Beyond Work Hours | Yelan x FReader | Genshin Impact Fanfic

Fish...Again...|17|

My teary face was now dried and I was out of my thoughts

I pretended like nothing happened, of course Zhu was worried but I insisted I was fine

According to him he found it odd I was late, and thought it was important for me to know something

Last mintue work was canceled, apparently the fish sickness thing might be more serious than we thought, and workers who were already affected are currently going through some heavy side effects...

He wanted to check if I was also infected...

Luckily I wasn't, now there's issues about the environment of our work area. Which isn't even the problem, but the stubborn milileth say otherwise

.

"So, for the next couple days the harbor will be shut down" His mouth letting out a sigh soon after

"That would be horrible for Liyue’s economy" I said

"Indeed, what's worse is its an indefinite shut down" His hand rubbing his forehead as he took a pause "meaning a couple days, could turn into a couple weeks"

He spoke again

"I'm highly irritated with the fact that they told us this last minute they didn't give us any warning prior. Any indications or signs, they didn't even care to take a look for themselves. They just..." He took a deep breath

"Imposed it"

I looked at his clearly stressed and passed face as I held onto the tea he had given me when I woke up

"Can't we object to it?"

"We can't, it's the milileth who imposed it, they have it labeled as an emergency shut down"

"The only way to get back is with the permission of the Qixing..."

He groaned as he leaned back on the chair he was sitting on
"Around two-thirds of our workfaces are sick, your division included too"

"Wait how did they know there was a fish outbreak?"

"The survey I conducted, I sent it to the higher ups and the milileth checked it this morning"

My mouth shaped into an O as I listened

"How about the side effects? The ones of the workers who are infected"

He took a couple seconds to respond not looking at me, as if he was deciding whether or not to tell me

"Well it's bad. I only learned of it on my way here"

"How bad?"

"Hospitalization"

...

Hospitalization?... shit...

"I haven't seen it for myself, but this morning I got multiple letters for notice of absence, written in the reason of Hospitalization"

"I didn't understand it at first, but I connected the dots later on..."

Oh God...

"I also encountered the mother of my assistant, she informed me that her daughter was suffering vomiting, extreme deficiency, and possibly a stomach virus"

A stomach virus? But that doesn't make sense... we never consumed the fish or any of the imports...

"She also mentioned that she started to loose chunks of her hair..."

Hairloss?...

"Wait Zhu... what about the non workers who are sick?..." I said as something clicked in my head "majority of the imported fish was distributed in the market..." concern lingering in my voice

"We haven't checked that yet, but there are civilian cases..." His voice low

"So... what now?" I asked

"I don't know either..."

There was now a silence between the two of us, silence due to confusion we just sat in my bedroom...

I felt... tense

I lifted myself out of my bed walking to my bathroom to wash up..

Once I locked the door I dragged myself to the sink. Turning it on to gather some water in my palm.

Splash...

I turned off the sink...

Once the water stopped running I looked up at my mirror to see

Me

And... a paper?

"You passed out, I brought you home. Take these..." and a bottle of medicine pills...

With the initial written

"-Y"