Chapter 409 - Life is a Game (1/2)
The river of life flowed ahead.
Without his noticing, it seemed that many years had passed.
Planet Haierfa, which had once descended into devastating war and been razed into a barren hell, now had blue skies, blue oceans, and was flourishing in lush greenery. Every corner of the planet was full of vitality.
Viewed from space, this planet was as gorgeous as a luminous sapphire.
By the coast, on a rock on a white sandy beach, there was a man wearing beach pants, a straw hat, and a sleeveless shirt. With a fishing rod in his hands, he was enjoying the sea breeze while fishing for marine creatures. Next to the man were two women in bikinis. One of them had blonde hair, blueish-green eyes, and refined facial figures; the other one had dark hair resembling the color of twilight and an exquisite petite figure, and exuded the gentle aura of Eastern beauty.
“How peaceful.”
The man sighed. “Starting when I announced my retirement, I think it’s been more than three decades that I’ve lived my life like this. I’m an eighty-year-old geezer now, am I?”
“It will be your 80th birthday in three days, master.” The blonde on his left said. “I wish you a happy birthday in advance, master.”
“That won’t be necessary.” The man shook his head. “This is not something worth celebrating, and I’m not gonna be happy, either. I think I’m growing a little sick of this quiet life. Look at this youthful body of mine—if I return to Earth, I bet my children and grandchildren won’t be happy either. They will be wondering: why am I not dead? How long do I intend to hold onto Xing Hai Technologies’s equity? Why am I always blocking their ways?… I bet only a few of them would truly wish me a happy birthday.”
“Master, you are too negative,” the blonde woman said. “Aside from those several core products that remain unstripped, Xing Hai Technologies has distributed almost everything else, including the hundreds of desert free cities and space cities. This enormous wealth is enough to fulfill anyone’s needs and be exchanged for reliable and solid kinship.”
“Only the Knowledge Bank and the virtual game Galaxy Era remain in your hands, as both are not to be given away. You’ve already handed out everything you could.”
The man, however, sighed. “The problem is that knowledge is priceless. The economy driven by Galaxy Era now accounts for almost 30% of the global GDP. Those two are the treasures with the highest value, for heaven’s sake. Alice, do you think that humanity can be trusted?”
This…
The blonde woman on his left became silent, unable to answer his question.
Suddenly, his hands sank as the fishing rod bent down intensely.
“Eh, a fish, it seems.”
The man was happy as he reeled in his line with all his might. After more than five minutes of wrestling with the creature on the hook, he caught a colorful ocean fish. Weighing it in his hands, he guessed it to be at least 20 pounds.
He looked at the fish bucket at his foot, which was already full of fish.
The man could only release the fish that he just caught back into the sea. “There are too many fish in the sea. I’ll fill up a whole bucket with them in no time. I can’t even finish a conversation before that happens.”
Oh well, forget fishing.
The man put down his rod, headed under a parasol on the white, sandy beach, and lay down on the comfortable recliner.
The blonde woman, on the other hand, took the fish bucket and used some tools to deal with the fish inside. Then, she brought the grill over, ignited the charcoal fire, and began roasting those ocean fish.