ushernet Chapter 216 Read and Burn
Chapter 216 Read and Burn
Upon hearing Sun Zhao's advice, Gu Jia became more interested in their unique writing system.
However, very few people have seen the Angel Guild, and the guild is known for its eccentricities, using text only for prayer. But in a certain encrypted area of the forum, someone shared a passage of a prayer from the Angel Guild.
That encrypted area required a huge amount of points to enter, but Gu Jia had plenty of points, so she looked at the text out of curiosity.
The forum has a "read-and-destroy" mode; once you glance at a message, it will be automatically deleted 30 seconds later.
Gu Jia managed to make out the words used by the Angel Guild for prayer within those 30 seconds. He couldn't understand the words, and the reading time was short enough, so he only felt physically uncomfortable and occasionally heard unknown voices in his head, but it didn't cause him much harm.
But now, as Gu Jia looked at the words in the letter... she felt a strange sense of familiarity.
Although the fonts in the letters are decorated, the text itself is very similar.
"Can you repeat to me what Qin Ke said at the time?" Gu Jia asked.
Gao Wen said he was also present when this happened, but like Yan Xun, he didn't focus on the text in that position at the time.
But once Gu Jia realized that this text might be related to prayers within the Angel Guild, the whole thing became complicated.
Although Gao Wen didn't understand why Gu Jia suddenly looked so threatened, he still obediently recounted his conversation with Qin Ke at the dinner table that day.
“He said only certain people know him…” Gao Wen paused here, looking at Gu Jia, “Is there a problem?”
"Ah."
“I’ve seen this character before. Although I don’t recognize it, I know where it comes from.”
Gao Wen's eyes widened immediately. "Where?"
Gu Jia originally wanted to say directly that it was the Angel Guild... but in the Human Cat dungeon, the strange White and others who seemed to be able to communicate directly with those beings still left a deep impression on him.
He worried that some angel was watching his live stream, monitoring their every move.
Finally, he gestured for Gawain to extend his hand and then drew an angel wing pattern in his palm.
Gao Wen was puzzled and wanted to ask Gu Jia why she was drawing wings... He looked at Gu Jia and saw her make a "shh" gesture.
Gao Wen was a beat slow to react.
"You mean that...?"
He wanted to say "angel," but then realized what Gu Jia was wary of, so he could only look up at the sky and make a gesture as if looking at the ceiling.
"Mm." Gu Jia nodded.
"Holy crap!" Gao Wen was genuinely shocked this time.
"Impossible!" he said instinctively.
Although he hadn't been in the instance for long, he had heard of the Angel Guild's reputation—the infamous mad guild on the forums, whose members were all madmen and unreasonable.
“But he…?” Gawain’s eyes were full of confusion.
On the one hand, Qin Ke didn't have wings, and on the other hand, Qin Ke didn't seem very crazy, so Gao Wen still found it a bit hard to believe.
However, he didn't doubt that Gu Jia was lying to him. Although he hadn't interacted with this person much, he could tell that Gu Jia was quite reliable.
“Then we’re doomed,” Gao Wen said.
"How does the captain know this script?"
"And I guess the other people on the ship probably wouldn't understand it."
Otherwise, the captain wouldn't have so brazenly laid the letters out on the table, completely unconcerned about others looking at them.
“Those crew members probably couldn’t understand it either,” Gu Jia confirmed Gao Wen’s statement. “It must be a problem with the sponsor behind it.”
Gawain tugged at his hair in frustration. “But the problem is, I’ve heard that people who can understand these things are all a bit…” He pointed to his head, probably meaning that they were mentally unstable.
"Didn't the crew say that the captain had gone mad?"
"The blue gold that the captain has been searching for is the elixir of immortality that the sponsor wants." After Gu Jia uttered this keyword, he also received a notification of a hidden quest.
There was still some time before the captain arrived, so he went to the portrait again.
The man in the portrait still has that gloomy and serious look.
“In his diary, the captain said he had been watching me.” Gawain walked up to the portrait. “I suspect he was referring to this portrait.”
But how do you look at a person in a portrait?
Gao Wen didn't quite understand.
Therefore, he suspected that the captain must have gone mad.
He found the captain's logbook and read it again. When he saw the list of candy and chocolate, he went to find the previous supply lists. "We only brought candy and chocolate on the fourth voyage."
He handed the navigation log to Gu Jia, saying, "I saw those things in the warehouse."
"It's a pity that there's no inventory list for this trip here."
“But logically speaking, there shouldn’t be this much chocolate in stock on a whaling ship,” Gawain added. “It’s not cheap.”
"But the captain has a sponsor behind him..."
"They prepared supplies for the fourth voyage because they were aiming for a long voyage."
"To extend our time at sea as much as possible, we installed a new refining furnace, and stocked the warehouse with chocolates, candies, and other food," Gao Wen said.
Gu Jia looked at the voyage log.
His gaze lingered on the information from the fourth year, "He didn't mention encountering evil spirits before that."
"The red dolphin only appeared in the fourth year, and there are also legends of evil spirits."
After glancing at it a few more times, he told Gao Wen to put the voyage log back in its place. Just as he finished, Gu Jia and the other person heard the captain's footsteps and cough.
Soon, the captain reappeared.
The one-eyed man looked terrible as he looked at the two men. "Where are the other three?"
"Three bastards possessed by evil spirits."
“Colum locked them in the bottom of the cabin,” Gu Jia said. Perhaps worried that the captain wouldn’t know which cabin it was, he added, “the one with the candy and chocolate.”
"...Candy and chocolate?" The captain was momentarily confused, but he quickly nodded. "Yes, candy and chocolate."
He muttered something under his breath, then looked around suspiciously.
“Get Koren to deal with them as soon as possible,” the one-eyed man said uneasily. “They’ve all gone mad.”
Gao Wen nodded and was about to leave with Gu Jia when he saw Gu Jia stop.
"I had a dream that day."
"What?" the captain asked impatiently.
“I dreamt that the Terror Ship capsized, the sun god amulet on the bow was destroyed, and even in your room…” His gaze lingered on the portrait in the captain’s room.
"A portrait of a nobleman with a broad forehead and prominent brow bones also appeared."