One Piece: The Eternal Flame

"Scatter!" Sam ordered the ships that were too close to separate. They were more numerous than each other and could not be directly surrounded.

Annie jumped up and sank the cannonball, then jumped back to the bow, "Let's go, let's take over!"

Most of the victories and losses of the pirates on the sea end in a series of battles.

The cannonball is just one way they greet their opponents, an enthusiastic, provocative way.

The pirates paddling worked harder, the boat broke through the waves at an extremely fast speed, and rushed towards the ship where the Black Prince was.

Sam threw out his weapon, a black boomerang wrapped in armed colors, and it flew straight towards the hull of the big ship where Anne was.

Sam didn't intend to attack people. If he could directly destroy the hull and throw these people into the sea, that would be the best result.

As the boomerang approached the hull, it was intercepted by a black arrow.

Vice-captain Mary took out new arrows from the quiver on her back and put them on the arrow crossbow again. The tip of the arrow turned black in an instant.

Sam catches his own boomerang, thinking quickly.

Although the strengths of the captains of the five big pirate groups are different, facing the siege of the two captains, he will certainly not benefit.

"Annie, I know what you want, kill Teresi with me, isn't it the same?"

"It's different. I joined forces with him because I want you to die."

Annie smiled and said, "As for the reason, of course it's because you don't like it hahahahaha."

She turned to look at her crew, "Little ones! Destroy Sam and take their island!"

"Yes, Captain Anne!" With a louder shout, all the members of the Red and Black Pirates are outlaws, so this kind of battle will not bring them any sense of fear, but will only make them more excited and crazy.

Teresi shook her head, "Zell, let's connect as soon as possible."

Holding a wooden sword for training, he jumped up from the deck and swung a slash in mid-air, cutting off a pirate ship closest to the edge.

"Boom boom boom—" The shells were still flying in the air, and occasionally a few fell on the deck, blasting the pirates into the sea.

The pirate ship moved in a dislocation, and the pirate grabbed all the things around him in horror, but his body still slid down with the tilt of the ship.

A wooden sword seems to be sharper than a well-crafted sword.

There were casualties on both sides. There were pirates struggling in the sea. The lucky people grabbed the ropes hanging from the hull, and the unlucky people were directly affected by the shells that exploded around them and died.

Anne, among the pirates who first boarded the deck of the main ship, waved the giant ax in her hand in the wind. The pirates couldn't resist, and they were already hacked out without even seeing clearly.

The deputy captain, Mouth, went up to meet Annie's blow with his knuckle-wearing fist.

Annie's strength is surprisingly strong. Even if she is covered with armed colors, the knuckles made of Hailou stone cracked a few cracks in an instant.

Sam rushed up while swinging the boomerang, and kicked Annie's lower abdomen directly with his right leg wrapped around the weapon.

An arrow shot from the side, hit Sam's leg, and fell to the deck with a bend.

Mary was taken aback for a moment, and took another arrow, this time aiming at the deputy captain, Mouth.

'咻—' '咻—'

The arrow pierced the air, and Moss sensed the danger, and it was too late to hide. He simply folded his hands in front of him, blocking the flying arrow with his arm.

Because of the armed color, the arrows only slightly scratched his skin.

Moss stopped pestering Annie, ran a few steps, and jumped up from the deck to the boat where Mary was.

"Hmph." Mary snorted coldly, pulling away the distance from Mouth.

Mouth is good at close combat, she needs to distance herself from the opponent.

Teresi's ship was wandering outside and was not idle. While Annie was entangled with Sam, they were quickly cleaning up other pirate ships.

Without Sam, the people on the ship were easy to deal with. Occasionally, some who could survive a few moves were also snatched by Zell.

Teresi knew that Zell felt that his injury was just right, so he was just worried.

"call"

In Sam's prison cell at the bottom of the ship, Alfred exhaled softly. He never felt that his breathing would be so heavy, as if it was blowing a bellows, making people upset.

It hurts so much, it doesn't seem to hurt that much anymore.

