WTYTIAAN Chapter 186

Chapter 186

Good news, Fei Qi’s death was indeed due to severe injuries.

He had been severely beaten by Yan Yunqing about six days ago, followed by six consecutive days of interrogation. Let alone a pampered prince, even a trained assassin would find it difficult to survive.

Especially with the Blood Mist people being so heavy-handed.

Kidnapping Fei Qi did cost the Blood Mist quite a few people, and Yan Yunqing also learned from others that one of the reasons why the Blood Mist hated the Augreir Family was that the Augreir Family secretly used civilians and mercenaries to research magical creatures, and some of the Blood Mist members’ families were among them.

At the auction he was transported to, in another warehouse, there were several members of the Blood Mist’s families—several beastmen. The Blood Mist’s operation was both to rescue those beastmen and to kidnap Fei Wu, in order to get more information about the whereabouts of the ‘goods’ from his mouth.

It was just a pity that Beros was not there that time, so the Blood Mist people failed to break through Fei Wu’s guards and take him away successfully.

Before the second action against Fei Wu could even begin, Fei Wu had already been killed by Joker in advance, so the Blood Mist people turned their attention to Fei Qi.

It could be said that in the past few days of interrogation, the Blood Mist people had combined the hatred from the previous two failures and placed it all on Fei Qi. In addition, they had lost quite a few brothers this time, so they accidentally went a little too far.

…Which led to Fei Qi kicking the bucket early.

Yan Yunqing looked at the dungeon not far away, where the Blood Mist people were constantly going in and out, and there were even a few who had been responsible for the interrogation these past few days.

But…

Could a Fei Qi who confessed the Slanlepa City plan after being beaten up by Joker withstand six days under a group of people who hated him without revealing a single clue?

Did Fei Qi have that kind of willpower? He wouldn’t have said anything when he was beaten up by Joker.

Yan Yunqing stroked his chin, feeling that something was not quite right.

If Fei Qi wasn’t talking, could it be not because he didn’t want to, but because he couldn’t? For example… he didn’t know?

What did Beros say they wanted to ask Fei Qi about?

Smuggling routes and research bases for magical creatures…

Such secret matters must only be known by those in the Augreir Family who held power. The queen was undoubtedly an insider, but Fei Qi, as her youngest son, didn’t even know. Clearly, he even knew about the Slanlepa City plan… Huh?

That’s not right, Fei Qi didn’t know the complete Slanlepa City plan, he only knew the purpose of his visit this time, but he didn’t know much about the specific plan.

Why?

Was Fei Qi not trusted that much?

Was it because the queen understood Fei Qi’s character, so she felt that if she told Fei Qi the specific plan, he wouldn’t be able to keep his mouth shut?

But the information Beros told him was accurate, the Augreir Family was preparing to cultivate Fei Qi as the next head of the family. Even as the head of the family, he wasn’t trusted, how paranoid was that queen?

Or was this decision not made by the queen, but by another person… that Lord Shelton?

But Lord Shelton and Fei Qi didn’t have any fundamental conflicts…

Yan Yunqing thought for a long time, and finally came to a conclusion: the noble circle is too chaotic.

Both ‘maternal love and filial piety’ and ‘brotherly harmony’ were dark jokes.

[Carrier Pigeon] made a sound.

Yan Yunqing took out [Carrier Pigeon]. He had sent a message to Merlin as soon as he woke up, and now Merlin should be replying to him.

[Merlin]: I know, it’s good that you’re okay.

[Merlin]: Some of the Skywalkers are a bit strange, do you want to come over and take a look?

Yan Yunqing raised his eyebrows, strange?

Could it be another player who was stripping the blacksmith’s pants?

Yan Yunqing thought for a while, replied to Merlin with an okay, and glanced at Uriel, who was still dealing with matters, before turning to leave.

Ah, right, he had to remind Beros not to kidnap players anymore, and let those unlucky players have a good gaming experience.

Thinking this, Yan Yunqing left a note for Uriel in the room where he woke up.

Yes, those players who were complaining on the forum that they were killed by savages as soon as they were born, and kidnapped by savages… were all done by the Blood Mist people.

No, to be precise, it was done by several impoverished villages attached to the Blood Mist. Some of the people in those villages were the ‘poor’ that the Blood Mist robbed the rich to help, some were the old, weak, sick, and disabled, and some were simply family members of the Blood Mist members. Since they joined the Blood Mist, their families had also been included in the Blood Mist’s protection.

How to put it, the people who joined the Blood Mist were themselves… more or less rejected by normal society, such as mercenaries who had offended nobles, civilians who were oppressed by landlords, and those who had deep blood feuds with certain dignitaries, and so on.

In short, the villagers outside the Blood Mist had been very exclusive of outsiders in the past, and the appearance of the Skywalkers triggered them. The first few Skywalkers born near here were directly killed by the ‘savages’, and the Skywalkers born later were taken back by the Blood Mist people and imprisoned as unidentified persons.

This was the truth about those players being killed by savages and kidnapped by savages.

