Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 70 Details of Sky Island~
On the tree stump in front of Uncle Kurikai’s house, Luffy, Nami, Usopp and Chopper were ready to listen carefully to Uncle Kurikai’s story about Sky Island. Sitting cross-legged on the crystal next to him with a knife, Sanji took the two animals to cook in the house, and Robin was still guarding the boat.

The uncle stood in front of them, holding his hands and biting a cigarette, and said, "Listen, it's up to you to believe what I'm going to say next..."

Before the uncle finished speaking, Lu Fei nodded firmly and said, "Yes! I will believe it!!"

"Sometimes a strange phenomenon occurs in some sea areas in this area, that is, it is still daytime, but in a blink of an eye, it is shrouded in darkness..."

"That's right!! We met before!!" Luffy interrupted the uncle again, raised his hand and said loudly, then looked at Usopp aside, "Right?" Usopp also raised his hand and said loudly: " That’s right, after the night comes, monsters will appear!!”

"You are talking about huge monsters, right? There are many different legends about these monsters so far, but what I want to talk about is not this," the uncle continued: "As for the truth about the sudden darkness, simply put, it is because The cloud shadows that have accumulated quite thickly..."

This time the uncle was interrupted by Nami of Navigator: "Are you talking about cumulonimbus clouds? That kind of blackness is definitely not caused by the cover of dark clouds."

"Shut up and listen to me!!!" The uncle who was repeatedly interrupted finally got angry, and Lu Fei and the others immediately shut up obediently and sat down.The uncle continued with satisfaction: "That's called a cumulonimbus cloud. It's not an ordinary cumulonimbus cloud. It forms at a high altitude, no matter how thick it accumulates, it won't produce air currents, and it won't turn into rain. So once it's in the sky Covered by cumulus clouds, the clouds are so thick that even sunlight cannot penetrate, and the bright day will turn into night. Another way of saying is that cumulus clouds have not changed for thousands of years or even tens of thousands of years. A cloud fossil high up in the sky. Listen up, so I guess the only possibility, if Sky Island exists, is up there!"

"So that's it, I know! It's right for us to go to the top of the cloud~~" Luffy stood up and said with a smile: "Zoro is up!! Everyone is ready to sail!! Full rudder and drive to the cloud!!"

"Is it dawn?" Zoro rubbed his eyes when he heard the voice and said, Anke on the one side said lightly: "It's dark, but wake up..." On the other side, Nami had already made a big noise. Luffy, who was making a fuss, calmed down and continued to listen to the uncle.

"The next step is the key point. Don't blame me for not reminding you, you must have the determination to die. The ocean current KnockUpStream from bottom to top, as long as you follow the ocean current, you will get a ride to the sky."

"That is to use the current to rush into the air?" Suddenly remembering Bellamy's words, Nami asked: "But, what I heard is that the ship will eventually fall into the sea."

"Generally speaking, you just need to seize the opportunity. But will the situation be as simple as being pushed up by the current as I said? In short, it will not be such a relaxing and leisurely journey to the sky as you imagined." The uncle said solemnly Said: "KnockUpStream is a disaster to put it bluntly, and it should have been a natural killer to avoid."

Usopp was too scared to speak, but Nami asked curiously: "What is the reason for that sea current to rush into the sky? We have never heard of such a thing from before to now. "

"The principle of the monster-like ocean current has not yet been given a definite explanation, because no idiot will use his life to investigate this kind of thing. But there is a general definition: there is a sea in that place that is deeper than the bottom of the sea." The nearby low-temperature seawater will flow into that hole, and the geothermal heat under the seabed will cause it to generate huge steam pressure, thus causing a seabed eruption, which is enough to explode the seawater to form a bottom-up current. It is a big explosion of the ocean current. The time is about 1 minute, and the ocean current will continue to rise into the sky." The uncle continued to explain: "The location of the explosion is different every time, and the frequency is 5 times a month."

Usopp stood up tremblingly, his face pale with fear: "Then... will it be smashed to pieces when it falls?"

"Who knows..." The uncle just turned his back and said calmly: "It's simply stupid to explain this spectacular natural phenomenon with words or reasoning!"

