Chapter 681 The sand crocodiles were all plucked bald...
[Chapter Serialization·Heart Pirates 37·"I am still a marine after all, Luo."] [One year after recuperating. On the beach of Haiyan Island, Rosinante stood on a small boat, waved goodbye to Luo, White Bear, and Xiaocao on the shore, and raised a big smile.]——
"Your Majesty Cobra!"
One of the burly lieutenants of the Kingdom Guard, the "Jackal" Jaca, pushed the door open hastily. "Bell just sent me the news that the rebels--"
His pupils shrank and he froze in place.
Cobra walked towards him, looking at him with gloomy eyes and shaking his head slightly.
Next to him, there was a woman in a black hat, black leather jacket, and black boots. She just glanced at Jiaka with her gloomy dark green eyes and paid no more attention to him.
"Your Majesty Cobra, she, you, this is..." Jakka clenched his fists, instinctively sensing that the atmosphere was unusual.
Cobra, however, spoke in a deep voice and simply said, "This is a guest. It doesn't matter to me. I have something to deal with with the guest right now. You should deal with the rebels as you should. As for the rest, I'll talk to you when I get back."
Such a statement was enough to alert the adjutant of the Kingdom Guard, but when the king and the woman in black passed by, he heard the woman's faint voice: "I have no interest in animals, you'd better not move..."
Jakka suddenly felt his hair stand on end, and when he turned around suddenly, he only saw the backs of the woman and King Cobra walking away.
He could not disobey the king's order and suppressed the violent impulse in his body.
After thinking for a while, Jakka entered the form of half human, half animal, his head turned into that of a jackal, he twitched his nose, and followed Robin and Cobra from a distance.
"BIB" glanced at the lieutenant of the Alabasta Kingdom Guard who had eaten the Dog-Dog Fruit and was in jackal form, following behind him out of sight, and thought that after all, he was a little dog and his nose was very sensitive.
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〖West of Alabasta Palace, Royal Tomb〗
[Funeral Hall——]
Robin followed Cobra into the mausoleum and soon came to a hidden entrance to the underground tomb.
"Hidden in the underground palace?" Robin was the first to go down. "No wonder Crocodile has been trying to find it for several years but still hasn't found it..."
Cobra knew that with the strength of this former Shichibukai, he would not be able to escape even if she turned her back to him, so he did not want to waste his time and followed her down the deep stairs of the hidden passage.
despair……
despair……
despair……
Robin walked down the stone steps towards the deep underground palace step by step, and suddenly asked, "Do you think it is what I guessed?"
Hmm? Cobra followed behind, and the underground palace passage was dead silent. When he heard Nico Robin suddenly speak, he thought she was talking to him. But before he could speak in confusion, Nico Robin said to herself again: "Hmm..."
Cobra immediately understood that she must be talking to the strange ghost in the air before! What is that? Cobra wondered in his heart, why has he never seen the other person in the JOJO Pirates, the Lynch who is essentially the real core of the JOJO Pirates?
He turned into a ghost?
"BIB" floated beside Robin like a ghost, and walked side by side with him into the deep underground palace. He nodded and said: "It really seems that he was killed by the high-intensity Conqueror's Haki..."
"To put it bluntly, Conqueror's Haki is a more advanced way of using Haki remotely. And if the technique of Conqueror's Haki is further refined, it is no longer a barbaric and superficial release over a large area, but is precisely gathered within a few meters around the body and not dispersed, and integrated into high-intensity moves. This is the so-called Conqueror's Haki entanglement."
"Using the proficiency of the Conqueror's Haki to attack from a distance of hundreds or thousands of meters, it may be just a tickle to masters of the same level... But against those useless idiots of the Celestial Dragons, it is probably more than enough to shake their brains into a pool of mud..."
Robin took Cobra and walked through the passage and finally arrived at the underground palace, which was a huge tomb full of Alabasta style.
Beside him, the black ghost said quietly, "But, I can't be completely sure. After all, it should be quiet and quietly accumulate strength to prepare for the future fusion. It shouldn't waste precious energy just to kill a few insignificant pieces of trash..."
"In addition, the outside world has no way of knowing the specific living conditions and reproduction patterns of the Celestial Dragons. No one knows whether those stupid pigs who have been inbreeding for 800 years have any special habits that are unknown to the public. After all, Nefertari did not go along with that group of people 800 years ago. It is normal that she only knows a little about the news she heard from others... Besides, in novels, there are often cases where old monsters sacrifice their ancestors with blood to use their relatives to perform special moves. Who knows if it is because that immortal freak uses the raised Celestial Dragon babies as consumables for red and blue bottles?"
"It's the same as not saying anything..."
Robin shook his head and let Cobra, with a question mark on his face, lead the way.
Cobra had no idea what she was communicating with the invisible black ghost in the air. He could only lead Nicole Robin in confusion and slowly push open the ancient stone door of the hall hidden deep in the underground tomb.
The stone door slowly opened and Robin walked in.
"But at least I got some information that might be related to the main body."
"BIB"'s narrow eyes were gleaming as he looked up at the square stone tablet with historical text in the empty hall behind the stone gate. "Since you can't bear to kill him directly, why bother to capture him and raise him..."
