Jahab spoke for a long time.
Just as Xia Ye asked, she recounted everything in detail from preparing to go out to sea, to entering the etheric sea, to searching for traces of whales, to discovering beluga whales, to fighting, to the final destruction of the ship and the death of everyone...
She is not a very good storyteller. Her narrative is dull and lacks organization, and is also mixed with popular science such as the habits of whales. Only half an hour after Yaha started speaking, Alyssa began to yawn. An hour later, Sora finally couldn't hold on any longer. An hour and a half later, both of them fell asleep.
Only Xia Ye and Luka were still awake.
But looking at Luka's appearance, it seemed that instead of listening to the story, he was monitoring Yaha in case she suddenly burst into violence.
The only one who was really listening was Xia Ye.
Although Yaha is a poor narrator, Xia Ye is a good listener. Her mind is constantly running, trying to organize the fragmented information together to provide a basis for the final evaluation.
Xia Ye is evaluating:
If Yaha is given another chance, will she be able to kill the huge white whale as she said?
This reminded her of her experiences before time travel. With a large amount of money, she was faced with a large number of projects of mixed quality. Some of these projects could make a huge profit by investing the money, but most of them would only make people lose their money. No return.
During that experience, Xia Ye gradually concluded a pattern:
The essence of investing in any project is investing in the people responsible for the project. In other words, there are only failed people, not failed projects. Successful people will eventually succeed even if they face difficulties, while losers, even if they become pigs in the wind by chance, will crash to the ground when the wind stops.
As for what kind of people are worth investing in, Xia Ye also summed up a crooked experience:
If a person is very good at promoting himself and his results, then he most likely does not have the value of investment; and if a person is not good at promoting his own results, but in fact his results are better than what is advertised to the outside world, Then, he may have investment value.
Because Xia Ye believes that for most people, the "talent points" they possess are limited. If too many of a person's talent points are focused on promoting his own abilities, then there is a high probability that he is not good at practical work. People who are good at practical work often have limited talents in publicity ability.
For an investor, what she needs to look for is of course the latter.
Now, Xia Ye is evaluating whether Yaha is a person with investment value.
Yaha talked for a full four hours and finally finished her story.
Xia Ye believed that her story was true because it was filled with countless details that matched each other. Unless Yaha was a genius at lying, only telling the truth could do this.
"Why do you want to hunt whales?" After listening, Xia Ye asked a seemingly meaningless question.
"Why? Of course it's to earn Mol." Yaha said matter-of-factly.
"What happens after you earn Moir?"
"After making money...of course it's enjoyment." Yaha didn't understand why Xia Ye asked such a stupid question, "I can live in a bigger house, ride a faster broom, eat, drink and have fun with my companions, even Momo...if I hadn't gone bankrupt, she wouldn't have died."
"Then what if I give you a sum of magic now." Xia Ye looked at her with a smile, "so that you can not only pay off your debts, but also live happily. However, you will never be able to hunt whales again. Not allowed, not even the slightest bit involved. So, are you willing to agree to my conditions?"
"Are you kidding? If the conditions are so good, why don't I agree?" Yaha blurted out, "As long as there is Moir, there will be no whaling if you don't hunt whales... Uh, no, you at least, at least let me do it again. A trip to the sea..."
"I said, not once."
"..." Yaha frowned and actually hesitated.
"Why did you say you would go to sea at least one more time?" Xia Ye asked.
"Because... I must kill the white whale."
"Why did you have to kill it?"
"Because it is my prey. From the first time I saw it, I had this idea in my heart." Yaha's eyes flashed with strange light, "But at the same time, I am also its prey. I worship it." As a result, I am bankrupt, Momo is dead, and most of my crew members are also dead."
Yaha spoke faster and faster.
"I must seek revenge on it, instead of hiding here like a coward. I want to go to sea, kill it, or be killed by it. Between the two of us, one of us must die... Just like me and the 'Yuan Ship' Lease', between me and the bastard who bought Momo, one of us must die."
When the red-haired witch talked about this, the real thoughts in her heart became clearer and clearer, just as the sun cleared the clouds.
"Yeah, how can I agree to your conditions? You are really a liar. But what's the point of making these jokes to me? I'm about to die, and my enemies have won, then A white whale must be laughing in the depths of the etheric sea now, right?”
Xia Ye knew that the whale would not laugh, but she felt that what Yaha said made sense.
Just as she was about to speak again, Xiuji suddenly came over and jumped on her shoulders.
"I did find something," Black Cat whispered in her ear.
"What is it?"
Xiu Ji did not answer, but jumped back to the ground and walked towards the whale ship with graceful cat steps.
"Excuse me, give me a moment."
Xia Ye said hello to Luka and Yaha, left her seat, and followed Xiuji back to the deck of the whaling ship. The black cat jumped on the whaling cannon, tapped the barrel with his paw, and said, "I am Found it here.”
While listening to Yaha's story, Xia Ye spent 1 mol to assign Xiu Ji a task - to investigate the whaling ship, especially the whaling cannon, for any noteworthy clues.
When doing due diligence, people are of course the key, but that doesn't mean on-site investigation is unimportant. Unfortunately, Yaha's "office site" has long been destroyed by the whale, and the only thing left is this whaling cannon.
Xia Ye stood on tiptoe and took a closer look at the barrel, but saw nothing, so she had to ask Xiuji: "What did you find?"
"Magic power. It's very thin, a little different from what you have, and it's not as delicious, but it is indeed magic power." Xiu Ji replied.
Xia Ye raised her eyebrows: "Are you sure?"
"Of course! I tasted it myself." Black Cat said and licked the barrel again: "Hmm... I can still taste the magic now."
Xia Ye still looked at it with suspicion: "In order to complete the task, you couldn't make a discovery out of thin air to fool me, right?"
"How is it possible, meow!"
His professional ability was questioned, which immediately aroused Xiuji's dissatisfaction and protest: "Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Even if the magic power is thin, I can taste it. When I first came to this world, I relied on licking the magic He survived because of the magic power in the body bag!”
As soon as it finished saying this, it saw Xia Ye suddenly turn its head, staring at it with crimson eyes without blinking.
