mtl008 Chapter 200 Another Trip to the Captain's Cabin
Chapter 200 Another Trip to the Captain's Cabin
Gu Jia remembered the plot of Wusheng Village back then, "It might be a prop left over from our mission."
He briefly explained his copy of the Unborn Village, which made Gawain's eyes widen. "So complicated?"
"Hmm." Gu Jia wasn't a talkative person. After satisfying Gao Wen's curiosity, he turned his gaze to Yan Xun, who had already sat down between Wen Yuanzheng and Qin Ke, talking about something.
Gao Wen followed his gaze and looked over.
“I still think there’s something strange about Wen Yuanzheng,” he said.
Gu Jia knew that Gao Wen probably didn't know about the old man who accompanied him, so when she heard him say that, she asked curiously, "Why?"
"I don't know." Gao Wen touched his nose. "Anyway, he doesn't seem like the smart type."
"Sometimes he talks in a silly way."
……
If Wen Yuanzheng knew that Gao Wen evaluated him in this way, he would probably be so angry that he would vomit blood.
He watched the person who had been following the dead child warily, then suddenly sat down next to him and asked a question—
"Do you recognize the writing in the captain's cabin letters?"
Wen Yuanzheng was almost scared to death by him. He didn't remember the player's name at all, only that he had gone to the captain's cabin to clean with Yan Xun and the brat.
"I don't understand what you're talking about." Wen Yuanzheng pretended to be calm, while frantically calling out to the old man in his heart.
"What does he mean by this?" Wen Yuan was frantically screaming SOS in his mind, completely unaware of when he had been exposed.
"They're probably trying to scam you," the old man replied calmly. "Don't worry."
As soon as the old man finished speaking, Wen Yuanzheng saw Qin Ke nod, "So that's how it is..."
He breathed a sigh of relief. "I thought you could understand the words in the letter."
Wen Yuanzheng was unsure of his meaning. "You saw that text too?"
"Ah."
“I can understand it.”
"You can understand it?!"
Wen Yuanzheng was genuinely worried now. He looked at Qin Ke with some trepidation, "...Did you understand what it said?"
"I saw on it that the captain was looking for something," Qin Ke said, "but I didn't understand exactly what he was looking for."
Wen Yuanzheng finally breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.
"so……"
He was about to say a few more words to send Qin Ke away when he noticed someone patting him and Qin Ke on the shoulder and squeezing in between them to sit down.
After Yan Xun sat down, he looked around and asked, "What are you talking about?"
Wen Yuanzheng originally wanted to brush it off, but he didn't expect that Qin Ke, who was so clueless, would tell Yan Xun everything. Sure enough, after listening, Yan Xun looked at him curiously, "I hadn't even noticed that kind of writing."
Have you seen this before?
Wen Yuanzheng had never seen it before. He knew about the Blue Gold mission thanks to the old man. He couldn't understand a word of the scribbles on the letter.
So he shook his head decisively, without any guilt about lying.
Yan Xun nodded, but didn't press the matter. Instead, he began to recount his conversation with Corinne the previous night—
"You're saying the person in that portrait is the captain's employer?" Wen Yuanzheng almost lost his composure. "And then? What else did Coron say?"
"He said the thing the captain was looking for was probably at the ice wall."
"Fortunately, we won't get close to the ice wall."
Yan Xun looked at Wen Yuanzheng and said, "Unless we are unlucky and encounter a storm... we will have to sail a very, very long way before we encounter the ice wall."
When Wen Yuanzheng heard that the Terror Ship might not get close to the ice wall, he was immediately disappointed. However, when he heard Yan Xun say that it might come to the vicinity of the ice wall after encountering a storm, he breathed a sigh of relief and felt that the old man had not lied to him.
Yan Xun, of course, saw Wen Yuanzheng's change of expression. He really couldn't understand why this man was so sure that he wouldn't be the one who capsized and perished in the storm.
He remembered Corren saying that during the last voyage of the Terror, a whale capsized the ship, causing many people to fall into the water and many crew members to perish...
Corren never mentioned how many crew members actually made it back to the Terror.
What Yan Xun was even more concerned about was whether the crew members who fell into the water and climbed back up might be possessed by evil spirits.
Or is it that during the last Terror, they didn't let any of the crew members who fell overboard board? That's why they recruited a new crew for this voyage?
Perhaps displeased that Yan Xun's attention was entirely on Wen Yuanzheng, Qin Ke gently poked Yan Xun's arm a few times with his finger. Only after Yan Xun turned his head did he speak, "Yesterday, my roommate also talked to me about that portrait."
Yan Xun gestured for him to continue.
"He also said that the person in the portrait was the captain's patron. He said that the captain had become very irritable since the year before last, and several times he wanted to go to the ice wall to take a look, despite the crew's objections."
"Fortunately, they didn't know the exact location of the ice wall, and the whale whisperer was only responsible for leading them to the whale."
"But he told me that the captain has gone mad, and he now dreams of finding that ice wall to complete his employer's mission."
While speaking, Qin Ke carefully observed Yan Xun and Wen Yuanzheng. Seeing that the two did not intend to interrupt him, he continued speaking.
He said that after this job, he would never go to sea again.
"There are too many strange things happening on the Sea of Evil Spirits; he has already earned enough money to retire..."
The crew's words were like a death flag, blatantly telling all the players that something bad was about to happen.
According to the letter, this was the captain's last chance; if he couldn't find Blue Gold, he would likely be executed by his angry employer.
But why didn't he run away?
Yan Xun had thought about this problem before. His idea was that having a watchman on the ship would prevent the captain from making any rash moves.
He had previously suspected it was Koren, but now he thought it might be the Whale Whisperer.
Yan Xun and Qin Ke both recounted their conversations with their roommates. Although Wen Yuanzheng was worried that they would discover the hidden mission because of this, he also knew that if he was too secretive now, it would only arouse suspicion.
So he recounted his conversation with his roommate.
“He said the man in the portrait was pursuing immortality,” Moon Won-jung said.
Clearly, the thing that could grant immortality was the blue gold the captain was searching for, Wen Yuan thought.
In the noisy cabin, Coron slowly tapped the table a few times.
He stood up and looked at the group of new crew members. "The captain asked me to find some people to clean the captain's cabin for him. Who among you is willing to go?"
All the players then remembered that the Whale Whisperer had predicted yesterday that Yan Xun and his three companions were in danger, and that they all had been to the captain's cabin.
Upon realizing this, the players immediately averted their gaze and lowered their heads in unison.
One player has already died, and they don't want to be the next one.
Koren probably didn't expect this reaction... He lingered on the group of bowed quails for a moment, and then pointed to Yan Xun and the other two sitting together.
"Then it's you guys."
He said casually, glancing at Yan Xun and Qin Ke, "You two take care of that newcomer."