[comprehensive] red tide

After fidgeting for about 10 minutes, I saw what I wanted.

It was placed in a silver chiseled flower tray, held in both hands, and the guy who brought it stood silently. It looked very strange, like a robot made of iron, with a pair of eyes looking back and forth repeatedly, His eyes are cold and inorganic.

Charles then turned around from behind the Tin Woodman, walked forward a few steps with his waist bowed, and said with a smile, "Oh, Mr. Polusalino, I really didn't expect it~"

"You really... Since you want this, why didn't you tell me in advance? We are old acquaintances, it's not interesting~" Still with the shrewd and sophisticated appearance, his eyes flickered slightly while speaking.

Then, without waiting for others to say anything, Charles spoke first again, "So——can you let me see the exchange?"

After waiting for a few seconds, I saw that Your Excellency Huang Yuan, who was beside me, had no intention of speaking at all, so I could only clear my throat and take up the conversation in a low voice, "You are not the seller, are you? The Muse is planning to extract agency fees ? How much?"

"Huh?" Charles turned his gaze around, his expression slightly startled, "Uh, this lady took the picture?"

Glancing at him, I slowly stood up on one hand, patted the hem of the cloak, went straight past the broker on the Muse, and stepped forward a few steps to stand in front of the quiet Tin Woodman.

He squinted his eyes and stared at the other party for a while, then stretched out his hand, revealing the spell card held under his fingertips, flipped his wrist, and showed the card pattern to the Tin Woodman, "Golden gravel beach, trees full of gemstones—isn't it What do you want to change?"

As soon as the words fell, the tin woodman's chaotic eyes slowly gathered fluorescent highlights, and his eyes stopped on the card at my fingertips. After a long time, the two fluorescent spots dimmed, and a few seconds later, the tray held in mid-air moved forward again. Give a few centimeters.

I snorted, put the card flat on the side of the tray, raised my wrist a little, hooked my fingertips, released the spell card, and the thin black silk threads that appeared out of thin air were swallowed under the skin silently, and I logged in for the second time. When I was on Wish Island, the gem branches that I devoured and made into cards were fully presented.

Grabbing the auction item on the tray, I turned around and was about to leave, but I heard the Tin Woodman buzzing behind me, "In Lower Covinasi."

Um?After a pause, I turned my face, "Then?"

While the Tin Woodman reported his name, for some reason, the admiral's aura suddenly became fierce... But, I didn't have time to pay attention to the inexplicable reaction of the general and his colleagues.

My fingers tightened slightly, holding the cold, hard and slippery substance in my palm, I squinted my eyes, "Do you want to go back on your word?"

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The Tin Woodman's eyes didn't move, and suddenly there was the soft rubbing sound of clothes beside him.

A moment later, the faint smell of tobacco wafted in the air, and the breath brushed my nose, and then the yellow and white striped sleeves appeared in the corner of my eyes.

"Covinasi—that's strange~ why did it appear here?" Your Excellency the yellow ape general said slowly, "Aren't you supposed to stay in the new world?"

The free hand stretched out across the floor, lightly resting on the arm of Your Excellency the General, moving a few inches through the cloth with the fingertips, skimming the fine lines, and felt the sudden disorder of the hidden muscles, I withdrew my hand, "Suddenly It's really impolite to intervene in other people's conversation ~ General Kizaru."

"Go on, Mr. Covinassi." I smiled at the Woodman.

After a while, the left eye of the Tin Woodman lit up with an imperceptible light curtain, as if something was lurking in the depths, looking at it from a very long distance, "Under the command of Lord Kaido, the former head of the Third Legion , I was ordered to guard the items." The closed mouth remained motionless, and the voice came from the chest and abdomen, "Master Kaido hopes to be lucky enough to listen to the message."

I was stunned for a few seconds, thought for a while, held up the clam wrapped in jelly in my hand, and raised my eyebrows, "Yes, but can you tell me how it got into the hands of Beast Emperor Kaido?"

The Tin Woodman was silent for a long time, and there was a light murmur in his chest and abdomen, like the intermittent radio waves when the machine adjusted the channel. It waited until the broken audio stabilized before making a sound again, "Lord Kaido lost in the wine fight back then."

"Master Kaido said that he is willing to gamble and admit defeat, and he will do it if he promises." He raised his eyes a few degrees, looked around lifelessly, and finally stopped on my face, and the pupil of his left eye narrowed slightly, "Now that the agreement is completed, he It shouldn’t be too much to listen to.”

After looking deeply at the Tin Woodman's left eye for a while, I smiled, "Drinking with young people? That's what that guy would do."

"If you don't mind, please wait for a while, let me take it out." After I shrugged, I put away the thing in my palm, turned around and picked up a slightly empty corner, and sat down cross-legged.

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Lifting the palm of my hand, I held the object in front of my eyes. I carefully examined the transparent unknown substance. After thinking about it, I let out a few thin black threads to tentatively cling to it...

It is like jelly, cold and smooth, but invisible and tasteless, similar to the feeling of swallowing the consciousness on Wish Island.

Pursing the corners of my mouth, spreading my five fingers and slowly closing them together, I raised my head and glanced at the pairs of eyes waiting nearby to prevent them from seeing clearly the thin strands of skin scrambling out of my palms.

