Qiqi

Uchiha Clan Revitalization System

As the Uchiha Clan's sole bloodline on Teyvat, revitalizing the clan is your bounden duty.

Bound user: Uchiha Yucheng

Sex: male

Age: 18

Abilities: Chakra Refinement (intermediate); Three Body Technique (intermediate); Release Techniques (Fire Release, intermediate); Sharingan (two tomoe); Taijutsu (intermediate); Genjutsu (intermediate); Ninja Tool Throwing (intermediate).

[ Ding! You have recuperated at Bubu Pharmacy for half a month and owe Bubu Pharmacy 100,000 Mora in medical fees. You have decided to repay your debt by gathering herbs in the mountains. Deliver 100 Qingxin flowers and 40 Violetgrass plants to Bubu Pharmacy within ten days. If you fail the quest, you will be blacklisted by Bubu Pharmacy, and any medicine you need to purchase in the future will cost three times the price.

Quest reward: one advanced skill mastery book (can upgrade one intermediate skill you possess to advanced).]

That was right. As someone who had transmigrated, Yucheng had a system at his disposal. However, just as he entered the world of Naruto and was thinking of keeping his head down and building up his strength, he encountered an epic-level quest: survive the Second Shinobi World War. That quest had given him absolutely no room to develop, and then... there was no "then."

A Chunin was nothing but cannon fodder in a meat grinder like the Second Shinobi World War, even a Chunin of the Uchiha Clan.

Fortunately, the system had followed him here and had even considerately changed its quests to ones for the world of Genshin Impact. It was just gathering some medicinal herbs. What danger could there be?

Yucheng was soon proven wrong. For an herb gatherer who spent much of the year out in the wilderness, the risks went beyond climbing mountains.

Liyue's terrain consisted of many mountains and little farmland, with few plains and numerous basins, hills, and towering peaks. On top of that, the Archon War back then had been so brutal that several gods had fallen within Liyue's borders, and the Archon Residue they left behind had caused monsters to run rampant.

It could be said that, apart from Liyue Harbor and the vicinity of Wangshu Inn, there were no relatively safe places suitable for human habitation.

The monsters included Hilichurls, Abyss Mages, Slimes, Whopperflowers, and all kinds of elemental life forms. The ruins also contained various models of machines left behind by Khaenri'ah, and even when it came to humans, one had to guard against Treasure Hoarders and Fatui who might appear at any moment.

Under these circumstances, gathering herbs in the wilderness was indeed a high-risk job. People without the ability really would not dare enter this line of work. Fortunately, Yucheng was no ordinary person, and neither was Qiqi.

At first light the next day, Yucheng and Qiqi left Liyue Harbor together with herb baskets on their backs. For a slacker like Yucheng, getting up early was difficult, but because Qiqi was a zombie, she naturally disliked heat and sunlight, so the time she could move about freely each day was limited.

The two walked side by side, looking like a brother and sister, but in reality, Qiqi was old enough to be Yucheng's ancestor.

Their destination for this herb-gathering trip was Jueyun Karst, northwest of Liyue Harbor. It could be called the most treacherous terrain in Liyue, with countless peaks soaring into the clouds and few human visitors. For precisely that reason, Jueyun Karst had also become a paradise for Qingxin and Violetgrass to grow.

Although other places also had suitable environments for these two medicinal herbs, Jueyun Karst's were the best in terms of medicinal potency and quality.

Besides, gathering herbs elsewhere was easier, which also meant more competition. They might climb a mountain somewhere else and fail to find a single herb because other herb gatherers had already picked it clean. In Jueyun Karst, however, the climbing might be harder, but there were plenty of herbs to go around.

In the game, thanks to the Teleport Waypoints, Yucheng had never felt that traveling from Liyue Harbor to Jueyun Karst was much trouble. But once he actually entered Teyvat and could not use the Teleport Waypoints, all he could think was that Liyue was really fucking huge.

It was a hundred, a thousand times harder than when he had first gone exploring Jueyun Karst. With no minimap to consult, either, Yucheng could only stick close to Qiqi.

Since the journey was long, Yucheng took the initiative to chat with Qiqi along the way, hoping to learn more. But as a zombie, Qiqi had a very poor memory, and her halting way of speaking made Yucheng's heart ache.

Qiqi carried a practical handbook for the undead's home life and travels with her. She did not keep it from Yucheng; he merely asked tentatively, and she handed it to him. Her eyes, however, remained fixed on him, as though afraid he would damage it.

Yucheng leafed through it carefully. Its contents were written in a script from several hundred years ago, in delicate, elegant handwriting. The first page contained instructions for practicing Soft Exercise. Further on were descriptions of various medicinal herbs, as well as some Edicts directed at Qiqi herself.

Ordinary zombies needed to follow the commands of the person who awakened them in order to act, but Qiqi was a special case. She might be the only zombie in the world who could give herself commands. Therefore, these Edicts were written in particularly careful detail in the notebook to prevent difficulties in carrying them out.

Further back were some mental exercises and methods for strengthening memory. It seemed Qiqi herself was also seeking change.

At the end of the notebook, Qiqi had recorded a series of names and their corresponding characteristics. Presumably, these were all people very important to her.

Mr. Bai: green hair, snake around neck, good to Qiqi, must not forget.

Yaoyao: yellow hair, wears bells, has a rabbit, Qiqi's good friend, must not forget.

Xiangling: blue hair, high temperature, Yaoyao's senior fellow disciple, Qiqi's friend, must not forget.

Hu Tao: twin ponytails, high temperature, fake smile, death, bad to Qiqi, must avoid.

Looking at Qiqi's blunt, simple descriptions of everyone, Yucheng could not help smiling. They really were easy to understand. The more important someone was to Qiqi, the more detailed her description of them was. Toward the end, only names remained.

However, at the very end of the notebook, Yucheng saw an unexpected name.

Yucheng: knows Qiqi, is a friend, must not forget.

This... she really did write me down.

Yucheng turned to look at Qiqi beside him and found that she, too, was staring unblinkingly at him-or, more precisely, at the notebook in his hands. Looking at her tiny body and the talisman on her forehead fluttering in the breeze, Yucheng felt an inexplicable ache in his heart and was a little moved.

From his understanding of Qiqi, she was actually a little girl who greatly feared death and desperately wished to survive. Even though her zombie body brought her all kinds of inconveniences, she had still not given up her determination to keep living.

For those few words in her notebook alone, Yucheng felt that if he had the ability in the future, he absolutely had to help this poor girl. He knew the Sharingan's future potential all too well.