Genshin Impact: A Traveler with Only Two Skills

Ying woke up again in the middle of the night, this time not because of Guiyan, but for a reason that Ying couldn't explain.

Perhaps she finally couldn't ignore the strange feeling of replacing air with water, or perhaps her traveler's intuition kicked in again. In any case, Ying woke up and sensed a dangerous aura in the air.

Ying planned to go out and take a look, but in order to leave the room, she had to communicate with Lingyue:

"Lingyue, did you feel it?" Ying asked softly in a voice that would not wake Guiyan. Like Ying, Lingyue had been alert to this place the whole time. She immediately regained consciousness after hearing Ying's voice.

"It's a bit weird." Ling Yue's voice sounded in Ying's mind, "Do you want us to go and take a look together?"

Ying thought about it and quickly made a decision:

"Then you should be careful, after all, you don't have enough mana now."

"Hmph, I am an immortal after all." Ling Yue said unconvinced, and then she connected her consciousness with Gui Yan and woke him up. Then the two of them walked out of the room with their souls.

However, as soon as they came outside the house, they saw a familiar smaller figure.

"Gu Ling?" Ying called out in a low voice. She was not surprised that the other party noticed the abnormality, but she was surprised that she came to find them.

In Ying's opinion, Gu Ling should be the type who would rush to the abnormality on her own, but she didn't expect that she would still consider them.

"Hey! You also noticed something unusual." Gu Ling greeted Ying and Gui Yan with a slightly exaggerated gesture. She was holding a kerosene lamp in her other hand. The flickering light made Gu Ling's shadow seem to shake constantly, as if it was shaking.

Ying did not ask why the other party was here, but asked the question that they were most concerned about:

"Did you find anything?"

As she spoke, Ying looked at the house next to the gate. Although the pitch-black environment made it difficult for Ying to see what was going on there, her intuition told her that there was something unusual there.

"There is indeed something wrong with this Brother Zhu." Ying said in her heart, while Gu Ling picked up the kerosene lamp in her hand and shook it towards the darkness in the distance. A swallowing sound could be clearly heard from her throat.

"You, you guys go take a look first, I'll help you pay attention to the surrounding situation."

"Are you afraid?" Ling Yue's voice sounded at the right time, exposing Gu Ling's disguise.

Gu Ling's face instantly turned red because of Ling Yue's words, but they also knew that now was not the time to waste time arguing.

Ying and Lingyue exchanged glances, then slowly walked towards the house where Zhu Ge and Zhao Dongniang lived. Gu Ling held up a light source, guarding against possible dangers from behind.

As they got closer to the house, Ying and Lingyue felt that strange feeling getting stronger and stronger, making them tense their whole bodies. The black sword was already in Ying's hand without her knowing, and the magic power in Lingyue's body began to flow slowly.

As soon as something unusual occurs, they will take action immediately. Facing two immortal-level fighters at the same time, Ying believes that there are not many creatures at the bottom of the lake that can be their opponents.

But the expected murderous intent never appeared. Instead, Ying felt something swimming past her. Her instinct made her swing her sword immediately. The black sword also felt as if it had passed through an object. Then a liquid different from the lake water spread around her, with a distinct fishy smell.

It's a fish!

Why are there fish here?

However, before Ying could figure out what was happening, a fire suddenly appeared in Zhu Ge's room, and Zhao Dongniang's figure was projected onto the window.

Ying and Lingyue were startled and stepped back quickly, but in the light that stole in from the house, Ying saw that the body of the fish was still floating in the air and the pool of blood was spreading in the water.

"Not good!" Ying looked at Ling Yue. Fortunately, the other party immediately understood what she meant. She pointed at the fish that was cut in half. The fish and the blood around it continued to shrink with the fish's eye as the center. In the blink of an eye, it condensed into a small blood-red bead and flew into Ling Yue's palm.

This is done to prevent the people in the house from noticing anything unusual. After all, everyone here believes that they are living on normal land, but fish floating in the air and blood spreading in the air would not appear on normal land.

If they were allowed to see the fish, they would probably realize there was a problem and their demonic side would be revealed.

After doing all this, Ying and Lingyue also retreated to Gu Ling's side. They hurriedly extinguished the kerosene lamp in Gu Ling's hand. When they turned off the light, Gu Ling's body trembled obviously. Ying realized that Gu Ling might be a little afraid of the dark, so she held her in her arms while turning off the light.

Ying's sudden action made Gu Ling scream, and her body twisted uncomfortably, but Gu Ling quickly calmed down and tightly grasped Ying's sleeves with both hands.

Fortunately, the darkness did not last too long. After a while, a burst of shouting and cursing came from Zhu Ge and Zhao Dongniang's house. Ying also keenly heard some whipping sounds mixed in, followed by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, dull but powerful. After a moment's silence, a scream finally broke the tranquility of the night completely.

"what--"

About ten minutes later, everyone in the courtyard came to Brother Zhu's house carrying kerosene lamps. Ying, Lingyue and Gu Ling were also mixed in the crowd. In the chaos, no one noticed that they had been wandering outside before the scream was heard.

They waited until Chen Juan arrived before squeezing into the crowd.

"Don't look!" Chen Juan noticed Gu Ling approaching and reached out to cover her eyes without saying a word.

Gu Ling remembered her role in this family. She just gently pried Chen Juan's hand and then asked unconvincedly:

"What's wrong, Aunt Chen? Why don't you let me see it?"

But she knew the reason in her heart. When Aunt Chen pressed her little head and asked her to turn around and leave, Gu Ling gave Ying and Lingyue a look.

Ying's Lingyue saw the scene more directly - Brother Zhu fell on his back with one leg on the bed, and it looked like he was pushed off the bed by someone.

His eyes were dull and he stared at the ceiling lifelessly, but his cloudy eyeballs could not reflect any light. His stiff face seemed to silently reveal his inner confusion, but Ying still saw his hidden anger.

Unfortunately, whether it is anger or confusion, it is all meaningless because he is already dead.

The cause of death was obvious: it was as if Brother Zhu's heart had been cut open by something sharp. The smooth cut surface exposed all the organs in his chest to everyone, but where the heart should have been, only a few blood vessels with equally smooth cut surfaces were left.

With a broken chest and a missing heart, Ying didn't think anyone could survive in such a situation, so Brother Zhu must be dead.

A pool of blood was still flowing slowly under the bed, which was completely different from the blood of the fish before.

On the other side of the bed, Zhao Dongniang, whose face was as pale as death, was curled up in a ball, shaking constantly, and she didn't even notice a large number of people coming into the room.

"Ying, Guiyan, you two should go back too and take good care of Gu Ling. Do you hear me?" Chen Juan's voice came from Ying and Lingyue.

The two of them looked at each other, looked frightened, and slowly walked away. Their brows were still furrowed until they arrived at Gu Ling's room.

"This must have been done by a possessed immortal." Ling Yue said to the two after entering the room. She took out the corpse of the fish that she had turned into a bead.

"There is both magic power and demonic energy on it. Even if the other party didn't attack directly, it must be related to them."

"But what is that guy's purpose? Why did he target Brother Zhu? Is there anything special about him?" Ying had many questions in her mind. Although she asked them, she didn't think she could get the answers now.

Unexpectedly, Gu Ling, who had been standing by the lamp, spoke after the two of them finished talking:

"If you want to know why, you might as well ask it directly."

Gu Ling pointed at the lamp in front of her with her chin. It was not until then that Ying and Lingyue realized that there was a fish in the dark shadow under the lamp!