Ember Gun

  Chapter 78 Redemption

   "It was a desperate moment. You finally grew up, but you never set sail again."

  Another thunder pierced the night sky, and Eve’s vision saw the others. The crew headed by Wall were busy on the ship, silent, dealing with the storm.

  "I spent a long time in this way. Although I am old, I still have not forgotten my childhood yearning, but it is only yearning. It is an old thing that has been eliminated by the times, and it has no place in the new era."

  "I did not marry a wife and have children. I used all my savings to buy the Silverfish, and I gathered a group of children who also yearned for the pirate era to become my crew."

  With feelings of nostalgia or grief, the captain slowly turned around. His tired body was wet, and his clothes were covered with fish-like scales.

"Child, do you know that when you have been in the dark for a long time and you suddenly see the light, the feeling of rushing to the extreme? There is no reason at all, as long as you can leave the darkness, even if the light is more terrifying things never mind."

   "I was like this at the time."

  Eve approached the edge of the ship, trying to narrow her blind spot, but she was not distracted by the captain's words.

   "What do you want to say?"

   "It's just a poor man's narrative. Someone has to know all this, right?"

   Muddy eyes are like rolling dark clouds, and there is a light called dream surging inside.

   "I always hope that someone can know this, so that my death, our death also has value, but no matter how I call, no one will respond until you come."

  The strange call actually originated from the person in front of him, and he has been calling Eve ever since the Glory was forced to stop.

  I don’t know if it’s panic or honor, Eve didn’t expect that one day she would become a special case.

   "So you called me to listen to your chatter?"

   "Probably, people are like this. People who are lonely are born but don't want to die alone. Even the funeral will find a bunch of insignificant people to show that they are not alone."

  The rudder was stuck tightly, and the captain said slowly, the beginning of all tragedies.

"It all originated from a few months ago when a man named mentor approached me. He said that he could give me everything I hope, such as countless wealth, such as high status, and the era that has been forgotten by the world. "

   "He said that he would satisfy each of our dreams, as long as he helped him salvage something."

"You may not be able to understand that feeling. You are desperate for something, but one day in the future, someone will tell you that you still have hope. Before that huge temptation, everyone will lose their minds, and this Is the beginning of the tragedy."

  The wind and rain are quiet, it seems that the whole world is listening to his words, he is the teller of the story, and everything he does is just to not be forgotten, no matter if the story is good or bad.

"You should be here to investigate this incident. To be honest, when I first met those monsters, I realized that the world is so complicated. The guy named mentor asked us to take something that shouldn't be taken. , But there was no turning back then.

Three of my crew died in the ocean. They dragged the thing up from the deep sea. I don’t know what they went through. All three of them lost their minds and couldn’t communicate. Then their bodies began to rot... It’s hard to imagine that. This kind of feeling, a person is obviously still alive, able to breathe, talk, and even move, but his body is so weirdly rotten, until it becomes a twisted mass. "

  The voice was full of regret and hatred. There was the sound of monsters squirming in the dark. Eve turned her head and saw the strange flesh and blood climbing on the deck. At that moment, the visual impact almost made her retching.

   "At that time, I realized the mistake, but people are like this. If I stop now, then sacrifice will be meaningless. I will go my own way, and then lead all the crew toward the dead end."

   "That's it in the end. We did get what we wanted, but in a dream."

  The captain sighed leisurely, then laughed, as if he laughed at himself.

   "Is this dreamland?"

  Sure enough, as Eve guessed, this is a strange dream created by that huge pollution source.

  The captain nodded and said again.

   "These are all I want to say."

   "That's it? I thought you would have a **** of life philosophy."

"That thing is not important, I just want to talk to people before I die, and then end it all. Do you know the dominoes? It is one overwhelming the other, one after the other, making an ordinary person into madness. With little temptation and continuous mistakes, he will become a crazy lunatic."

  The captain smiled bitterly, it was his mistake.

   "For my dream, everyone turned out to be inhuman and ghost. I'm really sorry."

With the fall of the words, the world became turbulent again, endless gusts and showers hit the Silverfish, as if from the anger of Odin, the dark sky was dotted with ferocious white, and the sky was like a waterfall. Like falling.

  Suddenly...Suddenly Eve had a strange feeling, and she slowly put down the gun in her hand, as if she had seen everything.

   "You don't actually want to pass on the story, you just want to find someone to repent, right?"

