Chapter 37 Misunderstandings

The texts that are suspected to be historical texts appear in newspapers once every two months on average, and each time they cause an uproar.

The World Government has also speculated whether these texts are randomly written by people with ulterior motives to disrupt society. However, after being touched by the Perception Fruit ability users in the CP organization, the information that came to mind was that the depths of the soul of the person who wrote them had at least a thousand years of history. Although it was vague, the fonts and content in it were real.

As for what it meant specifically and how to interpret it, he didn't know.

Even if the Perception Fruit ability users only got this information with their current strength, the World Government would be panicked enough to send a large number of troops to deal with these newspapers, prevent them from circulating on the market, and search for the leakers with all their strength. In this way, the troops stationed in the South China Sea would be reduced, and naturally there would be many so-called "slippery fish" who survived.

The most dangerous place in the world is the safest place. As smart as the World Government is, it didn't guess that the dangerous person who made them panic and sweat coldly was sitting in the Navy Headquarters, racking his brains to think about how to write the mission report in his hand.

Ten months after the execution of Pirate King Gol D. Roger, this extremely cruel and ridiculous farce finally came to an end. A large number of navy and world government forces withdrew from the South China Sea, focusing new attention on the historical texts leaked in newspapers.

But when the time came, the latest issue of the newspaper only had various news and novels, and no information about the historical texts.

There was no second issue.

There was no third issue either...

Half a year later, although there were still a small number of people who were lucky enough to expect it, most of them realized that there would be no more in the future. In fact, these have nothing to do with ordinary civilians. They don’t want to be Pirate Kings, nor do they want to study history. At most, they just want to have fun. Now that the fun is gone, they will continue to live the peaceful life they had before.

Disappeared without a trace.

The most angry person in this matter is probably the World Government. They wanted to grab both the orphans of the Pirate King and the historical text newspapers. The final result was that neither of them was handled well. They are all incompetent people that can be called by pirates.
In the headquarters building, Cheng Xi had just returned from a mission in the New World. Sitting in the office, she hadn't had time to take a sip of tea when she was given a new mission by General Sengoku. 

No one knew what had suddenly gone mad, but more than a dozen pirate groups in the West Sea actually united together to attack the West Sea branch and civilians without armed forces. More than a dozen tragedies occurred within three days, and the situation became very bad. The 137th branch of the Navy finally couldn't stand the brutal attacks of the pirates anymore and called the headquarters for help. 

Cheng Xi took on the task, selected the soldiers, made sufficient preparations, and drove a warship from the port of Marinford to the West Sea for support. 

Not counting the time on the road, she carried out this mission for half a month. It wasn't because those pirates were so powerful and difficult to fight, but because there were so many of them and they were scattered on various islands. It took her a lot of time just to search for the hiding places of these criminals one by one. 

After dealing with these brutal pirates, Cheng Xi and his soldiers set sail and prepared to return to the headquarters to report. 

On the way back, the weather on the route was very good. The sky was blue and the sea was clear. The sky was high and the sea was vast, stretching endlessly. However, Cheng Xi was in no mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery. She was very tired from the days of commuting. She sat on the deck chair with dull eyes and looked forward to the happy life of eating and sleeping for three days and three nights after returning. 

When she reached a wide sea, Cheng Xi saw a huge warship in the distance and a medium-sized sailing ship that was smashed next to it. There was no pirate flag or **/sign on it. It should be just an ordinary ship. 

On the warship stood a giant man with a cowboy hat and an orange beard around his face. His face was full of irritable and unhappy expressions. 

Cheng Xi knew this man. He was Vice Admiral Sauro of the Navy Headquarters at the same level as her. Because of the huge size of the giants, they rarely stayed in Marinford and spent most of their time on field missions at sea. Therefore, Cheng Xi did not have much contact with him, but Kuzan had a good relationship with him. 

The two warships gradually approached, and Cheng Xi waved and greeted him: "Hey! Good afternoon, Sauro." 

