Chapter 61: The Funeral Song of Blood and Fire (Three)

  Why is Baer here?

  Why didn't he die?

  But for Tang Jie, these two questions had already lost their significance. What Horn said flashed before his eyes like thunder and lightning.

  He betrayed you, he has been using you from start to finish!!

  Nina and William, Bill didn't know what it meant that Ball appeared here, they cheered loudly: "Ball boat..."

  They had not finished shouting when they saw another person walking out from behind Bar.

  He wore a red and white striped naval uniform of the Kingdom of York, with eagle-like eyes, hooked nose, and a gaze that was both sinister and mocking.

  This man was none other than Jones, the captain of the pirate ship "Plunderer", who had once been captured by Tang Jie and his men but managed to escape.

  Nia and they as soon as they saw this person, the smile on their face slowly solidified, their voices gradually became icy and piercing: "Captain Bar, why is he here?"

  Lao Ba Er glanced at the pirates clinging to the rock wall, supporting their bodies, and saw that they had no room for counterattack. He walked calmly in front of Tang Jie and his companions, with a slight smile on his face.

  Lao Ba of course has reason to be proud, among these people participating in the treasure scramble, his strength is the weakest, but now the river clams are fighting each other, he has become the fisherman who laughs last.

  All of this was thanks to Tang Ye and the expensive teleportation scroll he had bought in the Magical Capital. If it weren't for Tang Ye, Old Ba Er's desperate plan would have been useless. Without the magical scroll he had painstakingly searched far and wide for, he wouldn't have been able to escape unnoticed when the Hellish Number sank.

  And Jones, who was beside him, had not fled far after escaping from the Hell's Gate, he followed Ball's arrangement and kept a distance behind Ball until the last moment, when he received the transmitted Ball on his own sea boat.

  "Nia, Tong, William, and Bill, let me introduce you!" Bar's hand was flat on the shoulder of this Yorkshire naval officer beside him, his voice with an inexplicable pride "This is Jones Hart, my half-brother..."

  Bar's words were like a bomb, blasting Nia, William and Bill's scalps open, they stared with their eyes wide open, staring at Bar, staring at the captain who had followed them for over ten years, dedicating their lives and everything to him!

  None of them were good at plotting and scheming, but that didn't mean they were all stupid.

  When they saw Jones of the Plunderer standing with Ball, they knew at once that from the start Ball had deserted them and betrayed them.

  He skillfully played the role, using his "brilliant" acting skills to deceive every single person in Hell's Number. When everyone regarded him as a spiritual pillar, he had long since made up his mind to betray and abandon all the people here!

  "William's voice trembled as he asked: 'Captain Bar, how could he be your brother?'"

  Bill's face showed a mixture of excitement and anger, he shouted loudly: "Trap, all this is your trap! You betrayed us, you used us!!"

  Nia felt as if she had been torn apart, and with extreme pain, she looked at Bal, the father she had admired since childhood. She couldn't understand why he was doing this, what reason led him to suddenly change from a kind and honest elder into a shameless and despicable person?

  Thinking of the loud scolding in Dam City, thinking of how they risked their lives time and again to save Bar from the brink of death!

  She felt extremely humiliated and extremely indignant!

  Is there anything more desperate in this world than being betrayed by those closest to you?

  Nia felt her world was collapsing, with heaven and earth cracking all around!

  For seventeen years, the most perfect pillar of faith in her heart suddenly collapsed...

  Nia's face was streaming with tears, her eyes filled with pain, despair, anger and sadness. Her extremely beautiful eyes stared straight at Ball, staring at this familiar yet extremely strange face.

  Her full red lips quivered and trembled, her voice bitter to the point of being unbearable: "Dad... Captain Bar, why do you have to do this?"

  The old man gazed at her with profound eyes, looking at the daughter he had cultivated for many years, his most powerful assistant. A thread of affection flowed from his eyes as he walked over and squatted down, extending his hand to Nia by the cliff edge. "Child," he said, "the reason I didn't tell you all this is that you're really not someone who can keep a secret. Atos' treasure is too important; if news of it leaks out, what awaits us will be catastrophic! So, I had to deceive you, and everyone else..."

  Old Ba Er's words were not yet finished, when Tang Jie suddenly shook his body violently, and roared crazily, like a sharp knife cutting off his words: "Bullshit! Bullshit!!! Even if you use the most beautiful language and the most elegant words to decorate and justify your actions, you can't change everything you've done! You abandoned those pirates who followed you! You betrayed your sailors!! You caused them to die without a burial place!!!"

