Chapter 805 "Lord Ryoma?!"
[Series at the beginning of the chapter: Burying the Mother 6: "How to Ask for Directions"] [In the sea, Praline asked the passing fish about where a great war had taken place a few days ago, especially where a whole area of the sea had evaporated; on the shore, the boat was docked at an island, Wu Nu pretended to be fierce, Lola and Chiffon asked around for news, and Brin pulled out something like a film from the head of a passerby and searched for the information she wanted in the other person's memory...] -
Ace's domineering look swept across the entire place, directly knocking out the inferior guys. And it just so happened that the pirates working at this submerged port were all inferior.
The Sunny came to a stop at the dock.
Luffy was the first to jump off the boat excitedly, looking around curiously.
Ace and Marco followed with their respective fire clouds.
Franky said, "The ship is here? I'll leave the World Tree here."
He patted his Thundercloud World Tree, which nodded like an elder brother and told everyone that the ship's affairs were his and he would take care of them.
Zoro smiled and said, "Isn't Hei Zai here?"
Lynch shrugged, swinging the blue-black iron rod in his hand. His substitute was practicing when he had nothing to do, and of course he wouldn't run around - while his original body was running around.
"If Kuroko is here, then there will be no problem." Usopp, Chopper and the others were relieved immediately after hearing this. BIB was in charge of the Sunny, just like Lynch himself. Even if BIB didn't pay much attention to the outside world during his training, didn't he still have Franky's World Tree?
Nami touched the clouds of the World Tree and said with a smile: "If anything happens, remember to remind Hei Zai."
Lynch was about to get off the boat with Robin, but then he thought of something and turned back.
The narrow eyes of the black armored man who was sitting cross-legged suddenly lit up, and he looked at the main body who was walking over, and immediately understood his thoughts - although the country of Wano controlled by Kaido's Beast Pirates was full of Devil Fruit users, it was very unfortunate that almost all of them were Animal-type. According to Lynch's style, he had no interest in Animal-type at all...
"Give me a hand." Lin Qi said.
"BIB" nodded, and a pair of arm armors separated from his body and were put on Lynch's hands. After the armors were attached, it was like a red and blue flame tattoo wrapped around Lynch's arms.
The armless man in black armor and his narrow eyes turned off their light again and continued to practice calmly. The gray mist at the bottom of the mottled energy ball floating behind his neck was gradually absorbed into his body.
Seeing that Lynch had deliberately put on the arms of 'BIB', Robin was slightly surprised and laughed softly, "Is there any devil fruit in Wano Country that you are interested in?"
Lin Qi said, "What if there is one? Wear it as a precaution."
Robin guessed, "Kaido?"
Lin Qi sneered: "His Blue Dragon Fruit is no different from Ah Yu's Black Dragon..."
"That's right, you have always looked down on the animal department." Robin nodded.
Lin Qi said modestly: "As for the mythical beast species, I am still a little interested..."
Robin glanced at him.
Lin Qi said seriously: "Wano Country, don't you think there must be something like 'Yamata no Orochi' here?"
Robin laughed and said, "What is this - huh?" She thought of something.
"'Book of Prophecy' ah~" Robin raised an eyebrow.
Lin Qi said, "Don't ask. Those who understand will understand." Then he smiled and said, "If you want to talk about prophecies, there really is one here. It's a pity that people treat prophecies as treasures and end up confusing their brains..."
They walked behind, talking and laughing, and followed everyone off the boat. Nami in front suddenly looked up at the wooden house on the mountain wall, and almost at the same time, Sanji and Ace's expressions changed.
Bang! Runti broke through the wooden door and jumped down.
Looking at the grumpy little girl with horns, Lin Qi soon suggested that everyone play finger-guessing games together, and whoever wins will deal with this little girl...
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"Rock, scissors, paper!" "Rock, scissors, paper!" "Rock, scissors, paper!" ...
In the last round, Nami looked at her hands in disbelief, "I won? — Luffy actually lost?!"
The latter is the key point. As expected, everyone looked at Luffy with horror, who was also looking at his fist in shock.