Robin murmured, "Yeah."
Anyway, there was no shortage of time now, so Robin did not let "BIB" memorize the words recorded in this historical text at a glance and then turn around and leave. Instead, he slowly read it while interpreting it in his mind at the same time.
As Robin watched, a look of shock appeared in his eyes, and he said to himself, "I finally understand why the sand crocodile is staring at this place."
"What on earth is written on it?" The black armor looked over, his narrow eyes flickering with a faint light, he was really curious! In the comics, Robin's answer to Crocodile's questioning was: "Casilla took over Alabasta in the 239th year of the Celestial Calendar... In the 260th year, Teima took over the Bitin Dynasty... In the 306th year, the Palace of the Tafo Cathedral in Alma Road..." and other historical records. This answer, without the source, is just like the history book Robin studied on a daily basis, which he memorized to deal with Crocodile, rather than coming from a historical text stele where every word is worth its weight in gold.
"..." Robin glanced back at Cobra behind him. "Does Mr. King know what's written on it?"
Cobra said: "The royal families of Alabasta have all shouldered the responsibility of protecting this historical text. But they are only fulfilling this obligation..."
"Lie," Robin said.
"......?" Cobra was suspicious. "BIB" hovered over him and observed his expression, "He doesn't look like he's faking it."
Robin said: "Based on the contents recorded on the stone tablet, I don't think you Nefertari don't know its contents... I even think that this stone tablet was carved by the Nefertari king eight hundred years ago and left here as a fire seed."
"Spark?" Cobra was even more confused.
"..." Robin was silent and shook his head, "I'm not sure if I should trust you to tell you what's written on it. But I will tell Princess Weiwei later."
"...Vivi?!" Cobra muttered to himself, even more shocked, and then suddenly realized, and shouted: "So - you didn't kidnap Vivi?!"
Robin said calmly, "I've never said anything like that, have I?"
"Then why didn't you tell me earlier..." Cobra collapsed on the ground, sighed in relief, and complained, "I have already made the worst plan... I am not young anymore, my heart can't stand such stimulation."
Robin said, "A large-scale rebellion in the country, isn't that exciting enough?"
Cobra sighed: "That's why we can't have any more consecutive attacks."
"..." Robin said, "If I had told you earlier, I would have had to prove myself and prove that I knew Weiwei, and so on. It's better to do it this way."
"..." Cobra, who was sitting on the ground, suddenly looked up, "This historical text records the whereabouts of one of the three ancient weapons... 'Pluto'!"
Robin sighed: "You really know..."
"Hmm?" "BIB" stroked his chin, "Am I the only one who doesn't know now? What on earth did you write......"
Cobra shook his head and said, "But that's all! I'm not lying this time. Apart from knowing that the historical text contains the whereabouts of Pluto, I don't know anything about what is specifically recorded on this stone."
Robin said, "Well, do you want to know?"
"hehe……"
Cobra stood up on his knees, brushed off the dust on his body, stroked his short beard, and said with a smile, "Didn't you say you would only tell Weiwei? Please wait for my daughter to come back in the palace. Go and tell her."
Robin did not comment, followed the king out, and slowly closed the door of the tomb again.
Looking at the densely packed ancient texts on the historical text stone tablet locked in the crack of the door, BIB turned around and flew to catch up. Robin also deliberately left a distance behind Cobra in front of him. After it caught up, he slowly said, "Do you still remember Haredas?"
"That's right. I don't have the ability to forget things." The black armor's eyes flashed white, "The old man who studies meteorology on Xiaokong Island?"
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Robin walked and muttered to himself: "Then you should still remember the place called 'Biruka'..."
"Haredas's hometown." "BIB" floated aside and followed Cobra back to the palace with Robin. "He noted this place name on the page of the Thunder Fruit in the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia. It was the name of the sky island where those old men who studied the weather originally lived."
It is also the hometown of Enel. And he is very similar to those old men of Haredas, and he also blew up Biruka...
However, Haredas and his team blew up a part of it, and then they packed up their bedding and went into self-exile. As for Enelu, he also went into self-exile in the end, but that was after he completely blew up Birka Sky Island, and then he continued to cause trouble on the neighboring Sky Island, which is where the main story of the Sky Island arc takes place.
"So, the historical text just now states that the ancient weapon Pluto is on the Sky Island Birka?"
Under Cobra's arrangement, the Stand Armor and Robin rested in a spacious guest room in the palace.
It quickly retrieved the memory screen and found it after a targeted search. Sure enough! In the Sky Island manga, Robin often acted alone, and had never heard from other people that "God Enel" was an outsider, and of course he had never heard that he ran from "Biruka"...
"It's more than that."
Robin sat on the sofa and whispered, "The person who engraved this historical text made two preparations. A part of the wreckage of 'Pluto' - Pluto is actually a battleship built with super technology - was hidden in the Sky Island Biruka; and in order to prevent the wreckage of Pluto from being used by evil people and resurrected again, the designer left a copy of the design drawings of 'Pluto' in the 'Seven Waters City' where all the top shipbuilders in the world gather... so that in times of crisis, they can build another Pluto battleship to compete with it."