  Tang Jie's eyes were bloodshot, his teeth clenched, and a fire seemed to be burning in his chest. He was so furious that he almost exploded!

  He came to this world, it was Ball who taught him how to navigate, it was Ball who opened a door for him to conquer the sea, and it was Ball who made him quickly integrate into this world, producing a strong sense of belonging and identity with everything around him.

  Tang Jie's heart was filled with grief and indignation no less than Niya's!

  I regarded him as my own father, I regarded him as my teacher, I regarded him as the guide of my soul. It was he, this bearded captain, who taught me that a captain should regard his sailors as his children and treat them like himself!

  It was also him, this rough-looking man, who physically taught me a bloody lesson!

  He told me: Even a lion must know when to give up!

  But this is not abandonment, this is betrayal, this is shameful betrayal!!

  Tang Jie's eye sockets were bulging, his eyes splitting at the corners, and two lines of piercingly bright blood flowed down. His teeth chattered with a "ka-cha" sound as he spoke word by word: "You've been using me, from the very beginning you've been using me!"

  "It's not just me, Nia, your own daughter, your loyal deputy, William, Bill, friends and companions who have followed you for over a decade, and so many sailors on the ship. You're using all of them! Although you didn't kill them with your own hands, you led them into their graves, into hell!"

  "You deceived Nia, telling her to fulfill the Pirate King's dream for you, and that deception lasted for 17 years. Now you're deceiving me again, telling me to fulfill the Pirate King's dream for you. I must have been blind to believe in you, a beast disguised as human!!"

  Tang Jie roared in anger, his voice shaking the huge stone cave, causing the rock walls to tremble and the air to vibrate.

  Ba Er's gaze was complex as he stared at Tang Jie, staring at this man who was furious to the extreme. He quietly listened to Tang Jie's scolding, and lightly sighed: "Tang Jie, if I hadn't discovered that you're really too difficult to control, I wouldn't have given up on you. You are the most outstanding warrior, the most outstanding sailor... that I've seen in over 30 years."

  "Put away this set! Cheating me once, you're the one who's ashamed. Cheating me twice, I'm the one who's ashamed!" Tang Jie laughed in extreme anger "Do you think I'll fall for your trick again?"

  "No, I'm not deceiving you, nor am I seeking your forgiveness, nor am I trying to ease my own conscience by saying these words. I'm just stating the facts, whether you believe me or not, I'll say it anyway!"

  Ba Er stood up, tall and upright. He smiled quietly: "From the time I started remembering things, my father brought me to the seaside. He pointed at the endless blue sea and said to me: 'Child, this is the world you will conquer in the future.' As a man, conquering the sea was his lifelong highest pursuit and dream!"

  "After that, a deep mark was left on my body. Conquering the ocean, as the greatest pirate of all time. But after dozens of years have passed, I found out no matter how hard I tried, there were always people stronger than me above me, and I was always hiding in the ocean, living a life of constant fear. I often asked myself, is this really my life? Is this really my dream?" Bar laughed at himself sarcastically.

  "I finally understood that I wasn't cut out to be the Pirate King, so I started looking for my successor. I began cultivating my own heirs. Wells and Nia are both excellent, outstanding individuals who have already surpassed me at a young age. But it's still not enough. The ocean is as vast as the sky, and on the other side of the ocean, there are people stronger than them, as numerous as the fish in the sea, as abundant as the clouds in the sky! I realized that they aren't cut out to be the Pirate King either!"

  "Until one day, I got the treasure map of Atos. When I saw and confirmed that this was indeed the treasure map of Pirate King Atos, I knew that God of the Sea Tira had finally given me this opportunity to fulfill my lifelong dream!" Bar's fists were clenched tightly as he said with a red face "Good, in order to keep this message secret, I betrayed Wells because it was him who carelessly leaked out the news about the treasure map and caught the attention of Vice Admiral Biceps! Since he made a mistake, he must accept punishment!"

  "In order to kill the source of this news, to shake off that old fox Biselle, I found my brother Jones Hart, who had been planted in the York Kingdom Navy for many years, and devised a perfect plan!" Bar's mouth curled up slightly, with a smile that was both triumphant and cold. But he had only smiled for a moment when his face slowly sank down, his sharp and gloomy gaze fixed on Tangie.

  "But, man's plans are not as good as heaven's plans. I didn't expect to meet you, and even more so, I didn't expect to find a fifth-level magician and a third-level sword fighter on Jones' ship! My calculations were all disrupted. I should have killed you when you were heavily injured, but the infinite potential you showed in battle shook my original decision...". Bar's eyes gleamed as he stared at Tang Jie "When I saw you, I realized that someone who could truly become the Pirate King had appeared before me!"

