Captain Ghost

Instead of going to Li Weijing's room, Fu Shannon returned to the place where he raised the plants.

Every plant here is raised from dead branches by him. The Ghost has traveled to many places over the years. When it landed on the planet, he would dig a few plants with mud and roots, and then move them into pots.My father always said that the tree moves the dead and the living, but if someone takes good care of it and has roots, then you can move it and you can continue to live.Accompanied by these potted plants, Xie Ze and others, I feel that life is also a good thing. There is bondage, but not too close; there is communication, but not too noisy. For this reason, I can bear a lot of silence, many late nights When you open your eyes and see the sunshine outside the window, you will not feel glaring. Occasionally open the window and smell the fragrance of weeds and flowers, which makes people feel like a lifetime away.

If there is no watering for a long time, the plants will die. This kind of fragility makes Fu Shannon persist day after day, and gradually get used to it.

He came to Rose Star with a sense of luck, feeling that there are so many people in the world, and the possibility of reuniting with Xinghun is one in hundreds of millions, so he set his feet on this long-lost reunion land with peace of mind.This piece of land that devoured his parents' lives and made him thrive at the same time, he was born and grew up here, made mistakes because of his kindness, and couldn't turn back because of his mistakes. When he found that he couldn't fight against the darkness, he chose to merge into the darkness A part of him, his hands were covered with blood, and he used killing methods to protect himself-how many creatures does a person have to kill while alive?He doesn't know the answer, but he can tell exactly how many people he killed.

1763 people, which does not include the deaths due to gang fires and gang fights.

He still remembers the discomfort when he killed the first person. His stomach seemed to be poured with a strong acid solution, his throat was burning, and his eyes were so sore that he couldn't open them. No one approached him, but he was like He was punched heavily, hitting the soft abdomen.He remembers that feeling very clearly, and every time he kills, he will pull out this memory to torture himself, reminding himself that killing is not a pleasant act, and it takes too long to grasp the power of life and death, which makes people have the illusion that they are the creator god. It will only pull people into a deeper abyss.He knew that his sins were serious and unforgivable, so after that narrow escape, he treated himself as a new life and spent the rest of his life in the most peaceful way.

And that was the life he wanted.

But he still met Xinghun, and after the reunion, they experienced a thrilling night, the church was hunted down, escaped from the hunt, did what they did when they were parting in the narrow tailor fitting room, and indulged in primitive-desire-desire , in order to cover up the gap that cannot be filled due to the years of parting.

However, satisfying this primitive desire can only bring temporary pleasure, and soon people will have more emptiness that has nowhere to bloom.As long as the two don't move forward to make changes, things will always be in a stalemate like this.But he went astray, it was difficult to set things right, and he was unwilling to wade in the water again; the star soul had been wandering since he was a child, and his pursuit of power and power itself made him unable to give up power such as life. It looks like he has grown into a towering tree, and if he cuts off countless roots and moves away, there is almost only a dead end.

There are never right or wrong things, only choices.Fu Shannon picked a leaf and slowly chewed it in his mouth. The juice was extremely bitter and spread all the way to the bottom of his heart. He murmured in a low voice: "I really can only raise potted plants, towering trees... I have never been able to raise them." live."

He laughed at himself, looking a little lonely.

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Planet Ophiuchus AX-98 is a resource-poor planet. It only has the air that people can breathe and the water source to sustain life. Besides, there are no minerals or other things that can be exported. In addition, this There is only one habitable planet in the block star field, and it is sparsely populated. The price to be paid for commercial activities is too high, and various commercial companies have not set up separate offices here.

A planet that does not shit, gradually became a transfer station for pirates to plunder. In the end, interstellar pirates took over the mountains and became king here, and the planet Ophiuchus AX-98 became the legendary "Don Quixote". Think of this planet as their second home besides the pirate ship, and call it Don Quixote, which is a good name, with a natural sense of irony.

The ship that responded to them stayed outside the atmosphere and was on standby at any time. If special circumstances were discovered, someone would rush in to rescue them.

The Ghost turned on the optical camouflage, slowly approached the ground, and landed on the ground with a "boom", feeling that the body of the spaceship seemed to be stuck by glue, swaying from side to side, and then began to sink.

