[Chapter Head Serial·The Third Woman's Country 5·"The short old woman does not trust this group of female pirates"]
[When Heina and the four of them were replenishing supplies along the way, the short old woman followed them closely, with a look of distrust and vigilance. Koyatel, Gabord, and Kamui did not care about this.
The old woman suddenly remembered something and talked to Heina with interest about how they had followed Nicole and Robin to the Women's Country of Nine Snakes Island... The short old woman nearby was stunned when she heard this.
]——
A group of black hair, like black seaweed, spread out and fluttered in the warm water of the spacious bathtub.
Hancock, who was completely immersed in the water, blinked. The voices of Lynch and Robin, who were talking to her across the water, sounded farther away than they really were, flowing into her ears like water: "...how do you feel?
Sample?"
Hancock couldn't speak, but he answered with actions.
Her long hair instantly turned into countless snake hairs like dark clouds swimming in the water, and her face became even more seductive. There was a circle of eye shadow around her dark golden snake eyes.
Wow!
Hancock raised his head to break the water, exposed his head and leaned against the edge of the bathtub, exhaled a long breath, and said in surprise: "It's true! I obviously still have the ability of Medusa, but I can't be restrained by the water."
Even though her whole body was immersed in the water, she didn't feel the same powerlessness she felt before when a person with abilities fell into the sea.
In other words, Hancock has eliminated the biggest weakness of Devil Fruit users.
and……
Lynch and Robin looked at each other. Lynch had been unable to remove the Medusa Fruit from Hancock's body before, and thought that the Devil Fruit ability in her body was equivalent to "disappearing", which means...
With Hancock now, I'm afraid even Im wouldn't be able to take away Hancock's abilities through the air using the method of creating the same kind of Devil Fruit.
This is undoubtedly a good thing, as Hancock's safety is more guaranteed.
But naturally there is a problem that comes with it.
Why is this happening?
"Is it because..." Lin Qi sat beside the bathtub, touching his chin with a solemn expression, "It's full?"
Dang! Hancock's face turned red and he punched him in the back of the head.
Dr. Robin had a professional researcher spirit and shook his head: "How could this be the reason?"
Before Hancock could nod his head in approval, Robin continued: "What time was it not? There has never been such a change before, but today..."
"Shut up!" Hancock covered Robin's face with his hands in embarrassment, and Robin's vague voice came from between his fingers: "And... me too... but my flowers and fruits... haven't had the same change.
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Lin Qi nodded and said: "That's true..."
Wow, half of Hancock's face sank into the water, leaving only a pair of shy beautiful eyes above the water.
"Hancock, if you don't come out, the water will boil." Robin reminded kindly.
Lin Qi said: "The water in the bath is bubbling. Could it be that you farted?"
"You're the one who farted!" Hancock poured water on them, looked angrily at the two people who were deliberately teasing him, and turned away, "Humph!"
Lynch and Robin couldn't help laughing.
After being together for so many years, Hancock is still the same as before without teasing, and he is easily shy to death... Her Majesty, the Empress, is thirty years old, but she can still retain the innocence of a little girl, which is actually quite commendable.
"I'm not totally kidding."
Robin looked serious, stroking his chin and thinking, "The strange changes in the Devil Fruit that occurred in Hancock retained the ability of the Devil Fruit, but the factors of the Devil Fruit itself seemed to have disappeared and could not be taken out. Even Lin
Oddly, you can't tell the 'Medusa Fruit' from Hancock. Let's temporarily name this change 'fusion'. Even if we don't know the essential reason why 'fusion' occurs, the changes that lead to this change
, it can only be you, Lin Qi."
"But Hancock's abilities have been 'fused', but I haven't." Dr. Robin thought for a moment and looked at Hancock, "Hancock, has your Medusa Fruit awakened?"
Hancock said: "Of course I'm awake."
The awakening of animal abilities is the most difficult among Devil Fruits. With Hancock's cheating talent, he has obtained this ability for more than ten years, and it is natural for him to develop it to the level of awakening.
Robin nodded, "No wonder you can talk to Lynch."
Hancock pulled Robin's cheeks in embarrassment.
"If it was her awakening, and it was my fault that led to the 'fusion' of her abilities," Lin Qi shook his head and pointed at himself, "Have you forgotten, my magnetic fruit has awakened before?
.According to this theory, I should be the first to 'fuse' the magnetic fruit ability."
Hancock also said: "I awakened to Medusa's ability a few years ago, why did it change today?"
"That's what you did differently last night..."
Lynch spoke slowly, and Robin obviously thought of the same thing.
