[Pirate] Song of the Wind

2.11 Have you heard the voice of the world crying?

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In Roger's voyage purpose, besides the big secret treasure, he has a new goal.Roger can listen to the voices of all things, so he can naturally hear the cry and mourning of the huge stone.Although he couldn't understand the specific text above, he was able to understand a general idea through his own ability.

It's just that the huge stone is not as easy to find as everyone imagined. After half a year of scurrying around in the new world, Roger finally gave up such a purposeless search.Turned across the windless belt to O'Hara, the West Sea, and planned to pull a scholar from there as a crew member.

This is also the first time that Aquiles stepped out of the new world and went to the place where the four seas are.

O'Hara has a towering tree. It is a towering tree in the true sense. From a distance, it looks like it is rooted in the sea. Even his vast land becomes inconspicuous.Aquiles walked around the tree for half a day and was finally carried back by Roger who came out to look for him at night.

"Is this a miracle?" Lying on Roger's back, Aquiles turned to look at the thick trunk behind him, "He is the legendary tree of omniscience, right?" He had read it in a book and said In the West Sea, there is a tree of omniscience that lives as long as the sky and the earth, where there are all the answers.

"Oh? The legendary tree of omniscience?" Rayleigh appeared behind the two of them at some point, "I said Al, have you really not been lazy in your recent training, but you are so tired after letting go of the tree .”

There were more jokes than reproaches in Rayleigh's words, and Aquiles, who has been with the pirates for almost a year, is naturally no longer the little devil who believed everything others said at the beginning.With his ability to listen, Aquiles can quickly judge the true feelings of others: "He is telling me a story."

"Telling a story?" Even Roger turned his head to look at Aquiles curiously this time, "Ah, sure enough, this is the benefit of being a child, no one tells me a story." Roger pretended to sob twice insincerely, and then his voice changed, "What story? A ghost story? Or a legend?"

"It was his birth." Even if he walked a certain distance, he could not see the top of the huge tree of omniscience with his neck up. "He told me the story of his birth and his master." They walked a long distance, but they still seemed to be under the cover of the tree of omniscience.

Rayleigh let out an expression of curiosity, took out his little silver wine jug, and walked along while preparing to listen to the story: "He also told me that there is something I want hidden in his body." Aquiles refrained from telling the story maliciously. The topic that aroused the interest of the two people turned to other things.

"Stone tablet? We already knew about that." Lei Li cut out, dissatisfied with being aroused but unable to enjoy himself, "It is said that this tree was there thousands of years ago, and he must have witnessed the blank 100 years. Yes." Although he told others that he was not interested, everyone was curious.

And his curiosity has long been hoisted in Roger's persistent pursuit.

Aquiles smiled, but didn't answer Rayleigh's words.Such a child's behavior made Roger laugh out loud. He accidentally forgot that he was carrying a kid on his back, and habitually let go to press his straw hat.This caused Aquiles to fall off him completely unprepared.

Aquiles, who was sitting on the ground, was about to burst into tears of pain. He had exhausted a lot of physical strength today and his body was sore. Now Roger gave him this: "Hmph," but it was Rayleigh who A side gloated, "This is the retribution for your disrespect to the teacher, brat."

Roger, who realized what he had done, had no embarrassment at all: "Ah, I'm sorry." There was no sincerity, "Children will be strong if they are beaten." Accompanied by Rayleigh's various fire The words of encouragement made Aquil's eyes red with anger.

Immediately raise the two fingers of the hand and put them upright at the position of the heart, and then make a circular parabolic movement, and swipe towards the candy in the pocket.The black light reflected the light of the setting sun, fell into the candy along the curve of Aquiles' finger, and disappeared.

"No matter how many times I watch it, I still feel that your ability is very powerful." Lei Li squatted down to look at Aquiles, "It's about getting rid of illnesses or something."

"It's not about getting rid of the pain." No matter how many times, Aquiles will seriously correct Rayleigh's misunderstanding of his devil fruit ability, "it's just speeding up the metabolism and stimulating the vitality of the cells. It's like a wound is broken and falling, you need to wait Time flies, and I just need to speed it up."

Aquiles spoke very seriously, and he nodded as he spoke, but Rayleigh blurted out after a haha: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen Rolling today." Generally, the two little mascots on the ship would come together Together, although Aquiles can no longer hold his head as Rolling gets bigger and bigger, the two are rarely separated.

