WTYTIAAN Chapter 60

Chapter 60

Yan Yunqing actually had a secret.

When he used to play “Demon King,” he would occasionally dream of the world inside the game at night. It was a magical and wonderful fantasy world that a 2D game couldn’t fully showcase.

Legends of magic and swords, various fantasy races interacting with him. If he wasn’t so obsessed with such a wonderful world, Yan Yunqing, who usually lost interest in games after three minutes, wouldn’t have persisted in playing “Demon King” for so long, or even scoured history books for it.

Yan Yunqing had also doubted the reality of his dreams, but the dreams weren’t coherent. Each time Yan Yunqing dreamed, the time point was different, and the people he met were different, so he eventually dismissed the idea.

That’s also why he quickly accepted that he had transmigrated into the game world when he initially crossed over.

After the game forum appeared, Yan Yunqing once suspected the reality of this world. Perhaps it was just a game world made up of data?

But…

“Brother Yan! Grandpa Rosen hunted a big lulu pig today! Grandpa and I bought some back to grill lulu pig meat for you!”

Yan Yunqing revealed a surprised expression: “Really? That’s great! Yuli’s grilled lulu pig is awesome!”

Yuli also followed suit with a brilliant smile, like a lively little sun.

Yan Yunqing touched the top of Yuli’s head, feeling the soft touch under his palm, and a warm feeling welled up in his heart.

Whether this world was real or not didn’t really make a big difference to him, because he had already silently integrated into this world.

The sense of identity was so wonderful. When he identified with this world, visitors from another world were considered foreigners to him.

…

After talking to Uncle Rosen about Karenna’s matter, that one-eyed, limping, slovenly uncle finally burst into tears, crying uncontrollably.

Six years of sleepless nights finally led to a truth.

Rosen didn’t know if this truth was what he wanted. He couldn’t say anything, and could only cry out in grief.

Yan Yunqing left Rosen alone, as Rosen was better off alone at this time to digest this truth that was six years late.

Before leaving Sunset Village, he went to the old village chief’s house once again.

*

From the morning, the city was very lively. From time to time, guards in uniform could be seen passing by, patrolling the city.

Even the street hustlers who usually roamed the streets had quieted down, finding hidden places to temporarily lie low.

Some uninformed foreign merchants curiously asked the commoners on the street: “Is there an important festival today? The atmosphere in the city feels very different.”

The commoner he asked looked at the patrolling guards and said with a smile: “Today is the twenty-third prince of our Bato Vita’s birthday. The Bato King is holding a birthday banquet for His Highness the Prince, and has invited many nobles, lords, and ladies to attend. Even General Sawyer, who guards Scarne, has come. How could it not be different?”

The foreign merchant was amazed: “General Sawyer? Is that the legendary genius swordsman who reached level 100 at the age of thirty-eight?”

“Yes, yes, that’s him! He is a legendary figure in our Bato Vita!” He was very proud, and his face was full of longing when he talked about Adriane Sawyer.

No one in Bato Vita did not admire this general who guarded the border. Without the Sawyer family, without General Sawyer, there would be no temporarily peaceful country today.

Thank General Sawyer, praise the Goddess of Light!

Still in the inn, wondering where that magician who had already left was, and whether he had encountered any danger, Adriane suddenly sneezed.

He rubbed his nose and inexplicably felt a sense of disgust.

Strange, was someone talking about him?

“Knock knock—” There was a knock on the door of the entrance hall.

Adriane stood up, walked to the entrance hall, and opened the door. Anthony had already put on formal attire and appeared at the door.

The Sawyer army that Adriane brought couldn’t possibly enter the royal palace with him. Today, only he and his external brain, Anthony, would attend the invitation.

In the past few days, the Bato King had been refusing his audience, and Adriane had no way to submit his request for military expenses to him, so he only had the only opportunity at this birthday banquet today. If he couldn’t get the Bato King to allocate this sum of military expenses, the Sawyer army would really run out of food soon.

The Sawyer army were all heroes who were not afraid of bloodshed or beheading, and who swore to defend their homeland. They could endure hardships in their living conditions, but they could never compromise on weapons and food. If they couldn’t eat their fill, and didn’t even have a handy weapon, what would they use to fight the monsters?

The treasures inherited from the Sawyer family ancestors were only those few. They couldn’t be regenerated after being exchanged for new ones. In addition to selling some materials dropped by fighting monsters to support themselves, they could only wait for the superiors to allocate funds.

And the fallen soldiers… also needed sufficient compensation to subsidize those families who had lost their able-bodied labor.

Adriane pressed his throbbing temple, and he began to miss that gloomy magician again. Being by his side always made Adriane feel at ease.

