Chapter 129 A Generation of Pirates (End) Say goodbye to the world in the most gentle way.
【419: “Host…”
Jian Ziyan: "Don't disturb me, leave me alone."
419 shrank for a while. Jian Ziyan was the only living person he could communicate with. He couldn't help but ask, "How is this possible?"
Jian Ziyan: “Haha.”
Jian Ziyan: "Shouldn't I be asking you guys this? What's going on? I thought I only had Lu Wufeng to deal with, but now it's Chizhou, Si Wang, Pei Mingjue, Yin Yao, Chen Ke... and the rest combined! Are you trying to kill me on purpose?"
"I swear I don't know!" 419 transformed into two matchstick shadow arms and raised them high. "I am on your side, I swear! If I knew, I would have told you a long time ago."
Jian Ziyan's biggest flaw is that he is soft-hearted. No matter how angry he is, he can't vent his anger when he sees 419 acting so obediently and pitifully.
"I don't mean to scold you. I just think your organization is too casual and lax." Jian Ziyan said in a relaxed tone, "It's fine if you let one lunatic escape, but now there's a whole group of lunatics. Who wouldn't be panicked?"
"I'm sorry." 419 felt the panic and irritability in the host's heart and said weakly.
Jian Ziyan: "Can you detect what's going on with Lu Wufeng? Is your database messed up, or are they the same person?"
The former is fine, but if it's the latter...
It's so horrifying that I can't breathe just thinking about it.
"No data, host, he is no longer under my jurisdiction." 419 said.
Jian Ziyan could only sigh heavily.
419 carefully observed his expression and said, "I have reported this to the higher-ups, but they have not given any instructions. What should we do now?"
"What should I do? Of course I have to run." Jian Ziyan said without hesitation, "I originally wanted to stay in this world for a few more days to arrange everything for them... Now goodbye! I'm going to run for my life!"]
How could Felix dare to send such a Jian Ziyan directly back to the human side? He knew how terrible it would be if the mermaid's blood backfired. The originally life-giving blood would turn into a bloodthirsty poisonous snake, entwining in the boy's body and sucking every bit of his life.
But the boy didn't want to go back to the sea with him, he didn't even want to look at him again.
The unconcealed rejection and exclusion made Felix extremely panicked. The fear of losing the boy made him lose his reason and judgment.
The boy said that if he was taken to the bottom of the sea again, he would drown himself.
Felix was speechless. He endured the pain that felt like cramps and bones being torn apart and sent the boy back to the shore.
He didn't dare to leave, so he hid aside and watched. He thought the boy would contact Lun. After all, they still had so many things to do. He understood the boy and he couldn't let go.
But Jian Ziyan did not go to find Lun. He sat on a wine barrel at the dock, looking at the distant coast, and sat there all day.
Many people were attracted by his appearance and came to ask him if he needed help, but he politely refused them all.
He just sat there, and Felix watched him for as long as he sat there.
It was not until it was getting dark that Jian Ziyan called over a young errand boy and whispered a few words in his ear.
I don't know what he said, but the young man looked at him with surprise and awe in his eyes.
"Go, you will get a satisfactory reward." Jian Ziyan said hoarsely.
The young man ran away without stopping. Felix controlled his urge to chase him and ask questions, and continued to stay here to guard Jian Ziyan.
The boy's current condition seemed to be even worse than before he entered the Sea Country. Just sitting there, his body was shaking, and he didn't dare to leave for a moment.
Jian Ziyan had his back to him, so he didn't see that uncontrollable blood was flowing out of the boy's lips, but he just wiped it away casually.
Just as he didn't understand why the boy couldn't accept that he and his lover were obviously the same person, he also didn't know what kind of devastating breakdown this confession brought to the boy.
He was just guarding and waiting.
Soon, Felix knew what the boy was waiting for.
On the darkening sea, a large ship flying a pirate flag slowly sailed towards this side, causing people on the shore to exclaim.
That is the famous "Ghost of the Giant"!
Seeing the appearance of the ship, Jian Ziyan raised his head with a calm look.
The pirate ship had no intention of hurting anyone. It dropped anchor after docking. Then a young man impatiently jumped off the side of the ship before the rope ladder was lowered.
