Genshin Impact: This fireplace house is your graveyard.

Chapter 195 Secret Attack

Seeing Qiuhe muttering to himself, Du Lin was completely confused, not knowing what he was talking about. "Hey kid, what happened outside just now?"

Hearing Du Lin's words, Qiu He seemed a little confused. "What are you talking about? What happened? I was still sleeping when you dragged me in here."

He rubbed his eyes, seemingly not fully awake yet. "Wait, speaking of what happened... I really feel like something's not right."

Qiuhe suddenly changed the subject, a look of confusion on her face, "Just now, when I was sleeping soundly, a strong feeling of suffocation suddenly surged up almost instantly."

My neck suddenly felt like it was being tightly gripped by something, and it hurt so much… I think I coughed a couple of times? And then you brought me here.”

After hearing Qiuhe's explanation, Dulin looked him up and down. Suddenly, his sharp eyes caught the obvious marks on Qiuhe's neck where fingers had tightly gripped his neck.

Dulin slowly extended his enormous dragon claw, grabbed Qiuhe in front of him, and lifted him up to his face. "You brat, look at what's that on your neck,"

Qiuhe was somewhat bewildered by Dulin's sudden action, but when he inadvertently saw his own reflection in Dulin's eyes...

Instantly, Qiuhe's eyes widened in disbelief. He reached out and grabbed Dulin's eyelids, quickly shaking his head a few times in front of Dulin's large, mirror-like eyes.

When Qiuhe clearly saw the obvious choking marks on his neck, an indescribable sense of terror instantly overwhelmed him.

Even now, his face had turned deathly pale. "Hey, what's going on here?" Du Lin's tone was also somewhat fierce upon hearing Qiu He's words.

"I also wanted to ask you something. I've felt something was wrong with your body for the past few days. I can sense external movements and your condition within your body."

But I started noticing something was wrong three days ago. I realized that no matter what I did, I couldn't see what was happening outside through you, nor could I check your physical condition.

But until the day before yesterday, your health returned to normal, and nothing seemed to have happened. I thought it was just a minor issue and didn't pay much attention to it.

The same thing happened again until yesterday, and your body has only just returned to normal. Once I felt you were back to normal, I wanted to pull you into my consciousness.

But just as I tried it, I was suddenly shocked to discover that your soul, your consciousness, and your body were all frozen in place.

"You'd better explain to me what's going on." Hearing the threatening and accusatory tone in Du Lin's voice, Qiu He's expression also turned very unpleasant.

"Three days ago, three days ago, three days ago, that's right!" Qiuhe muttered to himself, then suddenly realized something. "Dulin, the timeline of what you just said about my body's abnormality..."

"If I'm not mistaken, it should be related to that matter." Qiuhe then told Dulin about how she had transformed into Sinaqi over the past few days.

After hearing Qiuhe's account of what happened, Dulin fell into a brief silence before speaking with a hint of reproach: "How could such a thing have happened?"

Why didn't you come to me when you could act normally? What if this situation gets serious or you can't turn back? How will this be resolved then?

Qiuhe looked surprised and covered her face with her hands. "I didn't know you could solve it. I was thinking of figuring out a solution when I turned back into myself."

Alright, alright, let's not talk about that now. Since you know everything now, and judging from what you've said, you should know how to solve it, right? Let's get this over with quickly."

Dulin grunted defiantly upon hearing this, and his enormous swollen nose once again spewed out thick fog.

"If it weren't for our symbiotic relationship, I would have swallowed you whole right now." With that, Dulin grabbed Qiuhe and put her back on the ground.

He placed his hand on Qiuhe's head, as if activating some kind of energy, and then countless energy threads surged back and forth across Qiuhe's body.

During the release of energy, Dulin's brows were furrowed, as if the process was not easy. Even after it was all over, Dulin slowly released his grip, but remained silent.

Seeing the energy surging through his body completely recede, Qiuhe looked at Dulin and asked, "Is this enough?" Dulin remained silent for a moment.

"Hmm." Qiuhe felt that his body was no different than before, but thinking that Dulin had said he could solve it, then he must have already solved it.

