With Smoker and Tashigi on board, Nojiko finally stopped heading astray and was able to sail towards Reverse Mountain. Although Smoker and Tashigi weren't sailors, they at least had some basic navigational skills. They were quite helpful to Nojiko when she asked for assistance.
At the same time, the two also realized the root cause of their bad luck: it was because Ruoqi Gao was only a novice when it came to sailing, which led them astray and caused Wang Han to wander around the East China Sea. However, after learning about Ruoqi Gao's experience of boarding the ship, the two could no longer hate him.
At the same time, the two couldn't help but admire Wang Han's skill in finding crew members. The navigator Nami was coerced into coming by threatening the lives of the entire village, and she was a fake Nami at that. She only knew some very basic navigational knowledge, and while she could fish around the village, real navigation was a joke. No wonder she had been wandering around the East China Sea for so long, and Wang Han hadn't said a word about it, acting as if he knew nothing.
However, when they learned from Nogigo that Zeff was once the captain of a pirate crew that had sailed the Grand Line, they realized something was amiss. Zeff couldn't possibly have been unaware that they had sailed the wrong route, yet he didn't seem to have told Wang Han. Moreover, Zeff had been forced to join the crew by Wang Han threatening the lives of everyone on board. Furthermore, even Tashigi was very dissatisfied with Wang Han, but how she ended up joining the crew was unknown.
However, an even bigger problem now loomed before them: the Reverse Mountain lay ahead. They both knew that with Ruoqi Gao's seafaring skills, getting across would depend entirely on luck. If luck wasn't on their side, the ship would be destroyed and everyone would perish. Of course, with that bastard's strength, he certainly wouldn't die, but everyone else would definitely be doomed. No matter how well Ruoqi Gao hid himself, he would be exposed under such circumstances. If they really made it onto the Reverse Mountain, everyone except Wang Han would die.
"Norchigo, are you still planning to keep this a secret?" Smoker finally couldn't hold back any longer, looking at the turbulent seawater that was already close to the Reverse Mountain. "If this continues, we'll all die."
"Since we're all going to die anyway, it's better to die. That way, the village will be safe." Ruoqigao looked at the raging, turbulent seawater flowing upwards, hesitated for a moment, and then said firmly.
“No, I have to stop you. I can’t let you lead everyone to their doom,” Smoker said, stepping forward to stop Nokiko. “That guy won’t die like that.”
“She’s our navigator, and how the navigator sails is the navigator’s business,” Zeff suddenly stopped Smoker.
“Zeff, you should know she’s not Nami’s. She can’t sail at all. Why are you stopping me? Do you want to die too?” Smoker quickly looked at Zeff: “It’s not too late to stop her now. If we go up there, none of us here can sail.”
“Yes, maybe it’s better if he’s dead.” Zeff looked at Smoker and said, suppressing a smile. He was sure Wang Han would have a way to solve this situation, so he wasn’t worried at all, because he had asked this question before.
"What's all the fuss about? You're making it impossible for me to read." Wang Han walked out of the cabin, annoyed. "I've known for a long time that Ruoqi Gao can't sail. Who says you can't sail if you can't sail? Ruoqi Gao, keep sailing."
"What?" Smoker and Ruchiko were both stunned. It turned out that Wang Han knew all this.
“I knew she wasn’t Nami the moment I saw her,” Zeff said, shaking his head. “It’s just that everyone pretends not to know, since she was the one who wanted to impersonate her in the first place.”
"Since you know she can't sail, why didn't you stop her? Once she's on Upside Down Mountain, there's no stopping her; she'll crash into it!" Smoker roared.
“Sigh!” Wang Han shook his head and said, “That’s why you people are so inflexible. So what if you can’t navigate? Do you have to follow the shipping routes? There are no maritime regulations. Just get there. If you want Ruoqi Gao to have good navigation skills, that’s how you have to do it.”
After Wang Han finished speaking, he used the reinforcement system to increase the rigidity of the entire ship several hundred times before returning to the cabin. He left behind a single sentence.
"You'd better anchor yourselves to the ship."
"You all need to hold on tight, and you'd better find a rope to secure yourselves," Zhefu said, then went into the cabin. Based on Wang Han's wicked sense of humor, he had already guessed what Wang Han meant: if Ruoqi Gao wanted to improve his skills, he would undoubtedly have to crash into things more often.
“I’m going in too,” Guina said, entering the cabin as well. Knowing Wang Han’s perverse sense of humor, Guina also guessed his intentions. However, unlike Zeff, she didn’t try to restrain herself, but instead followed Wang Han directly. She didn’t believe that Wang Han would include her in his schemes.
"Stabilize yourselves?" Outside the cabin, Smoker, Tashigi, and Nojiko looked at each other and then found ropes to tie themselves up and secure themselves.
"Bang..." Just as the group had secured themselves, a huge impact rang out, and as expected, the boat was carried by the high-speed current and crashed into the mountainside at high speed.
The ship began to rock violently, but to the three men's astonishment, it wasn't smashed or damaged in any way. Smoker, his two companions, and Zeff, who was securing the cooking utensils and himself in the kitchen, were in a much worse state; the violent, continuous impacts and shaking nearly made them vomit bile.
"Isn't this going too far?" Kuina, who was in the air with Wang Han, looked at the ships crashing against the walls below and said to Wang Han while feeling relieved, "Won't they be traumatized by this?"
After Wang Han instructed Kuina in swordsmanship, Kuina's feelings towards Wang Han improved significantly, and their relationship also improved a lot. She also knew that Wang Han still had kindness in his heart, but his rationality outweighed his reason. Although she still could not understand or agree with Wang Han's perverse sense of humor.
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