Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 50 Arriving in Yuba, the sad truth
On the tenth day after entering the desert, noon.The sun is still not stingy with its heat, adding excess temperature to this land that never lacks heat.There is almost no food and water, and everything can only be replenished in the oasis Yuba
In the desert, there is silence, the heat wave is still churning, the gigantic Chopper is carrying the fainted Luffy, Encore and Zoro are holding hands and looking at the desert silently, they are the only ones in sight. other people.nobody else……

"Hmm..." Luffy woke up slowly, looked around in a daze, "strange..." Chopper looked at Luffy on his shoulder, and said worriedly, "Are you awake?"

"Finally woke up?" Sauron said helplessly, "This is a wayward guy!"

"Strange, weird!!" Luffy asked in surprise when he looked around and found that there were only four of them: "Where are the others??"

"Who knows..." Sauron said lightly.

"Don't you know???"

"The correct way to say it is that I don't know, ha, ha, ha..."

"Isn't it time to laugh now?? You're lost again..."

"Whose fault do you think!!" Zoro and Chopper yelled at Luffy with their fangs in tacit understanding.Luffy pointed to himself innocently and said, "Could it be me??"

"Lu, Fei, Jun!!" Anke said sinisterly, "Since you're awake, come down for me!!!"

Luffy shivered violently, and looked down at Encore with a gloomy face.Zoro 'kindly' helped to tear him off Chopper's shoulders and threw him 'gently' in front of Encore.

"Since I don't remember it, let me help you recall it~~" Anke moved her fingers slowly, the sweltering weather made her even more angry.Luffy looked nervously at Anke's gloomy face and the neighbors, Zoro and Chopper who didn't want to rescue him at all, and his animal-like intuition instantly felt deep malice.

"No!!!"

……………………… Time back to an hour ago………………………………………

"Ah!! I'm going to beat you up!! Crockdale!!" Luffy yelled on the desert, jumping up and down, "Ah!!!! I'm going to beat you up!" You!!"

"What's wrong with him??" Usopp, who was exhausted from the heat, stuck out his tongue hard, looking at Luffy who was suddenly alive and kicking.Sanji looked at Luffy who was running around on the sand suspiciously and said, "Flying around again, did you eat anything?"

"Isn't he reconciled if he doesn't mess around?" Nami, who was sitting on the camel, had to turn around and ask the doctor, "Chopper, give him something."

"Ah... I see..." Chopper, who was dizzy on the wooden cart, replied blankly, but he didn't move.Anke, who was sitting on the camel, tilted his head and looked at Luffy, deeply moved by his vitality.

"I don't think it's going to work..." Zoro looked back at Chopper who was about to be roasted on the wooden cart, and said helplessly.

"Then there is no other way, Sauron, please..."

"Why me again??"

"Do you still want me to ask you to borrow money?"

Hearing Nami mentioning money, Zoro angrily pulled the wooden cart and walked towards Luffy who kept yelling: "If you don't go to hell, I will take you there myself!!" Think After a while, Encore jumped off the camel, stood on the wooden cart pulled by Zoro, and looked at the alive and kicking Luffy with a little helplessness.

"I'm looking forward to it~~" Nami didn't care at all, and looked at Encore who was pulled away by Sauron and said loudly: "Hey!! Encore, you should go with us!!"

"No need~" Anke waved his hand with a smile and said, "I'll go and see Luffy too, I'm worried that Sauron won't be able to handle him~"

"Okay then..." Nami had no choice but to say to Sanji and the others: "Then let's go first."

"Huh??" Weiwei looked at her strangely and said, "Aren't we waiting for them?"

"It's okay, Encore and Zoro are there," Nami said with a smile, driving the camel to continue walking slowly: "Anyway, they will follow the footprints later."

"Hey! Luffy!!" Zoro stood on the sand dune and shouted to Luffy who was still yelling, "Wake up quickly!!" Enke also stood up and looked at Lu Fei who was insane for some reason. Fei said helplessly, "Sauron, go up and wake him up!"

"What, why me again??"

"Then do you want me to go up or Chopper to go up?? I can't do what I say, and Chopper can't move~~"

"..." Sauron looked down at the corner of his mouth twitching, a child, a reindeer.I had no choice but to draw out the knife, took a look at the sharp blade and then took it back, and rushed down with bare hands.

"Crockdale..." The dazed Luffy obviously misread Sauron, and after a smirk, he rushed forward: "I'm going to beat you up!!!"

