[comprehensive] red tide

"What?" After being stunned for a while, Huang Yuan looked away and turned his gaze to the supreme commander; before they could respond, the other end of the phone snail fell silent, and then suddenly cut into another frequency band after a few breaths.

There were a few rapid and messy radio noises, and the clear words from the phone snail came from the general Aokiji, "Polusalino, it's me—" With a thick and deep voice, the little snail imitated the incomparable man on the other end. dignified expression.

Seeing clearly the semi-elemental face that the phone worm transformed into, Huang Yuan was slightly startled, and immediately put away his usual idleness, and his tone tightened, "What's going on?"

Huang Yuan knew that if it weren't for the special circumstances, his casual colleague, Aokiji Kuzan, would not have shown the same defensive posture on the eve of the war.

The other end was silent for two seconds, pursed the corners of his mouth again, and dropped a short sentence, "Heart leech." After that, the humanized expression of the phone snail disappeared instantly, and it was obvious that the general Aokiji had cut off the communication.

"what?!"

Heart leech? !A terrifying creature that has been extinct for nearly a hundred years... the yellow ape and everyone present in the conference room startled in horror.

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Before he even had time to say anything, he just briefly nodded his head in greeting with the supreme commander, and General Huang Yuan immediately activated his ability and rushed directly to the scene of the incident.

The meeting came to an end immediately, no matter whether it was Judiciary Island, Nicole Robin, or even the Demon Slaying Order, all of them combined were not as terrifying as what Aokiji said.

It was a plague-like existence. Before it was extinct, every time it appeared in the books and records, it would definitely cause disasters.

If it weren't for the unprecedented severe drought a hundred years ago, which won a glimmer of hope for the civilization at that time, the outbreak of the leeches even forced all forces to put down their prejudices and form an alliance with hatred to jointly suppress the disasters launched by the parasites expand.

Human beings are used to hating each other and killing each other for strange reasons. The alien species that can make the whole world work together in an instant, its destructive power and terrifying consequences can be imagined.

The dazzling bright yellow light flashed away, and another general, Akainu Sakaski, stood up at the same time, "Marshal Sengoku—" He cast his eyes on the face of the supreme commander, and said in a deep voice, "There is me in Kuzan. And Polusalino, don't bother the Marshal to check it out himself."

The Supreme Commander's face sank like water, and he closed his eyes after a moment, hesitating for a few seconds before nodding silently; being signaled, General Akainu slowly narrowed his eyes, but without saying anything, he left his position abruptly and hurried to the exit of the meeting room go.

Immediately afterwards, the other generals who participated in the meeting, and the lieutenant generals who happened to be in Marineford and hadn't gone out today, got up one after another, walked out of the door and immediately separated, each rushing to the camp that they needed to stick to, methodically and The invisible defense line was pulled apart tacitly.

The meaning of Admiral Akainu is very clear. No matter what the situation is there, the supreme commander of the navy is not allowed to go there in person. This also means to preserve his strength.

After all, according to the records, [Heart Leech] infects and parasitizes through the air and blood, and here is Marineford, where the world's naval elites are concentrated. It is no exaggeration to say that the appearance of a parasite will bring disasters and consequences It's all unimaginable.

The heart leech that can detonate the dark side of people's hearts, the devil's heart, even if it reappears, it is not allowed to spread to the civilians. If it is unfortunate that Marineford is polluted, the destruction can only be limited to this island.

Even if it is the naval camp that will pay the price.

The above is the decision made by the high-ranking navy generals who have just heard the bad news.

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After the generals left, the Supreme Commander and the Great Staff were left in the conference room.

Compared with the gloomy and solemn others, the Marshal of the Warring States Period and Lieutenant General He seemed a little more relaxed. They were worried, but they didn't feel as if they were facing a big enemy.

Of course, this is not an indifference that has nothing to do with them, but that both the supreme commander and the general staff understand their generals.

Yellow monkey and red dog, a person with the ability of flashing fruit, and a person with the ability of magma fruit, light and high heat, happen to be the natural nemesis of the heart leech.

