WTYTIAAN Chapter 98

Chapter 98

Even without going outside, Yan Yunqing could feel a gaze scanning the room, lingering for a few seconds where they were hiding. Yan Yunqing held his breath, barely daring to breathe, afraid of revealing anything that would give away their location.

The person seemed to have thoroughly checked the room, and after confirming that there was nothing amiss, he slowly left after admiring his collection in the display cabinet.

Yan Yunqing heard the door close, and the sound of breathing in the room indeed lessened by one. He breathed a sigh of relief.

The exploration progress had reached 58%! Only 22% away from 80%!

It seemed that as long as he submitted a few more correct guesses, he could clear this instance.

Yan Yunqing thought for a moment and analyzed and guessed based on the information he had just heard.

Clearly, the person from just now was the big boss of Mandipelle. However, judging from his tone, he seemed to be cooperating with someone.

The mannequins in the warehouse, the perfect raw materials…

Yan Yunqing thought of the dark prison he broke into when he went to save Nana. Since the mannequins were real living beings, was that dark prison equivalent to the warehouse the boss mentioned?

After all, the dark prison held many people, and the warehouse was filled with many mannequins, which corresponded perfectly.

Then the perfect raw materials definitely didn’t refer to ordinary people. Given that Mandipelle had wanted to bring back Nika and Rocco, Yan Yunqing thought that the perfect raw materials might refer to humans or other races with innate skills.

As for the partner cooperating with Mandipelle, it was not difficult to guess. Bishop Paul of the Holy See stationed in Freedom City secretly provided Mandipelle with information about children who tested positive for innate skills. It seemed that the partner was closely related to the Holy See.

It was even very likely that he was cooperating with the Holy See.

It was said that a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Although the Guangming Holy See seemed low-key now, Yan Yunqing never thought from the beginning that Guangming Holy See was as docile as they appeared.

Didn’t Guangming Zhi Shen die? Could this Holy See still create a Guangming Goddess?

After all, the earliest Guangming Holy See could even be traced back thousands of years. Before the establishment of the Demon King’s eternal empire, the Guangming Empire where the Guangming Holy See was located could be said to be almost entirely composed of Guangming Zhi Shen fanatics. The escalating war between gods was also partly due to the Guangming Holy See fueling the flames.

With these thoughts in mind, Yan Yunqing submitted his guess.

After a while, the instance progress increased, but not by much, the overall progress reached 64%.

Huh? Was it because there were still incorrect points in his guess, or was this guess not very relevant to the Golden Man instance itself?

Divike came over and asked, “Your Majesty, that person has left. Should we go out and look for other clues?”

Yan Yunqing thought it was feasible. He had a lot of information on hand now, but it was very fragmented, lacking something that could connect them all together. It wasn’t impossible to deduce the final result by guessing here, but that would take too much time.

He needed to try and make mistakes to get the final answer, but when he and Divike entered the instance, the time outside wasn’t paused. They couldn’t spend too much time in the instance. Not to mention Isabel was still waiting for Divike to investigate and report back, and those children were waiting for Yan Yunqing to take them out!

Yan Yunqing sat in the dragon car and submitted “The golden man is made of mannequins and white masks,” and the progress increased to 78%.

He wasn’t surprised. After all, the instance was called the Golden Man Factory, but the assembly line didn’t produce golden men but the masks used for the competition. This was obviously unreasonable, unless the masks themselves were a process for making golden men.

Yan Yunqing had personally seen the muscular man being parasitized by an unknown thing at the competition venue, sucked into a shriveled appearance, and then refilled like an inflated balloon.

In the end, that state was obviously no longer human. With the golden man in this room as a reference, Yan Yunqing could probably guess how the golden man was made.

Imagining that scene, Yan Yunqing had the urge to vomit.

Cruel and disgusting.

But Yan Yunqing still didn’t understand what Mandipelle’s boss wanted to do. Judging from what he said just now, Mandipelle still needed the Holy See’s protection, so it was impossible to make such a big move.

After all, too many celebrities had come this time. The power behind the level 90 swordsman alone was not small. Even if Mandipelle had the ability to wipe them all out, he would not have the strength to resist the accountability of the forces behind them.

If those forces united, the Holy See alone couldn’t protect Mandipelle. What’s more, if Mandipelle’s golden man affair was revealed, causing panic, more people who claimed to be righteous would come to crusade against Mandipelle.

At that time, Mandipelle would become a rat crossing the street that everyone shouted to beat.

Yan Yunqing wandered around this room again, and after confirming that there were no other clues, he and Divike returned to the ventilation duct and headed to the next destination.

