I’m Doomed! I Got Trapped in a Dream! [10]

Chen Mo pulled Nahida along for a bit, but eventually got annoyed by how slowly she walked. Without hesitation, he scooped her up in a bridal carry and jogged straight to the door of Angel’s Share.

Then—thud!—he triggered the Missing Person Notice dialogue box, and like a criminal on cooldown, was forced to stand still for five seconds.

[Missing Person Notice: Looking for a lost girl. If you have any information, please come forward. The missing person has blonde hair and wears foreign clothing. Very distinctive.]

Because this is the isekai version of Genshin Impact, not only are cutscenes unskippable, they’re locked into auto-play. No fast-forward. No mercy.

“Um… what’s wrong?”

Nahida looked at Chen Mo in confusion. He had charged all the way to the tavern with such excitement, but now just stood frozen at the entrance.

“See that dialogue box on the wall?”

Chen Mo, still holding her, couldn’t point, so he tilted his head toward the floating window.

“A missing… person notice?”

“Yeah. This thing again. Stopped me cold in the game, and now it’s back for revenge in real life. Should’ve come through a different door…”

After the forced pause ended, Chen Mo set Nahida down and, clearly irritated, pulled out his sword and hacked at the notice.

Naturally, it did nothing.

The blade sliced through it like it wasn’t even there—no impact, no sound. It phased through the wall like it belonged to another dimension.

Not that either of them were surprised. It wasn’t their first brush with graphical jank.

But Chen Mo was annoyed about something else.

“We just met Amber. Literally walked into the city like ten seconds ago. And this missing person flyer’s already up? Does that make sense to you?”

If Chen Mo couldn’t explain it, Nahida definitely couldn’t. She just stood quietly nearby, waiting for him to finish.

“My guess? Players are locked into cutscenes during that time, so they never get to see the tavern until after this point. So the devs just slapped the notice here early. Makes no sense at all—super dumb.”

And with that, Chen Mo suddenly understood why Genshin doesn’t allow main story progression in co-op mode—clearly to avoid inconsistencies like “you just met Amber, but the missing person flyer’s already up.”

…

They entered the tavern. Some of the upstairs models hadn’t even finished rendering yet, and Chen Mo was immediately hit with a system prompt:

[Tap here to open the Quest Log]

He opened it and saw:

[Head to the high place Amber mentioned — 185m]

The meter count was even ticking down in real time.

“Go to the high place, huh… wait, climb?”

Chen Mo paused like he’d just had an epiphany.

“Ah crap, we came too early.”

Nahida glanced at him, deeply unimpressed.

You dragged me away from the main questline I was actually enjoying, and now you're saying we came too early?

“Ugh… Keqing was supposed to be climbing that wall right now. A tragedy—we missed the view.”

To be fair, watching a character in black tights climb walls was practically a launch-week tradition. It was one of those… moments.

Now that he had the chance to see it in person, Chen Mo had missed it for the dumbest of reasons—and he wasn’t hiding his disappointment.

Nahida stood nearby with her tiny hands on her hips, silently watching this guy grumble about missing wall-climbing fanservice.

Seriously? You skipped key plot content just to watch Keqing climb walls? I don’t even know what to say to you.

Chen Mo tried to teleport back—but the fountain plaza waypoint in Mondstadt hadn’t been unlocked yet.

“Tch… forget it. We’re already here. Might as well get a drink.”

He tapped the [Track Quest] button to set the objective, and glowing navigation particles appeared at Keqing’s feet, forming a line toward her destination.

Keqing only needed a second to grasp what the glowing line meant, then wordlessly followed it, heading to her next marker.

…

Back on Chen Mo’s end, once he finished dealing with the system prompt, he got back to his real goal for coming here: letting Nahida try Mondstadt wine.

Under Nahida’s curious gaze, he casually hopped over the bar counter like nobody was watching. Technically, no one was. NPCs don’t count.

Then he reached out and grabbed the handle of the liquor cabinet to open it—

And promptly failed.

Locked.

“This thing’s a texture?! A TEXTURE?!”

Chen Mo slammed a fist against the wine cabinet—no glass clink, no rattle. Just a solid thunk, like punching a wall.

“Mihoyo, could you be any lazier? You’re literally just slapping a texture here and calling it content!”

Nahida’s ears twitched at the unfamiliar term: texture.

But when she saw Chen Mo punch the cabinet and hear a solid “thud,” she kind of got it. A picture on a wall. Not a real object.

The other term—Mihoyo—she didn’t quite understand.

Chen Mo awkwardly turned around and scratched his head.

“Heh… well, that was unexpected. I didn’t think all the booze in here would be fake.”

Instead of hopping back over the bar, he stayed behind it and tapped on the NPC bartender Charles, opening his shop menu. Using some Mora he’d earned from opening chests outside the city, he bought a Raspberry Mint Drink.

He took a sip.

“Blegh… tastes like one of those three-yuan bottled sugar waters. Probably loaded with potassium sorbate and aspartame.”

The drink looked like a fancy cocktail in a glass, but tasted like cheap mass-produced beverage you’d find in any convenience store. It was sweet, bland, and unmistakably artificial.

After the prefab disappointment of those mushroom chicken skewers earlier, this wasn’t a shock—but it still bummed him out.

Texture liquor. Processed syrup drinks.
What was the point of coming here, again?

All those influencer foodie videos, and he’d come here just to taste mediocrity.

But then he remembered: He might be used to this kind of overprocessed drink—but Nahida wasn’t. She’d never had it before. Surely this was the perfect chance to let her experience the "miracle" of industrialized beverages.

He handed the drink to Nahida.

“Um… you already drank from that one…”

“Oh! My bad. I’ll buy another—er, I mean, pour another one.”

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