Chapter 291
“Oh no—”
Just as Yoichiro Tsugikuni was wondering who was contacting him through the Den Den Mushi at this time, Irene had already jumped off the boat impatiently and was now standing on the shore, looking at the endless sea of clouds and cheering excitedly.
Mihawk and the others on the boat were not as reckless as Irene. They were observing the surrounding environment vigilantly.
For them who have been fighting at sea for many years, examining the surrounding environment is definitely the first step after entering a completely unfamiliar place.
They were at the edge of a forest, and behind the place where they landed on the island was an endless sea of clouds.
Mihawk jumped off the boat lightly, walked to Irene's side, slowly squatted down, stretched out his hand into the sea of clouds and gently stroked it twice.
"Hmm?" Mihawk couldn't help but murmur at the resistance in his hand.
"This is Kukai."
"Although it's not as buoyant as seawater, it still has tremendous buoyancy. If you go down, you can still swim without worrying about falling."
"Of course, the depth of the empty sea is limited. Beyond that depth, it's the sky."
"Mihawk, do you want to go down and take a look?"
Jiguo Yuanyi came behind Mihawk, looked at the scene in front of him, and said with a smile.
The others also got off the boat one after another. After getting off the boat, Abel walked towards the forest, carefully observing the surrounding environment as he walked.
Xiong and Robin followed behind Yunyi and came to the shore together.
Robin was also attracted by the novel scene before him. He looked at the sea of clouds with his mouth open in amazement.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
"I have no such interest."
"Sky Island. Interesting."
A smile appeared on Mihawk's face. Even a "sword-crazy otaku" like him couldn't help but admire the scene above the sky.
"Let's go into the woods and do a quick search."
"First find out where it is."
"Sky Island is inhabited. Don't get into conflict with them if you come across them."
As soon as Kuniyoshi arrived on the island, he had already deployed his Observation Haki, but he did not detect any human presence in his perception.
There wasn't even a similar aura.
It seems that the scale of the sky island above the East China Sea is much larger than he imagined. At least, with the range of his observation Haki, there is no way to include the entire area of the sky island.
Otherwise, there would be no trace of human beings.
While Yoriichi and Mihawk were talking, Irene seemed to have lost interest in the beautiful scenery above the clouds. She turned around and wanted to run towards the dense forest in the distance.
But after running a few steps, Irene suddenly felt dizzy, her vision went dark, and she fell to the ground, gasping for breath.
"Irene!"
Hearing the sound, several people on the edge of the clouds turned their heads and looked in the direction of Irene.
Seeing Irene fall to the ground inexplicably, Robin let out a low cry and was about to run over, but because of his nervous mood, Robin also felt dizzy and had a strong urge to vomit in his stomach.
"What's wrong with me?"
Robin squatted down and murmured something. After calming down, the dizziness in his head was a little less.
"You two, don't do any strenuous exercise."
"This is a sky island, probably ten thousand meters above sea level."
"Unlike at sea, the air here is very thin."
"Vigorous exercise will increase the body's oxygen demand and produce severe symptoms of hypoxia."
"Just sit quietly for a while, and you'll be fine."
"Erin, you too, lie on the ground a little longer."
When Robin and Irene heard what Yoshiichi Tsugikuni said, their hearts couldn't help but calm down.
When the abnormality first occurred, the two children couldn't help but feel nervous and confused.
When Mihawk heard this, he also felt it carefully. Just as Tsugakuin Yoshiichi said, after standing here for a while, he could also feel a little tired in his body.
After a while, Irene stood up, her mood obviously not as high as before.
"Let's go."
Seeing the two children come to their senses, Yunyi also said with a smile.
Then he walked towards the forest.
At this time, Abel was standing in front of the entrance of a beast trail at the edge of the dense forest, waiting quietly. Seeing Yunyi and the others start to move, Abel also took the lead and stepped into the dense forest first.
The dense forest before them was covered with lush vegetation, and after entering the forest, the discomfort symptoms of Irene and Robin disappeared immediately.
Although there are obvious differences between the plants in Sky Island and Qinghai, the common point between the two is that these plants can also carry out photosynthesis and release oxygen.
The oxygen content in the forest is obviously different from that in the outside world.
Not long after leaving, Irene returned to her lively and energetic self.
There were some strange animals in the forest. Irene was sharp-eyed and caught a gray mouse. However, the appearance of this mouse was a little different from the one in Qinghai. This mouse had feathers instead of fur, and could glide close to the ground when moving in the forest.
Irene was very curious. After playing with the mouse in her hands for a while, she slowly closed her eyes.
“Oh~~~”
After a while, Irene let the mouse go. As the mouse ran away, Irene, who was searching with Yunyi and the others, seemed to see something and screamed from time to time.
