"Hey... Su Yuan, Yelan, look over there—is that Xingqiu?"
Chongyun poked Su Yuan and Yelan anxiously as he spoke.
"He finished writing his cri novel and ca looking for this quickly?"
"I rember you once said, Su Yuan, that while Eerie beings may disguise themselves in front of ordinary people, once pushed into a corner, they'll start killing without hesitation..."
Yelan said seriously, "We should probably get out of this crowded area first and then figure out how to deal with Xingqiu."
"Mm." Su Yuan nodded and took off running with the others.
Su Yuan and his group dashed out of Liyue Harbor, with "Xingqiu" relentlessly chasing after them.
"Xingqiu" seed to be intentionally maintaining this exact distance—not too close, not too far, just right...
Finally, after they had run to a place with no one around, "Xingqiu" slowly spoke:
"Chongyun, why are you running? Aren't we good friends? Haven't you always wanted to see ?"
"It used to be who avoided eting you, but now, look at us—roles reversed. It's you who's avoiding now..."
"Chongyun, why are you running? I ca here to make up with you..."
Hearing Xingqiu's clearly abnormal words, Su Yuan and the others knew that Xingqiu was still under the control of an Eerie.
"Miss Yelan, and this unfamiliar young man—could I trouble you to step away for a mont?"
Xingqiu turned to look at Su Yuan and Yelan and slowly said:
"Right now, I have a few private words I want to share with my good friend Chongyun..."
Su Yuan was a little confused.
If Xingqiu's eerie transformation had a condition, shouldn't it be sothing related to chivalry or his novels...?
Why was Xingqiu now displaying such a clear sense of purpose, as if he was desperately targeting Chongyun?
"Could it be... Chongyun, the reason you've been avoiding is because you've made two new friends, and decided to abandon ?"
"Xingqiu" revealed a pained expression.
His face began to twist and distort, and an eerie power began to emanate from his body...
"In that case, although this deviates from the plot I had planned in my novel, I suppose I'll have to add a special side story..."
"I'll annihilate all of you..."
"Chongyun... can only belong to alone..."
Xingqiu slowly advanced toward the group, but before long, a sudden burst of eerie power exploded from Chongyun as well!
"I can sll it... I can see it... the scent of the Eerie!!!"
Then, "Chongyun" drew his greatsword and charged straight toward "Xingqiu"...
"One and a half hours..."
Yelan glanced at "Chongyun" and said,
"Su Yuan, you once told us that when Chongyun witnesses soone else undergoing eerie transformation, he himself can also transform — but it seems there's a cooldown period for that..."
"If the cooldown had already ended, then when Xingqiu fully revealed himself just a few seconds ago, Chongyun should've imdiately entered his eerie state."
"But right now, it's only now that Chongyun is transforming..."
"And it just so happens to be exactly one and a half hours since I fed him the Jueyun Chilis back at the Chen Xiang residence..."
Although Su Yuan really wanted to comnt, "Co on, Yelan, you're not even wearing a watch. How do you know the ti that precisely?"
"The cooldown is one and a half hours, huh?" Su Yuan nodded, filing away another valuable piece of intel...
Su Yuan had originally thought that the cooldown period would be even longer.
After all, back when he coordinated with Neuvillette, they could only use that ability once a day...
But this made sense too—after all, Chongyun's eerie-transford strength wasn't particularly powerful.
Su Yuan had been wondering how they were going to deal with the eerified "Xingqiu," but now that "Chongyun" had made the first move, he finally had a chance to witness the outco of the clash he'd missed last ti...
Wait—last ti?
Su Yuan's head throbbed again.
Those blurry, fragnted images... it was probably his unusually good mory playing tricks on him once more...
"Sword—release!"
With a furious roar, "Chongyun" slamd his greatsword down onto the ground in front of "Xingqiu," instantly creating a circular domain!
Su Yuan figured this must be "Chongyun" activating his Elental Skill—Spirit Blade: Chonghua's Layered Frost!
Only now, due to the influence of the eerie energy, the originally ice-blue domain had turned into a deep, blood-red black...
Within the bounds of the domain, "Xingqiu" seed to be heavily affected—his expression grew unnatural, and his movents beca sluggish...
But "Xingqiu" wasn't about to back down either.
He imdiately unleashed the Guhua Sword Technique: Raincutter, summoning four blood-red Rain Swords to orbit protectively around him...
What followed was a one-sided battle—"Chongyun" relentlessly suppressed "Xingqiu," leaving him with no choice but to defend.
He didn't even have a chance to counterattack...
This outco was a bit beyond what Su Yuan and Yelan had expected...
Chongyun and Xingqiu are around the sa age, and their strength is fairly evenly matched.
Even if one were eventually to win, it shouldn't be such a one-sided beatdown from the very start...
"Could it be... that Xingqiu didn't undergo eerie transformation due to so internal reason, but rather an external, incomplete transformation?"
Su Yuan muttered, voicing the possibility.
"An external eerie transformation, huh..."
Hearing Su Yuan's words, Yelan's expression also turned serious.
"Su Yuan, based on what you told before, the only one right now capable of causing this kind of external transformation... is that Fatui Harbinger, Il Dottore, 'The Doctor'..."
"If Xingqiu really is an incomplete eerie... then it very likely ans that Dottore is already in Liyue..."
"But my entire intelligence network hasn't caught even the slightest trace of anything like that..."
"That's not surprising. Back in Fontaine, no one detected Dottore's presence either."
Su Yuan furrowed his brow as well and said,
"When it cos to hiding his tracks... he really is a master at it..."
"Also, the way Xingqiu is targeting Chongyun so specifically... his intent is too clear. It really does feel like soone is pulling the strings behind the scenes..."
"Yelan, be ready. If that's the case, then once Xingqiu's eerie energy runs out, we'll need to stop Chongyun imdiately."
"Got it." Yelan nodded, though she added with a hint of concern, "But in the middle of a battle like this... trying to stuff a Jueyun Chili into Chongyun's mouth might be a bit tricky..."
"If only Hu Tao were here," Su Yuan sighed.
"She has a Pyro Vision, after all..."
"To trigger Chongyun's Pure Yang Body, it doesn't necessarily have to be spicy food..."
"Just splashing hot water on him would have the sa effect—his body would go into overdrive all the sa..."
"If I'd known earlier, I should've asked Arlecchino for a Delusion with a Pyro elent..."
"Or at least brought a thermos of hot water from Master Mao's place back there..."
Yelan said, "It's just... Xingqiu showed up so suddenly, we didn't have ti to think that far ahead."
But, as it turned out, Xingqiu's defeat ca far quicker than either Su Yuan or Yelan had expected...
As the final blood-red Rain Sword surrounding Xingqiu shattered, a flicker of clarity seed to return to his eyes—he appeared to have regained his sanity.
"Chongyun!"
Xingqiu shouted, but Chongyun's greatsword still ca swinging down—straight toward Xingqiu's head...
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