One Piece: The Eternal Flame

The journey in the East China Sea is not fast, but it is not slow. It is just that there are many experiences, and it seems that the time has also been extended.

Defeated the murloc dragon in Cocosia Village, and witnessed the test of fate in Rogue Town.

Gray knew that the real test had only just begun when these boys entered the great voyage.

Passing through the clouds of the high mountains, when everyone was excited about the scenery on the top of the Red Earth Continent, Sauron, who was the sharpest, suddenly asked if they heard anything.

But everyone was in a state of excitement, coupled with the turbulent water flow, and the surrounding noise was loud, so they didn't notice the sound.

"Hey! You know it, right?" Sauron frowned tightly and looked straight at Gray. He could see through the other people on board, but he couldn't see through Gray and Alfred.

They wandered around the pirate group, calling for the captain clearly, but they didn't have the sense of belonging that the crew should have. Many times they gave Sauron the feeling that they were coaxing children.

Now that he has joined the Pirates, he must be absolutely loyal to the captain. Luffy is a person recognized by Sauron, so all possible hidden dangers must be eliminated.

Gray looked at him with raised eyebrows, but he didn't hide it, and said loudly: "I heard that there is a huge whale at the entrance of the great route~ Many ships died because of it."

"Whale?" Nami braved the wind and waves, wanting to hear more details from Gray.

At this moment, Lu Fei excitedly pointed to the front, "That's the one hahahaha, it's so big~"

At the end of the turbulent downward current, an extremely huge black shadow gradually became extremely clear.

Accompanied by the panicked running and screaming of the crowd, Gray's heartless laughter became extremely piercing.

Nami, who had the highest force value on the boat, punched him hard and roared, "What are you laughing at, come and help!"

"I'm sorry." Gray apologized in pain, then coughed lightly, pointed at the whale below and shouted: "Listen, the whale below, if you don't get out of the way, you will be roasted, you still have three seconds to think about it—"

What responded to him was a long, incomprehensible cry from the whale.

"If this guy is so easy to talk, he will grow so big for nothing!" Usopp hugged the broken rudder stock tightly, trying to change the direction of the ship.

In the end, the whale really did what Gray said, and moved its body away from the mouth within three seconds.

The boat fell into the water with a crash, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief with an unbelievable and afterlife feeling.

"Yo Ho Ho Ho Ho ~ I heard the energetic shouts of the new guests a long time ago." A figure easily jumped onto the side of the Merry, and greeted the people lying or sitting on the deck with a smile.

Then he turned his eyes and looked at Nami, he was taken aback for a moment, excitedly yet politely treated her like a gentleman, "This beautiful lady, can you let me admire your panties?"

"Skull, skeleton—" Nami and Usopp hugged each other and screamed in unison.

Sanji and Zoro put on a defensive posture vigilantly at the same time, while Luffy stared at Brook with admiration, "Oh, the skeleton is talking!"

"I'm sorry, I'm Brooke with only a handful of bones left, please take care of me! Yohohohoho~"

An eerie laugh, a skeleton appearance, but nothing malicious.

Sauron put away the knife, "Why are you here?"

"My partner and I, ah! That's the whale, it's called Rab, and we're temporarily living together at Twin Point."

"You said that whale is your partner, so cool!" Luffy admired Brook even more.

"Twin Cape is the lighthouse at the entrance of the great sea route. Anyway, let's go ashore first." Gray visually measured the distance between himself and the shore. Since Brook can jump over, he must be able to jump over.

'Plop' the sea splashed water.

The corner of Sauron's mouth twitched, and he was about to go into the sea to find people, but someone had already stepped forward.

"Yo Ho Ho Ho Ho, Mr. Gray is still so interesting." Brook laughed, and saw Luffy still looking at him with sparkling eyes.

"45°" He leaned forward, with his head resting on the side strings, his body straight, forming a right triangle with the corner of the wall.

"Oh oh oh oh——" This time not only Luffy, but even Usopp lost his fear and was conquered.

When they got to Gemini Cape, an old man who was reading a newspaper with flowers on his head adjusted his glasses and stared at them.