The jelly-like substance decreased layer by layer, and the fist-sized 'amber' gradually shrunk and was held in the hand, and then the substance eroded by the filaments was slightly emptied, and the hidden part broke free suddenly.

I just feel like holding the extremely compressed Qi between my fingers. At the moment it is released, it suddenly expands to the point that I can't hold it back for a while. The closed fist bounces away, and the incomparably gorgeous pure gold leaps from the palm of my hand and flies to the top of my head. high.

The thin black silk thread that lost its target in vain immediately pursued greedily and ferociously. When it flew into the air, it entangled with the ball of gold in an instant. On the tome.

In the palm of my hand, inside the black tome, there was a spell card that was made not long ago, and the golden background became more brilliant. I sighed softly in satisfaction, and reluctantly retracted the thin black silk thread.

I stretched out my hand to catch the dark green clam that was slowly falling, and looked down at it, I squinted my eyes.

It may be because of the visual refraction caused by the protective layer that it misjudged its size. This clam is actually the size of a thumb, and its whole body is dark blue. The pure gold lines that made my heart beat faster are indeed the overlord color of that person.

I probably also understand now why it has been safe and sound for so many years. It is not that no one has made plans for it, but that no one can violently remove the protective layer without damaging it, and add the part of the overlord color left in the inner layer just in case. , even if anyone's devil fruit ability can penetrate the outer layer, it will be blocked by domineering.

It's just that that person basically didn't have such a scheming... The double safety mechanism should be the idea of ​​the deputy captain.

Did you come up with the idea when you saw me devouring the Eye of Amphitrite in the palace?It was only me who guessed that the way to open the gift is to eat the outer packaging, whether it is an unknown substance or domineering.

Hehe~ Pluto is really cunning.

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The dark green clam trembled imperceptibly, then closed the clam shell and opened it, revealing a thin blue streak in the gap, vaguely like the sound of gurgling water, listening carefully, but nothing, the clam spit out softly Shallow if there seems to be no fog.

There was a moment of trance in my vision, and I smelled the tide.

The mist spread out softly, covering the area several meters in front of him, hovering for a while, and an image slowly condensed and formed.

With bright black eyes and raised eyebrows, the man sat cross-legged in front of me, grinning brightly, as if the sun was shining on the corners of his brows and eyes, and the outline of his body was embroidered with light gold lines, which was more dazzling than anything else.

"Yo~" The black-haired man raised his hand and waved happily.

I didn't even care about someone gasping and whispering in my ear, I just widened my eyes and stared at the phantom.

"Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand" The man raised his hand and gestured a few times, his eyes curled up, "this is a mirage picked up in the shallows. '

' Raleigh said he could leave you a message. The man put his hand on his head and tangles his hair, the man said with a silly smile, "It happened that I had won someone else by drinking, so let him do a favor." '

The hand covering his head dropped to his knees, the smile on the black-haired man's face gradually faded, and the expression between his brows changed from the usual dignified expression.

"We are about to go to that sea, the future of the final journey is uncertain, I..." After a moment of silence, the man sighed softly, "Well~ forget it, it's nothing. '

'I really don't care how long I can live. I will have no regrets after going to sea to see the world. '

'I look forward to seeing you at the moment when the sun falls in your mouth. '

The corners of his lips were slightly tightened, the man looked straight at the air, his eyes were sharp and clear, his expression was calm and open-minded, "Don't cry~ because the new sun will rise again one day, and the era you live in will soon dawn. '

'For that, those of us who step into the dark are willing to do so. '

The bright black eyes were covered with a slight layer of complexity, and the man immediately lowered his eyelids, restraining the strangeness in the smile that spread at the corner of his mouth.

'I~ It's great to be able to live in the same era with like-minded partners. '

'It's really great to meet you. '

He raised his eyes again, and resumed his usual careless incongruity. With his backhand, he fished out a wine jar from somewhere behind him, raised it high, and gulped it all down in one go.

Then he put the wine jar heavily in front of him, the corners of his mouth widened, revealing eight big teeth, and he smiled flamboyantly.

'Go to sea if we can't meet again. '

'So don't cry. '

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The words that made my heart constrict and make it hard to breathe are still in my ears, and the image of the black-haired man flickers.

Gradually, tiny spots of light drifted along the outline of the figure, like fireflies in a summer night, changing from sparse to dense, spreading around like steaming.

Soon, the phantom in front of him disappeared without a sound.

"So, did you hear that time?" At that time, the moment when the palace ran in the opposite direction, I didn't look back, and at the end...did he look back?

I blinked my eyes and wanted to smile but found that such a simple expression could not be done. Maybe it was because my face was expressionless for too long and my facial muscles were stiff.

Slowly lowering his head, he saw that the shell of the dark blue clam in his palm was covered with cracks at some point, as if it had exhausted its last trace of vitality. It dried up slowly but uncontrollably and turned into a speck of fine ash, even giving me time to react nor.

"Ah—" I opened my mouth, and I stared blankly at the palm of my hand, watching the water droplets fall from nowhere and hit the center of the embers.

"It's raining..."

He said not to cry, so the warm and hot water that keeps falling at this moment...

it's raining...