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

"I believe you, huh?"

"Ahhhhhhh!!!! Help me!!!"

As you probably guessed, yes, I was dragged over. I was slapped right in front of this woman, really close.

Looking up, Wu Qiu saw the woman's indifferent face. Wu Qiu nearly fainted; he froze, not daring to breathe.

"What do you believe in?" the woman asked, her tone still indifferent. Wu Qiu stiffly turned his head, casting a pleading look at Ke Li.

Klee shook her head helplessly; it was clear she couldn't rescue Wu Qiu. Noelle also sighed, telling Wu Qiu to fend for himself.

"Gulp~" Wu Qiu swallowed hard, then turned around. "Hehehe... Just kidding, testing me, right? I believe you won't hurt me..."

With a whoosh, a vine wrapped around Wu Qiu's neck, and with a force that nearly knocked him unconscious.

"Hey...wait a minute~I have something to say."

The woman ignored Wu Qiu's instructions and continued to exert force, little by little. Wu Qiu's face turned purple, and a premonition of death gripped his heart.

Seeing the situation was dire, Claire and Noelle immediately tried to rush forward. But just as they were about to move, they saw the woman pointing a sharp spike at Wu Qiu's heart.

"Don't move. If you want him to die faster, you can ignore what I said."

Klee and Noelle stopped. Wu Qiu, on the other hand, struggled frantically with his hands and feet, but how could he possibly break free?

The scene before him began to blur, but the feeling of suffocation also weakened. It wasn't that Wu Qiu had been saved, but rather that he was about to lose consciousness.

"Am I going to die? I'm so unwilling to accept this."

Wu Qiu felt a pang of regret. Why did she have to do something so reckless? Wouldn't it have been better to stay in the background?

At this moment, Ying's figure seemed to appear before Wu Qiu once again. A trace of regret lingered in Wu Qiu's heart; he still didn't know if Ying had forgiven him, or if she was still angry.

These became Wu Qiu's regrets at this moment. At the same time, Wu Qiu also felt ridiculous, feeling that he himself was ridiculous.

I was given a second chance at life, and here I am, dying. It's so ridiculous how I died. It feels like someone like me doesn't deserve to live, or perhaps I didn't deserve to meet Ying, or to walk alongside her.

His senses grew weaker and weaker, and Wu Qiu's consciousness seemed to sink into the sea. What made Wu Qiu despair was that this sea had no bottom and no shore.

It was as if he was becoming aware of the gap between himself and the Frozen Tree. In this world, for the path Wu Qiu was about to take, without power, there was truly no meaning; without power, how could he even talk about traveling?

Suddenly, Wu Qiu felt a sharp pain in his previously numb body. It was as if something had been pulled out of his right palm; it hurt terribly.

Wu Qiu smiled bitterly, "Is this a hallucination before I die? Why does it still hurt so much in the environment before I die?"

"No, this isn't a hallucination!"

Wu Qiu suddenly realized that this was not a hallucination. Because of the pain, he slowly regained consciousness, and even the feeling of suffocation returned.

Moreover, Wu Qiu discovered that the vines that were strangling his neck were no longer tightening their grip; in fact, they seemed to have loosened a little.

Just as Wu Qiu was wondering, his right arm suddenly started to hurt, as if an insect was crawling inside his arm, which immediately brought Wu Qiu back to his senses.

The first thing that catches the eye is the frozen tree, its face filled with shock. Its beautiful face is now staring at Wu Qiu's right arm, its pupils trembling.

Just now, just as Wu Qiu was about to die, a wisp of blue light suddenly rose from his palm. This blue light grew brighter and brighter, almost engulfing the two of them.

The blue light then dimmed, and a blue dot appeared in Wu Qiu's palm. The dot was ordinary, but it emitted a chill similar to that of the frozen tree.

Then, under the incredulous gaze of the Frozen Tree, a line crawled out from the dot—a light blue line like a blood vessel.

As the line grew longer, its shape changed. It looked like a long, thin rope, or perhaps the stem of a flower.

Finally, the vines covered Wu Qiu's entire right arm, and among these vines, there were also patches of flowers and leaves, as well as a blue blooming flower on his shoulder.

These patterns seemed to have a life of their own; their powerful force shattered Wu Qiu's clothing on his entire right arm as soon as they appeared, revealing them to everyone.

Everyone was stunned. Frozen Tree stared intently at Wu Qiu's right arm, its eyes completely devoid of the indifference it had shown moments before.

