Chapter 639 Lynch: If you think about it carefully, isn’t Brook just a larger Homies?
[Chapter Serialization·Rabu's Fantastic Journey 8·'Rabu's Journey Will Continue'] [Rabu floats to the surface to breathe, and a high column of water spurts out from his head. Not far away, on a red ship being dragged by two giant snakes, a girl in flowery clothes and black hair holds a monocular telescope and points it in the distance...]——
As Lin Qi had guessed, he saw the scene in front of the double's eyes through the light screen displayed by the armor earplugs...
It is that bizarre and strange space, the mirror world.
In the comics, this is a special space that only Charlotte Brulee, the user of the Mirror Fruit, can enter and exit using the mirror as an entrance. It's like an inner world in this pirate world, as if in another dimension.
The corridors in the mirror world are winding and twisting up and down. The walls are covered with mirrors from the real world. Each mirror is a door to the real world. The corresponding place may be a bedroom, a toilet, a living room... and so on. There is a seemingly inconspicuous mirror placed in the corner of any place.
What Lynch's stand "BIB" sees at this moment is exactly this world.
The moment Lynch got the "earplugs" that were quietly floating above the bridge in the Forest of Temptation and turned on the "live feed", the stand-in immediately noticed it.
"You are here." Its voice sounded in the earphones.
"Well," Lynch knew this was not a joke, so he asked directly while standing on the giant donut-like arch bridge, "What's going on with Robin?"
"I'm still looking... The bad news is, I haven't found it yet. The good news is, I haven't found it yet."
"I see." Lynch nodded and smiled, "Sure enough, when it comes to escaping, Sister Robin has mastered it very well. The skills she acquired when she was a child have not been lost yet."
"You know she can access this memory, right?"
"Remember to cut this part off when the time comes." Lin Qi reminded, and then sighed a little, "It's just that this Wan Guo is a bit big. She hid it with the Flower-Flower Fruit. Let alone the aunt's gang, it's a bit difficult for me to find it..."
"Here's the weird thing." The stand-in's voice came through the virtual light screen of the earplugs, "Although there has been a lot of activity in the search for Robin in Wanguo in the past two days, but... the really powerful old woman has not made any movement at all, and it seems that she has been staying in Cake City."
If Big Mom goes into battle personally and searches for Robin's whereabouts throughout the Ten Thousand Kingdoms, with the power of her Soul-Soul Fruit and the Homies' spies everywhere, even if Robin has maxed out her hiding and concealment skills, she will inevitably be under great pressure and reveal her flaws.
In response, Lynch chuckled, "That's easy to understand. The old woman is waiting for me. She probably plans to deal with Robin first after she gets rid of me."
"Hmm?" The Stand left early, and didn't know about the subsequent battle between the main body and Katakuri.
"You'll know all this when you come back." Lin Qi didn't intend to waste time. He walked across the bridge, turned around and kicked the donut-shaped arch bridge in half. He lifted the huge thing with one hand and started to chew it. It tasted really good. He spoke vaguely, "This place is not bad. I'm in the Temptation Forest to eat something to replenish my blood. By the way, I'll take a look at your situation... memory playback."
"good."
The stand-in responded. The scene on the virtual light screen displayed by the battle armor earplugs in front of Lynch immediately jumped to the memory scene from nearly a day ago...
[After all, this is the home turf of Big Mom, the user of the Soul-Soul Fruit...]
[Flying over the sea, approaching the Ten Thousand Nations Territory ahead, 'BIB' thought to himself, and then dived into the sea. ]
[Flying across the seabed, as a tangible but immaterial energy body, the pitch-black armor did not stir up a single current, silently passing through the colorful coral-filled seabed... The seawater became thicker and thicker, as if mixed with a lot of fruit juice and syrup, and a large number of sea slugs swam across the sea ahead, each of them wearing a small hat like a guard, and lined up to pull up a warning net...]
[This kind of warning net is of no use to "BIB". Before the sea slugs knew it, it had already passed through the sea slug group and truly entered the waters of the World.]
[So much Homies' aura...]