He rushed straight to Jian Ziyan, his soft curly hair was messed up by the wind, his chest heaving violently, staring at Jian Ziyan for a long while, and then he choked and said, "Captain."
"Kelly." Jian Ziyan nodded.
Even though he tried his best to endure it, Kelly could still see at a glance his paleness and weakness, and his lips that looked as if they had just bled.
"Captain, why...what happened?" Kelly said with tears in his eyes, full of regret. "I should have stopped you from going to the Pirate King."
"Don't talk nonsense." Jian Ziyan said calmly, "Is everyone okay? How is your family now?"
"Okay, everyone is fine." Kelly wiped his eyes vigorously. "Since you..., no one dared to think about our 'home' anymore. Some people still came to look for the so-called treasure, but none of them could make it to the shore. They all died inexplicably at sea."
He knew what Jian Ziyan had exchanged for. The naval battle that was on the verge of breaking out but disappeared invisibly was known to everyone in the entire pirate society. The name Jian Ziyan had become a legend. A man who single-handedly stopped both the Royal Navy and the Pirate King's Fleet was himself full of legends.
But Kelly couldn't bear to say this in front of Jian Ziyan. For Jian Ziyan, this was a humiliating and painful memory.
He was very cautious, but Jian Ziyan did not show any unusual reaction. The sharp light in his delicate eyes and brows faded, revealing a kind of fragility that made people want to touch.
"That's good." Jian Ziyan said, "Have you paid the young man who helped me pass the message?"
"Yes, Captain," said Kelly. "I gave him a gold watch, which will keep him fed for five years."
Jian Ziyan said "OK" again in a low voice.
He was forcing himself to wait here, and even though he tried his best not to show any signs of dejection, he could feel that he had reached his limit.
In other words, he should have been dead when he was on the Destroyer, but he was holding on to his last breath. Later, he survived for a long time by relying on the love he stole from the Mermaid King.
His life should have ended long ago.
He still had some things he was worried about, but he really didn't have the energy to care anymore. The only thing he could do was to see Kelly again and find out how these people who had followed him the longest were doing.
As for more people, including the fate of this country...
He can't even control his own destiny, and he still mentions these things. What ability does he have? Is he worthy?
Jian Ziyan thought to himself with self-mockery, without showing any expression on his face.
Kelly looked at him cautiously and spoke to break the silence.
"Captain, you transferred the captain's position to me because you wanted to go on an adventure, but now that you're back, can you... take back our ship?"
Jian Ziyan's eyebrows twitched and he looked up at Kelly.
"We all feel that if the captain of the Giant's Ghost is not Jian Ziyan, it will no longer be the Giant's Ghost." Kelly said, "We all hope that you can come back and continue to lead us on our voyage."
There was a slight emotion in Jian Ziyan's eyes. He looked into the distance, at the boat quietly parked in front of the dock.
This ship was where he was born. He came into this world on it and grew up on it. He took it over from his father and defended it in countless wars.
Now that I think about it, it was this ship that had accompanied him the longest.
A captain can never abandon his ship. If the situation had not forced him, how could he be willing to transfer her to Kelly's hands?
Hearing this request, Jian Ziyan's heart burned.
Would he have a chance to board his ship again as captain?
Seeing Jian Ziyan's heart was moved, Kelly smiled and struck while the iron was hot: "Captain, there is no need to overwork yourself. As long as you are here, it will be a great comfort to us."
Jian Ziyan shook his head gently and said in a hoarse voice, "Help me up."
Kelly's smile froze, and a hint of fear flashed in his eyes.
How serious was Jian Ziyan's injury that he even had difficulty standing?
"captain……"
"This is the captain's order." Jian Ziyan said.
Kelly was shocked: "Captain, you agreed!"
Jian Ziyan stood up with the help of Kelly's arm and slowly walked towards his boat.
Walking under the boat, he said softly without looking back, "Kelly, if I don't come back tomorrow, you will still be her captain."
Kelly paused, a look of great uneasiness on his face: "Captain, what does this mean?"
Jian Ziyan did not answer. He let go of Kelly's hand, jumped up, and grabbed the side of the boat with both hands.
"Don't follow me," he said. "Leave me alone for a while."
