WTYTIAAN Chapter 32
by Volare“Then tell me, what do you know?” Yan Yunqing pulled back, sat down again, lazily leaning against the back of the chair, crossed his right leg over his left, one hand resting on the chair back, his fingertips tapping lightly, the other hand propping up his forehead.
It was a lazy yet immensely oppressive posture.
Brook suddenly snapped back to his senses, breathing heavily, as if he had to replace all the air in his lungs before he could stop.
“You…” Brook looked at Yan Yunqing blankly, “Who exactly are you?”
Yan Yunqing raised his hand, “Didn’t I say? A dark knight, a righteous vigilante who specializes in punishing evil and promoting good at night.”
The sky outside finally brightened, and the sunlight couldn’t penetrate the tightly covered windows, but a line of light fell on the edge, cleverly breaking through a trace of darkness in the room.
“Oh, sorry.” Yan Yunqing looked at this ray of light, shrugged, “Today is a limited daytime vigilante activity.”
What kind of messy and strange things is this person talking about?
Brook should have felt terrified at this moment, because this inexplicable uninvited guest had revealed all the secrets he had been hiding for so many years, stripping his shell clean, and exposing him naked here, but now his heart was only filled with speechlessness and absurdity.
“You want to know about Professor Adelaide?” Brook didn’t know why, but at this moment, he actually felt a little trust in the guy in front of him who didn’t even dare to show his true face… Yes, a strange sense of trust.
Yan Yunqing nodded: “Yes, I came here to investigate this matter.”
“You want to investigate this matter?” Brook raised his eyebrows, his messy and thick eyebrows like a caterpillar raising its head, “Since you have found out so many things, you should also know that the people who investigate this matter are dead, without exception.”
“Oh? Why do you say that?” Yan Yunqing asked curiously, “Aren’t you still alive?”
“I’m different…” Brook suppressed his palpitations, avoided Yan Yunqing’s gaze, and no longer met his eyes.
He felt that the eyes of this person who liked to say strange things had magic power, as if they could devour his soul.
Just like the legendary Demon King, he could bewitch people’s hearts unknowingly.
“You’re different… hmm.” Yan Yunqing thought for a while, “Is it because someone died for you… Oh no, it should be said that someone covered up your desire to investigate the truth, but he died instead?”
Brook was immediately terrified, and the way he looked at Yan Yunqing was like looking at a monster, “You even know this…”
“Don’t be excited, don’t be excited, I was just making a casual guess.”
Yan Yunqing smiled innocently, “Your former roommate, what was his name… Link?”
When Yan Yunqing read this name, he always felt weird, as if this Link didn’t know where he would pop out from, wearing green clothes while chopping trees and saving the princess.
Brook covered his face with his hands, lowered his head and remained silent for a long time, and finally rubbed his face hard, letting out a long sigh: “Yes, Link died for me.”
Putting down his hands, Brook, who raised his head again, showed a reluctant smile, the dark and damp feeling on his body faded, but he became decadent again.
“Professor Adelaide… she was a very good person, she helped me a lot, even though she saw that my purpose for approaching her was impure, she still provided me with a lot of… a lot of help, so that I was not expelled from the academy.”
“I admired her very much, she was like… like my sister, so kind and gentle.”
Brook said softly, “I had already made up my mind to study with all my strength until Professor Adelaide was willing to take me in.”
“Then she died.” Brook bent over and grabbed his messy hair, his fingertips exerting force, a little neurotic, “That day she took her students out, and three days later none of the students returned.”
“Other teachers said that those students died in a monster attack, and Professor Adelaide resigned from her job as a teacher at the academy because of excessive guilt.”
“I don’t believe it, Professor Adelaide is a very responsible and good teacher, she wouldn’t leave everything behind and run away in a huff because her students died without saying a word.”
“Professor Adelaide’s students… that is, Link and the others, also didn’t believe that the teacher would leave suddenly, but they couldn’t find Professor Adelaide’s whereabouts at all, and everyone wanted to find out the truth behind that monster attack.”
“I… I’m not Professor Adelaide’s real student, and I don’t have enough ability, so I didn’t participate in their investigation, but occasionally I would learn about some progress from Link.”
“They were all very powerful people, I thought they would find the truth about Professor Adelaide’s departure, but I didn’t expect…”
“Jera suddenly told everyone not to investigate anymore, the teacher is already dead.”
“Link and the others felt inexplicable and wanted to ask more questions, but the next day they heard the news of Jera’s death.”
“Cause of death… magic backlash.”
Magic backlash is a very rare disease, common in some magicians who are obsessed with becoming stronger.
The magic power scurries around uncontrollably in the body, reversing the magic circuit, causing the magic power to backfire and die.
In the early days when magic wands were not yet popular, this disease often occurred, but now this disease rarely occurs, because people are accustomed to using magic wands as a medium for casting magic, and will not store some violent magic elements in the body.
