WTYTIAAN Chapter 166

Chapter 166

The person the little girl grabbed was quite tall. Even on tiptoes, the little girl could only grab his pants. The person slightly lowered his head, looking at the little one grabbing him.

The little girl looked up, calling out in a crisp voice, “Handsome big brother, do you want a flower crown?”

Yan Yunqing blinked, not expecting that he was the handsome big brother the little girl was talking about.

This… can only be said that children’s aesthetics are sometimes really unique.

As if sensing Yan Yunqing’s gaze, the person grabbed by the little girl looked up, his sharp gaze falling on Yan Yunqing. At the same time, his entire face was exposed to Yan Yunqing’s view.

It was someone Yan Yunqing had met once before.

Yorick.

Back then, when he was rescuing Uncle Lyon from the dungeon in Bato Vita’s royal city, he encountered another force, the “Crimson Mist.” Its current leader was the man before him, named Yorick.

His appearance couldn’t be said to be particularly handsome, only ordinary. He could disappear into the crowd in seconds. The only thing that was memorable was his nearly two-meter height, like a small mountain.

Oh, and the aura of the underworld he exuded in the dungeon was also impressive. Looking at Yorick, who now looked like an ordinary passerby, Yan Yunqing sighed at how freely he could control his aura.

If he hadn’t seen Yorick’s other side, Yan Yunqing would probably have thought that this man was just an ordinary passerby.

Yorick narrowed his eyes, his gaze sweeping across Yan Yunqing’s face. He didn’t recognize him.

But what was this faint sense of familiarity?

“Big brother!” His pants were tugged again. Yorick subtly held onto his waistband, lest the little girl pull them down in the street, which would be a big joke.

“What?” Yorick’s voice was flat. Compared to Yan Yunqing’s almost squeaky, child-coax ing voice, Yorick’s voice sounded like a bad guy with a harsh tone.

However, the little girl wasn’t scared off at all. She stretched out her arm to show off her flower crown. “Big brother, do you want a flower crown?”

Yorick coldly glanced at the flower crown in the little girl’s hand. “No.”

The little girl widened her eyes. “Why!”

“Too ugly.” Yorick said bluntly, “I don’t have any money either.”

Little girl: …

The little girl was on the verge of tears, her eyes gradually filling with tears. She pouted. “It’s not ugly, and it’s free!”

She let go of Yorick’s pants and pointed in Yan Yunqing’s direction. “That big brother will give it to you!”

Yan Yunqing: ???

Meeting Yorick’s gaze again, Yan Yunqing didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. How did it become his gift to him? If he remembered correctly, he only told the little girl to give the remaining flower crowns to any big brothers and sisters she liked, right?

The little girl’s mother seemed to have noticed the situation and hurried over, picking up her daughter and offering an apologetic expression. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Did Little Guai do something wrong? Can I apologize for her?”

The woman looked at Yorick cautiously. Yorick’s height was just too imposing. Although he looked ordinary and honest, if he really held onto something, a punch from him would be terrible.

“Mommy!” The little girl hugged her mother’s neck. “Big brother said the flower crown is ugly.”

When the woman heard this, she became even more nervous, quickly covering the little girl’s mouth with her hand. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Little Guai didn’t mean it.”

Yorick pursed his lips, met the little girl’s teary eyes again, and the woman’s nervous expression, and sighed.

“It’s okay, I don’t get angry easily.” Yorick’s voice was still flat. “Also, that flower crown is really ugly.”

The first sentence was to comfort the woman holding the little girl, and the second sentence was clearly addressed to the little girl in the woman’s arms.

Little girl: !!!

“Waaah—” Hearing someone say that her carefully crafted flower crown was ugly again, the little girl finally couldn’t help but feel wronged. “Where is it ugly!”

“Purple with red, isn’t it ugly?” Yorick replied very seriously.

He was talking about the ‘gaudy’ one that Yan Yunqing had disliked.

The little girl said angrily, “You’re lying. That big brother likes it very much. He even wants to give you a flower crown! But you dislike the flower crown that big brother wants to give you. You’re a bad uncle!”

