readsfreenovel Chapter 217 Beheading
Chapter 217 Beheading
As Yan Xun said, the captain flew into a rage when he heard the keyword "portrait painting".
They shouted that they too were possessed by evil spirits and wanted Coron to throw them into the sea of evil spirits as soon as possible.
He shouted loudly, and Gao Wen was about to say, "Old Deng, stop yelling," when he saw Gu Jia, who was usually quiet and reserved, suddenly punch him.
Gawain: "...?"
No? Bro, what's this?
Immediately afterwards, he saw Gu Jia step on the captain he had knocked to the ground.
“Listen,” Gu Jia said, “there are only the three of us here.”
“If you don’t speak properly now…” He turned his gaze to Gawain, “we’ll throw you down.”
"How about 'accidentally falling into the water' as an excuse?"
The captain struggled, but seeing Gawain rubbing his fists and looking ready to throw him into the sea, he hurriedly begged for mercy, asking the two men to release him.
Gao Wen immediately closed the door to the captain's cabin and watched as Gu Jia picked up the captain and threw him onto a chair.
"Who is that man in the portrait?" Gu Jia asked.
The captain looked at the two thugs in front of him and said, "I don't have any portraits in my room."
Gu Jia and Gao Wen exchanged a glance. "Go and call Yan Xun."
……
Yan Xun was still pacing around the cabin, preparing to check on the other crew members.
Unexpectedly, he soon heard hurried footsteps, followed by Gao Wen calling his name repeatedly.
Yan Xun could only peek out helplessly, "I'm here."
When Gawain saw him, he didn't have time to explain and grabbed him, running up the ship... On the way, the two encountered some crew members, and Will even scolded the hurried Gawain, "Why are you running on the ship?"
"The captain is looking for Yan Xun!" Gao Wen said hurriedly, then dragged Yan Xun to the captain's cabin.
Yan Xun knew the captain wouldn't be looking for him. Looking at Gao Wen dragging him away, a ridiculous guess suddenly popped into his head: "What did you guys do to the captain?"
“…” Gao Wen turned around, blinked, and said, “You know what I mean.”
Yan Xun: "?" I don't understand.
Gao Wen was quick; after dragging Yan Xun to the captain's cabin, he looked like he had accomplished his mission and said to Gu Jia, "We're here."
Yan Xun then noticed the captain, who was tied to a chair and looked very unhappy, and Gu Jia, who was standing to the side.
He glanced at the scattered items on the ground and the captain's face. "You beat him up?"
"Ah."
Yan Xun walked up to the captain and said, "I've noticed you're pretty reckless too."
"Time is running out," Gu Jia said briefly.
Only two people remain on the ship who haven't received the Blue Gold quest. According to the Whale Whisperer's prediction, they will encounter a storm tomorrow night... Before that, they'd better complete quest 2.
Yan Xun also understood this principle.
He looked at the dejected captain, dragged a chair over, and sat down in front of him.
"Thank you," he said to Gu Jia, thanking him for the inspiration he had given him.
He suddenly realized that his previous methods of finding clues were too conservative.
They only thought about outsmarting the enemy, never about fighting.
Gu Jia still assumed Yan Xun was thanking him for helping him deal with the captain, never imagining that he had opened a new world for Yan Xun... He looked at Yan Xun sitting in the chair and then asked directly—
"Why did you deliberately destroy the amulet of the sun god during the fourth voyage?"
When Yan Xun said this, not only was Gao Wen dumbfounded, but even Gu Jia was stunned for a second.
It seems no one expected that the one who destroyed the talisman on the bow of the Terror Ship was actually the captain himself.
Gao Wen was about to ask Yan Xun if he was bluffing the captain when he saw the captain immediately frown, "What are you talking about?"
He looked at Yan Xun and said, "I told you you were possessed by an evil spirit."
He kept his head down, repeatedly saying that he was possessed by an evil spirit.
Yan Xun sat in the chair opposite him and kicked it. "During the fourth voyage, you deliberately destroyed the amulet on the bow of the ship in order to reach the ice wall."
“Colomb, Will…” he said, casually mentioning two names, “They both know about this.”
“You discovered that your crew didn’t want to go to the ice wall, and you knew that as long as the Sun God was still there, the storm wouldn’t come.” Yan Xun looked at the one-eyed captain with his head down. “So you did that for your own purposes.”
The captain did not speak.
“The first time, you didn’t dare to make it too obvious, so you only slightly damaged the edges of the amulet.” Yan Xun recalled the details in the voyage log. “That time, you did encounter a storm, but fortunately you quickly reached a new sea area.”
"The crew spotted many whales..."
The logbook states that they arrived in unfamiliar waters after a storm.
Everyone was excited, and the captain even wrote in his diary that there were more red dolphins now.
"How many crew members did you throw down to attract those whales?" Yan Xun asked.
The captain avoided his gaze. "I don't understand what you're talking about?"
“We have never done this.”
“Yes, I know. Your excuses are always that you're heretics or possessed by evil spirits.” Yan Xun nodded understandingly. “Let me guess, why wasn’t your behavior discovered the first time?”
“There happened to be an innocent heretic on the ship, and he happened to become the scapegoat.”
Koren kept repeating the fact that there was an infidel on the Terror, proving that there really was an infidel on the ship.
All the crew members believed that the sun god could help them avoid the storm, and after experiencing the first storm, the crew quickly launched an investigation and then abandoned a certain heretic.
“But soon, you realize…” Yan Xun looked at the captain, “we’re still too far from the ice wall.”
"But you don't have much time left."
"He's watching you."
Yan Xun's gaze shifted to the portrait in the room. "What did he say to you?"
The captain shook his head, seemingly unaware of anything.
He was gripped by a kind of fear, as if the man in the portrait were right beside him, watching his every move.
Perhaps the other party did exist at that time.
During the two weeks after arriving at the new sea area, the captain did not keep any log. "After arriving at the new sea area, you set down those small whaling boats, intending to take advantage of the situation to look for traces of the ice wall."
"The crew found the portrait in your room..." Yan Xun looked at the captain's hunched shoulders, "but unfortunately, you can't see it."
"You said the crew members were possessed by evil spirits."
Yan Xun stood up. "Is it possible that you are the one possessed by that evil spirit?"
Gao Wen saw the captain's expression twist instantly, his skin twitched as if something was about to crawl out, and he was about to pull Yan Xun back.
Then a blood-stained axe appeared in Yan Xun's hand.
Just as the captain was about to explode—
Yan Xun raised his axe high and chopped off the captain's head.