Chapter 27 Awakening from a Dream

"I'm really sorry." Cheng Xi apologized repeatedly. Even if the man in front of her would think she was a scumbag who played with her feelings, she had to make everything clear today.

However, they had just met the day before yesterday. From the time they met to the time they started dating, it was no more than five hours in total. Moreover, they had only exchanged no more than ten sentences on the phone. Perhaps the man in front of her had already regretted it and was thinking about finding a reason to break up with her.

"Really? This is really difficult." Ku Zan said in a low voice.

This sentence seemed to be said to Cheng Xi as well as to himself.

"La La, I was dumped the first time I fell in love." Ku Zan's tone was a little playful.

Cheng Xi didn't know how to answer his question, but she had a lot of psychological activities. She thought to herself that at least I am better than you. After all, I was the one who dumped others. However, this was just a complaint in her heart. On the surface, she chose to be a quail with a shrinking neck.

The two of them just stood there, no one spoke, no one made any movements, the scene fell into an awkward situation, and the students coming and going behind them were all just background boards.

"In that case, then I... I'll leave first." Cheng Xi was the first to speak to break the silence, carrying her schoolbag and walking to leave. In her heart, she sighed that Kuzan got up really early. It happened that today was Saturday, and he could go back to the dormitory to take another nap.

"Where are you going?" Kuzan grabbed her wrist and asked in a very urgent tone.

"Go to the cafeteria to have breakfast, and then go to the library to review. The final exam is coming soon. Our fluid mechanics teacher is very strict. It is said that she failed twelve students last year, and I don't want to be one of the twelve."

"I'll go with you."

"Ah?" Cheng Xi's eyes widened in surprise at Kuzan's words. He just broke up and wanted to go to the library to study with his ex-girlfriend. Maybe... he actually likes to study?

"Go to the library?" she asked.

"Let's go to the cafeteria." Kuzan's tone was very natural, and his emotions seemed stable, without any fluctuations. "It just so happens that I didn't have breakfast either."

"Then let's go." After Cheng Xi said this, Kuzan followed. It's not quite correct to say "follow". With his long legs, he just took a little faster step.

Although they agreed to have breakfast together, Kuzan followed Cheng Xi to the library afterwards.

Kuzan asked her, "Which department are you from?"

Cheng Xi replied, "Ship and Ocean Engineering."

Kuzan unconsciously said, "It's a very good major. In case of emergency at sea, you can work part-time as a boatman and helmsman."

Cheng Xi didn't realize that this shouldn't be said to a sophomore, but instead followed it naturally, "You can also develop underwater submersibles to catch the enemy off guard under the water."

It was as if these were her daily experiences that were often engraved in her body and she said them casually.

At the library, Cheng Xi concentrated on reviewing those obscure formula exercises, but Ku Zan didn't bring anything. When they were bored, the following scene appeared in the study room: Ku Zan looked at Cheng Xi, Cheng Xi looked at the knowledge in the notes, and Cheng Xi tried not to let the knowledge in the notes get into her head.

When he returned to the dormitory at night, Cheng Xi told his roommates about the breakup. They were very calm about it. They thought it was unreliable, but they were a little surprised that Cheng Xi was so resolute and had such strong execution ability. He said he would break up without hesitation.

One of the roommates who had recently fallen into a relationship crisis sighed, "I really envy you for being so decisive, Xixi."

"If I had your execution ability, I might have been elected governor of the United States before I was 30."

Cheng Xi: "I have some ambition, I want to be president."

"Actually." She looked like she wanted to say something but stopped, and attracted all the attention in the dormitory to her, "It's good for us to be friends."

"Oh." Another roommate, despite the mask on her face, couldn't help but complain, "Keep in touch in the name of friends, maintain the relationship, and then try to rekindle the old love."

Finally concluded: "Xi, you are still too naive."

In fact, Cheng Xi and Kuzan didn't have much time to spend together privately in the following days. She had to go to class, take exams, go shopping and go out with her roommates. Although the special department tried not to assign her tasks because of her young age, they would ask her to handle it when there was a shortage of manpower.

