Rain

There is no sun in the deep sea.

Normal people can only see an almost viscous darkness.

But I can clearly see the giant sea kings lazily sinking on the sandy bed of the seabed, the fish shoveling past with a flick of their tails, and the jellyfish of different colors floating and sinking with the current...

I sighed.

This has been going on for days now...

Yes, I am now... still dragging a fish tail... probably because of being a mermaid, I can breathe and see underwater.Because of the deterrence of the little guy, there is no need to be afraid of the brutal sea kings.The well-deserved overlord of the seabed will not deliberately dodge when he sees me, but he will not come to provoke me either.

I continued with a dull expression... wagging my tail and swimming forward.

I don't know where I am, and I don't know what lies ahead.

He was blocked by Keku that day, and he fell into the deep sea covered in frost, and naturally he didn't keep any of the things he carried with him.Contains the only permanent pointer that can point the way on the Great Channel.That was crushed by me in a hurry, and I used it as a weapon to attack Ke Ku.Floating to the surface of the sea to try to identify the direction is useless, the surrounding is still an endless ocean, without any islands or ships.

Spread out with soul induction, except for sea kings, they are marine creatures, and there are not even half a seagull... let alone a ship, there is not a single ghost.

In the past few days, I can’t make a fire in the water... Back to the primitive society, I don’t have any live fish cough cough cough. I pried a lot of oysters and ate them, and they tasted good.

But when will this day be over?They say mermaids are the fastest swimmers in the sea, but I've been swimming in one direction for so long... and I didn't see any islands or ships?

Lazily wagging his tail and moving forward, he tried his best not to think about what to do if his legs couldn't recover.In short, let's solve the immediate predicament first...

If you want to insist that there is any change, maybe there are more and more sea kings around?Compared with the scattered and strictly divided territories at the beginning, there are now more and more sea kings around, of different sizes.Some swam slowly with their tails wagging, and some simply slept on top of each other, so densely packed that it was hard to count at a glance.This situation is very strange. According to common sense, the only place where there are so many Neptunes is the windless belt.But when you float on the sea, you can really feel the breeze, which is enough to support the boat to move forward... The windless belt is as true as its name, there is not even a little wind, and it is the nemesis of sailing ships that rely on wind.I entered the great channel with Luffy and the others before... Wasn't it just that time when I had an oolong, and I almost fell into a dead end without relying on the coercion and deterrence of the little guy, didn't I fail to escape?

There was a slight change in the sound of the water flowing ahead, and the sea kings below unexpectedly started to stir uncharacteristically. The big ones didn’t move much, but the relatively smaller ones started to swim far away, as if they were afraid to avoid them.

I am secretly amazed in my heart, and at the same time my muscles are tensed and ready.Regardless of size, Neptunes are at the top of the food chain on the seabed and are well-deserved sea kings.It's just that I don't know who is coming from the front, which can make the small sea kings flee?It is not like the larger sea kings, the sound of the water flowing in front is not much.

I quietly stretched out my soul induction, and caught a few small life forms a few sea miles ahead, about the size of a human being, but they were still moving quickly on the bottom of the sea with extremely high water pressure, and didn't intend to float to the surface to breathe.They even surrounded and intercepted a small Neptune...

what is it?

I weighed it for a moment, then gritted my teeth and swam in that direction.Anyway, it's rare for there to be a little change, let's take a look first, maybe use this to figure out where this ghost place is?

What I saw next made me finally understand where I was.

Watching a few agile creatures in skeleton robes and holding giant axes...the creatures dragged the pieces of meat cut from the sea kings and swam...to the giant man-made fortress that went straight to the bottom of the sea.

If this is not enough for me to locate, the ship's bottom is covered with sea tower stones above my head, and the warship slowly sails towards the building through the opened giant door. The high walls that can't be seen on both sides... are enough to explain everything.

No wonder I didn't encounter any ships along the way, nor any islands...

At that time, I fell from the Isle of Light, which was bombarded by artillery fire, and the turbulent vortex actually dragged me into the Gate of Justice... I worked so hard to prevent Robin from entering, but I was fine... I was rushed in unconsciously, and I was so stupid Especially naively thinking that swimming can always encounter islands or ships.

Of course, there are no such things in the Gate of Justice, and the only ships that can be encountered are warships. It is a lot of fun to meet the navy directly...

The three major buildings of the navy, Marineford, the headquarters of the navy, Enislobbies, the island of light, and the submarine prison correspond to the three gates of justice.The ocean surrounded by the gate and the towering high wall forms a clockwise ocean current. The fierce ocean current facilitates the passage of warships during the period. It takes dozens of days to travel outside. Such a shortcut can be easily done in ten days. Arrived, life shortened by nine out of ten.Before the Demon Slaying Order was launched, it took only half an hour for ten warships to arrive at the Isle of Light from the Navy Headquarters...

At this moment, the door of justice is opened to welcome the warship, and I also seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to swim out.If the door of justice is not opened, I have no way to go out, I can only keep circling in the ocean current, eating oysters for a living...not only I swam out, but also the Neptune who strayed here burst into tears Jumping out of the orbit, with an excited expression that I have finally escaped from birth and returned to my hometown.I just said how could there be Neptunes in the windless belt...

Looking at the bunker-style building that the warship was heading towards, I smiled wryly at the bottom of the sea.

This is definitely not the Guangming Island that was devastated by artillery fire. There are only two options left... There are not even the most basic bays here, and there are only a dozen warships parked here and there. ...then there is only one left...the legendary undersea prison Propel City.

Pirates going here is a real sense of going and never returning.Just looking at the densely packed sea king lairs at the bottom of the prison, and the door of justice that is slowly closing not far away, it feels like no one can escape.

I watched with gloom as several of the creatures that had finished their hunt went back inside through a hidden door somewhere in the building and disappeared.Then I looked around at the endless Neptune lair, feeling a little crazy for a while... Which direction should I swim to?Near the most heavily guarded prison in the world... there are no islands, right?

The warship that was still overhead was moored at the gate of the advancing city, dropped the anchor made of fine steel, and stopped firmly.

Flicking my tail, I swam silently to the side of the building and stretched out my soul sensor to verify my deduction.Sure enough, there are countless people in the building, and all kinds of negative emotions are transmitted along with the soul flame, pain, anger, depression, fear... It's not this that makes me look uncomfortable, but... the detection of countless undead...

These dead souls were full of resentment, but were blocked in all directions by the salty sea water, with nowhere to go but roaring and wandering in this building.Ordinary people may not be able to perceive it, but those with weak vitality will inevitably be affected by it to some extent, and all kinds of negative emotions will be infinitely magnified... The submarine prison is a veritable purgatory on earth, and neither the living nor the dead can get out .Just staying on the outside of the building can feel the unusual coldness overflowing from it...

Even if I have the little guy's ability to rely on, I still... can go as far as I can.A few near-deaths made me reluctant to touch this stuff.

A second before the induction was about to be withdrawn, the familiar orange flame made my eyes widen, and I turned my head to see the movement of the warship so fast that I almost broke my neck.

No, it's not possible...

How can it be?

Why is Ace here?

The author has something to say:

In fact, the original idea was not like this...

That line can be written as a side story (Tan Shou)

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