Genshin Impact: Reincarnation as a Hilichurl

"Ah……"

Wang Chen inspected the place where he fought with Black Sword, but all traces were washed away by the rain, leaving only the courting insects chirping in all directions.

It was an ordinary night, as if the experience in my memory was fake.

"The instructor's body has disappeared. Is he still being controlled by the black sword? I don't know how long it has been since I died..."

The pocket watch was also restored with his rebirth. The time shown on it was very close to the time when he was killed. Wang Chen guessed that the resurrection interval should be a multiple of 24 hours.

"Instructor, I will definitely avenge both of us..."

He walked back to Mondstadt in the moonlight, but not long after he started walking, he heard some noise ahead and he immediately hid behind a big tree.

The trouser legs rubbed against the grass stems and leaves rapidly, making a rustling sound. The person soon arrived in front of him. Wang Chen looked closely and found that it was Xiao.

After carefully observing that he was not wearing any strange weapons, Wang Chen called him.

"dust?"

After almost a month of not seeing each other, Xiao's face looked much more resolute, his expression restrained and showing no joy or anger, which was in stark contrast to his previous hypocritical face.

Only the Eye of God was still prominently hanging on his neck.

"Why are you here? Is your combat training over?"

Xiao snorted coldly, "Actual training...actual training? That's right, it ended early."

Feeling that Xiao's attitude was not very good, Wang Chen hesitated and asked: "Was it the day when it rained heavily?"

"That day? Wasn't it yesterday?"

Yesterday...it seemed that I would be reborn 24 hours after my death.

Xiao was a little impatient. "You are an honorary knight of the Knights of Favonius. Are you so uninformed? Or are you just not interested in the plight of nobodies like us and are you turning a blind eye to it?"

Wang Chen's heart moved: "Since it started raining yesterday, I haven't had time to return to Mond City. Can you tell me what happened to you... Is it related to the chief instructor?"

Xiao let out a long sigh: "Of course, of course it's related to the chief instructor. Now the whole Knight Order is looking for him. I'm also here to find him... the deserter!"

"Deserter?! Why do you say that about him!"

"If you want to know, just follow me. I don't have the time to stop and chat with you now." Xiao glanced at Wang Chen absentmindedly, not caring about Wang Chen's tone, and then headed towards the direction of Dadaupa Valley.

"Tell me about it." Wang Chen naturally followed.

"Humph! Yesterday was the 25th day of our combat training. During the one-month combat training, we traveled to various places and dealt with the Treasure Thieves, the Fatui, and most of all, the Hillbillies.

“According to the chief instructor’s plan, the last ten days will all be spent in Dadaupa Valley.

“There are a lot of hill people there, and they are of various types, but as long as we seduce them successfully and attract the planned number, we can still deal with them, and the actual combat effect is better than before.

"But yesterday afternoon... the tribe we had been trying to seduce broke out in riot. The Hillikers formed a long line and attacked us all at once.

"Following the chief instructor's command and relying on the terrain advantage, we were able to hold our own against the attack of an entire tribe.

"Just when it was getting late, two Hillichul Rangers appeared out of nowhere. They are very smart! Although their IQ is still lower than that of normal people, they have rich combat skills and can use elemental power."

Xiao swallowed his saliva, touched his right elbow unconsciously, and continued:

“Along with them, there were eight Hillicruc thugs, five of whom were holding shields, plus a bunch of assorted shamans… The chief instructor finally took action. He dealt with the two Hillicruc rangers, while the five of us with God’s Eye dealt with the Hillicruc thugs.

"It started off well. The chief instructor killed a Hilliard Ranger. Ha, with his strength, if he didn't want to put pressure on us, he would definitely be able to kill both of them in a few moves.

"We also dealt with the hillock thugs with wooden shields. You know, none of the five of us used great swords. The remaining three hillock thugs with rock shields relied entirely on Erza's elemental combat skills to break their shields. We also dealt with two of them before her elemental power was exhausted."

Elsa is the only rock-type white-haired girl among this round of recruits.

"As a result... the chief instructor was fighting with that sword-wielding Hill Ranger when he suddenly turned around and ran away like crazy, leaving us, a group of new recruits and two deputy instructors without the Eye of God, behind!"

"Without his instructor to deal with him, the Hilichook Water Ranger picked up the sickle on his back and attacked us. At this time, several Hilichook thugs also came... Although we managed to resist in the end, we also paid a heavy price."

