Chapter 734 The Tide of the Times

[Series at the beginning of the chapter · From the deck of the world 1 · "News birds flying to the four seas"] [In the early morning, the sea surface was undulating and sparkling. Groups of news birds, with small beverage bottles hanging around their necks, flapped their wings vigorously and flew to various parts of the sea. Their bags were filled with the latest newspapers. The wind blew up the papers that exuded the scent of ink, revealing bold and large words such as "The Battle of the Top..." and "The Return of the Resurrected Lynch..."]——

The green Den Den Mushi was in Robin's palm, opening the castle portal with its two eyes. Several figures jumped out of it, and after leaving the range of its body, they gradually restored their original size.

The members of the Red Hair Pirates could not help but move aside, leaving some space.

Sander, Hancock and Robin stood side by side, while Lynch and Shanks held the bodies of Whitebeard and Jinbe who were sent out from the Den Den Mushi Castle and slowly placed them on the deck.

Marco's face was full of tight, dried tear marks, and he could no longer cry. He sat there blankly, staring at Whitebeard's "sleeping" face with a smile on his face.

He still had no real sense that his father had left him forever. It was as if this man, whom everyone loved as a father, would still sit up with a "gulalala" laugh the next second...

Shanks asked, "What about their bodies? Do you need my help in disposing of them?"

Even if Whitebeard died, his remains would still touch the nerves of many people. Too many people hoped that he would be reduced to ashes, and it is not ruled out that many people wanted to gain fame by destroying or insulting Whitebeard's body.

As for Jinbe, he is one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, but he is also a fish-man. It would probably be more in line with his own wishes if his body was sent back to Fish-man Island to rest in the sea.

Marco shook his head and refused. Of course, they had to take care of their father's body themselves and bid him farewell.

Thinking of this, Marco's dry and swollen eyes couldn't help but well up with tears again. He took a deep breath and looked into the distance. The ship had been sailing since it left the ice land of Marinford. He couldn't help but ask, "Where are Ace and the others?"

"They should all be in the Sabaody Archipelago." Lynch said, turning his head and asking, "Are there any fruits? Any one you want."

"Fruit?" Jesus Bu asked in confusion. He took out an apple from his pocket and threw it over.

Lynch took it and pressed something into it. As Shanks, Jesus and others watched in shock, the apple changed.

Marco, immersed in grief, seemed a little slow to react. When he heard the exclamations of the Red Hair Group members around him, he looked towards Lynch. His eyes immediately widened, and he opened his mouth, unable to speak.

What Lynch was holding in his hand was actually the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.

This thing, which is hailed as the most powerful devil fruit in the world, was made by Lynch using the Tremor-Tremor Fruit chip in his hand, and he casually threw it to Marco.

Marco quickly caught it and looked at Lynch in a daze.

Shanks and the others were also a little surprised and looked at him in silence.

Lin Qi was completely confused by being looked at like this, and asked in confusion: "Why are you looking at me like this???"

"This...that...you..."

A tall and strong member of the Red Hair Pirates turned his head back and forth, turning between Lynch and the freshly-made devil fruit in Marco's hand.

"Is this the Tremor-Tremor Fruit?" Fatty Lagi Lu said bluntly, "Now that you have such a precious thing, as a pirate, would you just give it to someone else like that?"

Lin Qi was even more confused. "Didn't I say long ago that I have no interest in devil fruits?"

“Who knew you were serious?” Everyone was speechless, “Besides—this is the Tremor-Tremor Fruit after all!”

"It's just a devil fruit." Lynch waved his hand and looked meaningfully at the sky with broken clouds disappearing behind the stern. "Don't you know why Whitebeard died in the end?"

"I don't know!" Everyone in the Red Hair Pirates crossed their arms in unison and shook their heads.

"Lynch, they haven't arrived yet," Robin reminded.

"Oh, that's right." Lynch nodded.

Beckman frowned and asked, "So, how did Whitebeard die? Wasn't he defeated by the admirals of the navy?"

Upon hearing this, Marco clutched the Tremor-Tremor Fruit tightly, his body trembling slightly.

Thinking of that scene, even Marco couldn't help but feel psychologically traumatized.

Shanks' eyes turned pale when he saw this.

He recalled the long dragon of lightning that they had seen from afar before they arrived at Marinford, the scene of a natural disaster and divine punishment descending from the sky of Marinford...

