Chapter 15: The First Stop: The Stomach
I don't know how long it took for Sherlock to regain consciousness, he slowly opened his eyes, got up and looked around.
An unfamiliar room, looking around the arrangement is on a ship.
"I remember that at the end I seemed to have been knocked off by something......" Sherlock touched his back, which was still aching, and struggled to his feet, walked to the window, and looked out.
Outside is the endless sea, and the white clouds in the blue sky are as if they have been washed by water, which is extremely beautiful, and the beauty is a little unnatural, as if it has been painted by someone.
At that moment, the sea became turbulent without warning, and the whole ship began to sway from side to side, and a muffled sound could be heard in the distance.
At the same time, outboard.
"It's going to be......" explained to the men on the Merry with a petal-like hairstyle, "this whale is starting to hit the Red Earth Continent with its head. With that, Crocas plunged into the whale's gastric juice and swam into the depths despite the corrosive acid of the stomach.
"What!" said Zoro and Sanji, surprised. Nami recalled for a moment and said to everyone, "Indeed, this whale has a lot of scars on its forehead, and it has also looked up to the sky and howled......"
"It means that he is in great pain!" Nami said with a stern expression.
Usopp was covered with fine sweat on his forehead, and then nodded as if he had figured it out: "Yes, it turns out that this old man wants to kill this whale from the inside." ”
Sanji spat out a cigarette: "Cut, a vicious method of killing." ”
"No, it's not. An unfamiliar male voice sounded from behind Nami and the others, and when the four of them looked back, they found that the person who spoke was the man with glasses who had inexplicably appeared on the boat.
"The old gentleman didn't mean to kill it, on the contrary, he probably wanted to save it. Sherlock held on to the doorframe with one hand, pointed to the sky outlined by the paintbrush, and smiled at the crowd, "After all, no hunter would be bored enough to draw in the stomach of his prey, would he?"
The most vigilant Zoro adjusted his state in an instant, and his right hand touched the knife on his waist without a trace, as if as long as Sherlock was wrong, the green-haired swordsman would burst out.
Sanji patted Zoro on the shoulder, signaling him not to be nervous, and then said to Sherlock, "You're awake, Sherlock, it's strange how you got to our ship." You were in Rogue at the time?"
"Well, after all, my home is in Rogue Town......" Sherlock pushed his glasses and was about to continue, when a big wave hit, and the boat began to rock violently.
"Now is not the time for you to catch up, we must get out of here immediately, or the ship will be corroded by the whale's stomach acid" Nami quickly stabilized her figure, and then said to Sherlock, "Hey, if you wake up, come and help!"
"Don't be in a hurry, beautiful miss, the ship won't be so fragile. The old man has already gone, and presumably this big guy will settle down after a while. Sherlock smiled at Nami and said, "Also, what happened during my coma, can you tell me?"
After a while.
The whale's gastric juices were still churning, and the Merry was docked by a metal gate, swaying as the waves kept shaking, and it was hard to imagine how the old man had opened such a door in the whale's stomach.
At the same time, Sherlock also figured out the specific situation under Nami's description.
"Well, according to your will, I was accidentally brought to the ship by your captain's human slingshot. ”
"To save time, your captain has decided to take me on the Great Voyage. ”
"As soon as we arrived at the Great Voyage, I met a big whale" Sherlock then turned his head to look at the broken bow of the ship, and the cute sheep's head was very cute, "Your captain attacked the whale in a fit of rage because the seat was destroyed, and the whole ship was swallowed by this whale." ”
"And now, your captain is nowhere to be found, that's it. ”
Nami looked at Sherlock's calm dark eyes, and nodded a little unnaturally with a look on her face, feeling sincerely helpless about what her captain had done.
"What an amazing man, Straw Hat Luffy. Sherlock calmly pushed his glasses, a little crying and laughing in his heart. He really didn't expect that he would come to the legendary great route in a daze.
Well, it's just that there is not the slightest blood and excitement in this process, but it makes people feel fucked up abnormal.
Sherlock was about to say something more when he heard several exclamations from above the iron door.
