Pirate: It’s not a phantom beast, it’s a phantom god!

Chapter 269 Snow Wolf Wine
As the ice-blue wine entered his mouth, Hua Zha's pupils suddenly contracted, and then his body shuddered.

A chilling feeling unique to the snowfield erupted from the tip of his tongue, and then it was like countless tiny ice spikes bursting from his mouth, instantly seizing all his senses.

The wine in his hand was at room temperature, without any chilling treatment - this chill was not the ordinary low-temperature stimulation but a deeper one, a suggestion to the soul.

An ice storm raged in his mouth. Hua Zha subconsciously tightened the muscles in his neck, and his Adam's apple rolled with difficulty, trying to swallow the invisible freezing feeling.

However, wherever the ice-blue liquid passed, a thin layer of frost seemed to condense on the inner wall of his esophagus, and his throat seemed to be frozen, making it impossible for him to swallow.

"hiss--"

Hua Zha was now completely unable to move. The biting chill in his throat made him vaguely see a snow-white monster in a trance... A giant wolf was biting his neck with its frosty teeth.

“Help, help—”

The faint cry for help was frozen in time as soon as it came out. Hua Zha never imagined that one day he would be in such a desperate situation that he would want to cry for help because of a glass of wine.

You should know that people born in the Kingdom of Vodka, even children, drink wine like water after weaning.

Even if it is poisonous wine, as long as it is strong enough, there will be many people willing to try it to see if it is salty or not.

But now he didn't care much. In order to avoid being frozen, his soul began to struggle madly and instinctively, trying to escape the ice storm that was chasing him.

[It’s so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold, so cold…!]
[I will die, I will die, I will die, I will die, I will die, I will die, I will die, I will die, I will die, I will die, I will die...! ]
"captain?"

Noticing that their captain had been drinking without moving since just now, the members of the Hanazawa Pirates walked up to him and patted his shoulder in confusion.

"what!"

The moment he touched the other party, the pirate's arm suddenly retracted, and a needle-like pain made him subconsciously grab his wrist.

"Is this... frostbite?!"

Looking at the other person's palm, a layer of cold frost was visibly covering it.

"How is that possible!? It's been over 30 degrees since the beginning of the day!"

"And he only touched the captain. How could he have been frostbitten in an instant?"

"Never mind all that for now, let's take a look at the Captain himself!"

The Hanazawa Pirates were instantly in an uproar. If they didn't know that Kaido and Hanazawa were from the same hometown and that this was their territory, some of them would probably have drawn their swords.

"Ok?"

The commotion below finally caught the attention of Kaido, who was still drinking crazily.

After subconsciously using his observation Haki to sense the other party's situation, Kaido suddenly stood up, and even accidentally overturned the table in front of him because of his big movement.

The reason was simple... because Hua Zha's breath suddenly became very weak, even to the point of being on the verge of death.

How can it be?

Why did this happen suddenly?

Could it be some sudden serious illness?
"what happened?!"

With a hint of disbelief, Kaido quickly walked to Hanazawa's side and reached out to touch her... and as expected, he was also frostbitten.

Although Hanazawa's body temperature is normal, anyone who touches him will feel a chill that penetrates the bone marrow and then suffer frostbite in a physical sense.

Surprising!

So weird!

Could it be that some person with special abilities is lurking around, trying to assassinate Hanazawa and sabotage this cooperation?

But that's impossible... Who can do something under Kaido's nose?

Unable to grasp the crux of the matter, Kaido simply stood there, pondering what to do. Meanwhile, Hanazawa had completely lost all awareness of his surroundings.

Now he felt as if he was buried deep under a thousand meters of permafrost. The light, heat, and everything else around him had been stripped away, leaving only the cold and darkness to consume the last bit of heat in his body.

[I'm going to die...]
[To be killed by a glass of wine... How ridiculous.]
[It’s so cold.]
[It’s really cold.]
[So it's so cold when you die...]
Finally, Huazha closed his eyes and merged with the frozen soil.

A merciless blizzard descended upon this place, the cold wind and freezing snow seemed to never end, freezing everything on the earth...

……

I don’t know how long it took, but the snow stopped, and then the sound of the wind seemed to gradually disappear, and the world returned to silence.

After an unknown amount of time, the dazzling white light with an icy blue halo once again shone upon the frozen earth.
The wind started to blow again, but it was no longer bitingly cold. Instead, it brought with it a touch of warmth and gentleness like the sunlight.

This is a wind of life.

Click~
The warm wind blew by, and before the ice and snow melted, a small touch of green pushed open the hard glacier, freeing itself from the cold and silence.

Then came the second, the third... Countless tiny and tenacious life forces burst out from deep in the frozen soil.

A huge, primitive warmth with a smell of earth rose up unstoppably from the depths of the cold core that froze everything.

Death and rebirth!

At the moment when death was imminent, the vitality hidden in the human body finally burst out, and Hua Zha's almost extinguished fire of life burned again at this moment.

The seasons pass from the harsh winter to the warm spring, and then turn to the hot summer without stopping for a moment.

Freeze, revive, flourish...

"Hanaza?"

The vague voice in my ears sounded quite familiar.

[Hanagi... Is that my name?]
[Is someone calling me?]
Youyou opened her eyes, feeling as if she had experienced a long journey in a very short time. The dislocation of her thoughts made Huazha's mind a little confused.

After a moment, he finally remembered what had just happened.

"Whoo~"

After exhaling a breath of foul air, Hua Zha felt as if he had experienced a new life. Even the constant pain caused by old injuries of all sizes in his body miraculously disappeared, and his body and mind returned to their peak state.

Hua Zha stared at the remaining wine in the glass, which was rippling with a light blue luster, with a complicated look in his eyes.

There was the lingering fear of being frozen all over and extremely close to death, but also the unexpected turn of events and the comfort of feeling the vitality thriving in the body.

[Is this wine? Is this actually wine?]
If this is wine, then what was it that I was drinking?
After a while, he looked at Kaido in front of him amidst the worried, relaxed, and puzzled eyes of the crowd and spoke softly:
"Kaidou, do you usually drink this?"

"Ah, yes."

Although the color of the wine was a little different from what he remembered, looking at the exquisite wine barrel with a golden wolf head carved on it beside him, Kaido naturally mistook it for ordinary Snow Wolf Wine on the island, and said proudly:
"What's wrong? It's too strong and you can't bear it?"

"Haha! Yeah, it's so strong that I don't even dare to take a second sip."

"Woo-ha-ha! I didn't expect that after a trip around the New World, your alcohol tolerance has become worse than a woman's!"

Reaching out and picking up the wine barrel beside the other person, Kaido immediately wanted to show the other person how to drink like a man.

"Gudonggudong~"

The light blue wine poured down Kaido's throat...

At the same time, Wright's panicked voice rang in his ears:

"Governor Kaido, wait! I remember now, that's..."

(End of this chapter)