WTYTIAAN Chapter 27
by VolareThe City Lord’s Mansion wasn’t hard to find. The most luxurious location and the most luxurious house—or rather, estate—in the entire Setar City, that was it.
Yan Yunqing had ‘inquired’ about the location of the City Lord’s Mansion while he was asking the big-nosed man questions, so he found it very easily.
Opening the game panel, Yan Yunqing glanced at the time.
There were still more than three hours until dawn, he had to hurry.
“Be careful to hide, try not to appear in front of others, and watch out for any recording magic or the like,” Yan Yunqing instructed Lillian. “If it really doesn’t work, you can wait for me outside.”
Yan Yunqing wasn’t afraid of being recorded by alchemical items. After all, he had covered his face, was wearing leather gloves, and had put on the black robe again, covering his figure tightly, so that even his gender couldn’t be discerned… after all, his height wasn’t very tall right now.
If it really came down to it, he could find a corner to squat in and level up for a while. As a player, what bottleneck was he afraid of? Once his three-year deadline arrived, the Dragon King would return (not!) and it would be time for these people to kneel and sing “Conquer.”
If it really came down to it, he could easily change his identity with a skill. Unlike Lillian, her identity as an elf was too conspicuous, and he didn’t know when she would be able to pass her childhood and enter adulthood.
“Don’t worry.” Lillian didn’t think these people could harm him at all, but she still hid under Yan Yunqing’s hood. “Even if I’m discovered, it’s okay. Don’t underestimate the great Lillian!”
Who was it that got captured by the auction house to be auctioned off…?
But Yan Yunqing also knew that if he really encountered danger, Lillian might be the one to protect him. After all, Lillian was level 45 now, while he was still level 12… eh?
Yan Yunqing realized that his level had reached 14 at some point.
Looking at the task list, oh, the quest to investigate the truth had already completed 37%. It had passed the first stage of judgment and given a lot of experience points, directly causing him to jump two levels.
Yan Yunqing sighed, “As expected, the experience points from large main quests are the most generous!”
He had spent so long grinding daily quests these past few days, and even killed a monster, and only barely reached level 12. Now, he had only completed the first stage of an investigation quest, and it had given him a wave of experience points.
After completing this quest, maybe he would directly ascend to level 20? Then he would also be a beginner magician.
“What?” Lillian didn’t understand.
“It’s nothing.” Yan Yunqing tapped Lillian’s head with his fingertip, signaling her to hide a little better.
Yan Yunqing activated Stealth again. He didn’t know if it was his imagination, but the guards in the City Lord’s Mansion were clearly more strict than the city wall guards. Patrol guards walked by every so often.
Yan Yunqing now had a cheat in hand, and the levels of those guards were all clear at a glance. They were basically all level 20 and above, with not a single one below level 15.
Yan Yunqing took a deep breath, feeling that he really needed to speed up his leveling.
Relying on the techniques of using the environment to block vision and maneuvering that he had practiced from playing games, Yan Yunqing smoothly bypassed the sight of these patrol guards.
The original Yan Yunqing couldn’t have done these techniques, but after he put points into Constitution and Agility, his control could barely keep up with his awareness.
Yan Yunqing opened the minimap. At this moment, the minimap had automatically changed to the City Lord’s Mansion, simplifying the surrounding layout onto the minimap like a bug, making it convenient for Yan Yunqing to check his position and the position of enemies.
Yan Yunqing flipped through it and found the only red dot, Dean, among the dense small yellow dots.
The other guards were also neutral yellow on the minimap, probably because they hadn’t discovered Yan Yunqing’s illegal intrusion, so they hadn’t turned into hostile units.
Yan Yunqing hid in a corner and observed the patrol path of the guards on the minimap. With his many years of experience from clearing Batman games without taking damage, he planned the fastest route to Dean’s current location and calculated the gaps in the guards’ exchanges, directly activating Stealth and infiltrating the City Lord’s Mansion.
Not a single guard discovered that someone had entered the City Lord’s Mansion all the way to his destination.
Was this the happiness of having a cheat in hand?
The heels of his shoes made no sound at all on the thickly carpeted floor. With Lillian’s levitation spell, Yan Yunqing’s steps were as light as a cat.
Perhaps he could really give himself a stage name? Like Catman or something?
Unfortunately, he didn’t have a body full of muscles… Maybe he could go the Catwoman route and become a thief in another world?
Speaking of thieves, Yan Yunqing touched the [Face Masquerade Ball] equipped on his face, and thought of his dark red eyes after transmigrating. Everyone was in a black and red color scheme, so it wouldn’t be bad for him to give himself a stage name like Joker!
And come up with a fake name like Amamiya Yunqing or something… Wait, why does that sound like it’s in the same series as Murong Yunhai?
While thinking about these chaotic things, Yan Yunqing also paid attention to the minimap at all times. He stopped in front of a heavy wooden door. The wooden door was carved with intricate patterns, with faint magical elements flowing on the patterns. It was grand, simple, and very classy.
It looked very expensive.
Lillian whispered in his ear, “This is part of a Spirit Gathering Array, a type of formation that can gather surrounding magical elements. It’s very expensive to set up… Hmm, this door is also made of rare wood, a type of wood that is very compatible with magic.”
As expected, very expensive.
Yan Yunqing understood. So, the difference between nobles and commoners was that everything commoners desperately tried to achieve was just the starting point that nobles piled up with money.
Speaking of which, could this door be taken down and carried away? If he shaved it down a bit, he could make an advanced magic staff for himself.
“Are there any detection or alert magic spells set up here?” Yan Yunqing asked in a hushed voice.
Lillian sensed it for a moment, “I don’t sense anything for now, but you have to be careful. These noble families have quite a few alchemical items. Those things have almost no magical fluctuations, so I may not be able to detect them.”
