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Chapter 215 Speculation on the Truth

Gao Wen felt uneasy, but he had no choice but to go to the captain's cabin, so he and Gu Jia left first.

“We’ll look for more clues,” Gao Wen said, patting his chest to reassure Yan Xun and the others.

Yan Xun thought for a moment, "Take a look at that portrait."

After that, Gu Jia and Gao Wen left the deck first.

“…I really feel like something’s not right.” Wen Yuanzheng stood next to Yan Xun and said in a low voice, “Now I think this amulet is perfectly fine.”

He couldn't believe the old man and was hesitant to reveal the secret of Blue Gold.

But the strange things happening before him made him feel that the Terror Ship was not what the old man had said at all, and he even suspected that the other party was hiding a lot of information from him.

In the end, Moon Won-jung made a decision.

"I have a secret to tell you..." He glanced at Yan Xun and then at Qin Ke. Although he still didn't like Qin Ke very much, things had come to this point, so it wouldn't hurt for him to know Lan Jin's secret.

Upon seeing Wen Yuanzheng's expression, Yan Xun guessed that he was probably about to reveal the secret of Blue Gold.

Sure enough, the next second, Wen Yuan was leaning on the railing with one hand and said to Yan Xun, "Actually, I discovered that there is a hidden quest in this instance."

He looked cautiously at Yan Xun and Qin Ke, "The captain has been searching for something called Blue Gold."

"The person in the portrait the crew mentioned is the captain's employer. Legend has it that such a thing can grant immortality..." He said this with a relieved expression, and just as he was about to look at Yan Xun and Qin Ke's expressions, he saw Yan Xun nod.

"Are you done talking?"

“…Huh?” Wen Yuanzheng was a little taken aback and said blankly, “You’re done talking.”

"Aren't you two surprised?!"

“We received this task before,” Yan Xun said briefly.

Wen Yuanzheng: "...?"

"That's impossible!" Wen Yuanzheng exclaimed. "How did you guys get this mission?"

He thought about it and realized that they had only been to the captain's cabin twice, with Yan Xun going once more... The second time, all three of them were in the captain's cabin, and they didn't even look at the letters, but only at the captain's logbook.

He thought for a moment, then seemed to realize something, "...You discovered the hidden mission the first time you went to the captain's cabin?"

No? What did the system mean when it told him that this task was difficult to obtain?

He suddenly remembered that Qin Ke had struck up a conversation with him, asking if he recognized the words on the letter—

"You know it?" Wen Yuanzheng looked at Qin Ke. "Didn't you say you didn't understand Blue Gold?"

Qin Ke just smiled shyly and didn't say anything.

Wen Yuanzheng almost vomited blood, but when he thought about how he had also concealed a lot of information from them, he could only swallow his anger.

Yan Xun was afraid that Wen Yuanzheng would continue to dwell on that topic of words. He wasn't afraid of anything else, but he was afraid that Qin Ke would suddenly drop the pretense and reveal that he was a member of the Angel Guild, and that they would pay with their lives!

Fortunately, Wen Yuanzheng already knew that Qin Ke could read that kind of script, so he didn't press the matter. Instead, he asked a new question, "What other information did those letters reveal?"

Yan Xun looked Wen Yuanzheng up and down for a few moments. "Why don't you tell us how you got the hidden mission?"

Wen Yuanzheng was a little speechless. He knew he couldn't reveal the old man's existence, so he could only say that he had heard about the Blue Gold quest while experiencing a certain dungeon, so he accepted it.

"Don't you suspect it's fake news?" Yan Xun asked.

Wen Yuanzheng would have confidently said it was impossible in the past, but he already harbored resentment towards the old man. Hearing Yan Xun ask this, he could only reluctantly reply, "Probably not."

He actually suspected that Yan Xun might have figured something out. After all, the other party knew about the other old men, but Yan Xun never spoke of it… Wen Yuanzheng felt a little panicked. He looked at Yan Xun and asked, “Do you think you’re lying to me?”

“If it were me…” Yan Xun drawled, “then I might lie.”

"why?"

"Since it's been delivered, why not take advantage of it?" Yan Xun said.

"If I gain more from lying to you than from not lying to you, then I will definitely lie to you."

Wen Yuanzheng: "But..."

He couldn't finish his sentence, and the old man kept helping him, saying that helping him would bring him some benefits.

But Yan Xun's words made him think again.

For a player who has lost their body and is like a wandering ghost, are these so-called benefits really as important as the old man said?

Wen Yuanzheng was unsure, so he looked at Yan Xun and Qin Ke, and finally shook his head, "I'll go and think about it carefully."

He looked at the amulet on the bow of the ship again. "Are we really going to encounter a storm?"

Yan Xun followed his gaze and said, "Perhaps."

"After all, the crew had said countless times that the sun god could help them avoid storms and protect ships sailing at sea."

So what will the anxious and frantic captain do?

The only way to get close to the ice wall is to encounter a storm.

The Terror, protected by the sun god, is immune to storms. Only the captain on board wants to go to the ice wall to search for the elusive elixir of immortality...

Therefore, the captain destroyed the amulet on the bow of the ship.

Unfortunately, before they even reached the ice wall, the Terror capsized, and everyone fell into the Sea of ​​Evil Spirits.

Yan Xun had already suspected this when he read the diary before.

However, he did not find some crucial evidence. Deductions and guesses alone are not enough. To complete Task 2, some crucial evidence is still needed.

……

Gu Jia and Gao Wen arrived at the captain's cabin.

The captain is not here.

“That’s the letter we found,” Gawain said, pointing to the office.

Gu Jia walked to the desk and saw the open letters.

"Just say the keyword 'blue gold,' and you should be able to trigger the quest," Gao Wen explained in a senior-like manner.

Gu Jia looked at the letters, and just as Yan Xun had said, the writing was mostly incomprehensible. "Is Qin Ke very familiar with this writing?"

Gu Jia asked Gao Wen, who was standing beside her.

Gao Wen recalled Qin Ke's state at the time, "They were very familiar." He thought for a moment and added, "So when Wen Yuanzheng received the Blue Gold mission, he was quite surprised, as if he couldn't quite understand how he knew him?"

“I also find it strange. Wen Yuanzheng doesn’t seem like someone who is so learned and talented.”

Gu Jia looked at these words. He was in the conference room of the retrospective, and he knew about the Angel Guild.

I also had a conversation with Sun Zhao, a veteran player, afterward.

Sun Zhao said that members of the Angel Guild spend half of their day in prayer and enduring pain. Almost everyone has undergone physical modifications and has a pair of wings on their backs that represent their identity.

"By the way, their writing system is also very unique."

"They use a special script inside, and once others can understand the meaning of these words, they will go mad."

“If you can’t understand the meaning, then it doesn’t matter.” Sun Zhao had been to many dungeons and knew a bit about the Angel Guild. He told Gu Jia, “Anyway, if you see someone who’s crazy and has wings on their back, stay as far away from them as possible.”