[Similar to Lynch's first feeling when he entered the sea of the Ten Thousand Nations Territory, 『BIB』 also immediately realized the inconvenience of being able to sense Homies' existence. 】
["BIB" patrolled the seabed between the islands of the Ten Thousand Nations for a while, but still could not find Robin's scent among the star-studded Homies community and the scents of tens of thousands of residents of the Ten Thousand Nations...]
[With no time to waste, 'BIB' immediately made a decision and flew straight to the bottom of the sea - for it, it was not swimming, but flying - the location of Cake Island deep in the world.]
[On the way, it called up the Big Mom comic in its memory, the clip of Luffy, Nami, and Carrot landing on Cake Island, and confirmed that the location of the Temptation Forest controlled by Brulee is on the southwest coast of Cake Island. ]
[Cake Island, Southwest Hainan, a dark battle armor flew silently out of the calm sea, and then quietly entered the temptation forest in front of it, which was composed of cakes, chocolates, giant lollipops, donuts, juice... countless delicacies. ]
[This forest is indeed very tempting. ]
[Unfortunately, unlike the original body, 'BIB' does not need to eat, has no appetite, and has no sense of smell. No matter how rich and tempting the aroma of desserts and delicacies in the tempting forest is, it remains indifferent.]
[“Who is that?”]
[As soon as "BIB" entered this tempting forest, he heard human-like whispers. ]
[The armor has no sense of smell, but it has hearing. Its narrow eyes glowed with light, and it saw a human-like face appearing on the ground made of hard cakes, glancing at it flying through the forest, and muttering to itself in surprise.]
[“There’s a figure~” “It’s dark, like a bad guy~” “I can’t see clearly, it’s so scary~”]
[In the surrounding woods, on every tree, on every giant lollipop stuck on the roadside, on every dessert that was everywhere, human faces appeared, whispering to the shadowy armor...]
"Wait a moment!"
Lynch looked at the "first-person replay video" on the virtual light screen and interrupted, as if he had pressed the pause button and the picture froze.
His mouth was already full of jam, and he walked, unpacked and ate as he went through the Forest of Temptation, leaving behind him a winding trail that looked as if it had been plowed by an old ox, or as if it had been destroyed by a typhoon.
"I don't seem to be welcome here..."
At this time, behind him, there were ferocious faces on the bark of a dozen sturdy trees, and the roots moved flexibly like many legs, quietly surrounding Lynch's back.
"Stranger~~" "I don't know him, who could it be?" "Does he know where Brulee went?" "I don't know~~"
The Homies trees approached the back of the human who was eating greedily in the Forest of Temptation, only to see that the human freed one hand and pinched out a piece of paper with two fingers.
A powerful soul light that only Homies could see burst out on the paper, like a whirlwind sweeping across the entire Forest of Temptation. All the trees and Homies, and even the leading "old tree spirit" King Barton, showed fear on their faces.
"That's, Mom's life paper?!"
As creations of Big Mom's Soul-Soul Fruit, these Homies immediately lost the courage to fight against that human after feeling even a tiny bit of Big Mom's soul breath transmitted through the Life Paper, and did not dare to resist at all.
While eating, Lynch looked back at the Homies, and then the fingers holding the aunt's life paper suddenly caught fire and burned it.
“Huh?!!!”
King Barton and other Homies were shocked. They thought that this human would use their mother's life paper to threaten them to serve him... But just when they thought so and were ready to laugh at this human's stupidity, another invisible terrifying aura also burst out from this human, sweeping across the entire Temptation Forest. King Barton and other Homies, trees, the ground, desserts, bread, lollipops... all rolled their eyes and were stunned. They were almost shaky and their souls were about to disintegrate from the objects they were entrusted with.
"Tsk, Conqueror Haki is really useful."
Lynch smiled contentedly, thinking that he was now a man with a domineering aura.
In his interpretation, Conqueror's Haki is to use the navigation of Observation Haki skills, and then use Armament Haki to control it, accurately hitting the target with the power of Haki. This attack method is naturally mixed with the meaning of mental attack...
Used to deal with these soul-body Homies soldiers, it can be said that it has a natural critical hit capability.
