Genshin Impact: The Sharpshooter of Teyvat

Faced with Shao Yun's threat, the Eightfold Son of God trembled and a look of despair appeared on her face.

She closed her eyes in pain and murmured to herself, "What do I have left now? Inazuma is not as wealthy as Liyue, and you have no interest in my beauty. What can I give you?!"

Shao Yun looked at the haggard appearance of Yae Shen Zi, took back the cowboy revolver, and gave a suggestion.

"Well... how about we play blackjack?"

Yae Shinko opened his eyes immediately upon hearing "21 points" and asked in confusion, "What is that?"

Shao Yun took out a deck of playing cards and explained, "It's a small game. It's very fun. Compared to Texas Hold'em, dominoes, and knife-piercing, this game is moderately difficult and completely relies on luck."

Then, Shao Yun began to shuffle the cards, and while shuffling, he briefly explained the rules to Yae Shenzi.

"The rules are simple. Each card has a number. The number of points on the cards from 2 to 10 is the number on the card."

“J 、Q 、K 的点数是10分；A 有两种算法，1 或者 11 ，如果 A 算为 11 时总和大于 21 ，则 A 算为 1 。”

"For example, A, 8 is 19 points, while A, 7, J is 18 points."

"In blackjack, if the points exceed 21, it means you bust and lose. If you are unlucky and bust at the beginning, you also lose."

"To put it simply, it's just a comparison of size, but there are actually more complicated rules. But just follow what I said."

After all, what is being gambled is not money, but the life of the Eightfold Son of God, so some minor rules can be ignored.

Afterwards, Shao Yun announced the rewards for winning and losing the game.

"If you win, I will take your amulet and leave. I will not pursue the past. If I win, you should prepare to deal with your aftermath, and then choose the next Thunder God in Inazuma."

After hearing Shao Yun wanted to use "21 points" to decide his fate, Yae Shenzi wanted to bargain with Shao Yun.

"I can keep it a secret. I won't tell Ying. If you think I'm not enough, I..."

Having said that, Yae Kamiko continued to undress as she spoke, a sly and charming smile on her face.

Shao Yun interrupted what Yae Shen Zi was about to say and her continued action of undressing, and his voice was octave higher than before.

"I told you, if you do this, your death will only be longer and more painful!"

After saying that, Shao Yun finished preparing to shuffle the cards.

Then he reached out and grabbed the Yae God's slender arm, and with a little force he pulled the whole person up from the ground.

At the same time, Shao Yun stared coldly at the beautiful yet panic-filled eyes of Yae Shenzi, and said in a deep voice: "It is useless to say more now. You have to have confidence in your own luck."

……

Under the shade of the sacred cherry tree, Shao Yun and Yae Shinto sat face to face.

Before Shao Yun was about to start a game of blackjack, he asked the other party out of kindness.

"Now, do you want to do some practice first?"

Yae Shinko had a blank expression on her face, shook her head in despair, and replied firmly, "No need, we'll decide the outcome in one round."

She felt that the pain of cutting flesh with a blunt knife was too torturous, and whether she lived or died, she hoped to know the result after a game was over.

As the dealer, Shao Yun first dealt two cards to Yae Shen Zi.

After checking the cards dealt to Yae Shinko, Shao Yun commented: "Not bad, a 9 and a Q, a total of 19 points, this number is quite good."

After looking at the cards, Shao Yun seemed to make a suggestion with good intentions.

"Want another card? Take a chance on whether you'll draw a 2?"

When Yae Shinko saw that she got a high score of 19 points at the beginning, a glimmer of hope ignited in her heart.

She quickly rejected Shao Yun's seemingly tempting suggestion to ask for the cards, shook her head firmly, and replied: "No, it's your turn now."

Seeing that Yae Shen Zi decided to stop playing, Shao Yun began to check his own cards.

"A 3 and a 7." Shao Yun examined his cards with interest, a playful smile on his face.

"Only 10 points, I choose to take the card." Shao Yun dealt himself another card.

After seeing the third card clearly, Shao Yun's mouth corners slightly raised and he chuckled.

"Haha, it's actually a 'J'."

Shao Yun said to himself proudly, and then showed the three cards neatly laid out on the ground to the Eightfold Son of God opposite him.

Then, he said like a devil: "Smart Miss Yae, use what I just said to calculate, how many points do I have now?"

The cards in front of the desperate Shao Yun, the Son of the Eightfold God.

His 19 points versus Shao Yun's 20 points, the outcome of this bet was beyond doubt.

Even a child who has just learned arithmetic can easily tell that Yae Shinko lost the game.

Just a dozen seconds ago, Yae Shinko was full of joy and thought that she was about to win, but the reality gave her such a cruel and ruthless blow.

