Chapter 25: The Second Day of Rebirth (20,000 Nutrient Solution Plus) My Land...
The second day of rebirth:
Long felt that there was nothing that needed to be explained.
The point is that he feels he doesn't know a lot of things, and the parts he does know are not suitable to be shared with a third person. He won't even tell his own father, Karp.
However, he let the others share the remaining two vegetable cocktails - he felt that he had fully recovered, and drinking more would be a waste of Wendy's amazing cooking skills.
Of course, before dividing the petals, he also specifically asked about Wendy, who came back with a depressed look on her face because she couldn't find any petals.
As long as there are enough ingredients, Wendy is quite generous when it comes to sharing food. Because the refrigerator doesn't have the "Fresh Forever" mod enabled, uneaten food will only last for a limited time. Once it goes stale, it loses its original benefits. It's better to consume it and avoid wasting it.
As soon as Long asked, she quickly took out a bunch of vegetable cocktails from her backpack, just enough for everyone in the meeting room.
A group of people stared at her backpack in amazement, completely confused as to how she could produce so many things out of thin air.
Putting aside the fact that the small backpack looked like it couldn't possibly hold anything...how could it possibly hold so many cocktails, all unsealed, in that backpack?! Aren't they supposed to spill?! How did they even fit in the backpack?!
Everyone was quite curious about Wendy, and Wendy, as usual, greeted every stranger and had a conversation with him. When she found that no special plot was triggered, she immediately switched to the next one.
And she doesn't have any special reaction or treats people differently despite the huge differences in size and even the fact that they look different species - in Don't Starve, there are not only fishmen to choose from, but also plant people, robots, spidermen and demons.
However, because there was a murloc option among the initial player characters, Wendy was curious about the Revolutionary Army soldier, the murloc Haku, and poked him with her finger. After confirming that the other party was a friendly unit and would not attack her, she left him alone.
Haku, who had always been accustomed to being discriminated against by humans, was a little overwhelmed by this strange attitude, and looked at Long with a look of help.
Long, who was watching from the side, was not surprised, and a faint smile appeared on his face - he knew that there was no racial distinction for Wendy.
After this, everyone's impression of Wendy was that she was a polite yet aloof person.
And everyone can see that she has a good relationship with her leader.
After filling her backpack with almost all the basic supplies and feeling ready to go out to sea at any time without worry, Wendy finally had some free time and began to tell Long about her past in detail.
The specific steps are that Long asks questions and she answers. After all, if she were to speak on her own, her words would be simplified into a story outline of less than 100 words.
Long was familiar with her conversational style, and he easily asked her about her experiences in the years after she separated from him in Rogue Town.
"In other words... you were taken away by Doflamingo and stayed in the Donquixote family for a while. Later, because Doflamingo killed his brother who was an undercover marine, you chose death to escape?" Long tried to summarize what the other party had just said.
"Yeah. But I chose death to escape not only because he killed Corazon, but because he wanted to kill me." Wendy retorted seriously.
Long secretly took note of Donquixote Doflamingo and decided to keep an eye on him. And...that undercover Marine named Vergo. It was likely he'd changed his name after joining the Marines.
He didn't know that there was something related to the Ope Ope Fruit and the Celestial Dragons. Even if he felt that there was something hidden in this incident, he would not dig into it.
Although if he asked, Wendy actually didn't mind telling him - she would even think about using this opportunity to see if there would be any new plot.
"My story is over. How about you, Long? You have so many companions now. Have you realized your dream?" Wendy asked curiously with her eyes wide open.
Long was startled when he heard this question. He stared at Wendy for a moment, then a smile appeared on his previously serious face. His expression became gentle, and he replied with a smile on his face, "It's in the process of being realized."
Afterwards, Ryuya told Wendy about his experience after breaking up with her.
He spoke briefly, describing how he met his current colleagues and what they were doing. He didn't go into too much detail, nor did he describe the difficulties involved, but simply reported on the results.
Wendy also knew that Long and his companions had established an organization called the Revolutionary Army, and he was the leader. As for what the Revolutionary Army was doing...
After listening to what Long said, Wendy tilted her head, pondered for a moment, and summed up herself: "So we have to fight the Celestial Dragons?"
Long: "...That's not wrong."
The goal was simply to overthrow tyranny and liberate the people, and Wendy simply stated part of the outcome.
"This is a good thing! I support you!" Wendy said with a fist.
At the same time, she also saw that the system had included a new plot - [The Growth of the Revolutionary Army①].
As expected, Long is also a person with an important plot... - Wendy is very satisfied with her new start this time.
Not only does she have a new mod, but her death also unlocked a set of "supernatural" skins, which features a rare short straight hair style and a white dress, allowing her to cosplay as a ghost.
Now a new series of plots has been unlocked from the dragon's side...
"Then, Long, do you have a friendly relationship with the navy?" Wendy asked with a blink.
Long wasn't surprised Wendy asked this. He'd known from the beginning that Wendy didn't have much common sense and didn't really care about politics or factions. Besides, his father was a marine, and Corazon in the story he'd just heard was also a marine... well, even he himself had been a marine.
"Not really," Long said seriously. "The existence of the Navy is the cornerstone of the World Government's rule. Even if there are indeed many Marines who protect the people, punish crimes, and deter pirates, as long as the ownership of this organization remains unchanged, its existence will still oppress the people, not to mention that there are many officials who abuse their power and exploit the people. To be honest, we stand on the opposite side of the Navy."
