Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 67 A place I've never heard of: Sky Island? !

At noon on the third day after leaving Luluga, everyone who had eaten lazily stayed on the deck near the sheep's head. A Band-Aid is attached.

Luffy, who was still sitting in the captain's special seat, looked at the front with a smile and said, "It's really fun inside the Colorful Mist! When will we go again~~"

"Indeed!" Nami, whose eyes instantly turned into Bailey's, clasped her hands together and said expectantly, "I miss the treasures all over the place!! The ones I collected last time were not enough, and more than half of them were lost~"

"Is there really anything good there?" Chopper asked curiously.Suddenly there were some black objects scattered in the sky, Anke took one and looked at it, and found that it was actually some broken old wooden boards.

"What is this? It doesn't seem to be rain..." Usopp looked up at the sky, and everyone looked at the blue sky strangely.Then I was stunned by the next scene: an old sailboat was falling from above, and the broken boards fell like rain.Everyone opened their mouths in amazement and watched the sailboat fall into the sea near the Merry, and the huge waves it caused kept the Merry shaking.When the sailboat fell, messy things were still falling from the sky one after another.

"Everyone hold on to the boat!!" Sauron said loudly in the chaos.Nami, who was kneeling on the ground and clutching the mast tightly, shouted in panic: "What is this?? What is it??" Chopper was already rolling around in fright.

"This is a dream!! Yes! This must be a dream!!" The wide-eyed Usopp yelled self-deceivingly, and then immediately meditated on the ground, folded his hands and closed his eyes for self-hypnosis: "Don't panic when you encounter things, just put Calm down and close your eyes first, then slowly open them..."

Anke looked up silently, watching a skeleton falling from the sky, just in time for Usopp.Usopp just opened his eyes, and then, "Ah!!!!!! Dead bones!!!"

"Something fell again!!" Sanji warned loudly.And Usopp was still screaming: "Dead bones!!!"

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After a while of confusion, finally nothing fell from the sky, and the fallen bones were placed on the coffins that fell at the same time.Usopp and Chopper were still hugging each other in fear and trembling, Luffy looked up at the quiet blue sky and white clouds while pressing his straw hat and asked in amazement: "Why do ships fall from the sky? It's so strange, right? "

"But there's nothing in the sky..." Sauron folded his hands and looked at the quiet sky as well.Usopp's face was still pale, "Really, what the hell is the great route! It's strange enough that there is a ship cemetery in the colorful fog, and now there are still ships falling from the sky..."

"Ah!!" Nami yelled as she looked at the recording pointer on her wrist that kept pointing to the sky, "What should I do? The recording pointer is broken! Keep pointing at it!"

"No," Robin explained, "I think it was attracted by the island with stronger magnetism, so I changed the new record. Since the pointer has been pointing up and does not move, it means that the pointer has been taken away by the 'empty island'." Go record."

"Empty island??!" Luffy said excitedly, "An island floating in the sky?"

Usopp still hugged Chopper in fear and said, "Did that ship and the dead man's bones fall from there?"

"But there is nothing in the sky that looks like an island," Sauron said doubtfully.

"Floating oceans, exactly," Robin went on to explain.

"..." Encore, Zoro, Sanji and Nami couldn't understand at all.

"Ahahaha!! It means that there is another island in the sea floating in the sky, right??" Lu Fei excitedly pointed to the sky and said, "Okay!! Now go check it out!! Turn the rudder up!!" Wu Thorpe and Chopper also cheered loudly.

Robin, who couldn't stand it anymore, sighed, and suddenly two hands grew from Luffy's shoulders to cover his yelling mouth tightly.

"Be clear first, the rudder cannot be turned upwards, captain..." Sanji said lightly.

"Frankly speaking, I haven't seen Sky Island myself, so I don't know much about it..." Robin continued.

"Perhaps there are no seas and islands floating in the sky," Nami pointed to the record pointer on her hand and said, "The record pointer must be broken..."

"No, navigator-san. What you should think about now is not where the record pointer is broken, but how to get to the sky," Robin explained calmly: "No matter how bizarre the ship is involved in In this situation, you must never doubt the record pointer, this is the iron rule of sailing. In this sea, the first thing you should doubt is the common sense in your head, the island pointed by the record pointer must have an island!"