Hancock was stunned and murmured: "Because I bit you yesterday?"
"Because she ate your blood?" Robin looked at Lynch.
Lin Qi said: "It's still that contradiction. If this is the case, then I should be the first to 'fuse' the magnetic fruit. Whether it is awakening or my blood, I am not lacking. If this is the case, I can
Fusion, then I should have merged long ago!"
"Let's try it!" Hancock opened his mouth, and the tiger fangs turned into sharp snake fangs, entwined with dark armor colors, grabbed Lynch's arm, and chewed it down.
After biting the two tooth holes, blood oozed from the skin. Robin lifted the hair from his ear, lowered his head and pressed his red lips to it, licking the blood with a faint fishy smell. He must hurry up, otherwise with Lynch's self-healing speed
, the wound healed in a blink of an eye.
As a result, after waiting for a long time, there was no movement in the flowers and fruits in Robin's body.
She is still a Devil Fruit user and is still afraid of water.
It seems wrong to say that she failed because her abilities were not awakened. Lin Qi replaced the magnetic fruit, took a bite of it himself, and smacked the smell of blood for a long time, but there was no change.
"It seems that this is a coincidence and cannot be copied."
Lynch was not someone who was too entangled in such things. He quickly joked, "After all the unknown factors came together, you ascended to heaven and achieved this miracle?"
"What kind of paradise..." Hancock muttered with his cheeks crossed, obviously she had misunderstood.
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This little Hancock seems to have been favored by fate, but this kind of thing is actually very common for her, and others cannot envy her.
The research yielded no results, so Lynch and Robin put the matter aside for the time being.
For Hancock, who almost died when Im took away the Medusa Fruit, it was a good and reassuring thing that her abilities were "fused" and she was no longer an "esper".
After washing up and dressing neatly, Instructor Lin started a new day of classes.
Today is the last day of the first-month-old training camp. It is also the first stage of the graduation assessment after the "bottom test" on the first day of training.
What are the results of this month's practice...
Lin Qi was walking in the jungle carrying a gold iron rod when he suddenly stopped.
Phew...the cold wind blew around, and the dead leaves rolled up.
"Hehehe,"
The end of the gilt rod was on the ground, Lin Qi put one hand on his waist and said with a smile, "Are you so impatient?"
In the surrounding woods, figures were dormant.
"What the hell are you doing here, you guy?"
Sanji was the first to jump out with a curse, and ran in mid-air with his moon steps. He raised his devilish foot and kicked Lynch in the face, "It's so enviable!!!"
"This idiot!" Nami complained, raising the golden staff to the sky, booming, and billions of thunders brewing.
"Flame feet?"
Lin Qi made a fist seal with one hand, ignited a crimson fire, and punched Sanji's sole of the foot. "It just so happens that I also know a little bit about Fire Fist!"
boom!
Fists and feet collided, blazing waves of fire shot out, and the grass blades around the ground quickly withered and turned yellow.
Bang! Sanji was knocked away with a punch. The three swordsmen behind him slashed at him like a whirlwind, and their strong domineering energy wrapped around the three dark blades like flowing water, heading straight for Lynch.
"Second gear, armed color!" As Luffy shouted, hot white steam shot out.
There was no sign of Luffy at the forefront of the passing steam. His speed was too fast for the steam to catch up, and the black rubber fist had already attacked Lin Qi together with the secret of the Three Tongue Style.
No matter how Lin Qi acted, blue-black domineering lightning burst out from Zoro and Luffy's bodies.
"The slash is much sharper, but it's still far from enough."
Sauron seemed to have been struck by a cross blade, and blood surged from his body.
"It allows me to use Yi Zuiye's stick, which is good. It's a great improvement."
Luffy's eyes almost turned white as he spun around and was hit by a stick, breaking several trees.
"One hundred million volts... Lei Ying·Mermaid."
As Nami pointed downwards, a ball of dense lightning with a diameter of ten meters poured out of Lynch's head, vaguely forming the outline of a giant mermaid, and opened its arms to embrace Lynch on the ground, drowning him.
Amidst the white lightning like a waterfall, a figure carrying a gold iron rod walked out step by step.
"Kill!" Usopp's slingshot fired, "Armed Pill!"
At the same time, Amorine, Anne, and Cavendish attacked from the flank and took the opportunity to attack Lynch.
boom!
There was a roar, and the three Cavendish men flew away from Lynch. Not far away, Usopp screamed in pain, and the armed pill he shot returned the same way, giving himself a brain-destroying blow.
