Chapter 308: Someone I Met Unexpectedly (Two in One)
"Newsbird, this way~"
A human woman's cry could be heard nearby.
The newspaper bird was startled. They were in the sky, where did the human woman come from?
It flapped its wings and looked around, noticing the... Den Den Mushi flying in the air nearby?
It's not surprising that Den Den Mushi can imitate human voices.
But how come those little snails can fly?
The news bird flapped its wings and flew over.
"Bolu?!"
Being held by "BIB" and feeling the breeze in the sky, Little Green was taking a nap comfortably when he was suddenly startled by the approach of the News Bird. The whole insect changed its appearance in an instant and merged into the sea and sky.
“Huh?!”
The Newsbird was shocked by the change in Den Den Mushi, and what surprised it even more was that after Den Den Mushi became "transparent", the scene in the small hole on its forehead became very conspicuous.
In the small hole, a human woman was waving at it, "Newsbird, I want to buy a newspaper."
"Huh?"
Newsbird doesn’t know what to do… The boss never told me that this kind of situation would happen.
"You fly in first." Robin waved to it.
The news bird was hesitating when it was suddenly grabbed by an unseen hand and pushed directly into the castle entrance of Little Green's forehead. It turned out that "BIB" couldn't stand it anymore and helped it.
After shrinking in size, the Newsbird fluttered down to Robin.
Its small head couldn't comprehend what was happening. Where was this place? Why did this human woman suddenly grow bigger? But never mind, business still needed to be done. The news bird took out a newspaper and handed it to the human woman in front of it.
"Thank you." Robin smiled and touched his body. "Excuse me, I'll go get the change."
When she and Lin Qi left Nine Snake Island, they didn't take much money with them.
Although the three Hancock sisters don't mind giving them hundreds of thousands or even millions of Baileys... neither Lynch nor Robin will choose to accept it.
Robin felt that he had not made much contribution in the past few years on Nine Snake Island. Instead, he received a lot of care from the Snake Queen Tulip.
Lin Qi generously used the parting gifts as temporary accommodation expenses for the next few years.
The three Hancock sisters also knew that with their abilities, money was something they could easily get as long as they needed it. For example, wouldn't it be easy to rob any pirate ship that filled the sea? The news bird followed the human woman into this strange cave.
It's really... a very strange cave...
Distorted patterns... the wall seemed to be crawling, or something solidified...
The floor and ceiling are not flat... The passage is also uneven, crooked and thick...
As a domesticated seabird, bathed in human civilization, how could the Newsbird adapt to the distorted style of the Den Den Mushi castle? He followed tremblingly, fearing that the human woman would kill him and cook him in the pot if they disagreed. Suddenly, the front opened up and he came to a larger space. Against the weird and twisted corner, there were several human backpacks piled up.
Robin rummaged through his backpack, found a 100-Beli coin, and handed it to Newsbird.
The transaction was completed, and the news bird slipped away with a sense of relief, flapping its wings and flying out of the passage, BIU returning to the sky.
"Huh?"
It looked back but could not see anything. Against the backdrop of the vast sky and ocean, and camouflaged with the green Den Den Mushi camouflage, the tiny castle hole on its forehead was really hard to detect.
If there was not indeed a newspaper missing and a coin extra in his bag, the News Bird would have thought it was just an illusion.
Flutter...
The news bird chirped, flew across the sky, and slowly flew away.
On the calm sea surface below, the sea kings splashed water waves, churning again and again, as if they were fighting with something...
Robin walked to the entrance of the castle and sat down, feeling the strong breeze in his face. He unfolded the newspaper in his hand that smelled of ink and read the news.
She looked through the sections about the navy and paid attention to current affairs, but unfortunately the news she found was nothing more than reports about a certain naval branch sending troops to wipe out a certain pirate group, a certain naval officer making some remarks, and so on. There was no content that Robin wanted to see - it had been almost a year since Hancock petrified the vice admiral of the navy headquarters, and there was no sign of any special movement from the navy. It was really strange.
Even if the Nine Snakes Pirates did not go out to sea during this little year, and Hancock has been staying on the Nine Snakes Island... Even if the Navy cannot temporarily drive the warships into the Calm Belt Nine Snakes... Robin believes that there are still people in the Navy who can reach Nine Snakes alone to negotiate. For example, there was a time when everyone on Nine Snakes Island, regardless of height, weight or size, was a face in Robin's eyes, and Kuzan, who was called Articuno by Lynch; and for example, the Vice Admiral who was like a golden light and fire all over the sky searching for her and Lynch on the Mechanical Island, the hometown of Dr. Vegapunk...
But the result was that the navy did not take the initiative to land on the island.
Did he not want to appear anxious and be controlled by the Nine Snakes? Thinking this, Robin turned a page and saw a relatively large section with a rather special news.
