Chapter 686: Hidden Cloud Village

"Hey! Wait a minute! My hand hurts..."

Aisha screamed in pain, and Nami, who was pulling her wrist back to the Merry, quickly let go and apologized, "I'm sorry, but we need to rescue our companions as soon as possible..."

"It's just being eaten by a whale. Luffy should be able to get out by himself, right?" Zoro climbed up on the deck.

"Right," Sanji floated up on a golden Frisbee and lit a cigarette with a golden lighter, "Don't worry about that idiot."

Chopper was shocked, "There are two of them! And there's Usopp, have you forgotten?!"

"Go ahead!" Nami waved her hand, then turned around, squatted down and hugged the girl from Sky Island, Aisha, "You seem to have a very powerful observation Haki, you can sense where the whale that swallowed Luffy and Usopp is, right?"

Aisha was startled by her watery eyes, "It's the 'Heart Net'! What's the Observation Haki... That's right, I can hear the location of the whale, okay, I'll take you there, don't cry! - Stop crying immediately!?" Aisha was annoyed by Nami's rapid expression change. Robin also returned to the boat and asked in confusion: "Why are there whales on Sky Island? In this 10,000-meter-high sea of ​​clouds, fish have evolved into a completely different body shape from the blue sea... There shouldn't be whales..."

"It's a very, very big whale! - Turn left, go straight forward, and then turn right, that's right!" Aisha opened her arms, turned her head to remind Nami, and then turned back to show Robin how big the whale was. "You're right, there are really no whales in the sky sea, let alone such a big one... It was washed up by the turbulent ocean current eight years ago! Everyone on Sky Island was shocked at the time! They thought they saw a miracle..."

"Eight years ago?" Nami turned around.

"Sky-high current?!" Chopper was startled, and like Zoro and Sanji, they all looked at Mont Blanc, "Is that the one the chestnut-headed uncle was talking about?"

"A whale? A surging ocean current?" A dark helmet appeared in the air, and his narrow eyes glowed as he turned to look at Robin. "Why do I have a bad feeling...?"

"That whale is very strange, with many scars on its forehead... What's even stranger is that a mermaid actually came out of its stomach..." Elsa said as she looked at the black helmet that was getting closer and closer. The narrow eyes on the black visor were glowing with a faint white light, like a ghost. "Wow~!!!!" The little girl was so scared that her eyes almost popped out of her head. "I thought I heard it wrong, there really is a ghost!!!"

Gurgle… Aisha rolled her eyes and fainted.

"......?!" Nami, Chopper, Sanji, and Mont Blanc all twitched their eyes. Especially Mont Blanc and Sanji, their eyes were bloodshot, and they rushed over at the same time, hugged the fainted Aisha on the left and right, and asked in unison: "Hey! You just said mermaids, right? Hey? Don't faint! We still need you to find Camie/mermaids!!!" Zoro complained from behind: "Aren't we going to save Luffy and Usopp?" Chopper was shocked, "What should we do now?"

"Let me do it." Robin said at this time, "I have found it with my observation Haki... Nami, sail according to my instructions."

Nami said happily: "Sister Robin, I'm glad to have you!"

"Lab..."

Robin stood at the bow, holding the fence, and looked at the white sea of ​​clouds ahead, just like the black mask that appeared beside him. He said to himself in surprise, "Why did you come to Sky Island?"

…

“I saw a whale!”

"It's just like Aisha said, there are so many scars on his head!"

Nami and Chopper exclaimed at the bow, pointing at a huge black whale emerging from the sea of ​​clouds ahead, "It's really huge!!"

Zoro and Sanji looked towards the black whale and said in surprise, "Am I seeing this right? Is that a piece of land? There is land on the sea of ​​clouds above Sky Island?"

"......?!" Mont Blanc stared at the tall, deep, and lush jungle, "Could it be really as I have speculated over the years..."

"What?" Sanji and Zoro asked in confusion.

"BIB" glanced back at Chestnut Head. As expected, this former pirate who had been searching for the Sky Current on Gaya Island for ten years would not have inexplicably studied the Sky Current so deeply. He must have conducted a special investigation because he had various speculations.

Mont Blanc suppressed his intense emotion and said in a deep voice: "We'll talk about this later! First go into the whale's body and find out..."

"Yes! Find the mermaid!" Sanji nodded. Zoro hit him with the handle of his sword, "It's Luffy and Usopp!"

The two men started fighting on the boat again, and Chopper was sweating coldly.

“Stop playing around with you two!” Nami controlled the Merry to approach the whale and turned back angrily, “Sanji, come here quickly and use the gold to lead everyone closer to the whale…”

"Yes~ Miss Nami~" Sanji agreed with pink eyes.