"..." Usopp touched his forehead and couldn't help but swallow his saliva. It was easy for the bullet returned by Lynch to penetrate his head, but the difficulty was... not to break his head.
Lynch's control of power has reached a jaw-dropping level. Facing different targets, he can freely control the severity of his shots.
Simply, like a monster.
"Roar!!"
A tall and powerful plush monster rose from the ground, and on the other side was a huge black dragon, slapping Lynch on the ground one left and one right.
Marianne splashed oil paint, and a huge hypnotic doubt enveloped Lynch...
Brooke waved his autumn water and slashed with a cold air that seemed to come from the underworld...
"The wind comes with the cannon!!!"
Franky has been waiting for the opportunity for a long time...
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This first stage summary assessment lasted until lunch time.
A large area of trees was broken, some were charred and blackened by lightning strikes, and thick smoke was rising.
Lynch was still standing, but on the ground around him, people were lying messily on the ground, Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Cavendish, Ayu...
Looking at this scene, Tulip said: "It's still far away."
Lei Li said: "It has exceeded my expectations. In just one month, Luffy and the others have improved several times in strength!"
Tulip said: "So, it's still far from enough."
Over there, in front of Lynch, the only thing still standing was... another Lynch.
Lin Qi raised the golden iron rod, and lightly tapped the forehead of the opposite "Lin Qi". The latter let out a "woo" and fell backwards like a jade pillar pushed against a mountain of gold...like a broken mirror, "Lin Qi"
"The outside of the boat cracked and turned back into the appearance of the ship spirit Meili. The little guy panted tiredly and murmured: "Brother Hei is so awesome..."
At this point, the first stage of summary assessment is over.
All the students... were completely defeated.
"Overall, I'm quite satisfied." Lynch patted the dust on his arms and looked around.
Luffy, Zoro, and Ayu got up and sat down one after another. Nami, Sanji, Usopp and others didn't want to move for the time being. Brooke and Marianne seemed to have been carved by ice and have not yet fully thawed. Franky's body was covered with ice.
The one-armed young man Xiangyun pulled him up.
Lin Qi smiled and said: "In this way, you must have a basic understanding of your own situation, what to do in the next eleven months, how much energy to invest in ripple fist and combat effectiveness, and how to allocate
I believe you don’t need too much advice from me on how much energy you should devote to your respective ‘professions’. Just master it yourself!”
Before Usopp could wait, Nami and the others heaved a sigh of relief and heard Lin Qi say: "However, there will be such an assessment at the end of every month."
"Great!" Luffy, Zoro and others cheered up.
"I hope that in the assessment at the end of the twelfth month," Lin Qi carried the gold iron rod and said with a smile, "I, the instructor, can be 'knocked to the ground' by you. Don't let me down!"
"We can't stop playing every weekend." Luffy stood up on his knees.
"Of course." Zoro let out a long breath.
"Let's eat first." Lin Qi said, "I have a half-day off in the afternoon. I want to make balloons and contact Nami, the old man in Visalia. Aren't you very greedy for their weather science? You already know how to practice ripple fist.
For the next eleven months, you can measure your daily training volume by yourself."
"That's great!" Nami jumped over excitedly and hugged Lin Qi.
Zoro turned around and said, "Hey, Sexy Chef, are you okay?"
"Damn Lin Qi..." Sanji beat the ground in tears, "Why is he so popular with women..."
"Because Brother Lynch is not always lewd like you." Amorin and Marianne passed by, and her words once again gave Sanji a knowing blow.
Ayu patted the dust on his clothes, shook his head and walked towards the Nine Snake warriors who brought food.
…
"But what if the old gentlemen on Xiaokong Island are not free?"
While having a lively meal together, Usopp said while chewing meat, "If there is no prior communication, the chance of the other party responding at any time is relatively small..."
This is a problem.
However, Lin Qi thought for a moment and waved to the ship spirit, "Meili, come here."
"Oh~" Meili jumped over and after listening to Lin Qi's words, she nodded vigorously and saluted, "Yeah! Brother Hei, wrap it up on me!"
…
After lunch, everyone who had a half-day vacation went back to the neighboring Kuja Castle on Isla Mujeres in a lively manner.
In the palace, Nami helped Robin make a magnetic balloon to contact Visalia. Originally, Lynch planned to just hang a note under the balloon. After Usopp's reminder, he changed his approach.
"It doesn't matter if they are free or not, we can just go there by ourselves." Lynch smiled and touched Meili's little head.
The floor-to-ceiling mirror placed in the palace is exactly the one on the wall of the Mirror World, adjacent to the mirror stored in Xia Qi's bar on the Chambord Islands.
