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As the moon sets and the stars sink, the flame jumps shallowly on the extinguished charcoal, crackling and crackling, adding a few traces of human fireworks to the stagnant night like frozen ground.

She retracted her gaze towards Luo, and there was some softness in her black pupils, "Trafalgar. Luo will not die at this time, he still has a magnificent future."

Hearing such an answer, his heart hanging in mid-air finally returned to its original position. Although her conclusion was groundless, he firmly believed in it, and the reason why he was so blind, I have to say...

Probably...she...she was so powerful in his cognition that she could do anything.

I believe that everyone who knows how to be a thousand years old, even if he doesn't want to admit it on the surface, is like him in his heart. Her existence is unsurpassable and powerful.

She is so clever that no one can match her.

She is a deified demon.

So he immediately opened the corners of his mouth, smiled happily and relaxed, "Sister, a hundred years old..."

She interrupted him before he could finish his thank-you speech, twitched the corners of her lips angrily, and said in a cold voice, "You actually believe me when I talk nonsense? Really..."

She squinted at him out of the corner of her eye, raised her eyebrows slightly, her smile was half cold and half mocking, "You're so innocent, if you're tricked into selling it someday, you'll count the money for him, right?"

"Eh? But you won't lie to me at a hundred years old." He raised his hand and brushed his hair, smiling innocently, "Elder sister doesn't even bother to lie, does she?"

"Don't say it as if you know me very well." Her face suddenly turned cold, she clicked her tongue after a moment of silence, and said, "You won't stop me now, will you?"

After finishing speaking, she got up on her own, lowered her head and took care of things slowly. A few seconds later, she turned her head and stared at Luo, who was sleeping a few meters away. There was a strange look between her brows, but she didn't say a word after all. .

Seeing her turning around and choosing a random direction and walking slowly, he who was left on the spot couldn't help but whispered, "Do you still want to leave? Can't you stay?"

Hearing this, she paused slightly, without answering, "It's almost dawn, there's no way for a nocturnal creature like me to stay~"

Following her movement of raising his head, he raised his eyes higher, and saw the boundary between the sky and the horizon in the far distance, and before he knew it, there was a thin line of fish belly, and the night was coming to an end.

"Next time we meet, I hope you can be more frank."

She disappeared at dawn, her figure seemed to melt into the air, and the image faded in an instant, or maybe it was an illusion, he seemed to see an extremely huge bird, which was fleeting like a phantom.

Staring at the place where she disappeared for a long time, he closed his eyes and blinked away the heat that appeared in his eyes with difficulty.

……

When the sun jumped out of the sea, Luo woke up on time as usual, got out of bed in a daze, looked around immediately after rubbing his eyes, with a puzzled face.

He deliberately pretended that he didn't know anything. After a while, he couldn't see any abnormalities. Luo didn't say anything, and obediently went to wash himself.

After a simple breakfast, they spent some time packing up their meager luggage, put the items on the boat they used for travel, and hid them together with the transportation in a hidden place by the sea.

After finishing this, he reached out and hugged Luo into his arms, wrapped it tightly with the spare black feather cloak, and finally hiked into the dense coastal forest, preparing to go through it to the central town of the island.

In the past few months, he took Luo to sail around the islands in the North Sea, in order to find a doctor with excellent medical skills, hoping to find someone who could cure the disease.

He weighed the worrisomely thin and small body in his arms, and under the circumstances that the children couldn't see, he finally let go of the ease he had put on for a while, showing a little worry.

Luo's condition is getting worse and worse. Maybe it's because children have no resistance to the virus. Once it breaks out, the rate of deterioration will double and accelerate.

Counting the three years that Luo himself said, it's already... not a few months left.

The time is too tight, and the terrible thing is that there are too many obstacles in front of us.

After the demise of Frevans, it was rumored that the disease was contagious in the whole North Sea. He and Luo went to the island to seek medical treatment during this time. Every doctor who saw Luo showed panic and disgust.

Not only were they unable to receive treatment, they were also driven away, and some extremists even gathered/crowded to hunt down and try to kill the sick Luo to eliminate the source of infection.

Pollen's disease is not contagious at all, and Frevans would not have perished if the truth hadn't been covered up maliciously.

