Who told you I am an NPC

Chapter : 139

Being interrupted, Quill was taken aback and subconsciously followed Yan Yunqing's words to think, "A man in a magic robe? I don't remember. Zara, did you see one?"

The questioned Zara had a blank look on her face. She tried hard to recall, but after thinking for a long time, she shook her head, "No, no humans have appeared in this vicinity!"

Zara shook her head, and the small pigtail on her head swayed a couple of times along with it. "I was a little scared at that time, and I kept trying to get Quill to go back with me, but Quill refused, saying he wanted to go out and find Sister Talisin, but we don't even know where Sister Talisin is..."

As she spoke, she strayed from the topic and began to complain about the unreliable Quill. Although she was small and spoke in a gentle and soft voice, her speaking speed was not slow at all. When she spoke, it was as if she didn't need to breathe, and once she started, she couldn't stop.

Quill covered his ears and flew a little further away, "Stupid Zara, stop nagging, you're so annoying!"

Zara said aggrievedly: "It's clearly Quill who's disobedient. The elder asked me to watch you. He said you're about to enter your growth period soon. What if you run out of the territory and encounter danger?"

Zara pouted, her small face wrinkled into a ball. Her large eyes slowly became moist, looking pitiful as if she were about to cry, making people want to bully her.

Yan Yunqing thought so, and also acted on it. He reached out and poked little Zara's face.

Little Zara, whose face had already puffed up like a steamed bun, widened her eyes, and in the next moment, large teardrops fell.

It's not scientific. How could such a small elf shed such large tears?

"Hey—you guy, don't bully Zara!" Quill glared at Yan Yunqing.

"Sorry, sorry." Yan Yunqing apologized sincerely, "My hands got itchy."

Quill flew to Zara's side and wiped the tears from her face, "You're a really bad Kami beast!"

"So you didn't see any other humans passing by here?"

Yan Yunqing glanced at the chat system. There was no new message from Penelope, and Demetrius had mysteriously disappeared here. For a moment, even he was a bit lost.

"Or did you hear any commotion?"

Zara sniffed and held back the tears that were falling down one after another, "Is that person very important to you?"

Yan Yunqing touched his nose, "Ah, this... I guess so? The main thing is that my companion is missing, and I think he might know something, but he's also missing."

"Oh my gosh!" Zara was surprised, "Is your companion missing? Where did he go?"

"Stupid Zara, if this Kami beast knew where his companion went, how could he still be asking us!"

Quill crossed his arms, very disdainful, "Sometimes I really wonder how you learned Ancient Elvish so well!"

Zara snorted, "You're the stupid one, Quill. The elder said I'm very smart!"

Quill made a face at Zara, "The elder also said I was smart. Which cub hasn't he praised?"

Zara puffed up her cheeks and slapped Quill, then ignored him and looked at Yan Yunqing with concern, "Then are you going to look for your companion now? Is there anything we can do to help?"

Zara's eyes were sparkling, still moist from crying, just like a cute Barbie doll, the kind of expensive doll that could sell for thousands of yuan in a boutique.

Before Yan Yunqing could speak, Quill had already spoken first: "Wait, stupid Zara, you just told me not to talk to strangers casually. What are you doing now! What if he's a bad person?"

Hearing this, Zara was obviously flustered for a moment, "Ah? A bad person?"

Zara looked at Yan Yunqing, then at Quill, her face full of the emotion of 'What do we do? Why don't we run now', which made Yan Yunqing unable to hold back his laughter.

These two little guys are really interesting. They should form a team in another world and debut as a crosstalk duo.

Yan Yunqing turned back into a Kami beast, "I'm not a human, how could I be a bad person!"

Zara paused, then had an epiphany, "That's right, Quill, he's a Kami beast. He can only be a bad Kami beast, not a bad person."

Quill was also stunned, "Then... then do we not have to be vigilant against a bad Kami beast?"

Zara thought for a moment: "Kami beasts don't eat elves! They all eat wild grass and wild fruits. Kami beasts won't hurt us."

Quill frowned and thought for a long time, as if he had accepted this answer, "It seems so."