Hearing her voice, Sauro lowered his head, shifted his gaze downward, and said in a friendly manner: "It's Cheng Xi, long time no see, you look stronger than last time." 

"Thank you." Cheng Xi was happy. After all, everyone likes to be praised, especially to be praised to become stronger. Then he asked the question in his heart, "Hey, whose ship is this? It doesn't look dangerous." 

"Is this a historical ship where scholars from the South China Sea study history?" 

"Historical ship? What bad things have they done to sink them?" 

"I get angry when I mention this. I don't understand why such an order was given. They have arrested one historical ship after another in the past six years. They are not brutal pirates. Do they really have to die?" " 

Really, it's another inexplicable order." Cheng Xi's words were full of boredom and helplessness towards the top leaders of the World Government, and he complained, "In terms of stupidity, their heads are no different from those of flying cockroaches, but in terms of immorality, they are hundreds or thousands of times worse than them." 

"Xiao Chengxi, you are so funny, Trey, hehe." Sauro laughed, "No wonder Kuzan and you have such a good relationship and often go out together." 

"Huh!? What nonsense did Kuzan say to you? How come you even know about the two of us going out to play!?" 

Sauro made a look of regret: "Oh, can't I tell you? Then Xiao Chengxi, just pretend you didn't hear what I said." 

Chengxi:... 

Really, how come these vice admirals in this headquarters are so out of line? 

The soldiers on their two ships seemed to be concentrating on doing their own things, but in fact, their ears wanted to extend ten meters to eavesdrop, no, to listen to their conversation openly, and there was a gossip light in their eyes! 

Lieutenant General Chengxi and Lieutenant General Kuzan seem to... have something going on? 

Strength, status, ability, from all aspects, they are really a good match. The sea is vast and boundless, and the voyage is boring and monotonous, so in their spare time, this group of people actually started to ship CP. 

Cheng Xi: "Sauro, what's going on with these scholars?" 

Sauro thought for a while, and finally decided to tell Cheng Xi the truth. It was a historical ship that set off six years ago. There were 33 scholars on board, all of whom were vicious criminals. According to the order issued by the World Government, their purpose was to study deeper history and awaken powerful ancient weapons. 

Cheng Xi looked at the white-haired woman on the deck who was subdued by the navy. She had a pair of deep blue eyes as deep as the sea. She was in a mess, covered with scars and blood, but she didn't have any expression of fear, but was extremely calm. 

Historian... Historian! 

Thinking of the identity of this woman, Cheng Xi's pupils trembled, and after a moment of contemplation, he looked up and said to Sauro: "Sauro, can I be alone with this woman for a while?" 

Sauro agreed to her request: "Yes." 

Cheng Xi jumped onto his huge warship, took Olivia from the navy soldier into the cabin, and then used his ability to create a lotion barrier to cover the two of them. After ensuring that everything was in place and the content of the conversation would not be exposed, he directly stated his purpose. 

"Can you interpret the text of history?" 

"What!?" Olivia, who had just held a death mentality, became excited when she heard her say the word "text of history", and her whole body couldn't stop shaking.
But she was afraid that it was an enemy's trick, so she tried to calm herself down, "I don't know what you are talking about."

"I said to interpret the historical text."

"I don't know this, and I can't interpret it."

"Your reaction is too excited. This level of disguise is easy to be seen through." Cheng Xi's tone was gentle and calm, trying to prove herself, "I'm not a bad person."
She took out the three historical text rubbings she collected from her pocket, then opened them and handed them to Olivia, "I guess you should 

know how to do it, please help me?" "You..." Olivia was even more shocked. What kind of identity is this girl? She was able to stir up such a huge storm, and she took out such an important text rubbing from... her trouser pocket? Does she know the importance of this thing? 

She reiterated: "Believe me, I'm a good person." 

Olivia took a quick look. There were some road signs to the final island: "Are you going to be the Pirate King?" 

"No." Cheng Xi answered very straightforwardly, "I just want to wait until the right time to witness a truth, and then do something that sounds shocking." 

