Who told you I am an NPC

Chapter : 13

Watching Yan Yunqing and Lilian bicker, the mermaid, who had been in low spirits with a hint of sorrow on her face since waking up, was finally amused.

Lilian pinched Yan Yunqing's cheek and pulled it outwards, "You childish ghost, look, the little mermaid is laughing at you!"

Yan Yunqing, unconvinced, flicked Lilian away, "Aren't you the childish one?

Lilian, who always calls herself a cub!"

The war between the two childish ghosts ended with Yan Yunqing's tactical lowering of his head.

The mermaid finally found a chance to speak. She introduced herself, "My name is Cornelia Floyd. You can call me Cornelia."

"My name is Lilian. As you can see, I'm an elf cub."

Lilian winked at Cornelia.

"Although I was probably born earlier than both of you, according to our elf lifespan, I am indeed a cub who was just born not long ago."

"Hello, Lilian." Cornelia's emerald green eyes curved, and she then said to Yan Yunqing, "Hello, A-Yan? Your name sounds a bit strange, but it sounds very nice. Does it seem to have a special meaning?"

Yan Yunqing shrugged, "Then should I thank you for the compliment on behalf of my parents?"

"You probably won't understand the special meaning.

It was originally taken from 'hǎi yàn hé qīng,' but 'hé qīng' is a bit too common.

It just so happened that the day I was born, the weather was clear and cloudless, so they named me Yunqing."

Both Lilian and Cornelia listened with partial understanding, looking bewildered.

Yan Yunqing was helpless: after all, there's a whole world of distance between us.

This kind of allusion is quite difficult to explain.

Then again, when Yan Yunqing occasionally used idioms, it didn't feel like Lilian couldn't understand them.

Could it be that because this world was originally created by people from Blue Star, some cultural aspects could be understood implicitly without special explanation?

Or did his game system automatically translate his words into vocabulary that the creatures here could understand?

A cool breeze blew past, lifting Cornelia's long hair and skirt, and also blowing the dark clouds overhead a little further away, revealing the moon that had been completely hidden underneath.

The silvery-white brilliance scattered down, gently draping them in a layer of silvery-white light gauze.

Yan Yunqing looked up at the bright and clear moon, then at the two dirty faces under the moonlight, and couldn't help but laugh.

"Let's go, find a place to rest, and then continue to think of a way to leave this city."

***

After finding a sparsely populated place, the three of them could finally sit down and rest for a while.

Yan Yunqing took out the food he had taken from the auction house.

He had to say, the auction house was quite generous.

The original fruit platter in the VIP box had been gnawed on quite a bit by Lilian, and they had later sent in a lot of exquisite food for him.

After sharing the remaining food, Yan Yunqing took out a few stamina pills and chewed on them.

The physical exhaustion was swept away, but his mind couldn't help but feel a little weary.

From the moment he woke up in the cage and figured out his situation, Yan Yunqing's brain had been running at high speed, his nerves tense to deal with any situation that could potentially worsen at any time.

Now that he was on the verge of complete safety, Yan Yunqing's spirit relaxed, and a wave of uncontrollable sleepiness washed over him.

He really missed the 1.8-meter double Si〇mmons bed in his room!

His life and chastity were temporarily saved.

Yan Yunqing finally had time to feel homesick, thinking of that warm big bed, the unhealthy and fattening gutter oil takeout, the upcoming leisurely university life……

Yan Yunqing's eyes reddened a bit.

He hadn't dared to think about it before, for fear that if he thought too much, faced with such a hellish start, he would just give up and lie flat, letting fate beat him down.

Sigh…… transmigration isn't that great after all.

Yan Yunqing held his face and sighed, muttering to himself, "I forgot to put out food for the puppy before I went to bed. I wonder if Henhen can feed himself……"

Forget it, could he expect a stupid dog to open the cabinet door on its own and then take out the heavy dog food bag and open it?

He hoped this stupid dog would be a little smarter and, if it was really starving, would break out of jail and become a stray.

After all, its owner now looked like he was about to become a stray himself.

"Um…… so are we going to leave the city now?"

Cornelia was the first to break the silence.

"We have to bypass those guards, right?"

Yan Yunqing: "Yes, after all, we escaped.

It might be too late to go out tomorrow morning."

"Hmm…… I know a place that might let us sneak out of the city, avoiding the guards' sight." Cornelia hesitated, "It's just……"

……

Yan Yunqing: "A dog hole?!"

Cornelia nodded and led the way in front.

"Before I was captured, I actually lived around the capital for a period of time.

Because I didn't have money to enter the city, I asked the children from the surrounding villages."

"One of the children secretly told me that there's a dog hole over here…… ah, it's not really a dog hole, maybe it was just an ordinary small hole at first, and then the surrounding villagers secretly dug it a bit bigger.

Those who need to enter the city but don't have enough copper coins to pay the entrance fee would sneak in from here."

"But I only heard this from that child. I know the general direction is here, but I've never walked it."

Cornelia blushed a little in embarrassment, like a rosy apple.

"Not long after, I was tricked…… and captured, so I never had the chance to look for it."

"So, why did you want to enter the city?"

Yan Yunqing asked casually.

"Could it be that you were captured by the people from the auction house because of this matter of entering the city?"

Cornelia became even more embarrassed, "Um…… actually, I wanted to find my older sister……"

At the mention of her sister, Cornelia's expression dimmed a little.

"Before…… my sister suddenly disappeared.

