WTYTIAAN Chapter 146

Yan Yunqing really hadn’t expected Adrain to be here to submit his resume.

Was this some kind of Didi assassination service?

The expression on Yan Yunqing’s face couldn’t help but twist for a moment. Adrain actually used such a serious face to tell him he wanted to kill the Bato King for him…?

How strange, really strange.

Yan Yunqing twitched the corner of his mouth: “There’s no need for that. I haven’t thought about killing the Bato King.”

Adrain thoughtfully nodded: “So you just chopped off his xx?”

Yan Yunqing thought he was hallucinating and was shocked: “What? What did you say I chopped off?”

“XX,” Adrain repeated, once again being censored by the Harmony God.

Yan Yunqing was stunned, and opened his mouth, “XX?”

Adrain frowned, “The assassin wasn’t one of your people?”

Yan Yunqing instantly shut his mouth, because he had inadvertently revealed that he and Cornelia were not on the same side at all.

No, when did this guy’s brain start working so fast? Didn’t he used to hand over his brain to his external brain, Anthony, to control?

Seeing that Yan Yunqing didn’t speak, Adrain didn’t continue to press him.

Yan Yunqing barely managed to sort out the current situation and couldn’t help but ask, “How did you find out about me?”

Adrain had obviously stripped off his Joker persona, and Yan Yunqing felt embarrassed to continue pretending he didn’t know. What’s more, he really cared about how his persona was stripped off again.

If he encountered another skill with the same effect as [Eye of Truth], Yan Yunqing could really consider using the Joker persona less often in the future.

Or quickly get a prop that could completely conceal his true identity.

Adrain hesitated for a moment, then opened his mouth, “I feel like it’s you.”

Yan Yunqing: “……?”

“What do you mean?”

“Seeing him, I feel like it’s you,” Adrain replied.

“Just a feeling?”

Adrain nodded.

Yan Yunqing was speechless. Okay, this was also an intuitive type. Unlike Alice, who had cheat skills, this guy’s brain was simply simpler. Whatever the intuition was, that’s what it was.

You have to say, this intuition was pretty accurate.

Yan Yunqing reacted: “Then wouldn’t admitting it just now expose my identity?”

Adrain comforted: “Even if you didn’t admit it, I would still know it’s you.”

Yan Yunqing: Great, this was indeed a solid intuitive type, and a stubborn intuitive type at that.

Yan Yunqing really wanted to rub his forehead, but he didn’t want to appear too relaxed in front of Adrain, so he could only sigh in his heart.

“Got it, so can you tell me now, have you seen that group of masked people?”

Yan Yunqing brought the topic back again. He hadn’t forgotten his destination this time. As for Cornelia cruelly cutting off the Bato King’s descendants, Yan Yunqing temporarily put it behind him.

Returning to the original topic, Adrain pondered for a moment, then shook his head, “I haven’t seen anyone with the characteristics you described in Skarn City.”

Yan Yunqing was a little disappointed. The mission guide told him to ask Adrain. His persona and bottom line were almost stripped clean, but Adrain didn’t know anything when asked?

“However, I should know who they are,” Adrain said with a big breath.

Yan Yunqing’s gaze immediately fell on Adrain, “What did you say? You know the identities of those people?”

Adrain nodded, “Before, there were some rumors circulating in Skarn City that were similar to the advantages you described.”

“What rumors?”

“‘Demon King’ has been resurrected…”

Yan Yunqing coughed in shock, almost choking himself to death with saliva, “What did you say? Demon King has been resurrected? Who said that? Where is he?”

No, he, this Demon King, had just come to Skarn City, how could the news of his ‘resurrection’ have spread here?

No, he wasn’t dead either, right? What does it mean to be resurrected??

Adrain was not angry that Yan Yunqing interrupted him, he continued: “The horn of the Demon King sounds again, the Demon King’s knights return from death, and the eternal glory will be sprinkled across the entire continent again.”

“This is the rumor that was circulating before,” Adrain said. “It is said that the Demon King’s knights are all wearing black cloaks, with white patterned masks on their faces, each with a different pattern. Those are the ‘names’ bestowed upon them by the Demon King.”

Yan Yunqing opened his mouth, wanting to curse, “Nonsense, when did he bestow names upon his dependents? And in the form of masks?”, The only one he had seriously named was Beros, okay!

At most, the others just had nicknames! How could he, this ‘Demon King,’ be so dictatorial and autocratic!

Also, he didn’t have any Demon King’s knights at all. At most, there was a Demon King’s guard back then, and the head of the guard, Theodore, even suspected of killing the king out of love!

Don’t spread rumors about him! He was already miserable enough as a Demon King!

