Si Xuan followed the turbulent earth veins and entered the depths of the desert.
He glanced at his own position and that of Lumine and Aether.
He found that they were one in the north and one in the south.
They were getting farther and farther apart.
The Sumeru Desert in Teyvat is much larger than the one in the game.
Correspondingly, the ruins of the Great King's pyramids are much more numerous.
Some places were where Si Xuan had been in his previous life playing the game.
It should have been a boundless desert, but in reality, the place was full of ruins.
After walking south for about an hour, Si Xuan finally came to a place where the earth veins were most turbulent.
It was a dilapidated pyramid ruin,
The pyramid was buried deep beneath the yellow sand, revealing only a head.
It was about as tall as Si Xuan's waist.
Years of weathering had left the ruin dilapidated.
Si Xuan reached out and gently touched the tip of the pyramid,
The sand covering it made Si Xuan feel slippery.
“This is the place. This ruin has been closed for a long time,
Today it suddenly activated, was it an accident or deliberate?”
The people of the desert generally do not explore the ruins.
After all, it is already difficult to live in this land.
The harsh environment has also resulted in a small population in the desert.
The ruins of the Great King are full of dangerous mechanisms.
A slight misstep can be fatal.
Therefore, desert mercenaries will not actively explore the ruins of the Great King.
If it's not someone from the desert, then it's either a Sumeru expedition team
Or the ubiquitous Treasure Hoarders.
Treasure Hoarders, a very mysterious organization in Genshin Impact.
This organization can be said to be ubiquitous in a sense.
Every country's ruins have their presence.
Even the depths of the Chasm have the presence of Treasure Hoarders.
Let alone a not-so-large ruin of the Great King.
Thinking of this, Si Xuan didn't bother.
He simply sat down and waited quietly.
After a while, the sand around the tip of the pyramid started to move.
Si Xuan also felt the energy of the surrounding earth veins becoming more and more agitated.
It seems that something is about to come out.
With the tip of the pyramid as the center,
The surrounding sand began to rotate counterclockwise, continuously sinking downwards.
The ruins buried by the wind and sand gradually began to appear before Si Xuan's eyes.
The verdant wind blew gently past, and Si Xuan felt the wind element starting to gather around.
Having lived for five hundred years, Si Xuan knew clearly why the elemental power was so abnormal.
The ruins are abnormal, the wind element gathers.
Si Xuan's eyes moved slightly, and the answer was already in his mind.
Then a hand reached out from the center of the desert vortex.
As the yellow sand continued to sink, the person also gradually appeared before Si Xuan.
A woman with pale blue twin ponytails and a white dress,
A very "rich" woman.
And at this time, the wind element stopped gathering.
A pale green god's eye appeared in front of her.
The woman picked up the god's eye, examined it, and then tapped her head lightly.
She looked around in a daze, and the scenery was familiar.
Apart from the buried ancient ruins, the desert will never change no matter how many years have passed.
This familiar scenery made the woman think that she had only been in the underground ruins for a few days.
Of course, this was also because she had been eroded in the ruins,
The memories in her head were very chaotic.
Suddenly, the woman felt a chill on her forehead.
She raised her pupils, and it turned out that someone was holding a bottle of water against her forehead.
“Just came out, have some water to clear your head.”
Being in the darkness for so long blurred her vision.
But her chapped lips told her that she did need to rehydrate.
? So she didn't say a word and took the bottle directly, unscrewed the lid, and drank “glug glug”
The cool and sweet water flowed down her throat.
The woman felt as if every cell in her body had come back to life.
The woman drank the whole bottle of water in one go.
Her vision recovered somewhat, and she finally saw the face of the person who was helping her.
“Si Xuan? Why are you in Sumeru again? I remember you didn't leave until three days ago?
Was I trapped in the ruins for a few days?”
Licking her lips, a terrifying fact came to the woman's mind.
Could it be that she was trapped here for two years?
She clearly remembered that Si Xuan said when he left
He was going back to Fontaine to take care of a research project.
He wouldn't be going out for two years.
But now Si Xuan was standing in front of her.
Looking at the dumbfounded woman, Si Xuan grinned.
“Two years? It's a hundred years later now, Faruzan.”
When he noticed the earth vein agitation,
Si Xuan extracted some memories from the earth veins.
Loneliness, confusion, torment, numbness, day after day of deciphering.
Countless failures, countless despair.
Seeing these memories, Si Xuan roughly knew what was going on.
It should be Faruzan coming out of the underground ruins.
Si Xuan originally thought that Faruzan would come out from underground after the Lesser Lord Kusanali wanted to ascend to the throne.
He didn't expect it to be this time period.
Faruzan is a scholar of the Akademiya, and her theoretical research on mechanism creation is very high.
And Si Xuan is currently lacking people in this area.
Fontaine scientists are a cut above Sumeru in terms of applied research.
But theoretical research is indeed a bit lacking.
If Faruzan can be persuaded to go to Fontaine, it would undoubtedly make up for the shortcoming.
A hundred years ago, after Faruzan graduated from the Akademiya,
Si Xuan threw an olive branch to Faruzan.
But at that time, Faruzan was arrogant and the Akademiya also valued her very much.
Even if she wanted to research a piece of trash, the Akademiya would not hesitate to allocate a research grant.
So she decisively rejected Si Xuan.
But it's different now.
A hundred years have passed, and Faruzan has few acquaintances left.
And her research results have been inherited and surpassed by her successors.
Plus the Akademiya is declining, Faruzan's life won't be as carefree as a hundred years ago.
So this is a good time to poach her.
“What? A hundred years?”
This sentence was like a bolt from the blue, striking directly at Faruzan's head.
It made her already not-so-clear head even more confused.
“Yes, a hundred years have passed, Faruzan. I think you can fulfill your promise from a hundred years ago.”
After being rejected by Faruzan, Si Xuan deliberately left a trap for her before leaving.
He said that it's okay if you don't agree now, but you have to take a job at the Fontaine Scientific Academy a hundred years later.
At that time, Faruzan was in her twenties and thought that she wouldn't be able to live another hundred years, so she agreed with a smile.
Faruzan rubbed her temples with both hands.
After a brief moment of surprise, she finally regained her composure.
“You're not kidding, it's really been a hundred years?”
Fellows, who understands? I was just deciphering puzzles in the underground ruins,
And when I came out, a man told me that a hundred years had passed.
“Of course, I wouldn't lie to you, now your deeds have been written in books.”
Faruzan still didn't quite believe it.
“I want to go back to Sumeru and take a look.”
Saying that, Faruzan struggled to get up from the sand and prepared to leave.
But Si Xuan pulled Faruzan back.
“Sumeru is currently undergoing a coup, it's a mess, you won't get anything if you go, just come with me.”
Those Azar guys are only thinking about creating gods now, who cares about an "old lady" who was buried for a hundred years.
“Coup? What happened to Sumeru?”
Faruzan felt like she was in a fog.
How can Sumeru have a coup for no reason? A god-ruled country can also have a coup?