pjbooks Chapter 183 My Kongtong
Chapter 183 My Kongtong
“You all need to rest too,” White said, looking at the new recruits.
“Evil spirits will roam the sea at night... and then drag away the sailors who are not yet asleep.”
"Once we discover that someone is possessed by an evil spirit, we have no choice but to kick them off the ship."
White smiled and said.
—They've already set sail, and all the players know what will happen if they're forced off the ship now.
“But don’t worry, we’ll reach the whale’s territory in just five days at most,” White said confidently. “Then everyone will be able to share in the generous reward.”
As soon as he said that, the old crew members started banging on the table and cheering, and some even chanted White's name.
"Isn't the Whale Whisperer coming?" the brown-haired man suddenly asked White.
"Him?" White shook his head. "You know he doesn't like this party."
The brown-haired man gave a cold snort in response.
At this moment, a bald crew member patted him on the shoulder and said, "The Whale Whisperer is more important than the captain on this ship. He only appears on the upper decks and will not come to our territory."
There was an indescribable jealousy in his expression as he spoke.
He even looked at White, "Is he still going to take half this time?"
White nodded silently.
The bald man cursed a few times, clearly very dissatisfied with the whale speaker.
The cabin was filled with the smells of food, brewed wine, and tobacco. White simply watched the group quietly... Perhaps noticing the unusual silence around the newcomers, he took his wine glass and went over to them, then sat down next to Yan Xun.
"How are you feeling?" White asked.
Yan Xun wasn't sure what role White played in the story, so she could only answer cautiously, "Luckily, I didn't get seasick."
White burst into laughter, patting Yan Xun on the shoulder in a very affectionate manner... After a while, he looked at the remaining eight newcomers, "And you guys?"
"Is there anything you want to ask?"
The bearded man and the freckled man sitting next to him exchanged a glance—it seemed they had just been assigned to the same group, Yan Xun thought.
"What is a whale whisperer?" Freckles asked.
White put down his glass, looked at the newlyweds at the table, and said mysteriously, "He's the most important person on this ship, even more important than the captain."
"He can help us find the whale."
"It is said that he can communicate with whales."
White stroked his smooth chin. "And he knows how to cross the reefs of the Sea of Evil."
"Without him, we probably wouldn't have found any whales."
Freckles immediately realized that this was a key NPC in the dungeon, and he nodded in satisfaction.
"What if I have insomnia?" someone asked. "Will I be taken away by evil spirits?"
“It’s not that strict,” White laughed. “As long as the evil spirits think you’re asleep, it’ll be fine.”
“They won’t harm sleeping people. As long as you’re not open-eyed, talking, or wandering around, evil spirits won’t possess you,” he said, looking at the newlyweds. “It is said that every sleeping person is protected by the sun god.”
"Moreover, there are statues of gods on the bow of our ship, which evil spirits fear."
Yan Xun recalled that there was indeed a sun statue at the bow of the ship, but he wondered if it was the deity White had mentioned.
“The sun god will protect us,” White said.
Yan Xun thought these sailors would believe more in gods related to storms and the ocean, or that in this dungeon world, only the sun god existed.
White seemed to remember something and spoke to the newlyweds again.
“We only believe in the sun god, and have never had any other faith.” He looked at the newcomers. “If anyone on the Terror preaches any other god… we will throw him off the ship.”
"There is only one god here, and that is the sun god."
"Everything else is a scam."
【Mission 1: Locate the heretic on the Terror Ship and drive him away (A)】
Yan Xun noticed the subtle changes in the expressions of several players and knew that they had also received the mission notification.
"Is it enough to just report it to you?" Freckles asked hurriedly.
“The captain will do,” White said, “or that person.”
He pointed to the brown-haired man, "You can report to him as well."
Perhaps realizing he had been there too long, White stood up from his seat. "You guys continue."
"More food can be added if there isn't enough."
He said this as he returned to the original table and started laughing loudly with the old crew members again.
Yan Xun's table fell silent again, until finally the freckled man spoke up.
“I won’t hide anything; we’re all players, right?” He looked at the nine people present.
"You may have heard my name before. I am Wen Yuanzheng."
As soon as he said that, the bearded man next to him glanced at him a few more times. "You're that Wen Yuanzheng?"
"I heard that the dungeons you cleared all had ratings of at least A+!"
Freckles nodded demurely.
"Then you can definitely join the Retrospection Guild!" the bearded man said again. "I saw on the forum that you're particularly good at solving dungeons. With you on the team, wouldn't we be guaranteed to clear this dungeon?"
Wen Yuan said to the bearded man, "I think I'd be more confident in joining the Retrospective Guild again." He added with a hint of regret, "I should have applied to join during the last dungeon run."
"That way we might be able to enter the mysterious instance that the guild leader discovered."
The bearded man nodded. "That's right, brother. With you around, they'll be even more formidable."
"Tch." Someone at the table finally couldn't help but roll their eyes.
Yan Xun looked in the direction of the voice and found it was a young man. He looked very impatient with the bearded man and the freckled man. "Stop bragging. Even if the Time Traveler is short of people, it wouldn't need to look for you."
"Besides, do you have any idea who went to the mysterious dungeon this time?"
“Those are the real elites!” The young man looked at Wen Yuanzheng. “And you?”
"Just because you have an average A+ rating, you think you're all that?"
Wen Yuanzheng was also getting angry. He didn't expect there to be such people who would undermine him in this place. He looked at the group of people at the table and sneered inwardly.
They decided not to tell them the clues they had found, but to complete the mission alone and leave the instance.
The thought that these people probably didn't even know what the Terror was made him laugh.
“You can’t say that,” Yan Xun said, looking at Wen Yuanzheng. “I just think an A+ rating is really impressive.”
He looked at Wen Yuanzheng earnestly, "If I were someone who had gone back in time, I would definitely let you join the guild."
The boy was surprised that Yan Xun would undermine him like this, and seeing Wen Yuanzheng's arrogant attitude only made him angrier. He cursed Yan Xun in his heart for being a sycophant who would do anything to get through the test.
Gu Jia looked at Yan Xun, puzzled, not understanding why he suddenly praised Wen Yuanzheng.
Wen Yuanzheng thought to himself, "I didn't expect this person, who looks like a troublemaker, to be so accommodating."
He looked at Yan Xun with a reserved expression, "What's your name?"
“Me?” Yan Xun pointed to himself. “I don’t have a name. You can just call me Xiao Yan.”
"Xiao Yan?" Wen Yuanzheng didn't even have time to call out.
But another person at the table spoke first.
Now everyone's eyes were on him.
His hair was a bit long, and he had a somewhat melancholic air about him. When he realized that everyone was looking at him, his face immediately turned bright red. "I'm sorry."
"I just think the name Xiao Yan sounds really nice."
Yan Xun: "..."
Yan Xun immediately got goosebumps all over.
He admitted that he had some PTSD, and now whenever he saw this type of person, alarm bells would go off.
He reached out his hand, stopping the other person from saying what he was about to say, "Stop, I am Kongtong."
"Don't talk to me in such an intimate tone."