Genshin Impact: Please don’t bully me, fellow stragglers

The open-air forge in Tatar Sand was doused by the heavy rain, and people were running everywhere as far as the eye could see.

It was just a heavy rain, and the commotion was beyond Nanke's expectation. A person was running towards her. She raised her hand to ask what happened, but another person dressed as a soldier caught up from behind.

The person running in front was thrown to the ground. In the dense rain, the bright red blood followed the cold white blade that penetrated mercilessly, and was washed away into the soil as soon as it emerged.

Nanke's heart almost stopped.

The soldier stabbed the man on the ground again, stood up and looked at Nanke.

"Nanke!"

Nanke shuddered when his shoulder was touched unexpectedly, and turned around to see Guimu.

"There are criminals taking advantage of the heavy rain to rebel. It's not safe here. Come with me!"

Nan Kemu followed Guimu into a room in a daze, his lips turned white: "Guimu, if the country collapses..."

After Guobeng put the bamboo hat on her head, he disappeared in the rain in the blink of an eye.

"You stay here first." Guimu gave her a reassuring look and ordered the soldiers at the door to guard the door and leave quickly.

Nanke was not alone in the room.

She turned around and saw a pile of coals and a circle of people shivering tightly around the fire.

"God bless you, General, please protect me. I don't want to get sick. I don't want to get sick..."

Someone was muttering quickly in a low voice.

Nanke took off his hat, looked around, and walked towards the only child sitting quietly on the outside of the crowd.

"Why don't you go warm yourself by the fire?" she asked him, leaning on her knees and bending over.

"..." The child raised his face, and his dark eyes were like a pair of glass beads filled with ashes, set in his thin cheekbones. "They are afraid of the wind and cold when exposed to the rain. I am not afraid."

"This..." Nanke was dumbfounded and said for a moment, "It shouldn't be the same kind as the flu caused by walking on tartar sand, right?"

The child opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but closed it tightly in the next second and lowered his head. No matter how Nanke spoke to her, he stopped paying attention to her.

Nanke propped up his chin and said, "I seem to have seen you entering and leaving the patients' tents..."

Naturally, there was no response.

The downpour blurred the perception of time. It was not until the bamboo hat in his hand was suddenly snatched away that Nanke came back to his senses and looked up to see Guobeng's frowning eyebrows.

"gone back."

Nanke was pulled up by his arm.

It was still raining outside, and a canopy was set up under the boiler. The fire in the stove was lit again, and there was no trace of the prisoner's body that fell on the road.

"Is the rebellion over?" she asked.

Guobengsai gave her an umbrella: "How many times do you think they have dealt with this kind of thing?"

Then, Katsuragi, Gogo-sama, and Niwa-sama, did they also kill people?

Nanke wanted to ask, but couldn't.

She went back to Yaolu in silence.

Kaneosu stood in the kitchen with one leg bent, making porridge.

"Kaneo!" Nanke quickly ran to grab the spoon, "Why don't you lie in bed to recuperate?"

"The minor injury doesn't matter," Kaneo smiled and waved his hands, leaning on the stove. "I hear it's raining heavily, and you and Guobeng aren't here, so I'll just do a little casually first."

His eyes fell on Nanke's package, as if waking up from a dream, "By the way, Nanke, why are you still here?"

Kaneo seemed unaware of the rebellion outside.

Nanke raised his lips: "The ship was delayed, so I'll come back first. I'll help you go back, and Guobeng and I will do this."

After the meal was ready, it was already dark.

Guobeng carried the lunch box to deliver food to the three people who had not seen anyone yet. Nanke and Kanexiong ate together, and when they returned to the small room where they had lived for two days, they felt as if they were in another world.

Nanke put down the package, folded Niwa's coat, and sat on the edge of the bed in a daze.

She couldn't help but recall the color of blood in the rain.

The more she thought about it, the brighter the color became, which frightened her.

Her breathing was intermittent due to excessive tightness. Nanke clutched her chest, and an unspeakable and traceable sense of suffocation filled her heart.

It's an extremely strange feeling.

"Nan Ke, are you asleep?" I heard someone knocking on the door.

