Monsters Will Die If They Are Killed

Chapter 22: We Are All Free

free.

In other words, it is self-dominant, acting on its own will, and being responsible for what you do.

The opposite is the law.

Restrained by others, told not to do, thoughts shackled, but still singing and dancing.

Therefore, the people of the sea hate the law, hate the code, hate the covenant.

They hate everything that binds their hands and feet, but still wants them to love other people's regulations, suggestions, and pledges.

Because of this, when every child of the people of the sea grows up to understand freedom and the law, their parents will educate them about this passage, let them know that they are for the beautiful freedom and resist the ugliness The law, that's why I left the mainland and came to the sea.

This is the truth of the people of the sea.

However, to the boy who was still a child at that time, the truth seemed to be nothing unquestionable.

-The'must' hatred of the law itself seems to be a kind of unfreedom.

"True freedom, isn't it possible to choose to abide by the laws and regulations, and to comply with the covenants?"

In a hot summer, in an ordinary fisherman's fishing village in the troubled sea, this boy with pure white hair and dark purple dragon pupils questioned the'truth' his parents had told him in confusion: "I must hate something... this way How free!"

"Evil!"

The answer to him was his father's violent fists. The fists were so heavy that they could be called cold-blooded and ruthless. If it weren't for the mother to hold his father, I am afraid that the boy at that time would really be beaten to death.

In the end, with a bloody mouth and bruises, he heard his father's anger and anger: "You don't know what we gave up to get the freedom now!"

Is freedom... such an important thing?

At that time, the boy didn't feel much pain for his injury or anger towards his father.

He just still has doubts: "Really, is it so important?"

After thinking about this for several years, one day when his father was drunk, the grown-up boy calmly picked up the sharp knife and inserted it into the other's heart without hesitation.

"Nie, Niezi...you hate me so much!?"

Woke up in consternation in the severe pain. Before dying, the boy's father glared at his child. He didn't have much energy to scold him and raised his hand, trying to pull out the knife stuck in his heart, but this action was still Incomplete, the sharp knife was pushed by the boy with greater force, and Qi Gen sank into his chest.

"No, I don't hate you."

After doing all this, the boy replied sincerely: "I just feel that I have the freedom to kill, so I want to test it. You are just closer."

"Now it seems that I do have-the feeling of freedom is really good."

"Ah ah ah ah ah----"

Hearing her husband’s anger, the woman who was awakened from her sleep hurriedly came over to check and saw this—and she screamed subconsciously, and then watched in horror as her son randomly pulled the sharp knife from her husband’s chest. The spray of blood was like a fountain, dyeing the boy's snow-white hair and cheeks red: "White, Beluga, what are you doing?!!!"

Hearing his mother's questioning, the boy named Beluga turned his head a little annoyed. From the blood of the Lord of Judgment, there was a certain inexplicable spark in the deep purple dragon pupil.

"Mom, you are too noisy."

He complained so, and then holding the knife, he walked towards his mother who fell to her knees in fear.

The feeling of freedom...not bad.

of course,

It took a long time for the white whale, who had grown into a man, to understand why his father insisted on freedom in the past, so that in order to protect it, he did not even want to beat his son.

It's simple-because they gave up everything and fled from the mainland, they have nothing except freedom.

And it's quite ironic that when Beluga read many books and even many different versions of the church covenants, he realized that he really hated those laws.

In other words, what my father said was actually right—their free people of the sea should indeed spurn the law and spit the ugly thing that makes it incomplete.

A large part of the law is that people surrender their personal rights to the rules formed by the doctrine and trial.Ordinary people have no right to kill and have no right to revenge. If oneself and one's own family are harmed, they can neither personally take revenge on the enemy’s family nor take revenge on himself. After all this is done, the punishment given by the law may even be better than The enemy does less harm to himself.

But if that is the case, then if the law allows the victim to punish the enemy and the perpetrator reasonably.

In this way, can it be called freedom?

Do not.

