Sir! Don't close the net!

“It doesn’t matter. You can go back and tell Levi’s Est. Richard,” Heidi said, arms crossed, leaning against the ship’s wheel and raising her chin slightly. “I, Heidi Serra, am not like Galar Horn who likes to break agreements.”

Alma felt a chill run down her spine, and almost revealed the horrified expression of someone whose secret had been discovered.

It's common knowledge that the Galar is prone to breaking promises, so it's perfectly normal for Heidi to use the Galar as a metaphor.

But as the saying goes, what is said without intention may be taken to heart by the listener. There are two Valkyries hiding in Li Yili's house. When Heidi suddenly used the Horn of Galar as a metaphor, Alma was still a little guilty. In order to avoid Heidi noticing her emotional change, Alma decided to take the initiative.

“Miss Heidi, I think you shouldn’t make such a bold statement,” Alma said, forcing a look at Heidi. “The bet between you and Minister Li Yili is that if Minister Li Yili can reach the surface of the Sea of ​​Dead within seven days, you will have to grant him one wish.”

"Yes, it's a wish that transcends human ethics and has no moral compass whatsoever. Li Yili won this bet, and I will do whatever he asks me to do."

Heidi's lips curled slightly upwards, her beautiful hair fluttering in the sea breeze. Her dashing appearance even impressed Alma, a woman herself. Anyone facing Heidi would abandon any evil thoughts and find their minds at ease.

Thinking about it carefully, having power alone is definitely not enough to make so many pirates loyally follow one person.

Heidi possessed a charisma that drew even the most ruthless and vicious people to her side.

Unfortunately, Li Yili's viciousness was extraordinary.

“Miss Heidi, I must remind you that Minister Li Yili is very likely to make a persistent wish,” Alma said, raising her hand to warn her.

Heidi remained silent, arms crossed, while the other pirates whistled and looked away.

"Miss Heidi?"

"So what?" Heidi smiled calmly. "I will never regret what I promised."

"Yes, yes, yes, the boss is very trustworthy. Even if Mr. Li Yili dared to try to make the boss his mistress, the boss wouldn't even flinch!"

Jones immediately jumped out to cheer Heidi on, and the other pirates, seeing this, also joined in the cheering and encouragement for Heidi.

"Exactly! Although I don't know how many mistresses Mr. Li Yili has, as long as the boss takes action, she will definitely become Mr. Li Yili's favorite one!"

"That's right, that's right!"

Heidi's forehead veins bulged, but she didn't say a word, staring straight at Alma, waiting for Alma to speak. This gave Alma a headache, because the jeers from Heidi's loyal followers made it seem as if Li Yili's wish was for Heidi to be his mistress, although she also felt that there was a very high probability that Li Yili would grant that wish.

However, considering Li Yili's somewhat strange reaction, Alma hesitated.

“This is a bet between you and Minister Li Yili. I am just Minister Li Yili’s secretary, only responsible for conveying Minister Li Yili’s intentions,” Alma said seriously. “This matter should be discussed by you and Minister Li Yili in person.”

“That’s true,” Jones blinked, crossing his arms in complete agreement with Alma’s statement. “After all, the less you know about those kinds of things, the better.”

The other pirates also crossed their arms and nodded in agreement.

"That's true."

"As expected...right?"

"Hmm."

Heidi's lips twitched slightly.

She did intend to meet with Li Yili alone to discuss this matter, and she was prepared for what kind of shameful and lewd desires Li Yili might express, but what if? What if?!

It wasn't that she didn't want to face reality; she just had a gut feeling that Li Yili would actually make a "wish," and just as Li Yili herself said, it would be something unrelated to human relations and would subvert one's values.

Of course, if her intuition was wrong, well... there was nothing that could be done. After all, she and Li Yili met privately, and nobody knew the details.

The content of the body, but!

Now that Jones is egging her on, even if Li Yili didn't make that kind of wish to her... it's no different from making it. Of course, a pirate like her doesn't care about her reputation, but a woman named Heidi Serra isn't thick-skinned enough to laugh it off.

