pjbooks Chapter 213 Seductive Methods
Chapter 213 Seductive Methods
“If no one sabotaged it, then it must have been broken from the beginning,” Yan Xun said.
“Impossible!” Wen Yuanzheng said. “I clearly remember that when I saw it this afternoon, the amulet was still intact.”
As Wen Yuan was speaking, he began to doubt himself again, "Am I seeing things?"
Wen Yuanzheng was certainly not seeing things. Yan Xun thought that he had also seen the amulet in the afternoon. At that time, the sun god symbol on the bow of the ship was intact and had no problems.
"Are you seeing things?"
Yan Xun spoke up, "At that time, I also saw the amulet on the bow of the ship, and it was indeed undamaged."
Wen Yuan was just thinking, "Isn't this a contradiction?" when he realized the other meaning Yan Xun was trying to convey: "...You suspect that what we saw this afternoon was fake?"
"The truth is that the amulet is already broken?"
As Wen Yuan was speaking, he began to doubt himself again, "Impossible, right?" He kept repeating this sentence, seemingly unable to believe that the Sun God amulet on the Terror Ship had been nothing but a decoration from beginning to end.
He clearly remembered that at night, the sun god in his dream helped him dispel the coldness of the evil spirit sea.
He looked at Yan Xun uncertainly, "When you were dreaming, you must have dreamed about the sun god, right?"
Yan Xun nodded, "So I didn't think there was any problem at first."
On the first night, he dreamed of the sun god, and he was willing to believe that the sun god was protecting the ship. However, as he explored, Yan Xun realized that things on the ship were not as they seemed on the surface.
This speculation plunged the atmosphere in the warehouse back to freezing.
“But the storm hasn’t come yet,” Qin Ke suddenly said. “Didn’t they say that when the sun god is protecting the ships, they won’t encounter storms?”
"It's also possible that we haven't entered the storm zone yet," Yan Xun said.
He would rather the truth about the Terror was not what he thought. "Tonight is no longer suitable for exploration. Perhaps Coron will let us leave the warehouse tomorrow. We'll talk about it then."
……
The next day, Yan Xun and the others heard the sound of the warehouse door being opened.
The same crew member from yesterday yawned, looked at the group, and said, "You can leave now."
In the past, Wen Yuanzheng would probably have jumped for joy, but after Yan Xun said that the amulet on the bow of the ship had been destroyed, he couldn't sleep all night, constantly asking the old man in his heart why the amulet on the Terror Ship was originally broken.
The old man didn't answer, only saying that he didn't know either.
Wen Yuanzheng had already begun to doubt the old man, so naturally he wouldn't believe everything he said.
Qin Ke probably hadn't slept well. When he was woken up by the sound of the door opening, he still looked a little confused. It wasn't until the crew untied the ropes binding him that he finally moved his almost necrotic arm, then took out the wooden amulet from his pocket and handed it to Yan Xun.
Yan Xun didn't take it immediately. He only glanced at it a few times to make sure there were no angel patterns on it before accepting it.
The ropes binding the three men were untied, and the crew guarding them impatiently knocked on the wall, "Hurry up and go."
As the three of them walked up to the upper part of the cabin, they heard some noise. Yan Xun saw several familiar faces, namely the bearded man and one of his henchmen. They looked pale and were muttering to themselves.
"Disappeared."
"That person has disappeared."
Coron and several other crew members stood to one side, looking at the empty cabin.
Where is his roommate?
One of the crew members raised his hand, indicating that he knew nothing about it and had been sleeping soundly all night and had not heard anything.
Seeing this, the bearded man wanted to say something. His room was very close to the missing crew members, but perhaps out of fear, he just kept quiet with a livid face, and then glanced at the crew members with a heavy heart.
Yan Xun saw Gu Jia and Gao Wen, who had also gathered around, and nodded to Gu Jia.
“Keep looking,” Will said, looking at the cabin. “Maybe he’s somewhere else.”
"Perhaps he was possessed by an evil spirit, which caused him to leave the cabin."
“The whale whisperer says we’re closer to the whales, and we should be able to see them by tomorrow night at the latest,” Will told everyone the good news.
"That's a huge pod of whales."
The crew cheered immediately upon hearing this—only these few players remained unresponsive in the crowd, looking out of place.
Will directed everyone to go back to their meal once the crew's cheers subsided.
One less person is at the players' table. After last night, the place is now completely divided into two factions.
The bearded man and his remaining followers sat on one side of the table, while Yan Xun and the others sat on the other side.
"Hey," the bearded man said, looking at Wen Yuanzheng, "aren't you supposed to be very capable?"
"How can we just watch the number of players decrease without being able to do anything about it?"
He searched desperately, but so far, he still hasn't discovered any secrets of the Terror Ship. The crew members are idle every day. Some are looking for the water spouts of whales on the lookout tower, while most are gathered in the cabins for entertainment.
He tried to strike up a conversation with his roommate, but from the other's words, he could only sense that the other was a clueless sailor.
The bearded man was a little confused, wondering if he should choose to clean the captain's cabin.
Perhaps the secret lies hidden in the captain's cabin.
Yan Xun looked at the agitated bearded man and asked, "Did you hear something last night?"
The bearded man looked at Yan Xun and said, "We can exchange information."
"Did you find any clues in the captain's cabin?"
As a veteran player, he naturally knew that the most dangerous place was also the safest place, and clues were often hidden there—but both the whale whisperer's words and the experiences of Yan Xun and the other two made the bearded man somewhat reluctant to approach the captain's cabin.
He decided to try a different approach: he would exchange the secret from the previous night with someone who had been to the captain's cabin to find clues about it.
Yan Xun saw through his thoughts.
"Okay." He nodded.
"You go first," the bearded man said.
Gao Wen frowned. He was about to slam his fist on the table and yell, "Who are you? How dare you talk to our Brother Yan like that?"
Then Wen Yuanzheng spoke up, "How come you're ugly and have such a terrible attitude?"
"You think you can get something for nothing? Everyone knows it's dangerous to go to the captain's cabin. You think you can exchange information with us based on something you overheard in the middle of the night?"
"Give me some props," Wen Yuan said, tapping the table. "No, no deal."
The bearded man was surprised that Wen Yuanzheng had suddenly become a lackey. He was just about to mock Wen Yuanzheng for acting all high and mighty when they entered the dungeon, but now he was willing to be a lackey. Then he saw Gao Wen and the others on the other side.
He estimated that he was the only one on his side—if a real fight broke out, his henchman would definitely be the first to surrender—so he could only grit his teeth and think to himself that this Xiao Yan was quite capable; in just a few days, he had already gone from Xiao Yan to Brother Yan.
"You're quite capable," the bearded man said.
The tone was sour, not like an admission of Yan Xun's prowess, but more like a sarcastic remark that Yan Xun "does have some seductive tricks up her sleeve."