Pirates: The Fourth Scourge

Chapter 178 Old Acquaintances

Luffy and the others looked at Bucky, also very surprised, and then gloated a little.

They can't forget that Bucky almost beheaded Luffy in Rogue Town before.

"Hahaha, Bucky, I didn't expect you to be arrested!" Nami approached the cell and laughed.

"What are you proud of? Aren't you also arrested?" Bucky snorted.

Nami stuck out her tongue and said with a smile: "Oh? Do you think we were arrested?"

"What?" Bucky seemed to have noticed that there were still a large number of players standing behind Luffy, "Aren't you handcuffed?"

"That's right! We came in on our own initiative!" Nami folded her arms around her chest with a rather smug expression.

"What are you doing here?" Bucky asked.

In fact, he really didn't know why Lu Fei and his gang broke in here.

Although he knew that Ace was Roger's son before, he didn't know the relationship between Luffy and Ace.

"Why did I tell you?" Nami made a grimace, turned around and returned to Luffy and the others, "Let's go, ignore him."

"Hey! Hey! Wait!"

Bucky yelled loudly in the prison, but unfortunately no one answered him.

Luffy and the others were getting farther and farther away from Bucky's cell, but at this moment, Marianne said, "That man was a little strange just now."

"That person? Bucky? Don't worry, that guy has always been nervous." Nami slightly looked down at Marianne and said.

"You misunderstood me, I didn't mean the superficial strangeness, but" Mary settled for a while, "The main reason why I can control other people's spiritual will is that I can see a person's 'spiritual power', So as to directly control it. However, the mental power of that person just now is a bit strange."

"How strange?" Nami asked with interest.

"The spiritual power of our normal people is generally condensed into a whole, but that person's mental power is actually divided into four parts."

"Divided into four?" Chopper on the side was a little surprised, "You mean, is he a schizophrenic?"

He is a doctor, and of course he has also studied schizophrenia.

"How should I say it? I have seen the mental power of many schizophrenic patients before. The state of appearance is completely different from what I saw just now. The mental power of schizophrenic patients is in a broken state, and his kind The mental power is divided into four parts, so I am more inclined that he is not schizophrenic, but a split personality." Marianne said after a little thought.

"Split personality? Multiple personalities?" Chopper was a little surprised.

"Yes. However, the strange thing is that his mental powers are still in an interactive state. If it is really a split personality, it means that they may know each other's existence, and they may even be in a simultaneous appearance. Status!" Marianne expressed her point of view in a way that surprised her.

"What." Chopper's voice was a little shocked.

In fact, the disease of "multiple personality" has always been a medical problem in this pirate world. Even the Drum Kingdom, which had a "medical power" before, has not completely solved this eternal problem.

Multiple personality means having more than one personality, just like "living in one body with several different selves".

Generally speaking, each personality of multiple personality patients is stable, fully developed, and has its own thinking patterns and memories.

The split personalities are all-encompassing and can have different genders, ages, races, and even species. They take turns to control the patient's behavior. At this time, other personalities have no consciousness or memory of this period of time, that is, they have fallen into a "sleep" state.

Most of the split personalities are not aware of each other's existence, which will lead to a serious "lost time" phenomenon. Therefore, most people who realize that they may have split personalities through this phenomenon will choose to seek treatment, then It is the goal of therapy, which is to help the "core personality" of these different personalities to integrate these multiple selves into one.

The first step in this therapy is to allow the personalities to get to know each other.

But this is also the most critical step, and at the same time the most difficult one.

According to Chopper's knowledge, for thousands of years, the number of completely cured patients with split personality is 0.

"If that's the case, how did he do it?" Chopper was a little excited.

He is a doctor!He is so interested in this kind of answer that has never been solved in medicine!There was even an urge to run back and ask Bucky immediately.

However, Sauron spoke at this time.

"I remember that guy Bucky, he is an ability user who ate some 'split fruit'. Could this situation have something to do with his ability?"

He actually had a deep impression on Bucky, because at the beginning no matter how he slashed, he couldn't hurt him. It can be said that he was his ultimate nemesis. Even, he felt that even if he had mastered the armed domineering power now, he might not be able to hurt him. Bucky.

