WTYTIAAN Chapter 15

Chapter 15

“That’s pretty much it.” Yan Yunqing sat upright in front of Lillian and Cornelia, watching them devour the bread.

He had secretly taken this bread from the bakery, but he had left a few silver coins under the cash register, which should far exceed the value of these breads.

“Several noble lords died in the Auction House. The royal family has ordered a curfew throughout the Capital City. There were reinforcements at the city walls last night, patrolling non-stop.”

Yan Yunqing was glad: “Luckily we didn’t rashly run out last night, otherwise we really would have been caught.”

Although they had nothing to do with that so-called ‘Crimson Mist’, they were indeed undocumented residents in this Capital City. Cornelia was okay; she was a mixed-blood mermaid, and apart from being more beautiful, she was no different from ordinary humans.

But Yan Yunqing and Lillian were not. Lillian could hide because of her small size, but Yan Yunqing’s cat ears last night were extremely conspicuous.

The Capital City of Bato Vita was quite far from the Beastmen Territory, and there were very few Beastmen in this area. Basically, the Beastmen in the city were slaves who had been sold.

Slaves were not qualified to leave the city at will.

They were afraid that as soon as they approached the city gate, they would be caught by the soldiers who noticed something was wrong.

“However, I heard that today is the time for the Leonard family’s disciples to go out for their monthly training. They will probably gather in the afternoon. We can hide in their supply carriages and go out with their team.”

“The city guards only restrict the entry and exit of civilians and slaves, and they won’t have very strict requirements for the nobles.”

Yan Yunqing said, “I can use my skill and Lillian is small, so it’s easy to hide. The only problem is Cornelia…”

Cornelia didn’t have a transformation skill. It would be difficult to hide such a large mermaid in someone else’s supply carriage without being discovered.

Cornelia, who was munching on bread, paused, lowering her eyes to hide the emotions within. She slowly chewed the dry bread in her mouth a few times, as if thinking about something.

The gloomy corner was quiet for a moment. Yan Yunqing wanted to tell Cornelia not to worry, that they would definitely think of a solution.

But Cornelia seemed to have made a decision, abruptly opening her mouth, “You guys go. You don’t have to take me out of the city with you.”

Yan Yunqing: “Are you worried you can’t hide? It’s okay, Lillian and I can help you. Lillian can even use stealth, you…”

Cornelia interrupted Yan Yunqing, “No, it’s because I want to stay.”

“Eh?” Yan Yunqing repeated, “Stay?”

“Didn’t I say before?” Cornelia paused, curving her eyes towards Yan Yunqing, showing a smile, “I came to find my sister. I’ve been trying to find a way into the city.”

“Although the process was a bit tortuous, fortunately… I’m actually in the city now, and my purpose has been achieved.”

“I think… I won’t go out with you. I want to stay in the city and find out about my sister… Sorry.”

Yan Yunqing revealed a puzzled expression, “No, eh? But didn’t we discuss it before? Your sister has such strong strength, but there’s no news of her. What’s the point of you staying here alone?”

Cornelia said with some apology, “I’m sorry… I know you’ve always wanted to take us all away, but I have a reason why I have to stay.”

“I’ve seriously considered the possibility you mentioned before. I’ve already used the clan’s secret method to inform the elders of the current situation. I believe they will come looking for me soon after seeing my message.”

Cornelia’s eyes showed some firmness, “I won’t leave the city. I want to stay and find out about my sister first, so that when the elders come, they might be able to find my sister faster.”

Yan Yunqing was silent for a while. He seemed to have no reason to persuade Cornelia to leave with them.

After all, Cornelia’s initial purpose was to enter the Capital City and find her sister.

Lillian had been silent all along. She held the broken piece of bread and flew to Yan Yunqing’s shoulder to sit down.

“Is that so…” Yan Yunqing nodded, “I understand.”

He and Lillian definitely had to leave here and couldn’t stay to help Cornelia find her sister.

Yan Yunqing took out a small bag of gold coins from his backpack and stuffed it into Cornelia’s hands, “This is for you. You definitely need money to live in the city. With this, you don’t have to worry about money and can concentrate on finding your sister.”

Yan Yunqing had a lot of gold coins in his backpack, so taking out some gold coins for Cornelia wouldn’t hurt. He would just consider it the last thing he could do for Cornelia.

“I wish you find your sister soon.”

Cornelia held the bag of gold coins, remained silent for a long time, and finally sincerely said to Yan Yunqing, “Thank you.”

“I will definitely—”

“Find my sister.”

*

“You just let her stay?” Lillian sat on Yan Yunqing’s back, who had transformed into a small cat car, hiding most of her body in his curly fur, pulling on the butterfly collar around his neck to secure her body.

“I thought you would try to persuade Cornelia to go out with us, at least until this period is over before letting her come back to find her sister.”

“Why would you think that?” Yan Yunqing jumped high, climbed over the wall, surveyed the area, and then buried his head and hurried on his way after finding the correct path. “I haven’t known her for very long. Cornelia wants to stay and find her sister, how could I stop her from going?”

“After all, Cornelia was rescued by you with a dragon scale, eh?”

Lillian was bounced high for a moment by Yan Yunqing, and then fell down, “Do you feel regretful? According to Cornelia, maybe she would think it would be better to be bought back by that Prince? That way it would be easier to find out about her sister.”

“You saw it too, right? Cornelia looks like she’s willing to do anything as long as she finds her sister.”

“In that case, wouldn’t you become the bad guy who’s blocking her from finding her sister? How does it feel to put in effort and get nothing in return?”

