Chapter 680: Several Celestial Dragons were frightened to death in the Holy Land... (8,000 words)

"ah?"

Ace didn't expect that this strange ghost companion of his brother would come to him and say something like this.

He stared at the other party with his observation Haki and said seriously, "Whether I am his opponent or not, it does not affect me as the captain. I must catch the bastard who killed my partner and deal with this matter."

"BIB" remained silent.

I knew this would be the result.

Doesn't Ace know that Teach is very strong?

Having been companions on the ship for so long, how could this kid not sense that Teach is a hidden talent?

But he still came.

Just like Luffy knew that Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, was a very powerful opponent but he still stood up.

Ace raised his finger and pushed the brim of his hat, smiling and saying, "Although I don't know you, thank you for your concern. If you also tell Luffy, and he wants to intervene to help me after hearing about it...then please punch him for me!"

"…"

Just as Fire Fist was about to launch the jet on his single-person fireboat, BIB gave him one last piece of advice: "The power of the Dark-Dark Fruit is essentially 'gravity'."

“……?!”

With a swish, Ace suddenly stepped on the fireboat and turned back in surprise to look at the black shadow floating in the air.

The other party's narrow eyes glowed with light, staring at him deeply, and slowly said: "Not only can it devour matter like a black hole, but it can also... attract the devil fruit factor in the body of the ability user. In other words, it can make your Flame-Flame Fruit ability invalid."

Ace's expression changed several times, "I think I understand why he must have this fruit..." He was stunned for a moment.

That’s all BIB said, and he turned around and flew back to the direction of the Merry.

Glancing back on the way, I could vaguely see a slightly ferocious scowl gradually emerging on Ace's freckled face...

But it's just a devil fruit after all! Teach, if you want it so badly, you can just ask for it! Why don't you say anything and even kill your companions? !

Or, you bastard, have you never considered us all as your partners? Boom!!!

A huge wave of flames shot out from behind the single-person boat, and it sped away in a flash.

"BIB" was speechless. It knew that when things developed to this point, it would be almost impossible to stop Ace.

Unless he can prevent Blackbeard from meeting the Dark-Dark Fruit, as long as Blackbeard gets the Dark-Dark Fruit, regardless of whether he kills his companions or not, as long as Blackbeard dares to run, Ace will definitely chase him and ask for the truth.

It was nothing more than that Blackbeard killed someone and then ran away, and when Fire Fist found him, he was even angrier and more resolute.

It's like if Usopp from the Straw Hat Pirates suddenly killed Chopper with a knife one day and ran away, and you want to stop Luffy from finding Usopp to settle the score? Forget it!

"BIB" floated back to the Merry, and Luffy and the others were listening to Vivi's determination. Seeing it come back, Luffy asked curiously: "Kuro, what did you say to Ace?"

Robin looked up and saw the helmet of "BIB" condensing in the air. He said calmly: "I think he can't beat the person he wants to catch, so I want to persuade him to turn back."

"Isn't this terrible?" Usopp said with a sweatdrop, "If we can't win, it will be very dangerous!"

Sanji, Zoro, and Chopper looked at Luffy, "Should we help your brother?"

"Forget it!" Luffy said with a smile, "Ace has his own adventures. Besides, he's much stronger than me. If I help him because I'm worried about him, I'll definitely get beaten up by him."

"He said, if Luffy wants to help me, punch him for me..."

"BIB" said, and the helmet gradually disappeared into the air.

"You two really are brothers..." Zoro, Sanji, Usopp, and Chopper were all ashamed. Luffy laughed and waved his hand, saying, "Anyway, let's go too!"

The Merry soon set sail and headed for the oasis of Chiefba to search for the rebel base.

"BIB"'s narrow eyes glowed with light as he watched Ace leave the sea. Although he reminded Ace of the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit, the effect was probably limited! After all, in the comics, Ace had heard Blackbeard boasting about the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit not long after the battle began.

Ace didn't lose because of poor intelligence, he simply couldn't win.

"Don't you really want Luffy's brother to go find Marshall D. Teach?" Robin asked from the side.

