(This is where all you handsome and incomparably beautiful readers can leave your brains.)
(Multiple heroines. The first is junior Vava; I haven't decided on the others yet and will see how things go.)
(The protagonist will become a Harbinger around chapter five, but he won't be loyal to anyone. He'll just use the position to make contact with the Snezhnaya characters.)
(Now, the story begins.)
Watatsumi Island was the westernmost island in the Inazuma archipelago.
Its most famous sight was the land coral that grew across the island like forests, extending in layers from the cliffs. Combined with the pale blue mist that hung over the island all year round and the bubbles that always floated through the air, it made travelers feel as though they had stepped beneath the sea.
In recent years, Watatsumi Island's leader, the Divine Priestess Sangonomiya Kokomi, had risen up against the Vision Hunt Decree issued by the Shogunate and formed the Resistance. The island had since become the Resistance's headquarters, and Bourou Village on its southern side had naturally become the Resistance's rear camp.
On this day, a cry suddenly broke the peace of Bourou Village.
In front of a house on the edge of the village, a blonde girl in foreign clothing stared at an old man sitting limply before her. He was no longer breathing, and she slowly clenched her fists.
Beside her, a strange little white thing was crying loudly.
She was called a little thing because, from a distance, she looked like a miniature person no bigger than a figurine. She had white hair, white clothes, and a tiny crown over her head. Though she had no wings, she floated strangely in midair.
That was the scene Wu Yi saw when he slowly woke from his coma.
At the sight of the conspicuous blonde girl and little white thing, Wu Yi froze for a moment before suddenly exclaiming, "Holy shit!" and getting to his feet.
But the sudden movement aggravated the many injuries across his body, making him grunt in pain.
Excruciating pain came from every part of his body, making him feel as though he were being cut to pieces.
At that moment, an energy was rampaging through his body.
It was a very special kind of energy: golden and sharp, each strand like an arrow. It tore freely through his meridians, blood vessels, bones, and even his soul. Wherever it passed, everything was ripped apart, pierced, and "hunted."
This power was called the Hunt.
At the same time, another power, a gentle green life energy, continuously emerged from his heart. It wrapped around the places pierced by the Hunt's energy, constantly repairing and regenerating them.
This was the power of Abundance that he controlled-and one of the reasons those medical troublemakers from the Xianzhou were hunting him down.
The Hunt and Abundance had always been mortal enemies.
The two powers formed an endless cycle inside him: the Hunt brought "death," while Abundance brought "life." Caught between them, he experienced being "killed" and "brought back to life" every second, as though he were being endlessly subjected to death by a thousand cuts.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow-"
Wu Yi grimaced and hissed through his teeth, unable to keep from complaining:
"Ah... This is why I hate those medical troublemakers from the Xianzhou... They didn't even give me a chance to speak before hitting me that hard..."
Memories of the time before he escaped into the spatial rift flooded his mind, and they were full of earthshaking giants. Among them was a golden giant that towered between heaven and earth, clad in armor and wielding a long blade that could shatter stars with a single strike. There was a colossal fox-shaped beast, snow-white from head to toe, with wings on its back and enough energy swirling around it to raise a great storm across star systems. And there were peacock feathers that blotted out the sky, their countless eyes reaching across cause and effect to cut off every possible path to survival for their target...
And those were only three of them. Wu Yi had run into seven such great figures, each with powers that reached heaven and earth, all at once.
He had barely escaped with his life thanks to the space that had gradually shattered after one battle after another, opening a spatial rift to an unknown destination. Seeking a slim chance of survival, Wu Yi had leaped into it without hesitation, escaping the Xianzhou Luofu, which had become a hunting ground.
He had never expected to wake up on the continent of Teyvat.
As for how he knew... Well, the Traveler Lumine and Paimon were a little too recognizable.
Wu Yi's gaze fell on Lumine and Paimon ahead of him.
Although his memories of them were from a very long time ago, thanks to his memory, which had improved dramatically after his surgery, he soon recognized them.
He had seen that white emergency food and that quiet, practically mute girl on a screen countless times.
Yes, that was right. Wu Yi was a transmigrator, and one who had transmigrated twice at that.
Before he transmigrated to the Honkai: Star Rail universe, back in his distant hometown called Earth, he too had sat in front of a glowing screen, controlling this blonde girl as she traveled all over Teyvat, pulling characters and farming artifacts for her, and watching her long journey unfold...
Although he hadn't been able to stay with her the whole way as work grew increasingly busy, it had still left him with some wonderful memories.
