Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 34 Overturning the Upside Down Mountain and Meeting the Whale Rab

"Nami-san~~~A report of love~~There is a big cloud of rain and fog ahead, it looks like there will be a heavy rain~~" Sanji shouted holding up the binoculars on the watchtower.

Holding the nautical chart, Nami said doubtfully, "Strange, there should be the entrance of the Great Airway near here, but how do I get in?"

An Ke tilted his head, and suddenly remembered that the information stolen at the naval base last time had not been given to Nami, so he said, "Let's gather together, I have something to show you."

In the dining room, Usopp was trying his best to steer the rudder and control the direction of progress, but he couldn't help it at all, so he had to shout: "Who can help me, the current is too strong, and there is no way to control the boat."

"Sanji-kun, go and help Usopp, he is too noisy." Nami looked at the information Encore took out on the table.

"Yes~~~ Nami-san~~~~"

"Is this the nautical chart of the great route?" Nami picked up a map and compared it with the one in her hand, "It's exactly the same, it seems that my map is not fake, but Encore, where did you get this information? of."

"At the Naval Base in Rogge Town," Encore found a piece of paper from a pile of documents and handed it to Nami, "This paper contains detailed information about Upside Down Mountain, please take a look."

"Oh..." Nami glanced quickly, and then said in surprise, "Mountain climbing?? Boat?"

"Should we not hit it directly?" Sauron, who was sitting on the side, laughed.

"Mountain climbing? That's amazing~~" Luffy didn't know what everyone was talking about.

"Strong currents, climb the mountain." Nami looked at the map and thought for a while and said: "I know!! I really want to climb the mountain~ Look here, the currents of the four sea areas are concentrated here, and then converge to flow to the great route. That is to say, the ocean current will flow upward in the reverse mountain."

"Ah~~ In other words, an incredible mountain~~" Luffy nodded.

"Ha..." Nami covered her head with a headache, not knowing how to explain it.

An Ke walked to the front, frowned and said, "Nami, we're almost there."

"Well! I see, Zoro, go and put up the sails, Usopp and Sanji continue to steer." Nami ran out holding the nautical chart, looking ahead nervously.

The rain began to fall, and the sea current became more and more rough and turbulent.Encore stood in the kitchen and looked outside, and Luffy ran out to help Zoro.

"Hey~~~I saw an incredible mountain~~" shouted Luffy lying on the sail pole. "But I can't see the top of the mountain, it's covered by clouds..."

"The sea current is really climbing the mountain..." Sauron looked at the sea water flowing upwards in surprise.

"Everyone, we must let the boat pass through the gate. If it deviates a little bit, the Meili will hit the Red Earth Continent!!" Nami shouted anxiously in the rain, pointing to the gate up the mountain.

The closer to the red earth continent, the stronger the current, and the ship rushed forward almost uncontrollably.Sanji and Usopp blushed and tried their best to control the boat in a certain direction.

With everyone's efforts, the boat successfully boarded the current and headed towards the top of the reverse mountain.Sanji and Usopp ran out cheering to watch this unbelievable scene.An Ke picked up the materials that had fallen to the side, and looked at them with a frown: the huge whale in the Gemini Gorge, the incredible world in its stomach...

Anke looked at this closely, still not understanding why the navy would record this. 'Forget it, let's respond immediately when the time comes. 'Thinking, I grabbed my camera and ran out.

"Wow~~~ Encore~~ Did you see that? The boat is climbing a mountain, hahahaha!!" Luffy laughed while pressing his hat.

An Ke took a few photos of the upward current and said, "Really, it's all above the clouds. Now," An Ke pointed to the front, "Is that the top of the mountain?"

"Really, it's here!!" Everyone excitedly watched the boat slowly climb to the top of the mountain, and then flew out in a cool way...fly out...

"what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Everyone screamed and suspended in the air, and then fell to the fast-downing Merry.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and watched the ship pass through the clouds again, cheering in the clouds.Suddenly, a loud and thick cry pierced through the clouds.

As the boat shuttled through the clouds, Usopp suddenly pointed tremblingly at the black mountain directly in front of him, "What is that?? Mountain??"

