The snow-white sword light cut through the gloomy rain curtain. When the rain became heavier and lightning started to thunder in the sky, the three pirate ships had already been chopped into several pieces.
After the sea surface returned to calm, broken pieces of ship planks were floating everywhere. The pirates who were showing off their might not long ago had all turned into floating corpses.
tread.
Nuo Xia floated down from the sky, and stepped on the deck expressionlessly as the sailors looked up in stunned silence.
"Divide some people into a group, simply clear the battlefield, and continue heading towards the headquarters at full speed within half an hour."
Dropping the order, he strode into the cabin.
"Yes, Major General!"
The subordinates recovered from the shock of the scene and immediately responded in unison.
When Nuo Xia's back disappeared from the cabin door, the sailors looked at each other, feeling that something was not quite right about the scene just now.
When did she, the head of the Gion base, act so decisively and ruthlessly?
Without waiting for the two sides to fire, they directly flew into the air on moon steps and killed all the pirates with one sword, leaving no one alive.
This doesn't look like Major General Gion's past style.
On the contrary...
Exactly the same as their departed deputy base commander, Lieutenant General Nosha.
How strange.
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Nuo Xia, who had already entered the cabin, naturally had no way of understanding the mutterings of his subordinates.
He was walking through the corridor at the moment, looking at the faint blue system panel in front of him, his expression even uglier than before.
Because the item "Special Life Card" in the backpack column is currently in a darkened state.
And when the gaze falls on the top.
A prompt box will pop up saying "The health card bound to the life card is in abnormal physical condition and cannot be used temporarily."
"It means...because it is my body, not my soul consciousness, that maintains the bond between the main life card and the secondary card, so I am not in my body now and cannot use this item?"
The reason is easy to guess, and the mechanism seems to be very reasonable. After all, the raw material for making the life card is the holder's nails and hair.
but……
Reasonable is reasonable, isn’t this a scam!
There was no way he could get back to the headquarters as soon as possible, and this warship was still at least two days and two nights away from Marineland.
When he returns home at that time, I am afraid that what he will face is no longer a Shura field, but an out-and-out hell...
"It's fatal..."
Nuosha sighed and scratched his hair in distress. If he had known that something like this would happen, why would he fabricate such a lie to Bellemere with the mentality of temporarily fooling him?
He looked at the taskbar again.
"Want to rely on cheats to get through? That's too bad, boy! The real King of the Sea, even if he faces the most cruel Shura field, he should be aboveboard and face his mistakes calmly!"
The title of Neptune is just nonsense. Even now, he still doesn't think that he has fallen to this level.
only……
Otherwise, I'm not wrong.
Looking at that note, Nuo Xia was stunned for a while.
This incident was originally his fault, but he only wanted to solve the problem in the simplest and crudest way by relying on his abnormally effective charm talent skills.
——When did you start to become such a person who is extremely irresponsible towards your feelings?
In the past two years, whether it was "a toothy smile" or "a spirit of craftsmanship", he had always adhered to the bottom line and never used it on the people around him who he cared about...
Now that we are seeing a tragic Shura field that may erupt, in order to avoid trouble, we use this kind of mind control skills on the people we love. What is going on?
Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed a reminder message flashing by. He looked over and happened to see the property bar that had changed into another one:
[It is detected that your current body is in an abnormal state, and the corresponding data will be displayed based on the current body]
【Name: Gion】
[Age: 26 years old]
【Strength: 27】
[Agility: 28]
【Endurance: 19】
[Intelligence: 10]
【Charm:13】
[Skills: Sixth Form of Navy (Advanced), Itto-ryu Swordsmanship (Advanced), Firearms Shooting (Intermediate), Knowledge Haki (Advanced), Armed Haki (Advanced), Home Cooking (Advanced)]
…
It has completely become the template of a little bunny.
After not seeing each other for a few months, Peach Rabbit’s basic attributes have not changed much. But in the skill column, this suddenly turned into a high-end home cooking. What’s going on?
He clearly remembered that this skill of Peach Rabbit was only judged as elementary level before.
Could it be that...
Is it because after he left, Little Rabbit carried the longing to live together in the headquarters for a long time in the future, and secretly worked hard and practiced for a long time, just to give himself a surprise after they reunited?
Just as he arrived in front of the captain's office, Nuo Xia paused and pursed his lips with a complicated expression.