"Sorry," Li Weijing said in the channel with a calm voice, "I seem to have accidentally parked in the quicksand area."

Xie Ze: "..."

"You can be smarter. Wouldn't it be better to just fall headfirst into the sea? You can also take a day trip." He couldn't help his tongue.

Li Weijing didn't feel guilty at all, and seemed to be able to mock him for his ignorance: "Captain, there is no sea on planet AX-98, only a small saltwater lake."

"...You're the one who talks too much." Xie Ze said embarrassingly.

The two of you come and go, neither one is willing to give way to the other, but they both know what to do and don't move. In this kind of quicksand situation, the faster it moves, the faster it will be buried.

Sailin interrupted their gag, commanding: "Now we slowly move to the door, Mingyue, you are the lightest, and the closest to the warehouse, take a bunch of ropes and light plastic boards from there, we will climb from here go out."

Mingyue responded, crawled, and slowly moved to the warehouse.Fortunately, she has a light body, so moving in the spaceship like this, the hull only shook a few times, but it didn't sink into the sand significantly.

Sailin was wearing a pair of glasses in front of him, which had the beauty of a gentle scum, Xie Ze wanted to take them off to kiss his eyes, and lick the corners of his eyes.Seeing him standing there well-dressed, with the last button of his shirt buttoned up, he couldn't help scolding this man for being coquettish.He stayed where he was and couldn't move, he could only let his mind think about things, so as not to be controlled by tension.

"Listen to me now, Xie Ze and Xinghun head towards the hatch, and we will go down after meeting."

The three of them crawled towards the cabin door, saw each other's state during crawling, and laughed silently, insisting on distinguishing between beauty and ugliness in the ugly posture of turtle crawling.

Mingyue was waiting at the cabin door, Sailin took the things from her, thanked her, opened the cabin door, walked down the gangway, spread the light plastic board on the ground, tied the rope to the spaceship, and the three tacitly moved The light plastic board laid out a slope, and then pulled the rope like a tug-of-war to give the spaceship an angular shift. Li Weijing started the engine, and the spaceship slowly came out of the quicksand along the slope made by the light plastic board.

"I don't think Li Weijing can be allowed to drive without a license next time." Xie Ze let out a long breath, "If this continues, my old waist will break sooner or later."

"I'm not driving without a license. I have more than ten years of driving experience." Li Weijing replied indifferently.

"The old driver still overturned, aren't you familiar with the AX-98 planet?" Xie Ze joked with a smile.

Li Weijing was silent for a while, and said: "This is not the case here. It should be that the environment has deteriorated over the years, and the quicksand area has spread."

She raised her voice and instructed in the team channel: "Everyone, be careful. Although I was familiar with this place before, after so many years, this place has changed a lot, so be cautious."

She parked the spaceship on a flat ground, and then let Mingyue disembark. Mingyue took the gangway, and she jumped directly from the cabin door and landed steadily.

"Are we going to swagger like this?" Xinghun asked them with a sidelong glance.

"Otherwise, you still have to sneak over there?" Xie Ze felt that he was inexplicable, so he couldn't help retorting, "I didn't come here to be a thief."

Xinghun withdrew his gaze and looked at his feet, "I just remind you kindly, don't you think our group is too eye-catching? At least we should spread out a little so that we don't catch our eyes."

Hearing what he said, Xie Ze took two quick steps forward, turned 180 degrees, and found that indeed, they were such a row of handsome men and women, and they came to this corner of this shitless corner, and said it was okay. !

"Then disperse, Xie Ze and I are in a group, Viking—"

Before he could finish speaking, Li Weijing voluntarily assigned himself, "I'm in a group with Mingyue."

Fu Shannong was about to open his mouth, but when he heard Li Weijing's words, he looked at him quietly, like an abandoned cat with folded ears.

Li Weijing smiled without guilt: "I'm sorry Shannon, I really don't want to get involved with you and him," she pointed at Xinghun, "I'm going to have a headache for a while, let me go."

Sailin glanced at it, "No big problem, I have already sent the coordinates to the channel, everyone advances according to the team, whoever gets it first will squeak, there is no need to stay for a long time, just withdraw."