"In this case, let's try our best to find useful information from the things that fell from the sky," An Ke opened the coffin containing the skeletons, seeing An Ke's action, Nami and Chopper hid behind the mast in fear, Sauron and Sanji twitched the corners of their mouths, and found that the scene where the cute vice-captain stayed with the terrifying skeleton was really scary. Usopp and Luffy hadn't known when they ran to the next door. There was a broken ship, and Robin squatted beside the coffin and looked inside with interest.

"This skeleton is already very withered, and the clothing it is wearing has almost disappeared. It seems that it has been around for a long time." Enke looked at the skeleton carefully, and then said to Robin: "Robin, I Remember that you are an archaeologist? I leave it to you here. I will get that boat up, or it will sink in a while."

"I see," Robin nodded, picked up the shattered skull fragments in the coffin and began to assemble them into a complete shape.

"Get it done??" Sauron and the others stared blankly at the small Encore, and then compared it to the ship next door that was three or four times the size of the Golden Merry, and asked in unison: "Encore, what are you going to do?" Get it up?"

Anke just smiled and jumped directly into the sea. The moment his toes touched the surface of the sea, the waters around the Merry and the big ship turned into crystals.Encore shouted to Luffy and Usopp who were still adventuring in the boat: "Luffy, Usopp! If you don't want to become a crystal, come back quickly!!"

"Oh!!" Luffy laughed and jumped back to Encore, but Usopp who followed behind fell down several times because of the slippery crystal.Zoro and Sanji on the boat also jumped onto the crystal-turned sea, while Nami and Chopper were watching how Robin pieced together the bones, albeit stealthily watching from behind the mast.

"What are you going to do?" Sauron looked at the big ship frozen in the crystal, and said, "Half of that big ship has sunk into the sea..."

"Since I turned this place into a crystal, then this place is my world~~" Anke smiled mischievously, rolled up her long kimono sleeves and squatted down, pressed her hands on the ground, and began to slowly change the shape of the crystal , "You guys better take a few steps back~~ Especially you, Luffy. You will be in trouble if you fall into the sea~"

Luffy, who took a few steps back according to the words, watched Encore's movements curiously.Suddenly the entire surface of the crystal sea trembled, and then a huge crystal pillar wrapped the big ship and slowly raised it, and when the bottom of the ship reached the level where Encore and the others were, it stopped moving.

"Wow~ It's still a huge ship after a closer look~" Luffy ran around the crystal pillar excitedly.

"But, cutie, what are you going to do after it's done?" Sanji looked at the cabin sealed by crystals and said, "If it's all crystals, it will be difficult for us to get in."

"I haven't finished it yet~" Anke just chuckled, stood up and stretched, then walked over, pressed his hands on the crystal pillar, and gently closed his eyes.The crystal that sealed the hull began to shatter little by little, and the pink crystal fragments kept falling like cherry blossom rain.The sharp edges and corners refracted the bright sunlight and emitted colorful rays of light, and the crystals that fell on the ground slowly melted into the surface of the crystal sea without leaving a trace.

"It's so beautiful~~~" After checking, Robin leaned on the strings of the boat and looked at the falling crystals with a smile.Chopper stretched out his hooves trying to grab a piece of crystal, a little surprised at its sharpness: "Although it is beautiful, it is also very dangerous..."

"Hehe... don't worry, as long as you stay there, no crystals will fall on you," An Ke slightly opened his eyes and looked at the gradually revealed hull and said, "I can already completely control myself. The ability of my devil fruit, whether I can hurt others depends on whether I want to hurt him or not..."

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After all the crystals were completely stripped off the hull, the Golden Merry and the big ship were parked on the entire surface of the crystal sea.Except for Anke and Robin who stayed on the Merry, everyone went into the big ship to explore.

Encore looked at the head that had been restored to its original appearance, "Is there any information on the skeleton? Robin."

"This man must have been dead for 200 years." Robin touched the skull and said slowly, "He was about 30 years old. He should have died of illness during the voyage. Compared with other bones, he The teeth are still intact because they are covered with tar. This funeral custom is a unique tradition in some areas of the South China Sea. From the historical process, it should be speculated that the ship should be the ship of the past expedition. This ship should be in the air Adrift for about 200 years."

"As expected of an archaeologist," Anke said in admiration: "How much information can be learned from the bones~"

"The corpse can't speak, but the information on it can't escape. If it's an expedition ship, it should leave various records..."

"For this kind of thing, you need to ask Luffy and the others. I hope they can find the logbook or something..." Encore just finished speaking.Luffy and the others ran back with a few big bags on their backs. The strange thing was that Nami, who was obsessed with money, was only holding a piece of paper.

