[Genshin Impact] The Self-Cultivation of a Bug

Question on Zhihu: What do you do when there's nothing left to do in a game?

Anonymous: Thanks for the invite. Three suggestions:

1. Play other games. There are countless games out there, so there's bound to be one you'll like.

2. If it's an online game, make an alt, pretend to be a newbie, and trick a veteran into helping you. (It's pretty fun to play dumb and come out on top.)

3. Find some fun in an old game, like looking for bugs. One of my games has been in a dry spell lately (it's a test server), so after thinking it over, I used the almighty disconnect bug to get into an area the developers are still working on. Hehe! Guess what I found? I got into a small world that was pretty close to complete. It was complete! Here's a picture of the scenery:

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Apparently it's called Mount Wuxing. If you zoom in, you can see a monkey's face in the lower right corner. After I finished the quest for this monkey who calls himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, the mountain blew up! Literally. Gotta say, they really know how to make things fun. Good thing I took a picture beforehand.

Not long after, I got disconnected by accident again and glitched into another small world. It was pretty dangerous, with lots of high-threat creatures, but the NPCs were quite friendly.

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See that? I walked right in and came face-to-face with a monster this intense. It made my sanity plummet, and my level was too low to take it down. In the end, I was saved thanks to the robot NPC standing nearby, who looked almost human.

After thinking it over, I decided to report the bug as a test player. But honestly, bugs caused by disconnections have always been hard to fix, so I have a feeling I'll be able to visit more small worlds later. If I find any, I'll keep posting updates.

I heard this game company is building some kind of metaverse. Maybe these are parallel universes still in development that will eventually open for business. Whatever. This is how I've been entertaining myself during the game's dry spell. Dry spells are one of the usual woes of an incomplete test server, after all. (Sighs with the weight of experience.)

Message me if you want to know how to trigger the bug. Going anonymous.

My name is Ying, and I'm currently working part-time as a Traveler hunting for bugs in the test server of Genshin Impact, a yet-to-be-released full-dive game.

A year and a half has passed now, and the game still hasn't had its open beta. But I've already found all the bugs I can, and I'm starting to run out of things to do. (Sighs with the weight of experience.)

After finishing all the main and side quests for the three nations currently available, I'm running out of footage for my videos and have absolutely no inspiration for new ones. So I've decided to use the unfixable disconnection bug to sneak into the unreleased new nation of Sumeru and find fresh material.

And so, I opened the door to a whole new world...

P.S. No romantic pairing. The story is told in third person from Ying's perspective. Ying is just Ying.

This is a player Ying, with a neutral-good personality. She's a semi-hardcore grinder and a hoarder. There are no character banners, only weapon banners. This is not a secret identity story. Player Ying can invite Teyvat characters to join her adventures in the open world, but whether they agree and how long they stay depends on their affection for her and whether they have free time.

All characters' relationships with player Ying are platonic, like friendship or family. There will be no romantic undertones and no secondary pairings outside of canon couples. By canon couples, I mean established pairings like the Fair Lady and her deceased lover, or the couple who can only exchange letters because they can't meet at the entrance to the Northland Bank.

Theme: As long as you do not lose your nobility, the whole world will open up to you