Huh? Isn't This A Galgame?
Chapter 272 - 241: Cryptocurrency Trading Expert

Chapter 272: Chapter 241: Cryptocurrency Trading Expert

Seeing Hu Jiayao’s reaction, Wen Nan was momentarily stunned.

Unlocking it is unlocking it, not unlocking it is not unlocking it, why all the hemming and hawing?

Even though Hu Jiayao found it difficult to answer, he’s not the type to be shy.

With a raise of his hand, Hu Jiayao directly brought up a page from his system.

He tapped twice and sent it directly to Wen Nan’s system through the proximity data transmission system.

A floating panel appeared in front of Wen Nan, visible only to him—

[Name: **]

[Identity: **]

[Introduction: **]

[Faction: To be unlocked]

Seeing this, Wen Nan immediately understood that the identity information of the assassin was hidden.

How was this done? Did he use some special item? Was there such an item? Why hadn’t he seen it in the system store before?

However, even if it’s hidden, it just means it wasn’t successfully unlocked. Knowing Hu Jiayao’s character, in such a situation, he would have directly spoken out in frustration, wouldn’t he? Why hesitate?

"Anything else wrong with the opponent’s identity?" Wen Nan turned his head to look at Hu Jiayao.

Hu Jiayao rubbed the hair at the back of his head, "The identity card in the system is useless, but... Chairman, I think I might recognize him."

Wen Nan looked seriously into his eyes, "How so?"

Hu Jiayao puffed out his chest, took a deep breath, prepared himself mentally, and blurted out what was on his mind:

"I’m a bit straightforward, unlike Gu Jinxing who’s meticulous. If you ask me to identify someone directly, I wouldn’t be able to, just like when you suddenly appeared in front of me earlier, I didn’t damn recognize you at first glance.

"However, I’m very sensitive to people’s martial arts, especially some people who have habitual little gestures. Under such circumstances, I can recognize them at a glance.

"At noon in the cafeteria, during the fight with that person, he was very cautious, his face was tightly covered, with a hood, and he even wore another layer inside, but when he counterattacked, the little movement of his wrist was clear to me.

"That little movement, I saw in the previous instance in front of the Erin Building, that person, is an old acquaintance."

Hearing this, Wen Nan paused, having a vague guess in his heart.

Sure enough, Hu Jiayao solemnly uttered the name:

"Yang Mingzhong, it’s him, almost certainly."

Wen Nan fell into silence.

Hu Jiayao gritted his teeth and said, "We’re all from the same guild, brothers by rights. We shouldn’t be fighting to the death; however, with the situation in the instance now, we’re the loyalists, and he’s the assassin...

"Chairman, as long as you give the word, the next time we meet, I won’t hold back, I’ll go all out."

Wen Nan didn’t respond immediately, then said:

"Even if he acts, he may not be an assassin."

Hu Jiayao didn’t understand, "He killed someone. When the woman was taken away, I was close and saw clearly, she definitely couldn’t survive that. If he’s not an assassin, what else could he be?"

Wen Nan recalled the scene earlier, where he had approached the two and activated his [Mind Reading Technique] skill, hearing the inner voice from the victim.

It sounded like the noise of a loom, creaking and clanking.

That strange sound was definitely not a heart’s voice, but it wasn’t the first time Wen Nan had heard such a sound.

A similar sound was heard in the office instance, and in his junior sister’s home, he had also heard it from her.

It was the sound made by a soul thread-like skill or item while controlling the character.

Wen Nan directly shared the information he had gathered with Hu Jiayao.

Hu Jiayao was surprised, stood there in a daze for a while, and then reminisced about what happened at lunch in the cafeteria, and said, "Chairman, you mean that Yang Mingzhong acted because he recognized the other person was being controlled, not a normal player or character?"

Thinking this way, Yang Mingzhong’s action might not be considered "murder." After all, the person he stabbed with a knife might just be a soulless puppet.

Hu Jiayao’s earlier attitude of "anguish and moral indignation," prepared to "sacrifice for the greater good," faded away, and he began speaking in defense of his guildmate:

"So, Yang Mingzhong had his reasons? On the surface, he appears like an assassin, attacking as soon as the game starts, but in fact, he might just have discovered the presence of the soul thread and wanted to follow it to find the mastermind behind it?"

To this theory, Wen Nan was noncommittal.

Yang Mingzhong may not have killed a "human," but his "lethal action" was indeed real.

Even if the opponent was a character controlled by a soul thread, even if he wanted to follow the thread to find the mastermind, was it really necessary to literally "stab him to death"?

Of course, if it were Yu Shujun, he really would have stabbed the opponent with a sword. The junior sister had collapsed that way before Wen Nan earlier.

However, firstly, Yu Shujun has a straightforward personality, he’d attack without any fuss when annoyed, without unnecessary talk.

Moreover, when Yu Shujun was with Wen Nan, he was always outside the instance, not bound by the instance’s tasks.

Furthermore, by virtue of Yu Shujun’s ability, he indeed had the capital to "take action if not satisfied," as a Gold rank, coming to beginner and intermediate instances posed no fear.

But Yang Mingzhong’s situation was different. He was a player starting over from scratch, assigned to this instance by the system, bound by identity, faction, and mission. With his current ability, such actions, as things stand, are certainly more disadvantageous than beneficial.