"Damn, damn! How could you be targeted by that kind of monster?"
In the pitch-black night, a group of people hurriedly crossed a huge "depression" and finally squatted down against the wall on the back side of the depression.
Well, this may not be called a depression. It looks like it should have been a place similar to a stadium many years ago, surrounded by tall spectator stands.
After a sharp breath, the leader of the One-Eyed Pirates suddenly raised his head and looked at the captain of the Salamander Pirates who was yelling angrily, and said in a sinister voice, "You are the one holding the lead this time.
Head, now seven days have passed and we are still stuck in this damn place, I think you need to give us an explanation."
As soon as he finished speaking, the four or five other pirate groups around him also turned their attention to the captain of the Salamander Pirates group in the corner.
The captain of the Salamander Pirates is named Rhodes. The first mission Higashinohara performed after joining the [Dawn Scarlet] Hunter Organization was to kill Blue, who was causing trouble in a bar in New Tokyo.
Snake, the lusty demon.
It's just that Rhodes, who entered the Border Gate as early as a week ago, probably never thought that the crew members he left in New Tokyo had been wiped out. Except for Snake, the blue flame demon, the rest of the people were also killed by Higashinohara.
Completely cleaned up in the next few missions.
even so,
He also has something more troublesome at the moment.
According to the information Rhodes obtained from a well-known intelligence dealer in the West Sea, after entering New Tokyo [Border Gate] and arriving in another lost hell world, they would be able to leave that place in seven days regardless of whether they gained something or not.
But what they never expected was that when the time approached the sixth day, when they found nothing, they were approaching the predetermined location.
At night, everyone had a dream. In the dream, a fierce battle broke out when they left, resulting in heavy casualties. Only a few people finally escaped from that place.
When they woke up the next day, these pirates didn't think there was any problem. It wasn't until the scene in the dream actually came, that a group of "weird demons" with various strange abilities came from the place they regarded as a gathering place.
The Pearl Tower rushed down like it blocked the sky.
Everything in the dream began to repeat itself.
What frightened everyone the most was that when the surviving pirates accidentally mentioned the dream they had last night while on the run, everyone was horrified to discover that each of them had the same dream.
These pirates are all capable people, so of course they won't regard this as some mysterious incident.
What makes them look a little ugly at this moment is that except for [Nightmare] in talent sequence 43, there are almost no abilities related to dreams in the talent sequence list.
However, to put it bluntly, nightmares are actually a mental ability that can drag opponents into terrifying nightmares, but they do not have the terrifying ability to materialize everything that happens in dreams into reality.
If it is true, and it can interfere with the dreams of people with absolute abilities above the seventh level, this probably falls into the category of purple epic abilities.
And the strange demon behind it is very likely to be a fourth-level strange demon at the peak of the eighth level or even the ninth level!
But how is this possible?
What they passed through was the third-level blue [Border Gate].
Thinking of this, Captain Rhodes of the Salamander Pirates became even more embarrassed. Facing the questioning looks of several captains around him who had narrowly escaped, he said in a somewhat difficult tone, "I'm sorry. I
We never expected to encounter something like this, and now that it has happened, we can only wait until the next time the [Border Gate] opens again."
"Next time, who knows whether that ghost place will be the same as this time? What if it is still like this? What should we do then?" Someone immediately raised a question.
Rhodes took a deep breath and said slowly, "Then you have to be prepared to kill."
Hearing Rhode's somewhat bachelor words, the voice that questioned him suddenly said, "Even if we can really get out, the supplies we brought here a week ago have been almost consumed, and the remaining ones
We also lost everything during this escape. This week, you mean we have to fight in this inhospitable place for a week?"
The surrounding area suddenly became quiet.
Even though the pirates on board are all people with absolute abilities above the seventh level, they are still human beings. People are made of iron rice and steel. If they don’t eat, they will really die.
Rhodes pondered for a few seconds and then slowly said, "Of course we can't be so passive, but that TV tower is very weird. If it's not necessary, I think it's best for us not to get close there and try to pick up the leftover materials.
, you might as well try another method.”
"What do you mean?"
Someone seemed to react.
"That's right."
A smile appeared on Rhodes' face and he nodded, "No matter which world they are in, pirates will never lack food. When the border gate opens again in the afternoon, although we have no chance to evacuate, this time the border gate opens again.
I'm afraid there are still many people on one side, rushing in and out, so why don't those people carry supplies with them?"
Hearing Rhodes' words, the faces of several pirate groups on board the surrounding ships also showed thoughtful expressions, and then they all showed tacit smiles.
yes!
They are pirates and they have nothing to eat, so they can just go out and grab it.
This is their old profession.
Suddenly, a voice came from the crowd again, "Wait a minute, even if we grab the supplies, are you sure the border gate will be opened again in a week?"
Everyone immediately took a breath and choked.
yes!
The prerequisite for them to survive is to be able to return to that world. If this afternoon is the last time the [Border Gate] opens, it will never appear again.
Then even if they grabbed the supplies,
What's the point of lingering for a few more days in this world full of desolation and silence?
Facing the gaze of everyone, Rhodes was a little unsure. All he knew about the [Border Gate] was limited to the intelligence dealer in Xihai. He was eager to improve his strength before he could establish the connection with certainty.
We usually explore together on the ship of the pirate group with whom we have a fairly good relationship.
In his opinion, now that the Adjudication Division has evacuated Neo-Tokyo, Wano Country in the corner of the East China Sea is a "three no-nos" zone that anyone can step on. Even if nothing is gained, it is at best a waste of time. He did not expect that this time
I almost "wasted" my life here.
Thinking of this, Rhodes took a deep breath, shook his head helplessly and said, "I'm not sure whether the border gate will open again in a week."
