Genshin Impact, I, a mere mortal, cannot accompany you to the very end.

She observed for a long time, thought for a long time, and hesitated for a long time. Finally, that bad and crooked thought could no longer be suppressed and took root and sprouted deep in the girl's mind.

With such a handsome young man lying before you, what is there to hesitate about?

"Ying, you wouldn't want to...?"

The one who said this was the emergency food that the girl had fished up a few days ago. This thing was small, like a large rag doll, flying in the air, with specks of light in it.

Paimon.

That's her name.

Little Paimon stood with his hands on his hips, staring suspiciously into the girl's eyes. She asked with a serious expression, "...You don't mean to steal from the corpse, do you?"

Ying nodded very seriously.

She had heard about this in the bard's stories: these corpses that had been submerged for thousands of years usually possessed some extraordinary treasures, such as gold coins, necklaces, or rings. Who knows, they might even pull out a few 'martial arts manuals' from their pockets, and after learning them, their cultivation would increase rapidly, hehehe, terrifyingly so.

She fished up the corpse, so it's perfectly reasonable and only right for her to take some treasures.

The girl had a reasonable explanation for her actions, which she called the rational use of marine resources.

For example, that piece of scrap metal that the boy is holding... well, upon closer inspection, it looks like a sword; it might actually be a priceless treasure.

It should be worth several hundred Mora.

She was desperate for money.

Thinking this, the girl began to grope Kiyono, grabbing his hands that were protecting his sword and prying them open little by little.

The corpse was gripping tightly, and even with the girl's strength, she couldn't pry it open for a while.

"call.."

Ying wasn't one to give up easily. She gestured to Paimon to help hold her down, and the girl flipped over, straddling Kiyono's lower abdomen. The hem of her pure white skirt brushed against the latter's cheek.

She mustered all her strength and exerted force in her hands, causing faint blue veins to appear on the back of her fair hands.

"What are you doing?"

"Hoo..." There seemed to be someone speaking beside her ear. Without looking up, Ying wiped the sweat from her cheeks. "Help me... eh?"

The peaceful, blissfully deceased corpse lying beneath her—Qingye Fengyin—stared at her with innocent eyes that seemed to say, "Hero, have mercy on me, I'm a virtuous woman." Her purple-colored eyes blinked pitifully, like a bullied little wolf.

Just last night, Kiyono escaped the wolf's den only to fall into the tiger's lair. He had barely left the Fools' ship and boarded a small boat when he encountered a storm.

The valve was blown away in an instant. In desperation, he grabbed a piece of wood and drifted ashore with the waves.

He was lucky to be alive, or rather, he was in good health. Even though he had stopped breathing, he was still alive, but he just passed out.

But after waking up, Kiyono was completely confused about her current situation.

A young girl was straddling her own stomach, tearing at her chest.

Their current posture is indeed somewhat awkward.

Ying clearly realized this as well. She stopped what she was doing, blinked her golden eyes, and stared blankly at Qingye beneath her. After a while, her ears turned slightly red, and her expression was as if she had seen a ghost.

Breaking the silence was Paimon, an emergency food provider.

It was truly terrified, jumping around and darting about wildly.

"It's...it's come back to life!"

Paimon exclaimed,

"Run, Ying! It's an old zombie!"

-

Cape Lookout is a famous beach in Mondstadt.

Here, adjacent to the sea, passing through Wangfeng Cape and walking up the golden sandy beach, you will reach Wangfeng Valley and Xingluo Lake. The valley winds, carrying the moisture from Xingluo Lake, blow on the beach of Wangfeng Cape year after year.

This is the gateway to Mondstadt.

Kiyono carefully dried his hair, wrapped the towel around himself, and scrutinized the two people kneeling obediently before him with an almost interrogative gaze, saying:

"So, you want to take my things?"

"No, no, there's a professional term for this." Paimon crossed his arms, looking very professional, and said seriously, "We call this 'discovering corpses and excavating tombs.' Old zombie."

"...But I'm not dead yet."

Kiyono twitched the corner of his mouth.

The little thing in front of him... its thoughts were so agile that he couldn't keep up.

She was the one who gave him the nickname "Old Zongzi," and once it was, he wouldn't stop calling him that, even after Qingye repeatedly declared that he was alive. This little guy, who resembled a fairy, wouldn't stop talking, saying things like, "It's bound to happen sooner or later anyway..."

It was only a matter of time; he would be driven mad by this thing sooner or later.

On the other hand, the girl named Ying was more well-behaved.

She knelt quietly on the beach, her hands folded on her knees, her head bowed, her cheeks still slightly flushed, looking quite embarrassed.

Unlike the unreasonable and argumentative Paimon, Ying still has the most basic moral bottom line.

They're still alive!

How could you steal from a living person!

At least wait until they're dead before you do it...

