Who told you I am an NPC

Chapter : 12

However, it seemed that the other party indeed had no ill will towards them.

Yan Yunqing pulled his hood back on and said to him in a low voice, "Thank you."

Then, without looking back, he ran in the direction the other party had pointed.

The masked man watched Yan Yunqing leave before running towards his own target again.

***

The journey was surprisingly smooth. They didn't encounter a single person along the way.

It wasn't until Yan Yunqing had run a long way from the blasted-open hole and was standing on a dark, small road that he realized in a daze that he had already escaped.

Lilian emerged from Yan Yunqing's hood, also looking relieved.

"That was scary.

I thought we were going to be killed right then and there.

That guy didn't look like someone to be trifled with."

Yan Yunqing was deep in thought.

He glanced at the top of Lilian's head and found that, at some point, she too had the text [Lv.45 Lilian] hovering above her, which was particularly conspicuous in the dark.

Strange, when did this appear?

Why hadn't he seen it before?

Could it be that his golden finger had only just finished installing successfully?

Yan Yunqing studied it for a bit and finally discovered that the [Escape the Auction House] quest on his quest panel was now marked as completed, and his level had risen from 0 to 1.

Many other functions had been added to the game panel.

Yan Yunqing scanned it and found many practical functions.

He even saw a [Minimap] function in the game panel.

He clicked on it, and a simplified, detailed map unfolded before him.

A white dot represented him, and two green dots beside him represented Lilian and the little mermaid, which should mean they were in the friendly faction.

Not far away, a pile of yellow dots and a group of red dots were entangled together.

This was also easy to understand; it should be the people from the neutral faction 'Blood Mist' fighting with the people from the opposing faction, the auction house.

So if he had this minimap function from the beginning, would he have needed to rack his brains thinking about how to escape?

So the game functions weren't fully unlocked at level 0?

Yan Yunqing was speechless for a few seconds, feeling the urge to swear but not knowing at whom, leaving him choked with silent exasperation.

Really, it felt like this world was a huge makeshift troupe.

He was so angry he had to laugh.

Yan Yunqing surveyed his surroundings and, based on the markings on the minimap, found his direction.

"Let's go.

That person just now was right.

We can't stay in this place for too long.

It's best if we leave tonight."

If it were just them escaping, it would be one thing, but that organization called 'Blood Mist' had gotten involved.

It looked like they had big plans for tonight, perhaps even killing some high-status nobles.

By the time those people's families reacted and the whole city was under lockdown, it would be difficult for them to leave.

Carrying the little mermaid and with Lilian, Yan Yunqing walked out with one deep step and one shallow one.

Using the minimap's markers, he tried his best to avoid the people around, regardless of their faction.

Fortunately, it was late at night, and there weren't many people wandering outside.

However, this minimap's detection function wasn't as outrageous as Yan Yunqing had imagined.

It could probably only detect the dynamics of NPCs within a radius of about ten meters with Yan Yunqing at the center.

Like a small radar.

Upon reaching the edge of the city, Yan Yunqing found that the city gates were tightly shut and the city walls were heavily guarded.

It was basically impossible for him to leave under the cover of night.

"This is the capital of Bartovita, after all," Lilian said.

"If even the capital's guards aren't strict, then the royal family might as well step down and be replaced."

Yan Yunqing held his forehead, "That's terrible.

If we wait until tomorrow morning, a new situation might arise."

Lilian was also thinking, "Let me think, what kind of magic could be useful in this situation……"

"You guys……"

As both of them were quietly thinking, a hoarse voice suddenly emerged, startling both Yan Yunqing and Lilian who were pondering how to get out of the city.

"Ah!"

"What the!"

Yan Yunqing almost took out the dagger from his backpack for a life-or-death battle.

He looked around and only then realized it was the little mermaid, who had been sleeping on his shoulder, who had woken up.

"You're awake!" Lilian flew to the little mermaid's face. "How are you feeling?"

"This guy went through a lot of trouble to save you. Quickly say thank you, little cat."

"Thank you…… little cat?"

The mermaid opened her mouth and, like a parrot mimicking speech, repeated Lilian's words in confusion.

Her voice was as hoarse as a out-of-tune string on a long-neglected instrument, completely different from the mermaid's singing voice Yan Yunqing had imagined.

"I told you not to call me little cat…… Don't always pretend you didn't hear me!"

Yan Yunqing rolled his eyes. "If you call me little cat again, I'll leave you behind."

"Is this how you treat the great Lady Lilian?" Lilian was displeased.

"You call me 'dear' when you need me, and threaten to leave me behind when you don't. You're such a bad cat!"

"When did I ever call you 'dear'?" Yan Yunqing felt he had been slandered.

"Hmph hmph." Lilian flew a little higher.

"So…… you're the ones who saved me?"

The mermaid raised her hand and found that she was secured to Yan Yunqing's back with a piece of cloth.

She couldn't help but poke Yan Yunqing's shoulder. "Um, you can put me down now."

"It's not really saving, we just happened to run into you."

Yan Yunqing just then realized the mermaid was still on his back.