Olivia was moved by the truth she wanted to see, and interpreted the text of the road sign for her, and then suddenly thought: "Did you publish that thing?" 

"What?" 

"The articles in the newspaper that look like ancient texts." 

After these archaeologists got the newspaper, they were shocked, but after a long period of research, they still didn't find anything. 

It was a kind of text they had never come across. 

"I wrote it." 

"Does that text really exist?" 

"Yes, it's the text of my hometown." 

Olivia: "Are you also a historian?" 

Cheng Xi: "No, I just took history classes, but we have historians who specialize in recording history and museums that exhibit cultural relics." 

"A country that can face history squarely must be a very happy country." Olivia's eyes were full of envy, "This world is just afraid of the past that it knows nothing about, and because of fear, it wants to destroy it." 

She told Cheng Xi that according to the information they have, there must be a force in this world that is hostile to the world government, as well as the disappearance of a hundred years and the powerful kingdom that has no news. 

Cheng Xi looked at his watch. Nearly an hour had passed. He couldn't delay any longer, so he removed the lotion barrier, took Olivia outside the cabin and handed her over to the navy soldiers, said goodbye to Sauro, and returned to his warship. 

Before leaving, she looked back at Olivia, the only survivor of this historical team. 

"I won't let you die." 

She said this in a light tone, but the promise was heavy. 

After returning to the headquarters and writing two mission reports, they happened to catch up with the monthly high-level meeting of the Navy, so they held another meeting. 

When they entered the meeting room, the seat next to Kuzan was still empty. Cheng Xi quickly jumped to his side at a flying speed. Whether at school or work, sitting next to acquaintances during meetings is an eternal habit. 

The meeting was really long and boring. Cheng Xi nodded drowsily, and then began to whisper and make small moves with Kuzan. Zhan Guo and Gang Gu Kong wanted to say something, but they stopped talking and wanted to say something. In the end , they said nothing. 

After the meeting, Cheng Xi and Kuzan walked out of the meeting room side by side and made an appointment to go to the cafeteria for dinner. I don’t know if Kuzan really treated her as a child or just thought it was fun. Although Cheng Xi warned her countless times not to touch her head, he always habitually rubbed her head. 

Gentle and warm. 

Cheng Xi couldn’t bear it anymore, turned around and looked at Kuzan, and then jumped up and hit him on the top of the head to express his dissatisfaction. 

"I'm angry. I'll beat you up next time." 

She was amused by her own reaction. After all, she would be praised as "tall" in modern times. She never expected that she would be defeated by her height here. 

Cheng Xi's face was full of smiles, and her eyes were shining, as if she could infect others and make them feel better. 

Kuzan called her name: "Xixi." 

"Well, what's wrong?" 

"You look so cute like this." 

"Really?" 

"Really." 

"Since I'm so cute, then you..." Cheng Xi looked into Kuzan's eyes, and then said sincerely: "Can you help me write a few documents?" 

Kuzan:... 

He gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Sure." 

After lunch, Cheng Xi went to the training ground in the afternoon to teach Yushula and Kaisha swordsmanship. 

Kaisha is a promising newcomer that Cheng Xi snatched from the Garp fleet. She has blue hair, black eyes, a baby face, and a petite figure. From the outside, she looks like a cute and sweet girl, but she must be very capable to be able to make it on the Garp ship. After she covered her fist with the armament color, she could kill a pirate with one punch. It is no exaggeration to say that pirates below 30 million are more fragile than cabbages in front of her second-generation iron fist. 

In the evening, Cheng Xi had a sudden idea and went to Zefa's house. 

As soon as he entered the door, the naughty kid Will rushed over before he had time to change his shoes. 

"Sister, long time no see, I missed you so much." 

Cheng Xi pushed him off himself and found that Rosinante was also in the living room. He was about the same age as Will, and coupled with the relationship between Sengoku and Zefa, they naturally became good friends over time. 

Will's personality is not as serious as his father's, nor as gentle as he is now. If you really want to compare it, in fact, he is very similar to his sister who is not related by blood. He is extremely cheerful and optimistic. With him as a friend, Cheng Xi has a hunch that in a few years, even an introvert like Rosie the Great will be cheerful. 

