To be exact, Mu Enli didn't think he really had the qualifications to be a good captain, even if he was a former navy, and he still had the name of an engineer, but he was too young after all.
He didn't even know how to manage the many employees on the ship even though he had already returned to the motherland he had never met, even though he was working with people of the same skin color as him.
But Mu Enli has to admit one thing, that is, the cultural surprise between the two different societies is too great.
Seagulls flew low over the siren. On a summer evening of a certain year, Mu Enli stayed alone somewhere on the cruise ship. He took off his hat and leaned against the railing feeling extremely tired. He drank heavily.
Not long after, a figure climbed up very swiftly, dressed in the uniform of an ordinary crew member, walked towards Mu Enli with his head down.
"Mu Enli, why are the routes repeated this time? We should take as many different routes as possible so that we can explore more areas."
Here we go again... here we go again.
Mu Enli silently watched this... the monitor walking towards him, he couldn't understand why this woman still didn't understand
Or, she was just pretending to be asleep... and she would never be able to wake up a person who was pretending to be asleep
Mu Enli didn't know exactly what country this monitor was supposed to be from. The only thing that was clearer was that she was obviously of the yellow race, and her name... code name: Yuna.
What about the code name... I also have a temporary code name called king, right? Mu Enli suddenly laughed at himself.
The hat Yuna was wearing covered her hair well, and from a distance she probably looked like a thinner crew member. But Mu Enli knew that, except for him, no one on this boat would be able to call out her name.
Because she has always occupied her bedroom. Of course, for convenience, the two of them lived together.
Yuna is waiting for the day when the task is completed, and the mysterious people who ordered him asked for at least two years of data... Now almost a year has passed.
It stands to reason that Mu Enli may be freed in another year, if there are no accidents... Yes, if there are no accidents.
However, in the past three months, Yuna has not contacted that group of mysterious guys anymore, and she has gradually become abnormal.
"The routes are all arranged, and even I can't change them casually." Mu Enli looked into Yuna's eyes, frowned and said, "Didn't I tell you not to mess around? What will you do if you find out?"
"Are you afraid that I will come up with ghost legends again?" Yuna's face was calm, "Don't worry, I have adjusted and recovered, and I will never do that kind of stupid thing again. Because, I contacted the headquarters again yesterday. Mu Enli , we can continue with the characters."
Yesterday... yesterday you just talked to yourself all night.
normal? I'm afraid it's getting worse, right
Is the brainwashing of those people really so terrifying
Mu Enli even looked at this woman who lived in his imagination with some pity. He didn't understand what the meaning of this woman's existence was.
"Yuna, what is the most important thing to you?" Mu Enli asked suddenly, looking at the sea that was dyed red.
Without saying a word, Yuna said firmly: "Complete the task."
Mu Enli suddenly felt a little irritable, maybe it was the influence of alcohol, or maybe it was the reason why he lived in a straight-forward society for the first half of his life, he suddenly grabbed Yuna's arms, and forced her lips hard Kissed down.
Yuna bit Mu Enli's lips angrily, pushed him away, her face was cold, "I'm here to help you, not to tempt you, Mu Enli, if you dare to harass me again, don't blame me for being rude !"
Mu Enli wiped his lips and laughed loudly: "I'm not a woman too! Hahaha!!"
Yuna snorted coldly, turned and left.
Mu Enli shook his head, lay down directly on the deck, covered his face with his hat, and hummed a little tune carelessly.
It seems... Even if he came back, he wasn't as unrestrained as before.
Back... What's the point
…
Mu Enli thought of another way, a way to make Yuna wake up from her imagination.
"Look! This is an internal document sent by the shipyard company, which has already stated that there is no 'treasure' on board! In addition, those people still have no instructions!"
"You're crazy! You actually did such a thing? What if you get exposed?" Yuna looked at Mu Enli, like an irritated female cat, and tore up the document directly.
"You are really determined. If you have the ability, you can contact your so-called headquarters now." Mu Enli shook his head.
Without saying a word, Yuna took out a suitcase from under the bed. After opening it, there was a set of communication equipment inside. Yuna took out the separate communicator and put it on her face, "Call, number shg10, Yuna... yes, I am Yuna, I want to report about this incident... yes, this matter..."
But Mu Enli took the suitcase, pulled out the instrument, and said angrily: "The battery has long been out, who are you talking to!"