Beluga doesn't think so.

Because that is not called freedom, but the fairness of homomorphic revenge.

Real freedom...should be without any logic, no matter whether anyone does anything to oneself, no matter whether one has any attempts to other people or not, you can do anything to other people as you like.

In the last moment, people can chat happily, just like a confidant, but in the next moment, they can cut the other’s throat, enjoy the beautiful scenery when the other’s blood spills out of the throat, and listen to the singing-like'hehe' sound-this Is freedom.

The enemy killed his parents by cruel means, but the victim didn't care. Not only did he invite him to drink and play together, he even invited him to a banquet happily without any hatred—this is freedom.

When everyone is studying knowledge seriously, not only do not read books, but also interfere with other people's reading, tear up other people's paper and pen, and laugh at other people's efforts-this is freedom.

In all the other people of the sea repeating the looting and the looted cycle, everyone kills each other wantonly at sea, sings in the storm, then unscrupulously plunders everywhere, and plays with the looted women on the island without cover In the case of the conference, to study history books and ancient classics alone and to enrich one's knowledge-this is undoubtedly freedom.

The so-called freedom is to be able to do anything without restriction.

The so-called freedom means being able to accept restraint willingly.

Freedom is not beautiful, it can of course be ugly.Freedom can be unscrupulous, but it can also be strictly self-disciplined.

It is freedom to choose what is beautiful, and freedom to choose what is ugly. Only by admitting everything can one be considered a sound free man.

As for whether he is free?

Beluga is of course a free man.

When all the people of the sea act recklessly, they teach young boys that only by breaking more laws, having more wanton enjoyment, looting and killing, can they be called freedom-but the white whales show them It showed what freedom is more free than wanton enjoyment, that is, when you can enjoy yourself, you can choose to delve into extraordinary powers, and then start his practice for more than twenty hours that day.

In fact, when most of the pirates did not even know the words, Beluga has read through all the doctrines and codes of the whole world for more than 300 years, all kinds of transcendental knowledge books, and become a truly knowledgeable sea. scholar.

When most of the pirates didn’t even know the words, the man had already remembered all the doctrinal codes of the four hundred years, all the classics and practice books that were widely advertised. He also collected the most precious documents written by the group of defecting clergy during the rebellion a hundred years ago.

It took him a long time to sharpen, learn, and grow by himself. In the end, before he was thirty years old, he surpassed all the free pirates in the entire Seven Seas and became the sea king.

Then, he changed from Sea King to Sea King.

But... even if you have become a great pirate across the seven seas, and become the king of the sea in all directions, can this be called freedom?

The man who has accomplished all this is an incredible achievement, still has such confusion in his heart, and there is still some beast roaring.

No-this is still not free enough!

Even if it is the Sea King, it is just being able to do anything in the sea. On land, there are dozens of gods and three true gods—their existence makes it impossible for many Sea Kings and Sea Kings to go ashore and burn them freely. Looting, there is no way to go ashore to study books.

"Not enough, not enough, there are still people above me, there are still gods."

Even after becoming the Sea King, Beluga felt that he was still not free enough.

However, such an anxious day will eventually end

Under the suggestion and request of an existence from other worlds, the pirates spent a long time, and finally found clues to god ascension in the ancient calm sea of ​​meditation.

And the Beluga has also found the key to true freedom in this world.

——As long as I become a god, no one can restrain me anymore.

Whether it's the doctrine, the code, the ruling, the trial, everything.

No one can hinder people from doing whatever they want, no one can stop people's whims, no one can hinder people from killing people, no one can refuse people to save people.

After becoming a god, this is absolute freedom.

The Beluga at that time couldn't help but imagine the future.

-Can kill people, make people into furniture, and eat; you can also turn a slave into a nobleman, let him become a king, and rule all people above it.

——Destroying the temple, burning the doctrines and books in it, insulting the crystallization of human wisdom and order; at the same time, it is necessary to establish a school to make all extraordinary knowledge public and let everyone see it for free.