"Hey!! Encore!! We found a lot of things!!" Luffy shouted excitedly, and Nami who was following behind shouted loudly: "It's just worthless bottles and cans! Don't move back to the boat!"

Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji poured out the packages behind them. As Nami said, they were just some old swords and a boat-like tool as Nami said.

"The inside of that ship was looted, and everything in it was all these things," Sanji said while biting a cigarette.

Anke bent down and looked at these things carefully, but found that there was no useful information.Clapping his hands, he asked, "Is there no logbook?"

"I didn't find it, only a few books that were about to rot." Nami paused, and opened the paper in her hand like offering a treasure, "But! I found this!!"

Everyone looked over and found that it was an ancient map, and it said 'SKYPIEA' (God's Kingdom) on it.

Usopp said in surprise: "A map of Sky Island?!"

"How? Great, isn't it?" Nami said with a smile: "This proves that Sky Island really exists!"

"Yohoo!!!" Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper jumped up and down excitedly, "This proves that Sky Island really exists~~ That's the Island of Dreams, we can go there Dream Island~~”

"However, the problem now is that we have inspected the ship from the inside out, even the bones, and have not found a way to go to the empty island." Anke said lightly about the current situation , "What we need is more intelligence, but the problem now is that we don't know where to find the corresponding information."

The faces of the three of them collapsed in an instant, and they stared at Encore resentfully.

"Indeed, I'm really at a loss now..." Nami sighed, and looked at Luffy who had lost all energy. "The more serious problem is that the captain must go to Sky Island..."

"? Salvage good~? Salvage good~~? Salvage good~~~?" Suddenly, there was a mixed singing of pins and gongs and drums on the surface of the sea, and it gradually became louder and louder.

"..." Everyone silently watched a huge boat decorated with huge bananas and a monkey holding a gong on the prow slowly approaching, then stopped.

"Looks like a delicious boat~~" Luffy stared at it, "I don't know what's in it? Monkey? Orangutan? Orangutan?"

"Is this the place where the ship sank?" A wild voice came from the banana boat.Then a group of people answered in unison: "Yes! Director! That boat is right behind you!!"

"Director? Are you talking about me? Chichi!" An orangutan in yellow yelled and turned around, and when he saw the old boat on the crystal sea, he screamed, "What's going on? ?? Why did the surface of the sea turn into crystals??" But seeing Luffy and the others who had been silently staring at them, the orangutan said loudly: "Hey! The boat over there! What's going on here? This is my territory! "

"It's really an orangutan..." Lu Fei blinked and said, and the others nodded silently.

Hearing this sentence, the orangutan immediately forgot his original intention, pointed to his face happily, grinned and said, "Hey! Do I really look so 'ape-like'?"

"Yeah, you are like an ape," Luffy nodded and said, "And the more you look at you, the more you look like an ape!!"

"Ahahaha, stop praising me!!" the orangutan laughed happily.

Listening to the conversation between his own captain and the monkey, Sanji said with shame: "Which language do you speak..."

Sauron closed his eyes and said calmly: "This is called 'like attracts like'..."

Seeing the scraps of metal on the deck of the Meli, the orangutan was instantly enraged. He widened his eyes and shouted, "What happened to the things on your ship? Did they come from that ship?"

"Yes," Luffy said calmly.

Encore, who already knew that the visitor was not very kind, secretly undid the crystallization of the sea surface, making it easier for the Merry to leave.Robin kept smiling and looking at the ship, her calm face made it impossible to guess what she was doing.

"Wow!! Director!!! The crystal has disappeared!!" The people on the banana boat yelled, and when they saw the slowly sinking boat, they yelled again, "Director!! The boat is sinking!!!"

"Don't worry, they must have hidden something!" After the orangutan commander got a little closer to the banana boat, he jumped onto the boat and shouted frantically, "How dare you steal the treasure on my territory?? No! I thought you could escape!"

"The so-called treasure is just like what you saw just now, we haven't hidden anything~" Anke blinked his eyes, and said with a cute smile: "Uncle Ape~~"

"Eh? Am I really so 'ape like an ape'?" The orangutan once again forgot what he wanted to do, touched his head and blushed and said, "I'm really embarrassed to be praised by such a cute doll like you~ ~Ahahaha~~"

Suddenly the whole sky suddenly turned dark, as if the night had arrived ahead of schedule.

