WTYTIAAN Chapter 2

Chapter 2

He couldn’t have really transmigrated into the game as the main character, right…?

Yan Yunqing covered his face.

Before transmigrating, he seemed to be in bed, not on the toilet, right? Could that even lead to another world?

He wouldn’t have just transmigrated into another world, only to be killed by rioting subjects because of the mess he left behind when he abandoned the game, would he?

Yan Yunqing became even more distraught as he thought about his current situation.

He was still a ‘commodity’ at an auction! Maybe before the rioting subjects could find him, he would be bought back by some pervert from another world, and then subjected to this and that!

His life! His chastity! In danger!

Yan Yunqing took a deep breath, trying to calm down, and rummaged through his game inventory.

In “Demon King,” he had already established an empire, and he had a lot of good stuff, especially the set of divine equipment on the main character’s body. The stats were ridiculously high. He had grinded through eight hundred dungeons to get the set, and even equipping it on a dog would instantly kill an elite monster.

Full of anticipation, Yan Yunqing clicked on the equipment, only to receive a cold notification from the game panel.

[Equipment level not met. Please level up before trying again.]

……

He couldn’t even be a dog!

Yan Yunqing really wanted to spit at the game system.

A pile of god-level equipment was in front of him, but he could only stare at it, unable to do anything.

Most of the things in his inventory were unusable at his current level, and the small portion that was usable was useless in his current situation. After searching for a long time, Yan Yunqing finally found a few seemingly useful items.

A pocket watch.

[Merlin’s Pocket Watch]: An old pocket watch left behind by the great legendary magician Merlin, engraved with mysterious magical patterns. Wearing it reduces the wearer’s presence. When the wearer says, “Oh, great creator, I’m going to be late,” they gain a 300% increase in movement speed for 30 seconds. Cooldown: 10 minutes. 『Merlin is great, need I say more!』

A seemingly ordinary dagger.

[Nameless Blade]: An unnamed blade that was once given as a gift to someone, and it was that person’s most cherished treasure. 50% chance to ignore defense and deal true damage.

A necklace that seemed more like an ornament than equipment.

[White Feather]: A necklace adorned with feathers. The wearer will equip the title “Eternal Song of the White Bird.”

However, this necklace had a rare title bonus. Yan Yunqing took the necklace out of his inventory and studied the title description closely.

[Eternal Song of the White Bird]: You gave them the meaning of existence at dusk. The moment you ascended the throne, white birds sang an eternal song for you and offered you eternal loyalty until death. You, who are blessed, are either lucky or unlucky. (Equipping this title grants [Angel’s Blessing]: Health cannot be reduced below 1, and death cannot trap you unless the angel who made the vow dies.)

This title necklace, which was like a health-lock cheat, was offered by the Angel tribe after the Demon King established his empire. However, the war was basically over at that time, and there were no battles that required the Demon King to personally fight, so this necklace was just thrown into the inventory as a dust-collecting ornament.

But for him now, it was simply a weapon to protect his life, especially since it had no level restriction!

Grateful to the angel who gave him the necklace.

Yan Yunqing equipped the necklace and the title, feeling that his life was a little more secure.

“Eh?”

Lillian, who was still amusing herself in the bottle, seemed to notice something and looked towards Yan Yunqing, her gaze immediately drawn to the necklace in Yan Yunqing’s hand.

Lillian made a sound of confusion, and after confirming what it was, she curiously sized up Yan Yunqing. “Angel’s feather… I remember those guys have been reclusive for a long time. Most of the angels have retreated into the Floating Island. How did you get their feather?”

Looking closer, Lillian was even more surprised: “It’s even a feather blessed by an angel?”

Lillian’s face looked strange. “Those arrogant guys… no way?”

Her eyes blinked twice, and she muttered, “I thought you were just an ordinary cat person, but it’s not that simple. No wonder you were assigned to the rare goods warehouse.”

Rare goods and all that.

Yan Yunqing wiped his face, feeling like a fish on a chopping board.

However, if he wanted to verify whether he had transmigrated as the main character or transmigrated into another world with the game panel, there was an opportunity right in front of him.

“Um… Lillian?” Yan Yunqing called out, “Can I call you that?”

“Of course.” Lillian finally got tired of flying and landed at the bottom of the bottle, lying on her back like a playful child. “Little cat, how did you get trafficked in here? Do your people know you’ve been trafficked?”

He really didn’t know that.

This broken other world didn’t even give him a prologue, immediately throwing him into an auction dungeon with the identity of a commodity locked in a cage.

“I don’t remember.” Yan Yunqing found a universal answer template. “What about you?”

“Me?” Lillian sighed. “I secretly ran out to play without telling the elders. On the way, I encountered a mercenary group injured by monsters. I kindly rescued them, but they captured me and sold me to the auction house.”

“No wonder the teachers in the clan always say that humans are the most cunning.” Lillian muttered, “I should have listened to them.”

This was a typical farmer and the snake story!

“But as an elf, how could you be so easily captured by humans?” Yan Yunqing thought this elf was a bit useless.

In “Demon King,” the elves weren’t very good at combat, but that didn’t mean they couldn’t fight. They had endless ways to save their lives. Moreover, elves were naturally attuned to wood elements and were natural magicians. They were also good with bows and arrows. The Demon King even had a group of archers composed of elves!

