Menma and Hashirama, what happened in Teyvat

"Hashirama, it seems that even in our previous life, we have never spent a night like this in the wild, right?" Looking at the simple wooden house in front of him built by Hashirama using the Wood Release Four Pillars Technique, Menma suddenly remembered something and said.

At this time, the two were in an open area in the Blue Wind Highlands, which was where they practiced ninjutsu all day. Although it was not difficult for them to rush back to Mondstadt at their speed, they both wanted to spend the night in the wild tonight.

Although the two had spent the night in the wild before arriving at Mondstadt, they basically just found a shady place or a tree, which was exactly the way ninjas would choose to spend the night in difficult circumstances.

Now that I have nothing to do and I have the conditions, and I don't need to try to live the hard life of a ninja like before, the natural thing is to choose the most comfortable way to spend the night.

"But..." Menma suddenly thought of a question, "In your house..."

"what happened?"

"…Are there any beds? Are there any bedding?"

...Silence is the Cangfeng Highlands tonight.

"I knew it..." Menma couldn't help but hold his forehead through the mask, "After we go in, we'll continue to sleep on the ground, so what's the difference between having this house and not having this house?"

"Ah this..."

Hashirama scratched his head innocently: "Okay, okay, I forgot about this..."

"So what do you say we should do now? We can't just lie on the ground after entering the house, can we?" Menma said unhappily.

"Then... I might as well use Wood Release to collect some leaves and spread them out thickly to use as a mattress?"

"I really admire you... hurry up, hurry up."

After waving his hand impatiently to send the naive Hashirama into the house to deal with the mattress, Menma walked outside the house alone to see if there was anything around that he had not noticed.

At this time, he felt that there were several tiny elemental auras approaching. After comparing it with the data in his memory, Menma looked in that direction and found that there were only a few slimes.

He and Hashirama had beaten countless of these things to death in the wild before. At that time, he only regarded them as monsters that needed to be eliminated. But after seeing them again, Menma suddenly recalled many things about slimes in the game, and at the same time thought of the environment they were in now, so the look in his eyes when he looked at those slimes suddenly became different.

In addition to "monsters that can hurt people", slimes actually have many different labels and uses in the eyes of most people in Teyvat, and these will vary depending on the person looking at them or the size and attributes of the slime.

Fire slime can be used to replace heaters and simple stoves, water slime can occasionally serve as a water source in emergencies, some industrial facilities can use thunder slime to generate electricity to provide themselves with electricity... and so on.

In addition to this, in the eyes of many adventurers and gourmets, slime is also a unique and special ingredient. The preparation methods of various slime dishes have long been researched by these people and widely spread among the corresponding groups.

For example... a famous Liyue cook.

Back to the present. After seeing the slimes, Menma walked towards them, intending to catch them all and bring them to the camp to deal with them properly.

For some reason, Menma could sense that no matter where the slimes came from or what their attributes were, they had no hostility or desire to attack him and Hashirama, which was completely different from the locals of Teyvat. Therefore, he easily caught all the slimes in one fell swoop.

"Menma, the bed is ready, come and see... Hey?" At this moment, Hashirama, who had made the so-called "Wood Release Mattress", just walked out of the room. He was about to call Menma over to take a look, but found that Menma was walking towards him with a bunch of slimes in his arms, "What are you doing...?"

"Oh, I caught some little things." Men Mahjong said after gently placing a few slimes in his arms on the ground.

"Isn't this a slime? I usually receive many missions to fight them when I take jobs in the Adventurer's Guild. Why are you suddenly interested in them today?"

"I seem to have forgotten to tell you, slime is actually..." Menma explained all the things about slime to Hashirama.

"Wow, this thing... has so many uses? It's even... edible?"

"Everything can be put to good use, including these, which are the local specialties of this world." Menma picked up a water slime and weighed it in his hand. Although the slimes showed a lukewarm attitude, they did not resist Menma's manipulation of them.

In the end, the two of them carried them into the house.

There is one fire-attribute, three water-attribute slimes and two grass-attribute slimes in this group, and they are all small slimes.