Robin looked at the island whale Lab from afar, which was lingering around the jungle island of Sky Island. He knew that it had never seen his true appearance, so it did not recognize him...

…

"There's actually another world inside a whale's body! It's incredible..."

The golden flying disc carried the pervert in a black suit and gold-breasted buttons, shuttling through the passage inside the whale's body. Behind the portal of the Den Den Mushi castle in his hand were Nami, Chopper and others.

Chopper was deeply shocked and said, "To make such a transformation inside a whale, it must require very powerful medical skills... medical skills..."

"...Ah?!" It turned its head and looked at Nami, both of them were shocked, "Could this whale be the one that Crocus mentioned?!"

Zoro said speechlessly from behind: "Are you guys too slow to react?"

"Ah, it's out of the tunnel." Sanji's eyes lit up. The golden flying disc he was controlling had already flown out of the deep artificial tunnel. The front was suddenly open. Above, there was a peaceful blue sky and white clouds, and below, the waves were surging... "That's not right! How can there be blue sky and white clouds inside a whale? And waves?" Nami held her head in confusion. Robin looked up and said, "Look carefully, those are painted blue sky and white clouds... In these 'waves' there are the remains of the air fish, and this is Lab's gastric juice."

"What kind of weirdo is this Kurokus you all know..."

Mont Blanc was speechless. Who could transform a whale's body into this? Chopper said worriedly, "Luffy is a superpower. He would drown if he fell into the gastric juice. Ah, there is a small island on the gastric juice 'sea'. I saw them!"

The reindeer pointed excitedly at the rippling gastric juice sea below. Nami, Sanji, Zoro, Mont Blanc, Robin, and "BIB" all looked over. Sure enough, on the island that was actually Crocus's boat, there were three beach chairs in front of the house. Luffy, Usopp, and a weird starfish-like thing were lying on them with a comfortable look on their faces...

"We were worried about you guys! But you guys were so relaxed basking in the 'sun' in the whale's belly, right?!"

A minute later, Nami was standing angrily on the island, clenching her smoking fists.

In front of her, Luffy, Usopp, and Kaixing were kneeling on the ground with their buttocks sticking up and their heads covered with bruises. "I'm... sorry..."

"No! Why should I be sorry?" Starfish jumped up, "And why did you hit me too?!"

Robin stared at the starfish, "It actually spoke..."

Sanji walked around the island and wondered, "Where's the little mermaid?"

The air was filled with a pitch-black mask, "Don't bother trying, there is no other living breath here."

"Are you talking about Kimi?" Starfish crossed his arms and sighed softly.

"Sanji, I'm afraid you will be disappointed..." Usopp and Luffy looked sad, "The mermaid..."

Robin turned around and looked at the corpse of the empty fish floating in the sea of ​​gastric juice. "Maybe it was swallowed by Lab as an ordinary fish and digested by its stomach acid. There might be a mermaid among these bones and remains..."

"That's right, Kimi has been digested by stomach acid..." Starfish Papagu nodded with a sad face, then suddenly came to his senses and said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about! Kimi is not dead!!!"

Sanji and Mont Blanc stood on the left and right, holding down the talking starfish with ferocious faces, "Then don't talk nonsense..." I almost scared people to death just now, okay? !

Nami asked confusedly, "So what happened?"

Zoro crossed his arms and said, "Luffy, Usopp, and this... Never mind, just tell everyone everything you know."

"I have to start from the beginning. Eight years ago..." Starfish Papagu recounted the story with a sad face. Luffy and Usopp beside him picked their noses and said, "Kami was kidnapped by a guy named Enelu."

Papagu looked desperate, "Let me finish slowly..."

"The bastard called Enel..." Sanji's eyelids twitched. "...captured?!" Mont Blanc's rage rose, and like Sanji, he bit his cigarette with a stern look on his face.

Nami was speechless, "You two really seem..."

Robin looked at the blue sky and white clouds drawn on the top of the whale's stomach...

Passing through layers of whale flesh and blood, I arrived at the whale's dark back...

Sitting cross-legged on the whale's back is Robin's flower clone.

She felt the breeze at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and listened to Lab's cries below, "...You finally recognized me, Lab. But I'm sorry, he's not here..." The flower clone covered his eyes with one hand and sighed softly.

…

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

Seeing Nami and the others coming out of Laboo's body, the flower clone on the top of the whale disintegrated and turned into petals...

Robin heard Aisha asking in confusion after she woke up: "What happened? Is it over? Wow! It's this whale! - How can a starfish talk? Where's the mermaid?"

"Okay, I'll tell you all this later." Nami said quickly, "But we also have a lot of things we want to ask you!"

"That's right!" Sanji held a cigarette in his mouth, "For example..."

