Chapter 195 From Sky Island

[Chapter Opening Interlude·Lin Qi, the day you wake up·"Return with the wind"]

[In the West Sea, eight-year-old Nico Robin ran in the rain on Nangako Island. Grand Line, Calm Belt, Daughter Island, nine-year-old Boa Hancock climbed up a tall building, opened her arms and jumped lightly, and below her were tens of hundreds of Nine Snake women gathered together nervously...]

Haredas slightly adjusted the magnetic device in the balloon that was hanging the weather ship, and slowly descended to the Nine Snake Island below.

The doldrums, as the name suggests, mean there is no wind.

Without wind, the weather ship's balloon cannot float with the natural wind.

There was nowhere to get leverage, and every time he came to this sea area, the magnetic force in the magnetic device was consumed so quickly that Haredas would pull out several of his beards in pain.

However, he was particularly curious about the weather on Nine Snake Island and wanted to collect records.

But this daughter island has a rule that men are not allowed to enter.

But the more it is forbidden, the more curious people become...

Hiss... Ouch.

Haredas was frowning, and he pulled out another strand of his beard unconsciously, and warned himself: "Haredas, oh Haredas, this is really the last time! Well... the last time..."

The women on this island are so fierce. They are known as a fighting nation. It would be terrible if you were caught by them.

…

Boom! The weather ship landed.

The white-bearded old man Haredas turned over and pulled out the chain, and tied the weather ship to a tree trunk in the forest.

If it is not tied properly, without his load, the weather ship will float away with the magnetic balloon. Then he can only make a new magnetic balloon and go home by pulling the balloon rope...

His old body can't stand this kind of torture.

If you loosen your grip on the rope and don't hold it tightly, you will fall to death.

"Hurry up, hurry up..."

Wearing a pointed hat and dressed like an old wizard, the old man Haredas took out a pen and paper, as well as instruments for observing and recording meteorological data, and entered the woods outside Nine Snake Island.

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"It's true. Nine Snake Island is just like the other islands in the Calm Belt..."

Haredas was holding the measuring instrument, happily and devotedly studying it.

But suddenly I heard some subtle movement nearby.

Beast?

Haredas was startled. Although he was very old, he was still an old man who traveled around the world and had some small self-defense props.

Wind Knot may not be very effective against wild beasts.

But he still carried some thunder balls and the like with him. If necessary, he could also use the weather science he had learned to create a small thundercloud on the spot.

Faced with the thunder and lightning, most wild beasts would be forced to retreat.

He was reaching into his arms to take out the thundercloud prop, but he saw three little girls walking out of the woods.

The one in the middle was a black-haired girl. She was obviously the leader of the three, after all, she was so pretty and cute.

On his left and right, one had green hair and the other had orange hair. When they saw him, their faces were filled with surprise.

The three girls were all wearing the clothes of women from Nine Snake Island.

Haredas took his hand out of his arms, breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be a little girl. I thought it was a beast..."

Hancock: “…”

Sandasonia and Marigrude immediately grabbed their pet snakes, stretched them into snake bows, pulled out wooden arrows, and put them on the strings.

Haredas was stunned and exclaimed, "Ah!"

"Who are you?" Hancock asked warily, crossing her arms.

The two sisters, one on the left and one on the right, pulled their snake bows and aimed at the tall, strange man in front of them.

The old man with white beard explained: "My name is Haredas... I am not a bad person..."

"It's suspicious no matter how you look at it!" Sandasonia obviously didn't believe it.

Marigru pulled the bow and said, "That's right! You have such long hair in your mouth. Is this some kind of disguise? It's so suspicious!"

"Mouth? Hair?" Haredas was stunned. He touched his chin and understood.

Hancock said unhappily, "That's the beard! He's a man, a very old man."

"That's a beard?!" The two sisters seemed to have heard something about this. They were shocked, but also very curious. Holding the snake bow, they approached Haredas and couldn't help but touch the long, smooth white beard that drooped down to his chest. "It's so long... When men get old, they will grow such strange hair... uh, beard?"

"Of course." Hancock didn't quite understand, so she quickly changed the subject and questioned the old man in front of her, "What are you doing on our Nine Snake Island? You're not an enemy, are you? Do you want to take away the women on the island? You must be dreaming!"

She revealed a dangerous look, as if she was going to kill the old man on the spot if he gave a wrong answer.

This made the two sisters feel very strange. When did their elder sister become so vigilant? Haredas was also startled and waved his hands hurriedly, "No, no, no! I'm not an enemy! I'm just a scientist passing by..."

Sanda Sonya: “Passing by?”

Marigrude: "Scientist?"

A question mark appeared over the two girls' heads.

