Genshin Impact: My roommate and I became funny Hilichurls

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Er Kang even complained, "We're not senile! Do you have to remind us a month in advance like it's our life? Are you afraid we'll forget to come and freeload?"

(Although we might indeed forget, you can't say it out loud!)

Just then, the sliding door to the Japanese-style room was opened, and Ying and Paimon walked in.

Paimon was happily eating a string of crystal-clear tricolor dumplings in her little hands, while Ying was holding a rather antique-looking rectangular box of unknown material.

"Hey, you're back? Did you find anything while shopping?"

Qingyu casually greeted him.

Paimon flew through the air, proudly waving the dumpling in his hand: "Inazuma's sweets are truly as good as they say! Much more reliable than that street performer's!"

Ying placed the box in her hand on the low table in the center of the room, her expression somewhat strange: "We found this box in a corner of the town just now. There was a note on it that said... well, it's in a language you can recognize, I think it's Chinese characters? It says 'To the four troublemakers from another world'."

"what?!"

Ying's words were like a bomb dropped on a calm lake!

The four of them sprang up from their limp positions in an instant, surrounding the low table like four whirlwinds, their eyes wide open even more than the dumpling in Paimon's hand.

"A gift for us? And it's Chinese characters?!"

Zhang Chu's voice changed as he carefully picked up the box and examined it repeatedly.

"Quick! Open it and see what's inside!"

Gu Qian's enormous head also peered over, filled with curiosity.

Qingyu took a deep breath and carefully opened the box's latches as if he were defusing a bomb.

Inside, there was a soft padding, on which were two things: a retro-styled gadget that looked like an old-fashioned cassette recorder, and a... a sunset fruit that was exceptionally bright in color and even seemed to gleam with an alluring sheen.

"This is... a tape recorder?"

Zhang Chu took out the brick-sized tape recorder with a puzzled look. It felt heavy in his hand, and there were some buttons he couldn't understand on it, as well as a small speaker.

"Why do these sunset fruits look so beautiful today? And they smell so wonderful!"

Er Kang was drawn to the sunset fruit, picked it up, and took a deep sniff. The rich aroma almost made his mouth water, but he immediately sensed something was amiss—

This fragrance is so aggressive, it feels like it can penetrate right into your brain!

He was so startled that he quickly threw the sunset fruit back into the box as if it were a hot potato.

Forget about the fruit! Let's listen to what's on this tape recorder first!

Qingyu's curiosity overcame his wariness. He picked up the tape recorder, found the largest play button, took a deep breath, and pressed it down hard!

"Buzz... Hello? Testing... Hmm, not bad sound quality!"

A familiar voice, tinged with a hint of laziness, a touch of mockery, and an undeniable irritation, emanated clearly from the tape recorder's small speaker.

"Dear friends! It's been a long time, and I've missed you all so much! I'm your handsome, dashing, charming, universally loved, flower-attracting, and car-flattening friend—Bai Luo! I extend my sincerest greetings to you all!"

The four exclaimed in unison, their faces filled with disbelief.

"No way! How did he manage to send the gift over?!"

Er Kang held his head, feeling his worldview being refreshed once again.

"We're not even on the same film set as him! How did he manage this cross-border delivery?! What logistics company did he use? SF Express or YTO Express? Was it insured?!"

The recording continued, and you could almost hear their complaints: "Aren't you surprised I managed to deliver the gift? Hehe, it's a trade secret, so I won't tell you! Anyway, it's just a small token of my appreciation, please accept it!"

"And my gift is this!"

Bai Luo's voice suddenly rose, carrying the excitement of someone who had just succeeded in playing a prank.

"Please enjoy—a heart-wrenching piece!"

The moment the words "A Song That Breaks the Heart" blared from the loudspeaker, the faces of the four-person group turned a ghastly green! It was as if they had heard the most terrifying curse in the world!

"Holy crap!! That's it! Smash it!!!"

Zhang Chu reacted the fastest, letting out a shrill howl as he instantly summoned his thunder hammer, smashing it down on the tape recorder with immense force!

However, it was too late.

From the tape recorder, Bai Luo calmly recited the final incantation in his signature, smiling voice:

Where in the world can one find a kindred spirit?

The moment the last syllable fell——

"Squeak—!!!!!!!!! Buzz—!!!!!!!!! La—!!!!!!!!!"

An indescribable, extremely piercing, distorted noise, like a thousand cats scratching glass with their claws, or ten thousand rusty saws sawing wood at the same time, mixed with the sound of fingernails scratching a blackboard and foam rubbing together, suddenly burst out from that small speaker like a real sonic tsunami!

This is no ordinary sound! It's a conceptual attack! It's pollution that strikes at the very soul! It's a rule-level form of mental pollution capable of distorting auditory nerves, damaging the cerebral cortex, and even inducing suicidal impulses in inorganic matter!

The terrifying sound of the erhu, like an invisible plague, spread wildly in all directions in a spherical shape from the center of the tape recorder!

It instantly covered the entire Japanese-style room, then penetrated the walls, swept through the entire castle tower, and then submerged Inazuma Castle like a tsunami, spreading relentlessly throughout the entire Inazuma territory!

