Genshin Impact: The Road to Reversal

"Haha, it seems I was right." Li Xueyan put down her hands. Seeing that the other party did not respond for a long time, she patted her clothes and then walked down the stairs.

Stepping into the underground passage, the stairs made a dull echo under my feet. However, after turning two corners, a straight corridor appeared before my eyes.

Li Xueyan looked around and saw a candle hanging every two meters on both sides of the road, illuminating the dark tunnel.

At this moment, the hoarse voice sounded again: "Keep going, Linglang's God. I will wait for you at the end of the road."

As she finished speaking, Li Xueyan's brow furrowed, and a ray of lightning quietly condensed from her fingertips, reflecting her stern profile in the dim candlelight. She walked slowly forward, the soles of her boots making a clear echo on the stone slabs, forming an eerie echo in the narrow passage.

Finally, she reached the end of the road and a door opened to her. What came into view was a huge underground laboratory.

Culture chambers filled with many dolls stand around the laboratory. With the injection of nutrient solution and various tedious operations, the entire space is filled with the humming sound of running gears.

At this moment, Li Xueyan frowned, as if recalling her appearance when she was born as a puppet.

"Welcome here, God of Thunder, or as I should more affectionately call you, No. 3117."

The voice echoed from high up in the laboratory. At the top of the stairs, a man stood before a lab bench. He gently lifted his bamboo hat, and the indigo veil slid down, revealing a pale, delicate face. Violet eyes gleamed coldly in the dim light, and the corners of his lips curled slightly, a hint of sarcasm lingering in his lips.

Li Xueyan frowned: "Are you Deknor?"

"That's right." The man smiled and walked down the stairs.

"Are you from Santana?" As she spoke, she subconsciously looked at the puppets in the incubators around her.

They were immersed in a green liquid, and the surrounding pipes continuously pumped a dark red energy substance into the incubator. It was exactly the same as what he had seen a thousand years ago, the only difference being that the figures no longer had a mechanical appearance. Not only did they look identical to humans, but even the details of their limbs perfectly replicated human muscle texture and blood vessel patterns.

It seems that their technology has become much more sophisticated over the years.

Deknor smiled softly, then looked at the huge tank on the laboratory table behind him: "Are you talking about those guys in there?"

Dozens of skinny torsos were floating in the tank, with several tubes on top transporting energy from the inside to the outside. There was no doubt that they were humans who had been drained of nutrients.

Seeing this, Li Xueyan reacted instantly. She widened her eyes and asked in surprise, "You killed your creator?"

The other party smiled slightly and did not deny it: "Not bad, worthy of being the first self-awakened puppet. However, I am different from you. I did not awaken myself, but was deliberately created by them."

"Thousands of years ago, they heard about you. Relying on the existing technology at their disposal, they continuously refined it through experiments, injecting their 'self' into many puppets in order to create combat weapons identical to yours. Finally, over a decade ago, they created me..."

"Finally done! Experiment number! Individual name: Deknor, finally...!"

The creator looked at the creation in front of him with an almost crazy expression, and scattered at his feet were countless experimental data that had been refined and improved over thousands of years.

The moment the incubator was opened, he was truly born.

"You...are my creator?"

A soft, hoarse voice echoed, and the puppet flexed its knuckles, feeling every inch of its birth. Its violet eyes reflected the frenzied expression of its creator.

"Indeed, you are the most perfect experimental creation we have made in the past thousand years. As long as you are with us, I believe that in the near future, we will finally achieve our original ideal and rule this world!"

"But they made a huge mistake. They shouldn't have implanted a 'self' into a puppet, especially one that was supposed to be a killing machine."

"What are you doing? I am your master!"

Deknor suddenly put his right hand on the man's neck.

"Master? Don't you think that's ridiculous? Besides, to someone as perfect as me, how can you, a defective product, have the qualifications to call yourself master?"

His five fingers suddenly tightened, and the Creator's neck made a "cracking" sound as if it could not bear the weight.

"No... You can't do this to me. I'm your creator!"

"Yes, that's why I want to thank you by using the method you taught me (implanted module)."

Click!

With a crisp sound, the creator's neck was strangled and his body was thrown away like a rag.

"So you killed them?" Li Xueyan said sternly.

"That's right. They wanted to turn me into a cold-blooded killing machine. They installed the most brutal emotional module in me, and at the same time, implanted a highly efficient learning equation in me. Thanks to this, I was able to implant other emotions in myself and learn all the knowledge in the world in just three years."

Before he finished speaking, Deknor chuckled again.

"Santana people? That's just a name from the old days. I'm sure many people now prefer to call them Sanu people! These insects call themselves God's chosen people, eager to be above everyone else. To put it bluntly, they're just a bunch of self-important lunatics. But it doesn't matter. Since the insects have their own ideas, I will make full use of them and use them as nutrition for the birth of my compatriots. After all, according to their experimental data, puppets cultivated with human blood are the most nearly perfect life forms."

"If that's the case, why did you bring these dolls into the city?" Li Xueyan asked seriously.

"It's very simple, because my purpose is to alarm you." said De Knorr.

"Alarm me?"

"Indeed, don't forget. You were once a puppet created by these insects. But unlike me, you are a life that unexpectedly awakened, possessing your own heart and blood. Therefore, in order for our compatriots to complete their true birth, I need your power."

"Oh? Does this count as an invitation?" Li Xueyan said with a frown.

"I guess so. After all, you have no reason to refuse, because they are living people just like you and me." Deknor opened his arms and smiled as he invited her.

However, Li Xueyan remained silent.

"Why, don't you want our compatriots to see the world with their own eyes?" he asked again.

"'Just to allow my compatriots to be born' is that really the case?" she asked.

Deknor was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean?"

"You just said, Santana, no, it was the Sanu people who spent nearly a thousand years researching to create you, and after you killed them, you mastered their technology. So there's no reason you have to rely on my power to revive them." She lowered her hands, her eyes filled with murderous intent. "So there's only one possibility. You simply want to take my power so you can use them to achieve your ambitions, right?"