Of course she still remembered that Blackbeard, who Luffy's brother said killed his companions, was the person Lynch once wanted to kill on Whitebeard's ship.

『BIB』folded his arms and said calmly: 『Since I'm here, I'll persuade you to give it a try.』

Robin was speechless.

Over there, Nami and Vivi waved at her. When Robin went over, she found that they were discussing how to march in the desert after landing.

Robin listened for a while, then took out the green Den Den Mushi from the small bag on his waist, and said, "Let Green help me."

Nami's eyes lit up, she hugged Robin's arm affectionately, and said happily: "Sister Robin! It's great to have you here!"

"I don't want it!"

After getting off the boat, there was an endless desert in front of us. The climate was hot and dry, with scorching sunlight.

After hearing the plan to hurry on, Luffy refused directly, crossed his arms, and looked reluctant. "Someone is bound to walk in the desert under the sun with a green stick, right? In that case, let's share the heat!"

The partners were deeply moved by the speech of sharing weal and woe.

Nami, with tears in her eyes, punched Luffy in front of Vivi's shocked eyes.

Nami said speechlessly: "You idiot! The key point is to save fresh water! A bunch of people basking in the sun in the desert will soon drink up all the fresh water!"

Robin glanced at Chopper, who was almost smoking from the heat of his thick fur, and suggested, "How about this, we take turns carrying Little Green in the desert outside, while the others replenish their energy in the castle?"

Zoro readily agreed, "No problem, I'll be the first one!"

"You have no right to wander around outside alone!" Sanji and Usopp punched Green Algae Head at the same time, "You're a directionally challenged person, you want to take us back to the East China Sea, right?"

Zoro covered his head with his hands, a puzzled look on his face. Why did you say that to him? Luffy raised his fist and said, "Then let's... go..."

"I'll hold the Castle Den Den Mushi outside first!" Weiwei said with a smile, "After all, I'm more accustomed to the desert environment."

Sanji said attentively: "I will make a special drink for you, Vivi, to cool down in the castle~~!! Of course, there will also be Miss Nami and Miss Robin~~"

"Hey! What about us?" Usopp made a knife move.

Sanji said, "Just drink some tap water, right?"

At this time, Chopper sniffed his blue nose and looked back in surprise, and saw Robin standing there and not following the crowd.

Luffy asked curiously: "Robin, Hei Zai, what's wrong with you?"

Robin looked off into the distance and said calmly, "You guys go find the rebels... I'm personally more interested in what Crocodile is planning in this country. So I want to investigate it alone."

Nami quickly took the little green and wanted to return it to Robin, "Sister Robin, it's more dangerous for you to be alone, Sister Robin, you should do this by yourself-"

Nami's arms grew out of her arms and stopped her. "You are more people, so you need more food in the castle." Robin turned his head and nodded to the others, "Don't worry about me. - Chopper, you should follow them. Aren't you afraid of heat? It's more comfortable to stay in Little Green's castle. If you follow me, you will get heat stroke..."

"I'm a doctor. I'm not afraid of heatstroke." Chopper wanted to catch up with Robin.

Robin said, "Be good." He stretched out a hand, touched Chopper's forehead, and pushed him back to Rufei and the others.

Robin waved his hand and walked away in another direction.

Of course, in Luffy's eyes, Kuroko was just the same as usual, like a black-armored knight accompanying Robin and walking farther and farther away.

"Robin..." Chopper muttered as he watched her go away.

A gust of desert wind blew past, blowing up the robes of the Straw Hat Pirates.

Nami's orange hair flew up as she muttered to herself, "I always feel like Sister Robin will never come back once she leaves..."

"What are you talking about, Nami? Didn't Robin say she was going to investigate?" Luffy looked at her in confusion, then turned around and walked away happily, "Let's go too!"

"Wait! Luffy!" Sanji and the others chased after him and said unhappily, "We've already agreed to take turns to rest in the Den Den Mushi castle, right?"

Several people walked away noisily, disappearing one by one on the sand dunes and entering the little green body.

…

"What are you still looking at?"

