[comprehensive] red tide

There are always two people to meet in this life, one is amazing and the other is gentle.

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Her daily life is ordinary.

Every morning starts with breakfast. When the first ray of sunlight shines on the corners of the eaves, the dining table is also full of food. At seven or eight o'clock, she goes out with a basket and goes to the street market to buy ingredients.

When she returned, she habitually held a bouquet of wild daisies. The first thing she did when she got home was to insert/put them into a vase filled with water and place them in the most conspicuous position in the living room.

The small white daisies are clustered in the vase, and the sunlight that slantly meanders just shines on it, and the dewdrops on the petals reflect the brilliance, crystal clear and transparent, like gems.

Her fingertips brushed over the delicate flowers, and she was a little dazed for a while.

Such an ordinary and stable life was something she had been secretly looking forward to for many years but dared not hope for. Now she got it, through a magical experience that seemed like a dream.

She was an orphan, her parents died young, and she went to join her father's early friends after several turns. She thought that her life would be better from now on, but she didn't expect...

In fact, she has no other extravagant wishes. For an ordinary girl like her, who looks ordinary and has never been educated, the best thing is to find a man to marry in the future, and she will be busy with having children for the rest of her life.

She never complained about hard work, was responsible for daily life, and handed in all her monthly income. These are all as they should be. After all, she is not related by blood. She is very self-aware, but she didn't expect her father's friend, the person who took her in...

Although she didn't go to school much, she still knew that what her adopters did to her was... wrong.

She was unlucky to meet a scum, but she couldn't escape.

Later, fortunately, that person appeared.

She is just a weak and humble person, and she is helpless after being hurt. Perhaps it is because she has never dared to resist, that makes the person who hurt her even more unscrupulous.

Until she finally broke down and couldn't bear it, she didn't dare to imagine for a long time afterwards that she would risk everything to kill someone.

In the middle of the night, she held a knife and slashed at the person who bullied her. Hatred and madness filled her mind, and she was only a little bit away from falling into a crime that she would never be able to get rid of.

It was the man who saved her.

Her hands were shaking so that she could not hold the murder weapon, and the man caught the knife that had slipped from her fingertips.

That night was like a dream. More than half a month later, the dream reappeared and continued.

In fact, she didn't recognize that person. When she was taken to a strange place for no reason, she only thought she was dreaming. The person entrusted her to him and then disappeared. After that, she had been trembling for several days, for fear that the next second she opened her eyes, the dream would disappear. Waking up, she's still living a horrible life.

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But the dream did not wake up.

She is like a snail on a plant in a corner of the yard, hiding in her shell, waiting carefully until she finds that there is no danger before she dares to stick out her tentacles.

Five days later, she spoke for the first time to those who were forced to take her in.

When the man introduced the two parties, he called the man who was about to take her in as 'Mr. Joe'.

The first conversation between her and Mr. Qiao lasted only a few minutes, and she vaguely felt that Mr. Qiao seemed to be equally frightened, maybe he hadn't recovered from it like her, but during the conversation, she found that Mr. Qiao's attitude did not contain any hostility.

She and Mr. Qiao are completely strangers to each other. The strange thing is that Mr. Qiao did not have the same mentality of repelling her coming as she thought. Maybe it was not what she thought at all. Mr. Qiao was coerced.

Years of living under the fence made her very sensitive to other people's emotional ups and downs. After realizing Mr. Qiao's kindness, she finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then stopped being so vigilant.

She gradually tried to take over the chores of the new residence, she gradually integrated into the new life, and she began to have expectations for the future.

More than ten days later, Mr. Qiao tried to communicate with her at the dinner table on some things unrelated to daily life. In fact, there was a huge gap between her and Mr. Qiao, and there were very few common topics. After talking about it, the two sides inevitably mentioned that person.

When Mr. Joe found out that she didn't know anything about that man, he was extremely surprised, but he didn't say anything. He only gave her a lot of newspapers when she went back to her room to go to bed.

