Pirate

Pirate is a long web novel by Shi San, completed at 183 chapters and roughly 1.1 million Chinese characters on platforms such as Qidian. The novel transplants the classic pirate theme to a cosmic scale: the protagonist, Liefeng, calls himself an interstellar pirate, but he has neither an eyepatch nor a hook, only a starship named the Dragon Crocodile. The ship can cruise the sea of stars at sub-light speed and perform spatial jumps that even regular warships find difficult, giving him the means to move freely through a star domain far vaster than the Age of Exploration. The early story centers on space encounters, revolving around raiding, escape, and survival, as Liefeng comes into contact and conflict with different civilizations and factions such as Hehan, the Shadow Cult, the werewolf tribes, and the cat people. As the plot advances, elements of dark magic and alchemy, giant mecha, and transforming mechanical armor become interwoven, and he is drawn not merely into feuds among pirates but into the rivalries of multiple interstellar powers. The mid-to-late main storyline includes the founding of a pirate legion, the contest over divine artifacts, and the outbreak of a large-scale interstellar war, with Liefeng's side facing opponents such as the Dread Pluto and the Successor of Satan, before the book concludes with the Battle of the Imperial City and the Final Battle. Beneath its science-fiction shell, the work incorporates a fantasy power system and alien creatures; it moves at a brisk pace and is one of the representative early interstellar adventure works by Shi San.