Genshin Impact: This fireplace house is your graveyard.

Chapter 77 Endless Nightmare 5

After Qiuhe was shot in the head, he was still conscious, and after a few seconds, his consciousness gradually faded away.

As consciousness faded into darkness, the point of light reappeared, this time lasting longer and brighter than before.

At that moment, Qiuhe was sitting on a bench, fast asleep with his head down. "Uh..." As his consciousness slowly returned, he slowly opened his eyes.

Upon opening his eyes, Qiuhe was greeted by a bustling city and streets, with vehicles and pedestrians coming and going. Looking around blankly at all this, Qiuhe gazed at his surroundings.

"Am I...dreaming?" Just then, several boys and girls called out from the side.

"Xiaoyun," Qiuhe called out, but only looked around curiously.

The first thing you see when you look is a girl with reddish-brown pigtails, wearing a school uniform and carrying a backpack.

Furthermore, Qiuhe noticed a strange detail: the black pearl in the girl's eyes wasn't a black pearl at all, but rather a very beautiful plum blossom.

"Are those colored contact lenses?" Qiuhe wondered, but then he noticed that there were several other people standing next to the girl.

First, there was a girl with short, light purple hair, the back of her head tied into a horizontal figure eight shape.

There was also a dark-skinned girl whose hair was styled in such a way that it looked like burning flames on both sides.

And next to him was a boy with dark blue hair, whose appearance was somewhat feminine.

"Xiaoyun, why are you still sitting here? Class is about to start!"

The girl with plum blossom-shaped pupils had already arrived beside Qiuhe and was talking to him.

Qiuhe blinked, looked around, and found no one there. It seemed they were indeed talking to him.

"Are you... calling me?" The girl who wasn't seeing things also showed a somewhat surprised expression.

Then she placed her hand on Qiuhe's head, "Strange, you don't have a fever." Qiuhe shook her head and brushed the girl's hand away.

Then, as he stood up, he realized he seemed to be carrying something on his back. Looking behind him, he saw it was a schoolbag. Qiuhe blinked.

He was completely bewildered at that moment, but when he looked up, he noticed a full-length mirror in front of a clothing store not far behind him.

He slowly walked to the mirror and discovered that his appearance had changed; his eyes were now ice-blue pupils.

Her hair was also ice-blue, with a short tuft of hair on top, and her eyebrows were also ice-blue.

"This is...me?"

Qiuhe stared silently at himself in the mirror, his mind a complete mess. Then he gently raised his hand and pinched his cheek.

"Tear!" Qiuhe felt pain. "This... isn't a dream?" Just then, the school bell rang for class not far away.

Then the girl with plum blossom-shaped pupils quickly came over and took Qiuhe's hand.

"Alright, stop admiring yourself and let's get going. The bell's already rung, or we'll be late."

Finally, the group took Qiuhe towards the school.

Just as they walked away, a hand suddenly appeared in the mirror and slapped it directly onto the mirror.

But the mirror, like a computer screen, flickered briefly, without showing any signs of cracking or damage.

On the way to the campus, Qiuhe felt very lost. "Could it be that all those adventures before were just a dream?"

"Clevis, Lily, Peruvieri, they were all just dreams, but if those were dreams, then why don't I have the memories I have now?"

But just as Qiuhe was thinking this, a memory suddenly flooded his mind: he remembered that his name was Chongyun.

The girl who wasn't seeing things was named Hu Tao, and the three people beside her were named Xiang Ling, Xin Yan, and Xing Qiu.

"Was what happened before really a dream? Is this reality?" Finally, the group arrived at the school gate.

But the school gates were closed, and Xiangling looked worried when she saw this. "Oh no, the school is closed!"

Hu Tao looked at the wall next to her and said, "If there's no door, there's still the wall, isn't there?"

Then Qiuhe saw Hu Tao reveal a very mischievous smile.

"Where have I seen this smile before?" Qiuhe was very curious at this moment, thinking that he seemed to have seen this smile somewhere before.

Before they could think further, Hu Tao led the four of them to the wall.

Then, Hu Tao took a step back, preparing to dive, and with a final running start, charged straight at the wall.

When she was only an arm's length away from the wall, Hu Tao suddenly leaped up, using the wall as a springboard to jump directly onto it.

He climbed the 3-meter-high wall effortlessly, leaving Qiuhe somewhat surprised.