"I travel around the world, collecting intelligence from different places. Ah, I say intelligence, but it's actually just meteorological data..." Haredas was afraid that the word intelligence would cause bad associations, so he quickly explained, "It means someone who studies the weather! I just want to study the weather on Nine Snake Island..."

Around the world? Travel? Hancock was moved.

"So it's just studying the weather..." The two sisters slowly put down the snake bows.

"This is a doldrums zone. What's there to study about the weather here? There's no wind all year round. That's it." Hancock didn't believe what the old man said at all.

"Sister is right!" The two sisters raised their snake bows again and were alert.

Haledas was so scared that sweat broke out on his head. "That's why we need to study it even more! There is not a single breath of wind all year round. Isn't that strange?"

He took out his notebook for recording and the various data on the instruments.

"Look... According to my research, the magnetic force of this island, like other islands in the Calm Belt, and even the entire Calm Belt, is very special! I think this must be the reason why natural wind cannot form here..."

The three sisters, Hancock, Sandasonia, and Marigrude, tilted their heads in unison, with a common big question mark appearing on their heads.

"I don't understand what you're saying!"

Hancock shouted, stretched out her hand, and her pet snake Salome fell into her hand like a bow.

"How you came to this island is suspicious enough! Add to that the fact that you are a man and stepped onto this island, which is even more unforgivable! According to the laws of this country, men who enter the Nine Snakes without permission shall be put to death!"

Hancock pulled out a wooden arrow and drew the snake bow to its full length.

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

"..." The two younger sisters looked at their elder sister who was speaking righteously.

They really want to say that there is a man in our country right now, and he is the kind of man that you, your sister, have been dating privately for a year or two...

But they still did the same as their eldest sister, drawing their bows and arrows and aiming at the tall old man in front of them.

"Don't kill me... I'm really not a bad person..."

Haredas was dejected, with his pointed hat drooping down.

"You want us to protect you? Protect a man like you?!" Hancock changed her tone and shouted, "Is it that simple? Do you think you can bribe us with any benefits? This is a pirate country, don't dream!"

So that’s what it is, clearly they want to rob... The two sisters turned their heads to look at their elder sister again.

My sister has become so amazing! Is this the experience of sailing on a pirate ship?

However, according to my sister's personality, it should be...

Hancock shouted, "Hand over whatever good stuff you have! Maybe I can let you leave alive..."

Haredas wanted to cry but had no tears. He was pointed at by three snake bows and said in embarrassment: "I am just a simple scientist. How can I have any good things? Our greatest treasure is just a room full of research materials. Apart from that, there are only some necessities of life at home. Let me think about it. There seem to be three devil fruits in the corner of the warehouse. But you guys don't want those strange things that will turn you into a landlubber after eating them. There are really no good things!"

How come he confessed everything at once... The two younger sisters were stunned.

"Devil Fruit?" Hancock blinked.

At this moment, all four of them heard a deafening explosion coming from the woods in the distance.

…

"what happened?!"

In various parts of the woods, the Nine Snake warriors who were out of the city for training heard explosions or felt unusual tremors in the ground at the same time.

…

Could it be that Giorno was behind this?

Hancock's mind turned, and she felt that apart from Snake Princess, only Giorno could pull off such a scene on this island.

"Let's go and take a look!" Hancock said, and ran towards the direction where the explosion came from.

"Oh!" the two sisters responded.

Haredas was about to sneak away when he heard Hancock reminding him in front of him: "Take him with you!"

So, the old man was tied up with two snakes, and was carried away by two little girls, holding him above their heads.

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This open space in the woods by the sea is already covered with bear paw prints.

Even many of the surrounding trees were broken by the bear's paw prints, and they were tilted all over the place, creating a very messy scene.

Robin used the Hana-Hana Fruit to hide at a higher place.

Lynch's clothes were torn and tattered, there was some sweat on his forehead, and his breathing became a little rapid.

The big bear in front of him was as steady as a mountain as at the beginning. Seeing Lin Qi's condition, he was surprised and said, "Your physical strength is very strong. Is it because you are good at returning life..."

"Maybe!"

Lynch smiled, clenched his fists again, wrapped his arms Haki in it, and rushed forward with high morale.

Do you want to use me to hone your domineering spirit? The big bear smiled gently, not caring at all, and faced the enemy head-on with black domineering spirit on his paws.

Bang! The black fists collided.

The big bear suddenly looked surprised, and when he looked back, he realized that the black shadow had appeared behind him without him noticing!

"BIB"'s narrow eyes glowed white, and his left hand, which was covered with blue flame patterns, grabbed somewhere on the big bear's back.

Back heart?

heart?

So that's it, it's a devil fruit!

(End of this chapter)