PFC Chapter 187 Sea of Evil Spirits
Chapter 187 Sea of Evil Spirits
Koren certainly knew he was lying, Yan Xun thought.
When he was changing his clothes, Corinth was right next to him and of course saw him fasten his belt.
He had expected Corinne to expose him, but the other man remained silent... Could it be that he and his neighbor Corinne were actually quite close?
Yan Xun quickly returned to his cabin, lifted his pillow, and found a button with a sun god totem drawn on it underneath.
He straightened up again and lifted the pillow from the upper bunk—
There was nothing under the pillow.
"Koren is an old sailor, he shouldn't be unaware of this," Yan Xun thought.
He put the pillow back in its place, left the cabin, and hurriedly found the other people.
"So fast?" the bearded man couldn't help but ask.
Koren also stopped and looked at him.
"I was too nervous," Yan Xun said, using the excuse he had prepared from the beginning. "It turns out the belt was on my pants."
Coron looked at him for a moment before saying, "That's how it always is for rookie crew members on their first trip to the Sea of Evil."
"Being too nervous leads to making mistakes."
He smiled tolerantly, his green eyes like some kind of precious gemstone... He then looked at the others, "I hope you all slept well last night."
The bearded man complained, "Very bad."
"In my dreams, there are always things that I can't see clearly calling my name."
Corren nodded. “This is how it is after entering the Sea of Evil Spirits.” He made a praying gesture. “As long as we have sincere faith in the sun, it will protect us from evil spirits.”
The bearded man muttered a few words under his breath, probably saying that the NPC was stupid.
Yan Xun stood at the back of the line, and Gu Jia, probably wanting to wait for him, also lagged behind the others.
"How did you sleep?" Yan Xun asked, as if chatting among new crew members.
"So-so," Gu Jia said. "There was an ice wall in my dream, and I felt very uneasy when I saw it..."
"I think I saw a corpse above the ice wall."
"Above?"
“Yes,” Gu Jia said, recalling the scene in his dream, “I saw footprints above the ice wall, and a fallen corpse…”
"This is not a good dream."
In his dream, Yan Xun saw the part of the ice wall that was close to the sea level. He described the ice wall and the red whale in his dream to Gu Jia.
"What did that idiot say to you?" Gu Jia asked again.
Yan Xun didn't understand who the idiot was referring to at first, but the next second he saw Wen Yuanzheng, who kept turning around in the crowd. When Wen Yuanzheng saw him making eye contact with him, he immediately made a gesture of tightening a zipper around his mouth.
Yan Xun: "..."
“He didn’t say anything.” Yan Xun thought for a moment. “He told me his secret to not having nightmares.”
Yan Xun nodded to Wen Yuanzheng, indicating that he understood.
Even so, Wen Yuanzheng was still uneasy, frequently turning back to stare at Yan Xun, as if afraid that he would reveal the secret.
"Why do you think he's an idiot?" Yan Xun asked.
Gu Jia didn't speak.
Yan Xun turned his head to look at him.
Gu Jia countered, "Isn't that right?"
“I don’t understand,” he said slowly. “Why did he have to become a target the moment he came in?”
"And..." Gu Jia looked at Yan Xun, "Why are people at different stages of the dungeon entering the same advancement dungeon?"
……
They probably knew that players couldn't be crew members.
The instance didn't have too much to do. After the players cleaned up and dealt with the frozen areas, it was soon time for the new crew members to rest.
They arrived at the cabin where some veteran crew members were playing cards. They had brewed liquor beside them, and when the new crew members came in, none of them greeted them—even though one of their roommates was among them.
Players naturally wouldn't talk to these NPCs.
They quickly formed a circle and sat cross-legged on the ground, continuing to share clues amidst the noise and cheers from the other side.
“We’ll continue taking inventory of the supplies later,” Yan Xun said, pointing to himself and Gu Jia. “We can also check if there are any other faiths on the ship.”
The remaining people were also sharing their tasks.
Some people were responsible for cleaning the bottom of the ship's hold, while others cleaned the crew's quarters; this covered almost every area.
In addition to the separate captain's cabin and the living quarters for the whale whisperers.
“I asked my roommate, the bald guy,” Gao Wen said. “He was very dissatisfied with the Whale Whisperer, and his attitude towards the captain was also somewhat ambiguous. I could sense that he trusted the green-eyed guy more.”
“The whale whisperers only get half the reward for finding whales, so it’s normal for the crew to be dissatisfied,” the bearded man said. His roommate was also a veteran crew member who had reportedly been on the Terror for five years. Every year around this time, they would set sail to hunt whales and then return before spring.
He said they were able to catch whales even before the whale whisperers arrived.
"Then why do we need whale whisperers?" Gawain asked.
"The whales they're talking about seem different from what we know," the bearded man said. "Besides the processed blubber... the whales the whale talkers found have energy clusters?"
He scratched his head. "The word he used was vague, and I didn't understand it, but I guessed it meant that the thing could be sold for a high price, that it was a very valuable energy source, like concentrated oil? It could supply some large machinery."
"This is the kind of thing that can fetch a high price."
"They didn't find any of the whales they had previously."
"And before the arrival of the Whale Whisperers, they had never been to the Sea of Evil Spirits; they usually hunted in another sea area."
The bearded man looked at the other players, "But because of overfishing, the whales in those areas gradually disappeared, which is why the people of Cedar Harbor started sailing towards the Evil Spirit Sea."
He shrugged. "The rest is what that green-eyed guy said."
"The Sea of Evil Spirits is dangerous; a slight misstep could sink the ship, and it is also surrounded by evil spirits."
"If it weren't for the Whale Whisperers, they wouldn't have come to the Sea of Evil Spirits."
As Yan Xun listened to the bearded man's description of the energy clusters and large machinery, he felt that this world was probably more than just what Cedar Harbor had portrayed.
The bearded man then looked at the others and said, "We're all in the same boat now."
"There's something I haven't figured out yesterday..." He looked at Wen Yuanzheng, "How many times have you advanced through the dungeon?"
Wen Yuan was absent-minded, still asking his old grandfather in his mind. When he heard the bearded man's question, he subconsciously replied, "The first time."
“That’s strange.” The bearded man pointed to himself. “This is my second advancement instance.”
He looked at the others and said, "You guys too, right?"
Yan Xun nodded along with the others, only Gao Wen shook his head... The bearded man looked at him in surprise, "Brother, is this your first time advancing in a dungeon too?"
Gao Wen hadn't expected there to be such a difference, but he still nodded.
“I understand now.” The bearded man clapped his hands. “It must be because you and Wen Yuanzheng are both skilled players, so they increased the difficulty of your advancement dungeon to be the same as those of us who are advancing for the second time.”
He looked at Gao Wen with some excitement, "I didn't expect you to be so talented at such a young age!"
When Wen Yuanzheng heard this, he almost lost his composure. He couldn't help but glance at the rebellious young man who had been mocking him. He really couldn't understand how this person could be as good as him.
Only Gu Jia glanced at Yan Xun discreetly.
Yan Xun looked at the group of players sitting in a circle... He roughly knew why he had entered this advancement dungeon. He had performed well in several runs, and the main system found him a bit troublesome, so it threw him in.
Gao Wen wasn't quite sure; perhaps it was due to his exceptional combat prowess.
Yan Xun looked at Wen Yuanzheng. According to the bearded man, this person was using a strategy, and his combat strength was average. He had only been rated A+ several times. Why did he still get into this instance?
Or is it true, as the system guessed, that Wen Yuanzheng has other secrets that have affected the main system, which is why he was thrown into the Evil Spirit Sea instance?