She spent the night stumbling through the old newspapers, finding information about the man between the lines.

That person has a reward amount that she can't even imagine, that person has power comparable to that of the senior generals of the Navy headquarters, that person stirs up the first half of the great channel, and that person travels alone but suppresses the two major naval pirates. camp.

That person stood at a height that ordinary people like her could not reach.

The man saved her, but she only knew her name from the newspaper.

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On the day of the war, she hid in her room all day long, not even daring to go out. Perhaps the fear of these days had finally accumulated to the limit. She was trembling all over, and every movement made her terrified.

Mr. Qiao knocked on the door hastily in the evening, calling her with obvious panic in his voice.

Only then did she know that the man was actually on the Marineford battlefield.

The Supreme Commander of the Navy announced to the world the other identity of the man, the old department of One Piece, and the time traveler.

The Navy was ordered to kill the man at all costs.

It won't be long... The phone snail brought back by Mr. Qiao lost the signal like this. The situation of the battle in Marineford is no longer known to the world, and the man has no news.

She and Mr. Qiao were extremely nervous. After a long, long time, the phone snail finally recovered the signal, but what came out of it was a bad news for her.

The navy wins.

So what happened to that man?Did the man escape safely?

She was in a trance for several days and nights, and then she saw the newspaper report.

The final outcome of the Marineford War:

The descendant of O'Hara, the old part of One Piece, the time traveler, Nicole Robin, died.

The man killed the admiral, Akainu Sakaski, at the cost of his own life...

She tore up all the newspapers that published relevant reports, and she was unwilling to believe the news given by the newspapers.

That person is so powerful, that person promised her magic, that person gave her the future...

How could it be possible to die?

The man must be alive, no?Even the Navy officials admitted that the body could not be found everywhere and could not be truly confirmed.

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The slight pain in the palm awakened her mind, she lowered her head, her trance-like gaze slowly focused, she stared blankly at the spread hands, a few half-moon-shaped pinch marks appeared in the center of the palm, it was her unrounded nails that scratched the skin.

After a moment of silence, she shook her head, turned and walked towards the kitchen.

It has been half a year since then, and the thrilling battle of Marineford has gradually faded out of public opinion, and she has not been able to find out more information about that person.

She is an ordinary citizen, and she has no power to pursue those major events that affect the world situation.

All she could know was that the situation had been turbulent in the past six months. Whether it was what Mr. Qiao told her when he came back every night, or when she went out to chat with the neighbors occasionally, some current affairs were more or less involved.

After the Marineford War, the number of restless elements on the sea increased a lot. The chaotic situation caused panic among the civilians, and the price of goods also soared.

In recent days, the island where she lives now, the capital of seven waters, has also become uneasy. I heard that pirates who landed a few days ago invaded the residential area. Although they did not cause much damage, the residents could not help but panic.

Before going to work early in the morning, Mr. Qiao specifically asked her not to go out if she had nothing to do, and to pay more attention to safety even if she had to leave home. She also mentioned that the mayor of the Seven Waters City had asked the navy for assistance. Mr. Qiao said that when the navy came, the situation would get better soon stand up.

Mr. Qiao meant well, but she really couldn't do anything about it. Even if she was afraid, the three meals at home always needed to be taken care of. If the ingredients were out and the daily necessities were running out, she had to go out to buy them anyway.

She went out, hurried to the market, bought enough food for two people for several days, and on the way back she saw the naval troops stationed on the island.

At that time, she was frightened and immediately turned into a side alley, and escaped in a long circle. For some reason, when she saw the navy blue mark, her heart beat suddenly.

The reason why she didn't dare to meet the navy may be...she subconsciously remembered the man's instructions.

The man said that no one should find out her real identity, and she used to live in Marineford, maybe some sea soldier would recognize her by accident, so how could she not be shocked and frightened?

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Into the kitchen, she began to process the ingredients.

After sorting out the things that were cooked that day, and then storing the rest in different categories, she completed the preliminary steps. She turned back to the sink and began to process the lunch and dinner materials.

