Chapter 67 The Country of Seclusion

The next morning, the grand banquet had already ended. Many people were drunk and lay on the ground with their eyes closed and fell asleep. Only a few dying bonfires were left, telling the story of last night's excitement.

The cool sea breeze blew slowly, brushing against everyone's face, blowing away a lot of drunkenness.

After everyone sobered up, they began to prepare for sailing.

On the sea, everyone has their own adventure, and no one can stay in one place for too long.

Cheng Xi looked at the white paper in her hand. This was Dorag's life paper. She was about to meet Dorag and plant the flag of liberation throughout the Great Route.

At this moment, the sudden arrival of an uninvited guest interrupted everyone's actions.

This person was wearing a long cloak that tightly wrapped her body and face, but judging from her figure, she should be a woman.

She stood in front of everyone, attracting all eyes. Although everyone looked at her seriously, they were not too wary. After all, the total combat power here was enough to fight even if the entire Navy headquarters came.

The woman thought for a moment and finally made up her mind to take off her hood, revealing a gentle and beautiful face with some freckles.

Everyone felt that this face was familiar, especially the crew members of the Whitebeard Pirates, but they searched their minds and could not find any memories related to her.

This was really strange.

Only Ace felt that something broke out of his heart when he saw her for the first time, as if there was a deep bond connecting him and this woman.

This was the first time Ace saw her, and he had an inexplicable liking and trust for her at first sight. It

was the first time that Lu Jiu appeared in front of so many people, and she was a little at a loss, but when she saw Ace, her eyes suddenly became firm. She suppressed her uneasiness and asked, "Are you called Ace?"

Although it was a question, the tone was very sure. This was an irresistible blood bond between mother and son.

Ace was in a daze for a long time before he reacted. He nodded: "Yes, my name is Ace."

Tears suddenly filled Lu Jiu's eyes and fell down.

Ace is not good at thinking, but sometimes his intuition is very accurate. Suddenly, an incredible idea came to his mind. The person in front of him is his...

Seeing the interaction between the two, Sachi, who was full of curiosity, finally couldn't help it and asked Lu Jiu: "This... um."

In order to show his politeness: "Sister, have you known Ace before? Are you also his friend?"

Hearing this, Cheng Xi, the only one who knew Lu Jiu's identity, suddenly widened his eyes, and the surprise almost became a physical entity and overflowed from his eyes.

Sachi, you are indeed very polite, but this kind of politeness is unnecessary...

Lu Jiu's attention was all on Ace, and she didn't hear what Sachi asked her. She looked at Ace, tears streaming down her face, but mixed with some joy: "I'm sorry, Ace, my child, you have suffered all these years."

Ace: "You are...?"

Lu Jiu: "Child, I am your mother."

She ran to Ace, and Ace also ran to her. After 20 years of separation, the mother and son finally hugged each other again.

The others on the side were shocked. Judging from her similar appearance and freckles to Ace, her words were almost 90% true. Ace was Roger's pirate, so she was... the wife of the Pirate King!

This news was too explosive, and they needed to calm down.

After an unknown amount of time, Lu Jiu finally let Ace go, her eyes full of love and guilt: "I'm sorry, Ace, as a mother, I couldn't grow up with you."

Then she told Ace about the Navy's search of the South China Sea, how she gave birth to Ace and entrusted him to Garp, and then she was in a coma on Fishman Island.

She said it lightly, with only a few words, but everyone felt her difficulty and strength as a mother at that time.

"Thanks to the fact that Master Cheng Xi secretly brought me medicinal herbs, I didn't die during childbirth." Lu Jiu looked at Cheng Xi, "So Master Cheng Xi is the lifesaver of our mother and son. Ace, you must treat her well in the future."

"Ah, no, no, no." Cheng Xi waved her hands repeatedly and said quickly, "It's just a little help, it's nothing. Auntie, just call me Cheng Xi, or Xiao Cheng."

Although she said so, Ace bowed to her very formally: "Cheng Xi, thank you for saving my mother."

"And, I will treat you well."

Because of this mother-son reunion, the atmosphere became warm again, and the second round of banquets began immediately. Everyone present was very happy.

Except for Sachi.

Calling his good brother's mother sister, he used his cheerfulness once to exchange for a lifetime of introversion, and he wished he could get into the Moby Dick warehouse and be a mouse that no one cared about.

After the second banquet, it was really time to part. Cheng Xi went to the White Earth Island Baldigo to meet with Dragon.