"Lynch, could Whitebeard's death be related to Mary Geoise?" The red-haired man looked at Lynch.

Marco also looked up and looked at Lynch.

Dad’s final death was so bizarre and strange.

And the words that Dad tried so hard to tell the world before he died, the immortal man... Was it related to the reason why Dad had warned him not to fly directly over Marijoa? Lynch looked at everyone and said, "You are not the only ones who are puzzled by Whitebeard's death. Let's meet up with the others in Shampoo Land first, and then we can talk about it together."

"Okay." Shanks looked up and said, "Full speed ahead!"

"Captain, we're already at full speed. We should be able to reach the Sabaody Archipelago by dark!" The red-haired member hanging on the sail turned around and shouted.

"That should still be a while, let's rest on the boat first." Shanks greeted the people who were boarding the boat.

Marco refused to leave Whitebeard's body and stayed at the bow of the deck, sitting beside it and guarding it.

He was the ship's doctor and was very clear about his physical condition. He was just a little tired, nothing serious. Laki Lu and the others brought him food and water. He nodded and ate silently to replenish his energy.

…

Robin, Lynch and Shanks sat together. It was a rare gathering of old friends, eating, drinking and chatting.

Of course, with so many things happening today, no one is in the mood to have a big party or anything like that...

Although they hadn't seen each other for more than ten years, and Lynch seemed to have experienced a lot, but since Lynch and the others were safe and sound, Shanks didn't ask any questions about other people's affairs.

"After not seeing each other for so many years, you are now as good as me." Shanks raised his glass with a smile.

"Why aren't you as good as me?" Lynch rolled his eyes. Robin, who was sitting next to him, chuckled and filled his bowl.

Lynch was not the kind of person who liked to brag or complain to others, so since Shanks and the others didn't ask him any further questions, he didn't say a word either - and he really didn't feel anything, so he didn't take it seriously and drank one cup after another with Shanks.

"Haha, it's all the same!" Shanks said with emotion, "Thinking back to when I first met you in the West Sea twenty years ago..."

"Okay, thank you Red Hair Brother for your generosity and rescue." Lynch raised the bowl, drank it all, wiped his mouth and smiled, "Otherwise it would be the story of 'Marine Lynch'."

Lynch in the Navy? Sanda and Hancock imagined it, then came up blank.

I can't imagine him wearing the Navy's Justice Coat...

With Lynch's personality, even if he was a navy soldier, he would definitely be the type who disobeyed orders from his superiors, was punished every other day, and then continued to do whatever he wanted... Robin smiled, but if Shanks had not intercepted Lynch from Aokiji, perhaps she would not have met Lynch again, and the two of them would not have had a series of experiences afterwards.

"What are your plans next?" Shanks asked, putting down his empty glass.

"I don't have any plans. Let's just follow the steps and continue to get stronger." Lin Qi said.

His words made all the Red Hair Pirates members, including Shanks, look at each other in bewilderment.

"Follow the routine? Continue to get stronger?"

"You are already one of the top few in the world, how much stronger can you be?"

"It's all planned... It's like there's some kind of tutorial, and I can get stronger just by following it..."

In response to their doubts, Lynch simply shook his shoulders, and a group of miscellaneous spheres slowly emerged from his body.

The sphere was very large, occupying almost half of the deck of the Red Hair Pirate Ship. The whole thing was like chaotic colorful lines, and a small area at the bottom was pure gray, slowly flowing and pointing towards Lynch's body.

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

"What's this?!"

Even Shanks was surprised, as was Beckman. Jesusb and Lachi Lu curiously touched the thing and said in amazement: "It's not a physical object, it's energy!"

Such a large ball of rich energy? Shanks looked carefully at the colorful lines on the huge sphere. Even the energy as small as a hair flowing on the surface of the sphere gave him a very impressive feeling... Where did this kid Lynch get such amazing and huge energy from? ! The most amazing thing was the gray part at the bottom of the sphere.

Marco was far away, but he could recognize it. This was the thing that Lynch generously gave to his father to support his body and maintain his life when his father's blood was bursting and he could not hold on. And it was not the colorful one, but the gray energy at the bottom that was very precious at first glance. Although his father finally... But Marco silently remembered Lynch's kindness in his heart.

