Chapter 13 Naval Headquarters-01

"Cheng Xi hates me." Except for Beckman, everyone else lowered their heads and spoke in a low tone. Even the air around them was filled with a sense of frustration.

"I! Don't! hate! you!" Cheng Xi emphasized again.

"On the contrary," Cheng Xi's gentle and lively almond-shaped eyes curved into a crescent shape, and she said with a smile, "I like you all very much."

After she said this, everyone's mood immediately changed from low and depressed to happy and joyful.

"Really?" Beckman blew out a smoke ring and said helplessly.

Because she was afraid of meeting acquaintances in Marinford, Cheng Xi disguised herself. Thanks to the ability of the Makeup Fruit, she was extremely skilled in the art of makeup.

She painted herself a shade darker, and with the help of makeup, her almond-shaped eyes turned into slender, slightly upturned phoenix eyes. Then she cut her bangs so thick that they almost covered her eyes, and added some freckles on the bridge of her nose.

She wore a white hooded sweatshirt, jeans, sneakers, and a pair of ordinary black-framed glasses. To be on the safe side, she also drew two hideous wounds on her cheeks and finally put on a mask.

He pretended that he was wearing a mask because he was embarrassed to see people because of the scar on his face.

Even the swords of Kuai Xue and Shi Qing were left on the Redfors and not taken with them.

Now, she looks very ordinary no matter how you look at her. She is completely different from the beautiful swordsman she was before.

After making sure that she would not be discovered in this state, she greeted everyone in the Red Group: "Everyone, I'm leaving first, and I will be back before dark."

Snake doubtfully: "Cheng Xi, this place is still some distance from the port of Marinford, how are you going to get there?"

Jesus Bu silently complained: "But it's definitely not realistic to just send you to the port like this."

Whose pirate ship will automatically go to the port of the Navy Headquarters?

"Don't worry about me, I have my own way."

After saying that, she flipped her hands and formed seals, then stretched out her right hand.

I saw layers of cloud roads gradually rising from the stern of the Redfors and

extending towards the port. Cheng Xi got off the ship, jumped onto the cloud road, felt the soft touch under his feet, waved, "See you tonight." Then he turned around and ran along the cloud road all the way to the port.

As Cheng Xi was getting further and further away from the Redforth, Shanks' mood became visibly depressed.

"Beckman..." Shanks looked at his second-in-command.

Beckman asked: "Shanks, what are you worried about?"

Shanks' tone was pitiful: "I'm afraid Cheng Xi will be caught and continue to serve as a navy."

Looking at the little girl running on the cloud road: "I'm going to chase her, and then go back to Marinford with her."

"Alas, I really can't do anything about you one by one." Beckman extinguished the cigarette in his hand.

Hearing this, Shanks' eyes immediately lit up and he stood up to chase after him.

"Wait."

Beckman stopped Shanks, then went back to the cabin, took out something and threw it to Shanks.

Shanks took it and found it was a set of hooded sweatshirt and jeans of the same style as Cheng Xi's.

"The clothes you are wearing are too conspicuous, change them. Most of the navy are face-blind and recognize people by their clothes. Now your left arm has been repaired by Cheng Xi. As long as you don't cause any big commotion, you won't be exposed even in the navy headquarters."

Today is also a day when the deputy captain is worried about the ship.

After changing his clothes, he jumped onto the cloud road to chase Cheng Xi.

As they were about to reach the shore, Cheng Xi's pace gradually slowed down, and suddenly she felt someone holding her wrist. She thought it was an enemy that appeared from nowhere, and subconsciously turned around to attack, but she saw Shanks' familiar face with a smile.

"Shanks, why are you here?" Cheng Xi asked puzzledly.

"I'm here to accompany you to withdraw money."

My God, what an outrageous plot, the mouse is the bridesmaid for the cat, and the pirate bravely breaks into the navy headquarters.

Fortunately, he had changed out of the black cloak and white shirt that he usually wore, so Cheng Xi didn't feel dizzy.

Also, although Shanks looks pretty handsome in a sweatshirt.

Shanks thought Cheng Xi would argue with him and refuse to let him go to the island. He was even prepared to argue with her, but unexpectedly Cheng Xi just glanced at Shanks and said resignedly, "Then come with me."

