Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 294 People Lost Their Shadows
"Wait a minute!!" An anxious old voice came from the direction they were facing, and a faintly flickering orange light could be seen.

It wasn't until the man hurried up to them with an oil lamp that they saw clearly that it was an old zombie with a straw hat, ragged clothes, bandages and a thin body.

Luffy stared at the zombie who ran up to him and was panting for a while, then he immediately came to his senses and said, "Old man who was seriously injured!"

"They said it was a zombie!" Zoro, Sanji and Franky corrected him in unison again.

The old man with the lamp immediately corrected them, "No, I'm a seriously injured old man..."

"Is it like a zombie? Really!" The three roared again, not believing that the old man who looked like a zombie in front of him was a human being.

Luffy took a few steps forward and asked, "So, what do you want from us?"

"I want you to defeat a person," the old man said straight to the point without hesitation, and then he knelt down on the ground and put the oil lamp in front of him with trembling hands, "Your words will definitely work, Although there will be sacrifices to some extent. But as long as he is defeated, everyone will be saved, as long as the shadow can be found, we can give us any reward!"

"Shadow?" Sanji asked a little surprised: "Has your shadow been taken away too?"

Luffy knelt down and looked at the old man's hands next to the oil lamp, and he really didn't see any shadow, "Really, uncle has no shadow, just like Brooke."

"Who the hell did this? Could it be the person Encore just mentioned?" Sauron said while looking at the girl beside him, only to find that she was already dozing off on the leopard, and had been The very obedient leopard looks a bit ferocious under the light.

'What happened to her? ’, Zoro frowned slightly and reached out to support her, only to find that the girl just opened her eyes and glanced at him, then continued to close her eyes and doze off, as if she was too sleepy.

The old man who fell silent grabbed his hands on the ground, leaving deep scratches on the ground with his five fingers, and his body trembled slightly. Under the fear and resentment, he finally squeezed out a person's name, "Mo Leah..."

"Molia?!", Robin was startled, he didn't expect to hear this name in this kind of place.Thinking of the rumors about that person, she couldn't help shedding nervous cold sweat.

Anke, who was dozing off, also opened his right eye, yawned a little, and asked lazily, "Is that Moonlight Moria?"

Luffy stood up and looked back at them suspiciously, "Encore, Robin, do you know?"

More cold sweat left on Robin's face, "The name is very familiar, his original bounty is above yours, Luffy..."

Sanji also found some key points from Robin's words, "Original? Could it be..."

"One of the Seven Martial Seas under the king, Moonlight-Molia..." Anke said lightly, without paying too much attention to it in a lazy tone, "I heard that he is a man full of mysteries..."

"Really? Encore?" Luffy also became a little nervous, after all, his partner has not been found yet.

"Hmm..." After nodding, Anke looked unbearably sleepy again, and only after shaking his head vigorously did he wake up a little.

Frankie looked at the old man suspiciously and asked, "But what is that guy doing here?"

"I don't know," the old man shook his head, and immediately provided a clue, "However, there are quite a few people like me who have their shadows taken away and wander in this forest..."

"Anyone else?" Sanji was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that Anke had just said that there were many people around here peeping at them.

"The same goes for you, since you were lured here, it means that Moria is following you..."

"Tempted?", thinking of the flow bottle at the beginning and the ghosts that appeared from time to time, Sauron quickly figured out the reason for this.

The old man with his head down held his knees tightly, and with tears streaming down his face, he spoke to the group of strange pirates about his inner depression and despair, "Either stay in this dark forest and be afraid of crawling around. Zombies, they have to go to sea, but they are still afraid of the sun when they are alive, and they will die sooner or later. With such a body, I can no longer live... just give me one chance, just once, I want to walk under the sun!!"

The agitated old man moved forward, but accidentally pushed the oil lamp to roll on the ground.The flickering lights shone on the pirates in front, and the shadows behind them moving with the lights were so ordinary, but to the old man, they had already become an unattainable existence.

Luffy squatted down and reached out to hold down the rolling oil lamp. The low brim of his hat made it impossible for the old man opposite him to see the expression on his face clearly.

Anke just looked at the old man in silence, didn't say anything, and didn't have any emotional changes because of his words or actions.Anyway, people who have nothing to do with her have nothing to do with her whether they live or die. If she meets this kind of person alone, she might just give him a good time.

Frankie was moved to tears, and cried loudly, "Is that so? You are so miserable! Don't worry, I will help you! Idiot, I didn't cry! Woooooo!!"

Sauron just looked at Frankie who was crying and said lightly: "Your emotions are too easy to understand, aren't you? Besides, don't promise others so easily."

"That's right!" Sanji nodded in agreement, then raised his hand and pointed at the old man kneeling there, and shouted loudly: "Hey, old man! It's a lady's privilege to win sympathy with tears! You don't arouse sympathy at all! !"

"This..." Sauron squinted at the guy who was obviously duplicity, not knowing what to say.

Looking back at the reactions of his friends, Lu Fei smiled, stood up and said to the old man: "We were also looking for the culprit who took away the shadow. Since we were targeted, I will beat him up, so that uncle You're saved by the way, right?"

Infected by Lu Fei's bright smile, the old man regained his confidence and said firmly: "Whether it's by the way or not, there is hope anyway!"

"Please!" Many cheering voices came from the dark trees
"come on!"

"Get rid of that Moriah guy!"

