Transformed into a heartthrob's simp, every day is a battleground.

Chapter 206 That's terrible

"I'm just a little sad."

Qin Ke continued speaking.

“I have always been someone who is not needed.”

Yan Xun: "That's terrible."

Qin Ke: "Are you saying I'm bad?"

Yan Xun was surprised. "I didn't say that. Don't misunderstand me."

Qin Ke looked at Yan Xun for a while, then said, "That's good."

He squatted there, poking at the neatly stacked supplies with his finger. "I've always felt like I'm an unwanted person." He repeated what he had said before, "I thought entering this instance would be different."

“But the whale talker did not bless me.”

"Do you have any clues?" Yan Xun asked.

Qin Ke shook his head. "Maybe he hates me."

He clutched the knot in the sack. "I'm never one to be liked." He looked at Yan Xun again. "I know you don't like me either."

"Hehe, it's alright," Yan Xun said.

"I'm not even willing to give you a perfunctory reply." Qin Ke looked a little sad.

"Mmm." Yan Xun nodded.

Qin Ke: "..."

He pretended not to understand Yan Xun's perfunctory response, which he couldn't even be bothered to put on, and changed the subject, "Why do you think the Whale Speaker is unwilling to bless me?"

Yan Xun thought to himself, "This is the question I should be asking you. Why are you throwing the question back at me?"

He discovered that Qin Ke always used tricks to get away with things he didn't want to answer, making it difficult to criticize him too much.

"I don't know." Yan Xun threw the question back at him. "Why don't you think about it and see if you offended the Whale Speaker at some point?"

The two fell silent again.

Yan Xun squatted there, and after a while, Qin Ke started rambling on about similar things again, "Maybe it's because he really doesn't like me."

"Very few people like me."

"They say I'm a weirdo."

"What strange thing did you do?"

“I didn’t do anything,” Qin Ke said. “I just hope my life can be a little easier.”

He looked at Yan Xun earnestly, "I just want all the people who bully me to die."

Is this bad?

"It's alright," Yan Xun said, then looked at Qin Ke. "What did you do?"

“Nothing much.” Qin Ke avoided his gaze again and looked at the sacks, poking at them with his finger. “They were just unlucky.”

“Gao Wen said, ‘You didn’t expect Wen Yuanzheng could also read the words on the letter.’” Yan Xun asked, “Is it some kind of special script?”

Qin Ke didn't turn his head. "It's a very special language. My father taught me how to read it."

"Only a small number of people know this script."

"So you're surprised that Wen Yuanzheng knows him?" Yan Xun asked.

Qin Ke nodded.

“Not many people recognize this script, but I should recognize it all.” Qin Ke looked puzzled. “I don’t understand why Wen Yuanzheng would recognize it.”

"I don't know Wen Yuanzheng, and I've never heard of his name."

“But the captain and his correspondents also know,” Yan Xun said. “Could it be that your father also knew the captain and the man in that portrait?”

Upon hearing this, Qin Ke gave a shy smile, "It's different."

"It's normal for the NPCs in the instance to know."

Qin Ke didn't continue, "I think Wen Yuanzheng is a bit strange."

He looked at Yan Xun and said, "We should be careful of Wen Yuanzheng. I'm worried he might be a threat to us."

Yan Xun avoided his gaze, and he stood up, supporting himself on his knees. "I'll be careful of him."

Qin Ke watched him as he tried to leave. "You're leaving?"

Yan Xun looked down at him, puzzled. "I thought we had cleared up the misunderstanding and finished talking."

Qin Ke opened his mouth, looking somewhat dumbfounded, as if he hadn't expected Yan Xun's apology to be so casual.

He shook his head and stood up as well. "Then I'll leave with you."

"Aren't you going to continue taking inventory of the things here?"

"You just said that you and Gu Jia have finished taking inventory," Qin Ke said, then muttered Gu Jia's name softly, "Are you friends?"

Yan Xun had already reached the cabin door when he heard Qin Ke's words and turned around, saying, "He is my angel investor."

Qin Ke didn't quite understand what he meant, but still tentatively asked—

"Yan Xun".

Can we become acquaintances?

Yan Xun leaned against the cabin door and looked at Qin Ke. "No."

“Once we leave this instance, it’ll be goodbye.” He waved his hand. “We’ll go our separate ways.”

He waved his hand and walked out of the cabin without waiting for Qin Ke's reply.

