Chapter 4 Red-haired invitation

There was a faint smell of blood in the air.

Joy, shock, a love that he didn't know how to express...all these emotions mixed together, making Shanks unable to feel the pain in his chest anymore.

Listening to Cheng Xi's complaints to him, he felt a little distressed.

It was Cheng Xi who told him personally that most ghosts like to eat people!

Just when Shanks was at a loss, Cheng Xi slowly walked towards him.

Shanks stood there, waiting for Cheng Xi's arrival with an expectant expression. He drank a lot of wine last night, and now even the smell of alcohol was flowing in his blood. He wondered if Cheng Xi would hate it?

At this moment, time became extremely slow.

Cheng Xi walked up to Shanks and stopped.

The imagined scene of sucking flesh and blood did not happen. The cold back of the hand stayed on his forehead for a while, and he murmured to himself: "Well, it's a little hot."

Cheng Xi carefully observed Shanks' still bleeding wound, reached out and tapped him a few times, and the blood seemed to have magic, and the flow speed slowed down a lot.

She looked at Shanks' clothes which were stained dark red by blood, then took off her coat and bandaged him to stop the bleeding.

When his fingertips touched the collarbone, Shanks' body trembled involuntarily, his heartbeat quickened, and the blood flowed out faster again.

Under the moonlight in the mountains, a man and a woman were alone together. Cheng Xi couldn't think of anything romantic in his mind. Instead, he looked at the wound that was bleeding rapidly. He bent his fingers unconsciously and frowned. He wondered if he remembered the wrong acupoint or if he didn't have enough strength. Why couldn't the blood be stopped?

Cheng Xi pressed a few more times on Shanks' acupoints to stop the bleeding, then put his hands on his shoulders and said in an unquestionable tone: "Don't move, or I'll beat you if you move again."

Upon hearing this, Shanks stopped making any moves.

Each of them had their own thoughts.

One was so excited and happy that he was bleeding.

One silently doubts his own professional abilities.

In the semi-darkness, with the bright moonlight, Shanks looked down at Cheng Xi who was bandaging his wound.

His expression was serious and his eyebrows remained unchanged.

The passage of time has left no trace on her. She is still as pure and beautiful as she was twenty years ago.

But I am no longer the little boy I was twenty years ago, I have grown into a man.

The girl who had appeared in my dreams countless times was now standing here, in reality.

But it made him feel very far away from him.

In a trance, Shanks once again couldn't tell whether this was a dream or reality.

He only knew that Cheng Xi at this moment was so attractive to him, like a magnet, and he was irresistible.

After tying the last knot, Cheng Xi used a talisman to make clear water flow from his fingertips. He washed his bloody palms and asked casually, "Shanks, what's wrong with your left arm?"

Shanks laughed and said, "I'm betting it on the new era."

Cheng Xi raised his head and looked at him. Compared to his memory, there were three more scars on his left eye. He looked much more mature and stronger.

She didn't ask much about the arm, but just sighed; "In my memory, you were still the new era yesterday, but I didn't expect you to become the old era today."

She was sighing about the impermanence of the world, but Shanks suddenly asked: "Hey, Cheng Xi, are you really not going to taste me?"

"Bang!" The familiar pain came, Shanks covered his red and swollen head beaten by Cheng Xi, and howled with gritted teeth: "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!"

Cheng Xi raised his hand, pinched Shanks' cheek, and said angrily: "Shanks, you fool, don't say such misleading words casually!"

Tasting the taste should appear in 18 cents no matter how you look at it, why can he say such things so calmly?

"What do you do when you're hungry?" Shanks asked with a serious expression and clear eyes.

He looked like he had no other thoughts in his mind and was simply concerned about whether she was hungry.

Cheng Xi: ...

My heart feels dirty when it hears everything. They actually attacked a patient with fever. Shanks was beaten but still cared about whether I could have enough food.

I really deserve to die.

"I was just joking, I'm not a ghost."

Shanks: "Is it the ability of a rare race?"

Cheng Xi always knows a lot of magical things, which are out of tune with the moves of other people in the navy. In this case, coming back to life doesn't seem to be a surprising thing.

However...

once such a magical ability is spread out, Cheng Xi will fall into the center of the vortex and become the target of competition among various forces.

Shanks's hand unconsciously tightened around Griffin.

Cheng Xi shook his head: "No."

Shanks: "Are you seventeen years old now?"

"?" Cheng Xi was confused by his irrelevant question, but still answered him, "I'm twenty-one, what's wrong?"