So she only came out occasionally to go to the snack street with Kuzan, watch movies, etc. To be fair, Kuzan is definitely a perfect friend, considerate, gentleman, and can resonate with him on some strange points. 

For example, when watching Crayon Shin-chan, Cheng Xi and Kuzan both had a sense of déjà vu about the kindergarten principal wearing a yellow jacket and glasses. The key is that Cheng Xi's roommates and friends all agreed that Principal Gao Cang was very weak and fragile in fighting. Only she and Kuzan insisted that the principal was actually very strong, but was just pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, hiding his strength. 

After taking the last final exam, Cheng Xi and her roommates returned to the dormitory to pack their luggage. Their major will go to the shipyard in the neighboring province for internship after the final exam this year. 

On the way, everyone excitedly discussed the upcoming internship life. They had only seen photos and schematics on the computer or in books before, and now they can finally see the real thing. The students are very excited. 

For some reason, Cheng Xi suddenly blurted out, "Will we encounter pirates at the shipyard?" 

The classmates around her looked at her with confusion. Some thought she was tortured by the exam and became stupid, while others thought she was suffering from a middle school syndrome. 

"I've only heard the word pirate in movies or novels." Someone turned around and continued her words, "If you are talking about the kind of pirates who ride on wooden sailing ships and carry guns everywhere, then I suggest you look for them near the Gulf of Somalia." 

Someone else said, "The place where we are going to do the internship has even been remodeled. Not to mention pirates, even if the fleet of other countries dares to illegally approach the border, you will be shot into a sieve in minutes." 

Yes, I have lived in an inland area since I was a child, why do I have such a deep impression of pirates, Cheng Xi was puzzled. And she clearly learned in her professional course that the hull of a warship is mainly built of manganese steel and alloy steel, but the picture that flashed through her mind was still a wooden warship. 

She shook her head violently, trying to get rid of all these messy pictures, and then told everyone guiltily that she was sorry, she had just suffered from a middle school syndrome. 

Someone complained: "This is not called Chuunibyou, it's called Hachimanbyou." 

Cheng Xi: ... 

During the internship, I mainly got to know people, did metalworking, production work, and some practical operations, such as CNC cutting, welding, etc. It's not difficult, but very busy. 

That night, when they returned to where they lived, it was already dark. After Cheng Xi's roommate finished washing up, she lay on the bed and watched videos on her phone. As she watched, she couldn't help but sighed: "It's so chaotic outside now. There are wars all over the world. It's better here. It's peaceful and safe." 

Cheng Xi said: "What a coincidence, turbulent and changing period, this word was just tested in the final exam." 

"Anyway, it's absolutely safe here. Even if I'm caught by criminals one day, I'm not afraid." 

Cheng Xi: "Why, do you want to say that you are brave?" 

"Of course not." She poked her head out from the side of the bed and joked, "Our school has nuclear strike capabilities. If something happens to me, the dean of the School of Energy Engineering next door will take action."
Cheng Xi sighed and said with emotion: "It's a pity that the slaves captured after the war were not well fed and clothed, and had to endure all kinds of inhuman torture. It was really painful."

"That's called a prisoner of war. Where are the slaves in modern society?"

This sentence was like an arrow shot straight into Cheng Xi's heart. Her mind was spinning and chaotic.

There should be no slaves in the world...

I want to implement the justice of my hometown...

Celestial Dragons are a class that should not exist...

I was born in the best and happiest place in the world, so I don't have the same thoughts as you in this sea world.

She remembered everything. She traveled to a very strange world nine years ago and joined the navy. During a mission, she fainted because she looked into a pair of blue eyes. When she woke up again, she returned to school.

Cheng Xi immediately guessed that this might be the effect of Roy's devil fruit, or he was a mysterious race, and his ability was illusion, which put the people who were hit into the time when they missed the most in their hearts, or imagined an ideal hometown. 