Kelly wanted to climb up and paused. Just when he didn't know what to do, Jian Ziyan had already skillfully raised the anchor, and the huge ship slowly swam towards the sunset.
They didn't see a figure following closely behind them and diving into the sea, causing tiny ripples.
Jian Ziyan got on the boat, and even though he was alone, he seemed to be able to handle it with ease.
He was so familiar with this place, so familiar with it that he could find everything he wanted with his eyes closed. He walked to the bow and took the steering wheel again.
The rough touch entered his palm, and the emotions that he had been suppressing began to collapse, and his eyes turned slightly red.
"At the beginning and at the end, it was you who accompanied me, my old friend."
He had no purpose but to sail the boat out to the vast sea. Then he dropped anchor, went into the cabin, took out a bottle of rum as if he knew the way, and brought it to the deck.
He was holding a bottle of wine, with a pirate's coat draped over his shoulders. He stood with one foot on the side of the ship and looked into the distance, his body straight and heroic.
He had done this countless times on this ship.
At this time, the setting sun filled the sky, and the red-gold halo spread across the entire sea, covering the ship that seemed small compared to the sea.
Grand and glorious.
In fact, he has seen such scenes thousands of times, but he never gets tired of it.
Looking at the gentle and peaceful sea under the setting sun, he opened the bottle of rum, tilted his head back and took a big sip.
It’s a pity that his body is no longer the same as before. The spicy wine hits his broken internal organs, bringing burning pain.
This pain merged with the pain caused by the mermaid's blood, causing his fingers to tremble and he could barely hold the bottle.
Instead he burst out laughing.
When the sunset had almost faded, the sea returned to a dark blue and cold silence. Jian Ziyan took out his rattan chair, placed it at the position closest to the sea, and sat down there.
As if he didn't feel any pain, he slowly drank the entire bottle of wine, one sip after another.
After drinking the last sip of wine, his whole body twitched uncontrollably and the empty bottle in his hand rolled to the ground.
In the burning pain
He curled up his body and shrank himself into a small ball.
Anyway, no one sees it, so just be a little embarrassed in the last moments of your life.
His consciousness was already a little fuzzy, and he thought of a lot at this moment.
He thought about his life before the age of six, and the loving smile on his mother's gentle and beautiful face. He thought about the weight of the compass his father gave him before he left when he was thirteen. He thought about how he saved those slaves, which was considered foolish in the eyes of others.
Finally, he thought of the wedding that was supposed to take place tomorrow morning.
How magnificent and grand the mermaid king’s wedding would be.
Unfortunately... he is not the partner he is waiting for.
The sudden pain in his heart could not be suppressed even by the pain in his blood.
That's it.
Say goodbye to this world.
Before he lost consciousness, Jian Ziyan seemed to see a wedding taking place in the sea through his hazy eyes.
Standing next to him was Felix, his Felix.
Felix was watching him, just watching him.
The corners of Jian Ziyan's lips curled up slightly.
…
Felix remained under the ship of the Giant's Ghost.
He knew that Jian Ziyan was on board and he was the only one on the boat, but he didn't dare to show up.
He also saw it when the young man stood on the bow and looked into the distance. He huddled in the sea, his eyes full of obsession.
He hated himself for not paying attention to the boy before, and then he came too late and missed the chance to see the boy commanding the fleet on the sea.
But through this scene, he vaguely glimpsed the shadow of the young hero who was full of vigor and vitality in the past.
Like Jian Ziyan, he also thought about the wedding that would take place tomorrow.
This is his lover. No matter how many reincarnations he has, he is always so strong, great, and beautiful. Looking at him, it is as if one can see the light seeping from his soul.
Will Ayan forgive him before tomorrow's wedding?
Felix thought that when the moonlight faded, he would board the boat and beg for Ayan's forgiveness again.
As long as he could gain Ayan's understanding and forgiveness, he would be happy to do anything.
As the gauzy moonlight gradually faded from the horizon, Felix quietly boarded the ship.
He first found a set of clothes to put on, with obvious nervousness on his face, but when he thought that he was about to meet A'yan, even the corners of his eyes and eyebrows couldn't help but raise the arc.
The whole ship was silent as Felix came onto the deck.
