Chapter 863 Yugong Digging the Mountain

[The entrance to the Grand Route, Upside-Down Mountain, Gemini Cape——]

Generally speaking, the closer you get to the Red Earth Continent, the worse the weather becomes. It is common for clouds to gather all year round and for heavy rain to linger.

But there are some exceptions, such as the red port where the World Government installed an elevator to facilitate crossing the red earth continent, and this is the retreat of a certain ship doctor.

The Red Earth Continent, which is made up of countless Spring Island, Summer Island, Autumn Island, and Winter Island, will certainly cause chaotic climate due to the conflict between magnetic forces, but there are also nodes where the magnetic forces collide with each other and finally return to zero, and the wind and sea are calm. Red Port, Twin Cape... belong to such places. And they happen to be at the junction of the Red Earth Continent and the Grand Route. Whether this is a coincidence or an intentional design, no one knows.

When young Lynch and Robin first arrived here, Kurokas said seriously that being a doctor was only his side job and being a lighthouse keeper was his main job.

What he didn't tell Lynch and the others was that being the lighthouse keeper at Twin Capes was a job for him, his father, and his grandmother, and it had been a job for generations in their family.

These days, even the Twin Capes of Upside Down Mountain, where the weather used to be quite good, have become windy and rainy, with roaring waves beating against the shore.

Snap!

Lightning illuminated the windows of the lighthouse, and also illuminated Crocus's workshop and lounge inside... Crocus, the former ship's doctor of Roger's pirate group who insisted on being a lighthouse keeper, did not seem to be at his lighthouse post today.

Boom boom...

Dark clouds loomed and thunder rumbled.

The powerful high beam lights on top of the two lighthouses facing each other on the opposite shore swayed in circles, struggling to penetrate the vast curtain of wind and rain, trying to project farther and illuminate the dark, choppy and cruel sea.

～～～～～～～～～～～ 〖Beihai, Haiyan Island——〗

In the storm, this island shaped like a giant petrel seems to be silently confronting the surging waves and the cruel sea, letting the storm come even more violently!

"Stop it! How many days has this heavy rain been going on? Will it ever stop?!"

"Wow! Mom! Dad!!"

Many parts of the island were submerged by the flood. On the high hillsides, a small group of surviving residents gathered. The sounds of men's tired cursing, women's silence, and children's hoarse crying could be heard intermittently.

Suddenly, in the distance of the rolling dirty flood, the water surface broke open and out popped up... a fishman's head?

"Merce-man!?"

"Help! It's bad enough that there's a flood, but how come there's a monster like this chasing us..."

"This must be a nightmare! This is all a nightmare!"

Surrounded by a storm, with thunder and lightning overhead, the survivors were soaked, shivering and pale.

The fishman seemed to have discovered them, and everyone tensed up. The fishman returned to the water, and soon a line of water quickly approached the hillside where everyone was, as if a rocket had been launched from the water. The survivors didn't even have time to be afraid, as the surface of the water nearby had already broken open, and the fishman's head popped out, shouting, "Hold on! I'll take you to a safe place!"

"Wow!!"

Before the adults had time to feel fear and confusion, the children were frightened by the rarely seen appearance of the fishman and burst into tears. Especially since this fishman did not look young at all and looked strange and weird, like a man-eating sea monster in a horror story... The fishman shook his head, tightly gripped the harpoon in his hand, dived into the water, estimated the height, and rushed up the hillside to stab it.

Boom…

Everyone only heard a muffled sound underwater, and felt the mountain shaking slightly under their buttocks, and then...

Then, in the bewildered look of the crowd, the hillside actually ran away... carrying them, speeding across the sea that submerged the island. From the sky, it looked like a small stone tip floating on the sea surface... Underwater, the fishman held the harpoon in one hand and the hilltop in the other, swimming at an incredible speed, and in the blink of an eye he swam out of the range of Haiyan Island.

He shouted deeper into the water, and suddenly countless schools of fish seemed to hear the sound and spread out like a big net.

Not long after, a faint beam of light in the deep water found the merman and approached quickly.

It was a giant submarine! "Wolf, they are in your hands. Get on board." The fishman nodded to the old man in the cockpit of the giant submarine.

