I'm in Genshin Impact, and I started by teaming up with Luna.

Paimon was struggling. Suddenly, he saw Wu Qiu approaching him and immediately became excited.

Although the person's actions were strange, the person approaching him made him think, "Hmm! He's here to save me. I'm saved."

Thinking this, Paimon frantically moved closer and closer to Wu Qiu. As they drew nearer, Paimon could already imagine a giant hand approaching, lifting him up, and then being heroically rescued by this person.

However, a large hand came, but instead of lifting her up, it slapped Paimon across the face.

Paimon was in the middle of his excitement when a sudden slap stunned her. She choked on several mouthfuls of water before she realized what was happening.

The person right in front of him, shouting that he was coming to save him, was drowning himself. He was struggling more fiercely, screaming louder, and crying even more pitifully than he was.

Wu Qiu, having slapped Paimon, now had a point of leverage, so he began to frantically approach Paimon, trying to use her to surface.

Paimon wasn't going to back down either. Seeing Wu Qiu approaching, he simply went up to him and grabbed Wu Qiu, trying to climb all over him.

The two started fighting in the water.

Paimon: "Don't step on me! You're so big, how can you put your weight on me like that?"

Wu Qiu: "Don't talk nonsense! If you're so capable, don't try to climb on my heels! Hey! You even kicked me! You're really taking advantage of me!"

The two cursed in the water, but soon they ran out of strength and slumped down. Just as they were about to drown, Wu Qiu suddenly seemed to see something.

"Hey! A piece of driftwood! There's driftwood!"

Sure enough, a broken piece of wood was floating on the water not far away. Seeing this, their eyes lit up, and they swam towards it with incredible energy.

Fortunately, the piece of driftwood wasn't far away, and it seemed to be drifting towards them. Just when the two were about to collapse from exhaustion, they finally reached the driftwood and grabbed it.

"Ugh~ Ugh~"

Wu Qiu gasped for breath, then spat out a mouthful of water. Paimon, who was standing next to him, was also panting and said, "Well, we're saved."

"Hey, quick! Row towards the shore."

Wu Qiu spoke. Paimon, however, weakly shook his head, "Paimon has no strength left (-﹏-`；)."

"We're doomed! What do we do now? We can't just stay here forever!"

Wu Qiu's tone was somewhat exasperated. Paimon, however, looked up at Wu Qiu and said, "Aren't you still here? Go ahead and row."

"I'm out of strength too! I was counting on you to save me! Now you're saying you're out of strength too! Then we're doomed." Let me tell you, I said these words with a completely serious expression.

Paimon finally snapped. She reached out and grabbed Wu Qiu's face with her little hand. "Didn't you come to save me? What were you doing down here if you can't swim?!"

"What else did you do besides slap me and cause trouble after coming down here?!"

Paimon's fierce expression wasn't scary at all; in fact, it was kind of cute. But Wu Qiu clearly wasn't in the mood to enjoy that cuteness right now.

"Hey! Let go of me, you hear me? Don't you think it's a shame that you've ruined my handsome face?"

"Let go! Let go! If you don't let go, I'll bite you! I'm biting you! I'm really biting you!"

Wu Qiu grimaced, but it was clearly no use. Paimon continued to puff out his cheeks and pull at Wu Qiu's face.

"Hey, hey, hey, weren't you out of energy? Stop arguing, stop arguing, stop gouging my eyes! Fine! You forced me to do this! Ouch!"

Wu Qiu opened her mouth and bit down. Paimon was startled and quickly withdrew his hand.

Seeing that Wu Qiu had frightened her, he said smugly, "Now you know how powerful your brother is, right?"

Paimon was clearly exhausted. Lying on the driftwood, he muttered, "Poor Paimon, why did I have to meet someone like you?"

"I'm the one who's pathetic! I thought I was going to meet a smart and cute little Paimon, but instead I met an idiot like you!"

