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The end of the first half of the Great Channel, Chambord Islands is the junction of black and white, a paradise of freedom and a gathering place of chaos.

There are areas that are absolutely controlled by the world government and the navy, and there are also illegal areas that the navy cannot reach.

Gather all evil and good, navy, pirates, nobles, slaves, oppression and resistance are staged in every corner, wealth is stained with blood, evil desires are mixed with pain, and finally merged into... an undefinable archipelago.

……

There was the sound of fireworks being set off outside, crimson, purple and white swayed and spread in the air, and the entire night under the brilliance was intertwined with large expanses of bright and colorful colors.

Sakaski stopped working, got up and walked to the balcony, raised his eyes, and looked at the sky quietly.

The sky and night are as cool as water, and the melodious music drifts from nowhere, turning into a low-pitched melody, implying the Chambord Islands, and the extravagant and wasteful feast at midnight is coming to an end.

As for the more exciting part of the second half of the night, after a short break, the pleasure-seekers indulging in "Heaven" will enjoy it as much as every night in the past.

Covered by the dark night, all the carnivals that can't be seen are about to start, extravagant and extravagant banquets, feasting, feasting, and sensuality, attracting participants to be fascinated and linger.

The night of the Chambord Islands is an excellent place to kill your spirits. There are beauties with wine, singing and dancing competitions, ecstasy, spending a lot of money, and all the unexpected fun can be seen everywhere.

Those dazzling bliss in the world, like the bubbles secreted by the mangrove tree in the sunlight, looks gorgeous and colorful, but in fact it breaks at the touch of a button.

Looking back at the deserted room behind him, Sakaski narrowed his eyes slightly, then took out a cigarette lighter from his pocket, lit one, and put it in the corner of his mouth.

Leaning against the carved railing of the balcony, he stared at the smoke curling in the air.

Counting the time, the people who went out are almost back, right?Sakaski thought to himself, Ghost Spider and Qiantui Baisui, the two went to the auction, and it was time to return when midnight was approaching.

In the evenings here in Shambord, the late-night shows are very exciting, but in Sakaski's mind, the ghost spider is not interested in taking thousands of years old to enjoy it, even if it is thoughtful, it would not have the guts.

Where is Polusalino a good man?If the ghost spider dared to take a thousand years old to have fun, even if it was an act, their yellow ape general would have a [-]% revenge in the future.

Not to mention the ghost spider... Sakaski took off the cigarette biting at the corner of his mouth, and lightly flicked the ashes.

So he just had to wait, and when the guy who went out in the middle of the night and told him that he couldn't calm down by the way returned, he could continue to concentrate on reading the documents to be resolved on the table.

Now he is absent-minded. Although he knows that the ghost spider is there, thousands of years old will be safe, and Tianlong people are rarely outside at night for safety reasons, but he is still worried, because her appearance itself is troublesome.

……

In the evening, their warship arrived at Chambord and landed in the area where the naval government was stationed. After a short rest, the ghost spider took Qiansui Baisui out to the auction that started at night according to the previous plan.

Sakalski did not go with him, he remained at the naval station.

Firstly, he had no intention of interfering with the ghost spider's action plan, and secondly... the identity of the navy's most powerful admiral Akainu is too conspicuous, and going to the auction house will cause unnecessary trouble.

Sakaski is not afraid of trouble, but he has to think about thousands of years old.

That guy is already attracting enough attention in Marineford, if something happens to come out here in Shampoo...it will not be a good thing for her future.

A ghost spider is fine, plus one or two generals... If someone finds them paying too much attention, it's not protecting her, but causing trouble for her.

Of course, it's not that Sakaski and Polusalino don't have confidence in their abilities. They are admirals, and protecting a woman is just a matter of a word or an order, but... they know better that that kind of protection is not foolproof.

Where they can see, she can be at ease, but no one can guarantee that she can sit back and relax where they can't see.

People's hearts are the most unpredictable thing. Even if there is no conflict of interest, there will be unprovoked malice.

How could they not understand how many times Sakalski and Polusalino have survived fighting in the battlefield for half their lives and serving in the high position?

In recent days, Polusalino has carefully concealed the relationship between Chisui and them in order to protect her.

That man Polusalino is always stupid, but if you really want to say it...

After thinking for a while, Sakaski crushed the cigarette butt that was about to burn out at his fingertips, and his thin lips curled up slightly imperceptibly.

From then to now, the only person Polusalino cared about was Qiansui Baisui, and the only woman Sakaski was willing to protect with his heart was also Qiansui Baisui.

