pjbooks Chapter 224 The Main System Reaches a Consensus with You
Chapter 224 The Main System Reaches a Consensus with You
"That's strange," Gao Wen said after hearing Qin Ke's words. "What benefits could the old man possibly get from Wen Yuanzheng?"
He thought for a moment, and suddenly a terrifying possibility occurred to him: "Could it be that he wants to take over Wen Yuanzheng's body?"
"I think the idea of having a body might have been a lie from the start," Yan Xun said. The old man wasn't something recognized by the rules of the instance, so whether Wen Yuanzheng completed the mission well or poorly had nothing to do with him.
The other party cannot obtain the corresponding energy by using Wen Yuanzheng's completion of the mission.
Several times the other party acted particularly anxiously, all of which were related to the Blue Gold mission.
Furthermore, right after Wen Yuan arrived at the instance, the old man had already revealed his idea of having him quickly complete the Blue Gold quest.
“Wen Yuanzheng didn’t recognize the words on the letter.” Yan Xun recounted the scene between himself and Wen Yuanzheng in the captain’s cabin. “He just glanced at the letter and then quickly turned his back… I guess at that moment, he probably read out the key words ‘Blue Gold’.”
"Then what was he doing behind your back?" Gao Wen asked instinctively, then immediately realized what he meant and clicked his tongue. "He was afraid you'd lip-sync to his lines and get the Blue Gold mission too, right?"
Gao Wen clicked his tongue as he spoke, partly because he felt that Wen Yuanzheng's actions were very much in line with his character, and partly because he was a little speechless.
“The old man knows more about Blue Gold than any of us,” Yan Xun said.
"The crew only knew that this was a secret medicine that the captain's backers were looking for, which was said to grant immortality."
"The captain knew that this thing was inside the ice wall, but he wasn't particularly clear about its effects on Blue Gold. Like the other crew members, he had only heard that it could grant immortality or even bring the dead back to life."
“That old man also entered my consciousness,” Yan Xun calmly dropped the bombshell.
"He knew the ice wall very well, and what was inside it."
"They even know that the blue gold is the blood flowing from the creature inside the ice wall."
Yan Xun looked at the ice wall that was so close at hand. As they got closer, all they could see was this wall that seemed to be at the end of the world, and the dark shadows inside the ice wall that made them feel vaguely uneasy.
"The old man said that the thing is about to awaken, which is why the people on the Sea of Evil Spirits are frequently dreaming of ice walls."
"He was so familiar with Blue Gold, and he said that as long as we and the captain got close to the ice wall crevice and went deeper, we would find Blue Gold."
Yan Xun looked at the ice wall. The closer he got, the more he could feel a vague unease. Even though the thing inside the ice wall had not yet awakened, when people faced such a huge object, their natural fear overwhelmed their reason, making them tremble involuntarily.
"As long as we get the blue gold, we can immediately complete the blue gold mission and leave."
However, the system never stated that the condition for completing the Blue Gold quest was to obtain Blue Gold.
“He knows so much, far more than anyone else on the Terror Ship,” Yan Xun said, looking at the remaining three. “He said he’s a veteran player, so he knows a lot about the dungeons.”
But after experiencing these instances, Yan Xun learned something.
The "unknown creatures" involved, simply put, are those that go beyond the scope of NPCs set by the system and are closer to mysterious entities in the instance, possessing uniqueness.
To put it simply...
If they don't receive the hidden quest "Blue Gold" and only complete the basic quests, then the NPCs and puzzles encountered by players entering the Evil Spirit Sea dungeon in the next round will be similar.
The hidden quest, Blue Gold, involves unknown creatures within the ice wall. Once the quest is fully triggered, it becomes unique.
If Yan Xun's guess is correct, once the player completes the mission, the unknown creature inside the ice wall will awaken.
After the ice wall breaks, He will not fall into slumber again.
The Evil Sea instance might be closed as a result.
