Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

That slender arm, which originally belonged to a normal human, stretched into a bizarre, flesh-colored whip during the storm.

Interspersed with the sickening sound of muscle fibers tearing, it headed straight for the military radar antenna of the peacekeeping cruiser.

On the opposite pirate ship, the group of strangely dressed, lawless people erupted in deafening cheers.

The green-haired swordsman curled his lips into a cruel sneer.

He seemed to have already foreseen the horrific scene of steel warships being smashed into scrap metal.

The blond chef leisurely exhaled a smoke ring, his eyes revealing a deep disdain for modern technology.

However, within Lu Jingyan's pale blue vision of "absolute rationality,"...

This seemingly devastating blow was slowed down infinitely by the cruel laws of physics, dismantling it into the most clumsy slow motion.

At 0.1 seconds, the rubber arm broke through the breakwater surrounding the warship.

The boy in the straw hat's pupils contracted sharply due to excessive excitement.

His mind was filled with childish fantasies of trampling this giant ship under his feet.

In 0.2 seconds, not even a single eyebrow on Lu Jingyan's handsome face, which was as sculpted as marble, twitched.

He did not make any tactical evasive maneuvers.

He simply raised his slender right hand casually, his fingertips hovering above the scarlet physical button on the control panel.

At 0.5 seconds, Lu Jingyan's finger pressed down gently.

The fingertip rubbed against the rough engineering plastic, producing a crisp "click" sound.

The faint mechanical clang awakened the steel Grim Reaper slumbering on the warship's deck.

At 0.8 seconds, the base of the Type 1130 close-in weapon system, responsible for close-range defense, suddenly spun around.

Driven by an electric motor, the eleven thick, heavy gun barrels began to spin at a terrifyingly high speed.

The fire control radar's tracking beam locked onto the rapidly moving, abnormal biomass in mid-air.

It ended in one second.

"Buzz—!"

There were no crisp gunshots, only the low-frequency hissing of metal ripping through the air.

Ten thousand high-density tungsten-core armor-piercing rounds per minute intertwined in the pitch-black downpour, forming a dazzling lash of death.

That rubber arm that's supposed to be able to deflect any cold weapon and old-fashioned smoothbore cannons.

Under the baptism of modern saturation firepower, it is as fragile as an old newspaper put into a shredder.

"Pfft pfft—"

A hail of bullets pierced the boy's flesh in an instant.

The high-energy metal bullet creates a terrible cavity effect the moment it tears through the rubber tissue.

Blood mixed with shattered muscle tissue exploded into plumes of blood mist in mid-air.

The straw hat boy's arrogant smile froze instantly.

Immediately afterwards, his facial features contorted in unbearable pain.

"Aaaaaaah!"

A blood-curdling scream completely drowned out the howling winds of the Bermuda Triangle.

The boy jerked back his right arm, which had been riddled with holes, as if he had been electrocuted, and slammed heavily onto his own wooden deck.

He clutched his bleeding arm and rolled around on the ground like a wildcat whose tail had been stepped on.

"It hurts! Why does it hurt so much!"

"My body is made of rubber! How could something possibly pierce through me?!"

The cheers on the pirate ship came to an abrupt halt.

A deathly silence enveloped the group of frogs at the bottom of the well.

The katana that the green-haired swordsman was holding in his mouth clattered to the deck.

The blond chef burned his fingertips with the cigarette in his hand, but he was so shocked that he forgot to shake his hand off.

Their proud, invincible captain was crippled by an iron pipe without even touching the other ship's side.

Lu Jingyan released the button.

The scorching hot close-in weapon system gun barrels emitted plumes of white steam rising from the cold rain.

The air was filled with a strong smell of smokeless gunpowder and a faint smell of blood.

Lu Jingyan slowly picked up the communication microphone, his eyes cold and devoid of any human warmth.

"Su Xiaoxiao, activate the electronic warfare pod."

The man's deep voice rang out methodically in the command channel.

