"Zzzzt..."
Walking on the soft grass, the faint buzzing sound kept echoing in his ears.
The poisonous water flowed slowly, showing no signs of life.
Bai Luo put away his umbrella. After entering the Musoujin Gorge, the rain seemed to be affected by some force and could no longer fall in.
Not just the rain. When he looked up, even Gorou's figure, who was standing above, seemed to have become somewhat blurry. If he didn't look carefully, he wouldn't even have noticed him standing there.
Looking up, he waved at Gorou to show that he was fine. Then, holding the reverse-blade sword that had turned back into a weapon, Bai Luo walked deeper into the Musoujin Gorge.
Although the atmosphere of the Musoujin Gorge was very strange, there were still obvious signs of human life.
But compared to the bonfires and food scraps, the bloody handprints on the stone walls and the claw marks on the withered trees were a bit more hair-raising.
The handprints were of various sizes, some thick and some slender. It seemed that there were quite a few people who had left the bloody handprints.
They must have pressed their handprints in an orderly manner and were performing some kind of ritual.
"Ritual..."
Muttering this word, Bai Luo suddenly felt a daze.
Reaching out and touching the handprints on the rock wall, his face turned pale at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"This is..."
He should have been seeing these orderly bloody handprints for the first time.
But now, he actually felt a sense of familiarity, as if he had seen them somewhere before.
But when he tried to recall carefully, it felt very strange again.
At some point, a rustling sound began to ring in his ears again.
"Expel evil and bind demons, clarify the inside and outside. Return to the righteous path... protect the body and preserve life."
Pressing his head with one hand, he subconsciously recited an incantation.
That's right, he had definitely seen a similar scene.
But not here, not in this place.
In a daze, he seemed to see a little girl.
The girl's face was determined, and she held a dagger in her hand.
And the sentence she was reciting was the incantation he had just recited.
"Soul out!"
She formed a hand seal, and the dagger in her hand also stabbed towards Bai Luo.
The dagger was getting closer and closer to Bai Luo. He could even see some kind of talisman carved on it, and... filth blood!
His right hand tightly gripped the wrist that was stabbing at him. Bai Luo panted heavily and slowly raised his head.
"You're really a spoilsport!"
The reverse-blade sword was unsheathed, and Bai Luo sent her flying with a single slash.
The ragged madwoman fell into the water of the Musoujin Gorge with a thud and was completely silent.
Was it the power of the Tatarigami?
No...
The scene Bai Luo had just seen should not have been caused by the influence of the Tatarigami, but rather this ritual, similar to a sacrifice, had triggered some of his memories.
But the problem was... when had he experienced these things? Why didn't he know?
He had just jumped into an ice-cold river to save a child, and then he was rescued in Snezhnaya.
His life in Teyvat had been very complete, except for...
Bai Luo was stunned for a moment, and his gaze also turned to the water in the gorge, which was like a river.
Except for before he was rescued from the river.
After joining the Fatui, he had also tried to find things related to himself in this world.
But no matter how he used his connections to search, he could not find any trace.
It was as if there was no such person as Bai Luo in this world before he arrived.
Later, he only thought that he had not transmigrated with his soul, but had come with his body, which was why there was no trace to be found.
Now it seems... could it be that before he fell into the ice river, he in this world had encountered something?
And that little girl, he always felt that she was very familiar, but he couldn't remember who she was.
It was as if everything about her in his soul had been cut off.
"I'll think about it when I get back. I'll explore this damn place first."
The headache had subsided. When Bai Luo looked again at the madwoman he had slashed into the water, he could no longer find her body.
Just now, because his memory had been interrupted, he had used Doryūsen in anger.
Although the reverse-blade sword had the attribute of not killing, it was limited to normal attacks. This Doryūsen was a proper skill damage.
She probably couldn't have survived.
Sheathing his reverse-blade sword, Bai Luo continued to walk towards the Musoujin Gorge.
But this time, his hand was always on the hilt of the reverse-blade sword, because he had already sensed that this Musoujin Gorge was probably not as peaceful as he had imagined.
As expected, Bai Luo saw many people who had gone mad because of the Tatarigami along the way.
Some of them were miners, some were fishermen, and some were ordinary women.
Even the Kairagi and Nobushi had not escaped the influence of the Tatarigami.
Unlike the madman who had just attacked him, they were just leaning against each other in a daze, their eyes, noses, and mouths full of dark filth blood. The approaching Bai Luo only attracted the attention of a very few of them.
And they just looked up at Bai Luo and did not attack him.
In this damn place, it was good enough to be alive. Who would have the mind to attack?
"Get out of my head... don't grow ears in my brain... don't..."
In addition, there were some slightly crazed people who kept hitting their heads against the stone walls.
Just like Bai Luo before, he also heard the rustling sound in their ears.
But unlike Bai Luo, who had an exorcism incantation, he could only endure the sound in his ears day and night. He even tore off his own ears and pierced his eardrums because of it.
But even so, the sound was still tormenting him.
Just as he had said, it was as if an ear had grown in his head. After losing his original ears, the [ear] in his head was only left with the whisper of the Tatarigami.
Suddenly, the woman who had been treated as a corpse by Bai Luo reached out and grabbed Bai Luo's blood-like robe.
The moment Bai Luo's reverse-blade sword was about to cut off her wrist, it stopped.
Because he saw a hint of clarity in the other party's eyes.
"Take... take him away..."
The woman's speech was already unclear, because her mouth was full of dark blood clots, and her tongue was already rotten.
The "him" she was referring to was the child she was holding in her arms.
The child's age could not be seen, and it was even impossible to tell if it was a person.
Because he had been dead for a long time, and only a pile of broken bones remained. One could only judge from the size of the bones that it was a child.
There were gnawing marks on the broken bones, which meant that he had not died from the Tatarigami, but...
Looking at the madmen with their mouths full of filth blood all around, Bai Luo seemed to have understood something.
"I will bury him."
A Doryūsen cut off the woman's head. Bai Luo picked up the wrapped broken bones and looked at the group of madmen.
"Expel evil and bind demons, clarify the inside and outside. Return to the righteous path, protect the body and preserve life."
Muttering the incantation, Bai Luo walked towards the group of madmen.
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