Living in a high-risk world

About ten days ago, Zaoyue and others successfully landed on the first island after entering the Great Channel.

On the Great Channel, due to the interference of various extreme climates, the conventional method of relying on the planet's two poles to identify directions has become invalid, and the unpredictable weather has also made it difficult to continue to observe astrology.

Affected by these various restrictions, it was difficult for people to walk an inch on the great waterway in the past, and there was also a lack of contacts and cultural exchanges between the island countries. For this reason, many independent civilizations and ecological chains have been developed, almost one island has one style of painting.

However, wherever people live, they will naturally find ways to deal with the difficulties of nature. In addition, the islands here are generally small in size and surrounded by capricious seas. Strong fighting spirit and adventurous spirit.

Therefore, even though the great waterway is full of dangers, it still cannot stop people from trying to challenge this waterway throughout the ages.

After generations of exploration and development, the adventurers on the great waterway finally figured out how to use the magnetic field induction between islands to identify the direction, and made a special compass specially used on the great waterway - the record pointer .

After arriving at the first island, they have to wait on the island for the record pointer to fully store the geomagnetism of the island. After completing the magnetic record of the island where they are located, because the magnetism between the front and rear islands will attract each other, the pointer can indicate The direction of the next island.

As for the time required to record the pointer, the conditions of each island are different. The shortest time is one or two days to fully store the magnetic force, and the longest time may be more than a year.

If you encounter the latter situation and don’t want to wait so long, you can either use the permanent pointer to reach another island to replace the magnetic force, or simply take a gamble and venture out without guidance.

The island Zaoyue and the others arrived at is called Willy Island. The biggest feature of the island is that all the plants here have only thin and long branches. There are almost no leaves on them, and the branches of the plants are all straight upwards. Grow like vertical stripes.

Although it looks as if it will be broken when it is folded, in fact it has surprisingly good toughness. It seems that it has been grown in this way to resist the strong wind that blows from the sea from time to time, and can almost blow an adult whole.

When they were about to touch the shore, the boat almost rushed ashore because of a sudden strong wind blowing from the sea. If Zaoyue hadn't reacted in time, when the bow of the boat was about to hit the rocks on the shore, vines would immediately grow from the ground and shake the entire ship. The boat stopped, and at this time, there was probably a big hole in the bow of the boat.

"It's dangerous, it's dangerous." Zaoyue patted her chest and said fearfully, while muttering that the gust of wind just now was too sudden.

After parking the boat, a group of people came to the island.

"It seems that there is no one on this island." Didara took the lead to look into the distance, but found that there were almost no buildings in sight.

Within an hour after arriving on the island, they felt strong winds at least four times. The above suddenly blew up again.Probably due to the strong wind, the vegetation on the island is sparse, and all the plants that can grow tall are thin, straight and long.

Although this irregular strong wind hindered their actions, they had to stay on this island for a while anyway until the record pointer gave the direction to the next island.

And a small obstacle, for those who are looking forward to adventure, is just to stimulate their challenge psychology.

Zaoyue soon wandered around the island curiously, to discover all kinds of things that he had never seen before.

Then the people on the same boat also got active, took out a notebook in their pockets, drew the creatures on the island they saw, and collected samples. Didara also touched things here and there on the things seen on the island, Junma Lu He watched indifferently as a crab with a blue shell crawled past his feet.

Not long after, after another gust of wind blew, Zaoyue suddenly made a discovery: "There seems to be a stone tablet here!"

While the strong wind almost bent the vegetation, it also blew away the dust on the surface. This made Zaoyue notice that there seemed to be some kind of artificial traces on the ground not far away. The stele in the ground.

At this time, Shanren, who had already scanned the entire island with Tenseikan, also said: "The city on this island is built underground."

"I see, this stele is a road sign guide!" Zaoyue saw the words on it clearly and found that it was a simple map.

Apparently, due to the strong wind on the island, if the usual road signs were designed, they would probably be blown and scrapped in a short time, so the road signs were made into stone tablets close to the ground.

Soon, under the guidance of the street signs, the group found the downward stairs, and then came to the underground town of this island.

As soon as I arrived, I found that the town was much bigger than expected, which reminded Zaoyue a bit of Yoshihara when he was on Earth.

They are all underground, and the same streets are filled with people of different shapes.

But at this time, the town is holding some kind of event, and there are lights and festoons everywhere, which is very lively. Seeing this, Zaoyue is almost impatient, so Zaoyue takes the lead in running into the street where people come and go.

As she walked, she looked around excitedly. Since there were a lot of people on the street where the event was being held, it was inevitable that she would rub shoulders with people from time to time. However, when she passed by a young woman, Zaoyue suddenly noticed something. Immediately turned around and grabbed the opponent's wrist, and asked, "Did you take something from me?"

After the act of stealing the wallet was caught by her on the spot, the young woman did not show any panic. She stuck out her tongue and said playfully, "I'm sorry, sorry, I'm used to it. It was easy just now, and I will return the wallet to you."

