Genshin Impact: Return of the Water Queen

The three of them walked out of the room, and the sandstorm outside had not stopped yet.

Nashida asked, "Are sandstorms like this common in the desert?"

Candice shook her head and replied, "It wasn't this serious before, but the recent sandstorms are much more terrible than before in terms of both the scope and duration! Moreover, there are strange beasts in the sandstorms. Wait... they are coming!"

Following Candice's shout, Luo Chaya and Nashida saw the beast hounds hiding in the yellow sand of the sandstorm.

Looking around, they could see more than a hundred beast hounds with their naked eyes. If these beast hounds were allowed to rush into Aru Village, it would be a huge disaster for all the villagers in the village.

Candice gripped her spear and shield tightly and stared ahead seriously.

Nashida had no impression of the Kanreya catastrophe, nor of these beast hounds, but that did not prevent her from sensing a power that did not belong to this world from these beast hounds.

"It's the power of pollution! The World Tree is polluted by the power they carry." Nashida said in a deep voice.

Luo Chaya moved her wrist and said to Candice, "Wait for me over there. We will take care of this."

"But they are scary, so I'd better go with you." Candice said hesitantly.

"No, we are very strong!" Luo Chaya showed off her white arms.

Nashida raised her hands and spread emerald green light, while Luochaya created a mirror-like surface of water waves in the sky, and it began to rain there.

The rain directly dissipated the sandstorm, completely exposing the beast hounds in the sandstorm. Then, the emerald green light merged into the earth, mixed with the rain falling from the sky, and grew tough vines.

After these vines grew out, they seemed to have their own consciousness and swept towards the beast hounds.

Although some of the Beast Realm Hounds avoided the attack of the vines, most of them were bound by the vines.

Nashida clapped her hands in front of her, and the Beast Hounds that were bound by the vines were quickly killed under the huge tightening force. When those Beast Hounds that escaped from the restraints tried to escape, the water waves from the sky no longer fell as rain, but as water arrows.

Each beast realm hound was given ten water arrows, with the main goal of making sure all the animals were equally blessed.

After seeing Nashida and Rochaya easily deal with these dangerous beasts, Candice said in surprise: "You are really amazing! You can actually create a green area in the desert. This is incredible!"

"It's just basic operation, don't be surprised." Luo Chaya waved her hand and said to Candice.

If it was the Great Compassion Tree King back then, facing these beast hounds, there would be no need for Luo Chaya's help with irrigation. She could use her own powerful strength to directly make a green area grow in the desert.

After the noise outside subsided, the people inside also came out.

When Paimon saw a green area outside the suspension bridge of Aru Village, he said in surprise: "Huh? What's going on? There was no such green area when we came in just now? Is it my illusion?"

"It's not an illusion. I saw it too." Dishia on the side shook her head. She looked at the green land and frowned. "But why do the shapes of these vines look weird? Like they are wrapped around something?"

Elhaisen and Senor's eyes fell on Luo Chaya and Nashida who were standing beside Candice. The two of them were sharp-minded and knew that such a change must have been caused by them.

Candice said to Ying and Paimon, "Of course it was you two who did it! To be honest, you two are very powerful. The beasts in the sandstorm are no threat to them at all."

Ying nodded and said, "Of course I know that for Luo Chaya, there will be nothing here that threatens her."

She trusts Luo Chaya very much.

At this time, an old man came out from Aru Village and came to the crowd. He smiled and said, "I'm so sorry. I was taking care of the elderly and children in the village just now and didn't entertain you guests right away."

"Eh? You are..." Paimon looked at the person walking towards him blankly.

The other party said: "I am the village chief of Aru Village, you can also call me Uncle Anpu."

"Anpu...Uncle?" Luo Chaya blinked. After hearing her address, Ying and Paimeng both looked at him in surprise. Paimeng even said, "Um...Luo Chaya, you don't have to call me uncle, right?"

"Huh? Why not?" Luo Chaya asked back.

"But you are thousands of years old!" Paimon said.

After hearing Paimon's words, everyone except Nashida and Ying looked at Luo Chaya in surprise. Even Seno and Elhaisen, who had always had serious expressions, were a little unbelievable.

Candice was even more shocked. She said, "I didn't expect that you... no, you are actually such an immortal!"

"No, I just turned eighteen!" Luo Chaya shook her head, looked at everyone seriously, and said slowly.

"Uh..."

Dixia immediately changed the subject. She said to Uncle Anpu, "Uncle Anpu, why didn't I see any "village guards" when I came back this time? Where did they go?"

"'Village guard'? Who is that? Isn't he a guard like Candice?" After hearing the unfamiliar term, Paimon no longer worried about Luo Chaya's age and how to address Uncle Amp, and asked curiously.

Senor looked at Paimon and explained to her: "...'Village Guards' are not guards. The villagers of Aru Village call those 'mad scholars' exiled here by the Order of the Lord 'Village Guards'. Most of them are scholars who became mentally ill after practicing in Daocheng Forest. The Order of the Lord believed that their crazy words would have a mental impact on other scholars, so they exiled them to the desert... However, in my opinion, this is just nonsense."

Uncle Anpu also sighed and said, "This is what we are investigating. All the village guards disappeared one by one inexplicably, but no one in the village witnessed how they left... It just so happens that Dixia is back. If it is convenient, can you help us investigate these things?"

"Of course I have no problem!" Dixia said directly to Uncle Amp.

"...I have had contact with these crazy scholars before. I will find a way to find out about them. Please rest assured." Seno stood aside and said to Uncle Amp seriously.