This is the ability of Irene's devil fruit. She can share vision and senses with the animals she comes into contact with, and can even communicate mentally. She can even live among those animals and control their bodies.
Yunyi turned his head and glanced at Irene behind him. After thinking for a moment, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket, handed it to Irene, and then instructed:
"Erin, have you seen this devil fruit?"
"If you see it, take us to find it."
"If you discover the Golden Country, tell me."
Irene took the paper handed to her by Yunyi, glanced at it briefly, and nodded in agreement.
What Tsugikuni Yoriichi showed Irene was the drawing of the Thunder Fruit, and Yoriichi even colored the sketch.
The appearance of the Thunder Fruit can be found in the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia, and Yoriichi had specifically confirmed it before coming here.
This is a golden fruit with thunder patterns all over its body. It is highly recognizable and can be easily distinguished from the surrounding plants with brown stems and green leaves.
When Xiong and others heard what Yunyi said, they gathered around, looked at the picture in Yunyi's hand, and looked around.
Irene knew she had to find something, so she took it to heart. While exploring the forest, she began to catch "air rats" and some flying birds, using her abilities to expand her search range.
In order to allow Irene to concentrate on using her abilities, Xiong held Irene in his arms and protected her.
After walking and searching for most of the day, Irene still didn't find the Thunder Fruit, but with the help of the "spy" in the sky, she did discover a relic.
"Hmm"
"Brother, I saw a strange building over there."
"It's right in the middle of the sea of clouds. It looks like it's quite large."
"It's the work of humans. Vines have covered the buildings. It looks like no one has been there in years. But buildings aren't made of gold."
After hearing Irene's words, the confused look on Ji Guoyuan's face disappeared in an instant.
His memory was so old that he no longer knew what was on the Sky Island. He only remembered the Thunder Fruit and the Golden Bell.
"Is it a relic?"
Ji Guoyuan touched his chin and said with a smile:
"Let's go and have a look."
"I'm also somewhat interested in the ruins."
Tsugikoku Yoshiichi said this, patting the head of Robin who was standing beside him. Robin's face had already revealed some longing when he heard the word "ruins".
Now that she heard that Yunyi was planning to go and take a look, she was also excited.
Tian Zheng, who was walking at the end of the team to support them, glanced at Tsugikuni Yoriichi when he heard this, and remembered some bad things.
Whether it is relics or history.
Being interested in these things is not a good thing.
Shandora.
This is the name of the historical site on Sky Island.
After Ji Guoyuan and his companions passed through layers of dense forests, they finally saw the "ruins" that Irene mentioned.
In the center of the forest, there is a sea of clouds, and in the sea of clouds, the ground is faintly visible.
Ji Guoyuan jumped lightly and jumped directly into the sea of clouds, but he did not sink. Instead, he stood on the ground.
"The area of this ruin is probably quite large, but most of it is submerged in the sea of clouds, with only a small part exposed."
The moment his feet touched the ground, Tsugikuni Yoshiichi had already made a judgment in his mind. Looking around, his eyes fell on a pyramid-shaped building in the center of the sea of clouds.
It was an extremely magnificent building, and the part exposed above the clouds was probably twenty or thirty meters high.
And in the center of the pyramid-shaped structure, there are several empty doors.
It looks like the entrance.
The companions who were traveling with Yuichiro Tsugikoshi were now standing on the ground in the sea of clouds. They looked around and felt a little emotional.
All around are dilapidated buildings, all made of bluestone, some of which are carved with exquisite patterns. However, now, these bluestones are covered with moss and vines, full of traces of time.
To be able to build these magnificent and exquisite buildings, it must be a prosperous and powerful civilization.
But now, this civilization has disappeared, without any trace of human life, and all that remains is simplicity and vicissitudes.
Without stopping for long, Jigoku Yoshiichi slowly walked up the long stone steps in front of the pyramid-shaped building.
Xiong and others looked around curiously and followed Tsugikoku Yoshiichi's footsteps.
When he arrived at the door, Yuanyi looked into the room and found that there was a downward stone staircase inside the pyramid-shaped building, and there was light at the entrance.
When he walked forward and took a look, Jigoku Yuichi discovered that the entrance to the stone steps was full of clouds and there was no passage at all.
"Um?"
"Is my guess wrong?"
When Ji Guoyuan saw this scene, he couldn't help but murmur, slowly squatted down, and reached out to touch the cloud.
However, when I touched the clouds, the feeling on my hands was not the light and moist feeling of clouds, but a softness with a hint of firmness, like the hard surface of the sea.
"Cloud ground?"
Tsugikoku Yoshiichi was amazed by the sight before him. While he was inspecting it, Irene felt a bit bored and urged:
"Hey, Brother Jiguo, there's nothing here."
"Ruins are just ruins."