Robin walked forward alone, tucking her hair that was messed up by the wind and sand.

"BIB" retracted his gaze and floated up from behind, "Look at that poor little thing."

"..." Robin said, "Do you think what Crocodile is planning in this country is related to the historical text?"

"Maybe!"

"BIB" folded his arms and accompanied him, "Just go and ask and you'll know."

"Um."

Robin pressed his hood, braving the wind and sand along the way, leaving a series of footprints on the sand dunes behind him that were quickly buried.

On the road, the sand suddenly collapsed, and a huge purple lizard emerged from the pouring sand sea.

Although the momentum is amazing, it's just that. Robin didn't want "BIB" to make any extra consumption, and even didn't want it to use its domineering color to intimidate the purple lizard. She just waved her hand and summoned an identical purple lizard. It opened its mouth and wrapped its teeth with dark domineering power, biting its own body... Domineering power exists in every life, including these animals. With Robin's current experience, even if the object he copied from Hua Zizai does not have domineering power, she can control the power hidden in their body on their behalf.

Boom boom...

The big purple lizard was running in the desert, raising a large cloud of yellow sand.

Robin made a chair using the limbs of the Hana-Hana Nomi and sat down. He then closed his eyes and rested on the back of the giant desert lizard while heading towards a nearby big city.

Given Crocodile's reputation and status as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, you can just ask a local and find out where he mainly operates.

"BIB" sat back to back on the big purple lizard. The part of the double-leg mecha that was attached to the lizard's back was materialized, so there was no need to fly, and he was carried by the lizard.

Ten years of life returning to practice...

Its narrow eyes were "closed" and completely dark.

Perhaps, it was really predestined...

When the main body first came into contact with the field of life return in his early years, he had gradually mastered the characteristic of "storing energy for later use". It was as if from that time on, he had been preparing for this disaster.

"BIB" has deduced this countless times in his mind.

The worst case scenario it could guess was that the main body would at least remain in "low power consumption" "power saving mode" for the next ten years, accumulating the body's energy every day...

Without madness, there is no life.

After ten years of accumulation, when it becomes one with the main body, will it explode on the spot, or soar into the sky and ascend to heaven on the spot?

～～～～～～～～～～ 〖City of Dreams, “Rainy Land”〗

〖"Rain Banquet" Casino, in the backstage passage——〗

despair……

despair……

despair……

In the empty corridor, many Baroque Walter cadres in black suits were lying in all directions. In front, the sound of high heels echoed, going deeper into the corridor.

Ta. The figure in black leather and black ponytail stopped and glanced back and upward.

Chopper, Luffy, Nami...? They came here so quickly. It seems that they didn't follow Princess Vivi to find the so-called rebel base...

…

In the bright and spacious hall, sitting on a large chair at the end of the long and luxurious table, sat Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, wearing a cloak. He was biting a cigar, turning a lighter in one hand, and tapping the table with the other hand. Suddenly, he looked up at the side door on the side of the hall. There was a sound of high heels approaching from behind the door, and finally stopped. Then, on the door handle on this side of the hall, petals swirled up, and a soft arm grew out. The slender fingers grasped the handle and twisted it open.

Silently, the side door was pushed open.

A black figure walked in, and his dark green eyes looked at Crocodile, who was frowning at the end of the long table, from a distance. "Long time no see, Crocodile."

"..." Crocodile bit his cigar, his face looked rather grim, and he said coldly, "All day long today, there have been reports of my subordinates disappearing in Rainy City... It seems like it was your fault, right? Kujo Jolyne!"

"I haven't heard of this name for a long time."

Robin lowered his eyes and muttered to himself, then slowly walked to the end of the long table, pulled out a chair, and sat down opposite Crocodile.

"hehe……"

Crocodile bit his cigar and sneered, "Or should I just call you Nico Robin, or... Son of the Devil? You disappeared for ten years, and now you suddenly appear in Alabasta, and you killed many of my men. You specially came to see me... What do you want to do?"

"You seem very nervous." Robin put his hands on the table, "Don't worry, the person who can take away your Sand-Sand Fruit is not here now..."

