Chapter 666: New Nine Snake Island Plan (7300 words)
The sky in the windless belt slowly split apart...
A golden Buddha tens of meters high rose from the deck of the warship. Opposite him, a human figure seemed very small and kicked towards him without hesitation.
The two of them attacked each other from a distance, their dark domineering auras colliding violently.
BANG!!! The sea was also pressed into a radial vortex with a diameter of 100 meters below the two men. The calm zone, which was supposed to be windless, suddenly became windy and turbulent. The nine warships were tossed and swayed in the turbulent and rolling waves, and the marines kept exclaiming.
A top expert! Zhan Guo was surprised.
He stared at the woman in front of him who came across the calm belt in a small boat. She first sank one of their warships with an arrow of Domineering Color Entanglement, and then used Domineering Color Entanglement to kick the woman with long golden hair at him.
"That's... Master Tulip?!"
"Is it the previous Snake Princess?"
On the shore of Nine Snake Island, the densely packed Nine Snake warriors were all surprised. They recognized the tall blond figure. It was hard to believe that Lady Tulip had... died a long time ago? The previous Snake Princess!? Aokiji's heart sank in shock. He turned his head sharply to look at the shore. Another young Snake Princess had already bent her bow and drawn an arrow. The tip of the arrow was also wrapped with Domineering Haki, and it shot towards him with a bang! Bang! The arrow split the waves, pierced the sky, and dragged the black domineering aura.
"Vice Admiral Aokiji!" The marines on the deck shouted. Aokiji found a large shadow under his feet. It was a figure. The head seemed to reflect the white light of round glasses. He turned back suddenly and saw the expressionless Sengoku rising from the ground with flower petals, raising his dark big hand and slapping him on the back - not good! Aokiji immediately elementalized his body and took the initiative to break the ice body. Although his real elemental body was the frozen air hidden inside the ice, Boa Hancock's arrow was obviously wrapped with the Conqueror's Haki. This thing can attack from a distance, and naturally it can also damage his frozen air body through the ice.
Bang! Hancock's domineering arrow swept past Aokiji, who was disintegrating into shattered ice, and slammed into Aokiji's Hua Zizai clone Zhan Guo behind him. It pierced through his big hand and directly shattered his right arm, followed by his shoulder and torso, all of which shattered into petals all over the sky...
Zhan Guo, who was fighting with Tulip, immediately twitched his brows and felt a piercing pain in his right arm.
"Don't be distracted, Mr. General." Tulip smiled elegantly, dragging a dark shadow under her high heels, and kicked Zhan Guo's shocked face. "You came to visit our country specially, how can I, the former king, neglect you?"
Boom!!! Off the coast of Nine Snake Island, warships burst into flames and sank one after another...
The rain of arrows from the sky was filled with domineering aura, and fired again, covering the remaining warships.
As for Tulip, she was not a person with special abilities, so she jumped directly into the sea, swaying and stretching in the water like a mermaid, looking up at the flames floating on the sea.
Suddenly, a chill came from the water...
So we're not going to fight anymore? Tulip was a little disappointed.
…
Zhan Guo walked on the "ice ground" with a grim expression. He was no longer disappointed, but had completely lost face.
They deployed troops with great fanfare, entered the doldrums regardless of the risks, and decided to inflict heavy damage to the Women's Kingdom of Nine Snake Island in one fell swoop - but they didn't expect this to be the final result.
Tulip, the previous generation snake princess of the Nine Snakes, who was thought to have died long ago, unexpectedly reappeared alive and took action in time to turn the tide and stop herself.
This woman is the biggest miscalculation of this operation!
And... what on earth is Sakaski doing? Why is he nowhere to be seen?!
Zhan Guo put on his glasses again and stared with bloodshot eyes at the calm sea in front of him. There was no sign of a warship.
