The world of Qinghai and the world of the White Sea thousands of meters high.
The vast oceans and the islands dotted along the great routes, as well as the cities that are now emerging one after another on the red earth continent surrounding the world, constitute the former.
With the "empty cities" on the five Tianshan Mountains as the hub, and the urban network composed of various "empty islands" that have existed in the sky since ancient times, this truly new world is formed on the White Sea -
—The transportation network that connects these white cloud islands, a miraculous feat, was accomplished through the collaboration of the legendary engineer and inventor Franky and the weather queen Nami.
Together they planned a transportation system that accommodated most of the air islands, and then Nami used Haiyun technology to build a set of "highways", while Franky made "Franky" specifically for these complex highway systems.
"Sky Train". It is said that these Haiyun highways are also added with French memory alloy, so they have strong self-healing capabilities. This was most effectively demonstrated in a targeted attack that blew up the highway a few years ago.
proof of.
The attacker attempted suicide. According to the investigation of the Ranger Association, the driving force behind the destruction was several member states of the World Government. However, all the royal families of the latter firmly denied this and directly held accountable the Dragon, Snake and Flower Alliance.
The next day, the Queen of the Kingdom of Flowers, as a representative of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, paid a visit to Liberty International, a staunch partner of the Dragon Snake Flower Alliance for 20 years, and had a cordial meeting with the leader of Liberty International, Dorag...
Yes, the World Government still exists. However, with the increasing diplomatic influence of the Dragon Snake Flower Alliance, the World Government has also increasingly lost its member states. Today, twenty years later, the World Government has become a nominal one.
A loose small alliance, only a group of small aristocrats and kings who recall the glorious history of the world's aristocrats twenty years ago are left to enjoy themselves.
Correspondingly, the navy that once served the world government has gradually become an unofficial civil organization. Most of those who uphold the banner of the righteous navy are only veterans of the old era. After all, in
In today's era, if young people want to stand out and do chivalry, they can try to join the Ranger Association. It has a good reputation, many benefits, and a high status...Join the navy? What do you want?
I heard that someone within the Navy directly proposed to cooperate with the Ranger Association, and the radicals even simply believed that the Navy should be merged into the latter in today's era and become a nominally independent but de facto sub-association, in order to better pass on the banner of justice——
It is said that Admiral Smoker was very angry about this.
The reason why Xiaoda remembered some deeds about the navy was because she was scrolling through her "mobile phone" on the way to the Ranger branch in this empty city in the South China Sea and saw some discussions about the navy. Everyday humiliation of the navy, daily humiliation of the world
The government can be said to be a cultural custom in today's era. Xiaoda's parents were pirates before they obtained official ranger status. In the old era twenty years ago, they had a hostile relationship with the navy and the world government.
She browsed through these discussions with great interest.
Speaking of pirates, in fact, in today's "Ranger Era", there are pirates. They are mainly divided into two types. One is that some official rangers seem to have special feelings for the "Pirate Flag", so they spontaneously
A specific small circle has formed. Although they are rangers, they still like to call themselves pirates. When these people gather and chat, they will always call them Luffy. There is another type, which is a real pirate on the sea——
I have to admit that in today's era of "proliferation" of rangers, those who dare to burn, kill, plunder and cross the sea in the traditional sense can be said to be quite hardcore. It cannot be said that they are not afraid of death, it can only be said that they are quite.
If you don't care about your life, you will usually end up becoming a single-flowered ranger, a fresh addition to the double-flowered ranger's resume.
Yes, there is an "overpopulation" of rangers. Rather than completing the tasks assigned by the association, the true "ranger" behavior of punishing rape and eliminating evil is more conducive to the promotion of rangers, so they are willing to travel thousands of miles to take a certain evildoer without taking any money.
Cases of snobbery are not uncommon in the Ranger Association. If you don't do it, some brave and courageous people will do it. These days, the Rangers can't get involved.
Thinking of Ranger's promotion, Xiaoda thought of his exam the day after tomorrow and couldn't help but quicken his pace.
Although it is difficult to become an official ranger, more than ten years have passed, and across the world, there are many single-flowered rangers with the lowest level. Therefore, the most common way to be promoted is to take the exam - it is held every year, and the location is at the headquarters of the Ranger Association. If you pass,
You can wear the double-flower badge. As for how to become the smallest, highest-level, three-flower ranger, there are different opinions on this point, and every three-flower ranger in the existing association is a world-famous legend.
: Pirate King Luffy, King of Hell Zoro, Weather Queen Nami... Firebeard Ace, Demon Yamato... Hawkeye Mihawk, Red-haired Shanks...
"Please show me your ranger badge."
Hearing this, Xiaoda came to his senses, casually took off the ranger badge with a lily on it from the back of the "mobile phone", and handed it to the staff at the front desk of the branch.
At this moment, the originally noisy association hall suddenly became quiet. Even the staff member opposite Xiaoda suddenly looked nervously in the direction of the gate.
From Xiaoda's perspective, he could hear the nervous swallowing sounds coming and going in the hall. Some people even bumped into tables and chairs in a panic to avoid something, making noises. Then they were scolded by their companions in low voices... Xiaoda turned around in confusion.
