The huge cruise ship cut through the water, the slight sound of the engine drove the propeller at the stern to rotate desperately, and countless currents passed through the rotating fan blades, drawing two water lines under the silver moon.

Jiqi stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window that was pushed open, the bright and cold moonlight hit his plain face without hindrance, he pursed his lips, and there was no look in his pupils. Paka stood beside him in a tuxedo, the evening breeze rippling the hem of his clothes, and in his slender and slender hand shook a transparent goblet filled with non-alcoholic juice, and the orange-yellow liquid swayed left and right in his hand, like a tempting poison in the moonlight.

Paca took a sip of the fruit-filled juice and poured the sweet drink down his throat little by little. "You know what?" He said suddenly.

"Know what?"

"In the past, I also wanted to be a commander, taking my favorite shipwreck to the north and south, punishing evil and promoting good, just like the chivalrous warriors of ancient times, carrying their own weapons to the ends of the world." Paca chuckled, his tone full of helpless bitterness.

"Did you succeed after that?"

"Success?" Paccar shook his head, "Of course not. When I went to the academy, they told me that if you don't have the talent to become a commander, you can only become a young master who doesn't worry about food and clothing in this life. ”

"But that's not the life you want, is it?" Jiqi turned his head to stare at him.

"Yes, I don't want to be the kind of person who walks down the street with a bunch of dogs all day long, walking like a ruffian, and everyone looks scared everywhere he goes, that kind of muddy life is what I hate the most and what I don't want the most." Paccar poured the remaining juice into his mouth, his slender fingers pinching the empty goblet, the tips of which began to slowly whiten, then slowly released and placed the cup on the long table behind him. "But what can I do? A person who wants to become a commander can't even cross the threshold at the beginning, you must know that talent is not something that can be exchanged for countless sweats, this is like a gift from God to you, if you have it, if you don't have it, if you don't have it, you don't have it. He said fiercely, with reluctance and anger in his tone.

In Jiqi's impression, this was the first time that Paca showed a slightly desperate expression, like a weak person, and his eyes were full of powerlessness. "And after that? How did you get into the Doge's Palace? He asked, hoping that the other party would skip the bad memory.

"After that, I studied in an ordinary college, successfully obtained a graduation certificate with a full grade of A, and was escorted to the governor's palace, becoming an ordinary civilian in it." Paccar looked up at the silver moon hanging high in the sky, his eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was reminiscing about the past. "It was the most boring day of my life, getting up on time all day to wash, stepping into the office, then collecting and sorting the materials on the table, then sending them to various departments, and finally going home from work. Just like a programmed machine, every day is the same life, every day is the same pace, just like the straight lines printed out in a textbook, straight without a single bend. ”

"But it's the life that some people dream of."

"But that's not what I want." Paca said quietly, his eyes dark, but there seemed to be an invisible light flickering. "Finally, I couldn't stand the boring days and decided to quit my job and go home. But when I went to the HR department to hand over my resignation letter, I saw my name on the list posted on the door. ”

"List? A list of promotions? "Set the prayer asked.

"No, that's not." Paccar shook his head, "That's a list of experiments, and the people on the list can choose to accept or reject, accepting is to drink the test and become a test subject for the Governor's Palace's research program, and to refuse is to take the money and leave." ”

"You ended up choosing the former?" Jiqi asked softly, he felt that the experiment in Packa's mouth was far from being as simple as he said, and it seemed that there was a deeper secret hidden.

"Indeed, I think that human life is full of unknowns and mysteries, and this is the most exciting thing, just like you have been on a roller coaster, screaming in a scene of weightlessness and constant rotation and rotation, which is what I look forward to." Paka's eyebrows fluttered, and his eyes lit up with intense light. "So I didn't hesitate to walk into the office on the top floor of the Governor's Mansion building and sign my name on the life and death contract."

"A contract of life and death? In other words, such a test is life-threatening? ”

"Yes, there is a great danger, and the rapporteur has repeatedly reminded me to choose carefully. But let's not forget that risks and opportunities always coexist, and with great risks comes great benefits. ”

"That's what kind of reward you can give up everything." Jiqi looked up at him with a solemn expression.

