One Piece: The Long Road

Vol 3 Chapter 21: Desert Habitat

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As soon as he mentioned his father, Alex’s sullen expression suddenly disappeared, and his expression turned bright. He saw his eyes light up and said excitedly: “Of course, my father is the most powerful person I have ever met!”

“Really, what a powerful method.” Simon looked at Alex, who was excited, and smiled slightly, after all, he was still a child.

“Uh.” Alex paused with excitement, frowned and thought, as if he was recalling, and after a while, he said loudly: “No matter how many opponents there are, as long as my father waved the poppy, those people would shake their heads. It will fall to the ground and not wake up, and my father once slashed a bottomless crack in the desert with a knife.”

Thinking of the past, a touch of joy jumped over Alex’s little face.

“Hehe, you won’t exaggerate again.” Simon didn’t even dare to think about a bottomless crack with a knife. When he was in Xibei Village, he had never seen Kunke use his epee to split. The feat of opening the sea.

“Of course not.” Alex looked serious.

The serious look suddenly surprised Simon. Could it be that there really exists someone who swiped a crack in the desert?

“I still don’t believe it.” Simon shook his head slightly. He didn’t believe what Alex said without seeing it with his own eyes.

Seeing that Simon didn’t believe it, Alec immediately panicked, “What I said is true!”

“I wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it with my own eyes,” Simon said lightly.

“Humph!” Hearing this, Alex looked unhappy.

“Hehe, let’s go quickly.” Simon smiled slightly, speeding up his feet.

And Alex followed silently, thinking about how to convince Simon, looking at Poppy in his arms, Alex couldn’t help but say sadly: “Poppy, why can’t I feel your existence now. ”

Although Alex’s voice was low, Simon could still hear it clearly.

After walking for a while, the road was still the same as the road I walked before, full of yellow sand, not even a single stone.

Alex is frowning and recalling the places where his father used a knife to cut marks in the past, but after thinking about it, he still doesn’t have any impression. After all, his father is not a saboteur, even the last time he opened the cracks was just a To satisfy my curiosity.

“Alex, are there very few creatures in the desert?” Simon, who had never encountered creatures along the way, was very depressed and asked casually.

Hearing Simon’s words, Alex broke free from his memory and said, “Yes, and they are all terrifying creatures.”

“But I didn’t see any creatures along the way.” Simon looked around, calm.

“I don’t know this, maybe we are lucky.” Alex said.

“Is it unlucky.” Simon sighed regretfully. He still wanted to meet the creatures in the desert to see how much power he could absorb, but he didn’t want to walk for a long time without encountering a creature.

“Uh…” Alex was speechless, “That’s right!”

Suddenly, Alex thought of a place.

“What’s wrong?” Simon looked at Alex suspiciously and asked.

“I finally remembered that my father once split a huge strange rock in half.” Alex looked at Simon excitedly and suggested: “Although that place is not by the way, it won’t waste too much time if you go there. , how, after you see it, you will believe what I say.”

“Really?” Simon hesitated when he heard Alex’s proposal.

“And, I don’t know why, there are many creatures around the strange rock. You must know that the creatures in the desert are basically some terrifying large animals, and it is rare to gather in one place.” Alex recalled that he also heard Simon. It was only when he recalled the question that he would not have been able to get to that place without his father at that time, but he had forgotten why his father split the huge rock in half at that time.

“A lot of large animals gather in that place?” Simon, who was hesitant, suddenly became excited when he heard it.

“Yeah.” Alex replied.

“Okay, let’s go to the place you said first.” Simon said excitedly. For him, that place was a good place to improve his strength, and he was relatively indifferent to the behavior of Alex’s father splitting the strange stone.

“Oh.” Alex looked at Simon strangely, and secretly asked, is it necessary to be so excited, he just showed a disbelief.

Thinking of this, Alex led the camel and walked up.

The temperature gradually decreased, and the sun turned yellow. Unlike the scorching heat of the day, the sunlight at this time was very gentle.

The dim sunlight sprinkled on the calm desert, and it looked very beautiful from a distance. With the passage of time, the sunset slowly fell, and a nearly ordinary body was hidden under the horizon.

After walking for a long time, Simon finally saw a place that was no longer sand.

It was a small-scale ruin, with broken walls scattered randomly on the sand, revealing an ethereal sadness. The light sand blown by the breeze brushed over the broken broken wall, as if telling the prosperous past to the travelers passing by.

Walking into the ruins, Simon caressed a broken wall with a vague pattern. It could be vaguely seen that the pattern on it was not ordinary. It looked very beautiful and eye-catching. Erosion, and ultimately, can only be reduced to a relic of the past pedestrian habits.

Feeling the bumpy touch on his hands, Simon couldn’t help but have the illusion of right and wrong.

“There are many ruins on this desert.”

Seemingly seeing Simon’s feelings, Alex sighed lightly as he looked at the sunset that was about to be hidden under the horizon in the distance.

“It used to be prosperous here.” Simon sighed softly, then pulled his hand away from the broken wall, walked to Alex’s side, and looked at the beautiful sunset.

“No matter how prosperous it is, it’s only the past.” Alex suddenly squatted down, reached out and grabbed a handful of sand, “The most important thing is the present and the future, but, judging from the present of this country, it seems that there is no future. .”

Simon was stunned by Alex’s words, and suddenly, he saw the sadness on Alex’s face.

“You love this country very much.” Simon said lightly.

“Yeah.” Alex looked at the sand falling from his palms and nodded heavily: “It’s just, that was before.”

“Oh, if that’s the case, then why are you sad?” Simon smiled lightly, turned and walked back to the ruins.

Throwing the sand in his hand back to the ground, Alex stood up abruptly, UU reading www.uukanshu.com turned to look at Simon, and retorted loudly: “What kind of qualifications do you need to be sad for a country?”

Hearing Alex’s words, Simon didn’t respond quickly, but found a comfortable place to lie down directly. After adjusting his posture, Simon covered his head with his arms and said, “No need, but… there is no need to grieve. .”

“Why?” Alex hurried to Simon’s side and sat down.

“Because of sadness, it doesn’t change anything.” Glancing at Alex, whose smiling face was full of anger, Simon looked up at the dim sky.

Alex was silent.

At this time, some stars have jumped out playfully, flickering in the dim sky, it seems, it is not so monotonous.

“How much do you know about this country?” Simon was the first to break the silence.

Alex was stunned when he heard the words, and then quickly replied: “Not much, but it can be seen that this country is no longer saved.”

“Well, listening to you, I really don’t know much.” Simon shook his head slightly. “So what you see is only the surface. This country is not quite the case.”

“What do you mean?” Alex looked at Simon suspiciously.

“Wait a minute.” Simon smiled slightly, answering the question.

“Hmph.” Alex snorted coldly and didn’t ask, just like Simon, lying on his back, looking up at the starry sky with his arms over his head.

It has been a long time since I slept in the ruins with someone by my side.

The temperature gradually dropped, different from hot during the day and very cold at night. The climate of the desert is the same as the strange and unpredictable climate at sea. The difference is that the climate change of the desert is a foregone conclusion.

Silent all night.