To be honest, this is indeed a very tempting fantasy, a home she has thought about countless times day and night, and she can't sense any danger now. If she wants, she can stay in the fantasy until she dies of old age. 

But! 

Fantasy is fantasy, and illusory things can never come true. Instead of indulging in illusory beauty, she would rather face the cruel reality. 

She sent a message to Kuzan, set a meeting place, and then immediately got out of bed, put on shoes and socks, and met him. 

It may be that Roy's strength is limited, or it may be the weakness of the devil fruit. When Cheng Xi recovered his memory, Kuzan also recovered his memory. He just wanted to contact Cheng Xi when he received her message. 

In the world of pirates, because the terrain is all islands, she often parkours all over the island when performing tasks, but now it is not possible. Her hometown is vast and rich in resources. Even if she is fast, she has to buy a plane ticket to see Kuzan. 

They decided to meet in a park. It was already two o'clock in the morning. The whole environment was quiet, with the occasional rustling of insects. The park still had green warning lights. In the dark night, it looked like the underworld. Cheng Xi had no doubt that a green-faced and fanged ghost might jump out in the next second. 

The two met and discussed how to get out of this environment without saying nonsense. 

In fact, there were similar situations in many hot-blooded comics that Cheng Xi had read. The final solution was to wipe one's neck, and some people wiped their necks more than once, but Cheng Xi felt that this method was not very stable. 

First of all, she was afraid of pain, and the blood on her neck was bleeding, so she couldn't do it. But if she and Kuzan were to chop each other, she might consider it. 

And there was only one trial and error opportunity for wiping the neck. If you made the wrong choice, you would just do it. The risk was too high. 

Cheng Xi analyzed to Ku Zan that this illusion seemed to want to seal them in, and it was very similar to the formation in the ancient book, so the key to breaking the situation must be to find the "eye of the formation" and destroy it. 

But now the problem is that this eye of the formation cannot be found. The world is so big, with seven continents and eight oceans, which is larger than any country or island in the pirate world, and there are even many mysterious underwater worlds. She has to take a plane for several hours just to cross a province. By the time they finish searching the whole world, Cheng Xi will probably be over 60 years old. 

The two of them fell into deep thought at the same time. Ku Zan looked up at the sky. The moon tonight was not bright, and most of it was covered by dark clouds. Even the stars were scattered and dim, but there was a star on the edge that was particularly bright. 

Ku Zan's eyes suddenly lit up and he had an idea. 

He remembered that it was the same when he looked at the night sky before. No matter whether the stars and the moon around were bright or dim, this star always emitted the same color of light and never changed. 

"Xixi, look at that star." Ku Zan pointed to the star in the sky and told Cheng Xi his idea. 

Cheng Xi looked in the direction of her finger, and it was indeed much brighter than the other stars. She had always been careless and not a good observer. If Kuzan hadn't reminded her in time, she might not have noticed this subtle difference until her 30th birthday. 

Now that the key point has been found, the next step is to break it. Perhaps because of the rules of the world, Kuzan's ability to freeze the fruit cannot be used, but his physical skills are also very powerful. 

"I am pious today, please come and lead the ghost soldiers to kill the thunder." 

Cheng Xi floated a piece of talisman paper in the air, chanting a spell, making a seal with his hands, with a serious expression, and Kuzan was ready beside him. 

The talisman paper instantly burned, and the paper was burned to ashes, but the complicated talisman on it still remained in the air and gradually expanded, with wisps of lightning flowing on it, emitting enough light to illuminate the night, and the energy gradually increased. 

"Now, let's go!" 

Kuzan looked at the brightest star in the sky, with domineering aura wrapped around his hands. The ink-colored domineering aura continued to swirl and flow out of his hands, and attacked that point at the same time as the lightning on the talisman. 

This is Cheng Xi's most powerful spell so far. It can summon ghosts and gods from hundreds of kilometers around to help. These forces are concentrated together and expressed in the form of thunder and lightning, which will form a very huge and terrifying force. This force can be used to attack or as a barrier to protect oneself. 