The people on the Merry followed the prestige, but saw three figures falling from a high place, and below, there was a sea of gastric juice!
"Yo, everyone's okay!Hurry up and save me~" A familiar voice came.
"Luffy?" Usopp was surprised that his captain came out of that place, and then saw Luffy and two strangers fall into the water together, making a big splash......
After rescuing the three of them, the gastric juice also stopped churning, and it seemed that the whale was honest.
Luffy sat on the railing of the ship grinning and his smile was as bright as ever, and at his feet were two strangely dressed people.
A girl dressed like a princess and a man dressed like a prince, but compared to the slightly strange-looking "prince", the girl with a long blue ponytail is an out-and-out beautiful princess.
From the moment she was up, a certain chef turned on the mode, which directly refreshed Sherlock's perception of Sanji.
"Who are you?" asked Zoro at the two strangers.
The two of them did not answer, but exchanged their heads in a low voice: "Mr. 9, these people are pirates......
"I know Miss. Wednesday, but they may not be the bad guys......"
At this time, Kulokas, who had given the whale a tranquilizer, walked out of a small door and yelled at the duo, "You bastards! I will never let you hurt Rab until I die!"
"That's amazing! That bald old man has a flower on his head!" Luffy was inexplicably excited.
Sherlock left a drop of cold sweat, although he couldn't tell whether it was flowers or hair on the old man's head, but was there anything wrong with this?
"I can't help you now, dead old man!" the two of them got up from the deck, picked up the bazooka, and aimed it at the whale's back back to back, "Make a hole in this stomach and we'll kill it!"
The two pulled the trigger and fired two shells at the whale's stomach wall, but Crocas showed speed and reflexes that did not belong to his age, and he flew up and used his body to block the two shells for the big whale, and then his body fell into the gastric juice below like a bird hit by a hunter.
"He's actually protecting this whale!" Usopp was surprised, Nami glanced at Sherlock, and then nodded: "It seems that the old man really wants to save this whale, but what is this for?"
Seeing that the duo laughed wildly and planned to continue shooting, Sherlock's eyes narrowed slightly, and he was about to stop it, but he saw Luffy, the second goods, take the lead and knocked the two unconscious with two iron fists.
"I can't help but want to beat them up!" Luffy said righteously.
After tying up the two people, the old man began to tell the story of the whale to everyone.
"That was 50 years ago...... "Old Man Hua looked a little gloomy," but Rab still believed that his companions were still alive. ”
After listening to the story of Rab the whale, the Straw Hats were greatly moved, and the most sentimental Usopp and Nami had tears in the corners of their eyes.
"It's really stupid~" Sherlock pushed his glasses and said lightly, this scenical sentence instantly attracted everyone's attention, and Nami and Usopp, who were most moved, glared at Sherlock.
Crocas smiled helplessly: "Yes, it's such a stupid whale. Then he looked at Sherlock's somewhat pale face and said, "Something is wrong with your face, is it an internal injury?"
"Ah, you can see that, yes, I have some internal injuries. ”
The heart of the healer's parents, Crocas stood up, "Coincidentally, I have been a ship doctor for a few years, and I have left some medicine for internal injuries, I will go and get some for you." Then he walked inside the house.
"Thank you so much!" Sherlock bowed gracefully to Crokas.
"Ship doctor, really?" Luffy slid down from a tree, as if he had discovered a new world, and said excitedly to Crokas, "Then you will be our ship doctor." ”
Old man Hua shook his head, "Don't say stupid things, I can't mess around anymore at my age." ”
"yes, that's a shame. ”
Crokas went back to the house to get the medicine, so Luffy shifted his attention to Sherlock again, he stared at Sherlock's face, frowned and thought for a long time, and then asked Sherlock:
"Who are you? Why are you here? Oh, I see, you were accidentally eaten by this whale, hahaha, you guys are so funny. Luffy then laughed to himself.
"Funny brother-in-law, it's not your fault that this guy got here!"
Looking at the heartless smile of her captain, Nami and the others looked at each other and supported their foreheads, and said that this idiot must have been so excited after climbing the upside-down mountain that he forgot all about the original incident.