Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 72 Is this the Kingdom of Heaven? !

The Merry passed through the thick clouds, and the dense clouds made it difficult for the partners on board to breathe.After breaking through the clouds, the Merry was still rising, and the wings on both sides of the hull were broken.When the Merry returned to the cloud layer and settled down, everyone had no time to look at the world around them, because the high pressure on the cloud layer made them panting hard for a while, and their clothes were also worn out by the cloud just now. Get wet.Well, everyone still does not include Luffy, who is not affected for some reason. He has been looking around curiously and excitedly since he came up.After a long time, other talents slowly adapted to the surrounding environment.

"It's really uncomfortable..." Anke frowned slightly, covering his slightly aching chest, and looked at the white world around him, "Where is this?"

"Hey, take a look around the boat!!" Luffy excitedly said to Encore and the others who were still sitting on the ground: "It's white!!"

"Really!!!" The crew members who discovered this immediately ran to the side of the ship and looked at this magical world curiously, except for Usopp who was still lying on the ground for some reason.And Anke also took out the camera he hadn't used for a long time, and took pictures of this magical environment as a souvenir.

"Is this above the clouds?" Nami looked at the surrounding clouds suspiciously and said, "Why doesn't it fall?"

"Why not??" Luffy folded his hands as a matter of course and said, "Clouds can sit on them~~" (PS: This kid used to like to let Anke make a lot of messy things to play with with illusion, let alone Baiyun, Sea water has sat...)
"Where can I sit???" Zoro, Sanji and Chopper denied Luffy's logic of not being gregarious again.

"Chopper, go and see Usopp, I don't know why he keeps rolling his eyes..." Encore, who took a few photos, smiled and said, "I want to take a group photo~~"

Chopper, who was nervous to check, immediately helped Usopp resuscitate while sitting in a panic, "It's not good! Usopp is out of breath!! Usopp, cheer up!!"

"..." Not long after, Usopp slowly opened his eyes and looked around, and immediately sat up and shouted in surprise: "What?? Isn't this a cloud??? It's too cloudy!! This What is it??"

"Is this the so-called Sky Island?" Nami looked at the recording pointer on her hand, and found that it was still pointing up, "But look, the recording pointer is still pointing up..."

"This should be in the middle of the cumulus cloud, but now I really don't know where to go~" Anke still hugged the camera and said: "But! Now! Immediately! Immediately! Everyone stand up for me! Take pictures!!"

"Hahaha, you're right~~ It's a waste to not commemorate it when you come here~~" Usopp immediately put on a pose that he thought was very handsome.

"Then, leave this matter to me~" Robin smiled and raised both hands to take the camera.Everyone immediately crowded in front of the camera, and Usopp's handsome appearance was immediately squeezed.The camera "clicked" and opened the prelude to this adventure.Well, Sauron in the photo is rarely full of energy, but Sanji is still thinking about Nami and Robin as always, and I don’t know when Usopp, who is squeezed to the back, can only be photographed with one head That's all.Behind everyone, the white and thick sea of ​​clouds that seemed to have no end explained the location of this adventure.

"Hahahaha!! It's the sea!!" After taking the photo, Usopp immediately took off the suspenders and shoes on his upper body, stood handsomely on the side of the boat and said, "The first trip, Captain Usopp, go swimming!!"

"Yes, yes!!" Luffy and Chopper immediately ran to the side and cheered loudly, encouraging him to jump down.

"Don't act rashly," Sanji said worriedly: "We don't know much about this sea area yet, it's better to stay on board."

"The sea is the sea!!!" The laughing Usopp jumped directly into the sea, stirring up a cloud and disappearing.And landlubber's Luffy and Chopper stayed at the bow of the boat and looked at the sea enviously.Time passed minute by minute.

Staring at Sauron all the time, frowning slightly, he said, "He...hasn't shown his face..."

Ann, who was a bit uneasy, closed his eyes and felt Usopp's breath, and said slowly: "He is swimming straight down, there are many creatures in the sea, probably the sea kings, the sea kings in the air."

"Since there are creatures, it is easier to accept this place as the sea. But..." Robin propped his chin and said doubtfully: "Swim straight down~ I have a problem, I don't know that there is a so-called seabed in this place. ?"

"..." Sauron suddenly said loudly: "Did that guy fall from the cloud? Otherwise, he wouldn't be going straight downstream!"

"Usopp!!" Luffy immediately stretched out his arms and went into the sea to scoop Usopp up.Anke, who walked to the side of the boat, pointed to a place on the surface of the sea and said, "Luffy! Come here! He's just below here!" Luffy moved over a little bit as he said, and then said distressedly: "But I can't see it." , can only grab randomly..."