It's not because she is young and beautiful, nor is it because of her monstrous intelligence. Even now, thousands of years old may no longer uphold the justice of the navy, and Sakasky is willing to protect her, as long as she is not clearly hostile.

……

This is perhaps the only time Sakalski has blurred his beliefs, for the time when he participated in it.

He insisted on absolute justice, and for this reason, his hands were stained with a lot of innocent blood. Sakasky knew very well that not everyone who died directly or indirectly at his hands was unforgivable.

Just certain times... he, and even every admiral, had no choice.

Sakaski was not indifferent to those innocent lives, but sometimes he could only turn a blind eye, saying that he was hard-hearted or ruthless, in order to save more people, he had to choose to become a ghost.

The enemy must be eliminated, and the civilians must be protected, but... the soldiers under his command, the generals and non-commissioned officers of their naval camp, are also human lives, and many times he cannot afford to hesitate.

To this day, carrying the title of Admiral Akainu, Sakaski cannot deny that in the depths of his own justice, there are countless blood and crimes hidden.

The mourning and hatred of the victims are buried in the bottomless darkness. In the dead of night, ask yourself, which general has not been awakened by the nightmare?

Thousands of years old, the years she participated in were the first black and white, the most frivolous and fearless time, and the purest persistence in Sakaski's heart.

So he was willing to protect her, just like protecting her for half his life. In the beginning, the belief that led him to become a navy, even if he was heavily polluted by blood, he did not want to give up, justice.

That is not the love of a man for a woman, but the direction of progress engraved in the flesh and blood.

……

Until he was awakened by the sound of footsteps, Sakarski put away the soft thoughts trapped in the memory, stood up, and walked back to the room from the open-air balcony.

Not long after, the door was closed and opened, and a strong aroma of wine wafted into the air.

Sakaski frowned, and stared at the lieutenant general who walked in slowly with some disapproval, "Have you been drinking?"

"Well——" Ghost Spider responded dully, walking steadily, and looking sober, walked to the corner of the room on the guest sofa and threw himself in, raised his hand to cover his eyes, "I encountered a situation that I couldn't refuse. "

Who can you meet at the auction?His mind was spinning, and then he put aside that doubt, and his eyes fell on the door. Sakaski raised his eyebrows, "What about her?"

"He said he was going back to his room to take a shower." Ghost Spider replied, paused after speaking, straightened up slightly, reached into his pocket, took out something and threw it at will, "That guy wanted to buy it desperately, and made a fuss over it." The tone of the speech seemed a little unhappy, but the expression was not particularly unhappy, but rather helpless.

Lowering his eyes and glancing at the thing that fell into his palm, Sakaski's eyes flickered slightly, and then he raised his eyes again, "How could she take a fancy to this?"

"Who knows." Ghost Spider shrugged, "If it wasn't for this thing..."

Picking up the item on his fingertips and playing with it carelessly, Sakarski was a little distracted, "Is there anyone who wants it too?" Hearing the tone of the ghost spider's words, it was probably because he was fancying the same auction item, and later got it for thousands of years. He had to socialize with others?

"That guy is so strange, doesn't she know that this thing is cursed?" The ghost spider leaned heavily on the sofa, perhaps drunk, and his attitude became loose, "I told her, but she just didn't listen. , almost climbed onto me, you don’t know that the eyeballs of those guys who were there at the time were about to fall off.”

After thinking about the ghost spider's description, the corners of Sakaski's mouth twitched imperceptibly, and he didn't know how to respond for a while. He could probably imagine the scene at that time. Chitose Baisui was such a self-willed temperament, she would not Don't care about others, you will die if you are self-willed.

With a slight retraction of his fingertips, Sakaski raised the corner of his mouth, and rarely spoke with sympathy, "Thanks for your hard work. You can ask Polusalino to return the favor some other day. I think he is very willing."

Hearing this, the ghost spider paused, waved his hands, and replied quickly, "Forget it~ I dare not accept the favor of Huang Yuan. Last time, I said that I would introduce a peerless beauty to me. Guess what happened?"

Before Sakaski could figure out what was going on with the gift from the yellow ape that the ghost spider said, the voice intersected/entered obliquely and answered first, "Seven to eighty years old, it's really about to die, right?"

The two of them turned their heads away when they heard the sound, and immediately saw a person leaning by the door at some point.

……

The jet black shirt, the skirt is slightly undone, a deep groove is hazy revealed in the thin fabric, the beautiful figure is ready to be seen, the shirt hem, the slender thighs are not concealed.