Before he could give an order, Fu Shannon had already been dragged away by Xinghun, Li Weijing shrugged and made a helpless expression.

"You just let him go like this?" Xie Ze said, "This is not your style. Don't you always advocate a strong comrade-in-arms friendship?"

"He hesitates and wants to escape, and I still want to give him a warm harbor?" Li Weijing sneered, "Please, I really don't understand what's going on in your minds, I don't care about it, just love if you like it, and love it if you don't like it Just kick it away quickly, it looks sticky. Mingyue, let's go!"

She hooked her two fingers into the camouflage uniform, raised her chin, and signaled Mingyue to follow, and the two left the spot one after the other.

Li Weijing walks like a dragon and a tiger, with great firmness.Since Xie Ze met her, it seems that her life is very simple, she never thinks about complicated issues, what is the Galactic Empire Star Alliance, what is the return of Don Quixote, she is always in love with guns and equipment, and earns enough credit for doing tasks At that point, she went to buy a gun she liked, but her material desires were not so strong. If she had to run around and earn credits to change the gun, then she would just find a place to bask in the sun, calling herself There is no need to force it if you have nothing to do with guns.She has been able to eat her very unpalatable dinner for ten years, just like a disabled person with a loss of taste and blindness, no matter how difficult it is to swallow, she can eat it without changing her face.

Xie Ze was not expecting such a simple person who looked at the ground like a clear river to be the Pirate King.He actually wanted to know why Li Weijing became the Pirate King and why she retired, but unless she asked, it would be difficult for others to know all aspects of her past.

Seeing his dazed expression, Sailin knew that he was thinking about something again.He didn't urge him, just stood by and waited quietly. After waiting for a long time, he learned to reconcile with himself.

Xie Ze came back to his senses and found that Sai Lin was looking at him with deep affection. He couldn't help but blushed, and couldn't help touching his cheek, "Look what I'm doing?"

"You can't see yourself, let me take a look for you." Sailin said with a smile.

It is completely impossible to refute it, and Xie Ze does not want to refute it. He looked into Sailin's eyes, and there was a self in it, and the eyes of his own were looking at Sailin who looked at himself. If this cycle continues, then Everything will be deduced endlessly, going to infinity, he can only cough lightly, turn around stiffly, the N pole like a magnet is trying to stay away from the S pole that attracts him, because it is against nature, it becomes difficult.He didn't hear the footsteps of Sai Lin following up. Looking back at him, he found that he was still standing there motionless.

"Let's go."

"It lacks the first driving force, but gives it an initial velocity." Sailin played a rogue.

Xie Ze thought for a long time before he realized that this meant asking him to give him a hand. He thought this was really boring, but he still couldn't help but fall into this kind of mess, walked back, held his hand, and dragged him away. Walk.

The air flow is accompanied by flying sand and rocks, and the particles hitting the face are painful. Every time I take a breath, I feel that my nasal cavity is crowded with sand, but when I open my mouth, I will eat dirt again. I can only move forward so hard.

After a while, the wind stopped blowing, and Xie Ze saw low-rise buildings from a distance. In the era of such developed interstellar transportation, he could actually see adobe houses.There are even some people who don't live in adobe houses, but set up tents in random places.There are narrow gaps for people to pass through. A layer of cloth is spread on both sides of the road, and various things are placed on it, including pearls and emeralds, guns and bullets, feather arrows, and various canned food and dried food. Beef, etc., people come and go, bustling, so lively.

Whether it is the buyer or the seller, their faces are almost indifferent and lazy. It is a vacuum state with no expectations or disappointments in life, and there is a kind of "this life is like this" self-abandonment.Sailin took Xie Ze's hand and explained to him in a low voice, "In addition to interstellar pirates, there are quite a few prisoners and former felons on planet AX-98, because the terminal will not hide people's criminal records. Rejected by civilized society, you can basically only have yourself on this terminally ignorant planet.”

Xie Ze also knew about this situation.Society is like a big river, some places are turbulent, some places are calm, no matter how advanced the technology and how civilized the world is, crimes like this will always happen.