After a long silence, two other old men hurried over.

When I saw Gray, I couldn't help but burst into tears, "Captain!"

From left to right, squeezed Alfred away, hugged Gray and began to cry.

"Hey, I don't like the old man." Gray was a little disgusted because Alder rubbed his nose on him.

"Captain?" Sanji raised an eyebrow, "So what's going on here?"

Sauron frowned, but didn't speak.

Luffy didn't care, he wasn't keen on discovering other people's secrets, so he just laughed heartlessly, "Grey has a lot of secrets hahaha."

"Noisy boys." Kulocas snorted coldly, shook the newspaper and read it again.

A few minutes later, facing everyone's gaze, Gray shrugged and replied, "I used to be the pirate captain of a ship."

"No wonder you know so much about the great route." Usopp muttered, he still didn't quite believe that Gray was actually a pirate captain before.

Nami was stunned, "So were you defeated by the Great Route like Crick, or did you return by yourself like Uncle Zhepu?"

"Defeat? It should be said that we have conquered the great route!" Alder was not very happy.

Everyone was silent and didn't believe Alder's words. The only one who has conquered the great route so far is Roger the Pirate King.

Before Roger, after Roger.

Taking him as the dividing line constitutes two different eras.

"Leave that aside, why did you disband?" Sanji planned to skip this topic.

"These are too complicated for you." Gray didn't intend to say this, "The captain just wants to sail freely and become the Pirate King."

"Yes, I am the man who is going to be the One Piece!" Luffy lowered his straw hat and laughed.

"The deeper you go into the great route, the more dangerous it will be. Sauron should have a deep understanding of this."

Sauron was silent, and nodded after a while, "That's right."

He was not the only one who left Wano Country. The new world was full of dangers. Letting a boy who just went out to sea was like a novice who had just built an account and encountered the final boss of the game. Apart from being instant killed, he would be instantly killed.

Wanokai sent people to send experienced children to the first half of the great voyage. Although there are still many dangers, the first half is relatively much safer.

"I don't intend to become a captain again, and it would be fun to sail with you." Gray looked at Luffy, "Can you, Captain?"

"Okay." Luffy responded readily.

"Then can we get on the boat?" Alder and Abel asked.

"No, I don't want the old man!" Lu Fei resisted and shook his head vigorously.

"Yo Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho, what a happy thing." Brook lifted the violin.

Luffy rushed over in surprise again, "Can you still play music?"

"Yeah, I'm a musician."

"Ooooh, get on board, get on board! Brooke, I need you so much."

"Okay." Brook agreed without hesitation, and was beaten up by the jealous Alder and Abel who were beyond recognition.

This time they left, they didn't know when they would meet again. Before leaving, Kulokas threw two people—Mr.9 and Miss Wednesday—onboard the Merry.

Explain that the boat of these two people was broken down, and they were rescued by him after drifting here, and they have been eating soft meals here since then. It just so happens that their destination is the Whiskey Mountain, so let's send them there along the way.

Rabbu didn't want to leave Brooke in an attempt to prevent the voyage of the Merry.

Until Luffy swears on top of it, he will definitely bring Brook back in the future.

In the Whiskey Mountains, everyone is warmly received by the villagers, but it is actually a gathering place for bounty hunters and a branch of the secretive criminal organization Baroque Walker.

Later, the other party was exposed, and after learning that Weiwei was the princess of Alabasta, she met Robin again.

Before the latter left, he said indistinctly, "There are many things that can only be understood by experiencing it yourself. Someone told me this before."

Leaving the Whiskey Mountains, I went to the small garden again, and met the giants Brocky and Dongli.

"This world is about to change. If you stay here, you won't be able to catch up with the final banquet." Before leaving, Gray avoided the crowd and said to the two.

"You really are Hei Yan." Dong Li frowned, "They all said you were dead."

"Living to death is actually almost the same."

"Why are you still so young?" Broki asked again.

"There is a reason for this, but I can't tell you."

"The secrets of the Pirate Emperor are no less than the secrets of this world."

"Hahaha, it's actually very simple."

