[Chapter serial series·The third country of women 2·"It doesn't seem to be the navy?"]
[The warship docked at the beach of Changshe Island. A group of villagers from a small fishing village who came to watch the excitement looked at the five women who jumped ashore one after another from the warship and couldn't help but express curiosity. They... didn't seem to look like the navy at all.
! None of them are wearing uniforms! At this moment, among the five women, the tall woman wearing glasses suddenly turned her head and looked towards the villagers.]
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"Tulip will be the referee for the red team, I will be the referee for the green team, and Robin will be the referee for the dragon team."
"The three teams will have an intra-squad match in the morning, a team battle in the afternoon, and the final individual ranking match in the evening."
Following Instructor Lynch's order, Luffy, Zoro, Ayu and others quickly dispersed and gathered into three small circles, like three circular arena areas.
…
Tulip walked towards the red team, smiled and touched Luffy's forehead, "Don't expect mom to give you special treatment!"
"Please, please be strict with him!" Usopp clapped his palms together and bowed to Tulip, "He is the man who wants to become the Pirate King!"
"Usopp, you care so much about Luffy!" Chopper and Merry were very moved.
"Yo ho ho ho~" Brooke held Qiu Shui in a dagger, "Mr. Usopp just wants to increase his chances of winning, right?"
"Has it been seen?!" Usopp was shocked.
"What! Usopp, you are so despicable!" Chopper and Merry raised their fists angrily.
Luffy held his shoulders and shook his arms, and walked into the arena with a smile, "It doesn't matter! Anyway, which one of you will go first?"
"Yo ho ho ho~ I'll go first!" The afro-headed skeleton walked leisurely into the arena and stood in front of Luffy.
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On the green team's side, Lynch stood on the sidelines with his arms folded, glanced at the five people: Zoro, Nami, Sanji, Franky, and Marianne, and asked: "It can be a round-robin match where two pairs fight.
system, so it will take sixteen games. It can also be a knockout system based on luck of the draw, but if there are five people, someone will have a bye. Which one do you choose?"
"The one with a bye!" Nami was the first to raise her hand.
Franky complained: "You are a natural type!"
"Hehe, I'm used to it..." Nami stuck out her tongue, retracted her hand, looked at Marianne next to her, and asked with concern, "What about you?"
Marianne said calmly: "I can do either, whichever one is fine."
She is really powerful... Before Nami could finish feeling secretly, Marianne continued: "If you can't beat me, I will give up."
Uh! Nami was speechless.
Marian said: "The fundamental purpose of this training is to improve together, right? Not everyone is the type who likes to improve their strength in battle... I am not the one anyway."
"That's true!" Sanji smiled, loosened his tie, and walked into the field, "But you should be the former type, right, Green Algae Head?"
"I am the type who is stronger than you even when sleeping." Zoro responded, holding the three swords on his waist, slowly walked into the arena, and stood in front of Sanji.
"Oh!" Franky's eyes widened and he shouted, "Is this going to be a strong showdown?"
Instructor and referee Lynch smiled and waved the golden iron rod, "First game, let's begin!"
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For the Dragons, on the scoreboard for the intra-squad game, Cavendish already had one point recorded.
Not long after, another point was recorded.
Well, the points scored by Anne, Amorin and their daughter were simply overwhelming.
"Want to take a break?" Robin, the instructor's secretary and referee, asked.
"No need!" Cavendish confidently raised the Western sword in his hand and pointed it at the one-armed young man Xiang Yun.
When the latter was about to accept the challenge, Ayu patted him on the shoulder and came on with a smile.
"Ah." Cavendish remembered that although this girl was young, she seemed to be the black divine dragon and a powerful phantom beast type user.
The referee lady couldn't help but smile to herself. Cavendish "bullied" two girls in a row, which made Her Majesty the Queen of the Land of Flowers unhappy.
…
"Luffy wins."
The afro-headed skeleton stuck his butt out and threw himself on the street.
Usopp, Chopper, and Merry all had the same shocked expressions, "You lost so quickly?! How long do you think you can last, looking at how confident you are!"
Brook got up and said angrily: "It's so simple, this is Mr. Luffy, you guys come up and give it a try?"
