Suddenly, Zhiqiong pointed at the seal and shouted.
"I know how to break the seal!"
Only then did she notice Zhong Baiye and Shenhe, who had been standing beside her for quite some time.
Zhiqiong assumed Zhong Baiye and Shenhe had come to stop her from breaking the seal, so she immediately explained herself to them.
"I was just saying that for fun. I'm not actually going to break this seal."
As Zhiqiong spoke, she put on an earnest expression.
Anyone else might really have fallen for this trick of hers. If you didn't believe it, you only had to look at Shenhe.
Shenhe had clearly believed Zhiqiong and was thinking about whether there was another way into The Chasm.
But that trick couldn't fool Zhong Baiye, who knew her inside out.
Zhong Baiye paid no mind to Zhiqiong's attempt to look cute and said to her instead,
"We want to break the seal and go down into The Chasm too."
Hearing that, Zhiqiong wondered if Zhong Baiye was deliberately saying this to trick her.
But on second thought, she couldn't break the seal alone anyway. She might as well get Zhong Baiye and Shenhe to help.
Then Zhiqiong looked at Zhong Baiye with a cheerful smile and said,
"I do have a way to break the seal here. It would be even better if you could help me."
Looking at Zhiqiong's cheerful smile, Zhong Baiye had a bad feeling. Still, to find Keqing and help free the people here, he resolutely agreed.
Seeing Zhong Baiye agree so quickly, Zhiqiong also believed they weren't here to trick her into going back.
So Zhiqiong immediately gave Zhong Baiye and Shenhe their first task.
She pointed at an abandoned hut and said solemnly to Zhong Baiye and Shenhe,
"I heard there's a