Genshin Impact is a big stage, come if you dare

Su: "What is the Big Man Potion? Will you become a big man if you drink it?"

Wow... Then! If she drinks it, will she grow as tall and strong as Ichidou? Even as tall as Ying would be fine!

"The slogan says that drinking it will increase your strength, giving miners more energy to dig." Zhiqiong revealed: "But in fact, it's just fruit syrup."

"Oh, fake medicine." Su looked indifferent and quickly lost interest.

"Well, it's not entirely a lie. Juice with sugar can really replenish your physical strength." Kritov smiled and took out a few tubes of juice. "Thank you for your help. These are my latest drinks. Please drink them for free!"

Kong quickly rejected Kritov's drink and taught Su and Paimon, "Don't eat things you don't know, and don't drink drinks given by strangers."

He found that this person was also dressed as a member of the treasure-stealing group. He was probably a member of the treasure-stealing group just now, but there was an internal conflict. Who knows what kind of drug this kind of person would put in the drink.

"Oh come on, I'm not a child anymore," Su said with a rebellious look on her face, "It's obvious that this person's drinks don't taste good. We don't want them."

Paimon: "That's right! We don't want any drinks that don't taste good."

I took a deep breath and felt that there is still a long way to go in food safety education.

"I still have a bottom line. I didn't add any weird things or potions." To prove his innocence, Kritov took back a tube of juice and drank it all. "Haha - it tastes great!"

Paimon swallowed her saliva, and Kong quickly took out a glass of juice he made and blocked her mouth.

Zhiqiong was more interested in the miners' secret passage that Kritov had just mentioned, and asked Kritov to lead the way to take a look. Finally, the group came to a rock wall.

Zhiqiong checked the situation and said, "In order to avoid being caught, those guys simply blocked the secret passage. They were really desperate to achieve this in such a short time."

Paimon questioned: "But they look like ordinary people. How did they block the passage with these huge rocks?"

"It's my liquid explosives." Kritov pointed at himself proudly. "I don't know anything else, but I can mix drinks to make explosives. It's because of this skill that they agreed to let me join."

Su's eyes sparkled, "Explosives!"

"Oh? Miss, you don't like drinks but you like explosives? But you can't make it without the materials here." Kritov spread his hands.

If you need anything, find Jinwu.

A group of people took Kritov back to the camp along the same route.

On the way Kritov explained his whole history and situation.

Kritov was a native of Mond, and studied alchemy in his hometown.

At first Kritov thought he was very talented, but gradually, the more he learned, the more he realized the gap between himself and others.

"There are some gaps that can never be crossed, and some people that can never be caught up." Kritov sighed, "Alchemy is a subject that is meant for those gifted geniuses or those with a huge amount of learning resources."

He is neither a genius nor the descendant of a wealthy family.

Hit by the reality, Kritov gave up alchemy and chose to go out to make a living.

Paimon was speechless, "You make a living by being a treasure thief?"

Kritov: "Because I don't want to live a mediocre life. Some people in this world are destined to be heroes, and some are destined to be villains?"

Sora: "That's a lie. There is no such thing as destiny. Doing bad things is just your personal choice."

Kritov also explained the smuggling situation of the treasure-stealing group, "They were threatened by a Thousand Rocks soldier and asked to smuggle the food down there and put it in a fixed location."

Zhi Qiong: "The Treasure Stealing Group is colluding with the Qianyan Army?! We need to report this to Sister Jinwu."

The team of travelers looked at each other and remembered the treasure-stealing groups escorting food that they had encountered before. It seemed that they were in the same group as the group just now.

"That..." Su raised his hand after being silent for a long time. "Did you hear a strange voice? She was talking and asked me to take another way."

"Don't scare me, Su. There should be no one else here. There's no sound... Wait! There's really someone talking!" Paimon also heard it.

A very faint voice kept telling the direction.

"Wooooooah!" Paimon hugged Su tightly to gain a sense of security.

The group of people quieted down and listened attentively in the silence.

After a while, Kong confirmed: "I didn't hear anything. Either you are hallucinating, or this is a trap for you."

Sora felt that it was most likely the two mushrooms that Su and Paimon had eaten that caused the auditory hallucinations. Well, I told you not to eat random things.

Sora urged the two to drink the universal antidote prepared by Barbara.

Kritov recognized it immediately, "Oh, this is a good thing made by Mr. Albedo, the chief alchemist of the Knights! You are not ordinary people to have such good things!"

"We are Barbara's friends and Mondstadt's honorary knights." Paimon put his hands on his hips and was proud for two seconds, then shrank into a ball in fear, "We can still hear that voice!"

It’s not food poisoning from eating mushrooms or hallucination at all!

Kong and Su looked at each other and nodded together.

No matter what monsters and demons there are, accept the challenge!

Su led everyone in the direction indicated and came to a place with underground water flow.

"There's an abandoned campsite here." Sora walked over and found a work diary on the dusty table.

The cover of the work diary has the name of the owner - Lao He.

Opening the diary, there is a series of work records in the front and written in the back.

[Qi Ding spent a long time looking for the toy he gave to his daughter, but couldn't find it anywhere. I can only go deep into the mine to help him look for it tomorrow.]

Paimon showed a sad expression, "Is this the reason why Lao He disappeared? He was helping a co-worker find a doll, but he got lost and never returned home..."

The diary was still open and there were still words in it. I flipped through it and continued reading.

[My ears are itchy...]

[My ears are itchy. They’re so itchy. They’re so itchy. My ears... They’re so annoying. I’m running out of food. The voice said... But can I eat this mushroom?...]

The words in the diary became bigger and more confusing.

Thinking of Su and Paimon who ate mushrooms, Kong's face darkened.

[I can hear it, I can hear it, hehe, mushroom meat······hehehe······Mushroom meat, delicious······hehehe, mushroom meat······]

Pages full of mushroom meat and hehehe are like mental pollution. Paimeng feels as if she can hear the crazy man saying this in her ear...

No, not like! It really is there!

Kong drew his sword and stood in front of everyone to protect them, carefully looking at the big man who suddenly appeared behind them.

He looked dazed and his skin was an abnormal gray-purple color.

The whites of the eyes in the eye sockets also turned black, almost blending with the brown and black pupils.

The whole person is visibly abnormal.