Chapter 15: Natural Disasters
Getting from Chambord to Kurokas didn't happen overnight.
What's more, in the mysterious place of the Great Route, it is not surprising when a **** or glacier suddenly appears to block the way.
Lin calculated that it would take at least two and a half months to get to Kurokas.
The ship had been at sea for more than ten days, and there was no major problem except for a strong wind on the sixth day, which forced it to find a safe haven.
"Actually, to be honest, I don't really understand why the Navy didn't adopt the admiral candidate after the pheasant left, but chose the more troublesome world recruitment."
Yukui sits under the cherry blossom trees and sipps Braun with Saul, their favorite pastime.
After getting along for a long time, Saul found that Yukui talked a lot, and his "luck" seemed to be very good, and he often met some inexplicable people.
But fortunately, this guy is quite reliable.
"Originally, I thought that you should know better than I did about the internal affairs of the navy." Thor sneered and explained, "As far as I know, there are clear factions within the navy, and one of the reasons for the defeat of the pheasant this time is the interference of another faction. And the pheasant is the person who the Warring States want to support the most, he loses, and the Warring States faction will definitely be suppressed. After you told me about the heels of the two peach rabbits that day, I analyzed them carefully. The relationship between Peach Rabbit and Lieutenant General Tsuru is not ordinary, then they must all belong to the Sengoku faction, and now the power is the people of the Akainu faction, if you are a Akainu, will you let someone from your rival side take an important position? β
You Kui sighed twice, lay on his back on the grass, and said helplessly, "These imperial mental techniques are really not something that ordinary people can play, how tired should people be in them......"
Thor nodded, "So that's why Akainu hasn't been able to make a big deal with the hated pirates since he took office." Of course, the aftermath of the war on top is also one of them. β
"Akainu is not simple, in addition to its own strength, it is better at stooping without a fight."
Yu Kui glanced at Thor meaningfully.
Thor was calm and nodded.
Such an adversary is the most worrisome. As people say privately on weekdays: the most afraid of hooligans is cultured.
Although the words are a little rough, the truth is like this.
"One thing I want to remind you is that although you have become the Seven Martial Seas, the navy will not be an enemy of you on the surface, but they will definitely put a lot of eyeliner around him, waiting for you to show your flaws, and then give you a thunderous blow. Three years ago, the Navy's top brass formed a mysterious force with a very small number of people, which was rumored to have penetrated into various forces and seemed to be plotting something. β
Thor raised his glass, oh, and said, "How do you know about this?" Aren't you one of them? β
You Kui glared at Sol, and said angrily, "Damn, Uncle Ben was unsuccessful back then!" β
Thor was stunned for a moment and laughed.
The two continued to drink, and when they had passed three rounds of drinking, Lin came running quickly and said anxiously, "Thor, we have encountered a thunderstorm cloud, and we must find a place to dock!! β
Thor and the others hurriedly stood up and looked in the direction that Lin pointed, and the thunderclouds in the sky in front of them hung low, lying on the surface of the sea like a whirlpool, and there was no end in sight to the black oppression.
After going to sea for several years, the experienced sailing Thor couldn't help but scold, even today's ghost-faced ship can't withstand the ravages of that disaster, if he rushes into it, I'm afraid his sailing career will come to an end.
Now that the ghost-faced ship and the ghost thing are not far away, it will definitely be too late to run back.
This strengthened Thor's determination to find a navigator.
After all, Lin and the others are not professional navigators, and many weather warnings cannot be detected in time. If there was a professional navigator, it would have been discovered a long time ago.
"Where can I !!! to the shore?"
Thor growled.
Now that it can be said that nearly 200 lives are in his hands, it is time for him, the captain, to make a decision.
"To the southeast, there is an island twenty miles away, but there are many whirlpools around the island......"
Lynn's face was a little pale, if it weren't for those whirlpool undercurrents, she would have commanded the ship to come over.
"What about somewhere else? Is there any other place? β
Yukui was also anxious, he knew very well how dangerous the whirlpool undercurrent was. It could almost be said that every area of the whirlpool undercurrent is a graveyard for ships.
At the bottom of the sea in such a place, there must be many broken ships.
"It's gone...... As far as the eye can see, that's the only landmass. β
Lin muttered.
"."
From the burly straight slap on the thigh, in the face of this natural disaster, even he can't do anything.
"Just head for the island, rush over!"
"Ah???h
Lynn looked at Thor in shock.
Thor's eyes were red, and he snapped, "I said, rush towards the island over there!" You don't have to worry about the rest!! β
With that, Thor turned and walked out.
After receiving the order, the ship immediately turned and rushed at full speed towards the island in the southeast direction.
Twenty nautical miles, it is not close on weekdays.