Yan Yunqing felt it was ridiculous when he heard it… But there were also spawn points near here, maybe he could set up a newbie village near the Blood Mist?

Just let these players work for the old, weak, sick, and disabled in the village. Free labor was not used for nothing, and there was no need to worry about the players doing anything to the villagers, after all, Beros was here to keep them in check.

But these were all things for later. Yan Yunqing explained a few things on the paper and transformed back into a black cat before leaving the Blood Mist.

*

Returning to the Romunike Newbie Village, Yan Yunqing clearly felt that the number of players in the Newbie Village had increased.

There was no way around it, after all, there were 7,000 more players, which meant that each Newbie Village had several hundred more players. This data was relatively intuitive.

Fortunately, the Newbie Village had been designed from the beginning to accommodate at least a thousand players entering at the same time. If they were not all online at the same time, it could even accommodate more than five thousand players.

Any more than that would be a bit overloaded, but Yan Yunqing had considered it. Since this game wouldn’t have a closed beta with data wiping, by the time more players poured in, the remaining players would have already left the Newbie Village.

As long as the game official didn’t mess things up, the Newbie Village would naturally not collapse due to too many players.

Yan Yunqing put on the Nolan identity, and when he was about to walk into the Newbie Village, Yan Yunqing remembered something.

…Speaking of which, didn’t he issue a quest to the Romunike players before?

On the day the players were forcibly logged out.

Ah…

Yan Yunqing pulled up the quest panel and saw the [Help the Mysterious Merchant Complete His Order] on it, and fell into deep thought.

Fortunately, at least the quest time had not completely passed yet, there was still one day left.

If he remembered this matter after the quest time had completely passed, the Romunike players would probably be crying and cursing him, the NPC who disappeared after issuing the quest.

Yan Yunqing closed the quest panel with a guilty conscience.

It couldn’t be blamed on him, right? After all, he didn’t expect the players to be forcibly logged out after he issued the quest, and he accidentally slept for six days in the Blood Mist’s territory.

Between dreams and Fei Qi’s death, plus the previous Slanlepa City incident, these things all appeared at once, it was already very good that Yan Yunqing could still remember this matter.

Just as Yan Yunqing thought, the Romunike players had been about to explode these past few days.

[Help the Mysterious Merchant Complete His Order] was a public quest, and any player who was present at the time could receive it. They originally thought it was a very simple quest, but the first step of the quest had a problem, they couldn’t find the blacksmith Mason.

Then the Closed Beta 1.0 ended, and Closed Beta 2.0 was about to go online. The players were forcibly logged out, and the update lasted for three days!

A full three days! Did they know how these players had survived? A world with no return was simply doomed!

And when the players re-logged in and finally found the blacksmith Mason, and finally persuaded him to accept the merchant’s order, Mason said: Ah? But I don’t know what kind of weapon that merchant wants me to make.

The players froze when they heard this.

Turning around, they wanted to find the merchant again, but they found that the mysterious NPC had disappeared since they re-logged in.

After searching for three days in a row, the mysterious merchant NPC had disappeared from the world!

What was even more terrifying was that their quest was still counting down!

After the players spontaneously issued the cry of “Where is Mason?”, they then issued the cry of “Where is the merchant?”.

When Yan Yunqing entered the Romunike Newbie Village with the identity of [Nolan], he was greeted by a group of players with tearful expressions of joy.

“You finally appeared—you bastard NPC who doesn’t recognize people after sleeping with them!”

Yan Yunqing almost staggered and faceplanted when he heard this title.

It sounded like they had had some kind of relationship…

Then Yan Yunqing found himself surrounded.

“Where the hell have you been!”

“What is your order…”

The players were asking all sorts of questions at once. Yan Yunqing only felt like there were thousands of ducks squawking in his ears, making his head throb. He had no choice but to pull out his magic wand and cast a ranged silence spell on this group of players who were only around level ten.

Suddenly, the sound of thousands of ducks squawking stopped.

Yan Yunqing felt that the world was quiet.

Players:?

Players:!!!

The players, who were shocked to find that they couldn’t make a sound, thought that the game had a bug. The first player to open their personal panel and see the [Silenced] status in the status bar, followed by the countdown timer, realized that they had all been hit with a debuff.

And the culprit was naturally the mysterious merchant in front of them, who had covered his face with a hood.

Yan Yunqing clapped his hands and tried to pretend to be affable, “Alright, alright, children, I know you are all enthusiastic, but I can’t hear clearly when you are like this, can I?”

He searched the crowd and his gaze landed on the female player [Mount Emei Monkey], whose ID had left a deep impression on him. He pointed his magic wand and removed the silence spell on her. “You can talk to me, then. Have you managed to convince that stubborn blacksmith these past few days?”

[Mount Emei Monkey] was pointed at by the magic wand and looked around, discovering that everyone’s eyes were on her. Only then did she realize that the debuff on her body was gone.

[Mount Emei Monkey]’s eyes sparkled. This NPC could actually freely apply and remove debuffs!