At this moment, a young man's clear roar suddenly erupted from the direction of the casino outside:

“Crocodile————you come out————!!!”

Hearing the noisy voice, Crocodile's eyes suddenly darkened, staring at the sinister woman opposite him, "...You didn't come here with those rookie pirates who just ran into the Grand Line, did you?!"

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Robin said: "This has nothing to do with you."

Crocodile touched his golden left hook and said coldly: "Then tell me, what does it have to do with me?"

Robin stared at the other person and slowly spoke: "The main text of history."

"......?!" Crocodile's eyes twitched slightly, his expression didn't change significantly, but it was enough for Robin to make a judgment. "You are entrenched in this country, and you have a plan... And it is related to the main text of history."

Crocodile's eyes were bloodshot, and he said coldly: "Don't think--"

Boom! ! As he was talking, a large area of ​​the ceiling next to him suddenly fell down, and a square seastone prison fell from the upper floor.

"Robin?!" "Sister Robin!" "You are here too?" "..."

Luffy, Nami, Usopp, and Zoro in the cage were all very surprised. Smoker, who was sitting behind them, heard their shouting and was so shocked by the name they said that he couldn't hold his originally cold face anymore. He asked in astonishment, "What did you say!?"

He suddenly stood up, rushed to Luffy, and grabbed the prison bars. Like Luffy, his limbs were weakened by the seastone bars.

"Nicole... Robin...?!" Smoker stared at the woman sitting opposite Crocodile, "Could it be that you are the other member of the Straw Hat Pirates..."

"..." Robin looked at the people in the cage.

Luffy picked his nose in confusion, "Why is he so surprised when he just heard Robin's name?"

Zoro said to himself: "That Crocodile is the same. He is a Shichibukai, but he seems a little nervous..."

"Did you see how nervous we are?" Luffy said. Usopp gave him a knife, "How is that possible!"

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!”

Crocodile suddenly raised his head and burst into laughter, almost tears coming out of the corners of his eyes, "I really didn't expect that the former Shichibukai, 'Devil's Child' Nico Robin, would actually hang out with these rookie pirates... I'm really laughing to death!!"

"......?!" Nami, Luffy, Zoro, and Usopp all looked at him in surprise and confusion.

Did they hear correctly? "Rororororo Robin Bingbingbing..." Usopp stepped back in shock, "Robin was also a Shichibukai before?!!!!"

Nami murmured to herself, "No wonder Sister Robin was so nonchalant when she mentioned Crocodile before..."

Huh? Crocodile's eyebrows twitched. "Can you guys keep your voice down when you're whispering? Do you think I can't hear you?" "Who are you talking about? The rookies." He looked gloomy and coldly looked at Luffy and the others in the cage. "In this desert country, even she can't be my opponent."

"Yeah?"

Robin stood up with his hands on the table, "I'll ask again..."

Silently, several arms appeared on Crocodile's body, and each arm was wrapped in armed color and turned pitch black!

"You are willing to cause unrest in this country in order to obtain the 'historical text'..." Robin controlled five armed hands to point at the vital points on Crocodile's head, "Where is it?"

What did she say? Smoker, who had been staring in the cell, narrowed his eyes. Could it be that Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, was...? !

Could that be the Haki that Robin mentioned? Armament Haki? Zoro stared at the black arms that grew out of Crocodile's body.

“……?!” Before Robin’s attack landed, Crocodile immediately transformed into a ball of yellow sand and quickly flew to another location. He did not fully materialize, but was half sand and half human. He stared at Robin coldly. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Robin nod and mutter to himself: "It seems that you yourself don’t know where the historical text you want to find is…"

Crocodile raised his golden left hook and said coldly: "You still want to trick me? Dream on!"

As he said that, he raised his hand and swung it, which turned into a yellow sand knife and slashed towards Robin.

BANG!!! The long table and the floor were cut in half. Such an amazing blow made Zoro's eyelids jump in the cage. Robin turned around to avoid it and raised her hand to fight back, but she heard Luffy in the cage shouting: "Robin!!"