As for the old lady’s life paper, it has arrived in Wanguo now. Lynch naturally no longer needs this navigation thing.
…
Lin Qi casually folded a giant piece of chocolate and found that there were clear facial features on the chocolate, staring at him with a panicked look, "Wow, are you going to eat me? I'm so scared~~ Who are you? You're going to be eaten~~"
"Oh my god, why does it feel like eating ginseng fruit?"
Lin Qi sighed for a moment, but didn't mind. He opened his mouth and stuffed the giant talking chocolate into his mouth. Soon his mouth was full of black chocolate, chewing the fragrant and smooth chocolate...
Big Mom's Soul-Soul Fruit regularly tears off a portion of the souls of the residents of all nations as "taxes", distributes them in fixed amounts, and attaches them to objects to "humanize" them... As Lynch ate the chocolate, the soul of Homies attached to it also detached and dissipated.
"So, isn't Brook just a big 'Skull Homies'?"
Lynch suddenly thought of this.
After Brook's death, his soul left his body and went to look for his own body. He got lost in the fog of the Devil's Triangle for a year. When he found his body, only a skeleton was left.
Brook had no choice but to let his soul reside in his own skeleton...
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
A skeleton is "humanized" just like that. Isn't this exactly the same as the process of Auntie making Homies? !
"wrong,"
Lynch thought about it and said, "Auntie can't assign souls to corpses."
In other words, Brook's Yomiuri Fruit is indeed a superior version of Big Mom's Soul-Soul Fruit... No wonder Big Mom is the one who possesses the Soul Fruit, but it is the Skeleton Gentleman Brook who is nicknamed the "Soul King".
These thoughts flashed through his mind as Lynch continued to eat voraciously in the Temptation Forest to replenish the huge amount of energy he had consumed from walking through the air and flying across the endless sea.
At the same time, he casually tapped the earplugs of his armor, and the "first-person replay video" that was frozen on the virtual screen in front of him continued to play...
[As Lynch's stand, "BIB" can of course also use a Domineering Haki attack to stun the whispering Homies. ]
[But there was no need. It quietly dived into the ground.]
[Most of the Homies, except for old tree spirits like King Barton, have low IQs - in fact, King Barton's IQ, or intelligence, is just so-so - after the suspicious black figure suddenly disappeared, they quickly dispersed one after another.]
[『BIB』 is hiding underground, waiting secretly. 】
[“What’s going on? Was there any noise just now?” Sure enough, not long after, the person it was looking for showed up. ]
[Charlotte Brulee, who looked like the old witch in the fairy tale who tricked the princess into eating the poisoned apple, came over and asked the Homies in the Temptation Forest a few questions. When she heard that there was a suspicious figure, she was surprised and asked, "Could it be Nico Robin? She is so bold that she is still wandering around Cake Island... and didn't escape to the island at the edge of the world?" This island is the base camp where my mother is stationed! ]
[“Mirror World!”]
[Brulee did not hesitate and immediately created a mirror as tall as a person. When she touched the mirror, ripples appeared like water, and she could enter directly.]
[In the mirror world, only she, the user of the mirror ability, can enter. If others want to enter, they must touch her body... The "BIB" hiding underground was waiting for this opportunity. When Brulee took the initiative to create a mirror, it quietly emerged from the ground, with narrow eyes gleaming on the dark mask. At the moment Brulee jumped into the mirror, it also reached out and put its hand on its shoulder, and then stepped into the world on the other side of the mirror. ]
[Like a ghost...]
[As soon as he entered the mirror world, 『BIB』 did not hesitate and subdued Brulee without giving her time to react. 】
[Brulee was stunned, looking at the empty mirror world. What happened? What is grabbing me?]
[Katakuri's sister is too weak. Apart from her devil fruit ability, her skills are mediocre. She can hardly sense the existence of "BIB"... Since she can't see herself, it's inconvenient for "BIB" to use hypnosis to control her. So she simply bursts out with her domineering color, knocking Brulee, who is close at hand but is at a loss like a blind person, unconscious. Then she directly puts armor on her.]