This made Shanks have no idea what to do with all the excuses he had just thought of.

Cheng Xi instructed: "Almost all the elite forces of the navy have been assembled at the headquarters of the navy. After you go to the island, stay with me. Don't run around and don't leave my sight."

Shanks nodded obediently. He wished he could stay with Cheng Xi 24 hours a day. No one would leave her.

Cheng Xi looked at the three scars on the corners of Shanks' eyes and always felt that they were too eye-catching, so after arriving on the island, she took Shanks to a deserted place, took out a blue eyeliner from her pocket, and painted on his scars. In a short while, she changed it into a spider tattoo.

Well, it has turned into the style of Gangster Big Brother again. In this way, let alone the navy, Cheng Xi dares to guarantee that even if Roger is resurrected, he will not be able to recognize him.

Marinford is an overall crescent-shaped island. In addition to the naval headquarters built according to the mountainous terrain, there are many small towns, which are basically inhabited by family members of the headquarters navy. The three admirals, the naval marshal, the chief of staff and a dozen powerful lieutenant generals are stationed here. It can be said that this is the safest island in the entire ocean except for the holy land of Marijoa.

Cheng Xi had two places to live in Marinford. One was a single apartment allocated to her by the headquarters, and the other was a room she had in the home of Zefa, who was an admiral at the time.

She took Shanks to her apartment. Vice admirals at the Navy Headquarters were considered the highest-level fighters in the Navy. In addition, the headquarters was always generous with housing issues, so the residence of a vice admiral who died in the line of duty would generally be preserved for at least thirty years to allow relatives and family members to remember him.

Over the past decade or so, the buildings on the island have changed a bit, but there are still many places that Cheng Xi is familiar with.

The psychological qualities of both of them were better than the other. Even though they were getting closer and closer to the naval center, no one panicked. They behaved as naturally as if this was really their home.

Cheng Xi pointed at the shops on both sides and chatted with Shanks: "The milk tea in this shop is really delicious, the ingredients are sufficient and very fresh, for a while I would buy a cup before going to work every day."

"The scallion oil noodles here are delicious, the owner aunt likes me very much, she has added extra eggs for me several times, which Kuzan and Yushula don't have."

"This used to be a fried pork chop shop, their quality control and service were not good, and now it's closed down."

Shanks thought it felt great to walk and chat with Cheng Xi like this, luckily he had caught up with him just now.

However, why did I feel inexplicably uncomfortable when I heard the word Kuzan from her mouth?

When they arrived at the entrance of the apartment complex, the guard saw that they were two newcomers and stopped them to ask for passes.

Cheng Xi's acting skills immediately exploded, he began to cry, and made up an extremely miserable life story. Most importantly, he showed him the key to the apartment complex, saying that it was given to him by his uncle before he died, blah blah blah. The guard was so fooled that he was stunned and finally let them in with tears in his eyes.

"Cheng Xi, where did you get the key in your hand?" Shanks asked after walking away from the door.

Cheng Xi spun the key ring on her finger

and said, "I stole it from the pocket of the officer who just passed by. The keys of all the apartments in this area are all of the same shape." When she arrived at her apartment door, it was a coincidence that she had just replaced the combination lock less than half a month ago. She entered the combination skillfully, and with a "click", the door opened.

The two walked into the house and closed the door. Large swathes of sunlight shone through the glass windows, illuminating the living room. Cheng Xi looked around and found that the layout and furnishings were exactly the same as when she lived here seventeen years ago. It was also very clean and dust-free. It was obvious that someone came here regularly to clean.

Only two people know the password to her room, one is her teacher and adoptive father Zefa, and the other is her subordinate Yushura who has followed her for many years.

In the sunshine, Cheng Xi sighed softly, wondering how they were doing now.

But he quickly put away his melancholy, pointed at the blue cartoon sofa in the middle of the living room and said to Shanks: "Shanks, please sit for a while."

Then Cheng Xi walked into the bedroom and found the password vault hidden underground according to his memory.

The password vault is very large, almost as big as the bedroom on the ground floor.