Seeing that Wu Qiu had woken up, Teng Man slowly released Wu Qiu, but the Frozen Tree grabbed Wu Qiu's hair and shouted, "This is! Xue'er's flower seed! You! What did you do to her!"

Wu Qiu was still in a daze. The pain in her right arm had just subsided when her hair was grabbed again. Wu Qiu hurriedly shouted, "Hey, hey, hey! Big sister, don't get agitated! Don't pull my hair! Don't shake me! And don't slap me! Are you out of your mind?!"

Wu Qiu was in so much pain. This woman, I don't know what went wrong, grabbed his hair and shook him for a while, then slapped him hard across the face, baring her teeth as if she wanted to devour Wu Qiu, completely losing all her indifference and elegance.

"Hey lady, can't we talk this out? You're not going to kill me, but you don't have to torture me like this, do you? And if you're going to ask me questions, I need to know what you're talking about, right? And you're still slapping me!"

The woman seemed to have finally calmed down a bit, and with a heavy breath, she said, "No, if Xue'er didn't do it willingly, then the flower seeds couldn't have been given to someone else."

She then looked at Wu Qiu and asked, "Where is Xue'er?"

"Xue'er?" Wu Qiu pretended to think, then suddenly had a flash of inspiration. "Oh—! You mean Shuangxue, right?"

"So you knew!" The woman started swaying again. Wu Qiu yelled, "Stop! Stop, stop, stop!"

Where is he?!

The woman asked again. Wu Qiu was almost in tears. "Sister, can you let go first? My scalp is about to fall off. Even Paimon didn't grab me this hard!"

The woman released Wu Qiu, but tied him up with a rattan cane. Then she glared at him, giving him an expression that said, "If you don't say something, you're doomed."

Wu Qiu hesitated for a moment, then said, "That, she, she..."

"He has departed on a crane to the west! Yes, he has departed on a crane to the west."

The frozen tree was clearly taken aback. "What do you mean?"

"That's it, that's it, he's buried, it's all over..."

Then the scene fell silent. Wu Qiu saw that the woman in front of him was completely dumbfounded, and after a long while, she shook her head and said, "No, impossible!"

Then, he suddenly glared fiercely at Wu Qiu and said, "You lied to me!"

He was about to kill her when Wu Qiu hurriedly shouted, "Hey! Stop! Stop! It's a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!"

But the woman was no longer listening to Wu Qiu; a leaf, sharp as an arrow, was already at her face, about to pierce her brain.

Just then, the flower on Wu Qiu's shoulder flashed, and the petals stopped. Immediately afterward, Wu Qiu saw the woman standing there, stunned, her eyes wide open, tears soon streaming down her face.

"Xue'er, are you really protecting this person?"

After leaving those words, Wu Qiu felt the vines binding him loosen. And the woman before him, her tears flowed like a floodgate opening, unstoppable.

Wu Qiu could have run away, but he didn't. He looked at the woman in front of him, who seemed to have lost her soul, and didn't know what to say.

Wu Qiu had too many questions. Who was Shuangxue? Wasn't she just an ordinary frost flower? And who was this woman? And what was her relationship with Shuangxue?

Most importantly, what is this thing on my arm? Why hasn't it appeared before? And what does that sentence, "Are you really protecting this person?" mean?

"Um, I haven't asked yet, what's your relationship with Shuangxue?"

Wu Qiu finally blurted out, "That's such a killjoy!" He immediately regretted it. If he angered this woman, given their distance, wouldn't he be courting death?

Fortunately, the woman didn't look at her, but spoke in a very sad tone: "My name is Shuanglin, and I am Shuangxue's older sister."

Chapter 89: Three Minutes

"elder sister!"

Wu Qiu was genuinely shocked. Shuangxue was such a beautiful, no, such an amazing older sister.

But why would frost and snow appear in that forest? It's quite far from Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain. A flood of thoughts rushed through Wu Qiu's mind.

For example, he was framed and exiled for fighting over some treasure, or he tricked the Flower Queen to take her place and was then chased by her sister, forcing him to flee the place.

But upon closer inspection, Wu Qiu realized something was amiss. First, Shuang Lin was crying very sadly; the sorrow and heartache she expressed were not feigned at all.

Secondly, even if it was an act, how could Shuangxue have escaped? You have to know that Shuanglin's strength is possibly stronger than Keli's. Shuangxue was already at level ten at that time, so how could she have escaped?