-Cut wisdom and fool the people, deny all human wisdom; wantonly spread the reality that all ruling classes are unwilling to spread, and put the bloody truth before everyone's eyes.

That's it.That's it.That's it.

The more you think, the more excited the man becomes.

The true freedom is that'I' feel free, that is freedom. As for whether'I' has been deceived...Willing to be deceived is also the freedom of'I'

Free life, free death.

Freely oppress others, freely be oppressed by others.

Free progress, free fall.

The good and evil of free judgment, the good and bad of free judgment.

What my parents said is indeed not wrong-freedom is indeed such an important thing. Can someone really accept living without freedom?What is the difference between that and an insect without wisdom?

He wants to bring this freedom to everyone.

"Beluga Sea King, are you listening?"

Seven Seas, Sea of ​​Troubles, Seven Seas Allied Forces advance to the base.

The dense black sinking wood constitutes the soundproof retaining wall of the command hall, and the thick and fragile curtain from the top also shields the outside light, and there is no other light source except the dim yellow element lamp hanging on the roof.

And a very young man with white hair and purple eyes, sitting on a seat carved with a sea monster whale pattern, opened his eyes slightly, seeming to be half asleep and half awake.

In a command hall converted from a city hall, a cautious voice sounded: "Haihuang, what do you think of my suggestion?"

"not very good."

In response, the white-haired man yawned greatly, and he calmly replied: "Look, I heard that I was about to fall asleep--or do you think what you are talking about is interesting?"

Facing the beluga whale's almost humiliating answer, the middle-aged pirate, who had been talking about it for a long time, suddenly turned red and his black beard was shaking.

But due to the deterrent power of the Sea Emperor, he still couldn't say anything for a while.

And Beluga didn’t say anything, “Don’t even dare to say anything, dare to call a free pirate?'Such mockery, because freedom to dare not speak is also freedom.

At this moment, he just raised his head and turned his eyes to the side. The purple dragon pupil calmly stared at the other party, watching the ordinary pirate with an ordinary soul, as if waiting for the other party's answer.

"I think it's very interesting."

After a while, the pirate still mustered up his courage, gritted his teeth, and repeated his previous advice to the Beluga again.

"Sea King, the news that Alber Sea King was caught has spread throughout the entire fleet. Now it can be basically confirmed that the Deep Diver is missing. Alber Sea King was really caught and completely fell into the hands of the temple. "

He said so, looking at the white-haired man, with a trace of deep desire: "Beluga Sea King, I think I can also top the ceremony-I can do whatever Alber can do. , His strength may not be much stronger than mine!"

"Ok?"

After lazily listening to the other party's second suggestion, Beluga looked up and looked up and down at the middle-aged pirate in front of him.

His eyes are dark purple. This is the dragon bloodline that the Lord of Judgment has given to all living beings in the legend. All the fire people have some characteristics of dragon blood, and some of them will be more obvious, with scales and dragon pupils.

The concentration of the white whale's blood is several times thicker than most people of fire. The deep purple dragon pupil even makes the staring middle-aged pirate feel blistering cold.

"What you said is interesting."

Laughing like this, staring at the pirate who said his request, the beluga grinned, revealing a sharp, sharp, shark-like, dragon-like tooth, and layers of sharp scales covered his eye lines, always It spread to the base of his ears, occupying a third of his handsome face.

The white-haired Sea King slowly stood up, and calmly said to the blade in front of him: "You want to say that you want to replace Alber and become the new Sea King, and then join our plan, so that we can all ascend the throne in the future? ?"

"There is a trace, it is rare for you to be such a speculative person."

When the Beluga whale stood up, the pirates who intended to replace Alber felt a strong sense of oppression. He was too tall. The height of the dragon blood returned to the ancestor was more than two meters three. It looked like a giant whale in the shape of a human, except for that, that unusual sense of danger came again.