……

Sanji looked at the dim forest with black lines all over his head, "What, are you really eavesdropping secretly like the cutie said?"

"Hahaha...", Lu Fei just smiled and walked ahead, waving to the old man who was still kneeling behind him, "Then let's go first, uncle, just wait for our good news~"

Anke, Sauron and Robin didn't say anything, they just silently followed their own captain's footsteps.After looking at the old man, Sanji said, "Wait, old man!" and followed.

"Woooooo! I will definitely help you!" Frankie, who was still crying, walked backwards, waving his hands while wiping away tears.

"Waiting for you!" The old man shouted loudly, waving his hands vigorously, watching their backs melt into a dark fog with full of hope.

When their shadows were out of sight, the old man put down his waving hands, stood up and patted the dust on his pants.

At this time, the people who had been hiding in the forest came out one after another, but none of the dozens of people standing around the oil lamp could be seen.After confirming that they were gone, the crowd began to discuss in low voices:
"Will they succeed? They all look so young, and they have a child with them." A voice asked in a low voice, full of hesitation
"I saw with my own eyes that they knocked down those horrific zombies with ease, and the kid sitting on the leopard is also very skilled." The old man told them what he saw in a hoarse voice, looking at it from time to time. Take a look at the direction Luffy and the others left.

"But what if these people fail?" Another voice sounded, also lacking confidence in the group of young pirates
"Then we can only wait for the next time..."

"Will they run away after being defeated?" The first voice was still hesitant, after all, there have been many such examples before, although in the end they all became the same as them.

"I'll follow them..." The old man picked up the oil lamp, hunched over and walked slowly along the direction that Luffy and the others left.

The group of people watched in silence as the warm light left them, and then melted into the thick fog again like a ghost.

The first raindrops fell from the sky, and then other raindrops rushed to fall, not to be outdone, not very big, but easy to wet clothes.As the rain fell, the dense fog on the island began to lighten, and the huge columnar property hidden behind the central castle began to show.

"It's raining," came to the guardrail in front of Howe Castle, Luffy looked up at it, and said a little strangely: "Is there any sign on it?"

"Sign?" Sauron looked up against the rain suspiciously, and indeed saw a black-and-white pattern in the fading mist.

"What is that? A flag?" Franky studied the shape of that thing hard, and as the fog accelerated and faded, he could clearly see what was floating on the castle, but after seeing it clearly, it became bigger Turned pale with shock, "Isn't that the sail?"

The dense fog had almost disappeared under the washing of the rain, allowing them to see the appearance of the castle clearly.Behind the majestic old castle is a mast with a diameter of tens of meters, and on the mast, hangs a huge black sail with a length of hundreds of meters. On the sail is a symbol of the still skeleton. head.

The old man who quietly appeared behind them held an oil lamp and suddenly said, "That's right!"

Zoro, Sanji, and Franky, who were taken aback, suddenly turned their heads and shouted in surprise, "Are you still following us?!"

An Ke just glanced back at him, then yawned and began to look at the castle in front of her. The raindrops around her all condensed into crystals and fell to the ground the moment they touched her.

Robin, who put his backpack on his head, looked back at the old man who was a little bit surprised, but didn't say anything.

The old man didn't explain why he was still following them. He just looked up at the big sail and said, "As the little brother said, that's the sail. But it's too big, so I can't see its whole picture clearly. This terrifying ship The three-masted sailing ship is the world's largest pirate ship carrying the entire village.

"The one that carries the entire village?" Sanji widened his eyes in surprise.

"So handsome~~~", Luffy was so excited again that his eyes were full of stars.

"Behind the house is the mainmast, and Moonlight-Molia is there." As if afraid that they would not find it, the old man pointed to the front mainmast.

"Don't worry, Uncle~~", Luffy waved his hands indifferently, and said with a smile, "We know where that guy is~ And, we will definitely blow him away~~"

All of a sudden, he was poked into his heart, the old man froze, then he laughed and did not continue to say anything.

Turning around and pushing open the iron gate on the guardrail of the castle, Luffy raised his head and smiled and said, "Let's go, go to the monster castle!"

"Oh!"

After walking into a spacious passage in the castle, everyone came to the wooden door of a certain room, and the whole navigation was provided by a certain little guy.

"This door is locked..." After realizing that he couldn't push it open, Luffy punched the door lock directly, smashed it easily, and then pushed it away with a smile, "It's open, excuse me ~~”

"Is there someone who opens the door like you?" Seeing this, Sauron no longer wanted to complain.

"Anyway, as long as Luffy likes it..." Anke, who has no energy, replied lazily, and walked in slowly on a leopard.Luckily the door was big enough for the big cat to get in, or she would have had to knock it down.

Robin, who came in behind her, looked worriedly at the way she would close her eyes and fall asleep at any moment, "I always feel like Miss Anke is very sleepy..."

Franky guessed, "Maybe it's because it's time to sleep..."

Luffy, who came to her side backwards, looked up at her, reached out and patted her face with a smile and comforted him, "Be patient, Enke~~"

"Don't worry, I'm not very sleepy~~" Anke said with a smile, her slightly narrowed eyes could only see her good mood, "Hurry up and beat that person away, and it will be fine if you find Nami and the others~ ~"

"Well! Wait for me!", Luffy ran forward with confidence, and then directly shouted: "Moonlight-Molia! Get out of here!!"

(End of this chapter)