[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, and Wu Nu pretended to be fierce. Laura and Qifeng went around asking for information, while Brynn pulled something like a film out of the passerby’s head and searched for the information he wanted in the other person’s memory…]
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Ace’s domineering shot swept across the entire field, directly knocking out the unscrupulous guys. And it just so happened that the pirates working on this submerged pier were all unscrupulous.
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.
Frankie said: “Will 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 are my business, and it’s all up to him.
Zoron smiled and said, “Isn’t Hei Zai here?”
Lin Qi shrugged with the green and black iron rod in his hand. His stand-in 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 relaxed after hearing this. “B.I.B” is taking charge of the Sonny, just like Lynch himself. Even if “B.I.B” doesn’t pay much attention to the movements in the outside world when practicing, isn’t there still 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 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 immediately understood what he was thinking – this is the country of Wano controlled by Kaido’s Beasts Pirates. , although there are Devil Fruit users everywhere, unfortunately, they are basically all animal type. According to Lynch’s style, he had no interest at all in the animal department…
“Give me a hand.” Lin Qi said.
“B.I.B” nodded, and a pair of arm armor detached from the body and entered from Lynch’s hands. After being possessed by the armor, it was like a tattoo of red and blue flames wrapped around Lynch’s arms.
As for the armless black armor, the 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 that you are interested in?”
Lin Qi said: “What if there is one? Wear it and be prepared.”
Robin guessed: “Kaido?”
Lin Qi said: “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.
“‘Prophecy Book’~” Robin raised his eyebrows.
Lin Qi said: “Don’t ask, I understand everything.” He said with a smile: “If you want to talk about prophecies, there really are some here. It’s a pity that taking prophecies as a treasure has made my brain confused in the end… ”
They walked behind, chatting and laughing, and got off the boat with everyone else. Nami 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! Run?q smashed the wooden door and jumped down.
Looking at the irritable little horned girl, Lynch soon suggested that everyone should box together, and whoever wins would go and deal with this girl…
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“Rock, scissors, paper!” “Rock, scissors, paper!” “Rock, scissors, paper!”…
In the last round, Nami looked at her hand in disbelief, “I won? – Luffy lost?!”
The latter is the point. As expected, everyone looked at Luffy, who was also looking at his fists in surprise, with horrified expressions.
Ace smiled and said: “This guy rowed out alone in the first round. Is this good luck or bad luck?”
“Asshole!!”
There was a loud shout from the opposite side, and the horn mask girl Run?q was so angry that she transformed into the dragon fruit, ancient species, and pachycephalosaur form on the spot. Her forehead bulged, her legs were bent, and her arches became larger. There was a crack in the ground, and there was a “bang” sound. Her figure disappeared from the spot, and the ground that she stepped on exploded.
“Alas…” Nami stepped out of the crowd helplessly. The angry swollen-headed dragon girl came like a bolt of lightning and directly broke her waist.
Run?q’s momentum was fierce enough. 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 exit above. .
Robin raised his head and said: “It’s such a weak skylight. Is it heaven or **** at the end?”
Bang! Run?q stepped on the edge of the dock and stopped, her whole body braving the slight heat wave caused by the extreme speed collision. Her forehead was wrapped with a layer of dark domineering energy, and she turned back to stare at this group of guys as if nothing had happened…even the little deer. Same – so cute! ! ——The guy just dodged his own sprint in time! Where did these guys come from? Some of them look familiar!
However, the most irritating thing… Run?q looked at the orange-haired woman whose body was “broken” by him. The latter’s disconnected waists were quickly connected with fierce lightning.
“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. I can fight quickly. The best thing to do quickly is Hela.”
“Hmph.” Nami’s smoky makeup thundercloud floated over and landed on her golden staff.
In an instant, thunder exploded.
Nami’s whole body is like a thunderbolt, as if connected with the thunder cloud Hela and the golden staff. In the extreme light and shadow that almost illuminates the harbor space in white, Nami’s voice sounds like a chuckle: “One billion volts, the gun of the goddess of death.”
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Run?q rolled his eyes, as if his whole body was cooked. He knelt on his knees with a “pop”, and then his body tilted and passed out on the ground of the dock.
Da, da, Nami walked by on red high heels and followed Lynch and others.
Frankie helped find a cave 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 are just like Run?q. They are all covered with steam at this moment, and they don’t know how mature they are.
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 grid, he lifted up his little fat guy Thundercloud Modi and secretly took a few bites.
