Genshin Impact: After entering the card pool, I kicked away the knife and stabbed myself

"Where is this...?"

Ying woke up from her dream. She got up from the bed, but found that the decoration in the room in front of her was completely different from the inn she was originally in.

I remember - I was resting in the inn in Liyue Harbor last night.

How come when I woke up, I was in a completely different place?

Although it still seems to be a Liyue Inn...

And...what about Paimon?

If it were normal, Paimon should have gotten up and shouted for breakfast by now, but why was there no sound at all?

strangeness.

Ying's heart was full of doubts. She summoned out the "Because of You" (the weapon, everyone should have remembered it, right? See Chapter 266 for details) given by Luo, and walked out of the room with caution.

What's wrong, guest?

In the narrow staircase, a thin boy dressed in the ancient style of Liyue bumped into Ying. When he saw the weapon in Ying's hand and her alert posture, his face was instantly filled with fear and he shouted, "Is the Black Tide coming again?"

Black tide? Ying silently recited this unfamiliar term in her mind, shook her head gently, and remained silent. As a newcomer, she knew that talking too much would lead to mistakes, so she tried to avoid unnecessary communication.

However, the thin boy's words seemed to have touched the sensitive nerves of the other people in the inn. The doors of the rooms upstairs and downstairs were opened one after another by the guests. They stuck their heads out and asked nervously:

"What? The Black Tide is coming again?!"

"Didn't the Emperor sacrifice himself to stop the Black Tide?"

"Could it be that the black tide has broken through the Emperor's defenses?!"

Faced with the panic of the crowd, the thin boy quickly waved his hands and anxiously explained to everyone: "No, no, I was too nervous... Dear guests, I am so sorry."

One of the irritable guests swore under his breath but said nothing more.

At this time, a gentler older man spoke up to help the thin boy: "Xiaoer didn't mean it. The trauma caused by the black tide is too deep. Everyone is in trouble."

At this time, there was a crisp sound of high heels coming from downstairs, accompanied by a gentle female voice: "I seem to have heard some noise downstairs. According to what Uncle Lin said, it seems that our inn's waiter has caused trouble for you?"

The footsteps stopped, and Ying also saw the newcomer. She was a tall woman in a light blue dress, with long dark blue hair falling like a waterfall, which made Ying feel a little dazed, as if she saw the shadow of Xingqiu.

[Gender-swapped version of Xingqiu? Good guy]

[And she's a mature older sister! I can do that! ]

[Details on what is big]

[This must be Xingqiu’s ancestor. I didn’t expect he used to run an inn business.]

[Not necessarily. After all, there is no Black Tide or Emperor sacrifice in our timeline. It is possible that Xingqiu's ancestors changed their careers.]

[That's not right! Didn't we see Ye Lan later in the preview? This is the same time period.]

[Right! So this is actually Xingqiu? Is it just a parallel world or is his gender changed for some reason?]

[I didn't expect Xingqiu to be so ordinary, and his gender change was so big]

[Could it be that Xingqiu is actually a girl, but the Xingqiu we know is still young and an only child, so they are considering raising her as a boy for the sake of the family business]

However, this woman was obviously different from Xingqiu, as she exuded a more mature and stable temperament.

The waiter quickly explained to her what had happened, and the innkeeper gently waved his hand to indicate that he understood. Then she looked at the other guests, and seeing that they did not object, she knew that this was probably the case.

So, she smiled and said to everyone: "Since it is our waiter's fault, we are deeply sorry for disturbing the rest of the guests."

"To show our sincerity, the fees for your original accommodation time will be reduced by half. Guests who have already paid can go to the first floor to find the waiter to receive the refund."

After hearing the compensation plan, the originally dissatisfied guests nodded in satisfaction. After all, they were only disturbed for a while, but they could enjoy a discount of half the room rate. Why not take advantage of such a good thing?

The guests closed their doors and returned to their rooms. The innkeeper turned to the bewildered Ying and said with a gentle smile, "Dear guest, do you have any troubles? Although I am only an innkeeper, I may be able to help you with some of your concerns."

Following the innkeeper and the waiter downstairs, Ying also learned the innkeeper's name. Everyone called her Qiu Cheng.

However, in the conversation with the waiter and other guests, Ying gradually learned that Liyue was being attacked by the black tide, and even the emperor was sacrificed, and the whole area was shrouded in a haze. In such an environment, Ying did not fully reveal his true identity and purpose to Qiu Cheng, but kept it to himself just in case.

"You mean...you lost your memory?"

[Travelers use classic amnesia as an excuse]

[Haha, it’s hard to explain otherwise. Things have changed drastically in Liyue. I guess no one recognizes us. We can only say that we have lost our memories.]

Qiu Cheng's tone was filled with a hint of doubt and concern, "Perhaps it is because of your past experiences that you have become so vigilant... Alas, the Black Tide has brought too many changes."

"But speaking of this, I have indeed never seen your guest. How about I ask other people in the inn and help you check the reservation record of your room?"

After a while, Qiu Cheng returned to Ying with the result of her inquiry. She told Ying that no one else in the inn had clearly seen the guest described by Ying, but Ying's name was indeed on the inn's reservation record, and the corresponding Mora was also collected.

Ying felt even more confused. Qiu Cheng took Ying to the front desk girl who recorded the reservation information to confirm. The front desk girl rubbed her temples and looked a little annoyed: "It was late at night, my head was dizzy, and I couldn't quite remember the appearance of the guest who booked the room. So, I'm not sure if that guest was you..."

"No one has seen you. Maybe it's because you haven't come out of your room since you moved in?"

After receiving such an answer, Qiu Cheng simply advised Ying not to dwell on this issue anymore: "Since the guest has lost his memory, the matter is settled. Why don't you just move on?"

The Black Tide has caused too much pain to Liyue, and there are many people like Ying, who just lost their memories... In Qiu Cheng's opinion, it might be a good thing.

"The guest has a problem in the inn, so I can't just ignore it. Feiyun Inn will help you, whether it's to regain your memory or to live your current life. Please... live well."

"Because... to be alive is hope."

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I couldn't find Xingqiu's last name, so based on the origin of his name, the seven-character quatrain "Xingqiu" written by Xu Ji, one of the "Four Spirits of Yongjia" in the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty - "The sound of the autumn cicadas is like a zither, listening to the cicadas walking leisurely beside the willows. The stream is clear and flat like a mirror, and a leaf flies in and creates ripples." The sentence "The stream is clear and flat like a mirror" gave rise to the name Qiu Cheng (referring to the ancient people's name)

This Qiu Cheng is indeed Xingqiu's gender-changed doge. Just think of it as Xiaoyu's bad taste. Hehehe