  Ba Er took a deep breath: "I'm faced with a multiple-choice question: should I choose to cultivate you, cultivate you into a pirate king to achieve my dreams for me, or should I take the treasure map and achieve my dreams myself?"

  "At first, I was indeed hesitant. I couldn't bear the thought of a precious gem like you being left unpolished in front of me, and not doing anything to polish or cultivate it! So, I started teaching you navigation skills, how to survive at sea, and how to fight at sea."

  "Hey, when I got to Darm, I didn't expect Wells not to be killed by Bisque, but instead he turned around and bit me, sending me to the Jail of Jerulan! At that time, I thought everything was over, my dreams, my life." Bar's eyes suddenly burst out with a fierce light, staring straight at Tong Jie, speaking in an excited and fanatical tone "Although I've always held you in high esteem, I still underestimated you. You actually rescued me from there! You actually accomplished something that no one has been able to do for over 230 years!"

  Ba Er looked up and burst out laughing: "At that time I knew, I didn't misjudge you, you are the 'Pirate King' I've been searching for all these years!"

  He burst out laughing, looking at Tang Jie, his laughter gradually subsiding, the expression on his face turning gloomy and cold again: "But Tang Jie, it was also from that moment on that I discovered you are not someone who is willing to be under others for long. No one can control you, neither I nor Nia. You not only have unlimited growth potential, a bold and intelligent mind, but also a strong sense of self, a lot of charisma. I found myself unable to control you, so from then on, I knew how to make the choice in my heart."

  Ba Er gazed deeply at Tang Jie, his eyes filled with pity and sighs: "I have no choice but to give up on you, I have no choice but to give up on everyone. After all, if I can eat this cake myself, why should I let others help me eat it? Letting others help oneself achieve one's dreams is not as good as achieving one's own dreams oneself, isn't it?"

  Tang Jie had been listening to Bar's words, and the anger that was like a stormy sea inside him gradually subsided. He smiled coldly: "Captain Bar, allow me to call you captain one last time. I'm just lamenting that over ten years of familial affection and friendship aren't even comparable to an elusive treasure?"

  "Ahahahaha! Elusive treasure? Tang Jie, you're wrong! Atos' treasure is worth betting everything on, no matter how elusive it may be! If I win the bet, I can leap from being a ordinary captain to becoming the king of the seas in this world! Such an astonishing wager, why not take a bold gamble?! And this time, I've won, hahahaha..."

  Tang Jie's eyes were as sharp as a knife, staring fixedly at Bal.

  Human, your name is Greed!

  Humanity, your name is called Betrayal!

  "Brother..." Jones, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up. He impatiently swept a glance at Tang Jie and the others. "What's the point of wasting words on them? Just kill them all quickly!"

  The smile on Ba Er's face gradually disappeared, his head didn't turn back, and a thick killing intent flashed in his eyes.

  He had been a captain for so long that he was accustomed to everyone's admiration and obedience, where could anyone else interrupt his pleasure at the most triumphant moment of his life?

  Tang Jie saw Bar's gaze clearly, and he felt a chill run down his spine as an icy coldness crept in.

  He won't even spare his own younger brother?

  Bar's face flashed with a fierce light, but he quickly regained his composure and smiled again. He turned to Jones and said, "My dear brother, don't worry, we're in control of the situation now. Why not go and say hello to your niece?"

  Jones' gaze swept across Bar's face: "What, can't bear to part with this beautiful little gem of a daughter?"

  He walked over with a smile and said to Nia, "Nia, I'm sorry we're meeting under these circumstances. For what happened in the past, I apologize. But now, come, please accept my friendly and sincere helping hand."

  Nia's eyes were like a snowfall, cold and frightening. Her gaze was fixed on Jones, staring at him until the fake smile on his face could no longer be maintained.

  Nia said coldly, word by word: "You this despicable hybrid, take your filthy hands away from me!"

  Jones's face stiffened, a sinister glint flashing in his eyes as he stood up and sneered at Ball with a sarcastic smile: "Dear brother, look at the good daughter you've taught!"

  Jones Hart, he was born a vengeful little man, the illegitimate son of his father and an unknown woman after a one-night stand. He hated it most when people said he was a mongrel. If someone dared to touch his reverse scales, he would definitely retaliate, even if that person was his closest relative.

  Jones smiled sinisterly, his eyes cold and venomous as he gazed at Nia, like a poisonous snake ready to strike at any moment.