She exclaimed sharply: "How come you two have grown taller again!?" She 

had just experienced the high jump and beat Kuzan at noon. Now looking at these two teenagers who are only fourteen or fifteen years old and are almost two meters tall, she has no doubt that they will grow to three meters tall when they grow up. 

Rosie the Great: "Really? I didn't pay much attention to this." 

Will: "That's great. If you grow taller early, you can become stronger and better protect your sister when you grow up." 

Hearing Will's words, Cheng Xi was moved. This child is really not in vain. Since he said so, let's fulfill his wish. 

"Will, get up, let's go to the backyard to practice swordsmanship, and Rosie can come with us." 

As the saying goes, it's better to beat your younger brother early, while he is still young, to leave him with some deep physical memories. 

Two hours later. 

As soon as Zefa and Elsa got home, they saw their child lying on the sofa like a dead fish, wailing and shouting that his sister was too cruel. Although the child from the Warring States next to him didn't say anything, his expression of despair had already exposed his despair. 

Elsa: "Xixi is back. I just bought fresh sea bass today. I will make soup for you later." 

Zefa: "Did the mission to the West Sea go smoothly? Are you injured?"
Cheng Xi stood up and took the things from the couple, and replied with a smile: "I'm not tired, I'm not injured at all, I'm in good health."

Will: Is there really no one who cares about me?

At the dinner table, Zefa suddenly asked Cheng Xi that she felt that she had become more distant from Sakaski recently. Whenever they met, they were either on edge or didn't talk. Did they have a quarrel?
Cheng Xi told Zefa the reason for the breakup. Even Elsa, who stayed at home, had heard of Sakaski's coldness and harshness, but after all, he was his student, so Zefa still said a few good words for him, but only a few words, and there was no other persuasion. 

Cheng Xi thought silently. Although they always quarreled in the past year, except for the newspaper incident, it was usually because he couldn't stand Sakaski's behavior and unilaterally provoked the topic. He didn't think anything of it before, but now think about it, everyone has his own style of doing things, and extreme is his life creed, which seems to be looking for trouble. And it's better to have one more friend than one more enemy. It's better to ease the relationship with him before it's too bad. 

But if I apologize to him so easily, wouldn't it be embarrassing? Besides, I didn't do anything wrong, so why apologize? 

In that case, then... 

The next day, as soon as Sakaski entered the office, he saw a lunch box on his desk. He asked his adjutant if anyone had come into his office in the morning, but he only got a shake of his head and a "I don't know". 

He walked slowly to his desk and opened the lunch box. There were three boxes in total, one box of full-grained, crystal-clear white rice, one box of shiny, fragrant devil pepper fried meat, and one box of vegetable soup. 

Looking at the familiar cuisine, Sakaski had the answer in his mind. 

... 

Year 1500 of the Sea Circle Calendar. From the information and notes found in the damaged archaeological ship, the World Government guessed that this group of archaeological teams that wanted to be enemies with the whole world and intended to explore the truth of the disappearance of 100 years came from Ohara Island, the archaeological holy land of the West Sea. 

In order to eradicate this group of troublemakers and warn the world, the World Government personally dispatched the CP organization to O'Hara and issued a demon-killing order to O'Hara, indiscriminately attacking anyone on the island. 

Gun smoke, undercurrents surged. 

"General Sengoku, it's bad, Vice Admiral Sauro let the scholar criminal go, and he also broke away from the navy and escaped." 

"That guy is one of the five vice admirals leading the demon-killing order this time, and he knows all the plans of this operation." Helplessly, Sengoku had to issue an almost cruel order, "Go chase him, bring him and Olivia back together, and shoot if necessary." 

The people below understood his hidden meaning. At the last step, the death of Vice Admiral Sauro must be used to keep the secret of the plan. 

At this time, someone asked: "General Zhan Guo, who will fill the vacancy of Lieutenant General Sauro? The only one who is free now is Lieutenant General Cheng Xi." 