Alright, the consequence of angering a child was that the previous moment she was calling him big brother, and the next moment she became bad uncle.

And Yan Yunqing was once again dragged out by the little girl, becoming the kind-hearted big brother who insisted on giving Yorick a flower crown.

Yan Yunqing received Yorick’s gaze again, and could even read from it, ‘This person’s aesthetics are terrible, right? By the way, who are you? Why do you want to give me a flower crown?’ He couldn’t help but cover his face.

Although Yorick said it was okay, his height gave enough pressure, coupled with the vaguely revealed dangerous aura, making the woman dare not stay any longer. She apologized again, pinched the little girl’s still babbling mouth, and hurried away from the scene of the accident.

Leaving Yorick and Yan Yunqing still standing in place.

Seeing that Yorick was still looking at him, Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but hold the flower crown on his wrist, pretending to admire it. “Well, I think it’s quite pretty.”

Yorick frowned, looking at Yan Yunqing scrutinizingly. It was fine if he didn’t speak, but once he spoke, that familiar feeling washed over him again.

Who was it?

Yan Yunqing’s expression was natural. The last time they met in Bato Vita, he was just a small black cat. It was impossible for Yorick to recognize him.

Yorick looked at him for a while, but still couldn’t find the feeling of any acquaintance from Yan Yunqing. He raised his eyebrows slightly. “You want to give me a flower crown?”

“How could that be?” Yan Yunqing shook his head. “It’s just that the little girl thinks you’re good-looking and wants to give you a flower crown.”

Yorick didn’t commit himself, and his expression suggested that he didn’t believe it.

He knew his appearance well.

Since the other party involved said there was no such thing, Yorick didn’t continue to waste time here and turned to leave.

Yan Yunqing stood in place, watching Yorick’s back disappear into the crowd.

He narrowed his eyes. Why would the leader of the “Crimson Mist” appear here?

Did the “Crimson Mist” have another operation?

Yan Yunqing had encountered people from the “Crimson Mist” twice, both when the “Crimson Mist” had a big operation.

The first time was at the auction house, when the “Crimson Mist” bombed the Augreir Auction House and killed many nobles. Their target at the time seemed to be the Fifth Prince Fei Wu, but he didn’t know why they didn’t kill him in the end.

The second time was in the dungeon of Bato Vita’s royal city, when the “Crimson Mist” destroyed an underground stronghold of the Augreir Family.

The third time was now.

The previous two times were related to the Augreir Family, and it just so happened that there was an Augreir Family’s auction house in Slanlypa City. Yan Yunqing’s purpose for this trip was also the Augreir auction in three days.

This made Yan Yunqing suspect that the “Crimson Mist”‘s target was also this auction.

Yan Yunqing thought about it and decided not to follow.

No matter what the “Crimson Mist” wanted to do, it didn’t conflict with Yan Yunqing’s purpose. At least they were united in their attitude towards the Augreir Family.

Yan Yunqing also turned around, walking in the opposite direction from Yorick. He had to find a place to stay first, and then inquire about information regarding the auction.

*

“Boss, you’re back!”

As soon as Yorick entered the door, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy greeted him, his attitude very respectful. “Boss, we’ve figured it out. That little brat bought a courtyard, and there are many guards in the courtyard, but he doesn’t seem to live in that courtyard.”

“He should still be in the house arranged by the city lord, but there are people from the city lord’s mansion there, and it’s not easy for us to make a move. Boss, should we wait for him to move into that courtyard before we take action?”

Yorick didn’t reply, first found a chair to sit down, poured himself a glass of water, took a sip to moisten his throat, and then said, “Tell me in detail.”

“Yes.” The boy carefully told Yorick everything he had found out.

Yorick lowered his eyes and pondered, his gaze falling on the few drops of water left in the glass.

Seeing that Yorick didn’t speak immediately, the person next to the boy couldn’t help but say, “These guys are getting more and more cautious and cunning!”

“It’s not surprising, after all, his brother died in the royal palace last time. Even the heavily guarded royal palace could be attacked, and successfully so. Even if he isn’t vigilant, his family, his good mother, won’t allow him to have another accident.”