Yan Yunqing never thought that he would investigate a mysterious cult organization, and as he investigated, the boomerang would hit him?

Who was it! Doing bad things in the name of the Demon King! All the blame was being pushed onto him, and now the Demon King’s reputation was even worse!

Yan Yunqing covered his face and calmed down for a while before raising his head to continue asking: “So, what you heard, those who call themselves Demon King’s knights, are those wearing black robes and complex patterned masks?”

Adrain nodded: “Not only the Demon King’s knights, but the ordinary people they recruit also call themselves the Eternal God Sect. They were indeed discovered in the city before. Most of them are outsiders. The Sawyer Army expelled those people, and then the rumors slowly stopped.”

“It’s just that occasionally there are still one or two who secretly promote the Eternal God Sect, but those are all people who grew up in Skarn, and the Sawyer Army can’t drive them away, so they can only give verbal warnings.”

Religion was the easiest way to brainwash ordinary people, especially in this kind of border city. The ordinary people here lived a precarious life, and they could lose their lives at any time. Since life was already so bitter, of course, they had to find a spiritual sustenance to numb themselves.

Therefore, the more impoverished, war-torn, and backward the place, the faster the faith would spread. The Eternal God Sect was the same.

In the historical records written by Romunike and Bato Vita, the Demon King was not a good person, and all kinds of slanderous methods were used to make the initial founders of the two empires, their uprising, correct and meaningful.

Therefore, the Demon King’s reputation had never been very good. However, it was undeniable that the period when the Demon King of the Eternal Empire was in power was the most prosperous era in the history of the entire Ermann Continent, and also the most harmonious era for humans and other races.

At that time, the war had completely ended, and no demons appeared. It was simply a peaceful and prosperous world that could only appear in dreams.

Even because the comparison was too tragic, a small number of people always believed that the appearance of demons was precisely because the initial founders of Romunike and Bato Vita tried to overthrow the Demon King’s rule, angering the god of creation, who would then send down demons as a natural disaster.

Heaven knows how much the Demon King himself wanted to laugh when he heard it.

Overthrowing the Demon King’s rule would anger the gods? How much those gods who were killed by the Demon King wanted to dismember the Demon King himself probably only they knew.

However, precisely because of the terrifying ability of religious belief to control the hearts of the people, the Sawyer family quickly drove those people away as soon as the rumors spread.

Skarn City was one of the most important border cities, adjacent to the Skarn front line. If the people’s hearts in the city were controlled and brainwashed by unknown religions, the Sawyer army would become extremely passive, and even there might be enemies in front and rebellion in the back.

This was something the Sawyer family would never allow.

Yan Yunqing understood the meaning behind Adrain’s words and pondered, “Do you know where those people went after leaving Skarn?”

Since it was a cult and could develop a group of believers, and even the believers could sneak into the city from time to time to proselytize, it meant that there must be a missionary church near Skarn that was open to the public, at least to these proselytized people.

Adrain thought for a moment, “Anthony is in charge of this, and I don’t know these things. Should I call him over to talk to you?”

That’s what he wanted!

Yan Yunqing waved his hand: “Okay.”

Adrain agreed but didn’t move, staring at Yan Yunqing.

Yan Yunqing was also waiting for him to go back and find someone quickly, and suspected whether he also had a secret way to contact his subordinates, so he also stared at Adrain.

For a moment, the two looked at each other, neither of them speaking first, and the room fell into silence.

Yan Yunqing felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by Adrain and spoke first, “Why haven’t you left yet?”

Adrain asked suspiciously: “Aren’t you ready yet?”

Yan Yunqing was confused, “What am I getting ready for? What does you going back to find someone have to do with me getting ready?”

Adrain’s eyes swept around the room, and he looked at Yan Yunqing again, “You said before to wait until you were ready?”

He hinted at the room that didn’t need to be tidied up at all. Adrain added: “When you’re ready, come back with me.”

Yan Yunqing:。

When did he agree to this again?

“I’m not going with you,” Yan Yunqing refused outright, “I still have a lot of things to do. Hurry up and call Anthony over.”

Adrain paused, but didn’t show any signs of disappointment. He tried to negotiate: “The Sawyer family is safer.”

“I’m not afraid of danger, and this hotel looks pretty safe.”

“The Sawyer family’s rooms are bigger and more comfortable.”

Yan Yunqing’s face didn’t change color: “This room is pretty good too, it’s completely enough for me to live in alone.”

Adrain wanted to say something more, but was stopped by Yan Yunqing, “Okay, I really have important things to do. My younger brother is still in those people’s hands. Hurry up and call Anthony over. I want to find out the specific situation of those people!”