"Mountain? Impossible, crossing the Gemini Gorge is just the sea." Nami said loudly in doubt.

"Whatever it is, let's go!!" Luffy shouted excitedly while sitting on the sheep's head.

Anke frowned and looked at the black mountain below, "Could it be the huge whale in the Gemini Gorge?" ? 'Thinking then turned and went into the kitchen.

The boat broke through the clouds completely, and the mountain ahead showed its true colors.

"Ah!!! It's not a mountain!!" Seeing the creature in front, there was another series of screams on the Meili.

"If you continue like this, you will definitely hit it!!" Sauron said.

"What is that!!!" Sanji asked

"Whale!!!" Nami

Anke, who was hiding in the kitchen, gritted his teeth and looked at the huge whale blocking the front, and then at his bloodless companions.Knowing that they could only collide at this speed, and remembering the records in the navy's materials, An Ke had no choice but to try his best.

"What to do!!" Luffy asked

"Usopp, Sanji!! Take the helm!!" Nami

"No!! It's too late!!!" Sanji

Anke tightly clutched his left eye, the number in his eyes had changed to 'three' (animal way).Cold sweat continued to flow from Anke's face, the color of his left eye became more and more bright red, and his face gradually turned pale, "Damn it, it's almost..."

Seeing that the boat was getting closer, Encore knew that it would be troublesome if it was later, 'Open your mouth! !Raab! ! A drop of bright red blood flowed from the coquettish left eye, and blood-colored tear stains meandered on the pale face.

As a result, the other partners on the boat stared blankly.Watch the huge whale slowly open its mouth wide and aim at the boat.

"What... does it want to do??" Luffy

"Eat us?..." Sauron

"Hehe..." Nami

"Heh..." Sanji

"..." Usopp
The boat slipped into the whale's mouth smoothly, looking at the dark direction ahead, Luffy and the others finally couldn't help screaming: "Ah!!!! I'm going to be eaten!!!!"

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"What do you think?" Sauron

"What do you think?" Sanji asked

"What do you think about this?" Sauron asked.

"I thought we were swallowed by a whale..." Sanji "Is this a dream?"

"Ah, it must be a dream..." Sauron

"So, what is that island?" Nami asked

"Illusion..." Sauron

"Hahahaha!!! Adventure~~~~" Luffy

Anke, who heard them talking, laughed helplessly, covered his left eye again, and wiped the blood from his face.Looking at the blood in his palm, Anke thought suspiciously: "It's strange, usually animals are obedient under the orders of the beast, why this one can only resist my ability, is it because its body is too large or because it may Possess human consciousness?" Anke, who couldn't figure it out, wiped the blood from his hands, and staggered to the deck.

"Encore?" Lu Fei saw the pale Encore and asked worriedly, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Encore looked at this peaceful space with blue sky and white clouds.He smiled and said, "Unexpectedly, there is a fantastic world inside the whale."

"Encore? You know this place?" Nami said in surprise.

"There is a record in the Navy's documents that there is a world in the belly of the whale in the Gemini Gorge," Anke handed the document to Nami, looked at the island and said, "Now we can be sure that there are people living in that house."

Suddenly the door of that room opened with a "squeak", and Nami and Usopp ran back to the kitchen in fright, sticking their heads out to look outside.

"Someone is coming out..." Zoro stared at it seriously.

The people in the room came out slowly.

"Wow! It's from flowers!!" Sanji looked carefully, and then found that it was just a person, "Ah, it's an old man."

"But the flower-like grandpa is also fun, ahahaha~~~" Luffy laughed.The others looked at him helplessly.

An Ke watched the old man staring fiercely at the boat, walking forward step by step.

Sauron looked at him nervously and said, "Who is this old man?"

The old man was still staring at the boat, Anke took Luffy's hand, and hid behind Luffy with a serious expression, "Who is this mysterious old man? It shouldn't be from the government..." Lu Fei Fei habitually reached out to protect Encore behind him.

The old man walked step by step, still staring at the boat out of the corner of his eyes, finally walked to the deck chair and sat down, took out the newspaper, completely ignoring Luffy and the others.

"You have to say something!!!!" Sanji roared furiously.

