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Chapter 244 Accidentally Scamming the Sun God

Yan Xun glanced at the ceiling, then looked at Lou Yanchuan.

"Don't worry, we can't hear you here," Lou Yanchuan said, as if he knew Yan Xun's concerns. "You can say whatever you want that we don't know."

Yan Xun thought for a moment and then briefly explained the origin of Blue Gold and the reason why the Angel Guild was so obsessed with Blue Gold.

He concealed the memories he had retrieved from the Blue Gold, only explaining what happened after Gu Jia and the other person left the instance.

"...So, you deliberately set up a trap in the live stream, found the Sun God, and then sought his help?" Sun Zhao's expression was subtle as he spoke, unsure whether to say that Yan Xun was a fearless newborn calf or someone with exceptional skill and daring.

Seeking help from the mysterious beings in the live stream, hoping they would help him achieve his goal, Sun Zhao still found it somewhat unbelievable, even though driving away the nightmare was what the Sun God wanted to see.

That's a genuine deity, unlike those wandering ghosts. A single descent from that deity can destroy a person's body.

Thinking of this, he looked closely at Yan Xun's body again, "Tell me the truth, are there really no hidden injuries?"

Li Wu also knew that most human bodies would not be able to withstand the descent of those true gods. He thought of the half-fries that Yan Xun swallowed when he was deciphering the deepest dream of the nightmare, "Did the blue gold you swallow help you resist the damage after the sun god descended?"

He then thought it was impossible, "But if Blue Gold really is the blood flowing from the body of a true god, we players shouldn't be able to obtain it directly."

"The man you mentioned who possessed Wen Yuanzheng's body, I guess he was worried about the direct harm that Blue Gold would cause to his body, so he planned to use Wen Yuanzheng as a transfer device to extract and absorb Blue Gold energy from him."

"You said you last saw a middle-aged man emerge from Wen Yuanzheng's crushed body. I guess that person was the player hidden in his consciousness."

Yan Xun's attention was focused on the nightmare and the sun god, and he didn't have much extra energy to pay attention to the old man who came out of Wen Yuanzheng's body.

I don't know if the other person is still in the instance or has successfully completed the mission and returned to their original body.

“He must have given Wen Yuanzheng some kind of body-enhancing potion before,” Li Wu deduced. As the vice president of the Time Travel faction, he was familiar with some of the methods used by players—but he had never heard of anything like this that could transform into a personal old man.

"You said that Wen Yuan is entering the advancement dungeon for the first time, so his physical enhancement level should not be high enough."

“To absorb blue-gold energy and survive for even a second, he would need to take body-enhancing drugs at least several times,” Li Wu said. “To be on the safe side, he should choose a player who has advanced twice. The reason he’s in such a hurry is probably because his body is about to give out.”

From Yan Xun's few words, Li Wu guessed the old man's motives. "He probably didn't know that the monster in the ice wall was a nightmare, but he knew that to obtain the blue gold, one must be alive. I think his initial plan was to directly sacrifice Wen Yuanzheng, using his blood to wake up the monster in the ice wall, or to attract the monster's attention with this living sacrifice."

"He changed his plans because he later discovered that the monster inside the ice wall was a nightmare, and that he began to fall into an endless dream after entering the ice crevice."

"He initially told me that Blue Gold was the blood flowing from the Ice Wall Monster," Yan Xun mentioned this detail.

“He probably doesn’t know much, he just knows that Blue Gold is some kind of mysterious substance that can make people transcend, and can make players become gods…?” Li Wu glanced at Yan Xun as he said this.

Yan Xun shrugged. "No."

"He did not become a god."

"That must have canceled out the effects of the sun god's descent," Li Wu analyzed.

“The descent of the Sun God should have caused your body to disintegrate, but you said that the blue gold surged into your body at that time, which should have helped you maintain your human form.” Li Wu said, making a collision gesture. “They canceled each other out. You didn’t become a god, but you also didn’t turn into a flesh monster.”

"That old man entered during the fourth voyage, so he probably didn't discover many of the Whale Whisperers' secrets. Otherwise, he should have warned Wen Yuanzheng to be careful of the Angel Guild long ago."

“Especially since Blue Gold is something a wounded true god needs.”

From Li Wu's perspective, if he had known that Blue Gold was the substance that the angel needed, he probably wouldn't have thought of taking it so easily; he would have had a more elaborate plan.

The old man relied solely on Wen Yuanzheng from beginning to end, and most likely thought it was just an energy cluster that had been overlooked in the hidden dungeon, belonging to a monster in the dungeon.

I never expected it to be related to those mysterious beings, or perhaps true gods.