Only Qin Ke remained in the warehouse. He watched Yan Xun's departing figure for a long time before a smile finally appeared on his face.

You will remember me.

……

Come on! ! !

As soon as Yan Xun left the cabin door, he couldn't help but rush back to his own cabin.

He wanted to jog, but felt that would be too conspicuous, so he quickened his pace. He saw Corinne along the way, and Corinne was about to greet him when he saw his roommate hurrying towards the cabin where he was staying.

Koren: "?"

"[Do you need to pee?]" The system suddenly popped into Yan Xun's head. "[Why did you suddenly jump so fast?]"

Yan Xun didn't have time to deal with the system.

Only after returning to his cabin and closing the door did he catch his breath and speak to the system in his mind.

“I remember that word…I’ve seen it somewhere before.”

Qin Ke's meaning was clear: NPCs could recognize this kind of text, but very few players could, and he knew almost everyone who did.

The other person said that his father taught him this script.

Yan Xun didn't dare take out the Book of Corruption from his system inventory, worried that something might be seen in the live stream or through other means.

He could only desperately search his memories, then try to compare the crossed-out words on the back of the corrupted book with the tadpole-like cursive script on the captain's cabin wall. The conclusion was—

Very close.

Although the letters in the captain's cabin were written in elaborately decorated cursive script, these special designs blurred Yan Xun's understanding of this unfamiliar script. However, once he connected the two scripts, Yan Xun immediately noticed the subtle similarities between them.

Yan Xun's thoughts were not hidden from the system at all, so the system immediately detected them.

You suspect he's a member of the Angel Guild?

The system almost screamed inside Yan Xun's head.

"I'm not sure." Yan Xun didn't speak, but answered the system in his mind, "Perhaps people outside the Angel Guild can also recognize this script."

However, the constant mention of his father in Qin Ke's speech, and the claim that only people he knew could recognize this script, had already led Yan Xun to associate him with the Angel Guild.

"But he doesn't have wings." The system added, "Didn't everyone in the Angel Guild undergo physical modifications and have wings that symbolize angels?"

This is also why Yan Xun had never associated Qin Ke with the Angel Guild before.

But no one can guarantee that the other side won't retract its wings.

No, Yan Xun rejected the idea again.

He felt that if they were truly members of the Angel Guild, their methods should have been even more ruthless.

“So the Whale Speaker didn’t bless him,” Yan Xun told the system. “He has already come to believe in a real angel… The Whale Speaker certainly wouldn’t invite trouble.”

Soon, there was a knock on the door.

Koren's voice then came through, "Are you alright?"

"You look terrible," Corren asked from outside the door.

Yan Xun opened the door. "I'm just feeling a little unwell," he said. "Probably because I'm too nervous."

"Nervous?" Coron leaned against the hatch. "Because of the Whale Speaker or the captain?"

Yan Xun wasn't surprised at all that Corren knew about this—if Will knew about it, there was no reason why his green-eyed neighbor wouldn't know. "They all do."

“The captain makes me feel…like a madman.” Yan Xun spoke cautiously, testing Coron’s attitude to see if his neighbor was a staunch supporter of the captain or not.

Koren chuckled a few times, seemingly amused by Yan Xun's cautious attitude.

He walked in and patted Yan Xun on the shoulder. "It's okay, that's what we all say."

"Poor captain, he's been driven mad by that man."

He closed the door, as if he were about to whisper something, "Once we catch that whale, we must return to port immediately."

Yan Xun recalled the refining furnace in the middle of the ship, "I remember there was a refining furnace on the ship."

“Yes,” Corren said nonchalantly, “but our captain has gone mad.”

"One whale may be a bit few, but at least we can get by."

“Keep sailing... I have a feeling he’s going to take us to the vicinity of the ice wall sooner or later.” Corren muttered to himself, probably hoping not to encounter a storm, as he had no desire to go to the ice wall to meet his nemesis.

Yan Xun always felt that the Terror Ship gave him a strange, out-of-place feeling.

Both the captain and the crew members on board.

"What did the whale whisperer say to you?" Corren asked again, seemingly for the best.

Yan Xun could sense that the Whale Speaker didn't interact much with these crew members, and their attitude towards him was also subtle. "It's nothing," Yan Xun said. "He asked us to help clean the room."

"Then they blessed us."

Koren remained indifferent until Yan Xun said, "But he didn't wish Qin Ke well." He looked at Koren and asked, "Do you know why?"