This sentence successfully attracted the old man's attention, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the boat again.

"If you want to fight, come here!! You bastard! We have cannons here!!" Usopp shouted, shaking his fists. Encore turned his head to look at the kitchen, and it was not difficult to find that his legs had already shaking.

Hearing this sentence, the old man stared fiercely at the boat with wide-eyed eyes, and finally said solemnly after a long time: "It's best not to, you will die."

"Ha... who will die?" Sanji shed a drop of cold sweat slightly nervously.

"I."

"It is you!!!!"

Zoro grabbed the hairy Sanji and said calmly, "Don't worry about it, hey, grandpa, where is this place, and who are you?"

The old man continued to stare at Sauron for a long time before speaking, "Isn't it polite to introduce yourself before asking others?"

"Ah, that's right, I'm Nonoroya..."

"I'm Colax, the guard of Twin Gorges, aged 71, you have broken into my private resort center." The old man interrupted Sauron lightly, and explained to himself.

"Hahahaha!! This old man is really interesting haha~~" Luffy laughed.

"I want to cut him off!!!" Zoro said with a dark face, and Sanji held down Zoro's sword-drawing hand gloatingly with a cigarette in his mouth, and said with a smile, "Calm down~Zoro."

"Be quiet, Luffy, Zoro." After knowing that the old man was not a navy, Encore came out and asked, "Grandpa, this is in the belly of the whale, right?"

"In the stomach?" Nami looked at the sky and said, "But isn't there a white cloud or something here?"

"That's fake, it's just a canvas." Sauron said lightly.

"The exit is there. If you don't want to be digested, go out quickly." The old man pointed to a door not far away.

"Is there an exit???" Usopp shouted in surprise, "Why is there a door in the belly of the whale?"

"Nami, since there is an exit, let's go out quickly." Zoro reminded Nami.

"Yeah? Why?" Luffy asked suspiciously, "Isn't it fun here?"

Suddenly, the sea trembled violently, and Colux stood up nervously, looked at the sky and said, "Has it started?"

"Hey!! Explain what happened!!" Usopp yelled.

"This whale has started to hit the red land with its head, all right." The old man suddenly jumped into the sea, swam to the side and climbed up the escalator.

"What is that old man doing?" Sauron looked at the old man wandering away suspiciously, "Isn't he afraid of being melted by stomach acid?"

"By the way, why did this whale hit the mountain with its head?" Nami asked suspiciously.

"Who knows, it should be whaling, kill it from the stomach first." Sanji blew a smoke ring, looking at the figure of the old man climbing the escalator.

"Anyway, let's go out first," Anke said, "Stay too long and the boat will break down..."

Before An Ke could finish speaking, suddenly there were two screams from the direction of the old man. Lu Fei looked over suspiciously, and said with wide eyes, "Someone came out of the window!!"

"Two weirdos came out..." Usopp stared blankly at the two.

"The old man is gone..." Nami said in surprise, looking at the open door.

"Don't pay attention to him, those two people are probably not good people." An Ke calmly watched the two people fall into the sea.

"Wow~~~ I saw a super cute lady~~" Sanji jumped into the sea bravely, "I will save you right now~~~lady~~"

Everyone watched the cook happily jumping into the sea in silence.Suddenly, the sea slowly returned to calm.

Lu Fei blinked his eyes a few times and said, "That's amazing~~ Did that old man do anything?"

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The whole boat stared seriously at the two sneaky people kneeling in the middle, ah, and Sanji was being suspicious of the silver-haired woman.

"Are you still here?" Everyone looked over and found that the old man had returned, standing on the door of the escalator and said coldly to the two, "I will never let you hurt Rab!"

"Hmph!" The two men suddenly stood up and said with a sinister smile: "It depends on whether you have time to protect it. Our mission is to hunt whales. This whale is destined to be the food of our town!!" Two cannons were fired towards the sky.

When Krox saw the face of the fired cannon change, he rushed out.

Seeing that the old man was going to use his body to block the shells, Anke took out Chiyue and said anxiously to Luffy: "Luffy, throw me to those shells!!"

