Chapter 314: Magnetism, Compass and Shipbuilding

At the starting point of the Grand Route, the Twin Capes of Upside Down Mountain, there are seven magnetic routes to choose from.

This is equivalent to the seven main trunks of the Grand Line. In addition to these magnetic trunks, there are other scattered islands on the sea of ​​the Grand Line. These scattered islands are connected in series, like densely packed "branches", embedded in the trunks of the seven magnetic routes...

Lynch sat on the shore of the island, facing the sea with his eyes closed, one hand holding the recording pointer and the other hand held in the air, as if he was moving a magnetic field that was invisible to the naked eye.

Naturally, his eyesight could not cover the entire ocean, but as a user of the Magnet-Magnet Fruit, he could vaguely feel the "crowd"-shaped magnetic network on this great route.

In this huge network, there are densely packed nodes, like clusters of magnetic vortices, serving as hubs, connecting one route after another.

Lynch knew that every magnetic vortex was an island on the Grand Route.

Each adjacent magnetic vortex attracts, connects, and entangles each other... forming magnetic tracks.

In his hand, inside the spherical glass cover of the recording pointer, the pointer swayed gently, slowly recording the magnetic force of the island.

Lynch could only vaguely sense the existence of the scattered islands in the distance.

But sitting on the island in front of him, he gradually was able to clearly "see" the direction "guided" by the island's magnetic force.

The magnetic channel points to the southwest direction...

Lynch closed his eyes and dozed off, holding the recording pointer in his hand, but his mind seemed to be following the channel guided by magnetic force, flying across dozens of kilometers of ocean.

The tiny pointer on the record in his hand began to shake violently.

Lynch's consciousness seemed to follow the magnetic route, passing through the sea with unpredictable climate changes, and came to a large vortex in the distance with a stronger magnetic force.

That's the next island.

The vortex of magnetic force can be strong or weak.

Weak ones, like the island where Lynch is now.

This island is geographically remote, far away from the seven magnetic routes, and is the end of a "branch"...

Perhaps it is because the island has such a weak magnetic vortex that the recording pointer needs a longer time to record the magnetism of the island.

Well, on the contrary...

Lynch's palms were filled with strong magnetic force, and he moved them gently, like plucking the strings of a guitar, pressing down the weak magnetic field emitted by the island and softly combing it.

He opened his eyes, stood up, looked at the boundless ocean, and quickly turned to look in another direction, which was the direction of the Red Earth Continent.

As the route goes deeper, the chains of the seven magnetic routes will slowly converge with each other. Eventually, all the magnetic routes, whether they are the main trunk or the branches, will merge into one and arrive at the destination - Raftel.

The final island that hides the "great treasure", ONE PIECE!

"I remember the comics saying that the magnetic field of the island at the end is very chaotic... Without the guidance of the four red stones, it is impossible to find Raftel by the recording pointer. The permanent Raftel pointer in the movie should have been recorded after the people on Roger's ship arrived at the final island..."

Lin Qi pondered secretly, and was quite curious in his heart. If he arrived at Shuixianxing Island with the Magnetic Magnetic Fruit, would he be able to find the magnetic vortex belonging to Raftel in the ocean where the magnetic force was in chaos? However...

Come to think of it, I’m not that interested in what the great secret treasure is!

The truth of history? Lynch doesn't care much about the history of this foreign pirate world.

As for Sister Robin's ideals and her obsession with the blank 100 years... Before she met the Straw Hat Pirates, she had not found many historical text tablets that recorded important truths. Therefore, Lin Qi believed that the trajectory of Robin in the original time and space was not much different from the Robin who was hanging out with him now!

At worst, we can just wait quietly for another fifteen years. By then, the Thousand Sunny, carrying the Chosen One, the new Joy Boy, the Straw Hat Boy who possesses the most terrifying power on the sea and is determined to become the next Pirate King, will naturally arrive at the final island, Raftel. This will naturally lead to a huge war that is very likely to break out and even affect the closed country of Wano.

By then, no matter what the so-called historical truth is, it will most likely be revealed, either by the Straw Hat Pirates or by the Revolutionary Army.

Therefore, although Lynch is not interested in history, he is not worried about delaying Robin's dream because of himself.