The huge gap between falling from heaven to hell in an instant made Yae Shinko's emotions almost out of control. She opened her eyes wide and her face was full of despair.

In extreme panic and fear, Yae Shinko suddenly thought of something and spoke quickly.

"You can't kill me. If you kill me, Istaru will become your enemy completely!"

Hearing this, Shao Yun couldn't help but frown, narrowed his eyes, and asked angrily: "What?"

How does this relate to the time of taking power?

The Eightfold Divine Son did not hesitate at all.

She quickly searched her body and pulled out a record document that looked quite old from some hidden corner.

Yae Shenzi hurriedly handed it to Shao Yun and said, "Take a look at this, this is important information that I finally found in a secret place in Inazuma!"

Shao Yun took the old document from the Eightfold Son of God.

When he opened the slightly yellowed paper, his eyes were instantly attracted by the densely packed words on it.

However, after just a few glances, Shao Yun's face turned gloomy, because he found that he could not understand the words on it. Now he really became illiterate...

However, in order to prevent her from taking this opportunity to deliberately fool him, Shao Yun pretended to be calm and tried to keep a stern face.

"Please read it to me. There are so many words on it that it makes my eyes dizzy!"

Yae Shen Zi took the document back from Shao Yun and briefly explained to Shao Yun why he could not be killed.

"To put it simply, if you kill me again, Istaru will cause trouble for you."

Shao Yun is the type of person who is ignorant and fearless. Of course, even if he "knows", it is useless because he is a fool.

"I don't understand. What does my killing you have to do with Istaru?"

Yae Godson expressed in his own words some of the strange insights he had after becoming one of the Seventh Rulers of the World, as well as some fragmentary information he had collected.

"The current situation is that Sky Island does not know that Ying is dead. Because the battle took place in the Pure Land of One Heart, and I inherited the authority of the Thunder God, Sky Island did not notice it."

"Ishtar has a very good relationship with Raiden Shin and Kaname Raiden, otherwise why would he leave the sacred cherry tree to Inazuma?"

"Now, if you kill me, there will be no one left in Inazuma who can take over my authority as the God of Thunder."

"You don't like trouble, do you?"

When Shao Yun heard Yaye Shenzi say that he didn't like trouble, he sneered with disdain.

"Humph, I really don't like trouble, but that doesn't mean I'm afraid of trouble!"

At this moment, Yae Shenzi stared at Shao Yun's sneering face, her heart tightened, her breathing began to become rapid, and her chest rose and fell.

After a brief pause, she suddenly raised her hand and pointed behind Shao Yun.

"I know what you're thinking, but! I didn't see that scary guy behind you! I don't know what happened, but I sure didn't see it!"

Even though she herself was not sure whether this would work, she still said it out of instinct.

As soon as these words were spoken, Shao Yun's impulse to kill the Eightfold Son of God immediately was weakened.

……

Shao Yun asked in his heart, "Is what she said about Istaru true? I killed Yae Shinko, and then this 'clock adjuster' will cause trouble for me."

The system gave an answer plus some comments.

[There is a high probability. Also, I have to say, your description is quite abstract! ]

Shao Yun's attention was all on the "high probability" and he didn't care about metaphors or anything like that at all.

"But the matter of Fontaine..."

Seeing Shao Yun talking about Fontaine, the system gave a possibility.

[But the power of Gu Long was not left idle, but given to Villette. If it had been left without an heir, it would have been hard to say.]

……

After a conversation with the system, Shao Yun was not completely sure and confident in his heart, but he still wanted to scare the Eightfold Son of God in front of him.

Shao Yun took a deep breath, trying to appear calm, and then said to Yae Shenzi in a mysterious and slightly threatening tone: "Have you heard of the 'Grandfather Paradox'?"

Hearing this strange and peculiar term, Yae Shinko was slightly stunned, with a look of confusion on his face.

Seeing this, Shao Yun cleared his throat and began to slowly and carefully explain the so-called "grandfather paradox" to Yae Shen Zi.

"If a person goes back in time and kills his grandparents, then his father will not be born, and he himself will not be born."

“But if he had never been born, then he couldn’t go back in time and kill, so the grandfather would still be alive, the parents would still be born, and this person would still be born, so he could still go back in time and kill the grandfather.

"This creates a logically contradictory cycle."

After saying this, Shao Yun reached for his waist, quickly pulled out John's cowboy revolver, and pointed the gun at Yae Shenzi.

"If she wants to do it, I will definitely cease to exist! But since I am still standing here, it is enough to prove that you are lying!"

"In that case, even if I shoot you now, it will definitely not cause any adverse consequences!"