Yan Yunqing nodded, reached out, and pressed on the wooden door. With a little force, the door was pushed open a crack.
No abnormalities.
Yan Yunqing pushed the door open a little more, lowered his hood, completely hiding his face in the hood, and squeezed in sideways.
The room was very dim. At this time, everyone was basically asleep, and Dean was no exception. Yan Yunqing could hear the sound of snoring, sometimes deep, sometimes shallow. Even if he increased his pace, it would be completely suppressed by the other person’s snoring.
Yan Yunqing followed the direction of the sound and felt his way to Dean’s bedside. He looked at the raised lump on the bed with the words [Lv. 34 Dean] above it, confirming that he had found the right person.
Lillian poked her head out in the darkness, “Is it him?”
“It’s him,” Yan Yunqing said.
“Then I’ll start?” Lillian waited for Yan Yunqing’s consent, then took out a small magic wand from her arms and chanted in ancient Elvish.
This was a method that Yan Yunqing and Lillian had come up with before infiltrating the City Lord’s Mansion – hypnosis magic.
This wasn’t a mainstream type of magic, it belonged to a very niche category. However, the Elven Library had many lost magic spells recorded after thousands of years of inheritance, and Lillian herself also liked to read all kinds of niche magic notes.
It just so happened that she knew a type of hypnosis magic, which she had seen in the magic notes of the First Elf King.
Yan Yunqing was a little envious of this magic, but he didn’t have many skill points right now (the game had blocked the way to learn magic through glitches before), and it was more cost-effective to unlock other magic spells with higher attack power.
After all, this hypnosis magic had too many limitations and couldn’t be used at all during combat.
When his level was high and he had an abundance of skill points, he would take all the magic that Lillian was good at!
Lillian’s hypnosis magic quickly took effect. Dean, who was still snoring, suddenly stopped snoring and opened his eyes with a whoosh.
Yan Yunqing was taken aback, thinking that Dean had been awakened. He prepared for Dean to suddenly jump up and shout loudly, but he found that Dean was sitting up blankly, staring ahead with blank eyes.
Yan Yunqing waved his hand in front of the other person’s eyes, but there was no reaction.
“Is this a success?” Yan Yunqing asked Lillian.
Lillian spread her hands, “I don’t know, this is the first time I’ve used hypnosis magic… It should be a success, right? Why don’t you try asking him questions?”
Yan Yunqing walked up to Dean, “What’s your name?”
Silence…
Yan Yunqing and Lillian looked at each other. Lillian patted her head, “Oh dear, it seems it failed. Otherwise, why don’t you do what you did before, put a sack over his head, beat him up, and then ask him if he knows?”
Yan Yunqing said, “Am I that much of a bandit? Besides, beating people up in their house, we’ll be discovered immediately, right?”
Lillian: “…Did you really consider that possibility?”
Just as the two were about to say something, Dean, who was sitting blankly on the bed, suddenly opened his mouth: “Dean von Campbell.”
Yan Yunqing and Lillian were both startled. They stared at Dean for a while, and found that his eyes were still the same as before, dull and lifeless. He didn’t react to Yan Yunqing’s probing at all.
Lillian breathed a sigh of relief: “It seems the magic worked.” It was just that the effective time was a little slow.
“The speed of answering questions is too slow,” Yan Yunqing complained. “Can’t you improve this magic?”
Lillian was dissatisfied, “Hey, show some respect! This is, after all, a magic spell recorded in the magic notes of the First Elf King!”
Yan Yunqing muttered inwardly: It was precisely because it was a magic spell created by Sylph that he didn’t have much respect for it!
Yan Yunqing met Dean’s blank eyes and said in a low voice, “Dean, can you hear my voice?”
This time, because Dean’s name was called, Dean slowly reacted for a few seconds before nodding slowly: “I can hear you.”
Very good, confirm that hypnosis magic is indeed useful.
“Dean, do you still remember the name Karenna? What happened between you and her? Why did she die six years ago?”
Considering that the hypnotized person’s IQ might not be very high, Yan Yunqing spoke very slowly, striving to make every syllable clear enough to not be misunderstood.
Upon hearing the name Karenna, Dean’s expression clearly became a little ferocious. It seemed that his reason was resisting the hypnosis magic. For a long time, he couldn’t say a word.
Yan Yunqing was a little nervous and poked Lillian, “Is your magic going to fail?”
“In theory, it shouldn’t…” Lillian said, “His strength isn’t as high as mine. He shouldn’t be able to break free from my hypnosis magic, unless he has undergone special training in resisting hypnosis.”
There was level suppression, but if the other party’s will was high, it was easy to determine it as a failure, right?
Yan Yunqing bit the flesh of his cheek, deciding that if Dean broke free, he would immediately knock Dean unconscious, put a sack over his head, and take him away to avoid any accidents.
It was just that taking a person away from this heavily guarded City Lord’s Mansion was a little more difficult than infiltrating alone.
Dean struggled for a moment, and it was estimated that his will was not high enough. He couldn’t break free from the hypnosis magic with its level suppression. The distorted expression on his face returned to normal again, and he slowly opened his mouth: “I know. Karenna was killed by me.”
Whoa, he was getting to the point right away!
“Dean, didn’t Karenna die in a monster attack? Was that monster attack on Sunset Village related to you? Why do you say she was killed by you?”
Karenna died under the claws of the monster that attacked Sunset Village. This was a fact that Yan Yunqing had already proven. It was impossible for Dean to have killed Karenna with his own hands, so the only possibility was that the attack was related to him.
“Yes, Karenna died in a monster attack. That monster attack on Sunset Village was related to me. I had someone send that monster near Sunset Village.”
Dean said with a wooden face, saying another name that stunned both Yan Yunqing and Lillian.