"Tell me, who killed Xue'er?"

Suddenly, Shuanglin's deep voice rang out. When Wu Qiu looked at her again, he found that she had slightly raised her head and was looking at him with eyes that were calm but filled with endless anger.

That look in her eyes was terrifying. You couldn't see her anger at all, but you could feel the murderous intent hidden within her.

From this, Wu Qiu could tell that Shuang Lin truly cared about Shuang Xue. Because her current behavior was far more heartbreaking than simply wailing.

When you wail and cry, you're just sad. But now, Shuanglin seems to have lost all meaning in her life. She doesn't care about anything anymore, she's forgotten everything, and she doesn't even want to show her sadness. All she has is the determination to take revenge.

Wu Qiu shook his head and recounted everything that had happened after encountering the frost and snow. There wasn't much to say, really; they weren't even friends, having only met twice.

It was only when Frost was dying that he had a chat with her, and his right hand was the one that patted her large flower crown at that time.

"The flower seeds required Xue'er's willingness; otherwise, even if she died, you would not have been able to obtain them. Since you received her flower seeds, it must have been given to you by Xue'er before she died."

Shuanglin spoke up. Wu Qiu asked, puzzled, "But why didn't I feel anything before?"

Shuanglin glanced at Wu Qiu with a hint of sarcasm. "Are you worthy? If you hadn't met me and awakened the flower seed, do you think you would be qualified to use it?"

Wu Qiu didn't say anything, because Shuang Lin was telling the truth. If it weren't for Shuang Lin today, he wouldn't even know what flower seeds were.

"You said Xue'er has burns? Those shouldn't have been caused by other creatures; she must have done it herself to suppress the flower seeds."

"Even though it eventually formed a flower seed, did it still die at the hands of that flower seed? But why, why did you give the flower seed to a human?"

Shuanglin lowered her head, seemingly talking to herself, or perhaps questioning someone. Wu Qiu was completely bewildered, having no idea what had happened.

He wanted to ask, but Shuanglin spoke first, "I know what you want to ask. You humans have always believed that the Cryo Tree evolved from the Ice Flower."

"But that's not actually the case. Our Frozen Tree is actually natural ice that was born from the core of the Frozen Heart. Its original appearance was like frost and snow, much like ice flowers."

"But as long as we condense the flower seed inside and survive the process that is like a tribulation of lightning, we can evolve, grow into adulthood, take human form, and become who I am now."

"As for Xue'er, she was lost in an accident. She was still a child, so her appearance is very similar to that of an ice flower. The death you saw should be the birth of the flower seed. Xue'er didn't make it through."

As she spoke, she raised her hand and touched an Articuno that Wu Qiu had seen in the game. "It must be painful, I know. Although we are not monsters like Stormterror, we are still creatures born of nature, embodying the coldness of the world. The Articunos you saw before were just life forms formed from the seeds and leaves that we didn't need."

Wu Qiu found it amazing; he really hadn't expected that the frozen tree he remembered was just made up of some unwanted debris.

"This is the first time I've ever heard of something like this; it's truly amazing."

Noelle and Klee have arrived now, so they're sitting in a row like the audience, listening to Shuanglin recount these things.

Finally, Shuanglin stood up, her eyes regaining their composure, and looked at Wu Qiu, saying, "Xue'er actually gave you the flower seeds, but I don't think you deserve them, so I'm taking them back."

Wu Qiu trembled and immediately hid behind Noelle, saying, "You, you, you, don't do anything rash!"

Noelle and Klee also looked at Shuanglin warily, with expressions that said, "If you dare to make a move, don't blame us for being impolite."

Shuanglin didn't make a move, looking at Wu Qiu hiding behind Noelle and thinking, "Coward."

Wu Qiu immediately exploded. She jumped out from behind Noelle and said, "How dare you talk like that? I'm just being self-aware."

"Besides, how can you blame me? I've been a piece of trash since the very first chapter, do you know how I've lived? Do you know?!"

"Now that we finally have something that looks decent, and you take it away again, do you believe that if this gets released, given the author's mental fortitude, they'll be banned from updating the next day due to all the criticism!!!!"

"Besides, do you think you're the only one sad about Frost's death? Am I not sad? We only met twice, and she gave me everything. Not to mention this flower seed, how many times has Ice Mark saved me?"