The Galactic Empire began to embed chips in everyone's body in 138 years, following people's life from birth, all records will be placed in the chip, and later this chip will be developed into a terminal, everyone from birth to death chip The records go hand in hand.

In this case, the House of Representatives passed the "Exile Crime" bill.

Exile crime, that is, if someone commits a crime, his criminal record will not be hidden, but will be known to the people he contacts. When a criminal is only a suspect, in order to make an example, the name of the person will be reported, and a "democratic vote" can be held in the area where the prisoner belongs. When the majority vote is passed, the person will be exiled.This bill was originally intended to make people afraid, thereby reducing the crime rate.But the result was very different. After the bill was passed, the crime rate increased, the abnormal death rate increased sharply, and the surrender rate decreased. The planet AX-98 declared that it would accept people who were exiled from all over the universe to come here, and this place would become their birthplace. place.

Those who are desperate and have nowhere to ask for help come here, those who kill impulsively come here, and those who commit heinous crimes and have blood on their hands come here. Together, no one's hands are clean in the end.

The crime rate in the universe has soared, and the police station has become increasingly understaffed. The Galactic Empire and the Star Alliance have to grant Cowboy Bebop licenses to let them arrest criminals and pay them high rewards.This has been the case year after year, coupled with various layers of deductions, the treasury is unable to make ends meet, taxes are getting heavier, the employment rate is falling, and the crime rate continues to rise... The situation has fallen into a vicious circle and has become a bottomless pit.

Xie Ze didn't know who came up with such a "smart" crime prevention idea at the time. It was as absurd as someone's idea of ​​testing people's genes through the "genetic crime fragment library" and grading people's risk levels.Transferring the power of judgment from legal codes to human beings will only make matters worse.The desire to hide punishment in the human heart makes the utopia of the rule of man never come true, because the people in the group cannot be trusted, and the only thing that can be trusted is the rules.Natural human rights, this kind of right to be judged by fellow human beings will only drive innocent people to the road of crime. If this person is eloquent and has superb debating skills, then he is very likely to escape trial and get away with it.

Banishment crimes were banned after a period of time, but the effects were permanent.If a country changes its policies day and night and repeats its rhetoric, its people will not be able to trust every policy it said afterwards. The trust between people is broken, and it is impossible to restore it to perfection.

The planet AX-98 has become famous since then, and it was during that time that interstellar pirates rose up. Some people even drove starships to surrender.A group of people with no future gathered together, and the atmosphere of decadence was contagious, which in turn brought this temperament to the whole place, forming the unique scene in front of us.

They were clean and tidy, and they didn't fit in with this place. Xie Ze felt a few faint eyes drifting over. He looked back along the line of sight and found that those people hid themselves in the crowd again. They have bad intentions, but looking at them this way, they all look like honest businessmen.

Be honest and responsible, Xie Ze chewed this word in his heart, and had to say that if he is not restrained, people will doubt everyone. This kind of doubt will make him paranoid, and thus isolate himself from the surrounding environment, unable to devote himself to work.

"Be careful." Sailin pulled his arm, and Xie Ze felt that he was hit by someone.A child ran away from him laughing and laughing. Looking from his back, he was only seven or eight years old. His teeth were broken and his childish voice was floating in the air, as if he was saying uncle or thank you.

Thanks?Xie Ze conditioned himself to feel if there was something missing on his body. He didn't think he had anything to steal. Although he was well dressed, he was so poor that he only carried a rich ass. The debt is a full 30 billion 2000 million, and any fraction is enough for an ordinary person to live for ten lifetimes.

Before he could touch something, Sailin pretended to be nonchalant and straightened his collar, and removed a mung bean-sized, almost transparent "membrane" from his neck.

This is something used for monitoring and tracking. It seems that they were targeted as soon as they arrived on the planet AX-98. It was in vain that they found a deserted place to land, and fell into the quicksand pit. After struggling to get out, it turned out that the hard work of fetching water from a bamboo basket was in vain.

Someone has been waiting here for a long time!

He winked at Xie Ze, and Xie Ze shared his mind with him, and instantly understood what he meant: don't startle the snake.

