[Chapter Series·Mother Burial 6·"How to Ask for Directions"]
[In the sea, Praline asked the passing fish schools where the earth-shattering battles took place a few days ago, especially when an entire sea area was evaporated; on the shore, the boat docked at an island, Wu Nu pretended to be fierce, Laura and Qi
Feng asked around for information, while Brynn pulled out something like a film from the passerby's head and searched for the information he wanted in the other person's memory...]
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Ace's domineering attack swept across the whole place, directly knocking out the unscrupulous guys. And it just so happened that the pirates working on this submerged pier were all unskilled ones.
The Sonny stopped at the dock.
Luffy was the first to jump off the boat excitedly and looked around curiously.
Ace and Marco followed with their own fire clouds.
Franky said: "Should the ship be placed here? I'll leave the World Tree here."
He patted his Thunder Cloud World Tree, and the latter nodded like a big brother, telling everyone that the ship's affairs were my business, and it was taken care of by him.
Zoro smiled and said, "Isn't Hei Zai here?"
Lin Qi shrugged with the green and black iron rod in his hand. His substitute was practicing when he had nothing to do, so of course he wouldn't run around - when his real body was running around.
"If Blackie is here, then there will be no problem." Usopp, Chopper and others immediately felt relieved after hearing this. "B.I.B" is stationed on the Sonny, just like Lynch himself. Even if "B.I.B" is a practitioner
I don’t pay much attention to the movements in the outside world. Isn’t this also Franky’s World Tree?
Nami touched the clouds of the World Tree and said with a smile: "If there is any situation, remember to remind Hei Zai."
Lynch was about to get off the boat with Robin, but thought of something, so he turned around and went back.
The long and narrow eyes of the black armor who was sitting cross-legged and meditating suddenly shimmered. He looked at the approaching body and suddenly understood what he was thinking - this country of Wano controlled by Kaido's Beast Pirates, although it is everywhere
They are all Devil Fruit users, but unfortunately, they are all of the animal type. According to Lynch's style, he has no interest in the animal type at all...
"Help me," Lin Qi said.
"B.I.B" nodded, and a pair of armor detached from the body and entered from Lynch's hands. After the armor was attached, it was like a tattoo of red and blue flames wrapped around Lynch's arms.
As for the armless black battle armor, its narrow eyes extinguished the light again and continued to practice calmly. The dense gray at the bottom of the mottled energy ball suspended behind the back of the neck was refined into the body.
Seeing that Lynch actually put on the "B.I.B" arms, Robin was a little surprised and laughed softly: "Are there any devil fruits in Wano Country that you are interested in?"
Lin Qi said: "What if there is one? Wear it and be prepared."
Robin guessed: "Kaido?"
Lin Qi muttered: "His Green Dragon Fruit is no different from Ayu's Black Dragon..."
"That's right, you've always looked down on animals." Robin nodded.
Lin Qi said modestly: "I'm still slightly interested in the fantasy beast species..."
Robin glanced at him.
Lin Qi said seriously: "Wano Country, don't you think there will definitely be a 'Yama-no-Orochi' here?"
Robin laughed and said, "What is this - Huh?" She thought of something.
"'Book of Prophecy'~" Robin raised his eyebrows.
Lin Qi said: "Don't ask, I know everything." He said with a smile: "If you want to talk about prophecies, there are really some here. It's a pity that taking prophecies as a treasure has made my brain confused in the end..."
They were chatting and laughing as they walked behind and got off the boat with everyone else. Nami in front suddenly raised her head and looked at the wooden house on the mountain wall. Almost at the same time, Sanji and Ace's expressions changed.
Bang! Runti smashed the wooden door and jumped down.
Looking at the irritable horned girl, Lynch soon suggested that everyone should box together, and whoever wins would go and deal with this girl...
In the last round, Nami looked at her hands in disbelief, "I won? - Luffy actually lost?!"
The latter is the key point. As expected, everyone looked at Luffy in horror, who also looked at his fist in surprise.
Ace smiled and said, "This guy rowed out alone in the first round. Is this good luck or bad luck?"
"Asshole!!"