『…………』『BIB』crossed his legs and floated in the air with his arms folded, speechless. It turned out that Robin, who had read the main text of this history in Alabasta, had already mastered so much information about the ancient weapon "Pluto"?
No wonder Robin was the first person on the Straw Hat ship to say "Sky Island" when they saw the wreckage of a pirate ship that had fallen from the sky hundreds of years ago.
and……
"BIB" once again reads the comics in my memory.
Turn to the Judicial Island chapter. After Franky took out Pluto's design drawings, Robin basically didn't have much special reaction until Franky burned the design drawings in public. She just kept making ellipsis one after another throughout the whole process...
——"I know everything, but I just watch you guys perform and say nothing?"
"BIB" dug out the comics of the Fishman Island arc.
Regarding the matter of another ancient weapon "Poseidon", Robin also avoided Luffy and others and went to talk to "Poseidon" her father alone...
～～～～～～～～～～～ After just a short rest, Cobra came over and sat down hesitantly, wanting to know what her daughter had been through outside in the past two years and how much hardship she had endured...
Robin was silent, and then briefly told him what she knew about Vivi's undercover work as Baroquewald, and how she later met Luffy and others from the Straw Hat Pirates, and with their help she had gone to trouble Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
Cobra broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this.
It's normal that Nico Robin doesn't take the sand crocodile seriously, but he is afraid!
His own daughter actually went to look for trouble with such a dangerous pirate?
Bang! Adjutant Jaca rushed over again and shouted, "Your Majesty Cobra! The rebels... the rebels are approaching the capital Albana! Bell said that the rebel leader Kosa's goal is to take the palace directly!!"
"......?!" Cobra's face became even uglier. He waved his hand to let Gaka go out and wait for the news from Bell's investigation.
Robin looked at Gaga as he left and asked, "The two guardians of the Sand Country, 'Jackal' and 'Falcon'... Does your country have some method of passing down specific devil fruits?"
Cobra was startled, looked up at Robin in confusion, and nodded slowly, "I guess so!"
It seems that ancient countries with a long heritage have retained some similar methods... Robin and "BIB" thought at the same time that, for example, the Divine Infant Fruit Tree in the Kingdom of Flowers also has the function of inheriting Devil Fruits.
Not long after, just when Cobra was getting restless, Jackal Jaka came again to report. This time, he was shocked but also a little happy. He shouted: "Your Majesty Cobra! The rebels are approaching the palace, but——"
"What?!" Cobra jumped up.
"But!" Jiaka shouted, "Princess Weiwei appeared!!!"
As Cobra was shocked, Robin was surprised, and "BIB" was stroking his chin, Gaga's eyes were filled with tears, and he shouted: "That group of people rode the flying 'Golden Carpet' over the army... It was the Straw Hat Pirates! Everyone of them was covered in wounds. Rumor has it that they fought desperately in the 'Rainy Land' to defeat Crocodile, the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and his subordinates, and finally successfully brought Princess Vivi to Albana!!!"
"And then?!" Cobra asked anxiously, "The rebels have already come here, it's impossible for them to stop just because of Weiwei..."
"Yes..." Gaka said with a hint of shock, taking a deep breath, "But just when Kosa led the rebels and was about to ignore Princess Vivi and rush to the palace, the Straw Hat Boy, who was still lying on the Golden Flying Carpet and unable to move, got up... With just a glance, tens of thousands of rebels fainted in large numbers, and the entire army lost its ability to fight in an instant!!!"
Cobra was in disbelief, surprised and happy, and looked back at Nico Robin.
Robin was a little surprised at Luffy's proficiency in Conqueror's Haki... It seems that in order to defeat Crocodile, Luffy must have awakened his Armament Haki.
Being able to use Conqueror's Haki so skillfully greatly reduces the difficulty of Luffy awakening Armament Haki...
Only "BIB" was a little puzzled. Where did Sanji get the gold to make a "golden flying carpet"? The Gold-Gold Fruit he stole from Tesoro, although the ability user can turn the body into gold, but this is after all gold made by the ability, it is "fake gold" with a duration. Only real natural gold can be used as a "golden flying carpet" by the ability... Otherwise, wouldn't it be like stepping on the right foot with the left foot? ...
Didn't wait long.
When the group got together again, "BIB" got the answer it wanted when it saw Sanji, whose originally clean and straight black suit had become gray and had many scars on his body, looking very embarrassed.
"You mean the gold?"
Sanji raised his curly eyebrows and waved his hand. Liquid gold flew in from afar, dancing on his palm like a golden ribbon, and then condensed into a golden pirate hook.
"I just touched the hook on the crocodile's left hand and found that it was actually gold that I could control! Then I guessed... this guy might have spare golden hooks of the same style in his room. As expected, I found a whole cabinet full of them~~"
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(The names of the ancient weapons were Uranus, Poseidon, and Pluto. The more popular names of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto were actually added by the Chinese translation team. They overlapped with Rayleigh's nickname later, so this book uses the original name directly)
(End of this chapter)