"Then my work is done."

Alma bent down slightly, and was about to leave when Heidi called her back.

What's on the sea? Are there really gods who can grant all wishes?

After hesitating for a moment, Alma shook her head. "Minister Li Yili hasn't revealed a single word about the Sea of ​​Dead Men, but there's one thing I can confirm."

Even if you reach the surface of the Sea of ​​the Dead, your wish will not be fulfilled.

"Eh--"

Apart from Heidi, all the other pirates, even Jones, exclaimed in surprise.

Although they didn't believe in Austin's theory that the surface of the Sea of ​​the Dead was a sacred place, it didn't stop them from thinking that the surface of the Sea of ​​the Dead was a very powerful place. Places that humans couldn't reach must be places where gods lived, and the surface of the Sea of ​​the Dead fit that description perfectly.

And there's the miraculous drainage volume.

However, even though Li Yili didn't reveal a single word about the Sea of ​​the Dead, Alma concluded that even if they reached the Sea of ​​the Dead, their wish would not be fulfilled.

They found it hard to accept, after all, if two ordinary people like Li Yili and Qi Ge could reach the surface of the Dead Sea, then they, as pirates, would naturally have a way to do the same.

"Reason?" Heidi raised an eyebrow slightly.

“A woman’s…intuition?” Alma sighed helplessly, scratching the back of her head. “Minister Li Yili’s expression…it doesn’t look like she’s encountered an opportunity to fulfill her wish.”

"What did he see?"

"Only he himself probably knows the answer to that."

At the top of the lighthouse, Li Yili, holding the lighthouse's lighting device, gazed intently at the entire Instas.

As the gas supply was cut off, the gas lamp, the source of light in the center of the many lenses, gradually went out and was eventually swallowed by darkness. However, the lenses were not swallowed by darkness as well, and the brilliant starlight was no longer obscured by the light of the gas lamp, but slowly revealed itself.

Chapter 160 I am a surrenderer

What defines a winner in life?

If Li Yili had come into this world before, she probably could have accurately described what a winner in life is.

Those who can speak with a helpless tone on television about the troubles that young people are currently experiencing, and who are praised by other equally famous people for their character, their talent, their attitude towards the world, and their life, are definitely winners in life.

Li Yili felt envious, but not jealous. The premise of being able to calmly deal with things is being able to calmly face the wealth in life, and the premise that the other person has such wealth is that the other person has outstanding talent and has not wasted their talent.

If you think about it carefully, he might be envious, but he just wants to show off in front of everyone.

However, he realized this after giving a speech as a class representative in front of several classes during his university years.

How empty and meaningless this was! He would rather bury himself in copying two reports. After that, he refused to copy reports for any similar activities.

What he might want is for others to know that he has enough financial resources to show off in front of people his own age. The reason he has this idea is simply that he doesn't actually have that much financial resources, and he may even be under some underlying pressure.

What he really wants is a life with enough energy; whether he becomes famous or not is completely unimportant.

Having come into this world, he couldn't accurately define what it means to be a winner in life.

He's rich, owns a house, is respected, and even has a roommate of Valkyrie's caliber. Now Valkyrie's sister has also joined him. Before, he would probably have raised a torch and shouted, "You stinky life winner!"

But for every winner in life, there is a loser. The so-called winner is someone who defeats many others and stands above the losers, laughing heartily. The surplus energy in life is squeezed from others.

Only by confirming the situation of the losers can he be sure that he is a winner; only by seeing how others don't have much energy left to struggle in life can he be sure that he really has plenty of energy left in his life.

This has nothing to do with whether someone is a good person or not, because that's life.

In front of the mask factory, Li Yili raised her hands and was surrounded by the surging Bishop Azawi priests.

Li Yili looked up at the night sky, where stars shone brightly, yet he felt no disgust whatsoever.

The priests in front of Li Yili parted to make way for her, and Bishop Servi, dressed completely differently from the other priests, appeared before Li Yili holding an old doctrinal book.