Lillian hid behind Yan Yunqing’s neck and quietly explained to him, this voice was too weak, and Brook, who was still immersed in past memories, didn’t notice it at all.
“Jera is a very smart and talented person, it is impossible for him to have a magic backlash!” Brook said excitedly, “He was already the chief of the sixth grade before he died! He is so powerful, how could he have a magic backlash due to mental problems?”
“Then you continued to investigate this matter, but the result was that everyone who tried to touch the truth died?” Yan Yunqing pointed out this fact.
“Yes, yes…”
Brook’s shoulders completely collapsed, lost and dejected, “Everyone is dead… only Link is left.”
“Link warned me not to investigate anymore, if I continue to investigate, he and I will die, I…”
“I listened to him, but that day happened to be, uh, it happened to be Professor Adelaide’s death anniversary, I wanted to talk to her… so I went to her former residence and stayed there all afternoon.”
Brook took a deep breath and looked at Yan Yunqing again, “Can I trust you?”
Yan Yunqing knew that the secret he wanted to find out was finally about to surface, his heart moved, and he regarded his previous actions as a pledge of allegiance.
“Oh, I forgot to tell you before.” Yan Yunqing said casually, “Dean, you know him, right? This guy has already been killed by me, his head has been cut off, and the City Lord’s Mansion should already be in chaos.”
Brook was stunned and let out a sound: “Ah?”
“You… killed Dean?” Brook hesitated, “Really?”
He never expected that one of the murderers who killed Professor Adelaide died so lightly in the mouth of the person in front of him.
Is Dean so easy to kill? Then what is his panic all these two years? Is it because he is timid?
Yan Yunqing: “You don’t believe me? This is a bit difficult, I don’t have the habit of cutting off people’s heads and carrying them with me, why don’t I take you to the City Lord’s Mansion to have a look? But if you go in now, it’s estimated that it will be difficult to come out.”
Brook’s mind was a little confused for a while, his mouth opened and closed, and finally he squeezed out a dry sentence: “Oh, is that so? Then no need, I believe you.”
Lillian covered her mouth and secretly let out two chuckles, and Brook, who had not turned his mind around, finally discovered the little guy who had been hiding behind Yan Yunqing.
He stood up in shock and pointed at Lillian: “This, this is?”
Yan Yunqing pinched Lillian’s head and stuffed her back, telling her not to appear in front of others so openly, “This, ah, a moving doll, amazing, right? The latest alchemy item, one hundred gold coins each, so expensive.”
Lillian struggled twice, and when she heard this, she simply bit him.
This time Yan Yunqing was wearing gloves, and Lillian couldn’t hurt him at all through the leather gloves, but instead, he was completely enveloped in his palm and caught.
Lillian: !!!
Damn it, you are the alchemy item! You are only worth one hundred gold coins!
The great Lillian would never be auctioned for only one hundred gold coins!
Yan Yunqing put his hands together, trapped Lillian, who was about to roll around and throw a tantrum, and stuffed her into the pocket under his cloak.
Brook took in Yan Yunqing’s movements, twitched the corner of his mouth, “This, this alchemy doll is quite lively…”
Yan Yunqing’s expression did not change, “Yes, it’s just that sometimes it’s so noisy that it hurts my brain.”
Feeling the struggle and protest coming from his palm, Yan Yunqing changed the subject, “But my doll is out of print, there is only one, so if you want to buy one too, I’m sorry, you can’t buy it.”
Brook: …When did he say he wanted to buy an alchemy doll? No… this is not an alchemy doll at all, right? Is he treating him like a blind man or an idiot?
The emotion was interrupted like this, and when Brook remembered what he was going to say, he couldn’t muster the original resentment.
“Let’s continue the topic we were just talking about.” Brook wanted to get back to the topic.
Yan Yunqing made a gesture of invitation.
Brook: “…Are you sure you will avenge Professor Adelaide, right?”
Yan Yunqing spread his hands: “I didn’t say that.”
Brook was anxious: “You went to so much trouble to get so much information, didn’t you just want to get the truth of what happened back then from me? If you are not here to avenge Professor Adelaide, what do you want to do?”
Yan Yunqing raised his index finger and shook it in front of Brook’s eyes, “No, no, of course not, I just want to figure out the truth of all these events.”
“As for revenge? In the end, it depends on my mood!”
“And you, you just need to tell me what happened back then, after all, you are just a coward who doesn’t dare to face the truth, aren’t you?”
Revenge? No, Adelaide is not someone important to him, how could Yan Yunqing challenge such a huge goal for outsiders?
He will definitely kill Fei Wu in the end, but that is only for himself—after all, he has been involved so deeply, instead of waiting for Fei Wu to discover him and send someone to solve him, it is better for him to strike first.