After a second's delay, she stood up and opened the door: "Not yet."

The person who came was Niyu, who stood covered with moisture and smiled at her: "Seeing that you didn't light the lamp, I thought you were asleep."

Nanke couldn't help but look back at the dark room.

She didn't even remember whether she had lit the lamp.

She went back and gave him Niwa's coat: "Thank you, Niwa-sama."

"You're welcome, I just agreed to send you away. Judging from the rain, it will be delayed for a few days," Niwa said gently, "I heard Katsuragi say that when you came back, you met the escaped prisoner... and you were not scared. Are you ready?"

Nanke shook his head.

"That's good." Niyu responded, looking at her face carefully, "Have a good rest."

Nanke's hands and feet were cold, and he could probably feel that his complexion was very poor. He smiled back at him: "Okay, Niwa-sama, you are too."

Niyu said goodbye and left straight away, walking in a hurry, probably busy dealing with the follow-up matters of the riot.

Nanke suddenly thought as he faced the dark night alone.

Could it be that his absent-minded state just now was because of being frightened, as Niwa said?

She touched her heart in confusion.

she is afraid?

No, that's not right, it's a deeper, more intense and bone-chilling emotion.

……fear?

It should be an instinct that everyone should be born with, but she was as fresh and uneasy as a fledgling that glimpsed the sky for the first time.

It was as if she had never experienced such an emotion in her life before.

As expected, Nanke lost sleep.

After tossing and turning, listening to the sound of rain, I decided to put on my clothes and sit up.

I want to relax in an open place.

Nanke opened the door and heard a simultaneous creak from the other side.

The person living across the door was Kaneo. After Kaneo was injured, he moved in with Kunibeng who came to take care of him.

She and Guobeng stared at each other.

Each other's eyes were asking.

Where are you going in the middle of the night?

Guobeng closed the door with his backhand, and Nanke also closed it. Seeing that he was walking out like him, he followed behind and lowered his voice: "Guobeng, what are you going out for?"

"What are you going out for?" Guobeng asked.

"I asked first."

"Humph."

He assumed his usual disdainful attitude.

Her depressed mood was slightly swept away.

"Do not tell……"

Before Nanke finished speaking, he covered his mouth and dragged him into the corner of the entrance hall.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

What are you doing!

"Collapse of the country?" A sleepy and drawn-out question suddenly came from behind.

Nanke fell silent for a moment.

Kaneo woke up.

Without thinking, she raised her hand and slapped Guobeng's mouth.

Guobeng lowered his head and stared at her.

Nanke stared back.

"The country collapsed?" Kaneo asked again.

Guobeng stabbed her with his elbow.

Nanke stabbed back.

Fortunately, after a while, Kaneo didn't make any sound and seemed to have fallen asleep again.

Nanke and Guobeng both pushed to go out.

It was still raining outside. She picked up an umbrella and opened it. She heard a soft sneer from beside her: "You have a guilty conscience."

Nanke turned his head and wanted to retort, but was choked.

Although I am not a thief, I still feel a little guilty.

"Rebound!" She held back the words for a long time.

"Ha, childish."

"Each each other."

Guobeng walked in front, and she followed behind, still talking. When he stopped in front of him, in a blink of an eye, he was already outside Yu Yu Changzheng's workshop.

Nanke asked doubtfully: "The country collapsed, what are you doing here?"

"Aren't you here?" He reached for the lock and turned around, raising his eyebrows slightly.

Nanke's eyes fell on his hand and did not answer.

I didn't even take the key, and the lock opened easily with a "click".

Nanke's sharp eyes spotted the iron wire between Guobeng's fingers.

"Unlocker Wang Laobeng." She gave a thumbs up.

"……Shut up."

I lit a lamp and closed the door, but the messy clutter in the room remained as it was.

Guobeng glanced around, holding the lamp in one hand, squatting down and twirling the amethyst fragments scattered on the ground: "You stupid woman, sometimes you do good things by mistake."

Nanke automatically blocked certain words and asked intuitively: "Are you here to find a thief?"

There was fine mineral powder on his fingertips, and he raised his hand to wipe her eyes.