"That's right, since that guy's body can be split, then his mental power should also be split, right? So I don't think it's actually because of multiple personalities or schizophrenia, it's just a normal phenomenon caused by the devil fruit ability. That's all." Nami also said.

"Huh? Splitting the fruit? Is that so?" Marian suddenly realized.

After hearing Zoro and Nami's words, Chopper was a little disappointed: "It turns out that the phenomenon is caused by the fruit ability, so it doesn't make sense."

"Yes, don't pay attention to that guy, he's been arrested anyway, and he won't meet again in the future."

In the middle of this large team composed of straw hats and players.

Hei Shi, who was hidden among the players, naturally also heard Marianne's words through the radio waves.

"Split? Split personality? It seems that the last time I was in Rogue Town, the slight danger I felt in Bucky was not an illusion"

When it was dark, he frowned.

In fact, he was more willing to believe Marianne's initial guess, that is, Bucky's personality split.

Because he remembered the conversation he had with Roger in the tavern.

At that time, Roger couldn't hide his surprise when Hei Shi said that the strength gap between Bucky and Shanks was very large, and he even said, "Even you, you can't say that Bucky has no strength?", In other words, when Bucky was on Roger's boat, his strength was probably basically the same as that of Shanks, and he was already very strong at that time.

In the real world, as early as hundreds of years ago, a speech-language pathologist named C. Ludlow confirmed that all the voice forms of patients with multiple personality are inconsistent in different personality states, so it can be deduced that another One point, that is—under different personalities, their strengths are probably different.

"If this is the case, it would be interesting. Marianne said that Bucky's mental powers are interacting with each other. In other words, his current personality knows that he has other personalities besides himself. As for why he keeps using this cowardly Is his personality deliberately hiding his strength? Or is there another reason?"

The team went farther and farther, and even the last player disappeared from Bucky's sight.

"Joker, do you want to follow?"

"No, wait a little longer. There's something wrong with this prison now. The guards who came up from the lower levels before have all disappeared. It's impossible for the straw hats to kill all the guards silently, right?"

"Those guards should have gathered in other more convenient ways to go down to the other floors of the prison. Remember the elevator on the first floor above? It should be through that."

"If that's the case, then follow along and have a look."

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The third floor underground.

Magellan and a group of guards from the advancing city are already waiting for the arrival of Luffy and others.

But because of the poisonous gas on Magellan's body, no one dared to get too close to him.

"Bastard, you actually let Aijia stay in such a hot place." Hancock said with one hand on his hip, pointing at Magellan.

"Be patient a little longer, the Straw Hat Boys will be here soon." Domino's face was rosy, and it was unknown whether it was because the temperature on this floor was too high or because he was shy inside.

After all, she's been smitten with Hancock since the first moment she saw him.

Although this layer is called "Hunger Hell", in fact, due to the hot air from the lower "Scorching Hell", this layer is extremely hot, and the temperature even exceeds that of Scorching Hell.

"Why is it so slow, they won't be able to fix the elevator, right?" Magellan was also very hot, and he was already sweating profusely in his thick clothes.

"Report to the warden, there is absolutely no such possibility! The Straw Hats have already reached the entrance of the second floor, and they will arrive here soon." A jailer reported.

"The monitoring room must keep an eye on their whereabouts!"

"Yes!"

Suddenly, Big Bear, who was still expressionless even though his hot cheeks were covered with sweat, said, "Magellan, aren't you afraid that they will release those prisoners?"

"Don't worry, the prisoners on the upper two floors are just ordinary pirates. They can't even beat the guards outside. As long as the pirates on the fifth and sixth floors don't escape, it doesn't matter." Magellan said indifferently, "Besides, they Even if he is released, he still cannot leave here, after all, when the Warring States Marshal issued an order, the Straw Hat Boy must not be allowed to go back alive."

"Is that so?"

"That's right, and they don't have the keys to the cell either. You must know that these sills are embedded with a lot of sea stones, and the hardness is not comparable to that of ordinary steel." Magellan continued.

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At this time, the people headed by Straw Hat Luffy have arrived at the second underground floor called "Beast Hell".