The lighthearted attitude of the other party made Zaoyue frowned a bit tangled, feeling a little uncomfortable, as if the matter of the theft was just lightly lifted by the other party.

Just when she was feeling unhappy, the young woman took the initiative to ask again: "Is this your first time coming to this island?"

"Yes." Zaoyue came back to her senses, put aside the subtlety for the time being, and replied.

"In this case, as an apology, why don't I show you around? My name is Karina, and I am currently working as a resident singer in a bar in the town. Occasionally, I will take some property from others by the way." She has short purple hair and is very tall. The nice young woman proposed again.

Just when Zaoyue wanted to think about it, the woman named Karina had already held her arm and led her to a crowded place ahead, saying as she walked, "Don't mind so much. When I’m not working, I have to rely on petty theft to make a living, so sometimes my hands itch now and then, but I usually get addicted to my hands, and I’ll return my belongings after a while.”

After hearing what the other party said, Zaoyue stopped thinking about it, and replied: "My name is Zaoyue, and I am a pirate now."

"Are you actually a pirate? It's surprising!" Karina said in surprise, "It's really enviable to have the courage to go to sea. Female pirates are rare."

"?" Zaoyue raised a question mark, feeling that the girl in front of her seemed a little interesting, so she asked, "Does Karina also want to go to sea?"

Karina slightly expressed doubts: "I have thought about it, but you should have discovered this island when you came up. There are often strong sea winds blowing from the sea. Usually, the boat will be blown back before leaving the sea around the island."

"Hey! Isn't there no way to leave?"

Although this wind resistance is not a big problem for the self-powered Garden, according to what the other party said, there should be many people who cannot leave after landing and are trapped on the island.

As if guessing what she was thinking, Karina smiled and said, "Hehehe, so you see that this town was built by those who couldn't leave in the past~"

Then he added: "However, if you have experienced navigators who can predict the wind direction in advance, you may be able to use this strong wind to leave this sea area at once."

Zaoyue nodded, not paying too much attention to it, and basically focused on the stalls on the left and right sides and the attire of passers-by.

And after Karina introduced to her what activities are currently being held in the town, she will lead her to visit and play along the way.

Until they passed a messy bar street, at the intersection, Zaoyue suddenly saw a man who was obviously beaten up and thrown out of a bar.

Then came the sound of a group of people laughing in that tavern.

When Zaoyue couldn't help but look twice, Karina quickly tugged her arm: "Don't look, it must be the group of Kraut Pirates inside."

And he said with some helplessness: "There are quite a few pirates who cannot leave after coming to this island, so there will inevitably be a place of chaos in the town, and many people have not given up trying to leave. It seems that the group of people inside just I have been collecting materials to rebuild the ship and leave the island."

But while they were talking, a minion wearing a sailor's turban ran into the tavern from outside and reported with dancing.

"Report! Boss, there is actually a boat parked on the shore that was not damaged by the wind when it landed on the island!"

"What? Hahahahaha! That's great! It's been three years, and I can finally leave this damned island!!" The person who was suspected to be the leader of the pirate group laughed loudly, "Give me your weapons! Go! Take that ship!"

"Great--!"

"Get out of here!"

"!!!"

Zaoyue heard it, damn it!Isn't that her boat!Immediately couldn't hold back.

Seeing her reaction, Karina thought for a while: "Could it be that the ship they said belongs to you?"

Zaoyue nodded and was ready to beat up those people when they came out, so as to dissuade them: "I won't let this kind of guy take the boat away!"

But Karina suddenly said: "Not good, hurry back to the pirate ship first, since someone came back to notify them, someone must have boarded the ship!"

"!!!"

It didn't take long.

"What? Someone wants to snatch the boat?! Hahaha, it's just a good time to try a new gun."

"Although the captain can handle it alone, I still want to meet this group of courageous people."

The rest of the crew received the news one after another and rushed to the seaside.

The author has something to say:

Karina is the character who appeared in the movie version of Golden City. Before Nami met Luffy, she once teamed up with her to steal things together when she was a pirate and thief in the East China Sea.

In fact, Zaoyue is really easy to deceive, but most people at Hokage didn't get her brain circuit, probably because they didn't expect her brain circuit to be so simple.

The reason why the people on the pirate side can trick her is that most people on the pirate side have relatively simple motives, and it is difficult to define them in terms of good or bad. Generally, they want to do it suddenly, but they don’t have too much malice, not that they really want to Killing each other to death, and many people themselves are not too bad, this will blur Zaoyue's radar.

The general idea is: this person seems to be hiding something → but she is not bad and has no malicious intentions → forget it, it’s just a little calculation → she was tricked

But on Hokage's side, the starting point is hostility, and the layout is based on the premise of killing the opponent. If this is the case, it can be judged that the opponent is malicious.

But don’t worry, Zaoyue is not the best cheater among pirates→_→

According to Oda's question and answer on SBS, the top three most cheated pirates are: Chopper, Luffy, Sand Crocodile...

Well, the sand crocodile who almost killed the smart Robin in the Alabasta chapter turned out to be the third best cheater in the world. I didn’t expect it.