"Stretch it as much as possible! Leave it to me!" Robin said loudly, then folded his hands and closed his eyes and said, "Dazzling!!"

And Anke also closed his eyes to feel the distance between Luffy's hand and Usopp, "We should be able to see it in about 20 meters, his current breath is still constantly moving away from us..."

The boat was quiet, looking anxiously at the white and flawless sea.

"I see! Six rounds of flowers are blooming!" Robin let out a sigh of relief, then opened his eyes and said, "Okay, you can pull it up now..."

"Did you catch it? Good!!" Luffy began to withdraw his hand vigorously, but then gritted his teeth and said, "It's so heavy..."

"A warm reminder," Anke also opened his eyes and said with a smile, "following the brave sniper is the Kukai creature I just mentioned, two big ones and one small one~ Please pay attention~ ~"

"Usopp should be used as bait..." Sanji vomited a smoke ring, and said lightly: "I don't know how the sea kings made by Kukai taste like~~"

"Okay! Pulled up!!" Nami breathed a sigh of relief seeing Usopp being pulled up.But not long after Usopp came up, the sea shook violently.

Sauron immediately jumped onto the strings of the boat, drew out his knife and slashed at the claw of a huge squid following him, but unexpectedly, when the sharp blade touched the squid, the squid burst like a balloon.Sanji also knocked out another huge flat blue fish, but it didn't explode like a squid.

"Seriously, this place is really breathless..." After a little exercise, Zoro began to pant uncomfortably, and the same was true for Luffy and Sanji.

"This... this creature is really strange, it looks like a fish but not quite like a fish, and that squid is like a balloon..." Panting slightly, Sanji looked at the blue squid lying next door. "Speaking of which, didn't cutie say that there is another little one? Where is it..."

"Wow!!" Usopp, who was lying on the ground, suddenly sat up and screamed, took out a small blue flatfish from his pants, and then lay down again, murmuring: "Hello Sky Island!" Scary...Sky Island is so scary..."

After seeing the alive and kicking fish, Sauron said, "That should be the little aerial creature that Encore was talking about?"

Chopper immediately ran over worriedly to check, and Anke also ran up to take a few photos of the fish before saying, "This fish seems so strange~~ the fins are round, and the body is also flat. It's flat~ and the scales are like feathers~"

"It seems that this is the so-called 'empty fish'." Robin held up the fish and said with a smile: "Looking at their peculiar shape, they should have been continuously evolved. The purpose is to survive in the empty sea where there is no bottom. .”

"Is that why it swelled up like a balloon or flattened like a board?" Sauron, who had already recovered from his breath, folded his hands and looked at the alive and kicking empty fish.

"Yes, it should be lighter..." While Robin was talking, Luffy ran over to pick up the fish, and Robin didn't mind continuing: "The buoyancy of the sea water here is less than that on the ground. ,right."

"Anyway, let's fry the fish first~" Sanji, who had quickly cooked the fish, smoked leisurely, but he wasn't the one who ate it anyway.

And Luffy, who was eating fish indifferently, was instantly overwhelmed by the deliciousness in his mouth: "This is super delicious!!!"

"This is still under study!!! Can you be more careful!!" Nami yelled with sharp teeth, and then went to taste it herself, and was also conquered by the deliciousness of the fish: "This is really delicious. It's delicious~~~"

At this time, Usopp was still lying on the ground with his eyes rolled, but unfortunately no one paid attention to him; while Chopper has been holding up his binoculars to observe the surrounding world, and Encore is also taking pictures.

"Hey, everyone! There is a boat... ah!!!" Chopper, who was still in a cheerful tone, suddenly screamed, fell back in fear, threw the binoculars on the ground, and immediately stood up and explained in panic: "I I did see the boat, but the boat was gone!! And there was a 'square-shaped' cow running towards me on the cloud!!"

"What is it??" Zoro looked at Chopper who was jumping around in panic and said helplessly, "Calm down, speak clearly..."

"In short, get ready for battle!" Encore put the camera in his hand on the unconscious Usopp, pulled out Xue Lian and said, "Chopper is right, there is indeed a murderous intent rushing towards us."

Hearing this sentence, everyone on board immediately entered a state of caution, except Usopp who was still in a coma.

"Someone is indeed coming! Can you actually run on the clouds??" Sanji immediately said loudly: "Everyone be careful!"

The man on the cloud, dressed like a savage and wearing a square bull-head mask, also held a cannon in one hand and a shield in the other, and charged murderously aboard the Merry.Seeing the people on the Meili, he said coldly: "Exclude!!"

