Chapter 421: Rose: Is this a ghost ship?! (Two in one)
High in the sky of the Snow Country, the girl Rose used the Tube-Tube Fruit to open an air duct, and curled up into a ball to shuttle through it.
Invisible pipes swirled in the sky. She walked through them with her knees hugged, looking down at the white snow-capped mountains and land below, searching for the traces of the two pirates.
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"We don't seem to have much food left, old woman, you..."
"Don't push your luck, little brat!" Kuleha said in dissatisfaction in the tree house. "Do you know that in the past two months, it has been difficult just to cope with your bottomless appetite? Where can I get any extra food for you!"
"That makes sense!" Lynch dodged Kuleha's kick calmly and said with a nonchalant smile, "Forget it. There's food all over the sea. It doesn't matter."
This pirate world is a place with extremely rich material resources.
For truly ordinary people, there may be the possibility of poverty and misery.
But for people with a certain level of strength... as long as they are not on an overly barren desert island, there is no chance of starving to death.
Look at the three Luffy brothers when they were young. They were just three little brats around ten years old. They had no income and no help from adults, but they lived a comfortable life by fighting crocodiles and tigers in the mountains. Occasionally, they could even go to a restaurant in the city to have a free meal and something like that...
Even if there was no food stored in the castle, Lynch could still survive by hunting sea beasts in the sea.
Soon, the door of the tree house in the forest opened, and Kuleha, Chopper, Lynch, and Robin walked out.
Originally, Lynch thought that since Kuleha was interested in the "African Punk" weapons technology of the Kingdom of Torino, they could stay for a few more days so that the old woman could read more books...
As a result, Robin told him that more than a month ago, Kuleha had asked her to help copy books related to weapons.
Kuleha can basically understand the medical books of the Torino Kingdom after reading them once, even if those books were created by the ability of the Castle Fruit.
But Kuleha was not an expert in weapon and equipment blueprints, so she couldn't do a one-shot look at them, nor could she take the books and blueprints out of the castle.
So Robin spent a month helping Kuleha to select and copy these things and keep them in the tree house.
In comparison, Dr. Vegapunk's research on bloodline factors was difficult to read for Kuleha, somewhere between a medical book and a weapon book...
Although the research on these bloodline factors is also profound, Kuleha is a top doctor who is like a demon. These are still within her professional field and she can remember them after seeing them. Moreover, her thoughts have been opened up after being inspired by Dr. Vegapunk's research. Many things are applicable to everything. What she needs next is not the research drawings themselves, but to verify Dr. Vegapunk's research through long-term experiments and explorations in the future, and even to expand it to a deeper level...
These are all matters for the future, and the results will not be achieved in one or two years.
Thinking of this, Kuleha slowly turned her gaze to the small half-human, half-deer Chopper. The little guy was looking at Giorno and Jolyne reluctantly.
"It will take four and a half months for the needle to record the magnetic force of this island," Kuleha put away her thoughts and leaned against the door with her arms folded. "If you don't have permanent needles from other islands, you may have to wait another two months before you can set sail again..."
Chopper's eyes lit up. Is there such a good thing?
Robin thought, indeed, Lynch is now using the Swallow Swallow Fruit, and can't rely on the Magnetic-Magnetic Fruit to "observe" the magnetic route on the Grand Line...
"That's easy. Since it's not full yet, just fill it up now."
Lynch didn't care much about it. He called his good brother "BIB" over and reached out to temporarily recall the Magnetic-Magnetic Fruit from the Swallow-Swallow Fruit in his body.
Even with Kuleha's experience of more than a hundred years, he didn't react for a moment to what the young man wanted to do. What did he mean by "Since it's not full yet, why not fill it up now?" The record pointer would take a few days to be filled.
There are many rumors on the sea about unlucky pirates who ran to an island that took a year or even several years to fully store magnetic force, and finally had to become savages on the deserted island.
Why else would the Grand Line be considered so extremely dangerous?
Otherwise, why are the record pointers and the seven magnetic routes so important? How can you fill them up right now? Kuleha thought so, and saw Jolyne Kujo take out a record pointer from her backpack. The pointer was pointing at the ground and trembling slightly, which clearly showed that it was still recording the magnetic force of the island and had not yet completed the recording. Jolyne Kujo handed the record pointer to her crew member Giorno.
After Lynch put on the Magnetic-Magnetic Fruit, he could instantly sense the magnetic vortex of the island under his feet.
Compared to the islands we passed before, the magnetic vortex of this island is obviously not strong enough... No wonder it takes more than four months to fill the pointer.
Moreover, the characteristics of this vortex... Lynch suddenly realized, so that's it, this characteristic refers to "Winter Island".
Magnetic vortices formed on his hands and he slapped them downwards with force.
The power of the Magnetic-Magnetic Fruit was integrated into the huge magnetic vortex of the island beneath its feet, turning into an invisible giant hand stirring in it, instantly amplifying the magnetic strength of the entire island by dozens of times.