……

Part of his mind was on the destruction of the white town, and without noticing his feet, he tripped violently on a tree root exposed to the ground, shaking a few times, he hurriedly changed his center of gravity, and barely stabilized his figure.

This small mistake made Luo, who was huddled in his arms, poke his face out, and it also made him dissipate the rising anger in his heart. In any case, those dirty politics and negative emotions should no longer affect the child in his arms.

Luo is only less than 13 years old, but he has already been tortured by the disease... He is very distressed, and until now there is nothing more important than finding a cure for the disease.

He wants to protect the child in his arms, even if his behavior at this time has run counter to the path he should have taken, he has no regrets.

Children are innocent

Every civilian who died in Frevans was an innocent.

Those who are capable of manipulating/manipulating/turbulent times ignore countless lives. No one is willing to do anything for the victims. Many people stand on the sidelines, and many people are deceived and become accomplices.

He didn't want to be a callous passer-by or an accomplice, even if his current behavior was a double betrayal, he still wanted to save the child he was holding.

……

After stumbling for a long time in the lush forest, finally, when the sun moved to the center and fell from the high treetops, the short journey came to an end.

He raised his arms up, raised his chin with a smile on his face, and compared the bustling town with a corner exposed in the sparse tree shadows in the distance, he said, "Look~ the doctor we are looking for is in the town~ "

After finishing speaking, he lowered his head, rushed to Luo who unconsciously clenched his clothes, and smiled foolishly, "This doctor is a well-known doctor in Beihai, he must be able to cure you, don't cry~"

Luo, who was listening to him quietly, clenched his fingers tightly, crying silently until his chest was wet with tears and snot.

Standing there at a loss for a long time, he tightened his arms again and stuffed the child into his arms even tighter, speaking incoherently to comfort him, while speeding up his steps.

Skimmed the edge of the forest a few times, and rushed towards the most lively neighborhood in the town.

……

The hospital with the best reputation in the nearby sea area, according to the news he got, the doctor with excellent medical skills...

"Go away!"

"Poly lead disease!"

"Take the kid and get away!"

"Guards! Come on—"

There were screams and curses one after another, and the people nearby were full of horror and disgust. He was chased out by the doctor while holding Luo, and the hospital hall fell into chaos as the fat doctor yelled loudly.

Everyone who heard about Po's lead disease avoided it in fear, and every look that fell on Luo was full of malice.

He raised his black feather cloak to wrap the child in his arms, pursed the corners of his mouth, and stared at the doctor not far away who was waving and calling for the guards, with a hint of hostility in his eyes.

Just now, he had just asked Luo to show his face to the doctor. It was the same as what he had encountered several times before when he sought medical treatment. The man who was praised for his excellent medical skills and compassionate heart immediately showed a look of horror and fear like a ghost.

He yelled at them to drive them out, and even called the guards to arrest them. The justice said that they should be destroyed by fire to prevent the spread of the poisonous lead disease on this island.

Just damn it!

His fingertips trembled a few times unconsciously, he took a few deep breaths, forcibly suppressed and completely destroyed the impulsive/movement and violent/ruthless anger here, turned around abruptly and walked towards the exit of the hospital.

No... he... no matter how angry he is, he can't affect innocent civilians, even if these civilians are ready to act at this moment, trying to burn an innocent child to death.

All ignorance and viciousness are, in the final analysis, deceived and incited.

He's not an older brother, and he can't vent his anger on the whole world, even... Actually, he's not without hatred.

……

After leaving the hospital lobby, he picked up a secluded street corner and ran quickly, avoiding the crowd attracted by the commotion.

Not long after, he stopped in a deep corner of a narrow alley, and lifted his cloak to expose the child who was stuffed inside to breathe.

Luo buried his face in his chest, leaving only the back of his head. Although he didn't hear the cry, and his shirt wasn't soaked in water, the body curled up in his arms was stiff and stiff, obviously still caused by the evil of those people. Bad words hurt.

He, who has always been not good at words, stood there for a long time, and then, like the previous few times, "Luo, do you still want to watch the fireworks? Shall I go to the hospital to light the fire?"