"You... Do you mean that even if you successfully ride the current, there is no guarantee that you will reach the sky island?" Usopp had completely lost his expectation of going to the sky island, and continued to ask fearfully.

"That's right, if you don't succeed, you will be benevolent. There is nothing in the sky that can jam the ship. Once you fall from the sky and fall into the sea, everyone can only be buried in the bottom of the sea."

"Okay!! Everyone give up on Sky Island!! It's too reluctant!!! And our Golden Merry is so pitiful that it is dying. If it encounters a huge disaster, it is absolutely impossible to maintain its original state! !" Usopp continued to persuade the captain who had been laughing excitedly in fear: "If you are not the super lucky one of the lucky ones, then you don't have to go at all!!"

"Hahahahaha!!" Luffy still smiled and said, "It's okay, let's go!" Usopp froze instantly.

"Indeed, in the shape of that ship, it may disintegrate the moment the sea water bursts," the uncle's words just gave Usopp a hope, and the next words brought him back to reality: "However, you Don’t worry. The apes and orangutans will go out to sea with you to escort, of course, the pre-reinforcing work of the ship is also necessary.”

"Oh!" The orangutan and the orangutan squeezed their huge bodies out of the window of the house, waved their hands and said loudly: "Leave this matter to us!!"

"Please do everything!!" Luffy waved to them excitedly.

"So, Uncle Kulikai," Anke looked up and asked with a smile, "When is the next current? Before the record pointer is overwritten by this island, we have about one day left."

"Indeed, indeed. We can't catch up with that current at all," Usopp immediately smiled excitedly and said, "And uncle, you are not a prophet, you Don’t you know? The next time KnockUpStream will overlap with the cumulus cloud will be a few days later, no, no, no, it will be a few months, no, no, no, it will be a few years..."

"It should be noon tomorrow. If you want to go, prepare quickly."

"How could it be such a coincidence????" Usopp's eyes widened instantly, unable to believe what the uncle just said.After being dumbfounded for a while, Usopp suddenly pointed at the uncle and retorted loudly: "You are lying!! Because it is so strange, we just met today. You are too kind!!"

"Hey! Usopp!!" Luffy was about to stop Usopp from shouting rudely.

"Shut up!!" Usopp stopped Luffy even louder, and shouted at the silent smoking uncle: "Of course I want to go to Sky Island, but tomorrow is the day to prove that the legend is true?? And You still ask someone to help me buy a reinforcement ship? You want to go out to sea to escort?? How can there be such a good thing in the world? What are your plans?? You, the descendant of Rolando, a big liar, can only be believed. ghost!!!"

After Usopp yelled, everyone fell silent.At this moment, the door of the room was opened suddenly, and the first people who came out were the apes and the orangutans, and then Sanji squeezed out from the middle and said earnestly: "Nami-san~~cute~~eat~~~" and then because of the air Weird atmosphere and quiet down.

Faced with Usopp's yelling, the uncle still smoked calmly and calmly. After looking at Usopp for a few times, he walked slowly into the house and said lightly: "In the sea of ​​​​apes, there is a day that turns into night." The day after the vision, cumulus clouds appeared in the southern sky. According to the calculation of the cycle of 5 times a month, the KnockUpStream event day is likely to be tomorrow. The currents all occurred in the southern sea area of ​​this area, although I I don’t want to be [-]% sure, but the probability of overlapping tomorrow is really high.” The uncle suddenly stopped and said with a little emotion: “I’m really glad to meet you group of dream-chasing fools in my lifetime. Let’s go , go to dinner together. Rest well at my house tonight, comrades."

Hearing what the uncle said, everyone smiled in relief.Luffy laughed and said, "Let's go!! Usopp! Let's go eat!!" Sanji also said to Chopper: "Chopper, call Robin-chan for me~~"

Glancing at Usopp who was still standing there blankly, Encore was about to stand up from the crystal, but suddenly fell to one side unsteadily.Holding the person who happened to pass by him to stabilize his body, three black lines silently slid down from the top of Anke's head, "Damn it... my legs are numb after sitting for too long..."