Then, he heard the sea king’s leisurely words in front of him: “Seriously, although Alber is a boring person, I still like his beard. The red beard is like blood, so I don’t have to tear it. Smash his throat and you can see the bright red color."

"Ah, when I talk about this, I want to see the color of your blood."

For the first time, the middle-aged pirate did not understand the meaning of beluga.

But soon, he was surprised to find that the man in front of him had stretched out his hand to himself with a smile, and grabbed it casually toward his neck.

"You can't kill me!"

In an instant, feeling the crisis of life and death, the middle-aged pirates burst out with great power. Only in a flash, layers of thick ice condense in the command hall, and the ultra-low temperature below minus 150 degrees spread rapidly. .

I have to say that this pirate who intends to replace Albe is indeed not bad.

When he exploded his source water soul magical powers, the air directly liquefied and solidified all over his body, and finally condensed into a set of almost indestructible solid atmospheric armor, and in the originally moist seaside air, countless fine and sharp growths grew. The ice ridge, and the ice ridge condensed, and then turned into his blade, with a harsh sonic boom, and slashed towards the beluga.

But all the actions could not stop a large hand that was extended at will.

"Oh, I can—"

Speaking casually, the Beluga calmly crushed the sharp cold ice blade of the pirate in front of him, penetrated the strong solidified atmospheric armor of the opponent, and isolated the ultra-low temperature of nearly two hundred degrees below zero in the opponent's body, and then gently pinched the opponent's apple. .

Afterwards, the beluga whale gently exerted its force and crushed it together with flesh and blood.

"cough--"

Immediately, ice blue spurted from the wound, and the middle-aged pirate's eyes bulged. As a powerful pirate at the pinnacle of the Chosen, how could he be unable to control his blood?The throat bone was crushed, and he could continue to live even if his heart was destroyed.

But when the white whale touched him, he realized in terror that all the power under his body, all the blood, and even the water, began to act'freely', not following any of his instructions at all. For one thing, not to mention blocking the attack of the Beluga whale whose strength was originally higher than him, it also made him even lack the strength to deal with his own injuries.

Puff-the sound of kneeling on the ground sounded, the pirate's consciousness began to blur rapidly, he collapsed to the ground, the extremely cold ice blue blood began to spill on the floor of the command hall, creating layers of thick ice Layers and raised ice edges.

"I have never seen blood of this color."

And the Beluga curiously raised his hand and looked at the ice-blue blood in his hand. The tall Sea Emperor sat back in his position, then stretched out his slender tongue and licked his palm: "Um... It smells like sweet ice cubes."

"It's pretty good."

"What's the matter, Beluga?"

As the battle spread, five more consciousnesses soon came.

They asked the Sea King in confusion: "I just sensed Leonard's power fluctuations, what happened to him?"

The voice of consciousness fluctuated in the soul space, and Moby Dick responded indifferently: "This guy Leonard wants to replace Alber. I think this kind of person is very annoying for speculation, so I killed him."

"Anyway, the changing celestial phenomena and the ritual that affects the cycle of elements has long since ended, and the balance of the elements in the world has been pryed up-soon, as we find the soul of the source water, we launch a deep-sea ritual to induce the four elements to break away from the cycle. The era of the deep sea is coming."

"At that time, we could become Seven Sea Gods... Ah, now it is Six Seas. Anyway, we don't have to find someone to replace Alber, do we? Anyway, we are also an old man who has been in love with him for more than ten years."

"Why kill him, he is also a great pirate of the Sea King candidate level anyway, you kill him like this, and you will have to clean up his men later, it is a waste of time."

For Beluga, this is not so much free and undisciplined, as it is chaos at will. The other five sea kings are very helpless.

But no one dared to have any opinions.

Because, in the past few decades, this seemingly free and unsophisticated guy has used absolute power to establish his absolute authority in the Seven Seas.

Among them, a certain Sea Emperor level consciousness sighed, and only the other Sea Emperor dared to say a few more words in front of the Beluga: "Well, the ceremony is indeed almost completed, and these vassal pirates are of little use. ."

