"So...... I'm doomed to have no chance to live, is that all? In the living room, Ye Qing sat opposite Qiu Xuan, looking at a small mold spot on the wooden board with empty eyes, and said this after a while.

She used "I" instead of "we", so from the beginning she didn't want to be with the tangerine peel people. Also, at the beginning, she didn't huddle with the newcomers, so it can be said that she played a dim sum trick to make people notice her, in exchange for a greater possibility of survival. Qiu Xuan actually has a good impression of this kind of person, and believes that if she is given a chance, she can go far, if it weren't for Liu Qing having to be saved, it's a pity...... There is no pity.

"Maybe there are, but it's up to you to get it." Eventually, she said, "Isn't it up to you yet, it's up to you." ”

“…… I know. ”

Ye Qing pondered for a while, stood up from the sofa suddenly, and didn't say where he was going, but walked out of the room with a resolute attitude. Qiu Xuan looked at it for a while and didn't persuade her, she simply told Qin Jiuyuan that she would go out and wait for her to come back, and then walked out of the lounge on the back foot.

"Hey," she called out to Ye Qing around the corner, and took out the machine gun she had bought in a desperate situation from the accompanying space and put it in her palm. "Unlimited bullets, just aim and shoot, and this will be the return of the dagger you gave me. Also, the next time you buy a knife, don't buy this flashy thing, this thing can be rolled up with two cuts. ”

"Alright, let's go." She patted Ye Qing on the shoulder, and didn't look at the look on the face of the rich girl who had always had a good psychological quality, turned around and walked in the opposite direction. "Although I am very embarrassed to stand and speak without backache when I say this kind of thing now, I still want to say, I hope you can live."

Ye Qing clenched the cold shell of the barrel of the gun in her hand without saying a word, and her eyes followed the figure that walked slowly like an old lady, until the figure was completely hidden in the darkness, and then she couldn't see it really.

She turned, and walked the opposite path to the figure.

On the other side, Qiu Xuan couldn't help but feel sorry for her machine gun halfway through. At that time, she gritted her teeth and bought a better quality one with the mentality that she could use it for a long time, and it cost her a full 200 passes, which she still got on credit from Linyuan's vault with a dead face, after all, Linyuan's small broken guild itself was so poor that it was to death.

Forget it, then accumulate virtue and do good.

She comforted herself in her heart, but when she glanced at Ye Qing's dagger, which was nothing but good-looking, her face turned hideous for a second.

It's a big loss.

……

On the stairs near the captain's quarters, she ran into the first mate named "Arthur", a man in a full uniform who looked as if he had just stepped out of the captain's quarters, and was stunned for a second when he saw her.

"Are you also here for the captain?"

"'Also'? Who else is coming? ”

"Aren't you all companions like you?" Arthur glanced at Qiu Xuan strangely, as if he didn't quite understand what kind of connection existed between these executioners.

"Half and half." Qiu Xuan muttered, and also raised his heel and walked into the captain's room behind him. "I need to warn you!" The man suddenly spoke in front of him, "The captain is not in good health, if he makes any requests, you can just follow him, don't be angry with him anymore." ”

"Got it."

knocked on the door and pushed it open, and for a moment all eyes in the room were focused on her. Qiu Xuan paused, and swept around his faces, thinking that it would be Jiao Guancheng and their group who would come to find the captain at this time, but he didn't expect that there would be new faces.

"Here," the captain beckoned Arthur to continue at the helm of him, holding the porcelain cup in his right hand. "Sit down, there's a place there."

Next to the only empty chair, Qiu Xuan saw an equally surprised face.

"It's a coincidence." She walked over with a room full of people looking at her with suspicion or suspicion, and said a brief hello to the woman named Ah Lin. Ah Lin sorted out his facial expression and nodded.

Old Liang glanced at her angrily, until now the wound on his shoulder blade that was cut by Qin Jiuyuan was still painful, but Qin Jiuyuan didn't have anything, what he was really angry about was that Qiu Xuan really killed him and Ruiyi this morning - if he hadn't shouted defeat in time, he had no doubt that her evil short knife would pierce his eyebrows without hesitation.