"If you hadn't been so cocky, would you have fallen into the water? If you hadn't fallen into the water, would we be where we are now?"

Paimon got anxious too, glaring fiercely at Wu Qiu and saying, "You're the idiot! You're the idiot!"

Wu Qiu didn't tolerate her and retorted directly, "You're stupid!"

Paimon: "You're stupid!"

Wu Qiu: "You're stupid!"

Paimon: "You're stupid!"

Wu Qiu: "You're stupid!"

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On the calm lake surface, the two people's weak voices, tinged with their last stubbornness, continued to echo.

Chapter 19: Electric Slime

On the calm surface of the lake, Wu Qiu and Paimon lay motionless in the water, as if dead. They let the lake carry them slowly, offering no resistance whatsoever.

Wu Qiu waited and waited, hoping Ying would return. But half an hour had passed, and where was Ying? Where had she gone?

With Ying's strength and Ice Mark, taking down a few Hilichurls shouldn't be difficult, right? But it's been half an hour now, where is she?

Wu Qiu couldn't help but feel a little worried, afraid that something might have happened to Ying. But more than anything, she was concerned that if Ying didn't come, she and Paimon didn't know how long they would have been stuck here.

The water's like it's poisonous; half an hour has passed, and they haven't recovered much stamina. This is infuriating! Is it really like a game where you don't recover stamina in the water?

Of course, it wasn't that serious. They had recovered some strength by now, but not much. However, this amount of strength was enough for them to get closer to the shore.

Inch by inch, Wu Qiu and Paimon painstakingly inch their way toward the shore. But don't think it's easy; swimming in the water while holding onto a large log in a specific direction is no easy feat.

"Hurry, hurry, we're almost there! Come on, Paimon, push harder!"

Paimon struggled to move his legs in the water, and while watching Wu Qiu's token effort, he said with some dissatisfaction, "Paimon has already tried his best, but why are you still slacking off!"

"What do you know? This is called fair distribution. You contribute the effort, and I'll cheer you on from the sidelines. Don't you feel more empowered by my encouragement?"

"Pah!" Paimon lay down on the driftwood. "Shameless! I don't care, Paimon is tired, Paimon isn't moving anymore."

Seeing this, Wu Qiu didn't say anything, after all, he wasn't shameless enough to really need Paimeng to do the work alone.

Wu Qiu tried swinging his legs and finally learned how. The reason Wu Qiu hadn't used much force earlier was that he realized the point of force application was a bit strange.

He clearly wanted to move forward, but he kept drifting backward, or to the left or right. To put it simply, Wu Qiu is too bad at swimming; not only can he not swim, but he doesn't even know how to exert force in the water.

"Holy crap, am I really that bad?" Even Wu Qiu couldn't accept it now when he thought about it.

But things are better now. Little Paimon is really helpful. He unintentionally demonstrated it to Wu Qiu so many times that Wu Qiu was finally able to float the driftwood to where he wanted to go.

They were almost there, getting closer and closer to the shore. But just then, Wu Qiu suddenly felt a surge of power flowing into his body.

Immediately afterward, Wu Qiu began to tremble, still jokingly saying, "Hey, little Paimon, look at my movements, my speed, isn't it both beautiful and elegant..."

Then suddenly his whole body convulsed, "Elegant... nyr lè ...

Not only him, but Paimon next to him also started convulsing. For a moment, the two of them seemed to have suddenly entered a dance floor and were dancing wildly. It was so damn weird.

After the convulsions subsided, Wu Qiu was completely stunned. He looked around and exclaimed, "Hey! What just happened? How did I suddenly start dancing?"

"Waaaah—I, we were definitely electrocuted just now." Paimon lay on the driftwood, looking like he was about to die.

Every now and then, her body would twitch. It was only then that Wu Qiu realized what was happening.

"Electric shock? Yes! That was clearly an electric shock just now. But how did this happen? How could there be an electric shock here? Has Teyvat developed to the point where there are utility poles?"