At this moment, he and the remaining marines were walking on the frozen Calm Sea... Aokiji was walking in the front, and wherever he passed, the ice under his feet continued to extend forward, leading everyone out of the Calm Sea and back to the Grand Line.
Aokiji slowly turned his head...
His small round sunglasses had long been damaged in the battle, and his clothes were tattered, making him look a bit shabby, but not too shabby either.
But the feeling of being forced to retreat like this is not really a good one.
General Sengoku was held back by the blonde former snake princess. He was trying to deal with Boa Hancock, the current snake princess, who had mastered the Conqueror Haki and could injure his frost-filled body, and Nico Robin, who could use her weird flower clones to fight with Boa Hancock at any time... In addition to them, there was also Lynch's humanoid black shadow standing next to Robin. The pair of narrow eyes with a faint glow had been staring at him from beginning to end without moving away, making Aokiji feel uneasy...
What's more, the domineering arrows of all the warriors of the Nine Snakes, accumulated little by little, and with united will, they are not to be trifled with.
No one could have expected that the women of the Nine Snakes did not take the Demon-Slaying Order seriously at all. They actually relied on wooden arrows to accurately break through the sky point by point, and no shells could successfully land on the Nine Snakes' island.
Is this... the power of warriors who all possess Haki uniting together?
The remaining marines supported each other and followed the two commanders silently, with a vague look of fear on their faces... fear of the domineering arrows in the sky, and also fear of the female warriors on the Nine Snake Island.
Demon Slayer Order? Is it our cannonball rain? Why do I feel that... the sea of arrows that can be shot at us quickly, like a tidal wave, one after another, each of which can break metal and break stone, is the real "Demon Slayer Order"...
Zhan Guo could feel the low, frightened emotions of the marines following behind him. He clenched his fists and bit them until they made a crackling sound, trying not to show any regret or cowardice.
After an unknown amount of time, the ice finally carried everyone to the edge of the doldrums.
Looking at the endless flames at the junction of the waves ahead, the wounded marines were stunned.
"Sakaski?!"
Sengoku and Aokiji's faces changed, and they rushed into the sea of fire on the sea. After seeing a person lying on a large piece of solidified black lava on the sea, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
"Who did it, Sakaski?" Zhan Guo suppressed his anger and looked at the wreckage of the warships around him with pain. Fortunately, he could still feel in the firelight that many marines were still alive.
Aokiji walked silently onto the black solidified lava and looked down at his colleague.
Akainu lay with his back folded, and the Marine cap he insisted on wearing, covering his face, hiding his unknown expression at the moment. Akainu's dull voice came from under the Marine cap: "It's Red Hair..."
Red hair?! Sengoku's face became uglier, while Aokiji remained silent. Red hair, red hair again.
He couldn't help but think of Lynch...
Is it revenge for Lynch? When Aokiji was thinking this, Akainu took off his hat, his face was uglier than his and Sengoku's, "Just now, news came from the headquarters... Kaido, the evil dragon, seemed to have guessed that we mobilized a large number of warships to avenge the Nine Snakes, so he took the opportunity to attack Marinford!!"
“……?!!!” Sengoku and Aokiji’s eyes were bloodshot.
Akainu sighed, sat up, and put on his marine cap. "Thanks to the Marshal's help, and those two old guys, Garp and Zephyr, for their help..."
"But they don't have any means to control the air, so they can only let Kaido escape and fly away arrogantly after injuring him." Akainu's face was extremely ugly, "I heard that Kaido originally wanted to take this opportunity to move Marinford to an altitude of 10,000 meters and then throw it down..."
Zhan Guo laughed angrily, "Did that drunkard drink too much this time?!"
The Demon Slayer Operation was originally intended to boost morale, but who could have imagined that it would turn out to be such a mess! He couldn't help but transform into a furious Buddha, slapping the flames on the sea several times, venting his pent-up anger while also saving the surviving marines on Akainu's side...
～～～～～～～～～～～ The frozen sea surface disappeared into the distance...