Ace laughed and said, "This guy was the only one who paddled out in the first round. Is this good luck or bad luck?"
“Asshole!!”
A delicate shout came from the opposite side, and the little girl Runti with horn mask was furious. She transformed into the form of Dragon Dragon Fruit·Ancient Species·Swelling Head Dragon on the spot. Her forehead bulged, her legs bent, her arch became bigger, and she stepped on the ground to make a crack. With a "bang", her figure disappeared from the spot, and the ground that was cracked by her stepped on exploded directly.
"Alas..." Nami stepped out of the crowd helplessly. The angry swollen-headed dragon girl rushed over like a flash of lightning and knocked her in half.
Runti's aura was so fierce that Lynch, Luffy, Zoro, Ace and the others moved out of the way. Usopp and Franky even looked up at the elevator leading to the exit above.
Robin looked up and said, "The light is so dim. Is it heaven or hell at the end?"
Bang! Runti stopped at the edge of the dock with one foot, her whole body was emitting a slight heat wave from the high-speed collision. A layer of dark domineering wrapped around her forehead, she turned back and stared at the group of guys who acted as if nothing had happened... Even the little deer-like - so cute! ! - guy just dodged her sprint in time! Where did these guys come from? Some of them looked familiar!
However, the most infuriating thing was that Runti looked at the orange-haired woman whose body was "broken" by him. Between the broken waists of the latter, there was a fierce electric light, and they were quickly connected.
“I don’t want to fight you here for a long time.” Nami spun the golden staff in her hand twice and licked the corner of her mouth with the tip of her tongue. “Unlike these men, I don’t enjoy fighting. It would be best if we can end this quickly - Hela.”
"Hmph." A thundercloud with Nami's smoky makeup floated over and landed on her golden staff.
In an instant, lightning flashed.
Nami's entire body seemed to be made of thunder, as if she was connected to the thundercloud Hela and the golden staff. In the extreme light and shadow that almost illuminated the harbor space in white, Nami's voice that sounded like a chuckle was mixed in: "Ten Billion Volts·Spear of the Goddess of Death."
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Runti's eyes rolled back, as if she was roasted. She fell to her knees, then her body tilted and she fainted on the dock.
Tap, tap, Nami walked past in her red high heels and caught up with Lynch and others.
Franky helped find a cave to hide the Sunny so that Hei Zai could practice in peace on the boat, and then he reunited with everyone else.
Usopp, who was looking up at the exit passage, looked back and said, "You even shocked those who were stunned by Ace!"
The people who had fainted in Qiangang were just like Runti. At this moment, they were all steaming with heat, and no one knew how mature they were.
Nami rolled her eyes, "What's wrong with letting them sleep a little longer? It's not like they're being charged!"
"Thank you so much, Lady Nami." Usopp turned around and chuckled to himself. Just now, while Nami was spreading the electric net, he picked up his little fat boy, Thundercloud Mody, and secretly took a couple of bites.
That must be one of Kaido's Flying Six... Marco was shocked when he saw Runti lying on the ground, steaming. He also thought that after the Battle of the End, the bounty of "Thunder Banshee" Nami jumped to 770 million... Usually, after the bounty exceeds 400 million, the increase will slow down. I don't know if the navy got some intelligence or something, but they are not soft-hearted when it comes to bounties for the Straw Hats...
Of course, Nami's fatal move just now killed Runti, electrocuting him so that he temporarily lost his ability to fight, which was indeed worthy of her high bounty.
However... Marco glanced at Lynch, who looked calm. The Navy could raise the bounty so rudely, and Lynch's influence could not be ignored. - Even Cavendish and Dreamer, who defeated Kaido's Drought a while ago, also had their bounties raised rapidly. The Navy must have known that these new pirates had been trained by Lynch...
Speaking of which, the new commander-in-chief of the army, Zephyr, was the chief instructor of the Navy Headquarters. And this pirate, Lynch, who has the highest bounty today, has personally trained such a large group of pirates with increased strength... Marco thought so and heard Ace's brother shouting energetically: "...Anyway, there is an exit up there? Then let's go up!"
