WTYTIAAN Chapter 31
by VolareE Building is the most peripheral dormitory building in this academy.
When Yan Yunqing found it, he couldn’t believe it was a student dormitory. It was too dark, completely shrouded in the shadows of other buildings.
Stepping into this building, the dilapidated floor could still be heard creaking. Water stains hung on the walls, and patches of green moss sprouted in the corners. Perhaps when it rained heavily outside, this corridor would also be drizzling.
Could people really live in this kind of place?
Yan Yunqing watched a squeaking mouse run past him, leaving him with an unattainable silhouette.
No, it should be said that it was unbelievable that a magic academy would have such a dormitory.
Wasn’t the tuition supposed to be expensive? Paying so much tuition to live in this kind of broken building?
Lillian was frightened by the squeaking mouse, and the whole elf buried herself in Yan Yunqing’s fluffy hair, “Great Elf King above, this is too scary for an elf!”
Yan Yunqing crossed the corpse of a dead squeaking mouse without changing his expression, “What are you afraid of? Those squeaking mice can’t fly up and bite you.”
Lillian’s face was pale, “But they are damn near twice my size! Damn, I have to find a way to enter adulthood quickly, I’m really fed up with this juvenile size!”
“Shh.” Yan Yunqing made a silencing gesture and pointed to the door number.
E Building 409, with a small note underneath with the scrawled handwritten name “brook”.
The little yellow dot belonging to Brook was quietly staying in the room.
This dormitory was located in a remote area of the entire dormitory building. Yan Yunqing knew at a glance that this dormitory would definitely not get any sunlight, and the whole environment felt damp. Wouldn’t a person living in this kind of place for a long time get sick?
He would definitely go crazy.
Yan Yunqing thought for a moment and decided to be polite and knock on the door.
After all, this Brook was not a bad person, so he couldn’t just break in illegally like he did with Dean, right?
Without considering how disturbing it was to knock on the door before dawn, Yan Yunqing knocked on the door twice.
Yan Yunqing wasn’t worried that the sound would attract the attention of others. He had looked at the mini-map in advance, and there was only one person on this floor, and the other rooms were empty.
The entire corridor was quiet. Occasionally, he could hear the sound of squeaking mice running by and the sound of water droplets falling. No sound came from inside the room. If Yan Yunqing hadn’t seen the little yellow dot move a little, he would have wondered if there was anyone inside.
Yan Yunqing reached out again and knocked twice very politely, then said politely, “If you don’t open the door, I’m going to do it myself, okay?”
As he said this, he took out the long sword that Old Jason had given him from his backpack again and gestured at the shaky wooden door that looked like it couldn’t withstand a single chop.
The person inside the room: …
Sure enough, after a while, there was a rustling sound from inside, and a muffled voice came from behind the door.
“Who are you?”
The voice was low and a little vague. If you didn’t listen carefully, you wouldn’t understand what he was saying.
Yan Yunqing smiled, “Me? I’m the hero of the night, a vigilante who specializes in punishing evil and promoting good in the evening. Open the door, I have a few questions I want to ask you.”
If the scene wasn’t inappropriate, he would have shouted, “FBI, open the door!”
The person in the room looked at the sky that was about to light up and hesitated, “Night? Punishing evil and promoting good?”
However, Brook did not feel Yan Yunqing’s malice. After hesitating, he gently opened a crack in the door, revealing a small section of pale face and a pair of dark eyes.
The pupils were a deep black, surrounded by a circle of clear yellow, like an owl guarding in the dark.
His gaze swept over Yan Yunqing and landed on the masked face, and he couldn’t help but frown.
Yan Yunqing knew what the other person wanted to say without thinking. He adjusted the mask on his face, “Masked vigilante, please forgive me. I’m afraid that after my identity is known, the masses will be too enthusiastic and surround me during the day.”
Brook: …
No one wanted to ask you that question.
Lillian, who was buried in Yan Yunqing’s hair, curled her lips: A silver-tongued little cat.
Yan Yunqing put his hand on the door and pushed it open without explanation. The weak Brook couldn’t resist Yan Yunqing’s strength at all. The half-closed door was pushed open by him, and Yan Yunqing flashed into the room and closed the door casually.
Brook staggered and looked at Yan Yunqing, who had already found a chair and sat down in his room on his own accord. He couldn’t help but twitch his mouth.
“Who are you? What are you doing here?”
Only then did Yan Yunqing see Brook’s true appearance. He was thin, and his slightly curly hair was messy on his forehead, as if he hadn’t cleaned it for days. He was wearing a wide black robe, and his face was pale from not seeing the sun for a long time.
When Brook spoke, his fingers clenched his hem tightly, as if he hadn’t interacted with anyone for a long time, so he was extremely nervous now.
Even his voice trembled almost imperceptibly.
Well… compared to a student at the magic academy, Brook looked more like a rat in the gutter, a notorious necromancer.
It was really interesting. Didn’t the teachers in the academy suspect that this guy was secretly engaging in some prohibited magic?
“Brook, can I call you that?”
Yan Yunqing scanned Brook up and down, made some preliminary judgments in his mind, and took out a stack of documents from his backpack. Brook took a closer look and saw that they were all transcripts.
“You entered this school ten years ago, but your talent is mediocre, and you are a commoner without a lot of resources to practice your lessons, so your grades have always been mediocre, even below average.”