Near the coast, the wreckage of the warship in flames slowly sank...
However, the women of the Nine Snakes no longer had the heart to look at these things. They all stared at Tulip, who came ashore with her wet golden hair, with tears in their eyes and pursed their lips in silence.
"What's wrong?" Tulip couldn't help laughing, "Why are you looking at me?"
"Master Tulip!" The Nine Snake Warriors were touched and complained, "You... you didn't..."
"Yes, I'm not dead." Tulip said nonchalantly, "I'm sorry, I lied to everyone."
“Is that all?!” The Nine Snake women raised their hands and cried, “This is too much!!”
Soon everyone was crying and laughing, and hugging each other. After all, the previous Snake Princess was still alive, and appeared in time to protect the country. Either way, it was something worth being happy about.
Tulip smiled and then looked towards Hancock, Robin and the others.
"Lord Tulip." Sanda and Mary saluted.
Tulip nodded, her eyes turned to Robin, then slowly moved to Hancock, who had a blank expression on her face and raised her chin slightly, "You are no longer a member of the Nine Snakes, what are you doing back here?"
"I'm fine, thank you for your concern." Tulip said with a smile. She had always raised Hancock as her daughter, so of course she would not get angry with this girl. "By the way, I went to the East China Sea to accompany Luffy for a while, and he was also very good."
"Who asked how you are?" Hancock rolled her eyes, but people who knew her could tell that she was not in a bad mood.
Robin looked at Hancock and then at Tulip.
Tulip looked at BIB and sighed, "A lot of things happened to you guys."
"BIB" also looked at her. What happened? Did she go to the East Sea to play with Luffy?
Tulip patted Hancock on the back, not looking at the girl who pursed her lips slightly and turned her head away, refusing to show weakness, and said softly, "Let's go back to the palace first..."
…
"I see. I guessed it was related to Lynch..."
The women of the Nine Snakes put down their snake bows and returned to the Nine Snakes City to continue their daily life of fishing, hunting, farming and weaving.
Tulip and the others returned to the palace on the mountain wall. Along the way, she listened to Robin, Sanda, Mary and the others talking about what had happened during this period.
"My opinion is that you'd better listen to Pluto Rayleigh's advice and don't go to Marijoa."
Tulip said slowly, "After all, he had followed the Pirate King Roger to the Final Island and knew many secrets hidden in the world—"
She suddenly realized that Hancock was not around, and when she turned around, she saw Hancock still standing at the door of the bedroom.
"Sister?" Sanda and Mary were surprised. "Is she angry?"
"Hancock?!" Robin's expression changed.
On her left and right, the golden shadow of tulip and the black shadow of "BIB" flashed in front of Hancock at the same time. She saw that her whole body was stiff and motionless, and her flawless and beautiful face was twitching slightly, and a look of pain appeared on her face...
Blood beads oozed from the white jade-like skin...
Bang! Hancock's entire body burst into a blood mist, and in the blood mist, she reached out to Tulip, Robin, and her two sisters...
"elder sister!!!!"
Sanda and Mary screamed in terror.
Robin's pupils turned pale and his whole body trembled. When his eyes met Hancock's in the blood mist, the negative emotions that had been accumulated in his heart for these days suddenly burst out, and Robin almost collapsed.
She and Tulip stood on both sides, supporting Hancock, who had blood all over his skin and collapsed in an instant like a bloody man.
BIB's narrow eyes shone brightly, and his left arm armor covered with blue flame patterns stretched out like lightning, grabbing the air with his hand.
Snap! An invisible force was grabbed by its left hand covered with blue flame patterns, and it squeezed it hard! Bang, a triangular chip covered with snake-like vortex patterns took shape in an instant and was held in its hand.
"Sister...sister..." Sanda and Mary knelt in front of the bloody Hancock, crying bitterly. They were a little afraid to touch their extremely weak sister.
