Volume 2, Chapter 89 – Yunchou’s Identity

“……”

Shock.

At this moment, aside from being utterly shocked, Tianyin couldn’t find any other words to describe what she was feeling.

So this Yunchou was someone she had actually met before?

No, not just met, she had seen him, seen his face clearly from afar.

“That guy… don’t tell me he was the mastermind behind those players ambushing us?”

Tianyin couldn’t help but start to suspect that.

However, the System immediately denied it.

“Nope. The mastermind was someone else. To put it simply, Yunchou was just an advisor who planned things behind the scenes. But that mastermind didn’t know that after Karl’s death, Yunchou would personally use Soul Summon to resurrect him as an undead and turn him into a Death Knight.”

“So that means Yunchou didn’t just set us up, but he also manipulated those players?”

Hearing that, Tianyin couldn’t help but feel secretly shocked.

Honestly, when she first heard the System’s light orb mention the name “Yunchou,” she hadn’t felt much.

She had thought it was just another slightly unusual player.

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But as the conversation with the System’s light orb deepened, Tianyin gradually realized just how shocking this “ordinary-sounding” player named Yunchou really was.

This player…

Not only had he plotted carefully, exploiting the flaws of a rigid Paladin to cause the death of the Legendary Paladin Karl,

He had even outwitted the players and their mastermind as well.

By now, this player called Yunchou had become, in Tianyin’s mind, a sinister, cold-blooded schemer, like a venomous snake lurking in the shadows, waiting for the perfect chance to strike a fatal blow.

“Yunchou, huh… I never thought I’d really seen him before…”

In Tianyin’s memory, back in that valley, the person talking to Karl had just been a very ordinary-looking boy, slightly delicate, but nothing remarkable.

If that person was truly the Yunchou the System spoke of, then just judging by appearance, there was no way anyone could imagine that gentle-faced boy was a ruthless manipulator who had calculated everyone to death.

“Surprised, aren’t you, Little Tianyin?”

“Wuu… I’m really a bit surprised… But now that I think about it, when I wiped out those players later, I don’t remember seeing Yunchou anywhere. Did he realize something was wrong and run away?”

Tianyin recalled when she had used the power of the Seven Deadly Sins to deal with the players chasing them.

At that time, cutting through those players was like mowing grass, so effortless. If she had killed Yunchou during that, she would’ve remembered it.

After all, she had personally witnessed Yunchou persuading Karl to take his own life back in the valley.

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Because of that, even now Tianyin still remembered Yunchou’s face clearly.

“Run away? No, Yunchou didn’t run. He just stood by and watched the show. He saw the entire process of you wiping out those players~”

The System stated it bluntly.

“From start to finish, Yunchou never planned to attack you. I don’t know how he was so sure that he couldn’t, but I get the feeling he knew you had the power to annihilate those players.”

“He knew I had the Seven Deadly Sins?”

“Mm, I can’t say for sure. But he definitely knew you weren’t someone to mess with. Those players who came to hunt you were actually pushed by him. To put it simply, he wanted to use your hand to wipe them all out.”

“……”

A perfect case of killing with a borrowed knife.

Without even realizing it, Tianyin had been unknowingly used by this player called Yunchou.

From beginning to end, Yunchou had only stood in the shadows, silently watching as she slaughtered the entire group of players.

There was no denying it, he had used everyone available to their fullest.

Terrifying.

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Who would’ve thought that a boy who looked so harmless could, inside, be hiding the heart of a viper?

“Yunchou… just what kind of person is he? Don’t tell me he’s really just an ordinary player…”

At this point, Tianyin no longer wanted to know more about Yunchou. What she already knew was more than enough.

She could more or less guess what kind of person he was, but… a player like that was simply too strange.

He knew the weakness of the Paladins and forced one to commit suicide.

You could say that meant he’d done his research on those rigid Paladins. That wasn’t strange.

He had the foresight to prepare Soul Summon in advance and used it to turn the dead Paladin into his subordinate. That, too, was careful planning, not strange.

He goaded the players into hunting them down, probably to cover his tracks so no one would ever learn he had revived Karl as a Death Knight. That also made sense.

All of that could be explained by logic and reason.

But…

Yunchou.

How did he know that Tianyin possessed the overwhelming power to annihilate those players so easily?

In theory, no one knew that.

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Aside from Samael, the Seven Deadly Sins itself, not even her little loli disciple Xiaomengyao knew Tianyin had such power, enough to overturn the entire battlefield.

Then how did Yunchou know?

No matter how she thought about it, it was far too strange.

That was why Tianyin asked the System’s light orb, just what exactly was Yunchou?

“Yunchou, huh? After I discovered his existence, I immediately started investigating him.”

“And after a few minutes of full computation, I found that Yunchou… isn’t actually a player.”

“Not a player? Don’t tell me he’s another NPC you accidentally created like me?”

“No, no, how could that be? I’m a very faithful System God. When it comes to lolis, I’ll always love Little Tianyin. I have zero interest in boys~”

“Anyway, what I’m saying is, Yunchou may appear to be a player, but he’s not a real one in the true sense.”

The System’s light orb spoke slowly.

“He… to put it plainly, he’s a virus. A virus that can only exist within this game world.”