Genshin Impact: Reincarnation as a Hilichurl

"Uhhhhhh-!"

Naturally, the first person to notice the change was Vaughan himself. When others gradually noticed that the pockets of his blue guard uniform had turned dark blue due to being soaked, he had already squatted on the ground with his head in his hands in utter terror, without caring about his image, and at the same time let out a series of ghostly howls.

"What are you afraid of?" Wang Chen asked.

"Eh...? I-I'm fine? I'm fine?!"

Vaughn reached into his pocket and pulled out a test tube with a burst mouth and a damaged stopper. There was still some pink-blue liquid in the test tube. He bravely took off his gloves and touched the liquid.

Nothing happened.

“You damn Vashe… Hehe, you want to silence me? You didn’t expect that with Lady Funina here, this Primordial Fetal Sea Water will not work at all! It will not work at all!!”

After experiencing the ups and downs of life and death, Vaughn seemed even more crazy. He suddenly turned to the audience, and swiped his fingers from left to right, shouting, "Vash... I know you are hiding among the audience! Did you see it? Hahaha... You saw it! You still want to hurt me? No way!"

"That's enough!" Furninna interrupted Vaughn's madness with an angry look, "Tell me everything you know."

"Lady Furninna...I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything!"

Vaughn said with great fear:

“The fact that the water of the original fetal sea can dissolve the Fontaine people was discovered by the leader of our organization…Vashey.

"He seems to have been researching this kind of thing, and the experimental subjects... are the victims of the 'serial disappearance of girls' case'... but I didn't know this when I joined the organization!

"At that time, I only knew that the organization was making a special potion that made people feel very excited after drinking it. It was highly addictive, so the sales were very good. We have been making that potion and making a lot of money from it.

"After I joined the organization for a long time, because I was a member of the security team, Vash sent someone to find me and asked me to help find 'experimental candidates'...

"It was then that I realized that Vashé was the main culprit in the 'serial disappearance of girls' case', and that the potion we were selling was diluted with the 'primordial fetal sea water' that could dissolve the Fontaine people...

"I can't help it... I really can't help it! I just wanted to make money at first, but I became an accomplice in such a serious case without knowing it... I'm still young! I'm in the security team! I make a lot of money! I can only choose to continue helping him!

"For this operation, the higher-ups told me that as long as we can successfully frame the Fatui for the 'serial disappearance of young girls' case', we can all escape. This is the best chance!

"I didn't expect that we underestimated the existence of Lady Funina. The water of the original fetal sea has lost its effect... This is all I know..."

"Really?" asked Furninna. "You just said that Vashie was among the audience. Tell me, who is Vashie?"

"I have no idea…"

"You don't know, so how can you be sure he's here?"

"That bastard Vashie is usually very careful. He almost never contacts us unless necessary. He also communicates with us through different people... including the original fetal sea water we got, which was transferred by Vashie through other channels. We are also Fontaine people, and we definitely don't dare to touch such things."

Vaughn held up the broken test tube with one hand and the damaged bottle stopper with the other, and said excitedly: "So this test tube must have been moved by no one after it was sealed by Vash. But the bottle stopper of the original fetal sea water on my body was detonated by someone remotely! It was Vash who did it. He must be nearby! He was watching me! He wanted to silence me just now!"

Hearing this, Funina first glanced at the people on the stage: Chen, Ying, Paimon, Clorinde, Navilette, Patricia, Vaughan... In fact, just by looking at their age, one could tell that these people were definitely not Vash.

She looked down at the audience again. It was such a large opera house, and it was almost full of people... The murderer was most likely among them.

The audience was also looking at each other in bewilderment, but after discovering that the so-called primordial fetal sea water failed to dissolve Vaughn, not many people panicked.

Without waiting for Funina to send someone to investigate the names of the audience, Villette said, "After the previous investigation, I am very sure that there is no one named Vashé in the audience, and there is no one with this name in the opera house or the security team."

"Vasher is definitely in the opera house right now!" Vaughan said, "He is so cunning, the name 'Vasher' may just be a code name, but for such an important plan, there is no way he would not be there to supervise it in person!"

"That's possible, but how can we find the criminal based on a code name?"

Paimon expressed everyone's thoughts in a slightly distressed tone, and everyone couldn't help but start to ponder.

But Paimeng suddenly thought of something: "Oh, Ying, the voice you heard at Lujingquan seemed to be calling Vashie, right?!"

This immediately shifted everyone's attention to Ying.

Ying nodded slightly, and hesitantly expressed her uncertain guess:

“It may sound a bit mysterious, but because of my strong perception of the water element, I really heard a woman calling ‘Vasher’ in the Lujing Spring outside the opera house.

“I didn’t know what it meant at the time, but now that I think about it, it was probably the strong emotions left by the women dissolved by Vashé…

"But I still find it strange that the voice I heard did not contain any resentment, but sadness and reluctance.

"Maybe I heard it wrong, but I think 'Vashey' should be Vashey's real name, and he just uses a pseudonym in his daily life."

The audience in the audience talked a lot.

"Is Vashie the real name? If that's the case, Vashie sounds like a man."

"Is this... possible? Why have I passed by Lujing Spring so many times and never heard any sound?"

"People are different. He is a famous blond traveler in a foreign country. Who are you...?"

Navilette defended Ying, "The Fountain of Deux Chine is the confluence of all the waters of Fontaine, and it does contain a large number of memories and emotions. In order to protect people's privacy and to prevent my brain from being filled with irrelevant memories, I never peek into the contents. But it seems that I may have missed the best opportunity to catch Vashie..."

"I also took the initiative to block my perception of Lu Jingquan... It's really hard to tell right from wrong in this matter... Okay, okay, since Ying and Villette both said so, let's just believe this information for now."

Using the same reasoning as that of Villette to defend her identity as the God of Water, Furninna continued, "Combining these conditions, considering that Vashé's first crime was twenty years ago, he is now at least thirty years old, and most likely over forty years old, and he is a male—"

"Lady Furninna, I also have an idea."

"You said."

Wang Chen added: "Since Vasai dared to study the original fetal sea water that was very dangerous to the Fontaine people, and was able to seal the original fetal sea water and bring it to the outside world, he is probably not a Fontaine person."

"That makes sense... Then we should screen according to the conditions of male, over 30 years old, and not from Fontaine country. Also... didn't he make a lot of money by selling diluted original fetal sea water? We should also include high assets in the screening. The location is limited to the inside of the opera house. Please be patient, it's only a matter of time before the criminal is found."