WTYTIAAN Chapter 177

Chapter 177

Yan Yunqing read through a few posts, but there wasn’t much discussion about the plot. This was normal because this broken game didn’t have a so-called main storyline at all.

The only thing that resembled a main storyline was something he came up with on a whim.

Damn it, Homecoming Game Studio! He helped build Newbie Village and created a main storyline for the game. He single-handedly did all the work of the game project team, didn’t get a penny of salary, and was inexplicably stalked.

Yan Yunqing felt like he had lost out big time.

What was this? Working for free without pay? Was he some kind of super invincible worker saint?

However, he couldn’t stop working. When he thought about the fact that in three days, three times as many players would be logging into the game, Yan Yunqing felt a throbbing in his head.

He silently mourned for three seconds for those playing NPCs in Newbie Village.

Hell was coming!

Yan Yunqing was tired. He opened [Mail Pigeon] and saw that Merlin had sent him a coordinate, and his eyes narrowed.

Merlin had suddenly left before, and judging from his behavior, something had happened to Isabel. However, when he asked about it later, Merlin said everything was fine. Now, he had inexplicably sent a coordinate. Could something have happened to him too?

Yan Yunqing frowned. He waited for a while and found that Merlin didn’t send him any more messages. Yan Yunqing wanted to contact Merlin using the chat panel, but he was worried that Merlin was currently fighting someone.

His chat system directly echoed private messages in the other person’s mind. The higher the level of the battle, the more important the details. Any moment of distraction would be keenly captured by the enemy, who would then seize the opportunity.

Yan Yunqing didn’t want to affect Merlin because of a sudden private message from him.

He looked at [Mail Pigeon] for a while, pursed his lips, and decided to go to the coordinate to check the situation.

Yan Yunqing knew that if even Merlin couldn’t solve the enemy, he would only be sending himself to his death at his level. However, he had many life-saving items on him, and if it really came down to it, he could find a chance to teleport directly to Selinvar.

Now, [Selinvar’s Remembrance] was his last resort among his many life-saving measures. In other words, as long as Selinvar wasn’t breached, Yan Yunqing would be safe.

This was the last measure that Sylph had prepared for him before returning to the Mother Tree.

He wondered if Sylph had foreseen that the future Demon King would become a level 1 weakling and prepared this escape equipment for him.

…Could it be because of that reunion?

Yan Yunqing’s thoughts were a little confused. He shook his head. The most important thing now was to go to the coordinate that Merlin had sent.

In any case, Merlin and Isabel were his friends, and he couldn’t stand idly by while his friends were in danger.

…

Merlin shook the [Mail Pigeon] in his hand. He couldn’t send the next message. He used magic to probe inside and checked it. The magic circuit was in disarray. He must have accidentally broken it when he fell just now.

Merlin looked up with a complicated expression, looking at the two people wrestling on the open space in front of him… or rather, two guys who temporarily appeared in human form, Merlin had a headache.

How did these two brawlers get together?

But… so this guy wasn’t dead either.

Merlin muttered to himself. The [Mail Pigeon] screen showed the sentence he hadn’t sent:

‘The wolf cub you raised isn’t dead either. Do you want to come and see? He’s fighting with Isabel.’

*

It took Yan Yunqing some time to travel. As he approached the address Merlin had given, he sensed something was wrong.

This place… was on the border of Romunike. A little further to the northwest was the desolate ruin city, which was once the territory of the Eternal Empire.

Although this was also considered Romunike territory, the natural conditions were extremely harsh, the soil was barren, and magical creatures were rampant. It was even worse than the Free City area, so few people lived here. In a sense, it was a no-man’s land.

However, Yan Yunqing found a lot of human activity here, at least as many as a village.

The coordinates Merlin gave him were nearby.

Yan Yunqing frowned. He stood there and thought for a while, then activated his disguise skill. The little black cat skin made a comeback again. It wasn’t strange for an ordinary black cat to appear in a place where humans lived.

He quietly approached these people. Through the gaps in the branches of the bushes, Yan Yunqing could see the appearance of these people clearly.

Their clothes were ragged, their skin was dark, but their mental state was good. It could be seen that they were ordinary people living hard here.

The names above the NPCs’ heads didn’t have any prefixes, but Yan Yunqing thought these descriptions looked a little familiar.

…Savages?

The little black cat flicked its tail. If players saw these people, they might indeed be mistaken for savages… This area was too desolate.

Yan Yunqing decided to go deeper.

Yan Yunqing, who was always paying attention to the minimap, avoided all humans. In the middle, he also found some Beastmen shadows, but in a barren area, it wasn’t uncommon for humans and Beastmen to live in harmony.

It wasn’t until Yan Yunqing saw an NPC with the name ‘Blood Mist Member’ passing by and talking to the ‘savages’ living here that Yan Yunqing suddenly realized.

This was the main camp of ‘Blood Mist’!