Yan Yunqing: ......

Yan Yunqing averted his eyes.

Are all elf cubs this easy to deceive? In that case, he might be able to believe that Lilian was tricked by humans and sold into an auction house.

Zara's statement was recognized by Quill. She happily flew to the Kami beast's side and touched his long ears, "Alright, Quill has also agreed. Now we can help you find your companion. Do you know where your companion disappeared?"

Hmm?

Yan Yunqing blinked, "How are you going to help me find my companion?"

Zara's face flushed, as if she was a little embarrassed, but her tone carried a hint of pride: "Well, I've learned tracking magic before! I can help you find your companion."

Oh right, it's been too long since Lilian left, he had almost forgotten that elves were the strongest support.

They didn't like to study orthodox attack magic, but they especially liked to study some unconventional magic.

Tracking magic could also be considered a type of support magic.

But would it be a bit bad to let these two little guys follow him?

Yan Yunqing hesitated. Because he was not sure whether Demetrius's faction was good or bad, he had many means of self-protection, but these two little elves were different.

Seeing that Yan Yunqing was not speaking, Zara pouted, "You don't believe me? I'm really good."

Quill also vouched for Zara: "That's right, Zara's magic scores are very good. The elder even said that she's the most talented of our batch, and she might even receive the highest level of baptism in the future!"

"Baptism?" Hearing this unfamiliar word, Yan Yunqing was puzzled, "What baptism?"

How did he not know that the elf race had a baptism? Could it be some new ritual that appeared in the past thousand years?

Quill knew he had misspoken and closed his mouth, saying no more.

Instead, Zara calmly blinked her eyes and explained: "It's just a ritual for elf cubs. Every elf cub has to go through it."

Yan Yunqing didn't take it seriously. After thinking for a moment, he said, "You've been out for so long, won't the elders in your clan be worried? Is it okay for you to come with me to find my companion?"

At this, Zara obviously hesitated for a moment. She had a typical obedient child's personality. From the beginning, she had been trying to persuade Quill not to go out.

Now that he mentioned whether the elders would be worried, she became a little hesitant.

"It's fine. The elder is busy today. He probably won't even remember us by the time we get back."

Quill winked at Zara, "Have you forgotten? That person has entered the most critical moment. The elder has to watch from the side. If it weren't for this, we wouldn't have had the chance to sneak out at all."

"But..."

"Aiya, let's go. Anyway, no matter what you say, you won't let me go further out to find Sister Talisin, so let's just look for this Kami beast's companion nearby. We won't go far."

"Alright then." Zara relented and said to Yan Yunqing, "Let's help you find your companion first!"

Yan Yunqing heard the entire conversation between Zara and Quill and quickly judged in his heart that the elf race must have encountered something.

For the elf elder to not care about the elven cubs who had sneaked out, and to insist on staying by their side, it should only be the current elven king, right?

But it didn't seem like it was a very difficult matter.

After all, cubs were the individuals most easily influenced by adults. From these two little guys, Yan Yunqing could feel that the current atmosphere in the elf race was not tense.

At least they were still in the mood to sneak out to play. If they had really encountered a major event, the cubs would not have run out so openly.

Don't think that cubs don't understand anything just after they are born. In fact, they are the best at seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, doing everything based on instinct.

Yan Yunqing was a little curious about what happened to the elven king, but he also knew that even if he asked, these two little guys would not say anything, and they might even be scared and run away.

Forget it, it's not really his business anyway.

Since Zara had agreed to help, Yan Yunqing simply brought the two little elves to the spot where Demetrius had disappeared on the minimap. "This is where he disappeared just now."

Zara looked left and right: "Please give me an item that belongs to your companion."

Yan Yunqing thought for a moment, but couldn't think of anything he had that was related to Demetrius. After thinking for a long time, he took out a spatula from his backpack.

Demetrius quite liked to cook in the dormitory, so this could be considered his item, right?

But taking it out startled Zara, "What is this?"

Yan Yunqing touched his nose and didn't answer this question. Instead, he asked: "So do you have a way to track his location?"