Besides... is it treasure? Lin Qi touched his chin. As for treasure, let's not talk about whether he is interested or not. Even if he is interested... it doesn't necessarily have to be Raftel! The old man in the Kingdom of Flowers who used to have a pointy head and is now bald, doesn't he have a huge treasure trove accumulated by generations? Anyway, when he goes out to sea this time, he will definitely go to the Kingdom of Flowers.

Green Pepper's treasure was frozen underground. After his pointy head was flattened by Garp's punch, he could no longer open the frozen treasure house... But this physical barrier was of no meaning to Lynch.

BIB will not be shut out by the ice.

"Then let 'BIB' take the Castle Fruit and go to Green Pepper's frozen treasure house to get a few of his treasures. It will be a souvenir!"

Lynch thought secretly and turned back to the woods.

The black armor had silently chopped down many large trees, cut them into logs and piled them up in the open space. However, it would take some thought to figure out how to make a boat out of the wood.

Robin brought the little girl over. The little girl had probably been crying, her eyes and nose were red, and she looked very aggrieved.

Robin asked, "How is it?"

Lynch briefly described the magnetic routes he sensed through the magnetic fruit.

Robin was surprised and asked, "So, with you here, we won't even need a record pointer anymore?"

"No, no, if you need to go to a specific place, you still need a permanent pointer." Lin Qi said modestly, "The magnetic vortex is too far away, unless the ability of the Magnet-Magnetic Fruit is further developed. Only a true genius of the Devil Fruit can do this, right?"

Robin smiled and said, "The genius of the devil fruit, isn't that you?"

"Yes!" Lin Qi clapped his fists, thought for a moment and said, "But... even if I can act as a permanent pointer, it is impossible to remember so many different islands without a photographic memory!"

Robin stood on tiptoe and flicked his nose with his finger, "You are just too good to be true, aren't you?"

"Yeah!" Lin Qi laughed, "It turns out I'm really that awesome!"

The little girl who was rubbing her eyes couldn't help but laugh. Although she didn't understand what the older brother and sister were talking about, she was still amused by their tone and performance.

"But is this okay?" Robin tapped Lynch's thick and firm chest twice. "In this way, you will need to constantly correct the ship's course according to the magnetic route when sailing. Unless... you let 'BIB' replace you as the user of the Magnet-Magnet Fruit?"

"That won't work!" Lynch said flatly.

At the same time, he stretched out his hand and pointed it at the green Den Den Mushi that was leisurely swinging in the woods not far away. An iron rod instantly flew out from the castle hole on its forehead. After leaving the body, it "BIU" enlarged and returned to its original shape, then flew into Lynch's hand and was grasped with a "snap".

"If I give it the Magnet Fruit, how can I play?" Lynch held the iron rod and tapped it on his shoulder. The little girl looked up and stared in amazement. What just happened? Robin spread his hands, asking, what else can I do? "This seems a bit difficult... but there is a way!"

The iron rod paused at his shoulder, and Lynch smiled slightly, "For example... do this!" He raised the iron rod, thrust it hard into the ground, and placed the rod in front of him.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

At the same time, an astonishing magnetic force that ordinary people could not feel surged from Lynch's body along the iron rod, as if a huge magnetic hand reached into the weak magnetic vortex of the island and stirred it... The stirring force slowly increased along the direction of the vortex, until the giant magnetic hand finally merged into the magnetic vortex of the entire island, and they could no longer be distinguished from each other.

"Recording pointer..." Robin and the little girl both saw that the recording pointer on Lynch's hand immediately pointed to the other direction of the sea after shaking for a while.

"Done." Lynch pulled out the iron rod and threw it away.

Little Green leisurely transformed into the shape of a huge castle, opened his mouth to swallow the oncoming iron rod, then shrank his body again, returning to a small size and continuing to wander on the ground.

"…………" The little girl was stunned. She looked at the snail over there, then at the big brother, and swayed back and forth. She wanted to say something, but she didn't know what to say. The kind big sister didn't care at all about the giant snail that appeared and disappeared just now. She was saying to the big brother: "It's incredible. The pointer has... completed recording the magnetic force of this island?"