Meili touched the mirror with one hand, and quickly created another mirror out of thin air with her other little hand.
In the mirror world, this new mirror was born adjacent to the one in the Nine Snakes Palace and the one in Xia Qi's bar.
Meili used the mirror fruit's ability to shrink the newly created mirror into a piece the size of half a palm.
"Can it still be reduced?" Usopp's eyes widened, "What a shame..."
The half-palm-sized mirror was simply packed and protected, then tied to a magnetic balloon and thrown into the sky. Under the traction of magnetism, the balloon carried the broken mirror to the small sky island of Vesali somewhere in the world.
Ya.
In the mirror world, the newly born small mirror still remains next to the two floor-to-ceiling mirrors, and its relative position has not moved due to the magnetic balloons flying around in the outside world.
"In other words, when the magnetic balloon brings this mirror to Visalia, Meili can enlarge this small mirror, and we can reach Visalia through this mirror." Nami.
She praised, "That's great, Merry! She uses her abilities superbly!" The navigator smiled and hugged the ship elf into his arms.
"That's it!" Luffy suddenly realized, "It's an incredible portal!"
"That's a very accurate summary." Sanji nodded.
Lynch held Robin and Hancock in his arms, and borrowed Meili from Nami's arms. "It's a rare holiday. Let's go to the shampoo shop. How about you?"
Brooke hurriedly followed, "Hey hoho hoho, I'm going to have a chat with Labu too! I haven't seen him for a month. I wonder how he is doing?"
"I'm also going to add some materials." Franky followed and said while walking through the mirror, "Lynch, swallowing the fruit is almost enough..."
"Are you ready? That's okay..."
The voices and figures of Lin Qi and others passed through the mirror one after another and went to Xia Qi's bar opposite.
Merry shook her head and got stuck in the middle of the mirror, making it easier for everyone to pass. She curiously poked her head into the mirror world and looked at Cavendish and others, "Aren't you going?"
"What's wrong with you?" Marian turned her head, "You feel weird after training..."
Amorin snickered from the side, "That Straw Hat Luffy's progress is much faster than him, and he has been sulking all this time!"
"How can I not!" Cavendish refused to admit it and rushed into the mirror angrily.
Ayu shook her head, Xiangyun asked from the side, Ayu nodded, she is the queen after all, leaving the country for a month is already an exaggeration, it is time to go back and see...
As for Rayleigh, he has long since disappeared. He is probably lost in the colorful world of Nine Snakes City and wandering around enjoying the flowers and wine.
〖Champaign Islands〗
A large number of people suddenly rushed out of the floor mirror of the bar, startling the few customers in Xia Qi's shop.
However, when they saw clearly the appearance of these people, the Straw Hat Boy, the Pirate Hunter...especially after seeing the appearance of the devil's son on his left hand, the pirate empress on his right hand, and the terrifying pirate Lin Qi with the highest bounty in the world, each one
My limbs were so frightened that I froze in place. Is there any mistake? How could so many big figures suddenly come to this deserted and poor bar?
"It's the 'Eight-Armed Demon' Lynch! Oh my god, why are you so unlucky to meet such a terrifying monster while eating..."
"He is actually still here in the Shampoo Islands?!"
"The 'Eight-Armed Demon' hasn't been gone for a month, why is he back..."
Lin Qi didn't care about the whispers in the bar. Xia Qi came over and said with a smile: "'Eight-Armed Demon' is a title that has started to spread recently. It's much more prestigious than the 'Ripple Messenger' on your reward order."
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"Call them whatever you want." Lin Qi said with a smile, "See you later, I'm going shopping."
Xia Qi smiled and reminded: "If you are shopping, you can look over there."
She held the cigarette and pointed in one direction.
Robin and Hancock recognized that that side seemed to be...the direction of Malinfando.
"Hasn't that place been destroyed by Lynch?" Frankie was passing by and couldn't help but wonder after hearing this.
Xia Qi explained: "The new commander-in-chief of the army, the new marshal of the navy, a series of changes in big figures, there are always some new moves! You haven't read the recent newspapers, have you? The navy has established a new headquarters and placed it on
On the other side of the Red Earth Continent. And the original headquarters of Malinfando, they did not give up completely..."
After a pause, Xia Qi smiled and said: "A huge naval training base was rebuilt around the few remaining ruins after the war."
Robin said thoughtfully: "This kind of handwriting does not look like the style of the new navy marshal, but rather seems to come from the black-handed Zefa..."