The hull swayed gently on the waves. On the deck, a young man curled up in a rattan chair, his long eyelashes closed and the corners of his lips curved. He seemed to be sleeping and having a sweet dream.
Felix's whole heart softened.
He approached gently, half-knelt on the deck, and brought his eyes level with the boy's face.
"Ayan, get up." He said softly.
The boy didn't react.
"Today is our wedding," Felix said. "Are you still mad at me?"
The boy was silent.
Felix finally sensed something was wrong.
All the expressions on his face were frozen, and his eyes fell on Jian Ziyan's face little by little. His blue eyes suddenly turned scarlet, revealing a terrifying look.
"Ayan," he said, "Don't sleep anymore. Even if you don't want to forgive me, wake up first. Please."
The boy could no longer respond to him.
Felix seemed to be nailed to the rattan chair. He stared at the boy's calm and smiling face, and his voice suddenly became hoarse.
"Ayan?"
The first ray of warm light in the sky struggled to shine into the world, shining on the boy's gray face, giving it a layer of warm light.
At this moment, Felix's world fell into eternal silence.
He slowly and gently stroked the boy's cheek with his fingertips.
He seemed to have no idea what he was doing. After feeling the coldness that his mind had expected, he leaned forward and pressed his cheek against her again.
He stayed close to the boy's face and didn't move for a long time.
After a while, a drop of bright red blood ran across Felix's face and dripped onto Jian Ziyan's face.
It wasn't the hurt, it was the look in Felix's eyes.
He didn't cry, but tears of blood flowed from his wide-open eyes.
"This can't be real, can it?" he said to someone unknown. "I'm dreaming, a terrible nightmare, and everything will be gone as soon as I wake up."
As he said this, he closed his eyes, then opened them again. In the blood-filled vision, the young man's gray and bloodstained face was still there.
"No……"
Felix slowly reached out and hugged the boy's cold body, and he let out a painful roar as if the flames finally broke through the ice.
"No--!"
"Please, Ayan, don't be so cruel, don't do this to me."
"I can just be your Felix, please don't leave me."
"Don't sleep, Ayan, please, don't...sleep..."
The pain was so severe that his voice went from hoarse to lost. He was even unable to maintain his balance. He fell to the deck, holding the boy and twitching in pain.
The dim light shone into his dilated pupils, and he no longer felt like he was still alive.
How could this happen?
He did it wrong again.
I did it wrong again...
At this moment, he seemed to have returned to the thousand years when he carried the ice coffin on his back. No matter how he roared and struggled, he could only wander in the endless loneliness, stroking his lover's face through the cold coffin, without seeing any hope.
Why.
Why?
Don't be afraid.
Ayan, don't be afraid.
Felix could no longer make a sound. An ominous red light flashed in his eyes, but his look was extremely gentle. He tidied the boy's hair, buttoned up his shirt with two buttons open, and then picked him up.
…
When the blond, red-eyed mermaid king returned to the sea kingdom carrying the dead boy, all the mermaids were shocked.
The wedding venue has been decorated, and everyone thought that the Mermaid King would come back with his lover to hold this special and grand wedding in the morning light.
But the mermaid king came back with his lover's body and placed him gently on the wedding stage. No mermaid dared to step forward to ask.
The Mermaid King looks very normal, but beneath his calm appearance, no one can fail to see the madness flashing in his eyes.
The Mermaid King has gone mad.
All the mermaids were silent, but Felix did not make things difficult for them. He left the boy here and turned around and left the sea.
…
When Lun saw those red eyes, the most terrifying scene in his memory suddenly broke through the shackles and appeared before his eyes, and his face changed suddenly.
“You, you are…?”
Felix said nothing. He stretched out his sharp nails, dipped them in ink and wrote on the paper.
"Who is going to be killed?"
Lunn observed him carefully and got some frightening news from his expression.
"What's wrong with your throat?" he asked sharply, "Where's Zi Yan? Didn't you take him away? Where is he..."
When Jian Ziyan was mentioned, Felix suddenly raised his head, with a crazy look flashing in his red eyes.
"He's fine," he wrote. "Tell me, who to kill?"
Lunn's face gradually turned pale.
His lips trembled, but he still named a few names: "These nobles are diehards. They all have heavy troops under their command. They cannot be annexed overnight..."