"Right? That's true." In response, the beluga who had already sat back in his seat and continued to squint his eyes, and began to think, let out a sigh of relief. He lazily asked: "What did the pioneers say? When do you start planning?"

"He said, we start whenever we want. He can act anytime."

Hearing this answer, the Beluga suddenly laughed heartily, causing the walls of the command hall to tremble slightly: "Hahahaha, this is such a good guy—tell him."

The tone was suddenly lowered, and the white-haired man turned his head and looked into the depths of the ocean not far away.

In the deep purple dragon eyes of the Sea Emperor, there is curiosity and desire: "As long as he wants, I can start anytime."

"Then I will reply in this way-but also be prepared, Beluga, you are the strongest of us, and Alber has been captured. We must be prepared to withstand the possibility of a surprise attack by the Fire Temple."

"Well, it's troublesome."

Moby Dick shook his head with some regrets: "It's just a pity that in this age when freedom is approaching, Alber failed to act with us-I like his red beard and his free old man very much. father."

At the same time.

It is a pity to be pirates, and many people intend to take the place of Alber. At this time, Su Zhou is using it as a ticket for various roads, passing through the levels.

Lai Lincheng, Umo City, White Pigeon City, Pray Heart City... Su Zhou and his group walked all the way, and every independent god blessed the land, they needed to pass a checkpoint.

Because of the recent climate disasters that have frequently occurred across the continent, the actions of priests have begun to be restricted. According to the law, they must stay there and contribute their own strength to fight the disaster before they can move freely.

Although he didn't intend to stay, Su Zhou never minded helping others.

In fact, when certain priests and blessed people are too late to arrive, he will directly help, lest the locals suffer more disasters.

The mentality of the youth is a bit like a hard-working parent... It is naturally good for a child to pay a little price to accomplish something independently, but if this thing can only be done with bloodshed, it is not necessary. After all The meaning of the existence of parents is to prevent children from learning more without getting hurt.

"It's hard work, it feels like being a father and a mother..."

After simulating the supernatural power of the real dragon and directly using wind and water to help a vast agricultural plain rain clouds and rain, Su Zhou couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

At this time, he has left the plain celebrating the heavy rain, and is now located in the VIP room of a restaurant in Qixin City in the central area of ​​the Holy Fire Continent.

As for the young man’s emotions, Yala in the soul space shook his head: “Don’t you find anything wrong?”

"Do not."

Regarding this, Su Zhou stood in awe, and he looked out the VIP room window quite seriously: "Of course I have noticed-these natural disasters are all signs of elemental imbalance."

"Whether it is drought, flood, heavy snow or barrenness, in the final analysis, it is a signal that the elements of this world are beginning to be out of balance... Although it is very basic, if I had not been in the elemental world where the elements were completely out of balance for a long time, I might not be able to feel it. To this breath."

But at this moment, Su Zhou heard the message of Ammon's soul coming from outside the VIP room.

"My lord, do you want barley tea or ale?"

"Barley tea." The young man couldn't help but nodded slightly: "The development of this place is really good. The people can establish restaurants for consumption, and the service attitude is also very good."

As for why Su Zhou stayed in the VIP room of Qixincheng Restaurant, it was actually quite a coincidence.

Relying on Alber’s face and the head of the troubled sea king, Su Zhou and his party passed on the Holy Fire Continent almost unimpeded. Even the conservative priests, no matter how stubborn, were seeing seven Regarding the face of one of the sea kings, he would let him pass as far as possible, and let Su Zhou enter the city to observe the true living conditions of the people in the Holy Fire mainland.

In this process, Alber, who felt extremely ashamed, even planned to kill himself by exploding the Source Water Soul fragments in his body, so as to avoid more and more humiliation later-but unfortunately, with Su Zhou, how could he commit suicide? success?

As for the fragments of the Soul of Source Water, Su Zhou had already observed it.

It is a powerful fetish that can make people understand magical powers early and help them perfect magical powers.

