Genshin Impact: A Traveler with Only Two Skills

It seems that Lingyue and Gu Ling both know what is going on. Only Ying and Guiyan are still confused. However, there are too many people here, so they can't ask too much and can only follow Gu Ling.

Although in the eyes of others, Ying and Guiyan were taking care of Gu Ling's older sister, in fact, it was Gu Ling who brought them two to get familiar with the people in the town.

After greeting Aunt Ping, Gu Ling took Ying and Gui Yan to meet the person in charge of the temple, and then walked to another woman who had just finished worshiping the statue.

"Auntie Chen!" Gu Ling called out to the other party in a delicate voice. Suddenly, she changed from the arrogant little loli who was trying hard to maintain her senior persona to an innocent little girl, and jumped to the front of the woman.

Ying and Guiyan had no choice but to follow. As expected, the woman looked at Gu Ling with surprise at first, and then looked at Ying and Guiyan with a puzzled expression.

"You are?"

"Auntie Chen, how come you didn't even recognize Sister Ying and Sister Guiyan? Has your eyesight gotten worse again?" Gu Ling continued her lie, and it worked just as well this time.

"Oh, it's you. It's so dark, I didn't recognize you." Aunt Chen patted her legs and said to the three of them:

"Why are you two here together today? I remember you don't usually go out together."

"We just happened to meet." Gu Ling responded coquettishly, and at the same time winked at Ying and Guiyan, signaling them to follow this Aunt Chen.

But before taking action, Ying couldn't help but ask:

"Why do you want to worship the idol at this time when it is so dark? Can't you worship in the morning?"

As soon as she said this, Gu Ling glared at Ying, obviously blaming her for asking such an inappropriate question. At the same time, she quickly glanced at Chen Ma and found that she didn't notice anything unusual, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Chen Ma still frowned, and the corners of her mouth curled up, revealing an expression that didn't know whether to laugh or cry:

"What does this have to do with whether it's dark or not? Don't we have to pray every day and night? You are such a grown-up kid, why are you asking such a question?"

Do you have to worship every day and night?

This sentence reminded Ying of the fact that everyone in the town only appeared during the day and night and disappeared at dawn and dusk.

According to Gu Ling, this is because all the creatures at the bottom of the lake have been assimilated by the lake water, but now a wonderful coincidence has occurred.

“Could it be that their disappearing and reappearing characteristics are also related to the worship of these idols?”

Ying didn't think that all these people were so pious. Even if there were really pious people, it was impossible for the whole village to be so pious.

However, they cannot investigate the matter now. In order to avoid suspicion from the townspeople, they still have to act according to the rules.

"It seems that we are now the children of Aunt Chen. It's amazing." Ling Yue said in everyone's mind.

"How come they just accepted our existence?" This was another question that Ying was concerned about. "What Gu Ling said just now was obviously a lie."

Ying originally wanted Gu Ling to answer her questions, but when she lowered her head, she found that Gu Ling was staring at her.

"Did I do something wrong again?" Ying leaned over and whispered in Gu Ling's ear.

But Gu Ling stared at Ying for several seconds, and the muscles around her eyes were obviously very tense. Finally, she blinked in frustration and answered in a low voice:

"This is the rule here. Although letting them notice the abnormality will directly reveal their true nature as monsters, all the townspeople are also trying their best to maintain the appearance of normal humans. This may be their spontaneous behavior, or it may be the effect of this lake."

"Anyway, as long as the problem isn't too serious, these people will quickly accept it, just like they accepted our existence. Now I am a child adopted by Mother Chen, and you are the two sisters who grew up with me - but I still have to emphasize that I am the senior."

Although Ying still wanted to know why the other party had been staring at her, it was not an important question after all, so she did not ask. Everyone followed Chen Ma back to the market in silence.

There were more people in the market at this time. It should be that those who went to worship the statues early in the morning also returned here, which made the market more crowded.

And in such a crowded place, a large group of people appeared.

"Make way! Make way!"

"Hey, please make way!"

A few shouts came from not far away, attracting everyone's attention. Ying thought that some vendor was going to sell his last goods while there were many people. But when she saw the crowds of people avoiding the place where the voices came from, Ying realized something was wrong.

The group of people quickly passed in front of Ying, and they were actually carrying a corpse!

"Isn't this Lao Shao?" Chen Ma said in surprise. She looked at Lao Shao who was carried away and said in confusion:

"What's going on, Lao Shao?"

A vendor who was following the crowd and watching the excitement stopped and said after taking a breath:

"Lao Shao is gone!"

"Ah?! How come it's gone all of a sudden?" An old lady who was buying vegetables also came over. Her voice was very loud and her tone was high, which attracted quite a few people at once, and some people followed her over.

"Who knows? It's fate." The vendor shook his head and sighed. Others also expressed their feelings, but Ying felt that these people did not seem to feel sad.

"Old Shao lives on the edge of town. He has a bad temper and beats people every day. People in the town don't like him very much." Gu Ling leaned close to Ying's ear and explained to her.

No wonder the people in the town only sighed about the fickleness of fate when they saw Lao Shao die. Compared to this person, they were more concerned about their own floating fate.

But, didn't the people here become monsters long ago? How could they die again? And even after death, they still looked like humans, without revealing the truth that they were monsters?

Ying looked at the lake again, and felt that this lake was unfathomable. She didn't know what the rules were at the bottom of the lake, and what would happen if she broke the rules.

On the other side, the dead Lao Shao was carried to a clinic by the townspeople. The sudden arrival of the corpse made the empty clinic busy. It was not until late at night when the lights in each household gradually went out that the doctor covered the corpse with a white cloth and finally fell into a deep sleep.

However, no one expected that in this quiet night, a small fish suddenly swam into the clinic. It used its flexible body to push open the window, passed through the gap in the room, and easily came to the front of the corpse.

This is a small grayish-white fish that looks inconspicuous, but in this lakeside town where only humans live, it will only appear in the market in the form of a corpse.

And now, the human has become a corpse, lying quietly on the bed, while the fish is swimming freely in front of each other.

The little fish swam back and forth on the corpse's face as if mocking it, slapping its face with its tail, and then dived into the corpse's mouth.

Does it want to be eaten?

No, of course there wouldn't be such a stupid fish.

The throat of the corpse was obviously stretched out. At first, there was only the sound of flesh squirming, followed by a sound similar to chewing, and soon followed by a muffled sound. There was also an obvious pool of red blood on the snow-white bed sheet.

Although it was clearly in the water, the red bloodstain did not spread because of the rules of the lake.

After a while, the fish became bloated, with something extra in its stomach. It swam out of the clinic with difficulty, dragging its heavy body, and finally disappeared into the darkness.