"Just try it!" Usopp pushed Chopper up.
"So it was me who tried?!" Chopper staggered a few steps, turned around and yelled at Usopp with his fangs.
"Hehe." Meili was so amused that she couldn't stop laughing.
…
"Lei Ying·Mermaid!"
Click, click, click, and with Nami's cry, hundreds of washbasin-thick thunder lights fell down like a flurry of snakes.
No matter how fast Sanji was, he could not avoid the lightning that covered a wide area. He was soon electrocuted to the point where all his bones were flashing and his whole body was covered in scorching heat.
Marianne commented: "Since you don't want to attack women, why don't you just abstain?"
"So he's an idiot!" Franky chuckled.
"Ahem..." Sanji, who was throwing himself on the street, exhaled a mouthful of white smoke, with electric arcs coming out of his body, puffing and puffing, "Franky...you have the ability...come and try..."
Franky waved his hands repeatedly, "Forget it! I don't know how to use weapons, and I don't have seastones. My body is full of metal. How can I hit the Thunder Fruit? I am a pervert, not an idiot!"
"I'll take a rest first." Nami flashed her lightning and landed next to the referee, sticking out her tongue and saying, "Sanji is such a monster. He fell down after being shocked for so long... I'm almost exhausted."
It would be more terrifying if you keep on electricizing and don't show any mercy at all... Zoro, Franky and Marian thought at the same time.
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Ayu has one more point in her name.
Cavendish was beaten unconscious and lay in the pit with his eyes rolled back.
The black dragon scales on Ayu's arms faded away, and the sharp dragon claws turned back into the girl's slender green hands.
"What will he do next?" Xiangyun scratched his head.
"Is this..." Annie and Amorine had a bad feeling at the same time. Sure enough, the unconscious Cavendish was covered with gravel and stood up from the pit like a zombie, with a look on his face.
With a demonic "innocent" smile, "Next, it's me! Hehehehe... let's try 'Kamaitachi'!"
Soon, petals appeared on the scoreboard, and Robin added a point under Cavendish's name.
…
Near noon, the intra-team competitions concluded one after another, and the results were released one after another.
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Red team——
No matter how strict the referee Tulip is, among the five people in this team, the person with the most points is undoubtedly Luffy, who scored all four points.
The second place was tied with Chopper and Brooke.
In addition to being unable to defeat Luffy and being tricked by Usopp, Chopper relied on the deep physical strength developed in the animal system to defeat Merry, and relied on good physical skills to defeat Skeleton Brook.
After Brooke lost to Luffy and Chopper one after another, he was so old that he only had a handful of bones left. He would not be deceived by the liar Usopp. As the King of Souls, he was even more interested in the ghostly life Mei.
Li is also naturally suppressed and takes one point lightly.
Therefore, the members who will represent the red team in the team battle in the afternoon are Luffy, Chopper and Brooke.
Usopp, who scored only one point, and Merry, who scored zero points, both had tears in their eyes and squatted in the corner resentfully.
…
As for the green team—
Zoro chopping melons and vegetables to score all four points.
Among them, Marianne's point was given away for free. Marianne, as she said, abstained on the spot.
Second place, Nami.
She has the natural advantage of the Thunder Fruit. Except for losing to Zoro, she won the other three points with a smile.
Sanji lost to Zoro. He insisted on chivalry, and it was impossible for him to score against Nami and Marianne. He simply risked his life to get one point on the pervert Franky and successfully regained his respect.
Franky, on the other hand, relied on his perverted spirit to fly out a strong right fist before Marianne's hypnotic oil paint was fully deployed. He let out a sigh of relief after scoring one point, and was then beaten by the knight Sanji.
Stomped violently again.
However, in this way, Marianne, Sanji, and Franky of the green team all scored one point and were tied for first place.
Finally, Sanji was elected as the third player in the afternoon team battle.
Originally, they wanted to choose Marianne, because they always felt that... this girl's ability could easily take down the red team's top card, Luffy, who has no brains.
However, Chief Sauron rejected it.
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The rest is the Dragon Team——
When Lynch walked over, Robin and the others had just finished.
