[Chapter Heading Serial·Deck from the World 1·"News Bird Flying to the Four Seas"]
[In the early morning, the sea surface was undulating and the waves were sparkling. Groups of newsbirds hung small drink bottles around their necks and flapped their wings energetically to fly to various parts of the sea. Their bags were stuffed with the latest newspapers, and the wind blew them.
The paper exuding the fragrance of ink reveals bold and large text such as "The Battle on the Top..." and "The Return of the Resurrected Lynch..."]——
The green phone bug was in Robin's palm, opening the castle portal with both eyes, and several figures jumped out of it. After leaving the range of its body's abilities, they returned to their original size one after another.
The members of the red-haired pirates couldn't help but get out of the way, leaving a clear space.
Sundar, Hancock and Robin stood side by side, while Lynch and Shanks supported the bodies of Whitebeard and Jinbe who were sent from the Telephone Bug Castle, and slowly placed them on the deck.
Marco's face was covered with tight, dried tears, and he could no longer cry. He sat beside him blankly, looking straight at the smiling "sleeping" face of Whitebeard.
He still doesn't have the real feeling that his father has left forever. It seems that this person who is loved and loved by everyone as a father will still sit up with a smile in the next second...
Shanks asked: "What to do with their remains? Do you need my help to arrange them?"
Even if Whitebeard is dead, his body will still affect the nerves of many people. Too many people hope that he will be crushed to ashes, and it is not ruled out that many people want to use the gimmick of destroying or insulting Whitebeard's body to become famous.
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As for Jinbei, he is a Shichibukai, but he is also a fishman. It is probably more in line with his wishes that his body should be returned to Fishman Island to sleep with the sea.
Marco shook his head and refused. Of course, they had to arrange their father's body themselves and send him on his last journey.
Thinking of this, Marco's dry, red and swollen eyes couldn't help but burst into tears again. He took a deep breath and looked into the distance. The ship had been sailing since it left the ice of Marineland, and he couldn't help but ask: "
Where are Ace and the others?"
"They should all be in the Chambord Islands." Lynch said, turning around and asking, "Are there any fruits? Just bring one."
"Fruit?" Jesus was confused, took out an apple from his pocket and threw it over.
Lynch caught it and pressed something into it. As Shanks, Jesus and the others watched in shock, the apple changed.
Marco, who was immersed in mourning, seemed to be a little slow to react. When he heard the exclamations from the red-haired group members around him, he looked towards Lynch. When he saw it, his eyes immediately widened, his mouth opened, and he was speechless.
What Lin Qi was holding in his hand was actually the Zhenzhen Fruit.
This thing, which is known as the most powerful Devil Fruit in the world, was made by Lynch with the Shock Fruit chip in his hand, and then he threw it to Marco.
Marco caught it quickly and looked at Lynch blankly.
Shanks and the others were also a little surprised and looked at him speechlessly.
Lin Qi was completely confused when he was looked at like this, and wondered: "Why are you looking at me like this???"
"This... that... you..."
A tall member of the red-haired pirate group turned his head back and forth between Lynch and the freshly baked Devil Fruit in Marco's hand.
"Is this the Zhenzhen Fruit?" Fatty Lucky Lu Xin said bluntly, dumbfounded, "Now that you have such a precious thing, as a pirate, would you give it to others so casually?"
Lynch was even more confused, "Didn't I already say that I have no interest in Devil Fruits?"
"Who knew you were serious!" Everyone was speechless, "And this is the Zhenzhen Fruit after all!"
"That's just a Devil Fruit." Lynch waved his hand and looked meaningfully at the windy sky behind the ship, "Don't you know why Whitebeard died in the end?"
"I don't know!" Everyone in the red-haired pirate group uniformly crossed their arms and shook their heads.
"Lynch, they haven't arrived yet." Robin reminded from the side.
"Oh, that's right." Lin Qi nodded.
Beckman frowned and asked: "So, how did Whitebeard die? Wasn't he defeated by the admirals?"
When Marco heard this, he grasped the shaking fruit and his body trembled slightly.
Thinking of that scene, even Marco couldn't help but be filled with psychological shadow.
When Shanks saw this, his eyes couldn't help but turn pale.
He thought of the long thunder and lightning dragons that they saw from a distance before they finally arrived at Malinfando, the scene of natural disasters and divine punishment...
