In the early morning, Dorothea opened the window, looked at the vines peeking out from the window sill and smiled. This is a new shoot that has just emerged.
"Morning, little one."
Dorothea reached out and tapped the naughty 'little guy' and then stretched.
On the fourth day back in Santa Pobla, Dorothea's clinic opened.
The clinic is very simple, clean, or 'poor'.
But Dorothea didn't care. She put on her white gown, straightened her ponytail, and opened the door.
"Yo ho ho, good morning, Dr. Dorothea."
As soon as the door opened, Granny Shiluo from across the street laughed and said hello.
Dorothea smiled and nodded, "Good morning, mother-in-law, your flowers are still so fragrant."
"Hohoho, thank you Dr. Dorothea for the compliment. If you hadn't saved my life, the flowers in this flower shop would have been gone long ago. I have fresh flower cakes here. Would you like some, doctor?" "
Dorothea wanted to refuse, but looked at the other party's sincere eyes and nodded, "Okay, but I can't eat much."
"It's okay, it's okay~"
Grandma Shiloh smiled but didn't care. She turned around and went into the house, took three palm-sized cakes and handed them to Dorothea.
Three flower cakes in three colors.
The white one is made from the petals of the celia flower, which represents health and can also represent pure and simple beauty.
The red one is made of rose petals and represents love.
The yellow color is made from the petals of the Beibei flower, which represents Pele and symbolizes wealth.
Looking at these three flower cakes, even Dorothea couldn't help but be stunned.
The gift is very simple, but the blessing it represents makes people a little frustrated.
"Mother-in-law, this..."
"Take it, I always wanted to make you a blessing flower cake before you left, but who knew you suddenly closed the door and disappeared. I will keep this flower cake."
"...stayed?!"
"Uh..." Grandma Xiluo was also stunned for a moment and then burst into laughter. "Look at what I said, of course I had already eaten the original flower cake. This is what I made now. I hope you can enjoy it for a long time. ."
…
Back in her room, Dorothea picked up the white piece of cake and took a bite.
The soft dough exudes a faint floral fragrance. The snow-white dough with a hint of golden color melts like a snowball the moment you enter the mouth. The dough is mixed with the filling made from the petals of the Celia flower, and it melts in your mouth. Fermented slowly, the aroma and sweetness in the filling flow out like a trickle, filling the mouth and overflowing the nasal cavity. It's sweet in your mouth, and it's sweet in your breath.
Celia flower, the symbol flower of the Queen City of Santa Pobla in spring.
The flowers of the Liliaceae family are white and beautiful, with light yellow pollen in the center of the flower. Although it is not perfect, this pure and elegant beauty is actually the most widely recognized beauty. Pure, sunny, green and subtle. Even using the most beautiful language in the world to describe it is not an exaggeration.
It is said that the first Saint Bobla was once a kingdom city. Later, the kingdom disappeared and ordinary civilians were left behind. The civilians who lost their ruler were in panic and did not know what they would face in the future. At this time, a man named Xi Leah's girl stepped up.
She didn't have a gorgeous robe, so she cut a beautiful long dress out of white sheets.
She did not have a gold crown, so she made a garland of white wild flowers to crown herself as a crown.
The old palace turned into ruins, so she abandoned the ruins and chose the sea of flowers as her castle.
That day was spring, and white wildflowers were blooming all over the hillside of Santa Pobra, and the girl's palace became the entire country.
The girl was called Celia, and after that day everyone called her the Queen of Spring. It's not that she is respected as a king, but that this beautiful girl has brought new hope to the people of this country.
So the white flowers all over the mountains and plains were named after the girl, Celia.
Light, hope, and the beautiful flowers of spring.
Dorothea closed her eyes as she felt the sweetness overflowing in her mouth. She didn't want to waste this sweetness.
Grandma Xiluo's flower cakes were passed down by the first people who witnessed Celia's 'coronation'. The original people called them 'beautiful', but now there are not many people who can make such delicious flower cakes. As for the cakes of love and wealth...that was just added later. It’s hard to find this delicacy in Santa Pobla now.
…
After reopening, business was not very good. The aroma of wine is also afraid of the depth of the alley, not to mention that medical skills have no aroma at all. When it comes to doctors, unless they feel uncomfortable, most people would like to avoid them.
