Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 78

"Hey! Everyone!!!" Luffy shouted energetically from the entrance.The people on the shore and the boat looked over and found a bunch of sharks floating at the entrance, and Luffy, Sanji, and Usopp who had turned into drowned chickens were sitting on the dark Crow Maru and waving to everyone.

"Hey~~Nami-san~~Robin-chan~~I passed the test of love to save you~~~" Sanji shouted heartily as always: "There are cuties~~~We are following up ~~~~~"

"What?" Luffy's unsatisfactory voice continued to come over, "It's only a little bit of a half-day trial~~~"

"Have you been waiting for a long time?" Usopp continued to use his bragging skills, "Don't be afraid, Captain Usopp is here!!! You can rest assured~~"

Nami yelled loudly, "You are too late!!! Encore has been waiting here for more than two hours before you come!! And Usopp! Shut up!!"

"..." The three people on the Crow Maru immediately closed their excited mouths obediently, and slowly drove the Crow Maru to the shore to take Nami and Robin to the altar in the middle of the lake.

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On the Merry, the last few people who arrived looked at Merry's miserable appearance in astonishment.After listening to Chopper's explanation, everyone understood. Luffy and Nami went in to see the old man Ganfur who was still in a coma.

Usopp, who was most worried about the Merry, looked directly at the golden Merry petrified: "The mainmast...is missing...the hull is broken in two pieces...two pieces..."

"Yes...sorry... Usopp..." Chopper, who had a few hairs burned, explained nervously: "I really fought hard, but it still burned to many places... I don't know why the front is broken... "

"What about you? Does your injury matter?" Usopp, who was not staring there, turned around and asked Chopper nervously, "Is your injury important?"

Chopper nodded, Usopp continued to look back at the mainmast and sighed, then slowly walked into the kitchen, "He actually held a fire-breathing spear. Fortunately, it only burned the ship and not the You are so kind!! Hahaha!!! If you want to repair the ship, just find a way~~"

Hearing Usopp's words, Chopper was moved to tears immediately, jumped onto the ship's side and raised his hands and shouted: "I will definitely become stronger!!"

"Little cutie, what happened when you came?" Sanji looked at Encore suspiciously.

"Just like what you see now, they are all in tatters. And at that time, one person, one deer and one bird were all in the lake, and Nanjian Bird got up later." Anke shrugged helplessly: "Although I The priest fought against me, but he fought me on a big bird, I'm not very good at air combat... ".

"There is no way, they all have strange abilities." Sanji smoked helplessly, looked at the late sky and the dilapidated boat, and said, "In this case, I think it's better to set off tomorrow. Go back to Angel Island. Let's camp by the lake tonight."

"Why??" Luffy who just walked out of the kitchen asked suspiciously.

"If the time comes to fight on the ship, the ship will really be destroyed," Usopp, who was following Luffy, clapped his hands helplessly, and said, "Can't you use your brain?"

"Wahhahaha!!!" After thinking it over, Luffy immediately jumped up excitedly, "Camping!! Have a campfire party~~~~~".While following Chopper who was jumping, when he heard "campfire party", his head was full of question marks.

"Hey, hey..." Usopp, who was rarely vigilant, looked at Luffy with shame and said, "This is the enemy's territory, you actually want to have a bonfire party here??"

"Okay! Let's grill the sharks just now!!!" Luffy, who didn't listen to Usopp at all, looked at the pile of sharks at the entrance with great interest and drooled.

——So, after everyone worked together to nail the disconnected hull of the Merry with wooden boards, Encore unfastened the crystal that fixed the outer hull and let them continue to repair the outer hull. cracks to ensure that the boat will not leak.As for the mainmast still sinking at the bottom of the lake, since the sky has completely darkened, everyone can only decide to find a solution tomorrow.

In a spacious open space on the shore, a fire is lit in the center of the open space for lighting.The old man Ganfur who was still in a coma was placed on a wide tree root around the open space. Chopper and Big Bird were there to take care of him. Robin and Sanji were helping the old man grind the medicine. Luffy was eating a freshly baked Zoro was lying idly on the root of the tree, while Anke and Nami, who were also doing nothing, sat on the thick root of the tree. Usopp dug out a blackboard out of nowhere and stood it beside him.In a more hidden corner in the distance, there is a tent, which is exclusively used by the ladies on the boat.

"Okay! Please be quiet!! Now everyone is going to announce the journey!" Usopp knocked on the blackboard and said seriously.

"In the Forest of Mysteries, we met a priest named Dawu who used the cloud-shocking ball as a weapon. Although we were in a hard fight against the cloud-shocking ball that appeared and disappeared." Sanji said as a representative of the trial group: "The most headache The most important thing is that he will use what is called the "heart web" ability to see through our actions, but that ability is very similar to that of the little cutie..."