Lillian’s words were sharp, and even a little harsh to Yan Yunqing’s ears.

Yan Yunqing’s pace paused for a moment, then he nonchalantly continued running, “Maybe… but I don’t think there’s anything to regret or feel like I’m getting nothing in return.”

“Did you forget? The reason for saving Cornelia in the first place was not only because I wanted to save her, but also because we were looking for an opportunity to escape.”

“That dragon scale was just a prop to create chaos, not the price I paid to save Cornelia.”

Yan Yunqing’s voice was very calm, “Buying Cornelia was just because she was the best choice at the time, the price was high enough for me to take out the dragon scale, of course I don’t deny that there was also the reason that Cornelia helped me once before.”

If he auctioned other things, the price would be too low, and it would be strange for him to take out the dragon scale. Would a noble young master need to take out such an expensive dragon scale as payment to buy an ordinary thing? It would be bad if people with suspicious minds suspected him.

If the value of the things taken out was lower than the dragon scale, then they could not be handed over to someone with an important identity present, and it would be difficult for him to succeed in creating an opportunity to escape.

The appearance of the ‘Crimson Mist’ was just an unexpected accident in Yan Yunqing’s plan. If there had been no such accident, by harming the Prince or the Auction House executives with that dragon scale, he and Lillian could still successfully use this moment of chaos to escape.

Because Cornelia helped Yan Yunqing once, and Yan Yunqing keenly discovered that saving Cornelia could more perfectly achieve his goal, Yan Yunqing chose Cornelia.

This didn’t mean that he regarded the rescued Cornelia as his possession and made any decisions for her.

Doing things that go against other people’s wishes under the banner of “for your own good” was what Yan Yunqing disliked the most.

“To put it bluntly, Cornelia and I just had a brief encounter and traveled a short journey together.”

Yan Yunqing revealed a rare, indifferent side, causing Lillian to be stunned for a long time.

“…You’re right.” Lillian thought for a while, patted the top of Yan Meow Meow’s head and sighed, “You’re really a philosophical cat cat.”

Yan Yunqing angrily said, “I told you not to call me Little Cat, or I’ll shake you off!”

Lillian: “But aren’t you a kitty cat right now?”

Yan Yunqing: …

“Anyway, it’s not allowed!” Yan Yunqing muttered, “Little Cat, Little Cat, I’m a big man, how can I be called Little Cat every day.”

“Okay, okay, Cat Car!” Lillian patted the top of Yan Meow Meow’s head again.

Yan Yunqing got angry, stopped his pace and shook his head hard, trying to shake off Lillian, who was clinging to his head.

“You’re getting anxious, you’re getting anxious!”

Yan Yunqing got even angrier.

A cat and an elf sneaked into the Leonard mansion. This family could be considered wealthy, and was a small marquis, but of the kind who only had a title and no fief.

Today was the date for their family’s disciples to go out for their monthly training. They would prepare a supply convoy, and Yan Yunqing and Lillian could take the opportunity to hide in it and leave the city together.

After busying for a long time, Yan Yunqing and Lillian finally squeezed into a carriage loaded with spare weapons, finding a corner that was not easily discovered at first glance to hide.

Lying down in place, Yan Yunqing took out the last small blue bottle from his backpack and drank it.

Playing an ordinary little cat without any special abilities didn’t require too much magic power, but Yan Yunqing had been keeping this skill on for a long time, and the magic power recovered was not enough to consume.

He paid attention to the change in magic power at all times, and would drink a small blue bottle when it was about to run out.

Now the last small blue bottle was used up. Fortunately, this convoy was about to depart. As long as they left the city gate, it would be fine.

Yan Yunqing opened his game panel, intending to sort out the game backpack again to see if there was anything that could be used, and found that a red dot appeared on his friend panel.

Clicking it open, he saw Lillian and Cornelia’s information appear in the NPC friend column.

『Cornelia Lv.60』

Race: Mixed-Blood Mermaid

Talent Skill: Fury of the Sea God

Affection: Friendly

……

『Lillian Lv.45』

Race: Elf

Talent Skill: Lord of the Forest

Affection: Friendly

……

Yan Yunqing imperceptibly breathed a sigh of relief, placed his front paw on his chin, and glanced at the elf beside him, who was leaning against his tail with a carefree attitude, lying on his back with his belly facing up.

The fact that he directly gave up persuading Cornelia to leave here with them was largely due to this.

『Lv.60』

Yan Yunqing hadn’t forgotten that last night, in the darkness, he saw the seemingly weak Cornelia who had been rescued by him and was being bought and sold by humans at will. She actually had the words 『Lv.60』 above her head. At that moment, surprise and confusion surged into his heart.

Yan Yunqing was only a level 1 little pitiful bug himself, and didn’t have much of a concept of the current level, but he remembered the level on the head of the member of the ‘Crimson Mist’ that he saw when he escaped from the Auction House.

『Lv.34』

Although he didn’t know the levels of the other members of the ‘Crimson Mist’, they shouldn’t exceed this value by too much.

Those who could come to attack the Auction House must at least be relatively powerful people, right?

Then Lillian, who was higher in level than that masked man, and Cornelia, who was almost twice as high…

Were they really captured by the Auction House because they were careless?

Were they really as weak as they said they were? The entire escape process actually relied on him, a level 1 novice…

Yan Yunqing was about to become a member of the pure university student group, but that didn’t mean he was stupid. Even if he didn’t realize it at first, he could now taste the wrongness.

He felt like he had been played?

Yan Yunqing buried his head in his paws and sighed again.

Life was not easy, Meow Meow sighed.

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