NOVPUB"What’s the assignment?"
Wu Bin decided to first hear what the Ninth Institute would assign to him.
If it was too dangerous, he would refuse.
Nightingale didn’t directly describe the task but instead took out a tablet and said to Wu Bin, "Do you remember the fanatical devotees you saw on the ship?"
"Did they all have this kind of octopus tattoo on their bodies?"
Looking at the tattoo pattern on the tablet, Wu Bin nodded.
"Yes, exactly that kind of tattoo."
After getting Wu Bin’s confirmation, Nightingale continued, "This is the emblem of the Deep Sea Church in South Korea. The evil god worshipped by this church is the legendary Abyssal Lord Wrest Lyeh, also the giant sea monster you saw before."
"However, meeting such an ancient evil god is not an easy thing; it requires a high-level sacrifice to bring about a single awakening of the Abyssal Lord."
"The capsizing of the cruise you were on was not an accident, but a pre-designed human sacrifice."
Although Wu Bin had already suspected this, he was still shocked when he received confirmation from Nightingale.
You must know there were tens of thousands of tourists on that cruise ship!
Wu Bin asked incredulously, "Using the lives of tens of thousands of tourists for a sacrifice, have these people gone mad?"
"Could it be that the churches in South Korea have become so crazed that no one is overseeing them?"
Nightingale glanced at Wu Bin and then said, "Didn’t you report to us before that all of you fainted before the ship hit the reef?"
Wu Bin nodded.
"Yes, but my constitution is a bit special, so I didn’t faint directly."
Nightingale then took Wu Bin’s right hand, lifted his sleeve, and began to slap heavily on his wrist with her other hand.
As Wu Bin’s right wrist skin turned red with blood congestion, a strange pattern suddenly emerged on his wrist!
This pattern looked like a monster’s eye, and its vertical pupil made Wu Bin feel creeped out.
"What the hell is this?"
Nightingale explained, "This is the mark of the sacrifice. The drinks you drank were tampered with."
"Having this mark, the Abyssal Lord would draw you into the Grey Realm and turn you into its food."
"This time you were not sacrificed in the sea, but the Deep Sea Church will not let you go. They will sacrifice you to another evil god in another way."
Wu Bin listened and felt very disturbed.
"Then I am in great danger in South Korea. Damn it! I must return to my country!"
Wu Bin immediately thought about retreating.
He came to South Korea for a vacation, not to die.
It was just a ride on a luxury cruise, how did he suddenly become a sacrifice?
Seeing Wu Bin so nervous, Nightingale reassured, "Don’t worry. I will protect you in secret."
"And the primary target of the Deep Sea Church is not you, but Jin Zhiya."
"Her blood carries the Jin Family’s lineage, which is the best sacrifice for those evil gods. So, they will mainly target Jin Zhiya. Getting to you would merely be incidental."
Wu Bin couldn’t help but laugh and cry.
So he wasn’t the main target after all.
After explaining all this, Nightingale finally assigned the task to Wu Bin. 𝓃𝓸𝓋𝓅𝓾𝒷.𝒸ℴ𝓂
"Sacrificing Jin Zhiya is an internal struggle among the six great families of South Korea; we don’t need to intervene."
"Since Jin Zhiya thinks highly of you, your only task is to bring back an artifact hidden in the Jin family."
Nightingale opened a folder and began to display each image inside, showing them to Wu Bin.
"These are the sculptural figures of the zodiac signs from the Tang dynasty: tiger, snake, dog."
"The tiger is with the Jin family, the snake with the Li family, the dog with the Tang family."
"These artifacts originally belonged to Dragon Country, but were secretly transported out of the country by Koreans during warfare a hundred years ago."
"If you can bring back the tiger sculpture, it’ll be considered a great achievement."
Wu Bin: ???
"Big sister, you must be joking with me," Wu Bin said.
"You talked for so long, and I thought the organization would give me some super reward, but it turned out to be just counting this as a major achievement for me?"
Nightingale looked at Wu Bin indifferently.
"So, that counts as impressive, okay?"
Damn!
Crazy!
It’s a mission that requires risking my life, and you just say I did well and that’s it?
"Can I refuse?" Wu Bin asked.
Unexpectedly, Nightingale answered quickly and readily.
"Yes."
"The ninth mission has always been voluntary. If you don’t want to, no one will force you."
Nightingale gathered her tablet, turned, and left, disappearing at the end of the hallway.
She had never really counted on Wu Bin. This whole conversation was just because of Li Yao’s request.
In Nightingale’s eyes, Wu Bin, who had never received professional psychic training, no matter how special, was just a fragile college student.
If such an incapable and unaware person were given the mission from Section Nine, it would bring disaster to the organization.
After Nightingale left, Wu Bin felt a strange emptiness inside.
He smirked at himself.
"I’m no world-saving hero; isn’t it just fine if I live my own life well?"
Having realized this, Wu Bin also turned and left, going back to the private room.
As soon as Wu Bin returned to the private room, he noticed a man in a suit and shiny shoes.
The man looked to be in his early twenties, with slicked-back hair—a typical rich heir.
At the moment, he was talking to Jin Zhiya, but she clearly wasn’t interested in him.
Seeing Wu Bin return, Jin Zhiya’s eyes lit up instantly.
"Uncle, you finally came back! Come, have a seat," she said.
Jin Zhiya made room next to herself, but Wu Bin chose to sit next to He Bingbing instead.
Seeing this, Jin Zhiya pursed her lips in dissatisfaction, then grabbed her stuff and moved closer to them.
The man’s eyes flashed with displeasure.
The little princess of the Jin Family taking the initiative with a man from Dragon Country?
The man chuckled and said something to Wu Bin in Korean.
Wu Bin was completely confused.
"What did he say?"
Jin Zhiya poured Wu Bin a glass of wine and said, "I don’t know, my Korean isn’t good."
Wu Bin: …
You’re kidding me, right?
You’re South Korean, and you’re telling me your Korean isn’t good?
The viewers in the live chat were also amused by Jin Zhiya.
"Hahaha, this Jin Family’s little princess is quite cute; she’s killing me," someone commented.
"Who is this guy? Acts like a narcissist, just babbling on his own earlier," another viewer wrote.
"Must be one of the princess’s suitors, otherwise, he wouldn’t stick around shamelessly not willing to leave," someone else speculated.
"Anyone who can stick around in front of the princess must be someone with status, right?" another suggested.
As the viewers speculated, the man suddenly introduced himself in Chinese to Wu Bin.
"You are Wu Bin, right?"
"Hello, my name is Lee Youngjae, a friend of the third miss," he said.