Dorag was busy at work, his desk was covered with unprocessed documents and files. Seeing her coming, he took a break from work to pour her a cup of hot tea and a piece of honey cake.

"The Revolutionary Army welcomes you to join, Cheng Xi."

He was also looking forward to this new partner.

Cheng Xi sat opposite him, and did not directly answer his words, but reminded him first: "You should have seen the two live broadcasts I gave in Marijoa and Marinford."

Dorag nodded: "Well, you are really amazing."

Dorag admired Cheng Xi's strength and courage from the bottom of his heart, especially the words after the end of the Marinford War. In just a few words, he said the essence of the world and the pursuits of civilians.

She saw the world too clearly. In this regard, Dorag thought that even he could not compare with her.

Cheng Xi: "I hope to bring a few more people to join you."

"Your friends?"

Cheng Xi nodded: "Yes."

This move was actually predicted by Dragon. Although Cheng Xi killed Satan alone and showed extraordinary combat power, judging from the situation on the battlefield, her shop assistants were not easy to deal with. They started fighting directly when they disagreed.

Now all of them have been rewarded and have become the focus of the Navy and the World Government.

Dragon tried his best to hide his happiness, pretending to be serious and said: "Of course, their joining will definitely make the Revolutionary Army more powerful and overthrow the corrupt regime of the Celestial Dragons as soon as possible."

Cheng Xi replied to him awkwardly: "I think you may have a slight misunderstanding about our number."

Dragon was confused by her words: "What do you mean..."

Cheng Xi: "There is also the former Vice Admiral Shiratori Yusura."

Dragon knew her, a first-class swordsman, and most importantly, she was very smart. She was called the second wisest general of the Navy besides Sengoku. When capturing pirates many times, she was able to set up ambushes according to the terrain and the enemy's psychological factors, achieving the point of no bloodshed.

Whether in terms of combat power or strategy, if this person can join the Revolutionary Army, it will be a great help to their side.

Cheng Xi hadn't finished speaking yet: "And her entire Magnolia Army."

Dorag's face lit up, and he could no longer remain calm.

Cheng Xi continued: "The fishman hero Fisher Tiger said he wanted to witness the moment when all races are equal."

"There is also Roy, the owner of the nightmare island Cotton Island, and former Navy Rear Admiral Calvin, but these two guys have bad tempers."

In other words, they may not be very convinced by you.

Cheng Xi continued to count on her fingers and said: "Helt, Will..."

She mentioned a lot of names, and Dorag's face was so happy that he couldn't help but ask: "Have you already hollowed out the Navy Headquarters?"

It was originally a revolution of hell difficulty, but suddenly Kuku started to give away equipment, which made Dorag, who had suffered all his life, unable to react for a while.

"It's not a lie, after all, the admiral's girlfriend hasn't been found yet, but you have to wait patiently, I'm almost convinced by Admiral Aokiji."

"Oh, by the way, is our organization short of money?"

Of course it is short of money. The Revolutionary Army is not like the World Government that oppresses and exploits civilians everywhere. The financial income is limited. It also needs to train new people, buy expensive weapons and equipment, etc. Sometimes it will pretend to be a bounty hunter to catch a few pirates to subsidize military expenses.

The most important reason why Vegapunk didn't join the Revolutionary Army was that he was poor.

Dragon told Cheng Xi the situation truthfully.

"I have a friend, well, actually not a friend, that is, I once saved his wife and saved the girl from the tragic end of becoming a slave of the Celestial Dragons. He hates the Celestial Dragons very much, and to thank me, he found me a few days ago and told me that he could secretly provide us with some funds. Although we haven't seen each other for a long time, I heard that he has quite a lot of power."

"His name," Cheng Xi slowly said the man's name, "Gild Tesoro."

Dragon: ...

How did she have such explosive social skills?

...

After the war at the top, the prestige of the World Government plummeted. The famous supernatural suspense writer of the World Economic News Agency transformed and founded the political newspaper "Democracy And Science" to try to save these civilians and slaves who had been oppressed and exploited for a long time spiritually and awaken their thoughts and consciousness.

Her efforts have begun to bear fruit. Many countries and civilians in slavery have gradually developed a sense of self-help. They are no longer sinking into darkness, but starting to save themselves and get out of trouble. 