Robin clenched her teeth tightly. She didn't dare to loosen them, otherwise she would definitely tremble...
The blood-covered slender hand rose up and grasped Robin's trembling arm.
Robin's heart trembled, and she looked at Hancock, who was covered in blood, with tears in her eyes. The latter patted her gently, then raised her eyes to look at the black armor behind everyone.
Tulip's temples were throbbing, and she looked back at Lynch's dark clone.
"I think... I understand why I have always had an instinctive distrust of Devil Fruits..."
"BIB" looked at the Medusa Fruit chip in his hand and muttered to himself.
Eh, mum.
It raised its eyes, its narrow and long eyes flashing with cold light, looking across thousands of mountains and rivers and the endless sea, as if it saw a black figure deep in the ancient Pangu City far away at the top of the red earth continent.
～～～～～～～～～～ The Snake Snake Fruit in his hand, the Mythical Beast Species, the Medusa Form, quickly withered and rotted...
“…”
Im had a blank expression on his face. He flipped his hand and threw the fruit that had lost its power to the ground.
"Hehehe..." A deep laugh came from in front of Yimu, "Hey, Sister Yi, I didn't expect that you would also be humiliated?"
Im raised his eyes and looked indifferently at the wall. He saw the young pirate wearing seastone handcuffs with golden keyholes. He had only fed him some food to prevent him from starving to death or dying of thirst. Unexpectedly, his complexion had improved a lot compared to the beginning.
Lin Qi leaned against the wall and said jokingly, "It seems that yours is a female and mine is a male. It won't work if you touch me! Hehehehe...
"You want my abilities? Go find them. I've left everything on the ocean!"
Yim snapped his fingers, ignored Lynch's words, and said coldly: "It doesn't matter... As long as you are still here, your substitute will come to you one day." After that, he turned and left.
"Aren't you good at fortune-telling?" Lin Qi looked at Yim's back and shouted, "Why don't you calculate whether they will come or not?"
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Im walked away slowly without stopping, but Lynch behind him continued to laugh and said, "Or... the world-wide Observation Haki of 'foreseeing the future' is too much for even someone as unfathomable as you? So you don't want to use it carelessly?!"
Bang, Im stopped in his tracks.
"..." Im turned his head and glanced at Lynch standing against the wall behind him with eyes that he didn't know whether they were rippled eyes or double pupils.
“Hehehe…it seems that I guessed right.” Lynch grinned, revealing his not-so-white teeth. “It’s because your flaws are too big! Every time before I open my mouth to mock you, you’re already speechless. - You’re throwing the answer directly in my face!”
Yim did not answer and walked away. Lin Qi's intermittent words could be heard from behind him:
"What is this called? 'Imu Monster'?... It seems that this 'goblin' is too powerful, even you can't subdue it... After all, you are still mortal, your brain capacity is not enough, right?... Hehe..."
…
The Five Elders have a bit of a headache.
First, the widow of the Rozward family came to the door and cried, asking them to avenge the tragic deaths of her husband, son, and daughter, and to wipe out the entire Nine Snake Island from the world...
It hadn't been a few days since the Navy had another defeat. The doubled demon-killing order had no effect. Sengoku and Aokiji were repelled by the Nine Snakes, and Akainu's ten warships were blocked by Shanks...
Headache.
I have a headache.
Fortunately, he did not put all his hopes on the navy. He had already consulted Lord Im and begged him to "extinguish the light" on the Pirate Queen Boa Hancock who dared to attack and kill the Celestial Dragons.
Lord Yim did not comment, but it seemed that he agreed.
Then, the Pirate Queen can be regarded as a dead person.
How many days can she still jump around? ...
Im had disappeared long ago, and Lynch finally calmed down. He looked in the direction of the substitute in his vague perception with worry.
Hancock, are you okay?
～～～～～～～～～～～ Hancock was covered in blood, gasping for breath in Robin and Tulip’s arms, looking very weak.