“Isn’t this Mr. Levi Ist. Richard from Sheep Village Logistics? What brings you here so suddenly?” Balan, standing behind Servi, asked.

Li Yili glanced around at the priests and smiled calmly.

"It's nothing, just someone who came to surrender. I am the minister of the Black Goat's Cubs, Levi Ist Richard. Everyone in Sheep Village Logistics is a member of the Black Goat's Cubs. The Fire Elf Steel Mill is a disguise of the Flame Elf branch of the Life's Excess Branch."

A cold wind blew by, and the priests all opened their eyes wide. Even Selvi stared at Li Yili in utter astonishment.

“Bishops of Azawi…aren’t you going to say anything?”

Li Yili slowly lowered her raised hands.

His deep gaze made the priests around him instinctively take a step back.

Selvi neither spoke nor moved, but Balan felt he should do something, so he immediately raised his hand and waved, "What are you all looking at? Hurry up and lock this cultist in the dungeon!"

Balan's roar brought the priests present to their senses. Bishop Selvi from headquarters was also there. If they hesitated on something they were supposed to do consciously, it wouldn't be as simple as just being held accountable.

Li Yili cooperated quite well, extending both hands as if they were already handcuffed, and was "escorted" by the priest into the dungeon hidden beneath the church inside the mask factory.

Several priests, led by Balan, pressed their breath against the iron cell door, eavesdropping on the sounds inside. A rather cheerful humming sound made Balan's expression change, and he hurriedly returned to the church's prayer room to report the matter to Selvi.

Seeing Servi's face gradually darken, Balan cautiously probed.

"Bishop, what should we do about this?"

They knew, of course, that the Fire Elf Steelworks was a disguise for the Flame Elves, and they also knew that the Sheep Village Logistics, which they had received as a gift from the Fire Elf Steelworks, was a black goat's offspring. Society is maintained by pretending not to know.

The world is only so big, and the chain of interests has long been deeply rooted in every corner of this world.

They wear a mask of absolute leniency, but if they were truly ruthless, even Bishop Azawi could not have gone to such lengths. As long as they present an image of absolute leniency, they can occupy the moral high ground, and no one will suspect what they are doing behind the scenes.

Therefore, they need a group that establishes the moral high ground, such as the Old Ones. No matter what they do behind the scenes, as long as there are traces of the Old Ones in the local area, then it was all done by the Old Ones.

They are both those who most desire the destruction of the old and those who least desire its destruction.

If no one points fingers at them, they, who occupy a moral high ground, will become the targets of criticism.

This is about interests.

"Let me think..." Selvi covered his forehead and fell into deep thought.

Li Yili is no unknown commoner. It is no exaggeration to say that Livis Ist Richard's name is known to everyone in Instas. If they really drag Li Yili out for public trial, it would be equivalent to dragging out the fire elf and the black goat's cubs and executing them all at the same time.

For centuries, there had been constant minor frictions between Bishop Azavet and the Old Ones, but never before had there been such a large-scale extermination operation.

Even he, as the bishop, could not bear the unknown consequences.

If someone else had reported that Li Yili was the minister who was the youngest of the Black Goat, he could have simply ignored it.

But now even if he wanted to ignore it, he couldn't. It wasn't that someone reported Li Yili, but that Li Yili turned herself in, and they had already locked Li Yili up in the dungeon.

Li Yili isn't the kind of ordinary person who wouldn't care if he were detained for hundreds of days, or someone would stand up for him. Li Yili is the head of logistics in Yangcun Village. If he's not seen for a few hours, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people might be shouting and yelling in the streets.

If we just release them like this...

If word got out that the minister of the Black Goat's cubs had come to reveal his identity, sat around in Bishop Azawi's prison, and then left in a haughty manner, he would be Bishop Azawi's eternal sinner.

"hateful--"

Servi couldn't help but mutter a curse under his breath.

Li Yili was probably filled with fear and uncertainty, unsure of what tomorrow would bring, but it was they who were forced into a corner and had no choice but to make a decision.

"Bishop, what are you hesitating about?"