The bottom of the canyon is dark, and the air is unbearably hot.

The pungent smell of the boiling hot spring water made Ron feel better when he had to tear off his sleeves and tie them around his nose.

Not far away, on a raised reef, lay a body like a broken sack, falling from this height, the water surface is not much different from the concrete floor, and the female student of Rebeke directly fell with half of her head, leaving an eyeball with a sling, and went with the flow.

"Doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary......"

With the light from the electric current, Ron glanced around the river and came to the same conclusion.

"Huh? Wrong! ”

Suddenly, Ron noticed something, thought about it, turned his body into a bolt of lightning, and rushed to the beginning of the river in an instant.

"Sure enough!"

In front of him is a steep cliff from which the hot spring river flows from west to east.

But herein lies the problem!

"This river, there is no inlet?!"

The perennial flowing water washes the stone wall under the river surface smooth and smooth, and a little light shines on it, and you can see the bottom of the river at a glance.

However, under the stone wall where the water entrance should have existed, there was no water injected, and the entire stone wall was unobstructed, and it was sealed!

"It's not a river, it's a pool!"

Ron was shocked to conclude.

Through observation, he found that it was indeed the case!

The flow of water is divided into two layers, the upper layer from west to east, and the lower layer from east to west.

If it weren't for going down to the bottom of the canyon and discovering that the schoolgirl's broken half of her skull had floated upstream, Ron wouldn't have noticed it.

It's an infinite loop of water, trapped at the bottom of the canyon, where there is no exit and no entrance, and the cycle repeats.

If this scene were to be seen in a techno-technological society, a simple water recycling device would explain it.

But it appears in the underground of the One Piece world and has existed for more than 300 years, which simply cannot be explained by science.

Where does the power of its flow come from?

Also, why does drinking river water make people mutate?

Thinking of this, Ron made a decision that was unreasonable in the eyes of ordinary people.

"Hmmm......"

Smacking his lips carefully, Ron swallowed the river water in his mouth with a constipated face.

"Hemp egg, bitter and astringent!!"

"Huh? What is this force? ”

Suddenly, Ron felt a burst of heat in his abdomen, as if his internal organs were burning. The astonishing heat quickly spread along the belly to the whole body, crispy and numb, as if there were thousands of small insects crawling along the blood vessels in the body, making him extremely irritable.

At the same time, as with his previous awakening of fruit power, an inexplicable tyrannical mood began to grow.

"Get out of here!"

Rumble!

Ordinary people must have no power to resist in the face of this mutation, but for Ron, who has mastered the return of life, it is simply laughable that this force from the outside world wants to control him.

He decisively controlled his body and began to eliminate foreign bodies, and black tendons appeared on the surface of the skin, but instead of spreading wantonly, they were concentrated by him and condensed towards the mouth.

"Ho...... Bah! ”

When the black substance was squeezed into his mouth, Ron opened his mouth and spat out, and a pool of black mucus fell on the palm of his hand.

Ron smiled at the gooey thing in his palm that kept squirming and trying to get back inside him.

"It's no wonder that Rebeek mutates so quickly, it hasn't spread out for hundreds of years, presumably this thing in the water is close to saturation."

By testing the poison himself, he found that the river was ...... There is indeed a problem with the water in the pool.

It is inhabited by a unique parasite that is invisible to the naked eye.

When people swallow them by drinking water, they will continue to absorb the host's energy to accelerate reproduction, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling the host.

But...... Don't talk about dosage and toxicity, it's all hooliganism!

Again, there is a question of density.

The reason why that group of workers did not mutate directly was probably because there were not many parasites in the water at that time, and there were too many people who drank water.

This leaves each of them with a negligible number of parasites, which take a long time to multiply and finally mutate.

And now they've been sealed underground for more than 300 years, and the parasites are multiplying on their own, resulting in an incredible density of bugs in every drop of water, which makes Rybek get on the ground in one bite.

Including the flow of water, it is also because hundreds of millions of miniature parasites are swimming in the same direction, and the thing in this is not so much water as a group of water-like parasites.

"This world is really strange!"

Ron sighed.

Although the world he has come into contact with is high-end, it is only the tip of the iceberg compared to the whole sea.

The mysteries of the sea are endless, nothing is incredible, only undiscovered.

The only regret is ......

Zizi!

Boom!

Ron waved his hand and unleashed a thunderbolt, and the blue arc flickered endlessly, sending a cloud of gray dust directly into the "water".

The high temperature of the electric current burned the body tissues of the transparent parasites that had absorbed the water to ashes, and a large number of corpses piled up, so that the first wisps of dust finally appeared in the clean and transparent waters.

"What do you want from this Lord of the Styx?"

Feudal superstition is not credible!

Ron smacked his lips in displeasure.

He's still looking forward to fighting the Lord of Styx, and you tell him he's just a bunch of bugs?

After being tricked, Ron raised the Thunder Dragon Fang Heavenly Halberd in his hand, and then slammed it down.

Huh!

A halberd falls, the stone breaks the earth, and the mountains and the earth are split!

The painting rod was wrapped in thunder and fell to the bottom of the water, and then a terrifying vibration followed.

Buzz, buzz!

Scarlet light slowly seeped through the cracks, like the afterglow of the setting sun, illuminating the dim underworld.

Forthwith......

Boom!

A large stream of magma erupted upwards and collided with the River Styx, sending scorching hot water vapor rising from the air.

A large number of parasites were directly scorched into ashes by the magma, and the orderly flow of the river was instantly chaotic, playing the swan song of life.

When the magma replaced the River Styx, Ron snorted coldly and turned away from the place.

……

Naval Headquarters, Marine Fodo.

Brubru ...... Brubru ......

"Hey, what's the matter, Lieutenant General Gumir?"

In the office, Sengoku picked up the earpiece and said in a quick tone.

The war in the New World is getting more and more intense, and he is under a lot of pressure.

The five old stars still think that BIG· Sooner or later, MOM will withdraw from the army, but Sengoku has judged through decades of experience in fighting, and this time BIG· MOM is really not hesitating to break the net with the navy!

Hit, that's definitely going to be hit.

What a godsend this is to completely defeat one of the Four Emperors, BIG· MOM Pirates.

However, since the war has been fought so far, the loss of personnel is secondary, and the loss of funds is the most serious problem.

As soon as the cannon goes off, ten thousand taels of gold!

The superiority of the Navy's firepower was completely smashed with Bailey.

The shells consumed in the battle every day are worth a thousand gold, and every night when I see the cost report, the Sengoku feel that my heart is bleeding.

If you continue to fight like this, the old bottom of the headquarters will really be wiped out.

Although Gumir sat in the G2 branch and did not participate in the battle, he still understood that the Warring States were now in dire straits, so he immediately sorted out his words and said quickly: "Marshal, Ron has dug up a treasure!" ”

"He's digging up the treasure and it's my business!"

Warring States couldn't wait to smash the lid of the teacup on him, and scolded impatiently: "Can I still rob him of his money?" ”

If he did, the soldiers would rebel the next day.

There is no requirement in the Navy to hand over private gains, and most soldiers enlist not for justice, but for a job to support their families.

was scolded back, Lieutenant General Gumir was not angry, a lewd smile appeared on his chubby face, and said: "You can't rob it, you can borrow it!" ”

"Marshal, that's thousands of tons of gold! Borrowing a little Ron is definitely fine. ”

"Poof!!"

"Ahem, ahem...... How much?! ”

Sengoku squirted out a mouthful of tea, dumbfounded.

./57_

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