She had to spend lunch alone, but there was Mr. Qiao for dinner, so she couldn't be sloppy.

Mr. Qiao works as the manager of the largest bank in the capital of seven waters. His busy work keeps him away from home throughout the day, and he can only come back at night. For half a year, she took over the housework of this family and helped Mr. Qiao take care of his daily life.

She did these things with ease, but Mr. Qiao was sorry and sorry to her. Mr. Qiao said that he was a bachelor, and his home was often messy when no one took care of it, which troubled her very much.

But in fact, she felt that the positions of the two were reversed. It was she who had the cheek to stay here and refused to leave. Mr. Qiao took her in for no reason or relatives. She was already very kind, so she had to do what she could.

After thinking about it, she sighed, turned off the tap, put the rinsed ingredients aside, and went back to the cabinet to take out the pot. She prepared beef curry for dinner tonight, and now she started cooking it, waiting for Mr. Qiao to get off work Back, just in time to eat.

Returning to the sink, she turned on the faucet and approached the pot in her hand to catch the water. The water hit the bottom of the metal pot, and the pattering sound filled her ears for a moment.

After waiting for a few minutes, her hand became heavy. She applied a little force and was about to raise it... But at this moment, there was a strange movement mixed with the sound of water flowing.

Urgent and swift, coming from the direction of the courtyard, her vision was blocked by the plants planted outside the kitchen window and she couldn't see anything, but it sounded like many people poured into the courtyard and quickly broke into the building.

She was startled, and the pot in her hand suddenly came loose, hitting the bottom of the sink with a loud bang, and the next second, footsteps appeared at the entrance of the kitchen.

Turning his head suddenly, what caught his eyes was a snow-white shirt and navy blue army trousers.

A few navy soldiers with live ammunition came in, and when they saw her, they raised their weapons, but no one spoke, and they pointed their guns/mouths at her firmly.

Her eyes widened, her mind went blank, her body lost contact with consciousness, and her whole body was as stiff as a rock.

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After some time, a tall and burly figure appeared outside the kitchen door. The visitor stood outside the door, stared at her silently for a few seconds, and then walked in slowly.

This ferocious-looking man was wearing a snow-white standard cloak. He was an admiral. Once he entered the small space of the kitchen, it seemed that there was not enough space, and even the air was squeezed and thinned.

Afterwards, the soldiers put away their guns and retreated silently and quickly.

The man stood not too far away, without saying a word, but stared at her fiercely, a terrifying feeling of trembling hit her, she subconsciously stepped back, her waist bumped against the edge of the pool, and she felt a dull pain.

She opened her mouth, breathed hard, and tried to force herself to calm down, but it didn't work. All the cells in her body screamed silently, because the other person's eyes were too scary.

She had never seen such a chilling gaze, cruel and intense, as if she was suddenly standing in a world of ice and snow, her bones were rattling from the cold.

She recognized the admiral standing in front of her, although the other party definitely didn't recognize her.

When staying in Marineford, the girls in the shop where she worked often talked about the many generals of the Navy Headquarters. The highly capable generals and ordinary people are two worlds. They live in the same land, and she can occasionally go far. See from afar, and recognize the faces of those people clearly.

And now, one of them was standing in front of her.

Navy Headquarters, Vice Admiral Ghost Spider.

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She guessed at the first time that her affair with that person was exposed/exposed, and the navy came to arrest her when they found her.

Thinking of this, she relaxed instead.

The strange thing is that after quietly examining her for a while, the terrifying look in the ghost spider's eyes disappeared, and the fierce and secret cruelty was replaced by coldness.

"Anna—" he said her name clearly, his voice was hoarse and deep, and he paused before continuing, "Anna Connor."

She pursed the corners of her lips and did not make any sound. Lieutenant General Ghost Spider said her full name registered in the official information, and she used the adopter's surname... The Navy must know her first half of her life like the back of the hand.