Looking over, her heart skipped a beat when she saw the tall, cold and arrogant figure.
In the morning, the eldest sister from the Chamber of Commerce complimented her. If she can pass this assessment, at the age of fourteen, she will break the record and become the youngest Double Flower Ranger! Xiaoda will not comment on this. It is really such a so-called record-breaking.
The deeds of this woman in front of me seem so insignificant...
"It's Lin Qi..."
"She actually appeared here..."
"We're in luck! We should go down now and try our luck on the 21st floor..."
"Suddenly rose up like a meteor, and in just two years, he became the most popular ranger..."
"Nonsense, why don't you look at what her name is? This name, such a domineering behavior——"
"Shhh!!"
The rangers in the hall tried their best to keep the whispers down, and also consciously moved out of the way when the tall, young, dark-haired woman passed by with an expressionless face.
Xiaoda was also watching this, and everyone vaguely agreed that Lin Qi was the daughter of Lin Dasheng... Yes, she was most likely Lin Qi's daughter. This widely circulated theory became a third-party actress in the second year after her debut.
After becoming the Flower Ranger, it was basically acquiescence. Lin Qi, who became a Ranger in the first year of her debut, was actually very low-key. Although she received a lot of harassment because of her low-key, most of them disappeared quietly; the change happened in her
In the second year, she achieved an earth-shattering result - it took her a year to defeat all the double-flowered rangers registered in the Ranger Association, and then named several three-flowered rangers one after another. After a duel that happened at an unknown time and place,
, she was jointly recognized by many Sanhua Rangers. After becoming a Sanhua Ranger with her undisputed resume, she stopped pretending at all.
She no longer kept a low profile, and her domineering style reminded the whole world of one of Lin Dasheng's wives. It was also after that that people gradually discovered the stone sculptures of some of the people who had harassed her that had sunk to the bottom of the sea.
Her name is Lin Qi, she has a domineering style, her appearance is too beautiful to describe in words, and she seems to have the ability to petrify people...
Xiaoda was convinced that Mr. Lynch did have a daughter with the empress.
She hesitated. It was rare to meet the other person. Could she say hello?
I once heard from my father that he met this sister when he was a child. Although he was still an infant at the time, he didn't remember it at all...
While she was pondering on the spot, Lin Qi, who regarded everyone as if they were as invisible as air, had been carefully led into the branch by the staff. Even without talking about her identity as the child of Lin Qi and the empress, based on her three
This face of the flower ranger can be directly used in any ranger association in the world. Of course, there is no need for a single flower ranger like Xiaoda, and you have to show the ranger badge to go through the process.
"Name: Zelda; Age: 14; Permission: Single-Flower Ranger... I have signed up for this Double-Flower Exam. Identity confirmed."
The staff at the front desk returned the badge to Xiaoda and said with a kind smile, "So you are the genius ranger who has become famous in the South China Sea in the past two years! Are you going to take the double-flower exam at the age of fourteen? It's really incredible. You have a bright future.
Infinite..."
"Thank you." Xiaoda took the badge back and put it on the back of his "mobile phone". "So, when is the nearest train to Xihai Kongcheng?"
"The exam is only the day after tomorrow. It's rare to come to an empty city. Why don't you go shopping?" The staff member said with a smile and checked the "tablet" at hand. There was a lily with a slightly different color and pattern on the back.
Badge, "Let me see...the nearest train is at 12:30 noon, more than an hour away."
"More than an hour..." Xiaoda nodded. It looked like she could still have lunch, and she happened to be wandering around this empty city in the South China Sea. After the exam, she planned to go home and bring some souvenirs from the South China Sea to her father.
.However, are the things in Nanhai Empty City considered specialties of Nanhai?
While she was thinking this, she didn't notice that the staff member's expression became cautious. When she turned around, she found a man standing behind her, blocking her way.
Lin Qi, who appeared at some unknown time, folded her arms, looked at Xiaoda condescendingly, raised her eyebrows and asked: "Zelda?"
Zelda noticed that almost all the eyes in the hall were focused on them, which made her a little nervous. She didn't know whether it was because of the eyes of these people or the playful behavior of the sister in front of her.
Eyes - She mustered up the courage to look up, then avoided her eyes with a bit of inferiority, and nodded.
"Ace's daughter?" Lin Qi said again, her eyes lingering on the pair of horns emerging from Zelda's white hair, and she had already determined the other party's identity, "You want to take the Double Flower Exam? Let's go.
, we just happened to be on our way." She raised her chin, with an unquestionable tone in her tone, and without waiting for Zelda to respond, she turned and walked directly out of the door.
The crowd parted. After watching Lin Qi go out, all eyes looked at Zelda.
Ace's daughter?
Is that Sanhua Ranger Ace?!
Most of the people who can become rangers, even single-flowered rangers, have mastered the Haki of Wisdom, Hearing, and heard a little bit of the conversation between Lin Qi and Zelda just now.
Zelda didn't wait for these people to react and ran out quickly.