The appearance of the revolutionary army is like a weak spark. Although it is weak, it can quickly ignite the entire Grand Line in an instant with the unity of the people and the will of the people. Everyone is no longer addicted to pain, but chooses to open their eyes and face the pain, and strives to use their own power to overthrow the unequal rule of the World Government and build a new world of freedom and equality for everyone! 

After liberating a country again, the World Government took Cheng Xi's bounty order and secretly cursed that although this person is young, he is as slippery as a loach and can't be caught. They can only cut a few cuts on it with a knife to express their anger. 

What these people don't know is that while they were still indignant and angry in the Holy Land, Cheng Xi, who was regarded as a serious threat, had sneaked into Wano Country for nearly a month. 

Wano Country does not join the World Government and does not contact the outside world. This country does not allow outsiders to enter, nor does it agree to its citizens to go to sea. It is a closed country that is completely isolated from the outside world. 

The outside world does not understand this, because few people know what kind of hell the civilians here are living in. 

Flower City, Flower Street, Okiya. 

The middle-aged brothel owner, who is called "Mom" by many geishas, ​​took the money from the blond customer in front of her with a smile on her face. Her face was wrinkled with several layers of smiles, and then took him to the house of a geisha. 

She reached out her palm from her wide sleeves and knocked on the door. In less than half a minute, the door opened, revealing a beautiful face with gorgeous makeup. Although she was beautiful, she had a bad temper. When she saw her mother coming, she asked unhappily, "What are you doing?" 

This person was called Narimiko. She had nowhere else to go a month ago and had to come to the okiya. Although she had a cold personality, her shamisen was often out of tune, and she couldn't even dance the fan dance well. But Kiko was really beautiful. She didn't do anything, just sitting there, and she could arouse the desire to conquer countless men, who would give her all they had and offer her countless money. 

Because the proprietress of the okiya valued her very much, and hoped to train her to be a new oiran who could compete with the late oiran Kozuki. 

The mother pointed her finger at the blond man and asked carefully, "Xizi, this gentleman has always heard of your name. Today he came to the house specially to have a long talk with you all night." 

"Okay." 

The woman's answer was crisp and clear, which was beyond the mother's expectation. In the past, when men came to see her, they were all scolded away by her without exception. Why did she agree so quickly today? 

Xizi's eyes swept across the blond man's face, and her tone was still bad: "Since you look good, I reluctantly agree to stay with you for one night." 

For some reason, the blond man was trying hard to hold back his smile. Seeing that he was about to lose it, Xizi pulled him into the house and said to the mother who wanted to watch the fun, "Why, do you still want to watch from the side?" 

The mother waved her hand and refused: "No, no." 

Unfortunately, before she finished speaking, Xizi had already slammed the door shut. 

The woman called Xizi still had a bad temper. She set up a soundproof barrier in the room to ensure that no one was eavesdropping. She glared at the blond man and said angrily: "Laugh, laugh, you only know how to laugh, don't you let the air leak out with your big teeth showing?" 

There was no one else present, and Sabo no longer pretended. He laughed out loud, clenched his fists, pounded the table repeatedly, and laughed: "Yes... I'm sorry, Cheng Xi, but you look really funny like this." 

He sighed at Cheng Xi's heavy and white masked geisha makeup: "Your hairstyle and makeup. Like a little mouse fell into a flour bag." 

"Sabo, don't talk first, let me think about it." 

Sabo asked in confusion: "What are you thinking about?" 

Cheng Xi: "Think about how to beat you to death silently." 

Sabo immediately bowed and apologized: "Private Marseille!" 

After the jokes between the partners, they started to talk about business. Cheng Xi took out a stack of information from under the bed and handed it to Sabo. Sabo also took out a stack of papers from his loose yellow kimono and handed it to Cheng Xi. 

The two exchanged information. Cheng Xi flipped through the papers in her hand and spoke first: "I found out that Wano Country is currently controlled by a man named Kurozumi Orochi. He is a person with the ability of the Yamata no Orochi form, but actually..." 

After Cheng Xi finished speaking, Sabo said again: "Cheng Xi, there is something I must tell you." 

"What?" 

"Luffy and the others came to Wano Country." 

"Oh." This was expected. She asked: "Isn't there a double-sword swordsman named Kin'emon and an annoying little brat about eight or nine years old with a disgusting bun next to him?" 

This time it was Sabo's turn to be surprised: "How did you know?" 

And judging from their attitudes, those samurai did not seem to be very friendly to the fact that the Revolutionary Army entered Wano Country. 

