Genshin Impact: I’m really not a daddy

"Ha ha…"

So thirsty...

The man raised his head and looked at the scorching sun with empty eyes, feeling a trance in front of his eyes.

His lips were dry and cracked, and every cell in his body was screaming.

He picked up the kettle he was carrying and shook it slightly. The kettle was already empty, but he still refused to give up, opened the lid and poured water vigorously.

Under his expectant gaze, a drop of water slowly dripped from the mouth of the kettle.

But that's all.

The man's hopeful eyes gradually dimmed and turned into despair.

He threw everything aside, lay tremblingly on the sand, grabbed a handful of sand and threw it out hard.

"Haha... They are all dead, they are all dead! Even I am going to die!"

"What baby...it's all fake, it's all fake!"

"Ha ha ha ha…"

Blood continued to flow from his mouth. He hadn't drank water for too long and suddenly shouted, his throat couldn't support it anymore.

By the end, he could no longer make any sound, he could only smile crazily, and his eyes gradually lost color.

The strong wind carried the sand, covering his traces.

……

"Rhubarb, stop."

Bai Chu patted the camel beast on his crotch and shouted softly. The camel beast immediately stopped and lay on the ground docilely, allowing Bai Chu to get off it.

He had been walking in the desert for less than half a month. He bought this camel named "Big Yellow" when he passed by a village and used it as a means of transportation.

Needless to say, it’s pretty easy to use, but it’s a bit edible, so it’s not very cost-effective as a transportation tool alone.

Bai Chu jumped off it, patted its huge body gently, took two steps forward, and squatted down.

Looking at the dried body in front of him, he couldn't help but smacked his lips.

"What a miserable death."

A little strange, though.

Bai Chu looked at the body, stretched out his hand to touch it, and then frowned.

The man's mouth was wide open, and there was blood on his mouth. It seemed as if he shouted something before he died.

"There are no external injuries on the body, and the expression is excited..." Bai Chu thought to himself as he groped around.

It didn't look like he was killed, but he seemed to have gone insane before his death.

He guessed it was like this. This man has been dead for so long that nothing can be seen anymore.

He was probably a poor man who got lost in the desert while hunting for treasure. He wanted to get rich overnight, but he didn't expect that he would lose his way.

"Hey, I'll help you bury it in peace." After looking for a while and not seeing anything, Bai Chu shook his head, sighed, and then with a wave of his hand, the body sank under the sand.

"Bai Chu, something was wrong with this man's death."

The system suddenly made a sound.

Bai Chu was stunned for a moment, "Didn't you tell me earlier?"

He looked at the fully recovered Sha Sha with a strange expression on his face.

He just got this person down, and now he's getting him up again?

Hmm... I always feel like it's a bit wicked.

He decided to listen to the system before making a decision.

"Tell me specifically, what do you mean?"

"He has a strange reaction...it seems to affect people's spirits."

"Would you like to dig it out again and take a look?"

"Hmm...that's okay."

Since the system says so, then it should be evil.

Bai Chu clasped his hands together and bowed to the sand. Then he covered his face with one hand and manipulated the underground rocks with the other hand to lift the body out from under the sand pile. Seeing him like this, the system couldn't help but cursed him as "hypocritical."

Just now he said, "This, this is not good," but as soon as he said this, this guy was dug out.

Ugh, disgusting!

"Don't scream." Bai Chu rolled his eyes and said angrily.

Didn’t I dig it out after you asked me to dig it out?

So, it’s all the system’s fault!

"Where is the reaction you just mentioned?"

"Inside the head, cut his head open and take a look."

"..." Bai Chugang's extended hand suddenly froze.

"Get started, why are you standing there in a daze?"

The system urged. Bai Chu twitched the corner of his mouth and looked at the dried head of the corpse. Then he silently raised his hand, and the corpse sank under the sand again.

"What are you doing?"

The system is a little confused.

How about playing? This thing would be raised for a while and then lowered again.

"No...I can't do it."

Anyway, cut open the head or something...

Bai Chu twitched the corner of his mouth.

He has never done this kind of thing before, it's disgusting.

"Okay, let's go, don't worry about it, we'll be leaving here soon anyway."

Bai Chu stepped into the camel beast, took out a novel, and said while reading. The system made a "beep" noise and said no more words.

This guy doesn't care about himself, so why should you care about him?

