Genshin Impact: Return of the Water Queen

"This... this is... an upside-down city?"

Paimon looked at the city protruding from the huge rock dome, his eyes widened in shock, "This feeling... This feeling is like..."

"The inverted Seven-Day Statue that we saw in Mond," Ying added.

"Have you seen anything similar in Mond?" Luo Chaya looked at Ying and asked.

Ying nodded slightly and said, "When we returned to Mondstadt for the Wind Flower Festival, something happened. At that time, we saw a statue of the Seven-Day God hanging upside down in an underground cave in Mondstadt. It was also a similarly weird feeling."

"But that was the work of the Abyss Cult, and now this upside-down city...could it be that the Abyss below is also related to the Abyss Cult? Are they the ones behind this?" Paimon pondered and expressed his guess.

"The Abyss Cult..." Luo Chaya looked up at the upside-down city. She didn't know what the situation of this city was. She just vaguely remembered that this city seemed to have fallen along with the star that smashed out the Abyss, so it appeared in this upside-down posture under the Abyss.

Just as the three were about to go in to investigate, a flash of light suddenly appeared from behind, and a man in purple-black clothes ran out from the gap in space and came behind the three.

"Ah!" Paimon was startled.

Ying quickly turned around and retreated, holding the sword in her hand. However, when she saw the person who suddenly appeared, she breathed a sigh of relief and put away her weapon.

"Daiyin?" Paimon frowned, and she quickly introduced the identity of the man in front of her to Luochaya, "Luochaya, this is Dain Sleib, someone we knew in Mond. Although he is a little mysterious, he should not be a bad person. It seems that he and Ying's brother were companions in the past."

Luo Chaya stood there and looked up and down at Dainsleb who was wearing half of the mask.

Dainsleb also noticed Luochaya, and when he saw her face, his eyes gradually became shocked. Then, he saw Luochaya raised her hand with a smile on her face, and made a silent gesture at an angle that neither Ying nor Paimon could see.

"Hello, Dainsleb, I'm Luochaya, nice to meet you."

After hearing Rochaya's greeting, Dainsleb fell silent. His brain was frantically processing the current situation. He looked at Rochaya, then at Ying and Paimon, and finally nodded under Rochaya's smiling gaze and said, "Hello, Rochaya."

"Long time no see, Dain!" Paimon and Ying walked towards Dainthreb. She frowned and asked, "No... Why did you suddenly appear in the Layered Abyss?"

"The Abyss, you said this is the Abyss? Is it a place that even I have never set foot on? So that's how it is." Dainsleb was surprised, and then explained to the others: "I was chasing an Abyss Apostle before, but unfortunately that guy played his old tricks again after I forced him into a dead end. I chased him through the portal, but I didn't expect to come here."

"You mean the Abyss Cult's portal can lead to this place?" Luo Chaya frowned slightly after hearing what Dainsleib said. "The Abyss Cult can set up a teleportation node here, so it seems that there must be something in this place that the Abyss Cult is paying attention to."

"Could it be that upside-down city?" Paimon looked back at the upside-down city above, a little timidly. She said to Dainsleb, "We heard from the miners that they saw many hillbillies coming here, but none of them left. It's super scary!"

"I see. No wonder you came to this place. Ordinary travelers and adventurers generally don't go near here." Dainsleb suddenly realized. He said to Ying and Paimon, "Do you want to know the reason for the strange behavior of the hill people?"

"Do you know?" Ying looked at Dainsleib in surprise and asked.

Dainsleb nodded, "I happen to know."

"Is it related to this upside-down city?" Ying asked.

"It's understandable that you don't know the problem. The weird thing about this place is that it is weakening the effect of the 'curse.'" Dainsleb explained to the two of them. However, when he mentioned the curse, he glanced at Luo Chaya who was standing beside him intentionally or unintentionally.

Luo Chaya noticed Dainsleib's look, but said nothing.

Ying frowned slightly, thinking about the meaning of Dainsleb's words, "You mentioned the "curse" just now. You said before that the Kanreya people were cursed, and you were tortured by this curse for hundreds of years. Now you say that the reason why the hill people stayed here is because this place can alleviate the pain brought by the curse. Could it be that..."

Dainsleb took a deep breath and nodded. He looked at Luochaya and said to Ying slowly, "Yes, the Qiuqiu people are the people of Kanreya."

Luo Chaya said nothing and just stood there in silence.

It’s not that they think that as gods they did anything wrong in that disaster, they’re just simply too lazy to say it.

"Do you know why the Hillocks wear masks, young lady?" Dainsleb continued, "It's because they are afraid of their current appearance, because their appearance is far from their original self, and they are afraid. Moreover, when the Hillocks feel that they are about to face "death", they will look for a final place for themselves. For them, the place that can delay the pain of the "curse" should be the best coffin. "

"Is this why so many Hillilks came in, but none of them left?" Paimon felt a little upset when he heard this, "They...those Hillilks came here to die..."

However, just as the atmosphere gradually became silent, two Black Snake Knights suddenly rushed out from a dark corner and attacked Luo Chaya and others.

Luo Chaya took a step forward, she grabbed Ying's shoulders, and with her other hand threw Paimon behind her. The water element in the originally calm space suddenly became agitated, condensing into several sharp water spikes, which pierced through the bodies of the two black snake knights and killed them.

"Wow! That was close! Fortunately, you are here, Luo Chaya!" Paimon patted his chest with lingering fear, looked at the Black Snake Knight who was solved, and praised Luo Chaya's skills.

Dainsleib sighed, looked at Luo Chaya, nodded and said, "It is indeed very powerful. The Black Snake Knight is no match for him at all."