Cheng Xi said lightly: "I ran into them when I passed Punk Hazard on my way to Wano Country."

On the Ice and Fire Island, she recognized at a glance that the little boy in the pink kimono was actually Oden's son. However, this little boy was really too arrogant and lawless. He first ordered her to serve him soup, and then because he was afraid, he got into Robin's arms and tried to attack her chest, which made her so angry that she punched Momonosuke and flew almost 20 meters away.

For Oden's sake, she has been very restrained. The last time, App was kicked directly into the sea by her.

Then she sighed: "Actually... I also felt guilty for the suffering of Wano Country in the past 20 years, but I only felt guilty for 30 seconds, and then I adjusted myself."

Sabo did not speak, but listened quietly to her about Wano Country 20 years ago.

"Not long after Roger's death, I once lurked in Wano Country and happened to meet Oden. At that time, I had a premonition that Wano Country might have suffered some disaster, and I asked Oden several times, but his personality was like a stubborn donkey, and he wouldn't say anything no matter how I asked."

"I also felt guilty. If I had asked a few more times at that time, there would not have been these twenty years of suffering."

Sabo comforted, "It's not your fault."

Cheng Xi said righteously: "Of course it's not my fault. He doesn't care about his own country. Do you want me to beg him to take good care of his own country?"

She is such a person, who firmly believes that she is absolutely not wrong. When she has a temper, she will lose it on the spot and will not waste time at all.

Sabo: "According to the information we have found, Luffy has united with the warriors of Wano Country, the Mink Tribe, and Trafalgar Law, and plans to attack Kaido together with these people."

Cheng Xi: "You are really a brother control. You can't leave Luffy in three sentences."

"Really? That may be because Luffy is too cute. I always can't help but want to say his name. Hahaha, he is simply the best brother in the world."

Cheng Xi: ...

"Is Ace here?"

Cheng Xi was speechless, thinking, do I have to ask so bluntly?

Sabo nodded: "Ace will be here soon. That guy doesn't know you are in Wano Country yet, otherwise he will definitely come here eagerly."

Integrating the information in each other's hands, thinking of those headaches The warriors and the civilians of Wano Country who are occupied by hunger and fatigue, Cheng Xi suddenly had a bold idea in his mind. After Sabo left, he quickly took out a pen and paper from the drawer to write down the plan and added a lot of supplements.

About a week later, the news of the rebel alliance was suddenly exposed for some reason and spread throughout the capital. Samurai and ronin with the reverse crescent pattern were being captured everywhere. 

Cheng Xi suspected that there was a spy among them. Although from all aspects, this was a fact that was set in stone, she could not make such an arbitrary conclusion without definite evidence. 

Until one day, perhaps because the hatred and fear of Oden had completely penetrated into his bones, this shadow had shrouded him for more than 20 years, and Orochi could no longer bear it. Or perhaps because he did not believe in the death of Kozuki, the number one courtesan in Wano Country, he drank alone in his mansion and vented his dissatisfaction with Oden. All these words were heard by a strand of Cheng Xi's hair hidden in the cabinet in the house. She immediately shifted all her attention to Orochi and listened carefully with her ears perked up. 

He cursed obscurely, but Cheng Xi clearly heard a sentence like "I have planted a nail among the retainers". She wanted to continue to test whether she could hear other news, but she didn't expect that Orochi, under the influence of alcohol, smashed the cabinet to pieces. Fortunately, Cheng Xi let the hair spontaneously combust in time, otherwise it would definitely have a great impact on her heart. 

Cheng Xi was the only undercover in the house, and she didn't trust the bald man arranged by her mother, so she simply made a puppet clone to deliver the letter. 

There is an undercover in the Nine Heroes, and the operation on the night of the fire festival has been exposed. Destroy after reading. ——Signed: Cheng Xi. 

Two copies, one for Sabo at Baiwu Port, and the other she planned to give to Sanji, Robin or Nami of the Straw Hat Pirates. 

Just as the samurai didn't trust outsiders, she didn't trust those samurai. And in Cheng Xi's view, these three people are the IQ of the Straw Hat Pirates. If they are given a little clue, they can think of the next plan. 

The idea is good, but it's a pity that there was a little flaw in the execution. 

She had to control two puppets and also had to spend her energy collecting information about the Flower City. She was a little depressed. When one of the puppets walked to the hiding place of the Straw Hat Pirates in Ebisu Village, she just met them: "Give the mountain..." 