She had heard that the intelligence services could find out what they wanted to know, no matter how many years had passed.

So, she has nothing to say.

After a long time, Lieutenant General Ghost Spider spoke again, "When did you leave Marineford?"

She was inexplicably asked, her lips moved but she was unwilling to answer.

Xu could see something from her expression, the Ghost Spider Admiral narrowed his eyes, with a somewhat ferocious expression on his face, "You'd better answer my question honestly, otherwise I have to treat you as a criminal .”

"You're just an ordinary person, and you couldn't even survive the first wave of torture." While speaking, his eyes circled around her, sharp and fierce, like a knife.

Bathed in the utterly malicious gaze, she couldn't help trembling all over, whimpered a few times, and terrifiedly reported the date when the man took her away from Marineford.

As the words fell, Lieutenant General Ghost Spider's expression became even weirder, as cold as ice and snow, there was a trace of complexity floating in his eyes, but the strangeness was fleeting.

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Afterwards, General Ghost Spider fell into a deeper silence, his face was difficult to distinguish between emotions and anger, but she found that the bloody smell lingering around him gradually became thinner.

She unconsciously exhaled lightly, but the other party noticed it immediately, the corners of her mouth curled up, her eyes were extremely sarcastic, "You made a deal with her? She pretended to be a fake, and you kept your name incognito."

"Anna Connor, your behavior is enough to be arrested and sent to prison." The extremely vicious man in front of him judged her with a completely cold attitude.

She raised her head abruptly, staring intently at the other person's eyes, the blood accumulated in her heart finally broke through the blockade of cowardice, "Even if you kill me on the spot, I won't regret it!"

"I exchanged my identity to get a stable life. I did it voluntarily. I proposed the exchange first. I..."

Her emotions were suddenly agitated, her throat seemed to be blocked by a hard object, and her heart was about to jump out of her chest, and thousands of words were choked between her lips for a while.

After a long while, Lieutenant General Ghost Spider snorted coldly and said, "The sophistry of innocent civilians? You know that the law can't do anything to you right now, right?"

After looking her up and down for a while, he turned around abruptly and strode out.

After being dazed for a few seconds, she staggered to catch up. The inspector held the corner of the opponent's robe tightly, and asked in a loud voice, "Is she alive? Tell me she is alive, where is she?"

Lieutenant General Ghost Spider moved forward very fast, and her obstruction was vulnerable, and soon she was brought directly to the ground.

With a muffled grunt, she endured the pain and refused to let go of her fingers. After being dragged a few steps, he finally stopped.

The corner of the robe at her fingertips was taken away forcefully, she raised her face, her eyes found his sight, the other party looked down from a high position, and the expression hidden in the shadows was unclear.

After a while, he whispered, "She disappeared, and it is impossible to confirm whether she is alive or dead."

During the short silence, she seemed to feel that his breathing was momentarily disordered. After a few seconds, he turned around again, and before leaving, he said, "If she is alive, I will notify you." malicious.

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Soon, she was the only one left in the house, as quiet as a solidified kitchen, only the dripping water was the switch she forgot to turn off.

Lieutenant Admiral Ghost Spider disappeared without a trace along with the naval soldiers who surrounded the residence. If it wasn't for the pain from the fall that showed that everything really happened just now, she almost thought it was just another dream.

After a long time, she finally calmed down, got up slowly, and continued to prepare Mr. Joe's dinner.

As the evening approached, Mr. Qiao returned home at the usual time. The two had dinner, she cleaned up, and then had a rest and chat. They went back to their rooms at ten o'clock at night.

Everything was the same as every normal night for half a year.

But, she has a small seed in her heart.

The vice admiral of the navy headquarters promised that one day when the man came back, she would get news. Maybe the vice admiral would soon forget that casual promise. For her...it was a hope worth waiting for.

She will wait forever.

In the darkness, she bent the corners of her mouth, her smile was softer than ever.

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After that, she waited for three years, two months and six days.