He had never imagined that he would one day see them in person.
Who could have expected it? After the world of Honkai: Star Rail, he had actually transmigrated again, this time to the world of Genshin Impact.
As for what Paimon was saying through her tears... Wu Yi pricked up his ears and listened more closely:
"Teppei! Teppei! Wake up! Don't die!"
She was even speaking Chinese.
But... Teppei?
Wu Yi blinked.
That name seemed familiar... Wasn't he a friend the Traveler had met in Inazuma, who then died during the main story?
At that thought, Wu Yi quietly used a trace of the Power of Abundance. A vertical line opened slightly on his forehead, then quickly closed again, leaving it smooth.
But in that brief instant, Wu Yi had already seen Teppei's condition clearly:
The vitality in his body had been completely exhausted, and his soul had already left it. An unseen force was drawing the soul away, sending it flying underground.
By ordinary reasoning, this person was dead, with not the slightest chance of saving him.
But... that didn't matter.
Wu Yi smiled faintly.
He couldn't be judged by ordinary reasoning.
As for his reason for saving him?
Did a doctor need a reason to save someone?
Wu Yi raised a hand and used the Power of Abundance to heal all his external injuries... The violent power of the Hunt was still raging inside his body, but at least his injuries no longer looked so frightening from the outside.
Then he strode forward.
"Please move aside. I'm a doctor. Let me save him."
At his words, both of them quickly turned to look at him.
"Teppei isn't breathing anymore... Can you really save him?"
Lumine hesitated briefly before asking.
"That's putting it mildly. His heart has actually stopped too," Wu Yi said with a smile. "But that's all right. I'm Beyond Medicine's Cure, after all. Of course I can save him."
"Beyond Medicine's Cure?" Lumine and Paimon looked at each other, baffled.
"Oh, it's a nickname people gave me when I practiced medicine before. It's normal that you haven't heard it," Wu Yi said. "But don't worry. That name will soon spread throughout Teyvat."
As he spoke, Wu Yi strode over to Teppei's corpse.
"The patient's bones are only a little over twenty years old, but his body has withered, and all his organs and muscles have failed. He's like a hundred-year-old man. Clearly, he overexhausted his vitality."
Wu Yi casually touched Teppei's wrist and quickly made up his mind.
"In that case, it's easy to treat. I just need to infuse him with enough vitality first, and I can bring his body back to life."
As he spoke, Wu Yi pressed one hand against Teppei's chest.
His robes suddenly stirred without a breeze, and a green light shone from his body, like the first tender shoot to emerge as the snow melted in early spring. The power was full of vitality, and it began to flow rapidly from him into Teppei's heart before quickly spreading throughout his body.
Teppei's body then began to change at a speed visible to the naked eye.
His cheeks, hollowed by the exhaustion of his vitality, grew full again. His white hair turned a lustrous black once more, starting at the roots, and his skin, which had been like dead wood, grew smooth again.
In just a few breaths, Teppei's body, which had resembled that of a hundred-year-old man, had returned to that of an eighteen-year-old youth. He even looked a few years younger than when Lumine and Paimon had first met him.
The miraculous sight made both Paimon and Lumine stare wide-eyed in surprise.
But it wasn't over yet.
Wu Yi suddenly extended his other hand toward the ground. At the same time, a slit opened in his palm.
A mouth like that of a fiend from the abyss suddenly grew in his palm and opened toward the ground. An invisible suction then issued from it.
Because of the angle, no one noticed the strange change in his palm. A few breaths later, Wu Yi forcibly "sucked" Teppei's soul up from underground.
Paimon couldn't see souls at all, while Lumine only vaguely sensed that Wu Yi seemed to have drawn something from beneath the ground. In the next instant, Wu Yi placed that hand on top of Teppei's head.
After Wu Yi withdrew his hand, Teppei soon opened his eyes again.
"Huh? Strange, I just fell asleep... Huh? Who are you? And beside you... Traveler? Paimon? Why are you all gathered around me? W-why are you looking at me like that?"
No one paid any attention to his questions, however. Lumine and Paimon's gazes were fixed on Wu Yi, who stood to one side.
"Oh my gosh, I'm not dreaming, am I? You can even bring the dead back to life?!"
Paimon flew around Wu Yi twice in disbelief, exclaiming in amazement.
"It's nothing," Wu Yi said with a smile. "Snatching people from death's grasp is an essential skill for a seasoned physician."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Yi suddenly frowned.
Just now, an incomparably chilling gaze had swept over him from behind.
That gaze was filled with the aura of "death."