He then regained control of his consciousness and returned it to his body, while Dulin remained motionless, seemingly lost in thought.

Qiuhe, whose consciousness had returned to his body, slowly opened his eyes and sat up. He controlled the flow of power within his body and found nothing unusual.

Then, somewhat uncertainly, I gently touched my neck with my hand, and the moment I touched the skin, pain shot through my neck.

Qiuhe frowned, realizing that even swallowing caused him some pain. Enduring the pain, he slowly got out of bed and turned on the light.

He then went to the bedside, facing the bed where he had just slept. Qiuhe slowly reached out his hand, making a grasping motion, and aimed it at the spot on his neck where he had been sleeping.

After pinpointing the location, Qiuhe carefully examined his feet and discovered a pair of barely noticeable shoe prints.

Looking at the shoe prints on the ground, Qiuhe slowly stood up and went to the door. He gently pried open the door and found that the lock had not been touched at all.

When all the thoughts in his mind connected, Qiuhe couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, not out of fear, but because the way the attack was attacking terrified him.

The door lock wasn't touched, yet the other person was able to appear inside the house silently. And looking at the time, it was already 1 a.m., the next day, so Qiuhe had recovered.

However, even after Qiuhe recovered, the other party was still able to make Qiuhe unconsciously lock his throat, and thinking about the conversation with Dulin in the consciousness space just now...

"I had already returned to normal when Dulin tried to pull me into the consciousness space, but something happened after I returned to normal that severed Dulin's connection with me."

Thinking back to what Dulin had said about being frozen in place by some force, even his soul and consciousness being frozen, a possibility suddenly arose in Qiuhe's mind.

"Time stop?" Qiuhe pondered to himself, but dared not draw a conclusion easily. In the world of Genshin Impact, powers related to time...

It seemed that only the ruler of that time, Ishtar, could control it; besides him, no one else could do it. The more Qiuhe thought about it, the more confused he became.

He shook his head, trying to clear his mind of these troubling thoughts. "Forget it, I'll think about it again when it's light. If it's targeting me..."

Then he had no reason not to attack me. Since he didn't, there must be some reason he didn't. Thinking this, Qiuhe opened the door and went out.

When Qiuhe returned to his room, he was surprised to find the door ajar. His eyes widened and trembled at the sight.

His heart began to race, and his breathing became rapid. Finally, he shoved the door open with a loud bang that startled everyone inside.

Clementine and Lily, who was wiping away tears, both looked in surprise towards the doorway and saw Akikawa standing there. Akikawa looked at the three people inside the house.

They appeared to be in no danger or harm; only Lily was silently weeping. Qiuhe's mind was also somewhat reeling from the events.

It wasn't until Clay realized that it was Qiuhe standing in the doorway that she broke the awkward silence, saying, "Lei, you're back to normal."

As he spoke, Clay walked to the door and led Qiuhe into the house. He sat on the bed and looked at Lily, who was wiping away tears. Qiuhe asked with a puzzled expression:

"What's wrong with Lily?" Clay sighed helplessly after hearing this: "We were sleeping just now, and then a while later we suddenly heard someone crying."

When Peipei and I woke up, we found Lily lying on the bed, covering herself with the blanket and crying incessantly. Peipei and I had been comforting her for over an hour.

I had finally calmed Lily down and was about to ask her what had happened when you suddenly pushed the door open and came in.

"Uh, is that so..." Qiuhe scratched his head awkwardly and embarrassedly after hearing the reason. He looked at the half-open door.

Thinking the people inside were in danger, she rushed in without thinking twice. At that moment, Peruvier, sitting nearby, keenly noticed the marks on Akikawa's neck.

"Lei, what happened to your neck?" she asked with concern. Hearing Peruvieri's words, Clement also noticed the red mark left on Qiuhe's neck.

"Oh, yes, Lei, what happened to you? Wait, what's wrong with you..." Clay said, her eyes suddenly filled with worry and tension.

Upon closer inspection, she discovered that the marks on Qiuhe's neck were signs of being strangled.