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    Chapter 226

    To say nothing else, causing trouble is indeed a physically and mentally pleasing thing.

    Yan Yunqing was somewhat addicted for a moment.

    Secretly tripped another player, then slipped away before they could react.

    The little black cat flicked its tail, leisurely pawing at the snow outside the house, watching the players scramble to deal with the mess, and turned away in satisfaction. It was just about to jump away when a pair of hands picked it up.

    The little black cat clamped its tail tight, its whole body tensed up. Only after its dark red cat eyes met the eyes of the person picking it up did it quietly relax a little.

    “Kitty can’t make trouble, okay?”

    The one who picked him up was none other than little Daine, whom he had just met in the afternoon. Her big grape-like eyes were full of disapproval for the little black cat. “Good kids don’t cause destruction. Is kitty a bad kid?”

    Yan Yunqing: …

    Hilarious, being called a bad kid by a child.

    Yan Yunqing wanted to struggle, but found that Daine’s arms holding him were quite steady. If he struggled, he might hurt the child, so Yan Yunqing didn’t continue to struggle.

    Fortunately, Daine’s posture for holding a cat was correct, making Yan Yunqing feel no discomfort at all.

    He thought about it and pretended to be an innocent little cat, meowing softly.

    Anyway, Daine couldn’t possibly imagine that the body of this little black cat contained an adult. Since he was a cat, he should naturally have some cat privileges, right?

    Like causing destruction.

    Daine seemed to know that she couldn’t reason with a little cat, so she gently stroked the little black cat’s back. “You can’t make any more trouble. Today is my eldest sister’s wedding. If kitty makes trouble, my eldest sister will be sad.”

    Yan Yunqing wagged his tail, thinking: If he didn’t cause trouble and let these players get bored and start messing with your eldest sister’s wedding, then your eldest sister would really cry.

    “So,” Daine held the little black cat up to her face, meeting its dark red eyes, “kitty, come with me. I’ll take you to play.”

    Daine didn’t need to get the little black cat’s approval. After saying that, she walked away with the cat in her arms. Yan Yunqing glanced from Daine’s arms towards the players. He had already given these players a misfortune debuff. There was no problem with him leaving now.

    However, this misfortune debuff was quite obvious. As long as the players opened their personal panels and took a look, they would find a debuff in their status bar. Those with dispel items or dispel magic could remove the debuff.

    This method could only be used temporarily.

    But fortunately, they were still in the village. As long as the players caused trouble, Divick and Boros would find out. When that time came, he could let those two guys teach the players a lesson.

    Thinking this, Yan Yunqing didn’t resist Daine.

    Daine seemed to be quite popular in this small mountain village. People greeted her warmly all the way, and when they saw the little black cat in her arms, the villagers would casually ask where the little black cat came from.

    At this time, Daine would answer, “The older brothers and sisters brought it back.”

    The older brothers and sisters she was referring to were naturally Alice and the others, but what the villagers heard should have been Mike and the others, so they didn’t ask any further questions.

    The snow outside had stopped sometime, but the road was already covered with thick snow. The small paths in the villagers’ own homes were barely cleared, but they still had to walk carefully to avoid slipping.

    Daine walked very carefully, and her behavior showed that she was not a loud, rash child.

    Lying in Daine’s arms, Yan Yunqing keenly spotted a figure in the crowd and frowned.

    It was that bishop.

    Early on the road, Alice had already shown him the image magic stone with the bishop’s appearance, and he had remembered the other party’s appearance. His memory had always been good, and he recognized the other party at a glance in the crowd.

    Seeing that the other party was talking to the villagers, Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but wonder, could it be that this bishop really came back to attend the wedding?

    Thinking this, he moved and broke free from Daine’s arms, actively moving towards the bishop’s direction. Yan Yunqing wanted to hear what the other party was saying.

    But after taking two steps, he was caught by Daine again.

    “Kitty, you can’t run around!” Daine put on a small face, pretending to be an adult, which was quite comical and a bit cute.

    Yan Yunqing helplessly flicked his tail, really being targeted by this child.

    Should he just change shells? But a little black cat’s approach might not arouse the bishop’s suspicion, but if an outsider approached for no reason, it would definitely cause unnecessary vigilance.

    Then it would be inconvenient for him to find out what this person’s purpose was.

    He didn’t know if Yan Yunqing’s attention to the bishop had attracted Daine’s attention. She hugged the little black cat and glanced in the direction the little black cat originally wanted to approach, resting her chin on the top of the little black cat’s head and rubbing its ears with her cheek, saying softly, “Is kitty looking at Uncle Lowell?”

    Uncle Lowell?

    Yan Yunqing paused. That was exactly the name of the bishop.

    He turned his head and hooked Daine’s wrist with his tail, signaling her to continue.

    He didn’t know if it was because children’s brains were more magical, but Daine really understood Yan Yunqing’s thoughts, hugging him and finding a corner. This corner was relatively hidden, just right to be able to see the bishop clearly, while the other party couldn’t see them.

    Daine still rested her chin on the top of the little black cat’s head, whispering next to the little black cat’s cat ears, “That’s Uncle Lowell. He lives in the old house in the west. Does kitty want to go take a look?”

    Yan Yunqing: …

    Yan Yunqing hesitated and turned his head, meeting Daine’s very serious black eyes.

    This child… what’s going on?

    Yan Yunqing thought he was overthinking things, otherwise how would he feel that this child was testing him?

