Chapter 301 Have You Ever Observed Ants?
The captain did not feel any sympathy for the ferryman's plight. Instead, he angrily scolded her, "How bad... Even so, you shouldn't hurt their hearts in this way!"
"Stand up! Don't think that this will solve the problem. If you really want to apologize, go to Delta and Xia and talk to them!"
"What's the point of sitting here and talking so much? Get up! Stand up! Even if you have to die... you have to explain everything to them first!"
The captain grabbed the ferryman's collar, and the guy seemed to have completely given up resistance and let the captain pull him up.
The guy was unexpectedly heavy, and his balance was unstable. The next second, the captain was dragged to the ground by the ferryman.
The ether singularities hidden in the black robe rolled all over the ground, each of them wrapped intactly in a transparent shield.
Rosemary discovered something and said, "Captain... the ferryman is not in the right state."
The black robe fell apart, revealing the recording device on the ferryman's chest. It was not affected by the captain's previous actions, and it continued to play the audio intermittently and persistently.
"Have you ever... observed ants?"
"Carrying ideals and expectations, I fell into fruitless endings again and again... I always thought I had come a long way, but now I look back and realize..."
"I am nothing more than an ant that is exhausted and going around in circles in the circle drawn by fate."
The body under the black robe had long since turned to dust. Only the recording device was still relying on the remaining power to transmit the ferryman's voice.
"I believe you can... definitely reach the future that has never blossomed."
[Alishia] "Goodbye, another captain in this world."
[Captain] "Goodbye, my other self. I will inherit your ideals and expectations and continue on my way."
[Aponia (Elysian Land)] "If there is an afterlife, I hope he can live an easier life."
[Jizi] "This is the path the ferryman chose himself, just like the captain. Neither of them will be persuaded to quit, so only one of them can exist."
When the captain came to his senses, he had already reached the beach.
Kallen (Puff) looked at the stargazer with empty hands and an apologetic look on her face.
Ji Zi (Puff) reluctantly took out the scattered parts and said, "There's nothing else I can do... These are all I have."
Brownie didn't find much either. He looked around and saw that there was basically no part to be found. He could only comfort Stargazer, "Tsk, this is bad. I only found these parts... Um, Ms. Stargazer?"
"Your turret laser transmitter... no, planetarium, seems to be beyond repair. How about you consider making it into something else, or building a new one?"
"Think positively. If the old doesn't go, the new won't come."
Guan Xing said seriously, "Don't make excuses, keep looking!"
Xilin came over and asked, "Hey, have you seen Delta?"
Brownie: "Ah, no idea. I've been looking for parts."
Yuexia told Xilin, "Are you talking about the human with a tail? She... seems to be still on that old ship."
"She locked herself in her room and played video games with the volume turned up really loud."
Xilin was somewhat helpless: "Tsk, really..."
Brownie: "Are you going to comfort her?"
Xilin said proudly, "I'm not that kind. But it might be fun to watch a dejected little animal. How about joining us?"
[Captain] "I clearly wanted to comfort Delta, but I wouldn't say it."
[Kiana] "Sister is still so arrogant."
[Cecilia] "Our Cecilia is such a proud little angel~"
【Xilin】“Who, who said I went to comfort her? At that time, I was actually looking at a poor person who was in despair.”
[Delta] "Yeah, he just watched me play games and harassed me by talking in my ear from time to time."
[Xilin] "Hey, you're disgusted with me, right?"
Brownie didn't want to look for the scattered parts anymore, so he took this opportunity to leave. So he accepted Xilin's invitation and said, "Okay, Ninja, I'll leave it to you to lead the way."
Yae Kasumi seemed a little reluctant. "Aren't you familiar with that spaceship?"
The captain passed by them and everyone looked relieved, except Delta and the silent ninja.
The tide has receded. Although there are traces of moisture left on the beach, time will always make the water marks recover.
The captain stopped in front of a stretch of beach where no footprints had been left. Perhaps because of the distance, their voices became intermittent.
The captain couldn't help but think...
Is this all...over?
From now on, Guanxing, Yuexia and I will not be able to obtain long-term safety in any world bubble. What awaits us is eternal wandering in the sea.
But it doesn't matter, what matters is that we are still together. This journey together is all I want.
"Captain."
Rosemary came to the captain's side at some point, and the captain asked Rosemary with concern, "Rosemary, are you... okay?"
Although the ferryman's behavior was somewhat infuriating, he was, after all, Rosemary's former owner, and it was basically impossible to say that he had no feelings for her.
Now that the ferryman has completely disappeared, Rosemary must be very sad.
Rosemary looked a little surprised, then smiled sadly, "It's okay. As an old friend, I think that gentleman should be satisfied with the current ending."
"The past is the past. Although it is hard to accept at the moment, time will eventually push people to move forward."
"Come to think of it, Captain, why are you standing here alone...what are you looking at?"
In response to Rosemary's curiosity, the captain directly replied, "Ants."
Rosemary looked down at her feet and saw a group of well-trained ants crawling in an orderly manner. She couldn't help but wonder, "So there are ants on the beach?"
Captain: "Yeah, I just noticed it too. By the way, Rosemary, have you tried it?"
The captain stretched out his finger and drew a circle around a few ants on the beach.
The captain looked at the ants trapped in the circle on the ground and suddenly felt a little overwhelmed. He didn't know how to act and ran around in the circle. "I didn't expect that the ants would really be restricted by the circle that suddenly appeared."
Rosemary explained, "Because ants don't rely on their eyes to see, but mainly rely on their sense of smell to distinguish different directions."
"When the Captain drew the circle, he left a strange smell on the sand. When the ants approached the circle, they mistakenly thought that there was an unfamiliar place ahead, so they hesitated."
[Alicea] "So, this story tells us that hesitation will lead to failure."
[Captain] "This also proves what the ferryman said. People cannot be omniscient and omnipotent. They will always encounter things that they cannot understand."