"The information he revealed to you was probably part of the intelligence he knew." Of course, the old man did conceal some information, such as the details of the Terror ship capsizing and falling into the water last time.

Sun Zhao nodded as she listened, then looked at Yan Xun and asked, "Will you be able to find that old man again next time?"

Yan Xun leaned back in his chair, took out a piece of candy he'd brought from the basement that hadn't expired, glanced at it, unwrapped it, and popped it into his mouth... Hearing Sun Zhao's words, he turned to look at her, "Are you worried about me getting retaliated against?"

“It’s hard to say,” Sun Zhao said. “If this kind of person saw the scene of the sun god descending and the nightmare being dispelled, he would definitely have other plans.”

Li Wu and Gu Jia listened and nodded in agreement.

"When you leave the dungeon later, be careful if you see players like this," Li Wu said.

“He probably only saw the scene of you absorbing the blue gold. It’s best to be careful with this kind of villain,” Sun Zhao agreed.

Yan Xun looked at the moth tattoo on his arm and said, "What do you think about me pretending to be the Sun God's partner?"

“…Huh?” Sun Zhao was a little taken aback.

“They’re all partners of the Sun God. Any powerful move I can use will summon the Sun God to help me fight monsters.” Yan Xun looked at the others in the conference room. “This person probably won’t act rashly.”

Sun Zhao was truly impressed this time.

He had only ever seen the group of swindlers at the entrance of the Time Reversal Gate who claimed to have connections, and this was the first time he had ever seen someone like Yan Xun who was directly trying to extort money from the Sun God.

"See, I wasn't wrong."

“First, I know the Sun God.” Yan Xun stretched out his fingers and began to count.

"Second, He did indeed descend."

"Third, I have indeed received His protection."

Fourth, He answered my prayer.

Yan Xun held up four fingers. "These four fingers, don't they prove that He is actually my sworn brother?"

Sun Zhao was shocked, Sun Zhao fell silent, Sun Zhao hesitated to speak.

"Then, may I ask, this person who has formed a pact with the Sun God," Lou Yanchuan said, sitting at the other end of the table, "how do you explain the absence of the special totem on your body that comes with the pact?"

Yan Xun looked at Lou Yanchuan and raised his arm.

"That's a moth, right?"

"Ah."

"Like moths to a flame... You see, the sun is also a giant fireball, doesn't that make sense?" Yan Xun gestured for them to look at the moth totem on his arm.

Sun Zhao: "..."

"Yan Xun," he patted Yan Xun on the shoulder, "Are you sure the Sun God won't send down a fireball to burn you to death if you say that?"

Yan Xun hesitated upon hearing this.

Just as Sun Zhao thought he had persuaded Yan Xun, he heard the other party say something else.

"To get angry over such a trivial matter, He must be too easily angered!"

He didn't plan to go around shouting that he had some connection with the Sun God—since the old man had witnessed the Sun God's descent, he might as well play along and make the other man think that he was truly the Sun God's contractor.

Make the other party hesitate when taking action.

“Although I don’t know how much blue-gold energy that old man absorbed from Wen Yuanzheng, he’s an experienced player and he personally witnessed the blue-gold surrounding you,” Li Wu said. “I think your plan to pretend to be a Sun God contractor isn’t entirely unfeasible.”

Anyway, Yan Xun didn't need to say anything; the other party would just fill in the blanks themselves.

If Yan Xun wasn't related to the Sun God, why would the Sun God descend to dispel the nightmare?

Li Wu felt that this was the downside of being a smart person: always overthinking and always feeling that others had a backup plan.

Even if Yan Xun frankly admits that he was just a helper he found in the live stream and that he didn't know or have met the Sun God before, nor was he a believer, the old man probably still wouldn't believe it.

Perhaps Yan Xun's words have further convinced the other party that Yan Xun definitely has some close connection with the Sun God.

That explanation is just a smokescreen.

"That middle-aged man's appearance may not be his true face," Li Wu casually reminded Yan Xun.

"You should also be careful of other suspicious players."

Yan Xun leaned back in his chair and looked at Gu Jia. "You told them that?"

“He came to find me as soon as he came out of the dungeon,” Sun Zhao said. “He said you were trapped inside the dungeon…”

"Then I happened to have something to do here in the retrospective."

Sun Zhao briefly explained the background of his and Gu Jia's presence here, "By the way, we've decided to join the Retrospection team."

"And you?" Sun Zhao asked Yan Xun, "Are you interested?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Xun's first reaction was to glance at Lou Yanchuan, who was furthest away from him.

Lou Yanchuan smiled. "Want to join the Senior Citizens' Association?"

