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After finishing speaking, Bill ignored Ian and conveyed the order to the sailors to stay where they were, so the twelve ships dropped their anchors and stayed in place, waiting for the sound of Raab to disappear.

Ian was also listening carefully, and at the same time marveled at Captain Bill's folk wisdom.

He still remembered that Luffy and the others set foot on the Grand Route without knowing anything about it. As a result, when they were going down the waterway, they happened to encounter Labu blocking the road, and they were about to collide with each other in the end. Well, it was Luffy who fired the bow cannon to stop the ship.

Ian didn't know whether the reaction force of the cannon was that great. At that time, he was thinking, does everyone who enters the Grand Line need such a shot?

However, after coming to this real world of pirates, he realized that his thinking was wrong. Not everyone is as daredevil as Luffy and the others. Labu's whale has been watching at Twin Capes for decades. If If every ship hit it, Twin Points would probably have been clogged with shipwrecks. People who want to enter the Grand Line will always have their own ways.

Labu's cry was faint in the wind, and he didn't know how long it had passed before Ian suddenly heard a roaring sound, and there were also waves of tremors from the Upside Down Mountain in the distance, so Ian knew , it has started to hit.

The fleet waited quietly. Fortunately, it didn't take long for Labu to actually hit the mountain. When the tremors of Upside Down Mountain stopped, Bill listened again and found that Labu's cry had indeed disappeared. So he immediately issued an order: "Everyone has it! Weigh anchor! Raise sail!"

Bill stood on the bow of the boat again, holding a telescope and began to observe the sea.

"What are you doing?" Ian asked behind him.

Bill did not look back and explained: "Oh, I was observing the ocean current. If you want to enter Upside Down Mountain, you must follow the ocean current."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bill had already found the location of the ocean current, so he turned around and shouted loudly: "Turn the helm! Head towards the two o'clock direction."

With Ian's ship taking the lead, the rest of the ships behind also began to adjust their course, and the entire fleet began to slowly cut into the ocean current.

Staying on the boat, Ian's feeling was most obvious. The moment the boat entered the ocean current, Ian only felt that the speed of the boat suddenly accelerated, just like a car suddenly accelerating and pushing back. Ian also felt the acceleration of the boat. However, at this time, all the ships did not open their sails and were completely moving along the ocean current.

"The water flow is so fast!?" Ian had a bad feeling.

When Bill heard what he said, he didn't look back. He continued to look ahead with his telescope and said: "Of course, at such a water speed, it is difficult for the ship to adjust its direction. The time to test us has arrived!"

Ian couldn't help but lick his dry mouth. He had thought at first that if he couldn't find the fleet, he could just follow Ace's example and sail a small boat to the Grand Route by himself. However, looking at it now, it seemed that he was thinking Somewhat naive.

"Right rudder! 13 degrees!"

"More! Left rudder! 3 degrees!"

"Very good, hold on!"

Bill's orders were conveyed from time to time, and the sailor at the helm nervously and strictly carried out Bill's orders. Ian knew that Bill was adjusting the course of the ship. The area of ​​​​the ocean current was very large, but the entrance channel of Upside Down Mountain was not. It's so big, so you have to aim for the entrance.

As it gets closer and closer to the entrance, the speed of the ocean current becomes more and more turbulent, and the speed of the ship is obviously accelerating. Under such circumstances, turning the rudder in any general direction is seeking death, and it is likely to break the steering wheel. , so Bill's orders were all about fine-tuning the course bit by bit.

The figure of the Red Earth Continent also appeared in everyone's eyes at this time. It was a majestic mountain range. At a glance, you couldn't see how high it was or how long it was. It was like a horizon, just lying in front of the ship. .

It may be the first time for some sailors on the ship to go to the Grand Line. Seeing such a huge monster lying in front of them, thinking that if the ship is operated incorrectly, they will be destroyed and buried at the bottom of the sea. These sailors suddenly collapsed and they shouted in panic. Saying: "Look back! Look back! We will collide!"

"Ian, tell them to shut up!" Bill said without looking back.

Ian was also decisive and rushed over immediately, hitting everyone hard on the head and knocking these panicked people to the ground.

Anyone with a little bit of sailing experience knows that panic at this time will not do any good. We are all on the same boat, and they can only trust the captain's decision-making.

It was at this moment that Ian finally understood why the captain had such authority on a ship.

It could be seen that Bill was also very nervous, and there was sweat on his forehead. Although he had traveled to the Grand Line more than ten times, he could not guarantee that he would be so lucky every time.

Outside the side of the ship, there were surging waves. The speed of the ship reached its peak at this moment with the ocean current. Ian looked towards the sea to the south. He knew that in fact, he could reach the windless area of ​​the Grand Route all the way south. As long as we pass through the windless zone, we will reach the Grand Line. It seems very simple, but no one chooses to take this route. Instead, they choose to take the entrance to Upside Down Mountain. This shows that the windless zone is even more dangerous.