"A priest named Shura suddenly appeared on my side," Chopper explained, "The weapon he uses is a spear that can burn anything, and that guy seems to be able to see through my actions. After Sky Knight called, but it still failed. Fortunately, Encore came over later, otherwise the Meili might only be left with a pile of ashes..."

"About seeing through the action, Encore explained it to us before, but we couldn't understand it at all, so let's put it aside for now, after all, even if we know it, there is no way to deal with it," Usopp knocked He knocked on the blackboard and said, "Then what I want to talk about is the ability of that god!"

"God??" Nami said in surprise: "Have you met that god?? What kind of ability does he have?"

"When we first set out, we were attacked by that god. From that attack, Encore speculated that that god is likely to be a devil fruit capable user, that is, the ability to control lightning," Usopp thought hard for a while Said: "If we meet that guy, Encore's advice to us is to run away. Because Encore and Luffy's abilities are non-conductive, they won't have any problems, but there is no sea floor stone and there is another called With some domineering ability, we can only escape..."

"Thunderbolt???" Nami and Chopper exclaimed instantly, and Robin was also stunned for a while, while Zoro looked at his knife and thought, "Okay! Next time I meet that guy, try to see if I can use a knife to cut it." Open Thunderbolt!"

"It's all right!!" Luffy, who had already eaten a shark quickly, patted his stomach that hadn't changed and said with a smile, "If he wants to beat us up, I'll definitely beat him away!!"

"Only you think so..." Nami, Usopp, and Chopper silently watched Luffy who didn't care, and sighed in unison.

"Speaking of which, did you gain anything from going out this time?" Usopp, who had published his suggestion, wrote the three things just now on the blackboard and asked Nami.

"Ah," Nami said excitedly after recovering, "We finally found out that this island is actually a part of Gaya Island, and the Golden Town didn't sink to the bottom of the sea, but floated into the sky. "

"Okay!! Now we have figured out a lot of things! But" Usopp tapped the blackboard to attract everyone's attention, pointed the wooden stick in his hand to the last bolded field, and shouted excitedly: "This is the biggest super intelligence this time! This island turns out to be the golden town that the Saruyama Allied Forces have been looking for!!"

"Really????" Luffy immediately dropped the fishbone in his hand and stared at Usopp's blackboard in surprise.Nami yelled with fangs: "Didn't I just say that?? What did you hear??"

After Zoro thought about it for a while, he asked Anke, who was sitting on the cushion with a knife in his arms, in a daze: "Anke, you are also in a group with Luffy, right? What is that thing called 'Heart Net'?"

"Ah, that, do you still remember the knowledgeable domineering I told you last time? The ability of this 'heart net' is similar to it..." An Ke still stared blankly at the pile of burning bonfires.Zoro tried his best to recall the conversation in the forest on Gaya Island, and then nodded as if he had figured it out.

"Gold!!" Luffy clenched his fists excitedly and said, "I've been looking forward to such an adventure for a long time~~It's really exciting~~~"

Nami also smiled and blinked, "That's right! It's clear what to do next~~"

"Hey, Luffy, did you forget the guerrilla's warning??" Usopp looked at Luffy with cold sweat on his face.And Chopper, who also kept that god's ability in his heart, also said tremblingly: "And there is a huge god, the god of thunder and lightning, the terrible god..."

After grinding the medicine, Robin just chuckled and said, "It seems very interesting!!!"

"Yeah," Sanji was also slightly excited with a cigarette in his mouth: "The treasure is now, how can we pirates not act!"

"If there are enough enemies, it will be as exciting as playing a survival game~" Sauron rested his hands behind his head with a relaxed face, full of fighting spirit, "It's really exciting~~"

Anke caressed the two knives in his arms, and smiled cutely: "I haven't taken it seriously for a long time, guerrillas and gods? They look pretty good~~"

"Hahaha!!!" Luffy, who stepped on the root of the tree, raised his hands and laughed loudly: "Okay!! Let's do it like this!! Let's go find gold!!"

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The moon was hanging high in the sky. After the meeting, everyone was planning to prepare dinner, and the sound of shelling still came from time to time in the forest.But everyone ignored it.Nami, with short shoulder-length hair tied into ponytails, is drawing a nautical chart with glasses, Robin is walking on the coast, Sanji is preparing cooking materials, and Luffy is looking at the distilled water vessel. Usopp doesn’t know Where did they go, the big bird Pierre stayed with his master, while Anke, Sauron and Chopper went to the forest to see if there were any useful plants.

"Anke, you'd better be careful." Chopper looked at Anke's legs exposed outside the short skirt worriedly and said, "It's hard to see clearly at night, and it's easy to be scratched by branches."

"It's okay, it's just a little bit dirty, and it won't hurt," An Kemo, who was curiously touching the huge tree root, replied casually.

