EBE Chapter 220 The Secret of the Terror Ship
Chapter 220 The Secret of the Terror Ship
Apart from Qin Ke and Wen Yuanzheng, they were directly divided into two teams.
Some started from the deck, and some from the lowest storeroom.
Yan Xun and Gu Jia went straight to the vicinity of the warehouse, where a crew member happened to be waiting... and seemed a little impatient with them, "Koren told you..."
Before he could speak, Yan Xun swiftly swung the axe in his hand toward the man's chest.
The opponent was severely injured by the force and staggered back several steps. Just as he was about to shout, a long sword severed his head.
Flesh buds resembling those of the captain appeared at the severed neck.
Yan Xun glanced at him, then used the hemp rope from the storeroom to tie the man up; the whole process took less than a minute.
Yan Xun was holding the crew member's head as they continued upwards, soon spotting the gold tooth—
"Hi." Yan Xun greeted him, and when he saw Jin Ya looking at him, he immediately threw the head he was holding into the other's arms, "A gift for you."
Jin Ya instinctively took it, but when he saw what it was, he was about to throw it away when Yan Xun, quick-witted and agile, swiftly stepped forward and chopped the axe directly at Jin Ya's forehead, embedding the axe into the cabin wall.
Gu Jia swung the knife in his hand again, and Jin Ya's head was chopped off.
Gold Tooth's head rolled a few times on the ground, staring at the same person as the previous crew member.
They started yelling at Yan Xun and Gu Jia together, while Jin Ya was groping his head...
A similar scene also occurred above the deck.
When Yan Xun finally found Ke Lun, he saw the other man sitting in the cabin.
He saw the head in Yan Xun's hand, but wasn't surprised... he even smiled good-naturedly, "When did you find it?"
"Just now?" Yan Xun asked.
He threw the crew member's head straight in front of Coron.
Corren took the head and held it up for a moment before asking, "Do you hate me?"
Yan Xun knew that Ke Lun's question was directed at his role as a neighbor.
Just as he was about to say something, the Terror suddenly began to shake... as if in an instant, the Sea of Evil had come to life.
Yan Xun knew that Wen Yuanzheng had completely destroyed the protective charm at the bow of the ship.
When the amulet was destroyed, Koren, who was opposite them, also changed. He no longer looked as lively as when he was alive; he looked like he had been dead for a long time.
“You can find someone else.” Yan Xun didn’t answer Coren’s question directly, but instead phrased it differently.
“We all know the captain has gone mad.” Corren didn’t continue the previous topic, but instead chose to start a new one.
He sat in the cabin, and after the players discovered the key clues, the NPC began to recount everything that happened during the last voyage in a procedural manner.
“It was Will who first discovered that there was something wrong with the amulet,” Corren said. “We soon found a heretic on the ship, and nobody thought that the captain would be the one doing those things.”
“After discovering the heretic, we executed him very quickly.”
He didn't say how he was executed, but Yan Xun could guess that he was most likely thrown into the Sea of Evil Spirits.
“During that time, we caught a lot of whales, and the ship’s refining furnaces were very busy. Everyone was looking forward to making a fortune on the return voyage. Will even told me that he would get married after the return voyage, and the share of the profits would be enough for him to find a safe job in Cedar Harbor.”
"But the captain was not happy at all. Several times we saw the portrait in his cabin, but the captain said, we are all crazy, there is nothing there."
"We all saw that thing."
Corren continued to recount everything from the last voyage.
“We’ve always believed that the captain has been possessed by an evil spirit.”
"So the crew secretly decided that once they had finished hunting whales in this area, they would return to port immediately, and no matter what the captain said, they would not continue sailing."
"But he still insisted on finding the elusive ice wall and the elixir of immortality."
“The whale whisperer said it was dangerous, and the crew disagreed, which led to a heated argument.”
"We parted on bad terms."
"But whales don't wait for anyone, so the crew is working hard to catch them, and the ship's refining furnaces are working day and night."
"Until one day, Will called out to me."
“He told me quietly that he went to the captain’s cabin and discovered a disturbing truth.”
Yan Xun thought that Corren was referring to the captain's pirate identity, but he didn't expect Corren to reveal a secret that he had never anticipated.
"There are no portraits on the walls of the captain's cabin."
"From beginning to end, it was just an empty picture frame."
Colin looked at Yan Xun and said, "Will said that perhaps the captain is right, there really are evil spirits on this ship."
"We must hurry back to base."
It was only then that Yan Xun suddenly noticed a detail he had overlooked... What happens when the crew wants to return to port, but the captain disagrees?
He had assumed that the voyage log should be kept in the captain's cabin.
But the captain had so many secrets; now that I think about it, he probably should have carried them with him at all times.
He looked at Coron. "So, you killed the captain."
"Did you throw his body into the Sea of Evil Spirits?"
Koren avoided Yan Xun's gaze. "If I had known this would happen, I would have preferred to do nothing."
"Since then, the crew said they always hear clattering sounds on deck and knocking on the hatch."
"They don't know how the captain died; they just assume he's still drinking in the captain's cabin, simply because we don't want to go near the ice wall."
Yan Xun now suspects that the first "he" in the captain's diary actually refers to Coron.
The "He" that follows is something else entirely.
"Soon we finished hunting whales, and the ship was covered in unprocessed whale blubber. We decided to turn back. Will knew the route, so it wasn't difficult for us."
“One day, Kewell told me that he found water in the captain’s cabin and that someone had returned to the captain’s cabin.”
“There were even traces of writing on the desk again.”
"I knew it was too late, so I thought I might as well abandon the Terror and run away... Then we saw the captain crawling out of the Sea of Evil in the captain's cabin. He climbed onto the bow of the ship, and we couldn't do anything but watch as he completely destroyed the amulet."
What happened next was exactly as Yan Xun had predicted.
Without its protective charm, the Terror capsized amidst giant waves and the whales' revenge.
The crew members all fell into the sea and were corrupted by the evil spirit sea, turning into unknown monsters.
"...After crashing into the sea, we returned to the Terror. The captain said that the only way to be resurrected was to find Blue Gold."
"This time, we successfully reached the location of the ice wall."
“There is a gigantic creature in there.”
Yan Xun suddenly realized that the detail Ke Lun mentioned was very familiar; he recalled the scene he had dreamt about on his first night—
An ice wall dividing the world, unsettling shadows within the ice wall, and a terrifying ship the size of a sesame seed beneath the ice wall.
Now that I think about it, could these dreams be real scenes that Corren had witnessed with his own eyes?
“We tried to get into the cracks in the ice wall, but only living people could get in there,” Corren said.
"So we returned to Cedar Harbour."
After Corren finished speaking, Yan Xun's long-delayed Task 2 finally received a notification—
[Congratulations to player Yan Xun for discovering a clue, completing mission 2, and cracking the secret of the Terror Ship!]