Hearing the name Cheng Xi, Zhan Guo couldn't help but start to have a headache. According to her personality, she would definitely turn against him halfway through the execution of the Demon Slayer Order. It would be better not to send her. He thought for a moment and gave the order: "Recall Stoloberi from Shampoo and carry out this mission together." " 

Yes." 

The day when the Demon Slayer Order was received was a very good day. The sun was shining and the weather was clear. Kuzan was having dinner with Cheng Xi. His heart sank when he heard the silver telephone bug ringing. 

Cheng Xi asked him, "What's wrong?" 

"Nothing, I just received an urgent mission." 

"Are we leaving now?" 

"Yes." 

Cheng Xi instructed, "That's really urgent. Be careful along the way, pay attention to safety, and come back early so that we can go to the newly opened barbecue restaurant together." 

In fact, Cheng Xi was not very worried because he trusted his strength. With Kuzan's strength, he rarely encountered opponents on this sea. I heard that Marshal Kong was going to retire, and Kuzan should be promoted to the position of general. 

Kuzan was tossing and turning in his heart, and finally did not tell Cheng Xi about the Demon Slayer Order. 

Unfortunately, some things cannot be hidden. Not long after Kuzan left, a man broke into her office, hurried and impatient, and looked very anxious. 

The man pleaded, "Lieutenant General Cheng Xi, please save Lieutenant General Sauro!" 

Cheng Xi remembered him as a soldier on Sauro's ship, so he listened to him after the cause and effect, and Marshal Zhan Guo's order to "shoot if necessary" to Sauro in order not to leak military secrets. 

"Finally, even General Zhan Guo is going crazy?" Cheng Xi said angrily. 

The Demon Slaughter Order is a brutal attack that can burn everything. The military force is composed of five lieutenant generals, ten major generals, nearly 10,000 naval elites and ten of the world's strongest and most offensive warships. Such a large force can easily destroy a small island. 

When he heard that the bombardment site was O'Hara, Cheng Xi could no longer remain calm and put on his cloak and ran to the port. 

That promise with Olivia... 

Sauro let Olivia go, so for O'Hara's safety, he would definitely go there to inform the news. He was also in danger, but Cheng Xi kept comforting the soldier on the way. 

Kuzan was also among them. He and Sauro were good friends, and at least he would cover Sauro. 

Before Kuzan arrived at the island, he saw the huge figure of Sauro running in the deep forest and cursed what the bastard wanted to do. Before he could digest this tricky news, he heard his subordinates report to him that they saw Lieutenant General Cheng Xi's ship behind him. 

Kuzan: ... 

Very good, my heart is finally hanging. 

When Cheng Xi arrived, the bombardment was halfway through. The originally quiet and peaceful island was now full of flames. She could hear crying and wailing from far away on the sea, and even the wind smelled of burnt ashes. 

The CP organization members and all the residents on the island who had just been so arrogant were desperately running to the coast, trying to get a chance of survival. 

Cheng Xi, however, ran inside against the crowd. 

On the way, she passed by Sauro, who told her that Olivia was indeed on the island and pointed her in the direction. Cheng Xi ran all the way and finally saw the dying Olivia. There was an old scholar with gray hair beside her. 

"Olivia, hold on, and I will rescue this scholar." 

"Cheng Xi, thank you, but I have more important things to do." 

"Is there anything in this world more important than life? As long as you are alive, there will be endless possibilities in the future." 

"I am a scholar of O'Hara. History is the wealth of mankind. It is my responsibility to protect this history. It is more important than my life." 

Cheng Xi was about to say something to persuade her, but Olivia pointed to the huge tree behind her, the Tree of Omniscience: "Cheng Xi, I want to protect the knowledge in that library, where human civilization has continued for hundreds of years. Even if the entire island of O'Hara is destroyed today, as long as history is not destroyed, passed on, and witnessed by future generations, then our sacrifice today will be meaningful." 