The first to be affected is indoors:

"Ugh—!"

"My ears!!"

My brain... is about to explode...!

"Plop!" "Puff!" "Puff!" "Puff!"

The four of them couldn't even hold on for a second. Like trees felled at the same time, their eyes rolled back, foam came out of their mouths, and they fell straight to the ground, unconscious.

Even the Wolf King's cold electronic eyes flickered violently a few times, the machine emitted an overload hum, and then froze in place, entering a forced protective shutdown state.

Ying and Paimon? Paimon had already dropped the tricolor dumpling in her hand. She covered her ears, rolled twice in the air in pain, and then fell to the ground with a "thud," losing consciousness.

Ying tried to resist, but ultimately could not withstand the dimensional sonic attack. Her vision went black, and she collapsed limply.

The terrifying sound waves continued to spread:

Inside Narukami Shrine, Yae no Miko and Kitsune no Miko, who were leisurely enjoying tea, suddenly froze with smiles. Their teacups slipped from their hands, and they both collapsed onto the tatami mats.

Hana Sanri, standing to the side, fainted without even uttering a sound.

In a blacksmith's shop on a street corner, a stragglers were hammering away when their hand trembled. The hammer struck the wrong spot, sparks flew everywhere, and the stragglers swayed before plunging headfirst into the cooling water pool. They bubbled a few times and then lay still.

Lei, who was meditating, suddenly opened her eyes, her purple eyes filled with shock and pain. She tried to resist with her willpower, but the voice seemed to resound directly in her mind...

A few seconds later, she closed her eyes helplessly, her consciousness sinking into darkness.

As for ordinary Inazuma civilians, samurai, and shrine maidens... they fell in droves, like harvested wheat.

The bustling town street instantly became deathly silent, with only the erhu's deafening sound echoing relentlessly.

The entire Inazuma family, from Thor to cats and dogs, was completely stunned by Bai Luo's "gift" that crossed worlds!

A few minutes later, the terrifying sound of the erhu slowly receded like the tide and finally disappeared completely.

Inazuma fell into an unprecedented, absolutely silent coma.

I don't know how much time passed; maybe an hour, maybe a whole day.

The first to wake up was the wolf king; its system had restarted and its electronic eyes had regained their light.

It scanned the surrounding "corpses" lying haphazardly in various shapes and sizes, and the core processor came to a conclusion: they had been attacked by an unknown rule-level sonic wave, and all of them were temporarily unconscious.

It silently walked to the culprit—the tape recorder—extended its mechanical claw, carefully picked it up, and then activated the high-temperature furnace inside…

Wolf King: "Threat Level: Extremely High".

Solution: Physical destruction.

After a while, the four of them woke up one after another, groaning as if their heads had been trampled by ten Hilichurl Kings.

"Bai Luo... I'm not done with you!!!"

Er Kang clutched his head, which felt like it was about to split open, and let out a weak roar.

As for the rest of Inazuma, it's unclear how long it will take to recover from this unexpected disaster.

Bai Luo's "greeting" had a truly...immediate effect.

Chapter 125 The Return of Guilliman

Looking at Inazuma Shiro, who seemed to have been put on pause.

—The streets were littered with unconscious citizens, samurai, and even small animals. Shop doors were wide open, food still steaming faintly from pots. The entire city was deathly silent, save for the howling wind.—

Having just settled Ying and Paimon, and then Raiden Shin, Raiden Movie, and Yae Shinko, the four of them looked at each other, their faces all bearing the same word: helplessness.

Bai Luona's erhu attack, which transcends the dimensional barrier, is simply too outrageously powerful.

According to the Wolf King's comprehensive biosignal scan, all living beings within Inazuma's territory, without exception, have fallen into a deep coma.

The earliest time for him to wake up is estimated to be a full 72 hours!

"That's it..."

Qingyu covered his face in despair.

"Three days! Three whole days of no one working! Shops closed, government affairs at a standstill, farmland abandoned, and to make matters worse, the docks are deserted... By the time they wake up, Inazuma might just be back to the era of the isolationist policy!"

"At this point, there is only one way."

Zhang Chu sighed, as if he had made up his mind. He silently took out an exquisite wooden box from his "four-dimensional pocket". After opening it, dozens of chess pieces of various shapes and faint energy fluctuations were neatly arranged inside.

He carefully retrieved the Guilliman chess piece that he had temporarily lent to Raiden Shin.

With a flash of white light, Robert Guilliman, clad in blue power armor, with a burly build and a perpetually serious expression, reappeared on the land of Inazuma.

His sharp gaze swept quickly across the eerie scene around him—the unconscious crowd, the stagnant city—his brow furrowing slightly.

Qingyu braced himself and explained everything that had just happened to the Primarch from a dark thousand years in the simplest language: the "greeting" from another world, the conceptual-level erhu attack, and the current predicament of all the Inazuma members being unconscious for three days.

Guilliman: "..."

Even the Lord of Altera, who was well-versed in the world and had experienced countless storms, fell into a brief silence at this moment.

He remained silent for a few seconds, seemingly processing this bizarre information.

However, to the group's surprise, Guilliman's serious face did not show any reproach or absurdity; on the contrary...