Chapter 270 Doing Meaningful Things
This old guy Rayleigh only knows how to brag!
"Uncle Rayleigh, thank you for taking care of Luffy and the others over the past six months!" Xia Chen said with a faint smile as he looked at Rayleigh.
Although Xia Chen's body is younger than anyone else on the ship, he is mentally older after having lived two lives!
Bigger than most of the guys on the ship, except for Brooke!
So most of the time, Xia Chen treats guys like Luffy and Zoro as his younger brothers.
"There's nothing to take care of. They are not children anymore. Why do they need an old man like me to take care of them?"
"And you've already paid me! This time when I return to Shampoo Land, I can officially retire, and I won't have to do coating anymore, hahahaha..."
"That won't work, Uncle Reilly, you have to finish this last order before you can retire!" Xia Chen joked with a smile.
"Ok?"
Rayleigh was a little confused when he heard this. Before he could ask, Xia Chen smiled and said:
"Help us coat our ship! I wouldn't feel safe unless you, Uncle Rayleigh, did the coating!"
"Oh~haha! Okay!"
"Now that you mention it, I just remembered that you haven't entered the new world yet. Your powerful strength almost made me forget that you are still a teenager and haven't even been to the new world~"
"A newcomer, haha..."
"It's okay, just leave the coating work of your ship to me. I guarantee you can reach Fishman Island safely!" Rayleigh said with a smile, patting his chest.
"Okay!" Xia Chen nodded with a smile.
In fact, Xia Chen can use water-repellent magic on their ship to achieve the same effect as coating, and it is even much stronger than the coating in terms of pressure resistance, so there is no need to worry about whether it will break.
But the problem is that many things are focused on providing an experience. It is true that he can do that, but then it will lose a lot of the novel experiences in the original work, which is unnecessary!
"By the way, Uncle Rayleigh, I have something else to tell you. Whitebeard just...left!"
"Gone? Gone what?"
Rayleigh didn't react at first. After a while, he thought of a possibility and then turned his gaze to Xia Chen.
Looking at Xia Chen's slightly serious face, Rayleigh also understood what Xia Chen meant and couldn't help but sigh.
"Hey, I've already prepared myself for this. I actually went to see him half a year ago. It was hard for him to survive with the injuries he suffered back then!"
"I thought this old guy had died a long time ago, but I didn't expect him to persist for so long, haha..."
Rayleigh said this with a smile, but there was an obvious bitterness in his laughter.
Xia Chen could understand Rayleigh's reaction. After all, he and Whitebeard had a good relationship when they were young. At that time, both the Roger Pirates and the Whitebeard Pirates were wandering in the New World.
No matter how big the new world is, there will always be opportunities to meet it, and the number of encounters will not be just once or twice.
Although every time they meet they would first exchange friendly "greetings" like Luffy and the others did just now, it was precisely because of this that the battle did not make them mortal enemies, but instead brought them closer.
After every fight, we have a regular gathering! It's normal to have friendships!
"He could have lived for a while, but he insisted on asking me to fight him, saying that he, Whitebeard, would die standing up, not lying down!"
"Through Marco's ability, he traded his last half day for ten minutes of peak performance to fight me!"
"Hahaha... Whitebeard is still the same. He always retains his pride!" Rayleigh laughed again.
After that, Xia Chen chatted with Lei Li for a while before saying goodbye to him and returning to Nine Snake Island.
The six-month agreement has come to an end, so they are about to set sail again, but before that, he still has some things to deal with.
After Xia Chen arrived at Daughter Island, he went straight to the palace. As soon as he entered, he smelled a fragrance.
Hmm...as expected, it tastes like fish soup!
Of course, this accident is impossible to happen, because the fish soup is cooking in front of him~
He saw a huge pot on the open space in front of him, and in the pot there was a huge fish, which was the one Xia Chen had caught before.
There is a raging fire under the pot, bringing the fish soup to a rolling boil!
Next to the pot was Hancock sleeping on Salome, and there was no one else.
Xia Chen walked lightly to Hancock's side, looked at her beautiful profile, and smiled.
Even though he has lived with Hancock for half a year, and they can even be said to be inseparable most of the time, Xia Chen would still be slightly stunned when he saw Hancock's face.
Just because it is really too beautiful!
After staring at Hancock for a while, Xia Chen turned his gaze to the fish soup next to him.
It seems that Hancock still didn't listen to him and insisted on making a pot of soup herself!
He blew gently toward the bottom of the pot, and the raging fire was instantly extinguished, leaving only tiny ice crystals splashing.
Then Xia Chen slowly picked up Hancock. Compared to drinking fish soup, he felt that he should do something more meaningful now!
Perhaps sensing something strange, Hancock's eyelashes trembled, and then she slowly opened her eyes.
The moment she saw Xia Chen, Hancock was a little confused at first, and then immediately became happy.
"Xia Chen, you're back!! Go and drink the fish soup quickly, I've been cooking it for a long time~"
Xia Chen smiled and responded: "I will definitely drink the fish soup, but not now! What I want to eat more now is..."
Xia Chen did not say the rest of the words, but from Hancock's slightly flushed cheeks and Xia Chen's lightning-fast action of rushing into the bedroom, it could be seen what he wanted to do!
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One day later~
On top of the Royal Palace on Daughter Island.
"Xia Chen, are you leaving?"
Hancock snuggled in Xia Chen's arms and asked in a low voice, her emotions so calm that it was impossible to tell what her mood was.
"Yes! Half a year has passed, and we are going to set sail again! To conquer the last area of this ocean!" Xia Chen looked towards the distant sea and said in a gentle voice.
After Xia Chen finished speaking, Hancock was silent for a long time, and after a while he asked: "Then... when will you come back?"
"Ok?"
Hearing this, Xia Chen turned around and looked at Hancock in confusion. When he saw her melancholy expression, he couldn't help but laugh and said:
"I can come back anytime! You know I have the Somersault Cloud, and you also have a Den Den Mushi to contact me. If you miss me, you can call me anytime, and I will rush back then! Then just go back!"
"With the somersault cloud at my feet, I can gallop across the sea as I please. You are also aware of my strength. For others, going out to sea may be extremely risky, but for me, it is just a simple trip!"
"And I'll come back to be with you after we've traveled around the world. How about that!"
Hancock stared at Xia Chen, and after a while she suddenly smiled.
"Good~"
