Chapter 37 The invincible I am back, the actual combat assessment!
The boat was even quieter than Nosha imagined.
Walking from the deck to the cabin, you couldn't hear any movement and couldn't see any lights.
Penn held a saber in his hand and followed him. His expression was slightly nervous, and his eyes kept scanning the surrounding walls and corners to guard against someone suddenly attacking from behind.
"Indeed there is no one."
After Nuo Xia patiently visited all the rooms in the cabin, he frowned and returned to the door.
"But there is no blood, no damage from the fight, some bedding is still open, and the food in the kitchen is still warm..."
This is even weirder.
Obviously, a few hours ago, this pirate ship was full of people, but what happened later that caused everyone on the ship to disappear, leaving only this pirate ship drifting alone on the sea?
laugh!
At this moment, the sound of breaking wind suddenly sounded.
In the dim vision, a black shadow could be vaguely seen suddenly jumping down from the top of the mast and heading straight towards them.
"who!"
Peng En's expression changed drastically. He was about to raise his knife to attack, but Nuo Xia in front of him stretched out his hand to stop him.
Plop.
The black shadow fell to the ground and hit the wooden board with a soft sound. Penn took a closer look and realized that it was a black cat.
The black cat is plump and its fur is shiny. You can tell at a glance that it usually eats well and is well raised.
It landed on the ground and lazily stretched its body before raising its head and looking curiously at the two strangers in front of it.
"This little guy scared me."
Penn was relieved. He squatted down, rubbed the black cat's head with a smile, and then turned to look at Nuo Xia, "Mr. Nuo Xia, what should we do?"
"If there's no one on board, there's nothing we can do to stay. Let's go."
Nuo Xia looked a little disappointed. After taking a final look around the empty deck, he pointed at the pirate flag flying on the mast and said, "Tear it off and put it on, maybe it will come in handy."
"yes!"
Penn quickly followed the order. When he climbed up the mast and jumped off with the torn off pirate flag, Nuo Xia had already returned to the speedboat, taking the black cat with him.
"This cat must have been abandoned on the ship by the pirates. You are so caring and rescued it..."
Penn returned to the speedboat with a smile. Before he could finish his words, he saw Nuo Xia suddenly pinching the black cat's neck and pushing it into the sea with an expressionless expression.
"Eh?" Penn was shocked, "You...what are you doing?"
"Too naive, young man."
Nuo Xia spoke earnestly and sincerely, "This world is very dangerous. You never know whether a seemingly harmless kitten may be a hidden Devil Fruit user -"
His eyes were sharp and his voice suddenly rose to a higher pitch:
"In my opinion, maybe this guy is the murderer behind the creation of this unmanned ship!"
"..." Penn opened his mouth slightly, becoming confused in the sea breeze.
Mr. Nosha is handsome, kind-hearted, and considerate of his subordinates...anyway, he is good everywhere, and his dream superior should be like this.
But it's so good, is there something suddenly wrong with the brain circuit?
Why do you have so much malice toward a poor little kitten?
Looking at the black cat struggling desperately in the sea water, after a long time, Peng En swallowed his saliva and said weakly:
"But it has been soaked in sea water for so long, and it doesn't look weak at all. Should...it shouldn't be right?"
"Yeah?"
Nuo Xia glanced at the little black cat who was still struggling to resist, slipped it back, put it on the deck, and shook his wet right hand nonchalantly, "Well, I think so too."
"So it's okay, let's continue on our way."
Penn: "..."
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At about four o'clock in the morning, the speedboat carrying two people and one cat finally arrived at Celeste Island.
This is a medium-sized island that is as long and narrow as a crescent moon. There is a towering solitary mountain in the north of the island. There are several towns at the foot of the mountain. There are also a few small villages scattered along the coastline.
At the far south is an excellent natural harbor filled with ships of all kinds.
Nuo Xia searched around in the moonlight and soon found the particularly conspicuous headquarters-standard warship.
In the towns further away, flames shot into the sky, and even though they were several kilometers away, they could still faintly hear the sounds of battles and killings coming from the depths of the night.
"Mr. Noxia, the mission of sending you here is completed, it's time for me to go back."
tPenn gave a standard military salute to Nuo Xia, grinned and said: "I have had a great time with you these two days. I hope I will have the opportunity to meet you on Gur Island in the future!"
"Haha, me too, go ahead."
Nuo Xia happily patted the young man on the shoulder and watched him drive away on the speedboat.
The other party later became a colonel in the headquarters, and he probably also trained in Zefa's elite camp. Therefore, Nuo Xia felt that he would not have to go to the 329th branch again in the future. Maybe in a few years, he would be able to meet again as a senior brother in Marineland.
Here's this kid.
After the speedboat disappeared from sight, Nuo Xia stepped onto the dock and headed straight for the familiar warship as quickly as possible.
He couldn't wait to participate in the actual combat assessment, but before that, he had to find Qing Pheasant to report before he could officially enter.
In addition, he felt that he should report to his superiors about the ghost pirate ship he encountered at sea a few hours ago. There might be important information hidden behind such a strange incident.
However.
After he got on the warship, he realized that he felt like he had stepped onto another ghost ship. Both the deck and the cabin were empty, and there was not a single person in sight...
"what's the situation?"
After turning around and returning to the deck, Nuo Xia touched the stubble on his chin and frowned, "That shouldn't be the case. Where are the people? Where have they gone?"
The more than two hundred people from the elite battalion who were at the same time were definitely not on the ship at this time. They had all gone to the island to conduct actual combat assessments. But what about Aokiji and the instructors from the headquarters who were traveling with them?
If no one is left on the warship, are we not afraid that the pirates on the island will kill them all and seize the opportunity to secretly set them on fire?
"Hey, where have all the people gone?"
At this moment, an extremely familiar lazy voice suddenly came from above, with a teasing chuckle, "Why, young man, am I not a human being?"
Nuo Xia was slightly startled.
He slowly turned around and looked up towards the second floor of the cabin, and happened to look into a pair of clear and clean, almost pink eyes from afar.
One person is below, looking up;
One person is on top, looking down.
It was very similar to the scene when he and the owner of the pink eyes met for the first time on this warship when he just left Marinefando.
"Brigadier General Gion..."
After being slightly absent-minded for a second or two, Nuo Xia quickly regained his composure. He looked at Taotu's delicate and smiling face, shrugged helplessly and said:
"In the middle of the night, please don't suddenly speak on top of my head, okay? It's very scary, okay?"