Genshin Impact: Teyvat Travel Guide

The third year in Aru Village.

El would hardly recall that bad past in the desert.

Everyone's attitude towards her was very natural. Even if they knew that she was exiled here because she participated in the shocking god-making project, their attitude towards her did not change at all.

She even received different reviews here.

Children in the desert are not able to receive education from an early age like those in the rainforest. They rarely have the opportunity to study, so playing has become a pastime in life.

Children in twos and threes always gathered in front of her window sill to look eagerly at the Sumeru roses growing in the wind. El, who was sitting at the desk writing notes, noticed the children outside the window, picked a few bunches of Sumeru roses, and then opened the door. , given to the timid children.

They were flattered and took the flowers, saying thank you very happily.

Those fluttering purples were very beautiful. A little girl with braids looked up at the researcher and suddenly said:

"Sister El, I heard from Sister Candice that these Sumeru roses are plants that grow in the rainforest. You can grow them here. It's really amazing!"

El pursed her lips.

She is not very good at chatting with children.

So under such admiring eyes, I only remained silent for a moment, and barely managed to say: "...Thank you for your compliment."

But obviously, the little girl didn't mind El's slightly cold attitude at all.

The girl just tilted her head and looked at her and asked curiously: "I heard from people in the village that those powerful scholars from the Order were exiled here because they made mistakes. Sister El, what mistake did you make?"

El froze, and after thinking about it, he chose to tell the truth.

"Creating Gods." She was lost for a moment, looking at the blue sky and desert in the distance, her thoughts seemed to have entered some distant memory, and then suddenly said, "This is not a good experiment. The people who participated in the plan have now been exiled. Naturally, that includes me.”

"...creating gods?"

The girl didn't understand what the plan was.

She just stretched out her hand and held the hem of Yi Er's clothes, "Sister Yi Yi must be reluctant."

El was a little dumbfounded and looked sideways: "Why do you say that?"

"Because you are very good." The girl counted on her fingers. "You gave us medicine to improve the soil. Now we can grow more food in the ground. We also saw a lot of flowers... very beautiful flowers."

"You like to do research, and you will show us the books you brought...although, even though I don't know much about reading hehe..."

Children's judgments about good and bad are simple and straightforward. Because they are inadvertently taken care of by the other person, they subconsciously tend to favor the person she thinks is the best.

Il has been in the village for more than three years and has done many things that he thought were nothing.

Just like Xumi Qiangwei who casually agreed to old Sonny, many of the things she did casually seemed to be remembered by some people.

She suddenly realized...she was needed.

This feeling is really amazing.

It was so strange...it was obviously only three years ago, but she felt that an uncountable amount of time had passed.

"...Thank you." Finally, Il said quietly.

She blinked, suppressing a certain gaffe, then turned around and went to the window sill to fold a sprig of Sumeru rose and give it to the girl.

"Here you go," she said. "Do you like it?"

The girl looked surprised and replied abruptly: "I like it!"

El knelt down and finally couldn't help but smile: "Then why don't you try to grow one yourself?"

She gave the girl some flower seeds and said, "This is a variety I cultivated before. It is more adaptable than ordinary roses. If you take care of it carefully, it may be able to bloom very beautiful flowers."

The girl left happily.

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After that, it was another day to hand in daily records, and El saw the wanderer waiting under the statue of the Seven Heavens God as usual.

The other party rejected her record book.

He said: "Little Lucky Grass King asked me to bring you a message."

El looked at him, with a questioning look in his eyes.

The wanderer crossed his arms, his deep purple eyes meeting the former fanatical researcher.

Just as Little Lucky Grass King said, El's current expression is completely different from the previous one hundred and sixty-eight times of enthusiasm.

The enthusiasm in those eyes that seemed to analyze the world and the crazy words that came out of his mouth seemed to have become an unspeakable long history, even though it was only three years ago.

Except for her name, appearance, and research talent, she didn't look like the person he saw in the God-Creation Project laboratory.

[So, please judge with your own eyes, Ah Mao. 】

Before setting off, Little Lucky Grass King's voice rang in his ears, [You know, El's real subject was never the one I gave her. 】

"You're free," he said.

[When she opened her heart to the desert people who once only had painful memories, immersed herself in the environment, and accepted it, her project was completed. 】

[What's more, during the three years in the desert, she has completed enough other topics. Don't you already know the impact of these papers after they are published? 】

She changed, and she also created quite high value.

The wanderer thought that the latter reason was most likely told to him by Little Lucky Grass King.

But it's true.

From now on, she is free.

Yi Er was stunned for a moment, and her genius' quick thinking stopped. For a moment, her mind was unable to figure out the meaning behind such simple words.

"I am free?"

"Yes, surprised?" Wanderer looked at her, still as mean as ever, "I don't agree with Little Lucky Grass King's overly benevolent decision, but I can't interfere with her."

He looked El up and down, and finally closed his eyes, "Okay, there's nothing else to say."

The meandering young man wearing a city girl's hat turned around, the two streamers behind the hat fluttering in the wind, just like himself who was pronounced free by the Little Lucky Grass King like her.

El lowered her eyelashes.

The news was announced quite suddenly.

She was not ready yet, and it had been a long time since she had thought about the topic that Little Lucky Grass King had given her three years ago.

Suddenly, the vast swathes of Sumeru roses in front of my window sill came to mind, as well as the moon lotus grown in a water tank using special techniques, the Jiebo lotus climbing on the shelf, and some peaches borrowed because they could not be grown in the house. Patisara planted on Sano’s window sill…

There are also the deceased old Sonny, Candice, the village chief, the children who are jealous of Xumi Rose, and...

Cyno.

Unknowingly, there were a lot of colors in her heart, which should have been solely focused on research.

She suddenly realized...she might not want to leave.

The resources here are poor, the climate is harsh, the temperature difference between day and night is large, the wind and sand blow dazzlingly, and some monsters invade from time to time. Compared with Xumi City, it is not very safe.

But it was a place like this that made her feel something she had never felt before.

She had no interest in the elective courses of the Epistemological School before, so she couldn't describe this feeling in the most appropriate words and language.

It's just a simple analogy. After thinking about it, it's like——

Like the warm spring water, like the evening breeze in autumn, like the golden moon lotus quietly exuding a soft fragrance in the fields of Sumeru, like the shooting stars with long tails that occasionally streak over the high platform outside the teaching courtyard...

All in all, everything that I had never cared about before became soft and vivid when I recalled that feeling.