I don't know if it's an illusion, probably... No way? The Akainu Commander's tone was light, but I could still hear a few hints from the depths of his understatement... The meaning of the threat comes.

I couldn't help but raise my eyelids and glance at the back of the man who was one step ahead, and after thinking about it, I pretended to laugh ignorantly, "Of course, because where Nana is, I am there." ”

As long as my bear child is in the navy, I and my family will not be out of control.

As the words fell, the man tilted his head slightly, the corner of his eyes seemed to overflow with some deep meaning, and in an instant he closed his gaze again, and continued to walk towards the depths of the passage as if nothing had happened.

I lowered my eyes, quietly let the other party hold my wrist, step by step on the shadows under my feet, and slowly move forward.

This is the end of the conversation between the two.

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The labyrinthine passages twist and turn, with several forks in the road at intervals, and grease torches burning silently on the rock walls, and a miserable dusk enveloping the stone walls, combined with the accumulated smoke, creating an eerie and eerie feeling at the gratuitous ends.

After a while, as I walked, murals gradually appeared on the gray and old rocks on the rock walls on both sides of the corner of my eye.

Before, after turning two forks in the road, there were monotonous lines of elephant curly grass and some kind of symbols, and the rock walls on both sides, on the top and under the feet, the arcs and symbols were fragmented and endlessly stretched.

Then there are simple patterns of undulating mountains and rivers, dotted with people and animals, and now the images have become cumbersome, and the colors have changed from simple gray and white vermilion to a variety of colorful colors.

All the way here, the murals left behind me seem to me to be very similar to some kind of prehistoric relics that I have seen on the Internet in books in my early years, such as the petroglyphs of some ancient ancestors.

The vermilion lines on the gray and white background are like the ruins of the ancients preserved in the mountain stream boulder caves, with beautiful and trivial patterns, but they are like the interior of the Egyptian pyramids and the decoration of the tombs of the pharaohs.

Of course, regardless of the former or the latter, the paintings on the rock walls are a kind of record.

As I walked, I paid attention to what I was doing, and Admiral Akainu's pace slowed down, and even Lieutenant General Dauberman, who was not far away, slowed down as he went, and I should have paid attention to the picture drawn on the rock wall as well.

They develop in a subtle order, simple and quaint hunting, ancient tribes living in groups, totem worship, sacrifice to the gods, dynasties appear... The state was founded, flourished, decayed...

War... Peace... Rise...

Technological development... Social progress...

High-rise buildings, bustling cities...

There is no ventilation in the belly of the mountain, and perhaps the senses are a little numb to the smoke and the dim environment, sliding through the pictures in the eyes, and awakening the memories that have been lost for a long, long time little by little.

Sixteen years ago, it was my secret.

These pictures, which have been eroded and mottled by time, silently tell the history of human development, the history as I know it, not the official records that have been circulating here for thousands of years.

My heart beat faster and faster, and I just felt my blood boiling, not for anything else, but for what my eyes saw.

I thought... Do two unrelated worlds overlap?

I thought... If this two-dimensional world and my hometown are the same... So when is it? Thousands of years or tens of thousands of years from now? Or even longer? How long has it been until the biological gene map has been turned upside down, and how long has it been since the ocean submerged the continent and turned the mountains and rivers into Heze?

Or is the lost history of this world just the modern age where the ghost clan once was?

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I was so engrossed in the murals on both sides that I saw a painting in which one of the symbols of the country, Mt. Fuji, was separated from my hometown by the ocean.

Since then, there has been a watershed moment in history as I know it.

The mural after that, I still have a vague impression, to the black-haired xenomorph who was excited by the flash of inspiration not long ago... Two-dimensional story.

The past of the last ghost queen reawakening.

Canglong in the east, White Tiger in the west, Vermilion Bird in the south, Xuanwu in the north...

Those things that no one knew about for a long time are silently presented in the murals.

Kiryu Cangzi, who woke up without knowing anything, and Luo Xuan, the queen who was reborn.

The white tiger of the western family who hunts ghosts, and the Xiyuan Temple Bin who is bewitched by ghosts.

A fateful encounter...