"Sure enough, the comer is not good!" Sanji squatted down, and Zoro also held the hilt of his sword and said, "Forget him!"

However, under everyone's surprised eyes, that person kicked Luffy, Zoro and Sanji to the ground in an instant.Anke gritted his teeth and rushed up with Xuelian, but was easily dodged by that person.However, in the next second, Enke fell powerlessly to the ground just like Luffy and the others.The man stepped on the side of the ship and jumped directly onto the clouds in mid-air, and pointed the cannon in his hand at the Merry.Chopper yelled in horror: "Ah!!! Aim!!!!"

"That's it!!" Suddenly there was an old and powerful voice in the air, a thin old man with white beard and armor riding a big pink spotted bird rushed out of the clouds, and beat the man into the sky with a strangely shaped spear in his hand. up the sea.After beating the man away, the old man jumped to the railing of the Merry's bow, and the big bird followed.

"What?? Who is it this time??" Nami was almost crying.

The old man stepped down from the railing, looked at Nami and the others and said, "Well, I am Sky Knight."

"Who was that person just now??" Nami asked nervously, then looked at a group of people who fell on the ground and shouted worriedly: "What's wrong with you???"

Zoro, who was unable to sit on the ground and gasped for breath, said intermittently: "No... no way... to breathe..." Luffy, Encore and Sanji who also fell on the ground also nodded in pain, and kept breathing hard with their mouths wide open.

"The air must be too thin," Robin lifted Encore who was lying on the ground, and gently helped her breathe.

"Are you from Qinghai?" The old man looked at the people on board and asked with some certainty.

"From Qinghai? What is that?" Nami looked at the old man suspiciously and said, "And who are you?"

"As I said just now, I am a Sky Knight. Qinghai people are our common name for people who live under the clouds." The old man looked at them with his spear on his shoulder and said, "Come back to business, are you from Qinghai?" ?”

Luffy, who was lying on the ground, nodded, and the old man continued: "It's no wonder, this place is the 'White Sea' 7 meters above the Qinghai Sea, and the 'Bai Bai Sea' on the upper level is as high as 1 meters away." Meters, ordinary Qinghai people can't move when they get here..."

Before the old man finished speaking, Lu Fei sat up and patted his chest and said, "Very good! I finally got used to it~"

"Indeed," Anke breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "Compared to just now, it's much easier~"

Seeing the four of Luffy standing up slowly, the old man waved his hands in cold sweat and said, "No, no, no... there are still exceptions..."

"By the way, why was that person able to run on the sea just now?" Chopper asked curiously.

"Wait a minute, I know you must have a mountain of questions, but let's do business first, let's talk about some business first," the old man interrupted Chopper's question, "I am dissatisfied with you calling me a professional mercenary, This is a dangerous sea. People who don’t know the sky will either be targeted by the guerrillas just now or become food for empty fish. So just whistle 500 million Ikes and I will come to rescue you!”

"?????" The Luffy pirates, who didn't understand at all, tilted their heads and looked at the old man. The captain asked curiously, "What are you talking about, uncle?"

The old man who thought they thought the price was too expensive explained anxiously: "Please, my price is already very cheap. Don't ask for a bargain with me, I won't drop even 1 ik!! Don't embarrass me, I will To live!"

"So, we don't know what 'Ike' you're talking about," Sanji interrupted the old man, and asked in the same doubt: "What else is 'Whistle'?"

"Didn't you go all the way down from the top of the 'high-speed empty road'? Then you will pass at least one or two islands on the way?"

"Wait a minute!! From your tone, it seems that there are other ways to get up to this sea of ​​clouds??" Nami asked loudly: "And, you said that you passed one or two islands on the way? Is there more than one empty island??"

"Did you come up along that monster current?" The old man suddenly looked at the people in this boat in amazement: "It's rare that there are such warriors now..."

"I knew it was not an ordinary pipe, I knew..." Nami covered her face and burst into tears.

"Did you lose a crew member?" the old man asked suspiciously.

Luffy said affirmatively: "No, we are all here~"

"This is not the case with other roads. Suppose 100 people go to the sky and there are very few survivors. Simply put, the probability of success is very low. But if you follow the Knockupstream, either all of them will be killed or all of them will be able to reach. Not all One hundred is zero, and few people are willing to bet on this, especially in the past few years. From this point of view, everyone is a voyager with both courage and strength."

"Ah~~ In fact, these guys are all relying on me to sit in town!! Just when they were crying and reluctant to let go of their own lives, they relied on me to encourage everyone..." Before Usopp finished bragging, Na Mei fell to the ground with a punch and continued to be unconscious.