But the other three seemed to be used to it, and then Walnut on the wall slowly lowered down, reaching out to pull them up as well.

After everyone jumped down from the wall, Hu Tao's gaze suddenly fell on the window next to her, and she noticed the old man sitting in the guard's hut.

Qiuhe also saw the middle-aged man; he had a head of black hair, but the sideburns were orange-yellow.

Furthermore, he had a very long hairline at the back of his head, which was also orange-yellow at the end.

Moreover, although security guards are usually called "uncle," this man looked very young, probably only around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old.

A bead of sweat rolled down Hu Tao's face, but then she realized that the gatekeeper didn't seem to have noticed them.

In the end, Hu Tao led them in quietly.

Only after everyone had left did the gatekeeper realize that something seemed to have walked past from the outside.

The security guard belatedly looked outside, but found nothing amiss.

"Hmm...it seems like I've been working too hard lately, and my eyes are getting tired and blurry."

After saying this, the gatekeeper turned his head back again, continuing to drink his tea and tease the bird on the branch.

Before entering the classroom, Qiuhe saw the plaque above the classroom door clearly read, "Liyue High School."

First, the people around him, then the name "Liyue" in front of Liyue High School—all of these seemed familiar to Qiuhe, yet he couldn't quite place them.

After entering the classroom, the group strode towards their class. "Haha, how about that? As expected of me, there's no wall I can't climb over in this world."

"Don't even mention a 3-meter wall, even a 4-meter high wall, I can help you climb over it." Hu Tao walked along, laughing and chatting with everyone.

Xingqiu then spoke up, saying, "It would be better to come earlier in the future and try to avoid climbing over the wall as much as possible, since it is quite dangerous."

"Although we weren't noticed by the gatekeeper today, we can't always be this lucky," Hu Tao chimed in with laughter.

"Don't worry, don't worry. I know this gatekeeper very well. He spends all his time either playing with birds or drinking tea."

"Even if we swagger in through the door, he probably won't even notice us."

As everyone was chatting enthusiastically, suddenly, Qiuhe, Xiangling, Xinyan, and Xingqiu all froze on the spot as if they had seen something terrifying.

Hu Tao was still confused when she felt something bump into her back. Since she was walking backwards, she had no idea what was behind her.

But seeing the tense expressions on Xingqiu and the others' faces, Hu Tao couldn't help but gasp.

Finally, Hu Tao slowly turned her head as if it were a machine, only to find herself face-to-face with a tall woman. "Eh?"

Walnut was already drenched in sweat. The woman in front of her had a high ponytail, her hair a black-green gradient, paired with red-rimmed glasses.

She exuded a certain teacherly authority. The woman, her face grim, stared at Hu Tao, her deep voice seeming to emanate from hell: "Hu Tao~"

The woman's figure seemed to grow larger and larger, like a volcano about to erupt at any moment.

Hu Tao was also covered in sweat, her eyes wide and mouth agape, when she shouted, "Teacher, I was wrong!!!"

In the end, the group was successfully made to stand in the hallway as punishment until the bell rang to signal the end of get out of class.

The students all came out of the classroom, and the teacher with the black-green gradient hair in a high ponytail was the last to emerge.

Before the teacher came out, Hu Tao was pacing back and forth in the corridor as if she had nails to the ground. But as soon as the teacher came out and looked at Hu Tao…

Hu Tao instantly transformed into a dramatic actress, her eyes glistening with tears.

Looking into those tear-filled, plum-blossom-like eyes, it was as if a drop of dew had fallen onto that beautiful plum blossom in the early morning.

This expression is incredibly powerful; just one look at it evokes a feeling of deep heartache.

Looking at Hu Tao, who just moments ago seemed to have nails in her feet, now suddenly putting on this weak and easily bullied act, as if she would collapse at the slightest touch...

Everyone was very impressed, and the teacher just looked at Hu Tao.

He then glanced at the crisscrossing bandages on his knee, and finally sighed helplessly, "Sigh..."

Then the teacher took a handkerchief out of his pocket and gently wiped away Hu Tao's tears.

"get out of class is over, you guys go out and have fun, but don't climb over the wall again next time."

After saying this, the teacher was about to leave, and just as the teacher turned around,

Hu Tao revealed a smug smile, and Xiang Ling, Xin Yan, and Xing Qiu shared the same thought upon seeing this.

"As expected of her." "Akiha, your grades have dropped recently."