"Lynch, is Whitebeard's death related to Mary Joa?" The red-haired man looked at Lynch.
Marco also raised his head and looked at Lynch.
Dad's final death was simply too bizarre and weird.
And the words that Dad tried his best to tell the world before he died, about immortal people... are they related to the reason why Dad once warned himself not to fly directly above Mariejoia?
Lin Qi looked at everyone and said: "You are not the only ones who are confused about Whitebeard's death. Let's go to Shampoo to meet the others first, and let's talk about it together then."
"Okay." Shanks raised his head and said, "Go at full speed!"
"Captain, we are already at full speed. We should be able to reach the Chambord Islands by nightfall!" the red-haired member hanging on the sail turned around and shouted.
"It should be a while, let's rest on the ship first." Shanks greeted the people who were boarding the ship.
Marco refused to leave Whitebeard's body and stayed on the bow of the deck, sitting next to it and watching over it.
He was the ship's doctor himself and was very aware of his physical condition. He was just a little tired and nothing serious. Lackey and the others brought food and water to him. He nodded and ate silently to replenish his strength.
…
Robin, Lynch and Shanks sat together, a rare gathering of old friends, eating and drinking while chatting.
Of course, with so many things happening today, everyone is not in the mood to hold a grand party or anything like that...
Although they had not seen each other for more than ten years, and Lin Qi seemed to have experienced a lot, since Lin Qi and the others were intact and safe, Shanks did not ask questions about other people's affairs.
"We haven't seen each other for so many years, but you are already as good as me." Shanks smiled and raised his glass.
"How come you're not inferior to me?" Lynch rolled his eyes, and Robin, who was sitting next to him, chuckled and filled a bowl for him.
Lynch is not someone who likes to brag to others or complain. Since Shanks and the others didn't ask, he didn't mention anything. Besides, he really didn't feel anything, so he didn't care about it, so he drank one cup after another with Xiang.
Max drank heavily.
"Haha, it's all the same!" Shanks exclaimed, "Think about the first time I met you in the West Sea twenty years ago..."
"Okay, thank you to the red-haired brother for your heroic rescue." Lin Qi raised the bowl, raised his head and drank it all, wiped his mouth and said with a smile, "Otherwise it would be the story of 'Lin Qi the Marine'."
Lynch in the Navy?
Sundar and Hancock imagined it for a moment, then went blank.
I can't imagine what he looks like wearing a navy justice coat...
With Lynch's character, even if he was in the navy, he would definitely be the one who would not listen to the orders of his superiors, would be punished every three days, and then continue to do whatever he wanted... Robin's lips were smiling, but if he had
Without Shanks intercepting Lin Qi from Qing Pheasant, he might not have reunited with Lin Qi again, nor would there have been a series of experiences between the two of them after that.
"What are your plans next?" Shanks asked, putting down his empty glass.
"I don't have any plans, just go step by step and continue to get stronger," Lin Qi said.
His words made all the red-haired pirates, including Shanks, look at each other.
"Follow the steps? Continue to become stronger?"
"You are already among the top few in the world, right? How can you be stronger?"
"It's still step-by-step... It seems like there is some tutorial, and if you follow it, you can continue to become stronger..."
In response to their doubts, Lin Qi just shook his shoulders, and a ball of miscellaneous gas slowly emerged from his body.
The sphere is very large, occupying almost half of the deck of the red-haired pirate ship. The whole sphere is like chaotic colorful lines, while a small area at the bottom is pure gray, slowly flowing, pointing towards Lynch's body.
"What's this?!"
Even Shanks was surprised, as was Beckman. Jesus Bu, Lackey and Lu touched this thing curiously and said in surprise: "It's not an entity, it's energy!"
Such a big ball of rich energy?
Shanks looked at it carefully, looking at the colorful lines on the huge sphere. Even the energy as big as a hair wandering on the surface of the sphere gave him a very good feeling... Where did this boy Lynch come from?
To get such amazing and huge energy?!
The most amazing thing is the gray parts at the bottom of the sphere.
Marco was far away, but he could still recognize it. This was the thing that Lynch gave to his father without hesitation to support his body and maintain his life when his whole body was bursting with blood and he couldn't hold on anymore. And it wasn't the colorful thing.
The variegated colors are those gray energies at the bottom that are very precious at first sight. Although his father was still... in the end, Marco silently remembered Lynch's benevolence and righteousness.