Even if it is not a real Water Soul fragment, it is a derivative of Water Soul.And the supernatural powers derived early are like the demon devourer that Su Zhou had cultivated in the sacred geometry and obtained at the awakening stage. They were all imperfect forms at the beginning, and would gradually be perfected and become perfect when they reached the command stage. stand up.

As for why you can’t leave the sea, the reason is also very simple-the fragments of the soul of the source water will activate the power of magical powers early, and it will consume a lot of water elemental magic power, and before the commander stage, ordinary practitioners cannot afford this elemental magic power. The demand for, only in the sea, with the extremely strong power of natural elements, can sustain consumption, and once leaving the sea, the practitioner will naturally begin to decline like a leaking jar.

All in all, as a practitioner of the extraordinary peak, although Alber is also a leaking jar, he can persist for a long time, enough to support him to reach the central church.

However, Neptune's face may not always be useful.

Most people who pay attention to Neptune-related information are coastal cities. Although the priests in the inland cities of the Holy Fire have seen the images, they may not recognize them when they actually meet.

It is like the city where Su Zhou is now, Qixin City, which is such a place that has not recognized Alber.

Because it is really impossible to confirm whether Alber is the Sea King, the review priest can only apologize repeatedly and invite Su Zhou to rest in the restaurant, and go to the temple by himself, and ask other priests familiar with the pirate situation to come and confirm.

At this time, Alber would be furious.

"How can you guys not recognize me?!"

The big pirate at that time was so angry that if it hadn't been for Su Zhou to press him on the ground, he would have jumped up and punched the ignorant local priest.

This is probably the last self-esteem of the ticket.

Located in the middle of the sacred fire continent, next to a large freshwater lake, Qixin City has a very good urban construction. There are restaurants, a large farmer’s market, fresh river farming, and local tool workshops and alchemy workshops. Both the square and the market are very complete.

Because the reincarnation world is ruled by the temple, it cannot be simply divided by the feudal era and modern times. However, Su Zhou did see the element melting furnace and element artillery in the alchemy workshop of Qixin City—that is The true gas furnace similar to the Shenmu world is, in a sense, the premise of extraordinary industrialization.

"Perhaps one hundred years later, the world of reincarnation will gradually become a world of elemental industrialization, just like the world of Shenmu...Huh?"

Quietly thinking, Su Zhou looked at the door of the VIP room and raised his brows slightly.

Then, the closed door opened.

And a figure, like this, rushed towards Su Zhou stumblingly at his fastest speed.

"Wait, what do you want to do?!"

At this moment, Aimon, who was communicating with the waiter in the restaurant, realized this, and he was surprised: "Stop now—"

However, when he hurried back to the VIP room, he did not see the expected attack.

On the contrary, a middle-aged fisherman with a simple dress and dark skin was throwing himself in front of Su Zhou, crying bitterly.

After careful observation, Ammon realized in astonishment that this fisherman had no hands.

In the Holy Fire Continent, without hands, it can only represent one thing.

That is, he is a criminal.

"My lord priest, my lord priest, please help me..."

The grey-haired psychic heard that the middle-aged fisherman with severed hand was crying and worshiping Su Zhou. He wanted to kowtow, but Su Zhou stopped him.

But even so, he was still crying bitterly: "I'm wronged, Lord Priest, I see that Priest Ryan treats you respectfully, so I know that you are a big man-I know that this is wrong and goes against Doctrine and precepts, but I’m really wronged, so I can only come to you to redress my grievances..."

The priest Ryan was the censor who had previously met with Su Zhou and others.

"If you have anything, say it, don't kneel down and don't be slurred. If you can help, I will definitely help you."

Su Zhou responded calmly. He stretched out his hand to support the opponent, then raised his head, looked at Ai Meng, and nodded slightly.

Emmon frowned suddenly.

This priest who follows the gods but is not blindly believers knows exactly what his own Lord means.

"He didn't lie."

"He was really wronged."