  Ba Er looked at her, hummed softly, walked to Nia's side, squatted down, and once again stretched out his hand: "Nia, no matter what, you are my daughter. Your body flows with my blood, your life is imprinted with my mark, come, hold my hand, after all, I am still your father, let us forget the past, okay?"

  Nia smiled wryly, her eyes fixed intently on Bal's face, which made her feel like she was going to die. Her lips trembled slightly as she spoke slowly and firmly to Bal: "If your blood is flowing through my veins, I would rather drain all the blood from my body; if your mark is imprinted on my life, I would rather end my own life myself. Father, I would rather die with Tang Jie, a lion, than spend a lifetime with you, a poisonous snake!"

  Nia spoke extremely slowly, but her tone was crisp and powerful, cutting through the air, causing the smile on Bar's face to gradually settle and disappear.

  Bar closed his eyes, a pained expression on his face, and his body trembled slightly as he slowly withdrew his hand.

  He let out a deep sigh, knowing in his heart that the girl who had fought alongside him, who had faced the storms with him, his most trusted deputy, had chosen Tang Jie and abandoned him.

  They went their separate ways from then on.

  What a painful choice it is for Niya?

  Rather die than yield, once a thing is determined, even if it means sacrificing one's life, it will be done resolutely.

  This is the Nia I'm familiar with... This is the daughter I've taught...

  Ba Er closed his eyes, and in his heart, there was both sorrow and joy. This extremely complex feeling intertwined together, making him feel a mix of emotions.

  "Father, you must remember how the Sea God Thira treats traitors!" Nia's voice was like an icy dagger that stabbed sharply into Bar's chest.

  This sentence dispelled the last vestige of warmth and humanity in Bal's heart.

  The only thing he dreaded was the awe in his heart for the sea god Thira, as well as the legend of the severe punishment that the sea god Thira inflicted on every traitor.

  Bar suddenly opened his eyes, stood up decisively, took two steps back and said to Jones: "Dear brother, it's all yours."

  "Delighted to oblige, dear brother!" Jones's eyes flashed with a cold light.

  He sneered and walked up to Nia, crouched down, slowly pulled out the long knife from his waist, and compared it to Nia's slender white fingers: "Hehehe, which one should I chop off first? I don't know how many fingers I need to cut off before you let go and fall down. Ah, what was it that you scolded me just now?"

  As soon as he finished speaking, a loud and fierce scolding was heard from not far away: "You're a freaky dead man, a bastard who's been unwanted since birth! You dare to bully women? Are your balls still in your pants or have they grown on your face?! Come at me, you son of a bitch! Do you have the guts to come and hack me?!

  Jones heard this extremely poisonous curse and almost fainted with rage.

  His face was overcast, his features were twisted, and his expression was extremely ferocious. He suddenly jumped up, holding a sharp knife and rushed to Tang Jie's face. His eyes stared straight at Tang Jie, the sharp knife in his hand pointed directly at his fingers. His voice trembled with resentment and anger: "What did you just say? Dare to say it again!"

  Tang Jie sneered, "What's wrong with saying it again? I'm happy to say it again, twice, three or four times, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten times! You're a worthless piece of trash, and I'll scold you as many times as you deserve! Did you get that, you pathetic loser?"

  Jones was so angry that he trembled all over, let out a strange cry, and the sharp knife in his hand chopped towards Tang Jie fiercely!

  "No!!" Nia exclaimed in shock.

  But just as her voice had barely sounded out, she saw Tang Jie suddenly flash with lightning speed, one hand swelling up a segment, accurately grasping Jones' wrist that was swinging the knife.

  Jones saw Tangie's fingers about to be chopped off and had an unspeakable pleasure in his heart, but suddenly the fingers in front of him disappeared!

  Right after that, his wrist was tightly clasped by five steel-like fingers, and a pair of blood-red eyes appeared in front of him, staring at him intensely!

  Jones was shocked by this sudden change and his mind went blank, he just stared at the pair of blood-red eyes...

  Tang Jie initially held back at the edge of the cliff, accumulating strength and waiting for an opportunity to kill off Bar and Jones. However, when he saw Jones going to kill Niya, he could no longer remain calm and composed. He deliberately cursed at Jones, constantly provoking him until he lost his rationality, waiting for this moment.

  Tang Jie grabbed Jones' hand and pulled it hard, causing Jones to lose his balance. As he was in mid-air, Tang Jie's other hand flashed out like lightning, with five fingers slightly bent, forming a tiger fist gesture, heavily pounding into Jones' throat!

  "Die!!!"

  A 6,500-word long chapter, I'm too lazy to split it up

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