Ke Lun looked at Yan Xun, "No blessings for Qin Ke?"

"What's the reason?"

He doesn't need it.

Koren frowned. "This is strange."

“Whale whisperers rarely do this kind of thing.”

“Perhaps there’s something strange about him,” Corren said. Soon, he thought of a possibility: “The Whale Whisperer also worships the sun god… Perhaps the people he is unwilling to bless are heretics.”

There's also a heretic on the ship!

Is there anything more terrifying than this?

Koren's expression immediately turned very ugly.

“Maybe I’m wrong, but I hope it’s not,” he said, then patted Yan Xun on the shoulder a few times. “I’ll investigate.”

"Don't let him find out."

After saying that, Corren hurriedly left again, as if he had only come here to check on Yan Xun.

……

Wen Yuanzheng sneaked onto the deck.

He pretended to be observing the nearby sea. The lookout on the watchtower was always looking for whales, so he could naturally see the actions of the people on the ship.

He slowly made his way to the bow of the ship and finally saw the symbol of the sun god.

It was a deified sun symbol, surrounded by vertical lines representing rays of light, and images of angels playing music around the sun.

As Wen Yuanzheng approached this, he immediately felt an invisible force, as if the sun was shining on him, making his body feel warm.

"This is the talisman on the bow of the ship," Wen Yuan asked the old man in his heart.

"Hmm." The old man answered quickly.

"Are you sure I want to do this?" Wen Yuanzheng was still a little uneasy. He felt that the old man's suggestion was a bit outrageous, actually telling him to come and destroy the Sun God's amulet in the middle of the night—so that the Terror Ship could encounter the storm and reach the ice wall.

"What if the storm kills me?!" Wen Yuanzheng became even more suspicious that the old man had ulterior motives.

"Fool," the old man thought, but he patiently explained, "As long as you accept the Blue Gold quest, you won't die."

Only players who haven't accepted the quest will die in the storm.

"You don't have much time left," the old man tempted. "Do you want to leave the instance without completing any quests?"

'Don't forget, you specifically took a enhancement potion before entering the dungeon.'

Wen Yuanzheng thought about it and agreed.

He took the enhancement potion for the reward of this dungeon... But what the other old men said before Yan Xun made him suspicious of the thing in his heart that could speak.

He was genuinely afraid of getting into serious trouble if he rashly removed the amulet of the sun god.

So after much hesitation, he vaguely replied, "Let me think about it some more."

"You'd better decide as soon as possible." The old man naturally noticed Wen Yuanzheng's hesitation. He thought to himself, "This guy is really hopeless. If you still haven't made a decision when you encounter the whale, then you'll have to fail the mission and be sent out of the instance."

He cunningly concealed some information.

'If the mission fails, it's not my problem.'

Wen Yuanzheng was even more conflicted upon hearing this. Perhaps it was because he had been staring at the symbol of the sun god for too long, but the lookout also began to scold him, telling him to get back and stop staying there.

Wen Yuanzheng could only leave dejectedly.

Upon reaching the lower deck of the ship, they saw Yan Xun, who had just left his room.

He greeted Yan Xun absentmindedly, only to have Yan Xun call out to him.

"I just spoke with Coron."

Yan Xun said.

“He said the whale whisperer is a follower of the sun god, and there is only one reason why he is unwilling to bestow blessings.”

"What?" Wen Yuanzheng was still somewhat lost in thought, and asked reflexively.

"The other party has other beliefs in their heart."

Wen Yuanzheng was initially startled, "Heretics?!"

But then he thought again, "No, this is what the dungeon says." He breathed a sigh of relief, "Could it be that Qin Ke himself believes in some other religion in real life?"

"God or Buddha or something?"

He said to Yan Xun, "But does this copy even care about real-world beliefs?"

He didn't take it too seriously. Anyway, it's normal for players to pray to gods and Buddhas and hope to return to the game someday after entering it, and it's also normal for dungeons to judge them as having faith.

"By the way, I heard a while ago that players have recently started to worship donkey meat sandwiches. The cult leader's family sells donkey meat sandwiches. As long as you meet the cult leader and say that you worship him, you can get a donkey meat sandwich."

Wen Yuan told Yan Xun as if it were a joke.

Yan Xun listened for a while, then asked, "And then?"

"Then the cult leader died while running a dungeon."