Of course, it's not the doctor they want to avoid, just the disease.
It was rare for Dorothea to pay attention to the stranger Dorothea who occasionally appeared at the door for a visit and then quickly slipped away. These people were just out of curiosity. They took a quick look and found out that this was a clinic and hurried away.
Doctors are people who live with disease. They stretch their hands into the realm of death and snatch people from the hands of death.
This profession itself has been separated from the human category.
Although the journey of practicing medicine is full of reverence, it is also somewhat lonely and lonely.
"Why did I choose to learn medical skills in the first place?" Dorothea couldn't help but sigh at the deserted crowd at the door.
Being a doctor is a noble profession, but being a doctor is also a profession that is shunned. Not only that, studying medicine is an extremely difficult road. Not only did he have to study the dissections of those corpses in the eyes of people who looked at them as perverts, but he also had to hold an extremely heavy herbal illustration and annotate and memorize them one by one in the middle of the night.
How much do ordinary people understand the suffering and hardship behind this beautiful and noble profession? For example, that idiot Valpo...
"Forget it, Sanitation suddenly thought of that hippopotamus and felt nauseated."
"Doctor, doctor, is the doctor here? Come and save him, he is dying!" A young man rushed into the house quickly and said a long string of words at an extremely fast speed. And when he saw Dorothea who was drinking from a water cup, he rushed over as if he had found a savior, "Doctor, please save him!"
Behind him, two big men rushed in carrying a stretcher.
Dorothea glanced at the other party lightly and walked to the stretcher in two steps, holding the water glass.
"His face is livid, his mouth is open, but he can't breathe smoothly. Did you feed him something very large?"
With just a brief glance, Dorothea directly found the reason why the man on the stretcher looked like this.
"It's jelly, a big piece of jelly. I heard it's a special dessert shipped from the New World. George...he actually swallowed it in one gulp!"
"Swallowed it all down..." Dorothea almost laughed.
She really didn't know whether to praise him as a 'real warrior' or angrily accuse him of being an idiot.
Anyone who knows Shinsekai desserts will understand that BIGMAMA is more or less present in them. Many desserts are just to satisfy the iron balloon, so these desserts are rarely made in small sizes, and things like jelly are made very solidly. It's not like some rubbish dessert shops, which are soft and like a ball of gelatin. That is a real Q-bomb. If it gets stuck in the trachea after swallowing... Haha, the more uncomfortable a person is, the tighter the muscles will be, and the same is true for the muscles in the neck. Although the impact may be much smaller, even if it contracts A little will make the jelly stick tighter in the trachea, which will only make breathing more difficult.
There is generally only one way to deal with this kind of patient. First, make an opening under the patient's trachea for ventilation. Then spit the jelly back out, or chop it up manually for him to swallow.
"How much."
"??" The panicked man was stunned for a moment and looked at Dorothea blankly. "What did you just say?"
Dorothea narrowed her eyes slightly, "I said, how much. You are not ordinary people, so you can't afford the medical expenses. And this is emergency medical treatment, so the higher cost shouldn't be excessive."
The man was instantly furious, "What do you think you are doing? Taking advantage of the situation?! Are you still a doctor?"
"Doctor..." Dorothea smiled faintly, stretched out her fingers and tapped the man's neck on the stretcher little by little. "I don't know if I am still a doctor. I haven't been a doctor in many years." It's happened. Now I'm better at killing people than saving people~"
…
The man suddenly felt a chill coming from the woman in front of him. He had seen this feeling a lot when he was doing business in the New World, and it was all seen in those decisive pirates.
This woman...
"Two million Baileys, that's all I have now."
"Tsk, poor guy."
Dorothea spat, "Five million Baileys, bring it to me later."
After saying that, Dorothea pressed her palm on the upper part of George's chest where it connected to his neck. Then Dorothea's George's flesh seemed to suddenly disappear, leaving only half of it.
"You! You want to kill him!" The man's eyes widened and he shouted in horror.
"Be quiet!"
A cold voice came from Dorothea's mouth, and the chill in it made the man close his mouth.