Woohoo! Woohoo! In the sky of the island, which was already covered with snow and wind, the cold wind suddenly roared, as if the entire sky was avalanche, shaking the earth.
But it was only a moment, and the avalanche-like phenomenon disappeared before it could even form a climate.
"what happened……"
"An illusion?"
At the top of the Drum Peak, the citizens of this yet-to-be-named country were digging a pit with their new king, Dalton, to bury the overthrown old king, Walpo and others. Suddenly, they felt an earthquake and were horrified, but after a moment, everything seemed to return to calm. Dalton, leaning on a shovel, looked at the blizzard below the mountain, which had eased after the storm, and was somewhat puzzled.
The sudden violent snowstorm startled Rose, who was gliding in a curved pipe at high altitude, and she almost flipped over.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?"
She was so scared that she quickly ate two more baked potatoes hidden in her arms, thinking that she was out of energy and her fruit ability was almost unsustainable.
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"What happened..."
Chopper was startled by the feeling that the whole world seemed to be roaring in his ears with rushing wind and snow, but when he came to his senses, he found that the surrounding environment had not changed at all. The cold wind was still the same cold wind, the flying snow was still the same flying snow, and the towering Drum Mountains in the distance were still standing in the wind and snow without any change.
"It actually changed the celestial phenomena in an instant..."
Kuleha muttered to herself in shock, looking up at the sky where heavy snow was falling. This was the first time she had lost her composure in front of the three juniors.
When I looked away, I looked down and saw the recording pointer in Giorno's hand...
The needle was no longer pointing to the island under their feet, but pointing straight in another direction, which was the next island along this magnetic route.
"Look, it's done."
Lynch weighed the record pointer in his hand as if he was doing something insignificant.
"What on earth did you just do?" Kuleha asked.
Lin Qi said: "It just records the magnetic force of the pointer."
He casually threw the pointer to his captain.
"Don't be ridiculous. Whether it's changing the celestial phenomena or artificially speeding up the recording speed of the recording pointer, either one is against common sense!" Kuleha was speechless. She looked at Lynch deeply and said in a complicated tone, "Is that... the ability of a devil fruit related to magnetism? You can take other people's devil fruits. I'm afraid you have accumulated some other types of devil fruit abilities besides Walpo."
"No, no, there aren't many actually." Lin Qi counted on his fingers modestly, "Let me see, Magnetic Fruit, Castle Fruit, Swallow Fruit..."
"Okay! There's no need to tell me this." Kuleha interrupted Lynch, and at the same time, Robin tilted his head and reminded him, "There's no need to say everything, right?"
"Really?" Lin Qi touched his head and laughed, "Why do I feel that this kind of thing is insignificant? Hey, old lady, do you want to swallow the fruit? It will be very convenient to use it to make weapons."
Kuleha rushed over and punched him, knocking him down.
"You should keep that guy Valpo's stuff for yourself." Dr. Punk said calmly with his fist raised.
After saying that, he felt a little bored. Each devil fruit was worth more than 100 million berries, known as the treasure of the sea, and coveted by countless people... In the eyes of this young pirate, it was like a small item that could be given to acquaintances. Really... I have lived for more than a hundred years, and I have never seen a monster like him!
Lynch smiled and didn't care. He asked BIB to take the Magnetic-Magnetic Fruit chip out of his body and replace it with the Swallow-Swallow Fruit chip.
It's time to go.
Chopper was reluctant to leave, so Kuleha had to accompany him and send the two pirates to the beach, where she watched them take out a medium-sized sailboat from the mouth of the green Den Den Mushi.
“……” The little reindeer was so shocked that his eyes were about to pop out.
Lynch grabbed the sailboat with one hand and threw it onto the water covered with a thin layer of ice at the beach.
Kuleha suddenly realized, "I see, the Castle Fruit, so this is your 'pirate base' that we have been staying at..."
Not the same... This is Xiaolu's castle, and the one we stayed in before was BIB's substitute castle... Robin thought about it, and felt that there was no need to explain it specifically, so he smiled faintly.
Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a figure flash by behind the rocks on the shore and slip into the small boat that Lynch had thrown onto the beach.
Lynch was talking to Chopper and didn't pay any attention to the little mouse that sneaked into the boat.
Rose hid in the cabin and found a place to hide. She quietly observed the people saying goodbye to each other on the shore. It seemed that no one noticed her, so she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't worry, Giorno, Jolyne," the little reindeer rubbed his eyes and sniffed the snot hanging from his blue nose, with crystal tears flashing in his eyes, "Next time we meet, I will definitely have become a qualified doctor..."
Lynch didn't say anything, just smiled and gave him a thumbs up, then turned around and took Robin to the deck of the small sailboat on the beach.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"BIB" followed gracefully, flew up, untied the canvas and raised it, then consciously entered the cabin and took hold of the rudder.
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The canvas with the JOJO skull pattern on it fluttered away, and Chopper waved his hands desperately on the shore until the small boat on the horizon could no longer be seen.
"Go back." Kuleha turned and left. "Stupid apprentice, you want to become a qualified doctor? It's not that easy!"