"Oh!!" Luffy grabbed Encore's ankle and flung it away under everyone's surprised eyes. Sanji grabbed Luffy's collar with his fangs and yelled: "You threw the little cutie out again! !!! What if she is injured!!" Zoro and the others tilted their heads strangely, "Again??"

Anke, who flew up with his strength, rushed to chop the shells into pieces in front of the old man, grabbed the old man with the other hand and tried to pull him back to the boat, but found that he was not strong enough and could only grab him and fall into the sea together.

"Encore!!" Luffy anxiously stretched out his hand and grabbed the two of them back.

Back on the boat, Anke let go of the hand that had been holding the old man, shook his wrist and said, "It hurts...It really is troublesome if you don't have any strength..."

"It's fine~~" Nami said worriedly, "Be careful next time."

"What are you going to do with two people?" Sauron pointed his sword at the frozen people.

"Tie it up first, who knows if they will directly bombard us with cannons next time." Usopp said with fear.

"Aha~~What a poor lady~~" Sanji looked at the silver-haired woman with pity.

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"Thank you for saving me," said the old man, sitting on a deck chair on the island.

"Hey, why do they keep trying to catch this whale?" Nami asked curiously.

"This whale is called Raab, and it is an island whale from the West Sea. Its species is the largest whale in the world. Raab is a whale with human emotions. The mainland is yelling because he has been waiting for a group of pirates for 50 years..."

Everyone quietly listened to the story told by the old man, listening to the story of the whale,

"Fifty-nine years ago, a group of bold pirates came here with a very small whale. I heard from them that Rab followed them all the time and came here. On the day of parting, he asked me to take care of Rab Bu for two or three years, and told Rab to pick it up in three years, it will always be their partner, however, this wait is 59 years..."

"50 years... Raab has been waiting for them for 50 years..." Everyone looked at the old man in surprise.

"Okay, let's go out first." The old man stood up and stretched his shoulders.An Ke looked at this space and thought: "It's strange that I have to obey orders, I didn't expect to have human emotions..."

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"Whahahaha!! The real sky!!" Looking at the real blue sky and white clouds, Luffy said excitedly.

Usopp looked at the huge whale and said with emotion: "I didn't expect that group of pirates to let it wait for 50 years."

"Those guys are probably dead..." Anke looked at the scars on the whale's head, "If this whale continues like this, no matter how much the old man bothers, he won't be able to survive..."

"A whale that sticks to its promise, have they already abandoned it?" Sanji took a drag on his cigarette.

"I told Rab before, it's just that Rab doesn't accept this fact..." The old man looked up at the whale helplessly, his face full of vicissitudes, "It has been looking at the Upside Down Mountain, hoping that those people will definitely come back..."

Luffy looked at Rabe silently, then turned to look at the mast...

Anke watched suspiciously as he suddenly roared and rushed over, broke the mast at the waist, rushed to the whale's head, and slammed the mast in hard, "Rubber rubber-flower arrangement!!"

Watching Luffy's movements, Sanji said lightly, "What are you doing? That idiot?"

"Isn't that the mast?" Zoro folded his hands and looked at Luffy calmly.

"Yes, that's exactly what's on our boat." Sanji also said calmly.

"Mainmast?" Usopp said firmly.

Then, Anke watched the three men turn their heads to the deck stiffly, and when he saw a large section of the mast broken, he shouted angrily: "Why are you destroying the ship!!!"

Feeling the pain, the whale shook its body violently, and the sea suddenly surged.

"What are you doing!!!" Sauron and the others yelled with fangs, and the old man Krox looked at the yelling Rab, and opened his mouth wide in shock.

Anke hugged the side of the boat, watching Luffy and Rab fight, you come and I fly in the middle, and Rab hit the rock wall.

"What is that guy doing?" Everyone asked suspiciously.

An Ke chuckled and said, "Luffy should have his own plans, let's wait a little bit."

"Wait a minute!" Luffy shouted to stop the whale that was about to continue attacking, stood up and said with a smile, "I'm strong, right? We haven't decided the winner yet, so we have to keep fighting! Although your partner Died, but I won't, we must fight again!!! But I will come back to find you after a week around the great route! Let's fight again at that time!!"