Both deaths occurred at the same age.

Shanks was a little disappointed that he didn't guess the answer to the question: "I thought you were... the reincarnation of a soul from the afterlife."

He couldn't say the word "death" at all, so he had to remain silent.

Cheng Xi was stunned by his wild imagination and didn't know how to explain it to him.

The soul traveled through time, died and was resurrected, and then traveled through time for another twenty years and then traveled through time for the body. These illusory things added together were too complicated, and even she herself was a little confused.

"I don't know what happened myself. I was already conscious and closed my eyes waiting for death in the sea, but when I opened my eyes again, I was back here, at Fit Island seventeen years later."

She spread her hands: "So now the memories in my head are all from seventeen years ago. When I first came ashore, I was confused when I heard the topic they were talking about, and they even thought I was a mountain person."

After saying that, she smiled. She was not angry, but just found it interesting.

Cheng Xi sighed, "You've grown a lot taller."

Shanks wanted to reach out and stroke her face, but finally restrained himself. He said, "You are still the same as before, you haven't changed at all."

"Cheng Xi."

"Huh?"

"Are you going back to Marinford?"

"Yeah."

Shanks was a little disappointed.

"My pension money is still at the headquarters." When she mentioned the money, her tone became much lighter, "I have to go there to get my money."

"Oh, by the way, I resigned." She spoke with a calm tone, as if she was telling others what she was going to eat for lunch.

No one knew about her decision until the resignation letter was delivered to the Navy Marshal's office. Last night she was still struggling with how to explain this matter to Teacher Zefa and her subordinates. Now, she doesn't even need to explain.

Shanks was a little surprised: "You're not a marine anymore?"

"Yeah. Not anymore." There were too many things involved, and she had no intention of explaining them in detail to Shanks.

Shanks' lost look disappeared without a trace.

He tried to invite her: "Then do you want to join my pirate group, become my partner, and travel the sea together?"

Another offer.

"Da Mei." Cheng Xi refused decisively.

"My master's wife doesn't allow me to be a pirate, but I have always been very obedient in front of my elders."

Over the years, she has received too many invitations from various pirate groups. Although she is a marine, she is always invited by pirates to be partners. The marine headquarters didn't care much at first, but later in a battle with the Whitebeard Pirates, Whitebeard invited her. Cheng Xi looked at the cool blue flames and magical phoenix form of their captain of the First Division, and a slight excitement flashed in her eyes.

Although it was only a slight impulse, it was still keenly noticed by Teacher Zefa.

The child is older now, and Zefa can no longer discipline him directly like he did when he was young, so he silently thinks of a solution in the office for two days. In the end, he decides to take a roundabout way and let his wife persuade him in a tactful way.

He also got several furry animals from the Navy Headquarters for Cheng Xi to rub.

"So what are your plans next?" was the answer Shanks expected.

After Cheng Xi told Shanks about his retirement plan, he said, "But I have to sneak into the headquarters first to see how to take out my pension."

He added, "Shanks, please keep my resurrection a secret for me and don't tell anyone. Thank you."

After a long time, they must have gotten used to their own death, so they should not stir up waves on the calm sea.

Shanks: "Okay, I'll keep it a secret for you."

Keep this secret that only the two of us know.

He asked, "How are you going back to the Navy Headquarters?"

"Huh?" Cheng Xi thought for a moment. He now had no fleet and had nothing to prove his identity. To put it more directly, he was an illegal resident. He definitely could not travel on a regular fleet. If he took a black ship, it would definitely be very troublesome.

"This is a serious question."

After thinking for a long time, Cheng Xi finally spoke.

"It'll just be a little trouble at worst."

Shanks was a little nervous.

"I'll fly over."

Others fly with one sword, but I fly with two swords. Even though it's very tiring because of the long journey, it's doubly cool and handsome!

Shanks: ...

He finally couldn't help but invite: "Cheng Xi, take my boat back, I'll introduce you to my friends."

Cheng Xi: "Will it not be troublesome to you?"

Shanks: "No, my friends are very interesting, I believe you will get along well with them."

Seeing that Cheng Xi was still hesitant, Shanks finally used his ultimate move.

"We have a very cute monkey companion on our ship, and it's also a musician."

Cheng Xi:! ! !

"Thank you for your help, Shanks."

Shanks: "Hey Cheng Xi, didn't you say I was your good friend before? Why are you so polite to me now?"

Cheng Xi: "It was just a joke to coax a child before. Who made you learn to make me drink at such a young age?"