He glanced at the scoreboard behind him, and the result was as expected. Anne and Amorin were at the bottom, while Ayu, Xiangyun and Cavendish advanced to participate in the afternoon team battle.
At this time, Hancock led a group of national defense soldiers from Isla Mujeres and delivered a sumptuous lunch, almost mountains of meat, and carts of fruits and vegetables.
The richness of nutrients and material abundance in the windless sea area can be seen clearly.
Otherwise, this place wouldn't be called the nest of the Neptune species - the barren sea area really can't support these super large monsters.
After playing the game all morning, Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Cavendish and others ate more ferociously than before. They all exchanged glances while eating, as if there was an electric shock - snap! snap! snap!
Bang! Nami really gave everyone electrotherapy. Luffy felt nothing, Sanji was fuming with happiness, Zoro and Cavendish were so angry that they wanted to draw a knife and chop Nami twice, but Nami said innocently: "
Who asked you to make the atmosphere so tense? I accidentally slipped my hand..."
"Hahaha!" Usopp laughed happily and ate as hard as he could. I also want to become stronger!
Otherwise, I might not even be able to defeat Meili next time!
"What's wrong?" Lin Qi waved, took the depressed little boat elf into his hand, and played with it as if he were holding an object, "Are you unhappy?"
"It's a bit sad..." Meili raised her little face, her eyes watery under her sailor's hood, and said aggrievedly, "The Mirror Fruit that Brother Hei gave me is obviously very powerful...Am I too weak?"
Lin Qi said: "Then work hard and become stronger!"
"Yeah!" Meili nodded vigorously.
Lin Qi casually squeezed the dark energy of the substitute into a small ball like a jelly bean.
Mei Li stared straight at the dark jelly beans in Lin Qi's palm. She instinctively felt a little greedy and couldn't help but stretch out her little hand to grab it.
"Snacks, do you want some?" Lynch put the dark jelly beans to Meili's mouth and took them away, "I'll go out for a walk with Brother Hei later."
"Okay, okay!" Meili nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
Robin couldn't help but smile when he saw him teasing Mellie like a child.
Hancock just looked at it for a while, and Tulip joked: "Want to have a baby?"
Hancock was stunned for a moment before he realized that Tulip was talking about him. She recalled Tulip's belly that bulged into a ball when she was pregnant with Luffy, and shook her head repeatedly: "I don't want it! I want to give birth to Robin."
Robin couldn't laugh or cry, why is this happening?
…
In the afternoon, the team competition session of the Nine Snakes First Martial Arts Tournament kicked off with the shocking opening battle between Luffy and Zoro.
This duel between a martial artist and a great swordsman is extremely fierce. The shadows of fists are like weaving and the swords are like lightning. The fight is domineering and the sword energy is vertical and horizontal. It is very exciting.
Everyone spread out the field, freeing up more than a hundred meters so that the two of them could display their skills to their fullest.
"call!"
Sauron slashed horizontally with a dark sword, but it was all in vain, and a row of giant trees behind was cut in half.
Zoro, who was biting the word "Wado", immediately raised his head and saw Luffy leaping into the air. He immediately raised his head and raised his sword energy to the sky - but he was shot in the air again.
Bang! Bang! There was a crisp sound from above the head.
Usopp, Sanji, and Nami looked up in surprise: "Moonstep? When did Luffy learn the moonwalk?"
"He is really suitable for Brother Lin Qi's Lily Ripple Fist." Ayu sighed, "It's really progressing at a rapid pace."
"Zoron, what's the next move? Gun Strike·Storm!"
In mid-air, Luffy, who was stepping on the Moon Steps, roared and waved dense black fists towards Zoro below...
There was a roar, dust filled the sky, and sword shadows flew.
In the final result, instructor Lynch stood up and announced that there was no winner between Lusuo and Lusuo, and it ended in a draw.
It's not that the winner can't be determined, but firstly, this is not a life and death fight. Secondly, even if they have to fight to the death and determine the outcome, with their similar strength, there's no telling how many days the fight will last.
The night is gone.
The team competition continues...
boom!
In the electric light, Brooke was electrocuted so much that his entire body - well, all he had left was his skeleton.
