Genshin Impact: Teyvat Travel Guide

The village is small.

There are many travelers in Xumi, but few can come to this village. The population in the village is also small, with the elderly and children accounting for the majority of the population.

The environment here is much worse than that of Aru Village. There is no natural landform to block the wind, and there is no convenient means of transportation. Even the beasts of burden are shared by the village.

--remote.

This was El's first impression of the village.

"Are you here to find someone?" the child asked her, raising his head.

El shook his head: "I was just passing by."

The location of this village is very close to the village where he lived a thousand years ago. Il wanted to visit the old site of the village a thousand years ago, but unexpectedly he ended up here.

"All right……"

One child raised a doubtful tone: "This place is really remote. If you are passing by, is there any place more remote than here?"

"Yes, the place I want to go to is here." She took out the map and showed it in front of several children, "Do you understand?"

Several children immediately responded in a flurry: "Of course I can understand! Dad taught me how to read maps!"

"We can't lose our way!"

"I have a bigger one than this one at home!"

"Are you going to that crappy place? It's not very far from the village. You don't need to look at the map. We can help you lead the way!"

El was slightly shaken: "Okay, thank you."

"Sister, you must have seen a lot of beautiful scenery, right?" One of the children asked, "We took you there, can you tell us about places that are different from the desert?"

"What does Xumi City look like? Are there really many plants? Is the Order House really built on a huge tree?"

"Oh and also, what is the scenery like in other countries?"

The children's questions were almost overflowing with yearning for the outside world, and El's mood was somewhat complicated.

After the children led the way, she finally saw the village where she used to be.

The village is now so desolate that you can barely see the tops of some buildings. The rest of the village is really as a few children said - it's so rotten.

At this moment of sight, El finally felt the weight taken away by the passage of time.

She felt relieved, and the enthusiastic children beside her asked curiously: "Why do you come here? We don't even come here to play games!"

"It's just that it's too broken. I was found before I even hid it!"

"Isn't that because your hiding skills are too bad?"

"That's the problem here..."

El spent a long time in this place that was so dilapidated that he couldn't even hide a child properly during hide-and-seek.

If I have to say it, there is actually no particular reason. She just had a whim and felt that after entering a new life, she should still reconcile with her past self.

Reconciliation for what?

not sure.

The extreme, crazy, sick and stubborn El seemed to be a distant past.

She paid a lot of money to achieve the earth-shaking changes she has now, but everything she did in the past will not be changed or erased.

Even though it is just a very light brush in the long river of history, the traces will not be completely eliminated.

And she came here this time because she wanted to see those "traces".

Is there anyone alive in the village?

Looking at the dilapidated state, it is obvious that it is no longer there.

El turned around and asked the children leading the way: "Do you know the previous history of this village?"

Several children were lost in thought.

"What? Was this shabby place a village before?"

"I don't know... maybe sister, you can ask the adults in the village?"

"I know there is a very shabby book in the village chief's house! There seems to be something written on it..."

The children in these villages seem to have never seen outsiders, and they naturally have a laughable innocence and curiosity about outsiders.

Then, the kind and overly positive children actually ran to the village chief's house and tried to borrow the shabby book that was said to have been circulated for many years.

Undoubtedly, rejected.

"It's a traveler sister who wants to see it!" the children chirped. "She really wants to know what the bad place not far from our village was like before. She doesn't look like a bad person. Why don't you lend it to her?" What do you think?"

Well, it's very subjective and a very childlike way of judging good and evil.

The village chief was stunned.

"What is there to know about that place?" He scratched his head. "If I just want to know this, I can tell her something directly. There is no need to borrow the book."

The children all said "Wow".

"So is there really something going on there?"

"I've never heard of it..."

In fact, it is not a history worth remembering.

When El looked at the stooped old man who was being supported by the children, she looked slightly surprised.

"Do you want to know about the history here?" the village chief asked, "Miss Traveler, or Miss Scholar, if you come here to investigate, I'm afraid you won't get the results you want."

El humbly: "Please speak."

The village chief said in his narration that among the stories he learned, which he did not know to be true or false but were passed down from generation to generation, the destruction of the village was all due to retribution.