Beast Hell There are various ferocious beasts and monsters on this floor, including cockatrices, man-faced lions, poisonous scorpions, etc. However, because Magellan planned to wipe out the Straw Hats in the Hunger Hell, the usual beasts also disappeared at this moment.

The scene that originally happened on the first floor was repeated on the second floor.

The prisoners in the cell begged Luffy and others to let them out.

It's a pity that Luffy and others were indifferent.

However, when they passed a cell again, they encountered an acquaintance again.

"Miss. Golden Week, and Straw Hat Boys, why are you here!?" A somewhat familiar voice stopped the Straw Hats in their tracks.

"You are .mr.3? How did you get caught?" Marianne stared at her old partner with wide-eyed eyes.

"It's you!" Sauron and the others also recognized Mr. 3.

After all, the battle in the small garden was the most dangerous they had encountered since they went to sea. This insidious candleman once created a considerable crisis for them!

"Oh, it's hard to describe in one word," mr.3 said bitterly.

In the original book, he was stranded on the vacation island because "mr.2" gave up escaping, and was later arrested by Colonel Hina of the Navy Headquarters, and then taken to the city of advancement.

However, now he was caught by the navy near the waters of Alabasta when he left Little Garden and returned to Alabasta to report to the organization.As for the scene of being sucked dry by Crocodile and then being eaten by a banana crocodile in the original book, it didn't appear at all.

"Can you let me out?" mr3, that is, Gal Dino, looked at Marianne and begged.

But Marianne hesitated for a moment before turning her head to Luffy and the others.

After all, mr.3 is her old partner. When they acted together, she still took good care of her, so she couldn't bear her old partner being locked up in prison and waiting to die.

Naturally, Lu Fei and the others have no objection. After all, Marianne has helped them a lot along the way, not to mention that the other party is still Hei Shi's subordinate now, so we still have to give them some face.

Seeing that Lu Fei and the others agreed to come down, Marianne said, "It's okay to let you out, but you have to act with us."

"No problem!" Galtino quickly agreed.

Seeing this, Marianne said to Luffy and the others: "Then please!"

Sauron pulled out Meteor Fall, this kind of cage must be cut off by him.

The pitch-black armed color wrapped around the blade, and Sauron slashed towards the cage.

"Keng!"

The collision of the knife and the sill made a loud noise.

"Huh?" Sauron was taken aback.

Everyone in the straw hats was also taken aback for a moment.

"It didn't cut it off?" Sauron said in a daze.

"It's Hailou Stone. The cage here is almost [-]% made of Hailou Stone, and its purity is too high." Frankie stepped forward and observed it, "The hardness should be comparable to that of diamonds."

The hardness of Hailou stone is comparable to that of diamonds.

As the saying goes, diamonds are the only ones that can cut a diamond. This sentence is also applicable to Hailoushi.

Of course, if the armed domineering level is high enough and the strength is strong enough, it can also be forcibly split, but right now, Sauron obviously hasn't reached that stage yet.

"What should we do? Do we need to use a key to open the door here? But, we don't have a key either!" Marianne said helplessly.

Galtino looked at the lock with some despair, and said, "Damn it. If only I hadn't been handcuffed by Hailoushi."

As a "wax fruit" ability user, what he is most afraid of is the lock.

"That... I might try."

Suddenly, someone came forward from behind and spoke.

"Hey you guy, it's the stage of the mission plot, don't mess around!" A player hurriedly stopped him.

"That's right, you see, Boss Shenkong and Boss Ryan are honest, what kind of prestige are you showing off?"

But this person ignored them, and with a casual flick of his right hand, the player who was holding him was sent flying.

This scene made many players stunned for a moment, so that no one dared to stand up and stop it.

Then he went straight to the lock of the cell and took out a key that seemed to fit the keyhole of the cell lock.

This person is naturally dark.

The reason for standing up at this moment is naturally because mr.3 is worth being rescued.

And the key in his hand, although not the key of the cell, but there is no problem at all in opening the lock.

This key was rewarded when Hei Shi's general skill [Unlock] was upgraded to LV3 a long time ago.

[Master key]: There is no lock that it cannot open.Remaining uses: 2/5.

"clatter"

The key was inserted into the keyhole, and with a slight twist, the cell door swung open.

(End of this chapter)