As for Aokiji Kuzan, if the situation is out of control, with Kuzan's character, he might not even make that call. He will just take care of everything. Even if he is parasitized, before the damage spreads to ordinary people, he will first He also killed himself.

Seemingly unruly, tough and sharp inside, more decisive and ruthless than anyone else when necessary—this is the Ice Aokiji, the power granted to the general by the world government, the highest combat power with one man below ten thousand.

At this moment, Aokiji, who brought back a bad news, froze his location and informed the Science Department, thinking that the situation over there should not be very serious. The 'heart leech' he said was just to remind the headquarters to take due precautions against it. .

The yellow monkey and the red dog rushed there afterwards, believing that the situation would be effectively controlled in a short time.

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When thinking of General Aokiji, it is inevitable to think of Nicole Robin. Immediately afterwards, the supreme commander couldn't help but want to sigh.

Many years ago, Kuzan, who was only a lieutenant general before bearing the title of General Aokiji, was a young man at that time who was passionate and righteous, and often made women break their hearts for him. Cursed?

After returning from a trip to the West Sea, he seemed to be a different person, curbed all his wandering behaviors and became ascetic, and became more and more lazy. He always liked to ride around on a bicycle that he suddenly fell in love with for nothing.

It was too late when Marshal Warring States vaguely noticed something was wrong, no, or it should be said that no one would speculate in that direction at first.

When the Xihai O'Hara incident ended 20 years ago, when the follow-up process was carried out, regarding the survivor Nicole Robin who seemed to escape, it was Kuzan who insisted on issuing a wanted warrant, and it was also Kuzan who went all out to pursue him in private.

Marshal of the Warring States Period originally thought it was Kuzan’s guilty reaction of making friends with himself. His attention to Nicole Robin was out of empathy. After all, Saron promised Nicole Olbia to protect her daughter and kill her. To kill his friend, Kuzan must have felt a responsibility to that girl.

Therefore, I turned a blind eye to Kuzan's behavior.

Nicole Robin is just a little girl, and her life must have been very rough. The navy's arrest warrant specifically requires that she be captured alive. This actually means to give her some stability after her arrest.

If you stay in the sight of the navy, although you lose your freedom, your life will definitely be fine.

As a result, the girl disappeared, and no clue could be found in the whole world.

A child under the age of eight actually had a very small chance of surviving on that war-torn night. After three or five years, the Navy had given up. If it wasn’t for the arrest warrants which were always obstructed by Kuzan and could not be revoked, the government and the Navy In fact, Nicole Robin should have been declared dead and everything about her should have been erased.

Slowly, the Marshal realized that something was not quite right. Aokiji, who was already a general, secretly tried his best to find a wanted criminal who had never been heard from, and never gave up for nearly 20 years.

This can't be explained by empathy or guilt, and then looking back and connecting all the clues over the years, Marshal Warring States couldn't help but want to sigh.

So it turned out to be so——

The vice admiral with a bright future and a willful way of life fell in love at first sight with a little girl under the age of eight, and later became a high-ranking general in the headquarters. Because of that thought in his heart, he has never met any other woman since then, saying No one believed it when they went out.

The Marshal of the Warring States Period didn't believe it at first, but unfortunately his love for the general really opened his eyes, and by the way, he didn't know whether to sigh or be angry.

It's fine with anyone else, why do you just like a little girl?Even if there is a big difference in age, why should they be descendants of O'Hara?

Not to mention that the Marshal of the Warring States period thinks it's not good, I'm afraid Aokiji himself knows that it's hard to realize the thoughts that have been hidden for 20 years, right?

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As soon as he thought of General Aokiji's bad thoughts, the supreme commander immediately had a headache.

Subconsciously tugged at the beard under his chin, sighed for a while, Marshal of the Warring States period stopped his gaze, "How is it? What do you think of Nicole Robin—" He lowered his tone and asked the chief staff officer who stayed in the meeting room, Crane Admiral's opinion.

"He's a simple yet complicated person." The older woman raised her eyes, her eyes were deep and wise, "Calm and violent, rational and crazy, that girl... Nicole Robin, is more dangerous than we analyzed before."

Hearing this conclusion, the marshal clenched his hand on the table, "So, that girl really can't be kept."

