Childhood Anime Grand Tour

Chapter 87 Absorbing Flying Stone Crystals, Gravity Fruit

"Ah! Hahaha, no way! In the end, it was all your decision. I was just a gambler who lost!"

As he spoke, Liu Yufei gently stroked Xida's hair, his eyes filled with both relief and reluctance.

Liu Yufei was right. That gold coin had given him another choice, but unfortunately, he lost once again, unsurprisingly. Shan last time and Xida this time, they both shared the same kind of kindness.

Listening to Liu Yufei's shy yet honest laughter, Dora's family had the illusion that they had returned to the harmonious atmosphere of the previous two days. But they knew that it was just an illusion, because Liu Yufei really did not show any mercy to those soldiers.

Although they were sky pirates, it was precisely because they were sky pirates that they were far removed from the corrupted land. This spiritual restoration of Laputa did not affect them; otherwise, their fate would not have been much better than that of the soldiers.

Liu Yufei is indeed an extremely cold-blooded person. For him, coming to this world is just a trip, or you could say that Liu Yufei has always treated this trip as a game.

That's why he showed no mercy to the soldiers. After all, in the context of a game storyline, he was only responsible for the key characters involved in the mission.

Those soldiers were nothing more than NPC cannon fodder who could live or die at will, but in their eyes, they were all living, breathing people. So, whether Liu Yufei was all smiles before or coldly treated them in the end, he still ended up feeling somewhat alienated from these people.

Even Pazu wasn't surprised, but Shida was different. Liu Yufei didn't know if her calling him "brother" was genuine, but Shida's smile was undeniable. It was that gentle smile that gave Liu Yufei, an outsider, some comfort and allowed him to reveal his true nature.

The situation is actually quite awkward. Apart from Hida, everyone else is starting to be wary of Liu Yufei. It was at this moment...

boom...

A gunshot rang out from not far away, instantly startling everyone. Even Liu Yufei's eyes widened for a moment before he laughed and cursed:

"Damn it, they've really let this kid have some dignity!"

Unlike in the anime, Musca's gun didn't fire a single shot from the beginning, but he eventually did fire, only this time at himself.

He fell beneath the Tree of Life, his face expressionless, perhaps finally finding peace even in his final moments.

Laputa has been destroyed, both physically and spiritually, and has come to an end. Musca, like a martyr, finally returned to her homeland with dignity, her body and soul forever buried there.

“Mr. Muska…”

Only Shida showed pity for Muska's death, while the others seemed relieved. Liu Yufei walked up to his body, feeling quite emotional.

In a way, Liu Yufei and Muska are really the same kind of people, or rather, we are the same kind of people as Muska: arrogant, stubborn, and extreme, but in the end, whether with regret or relief, they still ended it all with their own hands.

Muska, the "culprit," finally met his deserved end, and at that moment, the glow of the setting sun spilled over the Sky City. Liu Yufei escorted the group to the ornithopter.

"Your Majesty, your glory will shine throughout the world!! Keep it up!!"

"Yes! Brother, without Laputa, you shouldn't call me Your Majesty anymore!!"

Hida said somewhat embarrassedly, after all, she still thought that she was the one who ruined Liu Yufei's obsession with Laputa. Upon seeing this, Liu Yufei immediately burst into laughter:

"Your Majesty, it is because of your choice that you are the true king of Laputa!! Because only the one who destroys Laputa can truly inherit Laputa's legacy."

Hida was momentarily confused, unsure of what Liu Yufei meant. Liu Yufei then smiled and said:

"Otherwise, why would Laputa's ancestors leave behind a destructive curse, and such a short one at that? All they hoped for was that the future king would grant Laputa a dignified end!"

Sheeta suddenly realized that she had finally overcome the mental hurdle, because Liu Yufei was right. Laputa had left behind many spells, but the spell to awaken Laputa was long and complicated, while the spell to destroy Laputa was the extremely simple Balus.

Perhaps when the king withdrew from Laputa seven hundred years ago, he had already foreseen this outcome.

"Alright, let's go up!! I'll tell you a secret: actually, I'm not a Laputa! Hahaha..."

As he spoke, Liu Yufei burst into laughter, as if his scheme had succeeded.

"what!!"

Not only Sheeta, but Pazu and Dora's family were also astonished, their mouths agape! But as the ornithopter turned, they could only leave Laputa with a heart full of questions.

Watching Laputa slowly disappear into the sunset, Balu said with a touch of melancholy:

"It's so beautiful! It feels like a dream!"

As soon as he said it, Dora punched him on the head.

"Kid, drive carefully. I'm going to teach you a new technique, so watch closely."

"Ah! Ouch!! Grandma, why do I want to learn this? I'm not going to be a sky pirate!"