Don't ask him why he brought a spatula for external training. In fact, he had brought a whole set of kitchenware from the dormitory.

He was thinking that if he had time, he could enjoy a meal with a primitive flavor in the forest!

Zara conjured a small magic wand from somewhere, waved it at the spatula, and muttered profound and difficult to understand Ancient Elvish.

In Yan Yunqing's ears, it was basically a slightly more advanced version of plain language.

The general meaning was, great Lord of the Forest, Your Majesty the Elf King, please help me find the traces TA has left behind.

It made his toes curl.

His translator was always sensitive in places where it shouldn't be.

The spell from Zara's mouth stopped, and a green light shot out from the tip of her magic wand, landing on the spatula beside Yan Yunqing.

The spatula glowed with a faint green light. After a while, the green light actually pointed in a certain direction, but the green light was flickering, like an electronic device with poor contact. Yan Yunqing felt like patting it a few times.

"Hmm, it can be used, but it doesn't look like it will last long." Zara flew around the spatula and commented, "The aura your companion left on it is too little. My tracking magic can only do this much. If you want something more powerful, you'll have to find the elder."

Yan Yunqing didn't want to face the elf elder for the time being, "So now I just need to follow this green magic circuit?"

Zara nodded.

Yan Yunqing identified the direction, picked up the spatula with his mouth, and walked in the direction indicated by the magic circuit.

Zara explained, "This magic can roughly guide you to the area your companion passed through. As long as we follow the guidance of the magic, we'll find your companion soon!"

Yan Yunqing expressed his doubts about this crude tracking magic.

The green magic circuit led them to a stop in front of a huge tree.

Yan Yunqing watched as the green light began to twitch continuously, sometimes pointing to the sky, sometimes to the ground, and occasionally doing a 360-degree rotation, looking like a compass disturbed by a magnetic field.

Yan Yunqing: ?

"What's going on?" Yan Yunqing looked at Zara.

Zara was even more confused than Yan Yunqing. She hugged her magic wand and kept circling the spatula, "This shouldn't be happening. How could the magic suddenly lose its tracking target..."

"Usually, in this situation, it means the tracking target has lost its life fluctuations... but then the magic circuit should disappear directly..." Zara was troubled and asked Quill next to her, "Quill, do you know what's going on?"

Quill pointed at himself in disbelief, "Ah? Me?"

"You're asking me? Have you forgotten my magic spell scores?"

Zara was speechless and blinked her eyes.

However, Quill did indeed propose something that sounded unreliable, but when Yan Yunqing heard it, he actually felt that there was a slight possibility.

"Did his companion use some secret technique to enter another special space?" Quill gave an example, "Just like our sacred land. Tracking magic is useless against our sacred land. There's a special restriction set by the great Her Highness Silf, and no elf can use magic to probe into the sacred land."

Zara thought for a moment, "Will there also be a restriction set by Her Highness Silf here?"

Quill was speechless: "How is that possible? Her Highness Silf is not that bored—this is not the elven territory!"

Yan Yunqing heard a familiar name, and a flash of nostalgia passed through his eyes. He then concealed it without a trace and began to consider the possibility that Quill had mentioned.

A special space where tracking magic is useless... an instance should also belong to this type of space, right?

But Demetrius was not a player, so it was impossible for him to enter some instance halfway through. Then it would be a space similar to an instance...

The Mandiper that was previously controlled by Morgan seemed to be such a space, especially the Mandiper after Morgan's identity was exposed.

At the same time, a brand-new quest belatedly popped up on Yan Yunqing's quest panel.

[Misty Forest: The Missing Companions]

Description: Your companions, two outstanding swordsmen, have mysteriously disappeared from the camp while you were out looking for prey.

They are an indispensable part of the team and are of utmost importance to you. You need to find these two companions.

[Side Quest: The Mysterious Masked Man and Demetrius]

Description: Before arriving at the forest, you discovered a mysterious person plotting something. Strangely, that mysterious person's name is exactly the same as your other companion's, which makes you feel puzzled.