There is only one chance, Cheng Xi is desperate. It's not that this power can only be used once, but because she and Kuzan made too much noise. This is not a pirate world that can be destroyed at will. If they just misjudged or failed to break this flaw, the noise would attract the special department employees nearby. They are working the night shift and are more resentful than ghosts. Once they are caught, it will be really difficult to deal with them. 

Fortunately, they succeeded. After one blow, there was a "click" sound, and the black sky slowly cracked, splitting into pieces of different sizes like a spider web, and then falling to the ground and completely dissipating. The sunlight shone in, dazzling Cheng Xi a little, and she subconsciously blocked it with her hands. 

The moon fell and the stars sank, and the sky suddenly broke. 

"Okay, we're out." Cheng Xi looked at Kuzan and said happily. 

Kuzan smiled and nodded at her: "Yeah." 

Cheng Xi looked around, and it was still the place where she fainted just now. Then she looked at her watch again. The time was about the same as before. She guessed that no matter how much time passed in this illusion, time in real life would not pass. 

Prince Roy also fainted and lay next to them. It might be a side effect of the devil fruit. Since the two victims woke up, the perpetrator should wake up soon. 

She called Den Den Mushi to Yushula who was on standby on the ship, asking her to take the soldiers off the ship to catch all the monsters on the island, and call the nearby branch for support. She and Kuzan tied Roy here, waiting for him to wake up and ask him about the whereabouts of the missing navy. 

Halfway through, Kuzan asked Cheng Xi: "Is that your ability just now? It looks amazing." 

"Yes." Cheng Xi nodded and admitted, and then did not forget to praise him, "You are also amazing, you look so strong." 

Kuzan smiled and accepted her praise, and asked: "What devil fruit did you eat?" 

When he first joined the navy, he also looked at the devil fruit illustrations, but no fruit had such magical and convenient abilities as hers. 

Cheng Xi was in a joking mood and did not answer his question, but joked: "Guess."
Kuzan tentatively guessed a few names, but as expected, he guessed all of them wrong, so he had to put away his curiosity in disappointment.

What they didn't expect was that Roy was still unconscious after lying on the ground for half an hour. Cheng Xi couldn't wait any longer, so he kicked him in the body, then grabbed his head and slapped him twice.
Feeling the pain in his body, Roy finally woke up. The first thing he did when he woke up was to open his eyes and try to look Cheng Xi in the face again, but this time Cheng Xi had seen through his moves and slapped him hard again, making Roy see stars and feel dizzy. He felt like he was floating in the air and his head was about to fly out. 

Cheng Xi interrogated him why he attacked her and the whereabouts of the missing navy, but Roy did not listen to her. Instead, he limped towards her and tried to hug her thigh... 

Then he slapped her again... 

The voice of Den Den Mushi rang out, and Yusura called to tell Cheng Xi that the villains on the island had basically been cleared out, and the warships of the nearby branch had also arrived, and asked her if she had any instructions. After Cheng Xi gave Yusura instructions, she continued to interrogate Roy. After 

asking, I found out that this was just a rebellious middle school kid making trouble... 

Although he was a royal family, he couldn't stand the behavior of the Celestial Dragons on Marijoa. He was full of middle school syndrome and wanted to change the world, so he directed and acted in a kidnapping drama to teach the navy a lesson. 

Cheng Xi asked him why he didn't attack the Celestial Dragons if he couldn't stand them, and why he came to trouble the navy? 

"Because I saw that once, less than half an hour after the Celestial Dragons were beaten, the Warring States of your headquarters immediately appeared at the scene of the incident and recovered the ground for them, so I think your navy is also a bunch of bad guys who help the evil." 

Cheng Xi directly dismantled his lie: "I think you just don't dare to beat the Celestial Dragons, and you want to pick on the weak, so you come to the navy." 