"Sister, how are you?" Sanda and Mary's eyes were blurred with tears. "Don't scare us..."
Hancock looked at the figure in black armor walking towards her. The figure stretched out his left hand, which was holding something, and pressed it towards her.
Tulip grabbed BIB's right arm armor that was covered with red flame patterns, and silently stared into the glimmer in its narrow eyes.
This devil fruit is obviously not safe. If I give it to Hancock again, what if something happens again? Robin suppressed the fear in his heart, took a deep breath, grabbed Tulip's hand, and took it away from "BIB". "Hancock's injuries are likely due to the damage to her bloodline factor after the devil fruit was forcibly stripped... I think we must let her return the devil fruit to her now, so as to truly stop the deterioration of the injury."
"......?!" Tulip was surprised, and finally nodded slowly, allowing the mecha arm covered with red flame patterns to grab a glowing triangular chip and sink into Hancock's heaving chest.
As soon as the devil fruit returned, Hancock's complexion improved a lot, and the injuries on her body stopped immediately.
Tulip breathed a sigh of relief.
Sanda and Mary were terrified. They wiped their tears and cried, "Can you take it out now? If you take out my sister's ability, it shouldn't damage any of her factors, right? Take it out quickly..."
Of course 『BIB』 agreed, and Robin had no objection either, but her outstretched left hand covered with blue flame patterns was caught by Hancock's domineering palm, which stayed on her chest, preventing her from reaching in to take out her devil fruit.
"Hancock!" Robin and Tulip both whispered.
Hancock wiped the blood off her face, stood up with difficulty, grabbed BIB's left hand, and said without any explanation, "I won't give it to you."
Of course Sanda and Mary wanted to persuade her again, but Hancock was stubborn, silent, and resolute.
"Because..." Robin closed his eyes, smiled bitterly and whispered, "This is the devil fruit ability I got with Lynch...right, Hancock?"
Hancock said hoarsely: "Finally, Lynch also has the Magnetic-Magnetic Fruit, right..."
Tears flowed down the blood on her broken cheeks. Hancock wiped her face, feeling sad. "Has he also suffered the same pain at the hands of that bastard in the past few days? I just thought about this and my heart was in pain..."
"Silly girl." Tulip sighed, put her arms around Hancock's trembling body and stroked it gently.
…
A few days later, everyone accompanied Hancock to recuperate while keeping a close eye on her, fearing that her body would break down again - that is, she would once again be forcibly deprived of the power of her devil fruit by the immortal person that Rayleigh mentioned.
Meanwhile, Sundar occasionally transformed himself into a flying snake to keep up with the latest newspapers.
The Nine Snakes' warriors also stepped up their vigilance and patrolled everywhere to prevent further disruption from the navy.
Nothing happened...
Whether it's Hancock's side or the Navy's side...
Even on the Celestial Dragon side, there was no news report about them attacking and killing a family of three of them in the newspapers.
As if they hadn't done it themselves, they would doubt whether such a thing had really happened...
Everyone was in doubt, but Hancock, who was recovering from his injuries, asked angrily, "If that bastard didn't pay any price for doing this, why didn't he just take away all the devil fruits from you?"
Mary stammered, "But...Lin Qi can deprive others of their devil fruits without paying any price..."
As he said this, he, like Sanda and Tulip, looked at "BIB" who was standing beside Hancock's couch with his arms folded like a bodyguard.
Hancock said as a matter of course: "How can that bastard compare to Lynch?"
Where did this confidence come from... Sanda and Mary were secretly ashamed. In fact, they felt that their devil fruits were not taken away, but because that immortal being who sounded so superior didn't look down on them at all...
Tulip looked at the stubborn Hancock helplessly, and then she felt Robin coming back.
These days, she seems to be doing something alone.
Tulip knew that she and Lynch had the deepest feelings, and Robin herself had a negative personality, so it might be better to let her deal with her own feelings.
but……
Tulip looked at BIB, and BIB seemed to sense something and also looked at her.