But on this kind of sea, it's almost a matter of minutes.
The hundred-meter-long pirate ship can be regarded as a real behemoth, but it is still weak in the face of that natural disaster. Facing the danger zone of the whirlpool undercurrent, it is not enough to see.
The usually fierce pirates on the ship are now like ostriches in danger, shrinking their heads and praying with pale faces.
"Pray? Prayer is useless, it's better to say goodbye to the captain! β
Coming over from the Kui Hanger. A kick in the ass of a pirate and a finger at the bow of the ship.
The ghost face at the bow of the ship, with a green face and white hair, Thor stood in the fluttering white hair against the sea breeze.
When he stood up from Sol, Yukui breathed a sigh of relief, and it seemed that Sol still had a way.
The ship had deviated slightly from course, apparently under the influence of the undercurrents below the surface, and began to head towards a large whirlpool.
The helmsman gritted his teeth and held the rudder lever hard, but the usually sensitive rudder rod seemed to be stuck, not moving at all, and even slid in the opposite direction.
"Right Full Rudder !!"
Thor roared, stretched out his left hand and spread his fingers, making a gesture of struggling to lift up.
The sea on the left suddenly fluctuated, and as Thor raised his left hand, a big wave surged on the sea, like a fish hundreds of meters big showing its back, forcing the boat away from the undercurrent.
The helmsman only felt the rudder in his hand loosen, and then the ship turned half a circle and headed to the right, and he shouted with joy in his heart.
However, in this dangerous sea, there is not only one whirlpool and one undercurrent, which is called a ship graveyard.
Although they are not connected, the large and small whirlpools are like beehives.
Now the pirate ship has just entered the entrance to the "hive".
Soon the ship will lose control again, sucked by the suction of the whirlpool into the terrifying maw.
Sure enough, before the people on board could breathe a sigh of relief, the ship headed for a whirlpool again.
"Up!"
With a low roar, the sea once again bared its back like a big fish, pushing the pirate ship away again.
Following the force, the pirate ship moved forward some distance further.
Everyone on board either hid in the cabin or fixed themselves to the ship with ropes, and let out a series of piercing screams as the ship was in danger again and again.
In the face of death, this group of old men is also like a weak little girl, and their necks are hoarse.
"What a shame ......"
Thor let out a low curse, but he couldn't trouble them at this point.
The road ahead is full of dangers, and he really can't be separated.
Why was Thor asked by Whitebeard to send the post-war personnel away during the top war?
Here's why.
Because of his fruit ability, he can control the sea!
A pirate ship, stumbling forward in the dense whirlpool undercurrent, and can escape death every time.
"Boom!"
The boat suddenly jolted, and the people on board flew up in an instant, and if it weren't for the rope to fix it, it would definitely fall into the water a lot.
"There's something in the water!!"
You Kui wiped a handful of water from his face and shouted loudly.
Thor, who had stabilized his body by grabbing the ghost's white hair, was pale, and he naturally didn't need to be reminded by Youkui.
The thing in the water is something bigger than the ship, capable of ignoring the attraction of the whirlpool and scurrying around in the water to attack the ship.
The boat jumped again, and the boy shouted "Stop it, this grandson wants to dismantle the ship!!! β
In this kind of place, once the ship is damaged, even the gods can't save it.
"You still need to say !!"
Thor who had been waiting for a long time grabbed his right hand downwards and lifted it.
The sea rolled up on the waves, and a giant hand made of water grabbed something and lifted it up.
Everyone watched the shocking scene in amazement, and they had long forgotten that they were in danger.
The giant arm that slapped down and absolutely smashed the ship to pieces, grabbed a piece of the body of a sea creature like a dragon, and lifted it out of the water.
But the things in the water are too huge, and the position of the water surface is tens of meters, and the white flowers are missing.
"What the hell !!"
Thor held his left hand weakly, and thin streams of water surged from the surface of the water, condensing into a spear tens of meters long.
Then the spear flew towards the thing's body with Thor thrown, and in an instant it was half of the flesh!
Blood rose like a fountain, and the thing was in pain, and suddenly lifted its huge snake-like head from the water, opened its bloody mouth, and bit down on the giant arm. At the same time, he twisted his body frantically and set off a monstrous wave.
The boat is like a leaf of duckweed, swaying. The giant arm could not withstand the strange force of the sea monster and shattered, and the sea monster returned to the sea.
Thor got up from the deck, jumped on the bow of the ship again, and yelled, "Don't just watch the show, you guy! β
Yukui also got up, shook his buzzing head, and ran towards the cabin.
After the battle just now, the sea monster seems to have disappeared to the bottom of the sea, and Thor begins to deal with the whirlpool again.
But everyone knew very well that that thing must be hiding in a corner somewhere, waiting for the right moment.