Even though they had only met a few times, Adriane felt like they had known each other for a long, long time…

They shouldn’t just be strangers.

Alas… I wonder when Edward will reach his destination and write him a letter.

Anthony, who noticed that his general had inexplicably started spacing out again, standing there dumbly with the door open, wondering what he was thinking: ?

He reached out and waved in front of Adriane’s eyes. Adriane instinctively raised his head and grabbed him, his palm tightening—

“Ouch, ouch, ouch—” Anthony exclaimed, “Let go, let go! General, I didn’t do it on purpose!”

He felt like the bones in his wrist were about to be crushed. What a freakish strength his general had! So scary!

Adriane came back to his senses and let go. “Sorry—you shouldn’t wave in front of a swordsman, it’s too close, it’s easy to be mistaken for provocation.”

Anthony rubbed his aching wrist, speechless: So it was still his fault?

However, this was his superior, and he was powerless to resist.

“Understood, General…” Anthony drooped his head, dejected, cursing in his heart the self who had excitedly accepted the mission earlier.

Even if he might be physically silenced after returning, he had to shout it out loud: The general’s deceptiveness was too great—what brave and fearless genius swordsman, what taciturn flower on a high peak, all lies!

Those new recruits who had just joined the Sawyer army had all been deceived, ah ah ah ah—

Sawyer’s old generals, what a good scheme, to establish a very positive and handsome image of the general, to deceive more newcomers who worship the general into joining the Sawyer army, right?

Anthony felt like he had gotten to the truth.

He probably wasn’t far from being silenced.

Anthony looked like he was attending his own funeral.

Adriane started spacing out again.

“General, since you’re ready, we can prepare to go to the royal palace,” Anthony reminded.

Adriane woke up with a start, pinched the bridge of his nose, what was wrong with him today? He suddenly felt waves of chills and nausea, could it be that he was sick? But he hadn’t been sick since he reached level 80! It was really strange.

“Let’s go.”

Adriane went downstairs. The carriage that Anthony hired was already parked outside. It looked quite luxurious. He wondered how much it cost.

Adriane stopped involuntarily when he saw the carriage. “How much is this carriage?”

Anthony glanced at it. “Not expensive, three gold coins for a trip.”

Adriane gasped and couldn’t help but take a step back. “How much?”

“Three… gold coins for a trip?” Anthony said uncertainly.

Adriane was silent. He went around the carriage parked at the door and walked straight out.

Seeing this, Anthony quickly followed. “General! General! What are you doing? We should get on the carriage! It would be very rude to be late!”

Adriane suddenly stopped, turned around when Anthony almost bumped into his broad back, and grabbed Anthony. At this time, he still remembered to take into account the face of the Sawyer family, so he pulled Anthony into a corner.

Anthony looked terrified, put his hands in front of his chest, and stuttered, “G-General, although I admire you very much, maybe we’re not suitable?”

Adriane had question marks all over his face: What nonsense was this person talking about?

“It’s too expensive!”

“If you must… ah?” Anthony was confused, “What’s too expensive?”

“The carriage!” Adriane lowered his voice. “It’s too expensive.”

That was three gold coins! How much food could three gold coins buy? Three gold coins were enough for a ten-man squad to live frugally for half a month. He would take such a carriage to the royal palace, and ten people’s half-month rations would be gone just like that?

Adriane felt heartbroken just thinking about it!

If the royal family hadn’t arranged for this inn, he wouldn’t have been able to stay in such an expensive inn!

Because the royal family arranged a medium-sized room for him, Anthony had nagged him for a whole hour, saying that this was the Bato King’s way of intimidating them.

Adriane didn’t care about any intimidation. Not letting him spend money was the best thing. If he didn’t live in the inn provided by the royal family for free, would he have to spend his own money to provide accommodation for these twenty-odd Sawyer soldiers in other inns?!

He had no money!

He and the Sawyer family had no money!!!

Moreover, Adriane was also very satisfied with the arrangement of this inn, because the person he had been dreaming about lived right across from him. This was all fate!

“But… this carriage is already the minimum configuration for entering the royal palace,” Anthony also lowered his voice, and quickly surveyed the surroundings to make sure no one was eavesdropping on them. “There are specifications for carriages entering the royal palace, and they won’t let you in if you’re below that limit!”

“Then we won’t take a carriage.”

Anthony was stunned. “Then how are we going to get in?”

“We can walk to the royal palace!” Adriane said decisively.

Anthony: “…Really? Are we really going to do that?”

“Of course.” Adriane looked at Anthony strangely. “That’s three gold coins, too expensive. We didn’t bring much money in the first place. Do you want us to go back and have the whole team drink the northwest wind on the way?”