"Activate full-band electromagnetic interference to cut off all their power and communication equipment."

Su Xiaoxiao excitedly slapped the table, her ponytail swinging back in a neat arc.

"Roger that, Captain Lu!"

"Watch me show these primitive people, who don't even know what a light bulb is, what information warfare is all about!"

The girl's fair fingers pressed the last Enter key on the waterproof keyboard.

A high-frequency electromagnetic pulse, invisible to the naked eye, suddenly rippled outwards from the cruiser's center.

The pirate ship opposite was instantly thrown into chaos.

The old-fashioned kerosene navigation lights hanging on the mast exploded all at once with a "bang".

The compass in the navigator's hand spun wildly, completely losing its magnetic field direction.

The most ridiculous thing was the strange snails with eyes that they used to communicate.

Under the sweep of electromagnetic pulses, they all foamed at the mouth, rolled over, and fainted on the spot.

The once arrogant wooden sailboat was instantly transformed into a blind coffin adrift in the raging waves.

Lu Jingyan looked down at the straw-hatted boy wailing on the deck.

He turned on the loudspeaker, and the authoritative voice, so powerful that it seemed to stop the surrounding seawater from churning.

"Does it hurt a lot?"

Lu Jingyan's words carried an air of superiority regarding the rule of law and judgment.

"Your proud superpowers are nothing more than a bunch of inferior proteins from carbon-based organisms in the face of the firepower of modern military industry."

The boy in the straw hat gritted his teeth, his bloodshot eyes filled with resentment and anger.

He struggled to his feet from the pool of blood, pointing at Lu Jingyan with his remaining left hand.

"I will not give up! I am the man who will become the Pirate King!"

"Even if it costs me my life, I will defend the freedom of the sea!"

Faced with this unrepentant and immature statement.

Lu Jingyan even lost the inclination to sneer.

His eyes held only sorrow for this severe antisocial personality disorder.

"I don't care what kind of king you are."

Lu Jingyan patted the raindrops off his trench coat, his posture as straight as a sword.

"In the face of a modern navy, you can only become a prisoner."

"Your crimes are enough to condemn you to a lifetime of sewing machine work in the highest-level felony prison."

The Straw Hat Boy's crew finally realized what was happening.

They drew their weapons, preparing for a final, desperate struggle.

"Protect the captain! Fight those guys in black!"

Looking at the pirates charging towards them like a primitive tribe.

Lu Jingyan turned his head slightly to look at Zhao Tiezhu, who was watching the show while holding a Gatling gun.

"Tiezhu, these suspects have a serious tendency to violently resist law enforcement and refuse to surrender."

Lu Jingyan pushed up glasses that weren't actually there.

"Follow international counter-terrorism practices and procedures."

"Connect to the Pacific Fleet's highest command and request saturation fire coverage from the carrier strike group."

Zhao Tiezhu had been waiting impatiently for a long time.

The bald, burly man grinned, revealing a set of gleaming white teeth, and smiled like a villain.

He grabbed the encrypted communicator and started yelling at the top of his lungs.

"Calling command! This is the special investigation team at the front lines!"

"An extremely brazen and inhumane pirate group has been detected in the target waters. Requesting coordinates for strike operations!"

The pirates didn't understand what an aircraft carrier battle group was.

They still brandished their ridiculous scimitars and muskets, shouting in the wind and rain that they wanted to seize the warship.

Until a few minutes later.

The thunderstorm clouds in the sky were suddenly torn apart by a massive, suffocating engine roar.

The tremor was so intense that it seemed as if even the continental shelf on the seabed was shaking.

Zhao Tiezhu put down the communicator and loudly mocked the group of pirates who were still waving their broken copper and scrap iron.

"You bumpkins, hold your heads up!"

"The freedom you all keep talking about, I've packed it all up and delivered it to you!"

At the horizon, three heavy aircraft carriers, accompanied by a massive formation of fighter jets that blotted out the sky, rolled in like steel behemoths.