Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 290 - 189: The Secret of the Sea Disaster + The New Wolf King
An Jin’s hands paused. She looked up at him and asked gently, "What’s wrong?"
Gu Yin looked down, his gaze complex as it rested on her face. His throat bobbed. "I..."
He only managed to get one word out before his voice caught again.
His hand came to rest on her fair, beautiful face, but he only gently tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear. "It’s nothing. I’m just a little worried about you. If the sea disaster really happens in half a month, I’m afraid I won’t be able to protect you."
’I can take you away. We can go further inland and find a safe place,’ he wanted to say. But Gu Yin understood that this city was An Jin’s life’s work. She would never abandon it.
"Are you preparing to evacuate now?" he asked, seeing that she had been packing for some time.
"I am leaving, but I’m not evacuating to a safe place. I’m going to the deep sea."
"What... The deep sea?!"
Gu Yin thought he had misheard. His hands trembled as he gripped her shoulders tightly. His expression darkened, his eyes cold and deep. "Jin’er, you’re not an impulsive person. Do you have any idea how dangerous the bottom of the sea is right now? Not to mention, the deep sea is the very source of the disaster..."
He found it utterly unbelievable, even thinking she was joking. But this joke wasn’t funny at all.
"I’m not joking, Gu Yin. I’m serious." His hands were clamped tightly on her shoulders. She placed her own hands over his, her beautiful dark eyes meeting his gaze earnestly.
"Xi said their Priest prophesied that this sea disaster will be caused by Sea Beasts. No matter what precautions we take, people are destined to die in this unprecedented catastrophe. But if we can stop it at the source—"
"No. I won’t let you go. It’s too dangerous." Gu Yin cut her off. He had never been this angry before, his deep voice thick with suppressed fury.
This was the first time he had ever lost his temper with her.
"Of course I know. The deep sea is very dangerous. I might even die there." An Jin sighed helplessly, but then a smile touched her lips as she reached out to gently stroke his stern face.
Originally, she had also planned to follow the plan and head to the shelter. But then the damn system suddenly issued a new main quest: [Explore the Secret of the Sea Disaster].
The moment the system issued it, An Jin noticed something—it was a *main quest*, not a random, ordinary disaster-resolution quest.
And the name of the quest was [Explore the Secret of the Sea Disaster], not just [Resist the Sea Disaster Crisis].
What did this mean?
The system was incredibly strict about issuing main quests. Every step of any quest that could be called a main quest would affect her future destiny.
Besides, from the moment she was pulled into this world and bound to this system, her fate had become completely intertwined with it. It was as if she were being guided by some unseen force; she was simply unable to resist the system’s commands.
Not to mention, the name of this quest contained the word "Secret."
After noticing these two unusual things about the quest directive, An Jin felt that there was more to this situation than met the eye.
She had a faint feeling that there were hidden truths waiting for her to uncover, like one of the world’s great unsolved mysteries. ’Isn’t that interesting?’
That was why she had to go on this journey to the deep sea.
Outside the window, the wind and snow continued to fall silently. The atmosphere in the room was so quiet it was almost stagnant, with only the sound of two people’s breathing rising and falling in alternation.
Gu Yin’s expression was grim. He stared deeply into her determined eyes, his jaw tight. "...You... you’re really going?" The hands gripping her shoulders tightened, leaving red marks. His chest heaved with heavy, labored breaths.
An Jin nodded. "I have to go."
After a long silence, he finally let her go. He closed his eyes and sighed, then opened them again to look at her. "Fine. You can go. I won’t interfere with your decision. But I’m going with you."
"Of course you’re going with me. I was planning on having you accompany me from the very beginning," she said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
As if he hadn’t expected such a reply, Gu Yin froze for a moment. His gaze fell on her lively, cunning face, and he let out a helpless chuckle. "...So that was your plan all along."
’She deliberately turned herself into bait to lure me into going to the deep sea with her. She wants to use my power to wipe out those Sea Beasts.’
’Otherwise, with my cold and lazy personality, I definitely wouldn’t have gotten involved.’
Now that her little scheme had been exposed, she didn’t try to hide it anymore. She admitted it freely, "That may be true, but everything I said before was also true. Simply evacuating won’t solve the problem. To resolve this sea disaster, we have to deal with it at the source."