A loud shout came from the opposite side, and the horn mask girl Runti was so angry that she transformed into the dragon fruit, ancient species, and swollen-headed dragon form on the spot. Her forehead bulged, her legs bent, her arches became larger, and she stepped on the ground.
There was a crack, and there was only a "bang" sound, her figure disappeared on the spot, and the ground that was cracked by her step exploded directly.
"Alas..." Nami had no choice but to step out of the crowd, and the angry swollen-headed dragon girl rushed towards her like a bolt of lightning and directly broke her waist.
Runti's momentum was so fierce that Lynch, Luffy, Zoro, Ace and others stepped out of the way. Usopp and Franky were even looking up at the elevator passage leading to the upper exit.
Robin raised his head and said: "It's such a weak skylight. Is it heaven or hell at the end?"
Bang! Runti stepped on the edge of the pier and stopped, her whole body braving the slight heat wave caused by the high-speed collision. A layer of dark domineering energy wrapped around her forehead, and she turned back to stare at this group of guys as if nothing had happened...even that one
The deer-like ones - so cute!! - The guy just dodged his own sprint just in time! Where did these guys come from? Some of them looked familiar!
However, the most irritating thing... Runti looked at the orange-haired woman whose body was "broken" by her. The latter's broken waists were quickly connected with fierce electric light.
"I don't want to fight you here for a long time." Nami turned the golden staff in her hand twice and licked the corner of her mouth with her tongue. "Unlike these men, I don't enjoy fighting. If I can fight quickly,
It’s the best—Hela.”
"Hmph." Nami's smoky makeup thundercloud floated over and landed on her golden staff.
In an instant, thunder exploded.
Nami's whole body was like a thunderbolt, as if connected with the thunder cloud Hela and the golden staff. In the extreme light and shadow that almost illuminated the harbor space in white, Nami's voice sounded like a chuckle: "One billion
Volt·The Spear of the Goddess of Death.”
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Runti rolled her eyes, as if her whole body had been cooked. She knelt on her knees with a "pop" and then fainted on the ground of the pier.
Ta, da, Nami walked by on red high heels and followed Lynch and others.
Franky helped find a hole to hide the Sonny, so that Hei Zai could practice on the ship with peace of mind, and then joined the others.
Usopp, who was looking up at the exit passage together, looked back and complained: "You even shocked those people who were stunned by Ace!"
The fainted people scattered in the harbor were just like Runti. At this moment, their whole bodies were steaming, and they didn't know how mature they were.
Nami rolled her eyes, "What's wrong with letting them sleep a little longer? It's not a charge!"
"Thank you so much, Nami-sama." Usopp turned around and smiled secretly. Just now, while Nami was spreading the power of the net, he lifted up his little fat guy Thundercloud Modi and secretly took a few bites.
That must be one of Kaido's flying six... Marco looked at the steaming Runti who threw herself on the street and was secretly speechless. He also thought that after the end of the battle, the bounty of "Thunder Banshee" Nami soared.
to 770 million... Usually after the bounty exceeds 400 million, the increase will slow down. I don't know if the Navy has obtained any intelligence or what, but they are not lenient at all when it comes to bounties for people like Straw Hat...
Of course, just now, Nami killed Runti with one move, causing her to temporarily lose her fighting ability. This was indeed worthy of her high bounty.
However... Marco glanced at Lynch who looked like he was nothing. The Navy could increase the bounty so unceremoniously. Lynch's influence cannot be ignored. - Even including Cavendish and Cavendish who defeated Kaido's drought a while ago.
The dreamer also has a rapid increase in bounties. I am afraid that the Navy has already learned that these new pirates have been trained by Lynch...
Speaking of which, Zefa, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the army, was the chief instructor of the Navy Headquarters back then. And Lynch, the pirate with the highest bounty today, also personally trained such a large group of pirates whose strength has increased... Marco is so
As he was thinking about it, he heard Ace's younger brother shouting energetically: "...Anyway, the exit is above? Then go up!"
Luffy stepped on his feet, and his legs suddenly swelled with dark domineering lines all over them. Then he shrank his feet layer by layer into the flesh of his legs, as if there were two large springs with amazing elasticity under his feet, which were constantly compressed.