Cheng Xi was touched by her words and looked at the tens of thousands of powerful troops on the sea. It was simply a fantasy to rescue the residents of an entire island in the face of these troops, but she still had the strength to rescue two people, and according to Sauro, there would be refuge ships prepared for ordinary residents at sea, which would greatly reduce casualties. 

"Olivia, Doctor, listen to me." Her tone became serious. "I will go to save the books in the library, but my ability is limited. I can only save you two. I hope you can live to witness the moment when history is revealed."
After that, she used the power of the Makeup Fruit to change the faces of Olivia and the doctor into those of Yusura and another subordinate, changed clothes with Olivia, and then handed her navy cloak to the doctor.

"The ship with the yellow electric rat painted on the sail is my warship. Don't talk after you get on board, don't pay attention to anyone, pretend to be very cold, and then hide under the bed in the officer's room and wait for me to come back."

Olivia and the doctor are also very rational people. Knowing that Cheng Xi has more ability to rescue the books, they no longer shirk and run to her warship. Cheng Xi went to the library on the island.

The situation is worse than she thought. This all-knowing tree full of human civilization has been bombed beyond recognition. When Cheng Xi arrived, the scholars in the museum were about to open the window and throw the books into the pond below. Even if these books have nothing to do with her, she still feels distressed for no reason.

The most shocking sentence she heard was: "Even if it's just to protect a chapter or a catalog."

Facing Cheng Xi who suddenly broke in, they were obviously on guard and alert.

Cheng Xi formed seals with her hands and chanted a spell. A red spell gradually appeared in the air and rushed towards the books.

The scholars thought she was going to destroy the books. They blocked in front of the bookshelf, pretending to be ready to die, but what they didn't expect was that a piercing cold air whistled past. The raging flames behind them were extinguished.

"I'm not a bad person, I'm here to save the books." Cheng Xi explained.

Hearing this, the scholars were ecstatic, but the artillery fire outside was destroying these fragile human treasures one after another. In an emergency, Cheng Xi had a flash of inspiration and picked up the Den Den Mushi to call the other party.

"Calvin, Calvin, where are you?"

"Report to Lieutenant General Cheng Xi, I'm lost, behind a tree on O'Hara Island."

Cheng Xi:... Why didn't you say I was under a cloud?

"What are the characteristics of that tree?"

"This tree is very big, and there are windows on it. It looks like a library."

Great, Cheng Xi was secretly delighted. He jumped to a high place and opened the window. He just saw Calvin, who was confused and lost, so he controlled the wind around him to roll him into the library, and used his storage fruit ability to put all the books in the library into it.

Seeing that the books were completely protected, the scholars all breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled and accepted their own deaths with a desperate and romantic mentality.

Before leaving, Cheng Xi used all his strength to cover the Tree of All-Knowing with a layer of ice shield, hoping that it could withstand the continuous attack of artillery shells.

When Cheng Xi and Calvin ran to the shore, they saw Kuzan's Sauro frozen. A huge giant statue stood on the grass covered with ice, and a small figure in front was running hard.
She subconsciously avoided certain facts and forced an ugly smile: "Kuzan, your ice sculpture aesthetics are really getting better and better, it's so lifelike, and it looks so much like Sauro." 

She tried to change the subject, but she caught a glimpse of the blown-up refugee ship on the sea and lied to herself: "Whose warship is it? It was blown up like this. It's too bad. I will laugh at him for a year. Hahahaha." 

As she laughed, tears came to her eyes. 

"It was... Vice Admiral Sakaski." Calvin was also sad and told the truth, "Vice Admiral Sakaski blew up the civilian refugee ship." " 

Really? He is as cruel as ever." 

Cheng Xi murmured softly. After experiencing such a great mental blow for the second time, her worldview was refreshed, her blood surged, her thoughts fell into confusion and panic, her brain actively excluded these, tried to become empty, her pupils trembled faster, and she felt that everything around her was cold. 

"No." Kuzan looked at Cheng Xi, who was obviously in a bad state, and tried to explain. 

But she suddenly felt dizzy and fainted.