On the second day of summer in the capital of seven waters, she was taken away on the street early in the morning. Several young men were dressed in casual clothes, and their gestures were clearly smudged with the style of the army.

She didn't resist, because the first thing the young man in the team said told her that Vice Admiral Ghost Spider was waiting on the warship in the port, ready to fulfill the promise of the year.

After several days of sailing on a warship, after arriving at the destination, the Ghost Spider Admiral led her into the island.

She didn't know the name of the island, and no one planned to tell her what it looked like. She was led into a very bustling commercial area, stopped and stopped, and in the end, Admiral Ghost Spider waited in a hidden corner and let her enter alone. A shop on the street.

There were no other customers in the shop, and the curtains in the changing room in the corner were closed, as if someone was inside, and a man was sitting on the rest chair beside him, wearing a yellow and white striped suit, who looked quite old.

The man on the rest chair stared at her when she came in. Through the dark tea sunglasses, his eyes were as sharp as a knife. She froze all over for a moment, but the other party turned his eyes lightly.

Her heart started beating like thunder, and while she was looking through the exquisite clothes on the hangers, she secretly peeked into the changing room out of the corner of her eyes, trying to see something.

A few seconds or a few minutes later, the man in the yellow and white striped suit sneered, got up suddenly, walked to the changing room with a few steps, raised his hand and opened the curtain, and entered in an instant.

At a glance, she saw dark blue hair and dark blue pupils.

The next second, she heard a slightly neutral voice again. Through the curtain of the changing room, the people there called out, "Eh? What are you doing here?"

"Yeah - I can't wait to see how you look in your new clothes~" The man's voice was drawn out with a careless smile, "So beautiful~"

After a while of silence, there was the sound of deep and ignorant breathing flowing out from the gap in the curtain.

It's like the nasal sound of a cat lying comfortably in the sun, or the whimpering of a small animal, mixed with light and shallow fabric rubbing sounds, and feathers floating in the wind.

"Are you trying to say that I'm more beautiful if I don't wear it?" The voice sounded again, the tone was hoarse, and there were some breathless transitions and pauses.

"What's on your mind~"

In her ears, the voice was delicate and soft and indescribably sweet, the words were complaining, but not angry at all, even a bit resigned to compromise.

The voice from the gap in the curtain became a bit... She let go of the fabric she was clenched tightly in her hand, turned around and left in a daze.

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She stood outside the shop door, staring blankly at the bustling neighborhood under the bright sunshine. The tears she had endured for three years, two months and six days finally fell.

The man is still alive.

She no longer has any regrets, even if she dies in the next second, she can still close her eyes with a smile.

The vast majority of people in the world say that person is a devil, that he kills people like hemp, and that he is guilty of heinous crimes, but to her... that person is sunshine.

She always remembers the moment of meeting, although she doesn't want to recall those days, but those dark, evil, terrifying and shameful times, because of the appearance of that person, all the terrible encounters disappeared without a trace.

She secretly thought that the reason why she suffered for so many years seemed to be to meet that person.

She was stuck in the bottomless quagmire, and even the navy represented by justice did not lend a helping hand. She was the one who gave her the future, and those dark blue eyes gave her all the courage and joy.

She is used to bringing back a bouquet of daisies to herself every day, in order to declare her love silently.

In her poor mind, there is a flower language about daisies: humble love.

She is her hero.

She looked up to her all her life, and she only allowed herself to look up from afar. That person would never know about her love that was so secretive to shame, so that was fine, knowing that that person was alive, she was satisfied.

She married Mr. Qiao a year ago, and from then on, she and Mr. Qiao will spend every ordinary day and night until they are old.

When tidying up Mr. Qiao's bookshelf, she once saw the words written on a torn page, without beginning and end, but savoring it carefully made one's heart soak in hot water, soft and melancholy.

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There are always two people to meet in this life, one is amazing and the other is gentle.

The man amazed her time, and Mr. Joe was gentle in the years thereafter.

She's...really happy.

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