The main hall of the forest cabin.
Keqing is measuring the physical data of the orange cat who looks like he has lost all hope in life.
At this moment, a white light flashed outside the door, and a familiar elemental aura appeared around.
Soon, the door opened and Jack walked in.
"Welcome home, Aqu. What's wrong? Did you forget to bring something?"
"No, I met an interesting merchant. I didn't bring enough emeralds, so I came back to get more."
"Interesting businessman?"
Keqing looked at Jack's back in confusion.
A few minutes later.
Jack came up from the basement, walked up to Keqing and drank all the tea on her table.
"Here's what happened..."
Jack pulled Keqing aside and told her about his encounter with the gatekeeper.
And a guess about the nature of this world.
After hearing this, Keqing felt dizzy and grabbed Jack's arm. "Is seizing world power something dangerous? Or...or how about we just not go? Isn't it good to just live peacefully together?"
Jack didn't expect Keqing to react like this, so he asked back.
"Don't you want to go back to Teyvat? There should be some people you care about there."
Keqing pursed her lips and looked at the person in front of her affectionately, without saying anything else.
Are you trying to say that the person you care about most is right in front of you?
The powerful emotional perception of the grass element gave him the answer, so he went up and gently held Keqing in his arms.
"Don't worry, I've already died once, so I cherish my life. Besides, I won't die until A-Qing gives birth to a whole football team for me."
"Uh, it seems like I've planted a lot of flags."
Jack felt like an old general on the stage.
However, the atmosphere of life and death between the two was suddenly broken.
"Pfft, Ah Qu, you idiot."
Keqing hit Jack with a hammer, but she felt reluctant to do so when her hand was halfway raised.
Then she raised her swan-like neck.
"Kiss me~"
"Yes, ma'am!"
Jack held Keqing in his arms, tilted her body to the side, and kissed her deeply, just like the kiss between the prince and princess in the fairy tale that sealed their love.
More than ten minutes later.
Keqing pushed Jack away, panting.
"I'll go with you. Even if there's danger, we can face it together. Don't say those irrational things again."
"Okay, my dear wife!"
"Well, say it again!"
"My dear wife! My dear wife! XN"
"Okay, that's enough! Let's go!"
Keqing's face turned red with shame, and she fled from Jack's arms, even using the lightning wedge's teleportation ability.
"Hey, my wife is so cute."
...
Gatekeeper: "Master Earth-Rumbling Green Dragon, what do you think the Creator meant by what he just said?"
Triangle: "Ah~"
The gatekeeper said: "I'm sorry, I'm a little slow and don't understand your language. These are the food I saved. Please don't be polite."
Triangle: "Ouch!"
When Jack came over from the teleportation anchor point, he saw this strange scene.
The gatekeeper, a stern clergyman, showed an unaccustomed mercenary smile and tried to please a carnivorous dragon beast with bread.
The key point is that this stupid dragon accepted everything and ate up all his food for several days.
Jack knew that the two treasure chests in the gatekeeper's house were truly penniless.
When I met the gatekeeper while playing the game, I didn't even have the desire to go through his boxes.
"Oh, Lord Creator, you are here!"
The gatekeeper patted his trouser legs and stood up respectfully.
"Well, I've brought enough things, let's go."
Hearing this, the gatekeeper hurried ahead to lead the way.
Keqing looked at this NPC curiously, whose behavior pattern was somewhat different from that of ordinary villagers, and felt that the other party was no different from normal humans.
...
"We're here, Master Creator."
"Did I give you the emerald?"
"Yes, or you can just place the redemption items in the box."
Jack followed suit, opened his backpack and threw half a set of emeralds down.
Ding Dong.
With a slight sound, something called the Gate of Teyvat (building blueprint) was directly spit out by the treasure chest.
The gatekeeper took the blueprint and handed it to Jack with both hands facing upwards.
"So it seems that as long as we have a box to exchange items for, it doesn't matter whether there are gatekeepers or not, right?"
"W-what?!"
The gatekeeper was struck by lightning, his faith collapsed, and he became completely gloomy.
"Ah~~ Since the Creator no longer needs me to exist, then I can end the rest of my life here."
The gatekeeper took out his iron sword and stabbed it into his chest without hesitation.
laugh!
Blood gushed out and the red hearts on his head kept decreasing.
"Are you serious?"
Jack grabbed the iron sword, kicked the gatekeeper away, and then threw a healer over.
He looked at the gatekeeper with a frown.
"You're taking it too far!!"
"I'm sorry, Master Creator! I... I..."
"Okay, I'm just kidding. I still have some use for you."
"Yes! Lord Creator!"
This sentence is more effective than Jack's treatment.
The gatekeeper, who was listless in the previous second, stood up in the next second.
"Hey, your chest is still bleeding."
Keqing kindly reminded her.
The gatekeeper pressed his right hand against his chest and forced an ugly smile: "It's okay now."
Jack had no choice but to continue treating him.
After all, the blow he gave him was really severe, causing a direct penetrating wound. Even with Jack's powerful grass element healing ability, it would take some time.
After a few minutes, the wound was sutured, but Jack still let him rest for half an hour.
After the farce was over, he took Keqing and the gatekeeper and teleported to a high mountain north of the forest cabin through the teleportation anchor point.
The gate to the continent of Teyvat was placed here by Jack.
"The introduction says this is the gate to the other world, 'Genshin'. The gate is two-way, but we can control its opening and closing. There is also a key that can be opened from anywhere in Teyvat and return to where we are."
After saying that, Jack glanced at the respectful gatekeeper and gave orders.
"I'll keep the doors open for a while. I'll trouble you to check the other side first."
"I will obey the orders of the Lord Creator. Even if the front is a sea of purgatory and fire, I will not frown even a bit."
"Okay, after you're done with this trip, I'll reward you with a lava bath."
"Although my life is short, it is my honor to dedicate myself to the Creator. I will definitely not..."
"Just let me in!!"
Jack was too lazy to listen to this guy's nonsense and kicked him into the Gate of Sky.
At this time, Keqing was the only one left at the scene.
"Aqu, he seems to admire you very much. Isn't it a bit mean for you to treat him like this?"
"I'm just doing the Turing test."
Jack's bad attitude disappeared and he returned to his usual calm self.
"This guy's origins are unknown. He's a native of this world and possesses a high degree of autonomy. It's hard not to suspect a conspiracy behind him."
"But I didn't expect him to commit suicide without hesitation. It reminds me of those fanatical believers in the church in my previous life."
As for what constitutes a fanatic, Jack, who has experienced the era of fan culture, declined to discuss it.
Jack called out the system interface.
Looking at the cold panel, it seemed as if there was an invisible giant hand behind it, covering everything.
But that big hand looked very familiar, so familiar that... I saw it every morning when I woke up.