Chapter 756: Meeting an Old Friend
[Chapter Serialization·The Third Country of Women 8·"Girls are different now"] [The air was pushed open like a door, and Lasha walked out of the void, throwing several escaped pirates in front of Haiyina and the others. Looking at the villagers who were panicking around, including Lasha, Gabord, Koyatel, and Kamui were all puzzled by Haiyina's action of helping these people to drive away the pirates. Haiyina smiled. If she did bad things again, she would not be so easy to be caught and thrown into prison next time she met that boy with incomparable strength.]——
〖Small Sky Island, Visalia——〗
The piece of mirror fragment sent by the magnetic balloon quickly grew into a floor-length mirror like water ripples spreading.
Lin Qi and others walked out from behind the mirror one after another.
Old man Haredas was surprised and asked, "Is there another world inside the mirror?"
"The power of the Mirror Fruit." Lin Qi said, "Don't you have a devil fruit encyclopedia yourself?"
The old men said that the stuff was just sitting on the bookshelf gathering dust, no one would read it. If they had the time, they could do a few more weather experiments or do some field research around the world.
Considering that the three mythical beasts of the Hancock sisters were all left in the corner of the warehouse by these old men, it seems reasonable that they don't pay much attention to devil fruits.
One is genetic engineering, the other is atmospheric environment, and they specialize in different fields.
Nami enthusiastically shook hands with the old men one by one and said with a smile: "I want to learn more advanced weather science, please give me more advice!"
"Oh, yes, yes." The simple old men looked at each other and nodded repeatedly, "You give me some advice, you give me some advice."
At their age, they usually have nothing to do. Moreover, with more young minds, they might be able to spark inspiration. Of course, they don't mind bringing in a student. But the problem is, this student sent by Lin Qi and the girls from Jiushe... well, she is also a pretty girl... How much knowledge of their weather science can she learn in such a short time? "In this sea, changes in magnetic force represent weather."
The floor-length mirror was stored in the soft island cloud warehouse, and was used as a "transmission point" for everyone. Haredas thought for a moment, then took out an object with a smile, "Let's take this wind knot soaked in magnetic solution as an example..."
"Knot?"
Usopp, Luffy and Chopper, who were playing with the island clouds like playing with clay and decorating the "teleportation mirror" with strange patterns, looked back in confusion.
Nami and the others watched curiously as the old man gently untied one of the knots in the rope.
"Open one and you can get a breeze."
Whoosh, a gust of wind blew up from the flat ground - the white cloud land of Sky Island, gently lifting up everyone's hair and clothes.
"If you open two, you can attract strong winds."
Whoosh! Hancock, Robin, and the others all had their long black, blond, and orange hair flying in the wind.
This gust of wind reminded people of the first time they came to this small island. Lin Qi and the other two smiled at each other. Tulip also raised her hand to catch the wind, her thoughts drifting away, and she smiled faintly.
"Oh! This is what the Wind Knot means!" Usopp and Chopper exclaimed, their hair being blown into a mess.
Luffy said with emotion: "It's an incredible knot! I used to play with it when I was a kid!" Zoro also touched his chin and nodded, "That's true." Brook brought a cup of tea and sighed: "The Wind Knot, I really miss it!"
Sanji kicked each of them from behind, "Stop pretending!"
"Open three and you'll summon a storm!"
The old men untied the third knot, and suddenly a violent storm arose. The entire small sky island seemed to be swaying and floating in the wind. Lynch, Rayleigh and others stood still on the turbulent island cloud. Nami was caught off guard and was blown to the ground. Robin reached out and grabbed her. Brook was the worst. He was a skeleton and weighed very little. If Chopper hadn't acted decisively and expanded his body to catch him, he might have been blown down from a height of 10,000 meters... Marian and the others grabbed the corner of Cavendish's clothes to stabilize his body.
Boom!
There was a flash of lightning above the clouds, and the old men were covered in smoke. The wind knots in their hands had burned to ashes.
The orange hair danced with electricity, and Nami said angrily: "What are you doing? It's dangerous!!"
"It's just a demonstration..." The old man covered the bump on his forehead and looked at Hancock and the others with tears in his eyes. "Girl, I thought you would stop us in time like you did before..."
Hancock said coldly: "This thing was very dangerous back then, so I stopped it. It's not dangerous now, so it doesn't matter."
"That's too much!" the old men felt aggrieved.
Robin chuckled. Old people often like to act silly and play tricks to amuse the younger ones. It's a pity that Hancock is not the kind of person who respects the elderly and loves the young.
"Okay! Let's continue practicing!"
Luffy raised his fist and shouted, rubbing his fist with high morale, and said with a smile, "At the end of this month, I can't be beaten away by a stick like before..."
"That might be difficult." Usopp complained.
Zoro, Sanji and others followed Luffy and took Merry back to the mirror world. The small Sky Island was not a big place, so it was naturally impossible for so many people to practice.
The main reason for coming here is for Nami to learn weather technology from her, and for Merry to set up a "teleportation mirror" on the small sky island. By the way, let everyone recognize the way.
