.

The two looked at each other and could see the wariness in each other's eyes. The first thing they thought of was the "reinforcements" they had seen in the debt handler's memory.

With a touch of toes on the ground, the green vines silently dragged the debt collector's body to the corner, and Yu Qi and Keqing also carefully hid their bodies and stared intently at the direction where the sound came from.

A moment later, two familiar figures appeared in their sight.

"Mr. Zhongli, are you sure the noise just now came from here?" Kunjun pushed his glasses and looked solemnly at the messy ground not far away: "From the situation, it seems that someone is fighting here, and there may be deaths."

"Well, there is a smell of blood, coming from at least five people!" Zhongli narrowed his eyes and looked around. When he passed the corner where Yu Qi and Keqing were hiding, he paused slightly.

"Five people... Could they be related to Mr. Yu Qi and the others?" Kunjun put his hand on the stone beside him and concentrated his mind for a moment, but soon shook his head: "No, the stones here are too ordinary, and I can't read their memories at all."

At the same time, Yu Qi nodded slightly and whispered in Keqing's ear: "Let's go, it should be Mr. Zhongli and the others themselves, not someone else pretending to be them."

"Hmm~" Keqing looked at Kunjun thoughtfully, put away the weapon in her hand, and walked out with him.

"Who?!" Kunjun seemed startled when he saw two figures wearing Nuo masks suddenly appearing in front of him. He looked at them warily and asked loudly.

Seeing this, Yu Qi couldn't help but take off the Nuo mask on his face with a bit of amusement: "Don't be nervous, Mr. Kunjun, it's me and Miss Keqing."

"Hmm~ Huh! It's you two! You really scared me!" Kunjun breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the familiar faces under the two Nuo masks. Then he couldn't help asking, "But, Mr. Yu Qi, why are you and Miss Keqing dressed like this? Also, what happened here just now? Did you encounter any enemies?"

"I guess so." Yu Qi glanced at Keqing and nodded, then briefly told Zhongli and the others what had just happened.

Of course, due to the presence of Keqing and Kunjun, Yu Qi did not tell all the information he saw from the debt handler's memory. He only talked about the situation and whereabouts of the black shadow.

"Dark shadows, Fatui..." Kunjun muttered to himself. For some reason, he always felt a little irritated, as if he had forgotten something extremely important!

But, what is it?

"A figure shrouded in black fog, and heading towards Tianqiu Valley..." Zhongli glanced at Kunjun silently and nodded slightly: "This matches the clues we collected at the exit of Lingju Pass!"

"Did you find any clues, too?"

"Yes." Kunjun nodded and temporarily suppressed the restlessness in his heart, saying, "Mr. Zhongli and I found a lot of messy footprints and followed them to find the way there."

"I asked people living nearby on the way. Some of them said that they saw a black fog passing by at dusk the day before yesterday. They could vaguely see many people with dull faces shrouded in the black fog, staggering as if they had lost their lives."

"He was frightened at the time and didn't dare to get too close to the black fog. He avoided it from a distance. The last thing he remembered was that they were heading towards the South Heaven Gate."

"Nantianmen?!" Stunned, Yu Qi subconsciously looked at Zhongli and opened his mouth.

“Hmm~” Zhongli did not say much about this, but continued: “Then, Brother Kun and I used some unique methods to confirm that the group of people were the miners who came out of the Layered Rock Abyss.”

"Then I turned back to tell you about the situation. Unexpectedly, when we just got to the Lingju Pass, we saw the light from afar. Thinking it might be you, we hurried over."

"Well, now the situation is clear." Keqing nodded after pondering for a moment, "The black fog encountered in the mining area was actually deliberately released by the black shadow in order to abduct the miners and take them to the South Heaven Gate."

"On the way to the South Gate of Heaven, they were spotted by the Fatui and passers-by on the roadside. According to the time they provided, these miners went to the South Gate of Heaven the day before yesterday."

"From here to Nantianmen, we have to go through a dangerous mountain road. Judging from the speed of those miners, they should have just arrived near Nantianmen not long ago!"

As she spoke, she took a deep breath and said, "That is to say, if we are fast enough, everything is still in time, and the black shadow has not yet achieved its goal!"

"Miss Keqing is right." Kunjun nodded, looked up at the sky, and said anxiously, "It's getting late, let's set off now!"

"At our speed, it will take at least half a day to get from here to Nantianmen. Plus, there are rock dragon lizards causing trouble in Tianqiu Valley recently, so it will probably take even longer."

"If you go too late, it might be too late."

"That makes sense!"

Having made the decision, they didn't delay any longer and rode at full speed towards the Nantianmen.

They traveled through mountains and rivers, passed through the Tianqiu Valley, and with the help of Zhongli and Keqing, crossed the rugged mountains. When it was gradually dark, they finally arrived near the Nantianmen.

"Huh~ We're finally there!" Keqing panted with some effort, looked up at the sky, took a few deep breaths, and forced herself to cheer up: "Try harder, the destination should be ahead."

"Hmm!" Yu Qi nodded, his breath much calmer than Keqing's. Thinking back to the journey of half a day, he couldn't help but say, "Fortunately, we didn't run into any rock dragon lizards along the way, otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to reach Nantianmen so early."

"Yeah, it's strange. I clearly received news that there was a large-scale riot of rock dragon lizards in Tianqiu Valley. How come when I got here, let alone rock dragon lizards, I didn't even see a baby rock dragon lizard."

Frowning, Keqing couldn't help wondering, "Could it be that the information conveyed by the intelligence personnel is wrong? Or did something unexpected happen?"

