"I—I'm willing...... Willing, willing......" The woman who fell to the ground was still oozing blood from her wrist, and she lay there like a soft worm, muttering words that no one understood.

Qiu Xuan pushed Zhao Yigui away and squatted down in front of her, and just as she wanted to hold down the wound on her wrist, she was vigorously waved away by another executioner.

"Hey, what are you doing?!" The man strode over, his axe unceremoniously resting on her neck. "Do you want to make trouble, but everyone here has seen it, and she is willing to cut it!"

"Indeed." "Yes, we all saw it."

The people around echoed, Qiu Xuan ignored it, and the palm of her hand was still wrapped around the hem of her clothes and pressed against the woman's bleeding mouth. "It's okay, I'll take you to stop the bleeding."

There was a sudden pain in her neck, and the big axe sliced open her skin, striking her neck with more force. "No, what group are you from, you don't want points to do this, do you? You're going to go crazy and go alone and tell you that if you move a little more you're going to paint this deck with her! ”

"Hey, grumpy brave man, in fact, sacrificing Eros won't stop war." Unexpectedly, it was Hephaestus who came over and held the blade down, and the man with the pigtails smiled, but in his hand he moved the big axe away with an undeniable force. "My dear brave, you must know ......"

"I do, it's my fault, it's all because of me...... You say that if I die, he will be redeemed, right? As long as I die, he will get ......"

"Eternal freedom."

After the woman who fell to the ground suddenly interrupted Hephaestus's words, Zhao Yigui followed her closely. He smiled perfectly at the woman, and said in a tone that constructed an ideal utopia: "My dear, sacrifice your pure soul and holy blood, and they will receive the most desired salvation...... After all, that's what you owe him. ”

Qiu Xuan's intuition was not good, and she immediately raised her hand to stop the woman, but at that moment, the strength that erupted from the person who seemed to be about to be in the twilight vigorously lifted her whole person. Qiu Xuan knelt on the side, thinking it was too late when she reached out again, and she watched as the woman slammed into the big axe in an unstoppable position, and in an instant, the blood splattered from her neck in an arc.

- Blood splattered from her neck, and the woman fell to the ground with a smile on her face, as if she had fulfilled the last long-cherished wish of her life, to sacrifice herself to the highest freedom in the flesh.

The crowd hurriedly and carefully wiped away the spilled blood, making sure that every piece of wood on the deck was smeared with blood. Zhao Yigui crouched down beside the woman's corpse and closed her eyes with pity and a softness that caressed her lover's face almost reverently. In the next second, liquid metal burst out and slammed through her limbs and torsos, squeezing out more blood before the corpse froze.

Qiu Xuan lowered her eyelashes and watched this scene, her clenched fists trembling slightly.

"She likes you."

Hephaestus raised an eyebrow. "What did you say?"

"I said she liked you, something so obvious that I could see, you can't be unaware." Qiu Xuan looked back at Hephaestus, his expression indifferent and without any superfluous emotion. "You know that Zhao Yigui deliberately let her die, and you know that she likes you...... Give me a reason. ”

"Are you jealous of my Afu, you must know that no matter how the outside world changes, my heart will always belong to ......"

"Hephaestus!" She interrupted him sharply, her expression like frost that had frozen for ten thousand years.

The man, known as the forger, was silent for a moment, then turned to look at the woman's shriveled corpse. "Because that's what she owes me." ”

"Hey, newcomer."

For the first time, he spoke in such a normal and indifferent tone, "Newcomer, don't always be so naïve, and don't always think that you are a little guardian of justice. Do you think that Zhao Yigui, me, and those of us who drink Joanna's blood are 'sinful'? ”

"Aren't you like that? In the last mission, you knew that there was an 80% chance that Brother Yan would not come back, didn't you watch him leave without saying a word? Perhaps for you, only those who are worthy of your care are worthy of your sympathy, and people like us are okay when they die. Have you ever thought that for us, Joanna is also the kind of person who 'doesn't care if she dies'? ”

"No matter how much I hate Brother Yan, I won't persuade him to commit suicide, and what about you, what have you done? Listening to your tone, are you still proud? ”

"What did we do? Oh, what have we done......" Hephaestus suddenly reached out and put his hand on her shoulder, forcing her to turn her head to look at the people who were draining every drop of blood from Joanna's corpse.

