"At that time, I noticed that Dulin entered the border of Mondstadt." Wendy slowly recounted.

"The opponent's huge size immediately made me wary, and I planned to drive it away."

…

…

"Later I discovered that Du Lin's body contained a violent and strange power. This power did not belong to Du Lin. It should also be one of the victims."

"That power revealed an ominous scarlet light, which made Dulin go crazy from time to time, attacking everything around him crazily. When he calmed down, he would huddle alone in the valley."

"It is deliberately staying in areas with little life to avoid causing huge damage."

"That power..." Qi Shi asked slowly, his eyes flickering.

"Huh?" Wendy said quickly waving her hands.

"The power of red is terrifying. I advise you not to come into contact with it."

"It will attach to the body of a living being. Like tarsal maggots, it will slowly affect its mind and even its life form. Even I can't remove it."

"The affected beings will become very violent, attacking everything they can see around them, becoming more and more powerful, until they are finally destroyed because they cannot bear it."

"This phenomenon...emmm..."

"What's it called? I forgot, hahaha." Wendy scratched her head awkwardly and laughed.

"Entropy increases." Qi Shi said in a deep voice with his eyes flashing.

"Hey! Yes, yes! That's what it's called, and I remember it as well." Wendy nodded immediately and said.

"Yeah." Qi Shi responded with his head lowered, not knowing what he was thinking.

After thinking for two minutes, Qi Shi suddenly said.

"So the virus in Dulin's body is actually related to the things you have been preventing, right?"

Opposite to her, Wendy, who was drinking, suddenly froze up. She quickly waved her hands and said with a panic look on her face.

"I didn't say anything."

His appearance made Qi Shi not sure whether it was really because he was exposed or whether he was deliberately misleading him.

"This drama queen doesn't even know when he is acting." Qi Shi cursed in his heart.

but…

A virus that causes uncontrollable entropy increase...

This was an unexpected gain.

Entropy increases…

A word rarely mentioned in the Genshin Impact world.

Its meaning is the growth of entropy value.

Entropy increase is a very vague definition. Generally understood, it can be translated into terms such as becoming stronger and developing. All growth can be defined as entropy increase.

As we all know, Teyvat and the Honkai Continent are both worlds that grow on the tree of imaginary numbers, and they both end up in different ways.

Since we grow on the tree of imaginary numbers, we cannot escape the word "collapse".

It’s just that it may not be called [Hengkai] in Teyvat.

The source of [Hengkai] comes from the quantum sea under the Tree of Imaginary Numbers.

In an unknown space, there grows an infinite tree [the tree of imaginary numbers], and each of its leaves represents a world.

Under the tree of imaginary numbers is the quantum sea.

They are symbiotic yet hostile.

The tree wants to suck the sea dry, and the sea wants to drown the tree.

In order to protect itself, the tree of imaginary numbers can only continuously absorb nutrients from the quantum sea to grow new leaves and provide them with energy.

The Quantum Sea certainly couldn't sit still and wait for death, so it sent the [Virus] to the Tree of Imaginary Numbers.

After being filtered by the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, only a few of these [viruses] reached these leaves.

Become the culprit of the destruction of the world.

When a world cannot bear it, it will "collapse", the leaves will wither and fall, and return to the quantum sea again.

The cycle begins again and again.

It’s just that the world of Genshin Impact is quite special.

Generally, [collapse] is caused by a decrease in entropy, but Teyvat collapsed due to an increase in entropy.

Therefore, Sky Island lets the Seven Gods manage the Seven Kingdoms. If you want to keep the world as it is, it is best to remain unchanged.

Because as long as they grow to a certain level, they will bear fruit like the Kingdom of Kyria.

destruction.

However, people's desire for knowledge cannot be suppressed, and slow development will eventually reach a threshold, and there will be no escape from the fate of destruction.

"Wait..." Qi Shi suddenly thought of something.

He seems to have overlooked the reason for Kyria's destruction.

I have always believed that Kyria was destroyed because it exceeded the threshold of entropy increase.

But that's not right.

This [virus] is wrong...

Once these [viruses] are triggered, they will definitely spread rapidly like cancer cells.

It stands to reason that creatures should be born that can infect the surroundings and cause them to continuously increase entropy.

It's only right to have a group of war machines that madly attack various countries, forcing them to accelerate the increase in entropy and causing a chain reaction of infection.

What the hell is the result of a bunch of Qiuqiu people who only know how to rob passers-by?

Kyria was not destroyed by its own people because it was about to reach the [threshold] of entropy increase, so as not to trigger the [virus].

Directly destroying its civilization.

He turned the strongest Cao Kingdom at that time into a group of primitive Qiuqiu people, deleted their accounts and retrained.

Doesn’t this solve the temporary crisis?

"Hiss—" Qi Shi couldn't help but take a breath as soon as he had this idea.

So Sky Island is the main culprit that destroyed the Kingdom of Kyria?

Even before this, Teyvat had been restarted countless times.

And the maintainers are dying, which means that Sky Island, which has been maintaining Teyvat, has almost no power to continue like this.

When the entropy increase threshold is reached, something will really happen.

"hiss--"

It feels like this possibility is very high, and I am almost convinced myself.

Wendy kept pouring wine and drinking beside her. There were already several empty bottles beside her, with a drunken blush on her face.

He looked at Qi Shi meditating in confusion, and was shocked by his own thoughts from time to time.

Then the attention returned to the wine.

Hurry up and drink a few more bottles. I don't usually have the chance to encounter such good wine.

Qi Shi thought deeply for a while, exhaled, calmed down his mood, and became more curious about Teyvat.

Wendy said as she looked at the empty wine bottles on the table.

"Okay, let's get down to business. In return, I will help you to the best of my ability."

"Hey~" Wendy put down her wine glass and asked with a smile.

"Qi Shi, what do you think of nobles?"

What do you think? A free meal ticket? Or a useful tool?

Qi Shi thought for a while, then sighed quietly and replied.

"A bunch of wretched people."

"???"

"But...poor guy?" Wendy said in shock.

"Yes, you think about it, these people were selected as nobles by you at that time, and they have guarded Mondstadt for more than a thousand years. They have only fallen for a hundred years and you are about to come back and take back their rights."

"To put it bluntly, aren't they just tool men serving Mondstadt? They are only allowed to work and contribute, but are not allowed to enjoy life."

Wendy: “…”

What you said makes so much sense, I'm speechless.
To be continued...