"Well, the matter is still unclear, but if something is out of the ordinary, there must be something fishy going on. It's better to be careful."

As he was speaking, Yu Qi casually glanced at the bushes not far away, and suddenly stopped: "Wait, look..."

Quickly running to the bushes by the roadside, Yu Qi carefully lifted up a figure lying on the ground: "Who is this person?"

Keqing quickly followed and looked at the unconscious figure on the ground. "He is wearing a miner's uniform, with a backpack and a mining manuscript beside him... He should be a miner."

"But why is he unconscious here? And who else?"

"Hey, hey..." Yu Qi shook the miner and tried to wake him up, but unfortunately he just murmured a few words and showed no signs of waking up.

"Looking at his appearance, he must have fainted here due to exhaustion."

Although he said so, the miner seemed to be triggered by Yu Qi's action. His body was squirming involuntarily, as if he wanted to stand up. He kept muttering to himself: "I can still... still dig..."

"This..." Hearing this, several people looked at each other. Zhongli frowned and said, "Such persistence is really abnormal."

"The point is, what is he going to dig? Ore?"

"That's not clear. Let's first help him to the camp over there and settle him down before we fight... Wait, be careful!"

A whistling sound of wind suddenly sounded, accompanied by a low roar. The mountain wall not far from Yu Qi and the others suddenly tore open, and a huge monster suddenly pounced out from it.

The claws, as bright as amber, were glowing with a rich elemental glow, and the huge body slammed down towards Yu Qi and the others.

Frightened by the sudden attack, Yu Qi almost instinctively raised his hand. In an instant, the grass and trees on the ground grew wildly and turned into a solid wall, blocking the giant beast.

With a dull "bang", the wall made of grass and trees was easily smashed to pieces by the opponent, but it was also forced to stop. It stood in the flying grass debris and stared at the few little men in front of it.

It was not until this time that Yu Qi and the others could fully see the identity of the attacker.

"This is, a rock dragon lizard? How come it is here..." Kunjun was halfway through his words when he suddenly thought of where he was now and couldn't help but be speechless.

"Roar~" The Rock Dragon Lizard stood in place and looked at Yu Qi and the others, as if it felt that it was no match for the other party because of their large numbers and strength. It immediately let out a low roar, lowered its body and sank into the ground.

Feeling the breath of life gradually fading away, Yu Qi and the others couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"That's a close call. If we had fought here, it would have been bad if we had attracted more rock dragon lizards!" Keqing said with some relief after wiping the sweat from her forehead.

She was not afraid of being besieged by rock dragon lizards. After all, with her speed, it would be easy for her to escape from the encirclement.

What she was really worried about was Kunjun and the miner. They had no elemental power in their bodies, and if they were besieged by the rock dragon lizards together, they would almost certainly die.

"But if this happens, we won't be able to keep this miner in the camp next time, right? If the rock dragon lizard comes back, it will be dangerous!"

"That's true..." Yu Qi was a little helpless about this: "But we can't continue on the road with him. Who knows if there will be any dangers later? It's easy for him to become a burden!"

Hearing this, Keqing was silent for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, "How about this, Mr. Kunjun and I will stay here to guard the place. With my abilities, I can still deal with the Rock Dragon Lizard even if it comes again."

It's not that she is afraid of death, nor is it that she thinks Zhongli is stronger than her and more suitable to deal with the mastermind behind the scenes.

But Keqing thought that Yu Qi's strength far exceeded hers, and with him around, it would be easier to deal with the enemy.

Although Zhongli's strength is not as good as his own, he is still the holder of the Eye of God, so he can still protect himself when encountering danger. Besides, the other party is meticulous and can help a little if he follows him.

"Besides, I have already notified the Qianyan Army outside Tianqiu Valley. They will be here soon. I will catch up with them and look for you then!"

"No, I'd better go with Mr. Zhongli and the others!" Shaking his head, Kunjun rejected Keqing's arrangement: "First of all, this miner and I will stay here. If we encounter danger, it will be difficult for you to take care of us, Miss Keqing."

"Besides, I know a lot about minerals and geology, so maybe I can be of help later."

"This……"

“Let’s do as Brother Kun said.” Looking at the conflicted Keqing, Zhongli said with an inexplicable expression: “With my strength, I can still protect Brother Kun when he is in danger.”

"...Then, I'll leave it to you!"

Just like that, after deciding to split the troops into two groups, Yu Qi, Zhongli and Kunjun continued to move forward.

Finally, they passed through the long and narrow valley and arrived at the area of ​​Nantianmen.

Between the vast valleys, ancient strange trees stand quietly, witnessing the years and the mountains and rivers.

"This is..." Looking at the tree in front of him whose branches had completely crystallized, Yu Qi couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's so beautiful!"

"This ancient tree..." Looking up at the ancient tree in front of him, Zhongli remained silent, and finally turned to look at Yu Qi: "Let's investigate separately. Brother Kun and I will take care of this part, and I'll leave that part to you."

"it is good!"

Nodding, Yu Qi turned and walked towards the ancient tree.

On the other side, Zhongli and Kunjun came under the ancient tree.

"Brother Kun, are you familiar with this?"

"This... I'm sorry!" Kunjun frowned and was silent for a moment, and finally shook his head: "Although I feel like I have been here, I still can't remember anything!"

"Well, that's fine too!"

As they talked, they began to search under the ancient tree. Soon, Kunjun found a badly worn stone tablet among the intricate roots of the tree.