Check In And Become Luffy's Mate

On the road, Straw Hat Crew still maintained its usual scene of rioting, and Ace was observing Luffy's partners along the way, but he cared most about Locke.

Although Locke usually fights with his partners, but sometimes he is always alone, which is more mysterious and powerful.

Ace couldn't help but wonder if Locke had any purpose with Luffy, because Ace felt that Locke was like himself.

This may be the instinctive repulsion from similar strong people, but Ace is just guessing, and has no plans to do anything.

In the middle of the night, Luffy, Usopp, Zoro, and Locke fell asleep with Chopper in their arms, because the temperature difference between day and night in the desert is terrible.

It was extremely hot during the day, and extremely cold at night. During the day, Chopper was pulled by Zoro with a board. At night, everyone hugged him to keep warm and sleep.

"Seven Nine Seven" had nothing to say all night.

Luffy and others got up early the next morning, grabbing the poisonous scorpion and planning to eat it, but threw it away after being warned by Vivi, and the next second.

Chopper seemed to sense something, Vivi observed for a while and hurried everyone to hide behind the rocks, the desert storm was coming.

After the storm, everyone crawled out of the sand one by one, complained helplessly about the horror of the desert for a while, and was about to continue to set off.

Suddenly realized that something was missing, Zoro suddenly realized: "It's over! That guy Locke didn't seem to wake up in the morning!"

Everyone: "What?!"

At the same time, Locke just woke up but a mouth full of sand was poured into his mouth in an instant, Locke sat up suddenly: "Bah! Bah! Ahh? Where is this?"

The team on Luffy's side also had some problems. Nami and Vivi who rode the colored camel eyelashes were much faster than them and had already separated.

Luffy had a big fuss because he had hallucinations from eating a cactus used to make psychedelic drugs halfway, and was finally solved by Chopper with an anesthetic injection.

However, during this period of time, Ace kept walking with his head down, not paying attention to the surrounding things, so he also separated from them. "In this way, more than half of Straw Hat Crew's team got lost.

Locke helplessly walked aimlessly in the desert, even if he is not a road idiot, but in this kind of big desert with no signs.

It is impossible for a person who has nothing and does not know the direction to go out, but there is nothing to do now.

He didn't have any food or water on him, so if he used the dragon wings, it would only be a waste of energy. Afterwards, Locke walked in the desert for an unknown amount of time.

Till he was thirsty, hungry and tired and still didn't see anyone, Locke went to the beach to rest for a while, suddenly.

The sand under him suddenly swelled up, and a huge scorpion appeared, Locke stood up and scratched his head in doubt, seeing this guy's big scorpion tail pointed at him.

"I advise you not to do this."

But how could the scorpion listen to Locke's direct One Tail and stab at Locke, Locke's knowledgeable use of the extreme one sideways to avoid the attack.

Then, with quick eyesight and quick hands, he slammed down with a knife, and the scorpion tail needle was perfectly cut off by Locke in an instant, and the poor giant scorpion let out a cry of pain.

When he was about to run away, Locke raised his fist and punched this guy on the head twice: "You want to run after you've shot at me, go! Use me as a means of transportation for a while and I can let you go, otherwise... ..”

The giant scorpion quickly crawled out of the retracted body and let out a few screams, Locke didn't know why he felt that he could understand what this guy was saying.

"Where am I going, you ask? If you really have the ability, send me directly to Juba."

After Locke finished speaking, the giant scorpion started on its way without hesitation, and Locke said in surprise: "Really, not bad, scorpion, it seems that you are still useful.

With the help of the giant scorpion, Locke quickly reached Yuba, even one step faster than Luffy and the others, but he found out after arriving.

Yuba is not what they imagined, it is another oasis city destroyed by sandstorms, and only one old man is left in the ruins.

A bony old man was shoveling the sand out bit by bit with a shovel, and he was the only one, Locke learned after some questioning.

This man is called Doto, who is Vivi's uncle and the father of the rebel leader Kosha. Eleven years ago, his son Kosha, who was 12 years old, ran to the palace to make trouble.

Because of this incident, the young Vivi and Kosadoto met. Although Locke's memory is not very deep, he can still remember it vaguely.

This Uncle Doto used to be a slightly fat and imposing man, but now he is a poor old man......

Locke was going to wait for Luffy and the others here, so he signed in first by the way.

"Sign in!"

"Congratulations on the successful sign-in. The reward (One Leaf Barrier) has been issued. The next sign-in location: Yudi. Reward: seastone materials."

Afterwards, Locke waited here for a while and finally saw Luffy and his party who came late, and Ace had bid farewell to them halfway.

After seeing Locke, Luffy didn't know what to think. He thought that everything here was done by Locke, and went up to do it before Locke could speak.

Fortunately, Nami tidied up, and Locke also told Vivi directly who this person is, after Doto and Vivi recognized each other.

Doto also expressed his determination to believe in the king, no matter what happened, and told everyone that the rebels had moved their base.

They are all in Kathleia now, and the camel eyelashes following Luffy and his party learned through Chopper's translation.

Chopper was taken away unintentionally before, and the place he went to was Kathleia, which seemed to be a very close place.

Now it has become very far away again. After discussing and deciding to rest for one night, we will continue on our way again. Although there are no people here now.

But there are still many hotels that are well preserved. After working for so long, everyone can finally have a good sleep and rest with peace of mind.

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Luffy buried 1.0 with both hands and started to dig a hole, Locke also helped, and the two cleared out a large area of ​​deep holes in a short time.

But there was still not a drop of water, Luffy was so tired that he fell asleep, and Locke was sitting in place to rest, at this time Doto stepped forward and said.

"You should be very tired too, go and rest, it's amazing that you two can do this in such a short time."

Locke: "No, you're the one who is really good. One person insists on digging wells every day in this oasis that has been mostly buried in the desert. If it were me, I might not be able to do this kind of thing long ago."

Doto: "Haha, no matter what, this is the city that the king entrusted to me. No matter what I say, I will not abandon it and leave." Youzhong will not lose to Shasha.

Locke said with a smile: "Really, then come on, uncle, I feel that I will see water soon.".