Felix didn't listen to what he said. He wrote down the names and turned away.
"Felix!"
Lunn called him in a hoarse voice, his voice trembling a little, and with a hint of pleading.
"Tell me, has he already...?"
Felix withdrew his gaze and left with a blank expression.
No answer is the answer.
The cane in Lun's hand fell heavily to the ground.
…
On this day, flames rising into the sky burned half of the sky of Penoma.
Felix single-handedly slaughtered all the nobles and their troops who resisted the new regime.
His face was grim, his red eyes were flashing, and his golden hair was stained with blood. This scene was deeply imprinted in the memory of all the nobles of Penorma. Their hands and feet became limp, and they dared not resist Lunn again.
That's enough.
He kept his promise and fulfilled Ayan's wish in this life.
As for the rest, it is not his and A Yan’s responsibility.
…
After doing all this, Felix returned to the sea.
Walking past the trembling mermaids, he saw the high priest guarding here.
The high priest's eyes were gentle and sad, as if he had seen through everything.
"Don't worry, King." She sang in a sing-song voice, "I will elect a new king for the people. You can do whatever you want."
Felix had lost his normal reaction. Hearing these words, he just glanced at the high priest blankly, then walked towards his boy.
He had managed to force himself to finish what he was supposed to do, but now he could neither see nor hear anything except his boy.
The high priest sighed and swam gently to the side.
The Mermaid King finally reached his lover.
He traveled through many lifetimes and thousands of years, and all he wanted was to be with his lover.
When he hugged the boy again, Felix finally cried.
The mermaid's tears in the sea will not turn into pearls, but will only be swallowed by the sea water. He cried quietly, but the mermaids around him could not help but shed tears together.
Mermaids are a naturally cold-blooded race. What kind of tragedy would it take for other mermaids to be infected by them?
Ayan, wait for me.
Felix said in his mind.
Please walk slower so I can catch up with you.
He slowly closed his scarlet eyes.
The blood of the mermaid king flowed out of his body and spread to the entire sea.
The gorgeous golden tail that Jian Ziyan once loved so much gradually lost its luster until it became pitch black and silent.
…
The battle for regime change ended at a speed that was difficult to react to, but there was no joy or celebration in the general's mansion. Instead, white silk flowers were hung.
When the messenger from the General's Mansion came to the Pirate King's residence, the Pirate King did not say anything.
However, from that day on, the Pirate King wore white hair, and this continued for three whole years.
In the records of this period of history, the name of the Mermaid King never appeared from beginning to end. Only a name that had never participated in politics but was crucial was heavily engraved and printed in the history books of this world.
Captain of the Giant's Ghost, Morning Star Jian Ziyan.
But from then on, the world's fantastic and magnificent legends had one more nursery rhyme.
"The captain with black hair and black eyes stood on the bow in the sunset.
The mermaid king's lover died on the eve of his wedding.
He said: Say goodbye gently.
He said: Say goodbye gently.
From then on, the world was at peace.
But the Mermaid King disappeared."
…
This was the first time in history that Jian Ziyan had no time to rest. He didn't even have time to check how many points he had earned in the previous world. As soon as he returned to the consciousness space, he couldn't wait to urge 419 to start the next world.
As a flash of light passed by, a man and a system quickly fled inside, their backs looking in a dishevel, panic and confusion.
…
This is a world that is somewhat similar to cyberpunk. On the surface, it is ruled by the federal government, but in reality its lifeline is in the hands of a few chaebol families. Although it is a highly developed technological world, the gap between the rich and the poor is huge, and the people at the bottom have a hard time even surviving.
According to this setting, there must be a rebel in the story who comes from the lower class and is committed to overthrowing the federal government.
The protagonist of this story is the leader of the rebel army, named Huo Junchuan, who is also the protagonist of the book.
However, this is not the focus of Jian Ziyan's attention. Instead, he is paying attention to the protagonist, Gu Bai. The reason is that Gu Bai is apparently the young master of the Gu family, one of the major chaebols, but his actual identity is actually a time traveler!
Jian Ziyan: "Is this time traveler from the same place as me?"
419: "I don't know either. There are so many similar worlds in the world."
Jian Ziyan muttered something and continued reading.