In the next second, his decision was overturned.

"No—there's no need for that." When speaking, the chief staff officer glanced intentionally or unintentionally at the position where the general Huang Yuan was sitting before, and then looked away flatly, and continued to say:

"Have you noticed? Except when O'Hara was mentioned, her mood fluctuated. At other times, her attitude is more like a bystander, looking at the whole world with a dispensable mood."

"Presumably in her mind, killing millions of people is probably no different from stepping on a piece of grass while walking, it just depends on whether she is in the mood to take action."

"The current Nicole Robin is like a sleeping beast. What we should do is avoid it, not confront it head-on."

"As long as we don't [awaken] her...the Poison Ivy Pirates that were wiped out in the Chambord Islands, and the destruction of the Muse, one of the three major black markets, the answer is obvious, isn't it?"

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"As long as we don't [awaken] her?"

Repeating the last words of the General Staff, the Supreme Commander looked thoughtful, silent for a moment, frowned, still a little uncertain, "But she is a descendant of O'Hara after all..."

"It was our decision-making mistake back then, Marshal of the Warring States Period."

The chief of staff replied in a deep voice, his tone soft and firm, "Although some sacrifices were necessary, thousands of innocent people died. I believe that the generals and sergeants who carried out the orders have not been able to alleviate the guilt in their hearts for so many years."

Hearing the mention of the events of the year, the Supreme Commander's eyes sank suddenly, and he no longer insisted on his point of view, but changed his decision, "Then first increase the amount of reward proposed last time, so that Pirates and bounty hunters to startle her."

After the Muse, one of the three major black markets, was destroyed, the Navy Headquarters drew up a new arrest warrant, but they did not issue it because they were trying to recruit Nicole Robin to become the new Shichibukai. It was two-handed. If she agreed, The two sides have lived in peace since then, otherwise, it will be a wanted order for double the bounty.

Nicole Robin is too dangerous. Her words and deeds on the Muse, her powerful and fierce combat power, her careful and treacherous thoughts, made the senior officials of the Navy headquarters admire and fear.

Since she made it clear that it was impossible to stand in the navy camp, the arrest warrant had to be printed out.

In addition to all the things that happened here in the capital of seven waters, the supreme commander felt that the estimate last time was still low, and it would be good to increase the bounty some more, so that other forces would be happy with the hunting, and then do something to "awaken the beast" .

Without an alliance with the Navy, Nicole Robin naturally cannot stand in another camp.

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"There is no need to increase the reward, just send it out according to the original order." After thinking about it, the supreme commander overturned his decision again, "There is no need for people who don't know the truth to think that our navy is incompetent."

Nicole Robin is just one person, and the amount on the arrest warrant is set too high, which only fuels the arrogance of other bounty offenders. People who don't know what "good things" that girl has really done will only mistakenly think that the navy is not capable enough .

On the other hand, if the amount of the updated arrest warrant is too high, it will also be daunting, which is self-defeating.

"It's a pity—" Marshal Warring States sighed in a low voice, somewhat regretful in his heart. After thinking about it, he sighed for his subordinate who had been infatuated with him for 20 years, "Kuzan...wouldn't be happy?"

"Yes~ General Qingzhi is very disappointed..." Lieutenant General He glanced at an empty position, lowered his eyes, and omitted the rest of the words, lest the supreme commander be annoyed by the soaring blood pressure.

Aokiji Kuzan is not the only one who will be disappointed, there is also a lieutenant general who is stationed outside but has changed from usual to always pay attention to the news of the headquarters; a general who is suddenly enthusiastic and tries hard to draw people into the naval camp...

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"Huh—"

Condensed again by the elemental light beam, the yellow ape who was stepping on the thick ground just now sneezed suddenly.

"Yeah - that's weird..."

Rubbing the tip of his nose, General Huang Yuan hissed inexplicably, looked up at the sky, then retracted his gaze, and his gaze fell on the towering ice wall more than ten meters away, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, "Hey, do you want to So exaggerated?"

The sky is cloudless and the sun is shining brightly. As an autumn island, Marineford, even in the early winter season, the temperature should be neither too hot nor too hot and the wind is gentle. Now, the orangutan only feels a biting chill, no wonder he Sneezes when near.

