Luo and the Surgery Fruit
"Several pups are missing," the sea king's voice trembled. "We followed the scent and found that humans took them away."
Most humans have always been unfriendly towards sea kings and merfolk, so it is not surprising that they would do such things.
Merry hugged the Sea King in front of him and said, "What do you need me to do?"
"Those children were taken to an island in the North Sea, but we can't get close to it. Please, Your Highness, save them!"
Merry had received help from the sea kings many times, so of course she couldn't just ignore it.
"Okay, lead the way!" Meli jumped onto the top of the sea king. "Gray, please tell Dr. Su Rina that I'm leaving now. I'll come back to see her when I'm free."
“Chirp~~”
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Merry sat on top of the Sea King, passed through the Grand Route and the Calm Belt, and successfully arrived at the North Sea.
The sea water here is freezing cold, and countless icebergs are floating on the sea.
The ocean currents beneath the sea surface also became viscous, carrying the biting chill of glaciers, like countless fine needles piercing the skin.
The originally thin summer dress was clinging to the body and was frozen hard by the cold, as if wearing a thin layer of ice shell.
Meli hugged her arms tightly because she couldn't stand the cold.
She asked with chattering teeth, "Wait a minute... How far are we from those humans'...habitation?"
[Your Highness, it will arrive in about a day.]
"One more day...?"
No, if she has to soak in the icy sea water for another day, let alone saving others, she will be frozen to death first!
"I can't do it anymore... Let's find a place to rest for a while?"
Merry closed his eyes, sensed the cold water, and soon found an island nearby.
"There is an island over there..."
[Yes, Your Highness.]
Following the guidance in their minds, the sea kings immediately swam towards their target destination.
The sea kings, like small hills, broke through the ice, slowly approached the shore, and lowered their heads.
Merry slid down from the top of the sea king's head, and eight tentacles emerged from under her skirt, already red from the cold.
At the moment of landing, a cold wind blew in the face, mixed with heavy snow, which made Meli shiver.
No! Why is Beihai so cold? Can I find a place to warm up?
The island was covered with thick snow and ice, a vast expanse of white.
Merry dragged his frozen tentacles and struggled forward on the snow.
We have to find a place sheltered from the wind quickly!
The white air exhaled by Meli quickly condensed into a ball of white mist.
The octopus' tentacles left a winding trail on the snow, which gradually turned blue from the cold.
The wind blew again, and soon the ground was covered with white snow.
Fortunately, human noise and sporadic gunshots suddenly came from not far away.
Meili was delighted, his eyes shining like a lighthouse: Clothes! Clothes!
The frozen nerves came back to consciousness, and the eight tentacles accelerated "whoosh whoosh whoosh" and squirmed frantically in the direction of the noise.
The mimicry ability was activated, and Meli's skin quickly reflected the surrounding environment and gradually became transparent.
Even the skirt she was wearing became blurred and finally disappeared, blending into the surrounding wind and snow.
Then, a strange scene appeared on the snow.
There was clearly no one on the snow, but there was a drag mark extending forward.
"Stop him!"
"We must not let him get away!"
The figures of that group of people were getting closer and clearer.
There were a dozen strong men in coats, holding weapons, chasing and shouting.
Merry didn't listen to what they were shouting; her attention was focused on their thick, warm clothes.
She hid behind a large rock nearby, waiting for the opportunity to grab the clothes.
"Asshole! Stop right there!"
They were getting closer and closer, and running wildly in the front was a blond man with clown makeup on his face, red and black interlaced, which looked funny and comical.
"Bang—bang—bang—"
Stray bullets with sparks flew everywhere, and one of them hit the big rock where Meli was hiding, and the rubble and snow exploded instantly.
Meli quickly retracted his head behind a big rock, dodging stray bullets while recalling the scene he had just seen, wondering whose clothes he should steal.
The blond clown man running in the front looks very good in his black feather cloak, which must be very warm.
Unfortunately, he was being hunted by so many people, and it was very difficult to take action.
The other men's coats looked dirty and worn, as if they had never been washed since they were bought.