"Newcomer...... The desperate situation is not what you think it is, we just did what we had to do. ”

"Do you think that Zhao Yigui's crime is unforgivable? But in the eyes of those people, not only will they not feel that way, but they will be grateful to him, because this will minimize the loss and achieve victory. - For the sake of what you call 'Aphrodite' in this trial, I'll teach you a lesson for free. ”

"Everyone wants to live, to live to the end, to be the one who wins in the end. And if you want to stand out in such a crowd of people, you have to be the most 'Zhao Yigui' one. You don't want to be the next Joanna to be drunk of blood, do you? ”

Qiu Xuan was silent and didn't say a word.

Soon, Joanna's blood was nearly a quarter of the deck on the ground. The other executioners gathered around and discussed putting two vials of blood each to fill the remaining gaps.

Two vials of blood are really nothing to the executioner's physique, and at most they will be replenished after a good night's sleep. Their division of labor was extremely clear, a steady stream of blood was released, and the wooden deck was soon filled with a thick bloody gas.

Someone went to call the madman at home, and the woman in the white robe looked around the deck with satisfaction, and a happy look appeared on her face.

"Yes, yes, you've all done a great job. So then, I'm going to reward the sailor who wipes the cleanest and hardest, and that's - huh? And what about the sailor, isn't she there? ”

Following the smell of blood, the woman tilted her head in confusion, but she couldn't find the sailor who "paid the most". Soon someone explained that the man had accidentally stumbled and fallen into the sea and drowned, and the woman raised her eyebrows in surprise, and then waved her hand casually in the next second and said, "Okay, then reward the sailor in second place." ”

"Each of us does the same work." Someone reminded.

"Let me see...... No, you impostor bastards! The woman closed her eyes and sniffed the blood in the air carefully, then opened her eyes and said indignantly: "There is a man who works harder than you, and I will reward that industrious sailor!" ”

The finger she pointed at was a plain-looking male executioner.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were fixed on him, the man swallowed uncomfortably, but when he saw the extra number on his wrist, he turned into ecstatic.

He knew it was the right decision! When he saw that the man named Zhao Yigui secretly squeezed an extra tube of blood and was found by him in a panic, he decided to carry more blood behind everyone's back. Although a liter of blood is also very hurtful for a person of their physical fitness, it can be recovered after two days, and sure enough, the extra blood is not in vain, this time it is a full three thousand points!

The man thought beautifully, and didn't see Zhao Yigui's unclear smile on his side.

Qiu Xuan had been standing on the deck until the crowd dispersed, and Bai Hexi had already returned to the lounge before the game ended because of some of Liu Qing's psychological problems, but she didn't have the extra energy to look for them for the time being.

She kept thinking about Hephaestus's words, not because she was shaken by this degree of brainwashing, and she was about to become a six-parent who did not recognize and kill with a knife. It's because in a desperate situation, the people who have his way of thinking are definitely the majority.

Qiu Xuan is not an absolute virgin or a ruthless executioner, and in most cases she has always chosen "neutrality" as her camp. But today's actions and words of Hephaestus and Zhao Yigui are not so much teaching her the rules of survival in a desperate situation, but forcing her to make a choice.

The desperate situation does not allow the existence of a neutral camp, either to join the insane or to remain silent as a lamb to the slaughter.

If their hands are not clean, neither can you.

The pungent smell of blood under her feet kept rushing into her nose, and Qiu Xuan sniffed and looked up at the gray sky.

Eternal freedom, does it really exist?

"Hurry up and give the money, do you want to repay the debt?"

Qiu Xuan: "......"

