Chapter 100 Astonishment
After more than half a year in this world, Chen An's life trajectory is like a straight line without any fluctuations. From the perspective of probability, as long as you don't take the initiative to cause trouble, trouble will not easily come to you.
He didn't know why the mysterious substance in his brain threw himself into this world, because no one knew that it was its intentional or unintentional behavior. Without a benchmark for judgment, Chen An naturally had no way to know whether it had so-called thoughts.
This is his third time traveling through time and space. He has adapted to what he should adapt. What can he do in the face of this irresistible mysterious power? As the old saying goes, life is like rape. If you can't resist, enjoy it.
He can't talk about enjoyment. As soon as he thinks of this problem, his thoughts will be mixed, so in general he will try to minimize his random thoughts. In the end, he can't think of a result.
Leaving Sarapela, he continued his journey eastward. Apart from encountering several malicious PK events on the road, his life was still unsurprising and happy. The only change was that his level was steadily improving.
Until he came to Gelves, the south coast of the Kingdom of Angrien, he met a man.
That day, Chen An, who was in Gelves, planned to go climbing the mountain. The mountain was near the port of Gelves. If you look at it from the top of the mountain, you can overlook the entire port of Gelves.
He heard people say in the tavern that the scenery there was beautiful. Standing on the pavilion on the top of the mountain, feeling the small mountains, and for a while, he could forget the worries in his heart.
Chen An was worried, but his troubles would no longer affect his life. Climbing mountains was just because he wanted to see if the scenery there was really so beautiful.
Generally, the best scenery for climbing is at sunrise and sunset, while Chen An chose to be before sunrise, so when it was still dark, he got up and headed all the way to the mountains.
Very few players would climb mountains like him during this period. Even if there were, the routes might be different. Since it was in the city, there were no dangerous beasts and monsters in the mountains, even newcomers could easily deal with them.
As we approach the pavilion on the top of the mountain, the sky has just dawned, and the sun will slowly rise later.
He thought he would be the first person to arrive at the top of the mountain in the morning, because he had not met half a player on the road. Who knew that after climbing the pavilion, he found that someone had been waiting for the sunrise in advance.
This is a young man with long black hair and a slender figure. He was wearing a white strong suit and an inconspicuous sword around his waist. He was behind his back with his hands, and his eyes were always looking into the direction of the port, so that Chen An ignored him even when he walked to him.
Chen An is not a person who likes to be polite and familiar with others. Since the other party did not take the initiative to say hello, he naturally would not come over to talk to him casually.
In addition, the sunrise is rising in the direction of Shanghai, so he is unwilling to be disturbed and missed such a beautiful scenery.
The two people on the pavilion remained silent until the sunrise completely rose, and the players around Chen An finally turned their heads and looked at Chen An.
"Do you need a mission?"
Um?
Chen An inexplicably looked at the young man next to him who had finished speaking. After a moment, he realized that the other party was not a player, but an NPC.
"What mission?"
"Help me protect someone."
"who?"
"His name is Jeremy Sean, a risky boat dealer in Galves."
“What are the mission requirements?”
"Stay him safe within a month. His fleet is recruiting sailors recently, and you can apply for a job now."
“What if I can’t apply for the job?”
"No, you will definitely apply."
"...Okay, where will I go to find you after the mission is over?"
"A month later, come here to find me at this time."
As soon as he finished speaking, the mysterious young man in front of Chen An disappeared in front of him, leaving only a sentence echoing among the mountains.
Looking at the pavilion where there was no one except him, Chen An subconsciously thought he had an hallucination, but when he saw the new task icon on the taskbar, he realized that this was not an hallucination.
I think he encountered a super NPC.
Should I sigh at my good luck?
Chen An shook his head and thought to himself, then he went down the mountain and found the recruitment location prompted in the mission. After some conversation, he applied for the NPC of the fleet.
His employer Jeremy Sean is a very legendary figure in Gelves. He followed his father to sea since he was a child. As his father grew up, he shouldered the heavy responsibility of his family and used the help of his father's connections to smuggle and earned his first pot of gold through smuggling. He was flexible and smooth in his work, quickly strengthened his career and successfully ranked among the top ten ship merchants in Gelves. He also married a well-educated and well-educated white and beautiful lady, who was a winner at the peak of his life.
But he didn't know why the mysterious NPC asked him to protect the other party? Is there a competitor who wanted to assassinate him? But how could he, a small sailor, always protect him?
After thinking about it, he decided to follow the steps. When he was fine on weekdays, he would secretly follow the other party and provide security in secret. However, after following him for more than ten days, he found that no one was intending to murder his employer.
Early every morning, after saying goodbye to his beautiful and lovely wife and daughter, Jeremy Sean would come to the fleet to work, and would visit local celebrities from time to time. After work, he would go home to accompany his wife and daughter. Unless he was invited by a special banquet, he would take his wife and daughter out, otherwise he would stay in the mansion.
Until the eighteenth day of the mission, the fleet finally had a big task, and even the employer had to take action in person.
Three three-masted sailboats filled with cargo left Galves' port in a mighty manner, while Chen An, a sailor, boarded his employer's ship.
Life on the boat is very boring. After work every day, he will stay in the crowded and narrow rest cabin and keep his eyes closed. He basically communicates with the surrounding NPC crew members with zero communication.
On the seventh day after the fleet left the port, they encountered a terrifying sea storm. When huge waves dozens of meters high rushed over, all three large sailboats filled with cargo were shattered without exception.
When the storm came, Chen An kept silently paying attention to his employer. At the moment when the ship capsized, he grabbed the employer tightly, while holding a broken log mast with his other hand.
This may be the closest time Chen An has to die in this world, and it is also the first time he has felt the insignificance of human beings under the might of nature.
He kept rolling with the waves under the impact of the waves, and his health continued to decline. If he had not been a player, he would have died in this storm.
Through the replenishment of the potion in the backpack props, he finally survived the violent waves on the sea.
After the calm, the employers in his arms had already vented more and had less air, and were obviously not far away from death. Fortunately, he had medicine to save his life in time, otherwise the mission would have been defeated.
Within two days, a passing boat rescued the two and successfully sent them back to Gelves. Because the employer had been suffering from fever and was unconscious, he sent him safely back to the employer's residence and left without saying goodbye. Then before dawn the next day, he ran all the way to the pavilion on the top of the port mountain.
"You're here."
When he reached the top of the mountain, the NPC who issued the mission appeared in the pavilion as agreed. When he saw Chen An, he was quite indifferent, and seemed to have expected that he would arrive.
"The person you want me to protect has been sent home safely." Chen An stared at the other party and said. "You seem to know that he would encounter a shipwreck early in the morning?"
"Yes." The other party nodded without denying it.
"Can you know what's going on?" Chen An said in surprise.
"The world has no secret to me." The young man turned around and looked at the harbor in the distance.
"Are you GM?" Chen An said subconsciously.
"There is no GM in this world." said the young man.
“…Are you really an NPC?”
Chen An came to his senses and immediately realized something was wrong.
"In the eyes of players, I am indeed an NPC." said the young man.
"But you..." Chen An frowned and thought.
"Is it strange?" The young man turned his head and looked at Chen An deeply. "Actually, you and I are the same type of people."
"What does it mean?" Chen An's heart beat violently.
Chapter completed!