Sauron, who was caught innocently, also silently slid three black lines from his head, thinking that Anke didn't want to walk, so he bent down to hug someone.Anyway, at the end of the day, either the idiot captain took over the errand, and if she held her back and called Luffy over by herself, the little guy would definitely think wrong, and then she would probably go to the sea to wash before eating Take a bath... After Zoro thought about it for a while, he found that his decision was quite wise.

I don't know what Nami and Usopp said later, Usopp suddenly cried and rushed to the uncle and hugged him tightly: "I'm sorry, Dad!!!"

"Don't spray your nose on me!! Damn it!!" The uncle who kept pushing Usopp seemed disgusted, which dissolved the embarrassment between him and Usopp.

"Hahaha..." Seeing them sticking together, everyone also laughed out loud.

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As soon as night fell, the pirates' banquet began.Sanji kept serving dishes, while everyone else was eating, drinking, laughing and making noises, and Robin was sitting in a far corner flipping through the 400-year-old log book.

"In the right eye of the skeleton... I saw gold..." The uncle with a bottle of wine suddenly came up to Robin and said something strange. Everyone quieted down and listened carefully to what the uncle said.

"That's what Rolando wrote with tears before he died: Gold was seen in the right eye of the skeleton. Rolando was executed that day." The uncle stood up and said to the quiet people: "But I came After Gaya, I still can't figure out the meaning of this sentence. What is in the right eye of the skeleton? Is this guy trying to reflect an ancient city, or is he a metaphor for his own death? But later Zhang Ye never It's just a few words, so we dive to the bottom of the sea to find it, because our dreams are under the sea."

"That's right, that's right!!" The orangutan supported loudly, and the room was full of laughter again.

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"This is the log of Dagaya Island, May 1122, 5," the uncle, who was full of food and drink, began to recite the content of Rolando's log again. Except for the two animals that were still laughing, Luffy and the others all Sitting around Uncle, "When we got to that island we heard wonderful bird calls from the forest, and a big...really big public bell. It was a huge gold bell made of solid gold , Its bells spread across the earth and resounded through the sky. It seems that the ancient capital of the past is boasting of its prosperity, and the civilization bred by the vast sea for a long time is no match for the impermanence of life. I can’t help but live for decades. We should not be surprised, our hearts are so heavy that we can’t even say a word, we just stand like this until the bell rings.” The uncle who finished telling the story stood up and raised his hands and shouted: “Oh! !!"

"Oh!!!!" The ape, orangutan, and Luffy also raised their hands and shouted.And Nami has already clasped her hands and blushed: "Great~~ There is a huge golden clock~~~~~"

"Look at this~~" The uncle took out three small golden clocks with a height of 3 centimeters as if offering treasures. Nami immediately rushed to pick up one and rubbed it non-stop, Bailey's eyes were full of sparkles.

"Rolando is not talking about this clock, it's just a bell-shaped ingot. We found three of these things at the bottom of the sea. Also, the wonderful bird sound mentioned in the record~~" The uncle said to the unknown when The orangutan who took out a cloth bag said, "Take it out and have a look."

The orangutan nodded happily, and opened the cloth bag, revealing a bird-shaped gold that was 80 centimeters high inside.This bird has a huge beak and a cockscomb-like thing on its head, and it has a unique golden glow all over its body.

"Wow~~This is so beautiful~~~" Nami fell under the temptation of gold again.

"The golden bell and the golden bird," Sanji said with a smile, "could they be the symbolic totems of ancient Gaya Island?"

"I don't know, I think they are probably part of some kind of shape," said the uncle, taking a puff of cigarette, "This kind of bird is called Nanjian bird, and this kind of bird is still alive on this island. Tell the log It's the same, and it sounds very strange."

"I heard about the Minami bird when I was a sailor..." the ape had just said this.Suddenly remembered something important, and exchanged a glance with the orangutan with the same surprised expression.The uncle also suddenly remembered something, and the three shouted loudly: "Oops!!!!" The simple house shook a few times because of their roars.

"What's the matter? What's the matter??" Luffy, who had no idea why they were so surprised, also asked loudly.

"This time is bad!! Hurry up and go to the forest!! The forest in the south!!" The uncle said nervously to them: "Hurry up and catch this bird!! Now, go right away!!"

