The Lost People of Teyvat

Chapter 131 He and the Death of the World

"This is where?"

"I do not know."

"What's in that building?"

"I do not know."

"You haven't seen it?"

"No."

"why?"

"You have too many questions, outsider."

The giant snake Chen Tianfeng glanced at Wendy and said calmly: "There are not so many whys in the world. If you don't want to see it, it means you don't want to see it."

He always had a feeling that when he looked at the window that made him feel warm, when he saw the scene behind the window clearly, something would happen unstoppably.

It was like a beautiful dream was shattered and the cold reality came upon him - this premonition really frightened him.

So he played ostrich, suppressed his desire, and even built the temple several mountains away from the old building.

"Outsider, are you interested in hearing a story from me?"

Chen Tianfeng coiled his body, his tail tightly wrapped around Wendy, and looked towards the gray sunset: "A story about this world."

"Of course, I'd love to." Wendy nodded, and then added: "Of course, it would be even better if you are willing to put me down."

Chen Tianfeng ignored Wendy's request and said to himself: "This is where I was born. The first time I opened my eyes, I saw this old building."

The ignorant giant snake woke up from the chaos. It looked at the world curiously, and the window emitting warm light came into its sight. It wanted to take a look at the window and see what was behind it. This was not difficult for it, it could do it by standing up.

But when it was about to do so, sadness and fear suddenly emerged in its heart, as if it would lose something as long as it looked at the window.

The giant snake was frightened and dared not look at the window. It just picked up a coin by the window and fled in a hurry.

It ran all the way, not knowing how far it had gone, until it ran out of strength and stopped, coiled up in the same place, and fell into a deep sleep.

When the giant snake woke up again, simple dwellings appeared around it, and small people lived there. They called the giant snake a god and thanked it for its protection.

The giant snake didn't know what was going on, but he liked these little people very much. Their prayers and beliefs also allowed the giant snake to come into contact with some kind of mysterious power and deepened his connection with the world.

So the giant snake stayed, enjoying people's offerings, driving away wild beasts and providing shelter for them.

After countless years, the little people were passed down from generation to generation, and their footprints gradually spread all over the earth. The giant snake really became a god, and its actions changed from driving away wild beasts to changing the weather, blessing the harvest, and driving away diseases...

Everything should have been so smooth and happy, until one day, the giant snake realized that the world had suddenly fallen into irreversible decline. The nights became longer and longer, the earth gradually lost its vitality, and the order and rules of the world were collapsing bit by bit - the end of the world has come.

Unreasonable and unstoppable arrival.

The giant snake roared in anger, trying every way it could think of to resist and protect its people, but to no avail. The cold doomsday was like a huge rock on the hillside, smashing all the obstacles of the giant snake and rolling over it mercilessly.

"I am the only god in this world. I have the responsibility to protect my people and this world. So when I realized that this would be the last sunset, the sun would not rise, and the world would fall into cold darkness, I decided to gamble everything I had."

The giant snake looked at the gray sunset and said calmly: "I will give everything I have back to the world. While delaying my demise, I will nail the sun to the sky."

"Look, I succeeded, and Doomsday finally stopped."

The giant snake retracted its gaze and looked at Wendy: "And now, outsider, you appear before me. I can feel that as long as I eat you, the world will be able to function normally for at least twenty years. At the same time, I will obtain the coordinates of your world... As long as I keep eating, my world will not be destroyed."

"Eat, eat, eat, are you a snake?" Wendy twitched the corner of her mouth, suspecting that Xiao Tianfeng had been hungry for too long, so he looked like this in his dreams.

But this dream will soon be over... But is it really just a dream... Wendy glanced at the grayish sun, then at the lighted window, thoughtfully.

The giant snake moved its head closer, and its breath blew Wendy's hair. "Outsider, are you ready?"

"Can you change your mind? I don't think it's necessary..."

Wendy was halfway through her words when she noticed the giant snake's calm eyes and sighed helplessly, "Okay, okay, please be gentler. I'm afraid of pain, Xiao Tianfeng."

The giant snake opened its mouth, then suddenly stopped. "Why, changed your mind?" Wendy raised her eyebrows.

"No, I just..." The giant snake closed its mouth and turned its gaze towards the old building, looking dazed: "I just suddenly wanted to take a look at the scenery inside the window before going to save the world."

"Xiao Tianfeng, don't go." Wendy said seriously, "There's nothing you want there, so just eat me as soon as possible and save your world."

"Do you know what's there?"

"Just some guesses." Wendy took a breath and urged, "Okay, don't hesitate any longer, eat me quickly..."

"No, I want to go and see."

The giant snake interrupted him, crawled towards the old building, suppressed its trembling, and looked up at the window.

But nothing was seen.

The window seemed like an opaque light source, flat and smooth. The giant snake could even see its own shadow, but could not see the scenery behind the window.

The giant snake thought for a moment, took out the coin hidden under its scales, and controlled it to move towards the window.

The smooth window rippled, like a pool of water swallowing a coin, and then returned to calm. The light quickly dimmed, but the scenery behind the window gradually became clear.

The giant snake stared at the window nervously, unwilling to miss even a single detail.

Chen Tianfeng opened his eyes and what came into view was the familiar ceiling. He stretched in bed, yawned, and got up. Suddenly, he noticed a dark shadow outside the window and turned his gaze to look out the window.

It was a giant gray-white snake with clear confusion and shock in its eyes. Then it seemed to come to its senses, as if crying and laughing.

Chen Tianfeng froze for a moment, not understanding why he just took a nap at home, but when he woke up, there was such a huge and terrifying snake outside the window!

Did he travel through time?!

"Roar--!"

At this moment, the giant snake suddenly roared towards the sky, turned into a gray-white light, passed through the window, and went straight into Chen Tianfeng's body.

!!!

Chen Tianfeng subconsciously raised his hand and closed his eyes. Suddenly, a large number of memories emerged in his mind, making him feel a sharp pain in his head, as if someone had inserted a red-hot iron rod into his brain and stirred it violently.

"hiss--"

Chen Tianfeng held his head and cried out in pain.

And in this great pain, Chen Tianfeng finally remembered what he had forgotten - Teyvat was not the first world he traveled to!

He is a giant snake, the only god in that world!
He recalled his panic after discovering that he had turned into a giant snake, his refusal to accept reality and his frantic escape from the old building, his first encounter with humans as a giant snake, his acceptance of worship and his becoming a god, and his designation of the area where the old building was as a restricted area in order to preserve the last traces of his hometown...

He thought of that horrific doomsday, of how he had tried his best but was unable to stop the world's demise, and of the fact that... he had died along with the world.

It turns out that I had died a long time ago...but why...Chen Tianfeng opened his eyes, looking confused.

At the same time, the entire old building collapsed rapidly due to weathering, and Chen Tianfeng's feet were empty and he fell downwards.

He looked towards the gray sunset and raised his hands as if trying to catch the sun, but he couldn't. The ending was already determined.

He tried his best, but he could only keep the sun standing still for twenty years, but it would always set, just like the world would eventually end.

Chen Tianfeng closed his eyes tiredly.

The next moment, the wind suddenly blew.

He felt himself falling into a warm and soft embrace.

"...Wendy?"

"Well, I'm here."

(End of this chapter)