The next day.
Shampoo Islands, District 44.
"Farewell, Raleigh. I hope you'll still be alive next time we meet." Duan Changsheng stood on an ordinary boat and smiled at the printed Raleigh.
"Although it's a farewell, Mr. Duan, your way of saying goodbye is really embarrassing. Don't worry, I haven't lived enough yet."
Raleigh Lang smiled, his silver beard moving.
"Help me convey to Xia Qi that Berry, who owes a lot for drinking, will definitely give back ten times as much next time we meet. She must wait until that day, haha."
Duan Changsheng laughed heartily, completely ignoring the meaning of the image.
"Sure, bye!"
"..."
Raleigh looked at the receding wooden boat and the figure in black on it, his eyes misty and lost in thought. Many years ago, he met the other person in that scene.
Years do not spare, this sentence truly let Raleigh realize.
However, the other person's appearance has never changed, and he has entered old age.
Perhaps this is the helplessness of eternal life.
Raleigh shook his head, thinking so.
"Raleigh, you're lazy again," Xia Qi said with her hands around her chest, a cigarette in her right hand, and a calm smile on her face.
"This can't be said to be laziness, it can only be said that the yellow ape guy scared away all the little guys on the island who were going to the New World, causing me to lose my business."
Raleigh, like an ordinary old man, smiled kindly. Although his words were true, they always gave people a feeling of being unreliable.
Xia Qi smiled and shook her head slightly helplessly, looking at the small wooden boat that was getting farther and farther away. She turned around and slowly left without asking a word about the affairs of the elderly.
Upon seeing this, Raleigh also withdrew his gaze and followed Xia Qi, holding a wine bottle in his hand, gradually leaving here.
...
On the sea, a small boat is drifting with the wind, with only a small sail and no steering wheel. This is truly moving with the wind.
The boat flows to whichever side the wind blows.
On the boat, a young man lay leisurely on a wooden board, looking upward at the sun, his feet on both sides of the boat's fence, and his hands on the sea. As the boat moved, his hands also slid through the cold sea.
This person is Duan Changsheng who has left the Shambaldi Islands.
Duan Changsheng's original intention was to stay in the Shambaldi Islands for a year and a half. Unexpectedly, the arrival of the yellow ape made the entire island precarious. The atmosphere of the busy market had become strangely desolate. Therefore, he also had no intention of staying, but chose to continue drifting at sea.
The days of drifting on the sea are not new to Duan Changsheng. It can be said that half of his years were spent drifting on the sea.
However, due to the replacement of time, the erosion of sea water, and natural disasters, some of the islands that Duan Changsheng knew in the past have disappeared, so he has to spend time again to recognize the current sea.
A cool sea breeze swept over Duan Changsheng's face, blowing his black clothes and moving his hair in the air along the trajectory.
The sea is very quiet, with endless views around it, so the most prominent thing here is the passage of a small boat.
Seagulls in the sky only flew by, with a stack of newspapers hanging from the corner of their mouth, one of which fell on the empty seat next to Duan Changsheng.
Duan Changsheng's eyes, which had been slightly closed, moved slowly. First, he glanced at the endless sea around him, and then he picked up the newspaper. Anyway, he had nothing to do, so he could only casually pass the time.
Opening the newspaper and presenting the news in front of us is only one thing, and this matter is now a matter that the entire ocean is eagerly concerned about, and everyone has different views and discussions on this matter.
The content is that Huoquan Aisi, the captain of the second team of the Whitebeard Pirates Regiment, was detained by the Navy headquarters and was soon executed.
The content is very concise, but it is clear at a glance, directly revealing specific information.
The entire sea, and even the entire world, are expressing great shock at what has been registered in this newspaper, because if this is true information, it means that the naval headquarters is about to face the attack of the Whitebeard Pirates, and both sides are about to start a thorough war!
As the craziness of this information spreads, everyone becomes crazy.
However, after reading this message, Duan Changsheng casually threw the newspaper out, allowing it to float on the sea and sink slightly.
"The big event is about to start? It's much more interesting than the petty fights and disturbances of the pirates."
Duan Changsheng smiled at the corners of his mouth, and immediately, his eyes closed slightly and he fell asleep.
A few days later.
Duan Changsheng's eyelids moved slightly, his eyes slowly opened, and he stood up from the boat. After drifting for several days, he was very calm all the way, without any sea king attacks, which surprised him a bit.
Standing on the ship, Duan Changsheng scanned the surrounding waters, but still did not find the existence of the island.
"A calm zone?"
Subsequently, Duan Changsheng's eyes twinkled with a hint of interest, and he discovered the strangeness of the sea area he is now in, because the ship is now motionless and completely stationary, and the reason is that there is no wind here, that is, this is the place known as the calm zone.