The former Snake Princess asked solemnly: "I just want to know, have you, or your original body, ever thought about what will happen after being caught?"
『BIB』 was silent. Hancock, who was pale on the bed, Robin, who had returned and walked into the bedroom, and the two sisters Sanda and Mary all looked at it and Tulip.
"As far as I know, you exposed your ability to seize the power of devil fruits in public on the flower boat, and then used the power of the gas fruit you seized to enter the calm zone..." Tulip narrated slowly, staring at BIB's narrow eyes, "So I should be able to assume that you are not the type of kid who would really give up his life without any preparation...right?"
Hancock and Robin stared at BIB, while Sanda and Mary also watched it with bated breath.
"I'll only ask once," Tulip said slowly, "since you've confirmed that your original body is still alive. So in this situation, are you - your original body - sure that you can get out safely one day in the future?"
"BIB" was silent for a moment, glanced at the pairs of eyes staring at him in the room, and answered: "What do you think, if I am a genius in a certain field, what field is it? Is it domineering? Or fighting?"
“…”
Domineering?
It took a lot of effort for you to learn to be domineering, okay?
And he himself actually doesn't have the talent for domineering color...
Sanda and Mary were speechless.
Hancock was a little slow, and Robin said, "Life restoration. You said, 'If the hymn of mankind is the hymn of courage, then the stand is the miracle of life.' So you think... this is why you are so good at life restoration."
"BIB" said: "Earlier, people praised those who were proficient in returning life as mountain immortals... Only those who have experienced thousands of years of wind and snow, sun and rain can be called immortals."
Under the gaze of the crowd, it slowly said: "Seastone can limit the physical strength of the ability user, but it cannot limit the original body's thinking and spirit. As long as he is alive, the immortal's cultivation will not stop. "Therefore, when God is about to give a great task to a person, he must first make his mind and will suffer, his muscles and bones tired, his body hungry, his body empty, and his actions frustrated, so as to move his heart and endure his nature, and increase his ability to do what he cannot do"... In the tempering of returning life, what the original body needs most now is time. As long as the opponent can't catch me and can't kill me, then I have enough time. 』
“…”
Tulip's expression changed slightly. She had indeed never thought of this possibility.
What does Lin Qi want to do? In the lowest point, on the road of life return, he wants to reach an unprecedented height? "If you believe in the original body, believe in me, then wait patiently."
"BIB" concluded with a glimmer in his narrow eyes, "There will be a day when you will emerge from your cocoon as a butterfly and ascend to heaven! I think that will also be the moment when a new era will be set off in the future..."
Everyone was silent and thought a lot.
Hancock lowered her head and clenched and unclenched her hands.
Tulip nodded, "Since you know what's going on, that's good."
Robin was stunned for a long time, and finally came to his senses. He was silent for a moment, collected his emotions, and took out a piece of paper, "This is what I made, Hancock's life paper."
"Um?"
Tulip, Hancock and the others were all surprised, "Is this what you've been doing these days?"
Sanda asked curiously, "Did you learn how to make it in the Sabaody Archipelago? You even bought special paper..."
Hancock frowned, "Be my life paper, what are you going to do?"
"Don't worry, I don't intend to do anything dangerous..." Robin shook his head slowly and paused, "It's just that Nine Snake Island doesn't seem to be safe anymore. I've been thinking these days... whether I should move Nine Snake Island to another place. Away from the sight of the navy."
"……ah?"
Sanda and Mary were stunned. Move to another place... Are you talking about Nine Snake Island? This is... an island! "Hancock will rest in Nine Snakes first, so I'll borrow your life paper for a while." Robin looked at Tulip, "If you want to move to the island, you need to borrow the power of one person, and you need to go back to the Flower Kingdom in the West Sea... Tulip, do you want to visit Princess Lily's hometown?"
(End of this chapter)