Chapter 312: Remote Countryside
On the beach, Lin Qi was trapped in a large iron cage.
“Got it!”
There were quite inspiring shouts nearby, and soon a group of people jumped out from hiding... They looked like fishermen, young men from villages and towns, holding harpoons, hooks, or farm tools such as shovels and hammers. There were a few dark-skinned teenagers following behind them, pulling fishing nets... Everyone jumped out together, surrounded the iron cage, and looked at the pirates they had caught in the cage.
Wow, what a tall and mighty guy!
The villagers and fishermen held their weapons and hesitated. This guy... doesn't look like the hateful fishmen from before! "Hey! Are you a pirate?" The young man held up a shovel and looked at the empty sea behind Lin Qi warily, "Or are you a shipwrecked person?"
Lynch looked at the people on the island outside the cage and asked, "What is the name of this island?"
"Answer the question, asshole!"
"Don't be so fierce..." Lin Qi said perfunctorily, "After all, I have a bounty on my head, so I am a pirate!"
Hearing this, the people holding shovels and harpoons in front of the cages became more alert. Lin Qi smiled and said, "It's your turn. Where is this place?"
"Oh, the place names here are easy to mishear," the young man in front of the cage put down his shovel and fumbled in his trouser pocket, "Put your hand here, I'll write the name on your hand..."
"Okay." Lynch stretched his hand out of the iron cage fence, and was tied to the iron cage fence by a finger-thick iron chain.
"What a stupid thief!" The young man put down the shovel and shook his head. He quickly wrapped the chain around several times and finally "clicked" the iron lock that was as heavy as a weight.
"So you're lying!" Lin Qi sighed, "How treacherous."
Everyone laughed loudly and felt relieved. It seemed that the group of fish-man pirates had really left. Now they caught another stupid pirate for nothing. They were really lucky! Lin Qi looked down at the heavy iron chain, grabbed the lock with his other hand and pulled hard. With a crisp sound, he pulled the iron chain off the thick chain.
The laughter of the crowd died down, and their mouths grew wider and wider. They stared at the broken lock in the hand of the man in the cage, stunned, and snot dripped down their noses.
"Forget it," Lin Qi threw the lock and hit the forehead of the young man who tied him up, breaking his head and bleeding. He staggered back. "I'm going to the town to eat. Please make way."
After saying that, he grabbed the iron cage bars and pulled them to both sides with great force. Then, with a creak, the bars bent completely, revealing a spindle-shaped hole. He then stepped out of the iron cage.
Everyone was so scared that they stepped back and fell to the ground, looking up at this man, stunned.
He broke the chains with his bare hands and opened the iron cage. Is this still a human? Could it be that... he is actually a fishman who looks like a human? A strong man quietly approached Lynch with a hammer, gritted his teeth and jumped up - otherwise he couldn't reach it! He hit Lynch's head with a hammer.
Bang! The sturdy man held the hammer, his hand was numb from the shock, and the hammer handle was snapped off, but Lynch was unharmed. He picked up the sturdy man and casually threw him back dozens of meters away... plop, he fell into the sea.
"Ah!" It had only been a while since he left Nine Snakes, but Lynch already missed Hancock. If he had the same domineering Haki as her, these people would be stunned when they approached him, so there was no need to talk to them. Lynch shook his head, threw these ordinary villagers away one by one, sensed the direction of "BIB", and left barefoot in his shorts.
At this time, the old fisherman who had been hiding in the dark came out and said to the villagers who were lying in a mess: "It's so scary, I thought you were all going to be killed..."
He recounted the astonishing fight scene on the sea that he had seen through the telescope earlier, and the dizzy crowd finally understood what kind of monster was trapped in their trap.
"That's impossible. It doesn't make sense," Tieqiao said indignantly, holding the blood on his forehead. "If he is really like what you described, and can fight the murlocs until the sea is churning... With such incredible strength, why didn't he get angry at all when we misunderstood him just now?"
The others were speechless. Do they have to be killed by the other party to feel comfortable? The old fisherman said: "What a strange young pirate..."
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This is indeed a very small island and has a very small town.
Lynch walked on the streets of the town. His sturdy body of more than two meters stood out from the crowd, attracting the attention of passers-by.
When he found Robin, she was in a restaurant in town and had already ordered a table of food waiting for him, all of which were to his taste.
Lynch didn't hesitate and sat down to eat. Robin took out clothes from the green Den Den Mushi's castle and put them next to him.
"How is it?" Lynch asked casually while eating and drinking. He knew that with Robin's ability, he should have found out a lot of information he needed to know in such a short time.
Robin said: "This island is located on the edge of the Grand Route. The people on the island are relatively isolated from the news, but we can infer that this is almost in the middle of the first half of the Grand Route..."
She tapped the green Den Den Mushi with her fingers, causing it to throw out a recording pointer from its castle.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Although the Nine Snakes Pirates can travel freely in the Calm Belt, they will also sail on the Grand Line, and of course they also need to prepare recording pointers. When Lynch and Robin were leaving, Hancock gave them a few recording pointers.
Robin took out the recording pointer, and the magnetic needle in the glass ball swayed gently. After entering the island, it began to operate under the island's magnetic field, slowly recording the island's magnetic force.
When the magnetic recording is completed, the pointer changes to point in the direction of the next island indicated by the magnetic force.
However, the magnetic conditions of each island on the Grand Route are different, and the time required to record the magnetic forces of different islands is also different. Some islands may be recorded in a few hours, while some islands may take days, months, or even years...
"It would take two years and four months to fully record the magnetic force of this island." Robin shook his head and said, "Plus, this place is not on the main route of the seven shipping routes and is close to the doldrums... So even though the island is small and has no navy or powerful kingdom forces, pirates rarely pass by here."
An island with only towns but no kingdom is called a poor village.
Located on the edge of the doldrums and far away from the seven shipping routes, it is called a remote area.
Even during the Great Pirate Age, few pirates were willing to visit such a place.
Robin added: "It seems that the Fishman Pirates passed by here before... They only stayed for a short time, and they definitely didn't finish storing the magnetic force."
While eating, Lin Qi said, "They have a boat full of mermaids and fishmen. If they get lost, they can just ask the fish in the sea. Maybe they don't rely too much on the recording pointer!"
Robin nodded, ate a little, and then sipped a cup of coarse tea. The arm made of the Flower-Flower Fruit brought a book, which she opened with one hand and read. After Lin Qi finished eating, she put the book down and asked calmly, "So, what should we do next? Should we wait until the recording pointer finishes storing the magnetic force?"
(End of this chapter)