After waiting for a while, the head buried in his arms moved, his face was raised, his eyes were red like a rabbit, and there was a trace of grief on his small face, "Mr. Corazon—don't look for doctors everywhere It's..."

The child's voice was hoarse from crying for too long, and he looked at him half stubbornly and half sadly, "I'm hopeless, right? I can see my father, mother and sister when I die."

"So there's nothing to be afraid of."

"What nonsense!" He freed up a hand, tapped the child's forehead, thought for a while, and nodded, "Okay ~ don't set fire, we will leave immediately."

Protecting the back of the child's head with one hand, he looked around, then picked out the direction, walked towards the route leaving the town, and said in a low voice while walking, "Let's go to sea tomorrow, let's confirm a piece of information first."

"Luo~ Did you know? The holder of the fruit of the operation will definitely become the number one doctor in the world~"

"Someone told me that the fruit of the operation is about to appear." He raised his head slightly, squinted his eyes in front of no one, and his eyes flashed with determination, "Eat it, and you can heal yourself~ "

What she said must be true.

In fact, when he started sailing, he also told Luo that he was looking for the fruit of the operation, but he didn't expect that she would give him definite information. The fruit of the operation had been missing for decades, and it was unknown which force fell into it.

He originally went to sea with slim hopes. First, he wanted to find the miraculous fruit that could cure all diseases. Second, he also hoped that there would be doctors in the North Sea who could do some research on the disease.

It's just that the situation is really bad, but... now he can place his bets on the devil fruit.

First of all, he must first confirm his whereabouts. The navy government and the dark world of pirates, the fruit of surgery that has been elusive these years, if it is about to appear, there will definitely be news.

……

Soon, he took Luo away from the island town and rushed to the coast where the boat was parked. Of course, he didn't want to leave immediately, but a strategy to reserve a way out.

After all, time was too late, he was out of safety considerations.

The turmoil in the hospital may spread in the town. In recent months, he and Luo have often encountered similar situations. The residents of the island are afraid and loathed by the disease, and they will do anything to hurt Luo.

Therefore, they have no way to stay overnight in the town hotel, but can only go back to the seaside.

Before re-entering the forest, there was sudden noise and commotion from far behind. When he stopped, he turned his head slightly and saw a puff of thick smoke rising above the town at a glance.

Judging from the location, it turned out to be the hospital where he took Luo Qian to seek medical treatment.

Is it on fire?He frowned, and then turned his eyes away without much interest, but he didn't want to see a strange scene piercing the corner of his eyes in the next second, causing him to turn his face away abruptly.

In the direction of the hospital, in the thick black smoke rising towards the sky, there seemed to be an illusion of a black bird soaring into the sky, carrying golden and red sparks into the air, and then faded away in vain.

Like the fireworks at a summer garden festival, it is extremely bright in an instant, and then it is fleeting.

His pupils tightened unconsciously, and he stared at the black smoke for a long time. A line of almost indistinguishable black shadow separated from it, and then shot across the sky like an arrow, heading towards the forest.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the black line reflecting the blue sky slid across an arc, and landed gently and delicately on the edge of the forest.

His eyes closely followed the thin black line until it stopped and he realized that it was a small black bird resting on a treetop in mid-air with its wings folded.

From a distance, it was impossible to see what kind of bird it was, and it stopped quietly, round and round like a pompom.

After watching in silence for a while, he closed his eyes and continued to walk deep into the forest pretending not to notice.

After walking a certain distance, there was an imperceptible flapping sound behind him. It was the sound of wings flapping across the air. Out of the corner of his eye, a small black group followed his route, flying and stopping among the treetops.

"Do you like it?" He asked Luo, who also found it, in a low voice while walking, "I like to try it later, I don't know if you will come with us, if you do, you will be happy, right?"

……

Perhaps out of curiosity, Luo grabbed his shoulder and stretched his neck to stare at the little black group.

After a long time, Luo Nai pointed at the birds that flew to the parallel line with them unconsciously, jumping among the treetops, and asked sullenly, "A crow?"

"Eh?" He paused slightly and continued to walk forward, the corners of his mouth twitched, "I don't know, it shouldn't be?" At least it doesn't look like a round, fluffy ball, no matter how you look at it, it's not a crow.

