【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Usopp looked at the huge shark floating on the water and shouted in horror "What is this!?"

Luffy looked back at the frightened crowd and grinned, "He agreed to help us pull the boat!"

Lucci looked at Luffy in surprise, it was all a bit too unbelievable, Luffy could actually communicate with the Sea Kings... This was a very powerful force, but also a dangerous force if discovered by someone with bad intentions.

Nami and the others stared at Luffy in silence, and after a moment they found their voices again and shouted in shock "What?!"

Qi came down from the boat with some ropes, and the other end was tied to the bow of Merry. He looked at Nami and the others' shocked expressions and couldn't help but feel amused. "Why are you surprised by this?"

"I just didn't expect Luffy could communicate with the animals on Sky Island." Sanji lit a cigarette and calmed himself down.

"Isn't it the same? I think you'd better get on the boat first." Qi said with a smile, then went down to help Luffy tie the rope to the shark.

"Is it safe?!" Usopp looked at Luffy and Odd who had jumped onto another Raven, and shouted to Zoro worriedly. The next second, Merry was dragged directly to the bottom of the altar. "Ah!! We are going to crash into the sea of ​​clouds!!"

"Hehehe! This is so fun!" Luffy laughed happily after returning to Merry's deck.

"Shut up!" Nami and Usopp shouted. They were almost pulled into the sea of ​​clouds by the sudden pull.

"Isn't it coming down?" Luffy grinned, as if nothing that just happened had happened.

"Nami, what is your golden plan?" Qi asked with a smile.

"Okay, everyone, this is the plan! Now let's look at the map!" Nami placed the map of Sky Island on Merry's deck and used a pen to mark and arrow the location of the altar. Nami drew on the map with a pen, "The explorer team should go straight south. There should be some kind of ruins here... In short, everyone's mission is to avoid the enemy and get back the gold!"

"You make it sound so simple..." everyone complained.

"During this time, a few of us will ride the Merry across this island and reach the ruins. After you get the gold, rush to the coast near the ruins as soon as possible. We will gather there and then escape from Sky Island... In this way, we will become a Monopoly Pirate Group! We can buy whatever we want in the future!" Nami shouted excitedly.

"Okay, let's go!" Luffy shouted excitedly

Soon Luffy took Lucci, Zoro and Robin into the forest, while Lucci and Sanji took Nami, Usopp, Chopper and the Sky Knight drove Merry to cross the Island of God along the Cloud River.

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Ten minutes later, the exploration team successfully entered the forest. At the same time, Zoro and Luffy argued about the direction, but the direction they both chose was wrong.

"Have they always been like this?" Lucci asked doubtfully.

"I don't know, but this way is the correct south." Robin said with a smile.

"Luffy, Zoro! Come this way, we are going to the south!" Lucci shouted at Luffy and Zoro who were arguing, and then sighed. He always felt that things would not go so smoothly.

"So it's the south, why didn't you say so earlier!" Luffy said as he changed direction with a smile and walked towards them.

"We encountered nothing when we explored the forest yesterday. We didn't even see the shadow of a priest... Frankly speaking, it's very disappointing!" Zoro put his hands in his trouser pockets and walked leisurely, disappointed that they still didn't encounter any challenges.

"That's right, there are too few tests. I didn't even get to play it yesterday!" Luffy complained while hitting the surrounding trees with a stick.

"If that guy yesterday was the priest, then there's nothing interesting about it." Lucci commented, "Too weak."

"You guys are really weird! You only worry about the world not being at peace!" Robin said with a smile.

"Robin, there is a golden bell here, right?" Luffy asked with a smile.

"As long as the site we are visiting is indeed the site of the Golden Country, then everything that Nolando said in his diary is true, and the huge golden bell should be here," Robin explained.

Luffy nodded thoughtfully and grinned "I want to find the giant golden bell!"

Zoro glanced at Luffy, then smiled and said "Merry can't fit in the huge golden bell!"

"Zoro is an idiot!" Luffy said seriously.

"Luffy!" Zoro clenched his fists and shouted angrily at Luffy, "What are you talking about!"

"Haha, okay!" Lucci looked at Luffy and asked with a smile, "Luffy, do you want to ring that huge bell?"

"That's right, I want to tell Uncle Li Zi down there that the golden city they have been looking for in the sea is in the sky. As long as the bell rings, they will definitely hear it. Then Uncle and the others will understand that the golden city is in the sky, not in the sea. Otherwise, Uncle and the others will keep looking for it in the sea until they die!" Luffy said seriously.

Lucci looked at Luffy seriously, then smiled, looked at Robin and chuckled, "In that case, we now have a more important goal, which is to find the Golden Bell!"

"Leave it to me!" Robin chuckled. "After all, I'm the ship's archaeologist!"

"Then leave it to Robin!" Luffy said with a grin.

"But why is that huge snake following us?" Lucci said calmly.

"No wonder I felt like someone was staring at us, it turned out to be a snake!" Luffy said with sudden enlightenment.

"Idiot! How can you be so calm!?" Zoro shouted angrily, then looked behind him at a crazy, huge, terrifying blue snake, which was looking at them with its mouth wide open.

"He seems to want to eat us." Luffy said, tilting his head to look at the roaring snake.

"Before he eats us, I'll turn this guy into sashimi!" Zoro drew his sword and grinned. He just wanted to try out his new skill 'Flying Slash'

"Hiss!!" The python rushed towards the four people at an extremely fast speed. Its speed surprised Luffy and the others, especially that it could still be so fast despite its huge size.

"How come this guy is so fast despite having such a bulky body!" Zoro said as he quickly left the spot to avoid the giant snake's swift attack.

Luffy and Robin also stretched out their arms or connected their arms when the giant snake attacked, moved away from their original positions, and avoided the giant snake's teeth, so now only Lucci is still standing there.

"Hey, Lucci, what are you doing? Get out of there!" Luffy looked at Lucci who was still standing there and shouted anxiously. When he was about to reach out to pull him, he noticed that the big snake suddenly stopped in front of Lucci at the last moment, and then fled in a hurry and left here.