To be honest, looking at the joys and sorrows in the mural, I... I couldn't tell if I was happy or disappointed.

Probably a little more lucky, right?

It's amazing~ isn't it? I'm glad that these murals have nothing to do with my hometown, because only irrelevantness can represent... The world where I once existed was unharmed.

Even though I'm separated by a nine-fold blue fall, I... I'm happy too.

At the end of the mural's story, 30,000 ghosts entered the holy land to sleep... Further on... The murals on both sides turned into boundless black, as if someone had splashed thick ink to cover the mottled oil paint below...

The reason for this is that there are a few places where the black paint can't cover the thick vividness behind it, and I think the mural group should have had a follow-up, but for some reason it was destroyed.

According to the things in the previous picture table, the things painted on the rock wall, the writer should be the ghost clan... It's even likely to be the northern genocus, Kiryu Kaohsiung.

Because the content of the mural can basically be embedded with the fragmentary pictures in my memory, but I don't know what happened after the ghost clan sleeps, which makes today's black-haired xenomorph so crazy.

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Maybe I was too focused, I didn't know what I tripped under my feet while walking, maybe it was gravel or maybe it was just a gap that was deep for a long time, anyway, I crooked, and then immediately hit a 'wall' with my head.

The warm and broad back belongs to the man who is one step ahead, the general Akainu.

It was dark in front of me, and then my shoulders were steady, and I hissed and shook my head, "I'm sorry, I..."

While speaking, I wanted to raise my hand and rub my forehead, but I was taken first, and the fingertips with rough calluses were pressed in a slightly painful position, and the force was neither light nor heavy, and by the way, I was scared and instantly refreshed.

"Admiral Akainu?"

I don't know why, maybe it's a delusion? After I opened my mouth, I felt that the man in front of me was breathing, as if he was a little unhappy?

Of course, this man didn't show that it was obvious, but the strength of the rubbing suddenly became a little bigger... Uh~ Then, where he kneaded... It hurts even more!

I gasped, holding back the horror of my cold hairs standing on end, and tilted my head slightly, "General Sakasky? "When I spoke again, I was sure that the man was definitely not happy about such a thing.

The admiral was silent at first, and estimated that my forehead hit the piece and rubbed it so that it was almost swollen, and when I changed my words, he said lightly, like a spring breeze and rain.

This man... Menopause is coming or is the aunt coming?

The overwhelming spit rolled around in my heart, of course, I didn't dare to show it on my face, I deliberately hissed a few times, careful to avoid the fingers that stuck to my head like a shadow.

After a while, Xu is satisfied? Admiral Akainu withdrew his hand, and his tone did not fluctuate at all, still in the original low and generous, with a somewhat commanding tone, "Concentrate on your feet." ”

"Yes, I'm sorry." I replied solemnly, my gaze slightly to the left, not daring to meet the admiral's gaze hidden in the shadow of the navy's hat.

Say that he has thoughts about me, his attitude is very cold, say that he is hostile to me, this person's behavior is really incomprehensible.

It's also very bad that it is comparable to the other admiral of their navy, the yellow ape Polusalino.

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This delay caused Lieutenant General Dauberman, who was some distance away, to turn back and stop nearby, and Mr. Lieutenant General, who had been silent all the way, probably had seen enough of watching the play, and when he met my gaze, there was a hint of strangeness in his eyes, and he asked with a deep meaning, "Lady Anna is very interested in these murals." ”

"Ah~ That's true." I nodded, not trying to hide it, "Because I've seen it." ”

"Oh?" Turning his head to look around, he curled the corners of his lips, his expression seemed to be smiling or not, and he didn't know whether to believe it or not, "Lady Anna is familiar with this place?" ”

"Spent some time here." Glancing at Lieutenant General Dauberman, I staggered my gaze to meet him, turned my head, and focused my gaze on the mural behind me that was submerged in time, "At the age of thirteen..."

"That's enough." The cold voice that interrupted me was Admiral Akainu, who tightened his fingertips suddenly, and the wrist that fell into his control was dull and dull for a while, and the iron hoop-like confinement had a meaning that could not be disobeyed, "The purpose of the navy is to destroy this island completely, whether it is a place that leaves you with any good memories or not. ”

This man, Admiral Akainu, scolded sharply, and his already low tone was a little more eerie, but strangely, he did not look at me, but at Lieutenant General Dauberman, as if the warning object was not me.