"Huh?? What kind of bird do you want to catch at night??" Luffy looked at him strangely and asked, "Why??"

"Listen carefully, the KnockUp Stream you are going to go to tomorrow is located just south of the cape here!" The uncle continued to explain nervously: "Once the great route is out of the open sea, you will not know the south, east, north and west! !"

"That's right! The target this time is not an island but an ocean current!!" Nami suddenly figured it out and said, "Then the recording pointer will be useless, so how can we move straight to the south??"

"If you want to head south, you have to use the habits of Nanjian birds. Some animals in nature have the right magnets in their bodies, and they can know exactly where they are..."

"Hahahaha!!!" Luffy suddenly laughed and broke the uncle's words, pointing to Sauron and said with a smile: "Soron is not even as good as an animal!! Hahahaha!!!", Sauron instantly turned towards the same man It was Lu Fei who was Lu Chi and shouted "Are you qualified to say others???".

"The Nanjian bird is the best among them. No matter how vast the land or the sea it is flying, its body will continue to point out the right direction. All in all, there is no need to mention anything without this kind of bird!! It doesn't even reach KnockUpStream. There is no chance!!" The uncle stood up and kicked Lu Fei who was still leisurely and leisurely, "Don't procrastinate!!! Hurry up and catch that bird back!!"

The others hurriedly followed, and Usopp turned around and yelled in dissatisfaction: "Say this kind of thing earlier!! Uncle!! It's already midnight!! Do we want us to go into the woods in the dark to find birds??".

"And take this!" The uncle threw three nets to Luffy, folded his arms and said, "We will take this time to help you reinforce that dilapidated ship! Listen! At least one net must be caught before dawn." It’s just a bird in the south!!” After looking at Enke beside Luffy, the uncle said helplessly: “Let’s leave that child to our care for the time being, you guys go and come back soon!”

"In this case, I won't go in, Luffy." Encore who suddenly glanced at the quiet sea looked up and said to Luffy: "Besides, there are some interesting guests here, I will stay to entertain them~~"

"Guest??? Who is it??" Lu Feizhang Er looked at Encore puzzled, and was dragged away by Sauron before asking: "Whoever he is, the bird is more important now." .”

"Encore!!! You are one of the strongest fighters!! Together...ah!!!!" Usopp who hadn't finished shouting was kicked into the forest by Sanji.Sanji turned to Encore and said, "Little cutie, what kind of guest is it? Do you want to help?"

"An unfriendly guest," Anke slowly combed her long hair with both hands, smiling peacefully, "I can do it alone..."

"Although I don't know who the guest is, but be careful, Encore. Leave it to us to catch birds~" Nami carefully warned, then turned to follow Luffy and the others.

"Who is the guest?" Chopper raised his head blankly and asked Robin beside him.Robin just smiled: "Who knows. But, if the lovely deputy captain gets angry because of those guests, then we are still in danger. Let's catch birds, ship doctor-san~"

"That's right, it's better to catch birds with a higher safety index..."

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The moon is already high in the sky, and the bright moonlight is shining all over the earth.A pirate ship slowly sailed over the sea. The prow of the ship was a round face with a black eye patch, and the pirate flag was a skull sticking out its tongue.Bellamy, who was still wearing a blue coat, got off the shore with a group of men. The uncle led the orangutan and the orangutan standing in front of their big boat, and the two sides faced each other.And Anke, who had said that he would treat them well, was blocked behind three mountains at some point, and even Bellamy and the others couldn't see them.Anke tried to look up at the three 3-meter-high guys in front of him, with black lines all over their heads: "Does this mean to bully me for being short?" '(They meant to protect you...)
"Oh hey hey! Little brother, little brother!!! I advise you to be angry with us brothers!!" The orangutan looked at Bellamy who was standing in front of him with his arms folded, and threatened loudly.