Luffy stepped on the ground with his feet, and his legs suddenly swelled up, covered with dark domineering lines. Then his feet contracted into the flesh of his legs layer by layer, as if there were two large springs with amazing elasticity under his feet, which kept compressing and made a teeth-grinding clattering sound... Amid the surprised expressions of Ace and Marco, the ground exploded with a "bang", but Luffy's grinning expression seemed to remain there.
Ace looked up. Luffy rushed up like a missile, so fast that even the Beasts Pirates on duty in a sentry box on the mountain wall along the elevator passage didn't react. He touched his head and looked out the window, wondering, "What was that just now? Was it an illusion?"
He yawned, and then a flash of lightning flashed outside the window. The pirate with small bull horns turned around and rubbed his eyes, but there was nothing.
He yawned again, and at this moment, a flame passed by the window behind him. He jumped up in shock and slapped himself, "Am I dreaming? Why do I keep having hallucinations?"
He pushed the door open and looked down, and was stunned on the spot. A group of people were sitting on a pile of white and yellow clouds, floating up as if they were on a picnic. There was also a blond man in a suit, floating up leisurely with a golden flying disc under his feet. Another green-haired warrior with three knives hanging from his waist seemed impatient with the speed and jumped up from the white cloud, as if competing with the white cloud. He stomped his feet "snap" and "snap", and the white cloud flew up beside him. The two of them quickly passed the sentry box in the passage and rushed to the exit above without stopping.
"Wait a minute! Stop, stop!" the pirate shouted.
"Stand still!" Franky, whose lower body had turned into tracks and was crawling on the wall as if it were flat ground, passed by and knocked the pirate out with a flying punch.
"Mr. Franky, I was just about to let him take a nap!" Brook, who was riding the thundercloud Mjolnir with Chopper, just took out his violin. At first, he wanted to rub it on Nami's Hela, but was electrocuted and sent back. Then he tried Sanji's thundercloud Sif, but was also kicked back by Sanji. In Sanji's words, he himself was reluctant to sit on Miss Sif! - He complained faintly and put the violin away.
“Hahaha, everyone is very reliable now.”
At the bottom of the passage, Robin's laughter gradually rose. She and Lynch sat on the dark blue iron rod together, leisurely heading towards the exit above.
The beast pirate with a bloody head in the sentry box climbed up, took a look at Lynch's profile, and then his eyes rolled back and he fainted with foam at the mouth.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
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Soon, Lynch and Robin took the blue-black iron bar elevator to the top exit. When they jumped out of the cave, they found that at the top of the elevator track was a dilapidated wooden house like an attic. The roof was gone, revealing the dim starry sky outside.
The doors and windows were open, and Zoro and others were outside the house.
Lin Qi and Robin went out to take a look. They saw that the sky was dark and a cold moon was hanging alone in the sky. The cold wind was bleak and the fields were vast. There was no one in sight.
"It's so desolate." Usopp shuddered.
Nami said, "The weather in late autumn."
Fortunately, after becoming a thunder person, she has become extremely tolerant to cold and heat - how can thunder be afraid of cold and heat? Therefore, even if she wears a hot and cool outfit of a suspender T-shirt, denim hot pants and high heels, walking in this desolate and cold autumn night, she is just like nothing happened.
"Is this the Land of Wano?" Chopper picked up a branch and poked around, "It's so strange, why can't I even see any animals?"
Snap, a branch picked up a "stone" on the roadside and rolled it in front of Chopper. It was a skull.
"Brook!?" Chopper was shocked.
"Huh? Me?" Brooke was also surprised.
Sanji, Zoro and the others looked back and found that the wooden house they came out of was the only building in the wilderness. There were some human buildings in other places, but they were all ruins.
Robin picked up the skull and took a look. "Judging from the traces, this body was left behind at least ten years ago..."
Nami tried to expand her heart net as much as possible, quickly opened her eyes, swallowed her saliva, and said in surprise: "In the ten-kilometer range, there is basically no 'sound' of living people. Isn't this too exaggerated?"
Thinking of the Four Emperors Kaido who was entrenched here, everyone looked at each other in confusion. It was obvious what kind of disaster this country had encountered.
