Genshin Impact: The Road to Reversal

Chapter 441 The Cold Wind Breaks the Will

Mo Yan walked quickly to the door. The night wind was extremely cool, and the burning sensation in his throat gradually faded.

He walked along the brightly lit street, searching everywhere for Fernina. He wanted to call out, but was afraid that Fernina's celebrity status would attract onlookers and make things even more confusing, so he could only walk lightly and search carefully among the passersby.

Most of the shops on both sides of the street have closed, only a few pubs still have warm yellow lights on, and noisy laughter can be heard faintly, which is out of tune with the cold night.

Gradually, he came to a park, and finally, he saw the familiar figure by the fence beside the river.

At this moment, she was lying on the fence, with beer she had brought from the pub at her feet, but many of them were empty.

Mo Yan sighed and walked over with light steps.

"Why are you drinking here alone?"

When Fu Nina heard the voice, she turned around and was obviously frightened when she saw Mo Yan.

"It's you..." She was silent for a moment, "How did Mr. Mo Yan know I was here?"

"Just call me Mo Yan." Mo Yan stood by the fence, his eyes falling on the pile of empty bottles at her feet. He smiled helplessly, "Actually, I've been looking for you for a long time before I found you here."

"Really..." Finina lowered her head, raised the bottle with her fingers and took a few more sips.

Mo Yan looked at her and shook his head helplessly: "Are you still thinking about what happened at the banquet? Didn't they say everything is fine?"

Finina sighed and shook her head: "You don't understand. How can you understand my feelings?"

"Then you come here to drink to drown your sorrows? You can't get drunk anyway." Mo Yan said with his hands spread out.

"But at least, the world is quiet only at this time." Finina put the empty bottle at her feet, lay back on the fence, rested her chin on the cold railing, and looked at the moon shadow wrinkled by the wind on the river.

"So what's going on?" Mo Yan asked, but Funina said nothing.

He shook his head and asked, "We went through the mechanical riot together, and we're half friends after all. Don't you even trust me?"

"Do you really want to know?" asked Furninna with a glance.

Mo Yan nodded.

Seeing this, she sighed again. "Back in the orphanage, I once mistook Teacher Keli's collection for a drink. It wasn't until Teacher Keli came back that I learned that stuff was called wine. Afterward, the other children in the orphanage found out, and for the next two weeks, they would secretly add something to my food. They wanted to see if I would get drunk, so they'd pour rice wine and fruit wine they got from who knows where into my soup and my water. Although Teacher Keli later intervened to help me solve the problem, in the eyes of those children, I was like a monster."

Mo Yan sighed softly, "So that's how it is. No wonder Ms. Keli said that for you, this isn't something worth praising."

"That's right. Because of this physique, almost no one is willing to approach me except Tabak, Linny and others. Even because of this, I..." Funina picked up the last bottle of beer, but didn't drink it.

She hesitated to speak, as if the memory was filled with thorns that would hurt if touched.

"What?" Mo Yan asked.

Funina turned her head and said, "Nothing. There are some things you're better off not knowing."

After saying that, she took another big gulp.

"Ha, I really can't get drunk. To be honest, if I could really get drunk, maybe I wouldn't have to worry about being seen as an alien, right?"

Mo Yan looked at her drinking with her head tilted back, the curve of her Adam's apple hiding an indescribable grievance, and suddenly reached out and pressed her wrist.

"Even if you can't get drunk, there's no need to fight yourself." He took the bottle from her hand and placed it on the fence. "Who says you have to be drunk to be different? Besides, you're not one anyway."

Finina smiled helplessly: "You are really gentle, but like I said before, it is best not to persuade others about some things that you have not experienced yourself."

"Funina..." Mo Yan was silent.

From Finina's expression, he could clearly feel that she was hiding something, but she refused to say it and there was nothing he could do.

"What should I do? I should say something at a time like this."

He stretched out his right hand, hoping to ease her mood.

"Don't think too much about it. Although I don't know what you've been through, but..."

Mo Yan gently touched Funina's shoulder with his right hand, but the moment his fingertips touched, he suddenly felt a biting chill spreading up along his fingertips, as if he had touched a piece of ten thousand year old ice.

He tried to withdraw his hand, but his body froze under the pressure. The next second, in an illusion, he seemed to see a giant ice-blue bird spread its wings from behind Finina. The ice crystals condensed on its wings reflected the cold moonlight, and its pair of vertical pupils were staring at him coldly with an inviolable majesty.

A chill crept up his spine, and Mo Yan could even hear the sound of his teeth chattering, but he couldn't take his eyes off the illusory giant bird.

"But what? Tell me." Finina turned her head to look at him, but in the blink of an eye she saw Mo Yan's frightened expression and his right hand that was suddenly frozen into ice.

For a moment, she was completely panicked.

"How come? Are you okay?"

She stretched out her hands to check on Mo Yan's condition, but at this moment she felt a chill coming out of her hands for no reason.

"How could this happen..." Fu Ningna looked at the cold air that kept overflowing from her palm, and then looked at Mo Yan's right hand that was frozen into a lump of ice. There was a crying tone in her voice, and she was as flustered as a child who had done something wrong.

She wanted to touch it but didn't dare. Her fingertips stopped an inch away from the ice. Tears fell without warning. When they encountered the cold, they instantly condensed into tiny ice crystals.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I didn't mean it..." She apologized incoherently, and the fear that had been deliberately suppressed completely broke out at this moment.

At this moment, because of the abnormal elemental fluctuations, Rednos used "Phantom" to quickly bring everyone to the park, and as soon as they arrived, they saw this amazing scene.

"Mo Yan, Funina, how are you?" Karen shouted impatiently.

At this moment, Funina quickly stood up and took several steps back. Because of fear, the cold air began to spread outward uncontrollably. The stone road along the river bank was instantly covered with a thin layer of ice, and even the evening breeze in the air seemed to be frozen into tiny ice particles.

She hugged her shoulders and looked at the expanding ice beneath her feet. Not only her body but also her voice was trembling: "Don't come over! Don't come near me!"

Rednos's eyes flashed, and he quickly released the shadow barrier. At the same time, he used shadow escape to pull Mo Yan into the barrier, making everyone hide in the shadows.

And for safety, Zi Xuan also used the credentials of Flame King Lieyuan Chiye to launch a second barrier.

Sure enough, because of fear, the coldness on Funina's body had gone out of control. In just a moment, all the grass and trees within a hundred meters around her were frozen into ice sculptures, and even the river water was covered with layers of ice patterns, as if the entire park had been dragged into a frozen winter.