Anke calmly folded his hands and watched them punch and kick each other back and forth, and didn't move after the last punch hit the opponent's face.The wind blew over in bursts, and the blown sand slowly buried Chopper lying on the car.An Ke wiped the sweat off his face, opened his slightly chapped lips, and watched the sand slowly bury Luffy and Zoro in the sand.

'Is there something wrong? ? Anke quietly looked at Luffy and Zoro with only one head exposed on the sand, and then looked back at Chopper with only a blue nose, enduring the heat to organize his thoughts. "Ah!!! Luffy! Sauron!!" Encore suddenly screamed, hurriedly walked to the next door to Luffy, who was only showing his head, and patted his face, and then patted Sauron's face, and found that neither of them woke up. come over.

"Wow!!! It's so hot!!" The furry doctor jumped up from the sand and kept shaking the sand on his body.Before he finished shaking, he was called by Encore: "Chopper, take something out and let them smell it, they are all fainted from the heat!"

"Ah, oh!!" The little ship doctor immediately ignored his discomfort and ran over, took out a medicine bottle and put it under Sauron's nose.

"Cough cough cough cough..." After a burst of violent coughing, Sauron finally woke up and slowly climbed out of the bunker: "I'm saved..."

"What about Luffy?" Chopper looked worriedly at Luffy who was still buried in the soil.

"What about him..." Before Sauron finished speaking, he felt the silent gaze from Encore, and immediately changed the subject and said, "I'll go and pull him out immediately!!"

Seeing Sauron's quick movements, Anke retracted his gaze in satisfaction.Chopper looked around and said, "But, Encore, where are we going next?"

Anke looked around and found that the footprints had been buried by the sand just now. He closed his eyes slightly and perceived it with a domineering sense of knowledge. After a while, he pointed to the left and said: "Later, just pass here ..." Anke breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself: "Fortunately, Nami and the others didn't leave so fast~~"

Chopper tried to smell on the left side with his nose, but didn't find any familiar smell, so he said doubtfully, "It's really on the left..."

"Luffy!" Encore directly ignored what Chopper hadn't finished speaking, and ran over in a hurry after seeing that Sauron had dug out Luffy, leaving a blue-nosed reindeer in a mess in the wind...

………………… The end of memories…………………………………

"It's so hot..." Lu Fei walked slowly with his waist bowed and his tongue sticking out, and he said something hot from time to time.Anke walked beside him and comforted in a low voice: "Be patient for a while, Luffy..."

"Sure enough, I can't do it..." Zoro, who was walking in front, looked back at Luffy's reddish forehead and Anke, who was walking next to him, and sighed helplessly. Fortunately, he just thought that Encore would Beat Luffy hard...

"Is he alright?" The gigantic Chopper looked back worriedly at the crazy Luffy and the small and exquisite Encore.

"This matter is nothing to him. Encore, she will take care of herself better than Luffy..." Sauron said lightly, and walked forward, but at a very slow pace.

"By the way, are all pirates like this?" Chopper asked Zoro suspiciously, "We have to climb snow mountains and cross deserts."

"Really, maybe we're the only ones who are particularly weird. The captain has such virtues, and the vice-captain is a brat..."

"I really boarded a weird pirate ship..."

"What a coincidence, that's what I thought just now..."

"By the way, Sauron, you are an old member of this pirate group, right? Why did you join? I noticed it when I first joined. Everyone is full of mavericks, especially you, Sauron."

"That's true. The other partners are the same. They all have their goals. Everyone is doing what they want to do. It's really interesting. Someone said before that we don't have any team spirit. Who is the captain? It's such a strange virtue that people can't help it..."

Chopper turned his head to look at Luffy, who had no energy at all, and said blankly, "I feel the same way..."

"But what exactly is team spirit? Helping each other and protecting each other is enough? Some people think so, but," Sauron reached out and shook the hilt of his sword and continued, "I think it's just bluffing, it should be It is everyone doing their own thing with the determination to die, 'I have done my part, and it is your turn, if you can't do it well, I will beat you to death', this kind of determination can be regarded as team spirit Well. From this point of view, it’s not a big deal even if the partners are mavericks. That’s what I think…”

Listening to their conversation, Anke smiled faintly, looked at the imageless captain next door, and thought with relief: "Everyone is gathered together because of Luffy, so I feel relieved... ' Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a purple ball with barbs protruding out, and then the ground shook, and a huge purple scorpion popped out.