"The so-called 'whistle' means to blow this whistle." The old man threw a whistle in front of Nami and the others, and said with his back to them: "Then I will fly down from the sky to save you whenever and wherever! For one dispatch, the asking price is 500 Igrams of Sky Common Coin, this time it will be regarded as a meeting gift, and I will give you a free 'whistle'."

"Wait a minute!" Seeing that the old man was about to leave, Nami asked loudly, "May I ask your name?"

"My name is Sky Knight Ganfort, and this is my partner Pierre," the old man pointed to the big bird beside him and said, "I also forgot to mention that my partner Pierre is, although It's a bird, but it's an ability user who ate the Mama fruit!"

The big bird began to change its physique constantly, and gradually became like a horse.Everyone watched its changes curiously, and Luffy stared at him as always: "Could it be Pegasus?? So handsome~~~"

After the big bird transforms successfully, it looks like a horse with wings. Its body color is still the original pink, its spots have not changed, and its tail even has feathers hanging down.

"..." Seeing that 'Pegasus', everyone had an indescribable expression on their faces.

"Warriors, I wish you good luck!!" The old man got on his horse, stepped on the clouds and left gracefully.The horse ran with its hooves, and its huge wings flapped constantly.

Looking at the horse running awkwardly, a drop of cold sweat hung on everyone's head.An Ke still had a smile on his lips, but his face seemed to be frozen, "What a strange Pegasus..."

"It should be said, is it necessary for it to become like that??" Nami also couldn't understand.

"Who knows..."

"In the end, he didn't say anything..." Robin looked helplessly at the whistle that was thrown on the ground.

"No, to be precise, at least we know what the next destination is..." Anke picked up the whistle on the ground and looked at it slowly. Luffy and the others stopped looking at the strange-shaped horse and looked at it curiously. Encore.

"Next, let's go to the 'Baibai Sea' that the old man said, it should be the real empty island." An Ke threw the whistle in his hand and said with a smile: "It's better not to use this whistle, after all It can only be used once. Let’s call the old man over when we are really in trouble. Didn’t a guerrilla follow us just now?”

"Indeed, this is our amulet for emergencies! In this case, Luffy, Zoro, Sanji and Robin are forbidden to use this whistle!" Nami clenched her fist and said loudly: "This is us ordinary people. Exclusive rights! What if we are targeted by that masked monster while you are away?"

The four people who had been named silently looked down at the innocent-looking 'ordinary' child, and then silently averted their eyes.

"Even if we know that the target is at an altitude of 1 meters," Zoro looked at Encore with the same doubt, "but how can we go up?"

"Put this whistle on the mainmast in the middle of the ship, and blow it when necessary," Anke threw the whistle in his hand to Nami, then closed his eyes slightly, and pointed to a distant place that vaguely resembled a waterfall. The place said: "See something like that waterfall? There are people there. Let's go and have a look first."

"Good!" Hearing this, Luffy jumped to the bow of the boat and pointed there, shouting, "Full speed towards the waterfall!!"

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All the crew gathered at the bow, and the Merry slowly approached the waterfall-like cloud.But there was a huge cloud lying there, blocking the way of the Merry.

"There is such a big cloud in front of the waterfall..." Robin looked up at the huge white cloud and said, "What should I do?"

"Since it's floating on the sky, it shouldn't be the same sea, right?" Sanji looked there with the same doubt.

"Luffy, stretch out your hand and touch it," Encore said to Luffy who suddenly remembered something, "I don't think there is a way for this cloud to pass directly."

"Oh!! Rubber-rubber-gun!!" Luffy threw his hand wheel a few times, but was bounced back when he hit the cloud.Luffy immediately jumped onto the cloud excitedly, bouncing around like a trampoline: "Look, you can sit on it, it won't sink!! And it's as soft as cotton!!"

"Wow!! I'm going too, I'm going too!!" Chopper and Usopp also jumped up with their hands wide open, and the three of them went crazy playing on it.

"Sure enough," Anke pointed to the huge cloud and said, "This is equivalent to an island in the sea! Thinking about it like this makes sense~~~"

"Is it Daoyun?" Zoro folded his hands and smiled, "It's not bad..."

"Indeed," Nami said, pointing at her chin, "Maybe there is no way to sail on the island cloud. Let's see if there are other routes to sail from above!"

"Oh!!!"

Not long after, Luffy and the others all came down.Luffy smiled and said to Nami, "There is a huge door under the cloud of the waterfall."