A fishy smell gushed out of his throat, accompanied by itching, he coughed uncontrollably, the blood from the corner of his mouth dripped down the curve of his jaw, and hit the bottom of the boat.

There was a naval battle outside, thanks to the unknown pirate group, it attracted all the torturers.

Only then did he have a little breathing time.

How to escape.
Alfred is not a person who will sit still, no matter who wins outside, his end will be the same.

Gray closed his eyes, it couldn't be Gray, Gray didn't know that he was arrested.

The last time Alfred learned of Gray's whereabouts was the newspaper full of gossip.

"Cough" He coughed again, spit out the blood in his throat, and then felt better again.

The weapon is gone, the body can't move because of the medicine, and the domineering is even more out of the question. Now he has no weapons on his body.
No. It seems there is.

——"This light is very dangerous!" Gray wrapped his hands around his hands, and hid the ring inlaid with pure gold in Alfred's palm.

What are the dangers of light that slows aging?

Alfred twisted his neck vigorously, looking at the golden ring on his right hand.

It looks like an ordinary gold-plated iron ring on the surface, but in fact the ring wrapped in pure gold is indeed gold-plated.

It was worthless at all, and the pirates who were used to seeing countless treasures looked down upon it, so it was kept and became the only item on Alfred's body that might represent escape.

He moved his fingers vigorously, his thumb curled up, just enough to reach the ring, but his body was weak, so he could only push it away little by little.

'Boom——' A shell hit the side of the main ship, causing the whole ship to tilt. Alfred coughed a few more times, and continued to push the ring outward.

Just push to the next knuckle and it's easy.

A little golden light emerged from the gap between the fingers, and then it became bigger and brighter.

'Dang dong, dong, dong dong. '

Alfred closed his eyes.

Simultaneously with the landing sound of the ring was a dazzling golden light.

It illuminated the entire cabin in an instant, penetrated the wooden boards almost without hindrance, and made the entire pirate ship light up like the sun.

This sudden scene made everyone stop.

Annie and Samzizi, who were standing on the boat, blocked their eyes.

Doubts arose in everyone's hearts, what is going on?

At the bottom of the sea, a huge black shadow swam over quickly, its ugly face was like a rugged gully, and it opened its mouth towards the glowing ship.

-

The death Gray mentioned, of course, does not really mean that these scholars go to the underworld and understand the blank 100 years with their ancestors, but in another sense, death in the eyes of the world.

As long as people are dead, everything has nothing to do with them.

"You mean cheating death?" Dr. Keluoba stared at Gray with a beard, trying to see signs of joking from his face.

Gray shook his head and corrected: "It's not a fake death, it's a real death."

The pirate group has been here for a few days and has never left the Tree of Omniscience. Is there really such a studious pirate?

The civilians in O'Hara were wondering.

"No, it's not good! Omniscient, the Omniscient Tree is on fire!" A man hurried over, pointing at the smoking Omniscient Tree without even breathing.

The black smoke there has filled the air, rushing straight to the sky like a black dragon, which shows how big the fire is over there.

The Omniscient Tree is the symbol of O'Hara, and everyone frantically took buckets from their homes, shouting "The Omniscient Tree is on fire!" to inform other people who didn't know, and ran over there quickly.

It is said that wet wood is more likely to smoke, and the pirates of Black Fireworks have seen it today.

"Cough cough cough cough." Everyone was so ashamed by the smoke, and asked Perry with a bitter face, "Perry, is this okay?"

"Thank you." Perry's face was also darkened several times, "But I have to burn some more, and I have to do a full set of acting."

No way, Gray originally proposed to burn the Tree of Omniscience, but was strongly opposed by Dr. Kloba and those scholars.

The tree of omniscience, which is a symbol of O'Hara, is equivalent to the existence of faith, not to mention that there are countless precious books from all over the world stored in it, and burning them is burning priceless wealth.

"Then other trees can do it?" Gray asked for the next best thing, "We will control the fire around the Tree of Omniscience, don't worry, our control over the flame is absolute."

Ke Luoba thought about it, and finally decided to try this way.