Even if the old man is a player and was once a crew member on the Terror, he shouldn't know such detailed information, because this is information that cannot be obtained from the Terror.
Currently, in the dungeon, Yan Xun can only think of one person who is so obsessed with blue gold and has been constantly researching it—
The nobleman in the portrait.
When Yan Xun voiced this guess, Gao Wen visibly gasped.
"...You suspect he's the person in that portrait?"
Gao Wen felt like his brain was turning to mush. "But why did he turn into an old man and enter Wen Yuanzheng's consciousness?"
"Isn't he an NPC?"
“The old man knows about the dungeon, knows some of the key to clearing it, and knows about the player and the old man who comes with him. This proves that the other party is probably not a native NPC,” Yan Xun said. “This part is just my guess. I don’t know that nobleman, nor do I know exactly what happened in the last dungeon.”
"But if you look at it another way, what if he were experiencing a single-player instance?"
"After you enter the instance, you find yourself trapped in a room and unable to move. Strangely, the room's owner cannot see you, and no matter how you call out to him, he cannot detect your presence."
"However, other people entering and leaving the room can see you, but here's the problem: you find that you can't talk to these people."
"Soon, from the person cleaning the room, you learned your identity: a portrait hanging in the captain's cabin; you are on a whaling ship, and the owner of the room is the captain of this ship."
"As time went by, you found that your area of activity was expanding. From the whispers of the crew, you learned your identity and that your purpose was to find something called Blue Gold. Legend has it that this thing can bring people back to life and keep them young forever. So you secretly dispatched a pirate to find news of Blue Gold."
"From these clues, you understand a fact: you, who could not wait for the blue gold, have died in your physical body and become an evil spirit on this pirate ship, the Terror."
"You guess this is a decryption instance, the purpose of which is to make you constantly gather information, confirm your identity, and thus start the real mission."
Yan Xun held up a finger. "You're very lucky. You've discovered your true identity: you're the secret employer of the captain of the Terror Ship. You're ordering the captain to go to the Ice Wall to collect blue gold."
"At the same time, you finally discovered the task in your taskbar..."
"Obtain the blue gold, and you will be resurrected."
Unfortunately, the mission failed.
"You look at the sinking of the Terror, and the ice wall is right in front of you, and you are still not reconciled."
"But the mission failed, and your existence was erased. Just as you were waiting for death to come, a miracle happened. You found yourself in the consciousness of another player, and the mission continued."
"As long as you obtain the Blue Gold, you can still be resurrected."
Yan Xun guessed that the old man's temporarily deceased body might be in some other space, just like Gui Yuchong's.
The other party completed the solo mission in a spirit state, and their physical body did not completely die while the mission was still ongoing.
However, Yan Xun felt that the old man's eagerness to complete the mission was probably not just about wanting to be resurrected.
He figured the old man probably knew about other uses for blue gold, and he needed Wen Yuanzheng to help him unlock and verify them.
Gao Wen was stunned. After a long while, he finally said, "Then why was he able to enter Wen Yuanzheng's consciousness?"
Yan Xun looked at the endless ice wall in front of him.
"Perhaps He needs food when He awakens."
He tempts people to obtain blue gold by promising resurrection and immortality. When the readily available food dies unexpectedly, He uses his power to send the old man outside the instance, like bait, to lure players closer to the ice wall.
Gao Wen was about to ask how the main system could allow this when Yan Xun spoke up—
"The main system cannot stop these mysterious entities."
The system relies on the energy of these beings to function, and even a degraded being like Jia Ye can sometimes hinder the normal operation of the main system.
Not to mention that the thing inside the ice wall is only temporarily dormant, and its power is likely stronger than that of the downgraded Jia Ye.
Yan Xun vaguely felt that he had grasped some of the main system's ideas.
It's good that the client (Party A) is willing to invest, but if they always act on their own initiative, meddle in the game's content, and want to do everything themselves, then that's a problem.
Then why not find a client who can understand human language?
The main system nodded.
The main system and you have reached a consensus.