Following Elena, I kept looking for clues left by Sam and the others.
Finally, Nathan and Elena arrived at the palace with the tall watchtower they had seen before.
The collapsing buildings, the mottled walls, these old buildings were covered with moss and overgrown with trees.
But at this time, most of this island paradise was submerged in water.
But it must be said that everything in front of me was so beautiful.
Ben stared wide-eyed at everything around him, not even paying attention to the conversations between Nathan and Elena in the game.
Well, anyway, after these two told each other their feelings, the whole way was just giving dog food to players like him.
This story, better not listen!
Looking at the lost pirate utopia in front of him, Ben was full of amazement.
Even though this was a lost city, even though it had been hidden on this deserted island for 300 years.
But as time passed, this pirate paradise seemed even more magnificent.
It even gave Ben an illusion.
That is, a pirate utopia really exists in reality, hidden in a corner of the world, and Libertalia itself should be like this.
While Ben was amazed by the surrounding scenery, Nathan and Elena on this side also discovered Sam entering the depths of the building complex through binoculars.
So, in order to save this unreliable brother, Elena and Nathan set off immediately.
On this road, there was nothing that needed to be solved with puzzles.
Just climbing and finding the right path, if he had come to this scene at the beginning, the relatively complex climbing design would still make Ben stuck for a while.
But for him now, it was not a problem at all.
After observing for a while, it was easy to find the right path.
What Ben was more concerned about were the things that Nathan and Elena discovered here.
Letters left by pirates, and all kinds of clues, were gradually revealing everything that happened in this pirate paradise Libertalia 300 years ago.
Finally, in a hall, Nathan and Elena discovered a group of pirate corpses.
These were all famous pirates in history, but they died at the same time.
However, one person was missing from the crowd: Henry Avery.
So now the answer was very clear.
Henry Avery, this pirate who was once considered a legend.
Through a series of means, he gathered these famous pirates together, and also gathered their wealth together.
They jointly built the pirate utopia Libertalia.
But in the end, Henry Avery killed these companions in order to steal all the treasures.
Countless treasures turned these thieves into terrible demons, and they killed each other.
Of course, in this adventure, there were also inevitable fierce battles.
Machine guns, grenades, RPGs, Nathan and Elena, who were extremely powerful, directly wiped out a group of mercenaries.
At the same time, half of the pirate palace collapsed again.
But Ben was not moved by this at all. He would have been surprised if it had not collapsed.
Finally, after several battles, Nathan and Elena finally rescued Sam.
But the obsession with treasure still surrounded Sam's heart, so after Sam sent Nathan away, he still decided to go alone to find Henry Avery's treasure.
Even though he couldn't help but want to punch his brother in the face, Nathan couldn't leave him alone no matter what.
So he asked Elena and Sullivan to prepare for the evacuation first, and he himself went back again.
Climbing, killing enemies, and finally arriving at the great pirate Henry's treasure ship.
In the midst of gold and silver treasures, Nathan and Rafe had a traditional pirate duel with pirate swords.
Dodging, fencing, this was the most difficult battle for Ben in the game.
Even with the explorer mode turned on, it was still dangerous.
But fortunately, he finally managed to knock Rafe down and left the treasure ship with Sam.
Accompanied by explosions and sparks, the treasure ship and Rafe sank into the sea.
Watching Nathan escape with Sam, Ben also realized something, and seemed to understand some of the meaning of the game title 'Thief's End'.
Henry Avery and those famous pirates in history, as well as Rafe and the others, were all thieves.
But Nathan was different. He was not the owner of the treasure, but the witness of the treasure.
For Nathan Drake, the thing he was really obsessed with was not the treasure itself.
Nathan Drake was just a witness to the treasure, not the owner of the treasure.
He witnessed the existence of those treasures, and then buried them again.
For Nathan Drake, that was enough.
And Sam was also curious about the treasure itself, not the value of the treasure.
But the difference was that Nathan Drake had seen enough treasures, and he could let go of everything.
But Sam had not yet been able to completely let go.
At the end of the return, Nathan and Sam had a conversation.
Sam: "I just thought that after we found Henry Avery's treasure, I would be...satisfied?"
Sam: "On the contrary...I...seem to have this strange..."
Nathan: "Emptiness, yes, you know that no matter how thrilling the next adventure is, you'll still have the same feeling in the end."
Nathan: "Sometimes you can only make a choice, what to keep, and what to give up."
Sam: "Well...I don't think I'm at that level yet. Besides, you know you've discovered several ancient city ruins than me. I can't just leave them alone, so..."
Nathan: "I left you a few."
Listening to the conversation between Nathan and Sam, Ben couldn't help but smile knowingly.
Just from the ruins of Henry Avery's pirate paradise and the treasure ship.
Ben estimated that in the subsequent DLC, the ancient city ruins that Nathan explored would basically be in trouble again.
Before Nathan discovered these ruins, these ancient city ruins were fine where they were.
But after Nathan discovered them, who knows what would happen.
But compared to these, what made Ben even more emotional was Nathan himself.
What kind of thrilling adventures did the past Nathan Drake experience, how did he get to know Elena and Sullivan?
Ben didn't know these things, but from the story of Thief's End, Ben could clearly feel the charm of Nathan Drake.
From Nathan salvaging underwater at the beginning and then pampering his wife at home, while recalling past events in a daze.
All of this could make people feel Nathan's heart.
Nathan could be said to be a contradictory person, a hypocrite, with a desire for adventure in his blood and a preciousness for the people around him.
He was never a person who was willing to be ordinary, and his heart was always craving exciting adventures.
So Nathan Drake was always pretending, pretending that he was really happy, making himself look like he could really adapt to a normal life.
He was always trying to overcome that emptiness from excitement to ordinariness.
But when he really embarked on the adventure again, he discovered those clues about the treasure, he discovered the clues about the hidden truths in history.
Nathan Drake, this man, his eyes made people feel full of heat.
But this journey was different, Nathan Drake finally truly found the answer he wanted.
At the end of the story, Sam took some gold coins from the treasure.
He gave these gold coins to Elena, and Elena used these gold coins to buy the salvage company where Nathan worked, and also got a salvage license for the Southeast Asian seas through connections. Finally, the couple decided to do some legal but treasure-hunting work in the future.
Nathan was responsible for salvaging, while Elena was responsible for filming with a camera to make a show.
Finally, as the screen went dark, Ben sighed with emotion.
At the same time, the object the player controlled at the end became Nathan Drake's daughter many years later.
From some photos and information in the house, Nathan and Elena's life could be said to be wonderful.
And Sam and Sullivan formed a new adventure group, and from the content of the photos, Sam and Sullivan were also living well.
In the end, the daughter even discovered some small secrets that her parents had been hiding from her in the cabinet.
So the family of three came to the boat and told the crazy adventure stories of the past.
In such an atmosphere, the game came to an end.
Looking at the entire game's development team list, Ben couldn't help but take a breath with a smile.
(End of this chapter)
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