"Do you remember what I said at the beginning?" Paccar grinned slightly, "I wanted to be an Admiral, but I was held back by that ethereal talent. ”

Jiqi instantly understood what kind of reward it was, a possibility to make Paccar an admiral, this is a contemplative exchange for anyone, and for a person who has always dreamed of becoming an admiral, it is the greatest temptation, making people lose their instinct to think. "That's ...... An opportunity that could give you the talent of a commander? He hesitated, but then denied his thoughts. But isn't Admiral's talent innate? How is it possible to manufacture? ”

"Do you know the deep sea?" Paccar asked.

"You know, I've seen them and I've killed them." Jiqi nodded in reply.

"Do you know where these admirals' talents come from?" Paccar then asked, like a patient teacher, who was kind to the students who didn't understand, so that he could understand the truth behind all things.

"Isn't the Admiral's talent innate? As you said, there is something, and there is nothing. ”

"No, it's just a lie from your mentors, or maybe they don't know where the things that flow through the Admiral's body come from." Paccar stretched out his finger and swung it, as if to tell Jiqi that what you see and know is an illusion, and that the truth is always in the hands of a few. "You may not believe it, but every Admiral is a descendant of the deep sea." He slowly spat out the words, like obscure scriptures, and no one could understand them.

"Descendants of the Deep?" Jiqi muttered softly, the cognition in his mind began to crumble in an instant, he staggered back, stretched out his hand and clenched the sliding window beside him, his eyes were full of confusion and doubt, as if he couldn't believe this terrible truth. "In other words, the Admirals are all with the blood of the deep sea...... Monster. He couldn't believe what he was saying, like a madman, telling a lie that no one believed.

"So to speak," Paccar nodded, "I was also shocked when I heard such a conclusion, obviously the Admiral and the Deep Sea are two opposite things, but I didn't expect that there is a blood connection between them." ”

"So according to you, what you drank was the blood of the deep sea?" Jiqi finally understood how the Admiral's talent was created, which was to directly pour the blood of the deep sea into the human body, and a huge chemical reaction took place in this flesh-forged container, and the one who survived was the successful test subject, the artificial Admiral, and the dead could only go to the tomb where the light could not be seen.

"Yes, it's just a deep-sea serum that has been purified and removed, and it's not exactly blood, because the untreated blood reaction is too strong, and the failure rate of the experiment is very high, so they chose to purify the blood, although the level of the Admiral talent created in this way will not be very high, but the chance of success will be very high." Paccar explained. "And I was part of that success."

"So you got what you call talent?" Ji Qi took a few steps back and said coldly, his eyes shining with indifference. In any case, he never imagined that there would be such a filthy existence in the world, using the blood of the deep sea to create these so-called admirals. As the book says, in order to steal great power, people can do whatever it takes, even if they become monsters. "This is what you mean by the Governor's Palace, which stands for justice? I don't know what the difference is between you and Mercarron, the same disgusting and disgusting, I regret agreeing to your invitation now, I don't want to be your next research target. The corners of his mouth grinned, revealing a sneer.

"You are born with the gift of admiral, and of course you can stand in front of me with a high-sounding voice, and use morality to accuse and even condemn me. But don't forget, I'm a poor bastard with nothing, who wants to be a commander but has no talent, just like a man who is about to fall into the abyss on the edge of a cliff sees a straw, and your first thought is to reach out and grab it, whether it's a man-eating flower or a man-eating vine, all you can do is desperately hold on to the only bit of light! Paccar roared angrily, his ice-calm face distorted, his teeth bared like a monster. Indeed, as you said, I am also a monster with deep sea blood, a fake admiral created, but so what! Like the knight who swapped with demons, he saved countless besieged villagers, despite using unrecognized sorcery. Is it because he is tainted with the breath of the devil that he should be labeled a bad person? ”

Speaking of this, he paused, took a deep breath of the cool air of the night, calmed his restless heart, and he slowly spoke, "I'm sorry, I'm too excited, if you regret the decision you made now, you can quit, you can continue to be your ordinary admiral, no one can force you to do anything, whether it is me or the governor's palace." So, you can think hard before making a decision. He walked towards the door of the room, the wooden slippers making a crisp footstep on the porcelain floor, he stopped in front of the open door, and said in a voice small but small enough for Ji Qi to hear: "There is nothing wrong with me and you, you are a butterfly that can fly freely in the sun, and I am just a moth in the dark, I can only look at you with envy, look at the warm light, but dare not appear in the sun." For that is the light that is warm to you, and to me, the fire that is enough to scorch me. ”

Paccar stood in the doorway and did not look back, but walked away at regular steps, the moonlight shining on his lonely figure, looking so helpless.