The expressions of several other pirates around suddenly changed!
They were invited to come over to "help the boxing" not because of any deep feelings, but because they didn't have a little bit of care in mind.
If Rhodes really cheated him, I'm afraid they would come up and tear him apart for the first time.
Sensing the drastic change in everyone's mood, Rhodes changed his topic and said, "But I am very confident about another thing."
After a pause, no one continued, Rhodes could only continue, "You should remember that we are not the only pirates who are here this time, right? There are also big names in Shangjing who came to this world with us, and they have been here since the first day.
We went east along this dry and corrupt river, followed by the 'Dark Devil' Arthur Shelby of the Shelby Pirates."
After hearing Rhodes' words, everyone's expressions also changed subtly.
Even though they control the wind and rain in the West Sea, they are revered as ghosts and gods by the residents of some coastal towns.
But in front of those big figures who really live in the sky in Shangjing, in front of pirate groups like the Four Kings of the West Sea who can compete with the World Government across the sea, they are just insects that can be easily crushed to death.
Rhodes noticed the change in everyone's expressions and continued, "Although we didn't go back yesterday, I don't know if you have noticed that since we arrived at the TV tower last night, no one else has been close except us.
,don’t the big shots know that today the border gates will be opened again?”
"you mean?"
The man who had questioned him before came to his senses.
"That's right."
Rhodes nodded, "No matter what the reason is for those big figures along the river in Beijing not to return to the TV tower at the [Border Gate], since they dare to do this, there must be a way to go back. Those heavenly beings are better than us."
These pirates are very precious about their lives."
After hearing Rhodes' words, everyone around them fell silent.
Although this news is not good news, it is the only thing that can give them some hope in such a desperate night.
"Okay. Cheer up!"
Seeing that he had finally convinced everyone, Rhodes breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, his face regained the aura of the all-powerful Salamander Pirates on board, and he said fiercely, "When it gets light tomorrow, we will
Bypass that evil radio tower and go east along the river. Although I don’t know what is on the easternmost side of the river, but since those big shots would choose that place, there must be something there that is enough to attract them and others."
"This is our chance."
Rhodes said forcefully.
Under the deathly silence of the night, there was a fierce glimmer in his eyes.
On the other side of the Pearl Tower that stood like a black giant on the bank of the Pujiang River, Higashinohara, who suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, gradually showed a somewhat complicated expression on his face.
He didn't expect it at all,
I would actually have such a dream.
The blind boy in the dream is the boy on the sky tree. The question is whether this is a fictitious dream or something that really happened.
his parents
Why did it become like that?
Is it the so-called "tide" in Ma Baoli's Diary?
In this way, it seems that we can try to understand those strange scenes in the dream.
The boy's parents were obviously affected by the tide, which is why such changes occurred. The tide will infinitely amplify the obsessions in people's hearts.
It seems that the obsession of the boy's parents should be to stay with the boy, so even if the tide corrupts them, they still choose to use the power brought by the tide to maintain their original voice and stay with the blind boy.
Even if the consequence is that his body undergoes accelerated changes, all his abilities will be used on Sangyin to prevent him from feeling anything strange.
I turned around and looked around. The playground in front of the school was hazy. The moonlight above my head was once again blocked by thick lead clouds. Only wisps of light penetrated the gaps in the clouds and sprinkled on the earth.
What's going on?
Of course Higashinohara didn't think this was a surprise.
Reminiscent of the boy standing high in the Pearl Tower that I noticed when I passed through the Border Gate in the afternoon. If I guessed correctly, this so-called dream should be an ability of the other person, but why did this dream appear in me?
Still say.
Did everyone else have the same dream?
Higashinohara, who woke up from his dream, was no longer sleepy. He simply stood up from his sleeping bag and looked at the dilapidated and low black buildings around him in the night. He looked at this school for the children of migrant workers called "Happiness Elementary School".
If it was Higashinohara's first time here, maybe he wouldn't think anything of it.
But the problem is that Higashinohara has been to this place once, lived in this city, and read Ma Baoli's diary. It can be said that not many people understand this world better than him.
He clearly knew what these so-called "weird demons" were, and he also knew that at night, in such public places, many unexpected situations would occur.
But tonight.
Everything came so quietly.
Thinking of the initiator and funder of this exploration operation, the man who seemed to have a warm smile on his face no matter what happened, Higashinohara couldn't help but frown slightly.
Logically speaking, if it was the first time to come here, they should camp nearby, so they chose a nearby residential area just like last time.
But the other party just walked eastward along the dry and corrupt river, and finally chose such a quiet migrant primary school as a place to stay. There was nothing unusual around it, which made Higashinohara have to be suspicious.
Has the other party really been here before?
Earlier than them?
Suddenly, Higashinohara remembered something, that was the night when the Tokyo Sky Tree was bleeding.
If anyone could understand this earlier than them, it would undoubtedly be the mysterious man who gave that speech on Sky Tree Radio.
The other party must know this better than they do.
Could it be him?
But his identity is the leader of the Third Investigation Team, so why would he do this? This is completely inconsistent with Higashinohara's impression of the politicians and bureaucrats in Wano Country.
But speaking of it, Kimura Hakutaku does not seem like a traditional bureaucratic politician.
Even if ordinary politicians invite names, they have to ask the masses to pay. Anyway, Higashinohara has never seen any bureaucratic politician who pays out of his own pocket like Kimura Hakutaku.
He was thinking about this and pacing around the camp unconsciously.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a rustling sound came from a dark corner with blurred figures not far away, and soon a delicate female voice came.
"You are annoying. If you are like me, that woman will be angry. She will not be like me and will only feel sorry for my brother."