At the same time, there was a heart-wrenching clicking sound... In Ace and Marco's surprised expressions, there was a "bang" on the spot, and the ground exploded, but Luffy's giggling expression seemed to remain there.
In place.
Ace raised his head, and Luffy rushed up like a missile. He was so fast that even the Beast Pirates pirates on duty in the sentry hut on the mountain wall along the way to the elevator didn't even react.
He touched his head and looked out the window, wondering: "What was that just now? An illusion?"
He yawned, and then a flash of lightning disappeared outside the window. The pirate wearing small horns turned around and rubbed his eyes, but there was nothing.
He yawned again, and at this moment, a flame passed through the window behind him from bottom to top. He jumped up in shock and slapped himself, "Am I in a dream? Why do I always have hallucinations?"
He pushed away the people and looked down, and was stunned on the spot. A group of people were sitting on a pile of white and yellow clouds, floating up like an outing. There was also a blond man in a suit, with a golden Frisbee under his feet.
Youzai floated up leisurely. Another green-haired warrior with three swords hanging from his waist seemed to be impatient with the speed. He jumped up from the white clouds, as if competing with the white clouds. His feet clicked "pa" and "pa",
And Baiyun flew upwards beside it, and the two quickly passed by the guard box between the passages, and rushed towards the exit above without stopping.
"Wait a minute! Stop, stop!" the pirate shouted.
"Stand up!" Franky, whose lower body turned into a caterpillar track and was climbing on the wall as if on the ground, passed by and knocked the pirate unconscious with a flying fist.
"Mr. Franky, I was just about to let him take a nap!" Brooke, who was riding Thundercloud Mjolnir with Chopper, had just taken out his violin - at first he wanted to rub it against Nami's hair.
She was shocked back; then Sanji's Thunder Cloud Sif was kicked back by Sanji. In Sanji's words, he himself couldn't bear to sit on Miss Sif! - Youyou complained and put away the violin.
Got up.
"Hehehe, everyone is very reliable now."
At the bottom of the passage, Robin's chuckle gradually rose. She and Lin Qi sat on the green and black iron rod together, and walked leisurely to the upper exit.
The beastly pirate in the sentry box with a bloody head got up, glanced at Lin Qi's profile, and immediately turned his eyes white, frothing at the mouth and fainted.
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Soon, Lynch and Robin took the blue and black iron rod elevator to the top exit. Only when they jumped out of the hole did they realize that at the top of the elevator track was a dilapidated cabin that looked like an attic.
The doors and windows have been opened, Zoro and others are outside the house.
Lin Qi and Robin went out to take a look, and what they saw was that the sky was dim and a cold moon hung alone in the sky. The cold wind was blowing, and the fields were vast, and no one could be seen.
"It's so desolate." Usopp shuddered.
Nami said: "The weather is late autumn."
Fortunately, after she became a thunder and lightning person, her tolerance to cold and heat became extremely strong - how could thunder and lightning be afraid of cold and heat? So even if she wears hot and cool clothes like a suspender T-shirt, denim hot pants and high heels, walking here
In the desolate and cold autumn night, I acted like a normal person.
"Is this the country of Wano?" Chopper picked up a branch and picked it around. "It's so strange. Why can't we even see animals?"
Snap, the branch picked up a "stone" on the roadside and rolled it in front of Chopper. It was a skull.
"Brooke!?" Chopper was shocked.
"Eh? Me?" Brooke was also surprised.
Sanji, Zoro and others turned around and saw that the wooden house they came out of was actually the only building in the wilderness. Some human buildings could be seen in other places - but they were all dilapidated ruins.
Robin picked up the skull and looked at it, "Judging from the traces, this corpse was left at least ten years ago..."
Nami tried her best to open up the range of the Heart Network, quickly opened her eyes, swallowed, and said in surprise: "Within a radius of ten kilometers from front to back, left, right, left, and right, there is basically no 'voice' of a living person. Isn't this too exaggerated?"
Thinking of the Four Emperors Kaido who was entrenched here, everyone looked at each other in confusion. It was obvious what kind of disaster this country had suffered.