"Strange, isn't it still noon? Why is it so dark?" An Ke looked around cautiously.

When they saw the scene in the distant sky, except for the orangutan whose back was still there, everyone was so horrified that their pupils dilated sharply, their mouths opened and closed but they couldn't make any sound, and their faces looked like they had seen a ghost.The orangutan who found it strange turned around, and his expression was as horrified as everyone else.

On the gray sea level, there stood three human-like black figures dozens of times larger than giants. The knees were below the sea surface, and the upper part reached to the sky.Not only that, but also holds a spear-like weapon in both hands, and a pair of wings grows behind it.

In the quiet scene, it seemed that even the waves stopped breathing, and the people sweating and horrified watched the black shadows slowly raise the spears in their hands, and then stabbed down.

"Ah!!! A monster!!!" Everyone screamed, and everyone on the Meili rowed desperately, wishing they could grow a few more hands.The Merry left there at the speed of light like an arrow leaving the string.

When they break through that darkness and see the light, the blue sky and white clouds that are usually visible at any time seem to them like a gift kicked by God.Everyone sat in a circle and panted slightly to recover.

"How could it be that big..." Usopp was still trembling.

Sanji lit the cigarette in his mouth with a match, took a deep breath, and then slowly said: "In a ghostly place like the Great Airway, all kinds of weird things can happen, let's just say today..."

"First of all, a huge sailboat descended from the sky..." Sauron said slowly.

"Then there are human bones..." Usopp still remembered the skeleton that scared him half to death.

"The record pointer has been pointing to the sky again..." Nami hugged herself and looked ahead in a daze.

"Then the strange orangutan wanted to salvage the boat..." An Ke hugged his two knives tightly, trying to calm down his mood.

"It's getting dark..." Robin said calmly with his eyes closed, and Chopper nodded mechanically.

"In the end, a monster that was dozens of times bigger than the giant appeared!" Luffy said loudly.

The orangutan nodded and said, "Even the hairs on my whole body stand on end..."

Hearing the voice that did not belong to the partner, everyone didn't think there was a problem at first.After a few seconds, he turned around in surprise and found that the orangutan was also staying on the Merry.

"Get out!!" Luffy, Zoro and Sanji immediately stepped forward and kicked him away tacitly.

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"But that monster is really big..." Chopper muttered to himself.

Usopp, who kept looking up at the sky, said slowly, "Chopper, in fact, if I get serious, I can win even that kind of thing..."

"Really?" Chopper immediately admired him.

"I've hit 10 before," Usopp said without blushing.

"10?!"

After Sanji brought out a plate of snacks, Usopp stopped talking. After all, filling his stomach first is the most important thing, not to mention what happened to him just now.

Holding a pudding, Encore looked at Robin who was sitting on the stairs smiling and eating a snack, "Robin, what's on that banana just now?"

"Hehe, I really can't hide it from you," Robin chuckled and threw a permanent pointer aside to Nami, "It's very interesting~ I got it from the big ape brother's boat just now."

"Ah! You still know me best!" Nami put down the dessert in her hand after taking it, and looked at the permanent pointer in her hand with emotion, "JAYA? (Jaya?) Is it their base?"

"Gaya? Are we going there next?" Hearing the new place, Luffy immediately leaned his head over and asked.

"Isn't it up to you to decide where to go? Idiot!" Nami yelled with sharp teeth.

"Okay! Full speed ahead!!" Luffy swallowed the dessert in his mouth and shouted loudly.

The crew looked at their captain strangely, not knowing what he wanted to do.An Ke poked the pudding in his hand, and said lightly: "Captain, where are you going?"

"Yes, Nami, where is it?"

A navigator's weak voice sounded: "Right rudder..."

"Okay!! Right rudder!! Full speed towards Gaya!!!"

"But, won't the records be erased again if we go to Gaya?" Usopp suddenly remembered this matter, "That is to say, wouldn't we have no way to go to Sky Island?"

"As long as the record is not full, the pointer pointing to the empty island should not change. It is better to ask when the record is full first, otherwise we have no way to go to the empty island." Encore looked at the food on the plate. Pudding said with a smile.

"Okay! I got it!!" Luffy continued pointing forward and said, "Go to 'Gaya, the Country of Meat' for a meal, and then go to Sky Island!"

"..." Several veins appeared on Nami's head, and she said discouragedly, "Who made you daydream..."

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(End of this chapter)