Lynch used the power of the Magnetic-Magnetic Fruit to instantly increase the intensity of the island's magnetic vortex to the maximum, so that the recording pointer actually recorded the magnetism of the island in an instant and naturally began to point to the next island.

"The enhanced magnetic vortex will probably last for a day or two." Lynch said, "Unfortunately, it is too difficult to change the characteristics of the magnetic vortex. I also don't understand Dr. Vegapunk's research materials. Otherwise, maybe I can turn this Little Spring Island into Little Winter Island for fun..."

Robin was speechless. If Lynch could do something like that, it would really be like a miracle.

Lin Qi smiled and asked, "How can you be sure... that these islands on the Grand Route, these complex magnetic networks... were not artificially created by someone using the Magnetic-Magnetic Fruit or some technology to create the Magnetic-Magnetic Fruit in the beginning?"

Robin thought for a moment and said, "If this is true, it would be an unprecedented project. It is impossible not to find any record of it in history... The only possibility is..."

Such a large project was recorded in the "lost hundred years", so the relevant records were also lost along with that period of history.

"But the Grand Route, the Red Earth Continent, these natural wonders... have already existed for thousands of years."

Robin thought for a moment and said slowly, "Either, one, the record of the Grand Line's magnetic network was made thousands of years ago. In the ancient history, the relevant events were not recorded or passed down. Or, two, before that lost history, there was no magnetic route on the Grand Line. It was just an ordinary sea area like the four oceans."

She looked up and met Lynch's gaze.

Lin Qi snapped his fingers and analyzed, "What kind of changes have taken place in the originally peaceful Grand Line Ocean after these magnetic networks suddenly appeared? The complex magnetic vortices affect each other, making the originally peaceful and normal ocean become countless times more bizarre and dangerous... It sounds like the instigator is a madman who intends to destroy the world!"

Robin was speechless. She remembered that Dr. Clover and his team had discovered a huge kingdom that might have existed in that lost history during their research on the blank hundred years... Could it be that huge kingdom that did it? Just like Lynch said, was it destroyed because it acted like a madman who was destroying the world? Was it destroyed by the World Government that was born eight hundred years ago? If so, the World Government is the heroic organization that saved the world, so why did they cover up that history? Could it be that after they destroyed the huge kingdom, they found out that the truth was not so, and the other party was not evil? So they were unwilling to admit their own injustice, and could not explain why the huge kingdom was destroyed, so they simply erased all the history of the other party's existence? Robin thought of the content of the historical text she saw on Nine Snake Island, and pondered, "Maybe it's possible, but there is no evidence to support it, and it's just a guess after all."

When I looked up, I found that Lynch had already left and was fiddling with the stacked logs over there.

With a helpless smile, Robin followed and said, "If you want to build a boat, you can't do it without tools. Let's go to the town and see if we can borrow some..."

Many residents here are fishermen, so they must have tools for repairing and building boats.

Lin Qi nodded. It was impossible for him to saw wood with his bare hands, right? So he asked, "What tools do you need?"

Robin recalled some miscellaneous books she had read and carefully listed a few items, such as saws, wood planes, etc. Lynch asked for details and asked her to try her best to describe what those tools looked like.

"Are you planning to..." Robin hesitated. She felt that this man had no intention of going to town to get tools.

Lin Qi gave her a thumbs up, smiled slightly, and stretched out his hand and said, "Come here, worm!"

"BIB" flew over, picked up the wood-colored Den Den Mushi that was leisurely crawling on the tree trunk, and handed it to the main body - Xiaolu was wondering, "Bolu?" He stared with two lollipop-like eyes.

"A saw, a wood plane..."

Den Den Mushi and Lynch looked into each other's eyes, which seemed to be full of magic, and they soon felt dizzy. Lynch's voice followed their sight straight into their hearts and continued to echo in their minds.

At the same time, inside the Den Den Mushi castle, beside the piled packages, on the ceiling, floor, and walls that smelled of gram, masses of white fluid continued to emerge, condensing into the shipbuilding tools that Lynch and his team needed...

………………

In the town, not only the young and strong, but also some uncles and aunts united together and gathered together to discuss the matter with serious expressions.

"Those two pirates kidnapped Amorin, we must not let them go!"

(End of this chapter)