So now, this is the scene.

A huge black and white flame spread around the Tree of Omniscience, and the wet wood soaked in water provided more dense black smoke, which scorched the entire Tree of Omniscience black, but did not hurt a bit.

Keluoba and other scholars stood in the library, looking melancholy at the dark scene outside the window.

Once today is over, they are dead in the eyes of the world, and they can only stay in the library forever.

For them, this is not a difficult task, and they usually spend most of their time researching in the basement of the library.

Now that they have the correct interpretation method of the historical text, and have been given a dozen new rubbings of the text, they will not want to go out in a short time.

Keluoba looked at Gray, "I hope you will keep your promise."

"Don't worry, you shouldn't have to wait long."

Gray narrowed his eyes and smiled: "After all, not everyone can endure long periods of loneliness. The longer it drags on, the less stable this plan will be, and it will always show its feet."

Ke Luoba did not refute, and he also knew that although everyone has agreed to this plan now, everyone can stick to it in one or two years, but what about ten or 20 years?
The pain of not being able to see family members, the loneliness of not being in contact with outsiders for a long time, not everyone can bear.

What supports them now is their love for historical research and their passion for letting the world know about history.

"Plur, plop, puff, puff puff puff."

The urgent sound of a phone bug came from Gray's pocket.

Everyone was stunned.

Gray blinked, and took out the bug that was ringing non-stop. It was Tracy calling.

"What are you doing? I still have something to do here. If you're not in a hurry, let's talk about it later."

Teresi stood on the deck, holding a phone bug, thinking about how to describe the unimaginable scene just now.

"Grey, listen to me first, uh... Anne and I surrounded Sam's boat."

"Do you know where he's going? To act so soon?"

"It's not like you don't know about Annie's temper." Teresi rubbed the space between her brows, "That's not the point."

"Oh."

"The point is that after fighting for a while, Sam's pirate ship suddenly burst into a dazzling golden light, and then a big fish appeared, swallowing almost half of the pirate ship."

"Wow, good god"

Gray thought it was a novelty at first, but after thinking about it, he felt that this description seemed a little familiar.

Dazzling golden light, a huge fish.

pure gold? ! !

Keluoba and the others saw Gray standing up from the chair and looked at each other, not knowing what happened.

"Have you seen what that fish looks like?" Gray's hand holding the microphone trembled slightly.

Speaking of pure gold, the big one is still in the storage room, under a lot of supplies, so it may be very troublesome to find it.

But there was also a small piece of pure gold set into the inner wall of the ring, which Olga had given him.

He gave that ring to Fred!
"It's a big lantern fish, it swallowed those boats and ran away, we"

"I'll be right back!" Gray said.

"Ha, you didn't mean that."

"Right now! Wait there."

The phone bug closed his eyes, and Teresi looked at the microphone with an inexplicable expression, "Didn't you say you couldn't make it back?"

"Are we really going to wait for them here?" Zell asked. "Mary has already taken the boat to chase the fish, and two of our boats have been swallowed by the fish."

"What's the use of catching up." Teresi replied: "With Gray's attitude, he must know what's going on. Maybe it's the most convenient decision to wait for them to come here."

He paused, and then said: "You take three boats to join Mary. She has a suspicious personality and can easily take this as a trap for us. Explain to her and follow the fish by the way. We will make two preparations."

"Okay." Zell nodded, and jumped directly onto the deck of another ship, "Teams one, two and three follow me!"

-

"Here we come." Gray looked outside, seeing the breath of everyone on the island who came to put out the fire approaching here one by one.

"Everyone hide." Keluoba waved his hand, telling all the scholars to hide in the basement.

Then he clapped both hands on the shoulder of a black-haired man, and said seriously: "Nifer, I will leave the rest to you!"

"Don't worry, doctor." Nefort nodded solemnly. His face and body were covered with wounds, which looked quite scary.

It was part of the plan that it took a survivor of the disaster to tell the others, Dr. Klobal, that they were all burned to ashes by the Black Flame Gray.