The ice wall sealed off the entire port. Buildings and warships were covered with a thin layer of ice, including some offshore waters, which were completely frozen, and some human-shaped ice sculptures could even be seen... Presumably it was the sudden appearance of the green pheasant, which made the soldiers who were staying around uneasy Be careful of being implicated.

But fortunately, the freezing effect of the green pheasant itself will not hurt the life, just be careful when moving it later, and don't bump it so that the boys after thawing will drop any parts.

Rubbing his chin, Huang Yuan thought so irresponsibly, and waved his hand back, indicating that the special operations team of the Ministry of Science was already on standby at the scene.

After receiving the order, members of the science department in protective suits entered the scene, conducted surveys and rescues, took samples and disinfected them, and proceeded in an orderly manner according to the procedures; General Huang Yuan himself walked slowly towards the ice wall at the center of the incident.

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As he approached, the blue ice layer slowly thinned, and within a few breaths, the figure behind him could be vaguely seen.

"Kuzan." Huang Yuan chuckled lightly and raised his hand to tap on the barrier in front of him, with a casual attitude as if he went to a colleague's office to chat his teeth in the past, "Hey~ what are you doing hiding in there?"

"Ah la la~ Isn't this a matter of image~" Through the ice wall, Aokiji's voice was laziness, and he untied the last layer of barrier while speaking, "Now I can make the girls in the headquarters scream~ "

In an instant, the thick coldness suddenly spread, and the water molecules condensed into ice turned back into the air again. The yellow ape squinted his eyes and looked at it full of deep meaning.

His eyes quickly circled around his colleagues, and then he closed his eyes in an instant. Huang Yuan raised his eyebrows, and suddenly laughed with great interest, "Yeah—you really don't see such a look~"

"Isn't it that... that makes you so enthusiastic that you find it difficult to wear clothes?"

Although he didn't pay much attention to his own image in the past, Huang Yuan really rarely saw Qingzhi like this—only a pair of trousers, with a slender upper body...

There are really no wounds on the whole body, as seen through the screen...

He breathed a sigh of relief, but clicked twice on his face, the yellow monkey stopped his eyes on the thing that Aokiji was holding, the light in his eyes flickered slightly, he didn't speak, he just raised his eyes, waiting for his colleague Give the answer.

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Aokiji didn't hand over the frozen ice ball to the yellow monkey, but thickened the ice again, and then said in a deep voice, "My blood is stained on the shirt. To ensure safety, let Sakas destroy it."

"After all, we don't know how heart leech reproduces. We only know that it can infect and parasitize through the air and blood."

"I found out that the location where I appeared was Marineford, so I blocked it immediately, thinking to come—" After a pause, Aokiji's tone was more or less apologetic, "Well~ I need to thoroughly disinfect to rest assured~"

"Indeed, we don't have the right to take chances." Huang Yuan nodded and agreed with him.

While talking, the two generals looked at the busy scene at the same time. After a while, Huang Yuan pretended to be casual and said, "What about the girl? She ran away again?"

"It was thrown out by her—" Aokiji's tone was vaguely lost, "What a woman who turned her face like a book..." She laughed at herself as she spoke, and shrugged again, "In short, I got my life back~ who knows In the seabed caves of the capital of seven waters, there is hidden a century-old leech plant that has been extinct."

"Speaking of this—" Huang Yuan dragged his voice deliberately, his eyes were quite strange, "You and her...how is she okay? What did she use to save you?"

After looking up and down Aokiji for a long time, he finally stopped his gaze on the wrist of his colleague's hand holding something. Huang Yuan frowned suddenly, "Did you suddenly get a tattoo a few months ago?"

Now, that position is clean, the skin is smooth and firm, and there is nothing, it seems like—————————————————————————————————————————— Horrified.

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"Ah la la~ I know I can't hide it from you." He lowered his eyes and quickly glanced at his wrist, Aokiji pursed his lips, "I think the time in my current body has probably been set back by more than half a year."

Even for a year, not to mention that the yellow monkey was shocked, even Aokiji himself couldn't help being surprised when he discovered the strangeness.