Anthony: …Didn’t want to.

Anthony tried to inquire about the news: “Then, General, how much money did we bring out this time?”

The money given for this trip was all in Adriane’s hands. Anthony, this external brain, didn’t even know how much money there was.

Adriane lowered his head and was silent. He touched his chest, remembering the bag of coins that the elders gave him before he left—all copper coins, which didn’t even add up to half a gold coin!

That elder said to him earnestly: “It’s okay, bring some dry food with you, deal with a few bites on the way. The royal family will treat you when you arrive in the capital. You can use that money to come back when you get the money from the Bato King.”

That bag of copper coins had already been spent on the way here. That elder had never thought about the possibility that they might not get the money.

In other words, if they got the money, they could go back smoothly. If they didn’t get the money… ha, they would have to beg their way back.

Did Adriane dare to say this? He was afraid that if he said it, this external brain would go on strike.

To make the horse work, you had to at least let the horse eat grass! If that didn’t work, you could hang a carrot in front of the donkey!

Seeing that Adriane didn’t say anything, Anthony gradually revealed a suspicious expression, thinking about the usual style of the Sawyer old general. “General, tell me the truth, you didn’t bring any money out at all, did you?”

“How is that possible?” Adriane subconsciously retorted, and touched the money bag in his arms. It was the money bag that Yan Yunqing paid the boy in the tavern. “How could we have come all the way from Scarne without money? Didn’t I spend money to let you stay in a hotel on the way?”

Anthony: “…General, you’re not being sincere, are you? Do you call that a hotel on the way? You just found a village, asked the villagers to get us an empty room, and there weren’t even any bedding. A dozen people were sleeping on the floor together!”

Adriane defended: “Didn’t we still have straw mats!”

Anthony: “…We brought the straw mats ourselves!!!”

Adriane was silent.

Anthony was desperate.

Seeing the general’s stinginess, they really didn’t bring any money this time! Even if they did, they couldn’t have brought much, otherwise the general wouldn’t be so stingy!!!

Adriane lowered his head, Adriane touched his chest again.

Anthony couldn’t help it: “No, General, what are you touching? With our poor appearance, even the dress is provided by the royal family, what treasure can you hide in your arms?”

Adriane was guilty, his eyes averted.

Well, it wasn’t a treasure, was it? Would half a bag of gold coins count?

When Edward went to pay the bill, with his keen eyes and ears, he naturally heard everything that Edward and the bartender said, knowing that there was a lot of money in the bag, and Edward had left it all for him to drink. Could Adriane still have the nerve to continue drinking?

Of course not, so he finished all the remaining wine (because he couldn’t return it once it was on the table), and then went to the boy to ask for the remaining money.

Originally, the boy wanted to swallow it all by himself, but he surrendered after Adriane stared at him for three seconds. He could only tremble and deduct the money he had spent on wine, and hand the remaining half bag of gold coins to Adriane.

Adriane counted, and the gold coins in the money bag were enough for him to spend for a year!!!

Edward was such a good person… When could Edward write him a letter? He missed him so much…

Anthony watched as the general spaced out again. He was frantic: “General, say something!”

Adriane: “…Anyway, we don’t have that much money, so let’s walk in.”

Anthony’s eyes lost focus. “But… if we walk in, we won’t have any momentum to begin with, won’t we still be stopped at the gate of the royal palace?”

After all, those who were invited to attend the twenty-third prince’s birthday banquet were either rich or noble.

Their Sawyer family was noble, but only in name. They were even poorer than the commoners in this capital city.

They couldn’t afford a carriage and had to walk into the royal palace? They had lost all face, and they were going to negotiate with the Bato King? Could they negotiate?

Anthony was very anxious. He looked at the carriage still parked at the door and then at Adriane, wishing that a huge fortune would fall on their heads so that they would have money to take a carriage.

No—if they could take it a step further, it would be enough to cover the Sawyer army’s expenses for the next ten years.

Anthony prayed so.

Adriane had already taken the lead and walked out. Seeing that Adriane had made up his mind to walk into the royal palace, Anthony could only quickly run back and tell the coachman that he wouldn’t hire the carriage, and then quickly run back to Adriane’s side.

Just when Anthony thought that they were really going to walk through the bustling city, watched by all the commoners, to enter the royal palace, a heavenly voice sounded.

“Oh, is that General Sawyer?”

Anthony looked over expectantly. A gorgeous carriage stopped not far from them. The curtain of the carriage was slightly lifted, and a bright-eyed girl poked her little head out, looking curiously at Anthony and Adriane.

Anthony was stunned for a moment, then immediately matched the little girl in front of him with the eleventh princess of the Bato King. Before coming, he had memorized the appearance of everyone in the royal family, in order to prevent his general from getting into an embarrassing situation.