That must be one of Kaido’s flying six cells… Marco looked at the steaming Run?q who threw himself on the street and was secretly speechless. I also thought that after the end of the war, “Thunder Banshee” Nami’s bounty jumped 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 offering bounties to people like Straw Hats…
Of course, just now, Nami killed Run?q with one move, causing her to temporarily lose her fighting ability. This is indeed worthy of her high bounty.
However… Marco glanced at Lynch who looked like a normal person. The Navy could raise the bounty so unceremoniously, and Lynch’s influence cannot be ignored. ——Even Cavendish and Visionary, who defeated Kaido’s Drought a while ago, saw their bounties increase rapidly. The Navy may have already known that these new pirates were 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 Lin Qi, the pirate with the highest bounty today, has also personally trained such a large group of pirates whose strength has increased… Marco thought so, and heard Ace’s younger brother shouting energetically: “…Anyway Is the exit above? Let’s go up there!”
Luffy stepped on his feet, and his legs suddenly expanded, 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 under his feet with amazing elasticity. As it continued to compress, it made a tooth-wrenching clicking sound… In Ace and Marco’s surprised expressions, there was a “bang” on the spot, and the ground exploded, while Luffy’s grinning expression was… It seems like it’s still stuck in place.
Ace raised his head, and Luffy rushed up like a missile. He was so fast that he didn’t even catch the Beast Pirates pirates on duty in the sentry hut on the mountain wall along the elevator passage. After reacting, 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 tiny horns turned around and rubbed his eyes, but there was nothing there.
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 in the mouth, “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 sat on a pile of white and yellow clouds, floating up like a picnic. There was also a blond man in a suit, floating up and down gracefully with a golden Frisbee under his feet. Another green-haired warrior with three swords hanging from his waist seemed to be impatient with the speed, and jumped up from the white clouds, as if he was with the white clouds. Like a match, his feet clicked “pop” and “pop”, while Baiyun flew upwards beside him. 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 climbed on the wall as if on the ground, passed by and knocked the pirate unconscious with a flying fist.
“Mr. Franky, I was about to let him take a nap!” Brooke, who was riding Thundercloud Mjolnir with Chopper, just took out his violin – initially he wanted to pull it to Nami’s sea Damn it, he 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 top of Miss Sif! ——Youyou complained and put the violin away.
“Hahaha, everyone is 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 battered Beast Pirate in the sentry box got up, glanced at Lin Qi’s profile, and immediately rolled his eyes, 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. When they jumped out of the hole, they discovered that at the top of the elevator track was a dilapidated cabin like an attic.
The doors and windows have been opened, and Zoro and others are outside the house.
Lin Qi and Robin went out to take a look. What they saw was that the sky was dim and a cold moon hung alone in the sky. The cold wind was blowing, 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? Therefore, even if you wear hot and cool clothes like a suspender T-shirt, denim hot pants and high heels, walking in this desolate and cold autumn night, you will still look like you are fine.
“Is this the country of Wano?” Chopper picked up a branch and bumped it around. “It’s so strange. Why can’t we even see animals?”
Pop, 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 the wooden house they came out of was actually the only building in the wilderness. Some human buildings can be seen in other places – but they are 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 Net, quickly opened her eyes, swallowed, and said in surprise: “There is basically no ‘voice’ of a living person within ten kilometers of the front, back, left, and right. This is too exaggerated. Right? ”
Reminiscent of the Four Emperors Kaido who was entrenched here, everyone looked at each other. 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 talk about 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 sideways.
“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.”
As he said that, he lifted his feet and walked away – the direction of his toes was so crooked that it made no difference. He was quickly grabbed by Usopp and Chopper.
Franky held Sauron’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 operation on your kid another day. Take a look…”
“Is there something wrong with your feet?”
“What did you say?!”
Everyone walked all the way towards Thor’s position, watching the bickering Zoro and Sanji as sideshows on the way.
Click, click… Walking in this wilderness, you will step on dead bones from time to time. Everyone passed through a ruins. It seemed that this place was once a small village. Unfortunately, the houses collapsed and not even a few weeds could be seen. Chopper’s eyes narrowed, and his blue nose sniffed and found a pile of weeds in the ruins. ―The stump of roots. It digs out the grass roots with its little 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. Are they 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: “The last time I came here, 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. , we didn’t go back to Fugasa Village, and left Wano Country directly 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 Lynch’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.” ”
Zoron 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 dark shadows of some tall buildings, 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’re 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 already 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 the person among the crowd. Someone said in surprise: “Long, Lord Longma?!”
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 himself, “Me?”