Genshin Impact: My roommate and I became funny Hilichurls

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Magical runes flowed slowly across the door frame, occasionally bubbling up.

"Is this the house?"

Zhang Chu scanned the energy flow of the barrier through his tactical goggles.

The owner of Goethe slapped his thigh with a worried look on his face. "The seal was put up when the tenant left, supposedly to 'prevent unauthorized personnel from breaking in,' but it's been three months already!"

Er Kang squatted down and poked the barrier. The water element patterns reacted with the seal, producing a "sizzling" sound: "Shouldn't we be looking for Mona? That poor... I mean, where is that great astrologer?"

"I fainted from hunger in the wild."

Zhang Chu brought up the projector of the Knights of the West's report.

"When Noelle found her, she was holding a mushroom and saying she wanted to 'have dinner with the stars'."

Goethe was so anxious that he kept rubbing his hands: "Do you two have any ideas? If the lockdown isn't lifted soon, I'll have no choice but to abandon this house."

Zhang Chu's mask suddenly turned towards Er Kang, his eyes flashing with a dangerous light.

Er Kang's water element sensor went into overdrive, triggering a frantic alarm.

You wouldn't be thinking—

"Mr. Goethe."

Zhang Chu asked politely.

Would you mind if the door frame was slightly damaged?

"As long as the seal can be broken, you'll even tear down the wall!"

Zhang Chu darted forward and precisely grabbed Er Kang by the back of his neck before he could escape.

"Zhang Chu! I'm *****!"

Er Kang's cursing stopped abruptly—he was being swung around like a human battering ram.

The moment the water element came into contact with the barrier, it burst out with a dazzling blue light. Zhang Chu even thoughtfully adjusted Er Kang to an angle where his face would be the first point of contact.

"boom--!!!"

The entire building shook three times.

The barrier burst like a bubble, the door frame cracked radially, and Er Kang was embedded in the entrance wall in a large "X" shape, with a circle of small stars slowly appearing around his head.

Zhang Chu stepped over the threshold and casually pried Er Kang out of the wall. "Look, the seal is broken."

Goethe stared dumbfounded at the smoking door and Er Kang foaming at the mouth on the floor: "This...this works too?"

"The principle of water element counterbalancing".

Zhang Chu was talking nonsense with a straight face.

"Bumping it with a water elemental of equal concentration can trigger a magical resonance..."

"I...I'm going to...kill you..."

Er Kang raised his hand tremblingly.

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Inside Abedo's makeshift alchemy workshop, various precision instruments were humming softly.

The notebook spread out on the table was filled with complex formulas, but each line was marked with a bright red "X".

"Um......"

Abedo frowned, and after drawing the last fruitless equation on the paper with his quill pen, he finally sighed and closed the notebook.

"Teacher, are you still unable to figure it out?"

Sugar carefully handed over a cup of her special iced floral tea, the chaotic scene outside the window reflected in her glasses—

Qingyu was being lectured by Ying, who was pulling on the hair on his mask, because he had just "accidentally" used wind element to blow Paimon onto the head of the wind god statue.

Erkang was testing his newly invented "water element cola" by the fountain when it exploded, covering Rosalia, who was passing by, in brown foam.

Gu Qian sat on the city wall, using his seven-meter-tall body as an easel, painting a masterpiece titled "Paimon vs. the Abyss Mage" that covered the entire wall...

Abedo took the teacup, his fingertips unconsciously tapping the rim: "They seem to possess some kind of... conceptual-level ability."

He pointed to Zhang Chu, who was using a thunder hammer as a barbecue grill.

“They can achieve anything they ‘think’ is feasible, regardless of the laws of physics.”

"For example, lightning can turn food to ash, but they can use lightning to grill it."

Sugar's ears twitched: "Like 'wish fulfillment' in fairy tales?"

"Even more terrifying."

Aberdo shook his head solemnly.

“Yesterday I saw with my own eyes Gu Qian blowing bubbles at the Water Abyss Mage like he was playing with bubbles.”