"Don't you want to take advantage of the dark night and wind to loot the gold? Dwarf melons??" The orangutan sneered a few times, and moved its huge fingers, "We still have things to do!". 'Dwarf wax gourd? ? ? 'This sentence did not arouse Bellamy's reaction, but it made Encore behind the apes feel very uncomfortable for no reason!
"Hahaha!! You are the gatekeepers!! And I didn't expect you to be here, pirate Kuli Kai!" Bellamy laughed a few times full of sarcasm, and then said mockingly: "I listened to Telling the tragic story of your Montblanc family, I am really touched. But it is also a very happy thing to snatch the treasure that others have worked so hard for!! Hahaha!!
"I'll tell you directly, what do you call me!! 'Hyena'!! Hahaha!!!" Bellamy, who was laughing loudly, threw the cloak on his body to the ground.I don't know when Encore, who was sitting on the high crystal table, saw this handsome action on Bellamy's body but couldn't see the word "handsome" at all. Encore propped his chin and analyzed curiously: "Could it be Because of the face problem? ?Let Luffy try it next time~~ He is so cute and he must be very handsome when he does this action~~~~" A certain chick who has deviated from the normal thinking track is in fantasy...

"Hey, little baby, you'd better go into the house and hide for a while," the uncle said with a smile, "then it will be a scuffle." Enke, who was imagining, ignored him.

"Little doll???" Bellamy, who was laughing maniacally, heard this word, and saw the Encore on the heads of the orangutans (because Encore was sitting on the crystal pillar behind the uncle, and it happened to be seen from the perspective of Bellamy) I couldn’t reach the crystal pillar, thinking that Anke was sitting on the heads of the orangutans), and immediately said sarcastically: “Aren’t you the brat brought by that coward today? Just right, I also have a bill to settle with you!! Straw hat kid Lu Where are you flying!! Although I don’t think you guys did it, you were the only ones present when the Tropical Hotel was destroyed and I was driven back to Mogu Town!”

"Hahaha!!! I was knocked back to Mogu Town!!!" The orangutan and the ape immediately laughed mockingly loudly: "I didn't expect you to be so weak!!! You dare to shoot gold, hahahaha!!!"

Bellamy, who was so angry that his expression kept changing, yelled at the dozens of subordinates he brought: "Go and grab that brat and the gold!" He smiled and looked at them with arms folded.

"Since you're here, don't blame our subordinates for being merciless! It's not that easy to deal with our Ape Mountain United Army! The apes beat you up!!" Seeing a group of people rushing forward, the orangutan and the orangutan immediately beat them to the ground , the uncle also knocked down a few with his good fist and kick skills.

"It's not bad, everyone~~~" Encore, who was still sitting on the crystal, said calmly.

The orangutan immediately narrowed his eyes with a smile and said, "Don't worry~~ little baby, we will definitely get rid of them and let them hurt you in the slightest~~ Otherwise, we won't be able to explain why the straw hat brother came back~~hahahaha!!!"

"Okay, the most exciting late-night show is about to begin!" Bellamy just stretched out her tongue and licked her lips when all her subordinates were knocked to the ground.Immediately squatting down, the calf immediately turned into a spring: "Spring sniper!!!"

Seeing Bellamy flying over, the uncle and the others froze for a moment, then put on a defensive posture.Anke just chuckled, and gently raised his hand: "Crystal Wall - Defense!!!"

With a loud "bang", Bellamy, who came over quickly, hit the crystal wall and forced a few cracks in it, but it was not broken yet.Seeing Bellamy's distorted face, the uncle's jaws dropped to the ground, "Is this really a crystal..."

"Hehe, it's a real crystal, it's just a little bit of stuffing~~" Encore knocked Bellamy back to its original place with the crystal, then jumped off the crystal table where she was sitting, and walked in front of the uncles and the others, "Uncles, come on!" It's my occasion to come down~ You will help us repair the boat later, it's not okay to make you too tired~~~ You should sit and rest where you are, and I will clean up the garbage a little bit."

"What do you mean..." The uncles silently looked at the relaxed Enke, their jaws still glued to the ground and unable to get up.Enke turned her head and smiled sweetly, "I mean, I want you to sit down and watch the show, uncles, uncles!"

Uncle and the others immediately responded obediently and sat on the ground, with cold sweat on their heads, thinking tacitly: "It's so scary...the face is obviously like an angel, why did I see the devil's smile?" ? '

"Sure enough, you did it!!" Bellamy, who got up quickly, stretched his neck and laughed a few times: "Haha, but you are just a child here now, so what if you are a devil fruit user?" ? But, even if that coward, the Straw Hat Kid, is here, I’m not afraid, sir, but I’m the 'hyena' Bellamy of Springberry!! Hahahaha!!!"

