Xia Nan quite likes the atmosphere aboard the Vengeance Blade.

In his view, for an adventurer team to endure long-term in a life full of danger and high stress, order and rules are important, but good relationships between members are also essential.

The team can only last if they know each other’s personalities, and even if conflicts arise, they are clearly aware that betraying each other during a mission is not an option. They must be able to trust one another with their backs during battles.

Otherwise, given the nature of the adventurer industry with its high risks and high rewards, no matter how strong the team is, it can persist through numerous tasks, but ultimately it will collapse from the inside.

Of course, these are just Xia Nan’s cursory views on adventurer teams.

Having transmigrated for less than two years, he doesn’t have much experience.

Nor does he have the experience of a fixed team, and even when collaborating with other adventurers due to commission requirements, the fate of his teammates often doesn’t end well.

In some sense, him making such summaries, saying things like "liking the team atmosphere," is actually somewhat hellish.

But no matter what, from the brief exchange he just had with the two other core members of the Vengeance Blade, through the information captured by his perception, he can roughly judge that the next three months in the team shouldn’t be too difficult, at least not with terrible teammates who are hard to get along with.

"Creak... Creak..."

Leather boots stepped on the deck, making a grating sound.

Led by Druid Hai Yin, Xia Nan and Alton were on the way to the captain’s cabin.

The Vengeance Blade is much larger than the speed-focused Flying Fish Oil Barrel. Hai Yin also took the opportunity to introduce Xia Nan to the various facilities in the cabin and on the deck.

Watching the druid in a gray-green linen shirt ahead, leading the way and explaining the functions of the rooms in the cabin, Xia Nan listened carefully while thoughts flew through his mind.

Three days ago, when he personally heard the words "Twin Ocean" from the other party, Xia Nan felt an indescribably subtle emotion in his heart.

First, he locked onto the suspected presence of a secret realm in Twin Ocean because of the surgical knife he found on the Blood-nosed Rat; then there was Edson, who issued the same destination commission when trading the [Tide Rod]; and finally, even the "Vengeance Blade" adventurer team he just joined is heading there.

In Xia Nan’s view, this can hardly be simply called a coincidence, but rather as if an invisible hand was naturally and inevitably guiding him toward the sea area known as Twin Ocean.

It made Xia Nan feel subtly peculiar.

And to be honest, if he truly wanted to rebel just once, he could stop everything happening before him and stay in Suo Yu Bay.

He could bear the costs required for this.

But... what good would that do?

Xia Nan had no reason to abandon this clue of a suspected secret realm, nor could he simply give up the lead to participate in the "Moon Tide Banquet" and search for [Dream Weaving Corridor]’s key.

He could find countless reasons to continue, but there was only one reason to give up, and it made no sense to choose the latter.

The only thing he could do was, three months later, bid farewell to Alton and temporarily distance himself from the possible attention of the goddess behind him.

However, from another perspective, when his former self tossed the [Destiny Coin] high on that rainy day, perhaps he had already entered the sights of those great entities.

This is not necessarily a good thing, nor is it solely bad.

Just like the adventurer industry he understood, danger and opportunity coexist.

To a certain extent, being able to grow from a low level adventurer who was initially terrified to kill even a goblin to his current level of strength in under two years, talent and hard work certainly played a major role, but a bit of small opportunity at necessary times was also quite a significant part of it.

Lost in thought, Hai Yin, who was responsible for leading the way, had already stopped in front of a room door.

"Knock, knock, knock."

"Come in."

The door was opened from the outside, and the captain’s cabin of the Vengeance Blade appeared before Xia Nan.

First, he was greeted by a strong smell of tobacco, with thin white smoke lingering in the air.

Standing by the door, Xia Nan took a few puffs of second-hand smoke.

Fortunately, his current physical strength far exceeds that of ordinary people, so the smoke only felt irritating to his nose, and even prolonged inhalation wouldn’t have any negative impact on his health.

Hai Yin, on the other hand, was already accustomed to it, only waving her hand symbolically in front of her nose to disperse some of the white smoke, and called inside the room:

"Captain, I’ve brought the person to you."

After getting a response, she turned around and left.

Before leaving, she patted Xia Nan’s arm, signaling to find her on the deck for more introductions to the ship’s layout afterwards.

Hmm... perhaps inadvertently, when she patted Xia Nan’s shoulder, she used her left hand, causing the black and silver bracelet on her wrist to shrivel a few times, faintly emitting a dissatisfied "hiss" from deep within her sleeve.

The captain’s cabin wasn’t large, taking only a few dozen steps to walk through the entire space.

The thin white smoke emitted by the burning tobacco drifted slowly through the air, swaying in the turbulent airflow created by the opening and closing of the door.