"Wow! A scorpion!!" Chopper was so frightened that he immediately turned back into a small one, and refused to get off Sauron's body.Sauron, who was already very hot, suddenly carried a furry guy on his back, and suddenly became hot enough.

"Meat!!" Seeing the food, Luffy immediately cheered up, and was about to rush up but was held back by Encore.An Ke said helplessly: "Wait a minute, Luffy!! I don't want to walk anymore now!!"

Zoro was still struggling with Chopper who was on him, and Luffy asked suspiciously: "But what does the scorpion have to do with you not wanting to walk?? Anyway, I want to eat it, Encore~~~"

"Calm down, Luffy. I'll catch another one for you later~" An Ke walked slowly in front of everyone and turned his back to them.Looking at the scorpion holding its pincers and waving its venomous tail, a red light flashed in its left eye, and the faint black number 'three' flashed in the red pupil. The scorpion immediately stopped moving and crawled down obediently.

"Did something happen??" Zoro finally pulled Chopper off his body, and saw a huge five-meter-long scorpion squatting there. Lu Fei drooled at it eagerly, while Encore Stand on top of the scorpion.

"From now on, I will use this scorpion instead, because Ace has run away, and Luffy still needs to carry luggage." Encore smiled and pointed at the back of the scorpion and said, "Come on~ let's find Nami and the others~~"

"Will it be obedient?" Zoro walked in slowly, dragging Chopper who didn't let go.He looked up at the indifferent Encore, and jumped on it.And Luffy is still staring at this delicious-looking scorpion below.

"Luffy, come up quickly," Anke said helplessly, "If you find Sanji earlier, you can eat, right?"

"Yes! Sanji!!" Hearing this, Luffy jumped up excitedly and said, "Encore, hurry up~~ Let's find Sanji to roast scorpions~~"

"Yes..." Anke responded casually, and then drove the scorpion to run.

"Wow~~ so fast~~~" Luffy sat on the running scorpion and laughed, forgetting the fatigue just now.Chopper also sat relaxed on it and enjoyed the wind brought by the running of the scorpion: "The wind is also very comfortable~~~"

"But where did this scorpion come from? Why is it so obedient," Sauron looked at Encore's new mount, and remembered the scorpion he ate last time: "The super lively one that Ace roasted last time .”

"I just ran out of the sand~" Anke untied Chiyue and sat cross-legged on the back of the scorpion, and said with a sweet smile, "I listen to my orders probably because I'm so cute~~" He also blinked his left eye mischievously.

"..." Looking at Anke's exquisite baby face, Sauron didn't continue to say anything, because he knew very well that Anke didn't really answer his question.But Luffy and Chopper took it seriously, leaned in front of Encore, stared at her face and said, "Encore, is it true?"

"What do you think?" Anke pushed away the two curious babies in front of him, pointed to the looming figure in front of him and said, "I saw Sanji and the others..."

Hearing the word 'Sanji', Luffy was instantly distracted, waving his hands and shouting at them: "Sanji!!! Eat!! I'm hungry~~~~~~~ "

Sanji, who saw a huge scorpion rushing towards them, was putting on a defensive posture, but when he heard Luffy's familiar voice, the cigarette in his mouth fell to the ground, and Usopp, who was so scared that he hid behind the camel, also Hearing this voice, the two fangs shouted at Luffy: "Why did you appear there!!"

"Really! Where there is trouble, there is him!" Nami, who was sitting on the camel, said to Weiwei behind, "Weiwei, I told you not to worry about them! Ah, but Encore still has to worry, Others ignore it, hahahaha..."

With a drop of cold sweat hanging down, Weiwei looked at Nami speechlessly, then looked back at the scorpion running over, and asked suspiciously: "But why don't you wonder why they would sit on the scorpion?"

"What's so strange?" Sanji picked up the cigarette on the ground, patted the sand and said, "Anyway, it's absolutely impossible for a child as delicate as cutie to make it, and if Luffy and Zoro are there, it must be the two of them. A masterpiece, otherwise it would be Chopper..."

"Ah!!" Luffy, Zoro, and Chopper sneezed at the same time. "Ah, that's strange." Lu Fei rubbed his nose and said, "Did I catch a cold?"

"Idiots don't catch a cold~~" Looking at the three guys, Luffy and Zoro to be precise, Anke silently commented in his heart.As a result, Luffy and Zoro sneezed again.