The voice of inventor Wolfe in the cockpit came from the loudspeaker on the head of the giant submarine, "Sambel, I couldn't have made these submarines without your help. You should meet the people you saved!"

The fishman Sambel said calmly: "No need. Although I am willing to save them, I do not approve of these people."

Wolf had no choice but to float his diving suit to the surface. The fishman Sambel held up the mountain and looked up at the ripples on the water. There were many figures above, and the shouts and cries of the survivors he had brought over... Sambel's thoughts went back to decades ago, when he met a man named Roger and his companions.

"I say, you are quite arrogant, aren't you?" The heroic man put his straw hat on his head and laughed, "You look down on humans? How about a bet? You come to our ship to travel together. If you don't hold a party with us with a smile in a month, I lose!"

"Why do you want me to bet with you? Just a human... No, just a group of humans..."

Roger laughed wildly, "You can only bet with me! Otherwise..." The guy did not hide his arrogant nature at all, rubbing his fist and grinning, "Then get ready to be beaten! Who told you that you can't beat me?"

After all the survivors were transferred to Wolf's submarine, the fishman Sambel gathered his emotions, abandoned the hilltop that was shoveled here by a fork, and was about to leave, but he found a warship approaching.

"Haiyan Island is also destroyed!" The naval officer on the warship looked heavy-hearted.

"Colonel! What is that?" Suddenly a soldier pointed at the sea and shouted, "Is it a... ship? No, a submarine?!"

"Hello, Navy." The strange voice that sounded in their ears startled the branch colonel and all the marines on the warship. They turned their heads and saw a fishman holding a harpoon who had jumped out of the sea and stood on the side of the ship. He glanced at them indifferently and said, "If you want to save people, I can help."

"Who are you? Why would the Navy ask for help from someone whose origins are unknown?"

"Wait! This fishman..." The branch colonel suddenly recognized him and stared at Sambel in disbelief. "You are the only fishman in that devil's pirate group... Fishman Sambel?! Aren't all of you devil's followers already..."

Sambel rolled his eyes. "Dead? Why do I remember that Pluto Rayleigh was in the newspaper before?"

He stepped back and fell back into the sea. "Stop talking nonsense. Send out the warships and I'll help. With the help of a fishman master, we can save more people."

The marines on the deck were incredulous, "How could we possibly cooperate with pirates!"

His companions looked at him hesitantly, "Aren't the Seven Warlords of the Sea the pirates who are cooperating with us?"

"Why should we agree?" the branch colonel asked with forced calmness.

"Why?" Sang Beier smiled faintly, holding the harpoon in his hand and aiming it at the hull of the warship, "Because... you are not qualified to refuse! Either let me help you, or don't take this warship!"

"Wait! Stop! It's really a pirate... Stop! We are wrong!"

"Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding! Sambel is a good man..." In the distance, the anxious voice of inventor Wolfe came from the loudspeaker on the top of a giant submarine heading towards the warship. "Even among pirates, there are good people - No! It's simply because of this damn world that good people accidentally become pirates!!"

～～～～～～～～～～～ 〖New World, a certain island——〗

"Mom, are pirates...good people?"

In the huge and dull spherical cave, more than a hundred round holes on the top a hundred meters above the head let in the faint light from outside, as well as the whimpering sound made by the storm passing through.

Although the environment here is bad enough, it is 10,000 times better than the town where nothing existed after the flood. This is all because of the pirate named "Black Feather Doctor" who used the power of the devil fruit to dig a huge shelter in this mountain and sent the survivors here...

The woman hugged her three children tightly, feeling complicated. After a long consideration, she finally sighed, "Mom doesn't know either... When you grow up and become sensible, you can tell mom, okay?"

"Okay!" the two children responded. One of them said to the other seriously, "I want to be a navy. The navy must know whether a pirate is a good guy or a bad guy, right?"

The third child said: "This is so simple. If I become a pirate, I will be a good person! Because I am a good boy! Hehe..."

"Captain, they are discussing whether you are a good person or not."

Inside the mountain is a shelter dug out by the surgery fruit. In the wind and rain outside, Bepo found Luo standing on the top of the mountain and said with a silly smile.

“Am I a good person?”

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

Luo stared at the wind and rain and the crazy sea horizon in the distance, and thought of that white town, that crazy town more than a decade ago... He said to himself, "No, I'm not a good person or a bad person, I... am a doctor. Doctors should save as many people as possible, that's all."

