Tangtang introduction! She's so cute!

Just arrived in Wuling and we almost immediately had after a meeting with Nefarith and her associate/boss named Ardashir (who also seems to know us from before memory loss). There seems to be way too many connections between Endmin and these for it to be coincidence, just what exactly happened the last time we awakened? Were we ally with them? The story seems to imply that we kept sleeping and awakening every x years to solve the issues of humanity and this time it may be the last time due to the damage we accumulated.

Either way, we just met the cutest new character being introduced so far in Tangtang. Apparently she's the leader of some bandit group called Qingbo Stockade roaming the area and had a past with Chen. She's extremely easy to please and manipulate and we're playing interested to join her group to avoid a direct confrontation. Honestly quite like these stupid skits with even the Endmin playing along.
Tangtang doesn't feel like a 6* character so I expect her to be the 5* released next patch. Curious to see what other characters are there as we're supposed to get two 6* characters. I would guess Rossi from Valley IV could be a good option too as her design is way too well made to be purely an NPC.

The visuals of Wuling are way higher quality compared to Valley IV and it feels like the first real big story arc is about to start. As expected this is the "chinese inspired" zone that almost all these gacha games like to put as second zone. Usually I have mixed feeling about these zones because historically they haven't been great (see Liyue in Genshin or Luofu in Star Rail), but I'm always open to be surprised about them. Let's see where the story goes!