The afro is steaming, Brook vs. Nami, Brook hits the street.
Marianne, who did not participate in the team battle, poked Brooke's skull face and found that it had been burned with electricity.
"Oh ho ho ho, Miss Nami is so amazing!" Brooke lay on the ground and sighed, "The blue one..."
Rumble!!!!
Another, thicker bolt of lightning fell from the sky, hitting the stunned Marian and drowning Brooke.
Not far away, Nami pointed to her ear and said angrily with her fangs: "The 'Heart Network' can hear what you are mumbling!"
Marianne looked at the charred skeleton in the pit, which was smoking gray... There was no movement at all now. Could it be that he was electrocuted to death?
No. Marianne pursed her lips and suddenly saw a miserable green ghost-like thing floating out of the mouth of the afro-headed skeleton. Well, it was a ghost in the same shape as an afro-headed skull.
"I'm scared to death! Why is there another skeleton on the ground!" The green ghost said in surprise, "Oh, it turns out to be me, yo ho, yo ho ho ho..."
Usopp, who was not far away, was stunned. He looked at the skeletons in the pit and the will-o'-the-wisp ghost, "Brooke, can you still do such a thing?! - Hey, wait, this kind of ghost,
Have you seen it somewhere before?"
"That's right..." Chopper also nodded solemnly.
"Are you talking about me?"
Next to it, a dark ghost floated.
Usopp and Chopper smacked their palms and said in surprise: "Yes, that's it - oh ghost!!!"
Chopper's antlers almost flew away in fright, and he rolled and crawled away, "See you soon, Usopp!"
"It's so shameless to see you again!" Usopp yelled with tears. After gathering himself, he forced himself to calm down and said, "However, I remembered that this dark ghost is Lynch..." He said
Turning back, he saw the dark ghost opening his eyes with golden lines, and was so frightened that all the hairs on his body stood up. And the lower body of the dark ghost slowly floated out like smoke from the head of Lin Qi's body.
Usopp asked with a stiff neck: "Lin, Lin, Lin Qi...why do you think the soul looks different from the body?"
Brooke even recreated the appearance of an afro skull, okay? Why are you different?
"Oh, it can be the same." The soul body with dark golden eyes swayed, and its appearance changed into that of Lin Qi, who was 2.49 meters tall, although it was still pitch black.
The ghost of a pale green skull floated over, "Oh ho ho ho, Mr. Lynch's attainments in the soul are also amazing!"
The dark soul body flickered again, transforming back into the ordinary earthly body of Lynch's previous life. He stretched out and discussed with the "King of Souls" his experience in soul power with great interest.
Soon, Marianne also joined the discussion.
Usopp was confused as he listened, and turned back to watch the team battle match with questions in his head.
Wait a bit!
Usopp's footsteps suddenly stopped.
If it's a time like this, maybe... Usopp had a mean smile on his face and ran towards Luffy and Zoro who were resting over there.
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The red team lost to the green team in the team competition.
First, Luffy and Zoro draw.
Then, Brooke lost to Nami in the second game.
In the third game, Chopper lost to Sanji again.
Then, the green team then lost to the dragon team.
Zoro lost to the black dragon Ayu, Nami lost to Cavendish, and although Sanji narrowly defeated Xianyun, it was of no avail...
At this time, Zoro and others realized very clearly that despite their own group of pirates, there were many with bounties worth hundreds of millions, but I am afraid that the strongest one among the students was the young queen of the Kingdom of Flowers!
"Very good, I also want to try the dragon-slaying feat that Ryoma once did." Zoro instead aroused his fighting spirit.
Sanji went up and kicked you, "Behead you, idiot! I'll kick you to death first!!!"
"It's just a statement! Idiot curling his eyebrows!"
"What did you say?! You bastard road idiot!"
"Sexy cook! You need a chop, don't you?!"
The two people, who were as angry as enemies, were about to fight again. Nami held her forehead and sighed speechlessly, shaking her head.
But suddenly, a cold wind came and extinguished most of the flames on Sanji's feet.
