Chapter 2 licking the paws
"Woman, you are too arrogant!"
At this moment, a voice suddenly appeared behind me. I put down the kind-hearted pirate, stood up slowly, turned slowly, and looked at the man who said this with interest. It was a man wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a feather in his body, wearing a brown cloak, and a knife hilt was exposed on his left waist.
"It's Wright! 'Quick Knife' Wright!" I heard someone shouting around me.
"What?" I asked calmly with a smile.
"Speak your name, take out your weapon, and then, either you kill me, continue to be arrogant, or I kill you, and hang your body there." Wright said, pointing to the trunk of a mangrove, where there were more than one corpse, which looked like a navy and a pirate, and it seemed that it had been a while since the corpse was weathered.
"Let me talk about it when I can continue to be arrogant. The name of the dead is meaningless." Instead of pulling out the dagger, I hugged my shoulders, tilted my head, and said with a smile.
"Well said!" Wright growled, "Just with this sentence, you are a respectable opponent, and I will treat your body well."
As he said that, Wright arched his body, held the scabbard with his left hand, and held the hilt with his right hand, making a sword pulling gesture, while I still stood there with my shoulders in my arms.
"brush--"
Wright moved, and turned into a phantom in the eyes of ordinary people, and the target of this phantom was me. The distance between us was not far, no more than thirty meters at most. At this speed, the distance of these thirty meters was almost in the blink of an eye.
"warehouse--!"
The knife was unsheathed, but what people saw was that I held the knife in my left hand and stood behind Wright, and the knife was standing in front of Wright's neck. Everything was so fast. When Wright was only five meters away from me, my figure suddenly blurred for a moment, and then it became like this.
This process is actually not complicated. After all, Wright underestimated me. Seeing that I had no movement when I was five meters away, I began to speed up and at the same time, I started to draw my sword. But at almost the same time, I came to him at a speed that he could not reflect. He felt a numbness in his right hand, then pulled out half of the knife and came to my hand, and then, the familiar cold air appeared in front of his neck.
"This knife is good, what's the name?" I asked softly.
"Nightingale, twenty-one work knife." Wright replied in a deep voice.
"Can you give it to me?" I asked again.
"You win, of course." Wright replied in a deep voice.
"Thank you, my name is Lina, I will treat your body well."
"Click--"
A silver light flashed, blood splattered, Wright staggered forward a few steps, turned around with difficulty, looked at the knife in my hand calmly, and looked at me with the same calm look. Then a smile mixed with reluctance and calmness appeared on his face, and he fell down.
"warehouse--"
I pulled out the scabbard from Wright's body and put it into the scabbard. Then I carried Wright's body, regardless of the blood stains left on his neck that dyed my white robe red, and walked out of the town. The next day, a few words appeared on a tree root of 26GR: A Swordsman's Tomb.
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"Girl, there are many people talking about you now, Lina, a female swordsman in white robe." With this teasing voice, a glass of juice was put in front of me.
My current location is 13GR, a bar called "Xia Qi's Ransomware BAR". It has been nearly a week since I "come to this world", but I still have no idea about the "task". As for why I want to come to this bar with few people, and why I stayed near this bar for five consecutive days, there is no reason, I just follow my temper.
"Forget it, Aunt Xia Qi, these things are meaningless in front of you." I took a sip of the juice in the cup and said to the beautiful black-haired woman who "looks" at most thirty years old in front of me.
"What an unlovely girl!" The woman named Xia Qi patted my head gently and suddenly said, "Girl, do you want to go to Jiushe Island?"
"Why am I going there?" I asked, raising my eyelids.
"Although I don't know what your goals are, in this world, women rely on their own strength, and as a woman, when you go there, at least you don't have to worry about being deceived. After all, there are too few men in this world who don't deceive women." Xia Qi said with some emotion.
"Then... Uncle Reilly has lied to you too?" I said with a smile.
"What other means do you think a man can make a woman willingly follow him?" Xia Qi replied with a smile.
"Hey, I can't pretend that I didn't hear this." At this moment, a man's voice suddenly rang out in the inner world, and then he walked out of a man with a strange beard on his chin - at least I think so -. He should be quite old, after all, there are already mottled marks on his beard. He is a coating craftsman, but based on my intuition - I admit that I can't beat him.