Lin Qi did not wait for her. There was a vast white island cloud outside the branch door. Zelda opened her eyes to search, and then released the Fire Cloud Roger in the weather stick, and then hurriedly caught up with Lin Qi who was walking towards the edge of the island cloud.
——In front of her, on a Haiyun Highway that is not within the Sky Train station, a Sky Train with the Dragon Snake Flower Alliance flag on the front slowly stopped, and Lin Qi just opened the door when she arrived.
Lin Qi walked straight in.
Zelda drove Fire Cloud Roger over and hesitated for a moment while looking at the sky train. In fact, Lin Qi didn't seem to notice her coming, which made Zelda wonder if she should follow the train.
Here, it would be so embarrassing if I misunderstood... As she was thinking wildly, Lin Qi's head popped out of the train door that had not been closed, and she glared dissatisfied at Zelda who was hesitating in mid-air.
Zelda stuck out her tongue, urging Roger, and quickly flew into the open door of the sky train. Soon, the train started and the door closed behind her.
The carriage was empty. Lin Qi was the only one sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed. She casually flipped through two pages of a magazine placed aside and tapped her fingers on the table. Soon there were several waitresses carrying portions.
The covered dinner plates came and filled most of the table.
"Do you want to drink?"
Zelda was stunned for a moment, then realized that Lin Qi was asking herself, and quickly said: "No..."
Lin Qi had already broken the necks of two bottles of wine with a snap of her fingers, pushed one of them directly in front of her, grabbed the other bottle and drank it.
"Why don't you say anything?" Lin Qi drank up the wine in one gulp, threw the bottle away, and dropped it into the trash can in the corner. She crossed her legs and picked up a fork to pick up a piece of steak, shook it slightly, and handed it to Zelda.
He raised his eyebrows and smiled, "You should call me sister."
She smiled faintly, as if the lilies were blooming and the ice and snow were melting, which finally relaxed Zelda's slightly tense nerves. She opened her mouth by mistake and bit the steak on the fork that Lin Qi handed her.
"Last year I challenged your parents to a duel, and I heard that they named you Zelda. It was really..." Lin Qi shook her head, "It's a pity that you weren't here at the time, otherwise we would have known each other."
"I..." Zelda muttered vaguely. She took the steak in her mouth and ate it in three or two bites before wondering, "Is my name weird?"
"How should I put this..." Lin Qi smiled narrowly, "I think you are very suitable to be friends with my brother."
"Sister Lin Qi's brother?" Zelda was very curious.
Lin Qi said: "My name is Finch. Boya. Finch."
"Huh?" Zelda widened her eyes cutely, "Lin Qi is a pseudonym!"
"Learned it from my old man!" Lin Qi, no, Finch, didn't know what he thought of, curled his lips, "Also, strictly speaking, 'Lin Qi' is not a pseudonym."
Zelda muttered: "It's easy to be confused with your father's name..."
"Just hang out, who cares?" Finch said, "What about you, I heard you registering at the front desk of the branch just now. You are only fourteen years old. You are only fourteen years old, and you ran out to become a ranger on your own?"
"You are only a teenager..." Zelda continued to mutter, and when she noticed Finch glancing over, she immediately said cutely: "I also learned from my parents! My mother once said that her biggest dream was when she was a child.
Even if I escape from home, I can fulfill her wish..." Under Finch's calm gaze, Zelda lowered her head and muttered: "I want to prove that I can do it even without their protection.
Something awesome! I want them to look at me with admiration..."
"Then you should change your bloodline." Finch chuckled, "Your father Ace and mother Yamato both have integrated abilities. One is a natural flame, and the other is a fantasy beast. As their children,
Whether you want to be great or not is a more difficult matter."
Zelda glared at Finch resentfully. Although this seemed to be the truth, this sister said it too tactfully.
"Where's Sister Finch?" Zelda changed the subject, "They all say that you inherited the Empress's Medusa ability, but there are also other rumors that your ability is actually something else..."
Finch joked: "I do have other abilities. Do you want to try it?"
She stretched out her hand to lift Zelda's chin, and a line of foam flowed out from her fingertips... Zelda shivered all over, frightened and shy, and froze on the spot with a red face, making Finch laugh.
This was the first time Zelda saw Sister Finch smiling like this, and for some reason, she felt happy too.
The sky train flies along the straight sea-cloud "highway" between the vast white sea towards the West Sea, like a steel dragon soaring in the clouds and mist.
In the carriage, Zelda and Finch were talking and laughing, and their conversation became more and more harmonious.
Suddenly, Finch took out her Sanhua Ranger badge and stuck it on the back of the unfolded "tablet". After clicking on the Ranger software and browsing the notification prompts, the smile on her face gradually faded away.
What happened? Zelda was very curious and wanted to take a peek, but she didn't dare. She opened her "mobile phone" and entered the Ranger software and quickly understood. A latest topic quickly became the hottest trend.
The number of views and replies is soaring at a speed visible to the naked eye... The focus of the topic is a task that was just posted a few minutes ago. A task that named a specific ranger to complete.
"Task requirement: Obtain at least 100 ml of fresh blood from Nine Snakes Empress Boya Hancock."