Lillian had told him before that the people of ‘Blood Mist’ often robbed the rich to help the poor, helping the poor in some no-man’s lands. Now, it seemed that it wasn’t just simple help, they themselves were stationed in the deserted no-man’s land.

Merlin and Isabel had infiltrated the territory of ‘Blood Mist’? That shouldn’t be. Except for Yucheer, whose true level he couldn’t detect, the levels of other ‘Blood Mist’ members weren’t high. With the martial strength of Merlin and Isabel, how could they be trapped in ‘Blood Mist’?

Could it be that the mysterious Yucheer had some problems?

Following the ‘Blood Mist Member’ he met on the road, Yan Yunqing successfully found their base camp. The road here was too tortuous. If he didn’t have a minimap and a real person to lead the way, he really wouldn’t be able to find it.

Yan Yunqing squatted on a tree nearly three meters tall for a while, seized a gap in the shift change, and broke through successfully along the blind spot.

Yan Yunqing hid behind a huge tree root and flicked his tail again.

Entering the base camp, Yan Yunqing restrained all his aura. He heard someone walking by in a hurry, inadvertently revealing a bit of tension in their words.

“Those in the dungeon have all passed out.”

“All of them? Not a single one is awake? Should we go and check what happened?”

“Let’s report this to the boss first!”

Yan Yunqing walked out of the shadows at the corner, poked out half of his little cat head, and blinked his ruby-like eyes.

The dungeon… was it referring to the players captured by the savages, or was it referring to Merlin and them?

Although he knew that these people who had suddenly passed out were likely players, after all, all the players had just been forcibly logged out, and it was indeed impossible for them to still be awake.

But even if there was only a 1% chance that it was Merlin, Yan Yunqing had to go and see.

Sighing, Yan Yunqing continued to open the map, paying attention to avoiding the patrolling NPCs, and found the entrance to the dungeon all the way.

There were several people guarding the dungeon. Yan Yunqing calculated whether it was feasible for him to rush into the dungeon using the blind spot of their vision. After hesitating for a while, Yan Yunqing decided to try.

Anyway, he was just an innocent, pitiful, and cute little cat. Who would think that a little cat was dangerous, huh?

Taking advantage of the moment the guard turned around, a black shadow shot out like an arrow, and the guard only felt a flash in front of his eyes.

“Huh? What’s going on?” The guard looked around, found that nothing had happened, and couldn’t help but poke the companion next to him, “Did you just see a little black shadow?”

“Ah? No, what did you see?”

“I didn’t see it clearly, it was just a small black shadow.” The guard gestured, “This big.”

“Then you must have seen it wrong.” Another guard said, “I didn’t see anything.”

“Really?” The guard was dubious.

Yan Yunqing had already successfully infiltrated the dungeon. To be honest, the ‘Blood Mist’ dungeon was much easier to infiltrate than the Bato Vita Royal City.

Yan Yunqing entered the dungeon. He walked forward a few steps and saw the players who were imprisoned.

These players were too obvious. Anyone who saw the messy names above their heads would immediately realize who these people were.

These players were lying dead in the dungeon one by one. If Yan Yunqing didn’t know they were players and not real people, he would have suspected that this was a morgue.

Yan Yunqing walked a little further inside. The minimap had already displayed the specific distribution of the dungeon. Yan Yunqing found that there were no blue dots belonging to teammates on the minimap.

It seemed that Merlin and Isabel were indeed not here.

Yan Yunqing breathed a sigh of relief and was about to return the same way when Yan Yunqing saw two red names on the minimap.

It was actually a red name…?

In a sense, ‘Blood Mist’ wasn’t an enemy camp to Yan Yunqing, so ‘Blood Mist Members’ were always displayed as yellow, representing neutrality, on his minimap. There were even a few green ones, representing friendliness, outside.

These suddenly appearing red dots were particularly eye-catching.

Yan Yunqing thought for a while and walked towards the red names. Since he was already here…

He’d take a look before making any decisions.

Yan Yunqing followed the marks on the minimap and found his way. After a few turns, Yan Yunqing saw Feiqi Bato Vita and the son of the City Lord Robert in two separate cells.

Yan Yunqing was stunned. It was them?

That’s right, ‘Blood Mist’ target in Sri Lanka Leeper City before was Feiqi, so it seemed normal for Feiqi to appear here now.

However, he was a little surprised that the City Lord Robert, the son of the City Lord of Sri Lanka Leeper City, was also kidnapped by ‘Blood Mist’.

However, these two were still yellow, representing neutrality, on his system map before. Why did they suddenly turn into red names?

What did they do?

Yan Yunqing was a little curious. His ears twitched, and he seemed to be able to hear the two of them whispering something. Yan Yunqing slowed down his pace. The cat’s paw pads didn’t make any noise at all, so he quietly approached the cell where the two were imprisoned, a small corner that was difficult to notice.

“Your Highness, when will our people arrive?”

“Soon, after my people blood sacrifice the civilians of Sri Lanka Leeper City, they can come directly and take us away.”