"Nonsense, would you stop learning if you didn't want to be a sky pirate? Besides, do you even have a choice now? Sheeta, keep an eye on things! This crappy flying machine is too small!!"

The ornithopter can carry a maximum of two people, and the other cabins were already full. Only Dora and her two little ones squeezed in. After saying that, she moved to the back to make room for Liang Xiaozhi.

“Hida…”

"Hmm!! Balu, look, those birds!!"

"Hida, now we're as free as those birds!!"

"Yes! Balu, I'm so happy!!"

Without waiting for Dora to follow her, Sheeta immediately hugged Pazu.

"Ah! Shida, it's too tight! I..."

"You bastard, you brat, what are you doing? Let go of Miss Sheeta... Ouch, Henry, why did you bump into me?"

"Haha, Miss Sheeta, your place is too crowded! I still have a seat here."

"You bunch of good-for-nothings! If you had any brains, would you all be single? Get the hell out of here!!"

For a moment, the sky pirates were laughing and playing in their ornithoppers, and Sheeta let go of Pazu, the wind of freedom brushing against her cheeks once more.

Laputa, the city in the sky, symbolizes all that is beautiful, but all beautiful aspirations share one thing: to be free like the wind. Not the freedom of the body, but the freedom of the soul.

The freedom of the soul is destined to break free from some unnecessary shackles, and the most important shackle for a person is the shackle of self-identity, which is both a shackle of the soul and a shackle of identity.

Sheeta has many identities: a little girl fleeing from war, a quiet country girl, the princess of Laputa, and the true king of Laputa. These are all shackles, and the more identities a person has, the stronger these shackles become.

Some people desperately want to break free from their shackles, while others desperately want to wear them, because some people's souls are adrift and adrift.

Most of them don't know who they are, and only when they are shackled will people look at them. Others give them labels and identities, and in the end, they can no longer find their true selves in this illusory identity.

Only kindness can free one from these unnecessary shackles and prevent one's soul from becoming like a caged bird.

Sheeta is that kind of kind person. You can call her a saint or hate her, but human spiritual civilization needs these kinds of people. Behind every lofty ideal, there is absolutely no one who is acting for their own private interests.

Such a person would even shed tears for their enemy, and here we must mention someone we all hated when we were kids.

Tang Sanzang! We're not getting off topic! Is Tang Sanzang a saint? He's prone to excessive compassion, loves to save others, and always saves the wrong ones. In the Three Battles with the White Bone Demon, he saved the old man's family by mistake; later, he saved the old man disguised as Silver Horn again; and he even saved Red Boy while he was falling through the air!

Ordinary people would have given up long ago, but Tang Sanzang did not. He still chose to save them. So, in the later kingdoms of Biqu and Fengxian, without Tang Sanzang, do you think Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie would have understood the suffering of mortals?

Only Tang Sanzang cared about the common people, which is why he achieved enlightenment while everyone else was just a wage slave! Of course, there's also a lot of over-interpretation now, and Tang Sanzang isn't exactly a saint either.

Sheeta is a compassionate person, and like Tang Sanzang, she also has a strong sense of identity.

From the very beginning, people like Zhenyuan Daxian and Half-Bodied Guanyin all claimed that Tang Sanzang was Jin Chanzi, the Buddha's eldest disciple. But did Tang Sanzang ever see himself as Jin Chanzi?

This is identity recognition. Sheeta has many identities. Muska says she is the princess of a lost civilization, while Liu Yufei says she is the true queen of Laputa. But Sheeta still knows who she is: Sheeta. The other identities are just shackles imposed on her by others.

That alone makes him better than most people! Someone like Muska has never even seen Laputa, yet he still identifies himself as a Laputan. Even if he doesn't get recognition from others, he still believes in himself. To put it nicely, he's an idealist fanatic; to put it bluntly, he's a hysteriac.

As for Liu Yufei! He's not even as good as Muska! Muska has family heritage and self-identity. But what about Liu Yufei? He's just making things up out of nothing, a self-proclaimed spiritual rapper.

Meanwhile, Liu Yufei, the spiritual master, was beneath the Tree of Life. As he pressed his palm down on the Tree of Life, its roots seemed to come alive, slowly swallowing Musca below.

After doing all this, Liu Yufei went to the bottom of the control room. Underneath the tangled tree roots was the core of Laputa, a huge crystal of flying stones.

Looking at the crystal that still shone with blue light, Liu Yufei smiled, and green light burst forth from his body as he placed his hands on the crystal.

As the light waves continued to flicker, the light on the levitation stone crystal also began to shimmer, from brilliant to dim, and finally turned into the most ordinary crystal, shattering into pieces on the ground.