Although his persona had been stripped off a layer, Yan Yunqing still stubbornly guarded the background story of his persona.

Besides, Alice was his student, and William was Alice’s older brother, so why couldn’t William be his younger brother?

He didn’t lie! There was no problem in terms of age.

*

Adrain was finally kicked out by Yan Yunqing. After a while, Anthony came to report. Surprisingly, Adrain wasn’t following behind. Yan Yunqing thought he would come over too!

Seeing Yan Yunqing glance behind him a few times, Anthony smiled and explained: “Something happened on the front line. A few demons with not low levels ran out. The general has rushed to the front line.”

“Does he often rush over like this temporarily?” Yan Yunqing asked curiously.

Anthony’s expression was strange, “That’s not the case. Actually, the general doesn’t come back to the city very often. He stays on the front line most of the time, preparing to participate in battle at any time. Sometimes he even suddenly attacks the front line in the middle of the night. The soldiers on the front line are basically on standby all day, and the general is no exception.”

“After all, demons are not like humans, who have the virtue of going out early and returning late.” He shrugged, “This time the general suddenly returned to the city, and I was thinking if something had happened in the family…”

Anthony glanced at Yan Yunqing furtively, “It turns out you came.”

Anthony was deeply impressed by Yan Yunqing. This alchemist, who looked ordinary, had captured their general’s heart in just a few days. Since returning from the royal city, their general had been feeling a little absent-minded.

Although he still ate, slept, and fought demons as usual every day, Anthony could feel that the general’s heart was no longer in Skarn. His heart had flown away! Flown far away, completely hanging on that person.

At first, Anthony was wondering if the general had met Princess Alice at the banquet and had accidentally fallen in love. Just as Anthony was secretly wondering whether to tell the old general, he found out that the general’s concern was not Princess Alice at all!

But that magician he had only met a few times!

Goddamn, what magic did that magician have? Wasn’t their general the one who hated magicians who were troublesome the most?

Anthony secretly looked at Yan Yunqing again and evaluated in his heart: His appearance is indeed average, and his temperament is also a bit gloomy…

Could it be that the general had been fighting with demons since he was a child, and his preferred style had also become like a demon? Is this called assimilation?

“Adrain told you what I wanted you to do when you came here, right?”

Anthony recovered his thoughts and nodded seriously: “I know, it’s the Eternal God Sect from a while ago, right? I’m indeed in charge of this matter.”

“When those believers first appeared, I arranged for people to drive them away. You should be able to understand, right? Our border city is afraid of disloyalty. If something goes wrong in the rear, the soldiers on the front line will be sacrificed in vain.”

Anthony said sincerely: “However, I didn’t know where they went at that time, and I didn’t send anyone to follow them.”

Yan Yunqing asked doubtfully: “This Eternal God Sect doesn’t look like a good organization at all. Are you relieved to just drive them away?”

Anthony smiled wryly: “You don’t know.”

“This border city is too bitter. Resources are scarce, and demons often invade. To put it bluntly, people living here don’t even know if they can live to see tomorrow. It’s bitter. These beliefs are the only things they can get without spending money. So belief is not uncommon in Skarn.”

“In other words, Skarn doesn’t lack people who come to preach. There are too many. If you walk around on the street, there are all kinds of beliefs. There are even those who believe in our general.”

“Those who come to preach don’t actually cause much trouble, and they can give those who are suffering some practical benefits, so we don’t really care too much about these things. It’s just that we found that the scale of this Eternal God Sect was a bit too large, and the rumors were spreading a bit strangely, so I had people drive them out of Skarn City.”

Anthony continued: “After driving those believers away, I thought that there wouldn’t be too much trouble, after all, our general’s strength is suppressing things here. In fact, very few people dare to offend the general, so I didn’t take it too seriously.”

“Later, I found that after driving away those believers, there was still an Eternal God Sect believer popping up in the city from time to time. They used to believe in other gods, but they turned around and believed in the Demon King, and they all showed a fanatical state. That’s when I realized something was wrong.”

“I sent people to follow them, but those people from the Eternal God Sect were too cautious. The people I sent out were thrown off several times. Currently, I only know a rough location. You may have to find the specific location yourself.”

Anthony was very sincere: “The general told us to protect your safety. Later, I will send a team of personal guards to follow you and find their stronghold with you. Do you think that’s okay?”

Yan Yunqing:。

“There’s no need for personal guards. Do you have a map here? Just give me a copy of the map of this area and mark the approximate location for me.” Yan Yunqing said.

Who knew that Anthony showed a difficult expression, and Yan Yunqing frowned, “Is there any problem?”

“Um…” Anthony thought for a moment and said honestly: “I can’t give you the specific map. This map involves the border defense layout of Skarn City. I can only draw a simple map for you personally and point you in a direction, okay?”