Lynch shook his shoulders, took the energy balls back into his body, shook his neck, let out a long breath, and said, "Shanks, you are right! Indeed, it is difficult to improve our strength at this level... But since it is difficult to improve our vertical attack power, let's expand it in other horizontal areas. Next, I need some time to digest the accumulation of the past ten years."

This accumulation not only meant to thoroughly integrate the growth brought about by the integration of the stand for ten years, but also to completely digest and absorb the energy balls harvested in prison for five years.

"You want to absorb all these things and integrate them into your own power?" Even Shanks couldn't help but be amazed, "Can this be done?"

"The impurities are useless. At most, they can be used as a small medicine to temporarily replenish my physical strength." Lin Qi shook his head and said, "Refine them one by one into the gray energy at the bottom just now, and then I can transform and absorb them into my own strength."

"It's difficult, isn't it!" Shanks said, "After all, the proportion of gray is so small now."

"Of course it's difficult, but it's mainly a matter of time and effort." Lin Qi was actually talking about the situation in prison. After merging with the substitute, the substitute's life returned from the past ten years of persistent cultivation to fill in the gaps. Lin Qi was confident that the speed and efficiency of "refining" and absorbing the gray energy would be qualitatively improved.

Shanks nodded silently and poured another glass of wine, "Continue to improve your strength, then what?"

"You're not trying to become stronger just for the sake of becoming stronger, are you?"

The red-haired man laughed and said, “You have already reached the peak, but you are still so unsatisfied… I don’t think you are an ambitious person, but you seem a little anxious!

"Lin Qi, you have completely digested these powers and improved your strength. What next?"

"And then..."

Lin Qi looked at his rough palms and suddenly said, "More than 20 years ago, you who followed the Pirate King to the end of the world received a prophecy, right? "The tide of the times will come 20 years from now, and so on..."

"Hmm." Shanks raised his head and finished his drink, then put the empty glass down with a bang, just in time to see Lynch staring at him.

Lin Qi said slowly: "'The wave of the times' is not some vague and ambiguous term, but means exactly what it says. Isn't it?"

“……?!”

Beckman, Jesus Bu and others, as well as Hancock and Sanda, did not quite understand the true meaning of what Lynch said.

But Robin immediately thought of Sky Island, the ancient murals on the moon, the fragments of the ancient flood that destroyed the world, the Seven Water Cities, and the water gods...

After Lynch became one with his stand-in, he naturally learned of these memories.

The "wave" of the times? Robin's pupils shrank, but Shanks shook his head and wiped the corners of his mouth, "I didn't go with the captain to see Raftel back then. So to be honest, I don't know the truth about the prophecy."

"Then what was that you were talking about before, 'the navy is necessary to exist'?" Lynch said unhappily.

"——But what a coincidence, you think the same as I do."

Shanks finished his words almost at the same time, muttering to himself, "If there really is such a day, it would be better to have a minimum of order and a navy that can connect everyone, right?"

…

Will this world face another great flood?

Will the whole world be flooded?

In the night, facing the salty sea breeze, Hancock walked to the bow. Even if it was true...what did it have to do with her!

With the weather technology of the old men on Weather Island and the help of the black dragon power of Ayu, the Queen of the Flower Kingdom, even if there is a big flood, it will have nothing to do with them, the Nine Snakes.

It didn't matter to Sanda. She was a flying snake and there was no reason for her to be afraid of a flood.

"What is she doing so far away?"

Lynch leaned against the side of the ship and turned his head to look at the empress standing at the bow facing the wind, with her slim and perfect figure.

"I don't know either." Sanda smiled.

"I haven't seen you for ten years. Why is your sister's mood changing from good to bad..."

"Don't ask me!" Sanda shook his head repeatedly.

Robin, who was beside Lynch, said at this time: "We can see Shampooland now."

Lynch turned his head, the dim night could not block the sight of his golden eyes. The red-haired pirate ship was slowly entering the Sabaody Archipelago where bubbles were densely flying. On the almost black sea, a delicate figure swam over at high speed, sticking to the water surface. With a splash, the sea surface broke open, and the green-haired, thick-lipped mermaid carefully observed the figures beside the big ship, namely Lynch, Robin and others.

"It's Cami." Robin smiled.

“You’re finally back!” The mermaid swam over, smiling and waving her arms. “Everyone is waiting for you. I’ll take you there…”

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(Parallel world, parallel world...)

(End of this chapter)