For the remaining eleven months, Nami would mainly stay in Visalia to study, while the rest of them would either be in the Mirror World or continue to train on the Nine Snake Trial Island...
"Aren't you coming with us?" Rayleigh pressed the hilt of the knife, stepped half a foot into the mirror, and looked back at Lynch.
Lin Qi said: "The foundation has been laid, they just need to follow it. Besides, don't we have you?"
"So lazy." Rayleigh shook his head. This kid really did what he said. He taught Luffy and the others the Ripple Fist and then left them alone!
Lin Qi chuckled and said, "Otherwise, what is the point of having an assistant instructor?"
Rayleigh pointed at Lynch with his hand holding the bottle, and stepped into the mirror that looked like water waves with a smile. Mary, who was stuck between the mirrors to facilitate the entry and exit of others, immediately floated back and landed on Lynch's shoulder.
It was carrying a small bag that seemed to have been modified by Franky. In it were a lot of broken mirrors that Merry used to mark things stored in the mirror world. For example, the most important piece was the location of its ship, Merry, in the mirror world. Of course, the small bag also contained the "reverse mirror" fragments corresponding to the "gold badge" that everyone had taken away. As long as someone opened the gold badge and spoke to the broken mirror hidden inside, Merry would be able to hear it...
Lynch walked over to Haredas and whispered a few words. The old men made a gesture to indicate that everything was fine. "Adjust the magnetic course and aim for Peach Island. There is a shemale kingdom there, right?"
The moment the main magnetic force of the island changed, the entire small island adjusted its flying direction, like a free white cloud, flying to its next destination.
"..." Nami saw Luffy and the others disappear and returned to the mirror world to continue training. After hearing the conversation between Lynch and the old men, she couldn't help but turn around and ask the new "old" teachers, "Have you been to Raftel?"
Since they have a convenient "transportation tool" like the small sky island, and they have top-notch navigation technology, and judging from their age and their idle and leisurely life, they don't seem to lack time and patience...
"No matter how remote Raftel is, as long as it is in this sea, you will definitely find it if you want to find it, right?"
Nami asked curiously.
The old men like Haredas also kindly replied, "We can't find it!"
"Why?" Nami was confused and asked in surprise, "The range can even be narrowed down to the second half of the Grand Line! Since the Pirate King did arrive at Raftel more than 20 years ago, then that island must really exist in a certain sea area of the 'New World'! In this case, even if you use the process of elimination, you can find the so-called final island by passing through one island after another, right?"
"The only thing we can find with our power is the final point of all the magnetic routes recorded by the pointer - a place called 'Shuixianxing Island'!"
"Behind that island is an endless and chaotic magnetic storm."
"Even with our weather technology, there's nothing we can do."
The old men were talking at once. Among them, old man Yamahada stroked his long white beard and said with emotion: "Little girl, we have already said this today, right? 'In this sea, the change of magnetic force represents the weather'!"
Nami was stunned and murmured, "That is to say, the sea area behind the 'Water Star Island' is an extremely unstable meteorological environment. It is extremely dangerous for you to rely on this small sky island to get close... The magnetic balloon won't work either, and it might be disturbed by the chaotic magnetic force and cause an accident... Hey, isn't this situation very similar to the entrance section of the Grand Line?!" Miss Navigator suddenly exclaimed.
"It seems that taking shortcuts won't work." Robin sighed, "The only way to reach Raftel is to collect four 'Signpost Historical Texts' and use the coordinate information obtained from the interpretation to locate the final island... Hmm?"
She noticed that Nami turned her head and stared at her with her big watery eyes. "What's wrong?"
"Sister Robin! What is the 'Signpost Historical Text'?" Nami asked.
"Didn't I tell you?" Robin was puzzled, and after a brief explanation, he shook his head and said, "However, over the years, we have only been lucky enough to obtain the information recorded in two copies of the 'Signpost History Text'. We are not sure where the other two are..."
Lynch touched his chin. He knew that one of the remaining two pieces should be occupied by Cutie in Wano Country.
But, let's talk about it later. It doesn't seem that difficult anyway.
If there is no clue to the fourth piece, there is not much point in getting the third piece of Cornetto now.
"You already have two? Great!" Nami jumped and hugged Robin, turned her head to look at Lynch, and said with a smile, "Luffy has always had good luck, I think so more and more!"
Hancock rolled his eyes. The boy was so lucky to get Lynch's help.
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There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Just like that, Xiaokong Island flew all the way to Momoiro Island in the first half of the Grand Line...
Lynch took back the stand armor that had been outside for a long time. After a moment of stiffness, he accepted all the results of the stand's "refining and absorption" with a smile. He continued to release the stand, letting it go to the mirror world, to Nine Snakes, and train Luffy, Zoro and others with deputy instructor Rayleigh.
Lynch himself continued with the progress of his substitute on Xiaokong Island, practicing silently, refining and absorbing the energy ball bit by bit.
The energy ball after the Battle of Marineford has shrunk a little bit in volume after more than a month of persistent absorption.