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It was dusk, and the orange sunset was hanging outside the horizon.Except for Nami and Weiwei who are still sitting on the camel'eyelashes', everyone else is sitting on the scorpion, and their luggage is also tied to the scorpion.

"Guys, after that rock pile is Yuba." Weiwei said, pointing to the rock pile ahead.Chopper, who had regained his senses, looked ahead and said, "Is that Yuba?"

Encore smiled and watched Luffy thinking hard with the blank paper Ace gave him. "What exactly is that?" Sanji looked over his head, but didn't find anything unusual about the piece of paper.

"Who knows..." Luffy looked at it distressedly and said, "But Ace told me to take it, so I took it."

Anke smiled and explained: "This is a life card, a paper that represents the vitality of the owner." Anke looked at Luffy holding the paper tightly, smiled and stretched out his hand and said, "Give me the hat, I'll sew it in the brim of your hat for you."

"Oh~~" Lu Fei happily handed over the hat and life card and said, "Although I don't understand what it is, it is very important, right?"

"Why do you know, Encore?" Sauron asked slightly puzzled.Encore didn't stop moving, and after a while, he said, "Who knows..."

"Yuba is here!!" Weiwei's excited voice sounded, but then she became very confused and disbelieving, "Why is this happening!!"

Luffy and the others looked over, and found that Yuba, which Vivi called an 'oasis', was a desolate empty city. The withered trees were lifeless, the broken walls were full of dust, and the dried walls occasionally fell a few A piece of gravel kicked up a burst of dust.

"Is this really an oasis, Vivi?" Sanji jumped off the scorpion and looked at the abandoned city, full of doubts.Luffy sneaked to the luggage and took out the last jug of water to drink, looking around. "Luffy! Don't drink it, that's the last bottle!!" Usopp hurried over to protect the water, and the two of them huddled together.Zoro and Chopper, who didn't want to be affected, also jumped to the ground.

"The sand made the ground rise, and the oasis was covered..." Weiwei's lips trembled, she couldn't believe the scene in front of her.

"Are you travelers? Are you tired of crossing the desert??" An old voice sounded with the sound of 'rustle'.Weiwei covered her face vigilantly, while Anke naturally put on a scarf and slowly shrunk on top of the scorpion.Everyone walked forward slowly a few steps, and found a big sand pit in front of them, and an old man with a vicissitudes of life was struggling to shovel the sand with a shovel.The old man didn't turn his head, and continued to move his hands, "I'm sorry, this city has been deserted, but it's okay to take a break. You don't have a problem with staying as long as you want."

"Excuse me," Weiwei said slowly, "I heard that the rebels live in this city..."

The old man paused before speaking slowly: "Those idiots... are no longer here..." The old man's helpless words were like a blockbuster thrown at Luffy and the others, and everyone opened their mouths in disbelief: " What! How could this happen!!"

"This town has been attacked by sandstorms for three years, and the material resources have been cut off, so the rebel army moved their base to Katrea..." The old man continued to dig the sand, slowly explaining to Luffy and the others.

"Vivi, where is that?" Luffy asked loudly to Weiwei who was familiar with this place. "That's the oasis near Nahana..." Weiwei explained with a slight frown.

"Isn't Katrea the place where I met Eyelashes when I lost my way?" Chopper said suddenly, and Eyelashes were also muttering something at this time.Chopper, who heard the words of the eyelashes, translated reflexively: "When the eyelashes said that it rescued me, it was helping the rebel army carry goods to Katrea..."

"Why didn't you say it earlier!!" Luffy, Sanji and Usopp rushed up and beat them up. "'Who knows'" Eyelash retorted, but was beaten even worse by Luffy and the others, "You idiot!!"

"Weiwei..." The old man walked up the hill slowly excitedly, his old face full of disbelief, "Did you just call her Weiwei?"

"Wow!! Old man!!!" Lu Fei rushed up to explain, trying to hide Weiwei's identity as much as possible, "Weiwei is not a princess!!"

As a result, he was punched by Zoro as soon as he finished speaking, "Shut up!! Idiot!!"

"You are Weiwei, right?? Are you still alive?? That's great..." The old man pressed Weiwei's shoulder and said with a sob: "It's me?? Can't you recognize me?? No wonder , I lost so much weight..."

Weiwei looked at the old face in front of her, and suddenly covered her mouth, not wanting to believe her guess: "You are... Uncle Duotuo??"