The picture is very fragrant, if the characters are not a thousand years old.

Sakalski just felt a splitting headache, "What are you talking about, you bastard! Go back to your room and get dressed! In the middle of the night, you ran to find a man with disheveled clothes, do you want to die?"

The hair is still wet!Did you just come out of the bathroom?Thousands of years, you are... an idiot who has no sense of being a woman!

He stared at her, gnashing his teeth while bursting into anger, "I haven't seen you grow in the slightest for more than [-] years! The yellow ape never taught you not to tease men, did it?"

He was so angry that he almost couldn't maintain his sanity, and as a result, she looked calm... and hiccupped.

Sakaski turned his head abruptly, glared at the ghost spider viciously, and his anger shifted instantly, "You made her drink?!"

No one answered his question, because the ghost spider stared at Qiansui Baisui dumbfounded, with a pair of eyes just like what he said just now, and the eyeballs almost fell off.

The veins on the forehead spread rapidly. Sakaski gritted his teeth, stared at the sluggish ghost spider, then raised his hand and began to rub his forehead. After taking a few deep breaths, he suppressed his anger, put down his hand, raised his gaze, and spoke slowly. Advised, "Go back to your own room."

In the end, he was so kind that the other party didn't hear him at all. She lifted her body leaning against the door frame and walked into the room. Taking advantage of the situation, she raised her hand and said slowly, "I want to sleep, but it's under the bed~"

Following her movements, he cast his eyes over her, and Sakalski was stunned for a moment. Maybe it was because of the angle that he couldn't see her hand. At this moment...

Chitose and Baisui held a ball of hair on their fingertips, and the flowers didn't slip away. They curled up into a ball obediently, dangling in the air and looking very happy...it's a ball.

But that's not the point, the point is...

"Have you cured your cat phobia?" Sakaski couldn't help raising one eyebrow.

Ball ball was put into her bed by him, originally he wanted the hairball to get close to her...

He admits that he has a bad taste, after all, it's rare~ There hasn't been much excitement in the past [-] years, now that she's back, he can give her some shocking education at any time, what if one day she cures her fear of cats?

Lowering his eyes, he took a closer look at Qiansui Baisui standing in front of him, Sakaski narrowed his eyes slightly, "You're drunk."

Now that he was getting closer, he could see clearly. She seemed to be awake and speaking in an orderly manner, but her eyes were dizzy with a layer of water, and her eyes were hazy and obviously out of focus.

"Hmm~" She snorted softly, stuffed the hair ball into his arms, then turned her free hand to his palm holding the object, and said vaguely, "Return the hair ball to you, Give me back my things."

……

He remained motionless and let a ball of warm hair be stuffed into his arms, then he let go of his hand and handed over what was in the palm of his hand. Finally, Sakaski stretched out his arms to embrace the person who was about to turn around, "The things I bought for you are yours. You take the ball with you too."

Gently restraining her, he stretched out his hand and handed the ball back to her eyes, "You are its master."

She was really drunk, holding the things she got at the auction in one hand, and took the ball of hair that was frightening to death with the other, and put the ball on top of her head in a daze, "It's not, it is."

Holding a ball of hair, she held up the thing in her bosom as if offering a treasure, "It's mine."

"So I say..."

"You don't know." She interrupted him, her tone a little unhappy, "You don't know, it...it's mine..."

"That's what you say." Sakaski nodded, not intending to argue with a drunk, patted her on the shoulder, and said in a low voice, "Go back to sleep now."

Let go of the hand holding her, and then turn her around, "Go back."

Chitose stood there for a few seconds, then slowly walked towards the door of the room, walked a distance, turned suddenly, moved to the side of the sofa, and sat down next to the ghost spider, with a cute face It's a terrible look, that is, the eyes are straight.

Seeing this, the blue veins on Sakaski's forehead became more and more lively, and he didn't think of what to do for a long time.

The ghost spider squinted at Qiantui Baisui who was sitting next to him, his expression was indescribable for a while, and it took a long time before he finally came back to his senses and said with a half-smile, "No wonder... Now I finally understand the melancholy of General Huang Yuan."

"What a bad temper, a woman is so unconscious."

Sakaski cast a resolute glance at the past, turned back and took his cloak hanging from the coat rack, walked a few steps to the sofa and used it to wrap the thousand years old, and finally snorted hard, "This guy used to be like that."

Taking a step back, crossing his arms, Sakarski stared down at the dull drunk, his tone became even more unpleasant, and this unhappiness spread to the ghost spider, "She is very poor at drinking, and she can't drink a sip or a bottle at all. No difference."