The work of water grinding is so boring and tedious.
Nami eagerly absorbed Visalia's weather science knowledge. She was a lightning person who had the ability of the Thunder Fruit. She was like a fish in water when it came to studying magnetism and weather. She made rapid progress, shocking the old men...
In the mirror world, dense rubber fists and violent slashes attacked the naked and strong upper body of Pluto Rayleigh. The latter smiled slightly, and a fierce spirit burst out from his eyes...
On the Nine Snakes Trial Island, Robin, Sanda, and Mary were playing cards together. Hancock stood on the top of a slope with his arms folded, looking at the black dragon fighting the giant beast in the woods, and the black armor that was fully materialized and was being besieged by Xiangyun, Cavendish, and others...
The oil paint that Marianne had applied out of thin air was like a series of sharp blades flying towards Brooke. In the melodious piano music, the sharp blades of oil paint were frozen into oil paint notes that fell on the grass...
"Wave. Ripple. Star!"
With a whoosh, a bullet hit Franky. Franky turned around, opened his huge mouth, and swallowed Usopp's bullet in one gulp.
"Isn't this too treacherous?!" Usopp jumped not far away.
"You can call this 'Ripple'?" Franky picked his teeth and laughed, "Usopp, is your slingshot about to break? How about I make you a real sniper rifle?"
…
"Right below is Peach Color Island."
At the edge of the small sky island, everyone gathered that day. Robin introduced: "Here are offensive dishes that can strengthen the body. I only learned the recipe, not the essence. Sanji, maybe you can try it."
"Really?" Sanji was indeed very interested. "Sounds great!"
"Then let's prepare to land the balloon—"
After all, the little girl who could transform into a black dragon was not there. The old men such as Haredas were about to turn back to get their equipment, but they saw Lynch put the boat elf Merry on his shoulder.
Meili had a small lens in her hand.
I'm afraid that by touching the "teleportation mirror" in Visalia, a new mirror closely adjacent to it has been created. As long as it is sent to Momoiro Island, it will be the fourth "teleportation mirror"...
Lin Qi smiled and said, "Don't bother. Just wait in front of the mirror."
After he finished speaking, he fell backwards and fell from the edge of the small sky island. Mary's stunned eyes seemed to still remain in the same place.
"Oh wow, they disappeared in the blink of an eye!" Brooke looked down. There was a vast sea of clouds and no sign of Lynch and Mary.
"……………………"
Cavendish, Zoro, Sanji and the others were stunned. Even if he knew how to do the Moon Step, it would still be dangerous, right? ! "He's really messing around..." Nami was embarrassed. She was a natural person and didn't dare to play like this.
But when he turned around and looked at Sister Robin and the Empress, they didn't seem worried at all.
Whoosh whoosh——!!
The wind was howling violently, Lynch broke through the clouds, spread his arms, and fell freely with the wind at a high speed.
"Ah!!" Mary screamed and hugged Lynch's shoulders tightly.
Robin smiled and said, "Let's go to the mirror. They should be making a new mirror on Peach Island soon."
"Attack food~~" Luffy drooled, and walked towards the teleportation mirror of the small sky island while imagining happily, "What does it taste like?"
Rayleigh stroked his short beard, and Zoro smiled and said, "I wonder if there's any good wine?"
Franky went to give the old men the permanent pointer of Gaya Island and muttered, "It shouldn't be far, right?"
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"You came all the way here from such a long distance?"
In the Peach Palace on Peach Island, Ivankov, whose head is several meters high, dine elegantly.
"My ability is more convenient!" The girl who was wolfing down her food on the other side smiled contentedly, "Eva, the food here is still so delicious! It would be great if everyone could eat it..."
The big-headed demon king shook his red wine glass, "Not everyone can learn to cook offensively! We need a genius who can shake the world—"
Boom! Something fell from the sky and smashed the palace roof, breaking the dining table in the middle.
"What is that?" Ivankov, who only had a small section of the dining table left in front of him, widened his eyes. "Did the moon fall?! This is so scary!"
A huge hole was created in the ground, and a cloud of dust rose up. A tall figure slowly stood up in the dust. "Why is there no last sentence? Where is 'You were not scared to death'?"
"Haha! You're not scared to death—" Ivankov posed and immediately said angrily, "Idiot! You're really almost scared to death!"
The smoke and dust soon dissipated, revealing the figure of Lynch with a frightened little ghost sitting on his shoulder. He smiled and said, "Hey, long time no see, Eva. Hey, isn't this Kerla?"
Ivankov gave him two middle fingers and said, "Don't think you can be so arrogant just because you have the highest bounty in the world! Lynch BOY! You have to compensate for the roof of my palace! - Haha! I'm lying to you this time! You don't have to pay!" The Shemale King lived up to everyone's expectations and posed.
"So there's no need to compensate! I was really fooled by you!" The transvestites who came hurriedly laughed so hard that they fell over.
"Brother Lin Qi!" Kerla's eyes lit up, and he swirled into a ball of air and rushed over like the wind.
(End of this chapter)