And... is it what she looks like during the day?

The phantom that rushed out of the hospital on fire, the same black bird as before disappearing, said that it could not stay during the day, did it actually mean that it could not maintain its human form?

Sister, Bai Sui, you really can't let go of the child, it's the same as when you met me~...

The child in his arms reached out and poked the corner of his mouth, "Mr. Corazon is smiling~"

He lowered his head, saw the corners of his mouth subconsciously arched from Luo's eyes, thought for a while, and said, "Because the weather is very good today~"

Pausing slightly on his feet, he lifted the child up to his shoulders, and tentatively approached the black velvet ball parked on the treetop, "Say hello, Luo, it will like you."

Just like she loved me back then.

He looked at the bird that was less than the size of an adult man's fist, and the eyes hidden under the bangs were filled with unspeakable joy and sadness unconsciously.

……Dividing line……

Don Quixote.Rocinandi, in his elder brother's place, is code-named Red Heart in the Don Quixote family, and is called Corazon on the arrest warrant. However, in the Navy Secret Archives, he has another identity.

He is undercover in the Navy, and his rank is Lieutenant Colonel, Don Quixote.Rossindi.

He is also the adopted son of General Warring States, a Tianlongren who gave up his identity.

When he met Chitose Baisui, he was 11 years old.

That year, he hadn't been able to completely break free from the boundless horror and sorrow. Although he met his adoptive father and had a new home, the settled life could not erase every nightmare in the middle of the night.

Before the age of eight, Luo Xidi had no memory of his childhood in the inner courtyard of the imperial city of Chitu Continent. He only remembered the drastic changes in the few years after he left.

The gentle and beautiful mother closed her eyes in suffering and pain, and the kind and kind father used his thin arms to helplessly stand in front of the two children, trying to block the incoming punches, scolding and bullying.

When he was a child, Rosindi didn't understand why the people nearby looked so horrible, cruel and vicious. He only cried and was afraid, and he didn't even know hatred.

His brother killed their father, his face and hands were splashed with warm blood, it belonged to his father... his father held him in his arms so that he could not see, no matter the expression of his brother at that time, or the appearance of his father at that time .

He heard his father crying and saying sorry, and finally, the embrace that wrapped him gradually became cold.

What happened later, he lost his memory due to too much stimulation. When he came back to his senses, he had been lifted to a height where he could meet his eyes by a man with fluffy and round hair.

The man who later became his adoptive father asked him, what about his family?

He just wailed, he didn't know how to express it correctly in his little head, he could only use tears to tell this strange man in front of him, but his eyes resembled his father's, he...has nothing...

……

It wasn't until the age of 11 that Rosindi was able to calm down. Although his adoptive father was often too busy to go home, he was always entrusted to the family members of nearby generals to take care of him, but whenever he had time, his adoptive father, who was an admiral, always accompanied him.

There are also several friends of the adoptive father, Lieutenant General Karp and Mr. Zefa. They often come to the house and rub his head when they see him. Miss the same kindness.

The admirals were rough and informal, and the sum of everyone's contributions filled all his expectations for family affection.

Marineford's life was peaceful and peaceful, which made him gradually come out from the shadow of the nightmare.

One day when he was 11 years old, his adoptive father took him to visit a friend at the Naval General Hospital, where he met Qiantui Baisui.

Her appearance has not changed at all until now, even the words she said to him have not changed at all.

She said his hair was like the sun, and she told him that it was more important to be happy than to remember the hurt.

The little boy had never heard that said before, so he always remembered, she said, 'Closed fist can hold nothing, open hand, one day you can touch the sky. '

At the age of 20, Rossindi became a lieutenant colonel in the navy. It didn’t take long for his background to be leaked out somehow. There were many malicious doubts and even difficulties in the navy for a while, and friends and colleagues around him all faced him with strange attitudes overnight.

Not long after, Rossindi accepted another special mission.

His adoptive father gave him a document, and he saw the news about his brother.

The pirate group formed by Don Quixote Doflamingo formed a force that should not be underestimated in the North Sea. After several confrontations, the navy determined that that force would be a huge headache in the future.

