【Original God】I am looking for the flesh and blood of love in time and space

"So, Miss, you must have known about this kind of thing a long time ago."

Kamisato Ayato's hands were well-defined. She slowly unwrapped the straw of the milk tea and inserted it into the tea elegantly and dignifiedly:

"After all, I'm not surprised by the lady's appearance."

The girl shrugged noncommittally, but did not deny it. She spoke again, her voice still soft:

"Don't change the subject, Lord of the Society."

Kamisato Ayato chewed the snack in his mouth and nodded, not feeling the slightest bit of embarrassment at being exposed. He waited until he had swallowed all the milk tea in his mouth before he spoke:

"Miss Suiqiong should join the Tianling Army."

The girl smoothed her skirt and said, "Of course I will tell you what this thing is, but only after someone can tell me where it is."

"The boss and I saw 'it' a week ago, at Nashii Beach."

Jiuqi Ren stroked his chin, as if thinking:

"It...really looked like Miss Suiqiong, so much so that we didn't immediately recognize it wasn't Miss Suiqiong even though we were only a few steps away from it. But at that time, we knew very clearly that Miss Suiqiong was still in the hospital."

"What is it doing?"

"I don't know. It keeps moving. Maybe it's taking a walk?"

Jiuqi Shinobu took a deep breath, glanced at the silly Aratake Ichito beside him, thought for a moment, and said his guess:

"I feel like... it's searching."

"Look for?"

"Well, searching."

Jiuqi Shinobu's handsome eyebrows wrinkled, perhaps because he was reminiscing, or perhaps because the scene in his memory was too weird:

"He walked aimlessly, as if he was not used to turning his head or moving his eyes. Every time he came to a fork in the road, he would turn his whole body to look around, and then continue walking."

Keep walking?

The girl's white eyelashes fluttered twice:

"Are you looking for me?"

Jiuqi Shinobu didn't say anything, perhaps because he felt that such an expression was too horrifying. He just looked at the girl quietly and thought of a more euphemistic wording:

“It’s possible, but not certain.”

The place where everyone is at this moment is a cave, which seems to be a mine. It produces crystal marrow that emits purple light. The mineral veins inside are intricate. In the light or in the dark, there are mines one after another, large or small, artificial or naturally formed. The "cocoon" is in one of these hidden caves. It is dim, but not pitch black. The crystal marrow around it is covered with thick silt and can no longer show its original crystal color.

The girl silently calculated the distance in her mind and nodded.

"What a coincidence, why are you all here?"

A sweet voice came, causing everyone to subconsciously turn their heads, only to see a small white figure floating in the air, occasionally waving behind them:

"Sora! Come on, everyone is here!"

Along with the shout, a golden figure then entered the space, and a gentle young man's voice echoed between the stone walls:

"It's so lively."

Sora's amber eyes looked around and landed on the girl in the center:

"You're here too, long time no see."

The girl was stunned at first, and all kinds of distant memories came to her mind again. Inexplicable emotions were stirring in her heart. She opened her mouth, but for a moment she didn't know what to say or what to ask, so she just nodded at him:

"Long time no see, Sora."

"Eh? What about me? What about me?" Paimon floated in front of the girl and stomped his feet, "You can't just say hello to Sora!"

Seeing Paimon's lively and coquettish expression, the false feeling of reunion after a long separation gradually faded, and her heart returned to reality. She smiled and looked at Paimon:

"Even cuter, Paimon."

"Hehehe," Paimon said with a hint of pride in his tone, and then he remembered to ask about the real business, "Ayaka, Ayato, the cowherd, Anin, eh - why is even Amao here?"

Paimon pointed at them one by one, and paused when he touched "death" and "cloudy":

"Ah, there are two people I don't know."

Paimon shook his head:

"Strange, such a desolate place, I thought only Sora and I would come here!"

Kong had observed the surrounding environment when Paimon was chatting with the girl, and naturally saw the huge "cocoon" that could not be ignored.

The cocoon, with its depressing color and ferocious appearance, is like the girl's throne. Beneath the girl, it is high-spirited, yet obedient, silent, with a strange sense of harmony.

"Are you guys here chasing this thing too?"

Kong finally spoke, looking at the girl with a trace of inquiry in his eyes - back in Mondstadt, he knew that the girl and the silt were inextricably linked, and now he was more certain of this guess, but...

"That's it."

The wanderer answered first, moving half a step forward, blocking Sora's view of the girl:

"You too?"

Kong then realized that he had lost his composure a little bit, and nodded:

"I heard that there are a lot of monsters in this area, and... there are always some strange things, so I tracked them all the way here, but I didn't expect everyone to be here."

Kamisato Ayato chuckled, with a hint of wanting to watch the fun:

"Is it a coincidence... or a coincidence?"

"Have you been checking it out already?"

"We..." Linghua looked up at the girl, and after meeting her gaze, she nodded, "Ms. Suiqiong has been investigating."

"Smashed Joan... that's a good name. Congratulations."

Kong's words left everyone present except the wanderer confused. The girl just chuckled and said thank you.

"but--"

Sora's eyes became dark again:

"I seem to have seen you somewhere else before, Miss Shattered Joan."

"me?"

The girl raised her head:

"Are you sure it's me?"

Kong paused, and the thing he had seen in Mond popped into his mind again, causing him to subconsciously shake his head.

As an aside, in fact, the thing he had seen in Mond was now standing beside him in a changed form.

The girl naturally understood what Sora saw and raised her chin towards Sora:

"That's what we're looking for. Weird, isn't it?"

After saying this, the girl smiled again:

"But for us, knowledgeable travelers and the best guides in all of Teyvat, this shouldn't be that hard to accept."

Paimon couldn't stand this kind of sugar-coated bullet. He put his hands on his hips and snorted twice:

“But then again, that thing really looks like the Suiqiong! Kong and I were shocked when we saw it in Tadingsha a few days ago—it was a big shock!”

"Stepping on the sand?"

The girl repeated the location.

Sora noticed the girl's abnormality and nodded:

"Yes, Tadashi, what's the problem?"

Problems – of course there are.

This speed is too slow for the products of the "earth veins".

The girl herself cannot move with the help of the earth veins, but "Death" and Duoyun can do this. I think other products of the earth veins also have this skill. That's it, that thing is still wandering around this island...

Is there something affecting it?