He lowered his head to untie the tattered cloth, squatted down slightly, and let the mermaid slowly land on the ground.

"Besides, you helped me first."

The mermaid's feet landed on the ground, and she clearly staggered.

Yan Yunqing steadied her with a quick hand.

She took a moment to adapt before she could stand firm.

Yan Yunqing's gaze lingered for a moment on the top of the mermaid's head without a trace, then quickly moved away.

"Ah……"

The mermaid stared at Yan Yunqing's face for a while, her gaze lingering for a long time on the pair of cat ears on his head.

"So it's you, the little……"

"Wait! Stop!" Yan Yunqing made a pause gesture.

"My name is Yan Yunqing.

You can call me A-Yan, or Yunqing…… Yan-ge or Xiao Yan are also fine. 'Little cat' and such are too embarrassing."

"Oh." The mermaid blinked. "Um, A-Yan?

Calling you Yan-ge seems a bit…… Actually, I'm already fifty-six years old this year."

Yan Yunqing's pupils quaked. "Wait, fif-fifty-six years old?!"

He couldn't help but take two steps back.

"Then, then should I be calling you Auntie Mermaid or something……"

The mermaid stared at Yan Yunqing's panicked expression for a long time before she burst out laughing. "Just kidding, I'm not fifty-six."

Lilian also laughed loudly, "Little cat, half-breeds don't live long. Her appearance is obviously not old. What are you thinking!"

Yan Yunqing: ……

He couldn't help but glare at Lilian.

"What are you so proud of? In that case, among us, aren't you the oldest?

The oldest in age but the smallest in size, what do you have to be proud of?

Auntie Lilian?"

"Hey, hey!" Lilian stomped her feet.

"What's with the 'Auntie Lilian'! I'm an elf still in my childhood! A cub, a cub!"

Yan Yunqing rolled his eyes and continued to breakdance on Lilian's sore spot, "Auntie Lilian, Granny Lilian, Lilian—"

"That's enough, that's enough!" Lilian pounced over to cover Yan Yunqing's mouth.

"Don't casually discuss a woman's age! Especially not a girl's!"

Yan Yunqing dodged.

"Huh? Don't you elves have no gender distinction during your childhood?

What makes you a girl?"

Lilian's pounce missed. Hearing his words, she was shocked, "Wait, you know this?

Aren't you a little cat with no common sense?

How do you even know the secrets of our elf race?"

Yan Yunqing finally won a round and was very proud.

"I know more than you think."

Of course he knew.

He had been shocked once by the Schrödinger's gender of the elf race when he was playing 'Demon King'.

The Elf King at that time, who Lilian referred to as the First Elf King, was a male elf with a very exquisite portrait.

In the mid to late game, he inexplicably confessed to Yan Yunqing, which startled him.

He thought he was playing a game with the wrong orientation and quickly refused, using the reason: 'Sorry, I like women.'

In the end, the Elf King just paused for a moment and said, 'Is that so, I understand.'

The next day when Yan Yunqing logged on, he found that the Elf King's portrait had changed from male to female.

Although he still had long hair and the same face, the lines were clearly softer, and his chest muscles had inexplicably gotten bigger.

Yan Yunqing was stunned.

The Elf King approached him again and said, 'I am a woman now, can I like you?', which completely baffled him.

It was only after he understood the settings of the elf race that Yan Yunqing learned that an elf's gender was Schrödinger's.

There was no distinction between male and female in childhood.

After reaching adulthood, they would differentiate into male or female according to their own subjective will.

Of course, after an elf had differentiated their gender, if they felt that the other gender suited them better, they only needed to go to the Elven Mother Tree and make a wish to change their gender again.

For this Schrödinger's gender, the game's explanation was: elves are one of only two races that do not need to reproduce on their own.

All elves are hatched from the fruits that grow on the Elven Mother Tree.

After death, elves will also return to the embrace of the Elven Mother Tree, so gender is not important to them.

Yan Yunqing expressed his confusion, because the other race that didn't need to reproduce, the angels, didn't have the ability to change their gender at will!

After understanding all the settings of the elf race, Yan Yunqing solemnly rejected the Elf King's request for a relationship, righteously stating that as long as the war had not ended and the world was not at peace, he did not have time to think about romantic affairs.

It was also from the Elf King's sudden confession that the Demon King's retainers began to inexplicably become perverted towards the Demon King.

The typical example was the dragon prince who had scraped his own tendons, pulled out his own bones, and even chose the most beautiful scales from his body to make a set of armor for the Demon King.

Although the college entrance exam was an important reason, as an art student whose art exam scores were among the top, his cultural course scores didn't need to be too high to get into his desired school.

Moreover, Yan Yunqing's cultural scores had always been quite good, so playing games occasionally wasn't a big deal.

So if it weren't for the retainers being too difficult (perverted) back then, and Yan Yunqing only wanting to focus on base-building, he wouldn't have quit the game so decisively.

This wave, ah, this wave was due to the infrastructure-building gene in the bones of the Zhonghua people not allowing Yan Yunqing to mess around with romantic affairs.