"We should eat now. My stomach is growling with hunger."
Tsugikoku Yoshiichi ignored Irene and looked at the intersection blocked by the "cloud soil". He slowly drew his long sword from his waist and then slowly thrust it into the cloud.
Dawn was very sharp and easily sank into the "cloud soil". After the blade was completely immersed, Ji Guoyuanyi's expression remained unchanged. He cut a circle the size of a person, then stretched out his hand and suddenly pulled out the columnar cloud soil from it.
Looking into the pit, Yuan saw that there was still cloud soil underneath. He jumped lightly and jumped directly into the pit. He put his feet against the cloud wall and stabbed the long knife into the soil again.
This time, after the long sword was halfway inserted, Tsugikoku Yoshiichi stopped.
“Empty?!”
Ji Guoyuan's eyes lit up and he continued to cut the cloud and soil layer.
At the entrance of the cave, Abel, Mihawk and others were quietly watching Jigoku Yoshiichi's actions. After a while, they saw a light in the cave, and the cloud and soil that Jigoku Yoshiichi had brought down fell down. However, after falling seven or eight meters, it landed on the ground with a light "pop" sound.
"really!"
"There's more underneath this relic!"
When Ji Guoyuan looked up, his legs loosened and he fell directly to the ground.
After landing, Ji Guoyuan looked around and found that he was in a corridor with stone walls on all sides, covered with ancient patterns. Under his feet, there was both cloud soil and bluestone ground.
Slowly sheathing it, Tsugikoku Yoriichi followed the passage and moved forward. Xiong and the others saw that Tsugikoku Yoriichi seemed to have found the "way" and jumped into the passage one after another.
Irene looked around and seemed not to be hungry anymore. She followed Yuichiro Tsugakuin with some excitement.
He found the long-lost joy of adventure.
"I never thought there would be such a place in a forest like this?"
"What the hell is going on?"
"Why are there such ancient ruins in the sky?"
Tian Zheng touched the wall, took off his sunglasses and put them in his chest pocket. Looking at the patterns on the wall, he couldn't help but let out a sigh, and then slowly followed Tsugumi Yoshiichi.
There was a lot of moss in the corridor, and even vines that had been growing for who knows how many years covered the entire corridor. Ji Guoyuan walked along the way, cutting through the vines that blocked his way.
Not long after, he saw a dazzling light at the corner of a corridor.
"Exit?" Jiguo Yuanyi walked towards the light, and soon, a magnificent city appeared in Jiguo Yuanyi's sight.
Ji Guoyuanyi is located at the entrance of a pyramid building, nearly 100 meters from the ground.
Looking around, there are bluestone buildings covered with moss. This is a large town. A rough estimate of the area is probably tens of thousands of square meters.
The clouds above did not completely block the sunlight. The role of the clouds was like a lampshade covering a light bulb, which did not affect the lighting of the town at all.
There is no human breath in the city. The fragrance of moss rushes into the nose, and what comes to the face is the ancient breath called history.
At the same time, a golden reflection in the town was also captured by Yuichiro Tsugikoku.
Ji Guoyuan's eyes narrowed slightly, he jumped lightly, and quickly disappeared at the entrance of the corridor on this floor.
Tian Zheng and others behind him didn't know what Ji Guoyuanyi had discovered, and slowly walked to the entrance of the corridor. The next second, they were also attracted by the magnificent town ruins in front of them.
At this time, Yoshikazu Tsugakuni also came to the center of the town. In front of him was a large fountain-like building, seven or eight meters high, and the water tank below was divided into four or five layers.
But at this time there was no water in the reservoir, but it was covered with moss and vines.
Tsugikuni Yoshiichi's gaze fell on the top of the fountain, where a small seedling was growing out of the top of the fountain. On the branch of the seedling, hung a golden fruit covered with lightning patterns.
It was so heavy that it bent the seedlings.
"Thunder Fruit."
“To think you’d show up in a place like this.”
"Would you grow up in a place like this to revive this long-destroyed civilization?"
Ji Guoyuan felt something in his heart and whispered to himself. He quickly drew out the long sword from his waist, and a blade light flashed directly from the base of the Thunder Fruit.
With a gust of sword wind, the Thunder Fruit fell directly from the sky and was caught in the hand of Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
Looking at the Thunder Fruit in his hand, Tsugikuni Yoshiichi's eyes suddenly became a little dazed, and he grabbed the fruit and actually put it towards his mouth.
However, just as Tsugikoku Yoshiichi opened his mouth, his eyes became clear again and his movements stopped.
"Devil Fruit."
"You actually have such ability?!"
"Could it be that it really has consciousness? The World Government is unable to reclaim the Nika Fruit. Is it really because the Nika Fruit has a will?"
(End of this chapter)
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