Before the accident, in addition to her job in the navy with a generous salary, she also worked part-time writing novels for newspapers, fortune-telling and predicting marriages for people outside the island, and using a small account to work as a pirate hunter to earn bounties. In the ten years since she traveled here, she has worked hard to make money. In the words of her hometown, she is simply obsessed with money.

Over the past ten years, she has saved about 670 million Baileys.

This money was originally intended for another purpose, but now it has to be used by her for her retirement.

After entering the password and opening the treasure house, Cheng Xi was stunned when he saw the scene inside.

Cheng Xi: …

She looked around to confirm that this was her bedroom, then closed her eyes and opened them again, only to find that the scene in the box was still the same.

Empty, there is nothing.

All the gold, silver, jewelry and Baileys she had earned over the years were gone! ! !

Close your eyes, then open them again.

Still nothing!

What is more tragic in the world than the person dying but the money still remains?

The people are still there, but the money is gone!

Oh God, I don't consider you my grandpa anymore. You really don't treat me as your granddaughter. You are so blind. If you had any conscience, you wouldn't let me work for ten years in vain!

It took me half a year to earn 600 million Happy Beans playing Landlord, and you just took away all my money in one click!

If you want to take something, come and take my life, not my money!

But she couldn't scream at the moment, so she had to hide in the bedroom and digest the fact that her money was gone.

There is only one person in this world who knows her treasure and password, and that is her subordinate Yushura. It is impossible for a thief to break into a place like the Vice Admiral's apartment, not to mention that even if a thief breaks in, he will only steal the money in the password box that looks very obvious in her bedside table.

Yushula, Yushula, Cheng Xi murmured, if it was really her, then she must have an important reason for embezzling the money.

Anyway, isn't money meant to be spent?

Going up to the bedroom, Cheng Xi closed the door of the treasure house, tried to calm himself down, and then walked into the living room.

She cut off a strand of her hair and roughly tied it into the shape of a stick figure, then opened the window and threw it toward the southeast, whereupon the little figure immediately blew away with the wind.

"What is this?" Shanks stood up and asked curiously.

"Five senses summoning, I want to go to the admiral's family building to take a look, but the guards there are too strict, and I can't get in. I can only combine my vision, hearing and this little hair man to take a look secretly."

"Admiral's family building?" Shanks asked, "Is it Aokiji?"

During the days of sailing on the Redforth, Jesus Bu and the others had already told Cheng Xi some basic information about the current navy, including the promotion of Chi Qinghuang to admiral, Sengoku becoming marshal, and Zephyr retiring.

When Cheng Xi heard this, he sighed and lamented that time passed so quickly.

"Aokiji? Not him." Cheng Xi pretended to be nonchalant, "We had a little quarrel and never reconciled."

Shanks' heart, which had been hanging in the air, suddenly fell.

The little man floated very quickly and was carried by the wind to the window of Zefa's house. Cheng Xi closed his eyes and pricked up his ears to listen.

It was dinner time. Zefa's wife Elsa and son Will were sitting together at the dining table, which was filled with sumptuous dishes and a cake in the middle.

Elsa smiled gently and wished Will a happy birthday. Zefa reminded him that he was no longer a child at the age of 30, and that he should work harder to become stronger and protect more civilians.

Although he had a serious expression, the love in his eyes was so strong that it almost overflowed.

What a happy family! Cheng Xi was completely relieved now. She withdrew her ability, and the little hair man suddenly burned, turned into ashes, and then fell quietly to the ground.

What she didn't know was that in the following time, the purple-haired young man slowly said: "Dad, Mom, I miss my sister."

The atmosphere in the room became solemn. Zefa took several bottles of wine from the wine rack. What she didn't expect was that his wife Elsa also opened a bottle.

She said, "I miss Xixi too."

...

On Cheng Xi's side, she closed the window dully and stood there, motionless.

Her breathing was trembling and tears were falling uncontrollably.

She used to really like the atmosphere of the navy, when she didn't realize the darkness inside.

Shanks felt her sadness, her helplessness, and her confusion.

He stretched out his arms and hugged Cheng Xi.

Shanks could smell the elegant fragrance emanating from her hair. He didn't know what she saw, but it didn't matter.

"Cheng Xi, don't be sad." Shanks' voice was gentle and reassuring. He said, "Let's go drink the milk tea that you particularly like."