Wendy suddenly realized—so this world is a three-way balance of power between the Navy, the Revolutionary Army, and the Pirates? Sure enough, a triangle is the most stable shape!
It seems that she has been to the pirate camp. Dragon is in the Revolutionary Army camp, so it’s time to go to the Navy camp!
"Uncle Garp might get angry," Wendy said bluntly.
"This is something I can't take into account." Long didn't consider his father at all.
Wendy nodded in understanding. Uncle Garp was angry when Long ran away from home before, but it was useless.
"So do you want me to stay here?" Wendy asked curiously. "Dover told me I'm valuable before."
...I really need to investigate this person carefully. I feel like he might have used Wendy to do something bad.
As Long pondered this, he spoke bluntly, "Wendy, your fruit ability is very special. It can indeed help us a lot in terms of logistics... But because of this, I will not keep you here. We are brought together because of a common ideal. You do not share the same desires and motivations as us, so I cannot use our friendship to bind you to our use."
After Long finished speaking, he added, "The same goes for finding new companions. Don't agree to use your abilities simply because you don't care. Do it because you truly want to."
In fact, I just think it is an equal exchange. The other party gives me the materials and I use the technology to make things... - Wendy silently refuted in her heart.
But she didn't refute Long. Instead, she excitedly… immediately made a drafting table on the spot and put it aside. "I know! Rather than this, we agreed that you would share the worlds you have visited with me!"
In fact, she wanted the other party's map when she first met Long, but she didn't find gold at that time and couldn't make a mapping table, so she had to wait until now.
Although the gold was still given by the dragon.
Long didn't expect her to change the topic so quickly. He looked at her helplessly, but resigned himself to drawing a map for her.
At this step, he also witnessed the magic of the drawing table. The other party only gave him paper and pen. He stood beside the drawing table made by Wendy and drew a few strokes casually, and the pen disappeared.
Wendy took the map from him, unfolded it, and took a look. The map in her hand disappeared. She even said to him happily, "Long, you have been to many places! My map has suddenly become vast!"
...So we can share our visits this way? What kind of fruit did Wendy eat?
Long once again became curious about the "Famine Fruit" that Wendy mentioned.
"Dragon, do you need my map?" Wendy asked back in a friendly manner.
Long wanted to refuse, but when the words came to his lips, he was really curious about how this map was shared, so he swallowed his words and replied, "Okay, thank you for your help."
Wendy quickly crumpled up a map of her own on the cartography table and handed it to him.
Long took it and looked at it, surprised by the details of the map. However, the map did not disappear in his hands... It seemed that this was a special skill that only Wendy could use?
Long glanced at Wendy, who had taken a hammer from her backpack and was smashing the map table to recycle materials, and continued to look at the map. Then, he found a special map.
...Mariejoa? Where the Celestial Dragons live? Why is that part of Wendy's map?... Wendy did say that the map only formed where she'd been...
Long looked up in astonishment. Wendy had already put away the hammer in her hand and was picking up the fallen materials over there. When she noticed his gaze, she turned her head and gave him a puzzled look with no clue.
"...It's okay." Long replied.
But in his heart, he had a vague guess about Wendy's origins.
He and his father, Garp, had originally suspected it was aristocracy... but now it seemed perhaps even higher up the social ladder? He wondered if it was Wendy's own personality that had driven her away from that group, or if something else had happened... perhaps it had something to do with her sister's death.
And this also seems to explain why Wendy sometimes has a strange sense of detachment when looking at and communicating with other people other than her chosen partners.
However, no matter what Wendy's previous identity was, his perception of Wendy would not change because of this, and she would still be his friend.
...Well, friends can be a little strange sometimes. —Long silently added in his mind, watching Wendy, who, curiously, took a hammer and started smashing the house because he had been looking at the map for a while.
Wendy seemed to be completely unaware of the consequences of giving Mary Geoise's detailed address to him, the leader of the revolutionary army... Never mind, he shouldn't ask any more questions.
It was enough to know that Wendy supported his ideals.
After Long put away the map and stopped Wendy from demolishing his house, he asked, "Wendy, what are your plans for the future?"
"Hmm... I want to go see Uncle Garp." Wendy thought for a moment and then asked, "Long, do you have anything you want me to tell him?"
"Nothing... Oh, right!" Long was about to give another instruction when he saw Wendy, who had put the hammer away, standing there thinking for a moment. Suddenly, she pulled out a heart and handed it to him, saying palely, "This is..."
...What do you mean by a brace?! Is it really that easy to rip someone's heart out?!
"I know! I'll keep it as I did before! Next time, tell me before you do something like this!"
No matter how many times I come here, I still feel uncomfortable seeing this kind of scene!
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The author has something to say: Long is really emotionally stable and really nice.
The first companion given by the Novice Village is reliable [dog head]
PS: This is an extra update, and the daily update will be postponed to 9pm based on everyone's feedback. So don't wait if there is no update at midnight tonight!
There will be an extra update tomorrow at 9:00 AM! There are currently two more updates left, one with 30,000 nutrient solution and one with deep water. From now on, I'll update at 9:00 PM and add more at 9:00 AM. Everyone has something to read before bed and when they wake up!
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