Genshin Impact, I'm Slime

"Paimon and I checked the back office and found no abnormal readings or enrichment of elemental power."

Yingmei had a solemn expression and reported the investigation results to Ye Lan seriously. Danying, who was usually always provocative, became serious and somewhat unattainable.

"In addition... Paimon also found that there were half-eaten meals on some desks. Presumably there are people working here normally until today. If there is really an abnormal energy leakage, it is estimated that it will be difficult for ordinary people to stay there for a long time. This place, right?”

At the mention of the discovery of the little mascot, the traveler instantly broke through, sighed helplessly, and then looked at Paimon, who proudly puffed out his chest and was ready to receive praise.

"Hey, I'm the most powerful guide in the Teyvat continent! For clues like this that ordinary people can't find, just look to Lord Paimon!"

Emergency Food opened her index finger and thumb and waved it in the air in a serious manner, constantly adding to the findings of her and the travelers:

"And we found a passage to the third floor outside the office area, but it is now locked with a magic circle. I think we can try it with the pass Miss Keqing gave us..."

Yelan patiently listened to Paimon's investigation results, and then began to talk about her findings.

"I searched several locations where abnormal reactions of elemental forces may occur, but found nothing suspicious."

"There is a window in the storage room that can be opened to the outside of the Golden House. There are weak abnormal energy readings of ley lines outside the window, but the details are difficult to confirm."

Ye Lan briefly told the information she had collected, and then turned to look at Zhongli, who was the most leisurely.

"I have just searched the hall and corridors, but... the situation is quite complicated. Why don't you come with me and visit the scene in person?"

Zhongli held his chin in deep thought, seeming to be thinking about how to explain his findings to Ye Lan, but he still shook his head after a moment.

"lead the way."

Yelan and Traveler followed Zhongli and quickly walked through the closed corridor with several dim lanterns hanging above their heads, arriving at the center of the empty hall on the second floor.

This place is located just above the casting workshop. Although it is connected to the side hall through a cloister, it is not connected with each other in terms of architectural structure.

There is a dead end at the end of the corridor. Only slender floor-to-ceiling glass that cannot be opened is decoratively installed on both sides of the wall. Through this, the main hall and the treasury workshop on the first floor can be observed.

Paimon curiously put his face next to the glass, and at a glance he saw Qianyan Army soldiers downstairs holding white tassel guns, carefully searching every corner of the workshop. The momentum seemed to be piling up things under the platform. Mora dug it out and looked through each piece carefully.

"Wow..."

Paimon was so frightened that he stepped back several steps, looked around furtively, and subconsciously shrank his head to hide behind the traveler.

Yelan stood in the shadow of the window edge, frowning and observing the pointer of the reader in her hand.

The instrument pointer moved repeatedly between red and white areas extremely unsteadily. At the same time, Ye Lan could vaguely feel slight tinnitus and dizziness.

It's just that this kind of sensation is extremely slight. If it weren't for her long experience in mining exploration, Ye Lan might have subconsciously ignored this feeling of tinnitus.

"Mr. Zhongli, tell me, what did you find?"

Time was running out, Ye Lan didn't bother to speculate, and turned to Zhongli for the answer.

"Look up." Zhongli raised his head with his hands behind his hands, his eyes falling on the top of the second floor of the building. "Have you seen the circular part in the center of the ceiling?"

The three of them raised their heads at the same time, their eyes falling on the gold embroidered flags hanging on the top of the golden roof, as well as the complex structural beams. Hanging from the hollow in the middle of the beam is a terrazzo stone with a diameter of several meters and the coat of arms of the Golden House etched on the surface. It should be a decorative patio for lighting. It is surrounded by gold trim inlaid with rock patterns, which is extremely ingenious.

Yelan squinted her eyes and stared at the azure skylight falling silently from the center of the roof.

"This kind of crystal dome... No, it can also glow at night... Is there any lighting system built into it?"

"If nothing else, you should be able to go up to the banquet hall on the third floor from there." Zhong Li crossed his arms leisurely, "Look carefully, there are silk cushions that have not been torn off around the beams. This crystal is obviously not ordinary. thing."

"Hey, I suddenly remembered," Paimon suddenly poked his head out from behind the traveler and added expectantly, "That guy broke through the roof from here, and then escaped from the Golden House with a whoosh!"

The words of emergency food reminded Ye Lan that the executive codenamed "Gongzi" almost turned the Golden House upside down, and it was Huishan Hall and the Yuheng family who were responsible for the restoration and reconstruction of the Golden House.

Since these forces have interests, if Yinyuan Hall wants to implement the god-making plan during the banquet, the most suitable place to do it must be the atrium where Zhongli and others are now.

Ye Lan looked up again to look at the restored roof and gold-embroidered hanging flag. Although the Eight Gates family was only interested in profit, their professional abilities were impeccable. They adhered to the principle of restoring ancient buildings as they were, even the color of the broken beams and the colors on them. The dust accumulated over time has been meticulously imitated in Huishan Hall.

"Miss Yelan thought that she felt something. After entering the main hall, there seemed to be an uncomfortable atmosphere in the air."

Zhongli lowered his eyes, his words full of compassion, as if he had anticipated the way in which Yinyuan Hall would bring back the lost gods.

"Mr. Zhongli, doesn't he mean... that the skylight is related to the wish stone in the giant rock abyss?"

Ye Lan spoke slower and slower, and her words gradually stopped. She picked up the earth vein energy reader with the needle in her hand and took a look at it. Her pupils shrank suddenly and her face was uncertain.

"good."

Zhongli nodded and agreed with Yelan's guess.

"But if it is really a wish stone, ordinary people simply cannot bear this level of radiation."

"I participated in the investigation of the giant stratiform abyss case. At that time, miners were at the crystal mining site. Whenever they were directly exposed to the radiation of the wish stone for more than twelve hours, they would suffer from severe dizziness, tinnitus, difficulty breathing, and sensory loss. Symptoms such as disorders, if sustained for more than a month, can lead to irreversible mental disorder.”

"The employees of the Golden House and the workers involved in the renovation construction are basically ordinary people. It is impossible for them to be exposed to the radiation of the wish stone for a long time and still be safe..."

Yelan's eyes were solemn, as if she had thought of something. Her soft hair fell down as she raised her head, and then she tucked it behind her ears.

"Perhaps what drives the miners crazy or even insane is not the wish stone itself, but the environment in which it is located and the aftermath of the two forces' mutual erosion and struggle."

Zhongli looked solemn and spoke directly to tell the truth about the sudden change in the layer-breaking rock abyss.

"Hey... Zhongli, wait a minute, what riddles are you and Ye Lan talking about? Traveler and I can't understand at all...?"

Paimeng scratched the back of his head and looked distressedly at Ye Lan and Zhong Li, who were talking to each other as if there was no one around.

"Okay... that's easy."

Yelan took a deep breath, looked at Paimon, who was tilting his head, and the well-behaved traveler, and nodded as calmly as possible.

"Mr. Zhongli means that the azure crystal canopy above our heads is part of the layered rock sky nail, which is generally speaking...the wish stone." (End of this chapter)