[One Piece] Pirate Life of Port Officers

It's a pity that such things as clues don't just appear obediently if you want to find them.

When Sha Lai followed her memory and walked all the way to the place where she escaped from the rebel army yesterday, she still didn't find any useful clues.

When she finally came to the woods where she escaped, she was not surprised to find that even the bodies of the rebels she had killed had disappeared. Although there were some brown blood stains on the grass, that was all.Nothing else remained that might suggest their identity.

Although she was mentally prepared for this result, Xilai was still a little disappointed.

Sure enough, she shouldn't have let those rebels escape yesterday because she was concerned about the major general of the flying squirrel.Even if there is only one corpse left, she can get some clues from it, but now...

"Beckman! Come here! Come here quickly, I found something interesting."

Shanks found a clue?

When hearing this energetic voice, Sarai's heart skipped a beat. Thinking of Shanks' experience with Shanks in the past two days, she felt more frightened than pleasantly surprised.

I hope that Shanks will not make any trouble again, and while walking to where Shanks is, Shalai prayed without sincerity in her heart.Although she didn't expect these two people to help her find any clues, it's not too much to ask for not to make trouble for herself, right?

"Boss, this is the interesting thing you said?" Beckman approached, and after seeing what Shanks' right hand was pointing at, he glanced at Shalai, who kept smiling and exuding air-conditioning, feeling a little helpless. When I came here, I definitely didn't listen to his introduction about this country.

"This kind of stone with ancient characters is actually very common in this country." Ignoring the smile froze at the corner of Shanks' mouth, Beckman continued, "Every time a new king takes office, the people of this country will The words of blessing are engraved in ancient characters on the stone, and then they are placed in every corner of the country. The stone you are referring to should be the same."

"so..."

Looking at Shanks who bowed his head in disappointment and exuded my disappointment, Sara twitched the corners of her lips, intending to stab him a few words, but stopped her gaze when she saw the stone.

This stone is not big, and a three-year-old child can circle it with one hand.Probably because it was placed under the shade of a tree, there is a light layer of moss on the surface of the stone, and a few lines of small characters are engraved on the front of the mottled gray stone that faintly reveals under the light blue color.

Although this stone, like many documents that have been handed down, is mixed with one or two strange characters, this does not prevent the ancient West Mirip linguistics from being comparable to Japanese to decipher its general meaning: May Simirip live in peace and prosperity under the king's rule.

It looks like a very ordinary blessing, no different from the one engraved on an ordinary blessing stone, but the embryo of this stone makes Shalai feel very familiar.

Although thousands of thoughts had turned in Xilai's mind at this time, in reality, her eyes only stayed on the stone for less than two seconds, and then turned away, but this pause still could not be avoided Beckman's eyes.

"However, this stone does seem to be very old. It is estimated to be at least 1000 years old. Although it is engraved with ordinary blessings, there may be some mystery hidden in it." Beckman saw that Sha Lai shrank slightly because of his words. pupils, they will know that they will not be bored during the day.After all Shanks he-

"Yeah, yeah, how about we move it back to study?" Shanks said while doing his hands, sticking both ends of the stone with both hands, and holding it up easily.

He is a man who will do whatever he thinks of and is extremely capricious.

"Walk with such a big stone, Shanks, do you think your red hair is not conspicuous enough?" Sara walked up to Shanks, took the stone in his hand, and wiped off a little bit with his fingers Moss, seeing the familiar gray and white tan marks underneath, her eyes lit up, "And this kind of thing that may have a special meaning, I think it's better to put it where it is before I fully understand it. Anyway, about it I already have a rough guess about the origin."

"Although I'm not very good at archaeology, judging from the sun marks and stone quality, this stone is likely to have been a part of the temple or palace of this country, and it was demolished hundreds or even thousands of years ago. Engraved a blessing and put it here."

After carefully putting the stone back to its original place, Sarai raised her head slightly, met Shanks' gaze, and asked calmly, "Shanks, is there anyone on your ship who is good at archeology? When the stone was moved here, it may be of great help."

But what Sha Lai said on the lips, in fact, she already tacitly agreed in her heart that she could get a positive answer.After all, the red-haired pirates came to this island to find the relics and treasures, and it would be too unreasonable without an archaeologist.

If professionals can determine when and where the stone was moved from the palace or temple, it will be of great help to their next actions.

"That's such a pity. Our archaeologists are basically still in the ruins of an island in the New World. They didn't follow this time."

......

After staring at Shanks' bright smile for a second, Shalai silently looked away and turned to Beckman.