Robin walked away gracefully, and Crocodile also frowned and looked over in confusion, "You boy with a straw hat, just stay in your cell, what are you yelling about?"

"I promised Weiwei! I will beat you up like a bastard!"

Luffy stared coldly at Crocodile behind the cage, then he looked at Robin, took two steps back, and slowly clenched his fists, "Robin, you are actually very powerful, right? But we can't always let you play pirate games with us... In the future, we will definitely encounter opponents who are more powerful than this scarred bastard. If we can't even defeat this guy, what should we do in the future?"

"So this guy——" Luffy said seriously, "We have to defeat him here by ourselves!!!"

The powerful words echoed in the room, and Crocodile was stunned. Was he underestimated? !

"Luffy..." Nami looked at Luffy in surprise, who was more serious than ever before.

"Nami, Luffy is right." Zoro tied his headscarf and put his hand on the hilt of the knife. "If we can't master Haki here, how can we have the face to continue sailing with Robin and Hei Zai?"

Smoker's eyelids twitched as he watched from the side. Do these young and fearless pirates know what level of pirate the woman they are talking about is? While you were still playing the pirate game at home, this woman and that man had already made an astonishing name for themselves around the world...

"Why are you saying such excessive things?" Nami complained, depressed, "What do you mean by shameless... Did Usopp make you lose face too?"

Usopp, who had been speechless since a while ago, was suddenly cueed by Nami and said depressedly: "Why are you only talking about me?!"

"That's different!" Zoro clanged out two sharp knives, "You are a navigator, Usopp is a ship repairman, and what about Luffy and I? The only thing we have is fighting!"

"Hey!" Usopp shook his hands in frustration, "Who is the ship repairman? I'm a sniper..."

"..." Robin looked at them quietly, and suddenly turned his head and glanced at the top of the high stairs behind him.

Bang!!! At this moment, the luxurious main door at the top of the stairs was suddenly kicked open, and several figures stood in the backlight.

"Sanji! Vivi! Chopper!"

Vivi is on the left, the reindeer is on the right, and the knight in the black suit is in the middle. Sanji exhaled a cigarette under the gaze of many people in the hall below, and smiled: "Sister Robin, is this the place? There are quite a lot of people here, not only the Seven Warlords of the Sea, but also the Navy!"

Robin nodded to Sanji. Of course, it was she who used the Hana-Han-Han Fruit to guide Sanji and the others to come here.

"actually……"

She sighed softly, turned around, raised her hand, and threw something into the cage. Nami caught it in astonishment, "Key? I took it from the sand crocodile during the fight just now..."

What?! Crocodile touched the pocket of his cloak and found that the key was missing.

Click, Nami quickly opened the door of the sea tower stone prison, and Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, she and the silent navy walked out together.

Robin shook his head. "The most I could do was to drain his energy for you..."

As she spoke, under the surprised gazes of Chopper, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Vivi, and Smoker, half of her face quickly withered and turned into petals that floated away.

It was just a clone from the beginning?! When Crocodile saw this, more bloodshot appeared in his eyes. I was actually fooled by a clone?! Before the Flower Clone disappeared, he saw Luffy's fists and palms hit each other, stared at Crocodile and laughed: "Are you ready? Stinky sand!"

"Hmph... I think this crocodile is very suitable for testing out swords!" Zoro clenched his two swords.

"Robin..." Chopper looked at the disintegrating flower clone, who nodded to him, "I'll leave them in your care, Chopper..."

"Hmm!!" The little reindeer's fighting spirit suddenly burned.

Sanji was the first to raise his foot and kick Crocodile in the head, laughing: "Crocodile, have you ever been kicked by gold?"

Smoker remained silent the entire time, watching everything with a gloomy face, and also watched as Nico Robin's flower clone finally disintegrated and turned into a bunch of petals that drifted away...

…

"The capital 'Albania' is ahead."

Robin opened her eyes and heard the reminder of "BIB" in her ears. She nodded, stood up on the seat on top of the moving crab, and looked up at a majestic city approaching in the desert in front of her.

After searching the rainy land without any results, she left a flower clone behind and went to the rainy land to look for the sand crocodile, hoping to get some information.