  The captain's figure froze, and the whole world fell silent for an instant, the huge thunder was frozen in the air, and countless water splashes fell on the white edge, and every drop of rain reflected everything in this world.

No, this is not the captain’s true thoughts. At this moment, he is just like Eve’s father, the Duke of Phoenix. No matter what mistakes Eve makes, he will forgive Eve. Everything is for her. It is no longer a father’s love. , He is also repenting, it seems that letting Evan spend his life safely is the greatest atonement for him.

  "You made the wrong decision, which brought wrong consequences. What you are doing now is just for repentance, so that your guilt will be slightly reduced."

  This is the captain’s idea, because his young people are dead, and even if they are not dead, there will be no good end to having a relationship with the monster.

  He was seen through, the emotional dam finally broke, and his body couldn't help shaking.

  Eve looked at the frozen world, here is his dream. If nothing else, the captain is the strange source of pollution, the center of all dreams, the mysterious dream builder.

  The world is agitated by his emotions, and the thunderstorm is even worse.

  "In other words, are you punishing yourself?"

  The captain is the dream builder, the source of all this, in the dream, he is the creator, as long as he thinks that these wind and rain will disappear in an instant, but he did not do that, on the contrary, more tribulations fall.

"maybe."

He whispered softly, the Whitebait rides the wind and waves, and suddenly infinite sunlight gushes out from behind the dark clouds. It is a place where light is bathed. The Whitebait is only a step away from there, but at this time the huge ocean tide is completely blocked. Stopped its march.

  Eve could only feel the coldness and heaviness of the water. When the vision became clear again, the Whitebait had been destroyed into two sections. The water was gradually engulfing the poor ship, and Eve screamed hurriedly.

   "What are you doing! Aren't you going to sail into a new era?"

  This is his dream, but now this dream is dying, and the captain is destroying everything.

  He looked at the girl and shook his head.

"This is the gift he gave me, a sweet dream, where I can achieve everything I want, but this is too expensive, even God Odin will be ashamed of having a heir like me, the Hall of Valor The door will close to me, and I am drifting on this cold ocean like a lonely ghost."

   "I am a relic of the old age, and the new age will not accommodate old things like me."

The expression was sad. This time Eve suddenly understood what the captain meant. He was not only confession, but also atonement. He was dying, and this huge and terrifying dream was disintegrating. With the sinking of the Silver Fish, all this will happen. Ushered in the end.

  "This is the last thing I can do. I hope to make up for my mistakes slightly."

So in that real world, the girl’s body is dominated by dreams, like a weird ritual, with her feet standing upright on the ground like iron nails, driving her whole body up in a way that ordinary people can never do. Moving like a walking dead, he walked to the Kestrel who was also in a dream, and picked up the aluminum thermal rifle that was still burning.

Eve in the dream realized that the connection between the dream and reality was strengthening. She could feel her body moving and what she was doing. In reality, after a long climb, Eve finally came to the place and kept calling him. This is the ultimate goal of the captain. He needs someone to end all this. This is his regret.

It was a group of twisted and hideous flesh and blood, and the man’s cheeks were sleeping soundly in the scarlet flesh, as if immersed in a beautiful dream, so under the control of that power, the girl raised the aluminum-heated rifle in her hand. , And then pulled the trigger.

  This is the end of everything. Everything in the dark will eventually come to an end. The sea seems to be heated and boiled by the sun. The captain looked directly at the place where the light was rising, and finally revealed a little joy on his bitter face.

It was a beautiful night. In front of me, this was the captain of the Silverfish. He became a mysterious dream builder due to the power of the demon and established this huge dream. He spent a happy night here, and he made it. Repentance, and atonement for his actions, he fulfilled his many years of wish and set sail on the surging sea.

  Although all this is a dream full of loopholes, a story of self-deception, he still accepts it. This is the darkest and best day of his life.

The Whitebait finally sank into the sea with the captain. When Eve woke up, she was holding the aluminum thermal rifle that had emptied the magazine. The huge twisted flesh in front of her was burned to ashes, and that ruled the whole The dream of the area is over, so the endless monsters seem to have been ordered to rush to this lonely lighthouse from all directions.

But none of this attracted Eve’s attention. She looked at the burning flesh, with a vague expression of relief on her face, and then the flesh and blood connected to the wall broke one by one, and finally fell into the darkness of the lighthouse. At the bottom, the light is fleeting.

  (End of this chapter)