After a long time.
He turned off the system panel, his eyes gradually became firm, and he opened the office door.
After searching the house for a while, I quickly found the sleeping phone bug hiding in the drawer of my desk. Then I took a deep breath and dialed my home phone number.
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The sun is getting higher and the sunshine is getting warmer.
But at this moment, the temperature in the huge living room has dropped to freezing point.
Bellemeier held the corners of his clothes with both hands and sat on the sofa, somewhat at a loss.
On the opposite side of the coffee table, "Nuo Xia" crossed her legs and drank black tea with an expressionless expression. She kept staring at the foam floating in the cup, not knowing what she was thinking.
Tulip and the old captain sat far away in the corner of the sofa at the other end.
It took a long time for the two of them to digest the fact that they had exchanged bodies in the air. At this moment, they looked to the left at Bellmere and at the right at "Nosha"...
It's like sitting on pins and needles.
"So..."
In the end, it was "Hiryu of the Rain" who was pacing back and forth next to him. He couldn't bear it anymore and broke the deadly silence, "What happened with the beaver cat happened again inexplicably? Is Noxia in your body now?
"
"pretty close."
Taotu spoke coldly, she was still holding the teacup and her eyes never left:
"I didn't expect you to be so clear about our affairs, but I never expected that Nuo Xia's sexual orientation could be so colorful..."
"..."
"Shiliu of the Rain" suddenly twitched the corners of her eyes. After much hesitation, she still rubbed her forehead in distress:
"Forget it, now that we're in this situation, Nosha won't blame me if I take off my disguise. You really misunderstood him, Major General Gion..."
While she was speaking, her body changed, and in just two or three seconds, she returned to her original appearance.
——Her Royal Highness the Princess, who wears a palace dress, has long blue hair reaching her waist, and has an elegant and noble temperament.
Ah, it's her! I was shocked when I saw Tulip in the photo.
The other two women, sitting opposite each other across the sofa, were all stunned and looked at Shia blankly.
"Having a daughter..."
His mind flashed back to the whisper he heard at the dinner table just now. Taotu suddenly understood and sneered:
"No wonder you say that. It turns out that the guy over there is not the only one hiding something from me..."
"What do you mean by hiding it from you?"
This royal demeanor immediately angered Bellemere, who was still in a daze. The girl with a maroon ponytail suddenly raised her head and said angrily:
"Don't sound like you're taking advantage of me! I should be the one to say this, right? When did the two of you get together with that bastard behind my back?"
"A year and a half."
"Almost, almost two years..."
About the time he spoke.
Taotu was stunned, turned to look at Xia, and narrowed his eyes slightly.
Xi Ya was speechless and did not dare to look at her, so she could only avoid it and lowered her head, biting her lower lip with her teeth, and her slender fingers as white as jade were tangled and intertwined on her thighs.
Don't know why.
She was as cold as an iceberg in front of outsiders, whether she was facing Mootu, the "official couple" known to the entire navy, or Bellemere, her childhood sweetheart who had grown up with Nosha...
She always has a humbleness that is engraved in her bones, like an underground lover who feels guilty after being suddenly exposed.
"In other words, you all only met Nuo Xia after he arrived at the Navy Headquarters. It's only been a year or two..."
Bellemere gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "It was obviously me first... He had already made an engagement with me more than ten years ago... You two are the latecomers who ruined our relationship!"
"
Childhood sweetheart?
Looking at the angry and unwilling maroon girl, Taotu was completely stunned this time. She didn't say anything for a long time, but when she lowered her head to sip the tea, her right hand holding the handle of the cup was trembling slightly.
In a trance.
She remembered the winter of the year before last, how she had gone through so much trouble and asked Sister He to assign her and Nuo Xia to the West Sea together.
But in the end, he went to his post alone. At the first branch base in Xihai, he waited for more than a month for Nuo Xia to return to Donghai to visit relatives before he finally arrived belatedly.
Visiting relatives? What kind of relatives are you visiting?
From the very beginning of our acquaintance, that guy has been deceiving me...
A sour feeling came to his heart inexplicably. Taotu sniffed gently and brought the teacup closer to his face, hiding his slightly red eyes.
And at this time.
"Daddy, daddy!"
There was a thumping sound from the stairs. Nuoqigao, who was playing with toys upstairs, giggled, rushed down, and held the phone bug in his hand to Peach Rabbit:
"Hey, I have your phone number!"