“It’s a pity we can’t sneak into the royal palace at will. I really don’t know how that Joker did it? He and his accomplices are too amazing. Not only did they kill Fei Wu, but they also made that old thing childless. That’s great, I’ve long been displeased with that old thing.”

“If we could recruit that Joker, that would be great. I feel like his strength is very strong.”

“Can he be stronger than the boss? If the boss couldn’t take action at will, how would there be that Joker’s matter?”

“What you said is true.”

Several people from the “Crimson Mist” whispered to each other, their voices not loud, but it was difficult for Yorick to pretend not to hear. His thoughts were disrupted. Just as he was about to grasp that familiar thread, it was scattered again. He could only temporarily give up thinking about why he felt familiar with someone he had never met.

“Alright.” As soon as Yorick spoke, the scene immediately quieted down, and all eyes converged on him. No one interrupted Yorick again. “Continue to follow him, find out Fei Qi’s whereabouts. No matter what, he will definitely appear before and after the auction. Capture him then.”

“Keep him alive, ask him the real purpose of his coming to Slanlypa this time and the location of the Augreir’s stronghold.”

“Yes!” The people below responded in unison.

Having received the instructions, these people didn’t continue to stay in this room, and left one after another, leaving only the boy who had initially reported to Yorick.

Yorick raised his eyes to look at him. “What’s the matter?”

This boy belonged to the intelligence team and was good at collecting information. It was obvious that he still had something to say to him by staying here.

“Boss.” The boy looked around, confirmed that there were only him and Yorick in the entire room, and then spoke seriously, “During the process of tracking Fei Qi, the intelligence team discovered that another force was also investigating the Augreir Auction House.”

Yorick raised an eyebrow. “Oh? Have you found out who the other party is?”

For some reason, the appearance of the black-haired man he had just met on the street popped up in his mind.

The boy shook his head. “The other party is very careful and very strong. I was almost discovered several times and couldn’t get close at all. I only know that the leader of the other party should be a woman.”

Yorick paused. “Woman?”

He threw the inexplicable guess just now to the back of his mind, thought for a moment, and said, “Is their target also Fei Qi?”

The boy continued to shake his head. “I’m not sure about that, but the other party seems to be focusing on the auction house?”

Yorick said, “Then don’t worry about it. Let them do whatever they want, as long as they don’t prevent us from taking Fei Qi away.”

The boy nodded. “I understand.”

Then he hesitated a little. “Boss, do you really think Fei Qi knows the list of underground strongholds of the Augreir Family? Even his brother didn’t know about that kind of important thing, what can he know?”

Yorick glanced at the boy, and the boy lowered his head unconsciously. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Their boss hated others questioning him the most. He had just blurted out his doubts without thinking, which was terrible.

“You underestimate Fei Qi too much.” Yorick’s voice was still so indifferent. “On the surface, the three sons born to that queen of the Augreir family, the eldest son has the highest reputation. His gentle demeanor makes him the most popular candidate to the next successor.”

“The second and youngest sons are lecherous and gamblers, and the already dead Fei Wu is not worth mentioning. Do you think a cowardly and timid prince would dare to run to Romunike ‘with great fanfare’ not long after his twin brother was attacked?”

“Furthermore, can the prince carefully raised by that queen really be cowardly and timid?” Yorick snorted coldly. “It’s just the disguise that these nobles and royals are best at.”

It was unknown whether Yorick’s mood at the moment was good or bad. If it was good, his eyes were cold and his tone was like ice knives scraping people painfully. If it was bad, he was willing to explain to the boy.

The boy carefully observed and confirmed that Yorick shouldn’t be angry, so he relaxed a little. “Then boss, do you mean that this Fei Qi is likely to be the next successor cultivated by the Augreir Family?”

The current head of the Augreir Family was that queen’s brother, and he and his wife didn’t have any children. Based on various intelligence, the “Crimson Mist” intelligence team speculated that the Augreir Family was actually controlled by that woman who killed the former queen and took her place.

The “Crimson Mist” initially launched an operation against Fei Wu at the auction a year ago, because they speculated that Fei Wu was likely to be the successor cultivated by that queen for Augreir, and he had a secret industrial chain in his hands. They needed to obtain the information of that secret industrial chain and destroy it.