It's really deceitful, how did this little thing that only reached his waist put things on his collar? Sailin pinned the thing to the cuff buttons, and there was a "wall" he made on it, which was specially designed to overcome these membranes.These membranes can emit some wave bands and feed back the information they have seen, which gives them the opportunity to counter-track. Since thieves want to eat meat, they must remember to be beaten.

The child walked to the corner of the dirt wall at the corner, covered his mouth with a smile, like a little squirrel eating pine nuts, a man came from the other end, his eyes were cloudy, skinny, he looked like a cat and a mouse, walked to the child , his eyes burst out, and he patted the child's head, "What are you laughing at?"

"I stuck that thing on him, but he didn't notice it. He was as stupid as a pig and dog, and he deserved to be slaughtered!" The kid yelled at the old man dissatisfied, "Why are you hitting me on the head? This slap, but death Lost [-] million brain cells, you pay me, you pay me!"

Xie Ze Sailin didn't know that someone was scolding them as pigs and dogs behind their backs, but Xie Ze sneezed, thinking that he was not comfortable with this place, and thought that he would take out the ancient mech and get away from here as soon as possible.

After staying for a long time, he felt like a plant, and his body smelled like mud.

"You kid still knows what brain cells, don't be complacent, you didn't do this kind of thing for a thousand, you have eight hundred, and if you miss it, what face do you have to go back?" The old man pushed his shoulder, "Go, don't Show your face in front of them, I think this group of people is very smart, and none of them are easy to mess with."

The kid was still elated just now after being ridiculed like this, but now he is not very interested. He let out an "oh" and went back to his little broken house dejectedly. What was he thinking? Isn't it just a layer of old bark on his face? , what to pull.

He slandered the old man, thinking that Don Quixote hadn't had such a piece of fat for many years, and he wondered how much he could get.That spaceship was big and bright. When he grows up, he also wants to have such a spaceship, fly out of Don Quixote, and see the outside world.I heard that the people there are very rich. There are spaceships like this everywhere in big cities. The roads are paved with diamonds. There are high-rise buildings reaching into the sky with steel and iron frames. Unlike Don Quixote, there is nothing. .

Thinking of this, he was so excited that he couldn't help showing a silly smile on the corner of his mouth. He secretly clenched his fists, thinking that next time he must make persistent efforts and try to kill another big one, so that he could save enough for the boat ticket to leave here.

He will definitely be able to change his destiny in the future, and become the man of the Pirate King in the future!

At this time, he still didn't know that the former Pirate King had quietly set foot on this familiar yet unfamiliar planet. The person who once made people fearful just by hearing his name would once again set off a violent storm for them. rain!

Sailin's brain has its own navigation function, but the planet AX-98 happens to belong to the type of planet he is not familiar with - there are no digital models of the buildings and various roads here, so now they only know the latitude and longitude of the destination, and then head towards Moving forward there, but what will happen in the process is not at all clear.

"We seem to be getting further and further away." Xie Ze said quietly.

"Just get rid of the people following behind." Sailin raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "Don't you think they are as annoying as flies?"

"Just for this matter, you went around so many times?" Xie Ze stopped in his tracks.

The people behind who thought they were quietly following also stopped their steps immediately, each looking for a corner to hide the figure they couldn't hide no matter what.But this action is not natural at all, just like people who are used to rough clothes are not used to small broken flowers anyway, they are used to unscrupulous robbery, they hide suddenly, quite like hiding from others in their own home aggrieved.

Sailin also stopped in his tracks, took his hand and shook it: "Actually, I just want to take a walk with you in a different place, and walk the dog by the way." He said politely to the people behind him, "It's not rude to come here, After following for so long, don't you feel tired? Why don't you come out and meet."

Those people did not appear immediately after hearing this, they were exchanging information through their eyes, and then came out sparsely after a while, the leader was a strong man, two meters tall, standing there like an iron tower, his voice was thick and rough, and his voice was It can pierce people's ears: "Hurry up, talk quickly, since this is the case, it's better to grab it without a fight." He pressed the corner of his lips with his thumb, his eyes were salivating, his eyes were glued to Serin's body, and he kept nodding, as if he was looking at this person. very satisfied.

Xie Ze: "..." Why do I feel my hands are so itchy?