WTYTIAAN Chapter 100

Chapter 100

Having separated from Divick, Yan Yunqing found a deserted corner and directly switched to Joker’s outfit, the black and red mask covering his face once more.

He opened the mini-map, exited the instance, and the mini-map function was reactivated. Yan Yunqing immediately highlighted all eleven members of the children’s group and rushed towards the closest one.

On the way, he encountered several teams of red-named, black-robed figures, and Yan Yunqing didn’t hold back, his blade piercing straight through them.

These people were hurrying about. Even though a dragon had appeared at the casino, there were surprisingly few guards around. Yan Yunqing suspected that some major incident had occurred at the main venue.

He just didn’t know what it was specifically.

Yan Yunqing found Kort, who was nearest to him. At that moment, he was hiding under a gambling table. The screams of the guests and gamblers in the hall were endless. Kort flinched the moment Yan Yunqing lifted the tablecloth.

Yan Yunqing reached out to him. “Let’s go, someone asked me to take you out.”

Yan Yunqing remembered that he was currently in Joker’s guise, not revealing himself as the former Xavier.

Kort, startled, shrank further under the table, not relaxing his guard upon hearing that someone had come to rescue him. “W-who are you talking about?”

“A very wealthy noble, Xavier,” Yan Yunqing said. “He said he had promised someone to take you out, but something has happened on his end, so he asked me to take you out first.”

Hearing Xavier’s name, Kort’s expression softened slightly. Yan Yunqing had already told them all Xavier’s name when he contacted them through Little Ai.

“R-really?” Kort was still a little afraid. “Is Mr. Xavier’s situation very serious? Is it dangerous?”

“It’s okay, you don’t have to worry about him.” Yan Yunqing waved at Kort, and when Kort approached, he simply pulled him out from under the table.

“Let’s go, do you know where your other companions are? I have to send you all out together.”

Kort’s voice was soft and small, and he didn’t make a fuss when Yan Yunqing held him, simply nodding gently, “I know.”

“Alright, let’s go then.”

It took Yan Yunqing a while to find all nine of the children except for Ino and Nana, and he sent them all out of Mandipell in one go.

The bracelets on their wrists couldn’t be removed for the time being, but Mandipell was in chaos right now, and probably didn’t have time to care about the nine ‘Pells’ who had suddenly disappeared from the casino.

Yan Yunqing tried searching for Isabel’s location, unsurprisingly, he couldn’t find it.

Yan Yunqing knew that the Dragon Clan had special means to block his mini-map since Divick’s dot wasn’t showing up on it before. It was normal that he couldn’t find Isabel now.

Yan Yunqing also highlighted Rocco and found the dots belonging to Rocco and Nana in the Free City area, confirming that the two small dots were very close to each other, so they should be together now.

He had entrusted Rocco and Nana to Isabel before, so Nana should still be with Isabel, so locating Nana would locate Isabel and them.

Nana was his mission objective, even if he didn’t have enough Favorability, he could successfully locate her on the mini-map. As for Rocco, it was purely because he had raised his Favorability.

Yan Yunqing estimated the distance, it wasn’t far, so he simply sent the nine children over there.

The journey wasn’t short, and Yan Yunqing was in a hurry, so he walked very quickly, and the children didn’t complain.

To be honest, when they realized they had left Mandipell, they couldn’t contain their excitement, but they knew it wasn’t over yet. The initial agreement with Yan Yunqing was that after he became a Goldfinger, he would spend gold coins to buy them out and then take them out.

This would comply with Mandipell’s rules, and they wouldn’t have to worry about Mandipell causing them trouble later.

But now something had obviously gone wrong. Xavier, who had made an agreement with them, was nowhere to be seen, and this chestnut-haired man had taken them out instead. The means he used made it clear that it didn’t comply with Mandipell’s rules.

This was considered stealing them away. If they were caught and taken back to Mandipell, they would face terrifying torture.

But the desire for freedom outweighed their hesitation, and Mandipell was obviously in chaos right now. It was more dangerous to stay inside, so it was better to escape first.

Little Ai secretly glanced at the chestnut-haired man walking in front, feeling a little uneasy in her heart.

This person looks so dangerous…

Fortunately, the journey wasn’t long, and soon Yan Yunqing found Merlin’s shop. He had wasted some time in the instance before, and it was already night. There weren’t many people in the city. Yan Yunqing simply patted on the shop door.

No response.

Yan Yunqing glanced at the mini-map and found that Rocco’s position had changed slightly, and he seemed to have come to the door, cautiously observing them.

Isabel and Merlin aren’t here?

Yan Yunqing immediately made a judgment. If Isabel and Merlin were here, Rocco wouldn’t be hiding at the door and secretly looking out, it was obviously a defensive action.

Yan Yunqing knew that he had blocked all the children behind him, so even if Rocco wanted to observe, he couldn’t see the people behind him.

Anyway, Rocco was inside, and he should open the door when he saw his companions. Yan Yunqing simply moved aside, allowing Rocco to clearly see the figures of Little Ai and the others.