When he was stuck in the bottom of the sea, he was covered with injuries, the most serious thing was his heart. In order to take out the parasitic heart leeches, Nicole Robin almost dug open his chest. The man's aura was quite strange, as if it could corrode and hinder the devil The fruit transforms cells to repair itself.

And... After that, there were negotiations and threats. Aokiji was worried and angry, and couldn't concentrate on himself for a while. By the time he found out, the dust had already settled.

The wounds all over his body healed without a sound, or should I say disappeared...Only he knows his physical condition, and the tattoo on his wrist is missing, so Aokiji is sure that the man's treatment is to turn his time back .

After returning from Wish Island, Aokiji tattooed a mark on his wrist, using the pattern of the contract that the man made with him and disappeared after completion, a tattoo that looked like a lightning bolt and a scar.

Now it's gone, together with the memorial left to him by that person's escape at that time, [Thunder God's Wrath] and [Damage Transfer], disappeared completely together.

If time and space are shared, Aokiji feels that his condition seems to be a healthy body recorded in a certain space, which has been extracted to the current time period. After thinking about it, it is probably the effect of that lollipop.

And Nicole Robin who can do this kind of thing... is almost equivalent to shaking time and space at the same time!

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"That girl's reference book..."

The more Huang Yuan thought about it, the more shocked he became, and the eyes he and Aokiji looked at each other became more and more serious. Not to mention, Nicole Robin is going to overturn the world's perception of all kinds of abilities that are skillfully used. Knowledge of Devil Fruits!

Regarding time and space, there are indeed people with abilities related to them, but it’s just that Nicole Robin can’t do anything like Nicole Robin’s, completely reset the time of a person’s body, that’s... if it’s true... it’s not old don't die!

Knowing this possibility, Huang Yuan became even more worried, "Hey~ Kuzan, you should take care of yourself first, it will be hard to explain to the marshal later." He waved his hand, signaling his colleagues to end the topic just now, and continued on his own , "I'm sorry~ the leech plant is too scary, Kuzan, you should take a blood sample and send it to the Science Department."

"Half an hour later, the ship of the Ministry of Science departed, and all the samples including those at the scene were sent to Baker Pangga. It was confirmed that your blood sample was fine, and this time the matter really came to an end."

Apart from whether the leeches are parasitic or not, the orangutan never mentioned anything else, and the look he handed to Aokiji was very clear. Regarding Nicole Robin's ability, he just pretended not to know.

After finishing speaking, without giving his colleagues time to react, Huang Yuan raised his hand and shouted into the distance, "Come here and save the sample in General Aokiji's hand."

"By the way—hey~ the testing team came over to take a blood sample."

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After waiting for a while, two members of the science department came by order.

One carefully took the ice ball from Aokiji’s hand, and put the blood-stained rag wrapped in a thick layer of ice into a closed metal box like an enemy; the other took blood samples and a small number of cells Organize and pack into containers.

After finishing their work, the two members of the science department saluted the generals respectively, and then turned around——

"Wait a minute~" Huang Yuan suddenly said, and slowly turned in front of the two people, staring at one of them, looking up and down, and raised his eyebrows at the same time, "Yeah—that's strange..."

When the Ministry of Science's highest epidemic defense is activated, every operator must be fully armed, wear an isolation suit, wear a hood, and use a respirator to ensure that they are not contaminated.

The staff member Huang Yuan was staring at was no different from the others, and the face inside the hood was also familiar. He was a member of the Science Department...but for some reason, he felt something was wrong.

The eyes of the two people who were stopped were inexplicable. After a while, Huang Yuan waved his hand and let them go. He didn't continue to pursue the uncertainty in his heart, because the temperature in the air suddenly rose.

According to the defensive action steps, the last step, after all the preliminary work is completed, General Akainu, who received the summons, is about to activate the magma fruit ability to clean the area thoroughly.

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In the distance, the long siren blared, and the frozen and thawed port of Marineford, the people staying here began to evacuate one by one. ability.

The ice was frozen, and the light beam was destroyed. After waiting, the two generals stepped on the air and jumped to the sky, and the lower part was instantly swallowed by the billowing magma.