Mont Blanc rubbed his fists and asked, "Where is the guy called Enel?"

"I'm going to beat him up!" Luffy punched his palm expressionlessly, "He stole Xing's master..."

"I'm her master! I'm also her pet, though..." Starfish Papagu said weakly, "Also, my name is Papagu..."

Robin and "BIB" turned their heads to look at the white sea of ​​clouds beside them.

Clank, Zoro drew his sword, and Sanji looked over suddenly, only to see a figure on the white sea rushing towards the Merry - "That person is actually running on the sea of ​​clouds?!" Usopp and Chopper were horrified.

"The thief from the blue sea..."

The man raised a rocket launcher-like thing, rushed over, jumped high, and said coldly to the stunned people, "Let Aisha go!"

"Hey! Wait a minute, Webber!" Aisha raised her hands anxiously, "You misunderstood! It's not what you think—"

Boom!!!

A ball of fire exploded on the Merry in the white sea...

Roar~~~~!!!

Lab raised his head and howled angrily. His voice echoed throughout the entire sky island and the entire white sea of ​​clouds in the sky.

…

[Island of Gods, inside the shrine——]

"Crack." A tall, strong, long-eared man wearing a white turban took a bite of an apple and smiled thoughtfully, "Oh? The whale from the blue sea is still alive?"

Next to them, in the small pool created by Haiyun, the mermaid Kami had a chain around her neck. She lowered her head and shed tears with a look of grievance, weakly swinging her pink tail.

～～～～～～～～～～～ “I’m sorry! I damaged your boat…”

On the deck of the Merry, Aisha bowed and apologized to Luffy, Nami and others with an apologetic look on her face.

Robin was over there comforting Lab, who was furious at the Shandia warrior Weber who had just bombarded everyone, while BIB floated to Mont Blanc beside the ship. Not only it, but Zoro, Sanji, and Luffy also noticed that Mont Blanc and the attacker standing on the white sea under the ship were staring at each other. "What's the matter, uncle with the chestnut head?" Luffy was surprised and swung his arms, "Do you want to beat him? How dare he destroy the Merry? I'm going to beat him!"

Aisha quickly grabbed Luffy, "Stop it! Weber just thought you kidnapped me..."

"..." Weber looked up and looked into the eyes of the doubtful Mont Blanc. His sight finally stopped on the chestnut hairstyle on the other's head, and a look of shock appeared in his eyes.

After a long silence, Weber put down the bazooka in his hand and said, "Are you going to our Hidden Cloud Village? Come with me. Aisha, come here."

"Oh..." Aisha nodded obediently. She was very afraid of the fierce Weber.

"Chopper, what is it saying?" Robin gently stroked the hard skin of the island whale beside the boat. The reindeer next to him shook his head and said, "No, I don't quite understand the language of the animals in the sea..."

Robin patted Rab's mountain-like body and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely take you down later. You still have someone to look for, don't you?"

Roar~~~~!!! Lab raised his head and howled. Chopper noticed that Robin did not smile, and the look in his eyes became even darker after saying this. Chopper pursed his lips and lowered his head.

Luffy shouted excitedly from behind: "Let's go to the Hidden Cloud Village!!"

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[The Hidden Cloud Village——]

Everyone followed Aisha and Weber all the way to the island cloud, unlocked a hidden "cloud ground", and went down the passage one by one.

Hidden inside the hollow of the island cloud was a village where humans actually lived.

"No wonder it's called the Hidden Cloud Village..." Usopp and the others were amazed, "I thought it was where ninjas lived!"

Robin and "BIB" walked at the edge of the crowd and saw that people in the village ahead had discovered them and came out one after another. Only after seeing Weber and Aisha walking in the front did they slightly put down the various spears, lances and other weapons in their hands.

"Wepper, you——"

An old man wearing a hat with flower feathers walked out of the crowd. He looked like an indigenous chief. As soon as he walked out of the crowd, he looked up and saw Mont Blanc walking with Weber and Aisha. His eyes were fixed on the chestnut-headed man's head. Suddenly, he seemed to be struck by a bolt from the blue. His eyes widened, his lips trembled, and he raised his hand to point at Mont Blanc. Unconsciously, two lines of turbid tears burst out of his eyes. He murmured:

"You...you are...Noland, you are finally here? Great warrior, Kalgara, you...did you see that Noland is here..."

"Chief, I don't want to wait any longer..."

Weber took a step forward and stood in front of the tearful chief, with his back to Mont Blanc, who looked shocked.

"tomorrow……"

As the breeze passed by, Weber's expression was extremely firm, and he said resolutely, "I must go and light the 'Lamp of Shandora'!!!"

(End of this chapter)