If it suffers a big loss, it will definitely hold a grudge.
"There's a big maelstrom ahead!! Left full rudder!! β
Lin hissed and shouted, no wonder she was in such a hurry, the whirlpool in front of her was terrifyingly large, like a sinkhole, and the pirate ship of hundreds of meters was really like a leaf in a water tank years ago.
As soon as Lynn's words fell, a terrifying suction force came, pulling the ship towards the whirlpool.
A huge hand had already reached out on the surface of the sea, pushing the ship to the right of the ship.
This terrifying suction is no longer something that can be solved by a "big fish's back".
The boat was still some distance from the huge whirlpool, and with the help of the giant hand, the ship slowly turned to the left.
Seeing this scene, Lin also breathed a sigh of relief.
Thankfully, I didn't fall into it.
The next moment, the out-of-phase protrusion.
The sea monster, which had been dormant for a long time, suddenly burst out of the water and crashed headlong into the left side of the ship.
The terrifying force creaked the hull of the ship, and the ship, which had already turned left, deflected to the right.
The pirate ship suddenly flipped on its back.
The sea monster did not retreat after the blow, but rushed towards the maelstrom with the pirate ship as if he was angry.
Everyone knows that the creatures in the water are extremely powerful in the water.
Not to mention the terrifying behemoth of this body that far exceeds the ship.
Under its desperate charge, the pirate ship approached the maelstrom at a great speed.
By the time Thor stood firm, the ship had tilted again, and had been firmly sucked in by the edge of the maelstrom.
The force was so great that it was almost irresistible, and it pulled the pirate ship down in an instant.
The people on the boat were like bungee jumping, screaming and hanging in the air.
Although the ship did not capsize, it was because Thor had not given up yet.
The two giant hands, one up and down, pulled on the top and lifted on the bottom, actually forcibly stabilized the ship in the whirlpool!
The sea monster that pushed the ship into the maelstrom was also sucked out of the maelstrom, and it was even deeper without the help of the giant hand. However, it also reacted extremely quickly, its body writhed suddenly, its tail shook like a propeller, and its whole body actually went up against the current in the whirlpool!!
"You !!!!! Kui"
Thor yelled!
He felt like he was going to lose his strength as he maintained the status quo in this position, but he knew that as soon as he let go, everyone would be finished.
"Drink !!!"
With a loud roar, the huge anchor was thrown out by Yukui, and it accurately hit the tail of the sea monster.
The sea monster roared bitterly, and its tail had been broken through by the "processed" anchor. After the anchor was kicked, the huge hook was pulled by the iron chain, firmly hooking the tail of the sea monster.
The sea monster roared in pain, but it was also clearly afraid of the whirlpool, so it rushed upwards even harder.
The waves stirred up tens of meters behind it, and it broke through the wind. In the blink of an eye, he overtook the pirate ship and continued to rush upward.
The chains were dragged overboard with a rattle and then straightened.
The sea monster roared again, and the pain stimulated it, making it even more crazy, and it was a little faster, and it dragged the boat upstream with it.
The powerful sea monster rushed up to the whirlpool first, the suction force above was less than that below, its force was even greater, and with the help of Thor's giant hand, the ship rushed to the surface again.
"Two-day first-class !!"
By holding the handle of the knife with both hands, the source of the disaster is out of the sheath!
The red slash instantly landed on the sea monster's body, and a huge knife edge in the shape of "δΉ" spewed out a blood mist in the sky!
The sea monster shook its body violently in pain, roared loudly, the chains rattled, and then suddenly loosened.
By the time the ship stabilized, there were no sea monsters in the water, and there were no whirlpools on the surface of the sea.
The ship was dragged out of the turbulent sea by a sea monster.
Thor lay panting on his back on the deck, the pirates who had survived the catastrophe dancing with joy.
Yu Kui patted Sol and said with a smile, "Thank you, captain, I'll treat you to meat at night." β
Thor glanced at it, and the anchor that had been dragged up still had half of the sea monster's tail hanging from it, enough for everyone to eat.
It turned out that after the sea monster was attacked by Youkui, its bones were broken, and it was terrified that it tore off its tail from the knife wound and escaped.
And the huge anchor, the front two sides of the bright mirror, at a glance, you can see that some of it has been cut off, deliberately made as sharp as a knife, so that it can penetrate the body of the sea monster in one fell swoop.
The only one who can cause this project in a short period of time is Yu Kui.
"Do you drink?"
Thor looked at Yukui defiantly.
You Kui bent down and squatted, supported the ground with one hand, and stretched out his index finger and middle finger with the other hand to clasp his throat, let out a vomiting sound, and then said, "I just want to recall this action." β
"Satisfying you"
Thor gritted his teeth.