One Piece: The Eternal Flame

To be able to choose the one that can activate the mechanism from so many gems inlaid on the bookshelf, if you don't know it in advance, it is luck.

Alfred gave Gray a strange look, "How do you know there is a secret passage here?"

"Ah? I want to pick gems." Gray lifted up the gems, "You look very beautiful, hey, don't grab my things."

"Hmph." Alfred withdrew his hand, his eyes lingering on the dark tunnel for a moment.

Gray pushed him and said positively: "Let's go, maybe there's a very valuable treasure hidden inside."

"Don't push me." Alfred replied with a frown, but walked into the secret passage first.

The candlelight flickered, stretching the shadows of the two people very long.

"Hey, let me tell you a horror story." Gray was very excited, but the only response to him was a very blunt sentence.

"To shut up."

It's really cold, Gray curled his lips, but his mood was not affected.

The king's hidden secrets are about to be discovered, and he has already figured out how much he will buy with the money.

Thinking of his treasure, he bumped into the back of the former who stopped suddenly.

Alfred was knocked staggered, frowning and staring back, "Are you blind?"

"Why do you have such a big opinion on me?" Gray felt puzzled.

"Because you're in the way." After Alfred finished speaking, he walked forward again. There were two forks in front of him. That's why he stopped just now.

"I think we should go to the left."

"Should go to the right."

The two held their own opinions to a stalemate, and finally decided to go their own way.

Gray muttered, cursing the white-haired, golden-eyed boy who looked quite expensive for not being able to find the treasure, and they didn't even know each other's name, after all, they were about to choke when they spoke, and couldn't find the time to introduce themselves.

Alfred was still very wary of Gray. The latter fell from the sky, and his behavior was already full of suspiciousness.

As Gray walked, he smelled a strange smell. He covered his mouth and nose, and in the next moment, he turned into a flame and filled the corner.

"The experiment failed again."

"No way, there are still many things that are uncertain, and it is still in the experimental stage."

"Experiments, experiments, experiments were done hundreds of years ago, and there is no breakthrough at all."

"Shhh, keep your voice down, don't be heard by the doctors."

"Hey, the ore is used up again, and I don't know what SAD is missing."

"Doctors don't know, how can we research it, it's dangerous anyway."

"Hehe, those money-grubbing and stupid civilians are so stupid to treat ore radiation as a chronic infectious disease."

"Yeah, every time I see them daring to reach for ore without wearing protective clothing, I want to laugh."

The two talked, pouring a container of purple liquid over Gray.

The flame moved to the side, inevitably getting a little liquid and making a sizzling sound.

"Huh? Strange, has the corrosion intensified?"

Thanks to the darker corners around him, illuminated by candlelight, Gray hadn't been spotted.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and followed the two of them in the form of flames, and came to a large underground building.

This is a super-large laboratory. In the petri dish, there are several grotesque human beings covered with tubes. There are many people in protective clothing writing and drawing around there.

A petri dish on the other side shattered, the liquid flowed all over the floor, and a huge head—with devil horns, even several times larger than a giant's head lay quietly on the ground.

This should be a failed experiment.

Gray hated experiments. He felt that the word itself was full of a sense of indifference, especially experiments on humans.

This place must be destroyed, no matter whose territory it belongs to.

The flames spread around, and at this moment, the wall on one side shattered with a bang, and several researchers standing there were unfortunately crushed under the wall.

Amidst the dust, Alfred stepped on the ruins with a knife.

He didn't look in good condition, his clothes were torn, and the bloodstains were shocking, but his aura was surprisingly strong.

"You, who are you!" The researchers never thought that someone would find this place. They picked up the weapons they carried with them, and pointed their guns at the figure standing above the ruins.

"I'm here to kill you." Alfred paused every word, his golden pupils became brighter because of anger, and looked like golden gemstones from a distance.