I heard from my clansmen that they saw my sister sending a person who had fallen into the water ashore, but I waited on the rocks by the shore for several days and didn't see my sister come back.

I was a little worried, so I thought of coming ashore to look for her."

Such a familiar development.

Yan Yunqing couldn't help but continue the conversation, "The one your sister saved wasn't some prince, was he?

And then that prince said he wanted to marry your sister, and your sister was moved by the prince, so she went with him?"

Cornelia looked at Yan Yunqing strangely, "No…… of course not.

My sister is the next king of the Sea Tribe.

How could she casually abandon her people and go ashore to marry a prince?"

Ah, it seems what they say in fairy tales isn't necessarily true.

Yan Yunqing thought.

"But you might be right about one thing," Cornelia said.

"The person who fell into the water that my sister saved really seems to be a prince."

Yan Yunqing: ?

So what they say in fairy tales isn't necessarily false either.

"I'm a half-breed mermaid. I turned into a human after coming ashore.

I pretended to be a traveler separated from my friends and asked around in the seaside village.

They said that no outsiders had come to the village recently, but a foreign noble master had accidentally fallen into the water nearby.

It was a beautiful mermaid who saved him.

I knew it must be my sister."

"The villagers weren't clear about what happened next, so I asked around and heard that the noble master was very likely a prince of Bartovita."

Cornelia's expression was dejected, "I asked all the way here and found the capital.

I heard that all the princes live here, so I wanted to come in and inquire about my sister's whereabouts.

But I came out in a hurry and didn't bring anything valuable, so I couldn't enter the city.

Later, in my anxiety, I might have accidentally revealed that I was a mermaid, and I was captured."

The more Yan Yunqing listened, the more he felt that Cornelia's sister was probably not in a good situation.

From the looks of the Fifth Prince of Bartovita whom he had met today, it was hard to say what kind of person his brothers were.

"Well, actually, you don't have to worry too much."

Lilian said bluntly, "From what you've said, your sister must be a pure-blooded mermaid.

She's even been designated as the next king.

Her strength is definitely stronger than a half-breed like you.

It's useless for you to worry.

If your sister was really captured by bad people, you'd just be adding another mermaid display to their showcase."

Yan Yunqing was almost choked by Lilian's consolation.

I know your intentions are good, but please don't start.

You're about to kill someone with your words.

Cornelia actually nodded in agreement, "I figured it out when I was captured.

My strength is still too weak.

If my sister is really in danger, it's better to let the more powerful elders from the clan come."

"So you didn't notify your clan at all from the beginning, and just ran ashore by yourself…… as one fish?"

Yan Yunqing thought Cornelia was too reckless.

"Both you sisters are missing, and your clansmen didn't react at all?"

Cornelia was bewildered, "I don't know…… probably?"

She said softly, "My sister is very strong.

She occasionally goes on long trips to hunt or play.

Everyone in the clan knows her habits. As for me……"

Cornelia didn't continue, but Yan Yunqing immediately thought of what Lilian had said before about half-breeds not being welcomed in any race.

He figured that no one would care even if Cornelia went missing.

After walking in silence for a while, Cornelia stopped, observed her surroundings for a long time, and then said hesitantly, "It seems to be here?"

She bent down and parted the bushes with her hands, looking for the hole that the nearby villagers had dug together.

Seeing this, Yan Yunqing quickly picked up a wooden stick and joined the search.

The fact that the villagers could enter and exit the capital through this hole for so long without being discovered once showed how well hidden it was.

After searching for a long time, Yan Yunqing and his group found nothing.

"I say, is that dog hole really here?" Lilian panted.

"You weren't tricked by that child, were you?"

"Eh? No way?" Cornelia was not very confident.

"But I even paid him……"

"Paid him?" x2

"Yes, I, I……" Cornelia lowered her head.

"That was the last of my money. I gave it all to that child."

Yan Yunqing and Lilian looked at each other.

"Were you tricked?" Yan Yunqing hesitated.

"Perhaps that child didn't know the location of the hole either?"

Lilian was blunt, "I don't think that dog hole exists at all. You were completely tricked."

Cornelia was stunned.

Her emerald green eyes flickered and gradually dimmed, "How could it be……"

"The human race, they're just a bunch of cunning and scheming guys."

Lilian snorted.

"A naive mermaid like you wouldn't even realize it after being completely eaten up by humans!"

The disgust for humans in her words was impossible to hide.

Cornelia lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking.

Yan Yunqing saw her hands clasped tightly together and suspected that she might burst into tears in the next second.

"Uh…… well……" Yan Yunqing tried to mediate.

"Don't say that. There are good people among humans too, you just haven't met them."

"Like the one we met when we just escaped.

If he wasn't a good person, why would he let us go after discovering that we were escaped merchandise?"

Lilian strongly disagreed with Yan Yunqing's view, "Maybe he saw me and thought he couldn't beat me, so he just let us go? — After all, I'm an elf, a natural-born magician!"

Yan Yunqing: "……Oh?

Then, great Lady Lilian, why didn't you show off your great power and just blast the entire auction house with magic, letting us leave directly?"

Lilian was choked for a moment and muttered in a low voice, "Maybe that person was thinking just that?"

A moment of silence.

"Anyway—" Yan Yunqing keenly noticed that chaos was starting to brew in the city.

In the distance, the flickering lights of fires could be seen.

"The matter with the auction house has probably blown up by now.

Since we can't get out for the time being, let's find a safe place first."

The night was already deep.