Since Menma wrapped the fire slime with the three water slimes when he caught them, it was not covered with fire elements, but was a little damp. However, when Menma took it out and threw it into the fire basin made with wood escape and earth escape, it quickly dried the moisture on its body and reattached the fire elements, and then ignited the firewood in the fire basin.

"Now, it seems like I'm spending the night in the wilderness of Teyvat." Looking at the flames gradually burning in the brazier, created by the "cross-border combination" of Wood Release and Fire Slime, Menma couldn't help but sigh.

"Yes, then let me add a little more flavor to this atmosphere." Hashirama used his Wood Release hand to rub a piece of wood made of incense and threw it into the brazier. Soon, a faint tar scent filled the air in the room.

Lying on a simple bed made of a "wooden escape bed board" and a "thick leaf mattress", using a grass slime as a pillow, this combination actually brought the two of them an indescribable sense of novelty and comfort.

"Just let this fire burn all night?" Playing with the two water slimes in his hands, Menma turned his head to look at Hashirama whose bed was on the other side of the brazier.

[Two water slimes: (0 0) (0 0)]

"Yeah, after all, the temperature outdoors at night is still relatively low. Just let the fire continue to burn. I'll add some more wood later." Unlike Menma, Hashirama was currently holding the water slime he had brought over and chewing it, wanting to taste what the water full of elemental power in its body tasted like. "But you, do you even have to wear a mask when you sleep?"

[Water Slime: (X X)]

"Well...if we were still in [Wind Embrace], I could take off the mask. But since we are in the wild, I think I'd better wear the mask in order to be prepared for any possible situation."

"I always feel like you're being too cautious...Okay, okay, whatever you want."

After throwing a few more pieces of incense wood into the brazier, the two ended all conversations, hugged two or half water slimes in their hands, and gradually fell asleep.

The night slowly enveloped the entire wooden house, gently adding a touch of tranquility to the environment of the Cangfeng Highlands, just like the countless nights in the past.

At this time, the figure who had been standing in the distance and staring at the wooden house finally quietly left the shade of the tree where he was hiding and slowly walked towards the wooden house.

The moonlight gradually fell on his face, slightly illuminating his green eyes and delicate features. On this face that held great significance to him, a touching smile gently appeared.

And can the meaning contained in this smile that no one can see be expressed in words?

[I hope you guys don’t dislike me…]

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(early morning)

The clouds in the sky gradually dissipated, revealing the sunlight that had been blocked by them.

The first ray of sunlight of the morning crossed the sky, passed through the window of the wooden house without glass, shone on the fox mask that Menma had been wearing, and stimulated his eyes through the holes at the eyes.

"Well……"

Feeling the light stimulation that was extremely similar to the one he had felt when he first came to this world, Menma could not help but open his eyes.

[Such a familiar feeling...]

At that time, I was awakened by such light and found that I had arrived in Teyvat with Hashirama.

But the difference is that at that time, I was completely clueless about everything, and I had nothing except each other and the things I carried with me. Now, although what I have is not much, I am already very satisfied.

Then, Menma sat up gently. Almost at that moment, the grass slime that had been his pillow all night quickly slipped away from under the back of his head, jumped to the ground and began to straighten its body that was deformed by Menma's head.

At this moment, Menma suddenly smelled a strange smell. It was a light fragrance with a slight stimulating feeling. He didn't know what it was, but it seemed... a little familiar.

Menma immediately smelled his own body, the two water slimes in his arms, the grass slime on the ground, and the brazier that was still burning slightly under the influence of the fire slime. He even got out of bed and smelled Hashirama who was still sleeping soundly opposite him, but he did not smell the same smell at any of them.

But at this moment, he woke up from his sleepiness and regained some of his perception. He suddenly noticed a strong elemental force at the door of the wooden house. At the same time, he finally remembered where he had smelled this smell before...

Whether it was the Angel's Gift or the Dawn Winery, or the Cat's Tail Tavern, which he had only seen from the outside but had never been in, they all had this smell. Even many Mondstadt people, especially men, seemed to have this smell to a greater or lesser extent.

And now, we are in the wild. In this case, the source of the smell must be...