Yuna just glanced at Mu Enli with hatred, then gathered all the scattered things around her in a panic, and then said again to the communicator: "Headquarters, I heard, the signal here is not good, please wait a moment." Wait... Is it ready... Yes, I will continue to report... "
"Crazy, really crazy..."
"Yes... Mu Enli betrayed... Got it, I will clear it up right away..."
"You... what do you want to do?"
Yuna stood up, and suddenly rushed towards Mu Enli.
It took him a lot of effort, and even after he was scratched with a deep bone wound on his arm, he barely subdued the monitor... This was due to his years of military experience.
…
In the separate bathroom in the bedroom, the mouth was locked... and there were a lot of sponges pasted here to prevent Yuna from going crazy.
But even so, Yuna's body was still full of scars... If Mu Enli hadn't played some music loudly in her room every night, people outside might have noticed the movement.
"This is the latest sedative drug... Take it."
Mu Enli pinched Yuna's chin, and stuffed the pill into her mouth from the gap for two weeks, right? She was given a number of commercially available tranquilizers, but they didn't seem to have any effect other than making her groggy most of the time.
"Mu Enli, let me go, let's continue to complete the task, they won't blame you... Mu Enli..."
Yuna lost her gaze and lay down on the cold floor.
Mu Enli closed the door heavily irritatedly, sat on the bed by himself, covered his face with his hands, he could no longer bear Yuna's madness.
He first grabbed a bottle of spirits, gulped it down, and then turned on the stereo in the room to amplify the loudest sound... Only in this way, he could forcefully fall asleep.
Day by day, no matter how noisy the environment was, he seemed to be able to hear Yuna talking to him. Finally... Alcohol can't stop this lingering voice in his head.
One night, Mu Enli fell under his bed like mud, and got up with a splitting headache. Days of insomnia and fatigue made him extremely nervous.
He picked up the fruit-peeling knife from the room, held the wine bottle in one hand, and took another sip, then dragged his body and approached step by step... and opened the bathroom door.
Looking at the half-asleep and half-awake woman inside, with a numb face, she lowered her head and showed the knife in her hand, and said in her sleep, "I gave you a chance... I gave you so many chances. Me, I I even thought of a lot of ways, but why don't you wake up? Why? Why... why!!"
He roared suddenly, grabbed Yuna's hair with one hand, pulled her up, and plunged her upper body into the water of the bathtub. Yuna's head was completely under the water, and she instinctively struggled in pain.
"Wake up! Wake up!!"
He raised Yuna's head again, and the wet hair was completely stuck together. Yuna was coughing and panting in pain, and looked at her coldly but indifferently.
"Look at you! Do you still look like a human being? You don't! Just a puppet!!"
"For you... what is the most, most important thing?" Yuna said suddenly.
"I have my new life, I have my new future! I have my life! I have everything!! What do you have?!"
"I have a purpose in my existence...you don't..."
Mu Enli screamed angrily, and stabbed Yuna fiercely with the knife in his hand!
The sharp knife cut the skin on Yuna's arm in an instant, and the blood immediately stained the water in the bathtub red. Mu Enli's eyes widened, with a grim expression on his face, "You can lie to me! Just say you are normal!! Yuna! Stop thinking about missions! You are free!! Live your life again! Don't make me kill you!"
"Coward..."
Finally, his nerves were stimulated to the extreme.
In this bathroom, the ugliest, most evil, and most despicable thing happened... The young captain of the White Jade raped the same young Yuna.
He covered her mouth and pierced into her body time and time again. His eyes and her eyes were never more than ten centimeters from the beginning to the end.
With the impact again and again, he was like a hungry wolf grabbing a rotting corpse, and she was like a shell that had lost its soul.
This place is like a silent mirror hell.
This evil mirror-like hell has even continued... He has completely degenerated into a devil, and every night he will get drunk, and then open this place full of sins, venting in those bodies time and time again. The ugliness that lurks.
It's like a nightmare, an endless one, buried deep inside... the ugliest nightmare.
They have been peeled off layer by layer, and then dug out again and again... The things in these memories have been diluted.
Finally, an old palm crushed them completely.
…
Like a breakthrough from one latitude to another, this old palm tore apart the world in memory.
Stirring, continuing to tear, continuing to stir, it seems that they can't wait to knead them into a ball.
But in the end they unfolded again, forming a ring, spinning this mirror-like hell incessantly.