"After all, our place is very remote... Miss Scholar, it took a lot of time for you to get here, right?"

In this era, their village can barely connect to the outside world, but the children still have very few opportunities to see the outside world. The young adults in many families have left here early.

Some go out to work and only come back during important holidays.

But most of them never come back.

When the children grow up and leave, the village may be one step closer to extinction.

This is the case in this era, and I dare not even think about what it was like a thousand years ago.

In the village chief's narration, desert people thousands of years ago listened to the Red King's oracle and had unwavering faith in the Red King.

But it’s really too remote here.

Before they go to those pilgrimage sites with triangular spiers and uncanny craftsmanship created by the wisdom of our ancestors, they will die from the weather and sand.

"Although the Red King in historical records is not a benevolent god. He is powerful, has power beyond the reach of all mortals, and is in the highest position in the desert. But I think that does not mean that he can accept people. Sacrifice.”

...Human sacrifice?

Elton lived.

The hand holding the pen to record suddenly stopped on the paper. The ink quickly gathered on the tip of the pen, and then dripped heavily, leaving a thick mark on the white paper.

"They thought that human sacrifice would attract the attention of the gods, but they didn't expect that the person chosen as a sacrifice would escape during the night." The village chief recalled this story, with emotion in his voice unconsciously.

"Then one day, the 'sacrifice' returned to the village and took revenge on the place. In the end, everyone was burned up in a black fire."

El twitched the corner of his mouth.

"did not expect……"

Someone actually knew about this and even recorded it.

The village chief's eyes were far-reaching, as if he was stuck in some kind of memory: "Yeah, I didn't expect it either. This story probably won't bring any reference value to your research, Ms. Scholar."

"Although there is indeed a place here that looks suspiciously like the ruins of the village, after all, it is just a story. Maybe because of the remoteness, the people in the village gradually moved away, and finally it was abandoned. And later generations made up such a story Story, maybe it’s just because I’m bored.”

Who knows.

El was silent.

No one knows the truth better than she does.

——The story is true, and so is the village.

In fact, it's very simple if you think about it. She was the one who was used as a sacrifice in the story. In the end, everyone in the village was indeed used as a container for the devil's residue, and she did many experiments... In the end, they all died from the devil. under the influence of residue.

"Black fire"... is accurate.

The devil's residue is no different from that color.

But now that time has passed, only these severely weathered ruins of the original village are left, and it is meaningless to explore the origin of the story.

El was a little sad, and she was shocked to realize that what happened at the beginning could no longer cause any harm to her.

*

After leaving, she seemed a little tired and relieved.

Remembering the agreement she made with the children, she found an open place and sat cross-legged on the long yellow sand.

The children gathered around, waiting expectantly for her story.

She introduced how the city of Xumi was like, how the plants were like, how the scholars were like, and how the ecology of other countries was like.

"Fontaine's sea area is very large, but it is said to be a sea, but in fact, it should be an inland lake."

"Fontaine is the highest among the Seven Kingdoms of Teyvat. If you go to the westernmost part of the Sumeru Desert, if you stand at a high place, you can see a very long waterfall."

“Tianheng Mountain in Liyue is stunningly beautiful at dusk.”

She recalled the stories she had seen through word of mouth from travelers passing by, and tried her best to use the simplest words to describe those scenery.

She has a good memory and will never make a mistake.

The child raised his hand: "You are so young, have you already been to so many places?"

"...Not really." She said, "I just heard about it."

To be honest, she even left Xumi very rarely.

The children said "Ah——" regretfully.

"Then will you go in the future?"

Just like what she said, go to Tianheng Mountain in Liyue to watch the sunset, go to Fontaine to swim on the seabed, and go to Daozhu to see the red maples and cherry blossoms.

El was really stunned by the question.

She had never thought about this problem, she just thought that maybe she should stay in Xumi to do research, and then take a look at the flowers and plants in her free time, that's all.

An unspeakable emotion suddenly emerged in her heart, and she realized that maybe she should go for a walk.

"Thank you for your advice." She smiled, "I'll go take a look."

Just invite Sano to come with you in the name of inspection.