Little did they know that not long after they left, the door of that room was opened again. The tall man scanned the room again, his eyes falling on the closed ventilation duct, and a hideous and mocking smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

“Oh? It seems that a few uninvited mice have visited our factory.”

His voice was full of malice. “Pass the message down and tell the people below to pay attention and not let the mice find anything important.”

“The mouse-catching game begins now.”

“Little mice, hide well, don’t get caught…”

…

Yan Yunqing and Divike hadn’t realized that their whereabouts had been discovered. They continued to walk along the ventilation duct, and they went to two more places.

One was the warehouse the boss mentioned, but what was stored inside was different from the humans Yan Yunqing had imagined. They were indeed dolls very similar to humans. Many dolls were hung high in the air with iron hooks like exhibits.

This scene was very strange. At first glance, many people were hung by iron hooks, like a bloody slaughterhouse, but there was no blood at all. The joints of these dolls were also replaced by small balls. A closer look could identify that they were not humans.

In addition to those iron hooks, this warehouse was also decorated in a very childish and cute way, and there were naive stick figures on the walls.

It seemed to present an absurd fairy tale.

Yan Yunqing looked around and didn’t find anything new. He only felt that the poses of these dolls were somewhat similar to the scene when Nana was hung in the air by chains.

This also just showed that his previous guess was not wrong. The warehouse of the Golden Man Factory referred to Mandipelle’s dark prison.

The other room was another white mask workshop, which seemed to continue to process the mask blanks produced before. Some hooded people immersed the masks in a dark green liquid with strange bubbles, took them out after a while, and then applied strange potions.

Yan Yunqing tried to use [Appraisal] on those things, but the system seemed to be broken and couldn’t give a response for a long time. If he used it several times, a warning prompt would pop up, asking him to standardize the game and not try to cheat.

Yan Yunqing: …

It seemed that he couldn’t [Appraise] the things in the exploring instance.

But their exploration progress had reached 86%, and they could leave the instance at any time to end this exploration.

Yan Yunqing poked Long’s head, “Now we can leave this space, or we can continue to explore. The difference is how much the final reward is. Do you want to continue exploring?”

This reward was basically only useful to Yan Yunqing. NPC teammates were just assistants. In addition, Divike’s level was too high, so he couldn’t gain experience after the instance was completed. Continuing to explore was just a waste of time for Divike.

Yan Yunqing could very well understand his subordinates. After all, Divike came this time with a mission, so he gave the right to choose to Divike.

He just didn’t know if this instance would be recorded by the system if he didn’t explore it completely. If it was recorded, he could come back to play this instance again in the future. Even if the reward wasn’t as much as the first clear, it would be considerable to brush it several times, just like the instance in Sunset Village.

Yan Yunqing thought Divike would want to go out, but he didn’t expect Divike to ponder for a moment and choose to continue exploring.

“Are you interested in this instance?” Yan Yunqing was curious. Divike had been silent when he was exploring just now, and seemed uninterested, so he thought Divike wanted to leave the instance.

Divike hesitated for a moment, “No… It’s just that didn’t you say before? This space is an independent space based on the outside world, and you can basically find each other’s existence.”

“I came this time to find out the source of the dragon bones of the Chi Bone Sword. If these dragon bones really come from the missing members of the Dragon Clan, then I should be able to find clues here… right?”

At the end, Divike was a little unsure.

Yan Yunqing thought about it along with Divike, and it seemed that there was indeed no problem. According to the principle of instance generation, it was indeed possible to find clues.

“Okay, then we…”

Before Yan Yunqing could finish speaking, the factory below became chaotic. A group of hooded people rushed in, and the leader shouted loudly: “Two mice have sneaked into the factory. The master has asked us to put down what we are doing for the time being and catch those two mice no matter what!”

Yan Yunqing and Divike looked at each other. Needless to say, those two mice referred to him and Divike.

“We’ve been discovered?” Divike rubbed his fists, ready to rush up and start the berserk mode and kill these people.

Yan Yunqing grabbed Divike’s arm and whispered: “Let’s go.”

What are you doing, it’s not necessary to fight the NPC head-on when exploring the instance, it’s really not necessary.

Even if Divike’s strength was completely capable of fighting a hundred, Yan Yunqing always felt weird about fighting giant hooded people in their current form, and he wasn’t sure.

They drilled back into the ventilation duct, and Yan Yunqing looked back before leaving. These hooded people suddenly put on strange masks…

Like those gas masks that appear in many science fiction movies.

Yan Yunqing suddenly had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, after not running a few steps, a blue-green gas visibly spread inside the ventilation duct. Yan Yunqing took a breath and got a [Poisoned] debuff on the status bar.