He retreated to Adriane’s side and whispered to Adriane, “This is the eleventh princess, Alice. She and her brother William entered Sigret Academy to study a few years ago, and she also has the name of genius.”

Adriane was still not amiable to the princess. Perhaps only Edward or a pile of gold coins in front of him could make him slightly moved.

He nodded, “Your Highness Eleventh, good day.”

Alice’s gaze swept lightly over them and she remembered some of the rumors she had heard before and had a good idea of what was going on.

“Did the general not rent a carriage? Well, there are indeed many foreign nobles today. I heard that the coach companies have made a fortune, and many nobles who came from out of town a little late are worried about how they will get to the royal palace today.”

Anthony thought: This little princess is so young, but she speaks so nicely. They obviously couldn’t afford a car, but in the princess’s mouth, it became that they were a step late and didn’t rent a car.

Alice invited with a smile, “Why don’t the general and this adjutant get on our carriage first? It just so happens that the carriage I rented is quite big, so the general won’t feel crowded when he comes in.”

Adriane looked at Alice and then at the carriage, feeling very tempted, but he still refused. “No need.”

Anthony poked his general crazily in the back: Why refuse! With the eleventh princess with them, they wouldn’t be stopped by the guards when they entered! And they wouldn’t have to lose face all the way to the royal palace!

Adriane grabbed Anthony’s fingers that kept poking at his back, and glared back.

Alice blinked her eyes, and suddenly realized, “In that case, I won’t disturb the general and the adjutant. Then, see you at the royal palace.”

Adriane nodded. “See you at the royal palace.”

The luxurious carriage swayed and drove off again, and a young male voice could vaguely be heard complaining: “Why did you invite those two people? Don’t tell me you really…”

The voice gradually dissipated into the air as the carriage drove away.

Anthony watched the eleventh princess’s carriage drive away, tears in his heart, “Why didn’t we take the eleventh princess’s carriage?”

Wasn’t their general the most fond of taking small advantages?

Adriane looked at Anthony with the eyes of a fool. “To avoid suspicion.”

Anthony was stunned and quickly realized, “You mean those rumors are true?”

Adriane didn’t say anything, acquiescing.

Anthony smacked his lips, incredulous, “What is the Bato King thinking? How old is the eleventh princess this year, and he wants to… tsk, he’s really not a good thing.” He said the last sentence almost in a whisper, not daring to scold the Bato King loudly on the road of the Bato Vita capital.

But Adriane still said to him: “Be careful what you say.”

They still needed to ask the Bato King for help. They couldn’t scold him until the money was in their hands.

Anthony obediently covered his mouth, made a gesture of silence, and then secretly scolded the Bato King in his heart.

That old thing dared to covet their general! Although their general was a bit stingy, a bit poor, had a bit of an abnormal brain circuit, and was occasionally a bit petty, but their general—their general was strong! Their general was a level 100 swordsman!

And… uh, and… um…

In short, such a perfect general, how could that old thing be worthy of being the general’s father-in-law? Not to mention that he wanted to match the general with the eleven princess, who was only twelve years old.

Too outrageous!

Adriane glanced thoughtfully at the crowd, scanned his eyes, and couldn’t find the existence that made him feel a little palpitation, so he could only give up and continue to walk towards the royal palace.

Yan Yunqing, who took this scene into his eyes, almost laughed to death in the crowd.

After discovering that Adriane had looked over, he quickly lowered his head, pretending to look at the vegetables on the roadside vegetable stand, and finally dared to laugh out loud after Adriane and Anthony left.

How could this pair be so funny?

Today, Yan Yunqing was playing the role of a coachman. He directly replaced the appearance of a coachman, let the coachman sleep peacefully at home, and he even put two gold coins in the jar where the other party hid money, as compensation for today’s truancy.

There were not many philanthropists like him who paid to work for others.

Yan Yunqing: Dumbledore shakes his head. GIF

He didn’t expect that the coachman he replaced was sent to drive for General Sawyer. He was a little panicked at first, but trusting his acting skills, he temporarily held back and waited for Adriane’s reaction.

He didn’t expect Adriane to be so shocked when he saw the carriage and pulled Anthony to the corner to talk secretly.

Yan Yunqing was curious about what they were talking about, so he went to eavesdrop. He didn’t expect these two people to directly start talking crosstalk in the corner, making Yan Yunqing want to laugh but not dare to, and his neck turned red.

It was also thanks to Adriane’s haste that Anthony didn’t have time to notice his strangeness before chasing after him.

Yan Yunqing shook his head, threw the hilarious duo out of his mind, and drove the carriage back to the coach company.