The "Resort Island", a famous scenic spot on the Grand Route, will hold a "World's No. 1 Swordsman Competition" and all ocean masters are welcome to sign up.
The registration and participation location is naturally the resort island, and the participation requirements are - there are no requirements! You are not even required to be a swordsman.
The winner will be known as the "world's greatest swordsman"!
Of course, there is also a huge amount of real money as a bonus, which is enough to attract most people...
With fame in one hand and profit in the other, this competition will probably attract a lot of people to participate. Robin thought, and took a look at the registration time. He was surprised to find that the registration time for this competition lasted for several months, nearly half a year.
It seems that they have done enough publicity, and have also reserved time for contestants from all over the sea to sail to the resort island to register.
I wonder if Lynch is interested in this competition...
"The World's No. 1 Swordsman Competition?"
Lynch, holding a small white-bellied fish in his mouth, broke away from the surging waves and leaped into the air.
With a "puff", he spit out the white-bellied fish. He walked on the moon steps, "pa", "pa", "pa", and it looked like he was taking a walk.
Could it be that Hawkeye's title as the world's greatest swordsman was earned in this match? ∩∩∩……
Lynch's figure rose and fell in the air, and the black armor holding the green Den Den Mushi also followed the movement of the main body, rising and falling, and floating forward.
He stroked his chin, thinking...
After all... Actually, it's strange to think about it. How did the title of the world's greatest swordsman come from? Just look at the various quarrels in the forums in the previous life. The stupid netizens just picked up Red-Haired Shanks, Flower Sword Vista, the retired Rayleigh, and even the Four Emperors Big Mom (she also has a sword), the Four Emperors Whitebeard (Blue Dragon Crescent Blade is not a sword? And as we all know, in the world of One Piece, a sword is a sword, and a sword is a sword)... Even the old bald man with glasses who holds a sword that looks like the first generation of Kitetsu all day long among the Five Elders! There are so many awesome swordsmen, why do you, Hawkeye, who has no real record, become the world's greatest swordsman? But if you won the title in a world competition, it makes sense...
You know, there are indeed many fighting tournaments in the world of One Piece! In the arena of the Dressrosa arc, the "destroyer cannon" Ediot of the Long-armed Clan, who later became a member of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet, is the so-called "New World Central Fighting Tournament V2-level champion."
Since there is a V2 level, there must be a V1 level, and it is very likely that Blackbeard's captain of ship number one, Gizas Badges, is the overlord of this V1 level, because his title is "Fighting Champion".
"Lynch?" Robin noticed that he seemed distracted and couldn't help but remind him.
"Ah? Oh!" Lynch came back to his senses and looked at BIB. He believed that BIB was also thinking about what he was thinking.
The two of them thought at the same time: The most important thing is that "the God of Creation" Oda is a famous Toriyama fan... It is reasonable for the world's No. 1 martial arts tournament in Dragon Ball to appear in the world of pirates with a new skin and become the world's No. 1 kendo! But it has nothing to do with me! Lin Qi shook his head and stopped thinking about it.
Robin asked, "Aren't you going?"
Lynch walked in the air and said with a smile, "We are going to the Sabaody Archipelago! If we don't use the note from Kurokas anymore, it will probably rot. Isn't that a pity?"
Robin also laughed, "I didn't make it a few years ago, so don't go anywhere else this time."
Lin Qi laughed, "That doesn't matter!"
After saying that, he jumped into the sea, splashing water into the sky, and swam while playing with the sea kings.
Of course, with Lynch's size, he couldn't beat a giant sea king as big as a mountain - mainly because he couldn't knock it down. But the giant sea king was also very bulky, and in front of Lynch's agility, it was really like a clumsy underwater mountain. He couldn't beat it, but hiding from it was not difficult at all.
Sometimes he creates huge waves on the sea surface, sometimes he dives into the water, teases sea beasts, swims, and flies straight towards the direction of the great route. It's really fun!
In the air, Robin smiled and continued to read the newspaper in his hand to pass the time.
………………
I don't know how much time had passed, but the newspaper in my hand was rustling and shaking.
The wind suddenly became stronger.
Robin looked up and saw a clearly defined straight line on the endless blue sea below.
On one side of the straight dividing line is the calm calm sea area; on the other side is the ocean with turbulent waves.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
The huge white waves formed by Lynch's swimming were crossing the boundary from the calm waters and entering the turbulent sea.
Leaving the Calm Belt...
Ahead is the first half of the Grand Line.
She and Lynch had passed by here before. They wanted to fly directly to the midpoint of the Sabaody Archipelago through the ghost castle to find Rayleigh mentioned by Lynch. Unexpectedly, due to some accidents, they entered the doldrums and did not return to this sea until today... Robin thought about this and soon felt a sense of weightlessness.
"BIB" is lowering its flying altitude.
Robin looked down at the sea and saw that the huge waves left by Lynch's swimming had disappeared at some point.