Speaking of coating, it is actually a way to reach the new world. It wraps the boat with resin secreted by the Yarchiman red trees, dives for 10,000 meters, passes through a huge hole located below the red earth continent, and passes through the "undersea line" Fishman Island to reach the new world. However, this method is very dangerous. If the coating craftsman's skills are not good, the boat will be destroyed and the people will die.
Or, there is another way to reach the new world safely, which is to make a request to the world government and then directly cross the holy land of Mary Choa, which is located at the top of the Red Clay Continent. However, most people will still choose to go to the coating and walk the 10,000 meters under the sea. After all, it costs a lot of money to apply for Mary Choa and it takes a lot of time. Most of the people who go to the new world are merchants and pirates. If merchants spend a lot of money to go to the new world, they can't even guarantee whether they can make a return on their money in the end, so of course they will take risks for money. As for pirates, let alone pirates.
"Don't worry, uncle, I'm not disappointed with the man to that extent." I replied, "But for those men outside, it's really bad."
"Oh? Although most of them are not your opponents, they won't say 'It's too bad', right?" Rayley asked with interest.
"I am a pirate in order to be a pirate, but I don't even know what the pirate is. Such an impetuous group of people said they were too bad, so I still have a mouthful." I said disdainfully, and then I changed my subject and said to Xia Qi: "In addition, Aunt Xia Qi, thank you for your kindness, but I think Jiushe Island is not suitable for me."
"What do you mean?" It was Xia Qi's turn to be interested this time.
"Although I lost some memory for some reason, I knew I was looking for something, but I could not find such a thing with my own strength, so I need to find a helper, but this helper would definitely not be the Nine Snake Pirates." I replied, "After all, the Nine Snake Pirates can only be a powerful pirate group, and it cannot be the most powerful pirate group - I am not going to belittle women, after all, I am also a woman - this is actually because of Nine Snake Island itself, so it is really not suitable for me."
"Girl, it seems that your ambition is quite big?" Rayley said suddenly.
"I actually have no ambition at all," I shook my head, "I just want to find that thing and find a place to spend my life quietly like you guys."
"But you still have to go to Jiushe Island," said Xia Qi. "Although you don't know what you are looking for - maybe you don't know yourself - you don't even know a little about navigation now, and no matter what you are looking for, you will definitely not be able to avoid navigation. So, you should go there first to learn."
I looked at Xia Qi in confusion, but the only thing that greeted me was Xia Qi's calm eyes. After a long time, I nodded.
At night, when the bar closed, Rayley suddenly asked Xia Qi: "Why did you insist on letting that girl go to Jiushe? I think that girl is also very confused now. Is it for those three girls?"
"Maybe, I'm not sure," Xia Qi sighed, "Did you see the child's eyes? It was an eye full of unconcealed desire. I was not talking about what she wanted to do, but what she wanted to do could be seen from her eyes. Before that, I had only seen such eyes in beasts. This child was too dangerous. Everything she did was completely instinct, and her instinct... what do you think? It felt a little evil. If she was just allowed to enter the world like this, then many bad things would definitely happen, right?"
"So, you want to lock her up?" Rayley smiled. "When did you start to care about this kind of thing?"
"Probably... because this child is so pitiful, and I like her very much." Xia Qi shook her head helplessly, "However, I asked her to go to Jiushe Island, not to lock her up, but to help her recover for a while. As far as I know, she is not like this."
"Do you think she will recover after experiencing those things?" Rayley obviously didn't believe it.
"I don't know, give it a try." Xia Qi sighed again.
Although I have promised to go to Jiushe Island, I can't just leave. According to Xia Qi's words, "If you have a person like you, I will at most give him a boat, some supplies, and a record pointer to go to Jiushe Island. Let him go there by himself. But the problem is that you don't have any knowledge of navigation, so you can wait for me to find someone to pick you up."
"Record pointer? What is that?" I asked.
"Don't you know? It's this thing." Xia Qi took out a glass ball with a circular base and handed it to me, and then said: "In a great route, except for magnetism, any other navigation data cannot be accurately done. Even the magnetism will change with the region, so there is a record pointer that records the relative position between the islands. This is probably what it means. When you arrive at Jiushe Island, you will learn in detail."
I took the recording pointer and looked at the red diamond-shaped metal piece hanging from the thread inside. For some reason, my head suddenly hurts a little...
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Chapter completed!