Before she finished speaking, the puppet suddenly lost its support and turned into petals and disappeared with the wind. 

It's not a big problem, Cheng Xi comforted herself, anyway, the Straw Hat Pirates are all trustworthy people. 

What she didn't expect was that a fat female ninja came out of the house. She picked up the note and took a look at it, and her face showed a very angry expression. 

"Trafalgar, what the hell are you doing? Are you trying to excuse your men? You even wrongly accused those adults of being undercover!?" 

Her voice was so loud that everyone in the room heard it, and they all looked at the female ninja. 

Cheng Xi slapped her head, and her eyes went dark. The moment she saw the red-haired samurai in the house through the hair stuck in the letter, she almost fainted from anger. 

"What is this?" Nami walked over and took the note from Xiaonin. Unlike her, Nami only glanced at it. Her eyes were serious for a moment, and then quickly changed to her usual expression. She crumpled the paper into a ball, secretly stuffed it into her sleeve, and changed the subject: "The children in the village are really naughty, always playing pranks." 

Cheng Xi praised in his heart. Nami's reaction was amazing. Whether in terms of expression management or reaction ability, she was a thousand times and ten thousand times more suitable to be a ninja than this woman who was also called "Xiaonin". 

Cheng Xi was almost angry and laughed. Oden, you have so many followers of fun people, you really deserved to lose. 

Luo, who was usually calm, was so angry that he started to yell: "Everyone calm down." 

But unexpectedly, this female ninja not only refused to give in, but also intensified. First, she questioned and suspected that Bepo and others had leaked the secret because they could not withstand the torture. Then she said that she would directly eliminate the guys who were caught, shut them up, and gave a high-sounding reason. 

She yelled loudly, as if venting her emotions: "This is common sense in the world of ninjas!" 

"What did you say?" 

Luo couldn't believe it. How shameless was this woman, or this group of samurai, to ask him to give up the lives of his friends who were as close to him as his family? 

As expected of Cheng Xi's high IQ, Nami gradually realized that something was wrong. 

She couldn't tell what was wrong, but she just felt weird. 

The female ninja was still chattering about how difficult it was for Wano Country and the Oden family. It took nearly twenty years of humiliation to get such an opportunity, but what did this have to do with Luo? He came here to fight Kaido. Was he going to give up his friends just for a few words from you samurai? 

She carried the knife and turned her back to everyone. She had no empathy for the bitterness of the female ninja's tears. Relatively speaking, he was more anxious about how to save his friends. 

"Psycho." 

Cheng Xi felt that Luo was similar to herself in that she was stubborn. Her partner's life and death were uncertain, and she was being questioned for no reason. No one trusted her. She felt that Luo was about to break down. 

If Luo Xinanidi was here, she would definitely scold her. Was she bullying the child because his parents were not around?

The little hair silently climbed from the door frame to Luo's hand. Feeling the abnormality in his hand, Luo spread his palm. A long black hair was placed in the middle to form the shape of "じる" (trust), telling the trust of the owner of the hair in him, and then it turned into "Do".

Do what you want, Luo.

When he was questioned and blamed, he could laugh it off, but when someone finally expressed their trust in him, Luo felt a sore nose and whispered: "Thank you, Master Cheng Xi." He

no longer wasted energy on arguing with the female ninja, walked out of the house, and he was going to save his partner.

When Luo walked out of the room, it was as if an electric current passed through Nami's head. She remembered that in order to hide the samurai Raizo, the entire Zou Island suffered a near-catastrophic disaster. At that time, her mind was full of the righteousness of the samurai and the fur tribe.

At that time, it was not said that keeping silent was common sense in the ninja world!

Nami fell to the floor, frowning slightly, thinking about the bond she had with Cheng Xi and Terran along the way...

Cheng Xi smashed a bomb that could blow up the entire city for them in Alabasta, and Terran saved her captain's life in the critical moment of the war.

And Robin also thought of the scene when Law and Luffy fought side by side in Dressrosa.

In this kind of life-and-death bond, why on earth should she doubt Terran!

Nami is a pirate, and the Heart Pirates and the Straw Hat Pirates are the pirate alliance. Compared with these samurai who have come from Punk Hazard to Wano Country to continue to help them restore their country, they should obviously trust the equal pirate alliance or Cheng Xi who has done them a favor, right?

Thinking of this, she has already chased after him.