Meanwhile, her true form went directly to the capital of Alabasta.

If there really is an official history of this country, then the people most likely to know where that thing is... are probably the Nefertari royal family, who once had the opportunity to become a member of the Celestial Dragons but gave up.

The current king is Nefertari Cobra.

"What's wrong?" "BIB" saw that she hadn't spoken for a long time.

Robin said: "Chopper and the others have already run into the sand crocodile in the 'Rainy Land'..."

"BIB" said: "Don't worry, not to mention that Chopper can master multiple transformations by himself, he also has the "Senzu Beans" that he and Kuleha studied the bloodline factor and can use... and..."

It paused and looked at the majestic palace complex standing on the high slope of the mountain right in front of it.

"The son of Tulip and Dragon, as well as the descendant of Shimotsuki of Wano Country, will not die so easily at the hands of a mere sand crocodile..."

～～～～～～～～～～～ In the magnificent palace, there is a luxurious and magnificent bedroom.

Weiwei's father, the king of the Sand Kingdom, was rubbing his brows with a worried look on his face, trying to relieve his anxiety.

Suddenly, he heard a cold female voice: "Nefertari Cobra..."

“……?!”

Cobra was not panicked, he turned his head to look at the source of the voice, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he said in shock: "You are--"

Ta-ta-ta…

Robin, who was wearing a ponytail, black leather jacket and long boots, was surrounded by flying black armor that was invisible to the naked eye. She walked towards Cobra step by step and asked calmly: "Sand Crocodile wants the historical text hidden somewhere in this country. Do you know where it is?"

Cobra asked in confusion: "What are you talking about? Why can't I understand?"

"…Now that you've recognized who I am," Robin pulled out a chair and sat down, "there's no need to play dumb anymore, right?"

"..." Cobra was silent for a moment, rubbing his forehead and sighing deeply, "That's true. But I didn't expect that you, who had disappeared for ten years, would appear again... Nico Robin."

“…” Robin’s expression didn’t change.

I don't know if this should be described as expressionless or wooden. "I don't want to use force on you, Mr. King. If possible, it would be better to take me directly to the historical text... I just want to take a look."

Before Cobra could answer, a dark mask suddenly appeared in the air, with narrow eyes glowing faintly, "I advise you to listen to her, otherwise if we do something to you, it will be difficult to explain to Weiwei later."

"...Vivi?!" Cobra's expression changed.

"That's right..." The black mask flew around the king and said faintly, "Nefertari Vivi's Vivi..."

Cobra's face changed, and he slowly stood up, as if he had aged ten years. "I can take you to see..."

But after he took a few steps, he found that Nico Robin did not follow him.

Cobra looked back in confusion, only to see Nico Robin with her back to him. After hesitating for a while as if she didn't dare to ask, she slowly said, "Mr. King, as a descendant of the Twenty Kings who had the opportunity to become a member of the Celestial Dragons eight hundred years ago... have you heard any special rumors in the Holy Land of Marijoa?"

"Special rumor?" Cobra's eyes changed.

Robin still didn't dare to look back, pursed his lips, and waited for the answer behind him.

It seemed like 10,000,000 eight hundred years had passed before Cobra finally said slowly, "Six years ago, when I was attending the World Conference in the Holy Land of Marijoa, I did hear a rumor whose authenticity I didn't know..."

Nico Robin still didn't turn around, but Cobra clearly noticed that her shoulders were shaking slightly and her hands were unconsciously clenched.

Cobra sighed, stroked his short gray beard, and said in a deep voice: "There are rumors near Pangu City in Mary Geoise that in the past two years, several Celestial Dragons died strangely in Pangu City... and they died suddenly! No scars were found on their bodies... but their deaths were extremely horrible..." His eyes were covered with a shadow, and he said faintly, "Many other Celestial Dragons were scared. They said... the way those Celestial Dragons died, there was no external injury on their heads, but their brains seemed to be overwhelmed! It was as if...

"I was sitting at home and suddenly I was frightened to death by something!!"

(End of this chapter)