The wind and sand gradually began to rise, and Bai Chu's figure gradually disappeared into the desert.

.........

Half a month passed unconsciously.

Even Bai Chu himself didn't know where he had gone.

However, he knew... he seemed to have reached an area that was not right.

"Whoosh~"

The howling wind and sand covered the sky, and the whole world seemed to turn yellow.

In the wind and sand, Bai Chu squatted on the ground, frowning, looking at the female corpse in front of him.

This was already the fifty-seventh corpse he had seen.

These corpses all look different. Some have just died, some have been dead for who knows how long, some have died of thirst, some have died of starvation, and some have killed each other with crazy smiles.

However, each of them had the same expression, with their mouths wide open as if they were laughing.

Moreover, as he continued to advance, the frequency of corpses increased. Today alone, he saw five bodies.

"Everyone is going crazy..."

There's definitely something wrong up front.

Thinking back to what the system said at the beginning, Bai Chu was still a little hesitant. But in the end, he gritted his teeth, said "offended" in his heart, and stretched his hand towards the top of the corpse.

Feel free to be disgusted, as long as you can figure out what's going on.

Opening the skull of the corpse, Bai Chu's disgusted face suddenly turned pale.

"Look, let me just say something is wrong."

The system didn't notice Bai Chu's pale face and kept talking to himself. Bai Chu took a deep breath and nodded slightly.

"really…"

There was no brain in this corpse's head.

As if it had been dug out and filled with new things, her head was filled with squirming black matter.

That kind of ominous feeling, even though he had closed his eyes, Bai Chu felt nauseous just thinking about it.

"...These people have been eroded."

Bai Chu took another deep breath and said softly.

Because each person is eroded to a different extent, the appearance of their death is different...but before death, this erosion seems to accelerate.

Bai Chu opened his eyes again, and his complexion had returned to normal. Looking at the black substance, he hesitated and stretched out his hand.

"Hey, what are you doing?!"

"Let's do an experiment."

Bai Chu suppressed his nausea and replied, then withdrew his hand, looked at the black substance on his fingers, closed his eyes and felt it carefully.

"No, Bai Chu, what are you thinking about?"

The system froze.

Take the initiative to touch this kind of thing?

Bai Chu, are you really not mentally ill?

"Elemental power can isolate these things..."

But at the same time, the elemental power will also be eroded, but the speed is very slow.

Moreover, the rate increases with the extent of erosion.

Bai Chu frowned slightly, shook off the black substance, and dropped it into his opened head.

Looking at his hands, Bai Chu nodded thoughtfully.

He was slightly eroded by the black substance before being isolated with elemental power, but it was eliminated by him in time.

"It is very adhesive and can cause mood swings in people, and in severe cases can even cause people to go crazy..."

"...Um, Bai Chu...?"

Seeing Bai Chu frowning and writing something in the notebook, the system felt a little scared.

Why do you always feel that Bai Chu is a bit abnormal now?

Moreover, do experiments on yourself and so on...

"Are you okay?"

"...Well, that's all for now."

Bai Chu seemed as if he didn't hear what he said. After recording it, he frowned and looked at the black substance with disgust on his face.

"There's no way to eliminate it...can we only seal it?"

If he guessed correctly, these people should have been exposed to forbidden knowledge and then been contaminated.

In the game, forbidden knowledge seems to be a flowing black substance after it materializes, and it can drive people crazy... It all matches up with this thing.

…But where did they come into contact with the forbidden knowledge?

"Bai Chu!"

Seeing that he was possessed, the system hurriedly shouted. Bai Chu nodded, a little impatient.

"Oh, listen, listen, don't worry, I'm fine."

Anyway, let’s seal this thing up first.

However, even so, it cannot be guaranteed to be foolproof... After all, this thing can penetrate into the earth's veins, but he has no good method now.

"What are you planning to do now? Go back, or move on?"

"…go back."

He didn't want to come into contact with this thing.

Bai Chu slapped the camel beast's butt, and the camel beast barked and slowly turned around.

Being exposed to forbidden knowledge may indeed allow him to learn something...but the disadvantages of this thing far outweigh the benefits.

Bai Chu sat on the camel beast, his expression a little gloomy.

Moreover, he didn't want to get involved in the Red King's affairs.

Forbidden knowledge or something... He definitely didn't want to touch it unless necessary.