In the man's horrified eyes, Dorothea slowly inserted her hand into George's throat and trachea, and then grabbed a very elastic jelly from it. It has a light lemon yellow color with a color like glass, and is dotted with some naughty little bubbles. If it hadn't just been grabbed from someone else's body, this would definitely be a delicious dessert that will make people salivate.
However, it was this jelly that almost caused a person to die in the west.
Dorothea didn't say much. Although the jelly looked delicious, it was impossible to eat it again after it had entered other people's mouths. So I threw it directly into the trash can. Without the jelly that blocked the air, George's breathing became smoother. Although the livid complexion did not immediately ease, his painful expression relaxed. Just let him rest for a while and he should wake up.
"Five million Baileys. Don't forget it." Dorothea clapped her hands and walked to the sink nearby and started washing her hands.
She should have worn gloves, but it had been so long since she had been a serious doctor that she didn't get used to it, so she habitually operated with bare hands. And this time, what was on his hand was not the blood spurting from his heart bursting, but a mouthful of saliva, which made me feel sick just thinking about it.
Therefore, the tone of the reminder man became much colder. It even aroused some killing intent.
The man felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave. He didn't dare to move for a whole moment. He could only respond blankly, "Okay, okay, okay... five million..."
He could still remember the scene where this woman directly opened a hole in his friend's neck just now. Now look, there is some hole in the neck.
There is no doubt that this is a devil fruit user. And since the other party can make a hole in his neck, what about the chest? Brain muttering?
The man felt horrified just thinking about that scene. Coupled with Dorothea's cold and piercing eyes and the faint murderous intent, the man even felt that his little brother was a little unable to hold himself tight. Quickly and tremblingly, he took out two million Baileys from his arms, "I will take the remaining three million...I will get them later."
Dorothea nodded, "Go ahead and take this with you." Dorothea pointed to George on the stretcher.
The man understood and quickly directed the two strong men to carry his friend away.
As for the remaining three million Baileys. He will send his servants to get it. He didn't want to stay any longer now.
After the man took away his brother George and left, Dorothea slowly sat back in her seat. Looking in the direction where the man and George were leaving, his eyes were filled with smoke.
"Tch, five million is a small amount for this kind of person."
George was just a pseudonym for the man Dorothea recognized at a glance.
A scumbag trader who often helps the Celestial Dragons prepare slave information. Naturally, he got this jelly from his master.
And this kind of person who kneels down and licks the wealth of the Celestial Dragons... Dorothea feels a stench no matter how she looks at it.
As for this so-called friend...
Dorothea remembered that it seemed to be some small slave trader.
Two people, no one is a good person.
Suddenly there was crisp applause at the door.
A woman appeared at the door.
She was wearing a purple-red gradient gauze robe, but these gauze robes were translucent, and in the middle of the gauze robe was a tight-fitting dress, with a hollow gauze hat on her head, and a pair of sunglasses on her eyes. . The whole person exudes fashionable temperament.
The appearance of this woman made Dorothea's pupils shrink, and then she slowly relaxed, "You're here again."
"I haven't seen you for three years, and you finally came back. Why don't I come over to see what you said?"
"You still won't let me go?"
"Let it go? Haha, we won't care about this matter for the time being. I just want to see you here."
Dorothea sneered and said, "How could you be so kind? If you were really so kind, I wouldn't have left here in the first place."
"Indeed, we are not that kind-hearted, but my coming here this time is indeed a kind intention. In other words, we want you to put away your bad intentions." The woman said lightly, but the corners of her mouth were slightly raised.
The woman's words made Dorothea react instantly.
"Are you planning to cause big trouble here?"
"No, no, no, this time it's not us, but someone else. We are just watching the show. In other words, we borrowed a stage...and your medical skills may make this show boring."
Dorothea was silent for a while and asked calmly, "Who is their target?"
The woman chuckled, "Haha, who knows, maybe it's a certain navy admiral, maybe it's Whitebeard, I'm not sure~"
………
North Sea
Kyrgyz Kingdom.
This is a magical island located at the junction of the Windless Zone and the North Sea.
One side of the island is in the North Sea, and the other side extends directly into the windless zone. The unique island environment makes this island rich in resources, especially at this end of the windless zone. Because of the lack of wind and rain, and the impact of the North Sea's ocean currents, the vegetation on the island is extremely rich, and under the rich vegetation there are countless extremely powerful creatures.