He was full of apologies: “It’s not that I don’t believe you, but it’s really not convenient to give this to outsiders…”

Yan Yunqing understood, it was his presumption. He had a mini-map plug-in himself, so he thought everyone could know the map, and forgot that this was also a military important place. Ordinary people would at most know which direction the city gate opened in, and where the market usually was. How could they know the specific map?

Otherwise, why would they steal the enemy’s border defense map when fighting in ancient times?

Although the biggest enemy force in Skarn was demons, it was right next to Romunike’s border city. The two sides were now working together to kill demons. If the two sides had conflicts in the future, they would become enemy forces.

“Okay, then you can draw an approximate location for me and I will go explore it myself.” Yan Yunqing agreed, “The personal guard is really not needed. Are your personal guards stronger than me?”

Anthony was stunned, he didn’t expect Yan Yunqing to speak so wildly. He subconsciously threw a probe over, and found that he couldn’t detect Yan Yunqing’s level information.

There are generally two possibilities. One is that Yan Yunqing has no talent at all, can’t become a magician or swordsman, so he has no level, and naturally can’t be detected. The other is that Yan Yunqing’s level far exceeds his, and he will get nothing when he throws a probe over.

Anthony was secretly surprised. His current level was not low, and he could be considered one of the best in the Sawyer army. As a result, this magician’s level exceeded him? How did he level up? Even if he took heavenly treasures, it wouldn’t be this fast, right???

Anthony thought along Yan Yunqing’s words. The levels of those personal guards in the personal guard team were not much different from his, and even a little lower than him. He sent a group of people who were obviously lower in level than this magician over here. Who was protecting whom?

Remembering the general’s instructions before leaving, Anthony’s face couldn’t help but twist slightly for a moment. He really wanted to shout: General, don’t love too much, this guy doesn’t need protection at all!

But he couldn’t, he could only keep smiling: “Okay, okay, then I’ll draw a simple map for you.”

Yan Yunqing found paper and pen for Anthony. He closed his eyes and recalled for a moment, and began to write and draw on the paper. Occasionally, he would also mark one or two characters on the map. Yan Yunqing looked at the map drawn by Anthony and compared it with the system’s mini-map. It was basically consistent.

This made Yan Yunqing admire Anthony.

You must know that he was now memorizing the map. He could still draw it almost the same as his plug-in mini-map, which shows that Anthony was a person with an excellent sense of direction and spatial imagination.

His brain was really smart.

Yan Yunqing obtained [Map Drawn by Anthony] x1, and then drove away Anthony, who still wanted to chat with him a few more words. He compared his hand-drawn map with his mini-map plug-in and found the location marked by Anthony that might be the secret stronghold of the Eternal God Sect.

This range was quite large, but Yan Yunqing had a plug-in. He directly zoomed in on the mini-map and began to check little by little whether there were any special buildings on the surface of this area.

Although he couldn’t see from a distance whether there were any people in this area, he could still see the small icons of the buildings.

This is called making clever use of plug-ins.

After checking around, he finally found a trace in a forest near the southeast direction. It looked like an abandoned village or town. The scale was not large, and it was displayed in gray on his mini-map. Obviously, this was an abandoned human settlement.

This was not uncommon. Small villages and towns like this could often be seen when approaching Skarn. After all, this place was often invaded by demons, and from time to time, a demon with a not low level would attack these human settlements.

The people living in Skarn City were still okay. There were troops stationed in the city, and support was very quick.

Those small villages outside the city that were a little more remote suffered. Demons suddenly appeared in the middle of the night, and they didn’t even have time to react. The entire village would be completely slaughtered by the demons.

Therefore, the closer to the Skarn front line, the more the villages outside the city had basically become ruins. The people inside had either moved away or died.

Yan Yunqing would notice this ruin purely because this village ruin was the closest to Skarn City. According to the pace of ordinary people, it wouldn’t take too much time to go back and forth, and there was a large forest to cover them. If someone followed them to their stronghold, they would be quickly discovered.

Moreover, this ruin village was located at the center point of the range marked by Anthony. Anthony must have conducted several investigations to draw this area, and determined that people from the Eternal God Sect often appeared in these areas, so they would be included in this range.

Circle out the frequently active areas, and the place where several circles intersect most densely is likely to be where they live for a long time.

Very coincidentally: This small village ruin happened to be located in the center of the intersection of these circles.

Yan Yunqing overlapped the hand-drawn map in his hand with his mini-map plug-in, and lightly flicked the location of the small village with his fingertip.

“Caught you.”

Little black rats who secretly do bad things in the name of the Demon King.