Brook’s expression twisted a few times when he heard Yan Yunqing’s words, and his temples jumped. He didn’t understand what this uninvited guest who suddenly came to his door wanted to do.
Did he just want to humiliate him in person?
“Seven years ago, you faced the risk of being expelled for some reason.” Yan Yunqing flipped out a draft of an expulsion notice from the student file and showed it to the other party one by one, “It says that if each of your courses still maintains a below-average level, you will be expelled from the academy.”
Brook’s face darkened, and he took a deep breath, “So what exactly…”
Yan Yunqing interrupted Brook’s questioning and continued, “You had to find a way to stay. I’m not sure about the specific reason, but in order to stay in the school, you had to improve your grades, so you had to work as a volunteer in the Magic Plant Garden – according to the records, you haven’t done any work-study jobs in the three years since you enrolled, except for this volunteer work.”
“Why? Because your talent is too low, and you don’t have enough resources. You can’t do anything about potion-making, which requires spending real money to practice. So you inquired everywhere and took a fancy to Teacher Adelaide.”
“This is a teacher who came from a commoner background. She takes good care of students from commoner backgrounds and is very willing to help them study – so you volunteered in the Magic Plant Garden she was in charge of, wanting to get her guidance and practice with her resources. It would be even better if she took a fancy to you and took you as a student.”
Yan Yunqing laid out his guesses and the materials he found in the records room one by one, and casually pointed to the top one, the name on the Magic Plant Garden volunteer sign-in sheet.
Brook.
A very common name. Perhaps if you shouted “Brook” on the street, eight out of ten people would turn around and take a look.
But Yan Yunqing was sure that this Brook was the person in front of him. The last “k” on the signature had an upward stroke, just like the handwritten nameplate at the door of this dormitory, with the same special writing habits.
If Yan Yunqing was still a little unsure about making these inferences after seeing them in the records room, then after he came to this dormitory and saw the person himself, he was sure that his guesses were correct.
Giving himself a mental pat on the back, Yan Yunqing didn’t show any abnormality on his face, “You did this, and you got Teacher Adelaide’s guidance as you wished, and you improved your test scores that semester, avoiding the expulsion crisis, but because your qualifications were too mediocre, you still couldn’t become Adelaide’s student in the end, am I right?”
Brook’s expression had become very ugly at this moment. He seemed a little annoyed, but facing such a strong Yan Yunqing, who was on the thinner side, he had no resistance at all – he was worried that he would be held down by this person as soon as he made a move.
He closed his eyes, and his anger was suppressed. His face regained its calm.
“I don’t know what the purpose of you saying these things is. I can only tell you that your guesses are wrong and ridiculous. My relationship with Ms. Adelaide is just a few meetings – I haven’t even taken one of her classes.”
“As for the volunteer work… You’re right about one thing. I was indeed short of money, and that place allowed me to have more contact with expensive magic plants.” Brook completely denied Yan Yunqing’s guesses.
Yan Yunqing sized up Brook’s expression, and the look in his eyes made Brook almost feel his hair stand on end. He suppressed his unease and met Yan Yunqing’s gaze, calmly returning the look, avoiding revealing any flaws.
However, this made him appear more outwardly strong but inwardly weak.
Yan Yunqing supported his chin with a hand wearing a leather glove, tapping his fingertips lightly. After a long silence, he suddenly said, “You are hiding the fact that you know Adelaide? Why? Are you also investigating the truth of Adelaide’s death?”
Brook’s pupils constricted for a moment, not obviously. Others might have ignored it, but Yan Yunqing always stared at Brook’s eyes and didn’t miss any change in emotion.
That moment of change was quickly captured by Yan Yunqing.
Brook met Yan Yunqing’s dark red eyes, which seemed to have fresh blood surging in them. He felt a chill down his spine and his limbs became stiff, unsure of where to put them.
He vehemently denied, “I don’t know what you’re talking about! Teacher Adelaide’s death? Didn’t she apply to leave the academy herself? I don’t even know where she went!”
“You’re lying, aren’t you?”
Yan Yunqing stood up and walked towards him, bending down and bringing his face closer to the other person’s face. His dark red eyes locked onto his position, and the hand wearing the leather glove pinched his chin, leaving Brook with nowhere to escape.
“You know that Adelaide is dead. She was killed.”
“You want to find the truth and avenge Adelaide, but those students who also wanted to avenge Adelaide have all died… Are you afraid? So you’re running away, locking yourself in this dark and humid place.”
“You think that way, those people won’t find you, but you are constantly being condemned by your conscience, suffering…”
“Is that so?”
Yan Yunqing’s voice was very soft, and each word exploded in Brook’s ears like a curse.
Brook’s body was tense, and his teeth trembled uncontrollably. He could clearly feel the temperature of the skin on his chin being transmitted through the leather glove.
Icy…
Bone-chilling…
As if some invisible aura had completely suppressed him, Brook couldn’t even swallow his saliva. His breath was completely deprived, and his whole body stood stiffly in place.
“I…”
He could hear the broken syllables squeezing out of his throat, as if responding to the devil’s invitation.
“That’s right.”
“I’m sorry…”
The corners of Yan Yunqing’s mouth turned up slightly, not surprised to see his mission progress jump forward a bit.
It seemed he had found the right direction again.