Lin Qi said: "Let's go forward and take a look. Where is Luffy?"
Nami sighed: "He said he wanted to take risks..."
"Thor is gone too." Zoro looked around and sighed, "Really, did you get lost without paying attention?"
"Are you qualified to criticize others?" Usopp, Chopper who jumped up, and Merry on Chopper's head, gave Zoro a blow with his hand.
Is your pirate group really okay? Marco looked askance.
"Thor is Sauron's Homitz," Robin reminded, "Sauron should be able to sense its location."
"Oh?" Sauron concentrated for a moment and found something. He pointed in the direction of the front right, "I always feel that it is over there... I can't help it, so let me lead the way."
With that said, he lifted his feet and walked away - the direction of his toes was so crooked that it made no difference. Usopp and Chopper quickly grabbed him.
Franky held Zoro's head in his big hands and twisted it to the side, "You should remember that you were pointing in this direction just now, right?"
"No wonder your kid got lost!" Sanji said angrily, staring at Zoro's feet with suspicion, "Is there something wrong with the feet? I'd better ask Chopper to perform an incision on your kid another day...
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"Your feet are the only problem, right?"
"What did you say?!"
Everyone walked towards Thor's position, watching the bickering Zoro and Sanji as sideshows on the way.
Click, click... Walking in this wilderness, from time to time you would step on dead bones under your feet. Everyone walked through the ruins. It seemed that this place used to be a small village. Unfortunately, the houses collapsed and not even a few weeds could be seen - Qiuba's eyes
It flinched, sniffed with its blue nose, and found the remaining roots of a pile of weeds in the ruins. It dug out the roots of the grass with its small hooves.
"Did you find anything?" Lynch stopped.
"This grass... was chewed away..." Chopper's eyes turned pale and he murmured in horror, "Judging from the bite marks, they are human teeth."
Usopp, Nami and others looked around. Inside and outside the ruined village, as well as along the way they walked, there was a vast expanse of white everywhere. The wilderness was so bare that not even a single weed could be seen. Could it be that they were all eaten up by humans?
Although Robin had seen too many similar deeds in history books and was able to keep his expression calm, there was still a trace of compassion in his eyes.
Everyone continued to move forward.
On the way, Ace explained: "When I came here last time, I landed at the Nori Village in Kuri, stayed for a few days, and soon went directly to Onigashima to find Kaido - Kaido was not at home at the time, and we
We didn’t go back to Okasa Village and left Wano Country right there." He shook his head and said, "So I don’t know where we are in Wano Country now."
"There seems to be someone over there." Sanji pointed to one side.
The night couldn't block Lin Qi's sight. He took a look from a distance and said, "They are some pirates under Kaido. Judging from the fist marks on their bodies, it was Luffy who did it."
With a stabbing sound, Nami flew over to take a look, and soon came back with a flash of lightning. She shook her head and said: "Luffy's attack was too harsh. These guys were completely unconscious and couldn't even be beaten to wake up."
Sauron suddenly said: "Right in front."
Ace quickened his pace and everyone followed. Sanji frowned, and while running with the others, he looked into the distance. In the dim night, there were some towering buildings with black shadows and thick smoke billowing vaguely.
Frankie raised his hand and looked around, his eyes seemed to be shining with two searchlights, and he said in surprise: "It looks like several factories!"
"Luffy, what are you doing?" Nami said angrily from the front, "Can you stop running around all the time? Even just once?"
"Hey, you guys are here." Luffy sat on the Thunder Cloud Sol, turned around and said with a smile.
This is a ruin. Yes, after walking for such a short time, everyone has seen too many ruins of dilapidated buildings.
In front of Luffy, a little old man wearing rags was digging in the rubble. Hearing this, he raised his head with a zombie-like face. Suddenly, he kept looking at someone among the crowd.
Surprised: "Long, Lord Ryoma?!"
Sanji and others looked at each other in confusion. Lynch immediately looked at Zoro and realized that he was wrong.
He and Robin stepped aside, and the little old man stared at Brooke in the middle of the crowd.
"Huh?" Brooke was stunned and pointed at herself, "Me?"