Genshin Impact is a big stage, come if you dare

The further down you go, the more of that black, sticky substance there is, and it looks thicker than before.

Su frowned in disgust, "It appears again! So disgusting."

Not far away, there was a pool of something emitting a dirty purple-black glow, and there was even a large pustule-like bubble bulging out.

Kong discovered by chance that with the help of the Lumen Stone, he could easily purify these unknown things that were definitely related to the abyss.

Kong walked forward and raised the Lumen Stone. The purple-black filth disappeared quickly without a trace, like snow melting in the sun.

Zhiqiong, who had been holding his breath, relaxed and couldn't help coughing a few times.

"Zhiqiong, are you feeling unwell?" Paimeng looked at Zhiqiong's face and felt that she looked a little pale. "Let's find a place to rest."

Zhiqiong: "I'm sorry for holding everyone back..."

"Don't say that. We also want to take a break and play for a while." Su put on the deep temperament of a senior, "Rest is for better progress."

"There seems to be an abandoned camp over there." Paimon pointed to the water flow.

A group of people walked along the stream for a while and indeed found a camp.

The campsite is not abandoned and there are still people active inside.

"The Fatui." The golden bracelet on Su's wrist began to deform.

A large Solstice soldier stood up on his knees, "No no no please don't attack us!"

The pale-faced Fatui soldier raised his hands to indicate that he was unarmed and had no ill intentions.

"You must not be ordinary people to appear in such a place," the Solstice Soldier praised. After seeing that the girl's complexion had improved a little, he introduced himself: "I'm Sergeant Anton Melnikov, the acting commander of the 9th Company. Just call me Anton."

There were several Fatui soldiers beside Anton. He pointed at them and introduced them one by one, "These are Daniela, Timur, Radomir and... uh, Romansky. He's not here now. He's... in the medical camp."

Zhidong’s name is too difficult to remember, so Su Cai is too lazy to remember it.

Su raised his eyelids and took a look. There was Anton the Wind Fist, the Rock Mage holding a staff, the Fatty Iceman carrying a frost sprayer, and a Musketeer who wasn't very good at using a gun.

"There's no Romansky anymore, and there's no medical camp anymore. Antoha... he didn't make it past this morning." Even with his whole face covered in bandages, the musketeer's arrogance and indignation couldn't be concealed. "Captain! Sergeant! Antoha, you... ever since the captain disappeared, you've been acting like a bully! Ha! Ha!"

The fatter Bing Pang, who was swollen from hunger, weakly advised, "That's enough, brother Timor... You're starving your brain. Save the energy you use for quarreling and use it for breathing. You can still hold on for two more days."

The calm rock wizard was obviously on Anton's side, and reminded him with a sense of superiority and inferiority: "Timor, please call him acting captain, don't call your boss by his name."

The musketeers were immediately irritated. "Acting Captain! Acting Captain! How long are we going to follow this useless guy who uses chicken feathers as his authority?!"

Bing Pang couldn't stand this atmosphere any more. "I say, Timor, you are starving to death. Why don't you eat some fists to wake yourself up?"

The musketeer began to roll up his sleeves, "Okay, come on! Let me kick you a few times too!"

"Ahem...! Be quiet!" Anton turned around to comfort his soldiers. "Do you want to fight? If you want to fight, go down and fight! Fight those things that came out of the black mud! Go on an empty stomach!"

Su Tuosai watched the Fatui soldiers fighting for a while and finally got tired of it. He raised his hand and waved, "Are you done fighting? If you are, come and line up to eat my elemental bullets."

Anton took a deep breath and said, "We are a heroic team. We should not let the guests laugh at us."

"If we want to survive and evacuate here, we must unite as one! Don't make me repeat it again, understand?" Anton raised his fist to his teammates, "One, two, slogan! Who else but me!"

Lithomancer: "Who else but me?"

Bing Pang: "Who else but me..."

The Musketeer turned his head away and said nothing.