After a brief moment of silence, Lieutenant General Dauberman shrugged, smiled noncommittally, looked at me again, and asked, "The second half of the mural is a history of different species, right?" ”

"The main character in the painting, the blonde woman—" pauses for a few seconds, as if to raise words, and after a while, he snorts, and then continues, "The girl I am carrying, your daughter, is seven or eight points similar to the blonde woman." ”

"Huh?" I was stunned, unconsciously lowered my gaze a little, stared at the unconscious Nana for a while, and suddenly startled again, Lieutenant General Dauberman didn't say that it was okay, he said... Indeed!

After thinking about it, I hurriedly turned around, shook off the confinement on my wrist, turned back a few meters, and carefully compared the last one that Kiryu Cangzi appeared, and the comparison between the two compartments, the more I looked at it, the more shocking it became.

The reborn Luo Xuan, Kiryu Cangzi.

My bear child is really... It is similar to the appearance of Queen Luo Xuan on the mural.

Can... How is this possible?!

Nana's blonde hair and blue eyes are inherited from her father, Anna's husband, but why is it that when I look at it, the appearance of the ghost queen on the mural is so familiar that it makes me shiver?

My Nana, I obviously won't have anything to do with the ghost clan!

My mind was dizzy, I shook, stretched out my hand to hold the mural, and after stabilizing my figure, I looked at the beautiful face in the mural, and my heart was angry, I... I will not allow it! What ghost genes, what road to rejuvenation, those things that represent a lot of suffering, how can I be bound to Nana?

She deserves a peaceful and smooth life, she deserves to live freely and freely, she... Whatever she wants, navy or pirates, her future will not be any... Artificial arrangement!

This cursed bloodline is just severed in Anna!

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Probably driven to lose my mind by the scorching anger in my heart, I raised my hand and slapped it hard, aiming to destroy the mural with the last queen of the ghost clan just a stone's throw away.

The person in the painting is smiling lightly, looking half surprised and half sad...

My fingertips touched the cold stone wall, and before I could exert my strength, I felt my body jerk into the air, and without warning, the floor in the area under my feet collapsed silently.

The bottomless black gap expanded rapidly, and the unbalanced body fell straight down, and the split boulder rained down, and in the sudden darkness, two snow-white colors looked dazzling.

It's two admirals.

Lieutenant General Dauberman and Admiral Akainu.

They fall with it, or... Squinting my eyes and adjusting my balance in a few breaths, I stared at Lieutenant General Dauberman... Immediately afterwards, he found that his body stiffened slightly, and the shoulders of the snow-white general's cloak suddenly bloomed a bright red.

It was something hidden in the darkness that attacked him, in order to force him to let go.

And in his hands ... I'm protecting Nana.

With a sudden force, I dodged the hand that the general Akaiu stretched out towards me, staggered past him, and instantly pounced on my own bear child.

Lieutenant General Dauberman was suddenly attacked, and his shoulder pierced a bloody hole, guiding Nana in the crook of his arm to lose his support point, and the bear child who had not yet woken up slipped softly and fell silently into the deeper darkness.

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I hit the rock with my back, grabbed the bear child fiercely, and fished the person back into my arms, and the next second, the eye visibility dropped to a negative number, and the boundless quiet darkness overwhelmed me and the bear child.

The body was still falling, but there was a strange feeling around him.

The unknown sense of existence lurks in a very close place, and the wisps of spider silk-like touch overwhelmingly come up, and countless silk objects attach to the body, entangled with Nana who is wrapped in her arms, ready to go...

I tightened my arms and said coldly, "Don't make me angry, or I'll break your horns~ Ghost-faced beast." ”

In an instant, the falling body was suspended in mid-air, and I felt the force that wrapped Nana try to take her away stopped, and I snorted, "Take me to the temple, since that's your purpose." ”

After a long time, a voice came from the dark abyss where I couldn't see my fingers, I couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, just a silent voice, "Since it's your order..."