"Could it be——"
Robin was startled at first, thinking it was Navy Admiral Aoki Pheasant who came over. Looking in the direction of the cold wind, he realized that it was actually Lynch's handiwork.
I saw the dark soul of Lynch standing next to the pale green skeleton ghost, and there were wisps of icy cold breath visible to the naked eye lingering around him, as if blowing from the underworld of hell.
"It's a pity that the island has already entered the autumn climate..." Amorin muttered, "If it was still hot a few days earlier, it would have been much cooler..."
It’s not just a little cooler!
Brooke looked at the dark soul body in surprise. After just communicating for a while, Mr. Lynch actually mastered the cold air blowing from the underworld faster than he, a user with the underworld fruit ability!
Of course, blowing from the underworld is just Brooke's metaphor.
In fact, as Lynch said before, in this pirate world, the soul body naturally comes with the "ice attribute".
Well, ghost + ice, dual elements...
Maybe you can also add a super power system? After all, you can use hypnosis ability.
"Don't worry about that side?" Marianne pointed to the side, "Lynch, they are touching your body..."
Brooke said: "Mr. Lynch's body is as strong as steel. Even if there is no soul in his body, he will not be -" The afro-headed skeleton looked back and immediately gasped, stunned.
I saw that Usopp, including Luffy who had been lured here, insisted on teasing Instructor Lin's empty body with his cheap hands. The two of them were suppressed by Lin Qi's body and sat under their buttocks.
Usopp slapped the ground as if begging for mercy, and said to Lynch's dark soul without tears: "It doesn't make sense! Why is your body still hitting people when you clearly have no soul!"
Lin Qi's soul said: "Muscle memory, muscle memory..."
"It's really amazing." Luffy's eyes were filled with shock. Lynch, who was pressing on him, was just a body without a soul and relied on instinctive conditioned reflexes to act, yet he was still so strong!
"Brooke, you continue to practice ripple boxing to increase the soul power of the underworld fruit..."
Seeing that Marianne was so cold that she kept rubbing her arms, the dark soul put away the cold air flowing from his body. Before leaving, he turned back, his golden-rimmed eyes looked at the pale green skeleton ghost, and smiled slightly, "Maybe
, you can awaken that power!”
"That power?" Brooke wondered, and the dark soul had returned to Lynch's body.
Lynch opened his eyes, stood up, pulled Luffy and Uso up, clapped his hands and said, "Let's go to the competition, you still have to play against the Dragon Team. There is an individual competition in the evening..."
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evening!
On Ruskaina Island, the sunset was like a fire. The figures fighting fiercely among the vacated crowds became blurred, and long and thin shadows were drawn on the ground that were constantly intertwined and separated.
The sky is getting darker...
boom!
Luffy flew out and crashed into Tulip's arms. His forehead was bleeding and he passed out.
On the opposite side, the black dragon claw slowly lowered itself. Ayu panted heavily and swayed before being caught by Robin and leaning on Robin's shoulder.
"Fortunately, I am a phantom beast, so I have stronger physical strength and recovery power..." Ayu said quietly.
At this point, the individual competition is completely over.
The Queen of the Flower Country, Black Dragon Ayu ranks first!
Luffy and Zoro tied for second place...
"I haven't seen you in just a few days. You guys have changed a lot."
Suddenly, the exhausted people heard some familiar voices coming from the nearby hillside.
Zoro, Sanji, Nami and others, as well as Chopper who was treating everyone's injuries, all looked over there and said in surprise: "Rayleigh?"
In the night, the figure walking up the hillside is none other than the right hand of the Pirate King, Pluto Rayleigh!
Behind Reilly, Lynch walked up with arms folded, followed by his jet-black armor and the ship elf Merry sitting on the shoulders of the jet-black armor.
"Rayleigh?!" Luffy woke up faintly and was very surprised to see Rayleigh suddenly appearing, "Why are you here?"
Lin Qi crossed his arms, glanced at Zoro who was confused, and said with a smile: "From today on, Rayleigh is the deputy instructor of this training, which is also the 'instructor Lin's right hand'."
Lei Li was speechless. I've already retired and you brought me here to be a young man, so forget it. At my age, you guys are taking advantage of me?