“I’m still in my infancy!” Lillian felt like she was being looked down upon. “I only just hatched from the Mother Tree not long ago! Is it strange that I was caught by humans due to carelessness?”

Yan Yunqing understood.

This was the story of a newborn child who secretly ran out of the elven territory to see the world, only to be deceived by cunning humans.

“It’s all the fault of the humans!”

“Yeah, yeah, it’s all the fault of the humans.” Yan Yunqing echoed. Anyway, he didn’t look like a pure human now. What was wrong with scolding humans? Maybe he was also captured by humans.

“Lillian, your king… um, what’s their name?” Yan Yunqing thought that he had finished the pleasantries, so asking a few questions shouldn’t be strange, right?

“King?” Lillian, who was still complaining about humans, paused and looked at Yan Yunqing again. “Why are you asking this?”

“Just curious…”

Crap, wouldn’t the Elf King be very famous, with everyone knowing TA’s name?

“Hmm… you’re really a bit strange, you know?” Lillian touched the end of her hair. “The King has returned to the embrace of the Mother Tree a long time ago. I thought everyone outside knew about this.”

Returned to the embrace of the Mother Tree?

Yan Yunqing recalled the setting of “Demon King.” Returning to the embrace of the Mother Tree seemed to refer to the soul returning to the Elven Mother Tree after an elf died.

“Ah, sorry, I didn’t know.” Yan Yunqing made an excuse. “I come from a very remote Beastmen Tribe that has been secluded for a long time. The news isn’t very good.”

“It’s okay, it makes sense. You look like a cub in its infancy.” Lillian drooped her head listlessly. “If the King hadn’t returned to the Mother Tree, the humans wouldn’t dare to hunt elves and auction them so boldly.”

“I should have listened to the elders and waited until I was an adult before leaving the forest.”

Yan Yunqing had gathered a lot of information after chatting with Lillian for a while.

The setting of this world was roughly the same as in “Demon King.” As expected, he had indeed transmigrated into the game.

Speaking of which, he seemed to have heard that “Demon King” was going to release a co-op version. He wondered if the world he had transmigrated into was the single-player version he had played before, or the co-op version that hadn’t been released yet.

However, the Elf King had died. The single-player version didn’t have this plot point, so it was likely the co-op version that came out later.

In that case, the plots shouldn’t be connected, right?

Then he shouldn’t be hunted down by his vassals and subjects… right?

Yan Yunqing shook his head, temporarily throwing those worries out of his mind. Now wasn’t the time to think about this. He had to figure out how to escape this auction house first!

According to Lillian, the auction should start soon. It took some time to extract information from Lillian, so the time left for him was probably not much.

Yan Yunqing took out the dagger. Its attack power was a pitiful +5, with only a gambler-like 50% armor-piercing trait that was worth looking at. He didn’t know how such a trash weapon was put in his inventory.

It was fortunate that he hadn’t cleared his inventory back then, or he wouldn’t even have a weapon to equip now.

Holding the dagger, Yan Yunqing began to try to hack at the sturdy iron lock.

The sound of clanging attracted Lillian, who was still feeling sorry for herself. She leaned against the glass. “You want to use that dagger to chop the lock open?”

Before Yan Yunqing could answer, Lillian continued on her own: “It’s useless. It’s a lock with magical runes attached. An ordinary dagger can’t chop it open.”

Magical runes? Yan Yunqing reached out a finger from the cage and fiddled with it, only then did he see the complex dark patterns flowing on the lock.

[Intermediate Magic Lock]: Imprinted with an intermediate magic array. Defense +500.

“This magic lock can withstand the attacks of intermediate magicians. Those humans are actually using this thing to lock you up.” Lillian was curious. “Could it be that you’re very strong, little cat?”

She carefully sized up Yan Yunqing and then denied her own guess. “No, you really look weak. Even a newly hatched elven cub could beat you up. There’s no need for humans to be afraid of you at all!”

Yan Yunqing thought of his all-1 stats and felt like an arrow had pierced his knee.

So what if he couldn’t carry or lift anything! He had just finished the college entrance examination, and his IQ was still at its peak!

Lillian continued to guess: “You have an angel feather that has been blessed. Those arrogant guys who don’t come into the world won’t easily give away their blessed feathers. Your identity must not be that simple–you’re not a Beastmen Royal, are you?”

“But I haven’t heard of this Beastmen King marrying a cat person wife!”

Wrong guess. Actually, I’m the Demon King.

Yan Yunqing said secretly in his heart, his hands didn’t stop moving. He didn’t have any other choice. At least this dagger had a 50% chance to break through defense, which should be useful against the magic lock.

Yan Yunqing didn’t have time to pay attention to Lillian, who was still talking to herself with great enthusiasm, her little mouth babbling softly, clearly a talkative type.

Yan Yunqing’s brain was buzzing from the noise. He clearly remembered that the elves in “Demon King” were all aloof and indifferent, with each one wanting to write “sexually depraved” on their face. How did such a talkative little elf like Lillian come out?

Could it be a genetic mutation?

Yan Yunqing complained inwardly.

Encountering a talkative flying object in the newbie village, crap, how is this setting so familiar?

Honestly, Lillian, you actually have another name, called White Emergency Food, right?