Lynch said: "Let's go forward and see. Where's Luffy?"
Nami sighed, "He said he wanted to take risks..."
"Thor is gone too." Zoro looked around and sighed, "Really? We've all gotten lost without even noticing."
"Are you qualified to criticize others?" Usopp, Chopper who jumped up, and Merry who was above Chopper's head, all gave Zoro a knife attack.
Is your pirate group really okay? Marco glanced sideways.
"Thor is Zoro's Homitz," Robin reminded, "Zorro should be able to sense its location."
"Oh?" Zoro concentrated for a moment and found something. He pointed to the right front and said, "It seems to be over there... I have no choice but to let me lead the way."
As he said that, he started to walk away - but the direction of his toes was completely off. Usopp and Chopper quickly pulled him back.
Franky held Zoro's head with his big hands and turned it to the side. "You should remember that you were pointing in this direction just now, right?"
"No wonder you got lost!" Sanji said unhappily, staring at Zoro's feet with suspicion, "Is there something wrong with your feet? I'd better let Chopper perform surgery on you some other day..."
"Your feet are the problem, right?"
"What did you say?!"
Everyone walked towards Thor's location, watching the quarrel between Zoro and Sanji as an entertainment on the way.
Crack, crack... Walking in this wilderness, you'll step on dead bones from time to time. They walked through a ruin. It seemed that there was once a small village here, but unfortunately the houses collapsed and there were not even a few weeds to be seen. Chopper's pupils shrank, and his blue nose sniffed and found a pile of weeds in the ruins. He dug out the roots with his little hooves.
"Did you find anything?" Lynch stopped.
"This grass... was gnawed..." Chopper's eyes turned pale, and he muttered in horror, "Judging from the bite marks, it was human teeth."
Usopp, Nami and the others looked around. The ruins of the village and the path they had taken were all covered in white. The wilderness was bare, without even a single weed. Could it be that all the food was eaten by humans? Although Robin had read too many similar stories in history books and was able to keep a calm expression, a trace of compassion still appeared in his eyes.
Everyone continued to move forward.
On the way, Ace explained: "The last time I came here, I landed in the village of Haikasa in Kuri and stayed there for a few days. Soon, I went directly to Onigashima to find Kaido. Kaido was not at home at that time, and we did not return to Haikasa Village. We left Wano Country directly there." He shook his head and said, "So I don't know where we are in Wano Country now."
"There seems to be someone over there." Sanji pointed to one side.
The darkness of night could not block Lynch's sight. He glanced from a distance and said, "They are some pirates under Kaido. Look at the fist marks on their bodies. It was Luffy who did it."
With a crackling sound, Nami flew over to take a look, and soon a flash of lightning came back, shaking her head and said, "Luffy was too cruel. These people were completely unconscious and couldn't be awakened even by the electric shock."
"Can it wake you up?" Usopp and Chopper raised their hands and complained, "It will only make you faint!"
Zoro suddenly said, "It's just in front."
Ace quickened his pace and everyone followed. Sanji frowned, and while running with the others, he looked into the distance. In the dim night, the shadows of some tall buildings were vaguely billowing with thick smoke.
Franky raised his hand and looked around, his eyes emitting light like two searchlights, and he said in surprise: "It looks like several factories!"
"Luffy, what are you doing?" Nami said in front of him, "Can you stop running around? Even just once?"
"Hey, you're here." Luffy, sitting on the thundercloud Thor, turned his head and said with a smile.
This is a ruin. Yes, after walking for such a short time, everyone has seen too many dilapidated and dilapidated building ruins.
In front of Luffy, a little old man in rags was digging in the rubble. He looked up when he heard what was happening, with a dead zombie-like face. Suddenly, he fixed his eyes on someone in the crowd and said in surprise, "Ryoma-sama?!"
Sanji and others looked at each other. Lynch looked at Zoro first and found out he was wrong.
He and Robin stepped aside, the old man's eyes fixed on Brooke who was in the middle of the crowd.
"Huh?" Brooke was stunned and pointed at himself, "Me?"
(End of this chapter)