    All of his behavior should have conformed to a little cat. Struggling to get down when seeing the bishop could also be explained as the cat not liking being held all the time. How could this child be sure that his target was Bishop Lowell? And even asked him if he wanted to go see Bishop Lowell’s house?

    Yan Yunqing suddenly remembered that just now, when he was causing trouble for the players, this child suddenly appeared beside him and picked him up.

    At that time, he didn’t feel anything. It wasn’t until Daine picked him up that he realized she had approached.

    This was different from his usual vigilance. Yan Yunqing didn’t think that he would lose his vigilance just because the environment seemed safe, but the other party really did it.

    Even after he was picked up, seeing that it was Daine, he even ignored the key question of why he had lost his vigilance.

    It was terrifying to think about.

    Yan Yunqing felt that his tail was about to explode. If he wasn’t still barely controlling himself, showing a normal cat’s leisurely expression, he was afraid he would have already exploded.

    Daine was not simple.

    Yan Yunqing could be sure. Then he guessed whether Daine was like Alice, possessing a special talent skill that made him lose his vigilance, or was it done by the other party’s talent skill?

    Looking at Daine’s age, it seemed to be about the time for her to awaken if she had a talent skill. Yan Yunqing tried to add Daine as a NPC friend to check the other party’s talent skill from the NPC list.

    However, it failed.

    He couldn’t add her as a friend.

    Yan Yunqing’s NPC friend panel added friends through a one-way operation. After all, NPCs didn’t have game systems, so as long as the NPC’s favorability towards him reached a certain value, Yan Yunqing could actively add them as a friend, and it would be considered successful.

    Now that he couldn’t add her as a friend, it could only mean that Daine’s favorability towards him wasn’t enough.

    Yan Yunqing tsked in his heart: She acted like she liked cats so much, but when he looked at her favorability, he couldn’t even add her as a friend.

    Liar child!

    Daine didn’t know what the little black cat in her arms was complaining about at the moment. Seeing that the little black cat didn’t react, she rubbed the little black cat’s head again, “So, does kitty want to go?”

    Yan Yunqing didn’t feel any malice from Daine. After hesitating, he still hooked the other party’s wrist with his tail.

    He chose to trust his intuition. With his keenness in perceiving emotions, if Daine was a child disguised by something else, or had malice towards him, Yan Yunqing would definitely be able to feel it.

    Daine once again understood the little black cat’s meaning, hugging the little black cat and looking at the sky, “In that case, we need to find a lamp grass, otherwise it’s too dark and we’ll be tripped by the stones.”

    Lamp grass, a common plant in the Ermann Continent, shaped like roadside weeds, but its head would grow a fruit like a small lantern. This fruit would absorb light during the day and emit fluorescent light at night.

    It was very popular in poor families that didn’t have candles to use. Generally, collecting two or three plants could be used as a torch for lighting, but the illuminated area was relatively narrow.

    This kind of plant was relatively common, and Daine was very familiar with the village. Hugging the little black cat, she drilled into the bushes behind the house and searched for a while, quickly finding a few lamp grasses.

    However, the fluorescent light of these few lamp grasses together was still relatively weak.

    This was also normal, because there hadn’t been any sun here for quite some time. The days were gloomy, either snowing or raining. When it finally didn’t snow or rain, the sky was gray. Without absorbing enough sunlight, the lamp grass naturally emitted very weak fluorescent light at night.

    Daine sorted out the lamp grass and tied all the lamp grass to the little black cat’s tail, making the little black cat’s tail look like a chandelier.

    After doing everything, it was completely dark, leaving only the lamp grass fruit on the little black cat’s tail emitting a faint light, barely illuminating a bit of the surrounding scene.

    Daine clapped the dust off her hands, admiring her results with satisfaction, and then picked up the cat again. “Let’s go.”

    Yan Yunqing: …

    Yan Yunqing was certain that Daine was a genuine child, because only a child’s brain circuit would be so weird, making him unable to figure out what this child was thinking.

    Daine led the little black cat out of the village in the dark. All the villagers in the village were gathered at Daine’s house, because today was her eldest sister’s wedding day, and everyone went to eat at the banquet. Daine’s house gradually became lively, while other parts of the village gradually became quiet.

    After snowing all day, only the main road in the village had been cleared into a narrow path, and the rest of the area was still covered in white snow.

    Fortunately, Daine was born and raised in the village and was very familiar with it, so she wouldn’t fall into the ditch while walking.

    The night was very dim, and the lanterns hanging on the roadside trees were lit with candles, barely illuminating the road. Daine didn’t walk fast, because the light of the lamp grass couldn’t completely illuminate the road ahead of them. She didn’t seem to be able to see in the dark, so it took her several minutes to walk a little bit.

    Yan Yunqing wasn’t affected much. His eyes had always been able to see in the dark, and his eyesight was so good that he could see the birds on the trees a hundred meters away flirting.

    Yan Yunqing wanted to jump down and explore the road for Daine, but Daine held him tightly in her arms, unable to move, so he could only secretly use a little magic.

    Illumination magic.

    It was the first magic he learned when he came to another world. At that time, he had attracted many patrol teams because he couldn’t control his magic well. Now, he didn’t even need a magic wand to use it directly.

    This was the proficiency in the use of magic after crossing the level of an eighty-level archmage.

    With the blessing of magic, the light of the lamp grass was strengthened, directly illuminating a large area in front.

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