"Not at the moment," Yan Xun said.

Lou Yanchuan nodded nonchalantly. "I knew it." He looked at Li Wu. "Yan Xun won't come."

"Young people don't like to join clubs for older people like ours."

—It seems their relationship really isn't good.

This phrase popped into the minds of both Li Wu and Sun Zhao.

Sun Zhao regretted bringing this up and could only change the subject, "Was Qin Ke also sent by that Faith from the Angel Guild to seize the Blue Gold?"

"The Whale Speaker is also a member of the Angel Guild? Is he a traitor?"

"More or less," Yan Xun said, "but the Whale Speaker betrayed us."

"That's why we sent Qin Ke to deal with the traitors and, incidentally, to recover the Blue Gold."

Sun Zhao shook his head as he listened, "Just because he didn't obtain the Blue Gold, he was executed...?"

"As expected, the Angel Guild, along with the god they worship, are a bunch of mad dogs."

Lou Yanchuan listened to Sun Zhao and Yan Xun's conversation, then looked at Gu Jia and said, "You said you left the dungeon because you had the blue-gold fragment that Yan Xun gave you."

Gu Jia nodded.

"After leaving the instance, the blue gold also disappeared?" Lou Yanchuan continued to ask.

“I didn’t take Lan Jin out of the instance,” Gu Jia said. “Gao Wen did too.”

Worried that they might not remember Gao Wen, Gu Jia added an explanation, "He was another teammate who left with me."

“Blue Gold, this special substance, definitely cannot be taken out of that instance.” Li Wu was not surprised by this result. If this substance, which can change a person’s body and give them a near-demigod physique, could be easily taken out of the instance, the entire instance’s rules would be thrown into chaos.

"Then how did Qin Ke take the blue gold out of the instance?" Sun Zhao asked.

“The angels must have a special method,” Li Wu guessed. “After all, they are different from us; they are not players.”

Lou Yanchuan listened to their conversation and then looked at Yan Xun, "You didn't leave the instance because you consumed the Blue Gold."

"Where is Qin Ke?"

"He also ate the blue gold?"

Why did he choose to consume the blue gold at that time?

Lou Yanchuan's questions came one after another. "He is the president of the Angel Guild. He should know that if ordinary humans consume Blue Gold, the result is mostly the same as Wen Yuanzheng, turning into a lump of flesh and blood."

"He shouldn't have been so reckless."

"How can this old man be so cunning and shrewd?" Yan Xun thought to himself.

“Who knows? Aren’t all the members of the Angel Guild a bunch of lunatics?” Yan Xun said. “He wants to help the Angels get back the Blue Gold, so he definitely can’t leave the dungeon.”

"Besides, Nightmare is so powerful... it's not surprising that he would do this."

Yan Xun said, "I also heard Qin Ke's prayer at that time."

"He said he was willing to use his body as a price to help the angel obtain Blue Gold." Yan Xun leaned back in his chair and said nonchalantly, "Maybe he's planning to swallow Blue Gold to strengthen his body and help that faith obtain as much Blue Gold as possible."

Lou Yanchuan stared at Yan Xun for a long while, then a slight smile appeared on his face. "That makes sense too."

"But I'm very curious..."

He deliberately dragged out his words.

Why did you suddenly defend him?

Lou Yanchuan began, "I thought you would just say one thing—"

“Who knows what a lunatic is thinking?” Lou Yanchuan said, resting his chin on his hands. “That’s more like your style.”

Yan Xun turned his head to look at Lou Yanchuan, "You talk as if you know me very well."

Lou Yanchuan didn't respond this time, but just looked at Yan Xun.

Sun Zhao sensed danger and quietly moved the chair towards the door.

Li Wu frowned as he looked at Lou Yanchuan, seemingly worried that he would make a move.

Gu Jia then took out a small paper doll, ready to slip one to Yan Xun at any moment.

Finally, Lou Yanchuan was the first to smile, easing the atmosphere in the meeting room.

"I'm so sad..."

Lou Yanchuan looked at Yan Xun and said, "I thought our relationship was much better than when we first met."

Yan Xun did not speak.

He wasn't really sure about his relationship with Lou Yanchuan.

In the memories Lou Yanchuan shared with himself, the other person seemed to be his younger brother, but in that memory, Lou Yanchuan was indeed dead.

Its body was broken in two and hung upside down on an iron hook.

So who is the current guild leader of this Retrospective Guild?

Despite the fact that the company has been around for so long, the other party still looks like they are in their twenties, as if they will never age.

Before knowing the exact answer, Yan Xun felt that she couldn't really trust Lou Yanchuan.