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There are vague outlines in the vast darkness, like barren and dry tombs, countless chaotic and intricate cracks, virtual and real ghosts... The subtle grinding of the hem of the garment, the gentle and delicate hoof of the animal stepping on the stone slab.

I don't know how long, maybe only a few seconds, but the vision slowly brightened.

After adjusting to the dim light, the first thing I saw was a strange environment, an underground cave that Anna remembered that had never appeared, and it might have been a lake or something, and I was at the bottom of a semi-concave arc with the bear child.

Of course, the bottom is not even, many stone pillars stand, and there is something below, which is not clear in the light, and the surrounding stone walls and ditches are full of cracks, and a circle of artificially dug passages winds down from above.

Looking around quickly, I stopped at the top of two stone pillars of similar height adjacent to where I had landed.

The black-haired xenomorph perched on one of the stone pillars, and on the other stood an unknown creature that looked like a horse with a sharp horn on its forehead.

The animal looked at me silently, its long horsehair hanging on the ground, and its eyes radiated the sparkle of an intelligent creature.

It looks like the legendary unicorn, but I know it's not, because it's seen in the mural and is the ghost face that guards the sacred place in the story.

"Put down Luo Xuan and get out of where you are." After a period of silence, the black-haired xenomorph spoke, his tone calm and empty, his dark eyes like the sea in the middle of the night, "The ritual is about to begin." ”

"Hand over Luo Xuan, I can spare you."

"I refuse." Tightening my arms, I replied without hesitation, "Don't be delusional. ”

"Nana is not Luo Xuan." I lowered my voice and looked at the other person with hatred in my eyes, "You're really crazy. It was also Lieutenant General Dauberman's reminder that made me figure out the key.

The reason for the black-haired xenomorph's persistence is that Nana's appearance is similar to Kiryu Aoko back then, right?

Kiryu Takao is already crazy, right? If you weren't completely insane, how could you insist that my bear child was the last queen? It is impossible for Nana to awaken, she is born with a domineering color, and she has already had omens when she was very young.

Research by the Department of Naval Science has shown that domineering and Devil Fruits can restrain ghost genes.

In this way, how can my child awaken to become a queen?

But... For a crazy brunette xenomorph, I don't think it's possible for him to listen to it, right?

lowered his head, reluctantly looked at the bear child sleeping in his arms, bent down and carefully placed her on the ground, straightened up, pulled out the hidden portable weapon, took a deep breath, turned it around and held it in the other hand.

The fingertips tightened slightly, and the blade of the dagger forged by Hailou Stone rested in the palm of my hand, I raised my gaze a few points, and said coldly to the initiator of Yiqiē, "Kill you, for the sake of everyone who died in the first generation, and for the sake of not repeating the tragedy in the future." ”

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"Reviving the ghost clan is a responsibility that you must bear for generations." The black-haired xenomorph is strangely patient, and his aura is close to that of a few encounters in the past... Peaceful, "You've seen the murals along the way, you should understand..."

"Nana has nothing to do with the Oni Clan." I interrupted his tirade and sneered, "The prosperity or demise of the ancient ghost clan that ruled the world is not a reason for the suffering of every generation of my family's bloodline. ”

"What if you've seen it?" I narrowed my eyes and quietly looked at the black-haired xenomorph, and finally I couldn't hold back the resentment that rolled in my heart, "Kiryu Takao, how long have you been awake?" ”

"Whether it comes from the bloodline or not, the power is either advancing or retreating."

"The one who doesn't understand is you, even if the queen awakens, the ghost race can't continue, because during the time when the ghost clan sleeps, humans have evolved the genes to defeat the ghost race."

"Ghosts that absorb life, eat flesh and blood, and feed on humans, there is no chance of victory in the beginning of the battle between the two sides."