After your companions disappeared, the various signs shown by Demetrius seem to be closely related to the disappearance of the two companions. You decide to follow this companion and find the secret behind him.

Yan Yunqing subconsciously accepted the two quests, and then discovered that the side quest had more phased descriptions than usual.

-You have accepted the help of the elf cub 'Zara', but 'Zara's' tracking magic is not yet mature and has failed to lead you to Demetrius's tracks. You are once again in a predicament.

-Try asking 'Zara' and 'Quill' for their opinions?

Yan Yunqing blinked his eyes and confirmed again that this quest had more phased descriptions and quest guidance than before.

Wait, it's quest guidance?!

Yan Yunqing was shocked: He didn't expect that the quests on his game panel could have quest guidance?

It's becoming more and more like a game.

Hmm?

Yan Yunqing suddenly thought of the approaching closed beta time and had a sudden thought: So could this be the process of optimizing the game's quests?

Yan Yunqing had always treated the closed beta time displayed on the system as the real player closed beta. But what if—what if the closed beta had already begun when he transmigrated to this world and obtained the game system?

Was he actually the first closed beta player? And the series of changes that were now appearing in his system were actually a series of problems he had encountered in this game that were being optimized?

So is there really a person, or an unknown existence, watching him and constantly adjusting and optimizing this game system based on his experiences?

Hiss... the more I think about it, the more terrifying it becomes.

Yan Yunqing shook his head, trying to shake out all the messy thoughts in his mind. He accidentally sent the approaching Quill flying.

"Ah!"

Quill rolled and flew away.

"Quill!" Zara hurriedly went to chase, grabbing the short cape on Quill's shoulder to pull the constantly rolling Quill back.

Yan Yunqing lowered his head guiltily. This little interlude also successfully made him temporarily put those messy guesses to the back of his mind.

The two little elves flew back. Quill did not glare at Yan Yunqing again. He just snorted, looking more like he was sulking.

Alright, he should reduce the movements of his head in the future. After all, there were often some cute little things on his head.

For example, Lilian, for example, Quill and Zara.

Yan Yunqing glanced at the quest guidance and tentatively asked Zara, "Then what should we do now? Do you have any other way?"

The Kami beast's fluffy big tail pointed in the direction of the spatula. The magic guidance on the spatula was still dancing around, with no definite direction at all.

Anyone who saw it would understand that this tracking magic had lost its effect.

Zara didn't expect Yan Yunqing to ask for her opinion. She held her head and thought, "Hmm... I don't seem to have any other way. If this tracking magic doesn't work..."

Zara thought hard for a while: "My tracking magic is not yet well-practiced. If Elder Linna were to cast this tracking magic, it might be more effective than my magic?"

Quill snorted and said lazily: "But Elder Linna is in the sacred land now. We have no way to contact her, unless we go to Elder Regus and ask him to take us into the sacred land—"

"But, that is obviously impossible!" Quill said, "Elder Regus already disagrees with us running out of the elven territory. If he knew that we not only sneaked out, but also became friends with a Kami beast, he would definitely be so angry that he would jump up and down."

Quill mimicked Elder Regus's expression, with a cold look on his face: "You actually became friends with a human... oh no, a Kami beast! Simply unreasonable!"

Yan Yunqing hesitated: When did he become friends with these two elf cubs?

Zara comforted: "Elder Regus just hates humans. He never said he hates Kami beasts!"

Quill pouted: "But Elder Regus never said he likes Kami beasts either, right? Logue and the others all say that Elder Regus hates everything except elves, and he might even hate elves."

Quill pulled the corners of his eyes, pulling them upwards, "He looks at people like this every day!"

Zara thought for a moment and couldn't find a reason to refute Quill, so she could only say sheepishly: "Maybe Elder Regus is just in a bad mood."

"Is he in a bad mood every day?"

Zara stopped talking. Quill, like a child who had won a debate competition, stood with his hands on his hips, looking proud.

Yan Yunqing glanced at the quest list again. A new quest guide had not popped up, but since Zara and Quill had such a conversation, did it mean that the key to breaking the current situation was in the elven territory?

"Can I go back with you to meet that Elder Regus?"