Lynch shook his shoulders, took the energy balls back into his body, shook his neck, exhaled a long breath, and said: "Shanks, you are right! Indeed, when our strength reaches our level, it is already difficult to improve.
...but it is difficult to improve the vertical attack power, so let’s expand in other horizontal areas. Next, I will need some time to digest the accumulation of the past ten years."
This accumulation not only means to fully integrate the growth brought about by the unification of substitutes over the past ten years, but also means to fully digest and absorb these energy balls harvested in prison for five years.
"You have to completely absorb these things and integrate them into your own power?" Even Shanks couldn't help but be stunned, "Can this be done?"
"The miscellaneous energy is not enough, it can at best be used as a small medicine to temporarily replenish physical strength." Lynch shook his head and said, "Refining them one by one into the gray energy at the bottom just now can be transformed and absorbed into my own power."
"It's very difficult!" Shanks said, "After all, the proportion of gray is only so small now."
"Of course it's difficult, but the main thing is to work hard and take time." What Lynch was actually talking about was the situation in prison. After becoming one with the avatar, the avatar's ten years of continuous practice returned to life and made up for it.
After entering, Lin Qi is confident that the speed and efficiency of "refining" gray energy and absorbing it will be qualitatively improved.
Shanks nodded silently and poured another glass of wine, "Continue to improve your strength, and then what?"
"You're not getting stronger just to get stronger, are you?"
The red-haired man smiled and said, "You have reached the peak, but you are still so dissatisfied... I don't think you are an ambitious person, but you seem a little anxious!
"Lin Qi has completely digested these powers and improved his strength. What next?"
"Then..."
Lin Qi looked at his rough palms and suddenly said, "More than twenty years ago, you who followed the Pirate King to sail to the end of the world received prophecies, right?
"The wave of the times will come twenty years from now, and so on..."
"Yeah." Shanks raised his head and finished the drink, then slammed down the empty glass, just in time to see Lynch staring straight at him.
Lin Qi slowly said: "'The wave of the times' is not a vague meaning, but a literal meaning. Isn't it?"
"...?!"
Beckman, Jesus Bu and others, as well as Hancock and Sundar, did not quite understand what Lynch meant.
But Robin immediately thought of the Sky Island, the ancient murals on the moon, the few words about the great flood that destroyed the world in ancient times, the City of Seven Waters, and the gods of water...
After Lin Qi became one with the double, he naturally also learned about these memories.
The “wave” of the times?
Robin couldn't help but his eyes narrowed, but Shanks shook his head and wiped the corners of his mouth, "I didn't go to see Raph Drew with the captain and the others back then. So to be honest, I don't know much about the truth of the prophecy.
"
"Then what did you tell me about the need for the navy to exist?" Lynch said angrily.
"But it's a coincidence that you think the same thing as me."
Shanks finished his words almost at the same time and said to himself, "If such a day comes, having a navy that can connect everyone is better than nothing, right?"
…
Will the world face another great flood?
The whole world will be flooded?
In the night, facing the salty sea breeze, Hancock walked to the bow of the ship. Even if it was true... it was none of her business!
With the weather technology of the old men of Weather Island, and the help of the black dragon power of Queen Ayu of the Kingdom of Flowers, even if there is a big flood, they don't think they can destroy Nine Snake Island.
It doesn't matter to Sanda. She is a flying snake and is afraid of floods.
"What is she doing so far away?"
Lin Qi leaned against the side of the ship and turned to look at the empress standing on the bow of the ship facing the wind, with her graceful and perfect figure.
"I don't know either." Sanda laughed.
"I haven't seen you for ten years, why does your sister's mood go from good to bad..."
"Don't ask me!" Sanda shook her head repeatedly.
Robin next to Lynch said at this time: "You can see the shampoo floor."
Lynch turned around, and the dim and hazy night could not block the sight of his golden eyes. The red-haired pirate ship was slowly sailing into the Shampoo Islands where bubbles were densely flying, and the sea surface was almost black.
Above, a delicate figure swam over the water as fast as flying. With a crash, the sea surface broke open. The thick-lipped mermaid with short green hair carefully observed the few figures beside the big ship, which was Lin Qi.
Robin them.
"It's Cammy." Robin smiled.
"You are finally back!" The mermaid swam over and waved her arms with a smile, "Everyone is waiting for you, I will take you there..."