[ever-patient, zhongli can wait as long as it takes for the boy to air his concerns about the mission.]

Unfortunately, every place where a tragedy has occurred will always have some traces of life left-- and depending on how much time has passed, that means the bodies of those who did not make it.

[then he looks up at the massive ship about them, a ship of the likes he's never seen before.]

Hmmm... I can venture further in by myself, if you'd rather stay here. [except that might get him lost, especially when he doesn't know this place at all.]