"How much do you hate Saion Sibin? Now, thousands of years later, do you want to completely destroy the offspring of your rivals? ”

It was also until this moment that the black-haired xenomorph's unwavering expression finally changed slightly, his eyes widened slightly, and there was consternation in his eyes, but he quickly reined in his strange appearance and asked coldly, "Why do you know this?" ”

"Why?" I asked in a low voice, and the detachment brought by the Devil Fruit's restraint spread little by little, accompanied by a sense of nothingness floating, and another feeling in the depths of the bloodline gradually lost control, "You want to know?" ”

Lifting the eyelids, the gaze shifts a few degrees, and in the slightly distorted field of vision, the pupils of the ghost-faced beast... There was a strange look on his face.

I pulled the corners of my mouth high, raised my free hand to attach it to the placket, and slowly unbuttoned it one by one... The temperature under the skin is high and the cold is overshadowed by the cold.

Take off your shirt and show the answer.

"Because the queen has awakened sixteen years ago~"

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The visible skin is engraved with hideous marks, bruises caused by long-term binding/binding, binding for too long, skin cells have been slightly necrotic because the blood cannot circulate, deep red, bruised brownish purple...

Every trace is a hatred buried deep in the bone marrow.

Resentment that belongs to Anna, guilt that belongs to me... I couldn't save the child, so I had to accompany her to hell.

In fact, I have long suspected that since the day I became Anna, after receiving her memories, I have doubted the blank time, not that I don't want to get to the bottom of it, but at that time... There's no time to be distracted.

Because she was pregnant with Nana.

For the sake of the baby's health, I had to put all my worries aside, so as not to worry about the impact of being too heavy on the development of the fetus.

Later, when Nana was born, I threw all my heart on her, I was always worried about her, and the world was too chaotic at that time, so I cowardly fled to the Navy Headquarters, and ate the Devil Fruit by mistake during the voyage...

I know that when I used the Shima Island Fruit, my body had already reacted, and the ability of the natural Devil Fruit was less than one-third, so I originally thought it was a mental problem, but I didn't care about it, because the strength was enough to protect Nana.

Later met Lilienette. Kim Jerebuck and Cortea. Stark, wandering in the void, about my anomaly, after getting acquainted with him, Stark told me that my power is strange, there are two kinds.

They coexist at the same time, repelling each other, vaguely forming a delicate balance.

The world is different, the origin of power is different, Stark can't understand the Devil Fruit, but I can understand that he is talking about the Devil Fruit and the fragment of consciousness of the original owner of the body.

The vine gate is the balance of mutual restraint.

The Devil Fruit and the Awakened Ghost Queen are at odds with each other, and it is precisely because of this that the Shima Island Fruit has not been able to be fully activated for a long time, because two-thirds of the power is used to seal.

Anna's fragment of consciousness, the hatred that I originally thought belonged to her, the tenth blade of the future, the only one who didn't break the face with the help of the broken jade, but told me, that... Not the soul.

It's an awakening wrapped in unfinished hatred... Bloodline.

The inheritance belongs to the ghost clan, but the hatred is derived from Anna.

The black-haired xenomorph deceived her, and when she fled, she encountered terrible things, when she read the lost memories, and finally I saw Anna open her eyes and clasp the beast lying on top of her.

In the sudden flash of blue flames, the evil pirate turned from a strong man into a withered corpse in less than a few seconds, and finally disappeared.

At that time, I knew that the queen had awakened, and I also knew that a terrible inheritance was sleeping in my body...

It is estimated that Anna was able to survive because of the queen's awakening, and then she lost her memory until she died, I became Anna, and the devil fruit finally suppressed the ghost gene.

And another scenario of mutual oppression, what happens when the balance is broken?

The Hailou Stone in his hand is the result, and after the Devil Fruit is suppressed, the ghost clan genes are re-liberated.

For my fears, the first ten blades of the future, Cortea. Stark was unusually sharp when he said, 'You wish you were human, but what about bloodlines?' ’

The guy who was always listless, with gray-blue eyes with a soft light, and a slight smile at the corners of his narrow eyes, 'Your heart is the only answer.' ’

It's obviously the emptiness of losing my heart, but when I comfort people, it makes me feel warm.

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My heart is the answer.

I'm human, so... I tried to unleash the power of the bloodline, accompanied by two friends, and subdued it little by little, in order to... One day in the future... Protect my child.

What a precarious fate, this qiē is all thanks to the black-haired xenomorph in front of him.