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Chapter 248: Journey to the Moon Part 8: Mural depicting the history of the Moon People! 1st Split?

"These paintings seem extremely easy to understand." Nami said.

In an ancient city buried under the moon, Luffy, Byakuya and others were standing in front of a wall looking at a huge mural.

Funny enough, this mural was also discovered by Luffy.

As the banquet entered its final stage, the other members of the Straw Hat Pirates began to drowsily prepare to rest.

But Luffy was still very excited, and even said to the robot beside him: [Take me to the best place here!!!]

The robot was also very obedient and escorted Luffy to a place located in the center and highest point of the ancient city.

A building similar to the Alabasta Palace and the Shandora Shrine.

Inside the room, besides the throne floating in the air, the most eye-catching thing is the murals carved around the entire temple.

Perhaps no one has ever come here since then, so these murals are quite complete.

Luffy, realizing he had found something interesting, quickly woke everyone up and brought them here.

“Not only is it easy to understand, but it’s also quite complete.”

Hearing Nami's words, Bai Ye beside him also spoke:

“This should be the history of the Moon People.”

Until this point, the Straw Hat Pirates finally arrived at the last scene of the moon copy.

And gained the qualification to know the forgotten history of the past.

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Thousands or tens of thousands of years ago, this planet was like Qinghai, with all kinds of life on it.

There are mountains, oceans, lakes and forests.

And there are [human beings] living on this planet.

[Humans] have acquired the power of science and technology in the process of evolution, and rely on technology to live a better life.

But everything has a price, and technological creations require the resources of the entire planet.

After an unknown amount of time, the nature of this planet began to die.

At first no one paid attention to the disaster, it was just a lake drying up and a dense forest turning into a desert.

Until that disaster took away all the homes of [human beings]...

When the entire surface of the planet was covered with sand and pits, they rebuilt a city underground.

Until nearly 800 years ago.

Their stored resources were running low, so they decided to give it a try.

Leave this planet and go somewhere else to look for resources and find another home.

God favored them and they really found it.

It was a vast white [land] with animals and plants similar to those in my hometown.

They wanted to return to their hometown, but suddenly found that they could no longer take off via balloon.

So they chose to send the robots back to their hometown and let them draw their own stories in the temple.

At least in the future, when their descendants return to their hometown, they will be able to know their own history.

In their final moments of farewell, they told the robot.

The name of the new hometown will be the same as the old hometown——

The name is Bika!

(Note: In the translated version, the ancient city on the moon is called Piruka, but in the original Japanese, the word used here is exactly the same as Bienel's destroyed hometown, Bika.)

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"Bica? This name sounds familiar..."

Hearing Robin's words, Nami beside her suddenly fell into deep thought: "I feel like I've heard this somewhere before."

"No... that's not the point," Usopp said, "The point is that Robin was able to translate this name."

As he spoke, Usopp pointed to the last word on the mural.

"There's nothing strange about it." Sanji said, "Now we can be sure that the people on the moon are the people of the great kingdom back then, and the characters they use are the ancient characters that Sister Robin knows, right?"

"That's right." Robin smiled and said, "Although these characters are somewhat different from the ancient characters in many places, after so many years, some changes are expected."

"And what Nami said just now is right. The name Bica has appeared more than just here."

"Ganfor and the priests have mentioned to us that Enelu went to Arpaiado from a sky island called Bica."

"Oh! So that's how it is?" Luffy said with an expression that he suddenly realized something, but clearly didn't understand, "So this is definitely the [Infinite Land], right, Robin!"

Strangely enough, after the Straw Hat Pirates arrived here, Luffy was the first one to ask this question.

The others had already subconsciously accepted this, and only when Luffy said this did they react.

I always feel that Luffy is particularly persistent and sensitive about certain things.

"Haha, that's right, Luffy, this is definitely the Infinite Land." Robin answered Luffy with a smile.

"Hahaha! So that's the case, this is awesome!" Seeing Robin nod, Luffy laughed heartily as if a wish had come true: "Even Roger has never been here!"

"Bai Ye, what's wrong with Luffy?" Merry looked up at Bai Ye and asked.

"I should be happy that I have finally completed a unique adventure." Bai Ye said with a smile.

Because they were too familiar with Luffy's habits, everyone didn't pay much attention to it and continued to discuss the mural.

After all, the history depicted in this mural has many connections with the blank hundred years, and these people may be the first people to discover these things after hundreds of years, so it is inevitable that they will be excited.

From the murals, everyone quickly derived some useful information.

The vast white land where the moon people first landed should be Sky Island.

And it is Enel's hometown, Bica.

There is a detail in the mural. In the scene where the moon people send the robot into space, three images of moon people are deliberately depicted.

Coincidentally, the Straw Hat Pirates have seen all three types of Moon People.

The first type of moon people has larger wings than the other two types of moon people, and looks very much like the priests and servants who followed Enel from Bica.

The second type of moon people have smaller wings, and their most easily distinguishable feature is the animal headgear they wear on their heads, which is almost exactly the same as the village chief of the Shandia tribe.

The third type of moon people also have unique features on their heads, which are the two tentacle-like things on the head of Conis, a friend of the Straw Hat Pirates.

Although the history on this mural only ends when the Moon People just arrived at the Sky Island, it is not difficult to infer a fact based on the previous discoveries made by everyone on the Sky Island.

After the Moon People landed on the Sky Island, they must have experienced an extremely serious split for some reason.

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