Here... what the hell is it
"The place where you remember the deepest."
"My life has come to an end, why should I face this matter again... Isn't my shame enough?"
"What did you see?"
"The ugliest me."
"anything else?"
"Hate my Yuna."
The fragments of memory turned again, and the mirror-like hell opened up in front of him again. Unable to bear the pain, he had no choice but to cover his ears with his hands.
Until a newborn cry sounded.
He raised his head again, and in this world made from scratch and pieced together from memory fragments, he finally saw... the boss who gave him the last time.
The boss stretched out his hand, and grabbed a fragment from the countless fragments... Among the spherical memory fragments, a child who had just come to this world and had not yet opened his eyes made his first sound.
The boss sent the fragment to Mu Enli, "So, what do you see now?"
His hands trembled slightly, like a lost traveler in the desert, devoutly waiting for the rain falling in front of him, "I... my child."
"You and Yuna's child."
"Yes, me and her child."
"Captain, once again, let's look at these memories of yours." Luo Qiu said softly: "Now you, looking back at your life, you should be able to feel it."
Mu Enli subconsciously looked at those sinful memories.
Yuna was sitting in front of the window, with her hands on her swollen stomach, silent. Beside her, the young captain was talking non-stop.
"At this time, Yuna didn't struggle anymore, but she never said a word to me, no matter what method I used... I just want to make up for the mistakes I made."
On the other fragment, the woman lowered her head, gently stroking the child in her belly, with a rare smile, and the young captain beside her was watching it bewilderedly.
"She still won't talk to me, and I know she's never forgiven me...but I see the radiance of motherhood in her face. It's so divine, and I'm like the humblest sinner in front of her."
Another piece of debris.
"She started quietly making clothes for the kids...but as soon as I got back, she hid things away."
piece by piece.
He began to look at the most despicable thing that had been buried bit by bit.
"Premature birth... My worst fears finally happened! I was going to take the risk and send her to the hospital no matter what! I even made arrangements, but it ended up being premature!"
Yuna exhausted her last strength and gave birth to this sinful child. When the young captain realized it... he would die forever.
Finally, the old man looked at the memory of blood, sin and life in a daze.
The young man knelt beside the bed holding his newborn child in grief, while the woman closed her eyes forever.
"Yuna... why did she show such a smile? Did she have one at the time?" The old man looked at the boss blankly.
"Captain, this is your memory, without any mistakes. So it naturally exists." Luo Qiu said indifferently: "Now... what do you see?"
The old man finally embraced all the memory fragments into his arms, and suddenly smiled wryly: "I gave her a reason to live. When I first wanted to kill, she even hoped that I could really kill her." Losing her... She is still in too much pain after all. "
"You're right, you can only understand it when you look back." The old captain's eyes gradually returned to calm, "It's just that I haven't dared to face them."
"But sin cannot be erased."
"Yes, I never thought of cleaning up my sins... I just got a relief in the end."
"How are you?"
"It's enough, it's enough." The old man shed two lines of tears, and said softly, "I missed her smile... It's enough to see her again."
"Just be satisfied."
…
…
In the cave.
Boss Luo suddenly loosened the restraint of his palm, giving this completely dark ball of light a chance to escape. It was just a spirit body.
The gray slowly sank before the tomb, and then took shape. The old captain finally came to the tomb again in the form of a spirit body.
The gray matter gradually began to recede.
The boss took out the handkerchief and buried the bundle of hair wrapped in it in front of the simple tombstone.
It finally returned to its pure white appearance again, shining brightly.
The maid lady carried the old leather suitcase from behind Luo Qiu, and put it aside, before returning to her master's side.
The contents of this box are not gold, silver and jewelry, but some simple old objects.
Some baby clothes, feeding bottles, small toys, small seashells...something that is really valuable to a father.
"Mr., this is your treasure, and I have sent it back here."
Luo Qiu said softly: "You said that you hoped that you could be buried here... your last wish has also been fulfilled."
The pure white ball of light rose slowly from the ground, as if it had been washed by running water for a thousand years, and finally fell into the palm of the boss.
…
"Do you think I'm just doing some boring things?"
Sitting in front of the beach of Haibei Island, the sea water was barely able to reach Luo Qiu's side, but on the wet sand, the maid was here barefoot facing the sea breeze blowing Buddha.