"I'll try my best!" Chopper chirped and caught up with Kuleha in the snow.
In this way, after Giorno and Jolyne left, Chopper continued to learn medicine from his master Kureha.
Just like when Giorno and the others were there, Kureha not only taught Chopper medical skills, but also integrated some of Dr. Vegapunk's research on bloodline factors and mixed it with medical skills to teach Chopper.
In addition to studying medicine, she also began to tinker with various weapons, such as the Bird Kingdom's most iconic missile spear...
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Time passed by unknowingly...
On this day, King Dalton led the newly formed guards to fight against a group of pirates at the seaside. Suddenly, a strange whistling sound rang in everyone's ears, and then a wobbling missile flew from the shore not far away to the pirate ship. With a "boom" sound, countless pirates were blown up and fell into the sea with blazing flames...
"That's... Dr. Kuleha?!" Dalton, who was fighting with the pirates, looked at the blurry figure in astonishment.
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It had been a while since Giorno and the others left. When Kureha took Chopper to walk in the town of Big Horn again, they learned that the residents here had renamed the country.
"Medical Snow Kingdom? What a ridiculous name..." Kuleha laughed as she drank from a stool. "King Dalton, your naming skills are really poor."
"Doctor Kuleha," Dalton ignored Kuleha's sarcasm and just reminded her, "The child over there seems to be in pain. Other doctors haven't arrived yet. You are the only one here to take care of the patient."
"..." Kuleha picked up the bottle and took a sip, "Is that so?"
The reindeer at her feet turned its head and looked intently at the little boy who was held in the arms of a woman with a sickly flush on his face.
[Before leaving, Giorno and Jolyne found her. Kureha was very unhappy after hearing their request, "Why do you have to do such a troublesome thing?"]
"Huh?" Dalton asked in confusion.
"Who said I'm the only doctor here?" Kuleha wiped the corner of her mouth and knocked the bottle of wine on the table. "Chopper, if you want to treat him, then go ahead!"
When she finished speaking, everyone around her was puzzled.
"Chopper?"
"Who is she talking to..."
"Kuleha, you..." Dalton saw that Dr. Kuleha was actually talking to the reindeer at her feet.
The blue-nosed reindeer himself was obviously surprised and obviously did not expect Kuleha to say that.
"Stand up," Kuleha lowered her head and said to Chopper, "Aren't you a doctor?"
[“It’s not that troublesome, is it?” Giorno said this while stroking his chin. He predicted in advance while speaking and turned his head to avoid Kuleha’s punch. “With your popularity, old lady, as long as you endorse Pikachu’s identity, is there anyone on this island who is stupid enough not to give you face? Even if they don’t give you face, they still have to treat Pikachu as a monster…”]
[Giorno smiled like a pirate, "Then just use your fists to convince them, right?"]
Under the gaze of everyone in the Medical Snow Kingdom, the reindeer slowly stood up and turned into a burly man with a backpack on his back.
"It's a snow monster..." The crowd immediately exclaimed.
Chopper lowered his head, his expression gloomy.
Whoosh! Kuleha threw a bottle over, bang!
She pointed at Chopper, stepped on a stool and shouted coldly to everyone: "Listen carefully, this guy is called Chopper, and he is a reindeer who ate the Human-Human Fruit. Even though he is a deer, he is also a human! Now he is my apprentice, and he is also a doctor! If anyone pretends to be confused again and insists on treating him as some shitty snow monster, hehehe... don't blame me for being rude..."
"Are you going to..." The others were shocked.
Kuleha gave the man a powerful kick, knocking him against the wall. "Idiot! How could a doctor do such a thing!"
So this is how impolite it is... Everyone was ashamed.
The burly man stood there, feeling a little helpless in the face of all the looks around him.
"Doctor Chopper, is that right?" Dalton came over, with horns sticking out of his head, his entire head transformed into that of a black bison. He stretched out his hand and smiled, "I'm King Dalton, can you please help treat that child?"
The sturdy man looked at the minotaur in front of him. After a moment's silence, his eyes suddenly turned red. He held the other's hand tightly.
“Leave it to me!”
Amid the discussion among the people, Chopper skillfully treated the little boy, and soon his complexion improved. The mother shed tears and kept thanking the little reindeer.
Chopper's eyes were red and he smiled very happily.
"..." Kuleha smiled and was about to go find some wine when she noticed a brand new newspaper on the table over there.
"'The sick hometown', it seems that it has been cured. Hehehe, it really is a princess just as he had guessed..."
Kuleha shook her head. What was reported in the news was clearly the official version of the story, not the real facts, so she was too lazy to read it anymore and put the newspaper down.
The picture accompanying the headline of the news was actually that girl, Rose, who had come here to study medicine...
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Time goes back to when Lynch and his companions left the original Drum Kingdom...
On the sea, the JOJO pirate ship sailed through the waves, but the girl Rose hiding in the cabin was shivering in the corner.
She looked at the empty cabin and felt extremely horrified.
Where are the two pirates? Why did they disappear?
Who is driving this ship?
(End of this chapter)