Tingyun had vanished for no apparent reason earlier.
And now, look at Jing Yuan.
The players' emotions had already been stirred up.
If it ended with some heroic sacrifice and Fu Xuan taking over as general—
As Fu Xuan stared at the empty General's Mansion, her face filled with loss. "So this is how I took over the position of general..."
That would hurt way too much.
Hmm...
Mature MiHoYo players had already learned how to imagine their own emotional knives and swallow them whole.
At the thought of that, the danmaku began howling in anguish.
The sudden shift in the danmaku's mood left Keqing utterly confused.
One second, they had been shouting, "May the Xianzhou soar, may the Cloud Knights triumph!" The next, they were sobbing and yelling about Dog Otto.
It was pretty funny.
Still...
They were right to curse him. He really was Dog Otto, hmph.
While Keqing watched the danmaku, Kiana controlled her character and began exploring the new map—Scalegorge Waterscape.
According to the main quest prompt,
as long as they removed the seals around them, the group could advance another step toward the Mystic Root.
And removing the so-called seals meant solving puzzles.
They were not difficult. In fact, they were quite simple.
Yet Kiana was getting a headache from them.
She hated thinking the most, so she turned to Keqing beside her for help.
"This puzzle is so annoying... Keqing, can you solve it for me?"
Keqing came back to her senses and carefully examined the puzzle in the game.
"It seems... pretty simple."
She said she was asking Keqing for help,
but really, she was dumping all the brain-taxing work on Keqing.
Yet this honest girl did not realize it. Once the puzzle was solved, Kiana snatched the keyboard and mouse back.