"Huh?? Coward???" Anke just chuckled a few times, but the murderous aura flowing in the words condensed like ice in the hearts of everyone present.

"Ah!!!" Not knowing what happened, Bellamy screamed and fell to the ground.Bellamy's hands were nailed to the ground by crystal nails. He looked in amazement at the child who stepped on him and pointed at him with a snow-white blade. Although the child was only ten years old, the seemingly murderous The blink of an eye made him break out in cold sweat.The fragile jaws of the uncles who were sitting there fell to the ground again, because they who had been watching Encore couldn't see when she went to Bellamy's.

"Luffy is the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, and I'm his deputy captain. You scum just called him a coward in front of me?? You said it more than once??" His pupils are murderously bright.The crystal-clear Xue Lian continued to emit chills, as if responding to the anger of the master.

"You know today when you beat Luffy and Zoro triumphantly, why they didn't fight back, but I just kept silent? It's not that we can't beat you, any one of us can be crushed to death I killed you like an ant, but we didn't bother to fight with you, because that fight would only make people feel sympathetic. What qualifications does a trash who dare not even have a dream have to be compared with a real pirate? What is it? Qualified to snatch the gold that others regard as glory?
"Maybe staying with Luffy for too long has made me become kind. When your subordinates said they wanted to buy me, Luffy and the others helped me vent my anger, although the culprit is likely to sleep forever In a nightmare, so I didn’t want to do anything to you guys. But, you just said that you wanted to steal the gold nuggets from Uncle and the others?? Although that’s not really my business, but if Luffy knew it, he definitely wouldn’t I will let you go, because Luffy already regards the uncles as friends, and those gold nuggets are the medals for the uncles to pursue their dreams.

"The more important point is that Luffy has always wanted to go to Sky Island. We finally found Uncle and them to help Luffy realize his dream. If Luffy can't go to Sky Island because of your trash, we will be very troubled." An Ke still had a smile on his face, and looked at the people stepping on him, and suddenly felt that stepping on a piece of garbage would stain his shoes, so he jumped back to the uncle and the others.

"Bellamy!!!" The subordinates who were knocked down by the uncles also returned to Bellamy in a state of embarrassment.

"Empty Island?? You are still daydreaming!! Dreams will never come true!! Hahaha!!" Bellamy suddenly opened the crystal needle in her hand, stood up and smiled sinisterly: "Although I don't know what you just did? But I'm Bella the hyena with a bounty of 5500 million..."

"Bellamy!!!!" Bellamy's subordinates suddenly screamed.

"Why..." Bellamy spat out a mouthful of blood, looking in disbelief at the white knife stuck in her belly and the blood that had frozen near the knife.Anke just raised his head and smiled sweetly at him, as if he was not the one who stabbed someone else with a knife, "Sure enough, with my current height, it's a bit difficult to stab someone taller than me~ It's really troublesome~~~"

As Xue Lian slowly pulled out, Bellamy knelt down on the ground clutching the wound on her abdomen, looking in disbelief at Enke who still had a smile on her face.

"I spare your life, besides not wanting to dirty Xue Lian, another reason is what you just said 'dreams will never come true'. Luffy's dream is to become the One Piece, and we firmly believe in him I will become the One Piece King. I spared your life just to give you a chance to live until the day when Luffy becomes the One Piece King, and then regret it completely, that's all~"

Stretching out her hand and touching Xue Lian's cold blade, An Ke smiled cutely, "Monkey-D-Luffy is the man I choose to follow, and the only man who can make me sacrifice my life to protect him. And , what I want you to keep in mind is that Luffy is the strongest person in our pirate group, bar none."

Looking at the trembling man and the fainted Bellamy, Anke nodded in satisfaction, pointed at their boat and said, "The next thing is, get out~"

After the uncles who were spectators once watched a scene where a loli beat up a bully for free, their jaws were still stubbornly glued to the ground, and they watched the bullies flee in a daze, while the little loli was still smiling cutely.

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(End of this chapter)