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Behind the captain's desk.
Nuo Xia sat on the spacious sofa chair, listening nervously to the sound of people coming downstairs from the other end of the phone.
Noqigao didn't seem to know what was going on, and smiled happily. Maybe the situation over there was not as bad as he thought?
The next moment.
The phone on the table suddenly made a soft "kocha" sound and lazily closed its eyes.
What's the situation and was hung up directly?
Nuo Xia was stunned, and immediately woke up the phone snail. Under the dissatisfied eyes of the little snail, he turned the dial again and dialed.
Brubru~
kocha.
As soon as I got connected, I was immediately hung up.
He didn't believe in evil, so he dialed several times in succession, switching to Bellemeier's number in between, but without exception, he was hung up the moment the call was connected.
It’s really broken...
Nuo Xia finally gave up torturing the phone bug and lay back weakly on the back of the sofa, with a slight bitter taste in his mouth.
Damn it, you didn't even give me a chance to confess my mistake.
It seems that I was too optimistic just now, and the situation over there may be heading in an unpredictable direction.
Forget it, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. It is not something that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences on the phone. We might as well wait until we return to the headquarters and talk face to face...
Tuk Tuk.
At this moment, a gentle knock on the door suddenly came. Nuo Xia immediately returned from his thoughts to reality, straightened his clothes and expression, and then said calmly:
"Enter."
With a creak, the wooden door was pushed open, and the figure that appeared at the door made Nuo Xia stunned for an instant.
——It was a beautiful pink-haired girl in pajamas who was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes and kept yawning.
Tina???
Wasn't she taken by Lieutenant General Zhizi to the G1 branch base in the second half of last year? How could she be on this warship coming from the West China Sea?
"What are you busy with, Gion-sama?"
Little Tina didn't notice Nuo Xia's surprised look. She rubbed her sleepy eyes and walked over muttering:
"Didn't I agree to sleep with Tina before? Why haven't I seen you come over after taking a bath for so long..."
As he spoke, he came to Nuo Xia's side and pulled his arm, "There are official documents that will be processed tomorrow. Come quickly, the thunder outside is so loud that Tina can't sleep alone..."
Nuo Xia's expression suddenly froze.
The reason is simple...
One year has passed.
Tina, who is already fifteen years old, has not lost any areas where she should be growing, and her figure is slim and graceful. Being so close to her, it is inevitable that there will be friction between the skin.
Even against wave collisions.
"call……"
Nuo Xia closed her eyes slightly and took a breath.
Although his status allows him to take advantage of the opportunity to act unscrupulously.
But he still held back.
"Tina."
He opened his eyes, resisted the itching sensation coming from his chest, gently pushed away the soft and delicate body that had been pressed into his arms, and said seriously under Tina's blank gaze:
"Stop being ridiculous, it's me."
Eh?
Tina obviously hadn't woken up yet. She tilted her little head and looked at him with her big clear eyes, filled with big question marks.
"What happened on Goole Island happened again."
Nuo Xia looked at Tina, "You should understand what I mean, right?"
"..."
Tina was stunned for two or three seconds before she suddenly realized what she was doing. She covered her mouth and screamed: "Hey, eh???? Brother Nuo Xia?"
"right."
Nuo Xia sighed helplessly, "Although I don't know what happened, I obviously didn't run into that beaver cat again... Anyway, I am here now, and Gion is already at the headquarters.
Already."
"Forget it, don't talk about this."
Nosha had a headache when he thought about the situation at the headquarters, so he simply changed the subject, "Why are you on the ship in Gion? Where is Vice Admiral Shibako?"
"Grandma Zhizi is still over at the G1 branch."
Talking about business, Tina responded obediently: "The situation there has been a bit tense recently. Grandma said that a big war is about to break out. It's not safe for me to stay there. Sister Gion's ship happened to be passing by to supply supplies, so I simply entrusted
She sent me back to headquarters."
Passing by?
Nuo Xia suddenly felt enlightened.
That's right, the West Sea is not connected to the first half of the Grand Route. If you want to go through the Red Continent to the Navy Headquarters, you must first make a detour to the New World. It is normal to choose to rest and resupply at the G1 branch halfway.
It's just...the situation is tense and a big war is about to break out. What's going on?