"She hasn't played in the forest today, let her climb the tree roots for a while, Chopper." Zoro, who didn't know when he caught a big frog, glanced at Encore lightly, " Anyway, at this time she is a bit like a child..."

"..." Encore, whose back was facing Sauron, uttered a well, and after a second of silence, he turned around and looked at Sauron with ignorant eyes, and said, "Brother Sauron~~~~"

"Wow~~~~" Sauron, who stepped on the root of the tree, slipped in fright, and fell directly to the ground, looking at Encore with a treacherous smile on his face.

"Ah! Zoro, are you alright?" Chopper who had quietly picked up a basket of useful plants yelled worriedly, "Why did it slide down?? Are there any enemies??"

"Can't you see clearly at night~~Chopper~~~" Enke, who was walking back easily with his hands behind his back, glanced at Zoro who was still sitting on the ground with a chuckle, "I'm back~~ No, but you can't find it. On the way back~ Brother Zoro~~~~"

"...You vengeful brat!!!" Sauron gritted his teeth and grabbed the innocent mouse that just ran past him, grinning and followed the little figure in front of him.Chopper stared blankly at them before trotting to follow.

"Huh?" Chopper, who felt the forest gradually becoming quieter, asked curiously: "I feel that the commotion in the forest is getting farther and farther away..."

"Yes," said Sauron, who still didn't stop, "whether he is a guerrilla or a priest, he will go home at night, right?"

Anke, who ignored their conversation, just touched his forehead, which was a little hot, and found that he seemed to have caught a cold due to the drastic change in the environment, "Maybe it's because the altitude here is 1 meters, so the body is a bit overwhelmed." .It’s better to let Chopper take a look earlier, if you don’t have a blood test, you probably won’t find out my secret, maybe…”

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"Sanji! We found a lot of ingredients~~~~" Chopper who jumped to the front at some point said excitedly.

"Oh! Thank you for your hard work~" Sanji, who was chopping vegetables, asked without looking back, "What's the matter?"

"There are walnuts, aloe vera, bananas, and garlic~~~~" Chopper jumped back to the open space with a small basket in his hands.An Ke, who was following him, didn't make a sound because he was empty-handed.At the end, Sauron said lightly: "Mice and frogs..."

"Very good!" Sanji, who didn't think there was any problem, was still concentrating on cutting vegetables, pointing to the cauldron behind with one free hand, "Throw it all into the stew pot!!"

"Wait a minute!!!" Nami Fang Fang roared while drawing the nautical chart: "I heard there are very strange ingredients!!!"

"Hahahaha~~~~" Sanji, who hadn't remembered what ingredients Zoro mentioned, patted his head and smirked, "Don't you like garlic? Nami-san~~~~"

"I DON'T SAY THIS!!!!"

"Didn't you say which one? Navigator-san?" Robin, who just came back with a blue crystal object, smiled and looked at the furious Nami.

"Wow!! Robin, what is that of yours?? It's so beautiful!!" Seeing that crystal, Nami instantly forgot why she was angry just now, "Is it a gem??"

Robin put the crystal on the ground carefully and said with a smile, "It's a pity, isn't it~"

"Oh! Is it a crystal of salt?" Sanji, who is a cook, can tell what that crystal is at a glance, "You really know how to find it~ Robin-chan~~"

"I found it by the lake." Robin glanced at the crystal and said with a smile, "I think it might be more convenient to have this~~"

"That's right~~" Sanji immediately smiled confusedly, "If you want to play the Survivor game, salt is a life-saving treasure~~~~hahahahaha~~~"

After realizing that Usopp hadn't come back, Zoro looked around and walked slowly towards the lake.Encore, who happened to see that Chopper was free, walked over to it and said quietly: "Chopper, I feel a little unwell, can you take a look for me?"

"Yes!!!" Chopper jumped up excitedly when he heard Anke call for his body check for the first time, and then pulled her over to sit on a tree root beside him, stretched out his hoof to feel the pulse, and felt it after a while. After checking the temperature on his forehead, he began to take out medicine from his small blue bag: "It's just a little fever, just take a little medicine~~~" Then he smiled and narrowed his eyes: "This is the first time that Encore Willing to let me check~~~hehehehe~~~~"

Seeing that Chopper didn't find anything unusual, Encore secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but after seeing the pills that Chopper took out, Encore thought for a while and said, "Chopper~~~ Can you prepare herbs for me? I don't want to Take these pills~~"

"Huh?" Chopper looked at Encore suspiciously.An Ke smiled and said to it with crooked eyebrows: "Anyway, aren't herbal medicines as effective as these western medicines? Great Captain Sang~~~"

"Hahaha~~ Even if you say that, I won't be happy~~~You bastard~~~Hahaha~~~~" Chopper twisted left and right into the forest, and dropped a sentence " I'll get some medicine" and quickly disappeared without a trace.Encore secretly breathed a sigh of relief, resisting the urge to cough, and glanced at Chopper's immediate direction, "Fortunately, Chopper didn't ask me why I drink herbs, otherwise I really can't think of a reason..."

