Who told you I am an NPC

Chapter : 14

Easier said than done.

In the end, the three of them only found an empty church and climbed into the storage room behind it through a broken window.

Yan Yunqing was choked several times by the dust-covered windowsill.

The environment wasn't great, but they had no other choice.

The commotion outside lasted for a long time, only quieting down completely when the sky began to brighten.

Yan Yunqing was afraid that someone would come to the church at dawn, so while it was still misty, he woke up his two companions.

"We should go.

Someone could come here at any time."

Cornelia woke up the moment Yan Yunqing spoke.

Her face was drowsy, but her movements weren't slow. After getting up, she patted her cheeks to wake herself up a bit more.

Lilian, on the other hand, only reluctantly opened her eyes after being called several times.

She put her hand in front of her mouth, yawned widely, and rubbed her eyes as she slowly landed on Yan Yunqing's head.

"You have so much energy.

Why aren't you sleepy at all?"

As she spoke, she tried to reach for the ears on top of Yan Yunqing's head, but her hand grasped at empty air.

Lilian froze, looked at her hand, then at the top of Yan Yunqing's head.

After a moment of dazed, she cried out in alarm, "Heavens, little cat, you lost your ears!"

Hearing Lilian's cry of surprise, Cornelia also looked in Yan Yunqing's direction, a hint of surprise in her eyes, "Really?"

Yan Yunqing was confused, "Hmm?"

He reached up to touch the top of his head and indeed found nothing.

He then turned his head to look behind him.

The tail that had been so present since he woke up in the warehouse was gone.

It was really gone?

Yan Yunqing opened his character panel and found that the Beastman in his race column had disappeared, leaving only Demon King.

Yan Yunqing: ???

What's going on? Can this species be changed a second time?

It couldn't be that he secretly evolved, could it?

Lilian flew a circle around Yan Yunqing, up and down.

"Completely gone! Logically speaking, a beastman's secondary characteristics shouldn't disappear.

They are a remnant of genetic atavism. Could it be that……"

"Could it be that?" Yan Yunqing waited for Lilian's answer.

Lilian clapped her hand.

"You're not the little cat.

The little cat has been replaced by a bad guy!"

"Quick, tell me who you are! What is your purpose in replacing the little cat!"

Cornelia was startled and immediately looked at Yan Yunqing with vigilance.

She was on full alert, looking more like a cat baring its claws and teeth than Yan Yunqing did.

She was just short of extending her claws to scratch Yan Yunqing.

Yan Yunqing was rendered speechless by Lilian's astonishing words.

"Come on, in just a few hours, who could have replaced me?"

Lilian shook her head profoundly, "That's not necessarily true.

Magic is a very profound subject.

It's not like there are no magical disguise spells in this world.

Maybe someone could replace you without a sound?"

Yan Yunqing: ……

Yan Yunqing once again bent his finger and flicked Lilian away.

"Be serious!"

Lilian clutched her head and tumbled a few times in the air, "Ouch, you bad cat!"

Yan Yunqing studied the panel for a while and felt that he might not have been a beastman from the beginning.

Before, there was a question mark after 'Beastman' in the race column of his personal panel!

Perhaps he had temporarily turned into a beastman through some means?

When the time was up, all his beastman characteristics disappeared.

This explanation was the most reasonable, but Yan Yunqing didn't plan to say it out loud.

Although the race column on his game panel said Demon King, his current appearance was completely human, and Lilian had such a deep-seated hatred for humans.

Yan Yunqing didn't want to anger away his newly-formed teammate for the time being.

At least, Lilian was still very useful as a temporary 'magic tutor'.

He had skipped the class-change quest and used magic directly. Maybe he could even get a couple more skills from Lilian.

Anyway, his race was indeed Demon King, not human.

This shouldn't be considered deceiving an elf, right?

Cornelia understood from the way Yan Yunqing and Lilian interacted that the two were joking again.

While she was relieved, she was also a little curious about why Yan Yunqing's ears and tail had disappeared.

But since Yan Yunqing didn't seem to have any intention of explaining, she considerately didn't ask.

After erasing the traces of their overnight stay in the church, the three of them left as quietly as they had come.

While resting yesterday, Yan Yunqing had already re-examined his game panel.

His main quest [Escape the Auction House] was already completed, and two new quests had been generated.

[A Safe Place]

Description: You have successfully escaped the fate of being arbitrarily chosen on the trading table, but just leaving the auction house does not mean you are safe.

The person you met on your escape warned you that it's best to leave before those noble masters react.

You must leave this prosperous capital as soon as possible and find a truly safe place to stay.

[Investigate 'Blood Mist']

Description: You met a strange person on your escape.

Not only did he not have any malicious intent towards you, he even let you and your companions go.

You gathered from his few words that he belongs to the organization that created the chaos tonight.

Perhaps they are the 'mice' that those 'cats' are looking for?

You are curious about this. Find a chance to investigate 'Blood Mist'!

One was a main story phase quest, and the other was a side exploration quest.

Yan Yunqing always felt that the descriptions of these two quests were not quite like the previous 'Escape the Auction House' quest.

The previous quest description seemed to call him 'little cat' with deep malice, while the current quest descriptions were very common and ordinary game text.

It was as if the two were not written by the same planning team.

Was it his imagination?

Putting that aside for now, he opened the skill panel and spent five skill points to light up the skill he had been considering all night.

[Roleplay (Not upgradeable)]

You can roleplay as any 'character' you have seen whose level is lower than yours.

