inspire-indiana Chapter 201 Navigation Log
Chapter 201 Navigation Log
Upon hearing that Corren had chosen the person to go to the captain's cabin, the players breathed a sigh of relief.
Wen Yuanzheng didn't really want to go to the captain's cabin. He had already accepted the Blue Gold quest, and going to the captain's cabin now would not bring him any benefit. However, Coron had already decided on the candidates, and in this instance, resisting the NPCs was obviously not a wise decision.
Gu Jia didn't reach out to indicate her willingness to enter the captain's cabin, because she wanted to test whether the crew members' initiative to speak was related to entering the captain's cabin.
The short mealtime ended, and everyone hurriedly left, leaving their plates on the table. Yan Xun looked at them for a while but didn't see anyone come to clean them up.
Koren noticed he hadn't left yet. "What are you looking at?"
He walked up to Yan Xun and asked.
"I want to see who's in charge of the kitchen," Yan Xun said.
Koren didn't pay much attention. "He hates being around people."
"So they don't usually show their faces."
He gestured for Yan Xun to follow him out of the dining area, saying, "He won't come out if you don't leave."
"He was tidying up at night too?" Yan Xun was referring to the first night after they dined there, even though it wasn't bedtime when they left the restaurant.
“Of course not.” Corren looked at Yan Xun strangely, as if he had asked a silly question. “At night, everyone on the ship goes to sleep, no one is an exception.”
“He’s just tidying up in his spare time,” he said, patting Yan Xun on the shoulder. “Don’t worry, he just doesn’t like to show his face, he’s not a bad person.”
The fact that there was a cook on the ship who never showed his face was already strange.
He put his arm around Yan Xun's shoulder, led him out of the restaurant, and then pushed him in front of Qin Ke and Wen Yuanzheng.
"I'll say the same thing as yesterday."
"The captain doesn't like people touching his things."
Yan Xun nodded and watched Ke Lun leave.
"What exactly does he do every day?" Wen Yuanzheng suddenly asked. "Everyone on this ship seems very relaxed."
Perhaps because they haven't seen any whales yet, and also because they know the players can't handle the work on the whaling ship, the instance has only assigned them some simple daily tasks since they entered.
"Perhaps they're tracking the whale's direction," Yan Xun replied casually.
Carrying dry rags and other items, they quickly returned to the captain's cabin, which they had visited just yesterday, but the captain was still nowhere to be seen.
If it were yesterday, Yan Xun would probably have obediently followed Corren's instructions and tried his best not to touch the captain's things.
For two consecutive days, Coron gave similar instructions and the captain was not in the captain's cabin each time he cleaned, almost implying to the players that as long as the captain did not find out, they could search for clues to their heart's content.
Not to mention the captain's heavy footsteps and coughing as he approached, which also served as a signal to the players.
So after entering the captain's cabin, Yan Xun began to browse through the books that the captain had thrown on the floor and some that were still in the cabinet.
Wen Yuan was looking at Yan Xun, who was rummaging through things, when he asked, "What are you looking for?"
He squatted down and looked at the books on the ground, only to find that he couldn't understand the words on them at all.
"Navigation log".
"Even if you find it, do you think you can understand it?" Wen Yuanzheng said this without any sarcasm. In his opinion, the characters here seemed different from those they knew, and even if Yan Xun could find them, he wouldn't be able to understand them.
"If it's crucial information for the instance, the instance wouldn't use text we can't understand," Qin Ke whispered from the side.
Just as Wen Yuan was about to explain the secret correspondence in the letters, he remembered that this person seemed to be able to understand them, so he reluctantly shut up and then helped Yan Xun start looking for the captain's voyage log.
Soon, they found the hidden voyage log in the corner of a pile of books.
Unlike the books in good condition, the voyage log showed obvious signs of being wet and then dried, probably related to the capsizing that Corren mentioned.
"How come those books are fine?" Wen Yuan asked, looking at the blurred words on the diary.
“Some of them also show signs of being exposed to the sun,” Qin Ke said softly.
Wen Yuan looked up at Qin Ke and asked, "Are you really going to argue with me?"
Qin Ke shook his head, "No."
Yan Xun simply looked at these voyage logs. The earliest logs started from the first voyage... presumably to prevent others from seeing them, the captain only recorded the weather, their direction of travel, and what they could see along the way.
They eventually found the whale, but since there were no tools on board to extract the blubber, they could only cut it up and put it on the deck before finally returning to Cedar Harbour.
But at the end of his diary, the captain said he was disappointed because he hadn't found what he was looking for.
Clearly, that thing refers to blue gold.
The following year, perhaps due to the depletion of resources in the nearby waters, the captain finally decided to risk entering the Sea of Evil. The whales there possessed energy clusters that whales in other seas did not have. They eventually returned with a fortune, but this time they were unlucky and some of their crew members died.
'Due to inexperience, a crew member accidentally fell into the Sea of Evil while hooking up whale blubber.'
"As some people were disembarking, the small boats were capsized by the struggling whales, and we suffered many casualties."
'I heard someone saw something near the ice wall, but isn't the ice wall a legend from the Sea of Evil Spirits?'
"What do you mean by 'disembark'?" Wen Yuan asked Yan Xun as he looked down at his diary. "Are we really going to disembark?"
“When hunting whales, we have to get to the whales in small boats,” Yan Xun said. “The small boats hanging on the Terror ship are for that purpose.”
"...I thought it was a lifeboat." Wen Yuanzheng originally thought that they just needed to stay on the Terror Ship.
But judging from Yan Xun's words, their crew was going to disembark and fight those whales?!
This is no ordinary seawater; it is the icy, bone-chilling Sea of Evil Spirits. Not to mention the temperature after falling into the water, the evil spirits that linger in the Sea of Evil Spirits alone are enough to kill the crew.
The diary quickly reached its third year.
This time, they still lost some crew members, but perhaps having gotten used to it, the captain appeared extremely calm in his diary.
We need to hire more people.
'I heard that someone approached the edge of the ice wall after the storm... There might be something I'm looking for there, but it's too far away, and I haven't found a route close to the ice wall yet.'
'That person is going crazy, I have a feeling, I can't wait much longer.'
'I know that white thing is his informant; they're all a bunch of lunatics, none of them are normal.'
"A white thing?" Qin Ke looked at Yan Xun. "Is it the whale talker?"
"It should be."
"The madman he's talking about must be the person in the portrait." Yan Xun said, looking up at the portrait hanging in the captain's cabin.
The man in the painting should logically be looking forward.
But whether it was the angle or not, Yan Xun always felt that he was looking down at him.
But in the blink of an eye, the portrait is still looking straight ahead.