"Since this is the case, the person that cutie said should live there, although I don't know why there are artificial buildings, but~~~" Sanji suddenly had pink bubbles all over his body, "Maybe the person who lives there is Angel~~~”

"Anyway, you'll know if you go around here~~" Luffy said excitedly.And Anke has been lying on the railing of the bow and looked at the surrounding Yunshan curiously with wide eyes, "It looks really soft~~~I really want to play~~~"

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After going around in the mountains of clouds, the Merry finally came to the gate.The mysterious gate has been lifted and 'HEVENSGATE' (Gate of Heaven) is written on the top of the star-shaped gate.There are some white pillars on both sides of the gate, and behind the pillars are several small round gates. Behind the gates is really a huge white waterfall.

"Wow~~~" Nami smiled and pointed at the waterfall and said, "That waterfall-like cloud is really a waterfall!! The cloud under it is also different from the cloud just now, it can flow~~"

"Let me see, 'HEVENSGATE', it says the gate of heaven," Usopp stared at it and said, "It's really unlucky, as if we are going to die..."

"Maybe," Sauron said, sitting on the railing with his legs crossed, "maybe we are really dead."

"It makes sense," Sanji shook the soot and said, "In this case, this incredible phenomenon can be explained."

"..." Chopper was stunned for a moment, his eyes widened instantly, "Are we dead????"

"This is heaven~~~It looks so fun~~~" Luffy's face was full of excitement.And Enke, who was taking pictures, still smiled sweetly, 'I actually went to heaven?Don't demons usually return to hell? '

"Who's going to die!!" Nami beat Sauron, Sanji, and Usopp to the ground in disbelief.

When the Merry first entered the door, Anke suddenly hid behind Luffy seemingly naturally.After a while, a wrinkled old woman in a pink dress and holding a camera walked out of the small door. The camera in her hand was still flashing. There was a pair of small white wings behind the old woman.

"Hey, someone came out!!" Chopper said in surprise, "Look, she has wings on her back!?"

"Are angels, do angels look like that?" Lu Fei had a strange look on his face, "She looks like a sour plum..."

Encore turned back and smiled at Sanji in all sorts of strange ways: "Shan, Zhi, Jun~~ You are talking about an angel..." Sanji, who was smoking silently, looked at the sky, the earth and the sea, but he didn't look at the old woman. When I saw nothing.

"..." Everyone looked at the old woman quietly, and the old woman also looked at them quietly after taking the photo.

"I am the surveillance officer of the Gate of Heaven, Amazon," the old woman said suddenly, "Are you here for sightseeing, or... for the war?"

"Should I say sightseeing, or what..." Nami didn't know how to answer.An Ke poked his head out from behind Lu Fei and looked at the old woman curiously: "But what about the war?"

"I want to go to Sky Island!" Luffy said his goal loudly, and pushed Encore's head back by the way, "The other side of this door is Sky Island, right?"

"It doesn't matter which one you choose, if you think about the upper class," the old woman said with a blank expression, "Please pay the fee to enter the kingdom of heaven first. One billion Ike per person is stipulated by law."

"What?? 10 billion??" Usopp exclaimed, and then whispered: "If Ike is replaced by Bailey, how should it be calculated??"

"No matter how you calculate it, just hearing 10 billion..." Chopper said in a daze, "It should be very expensive..."

"One person is 10 billion, 8 people is 80 billion..." Usopp was a little confused, "Do you usually need so much money to enter a country? This old woman is clearly a scam..."

"Excuse me!" Nami immediately covered Usopp's mouth and said, "About this entry fee..."

"You can go in if you don't have any money," the old woman said indifferently, "but if you don't go in...it's okay. Because I'm not a gatekeeper or a guard. I'm just asking what you guys think..."

Seeing the vaguely sly smile on the old woman's face, An Ke had a bad feeling that it was not that simple.But Luffy has already said loudly: "Then let's go, we are going to Sky Island!"

"Okay, do all 8 people want to go in?" As soon as the old woman finished her words, two huge pincers suddenly appeared on both sides of the Merry, pinching the broken wing of the Merry.

"Wow!!" Chopper and Nami immediately screamed in fright.The old lady explained: "That's Baihai's famous 'Express Shrimp'..."

Shrimp suddenly jumped up, started to move quickly, swam into the door, and slid up the passage.

"Hold on, everyone!" Nami said loudly, "The speed is really fast~~"

After the prawn went up the waterfall behind the door, Luffy and the others discovered that there was a winding cloud road above the waterfall with no end in sight.While everyone was enjoying the journey excitedly by the side of the boat, Anke looked back at the gate of heaven that had disappeared:
what happened?This unnatural feeling...is it really that simple...

(End of this chapter)