Although Beckman knew that the handsome young man in front of him was a little girl, but being stared at by a young man with such resentment, Beckman still coughed uncomfortably, "That ruin is quite famous, the few on our ship The archaeologists have all passed away. Therefore, among the people who came this time, there may not be anyone who meets your requirements."

Very good, in this way, her perfect plan just now has officially declared bankruptcy.

Shalai, who was hit again, didn't bother to maintain the image of the noble son, she put on her windbreaker, squatted directly in front of the stone, and turned her back to the two pirate leaders who made her feel depressed.While studying the stones by self-reliance, I counted the peculiarities of this pirate group in my heart.

The members of the pirate group can move freely, and the boss will not come to the mission if he can't think about it. This is really a free pirate group.And it seems that Beckman is the only cadre here, and they are really at ease about their own strength.Probably the island of the paradise is the same nature as the amusement park to them.

"However, they still gave me some useful information."

When did Beckman get so close, and Shanks too.

Seeing the two heads of the red-haired pirates squatting on either side of her, Sarai stopped her inner complaints, and subconsciously touched the bracelet with her right hand.

"The Department of Naval Science is not in a hurry. It is a department that comes to study any strange natural phenomenon."

"The reason why they came to this island is because of the strange writing mixed in this stone, which is very similar to the writing on the historical text. Do you know this?"

Historical text?

Sha Lai's heart skipped a beat.When she was at the Navy Headquarters, she also did a lot of investigations on such unknown words in the documents in private, but none of them had any results.What's more strange is that the researchers of the Naval Science Department just picked out these words and recorded them aside, without any intention of studying them.

She also tried many times, both openly and secretly, but those old foxes all said that this should be a kind of script that has not been deciphered, so they can only sort it out and put it aside.

Now it seems that there is indeed something hidden in it.

Although she devoted all her limited energy to the research on the remains of Simirip, she knew very little about other things.But judging from Beckman's words just now, the text of history should be something that the world government does not want the world to know, so it is concealed deeply.

After roughly sorting out the relationship, Sarai felt that her road ahead was even more difficult.

Although she also guessed that the unknown text might be an important clue, the people in the Science Department of the Navy Headquarters did not study it, and really put it aside.Moreover, after she came to Simirip's research institute, she deliberately sneaked into the confidential file area and searched for it before escaping by feigning death, but she didn't find any relevant information.

So, either the Navy hid the data too well, or...

"It's okay if you don't know. After O'Hara's demise, only a small number of people still know the existence of this thing. And now the person who really understands this word, in the whole world, may be the little orphan back then."

Beckman looked at Shalai's eyes and then sighed again in his heart for the girl's intelligence, and told her a part of the historical text in a selective manner.

"So, because the government didn't want people to know what happened in the blank 100 years, it destroyed the island where the world's top scholars gathered?"

After digesting what Beckman told her, Sha Lai felt that she really underestimated the horror of this world.

Many laws in this world, once in the hands of those with power and strength, are completely equivalent to a piece of waste paper, and they can do whatever they want.Tianlongren, Demon Slaughter Token, if these things are put in her world, it is absolutely impossible to be tolerated.

Thinking of the cruel and disgusting rules of this world, a sneer crossed the corner of Sha Lai's mouth. All these dirty things can be put on the bright side. Let's not talk about those strange science and technology. The level of civilization in this world is really backward. .

"Okay, okay, what are you doing so much trouble?"

Just when Salai criticized this Pirate World in disgust and strengthened her confidence to go back, Shanks' carefree voice rang in her ears.At the same time, a hand patted her shoulder before she could react.

"Beckman, this guy has already thought enough, if you tell her some messy things, she might overthink and become a little old lady."

"...Okay, I see." Beckman didn't bother to argue. Based on his years of experience, it would be fine to simply echo a few words at this time.

It's also rare for Shalai not to refute Shanks' words. Rather, when she patted her shoulder with that hand and felt the temperature of the palm coming through the fabric, she felt as if she had been immobilized. I froze in place.

For a moment, she thought of another red-haired man.That person would always pat her slender shoulders when she was serious about learning from Dazai when she was a child, squatting down to look at her with an expression of distress and helplessness on her face, "Sarai, you don't have to learn from Dazai." That kind of fighting style, you can hang out in the organization casually, and I will take you out of here in the future. Well, I don’t want to take a girl who is too overthinking and turned into an old woman to go.”

How did she answer it?

Ah, that's right, she who was not as tall as the table at that time, eagerly absorbed all knowledge and power, and blindly believed in her own power.

"I won't become an old lady! In the future, I will definitely become strong enough to allow both of us to live a free life."

Thinking of her confident expression at that time, Sha Lai lowered her head slightly, a hint of self-mockery flashed in her eyes.

Odasaku, she now knows that no one is free in this world.