Ghost Spider shrugged, and readily shirked responsibility, "The scene where I had to drink was originally caused by her. If she hadn't rushed to bid, I wouldn't have had to socialize with others."

"This is a life-threatening thing, I really don't know where to go."

Hearing what the ghost spider said, the corners of Sakaski's mouth sank slightly, and his eyes turned to "that terrible thing", which was held by Qiansui Baisui. He freed his hand and concentrated on fiddling with that thing.

……

The deadly thing was round like an egg, a music box, and many generals in the Navy Headquarters, including Sakalsky, knew it because it carried a curse.

After playing for a while, Qiantui and Baisui are familiar with each other and press the mechanism hidden by the music box. The upper part of the round egg slowly stretches out, opening into the shape of a flower, revealing the small and delicate parts in the center.

As the sound tube rotates at a constant speed, the reed moves when it passes the sound bar of the sound board, and the smart music sounds long and leisurely.

Listening quietly for a while, Qiantui Baisui raised his hand and gently stroked the complicated patterns inside the music box, his eyes seemed to be thoughtful, "It turned out to be true, but I thought it was a mistake~"

At this time, looking back and thinking about the words of thousands of years old, Sakaski's eyes flickered, "You said it was yours?"

"Yes~ But I don't remember." She replied softly without raising her head, "How could I make such a thing?"

"I shouldn't be able to make music boxes. You see, these are my characters. The outside is the same as the inside..."

When speaking, she pointed her finger at the petal-like part of the music box, pointing to those unrecognizable pattern-like patterns, and said slowly, "The treasure is in the dragon's lair."

Finally, she fell silent, raised her eyes, and looked dazed, "Why... I don't remember~"

Sakaski and Ghost Spider looked at each other, and both of them saw surprise in each other's eyes.

In the blink of an eye, Sakaski quickly turned his eyes away from the lieutenant general, and tried to take the music box away from Chitose Baitui, "It was held by an executive of the great channel trader more than ten years ago. something sold."

"That person's name is Joseph Powys, the executive of the Great Waterway Trafficker, and he is also the most successful intelligence dealer in history."

She looked at him, but subconsciously refused to let go of her hand. Seeing that he did not persist, she withdrew her hand, and then said, "Joseph Beowys threw out dozens of confidential information back then and caused the situation to turmoil. By the way, I added a few The treasure map has attracted various forces to scramble for it, and he himself took the opportunity to disappear and retire successfully."

"This music box is one of them. After a few years, the aftermath has dissipated, and all other treasure maps and treasures have been found. Only it is an unsolved mystery. There are rumors..."

"It's not a treasure map at all. The value of the music box lies in the patterns engraved on it..." After a pause for a few seconds, Sakaski lowered his eyes to hide the fleeting sternness in his eyes, and said coldly, "They are history. text."

"We know it's not." The ghost spider suddenly said, with a sharp tone, "Now you say, they, these graphics are your words?"

"This is a hint." She didn't seem to notice the temptation and suspicion of the two of them, maybe she was really drunk, and she was too slow to answer questions, "The answer is here—"

……

When Qiantui stretched out his hand, Sakaski was stunned, and then he didn't say anything, and quietly stretched out his hand, holding her hanging in the air as if it was an invitation.

Her slightly cool fingers wrapped around his five fingers, leading him gently and irresistibly, caressing the sound tube that was still slowly rotating.

She said, "Close your eyes."

Sakarski stared at her, then slowly closed his eyes, following her request.

Vision lost its function, and other perceptions became sharp. He touched the cold metal and the uneven spots on the sound tube...

"It's Braille." Chitose Baisui said, "I can't see at night, so I learned Braille, and the things engraved on it can't be deciphered by anyone except me~"

After a brief silence, she slowly let go of his hand, her tone revealing a little bit of bewilderment, and a little bit of deep sadness, "The treasure of the dragon, the numbers in Braille, things are in the safe of the World Bank inside."

"What is so important?"

"You'll know when you take it out." Sakaski opened his eyes and replied in a deep voice.

There's one thing he didn't tell her, Joseph.Powys, who met her back then, and all the information about Dumuzi obtained on the Ceylon for thousands of years, all came from the great executive of the waterway trafficker.

From this point of view, thousands of years old are likely to store things in Joseph.In Boyce's hand, even if she no longer remembers it, if only she can decipher the text code, she and that man had an agreement back then.

This is what made the most successful intelligence dealer in history to throw things into the world at will, right?