"Gun Gun wants to climb the tree of omniscience." Aquiles turned his head, "He said he would take pictures of the world's scenery for me to see." Saying so, his black eyes turned into crescent moons with a smile, and he collected the candy Standing up and facing Rayleigh, he waved his arms and drew a big circle in the air, "The whole world~"

Children's show off, only at this time Aquiles looks like a ten-year-old child: "Yes, yes, the whole world." Lei Li raised his hand and ruffled Aquiles' black hair, " So, little prince who is about to get the whole world, do you want to practice more tomorrow?"

The only advantage of being a master is that he can threaten his little disciples regardless of time.

Aquiles' face swelled into a ball, and Roger poked his hands out of teasing: "He said that his master is from the D family." As soon as these words came out, Roger and Rayleigh stopped their movements. , looking straight at Aquiles, waiting for him to continue talking.

"He said that he was originally born in a country full of cherry blossoms, and was blown here by the wind. At that time, he was just an ordinary tree, no different from other trees on this island. He was just taller , a bit thicker. But when his master came to this island, his fate was changed."

'Just like you, the God-Forsaken...' said the Tree of Omniscience.

"It was a young man with the biggest smile in the world, and a strength that would never be knocked down, never destroyed, never extinguished, and said to him, 'I probably won't survive. , but I still have promises that have not been fulfilled, and there are still people waiting for me.'”

'So, can you wait with me?Wait until the person who can fulfill the oath arrives...' Speaking of which, the voice of the Tree of Omniscient inevitably rendered a bit sad, 'Come with me to witness the future. '

"Captain, why did he wait?" Aquiles looked at Roger with blank eyes, "He sent away his master, generation after generation, but he never got the one he was waiting for." Man. The millennium is coming, why is he still standing there, waiting?"

Obviously, the appointment has been missed?

"No." Roger always knew what Aquiles was thinking. He bent down and put his eyes on Aquiles level, raised his hand and raised his head, and looked at him, "Because he knows, his The person who is waiting will definitely come. So even if a thousand years have passed, even if he has experienced so many winds and rains, he still stands there."

"He made himself big, famous, unstoppable," said Roger. "His treetops are the first thing you see when you cross the horizon, and those who are lost in the storm find direction. And the people here depend on him to survive and are proud of him.”

"In this way, one day his name will be passed back to the other side of the sea, and will be praised by the world, and will spread to every corner of the world." Roger's voice is solemn, "In this way, the person he has been waiting for for thousands of years will also admire his name. Come. It's like you and me, Al, after all these years, I finally got you."

Roger's eyes are as black as ink. When he looks at a person intently, you will always forget all his unreliable and rough lines in his daily life.You will feel his seriousness, his seriousness, his attention to you and his promise: "It's just that our life is too short, only a hundred years. For him, the same is true for a thousand years."

Roger, who stood upright, held Aquiles' head with one hand, and looked up at the Tree of Omniscience: "If you have to wait another ten years before you can wait for me, will you choose to wait?" He didn't say anything. Instead of asking for an answer, it was more like a rhetorical question, "This is a human being, Al."

Aquiles nodded half-understood: "He asked me a lot about you, Captain, and then told me that he was waiting for you." All the foreshadowing seemed to exist for this sentence, " All the secrets he can tell are hidden in his treetops..."

'I also don't know what happened 900 years ago. The blank 100 years studied by these scholars is far beyond my knowledge.If you want to know, I can tell you all,' said the Tree of Omniscience, 'though you are not the one he was waiting for, but I see other lights in you. '

"It's good to live long," Shenshu sighed, "to be able to see the God-forsaken and the God-chosen side by side. '

"He said," Aquiles looked at Roger, spread out the small mirror he took out from his pocket just now, and held it up for Roger and Rayleigh, "One day, D's reputation will be heard all over the world .”

"Like the sun falling, like night falling, these 800 years are just a gap." In the mirror in his hand is the sky and coastline rendered red by the setting sun.Layers of sea of ​​clouds are rendered by an orange-red halo, and there seems to be a flame burning between the sky and the earth, and even the sea is rendered.

When the red gradually fades away, when the color like rose wine recedes, night falls, and the sky is full of stars.

'The one who is waiting is the one who raises the curtain. '