Flames formed Gray's body not far away. He took out the golden gemstone he had picked out, looked at Alfred again, compared it, and then threw the stone away.

Pirates have found brighter gems, so it is better to discard the dull things as soon as possible.

Compared with Gray, Alfred was unlucky. The road he walked was full of obstacles, the air was filled with poisonous gas, and the ground was full of traps. He inevitably inhaled something, and the onset was very slow. At least for now, he was still able to fight.

There he saw the piled up, rotten and smelly human body fragments. Surprisingly, those fragments were very large, and they were not inferior to giants.

There are no giants in Cyberpunk Hazard, this can only be a product of experimentation.

The road Gray chose leads directly to the laboratory, and the road he chooses is the dumping ground for the failed products of the laboratory.

A few people in protective suits dumped carloads of broken limbs and arms into the garbage, and then lit them on fire. Purple smoke floated over Punk Hazard along the upper vents.

The civilians here can hardly start well and end well, and the older they get, the more painful they will be.

He listened to those people's indifferent complaints, and anger surged into his limbs and bones.

The black flames and the sword light complement each other, destroying this sinful place together.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Alfred half-kneeled on the ground with his sword propped up. The poisonous gas he inhaled earlier spread faster with the violent movement just now. At the last moment when his vision was blurred, he fell forward and fell into a strong, hot embrace.

Waking up again in a hotel room, he was rescued.

"Fortunately, the toxin you inhaled is relatively small, and it's fairly normal. You'll be fine after drinking the medicine for two days. However, there is another toxin in your body. Did you know this? It's been there since childhood."

On both sides of the table, two worlds are separated.

Alfred looked at the ship doctor among the pirates and nodded, "I know."

"Your hair and eyes are also caused by this toxin. You can't live long. Do you know this too?"

"I know."

"It seems that you have also felt the pain of the toxin attack?"

"Ah."

".Well, as a doctor, I'll do my best to find relief for you."

"No need." Alfred looked at him and said calmly, "Thank you very much, but no need."

"—Crack!" The captain slapped the table, "I think you haven't understood the situation yet, I saved you, so your life is mine now! Since the day before yesterday, you have been the treasure that the pirates snatched back!"

"So what do you mean?" Alfred leaned back in the chair, folded his hands on his chest, and looked straight at Gray.

Gray looked back at each other without showing any weakness, and smiled, "You have been a pirate since the day before yesterday, and I am your captain, Gregory D. Gray."

Gray?Alfred's fingers twitched slightly. He had heard about Navy Gray defecting from the navy, but he didn't expect to meet him here.

As expected of a thorn in the navy, his ability to cause trouble is really top ten.

"I refuse to join the pirates."

"Rejection is invalid."

"You are sick?"

"It's you who don't take medicine when you're sick."

"No medicine can save me, do you think I don't want to live!" Alfred stood up abruptly, slapping the table with both hands and glaring at Gray. Their faces were so close that Alfred could see his angry reflection in Gray's dark eyes.

He swears, he has never been so angry, since he met this guy, he has been angry anytime, anywhere.

Gray was also annoyed. He grabbed Alfred's collar, pulled it forward, and shouted: "So our ship doctor is trying to find a way! You haven't seen all the doctors in the world!"

Incomprehensible.

Alfred shook off Gray's hand, and was about to turn around and leave, but the next moment his body fell straight down again.

The toxins brought out from the mother's womb have a very high probability of attacking when the mood fluctuates greatly.

He remembered the doctor's words, and cursed in his heart that meeting Gray was really unlucky.

Severe pain spread from his heart to his whole body. He has been used to this kind of unavoidable pain since he was a child.

"Colin, hurry up!" Gray crossed the table, helped Alfred up, and put his wrist into the latter's mouth by the way.

The ship doctor was good enough, but it still took a long time to deal with Alfred's problem.

When the pain subsided slowly, Alfred let go of the mouth that was biting Gray's wrist, the mouth was filled with the smell of blood, which used to be his own, but now it was someone else's.