Anton did not force him. He showed an awkward smile to Su, "Uh, haha... my friend, it's embarrassing to say... but as you can see, we are so hungry that we have lost our ability to fight. We just want to ask for some food. We can exchange Mora, weapons and the information here."

These young people were all strangers, and they looked very well. They must have come down recently, and they must have brought food with them. They were the last hope.

Su raised the golden crossbow, "It's okay, the dead don't feel hungry."

Anton's face darkened, and his teammates gathered around him. "I have been showing my friendship over and over again, why are you treating us like this?!"

"The Faints, friendly," Su Lu sneered, "The dead Faints are the friendly Faints."

Zhiqiong, a Liyue native, was also very angry. "It was you, the Fatui, who used the Demonic Water to flood Liyue! There is irrefutable evidence of this. The war reparations from Zhidong against Liyue have already been paid!"

Bing Pang sighed weakly, "Oh, no wonder, no wonder the food and ground orders were interrupted."

The hot-tempered musketeer was furious. "We came to this damn place to fight for Liyue! We should be allies! This is betrayal! We have been betrayed by the people of Liyue!"

The Lithomancer said rationally: "Perhaps it is the opposite for the Liyue people? It was us, the Fatui, who betrayed them..."

“Although the captain said before we set out that this expedition had nothing to do with any petty calculations or conspiracies, and that our group of soldiers were here as heroes to protect the people of Liyue from the Black Disaster, it seems that we have become abandoned pawns in another conspiracy.”

Paimeng felt sympathetic and said, "It sounds like there is something hidden..."

And these people look really miserable, with pale faces, skinny bodies, and swollen from hunger.

Sora: "We need to find out what they mean by the Black Disaster and the intelligence below."

Since the two friends had spoken, Su put down the golden crossbow and took out the food he had picked up for free from the treasure-stealing group today from his pocket.

After thanking him repeatedly, Anton carried the bag to the stove to cook. When he was taking out potatoes, a letter fell out of the sack.

Brother Anton Melnikov:

Sorry, the situation has changed suddenly and the supply station has been closed. I said before that I would wait for you to come up and drink two cups of kerosene together, but now it seems that it will not be possible.

I have left some food for you privately, which should be enough for short-term consumption. I hope you can take it for yourself.

I'm sorry, but as a friend, I can only do this. If we meet again, we will become enemies. Although I understand that what happened on the ground may have nothing to do with your mission, I hope you can understand that we cannot condone such an act of aggression.

Just as you fight for the Queen of the Far East, we in the Thousand Rocks must defend our homeland, and we all need to take responsibility for what’s important.

Good luck. Yanbo, stay.

Anton stopped cooking potatoes and went to find the girl with the letter. "Excuse me... where did you get that batch of supplies and this letter?"

After reading the letter, the travel team found out the truth.

This group of Fatui and the Thousand Winds once had a friendly moment of fighting side by side, but later, the Fatui on the ground deliberately flooded Liyue in order to seize the Heart of God. After the plan was exposed, the Fatui on the ground withdrew, and the group of Fatui below became abandoned.

The Fatui and the Thousand Rocks' cooperation in the Stratum Chasm broke down, and the Thousand Rocks withdrew and sealed the Stratum Chasm. Yanbo, who was friends with Anton's team, captured a group of treasure robbers who had a secret passage to enter the Stratum Chasm, threatened them to smuggle supplies, and put food into the Fatui's supply station.

This letter was originally placed at a supply station along with the food by the smuggling treasure-stealing group. Unfortunately, they met the traveler group halfway and all of it was accepted by Su Xiao.

Anton folded the letter slowly and carefully and put it in the secret pocket on his chest. After thinking for a while, he took it out and put it in the stove fire, watching it burn to ashes.

The fire illuminated his eyes, which were filled with melancholy and regret.

"Yanbo did this to help us...If he is exposed, he will be severely punished."

Although I want to keep it as a final commemoration, this letter is "evidence" and should be burned to ashes.