The navy hopes to send excellent intelligence personnel to lurk inside the pirate group, and then disintegrate the Don Quixote family that has seriously affected the situation in the North Sea.

General Sengoku actually wanted him to refuse the mission, but unfortunately...he and his adoptive father are not just family members, they are also admirals and lieutenant colonels, and the justice they bear cannot be mixed with too many personal feelings.

Or maybe the adoptive father had selfish intentions and wanted him to avoid the cusp at that time.

He accepted the lurking mission, the Navy's serving lieutenant colonel Don Quixote.Rossindi disappeared overnight, replaced by a future spy who went to a secret camp for training.

……

It was an isolated island, and the flight to it took seven days.

There were nearly a hundred people who set off at the same time as Rossindi, all of whom were selected by the navy and were about to be dispatched to various places to carry out latent missions after graduation.

On the warship, there were nearly a hundred of them, and they first experienced an adventure that seemed like a dream.

Later, after passing the initial screening and going to the island, Rosindi knew that the encounter on the warship is the first hurdle for every intelligence officer to get started.

That's what's known as the 'one percent pass' test.

On the third day of boarding the ship, the warship received an urgent mission, and immediately deviated from the course to meet a noble who was exiled from a country subverted by the revolution/revolutionary/army.

When those nobles arrived, the students reacted differently. A murder in a secret room occurred that night. The exiled noble was killed. His mistress accused the murderer of being someone from the warship.

Nearly a hundred students who were about to participate in the secret training began to suspect each other without knowing anything, and even had to find evidence to clear their suspicions.

It was an extremely chaotic three days, and it was not until the warship commander finally came forward that the trainees knew that this was a screening at all.

At that time, the test that seemed extremely real was based on the incident that occurred on the naval frigate HMS Ceylon eight years ago.

In the end, Luo Xidi found out from the training camp that when a case occurred on the warship, the performance of each student, and the criteria for judging the qualifications came from the reactions of thousands of years ago and hundreds of years ago.

Or details or mentality, they have to have something close.

However, the cases used in the initial screening are not all the cases of the year, but only a selection of murder cases. During the entire voyage practice, every performance of Chitose Baisui is enough to be included in the textbook.

Such a person, there is not even the slightest bit of rumors circulating in the outside world.

Later, after an in-depth investigation, it was found that all the files of Qiansui and Baisui were sealed in the Marineford Navy Headquarters, as confidential information that only the lieutenant general level of the Headquarters was allowed to read.

What she did on the Ceylon was turned into a case by naval intelligence and used as a training course.

Admirals and soldiers of the navy knew nothing about Chitose, but in the shady intelligence department, the name Chitose almost represented omnipotence.

Her logical reasoning, her extensive knowledge, her grasp of people's hearts, and her observation of details are hard to surpass for every spy trained.

She is a deified demon.

Every student in the secret training camp is convinced that it is impossible for a thousand years old to die, because 'death' is a very common means of disguise, and she may accept a secret mission to erase all traces.

Of course, none of these speculations will really get to the bottom of it, because spies don't need curiosity, they can only have tasks.

……

On the day of graduation, each student was told that those with abilities would put a lock on their consciousness, sealing off all possibilities of leaking camp information in any form.

They can remember everything, but they cannot reveal it.

Luo Xindi vaguely felt that these methods of secrecy were actually to ensure that the information of thousands of years old would not be known to the outside world, but he didn't know why the Navy headquarters was so nervous.

Like other students, Rossindi accepted the ability seal without objection.

Later, he went into Beihai to find his brother, and after he became the top cadre of the Don Quixote family, Rosinanti got some fragmentary clues very occasionally, and only then did he guess the reason for the navy's attitude.

The Siren King, the night of the new moon, and the massacre at the center of Chitu Continent were all done by her alone.

As expected of a monster.

Such a person... probably won't die.

……

Rossindi also couldn't judge whether Chitose Baisui's behavior was right or wrong. He just remembered the tree in the courtyard of Marineford Naval General Hospital 15 years ago.

Her arms are gentle, just like her mother's.

He...Even though he couldn't understand it from the standpoint of the navy, he always wanted her to live in his personal feelings.

He also always felt that she was alive.

……

Until late last night, she really appeared again.