After that, everyone went to Magnetic Drum Island because of Nami's illness.

There are many doctors here, but after the diagnosis and treatment, they all shook their heads, and finally called a man soaked in blood.

"Is such a person really a doctor?" Usopp expressed doubts.

"Not only a doctor, but also the one who saved all the doctors who didn't want to surrender to the king."

The king of Magnetic Drum Island is tyrannical and cruel, and ordered all doctors to be executed if they refused to belong to him.

How could Colin, who used to be a pirate, bear this tone.

The king couldn't beat him, so he simply took the surrendered doctors away from Magnetic Drum Island and became pirates outside, harassing the island over and over again.

"I can indeed save her, but in exchange, you are going to defeat Walpo's White Iron Pirates."

"Okay, please." Luffy agreed without hesitation, and led the crew to set sail again to find the White Iron Pirates.

"The special medicines are all on the mountain, let's go." Colin looked at Vivi who stayed behind to take care of Nami, Usopp who had the rare disease of 'fight or die', and Gray and Alfred.

Weiwei was thoughtful, and was surprised to find that the doctor and Mr. Gray were old acquaintances.

Usopp is no stranger to it, it's just weird, why are the gray crew members he's seen so far all very old?
Both Ming Gray and Al looked very young.

It can't be an old monster!Usopp, who knew the truth, took a breath, and comforted himself a few more words.

Hiluluk died a few years ago, and after a few years of miraculous extra life, he still died.

"By the way, let's not talk about those things, Xiruluke adopted a very interesting little guy, you will definitely like it, Captain."

"what?"

"A civet cat with a blue nose can talk after eating the human fruit."

Joe the blue-nosed civet cat Ba hid at the door, exposing most of his body, watching these strangers vigilantly.

Gray squatted down, stretched out his hand and called a few times, but the other party ignored him, but just looked at Colin, "Uncle Colin, uh—"

"Hey hey." Gray grabbed the civet cat and held it up in the air, "You are too cowardly."

"Uncle Colin—" Chopper cried and stretched out his hand towards Colin, his short legs kept thumping, but he couldn't break free no matter what.

"They are my friends, Chopper." Colin signaled Gray to put Chopper down, and the civet cat would faint if the game continued.

After setting up Nami, Colin went to prepare the special medicine.

Chopper moved his feet, followed Colin into the dispensing room, and gently closed the door.

Colin smiled, "A man can't hide and cry, Chopper."

"I don't." Chopper retorted, but tears flowed down his face, "I thought uncle was going to sell me."

"Pfft, does the captain look like a bad guy?"

"captain?"

"Yes, my captain, remember the adventure I told you about before?"

Chopper widened his eyes and asked in surprise, "It's him, the omnipotent pirate captain?"

Excitedly, he turned around a few times, feeling nervous about meeting his idol, and whispered, "I like him so much."

"Yeah." Colin smiled, "I like him very much, too."

After dispensing the medicine, Colin took it and walked outside. When he opened the door, he smiled and said, "So, Chopper, be brave, you are a civet cat who can speak human language."

"It's not a civet cat, I'm a reindeer!" Chopper suddenly grew bigger and bit Colin's head.

The latter's head was bleeding immediately, and Chopper saw the dumbfounded Gray and Weiwei standing outside the door, he opened his mouth stiffly, and then stepped back slowly step by step.

"Be careful!" Gray yelled.

The next moment, the sound of ping-pong-pong sounded non-stop, and Chopper was buried among the many sundries.

"What's wrong?" Colin asked.

"Nami's condition seems to have deteriorated again." Gray exaggerated: "I tried her forehead, and it was almost hotter than Hei Yan."

"If it's hotter than you, then she'll be stupid."

Colin replied, "Speaking of which, you wouldn't be stupid because of your high body temperature."

"I'm not stupid."

After drinking the medicine, Nami's complexion became much lighter, and even her breathing became less rapid.

Weiwei breathed a sigh of relief, "Doctor, is this medicine so effective?"

"Well, maybe it's because she's dying."

"Huh???" Usopp and Weiwei were surprised.

"Hahaha, just kidding."