A room without a chandelier, less than forty square meters, with mottled metal ceilings, unwashed curtains that have been blackened by oil smoke all year round, and wooden, slightly rotten north-facing doors. On the wall next to the door were falling oily wallpaper, a torn, flickering oil lamp, and a rotten wooden table that seemed to be crushed with a single piece of paper. Next to the table is a sliding door, behind which is a simple kitchen with vents leading to the outside to emit fumes.

Jack woke up from his dizziness to see this, and, of course, Tex's anxious face.

"You're finally awake!"

Jack, who didn't understand what was going on, only felt a pain in his left cheek, and when he touched it lightly, he found that it was swollen. He looked around and realized - isn't this his home!?

"What's going on? Why am I lying at home?"

Tex shook his head and sighed: "I don't blame you, if it were me, if my relatives were unlucky, I wouldn't be able to help but go up and punch you." ”

"So...... Did Wolf knock me out?" Jack reacted, as if Wolf was looking at him with a kick, and then punched himself, after which he was unconscious.

Jack got out of bed, shook his heavy head, and got up to find his parents.

"What about my parents? Aren't they there?"

It was dark, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening, and Jack woke up in his home, but he didn't find his parents. This couldn't help but give him a sense of foreboding.

"Did they say where to go?" asked Jack anxiously.

Tex waved his hand: "I don't know, it seems that the people from your island called them over." ”

Jack was stunned, immediately opened the door, and rushed out.

"Hey, where are you going, wait for me!" said Tex hurriedly followed, but the door didn't bother to close.

Jack's home, one of the lowest floors of the ship's four cabins, is, in his words, a deep-water fish in the slums, living in the shadows all day long, without sunlight, and occasionally going out, and being discriminated against by the "rich" in the east, north, south, and north. Life in Garland wasn't as comfortable as Jack said to Tex.

The two of them ran up the steps one after the other, and then to the deck. The place where Jack was going was the ship in the middle of the entire island, the place where the Garland flag was located, which was where the Presbyterian Church of the island was located.

The Garlanders have an unwritten rule that although they have no law, what the elders say is the law, and as long as the elders raise their hands and vote on one thing, everyone must obey. For no reason, because their flagship is said to contain a huge bomb left over from ancient humans, which is capable of destroying thousands of ships and destroying everyone. Although no one has ever verified the truth of the matter, people are so naïve: whether it is true or not? Detonating it? In fact, one important point is missing: whether the elders have that bomb or not.

This rule has been set since the first arrival of Garland's ancestors in this area a thousand years ago, and anyone who disobeys Elder Garland's decision must risk everyone feeding the sharks. Of course, this is more than worth the loss, and it is better to live well than to take risks.

However, this kind of dehumanizing hegemony is what Jack is most unaccustomed to, and if he hadn't been worried that there really was that bomb, he would have found it out and taken it to the open sea to detonate it. He felt that the life of the Garland people should be dominated by the Garland people themselves, not by a group of old immortals.

Right now, when he suddenly came back alone, the others knew that it must be more than lucky. The news of Jack's return alone alarmed the Presbyterian Church, which sent the Lord, the steward of the hundreds of slums where Jack's family belonged, to the bow of the ship, who had been elected by the people of a particular ship, and the head of the ship took Jack's parents while he was still fainting in bed.

Although he didn't see it, he clearly knew that the old continent that was originally a group of people went to, and now there is only one person, and he is still coming back safely, he must be responsible, there is no reason, this is what the elders have always thought in their hearts.

On the deck of the flagship there are three upper cabins, an abandoned operations room, a converted conference room, and the southernmost side is the rest room where the elders usually relax and blow the air.

At this time, the flagship was brightly lit, and countless bright iron openwork lanterns hung outside the cabin, which was a world different from the dim lights of the slum where Jack was.

"Jack! you wait for me!" Turks didn't understand why Jack was running so fast, in his eyes, it was obvious that his parents had been taken by the leader for questioning, and there was still any danger.

Obviously, this is because Turks does not know this place, and he just does not think that in the eyes of the elders, Jack's mistake is intolerable.

This huge ship, which is about 1,000 meters long, sailed here as a pilot ship a thousand years ago, and the captain determined the nobility and rights of the ship, a custom that continues to this day. So, as Jack was about to bypass the operation room and run to the conference room in the middle, a dozen Garland guards patrolling the deck stopped him.

"Stop!"

A bearded officer at the head shouted loudly.

The officer, dressed in a shoulder made of tiger shark skin, walked over with a modified dagger in his hand, holding each other and kicking leather boots.

The two had no choice but to stop.

"What for?" the officer asked, surveying the two men in front of him, both dressed differently from the Garlanders.

"Find my parents. They were taken away by the elders. Jack replied.

In Jack's eyes, there is a local rule in a place, and the rule of Chau Island is that when a person in a shark skin walks over, this shark skin with a medal of honor is an order, because hunting a tiger shark alone is a brave thing in the eyes of the locals, and wearing a gold medal of honor means that this person is another person who can control life and death in addition to the Presbyterian Church. There are not many such people on Chau Island, only three. The one in front of him, whom Jack knew, was named Frank Granding, who had jumped into the ocean and killed a five-meter-long, four-ton tiger shark with a dagger, and was embraced as a hero by the people of the wealthy district, and the Presbyterian Council gave him the highest medal and appointed him as the supreme governor of Chau Island. However, the people of the slums thought that Frank was in vain, and that he would not have fought the tiger shark so easily if it had not been ravaged by someone else.

Jack secretly thought he was unlucky, but he didn't expect to meet such a bad star as soon as he came back.