During the roleplay, you will completely conform to all the characteristics of the roleplayed object.

The magic power consumption varies depending on the difficulty of the roleplayed object.

After his character level rose to 1, because he had skipped the class-change quest, his skill panel was directly unlocked, but it was still grayed out. Skill points were needed to light up these skills.

According to the settings in 'Demon King,' the initial skill bar only had the most basic skills.

All new skills had to be learned through skill books, and learning skill books required skill points.

The ways to obtain skill points were relatively few.

Each level up would give five skill points, some hidden quests would reward skill points, and there was a certain probability of getting skill points as a reward from weekly instances.

The ways to obtain skill books were much more diverse.

They could be bought in the store with real money, there was a certain probability of finding skill books in the in-game library, and you could even learn from NPCs in the game... and so on.

Yan Yunqing's skill panel was a mess of skills, all inherited from the Demon King's panel, but they were all grayed out and needed to be re-learned with skill points.

However, this also greatly facilitated Yan Yunqing.

At least now he didn't need to search the whole world for skill books to learn.

He just needed to grind levels to light up high-level skills.

The Demon King's skill panel was very magnificent.

For example, this [Roleplay (Not upgradeable)] did not belong to any class branch of magician or swordsman.

It was just a serendipitous skill given for completing a certain hidden quest.

It just happened to meet Yan Yunqing's current needs.

He needed to leave the capital safely now, and a powerful disguise skill was essential.

After adding all five free attribute points from leveling up to his constitution to ensure that he wouldn't accidentally get himself killed during the escape, Yan Yunqing had Lilian and Cornelia wait in a corner first.

"What are you going to do?"

In front of the two of them, Yan Yunqing used [Roleplay (Not upgradeable)].

The originally black-haired and black-eyed Yan Yunqing's figure gradually shrank, little by little turning into a real cat.

Long, curly white fur, blue-green eyes like iridescent gems, slightly short limbs, the fur on its belly touching the ground, and a pink bow tied around its neck.

This was a cat Yan Yunqing had seen in the banquet hall of the auction house.

At that time, an exquisitely dressed noble lady was holding this cute cat while chatting with people.

Lilian: ?!

Lilian was amazed, "Eh?!

You actually…… ah, I get it! So your ears and tail are gone because you've completely atavized!

Eh…… wait, can a beastman cub completely atavize?

Or did you just happen to come of age today?"

Influenced by the role he was playing, Yan Yunqing subconsciously shook his fur and rolled his eyes at Lilian.

"This is just my ability."

Everyone has a talent skill, so it's normal for him to have a roleplaying talent skill, right?

The main thing was that a skill like 'Advent of the Demon King' was simply not something he could show!

Resisting the urge to lick his fur, Yan Yunqing flicked his tail.

The benefit of this skill was now apparent.

As a first-time cat, he had learned to walk on four legs without any instruction.

"I'm going out to observe the situation.

You guys wait for me here."

Yan Yunqing instructed his two companions and leaped away.

Lilian complained, "You don't let me call you little cat, but haven't you completely turned into a cat now?"

***

The sky had not yet fully brightened, but many commoners were already up and about on the streets, seemingly unaffected by last night's accident.

Yan Yunqing moved through the alleys and side streets, barely attracting anyone's attention.

The cat he was roleplaying was very small, the type that could be held in a noble lady's palm.

It was probably a breed specifically chosen for its small size.

He looked left and right, jumped onto a family's windowsill, and then a few more leaps onto the roof.

Looking down from the roof, Yan Yunqing couldn't help but take a step back and take a deep breath to stop his legs from almost starting to tremble.

Wow, so high!

Lifting his gaze and not looking down, Yan Yunqing felt much better.

He ran and jumped along the roofs and found a place where a crowd had gathered.

He lay down and listened to the people working below chat.

There were no substantial topics, just chats about which shop was selling cheaper wheat flour recently, or which family's boy was getting along with which girl.

The porters discussed going to the tavern together for a drink tonight, and the women washing clothes discussed going to buy new floral cloth together tomorrow morning to get a discount.

Yan Yunqing lay there listening for a while, yawned, and felt a little regretful.

He should have brought Lilian along.

That one was a chatterbox. Squatting here with her to eavesdrop would definitely not have been boring.

After squatting for a while longer, Yan Yunqing stood up and was about to leave when he heard the two women washing clothes finish talking about their daughters.

One of them secretly looked around before leaning towards the other like a thief.

"Did you hear about what happened last night?"

Yan Yunqing's spirits lifted.

He shook his fur and pretended to approach nonchalantly, taking a few small leaps and sitting down behind a bamboo basket behind them.

"You mean last night?"

The woman listening to the gossip also looked around and said in a low voice, "Not only did I hear about it, you also know my house is very close to there.

It was so lively over there last night, all the fighting and killing. It seems several noble masters died!"

"Really?"

"Of course, I was scared to death at home last night.

Warren didn't sleep a wink and stood guard at the door with a knife all night."

She looked around and said in an even lower voice, "I heard it was a group of mercenaries who came looking for trouble.

The auction house had tricked and sold the family members of their group members as slaves, so that group of mercenaries came for revenge."

"You even know this?"

"Well, I was up all night, I heard it from the people outside."

"Ah, did anything happen to anyone in your area?"

"No, it seems a drunkard who came home late even ran into that group of masked guys head-on and was let go."

"That group of mercenaries is quite reasonable."

"……"

Yan Yunqing flicked his tail, deep in thought.