"Look, it's an electric slime!" Suddenly, Paimon, who was lying on the ground, pointed in a direction and spoke. Wu Qiu looked in that direction and saw a round little slime with purple electric sparks all over its body.

In an instant, Wu Qiu and Paimon were both enraged. The anger that had been suppressed within them seemed to have found an outlet, and they began to curse at the slime.

Wu Qiu: "Hey! You slime! What the hell are you doing?! You shocked me, you know?! Get the hell out of here! Believe me or not, I'll bite you to death!"

Paimon opened his mouth to curse, but suddenly realized that Wu Qiu had already used all the profanities. So he went along with it and said, "He, he's right, sugar slime is delicious."

As he spoke, he even drooled... but he quickly realized, "Even though you're an electric slime! But, but, but it still works."

The electric slime was just passing by when it accidentally got wet. Then it accidentally shocked Wu Qiu and Paimon.

The slime wasn't very intelligent to begin with, and it hadn't even seen the two of them. But just as it was about to leave, it heard the cursing.

Turning around, the Electric Slime didn't understand what they were saying, but judging from their expressions, they were probably cursing it. So, the Electric Slime's expression changed.

"You son of a bitch..."

"Hey, hey, hey." Paimon stopped Wu Qiu, who was still spewing profanities. "Um, he seems to be angry."

"It's okay, he won't understand." I acted very calmly. But when I saw the electric slime's expression, I regretted it.

"Um... Paimon, do you think it'll be useful for me to call him Dad now?"

Obviously, it was useless. The slime shrank its body, then launched itself forward, sparking as it charged towards the lake.

"No! No way!!!"

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I believe everyone here is thinking the same thing: "This protagonist is brainless, isn't he stupid? He might as well just die already."

Something like that... right?

But this really isn't my fault; I was genuinely furious. Just put yourself in my shoes—if you were a time traveler, the protagonist!

Not only do they lack the protagonist's halo after all that, but they also encounter nothing but terrible luck and misfortune. Can you tolerate this kind of situation?

Can't stand it anymore, huh? Are you going to fight back! Like, "My fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens'..."

But I can't... I can't help it, I'm still getting electrocuted here. Those crackling sounds make me feel like I'm ascending to heaven.

What can I fight back with? What's the point of fighting back? Giving in is the only way.

"Oh no! Help, Sister Ying! If you don't come soon, we're really doomed!"

I just checked this electric slime; it's only level one, so its power is very weak. But it's still making things difficult for the two of us. I think my hair will fly off in a bit.

They were shocked for a full minute before the power suddenly went out. Wu Qiu and Paimon breathed a sigh of relief; they really thought they were going to be electrocuted to death.

However, it was clear that the Electric Slime had no intention of letting us go. Electricity was gathering above its head, probably because it realized that we couldn't be killed by hydroelectricity, so it wanted to directly condense elemental energy for a one-hit kill.

But we couldn't just sit and wait to die. Having just ended the agony, we both unleashed unprecedented strength, gritting our teeth and swimming towards the shore.

We were surprisingly fast. Perhaps not wanting us to come up, the electric slime simply threw its incompletely condensed electric element at us.

It was moving so fast we couldn't dodge it. At this crucial moment, Wu Qiu thought, "Lift up Paimon and use it to shield myself."

The thought had been lingering in my mind for a long time. But I never expected that Paimon would be faster than me.

Just as I was wondering whether I should do it, Paimon suddenly grabbed my head. I don't know why she suddenly had such strength, but she actually pulled my head down and used it as a shield in front of herself.

I was completely baffled. "How do you explain this? Does the demon-slaying boy end up becoming a demon himself? Or does the hunter one day become the prey?"

However, I feel that the most suitable advice for the current situation is: "You should not have the intention to harm others, but if you do, you must act quickly. If the other party is faster than you, you will be caught off guard and then die."