“Your other companion is also inside, the child named Nana.” Yan Yunqing glanced at the time displayed by the system. “You guys wait for the people inside to open the door. I have to leave now. You guys hide here and don’t run around. When… when Xavier comes back, and it’s confirmed that there’s no danger, you can leave, got it?”

The nine of them nodded in unison.

Little Ai couldn’t help but ask when she saw Yan Yunqing was about to leave, “That, we have another companion… Ino, he’s still inside Mandipell.”

“I know, I’ll bring him back later, don’t worry.”

Yan Yunqing waved his hand and turned to leave. He heard the creaking sound of the door opening behind him not long after, and one of the nine children gave a small exclamation.

“Rocco, you’re here too?”

*

When Yan Yunqing returned to Mandipell, he discovered that the arena on the ground had also become a ruin, with a huge gaping hole smashed in the middle, revealing the hall on the next level.

It looked like someone had violently broken through the ground.

Yan Yunqing twitched the corner of his mouth as he looked at the pit left in the ground.

He had been wondering before if someone would bypass Mandipell’s maze-like tunnels and dig directly up, and today he saw a violent demolition team.

With this violent method and this strong strength, the person who did this violent demolition was none other than Isabel.

Is the chaos in Mandipell created by Isabel?

Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but rub his forehead, choosing the Substitute Doll instead of returning to Mandipell through the gap or using the Substitute Doll’s active skill to teleport him back to the previous room.

One-step transposition was still more cost-effective.

Yan Yunqing had just switched back to Mandipell when a prompt box popped up in front of him again.

[Detected that the exploration instance [Mandipell · Golden Factory] has been changed to a limited-time challenge instance [Mandipell · Morgan’s False God], you are qualified to challenge the instance, do you want to enter?]

[Instance has been opened, teammates have joined the instance, do you confirm joining the instance?]

[Countdown 10, 9, 8…]

A series of prompt boxes popped up. Before Yan Yunqing could see clearly, the countdown was almost zero. He subconsciously chose yes, and the scene in front of him changed, and he returned to the competition venue once again.

However, compared to the previous gilded splendor of the competition, the venue was a mess at the moment, with ruins everywhere and hideous plant vines visible everywhere.

The venue was filled with a strange green gas. As soon as Yan Yunqing saw this green gas, he immediately held his breath. This gas was exactly the same as the poisonous gas in the exploration instance. Yan Yunqing, who had suffered a loss once, couldn’t suffer a loss again, right?

The visibility in the venue was not high, and Yan Yunqing couldn’t see what was in the center of the venue. He took out his long sword from his backpack, vigilantly guarding against enemies that might appear at any time.

Sure enough, the moment he took out his long sword, Yan Yunqing’s alarm bells rang wildly in his heart. He jumped to the side subconsciously, and a sharp vine emerged from where he was originally standing, piercing through that piece of floor.

Yan Yunqing sucked in a breath of cold air. If his premonition hadn’t been accurate, and he hadn’t felt the danger and jumped to the side, he would have had to hand over all his trump cards to protect himself if he was hit by this vine.

The vine seemed to have intelligence. After failing to hit him with one strike, it smashed towards him again. Yan Yunqing swung his sword backhand, and the long sword scratched out a spark on the vine, and a harsh sound rang out.

This vine is made of metal? His long sword can’t cut it?

Seeing that physical attacks were ineffective, Yan Yunqing took out his magic wand backhand and threw a fireball at the vine, and flames ignited immediately.

The vine twisted and struggled in the flames, unable to continue to attack Yan Yunqing. It let out a silent scream. Although Yan Yunqing couldn’t hear the vine’s painful wailing, he could see the green mist being shaken away.

Yan Yunqing held the magic wand tightly in his hand, not daring to relax in the slightest.

Then he saw the vine spraying out new green mist after struggling for a moment. This poisonous gas was very strange, and it actually began to devour the flames on the vine. After a while, the flames were corroded and extinguished.

The vine was also burnt and withered a little, but the threat to Yan Yunqing was still very great.

But fortunately, since it was still a plant that was afraid of fire, no matter how hard the exterior was, or how invulnerable it was, Yan Yunqing didn’t have the initial nervousness.

Seeing that the vine was eyeing him covetously, ready to attack him at any time, Yan Yunqing raised the corner of his mouth, took out a few [Flame Emblems] backhand, threw them towards the vicinity of the vine, and detonated them instantly while jumping away.

“Boom——”

Purple-red flames rose fiercely. Yan Yunqing dodged another attack from a vine, and threw a [Flame Emblem] over in the same way, detonating it.

Watching the purple-red flames, which were different from ordinary flames, engulf all the vines, devour the strange green poisonous gas, and watching the vines struggle in the newly born flames, desperately spraying poisonous gas to consume the flames, the arc of Yan Yunqing’s mouth became more flamboyant.

“Surprise——”

At the same time, more [Flame Emblems] were thrown out by Yan Yunqing, and with a snap of his fingers, they exploded instantly, igniting more vines.