Roy's fruit is called the Utopia Fruit. It activates its ability through its own eyes. As the name suggests, it can bring people's souls into the Utopia they imagine in their hearts. Most people are addicted to it and don't want to come out. This is not dangerous, but if everyone dies in the environment, whether it is a natural death or an accident, then his actual body will quickly decay, his brain will die, and he will become a vegetable. 

It's funny to say that those weird and san bad people on this nightmare island are not his men. It's their bad luck to be caught this time. Instead, those guards outside the basement are his people. 

Well, the little prince is rich and powerful. He rents it for 100,000 Baileys a day. 

Cheng Xi: "You are crazy!" 

There are all kinds of birds in the forest. She can even meet such an outrageous royal family. She has really broadened her horizons. 

What surprised her even more was that this little prince didn't know if he had some masochistic tendencies or other special fetishes. Cheng Xi beat and scolded him, but he said excitedly: "I also want to join the navy and become a soldier under you." 

Cheng Xi: ... 

Do you want to see what you are saying? You just said that the navy is a bad thing for helping the evil, and now you want to join the navy? 

Sure enough, the royal family is more powerful than ordinary people when they go crazy. 

Even Kuzan asked beside him: "Xixi, did you hit him too hard and made him stupid?" 

Roy's brain is not stupid, on the contrary, he is very normal now. The side effect of the Utopia Fruit is that he has to enter the same illusion with people with medium abilities, but he will not lose his memory, and he can only open one illusion at a time. This is why Cheng Xi and Kuzan are in the same illusion. 

He is a prince, and a favored prince. What good things has he not seen? Those who were tricked before had beautiful women, power, money, and other things in their heads, which were vulgar and stereotyped. He had all of these, so he could quickly get out of their utopia. 

But this time was different! 

The utopia of this woman named Cheng Xi, or the place where she used to live, was so good! Although he was not from the royal family, he arranged an identity for himself as a rich second-generation. He was so happy to eat, drink and have fun every day. In order to prevent Cheng Xi from recovering her memory, he even "thoughtfully" arranged a boyfriend for her. 

Unexpectedly, the person who was tricked woke up, and he, the one who tricked her, was actually addicted to it. 

"It's okay not to join." His tone suddenly became pitiful, "Then tell me where else in the world can you play video games and mobile phones like your home, or when you are unhappy, you can directly take a plane that can fly in the sky to Hokkaido to ski and cry?" 

Also, he really couldn't bear to part with his limited edition sports car in the garage! 

Cheng Xi raised his hand and threatened: "Do you believe I will beat you to tears right now?" 

Roy: "I believe it." 

The missing navy was found in a hidden warehouse. After Roy released his fruit ability, they gradually woke up. 

The ordinary pirates on the island were handed over to the branch, and some big pirates were pushed into the city by Cheng Xi and Kuzan. As for the naughty child Roy, Cheng Xi looked at him and sighed. It's difficult to deal with him, so he should be taken back to Steel Bone Kong and Sengoku to deal with him. Anyway, no matter what the ending is, the 500 million Baileys of the little prince's father are definitely indispensable. 

On the way back, they still stood in the original position. Yusura sat on the edge of the splint with a sword in his arms, and Kuzan sat on the recliner in the best position, but this time he did not take a nap, but was leisurely basking in the sun. 

Cheng Xi was bored on the splint and took out a guitar from the cabin: "Okay, the great musician will start playing next." 

She played "Ichigo Ichie", just simply thinking that some lyrics in this song are very suitable for now. "Those 

hopes that 

you and I have been chasing, that 

we have missed again and again, that we have never obtained , will not be worn away by the flow of time~" 

The music poured out from her hands, and the notes connected the blue sky and the clear sea. The girl singing on the deck, with her bright eyes, was like a reindeer elf in the birch forest, clear and pure, and flourishing. 

There is such a saying in the world that when two people have the same secret, there will be an invisible bond between them that connects them to each other and makes the relationship closer. Although Kuzan's memory of Cheng Xi's hometown has become vague due to the limitations of the development of the Roy Fruit, there is still a trace of inexplicable emotion in his heart. 