The Kyrgyz Kingdom... it was just a kingdom that had been destroyed. Deep in the woods on the other side of the windless zone, a ruined wall showed the prosperity of this place in the past, but now...
Dense forests and ferocious creatures have made this place a natural hunting ground.
Suddenly, a huge chimpanzee jumped down from the sky, and after the earth trembled, it landed steadily outside the ruins of the Kyrgyz Kingdom.
It is nearly thirty meters tall, and is as huge as a giant. If it stood up, it would be fifty meters tall. However, the gorilla suddenly began to shrink, and finally turned into a muscular man with a shiny bald head.
"Stop showing off~ they ran away~"
A little girl about 1.2 meters tall walked slowly out of the ruins, followed closely by a three-meter-tall bird beside her.
"How could it be! How could they run away! How could a real man back down like this!" Elman said angrily.
In the ruins of the Kyrgyz Kingdom, he had previously placed a wave of pirates that he was very optimistic about. After receiving the baptism of "Quotations of the Wind Leader", they became humble and polite. They are definitely models of good pirates in the new era, so That's why he would let them come here for training.
You know, although the creatures here are ferocious, the 'children' here are now very well-behaved thanks to his efforts. Under his orders, this ruins is a safe area. As long as you work hard, you can easily improve your strength. Unexpectedly, this group of people ran away without saying a word.
After saying something angrily, Elman looked at the girl, "Lu, why are you here? I remember you weren't at the base?"
"I..." Lu's face turned red as if he remembered something, "Well, I just want to come over and have a look~ Well, have a look~"
"So you also want to test their results?" Elman nodded. Then he gave a thumbs up and said, "You are really my good assistant."
dew:……
Looking at this, the corner of the bald man's mouth twitched as if he was about to advertise a toothbrush.
Before setting off, Barbara, the little love expert at the base, quietly told her that if she came early, she could surprise some dull men and maybe make them enlightened.
However... Lu couldn't help but grit her teeth when she looked at Elman's idiotic expression.
It's so irritating. He is no longer a straight man. Commander Locke is not as strong as this guy. Tasia still has hope after all, and the guy she's attracted to... is no longer a straight man, he's completely a Transformer.
Thinking of this, he walked up to Elman's body in two steps, and then kicked Elman's feet. "Really, why is this guy of yours as hard as a steel plate~" "And the real man you are talking about is talking about that guy Dell?"
"Dale... didn't the boss ask him to go to the Grand Line?"
"...Oh, after Dale passed by, he happened to encounter a wave of cruising navy. The leader was a lieutenant general, and then he ran back in a hurry."
Elman "..."
Is this the real men pirate group? Why do they look like the real Sun Son Pirates...
He was so arrogant when he was in Donghai, but now that he is so much stronger, he is still like that.
"Forget it, let's not talk about them. Elman, are the Gambit Pirates going to chase them?" Lu asked. "Calculating the time, they should have entered the Grand Line, but if we have their life sheets, they should be able to do it very easily." Find them quickly."
"I'm not going." Elman said decisively.
"Why?"
"They are already our 'love' warriors. Since they cannot grow here, let the sea temper them. Men will continue to grow in the waves!"
"...Then why don't you go to the waves now and grow up. As long as you overcome the sea, your growth will definitely attract the attention of the world."
"Uh... Well, let's forget about the waves. I'm a Devil Fruit user now~ The waves and all that..."
He rolled his eyes and kicked the giant eagle next to him.
"You've had enough of the ice cream show, let me take off! This idiot has no hope, I'm going to chase him!"
Ice cream instantly sucks.
Is that what you're going after? That's obviously me chasing you!
[Character information:
Lu Coco: A 1.2 meter legal loli who is 24 years old. Beneath the cute appearance is a master of martial arts inside.
Giant Eagle: Ice Cream. Animal department, lion fruit.
She is a talented fighting girl who was accidentally rescued by 'Lan' Elman. 】
[Character information update: Elman. 'Lan' organizes the leadership of the North Sea. The animal is the fruit of everyone and is an ancient species. 】