"Yes, yes..." The old man slowly let go of his hand, and said with great emotion: "Those rebels...are just fooling around...I still believe in the king, and most of the citizens are like me...I have stopped them a lot Again, but they still want to rebel, but their physical strength has reached the limit...It has been decided to make a break in the next round of attacks..."

Weiwei opened her eyes wide, looked at the old man looking up at herself pleadingly and said: "Weiwei, please, stop... these idiots..." Weiwei clenched her fists fiercely, then let go, bent down and said softly : "Don't worry, Uncle Doto. I will definitely stop the rebellion..."

"Ah...thank you..."

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At night, everyone prepares to rest.But the overly active members of the Straw Hat Pirates huddled together in the simple room. Encore, who was still wearing a face towel, looked at the other people who were having a pillow fight, and found that the captain who should be the most involved was not there. In desperation, he had to go outside quietly, and he found that Luffy was pestering the old man named Doto for water.

"Lufei, this is a deserted city without water..." Encore looked at the surrounding scenery, looked at someone who was not sleepy at all, and said helplessly: "Lufei, why don't you dig the sand too? If there is a well, you can drink water..."

"Really??" Luffy was excitedly digging the sand on the spot, but was stopped by Encore: "Wait a minute, Luffy. You are so easy to get hurt..."

"Don't worry~~I'm very good~~" Luffy kept moving, digging excitedly.But the sand dug out buried the hole Duo Tuo was digging.

"Hey, wait a minute! Don't throw the sand you dug into the hole I dug!" Elder Dotuo covered his eyes with his hands to block the sand and said loudly, "Do you want to fill up my hole?"

"Huh??" Luffy looked at him strangely and said, "I'm just digging a hole..."

"No, the sand you dug out fell into the hole I dug, so wouldn't my digging be in vain?" The old man explained with hands and feet together, "Do you understand what I mean?"

"..." After thinking for a while, Luffy continued to dig the hole excitedly: "In short, it is an incredible hole, right, I know~~~"

"Old man, take a break first," Anke persuaded, "You can't let Lu Fei understand what you mean, he's a little too naive..."

The old man sighed and quickly climbed out of the hole he dug, otherwise he would be buried by the dust thrown by Luffy.Seeing the old man's appearance, Anke said with a little doubt: "By the way, old man, why don't you leave here? There's no way to live here long ago, isn't it?"

"This is the land given to us by the king, and I must protect it. Moreover, I believe Yuba will never lose to Sandstorm!" Elder Doto said with emotion, then looked at Encore and said, "But little baby, Why did you follow Weiwei? Shouldn't you stay at home at your age?"

"I didn't follow Weiwei," Anke looked at the hole where sand and stones were constantly flying out, and said softly, "I followed Lu Fei..."

"That boy?"

"That's right, because Luffy promised to send Vivi back at the beginning, so the partners on the boat followed. Finally, Luffy said that he wanted to fly Crockdale, so we followed into the desert. We will know what happened to Vivi later. After the incident, we started to pay attention to Weiwei's affairs..."

"Weiwei really knows a bunch of good friends," the old man said with emotion.There was silence between the two of them.Time passed by, and the hole that Luffy was digging no longer flew out sand and gravel. The old man went over and looked slightly surprised: "It's actually dug so deep..."

Anke went over to look at the person who was sleeping soundly at the bottom of the pit, and said helplessly, "Finally fell asleep, I'm still worried that his energy hasn't been exhausted..." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, condensing a piece of crystal to lift the bottom of the pit Luffy lifted it up.

"This is... a devil fruit," the old man stared blankly at the child-like Anke and said, "I never thought you would be a devil fruit capable user at such a young age..."

"It's nothing strange, there are all kinds of things on the sea..." An Ke looked at the sleeping Luffy, stretched out his hand to brush off the dust on his body, and then said to the old man: "Old man, I will take Lufei in to rest first. and you?"

"Ah, I'll keep digging," the old man smiled, holding his shovel and said, "Since we've dug so deep, there should be water soon..."

"I see..." Encore nodded and walked into the resting room, the ever-extending crystal put Luffy who was asleep on a bed and then shattered and dissipated into the air. "Looks like I'm tired from the long journey..." Looking at the sleeping people, Anke smiled helplessly, and slowly stretched out his hand, a light mist enveloped everyone, dispelling the coldness of the desert night.

'Good night……'

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(End of this chapter)