"Why are you trying to be cool?" Xiao Cao snorted, holding a cigarette in his mouth, "If you want to save people, leave quickly and look somewhere else..."

～～～～～～～～～～～ 〖Grand Route, Entrance Section——〗

"Don't thank me, I'm a doctor." Kurokas waved his hand.

"How can there be a doctor like you--Aa ...

What ship are they on?

Of course, it was the living boat that Kulokas had made in Lab's stomach that was not afraid of bumps and (stomach acid) waves. Rather than a boat, it was more like a super life raft made of super buoyant wood. This one was dozens of times bigger than the one in Lab's stomach. At this moment, there were hundreds of survivors found by Kulokas on the boat.

“Ahhhhhh…”

"Another big wave!"

"Listen to Dr. Kulokas! Hold on to the ropes!!!"

Although the voyage was not long, it was like sailing against the current in this mad sea, struggling forward in waves. After an unknown amount of time, Kulokas squinted and shouted, "I see the lighthouse! Hurry! It's right in front of us!" Everyone followed his words and looked in the wind and rain. Sure enough, they saw a faint light sweeping regularly. It was the lighthouse on the sea, the lighthouse on the Twin Capes of Upside Down Mountain!

“Saved!”

After a narrow escape, they arrived at the Twin Capes. Kurokas tied up the boat and clapped his hands, urging them to hurry up: "It's not safe here either! It could be destroyed by the waves at any time! Go up there!"

"above?!"

The survivors were stunned, because the direction Dr. Kulokas pointed to was actually the Red Earth Continent.

When everyone got closer, they saw that there were ropes specially used for climbing on the slope of Upside-down Mountain.

Kurokas laughed and said, "I was also scared when two little guys came down like this before! Let's go, don't fall behind! There are not enough supplies in the lighthouse for everyone to eat and drink..."

"Is there any in the Red Earth Continent?"

"Hahaha, how is that possible?"

"...How can you laugh at something so despairing?"

"Even if I don't want to laugh, I can't conjure up anything to eat. Oh, it's so cold, I really want to drink hot soup!"

"God, there's enough hot water!"

"Cold water is fine too!"

"Then why don't you drink sea water?"

"roll!"

Hundreds of survivors lined up in a row, grabbing the climbing ropes and shouting loudly, or following Kurokas, who was at the front and the top, towards the red earth continent with anxiety in their hearts.

One after another, everyone reached the top and sat down exhaustedly.

"Is there writing here?" Someone discovered that someone had carved a line of words on the ground at the top of the Red Earth Continent. "It must have been left by a pirate who broke into the Grand Line. What kind of nonsense is this that is really illiterate?"

Some people looked into the distance blankly, whether it was the great routes in front and behind them, or the East China Sea, South China Sea, West Sea and North Sea on the left and right... As far as the eye could see, it seemed that all the seas, as if the whole world was shrouded in a layer of dark gray shadow, and storms and tsunamis were raging throughout the world.

All of humanity is at the end of its rope. This doomsday-like feeling of despair suddenly surged into their hearts. Someone in the crowd started to cry quietly.

"It's a good thing to go to the Red Earth Continent. Although there is nothing to eat or drink here, at least we won't be flooded..." someone murmured to himself.

"Yeah." Someone next to him nodded while slurping instant noodles.

The two men looked at each other, and the former suddenly grabbed the instant noodles like a hungry wolf and drank it down, screaming from the scalding heat.

"Hey!" A passerby eating instant noodles said dissatisfiedly, "There are plenty of them inside, don't rush to grab them!"

The man who was frantically trying to eat instant noodles looked back and saw someone going in and out of the red soil on top of the continent not far away... a hole?!

He jumped up and rushed over, "Doctor Kulokas, you dug a hole in the Red Earth Continent?!"

"But this, how is this possible..." The man lay at the entrance and looked down. The huge and deep space was winding and even divided into different rooms. The corridor was deep and lit with strange lighting flowers. There was no end in sight. "Such a huge 'basement'... How could you..."

Kulokas smiled faintly and said, "Did I say I dug it by myself? My ancestors have been serving as lighthouse keepers at Gemini Cape..."

(End of this chapter)