In fact, Shao Yun should have taken Lancaster or Litchfield, because he could get three stars by killing foxes...

But if it's a legendary fox, then whatever...

Faced with this scene, Yae Shinko was quick-witted and said, "Is there another possibility that you put down your gun and gave me a way to live, allowing my existence to deceive Sky Island and Istaru."

Shao Yun was completely unmoved. He followed the words of the Eightfold God Child and said with his neck stiff, "It is also possible that I killed you and then took the entire Teyvat to hell! She died before she could react."

The Eightfold Son of God was a little upset when facing the unyielding Shao Yun. He asked in confusion, "Do you know? You've gone crazy."

"Why? You want to live a stable and comfortable life more than anyone else, but every time you are faced with a choice, you always resolutely choose the most extreme and cruel solution!"

After hearing this, Shao Yun was like a powder keg that had been lit. His eyes widened and he shouted impulsively: "This is all because you, a bunch of despicable and shameless guys, have been secretly plotting against us!"

Yae Shenzi was a little confused by Shao Yun's extreme behavior, and it took him a while to come back to his senses.

"Wait a minute, what are you talking about? Apart from tricking you into being Ying's psychiatrist and getting her out of the Pure Land, what else did we plan for you?"

Shao Yun's eyes widened with anger, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You guys are plotting..."

However, just after a few words came out of his mouth, Shao Yun changed his mind and thought, that's not right. This fox has only been the God of Thunder for a few months, how could he know about things that happened hundreds of years ago?

Thinking of this, his originally tough tone couldn't help but soften a little. After all, every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt has its creditor.

"Yeah, that's right. You, a fox, really don't understand that."

Although Shao Yun had already denied in his heart that Yae Shen Zi had anything to do with that incident, he had not yet thought of letting her go.

"But you still lost the game of blackjack, and I had every reason to kill you."

Hearing Shao Yun's ruthless words, the Eightfold Son of God's heart sank to the bottom in an instant.

Seeing that the other party was determined to kill him, Yae Shinto made a final struggle.

"You, ah! Tell me a condition. I can agree to everything except my life!"

Shao Yun grabbed the collar of Yae Shen Zi tightly with his left hand, pulled hard, and pulled the whole person in front of him.

At the same time, the gun in his right hand was pressed against the temple of Yae Shinto.

"Humph, do you think that just begging for mercy can make me change my mind? Let me tell you, it's not that easy!"

"Actually, if I think about it carefully, maybe your skin is quite good. If it is made into something like a hat, a scarf, or a coat, it will definitely be a very exquisite decoration... I am looking forward to seeing how Ying looks when she wears it."

Yae Shenzi immediately realized that Shao Yun's words seemed to have a deeper meaning, but at this moment she had no time to worry about whether her guess was true or not.

Just like a drowning person, even if there is only a floating straw, he will hold on to it tightly in order to hope for a chance of survival.

"I'll give Ying an exquisite fox hat!"

After saying this, she was worried that the conditions she proposed were not enough to impress Shao Yun, so she quickly added: "Not only that, I can also give you a lifetime free reading qualification for Yaedang. And... and..."

Having said that, Yae Shinko couldn't think of anything more that could increase the bargaining chips.

Time passes by bit by bit, and every second seems to be extremely long.

The cold muzzle of the gun was still pressed against the temple of Yae Shinto, with no sign of moving at all.

Seeing that Shao Yun was unmoved, the only glimmer of hope left in the heart of the Eightfold Son of God began to gradually shatter.

Just when the Eightfold Son of God thought he was about to meet Baalzebub, a miracle suddenly happened.

Shao Yun slowly put away the gun in his hand and said the unfinished words for her.

"And, face up to the gap between you and Ying!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shao Yun casually picked up a card from the playing card, the 7 of diamonds.

The appearance of this card caused the points in his hand to instantly exceed the upper limit, resulting in him busting and losing the bet.

After watching Shao Yun lose the game, Yae Shenzi seemed to have Stockholm syndrome, and thanked Shao Yun with gratitude on his face: "Thank you."

Facing the thanks from the Eightfold God Child, Shao Yun said in a voice without any emotion: "Don't make me regret not killing you today."

"Also, ordinary fox hats are not to my liking. You'd better prepare one that is special and exquisite enough for me. Otherwise, you know what will happen to you!"

Before he finished speaking, Shao Yun quickly put away the playing cards in his hand and turned to leave.

Looking at Shao Yun's back which gradually walked away until he disappeared, the Eightfold Son of God, who had experienced many ups and downs, collapsed to the ground again.

Afterwards, she leaned her back against the thick trunk of the sacred cherry tree, breathing heavily, secretly rejoicing in her heart.

"That's great. I finally escaped... I finally, finally survived..."

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