He opened the experimental record and pointed to a page with scorched marks.

"When we tried to analyze it using alchemy, the instrument overloaded immediately."

A loud noise suddenly came from outside the window.

The two turned to look and saw that the Wolf King had transformed into a giant barbecue grill, with twenty skewers of wild mushrooms and chicken automatically turning and grilling under the blessing of lightning, the aroma of which could be smelled throughout half of Mondstadt.

"The only thing to be thankful for is..."

Abedo watched as Qingyu, beaten by Ying, ran away with his head in his hands.

"They seem to have their own set of moral codes."

Sugar gazed thoughtfully at the city wall—in Gu Qian's painting, Paimon was smashing a cabbage into the Abyss Mage's eyes until he saw stars.

In the corner, there's a chibi version of the leader of the band, Jean, giving a thumbs-up, with the label "Certified Excellent Work by the Knights of Favonius."

"perhaps……"

Sugar's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Can we record phenomena instead of exploring their essence? Just like studying the Wind Crystal Butterfly doesn't require understanding the will of the Wind God?"

Abedo gave an approving smile: "A very good idea, but..."

He pointed to Gu Qian, who had suddenly started using the city wall as a screen to show the shadow puppet show "Hicmurs' Adventure in Sky Island".

"We need to first solve the problem that the speed of data collection can't keep up with the frequency of their mischief..."

Alchemy log for that night: [Experiment terminated] Research subject's achievements today:

1. Transform the large tree at the wind's edge into a slide.

2. Invent a quill pen that can do its homework by itself.

3. Proof that Sweet Flower Chicken can heal injuries.

[Conclusion] Perhaps Barbara is right; some miracles don't need explanation.

Chapter 57 Reversed Idols

Inside the Abyss Order's secret base, Kong, clutching his backside, limped through the chaotic camp.

The once gloomy and majestic altar is now reduced to a few abyss mages stuck in the ground, twitching like radishes with only their two legs sticking out.

The carefully prepared "unclean reversed idol" had vanished, leaving only a huge crater in its place, next to which was written in chalk: "Thank you for your patronage, come again next time~"

null:"......"

He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, but—

A sharp pain shot through a certain indescribable area, instantly contorting Kong Yingjun's handsome face.

—Let's rewind to a few hours earlier—

"Your Highness, according to the prophecy, we should be in Liyue Harbor..."

The Abyss Apostle was respectfully reporting the plan in front of the sand table, while Kong sat in a chair, tapping the armrest with his fingertips, pondering how to accomplish the great task without harming his sister.

The camp wall was smashed open by a brute force, and four masked Hilichurls rushed out of the dust.

"Found you! Flight attendant!"

Qingyu shouted while carrying a rocket launcher.

"Surrender, brother-in-law!"

Er Kang's water blade was already at the Abyss Mage's neck.

"Sister complex must be punished!"

Zhang Chu's thunder hammer smashed the altar.

"Hehe, capture them alive!"

Gu Qian smiled憨厚ly, but he already had a burlap sack ready in his hand.

null:"???"

Before he could react, Ying rushed out from behind the four of them, clutching a bundle of specially made ropes in her hand, her eyes gleaming with an eerie light: "Brother! I know everything! You're not getting away this time!"

Sora: "Wait! Ying! Let me explain! They must have told you something—"

"Your Highness, let's go quickly!!!"

The loyal Abyss Apostle pushed Kong aside, but was himself smashed into a two-dimensional paper doll by Gu Qian's thunder hammer.

Kong staggered toward the portal, and as he turned around, he saw Qingyu pull out a strangely shaped rocket launcher from behind his back, the muzzle flashing with an ominous pink light.

"Millennium Kill Special Edition - Family Bond Breakthrough, Fire!"

The rocket pierced precisely through the closing portal, leaving the audience in a terrified state—

"Aaaaaaaahh ...

Empty's figure disappeared into the portal, leaving only a shrill scream echoing in the Abyss Camp.

Back to the present —

Leaning against the wall, tears welling in her eyes, she murmured, "These...bandits..."