Is he swimming underwater? Robin guessed.
She knew that Lynch's stand-in could sense Lynch's location, so she didn't have to worry about losing him.
"BIB" said: "My main body is underwater... I think I ran into other people!"
Robin was surprised, "Others?"
This is the sea area at the edge of the doldrums. Who else could be swimming in the sea except sea beasts and humanoid monsters like Lin Qi? Bang...
Beneath the seemingly calm sea surface, there was a dull collision sound.
Bang…bang…
On the calm sea surface, the waves that were originally just slightly rising and falling gradually became agitated with the dull sounds of collisions.
Bang……
With a loud bang, huge waves and water columns exploded on the sea surface.
"BIB"'s bright eyes moved slightly, and he saw a figure flying out with the gushing water column.
"It's him!"
The Stand Armor thought, "Calculating the time, their pirate group should have been established for some time..."
…
[A moment ago, out of the calm sea, in the water beneath the sea, Lin Qi was hunting a medium-sized sea beast.]
[Swimming for such a long time, swimming out of the Calm Belt with bare hands, this amount of exercise is not small. Although Lin Qi is not tired, he is hungry in advance. The sea beast he is chasing was chased out of the Calm Belt by him. Now that it is out of the Calm Belt, it may not be easy to catch such a beast in the Grand Line. Lin Qi is greedy and does not want to let it go, so he dives underwater and swims at a very fast speed, like a torpedo, chasing the large sea beast. ]
[Little sea beast, you are running so hard, it's really pitiful! Seeing this, my tears flowed into my stomach and finally flowed out of my mouth! ]
[Lin Qi's eyes glowed red as he actually caught up with a sea beast. He circled around and punched it. Bang... The sound of the punch underwater was dull and stirred up turbulent water in the sea.]
[The sea beast was knocked away, and its huge body caused the turbulent sea current. After all, Lin Qi was not an aquatic creature, and it was difficult for him to maintain his balance in such a chaos. He could only use force to break through the turbulence with the powerful driving force of the "water step", and rushed straight to the sea beast that rolled its eyes, and punched it again. Bang...]
[Each punch caused the ocean current to go haywire, like a series of underwater shock waves, with a loud bang, and the small fish and shrimp nearby were frightened and spun around in circles, fleeing at high speed.]
[Lin Qi was grabbing the mane of the giant sea beast and punching it, happily preparing the lunch that was about to be in his hands. Suddenly, his eyes froze and he turned his head to look at the chaotic current underwater.]
[Gurgle…]
[His observation Haki clearly heard a different sound mixed in with the chaotic sound of the ocean current.]
[Gurgle…]
[The sound is approaching him at a very fast speed! ]
[Boom... a column of water visible to the naked eye, yes, a column of water in the water, brushed past Lin Qi's ear like a cannonball.]
[Lin Qi hovered in the turbulence, looking towards the source of the attack, and only caught a glimpse of a shadow coming quickly, circling under the sea beast. Soon, the sea beast, which was screaming with grievance, fled in panic.]
[“Disturbing my lunch? You’re done, you know that?”]
[Lin Qi's mouth was gurgling and bubbling, and he quickly stepped on the ground and rushed straight towards the figure.]
[The man probably didn't expect that he would attack so decisively, and hastily raised his hand to block. Boom! The huge punch force surprised him, and when he saw Lin Qi's look, he was surprised again.]
[After Lin Qi got closer and saw the guy's appearance clearly, he was also a little surprised and said, "Huh?"]
[As he spoke, bubbles began to form at the corners of his mouth...]
…
Boom! Back to the present, a column of water rushed up from the sea, and a figure jumped out.
Immediately afterwards, Robin saw Lynch also rushing out of the sea, and he followed the other party with "click" and "click" moon steps.
The figure was in front, above, and circling around the water column.
Lin Qi was behind and below, approaching at a high speed using the Moon Step. Every time he stepped on the waves, he kicked them up and broke them into splashes all over the sky, scattering a rainbow-like halo in the sunlight.
The figure leaped out of the waves, flew in the air, drew an arc, and fell into the sea with a "splash".
"You are worthy of being called Sea Knight. You really swim fast!"
Lin Qi laughed loudly, stepped on the air, and with a loud "bang", he plunged into the sea like a torpedo without causing any waves.
Two shadows, one in front and one behind, were chasing each other under the sea.
BIB also caught up with Den Den Mushi and Robin from the Den Den Mushi castle by flying in the air.
Underwater, the whale shark Jinbei, who is not yet a sea hero, is moving quickly, but he cannot get rid of the human behind him.
Bang…bang…bang…
In the sea behind him, there were rhythmic muffled sounds. Every time they sounded, the speed of the human following behind him instantly increased! "What kind of swimming method is that?" Jinbei was secretly surprised, "As a human, he can actually keep up with the speed of a fishman like me underwater..."
(End of this chapter)
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