But in the end, taking into account the fact that there were many people here, he glared at that side with hatred and turned his head.

"It's rare that you all have time to cough cough cough ......" The captain took a sip of water, coughed twice and drank again, and then said leisurely: "If you have any questions you want to ask, just ask, you are all good boys, cough cough." ”

Several people glanced at each other, and finally Jiao Guancheng took the lead in speaking. "Well, we've been keeping an eye out for new arrivals lately, but we haven't seen anything out of the ordinary, and no one seems to be trying to disadvantage the ship. Do you have any clues about 'it', or if there are doubtful candidates, how can we tell if there is a candidate? ”

He had asked the question cleverly, but the captain's answer was a shocking one.

The captain said, "I don't know. ”

No matter how unhappy the members here were, they couldn't be angry with the people on the boat, especially that person or the captain, Ah Lin, who was sitting next to Qiu Xuan, cleared his throat and then spoke: "Then why did you choose us people?" ”

Qiu Xuan sighed in her heart.

Fortunately, in the next second, the captain slowly wiped the edge of the cup with his cuff and said, "This is the 'rule' selected according to the algorithm, and I can't step in." By the way, ahem, ahem, I just 'sensed' that something bad was coming in on the ship, and what exactly is this 'thing in human skin'...... Actually, I don't know myself, or you can cough cough cough...... Try it to unleash the soul. ”

"Okay, do you guys have anything else?" Arthur, who had been listening silently beside him, spoke, and there was obviously a sense of driving people away in his words. Everyone present was unwilling to return empty-handed, but there was nothing they could do, Lao Liang coughed lightly and motioned to all the executioners present who received this task to find a conference room next to them to continue talking, everyone accepted the proposal, so they got up and left their seats.

"Aren't you leaving?"

Since he was sitting in the innermost, Ah Lin stood up and walked out of the door for the penultimate moment, and noticed Qiu Xuan, who was still sitting steadily in the chair, asked. The latter looked ahead without changing his face, and said, "I still have something to tell the captain, so you can go first." ”

Ah Lin frowned, but still didn't say anything, and was the last one to walk out and bring the door.

"What else do you have to do, I said the captain is not in good health and needs to rest." Obviously, the order to evict the guest had been issued, and seeing that Qiu Xuan was still sitting there without knowing what to do, Arthur looked a little angry. The captain smiled to stop him, lowered his head and took a sip of water, "What's wrong, my child?" ”

"It's just that I don't understand what you're saying," Qiu Xuan humbly asked, "What does it mean to release the soul?" ”

"Ah......" the captain sighed, looking like he was a little nostalgic. Those of us who have lived on ships for a long time will pray to the sea god for protection to some part of the sea by prayer or luck. And our soul only temporarily resides in our body, and when the time comes, it will leave the body and return to the arms of the sea god. Of course, there is another, more extreme argument, that our skin traps our souls. ”

"But this is the thinking of some extreme martyrs, and it will be explained by mainstream thinking for the time being."

"Make a cross in one of the skins of the congregants, take kindling and put the blood in it and burn it in front of their eyes. When the flame burns strong enough, the true self will pour out of the broken skin and fly into the sky. This is our traditional sense of freeing the soul to freedom. ”

"How much blood is going to be blessed?"

"Until the soul is out of the body."

Isn't that bloodletting to death, and it's still a bad idea of religious superstition to say so much. Although he knew that in such a worldview, it could not be summed up by a simple religious superstition, but this so-called "releasing the soul" itself was driving people to a dead end, and Qiu Xuan could fully imagine what Lao Liang's gang would do after asking about the way to release the soul.

She sat down in her chair and pondered, and the captain stopped Arthur from coming to drive people away, and coughed twice more with his mouth covered.

"Alright, thanks, but one more thing."

Qiu Xuan stood up and looked at the captain, who gave permission from the other party.

"The captain and first mate should have a daily supply of fruit. A friend of mine is about to die, if you give her a little bit, you should accumulate virtue to save someone, and in the future, she will get out of her body and return to the arms of the sea god as soon as possible. ”

Captain/Arthur: "......"