Meli curled her lips in disgust, leaned out to take another look, and decided to start with the short man at the edge.
"That's it."
"Bang!" Another gunshot.
The bullet grazed Rossinanti's hood and shaved off several black feathers from his fur cloak.
Rossinanti leaned back suddenly and did a backflip, but when he landed, he accidentally stepped on the fallen feather.
Slurp——
Rossinanti slipped, lost his balance, fell into the snow, and rolled down the hillside.
A black shadow rolled several times and landed right in front of the big rock where Meli was hiding, giving Meli a big fright.
Meli glanced at Rosinante lying on the ground. He seemed to have fallen quite hard, grimacing as if crying out in pain, but the heart-shaped devil fruit in his hand was well protected and not damaged at all.
"Quick! Catch that guy!"
The strong men slid down the snow slope and soon caught up.
"Hand over the surgery fruit!"
Rossinanti fell to the ground and was surrounded by big men, with guns pointed in front of him.
Everyone's attention was on Rossinanti, and no one noticed that a dent had quietly appeared on the snow.
Merry approached his target silently.
Clothes! Here I come!
The next moment, Merry used Fishman Karate.
The little man was knocked unconscious to the ground, and Meli quickly stripped off his coat and put it on him.
The others could not see the invisible Merry, they only saw the little man suddenly fainting on the ground without any warning, and his coat actually fell off by itself, floating in the air, and then disappeared from their sight out of thin air.
"Ghost!!!"
I don't know who screamed in fear first.
The other pirates were frightened by this sudden change and stumbled back. They bumped into their companions and took them down with them when they fell.
Seeing this, Rossinante took advantage of the pirates' panic, quickly stood up, and ran away madly with the Ope-no-mi no Mi.
Two completely different trajectories quickly went away in two different directions.
The leaden clouds hung low, and goose-feather-like snowflakes kept falling.
The island was covered in silver, with white snow everywhere.
Meli had no idea which direction she was going. She didn't know how long she had been running before she saw the blond clown man again.
Rossinandi was holding a thin boy and looking around furtively.
The child's cheeks were red and he looked very ill.
Rossinanti's eyes were filled with tears, but his big red lips, which were cracked to his ears, were smiling happily, making the expression on his face look particularly strange.
Merry's heart skipped a beat. This man stole the devil fruit and held a sick child in his arms. His behavior was too suspicious.
Oh no! Could this man be a human trafficker?!
Meli immediately decided to follow and see if he could rescue the child.
Rosinante, holding Trafalgar Law, ran to an open space and stopped.
Meli also stopped, hid far away, and secretly looked at the situation ahead.
Rosinante showed a strangely happy smile: "Luo, look! It's the surgery fruit!"
Trafalgar Law's face showed no joy. "Corasan, I just heard an explosion. What happened?"
"Other things are unimportant. This is the Operation Fruit. Rejoice! Your illness can be cured!"
"Even if I take it, it won't necessarily cure my platinum lead disease."
Oops! That's strange!
They were clearly talking, so why couldn't I hear any sound?
Merry couldn't hear any voices and couldn't help but move closer.
What are they talking about?
Meli still couldn't hear anything. She could only guess from their expressions that their relationship didn't seem to be very good.
Rossinanti's face suddenly changed and he stuffed the surgery fruit into Luo's mouth.
"What are you talking about! Come on! Come and eat it!"
No sound could be heard, but Merry saw that both of them seemed to be in pain.
Luo leaned back desperately, his face wrinkled into a ball: "How disgusting! How unpalatable!"
Rosinante didn't give Luo a chance to refuse and roughly stuffed the whole fruit into his mouth.
"Eat it! Eat it now!"
......
Finally, Luo swallowed the surgical fruit whole.
The snow kept falling.
"Great..." Rosinante breathed a sigh of relief, but without warning, he fell straight onto the snow. "This way you can heal yourself."
"Corasan, what's wrong with you? Are you too tired?"
Luo crawled over and saw the scarlet color spreading in the snow, which was particularly glaring.
"Huh? Wait! Cora-san! You're bleeding!!"
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