Mu Yang told Lumine.
He was fine; there was no need to worry.
Wasn't he perfectly alright?
Only then did Ying let go of his hand.
Paimon finally found a chance to cut in.
Ying had moved too quickly just now.
She had given Paimon quite a fright.
"We were all worried about you."
"But you came back to this place... You really are an adeptus, aren't you?"
Mu Yang did not say that he was an adeptus.
Instead, he shook his head.
"I don't know."
Alright, alright. Is that a "maybe" instead of yes or no?
Hiss... I've got a bad feeling about this.
Don't say everything gives you a bad feeling. What turned him into this, miHoYo?
"You don't know?"
Ying found that rather unbelievable.
Either he was or he wasn't.
What kind of answer was "I don't know"?
Mu Yang did not seem to intend to hide it.
He told Ying and Paimon
that his memories were actually rather muddled.
He often forgot many things.
He could only remember what had happened recently.
Any memories from too long ago were completely blank.
"For example, what I told you before about the Abyss Order."
"Maybe in another year or two, I won't remember anything at all."
Mu Yang had not made those words up to deceive Ying.
Rather, they were deductions based on the established setting.
This part had been altered.
Teyvat had its own rules.
He suppressed gods.
Those gods could also erode him in return.
Otherwise, such massive gaps in his memory should not have appeared.
In the livestream.
Guinaifen listened to this.
Her mood immediately soured.
She complained,
"What kind of insane setting is this? I can already smell the angst, family."
So he got Alzheimer's while he was still so young, huh?
Damn, does that mean he'll forget us too in the end?
No way. If he's going to forget me, at least wait until ten years after I quit the game.
Once a setting like this gets thrown out, the tragic tone is probably locked in.
If Mu Yang really dies, I'm not playing anymore, sob sob sob.
The game just launched, bro. And he's definitely going into the banner for you to pull. All I can say is, don't panic.
After hearing Mu Yang's words, Paimon said, "So that's why you said you didn't know?"
"Did you even forget your own identity?"
When Paimon saw Mu Yang nod,
she was utterly shocked.
Ying also found it unbelievable.
This was far too absurd.
"Is it an illness?"
"I can't really say, but probably not."
Ying suddenly found something strange.
If Mu Yang had forgotten everything,
why had he appeared at the Rite of Ascension today?
To pay respects to Rex Lapis like an ordinary person?
Impossible, because he had left midway through.
And afterward, he had come to Mount Aocang, where the adepti lived.
There was no way to explain that.
Ying asked him, "Then why did you come to Mount Aocang?"
"Sit down first. This matter might have something to do with you as well."
Ying picked a spot and sat down. Written above it were the words, "Seat borrowed from the Geo Archon."
"With me?"
Ying was even more confused.
Mu Yang sat down as well.
Then he began recounting things from his perspective.
He said that the reason he had appeared in Mondstadt before
was because the clearest memories in his mind,
aside from the Fatui, were of the Abyss Order.
He had heard that Mondstadt's dragon crisis might be related to the Abyss Order,
so he had come to investigate.
It would have been best if he could learn something.
If not, he could at least consider it a favor to Mondstadt City.
After all, not every Abyssal monster could speak human language.
Ying already knew what had happened in Mondstadt afterward.
Ying fell into thought.
Paimon cut in.
"What happened later? Did something happen after you left Mondstadt?"
Mu Yang answered that it had.
After coming into contact with Ying,
new things would occasionally appear in his memories.
Though there were not many.
For instance, a name.
"A name?"
"Morax."
Wasn't that Rex Lapis's name?
Holy crap, Mu Yang knew the Geo Archon too?
Now that's a twist.
I'm going to post a comment on HoYoLAB, hahaha. Truthful Immortal is a god!
Ying suddenly understood.
"Is that why you came to the Rite of Ascension?"
Mu Yang nodded.
"I thought that seeing him might help me remember more."
Paimon understood.
But Ying still had a question.
"Then why did you leave halfway through?"
"I don't think I saw you at your original spot during the ceremony."
Mu Yang brought out the explanation he had prepared.
"Because I sensed that several people were looking at us with hostility."
"They weren't just watching the sky. They were watching the two of you as well..."
Those words gave Paimon a fright.
"Huh? Could the murderer be trying to hurt us too?"
Ying briefly analyzed the clues at hand.
Her thinking remained fairly clear.
"You mean the Fatui?"
Mu Yang said, "Yes. The person watching you was that Fatui Executive."
"As for the others, I don't know. The moment I moved, they scattered."
Mu Yang's story
was a mixture of truth and falsehood.
Ying was special to every character.
Who could say whether what he was saying now would not come true later?
Perhaps this was the trigger for the start of a story quest.
Mu Yang's final ending
would surely happen under Ying's witness.
In Silver Wolf's livestream.
Little Wolf could finally gloat.
"Talk now, haters. Go on, say the streamer got slapped in the face again."
"I told you Mu Yang wasn't the murderer."
"Truthful Immortal, my ass. Hmph."
Talk now, haters.
Now this is a hardcore streamer. Love it.
Brothers, I've already used a bunch of alt accounts to comment on that post. Just waiting for my Constellations to get restored.
You don't actually believe that, do you? Restoring Constellations, my ass.
Just tell us whether you posted or not.
I've always treated him like a clown.
Back in Teyvat.
Mu Yang continued recounting what had just happened.
"I don't know that Executive's goal."
"I thought he wanted to hurt you, so I stopped him."
"After you left, I immediately went after you, but unfortunately, I couldn't find you."
Ying and Paimon looked at each other.
It seemed they had been tricked.
"We were taken to Northland Bank by that Childe's subordinate."
"He even said you were in great danger and told us to hurry and seek help from the adepti..."
Mu Yang wore an understanding expression.
"I see. So that's why you appeared here."
Paimon asked,
"What about you? You said you couldn't find us. What happened next?"
"How did you end up on Mount Aocang too?"
Mu Yang had long prepared for this question as well.
"The news of Morax's death gave me a splitting headache."
"My intuition told me that I should go to Guili Plains and Mount Aocang."
Paimon said, "Guili Plains? Shouldn't it be called Guili Plains?"
Mu Yang said he didn't know.
Anyway, he had gone there himself.
There had been nothing there but ruins.
After that, he had headed toward Mount Aocang.
"I had just reached the summit when I happened to run into you."
After listening to Mu Yang's string of nonsense,
the system couldn't help applauding him.
"Tut, tut. You're really something. I can't even tell which of your words are true and which are false anymore."
Mu Yang replied to the system.
"Does that even need saying? It was truer than a Cheese Snow Leopard!"
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