She looked back at the dead fish-eyed sailor, who was also looking at her with a blank face, and the sailor was wearing the ridiculous apron and carrying an iron bucket that looked like he was going to the warehouse to collect food.

"Look at me, do, what? Don't you want to give money, let me tell you, the last person who dared to pay his debts has long since become sea garbage. ”

"You speak, can you, not be so extreme?"

Qiu Xuan brushed her hair irritably, and stuffed the bottles and cans that were not used at all in the accompanying space into the hands of the dead fish-eyed sailor. "I know, I know it's all for you, I haven't moved, I'm annoyed now, you leave quickly."

The sailor carefully put away the bottles and cans, and walked to the location of the warehouse with the same expression of not wanting to talk nonsense with her. Suddenly, as if his feet were slid by undried blood, the sailor paused, and then turned his back to her and spoke.

"Eternal freedom really exists, but freedom itself is ignorance."

“…… Don't play word games with me, the thing I hate most right now is to guess riddles literally. ”

Sailor: "Because, you, are ignorant. ”

Qiu Xuan: "WDNMD." ”

"Hey, who's that!" She suddenly shouted at the back of the sailor, "What do you say about being free and ignorant, you are Leviathan!" ”

"I am, your uncle."

…… Tut.

She is worthy of being her lifelong enemy on the ship.

Qiu Xuan breathed another breath of air mixed with the salty and bloody smell of seawater, and suddenly felt the heaviness on his heart lighten a little.

So she raised her feet and walked to the lounge of the cabin, and as soon as she pushed the door open, she saw Zhao Yigui, who she didn't want to see at this time, looking at her with a smile on the sofa.

"You're finally back, but keep me waiting."

Thinking of something, Qiu Xuan hurriedly pushed open the door of the room to see Ruru's situation, and saw that a bulging bag on her bed was still lying there, and finally put down the snack.

"Are you worried about what I'm going to do to her? Feel relieved. Speaking of this, Zhao Yigui's tone began to feel a little aggrieved. I won't do anything to our team. What's more, that girl is so cute, and she is an 'old man' from the same world, of course I am reluctant, right? ”

No matter what he said, Qiu Xuan regarded it as a fart, supported the door frame with one hand and posed as a gesture of refusing to talk again, and said lightly: "We have nothing to say, so be it." ”

"I have a question for you."

"Goodbye."

"Wait." The liquid metal wrapped around her arm in a breath, and Qiu Xuan didn't struggle, just looked at him coldly. Zhao Yigui smiled apologetically, as if suddenly realizing his offense and let go of the metal in his hand.

"I'm sorry, I really want to get to know you well, so I'm a little anxious, please forgive me."

"I know you've always been biased against me, and I admit that I've done something wrong, and if I upset you, then I apologize, I'm sorry. But I appreciate you, Aph, really. I like to be friends with great people, and I can tell that you are very talented. As long as we join forces, there is nothing in the world that we cannot do, and we will be the final winners, I assure you. ”

"Oh, yes." Qiu Xuan said lightly.

"You don't have to rush to reject me first, you can ...... Yes? ”

"You want to join forces with me, okay, I agree." Qiu Xuan leaned against the door and looked at him with her arms crossed, a smile on the corner of her mouth. "But since that's the case, you have to show some sincerity, and let me see if there is any value in cooperating with you."

"What do you want me to do? I promise you! ”

"Hmm...... Then you, you go and kill a ruler to show me. ”

Zhao Yigui froze completely, "You say...... What the? ”

"You go and kill a Dominator, whoever you want, and bring him his heart to me. When that happens, I'll think about joining forces with you. ”

"Can't do it? If you can't do it, don't bother me anymore. Qiu Xuan shrugged, took a step back and closed the door.

In the last second when the door closed, she heard Zhao Yigui's somewhat distorted voice across the door panel.

"Then say well, when I put the heart of the Dominator in front of you, you won't be able to refuse me anymore, Qiu and Xuan."

Qiu Xuan's pupils constricted for a while, and she was speechless for a long time.

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