The door opened, and Nick walked in with two plates, two grilled steaks that smelled of red wine.

Nick put down the steak and lit the candlelight, he glanced at Tong Fei and smiled with satisfaction.

"You're beautiful, just like I imagined it to be." Nick said with a smile.

"Thank you."

Two people clink glasses in the candlelight, pick up knives and forks and enjoy delicious steaks, and live a modern life in a world of savage killing.

Nick was in a good mood, and after a few glasses of wine, Nick talked more, and took the initiative to reveal his inner world.

"When my father died, my mother ran away, I was sold to a ship, at that time many people said that I would not live for three months, I was penniless, I had no friends, no relatives, when I couldn't eat enough, I went to the swill bucket to catch something to eat, leftovers, sometimes I could find ribs, when I was free, I secretly observed other people, learned how they spoke, how to communicate, so I learned how to win over men from the mouths of gypsy women, French from French Foreign Legion soldiers, Arabic, Even in English, Hindi, I would write down everyone's habits and hobbies, and then find their shortcomings, needs, I went back and forth between Burmese and Americans, exchanging goods and gold for them, I am a child with no background, no status, often get their trust, and they only have to pay a hundred dollars for a transaction, and when I was fifteen I already had a hundred thousand dollars, and I was appreciated by the captain, and became the youngest manager ever, and I was once broken five ribs by an alcoholic, I was also thrown into the sea by mercenaries for three days and three nights, and I have experienced far more pain than you. ”

Speaking of the past, Nick was full of emotion.

He rarely reveals his heart in front of others, because the more he lets his enemies know, the more dangerous he becomes.

There is an unwritten rule in the world of mercenaries that you should not ask about the past. Don't ask what they're called, where they're from, what they've done before, in short, don't ask.

Any greeting seemed to them to be a form of hostility.

Strangeness means distance, and distance means safety.

Too much talk tends to undermine credibility.

There's another reason why Nick doesn't want to talk to people, and that's that he's human, and these mercenaries are beasts.

Your pain will only be the laughing stock of others.

Talking about your pain will make you appear incompetent.

But Tong Fei is different, she is Nick's classmate, the two have a common memory, she will not pose any threat to Nick's identity and status, and no one will believe her words when she says it, not to mention that Tong Fei is a canary in his cage, even if he tells Tong Fei everything, there will be no risk.

"And then?" Tong Fei's voice is very gentle, and she listens very seriously, like a loyal listener.

"Later I had a lot of money, I also tried to find my mother, and finally I found her, but she didn't want to recognize me, she had her own family, completely ignored me, from that moment on I didn't have any hope for the world, I was very confused, I felt that there was no meaning in life, I couldn't see my future, until I met the general, he told me that the meaning of life is to make yourself happy, everything is according to your own standards, how to be happy, that is an absolute freedom, Free enough that you can ignore all the rules, feel the first rays of sunshine in Kyushu Island in the morning, enjoy lunch on the tower in Dubai at noon, wander in the Italian hot springs at night, everyone who sees you is polite to you, in their eyes I am generous, talk elegantly, live a human life, no matter where we go, we are welcomed by others, I have my own villa in California, docked my cruise ship on Kyushu Island, and my deposits in banks all over the world exceed 10 billion, In Africa I still have my army, materially I have no desires, but no one has ever been able to enter my heart. "Beautiful book

Nick's tone was so arrogant, so excited, he crossed Erlang's legs, holding a goblet, like a successful person who told the philosophy of life, and his gestures revealed confidence and satisfaction.

"Seriously, I envy your life, what kind of person is the general who can make you so confident." Tong Fei said.

"Are you testing me?" Nick squinted at Tong Fei, his expression smiling.

"Well, even if that's the case, it doesn't matter if I tell you, the general is a very charismatic person, the reason why he is called a general is because he really has an army, there are more than two thousand people under his command, the role of this army is mainly for business, just like what happened to you, this is also part of his business, I don't know the specific situation, I only know that we started recruiting sailors half a year ago, and the cruise ship you took before was the one I was responsible for refitting, and it cost a lot of money, Originally, I thought that this time I would lose tens of millions in vain, but then I found out that things were not so simple, and the general asked me to contact the pirate, that is, Khuppa. ”

"Why? This seems to go against Tan Hai's original intention? ”

"He? I don't deny that he has a good relationship with the general, but the general has never been a person who does not do loss-making business, the little money given by Tan Hai is not enough for us to eat, the ocean travel company is a well-known large company in East Asia, they have many competitors, these opponents have found us, hoping that we can find a way to hit their stock price, so we attached to the ocean travel company, advertised for them, and then created this accident, sure enough, the stock price of the ocean travel company plummeted, but this is not enough, We need to keep the news hot, so we can't let you go back easily, that's why we contacted the pirates, in order to pull Kunpa into the game we designated a sea area for him, and at the same time we sent a military police in the designated area to wait for Kunpa, it was a real warship, the owner behind it was a friend of the general, these people cooperated with Khampa too much, worried that something would happen sooner or later, when we asked for it, they naturally agreed, the warship sank the pirate ship, We thought this was the end of the day, but we didn't expect that not only were you still alive, but we lied to him about Lakhampa's entry into the game, but who would have thought that we had actually found Elysium by mistake. ”

The truth was exposed in front of Tong Fei so unreservedly, very straightforward and ruthless. From the very beginning, the general calculated that he did not intend to let everyone go back alive. They don't care about the lives of tourists, and everyone will point the finger at ocean travel companies.

The company's stock price plummeted, his rival profited, and the general received a large sum of money to assist the navy in eliminating the pirates, and we won the trust of the navy, completely replacing the pirates, and gaining both fame and fortune.

This is a multi-party participation of the game, multiple benefits, all parties are happy, after such a sea disaster, I am afraid that no one will dare to take the ship of the ocean tourism company again, bankruptcy and reorganization will be swallowed up sooner or later.

"In other words, you didn't think about saving Tan Hai from the beginning?" Tong Fei asked.

"That's natural, he always thinks of himself as a teacher, he thinks he can command the general, but no one in this world can influence the general's thoughts, no one."

"And now? Why don't you go? ”

"I can't answer that question, don't you want to know what happened to them?" Nick deliberately avoided the question, and seemed to have some hidden reasons that he didn't want to say more.

If they even count Tan Hai and don't care about his life or death, then they can leave at any time, and not leaving now is either a discovery of conscience or a mechanical failure.

"It's nothing more than to kill them all, but you will never succeed, Elysium Island is not as simple as you imagined, otherwise you would not have died so many people, the longer you drag on in the waters near here, the easier it will be to be discovered, so you don't have enough time, there is no evidence of what we know, it will not pose any threat to your plans, your goal has been achieved, there is no need to kill us at all."

"Are you pleading? I don't think it's necessary, you don't have to care about their life or death, and you can't care about it, the general's purpose is to kill all of you, I talked to him for a long time for you, and finally left you at the cost of half of my property, this is the general, everything you want to do has a price, what qualifications do you think you have to negotiate with him? ”

Tong Fei was stunned and immediately reacted, she was a prisoner, and she had no capital to negotiate terms with others.

"Okay, don't think about it, today we're old classmates, nothing else matters, come, cheers." Nick raised his glass and smiled gentlemanly again.