Everyone looked at Luffy and understood why Luffy did this.The empathetic whale has slowly shed tears and roared towards the sky, as if agreeing to Luffy's promise.

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"Okay! This is the sign we agreed on. Before we meet, you can't hit the mountain and get rid of the sign!!"

The whale roared as if to say "Yes!"

The corner of Anke's mouth twitched as he looked at the familiar and distorted Pirate Flag logo on the whale's head, and once again secretly expressed that he couldn't understand Luffy's talent...

Usopp is repairing the ship, Zoro is sleeping, and Sanji is excitedly busy in the kitchen.Suddenly Luffy picked up something like a bracelet with a ball on the ground, and asked suspiciously, "What is this?"

Suddenly there was a faint explosion on the surface of the sea. Anke looked over and saw a beaver sitting on a vulture and flying away, while the two people who had been tied up before were floating in the sea with their eyes rolled for some reason.

"Eat~~~" Sanji ran up excitedly holding a few big plates, Usopp also climbed ashore, and Zoro was probably still sleeping.

"What should I do? The compass seems to be broken," Nami anxiously looked at and pointed at the compass that had been spinning around.Sanji put down his plate and walked over to her.

And Luffy had already eaten the food that Sanji brought, Anke glanced at them, and decided to just go eat.

"It seems that you really don't know anything. If you don't know anything about the great route, you are here to die. The compass is not broken, but it is disturbed by the surrounding magnetic field...", the old man of Colux explained: " Navigating the Great Route requires another kind of pointer, which is not affected by other islands, and points straight there. Wait until the records are collected before pointing to the next island.”

"This?" Luffy grabbed the food with one hand.With the other hand, he held up the object he had just picked up.Anke held a huge bone in both hands and gnawed it slowly, watching their movements with big eyes.

"Yes, that's the one!" The old man of Colux nodded.

"Luffy!! Why do you have this thing!!" Nami grabbed it and asked in surprise.

Then Luffy was busy eating meat and ignored her. Anke put down the bone in his hand and explained: "The one that Luffy picked up on the ground just now must have been dropped by someone else."

"Wow!! Luffy. You actually ate all the rice!! I made it for Nami-san!!" Sanji roared angrily as he watched the lunch being wiped out.

Usopp stared at the smooth dinner plate with wide eyes, "There are not even bones left..."

At this time, Rab emerged from the sea, pushed the two escaped people to the shore, and dived back into the sea.

"Wow~~~Beautiful lady~~" Sanji saw the silver-haired woman, and immediately forgot about Luffy, rushed over to grab her hand, and helped her up.

The man wearing the crown who was the woman's companion suddenly knelt down and said nervously: "I am Mr. 9, I have something to ask!!"

The woman also let go of Sanji's hand, ran to him and knelt down, "I'm MIS. Wendesday please send us to Whiskey Hill, our ship is broken..."

Nami squatted down and pulled Mr. 9's face said: "Your calculation is too good, Mr. 9, who are you!!"

"This can't be said!! In fact, we don't want to be so sneaky," Mr. 9 said with a bitter face.

MIS. Wendesday also chimed in: "Our company's slogan is mystery, so we can't say anything. We think you are good people, so we come to ask you, this kindness will definitely be repaid!!"

"Don't trust them, they are not good things." The old man of Colux reminded.

But Luffy has already nodded: "Okay, let's get on the boat. You're talking about Whiskey Hill, right?"

"What!!" Nami and Usopp yelled at Luffy: "Are you really going to take these two suspicious guys back??"

"It's okay, if they have any troubles, just throw them into the sea and feed the fish." An Ke stood up and smiled.

"The pointer should be almost full, and it should point to the next island now," the old man of Crox reminded.

"That! Let's sail!!!" Luffy shouted and ran back into the boat.

Anke, Sanji, Nami, and Usopp waved their hands at the old man Hui of Colax, and followed them on board the boat.

"Bye bye~~~~ Rab~~~~" Luffy excitedly waved his hands at the giant Fa Rab, "You must remember our agreement!!!"

Seeing the boat getting farther and farther away, Rab shouted to see them off.

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(End of this chapter)