"Do you think?" He struggled to grab Gray's collar and wanted to speak, but with the tears falling down, the voice he made was extremely aggrieved, "Do you think I don't want to live!!!"

Those golden eyes seemed to hide thousands of stars, and Gray liked the sparkling things.

With a sullen face, he stretched out his hand to cover Alfred's eyes, his palm was hot and dry, with a reassuring atmosphere.

"Colin, you said earlier that the poison on his body is the same as the poison that pervades this island."

"Ah, yes." Colin lowered his head, not daring to look at Gray at this moment.

This 15-year-old boy has a sense of oppression that does not match his age.

"What do you want to do?"

"Those who bullied me, there is no need for this country to exist."

What a weirdo.

Alfred didn't understand, and they didn't know each other for long, how could Gray say such a thing, he didn't need other people's sympathy at all, and he didn't need it.
He reached out to grab Gray's hand, but stopped the moment he touched Gray's hand.

Indulging himself to cry silently in the darkness created by Gray, this was the first time Alfred cried miserably not for the pain of the toxin attack, but for some other things.

A black flame destroyed the palace built by Punk Hazard for hundreds of years, killed the king, stepped on the blood flowing all over the ground, and blew the truth about the ore to all parts of the island with the wind.

Molina, Triton, Cyborg, the world government, and even everyone in the world couldn't have imagined that this Black Flame Gray, who had just entered the new world and was still struggling to protect himself, did two stupid things to declare war on the world government in just a few days.

Yes, stupid stuff.

He burned down the auction of slaves, and destroyed the royal family of Punk Hazard, who had a cooperative relationship with the world government for hundreds of years. Any one of these things is enough to be called a challenge to authority.

He is finished.

Everyone in the world is waiting for the day when they will hear the news of Heiyan Gray being executed in public, but day after day, the news in the newspapers has always been that his status in the New World is rising.

"Grey, on the path you have chosen, whether you look back, forward, or sideways, I, Alfred, will be within reach of you."

-

"So you betrayed me?"

"This is not a betrayal. I have been in the navy from the beginning, but it is logical to be an undercover agent."

"You're always with me. I thought we had a good relationship. Hey, I've never had such a good relationship with anyone. I thought we were friends. I and I had no friends before. You are the first, Fred."

"You were first too, Gray."

"Should I believe your words?"

"."

"Well, it looks like I've been fooled again."

You are truly the first and only one.

Alfred fell down and stared at Gray's face for a long time. In fact, the wound didn't hurt. He had long been used to enduring pain, but his heart hurt so badly that he couldn't even raise his arms, and missed the last chance to hug.

-

"Captain Gray, with the status of the pirates in the new world, I think you should recruit more people." Molina said softly, "The pirates in the new world always like to expand their power. It is very dangerous for you to neither seize the island nor recruit people.

Gray sat on the window of the Dressrosa Palace, looking at the colorful flowers blooming outside. The warm orange color of the sunset was too bright, overshadowing the original color of the flowers.

He ignored Molina's kind reminder.

"Captain Gray, have you listened to me? You are no longer a child, don't give up because of a person's betrayal"

"Molina, when I think I should, I will. I know that better than anyone."

Gray looked at Molina, his voice was calm, his face was young and handsome, because he was in a bad mood because Ni Lin, who should not be mentioned, was mentioned, and he even let out his aura.

"Sorry, let me be alone for a while. You are always nagging, which makes me find it difficult to cooperate."

"...I broke the rules. Captain, please sit here for a while. If you need anything, please don't hesitate." Molina lifted her skirt slightly, performing an elegant aristocratic etiquette.

After she left, the surroundings became quiet.

Gray leaned back against the window frame, raised his hand, and the cuff slipped off, revealing the clearly visible bite mark on his wrist.

After a while he cursed.

"Damn it, even the saying that it is within reach is a lie to me."