Before the journey of One Piece

'heartbeat? 'This answer surprised Hawkins. Qinglin reacted and was confused.

"Perhaps I heard it wrong? We are all far apart, how can we hear the heartbeat? Haha..." Her face grew hot and she quickly waved her hands to deny it.

"But you just said you heard the sound of leaves shaking..." Before Hawkins could finish speaking, Qinglin covered her ears again.

"Wait a minute, let me get used to it." Qinglin took a few steps back uncomfortably. It took a while before she could barely adapt to her sensitive ears.

"What else could be heard?" Hawkins asked her.

"Well... the sound of wind, waves, friction under feet... it's hard to distinguish the others." Qinglin closed her eyes and listened for a moment before replying.

"Except for the sound, everything around me seems to have slowed down a lot." Qinglin opened her eyes and pinched a fallen leaf. "It's also easy to see the direction in which leaves like these fall."

"Dynamic vision enhancement?" Hawkins quickly judged.

"Crack!" The sound of metal friction and air being cut came to her ears. Qinglin watched the sharp sword blade stop in front of her eyes, her fingertips unconsciously loosened, and the leaves slipped.

"You've noticed it, why don't you avoid it?" Hawkins looked at the stunned look on Qinglin's face and couldn't help but frown.

"Uh...I don't know..." Qinglin looked at Hawkins and lowered her head guiltily.She didn't know why, but she saw the sharp blade approaching, but she didn't want to avoid it.

"Old problem, lack of vigilance." Hawkins took back his sword and sighed softly.

"Puff, puff, puff..." Hawkins took out the beeping phone bug from his trouser pocket.

"Captain Hawkins, two deer were found at location four. Can they be caught as ingredients for the banquet?" The phone bug simulated the voice and characteristics of the other party.

"Deer?" Hawkins looked up in the direction of No. [-], took out the tarot cards and began to divine.

"Okay, don't use a gun, you'll be in trouble." After confirming that there was a high probability that there was no danger, Hawkins nodded to the phone worm, and the person on the other side responded happily and hung up the phone worm.

"continue……"

"Ugh!"

As soon as Hawkins turned around, he saw Qinglin rising into the air until she was caught by the emerging chains and fell down.Hawkins watched for a few seconds and took a step back.

"Crack!" The yellow leaves were flying. Hawkins lowered his head and asked expressionlessly: "Is the jumping ability enhanced?"

He noticed Qinglin's jumping action just now.

"Yes..." Qinglin made a trembling voice due to fright. Should she be grateful that the ground was covered with a thick layer of leaves? !

"I felt a strong pull. Can you jump higher?" Hawkins bent down and reached out to pull Qinglin up from the ground.

"Maybe? It did feel like it was torn off just now." Qing Lin nodded uncertainly.

Hawkins pondered for a moment, then looked up at the surrounding trees: "In that case, I'll get to a higher place first, and then you jump."

"Okay!" Qinglin nodded again, watching Hawkins use his hands and feet to easily climb to a thick branch about seven or eight meters above the ground.

"It's so flexible, even though Luffy is the monkey." Qinglin muttered, and was about to try to jump with all her strength————

"boom!"

"What?" Qinglin was startled and looked towards the direction of the sound. Hawkins frowned and jumped down from the tree.

"It's direction [-]! Go take a look!" Hawkins ran away, and Qinglin hurriedly followed.

Passing through a curtain of dense trees and falling dead leaves, the two arrived at reconnaissance point No. [-], where they saw a reindeer lying on the ground.

"What's going on?!" Hawkins looked at the bullet hole on the reindeer's forehead, his frown deepening.

"Sorry Captain! This guy showed up suddenly, and I accidentally... um..." Hawkins heard the sound and ran away. His crewmate John leaned under a tree not far away, covering his abdomen, and the flintlock gun in his hand was still there. There was smoke.

"No! It was my failure in reconnaissance that caused John to be knocked away by the deer, so he shot!" Another crew member kneeling next to him explained in a panic. Hawkins quickly recognized that the other man was the nearest Newcomers who have just come on board.

"Treat the wound first." Hawkins, who noticed the blood on John's abdomen, waved his hand and motioned for the newcomer to bandage John first.

Qinglin looked at the other two reindeer not far away that were obviously smaller in size, one older and the other younger, and then looked at the reindeer on the ground: "It's because those two deer were killed that they attacked John." '

'How miserable. Qinglin thought to herself, and when she was about to turn her head, she found that the reindeer in front of her moved.

'Eh?Still alive? Qinglin was a little surprised at the vitality of the reindeer, and suddenly found Hawkins right in front of the deer.

"Captain! Behind!" Qinglin quickly reminded Hawkins, and her shout made Hawkins turn around immediately.

The strong reindeer snorted and slammed into the tall man it saw first.It was too close to dodge, so Hawkins quickly transformed into a giant scarecrow and withstood its blow, being nailed to the tree trunk by his huge horns.

"Captain Hawkins!" John pulled the flintlock gun off the newcomer's back and pointed it at the reindeer.

"I'm fine." The straw rolled, wrapped around the branches and wrapped around the trunk, hanging the frantic reindeer in the air.It struggled for a long time before calming down.

"That's it for the time being." Hawkins did not lift the "demon-conquering phase", and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

Crew members from other locations also rushed over to get a general understanding of the situation.

"Then those deer..."

"It's better not to move yet." Hawkins said, using straw to find the tarot cards in his trouser pocket, and found that some of the cards were pierced by the horns.He frowned, the straw at the arch of his brow almost twisting together.

"Captain!" The crew's call and the vibration from the straw made Hawkins look up and found that the muscles on the reindeer's body were abnormally bulging, and it roared like a reindeer. He had a bad premonition.

The reindeer struggled wildly again, shaking the leaves constantly and falling, and the branches made a faint sound of being overwhelmed.

The saliva flew out of its mouth and splashed on the straw, and the straw slowly turned black as smoke emitted.

"Saliva is corrosive?!"