[The characteristic of the stand-in armor is not the addition of combat power, but the greater value of the armor and the host. Just like when Robin wore the armor "BIB" to fight, she directly used the power of the armor on her body, rather than using the armor plus her own power. ]
[Lin Qi used to wear armor to increase his combat power, but he needed the armor to help him stack his domineering power and the power of the iron block at the same time to strengthen his attack power.]
[Brulee was stunned by the Conqueror's Haki, and 'BIB' attached to her body, directly controlling this "body of the Mirror Fruit ability user", and skillfully shuttled through this fantastic mirror world - or mirror dimension.]
[The mirrors on the walls of the mirror world are not Homies, but they are all intelligent and can speak. "BIB" travels all the way and asks them about Nico Robin's whereabouts.]
[Soon, it learned from the mirror in the Cake City area that Nico Robin came to Wan Guo a day ago and ran away and disappeared in front of Big Mom...]
“So that’s how it is!”
Lynch suddenly realized that there were several Homicide soldiers under his feet.
Although BIB has not found Robin in the following day until now, Lynch has at least confirmed one thing, that is, Robin has never fallen into the hands of Big Mom and others from beginning to end, and has been hiding in the sea of people in the world for almost two days... In this case, the more her whereabouts are unknown, the more it proves that she is not in danger.
"What are your plans next?" the stand-in asked through the virtual light screen of the earplug.
"What's next?"
Lynch smiled. At this moment, a pair of vigilant and sharp eyes lit up in the woods behind him. A rabbit dressed in human clothes and riding a red-crowned crane rushed towards Lynch with a spear in hand.
A little cold light arrived first! "Next, you continue to look for Robin..."
Dang! The cold light of the spear pierced Lynch's back, and the dark blue aura remained motionless under the tip of the blade. A hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of the Crane Knight Rabbit, and then an astonishing spirit gushed out of the human's body!
Boom! The Crane Knight was in a trance, and lost his strength. The spear in his hand fell. He could only vaguely see the human smiling and turning around, grabbing it with his big hand, and muttering something incomprehensible like "Hey, the taste of Conqueror's Color is really good". Soon, the Crane Knight's eyes went black and he fainted. Lynch was holding the animal Homies made by Big Mom in his hand. The red-crowned crane it was riding naturally fainted under the Conqueror's Color just now. Lynch casually searched the rabbit, and at the same time thought: "Big Mom can't give soul fragments to living people, or even corpses to make Homies, but animals can... Is it because in the world view of pirates, animals don't have souls? This is impossible..."
Perhaps it was simply that when the Devil Fruit was first created, different permissions were artificially given to the "Yellow Spring Fruit" and the "Soul Fruit". No need to ask why, the Soul Soul Fruit cannot give souls to living people or corpses, it just can't! It can give soul fragments to animals, it just can, there is no reason...
"As for me? I won't go looking for her. It's tiring to come all the way here to look for her!"
Lin Qi quickly found a portable mirror in the pocket of the Rabbit Crane Knight and smiled. "Let her come to me... But you have to send the 'Impact Fruit' over first."
"OK."
The stand-in naturally has no objection to the original body's plan. In fact, the result will be the same if it makes the decision instead.
Lin Qi sat on the rabbit, casually lifted up the hard cake layer, and continued to eat - of course, the dusty layer was thrown away - as for the red-crowned crane, please, it is a national protected animal, Lin Qi didn't care, and while eating, he reminded the small mirror in his hand: "Magic mirror, magic mirror, don't take the wrong path, my B is looking for the mirror with this handsome face..."
After all, the mirror world is another dimension, perhaps some kind of high-dimensional space. Lynch did not have to wait long. An armored arm covered with red flame patterns stretched out from the small mirror in his hand. In his hand was a triangular chip covered with vortex patterns, which he directly inserted into the body of the original body who was drinking the juice stream in the Temptation Forest.
Lynch drank almost half of the juice stream. After the impact fruit entered his body, he opened his eyes and smiled slightly, wiped his mouth, and said to himself: "Since Sister Robin is fine, I'm sorry, Katakuri, you are no longer useful..."
He took out the little green from his pocket.
(End of this chapter)