In the hazy water mist, the entrance can already be seen. In Ian's view, their ship's course was just right to enter the entrance smoothly, but Bill still did not relax. Before entering the entrance, any sloppiness was possible. It would cause irreparable consequences, so he continued to issue orders and constantly made fine adjustments to the ship's course.

Boom! With the sound of water lapping against the shore, the bow of the boat that Ian and the others were riding on suddenly tilted up, and the entire boat tilted. Everyone was unsteady and fell like a gourd on the ground. on deck.

However, even after falling like this, it still couldn't stop the sailors on the ship from bursting into cheers!

"Long live Captain Bill!"

"Coming in, we came in smoothly!"

The reason why the ship was lifted up was because they had entered the waterway and were climbing up the mountain along the waterway. Bill was indeed an experienced captain. His adjustment of the course allowed the ship to accurately enter the channel. At this moment, He was the hero of the entire ship.

Bill also breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Ian and said: "Haha, as expected, God also plans to let me retire smoothly!"

Ian smiled at him and finally felt relieved.

"What's the situation with the ships behind!?" Bill asked loudly.

A sailor at the stern of the ship, who was holding a telescope to look behind, also replied loudly: "Ship No. 2 has entered... Ship No. 3 has also entered... Ship No. 4... No! The course of Ship No. 4 has deviated!" "

As the observing sailors shouted, many people ran to the stern of the ship with concern. Ian also ran over. He saw two ships behind, both at a certain distance from each other. They were ship No. 2 and ship No. 3. Ships, they all entered the channel smoothly, but at the entrance position, ship No. 4 could see a clear course deviation!

He grabbed the telescope from a sailor's hand and looked over. He saw that the people on the No. 4 boat were already in a mess. There were several people at the rudder who were trying to turn the steering wheel, but the current was too strong. The speed was too fast and brought huge power. No matter how hard they tried, the ship still deviated a little bit.

Then, the group of sailors pulling the steering wheel suddenly fell to the ground.

"No! Their steering wheel is broken!" A sailor who was also observing screamed.

"They are dead!" Bill couldn't help but said with regret after hearing this.

In Ian's sight, the No. 4 ship was carried by the current and hit the mountain wall next to the entrance channel at an extremely fast speed. The entire ship disintegrated into countless pieces under the huge impact force. .

The sailors on the ship were thrown into the air and then fell into the sea. After sinking, they never emerged again. Not only the people, but also the wreckage of the ship.

"They were swept away by the ocean current!" Bill took off his captain's hat, put it on his chest in a gesture of silence, and said, "May they rest in peace at the bottom of the sea."

No one on the boat said a word, even Ian took off his hat to pay tribute.

He had heard that the Grand Line was dangerous before, but he actually didn't feel much about it. After all, he only heard what others said and had never experienced it personally. Now that he had witnessed the total sinking of the No. 4 ship, Ian felt that he was in a state of panic. Well, one ship and one or two hundred people were all buried under the sea just because of a shipwreck! ?

After the ocean current hits the mountain wall, it will form a downward current. In this case, even people with good water skills cannot float up. They can only turn into corpses and sink under the dark and cold seabed forever. The shipwreck can be said to be shocking, but Bill and the others on the ship all looked familiar. It seemed that they had seen such a thing more than once or twice?

"The fleet has suffered losses, what should we do?" Ian asked Bill.

"What else can we do?" Bill shrugged and said, "Everyone who gets on the boat is actually mentally prepared to die. After losing one boat, we still have eleven more, and we still have to move on. .”

Even Ian didn't know what to say now. Sure enough, he still didn't know enough...

Perhaps because of the tragedy of ship No. 4, the ships behind them seemed to be more and more cautious. They mustered up their spirits, adjusted their courses, and entered the channel one after another, without any further losses.

The only ship that died was ship No. 4. Ian shuddered and thought: "Ship No. 4, what a tragic death! Even if I die in the future, I will never sit on a ship with such a number!"

Watching the boats climb up the waterway, Ian asked Bill, "How high is this mountain? How long do we have to climb?"

"Usually it takes about three minutes!" Bill said while holding his pipe in his mouth: "Hurry up. When you get to the top of the mountain, you will be able to see the waterways of the other three oceans, Eastern Blue, Western Blue, Northern Blue and Southern Blue. , the ocean currents of these four oceans will converge at the top of Upside Down Mountain."

Can you see the waterways of other oceans? Ian was stunned for a moment and suddenly asked: "Uncle Bill, if there are ships in other oceans that happen to go up the Upside Down Mountain along the waterway, won't they collide with each other on the top of the mountain?"

"Such a thing did happen!" Bill said with a smile: "But the chance of that is very small. You may not encounter it once in several years."

"Then what if we really meet him?" Ian asked.

"Then we just have to see who can survive!" Bill shrugged and said with a smile, "Don't worry, we may not be so unlucky."

However, before the words could be finished, the lookout on the mast suddenly shouted in panic: "Other ships found! They are from the South China Sea Channel! We...we will collide with them!"

Bill was immediately dumbfounded and looked at Ian blankly.

Ian also wanted to give himself a slap: "Nima, call you Crow Mouth!"