Pirate's Nest Order

Chapter 408 The next journey
The night is long, and the darkness seems to be stagnant. The cold wind is carrying dry gravel and slaps on the bow of the Golden Meili. The scars that run across the entire sheep's head are stitched by iron nails, destroying the original beauty and adding to it. There was a wave of hostility and ferocity.

The Straw Hats, who were almost dismembered and scattered, had just fled back to the deck. Sauron, who was seriously injured and his arms were crippled, was limp on the ground, panting and looking at the dark night sky, while Luffy was kneeling on the ground, staring at the deck with dull eyes. , The whole person seems to have lost his soul and doesn't know what he is thinking.

The main combat forces were dead and wounded, and Usopp and Nami were left as two non-staff combat personnel. A boatman and a navigator raised their emotions and became the backbone of decision-making.

The alopecia areata who stayed on the boat smelled the bloody smell brought back by Luffy and the others. The bloody smell was tainted with the escaping cold aura. The faint, weird and cold aura came from the blood drop tattoos on the back of their necks. spread out.

The blood-drop-shaped pupils were slowly melting, as if echoing Dalaran's death, the planted blood eyes lost their power support and fell off by themselves.

Alopecia areata has a keen sense of smell, and it can smell a trace of strange power contained in the melted blood drop, which makes it fearful and familiar.

For all creatures transformed by Yarlin, the power in their bodies will be implanted with a breath of mother nest during the transformation process, similar to the implanted imprint.

Alopecia areata's nose twitched, it sniffed the residual smell in the air, something familiar and terrifying seemed to be reawakening the "lost connection" imprint in its body.

Alopecia areata let out a low growl and struggling whimper, and his strong and gnarled body walked restlessly on the deck. When the ferocious animal pupils swept across Sauron and Luffy, a tyrannical and bloodthirsty desire to attack appeared in his eyes.

"Alopecia areata, sit down!"

Usopp went over to put a chain on Alopecia areata, and tied it to the stern of the boat. The ferocity in Alopecia areata's eyes faded away with difficulty when facing Usopp, but if you peel off its thick eyelids, you can see the bloodshot deposits underneath It was densely covered with horror, as if it might engulf the eyeballs from all directions at any time.

In the deepest part of the spreading eyes, a severed black thread trembled like an electric shock, and the cut came closer without a sound.

"I always feel that alopecia areata is getting more and more irritable recently!" Nami glanced at alopecia areata, gritted her teeth and said to Usopp without thinking, "I don't think we are safe anymore. If there are enemies again, we will die!"

In that labyrinth of the sand sea, there is more than one sixth apostle manipulating blood, and now a random two-headed monster can wipe them out.

They don't have confidence in whether Luffy's brother can entangle Dalaran, and it is impossible to go back to observe the battle situation. They are just a bunch of burdens now.

"The injuries of Luffy and Zoro need to be treated. We should leave Alabasta first." Usopp feels hairy when he sees the desert now, and he is afraid that countless terrifying monsters will break out of the ground in the next second and kill them alive Swallowed alive.

Horror, fear, uneasiness...

Everything that happened today was too sudden, and a series of blows deprived them of even the time to grieve. They raised the sails in a hurry, following their instincts and desperately eager to escape from this terrifying desert temporarily.

Sauron and Luffy didn't say a word during the whole process, and Usopp and Nami's nerves were tense all the time. It took a long time for the two of them to look at each other. Their backs were soaked in cold sweat, and their hands and feet were cold and numb.

The cold wind blew over the ears and temples, and the oily hair was already wet with sweat. Usopp and Nami subconsciously wiped the back of their necks, only to find that the tattoos protruding from the blood-dropped pupils disappeared.

"That drop of blood is gone!" Usopp jumped up and checked quickly, and sure enough, the weird "blood eyes" on the back of everyone's necks disappeared.

"That monster is dead!" A guess suddenly appeared in Nami's mind, which was probably their only happy news tonight: "It should have been killed by Luffy's brother, otherwise, the ghost behind our necks Stuff doesn't just dissipate for no reason."

They didn't know, they just guessed the result correctly, but the process was completely wrong.

Four days later!
On the Golden Merry that had sailed away from Alabasta, Sauron's arms were covered with ointment bandages, but the pungent ointment could not cover up the rusty smell emanating from his body.

He leaned against the mast, coughing uncontrollably from his throat, and the thick phlegm he occasionally spit out was mixed with blood and some brown rust spots. For some reason, every time Sauron saw the thick phlegm, he felt Those rust spots seemed to be some kind of living things, wriggling slightly.

Usopp looked at Sauron very worriedly. In the medicine bag left by Chopper, he had already tried to use all the medicines on Sauron, but there was no way to get rid of the rust smell on Sauron's body. The wound beneath the bandage is being filled with growing rust.

Usopp saw it once when he removed Sauron's bandages and changed the dressing. The freshly grown granulation and rust merged together. The weird color and shape were like sinuous and ferocious centipedes, still dismembered. The severed ones are randomly put together on the two arms, and the visual effect is extremely disgusting.

"Zoro, how are you feeling?" Usopp asked worriedly.

Sauron's eyes were half-opened, and there was no joy or sorrow in his eyes. His pale and cold face was as hard as his heart. He raised his arms and palms and clenched them vigorously, and he could hear a strange "creaking" sound coming from his palms. It was the sound of muscles and rust rubbing and squeezing.

Severe pain invaded the nerves, and the tearing pain flooded up the arms with the wrists, and then transmitted to the temples on both sides. Usopp could see Sauron's temples throbbing violently.

But Sauron didn't say a word, just coughed muffledly from his throat, and spit a mouthful of thick phlegm onto the surface of the sea. He gritted his teeth fiercely and said to Usopp forcefully: "Although it hurts, but the hand can move again. If you can move, you can hold the sword!"

Not only can it move, but the strength of the hands holding the sword has also become much stronger, and even a little force may break the muscles. Sauron licked his wet lips, and the expression fell in Usopp's eyes, making him hesitant to speak , the sensitive sense of touch made him feel that there was a fierce beast in Sauron's chest licking the injured claws.

The atmosphere on board was very heavy and depressing, and everyone was trying their best to control their emotions.

"Where are we going next?" Nami held a weather stick in her hand and asked Luffy, who was sitting on the sheep's head, showing her bandaged back to everyone.

(End of this chapter)