"This ...... Because of the current epidemic, the share of fruit on the ship is not enough, so we can't help it. The captain also looked genuinely sentimental for her "friend", "But I seem to have a few leftover bananas here from a few days ago, so take them if you want." ”

"Okay, thanks."

When he got the three bananas that Arthur had turned black and soft into mud from an unknown corner, the smirk on Qiu Xuan's face disappeared for a second, but they were all included in the accompanying space.

It's better than nothing, and I didn't say that the fruit that was about to rot was not good, and besides, it wasn't for her to eat anyway.

She thought without any psychological pressure, this is really to say goodbye to the captain and Arthur, and walked out of the captain's room.

It was facing the gaze of the three big men in front of him.

To be exact, it was Lao Liang Heshan's gaze, and the expressions of Jiao Guancheng and Hephaestus made her feel like she had come to see a play.

"Let's talk." Lao Liang restrained the anger in his eyes for a moment, and turned sideways to signal her to go to the conference room next to her. Qiu Xuan had to follow, and said in her mouth: "Didn't you go to a small group meeting?" ”

"It's already open." Jiao Guancheng shrugged and picked up her words, "You also know, the people who have survived until now are more than thieves, what is the meaning of playing the side ball and deceiving the perfunctory, anyway, no matter how much you ask, you can't ask anything." Speaking of which, what are you secretly muttering to the captain, it's boring, everyone has already cooperated, and you're still secretly asking? This morning, you still beat Lao Liang like this, just because your little sister is still lying in bed. ”

Knowing that even if he didn't say it now, from the mouths of those crew members or madmen, they would sooner or later ask for a way to release their souls, Qiu Xuan simply repeated the captain's words straight to the point, and then said, "Someone cursed me this morning, so I had to do it, and didn't you also come to the captain and didn't tell me?" ”

"Huh? Zhao Yigui went out just after today, we asked him to bring you a message, he didn't tell you? ”

It's Zhao Yigui again.

Qiu Xuan pursed her lips, if she hadn't just thought of coming to the captain's room, maybe she would have completely missed today's news, along with the three tattered bananas.

"Let's not talk about that, what do you think about freeing your soul?"

Qiu Xuan glanced at the person opposite and said, "I don't have any ideas, but I don't approve of you bleeding all those twenty or so people." ”

Hephaestus laughed twice suddenly and meaninglessly.

"The executioners can stay still for a while, but the madmen should try." Let's believe the cursed nonsense of Qiu Xuan, Lao Liang pondered for a moment, and said: "Anyway, there are only ten people, if you kill them, you will kill them, and you can narrow the scope of exclusion." ”

"But when they get on the boat, it's in the category of 'people on board', you can't move." Qiu Xuan said coldly, and she didn't know what she was referring to. "Besides, do you need to remind you that before we were chosen to be executioners, we were all natives of our respective worlds, just like those 'madmen'."

Executioners are people, and so are aborigines. It's funny enough to be "chosen by the dominant" to have a sense of superiority from above.

To put it bluntly, it's just the difference between a swarm of ants and ants that are a little useful for coloring.

"You don't need to worry if you can't move at every turn, we have a way." Jiao Guancheng glanced at her, and half-dragged him out of the door by pressing the shoulders of Lao Liang, who was rolling his eyes violently. "I'm sure you're smart, Afu, you can't save them, not even yourself. Excess compassion will only become a sharp blade to swing at oneself. ”

Mercy.

It's the same as the truth. Qiu Xuan watched them walk out of the door, and also got up and went straight out of the window.

This is not compassion.

If you have to kill others to survive when necessary, Qiu Xuan will also do it. And now in the same way, if you can kill all the people on the ship for this, Qiu Xuan is unwilling.

The bottom line of being a person is different.

She made a special detour to the restaurant, which was empty, and the dead fish-eyed sailor was not there. Only Su Man, who was still sitting in the window seat, was moving his chopsticks in the empty bowl, and he didn't know what he was eating.

In the infirmary, the ship's doctor is gone.

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