Although he now temporarily attributes this feeling to a friendship of a like-minded dream, it is a feeling of affection that is a little more favorable. 

Even though the sea is vast and there are tens of thousands of islands and countless people, only the two of them know Cheng Xi's hometown. 

After sending the pirates on the ship to Impel Down, Cheng Xi sailed to another island on the way back to Marinford. It was an island famous for its winemaking. Cheng Xi had a good relationship with the manager of a bar on the island. Last time, he promised to bring her a book signed by the recently popular supernatural novelist Lamiss. It happened that he passed by this time, so he brought it to her. 

After entering the bar, the store was always crowded with people and noisy, but this time it was a little different. The whole store was empty, without a single customer, and it was very quiet. 

Cheng Xi handed the book to the manager and asked the question in his heart. 

"Oh, Cheng Xi, thank you so much!" The manager thanked her excitedly. The manager was a woman in her thirties, who squeezed juice for Cheng Xi while explaining. 

It turned out that the world's number one dancer Elena died in an accident at the door of her store at noon today. Now everyone went to attend her funeral, so how could they have the heart to come to the bar.
Cheng Xi mourned for her for three seconds in her heart. She had heard rumors about Elena before. She danced very beautifully and seemed to be a devil fruit user, but she forgot what kind of fruit it was.

The manager handed her the juice and then gave her a basket of fruits: "They were all picked this morning and are very fresh."

Cheng Xi drank a sip of the juice and then picked up some fruits from the basket. There was a sugar apple with a particularly green skin. It should have been overripe. Cheng Xi decided to eat it first, so she took a knife to cut it open, cut it into small pieces and put it in her mouth.

Kuzan just took a glass of mixed wine from the manager and saw Cheng Xi putting fruit in his mouth.

"Xixi, don't eat it!" He shouted anxiously, trying to stop her.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

"Fuck, it's so disgusting." Cheng Xi couldn't help but spit it out after chewing it, but there were still small pieces that went down her throat into her esophagus. She frowned and twisted her facial features together.

The taste was so disgusting that she even cursed.

Kuzan had seen this fruit in the devil fruit encyclopedia. As the name suggests, the superhuman makeup fruit is used for makeup, and it looks very much like a sugar apple.

He always thought that Cheng Xi's five senses were the ability of the fruit, so he was so worried after seeing Cheng Xi eat this fruit.

Once the ability user eats the second devil fruit, the two forces will begin to fight in the ability user's body, and finally cause the ability user to explode and die.

Thinking of that scene, Kuzan moved directly to Cheng Xi, grabbed her shoulders and began to shake her hard: "Spit it out, spit it out quickly."

He didn't want to see Cheng Xi's death.

Cheng Xi's tongue was already numb and her mouth was sour because of the unpalatable taste, and she had to digest the name and ability of the devil fruit. Now she was shaken so hard by Kuzan that she was almost shaken into a puppet. She felt that she had crashed.

To be honest, she was not prepared for Kuzan at all, and she didn't even open a trace of observation.

Kuzan remembered that when he was an ordinary soldier, he learned that if someone swallowed something by mistake, they could slap the back to make the food vomit out under the effect of air pressure.

He was so worried about Cheng Xi that he didn't realize that it was impossible for him to live for so long after accidentally ingesting two fruits. He also underestimated his own strength as a vice admiral of the navy. All he wanted in his mind was to let Cheng Xi spit out the devil fruit residue and not die.

So he slapped Cheng Xi's back, and Cheng Xi was caught off guard and was slapped away by him...

Cheng Xi almost cursed Kuzan in his heart, I was not on guard against you, but you beat me without mercy.

Yushula came out of the kitchen after hearing the noise outside, and then saw such a dreamy scene. She thought she was dazzled, rubbed her eyes, and pinched her ears, but found that the scene had not changed at all.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" Yushula made a sharp groundhog cry.