The days when I wanted to be a human being

"Meow!"

Just when Zhou Ling was daydreaming, a cat's meow was heard from the rain.

It was the secret code she and Crocodile had agreed upon.

With the rain covering the entire island, and her improved mental strength from frequent use in recent years, she was able to sense abnormal conditions in the rain through the rain.

Perhaps due to the influence of the previous character Katom, she is more sensitive to the sound of cats, so she directly lets Crocodile call her in this way.

After floating up from the rocking chair, just as he was about to transform into an element and merge into the rain to find Crocodile, Cobra knocked on the door.

"Your Majesty, what is the matter?"

"Miss Zhou, are you going out?" Cobra looked at Zhou Ling who was about to go out and hesitated for a moment, "If Miss Zhou has something to do, I will wait until you are done and come back and I will come back."

Just when Zhou Ling was about to ask Cobra what was going on, she heard Crocodile call out twice, "Okay, let's talk when I get back."

After Cobra watched Zhou Ling blend into the rain and disappear, he sighed and returned the same way.

"Your Majesty, regarding those folk sacrifices..."

"No need to say more. Miss Zhou has already helped us a lot. I mentioned this to her before, and she clearly refused."

Cobra looked at the hills in the distance. Because of the long-term irrigation of rain and the hard work of ordinary people, the hills were full of green.

"Then why... those people specifically said that they were instructed by Miss Zhou to perform the sacrifice."

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore." His eyes were full of gratitude. If it weren't for Zhou Ling, they would still be waiting for the rainy season that was nowhere in sight.

...

Zhou Ling came to Crocodile’s base, an oasis.

"Big sister, ok!"

When the two gatekeepers saw Zhou Ling emerging from the rain, they immediately greeted her loudly.

"Where's your boss?"

Zhou Ling hated being called Big Sister, but whenever she thought of her previous titles, she felt that this was more normal.

"in office."

"Okay, get busy."

After Zhou Ling finished speaking, she floated directly into the building.

All of a sudden, all kinds of sounds came into her ears.

"Buy big!"

"Buy and leave!"

"No! I can still mortgage it!"

A crying pirate was dragged towards the door by two strong men.

"Big sister!"

The two strong men saw Zhou Ling floating in and hurriedly greeted her.

When the pirate saw Zhou Ling, he opened his mouth in shock, but when he was about to say something, the burly man next to him covered his mouth tightly.

"Well!"

"Big sister, are you here to look for the boss? The boss is upstairs."

"Well, you guys get busy."

After Zhou Ling finished speaking, he ignored everyone's gaze and floated upwards.

The building was a building within a building, so she floated directly to the floor where Crocodile was.

"That...that woman is...um!" A new pirate must have recognized Zhou Ling. He was confused and wanted to reveal Zhou Ling's identity, but his companion covered his mouth.

"Shh!" His companion apologized to Lian Lin, a casino thug who was walking over. "Sorry, sorry, my brother is ignorant. Don't mind it. This is tea for brothers. Don't think it's too little."

After saying that, he took out the remaining chips in his pocket and stuffed them into the hand of the henchman.

Then he pulled his companion, whose mouth was still covered, out of the casino.

The two men walked away from the casino and came to a house in the distance.

"Huh!" The man with his mouth covered let out a long breath, "I didn't expect to have such an unexpected gain today. That woman is really here."

"You guy, if it weren't for you, we could have collected more information today."

"Then you shouldn't have stopped me just now. I wanted to be a new pirate and get some information about that woman from those guys."

"You guy, didn't you see that many people in Baroque Studio were looking over here? Believe it or not, if you say a few more words, I will just pretend I don't know you."

"I think you are too conservative, old man. No wonder after all these years, you are still..."

"That's enough! Newbie, do you think it's that easy to be a CP? When I get back, I will report everything you did to the higher-ups in detail."

...

After pushing open the door of Crocodile's office, Zhou Ling saw Crocodile, wearing a fluffy cloak, sitting on the sofa, smoking a cigar leisurely.

"What? You called me several times in a row, just to let me watch you catch a pirate?"

Zhou Ling saw several pirates imprisoned in the cage nearby.

She was very puzzled that Crocodile would set up a cage in the office.

"Heh, I asked, and these guys are here to ruin your plan."

"My plan?" Zhou Ling floated in front of Crocodile and stared at him.

Crocodile seemed to have thought of something. He took the cigar from his mouth reluctantly and moved to the side of the sofa to make room.

Zhou Ling sat down on the other end of the sofa.

It’s not that Zhou Ling wanted to compete with Crocodile for a seat, it’s just that the comfort of the sofa is simply incomparable to those wooden chairs.

But Crocodile seemed to have only put a sofa in his office to show his status or something.

And so, the two of them sat on either side of the sofa and started chatting.

Crocodile put the cigar back into his mouth, took a puff, and said slowly:

"Yeah, these guys came and asked me to help cut down your tree, so I locked them up in anger."

"That's it?" Zhou Ling glanced at Crocodile. His face was surrounded by smoke at this moment, and his expression could not be seen at all.

"If that's all, there's no need to do this."

Zhou Ling was too lazy to think about the intention behind Crocodile. After being promoted to god level, she no longer cared about conspiracies or tricks.

Just like Crocodile, he says one thing in front of others and another behind their backs.

On the surface, she was the leader, but secretly she instigated the common people to worship her in her name.

Zhou Ling had thought about its intention briefly before, but later she thought it was too troublesome and stopped thinking about it. Anyway, she was not afraid at all.

"Tell me, what's going on? If it's nothing, I'll go back. If there's something like this again, don't look for me."

"They were sent by the World Government to convince me to stop your plan."

Crocodile said as he blew away the smoke in front of him.

"Oh, looking at the situation now, you don't agree?"

"Of course, I haven't forgotten the help you gave me." Crocodile clenched his fist, felt his body growing stronger, and unconsciously remembered something.

The secret guarded by Alabasta.

Ancient weapons.

Now that his body has been strengthened, he will not limit himself to this. If possible, he will not give up ancient weapons.

He wants a strong physique.

He also wants ancient weapons!

In excitement, he clenched his fists even harder, making a cracking sound.

Crocodile glanced at Zhou Ling, loosened his fists, and tried his best to calm himself down to avoid being discovered by Zhou Ling.

But in fact, Zhou Ling had already sensed Crocodile's drastic emotional fluctuations.

She knew that she was not the protagonist Wang Luffy, and without that kind of personal charm, how could she easily make someone convinced of her?