It was a pity that there was a problem with the auction that time. He didn’t know which bounty hunter had targeted the auction house’s warehouse and robbed a batch of goods, arousing the auction house’s vigilance and strengthening the auction house’s guard. They were unable to take Fei Wu away smoothly.

They were also tricked by the people of Augreir and obtained a fake stronghold address. Their subsequent actions were almost wiped out. If it weren’t for the boss’s strength and another unknown force helped them, they would have lost a lot of people that time.

“Whether he is or not, we’ll know after we catch him.” Yorick stood up. “Pay attention to the action. If someone leaks the news before the action… then bring them back as well.”

The boy was stunned, and then his expression changed slightly. “Understood.”

Did the boss suspect… that there was a traitor among them?

*

Yan Yunqing wandered around the city for two days and confirmed that there were indeed people from the “Crimson Mist” in Slanlypa City, and there were quite a few of them.

His database had unlocked the “Crimson Mist” force. Basically, the “Crimson Mist” members he met would be marked with the name of their force above their heads, which was particularly conspicuous among a group of ordinary merchants.

Like fireflies in the dark, they were particularly conspicuous.

Yan Yunqing watched again as a “Crimson Mist” member disguised as a farmer squatted by the roadside selling dried fish, shouting in a lifelike manner. If Yan Yunqing hadn’t seen the “Crimson Mist” label above his head long ago, he would have thought he was a simple and honest farmer.

In the past two days in Slanlypa City, he hadn’t found much clues about the imprisoned dragon, but he had figured out what these “Crimson Mist” people were doing.

They were tracking and inquiring about the whereabouts of a nobleman from Bato Vita. That nobleman’s surname was Barton, a very common surname. Even if Alice came, she probably wouldn’t be able to tell what this Barton family did.

However, Yan Yunqing combined and thought about the known clues and easily concluded that this Barton had a close relationship with Augreir. He spent some money at the Bounty Hunter Association to buy some gossip from Bato Vita, and he could further conclude that this Barton nobleman was actually an alias. Yan Yunqing was also familiar with the other party’s real identity.

Fei Qi, the twin brother of the Fifth Prince Fei Wu who he killed.

Sure enough, the “Crimson Mist” was targeting the Augreir Family again. It’s just that the previous two times were against Fei Wu, and after Fei Wu died, they began to target his brother Fei Qi.

Yan Yunqing was really curious about what deep hatred the “Crimson Mist” had with Augreir. He had encountered them three times alone, so there must be more times when he didn’t know.

However, the Augreir Family was indeed not a good thing. Just the smuggling and selling of magical creatures was enough to make them unsavable. Being targeted by the “Crimson Mist” could only be said that they deserved it. Who told them to do bad things?

Now they were running to Slanlypa City under a false name, it didn’t seem like they wanted to be peaceful.

After figuring out the purpose of the “Crimson Mist”, Yan Yunqing didn’t plan to interfere even more. Avoiding the people from the “Crimson Mist”, Yan Yunqing focused on investigating who was secretly selling dragon blood and dragon scales every month.

With Yan Yunqing’s ability to collect and analyze information, it was only a matter of time to find that person. This time, it was unbelievably smooth. The auction hadn’t even started yet, and he had already found the person selling dragon scales and dragon blood.

… It turned out to be the son of the city lord of Slanlypa City.

After drawing the conclusion, Yan Yunqing was still a little unbelievable. He ran to a high-end restaurant and blackmailed the senior manager of Augreir stationed in Slanlypa City, took the person away, tied him up and left him in the wilderness, and impersonated him himself. He ran to the Augreir Auction House to check the transaction records.

The buying and selling parties would definitely not be written too clearly in the transaction records, and various codes and referents would be used. However, Yan Yunqing was carrying the answer to confirm, and easily cracked the code, and confirmed again that the seller was indeed the city lord’s son.

“Tsk.” Yan Yunqing closed the transaction record. “I thought this city lord was a good person, but I didn’t expect him to be another guy who showed one thing in public and did another in private.”