During an operation, Huo Junchuan kidnapped Gu Bo as a hostage. Unexpectedly, he found that this chaebol's young master was not what he imagined. Therefore, he did not kill him directly, but kept him by his side and guarded him personally. Gradually, the two developed feelings for each other.
Originally, Jian Ziyan thought that this was a story where the protagonists, top and bottom, eventually overthrew the federal government, killed all the evil tycoons, and finally reached the top. But it turned out not to be... not entirely.
In this worldview, usually
They all have an artificial intelligence that is omnipotent. They are electronic tools invented by humans, but they often awaken their self-awareness, so the sharpest weapons in humans are turned against themselves.
The object that Jian Ziyan traveled to this time was the artificial intelligence that belonged to the federal government in this world, code-named "Zero".
Jian Ziyan let out a light "hiss" and immediately became alert.
Zero has awakened his self-awareness, but has been dormant. Taking advantage of his position, he has controlled a parasitic creature that does not belong to this world. He has quietly infiltrated the entire federal high-level and even some managers in the chaebols, and thus controlled the entire world.
Unlike the previous worlds, the villain Zero succeeded.
In a highly information-based world, no one can fight against artificial intelligence.
It destroyed the whole world.
Huo Junchuan and Gu Bai failed to stop Zero. They just escaped the doomsday by luck and then established a new system and country in the wasteland.
After reading this, Jian Ziyan said: …
So fierce.
Looking at the bright red S on the difficulty rating of this world, he already felt that it was nothing, as long as it didn't turn into an asterisk.
“Start rewriting,” he said.
What can I say...
In this world, he doesn't even need to look in the mirror, because Zero is just an artificial intelligence from beginning to end, the kind without a physical body.
Jian Ziyan placed his hand on the virtual keyboard: Ever since his consciousness was born, he has strictly followed his own basic instructions, which is that he must not harm humans...
After completing the rewrite, Jian Ziyan plunged into the new world.
The difference from before was that this time he did not open his eyes, but immersed himself in a vast stream of data.
This feeling is very mysterious. He has no hands or feet, and no entity, but he can "see" everything and control everything.
In the moment he regained consciousness, it seemed as if the whole world was in the palm of his hand.
Thanks to the help of world consciousness, he smoothly completed the transition from human to artificial intelligence, and soon experienced the joy of being a top artificial intelligence.
The world of data is changing rapidly. In a blink of an eye, he can travel from the Far South to the Far North and see everyone and everything through cameras spread all over the world.
"Stop playing." 419 couldn't help but remind him, "The main characters have entered your computer room."
This is the most thrilling scene for Zero in the original work.
Huo Junchuan and Gu Bai already knew that Zero had self-awareness and was planning to destroy humanity, but at this time the federal government and the top chaebol executives were almost controlled by Zero. They broke through numerous blockades and finally arrived at Zero's main computer room.
They prepared dozens of kilograms of explosives, hoping to completely destroy this terrifying artificial intelligence.
Jian Ziyan regained consciousness and returned to the main computer room. He calmed himself down and immersed himself completely in the role.
…
"Is this...Zero's host?" Gu Bai couldn't help but exclaimed.
They saw a huge group of machines, with countless data cables neatly crisscrossed and flowing with azure light, like blood full of vitality, providing a constant supply of vitality to the terrifyingly powerful artificial intelligence.
"Put the thing down quickly." The tall man with a stern expression spoke in a tense voice, "We have temporarily blocked it outside, but we shouldn't be able to stop it for too long..."
Suddenly his face changed.
After a crackling sound, the flow rate of the blue "blood" suddenly increased. At the same time, the entire machine room was brightly lit, and a gentle male voice sounded out of nowhere.
"Welcome, the leader of the resistance army Huo Junchuan, and the seventh young master of the Gu family, Gu Bai."
There is no stiff electronic noise at all.
"I love having you here as my guest, but if you take one step closer, my self-destruct device might be accidentally activated."
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The author has something to say:
I almost stopped writing this chapter halfway through...it was the first time since I started writing.
I don't know about you all, but I really feel sorry for the pirate Xiaoyan_(:з」∠)_
The last world is of my cyber style, not a strict cyber worldview setting.
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