She examined her actions and realized that she had indeed stolen something.

Even if you're desperate for money, you shouldn't steal from living people.

This made Ying feel somewhat ashamed.

"I'm sorry," the girl's voice was so low it was like the chirping of insects, "we acted too soon... cough cough, we shouldn't have taken your things."

Although these words sounded a bit off, at least it was an apology.

"If you encounter any difficulties in the future, you can always ask us for help, as long as you can forgive us..."

She said earnestly.

The girl was bad at everything, but she excelled at helping out with odd jobs. Whether it was a villager who couldn't find something, or a child who had lost their toy, she was very good at all these miscellaneous tasks.

Each time she helped someone, even though she was poor, she would only accept a small reward.

Seeing that the girl was sincere in admitting her mistake and eager to help, Kiyono didn't want to make things difficult for her.

“I do have a small problem…” he said.

"What difficulties are you facing? Tell me."

"I'm having financial difficulties," Kiyono said earnestly. "All my money was washed away by the waves. Could you give me some money?"

"..."

"Guess why we're touching the corpse and digging tombs?"

-

PS1: Then comes the bounty report.

Obviously, the bounty has been capped at fifteen chapters. I'm slowly working on repaying it, and if you include the longer chapters, I've already repaid about ten.

But actually, everyone has given too many tips, exceeding the limit of fifteen chapters. I feel bad about only returning fifteen chapters, so I'll just double it and return thirty chapters.

The problem now is that I've run out of drafts, and with only three updates a day, it's not enough for everyone to read them all at once, and there are always issues with updates running out.

Without a draft in hand, I feel uncertain and unsure when I start writing.

So I'm changing my update plan now. I'll write three or four chapters a day, update two chapters as usual, save the rest, and then next Friday, I'll release ten chapters at once to test the waters.

Volume 1: Chapter 40 Grilled Fish

"You mean, you've wandered the world for hundreds of years, but lost your memories of the past?"

Kiyono stacked the collected firewood together, picked up a bundle of grass clippings with both hands, and gently blew on it. Sparks flew and ignited in the wind.

He put the ball of fire in his hand into the pile of firewood, and with a 'bang', the flames shot up.

"That's it."

The girl who called herself Ying squatted by the fire, stretching out her fair hands to warm them. The firelight flickered in her beautiful eyes, and her delicate cheeks were slightly flushed in the firelight.

"What a coincidence." Qingye found it very strange. "I don't have much of a memory. Maybe I saw you hundreds of years ago."

Maybe yes, maybe no.

He has neither a past nor any future in sight.

Some say that life should be filled with plenty of clouds, but for Qingye, the clouds have all dissipated, dusk has passed, and with the misty dawn, it's a new day, a new life. All he can do is keep moving forward, to collect new clouds.

"Even the old rice dumpling has lost its memory?"

Paimon swung his little feet, a knowing look on his face, and interjected, "Hehe, Paimon knows this. Even corpses that have come back to life don't know their past life memories!"

“I’m not an old zongzi,” Qingye said. “The fish is ready.”

The fish he was referring to was a bass that he had just caught from the sea.

Ying's fishing skills are really bad. He always catches weird things, like emergency food and sunken corpses. He's a disgrace to all anglers... Kiyono couldn't stand it anymore, so he took matters into his own hands.

Two sea bass, skinned and scaled. He had almost forgotten his cooking skills, only having two inexplicable "fox udon" and "milk dumplings" left, so he kept the cooking simple: skinned fish and grilled over a fire, which was unlikely to go wrong.

The freshest ingredients only need the simplest cooking methods. With the crackling of firewood, golden oil drips from the surface of the sea bass, the skin is crispy and the tender white flesh is revealed, and it's ready to eat.

Ying ate fish like a kitten. Her slender fingers pinched the two sides of the sea bass, and she carefully opened her mouth, revealing her canine teeth. She first bit off the golden skin of the fish, tore it apart, and her golden eyes curved slightly, showing that it was really delicious. She licked the oil stains from the corner of her mouth with her moist tongue before taking a bite.

The firelight illuminated her face.

"So what do you plan to do?"

"Brother." Ying held the sea bass in both hands, chewing and making muffled sounds, "I'm going to find you, Kiyono, what about you?"

“Me?” Qingye Fengyin took down another grilled fish.

But when the gluttonous Paimon saw that there was no fish for him, he burst into tears, his eyes brimming with tears. So Paimon sighed helplessly and gave the grilled fish to the little guy.

He really didn't know what he was supposed to do.

Each time he reincarnates, and each time he goes to a new place, Kiyono's purpose is to modify an abnormal factor that could destroy human civilization. Just like in his previous life, Kiyono Raimei, he went to repair the abnormal factor that caused Inazuma to be completely destroyed by the abyss due to Narukami leaving Inazuma.