After 30 minutes, Sanji had already prepared the food, and Chopper's small pot of boiling medicine was also slowly cooking.After everyone arrived, Sanji began to share the dinner.

"Okay! All the staff gather!" Sanji said with a smile while scooping up the stew in a bowl, "I'll divide it up in order, let's eat it while it's hot~~"

Taking advantage of the crowd, Nami also said loudly to the crew members who were eating: "Well, everyone! Let's start a combat meeting to discuss how to act tomorrow~~"

Holding the hot stew, Anke, who had no appetite, ate it one after another, curiously watching what Nami was going to say, although the general content must be related to gold.

"Everyone listen to me while eating!" Nami put the bowl in her hand on the big tree aside and explained seriously: "Then, first is the review of Rolando's fairy tale book ~ the time when Rolando discovered the Golden Country It should be 400 years ago but when he visited Gaya Island for the second time after several years, there was no trace of gold. In other words, during those years, part of Gaya Island, which is the island Suddenly it flew into the sky."

"Did it also come up along that KnockUp Stream?" Chopper looked at Nami suspiciously.

"Yes, this is the only possibility that can be imagined." Nami continued to explain: "Uncle Kuli Kai said that the location of the outbreak of the current is different every time. According to that scale, it is no problem for the entire island to rush into the sky. .”

"However, the forest on Gaya Island below is really not the same as the one here..." Zoro looked up at the ridiculously tall trees, and found that it was impossible to see the top of the trees from below.

"I think this may have something to do with the composition of the sea cloud and island cloud," Robin said with a smile, "The ecological environment of this empty island seems to have the power to make animals and plants grow at an abnormal speed. If we infer , the civilization relics in the forest can also be explained."

"Speaking of which, the Nanjian bird that brought us out of the lake is also this big!" Chopper drew a big circle and explained.

"It seems to have grown bigger in the past 400 years." After Sanji threw a plate of stew to Zoro who was eating a bento, he sat next to him and asked curiously: "However, there is one thing that is very strange. Is Da Nan Jian Niao going to save you?"

"Well... I don't know much about this..." Chopper, who remembered what Minami Bird said, said blankly: "But those Minami Birds seem to call Sky Knights 'gods'."

"God????" Luffy who was eating suddenly raised his head, pointed at the old man Ganfort lying there with the fork in his hand and said, "So, I can also beat that old man far away." ?!".Upon hearing this, the big bird Pierre immediately stretched out its wings to protect the old man lying there.

"I hit you on the head! You have no brains!!!" Usopp immediately yelled with a dark face: "He is now Chopper's benefactor!"

"Okay! Calm down!" Nami said loudly, "Anyway, please recall, is there any clue about the Golden Land in Rolando's diary!"

"I know!!" Luffy was the first to raise his hand and shouted, "He saw gold!!"

"Don't just say what comes to mind! You have no brains!!" Usopp roared again.Lu Fei sat next to Encore with his mouth flattened, puffing his bun face angrily.Anke reached out and flicked his forehead helplessly, looking at him amusedly still not knowing why Usopp scolded him.

"I remember it mentioned a huge golden clock made of pure gold," Sanji said after thinking for a while, "Also it seems to mention Minami Bird..."

"There is another sentence on the last page of the diary that makes people unable to figure it out," Robin said doubtfully after reading the entire diary, "That is the sentence written before Rolando was executed: In the right eye of the skull, see On to the gold."

"This is it, everyone, come and have a look~~" Nami took out the nautical chart she had been drawing, put it on the root of the tree and began to fold it: "I compared the map Robin got on Gaya Island with the map of the Kingdom of Gods. After a rough look, just glue the two maps together along the coast. Look! This is the whole picture of Gaya Island 400 years ago!"

The people around were surprised to find that after the two maps were glued together, the island part just formed the shape of a skull, and there was a small island with houses painted in the right eye of the skull.

"Wow! A skull~~~" Luffy shouted excitedly when he saw the map: "It's amazing~~~"

"I think this is the right eye of the skeleton." Nami pointed to the small island in the right eye of the skeleton and said, "I guess Rolando must be talking about the panorama of Gaya Island! Half, so no one can figure out what's going on!"

"So that's what happened~~~~" Luffy continued to say excitedly: "There is a treasure!!!!" Chopper also shouted excitedly: "Treasure~~~"

"Next, as long as you walk straight in this direction, you should be able to find the treasure! But the boat can't be left alone during this time, so we will divide into two teams tomorrow!" Nami pushed the reflective light. Glasses, "You can't go wrong! There must be a huge amount of gold waiting for us here!"

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(End of this chapter)