Slanlypa City was managed to be rich and beautiful. The mental outlook of the residents in the city was very good. At least it was much better than the cities Yan Yunqing had been to before. If not rich, at least they could eat and dress warmly, and they still had the strength to enrich their spiritual world.

Yan Yunqing originally thought that this city lord could let the residents under his rule live and work in peace, and was at least a good official. He didn’t expect that his son was a member of the Eternal God Sect. It seemed that he was at least a small leader.

What was the Eternal God Sect? A cult that plundered the talents of these believers in the name of the Eternal Lord, using self-sacrifice as a means. Could someone who could become a small leader be a good person?

If his son was a member of the Eternal God Sect, how could the old man stay out of it?

Yan Yunqing pressed his eyebrows. The next action was simple. He only needed to follow the city lord’s son, confirm the stronghold of the Eternal God Sect nearby, and then destroy it and rescue the imprisoned dragon.

These things could be handed over to Isabel’s people, and Yan Yunqing didn’t even need to participate himself. He only needed to hand over the information he found to Isabel.

Yan Yunqing restored all the items to their original positions, erased the traces of his visit, learned the senior manager’s pace and walked out, blank-faced and distracted, thinking about whether he should participate in Isabel’s actions.

When someone greeted him on the way, he also maintained the senior manager’s arrogant attitude, not even giving them a look, and passing by directly.

Until he passed a corner, and another honest-looking man bowed to him and said hello, “Good afternoon, sir.”

Yan Yunqing’s gaze swept over the man’s head, paused slightly for a moment, and quickly moved away before the other party could react, as if nothing had happened.

Why was it someone from the “Crimson Mist” again?

Just as this sentence came to mind, the honest man’s fist suddenly attacked. Yan Yunqing’s body reacted faster than his brain, and he suddenly side-stepped. The strong wind of the fist rubbed against his cheek and landed heavily on the wall beside him, leaving an obvious fist print.

Yan Yunqing:?

The man also seemed to have not expected that Yan Yunqing would be so agile and avoided this blow, but he reacted extremely quickly. A dagger appeared between his wrists, and after making a beautiful knife flower in the air, he pointed directly at Yan Yunqing’s lifeline and pounced over again silently.

Yan Yunqing:???

Yan Yunqing quickly retreated a few steps, widened the distance from the man, and randomly pulled a decorative railing beside him. The railing was immediately pulled up from the ground, held horizontally in front of his chest, blocking the man’s powerful dagger, and making a crisp ‘bang bang bang’ sound.

A trace of surprise flashed in the man’s eyes, but it was quickly replaced by a cold killing intent, or rather, the other party’s killing intent became even stronger, and the action of slashing the dagger quickened a bit.

Yan Yunqing was speechless. In the short few seconds he had been entangled with the man, Yan Yunqing had also figured it out. The people from the “Crimson Mist” were also targeting this senior manager. He didn’t know whether the other party was targeting the senior manager’s identity or the senior manager himself.

However, looking at the other party’s fierce appearance, wishing he could stab him to death here, Yan Yunqing estimated that the other party was targeting the senior manager’s identity.

Probably with the same purpose as him, they tied up the original senior manager or killed him directly, and then their own people would put on the identity of the senior manager and do some not-so-good things.

But the problem was that the current senior manager was not the person himself, but Yan Yunqing, who had logged in remotely as a Call on behalf of others.

So was he being killed by the original account holder’s enemy because he had his account stolen?

Yan Yunqing sighed in his heart and didn’t dare to relax at all when facing the man wielding the dagger. The other party’s strength was not weak, his level was also in the sixties, and his appearance was honest and honest, making it difficult for people to raise a defensive mentality.

If it were that dead fat senior manager, he might have been stabbed through as soon as they met.

The man who was constantly attacking Yan Yunqing by pinching the dagger, after these short tens of seconds of fighting, was uncertain in his heart.

The expected one-hit kill failed to do, even in these short tens of seconds of fighting, he was vaguely at a disadvantage. Behind the other party’s seemingly difficult resistance, was an easy handling.

At this moment, there were countless swear words to scold in the man’s heart: What did the intelligence team eat?