"Two people died, five were seriously injured, and seventeen were slightly injured." Xiao gently spit out a string of numbers, wanting to see Wang Chen's expression, but he only saw the word "Dudu Ke" on the cloak.

He smiled bitterly. "We were a group of new recruits. We fled back to Mondstadt overnight like stray dogs in the rainstorm. Do you think the chief instructor was a deserter?"

After hearing all this, Wang Chen felt heavy-hearted. He never expected that there would be casualties among the recruits. Although these recruits had only trained with him for half a month, apart from the characters he knew in the game, they were the ones closest to him in the world.

The chief instructor only trained him for half a month, but he woke him up, which had unusual significance to him.

"I didn't expect it to be like this, but I also met the chief instructor last night."

Xiao Pao paused, and Wang Chen also stopped.

"Where did you see him? When exactly? The Knights have been looking for him for quite some time. If we find him, I will beat him up!"

"Your idea may not be realized." Wang Chen had a complicated expression.

"What do you mean?"

"First of all, I want to make it clear that the chief instructor is not a deserter. Then, don't be impatient and listen to me."

Wang Chen said slowly, "Around seven o'clock last night, I was practicing sword alone in the forest east of Qingquan Town. When it started to rain, I was about to go back. Not far from where we met, I met the chief instructor holding a black sword, wearing a tattered cloak, and with a hollow look in his eyes."

Xiao opened his eyes slightly and said, "That is indeed the outfit. The sword was originally held by the Qiuqiu Water Ranger, but was later taken away by the Chief Instructor. The cloak was pulled off from the Qiuqiu Wind Ranger who was killed by him. I remember it clearly... Go on."

"I approached him to say hello, but he just stood there blankly and suddenly yelled at me: 'Run!' I was startled and quickly distanced myself from him.

"He actually caught up with me. I was not as fast as him, so I was stopped. He attacked me, and I didn't know why, so I could only defend myself. But the situation was getting worse and worse, so I kept calling him 'Chief Instructor', but he just stood there in a daze.

"I noticed that he was not in the right state, as if he was being controlled by something. Don't you think so?"

Xiao shook his head this time: "His behavior was indeed strange, but when he ran away... I tried to chase him, and I saw that he looked anxious instead of the empty eyes you said. He asked me to get out of the way and shouted very loudly, but I didn't... He cut off my right arm."

Xiao recalled the bad past, closed his eyes and sighed, and clenched his right elbow with his left hand.

"…Is it possible that he was afraid that if he didn't leave quickly, he would lose control and kill you all? Or maybe he was afraid that if you continued to stop him, he would kill you, so he asked you to move aside, but in the end he still couldn't control himself and cut you."

"I'm reserving my opinion until I confront him."

"Then continue to listen to me. After this moment of daze, his attack became more fierce. At the critical moment of life and death, I had to struggle with all my means. The black sword spoke and said that I was "really troublesome."

"After being injured by the black sword once again, my mind entered a fantasy world where time flows much slower than in the outside world. One second was extended to a day, and I could only watch things happening in the outside world.

“Before the chief instructor was about to kill me, he suddenly took back control of his body and thrust the sword into his heart. The sword jumped out of his hand, but he still used the Wind Roaring Fist to hammer into his heart… His internal organs were shattered, and there was basically no hope of saving him.

"At that time, I was seriously injured and had overused my elemental power. I fainted as soon as I left the illusion. When I woke up, all traces had been washed away by water. The chief instructor and the black sword had disappeared.

"Luckily I had healing potions with me, which healed some of my injuries and stopped the bleeding. It took me half a day to recover, and then I met you."

After hearing what Xiao said, Wang Chen understood that after the instructor was controlled, he would definitely come straight for him. However, this incident and his resurrection were deleted from his adapted version of the story.

"The chief instructor would rather commit suicide than kill me. I believe he must be controlled."

Xiao supported his forehead with one hand, feeling very painful. "I also hope that the chief instructor is under control. He is our idol... but two companions died and others were seriously injured. Duke's stomach was cut open by a sickle in order to fight against the Water Ranger. He is still recovering..."

"..."

The greedy, hypocritical and selfish Xiao couldn't help but cry.

“We must find him alive or dead. Even if it’s for the sake of the chief instructor’s innocence, we should find him.” He said with red eyes, “But you must return to Mondstadt and report your experience to the Knights.”

Wang Chen nodded silently and walked towards Xiao.