Chapter 27: Singing the Praises of Death
Chapter 27 Celebrates Death
William didn't know whether to say that Sherlock wanted money or didn't want to die, but he had been in this world for a short time, and through some scattered memories of the original owner in his mind, and daily observation and thinking, he knew more or less about the atmosphere of this world and the reasons for its formation. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Compared to the environment in William's previous life, there is no doubt that this is a rotten world, and it can only be compared to the turbulent regions of the earth in the previous life, such as Africa.
On the one hand, the world's government institutions are bloated, inefficient, and full of corruption, and if you look at the series of privileges of the founders, the Draconians, and their slave culture, you can see that this government itself exudes a semi-colonial atmosphere.
Secondly, one of the most representative forces on the part of the world government, the navy.
After the opening of the era of pirates, the navy paid more attention to the great shipping routes, and delegated more powers to the commanders of the bases, including but not limited to the power of self-conscription, coupled with a series of problems such as unscientific management methods and infrequent personnel transfers, so that the commanders of each base could easily incarnate into the role of warlords and act as a prestige in the local area.
Thirdly, the country is still mostly maintained in the form of feudal dynasties, the nobles of the kingdom are seriously separated from the middle and lower level of the common people, and they are becoming more and more bloated, the theory of origin is the mainstream, the rule of the aristocracy is natural, the channels for the bottom to rise are scarce, and the corruption and bureaucratic problems are more serious than those of the world government.
In the end, it was the turn of the locust-like pirates to inflict the damage.
Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, this kind of deformed world is still a world where individuals have extraordinary force, and a major constraint that restricts the strong from acting as a bully is morality, and how can morality have such a great binding force? Especially in this chaotic world.
For many people, whether it is pirates, navies, world governments, unrestrained powerhouses, and kingdom nobles, they can easily destroy their originally stable and peaceful lives, and death wielding scythes can be seen everywhere.
In this environment, the vast majority of people cannot avoid death, and must also get used to death, which inevitably breeds a large number of "strange people" who despise death, or even look forward to death, and only pay attention to the practice of their own values.
Because they know that death is inevitable, they desperately want to do something different and remembered by the world when they survive.
William sighed, this is indeed a rotten era, but it is also a heroic and wonderful era.
Tony's words pulled his emotional thoughts back.
"But we can't raise the ransom either!" Tony said, "You can't make it up, Sherlock overestimates you too much, and you're not the son of the president of the Chamber of Commerce like him, 40 million Bailey, how many people have the capital to take out so much cash without blinking an eye?"
Ah Jin, who was also in the room, couldn't look down on Tony's frustrated appearance of only complaining, and sneered: "Capital, not only includes money!"
William laughed and applauded, "It's still a good brother who understands me!"
"What do you mean?" asked Tony.
William asked rhetorically, "Do you know about the Shark Pirates?"
Tony pursed his lips: "In the East China Sea, I only know about the Redbeard Pirates and the Chef Pirates, this kind of third-rate pirates who jumped out of nowhere, I have never heard of it." ”
Seeing this, William said, "Since it is an unknown pirate group, it will be easy to do." ”
Tony's face changed, and he seemed to understand what William meant.
"That Sherlock also knows very well that in this world, capital has never been just about money," William tapped his fingers lightly on the handle of the knife at his waist, "otherwise he wouldn't have emphasized that he wanted me to pay the ransom, this person really doesn't take his life too seriously." ”
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A few nautical miles away from Momiji Village, a small double-sailed merchant ship quietly stayed in place, and on the mast lookout, a pirate with a black cloth was holding a monocular to observe in the direction of Momiji Village, and below him, there were also many companions on the deck near the direction of the village.
After a while, the pirates in Wangdou finally spotted a small boat slowly approaching through the mirror.
Under the vigilant gaze of several pirates, William's small boat finally approached the merchant ship, he put away the only sail on the small boat, and gently knocked his right foot on the side guard of the ship twice, and then made two "tuk-tuk" sounds, before jumping up with two large suitcases and the rope holding the boat in place, and landed on the deck of the merchant ship as lightly as a falcon.
Several of the pirates, each armed with weapons, surrounded William in a semi-encirclement manner.
Whether it is from the fact that William dares to go deep into the tiger's den alone, or from the point of view of his neat skills just now, these prove that William is not a fearless person who is powerless, and a group of pirates are also "novices" who have just opened the kidnapping business.
It was true that William was unarmed, and a gray shirt and black trousers could not hide anything.
He raised the suitcase in his hand at the pirates who were like a great enemy, and then opened one of them directly, revealing one of the bundles of bundles of Bailey, and said, "I only brought money, you don't have to be so nervous, right?"
Twenty million Berry's cash is indeed very impactful, especially for this group of pirates, sleeping in the open and sleeping in the open is the norm of their lives.
A pirate next to William was full of greed and wanted to reach out and take the suitcase in William's hand, but William avoided it.
"Do you understand the rules? What about Sherlock? I need to make sure he's safe first. William frowned and said as he re-fastened his suitcase.
A bunch of pirates were shocked by the cash, and all the bullshit work ethic was thrown away like toilet paper, and after hearing William's words, his eyes were full of fierceness.
The pirate who had just reached out but was dodged by William twitched his nose and stepped forward with a knife, but was stopped by a pirate with an explosive head and a potholed face.
He was one of the people who had been in direct contact with Sherlock in the cabin before, and Sherlock not only persuaded them to change their attention with his clever mouth, but also made several of them have a good opinion of Sherlock, so they didn't mind letting William meet Sherlock first.
Didn't these pirates think about waiting for William to come on board with the ransom and then turn their faces, eat one and then eat another, and then kill Sherlock and the others after getting the ransom, and receive another hire fee.
But what Sherlock implied in his words was actually very clear, and several pirate leaders also knew that as the only son of the president of a local chamber of commerce, if he was really killed, plus the innocent people who were killed in order to disguise himself as a pirate to hijack the ship, Sherlock's father would definitely not give up, and the impact would be great, and the bounty of the pirates would definitely increase significantly.
Except for weirdos like Edmund, most low-level pirates don't actually want their bounties to be raised, he doesn't have superior strength and power, and once the bounty is so high that the navy can't ignore it, he will face a desperate hunt.
In comparison, the impact of kidnapping is much smaller, not to mention the self-deception, their attitude towards Sherlock after that seems to be good?
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(Novels are different from manga or animation, and novels without intuitive graphics, BGM, or dubbing are relatively rational, and the audience may pay more attention to the logic of the story. Reasonableness,The original work doesn't need to explain the survival philosophy of those strange people.,And the social environment that gave birth to them.,But if it's a novel,I think you still need to find a reasonable reason.,The explanation of this chapter.,All come from the details and settings that have been in the original book.,Some people may think that it's too serious to do this.,Thankless.,But old readers who have read Kinoshita should know.,That's right! Dezhong is so kind of a person who loves the poor and really has obsessive-compulsive disorder.,This is a terminal disease.,There is no cure.。 )
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