Hearing the master's words, You Ye turned around and said with a smile: "It's mainly the master's wishes, there will be no boring things."
Luo Qiu thought for a while and said, "Old shopkeeper, how long did it take you to wipe out all your feelings?"
"You Ye doesn't know." The maid said softly, "But since the moment I woke up, the previous boss has been like this."
Boss Luo suddenly remembered some words that Black Soul No. 9 had said, and looked at You Ye and said indifferently: "I found... it seems that it can't peel me off anymore."
"Altar?" The maid was slightly surprised.
Luo Qiu shook his head, then nodded again, the level of complexity seemed to be incomprehensible even to the lady maid, a puppet with a history of more than 300 years.
Boss Luo finally said thoughtfully: "Or maybe it's just an illusion... But at least I feel that my direction is not wrong. As long as it conforms to the rules..."
"Master, what did you just say?" The maid cast a puzzled look at this moment, "You Ye seems to be unable to hear."
Luo Qiu was taken aback, with You Ye's ability, it is impossible to say that his voice cannot be heard...there is only one possibility.
Even You Ye...isn't qualified to listen to the conversation between me and 'you'
Luo Qiu looked at the edge of the sky.
A strong feeling of loneliness quietly crept into his heart, his consciousness seemed to be withdrawn in an instant, and the small island in front of him began to rapidly become smaller.
The sea, the earth, the sky... everything began to shrink.
In the end, there was only a naturally rotating world in front of him. At this time, he seemed to be able to glimpse countless creatures in this world at the same time.
Even, in this self-rotating world, there are so many distorted places... They are entwined with the rotation of the world, and they also rotate independently.
One thought enveloped all of this.
…
At the same time, a gaunt white-haired old man slowly walked out of a cave on a mountain peak in distant Jerusalem. Before he took a step, it seemed as if he was about to squeeze out the little life left in him. hardships.
In front of the cave, the old man stared at the sky for a long time before sighing slowly, muttering to himself like a sigh: "Too fast... you are too fast... But it's okay, okay, okay."
The old man returned to the cave again. There was nothing here, only an old music box was placed in front of the stone bed. The old man opened it, and listening to the crisp voice, he said dreamily, "If I could walk this way... how good it would be..."
…
In front of the beach, You Ye's voice came to Luo Qiu's ears again, causing his consciousness to drop to countless levels in an instant, and finally returned to his body.
The sound of the sea washing, the sound of the wind, everything became tangible again.
"Master, what happened?" You Ye looked at Luo Qiu with a little horror.
Luo Qiu shook his head, stood up, and said with a slight smile: "It's nothing, I just thought about something, and my mind was a little distracted."
The maid gave another suspicious look.
Luo Qiu just chuckled, "Let me think again, let's do another boring thing..."
Saying that, Luo Qiu turned around and stared at the woods on the small island, his body soared into the air at this moment... The body of the maid was also supported by something, and followed Luo Qiu.
In the sky, a huge cloud began to form, blocking the scope of the entire island.
At a distance of 100 meters from the sea level, Luo Qiu stretched out his hand and pressed gently towards the small island. The small slope where the old trees in the island forest were located was the center point, with a diameter of about 200 meters. sink.
The resulting earthquake caused the seawater around the island to surge wildly... It wasn't until this place finally sank into the earth that the seawater outside the island turned into a huge water column from all directions and poured into the sunken place. in space.
After a long time, sea water has filled this place and turned into a small 'lake' within an island.
"No matter what you want, as long as you can pay us enough, then, no matter good or bad, no matter whether you were a good person or a bad person in your lifetime, we will make it come true for you."
Looking at the lake in the island, Luo Qiu said indifferently: "Right or wrong, since you chose to keep silent, I will give you this last grave."
He has committed indelible crimes, and he also has the respect of everyone on the White Jade.
The ugly and the glorious go hand in hand.
"Your secret, just bury it here forever...guest."
Saying that, Luo Qiu took out the old pocket watch and threw it towards the small lake on the island.
There seemed to be a slight sound of falling into the water. At the moment of falling into the water, the buckle of the pocket watch was broken with great force, and the opened pocket watch sank slowly in the water.
On one side of it was inlaid an old, yellowed and faded photograph.
On the other side is time, time that has stopped: October 2, 1987, nineteen o'clock, twenty-three minutes, forty-seven seconds.
Everything about Mu Enli sank into the deep sea silently.