Chapter 153: Heaven
So, everyone rushed into the sky.
Of course, there were also terrifying episodes like the ship falling down, but with Nami's superb navigational skills, the Merry was able to ascend to the clouds without danger.
At this time, everyone was on a white white cloud.
"Ahem, ahem, ahem!" At this time, everyone's faces were blue, their mouths were panting, and they coughed involuntarily twice from time to time, like eight tuberculosis ghosts.
"It's so uncomfortable...... What the hell is going on? Sauron leaned on his left leg against the guardrail, gasping for breath, looking around at his companion who was lying on the deck and asked, "Are you all right?" β
Everyone didn't answer, everyone was carefully adjusting their breathing.
"Hey! Look outside, everybody! Luffy, who was the first to slow down, shouted happily to everyone.
Outside the ship, there were white and blue clouds on all sides.
"This is it... Sky Island? Sanji looked around, "But didn't Aaron say that there were buildings?" There's nothing but clouds here."
Miss Navigator, where is the pointer now? At this time, Robin reminded Daunami.
"Huh?" Nami looked at the record pointer, "Why are you still pointing upwards?" β
"It looks like the Sky Island should be on the next level," Robin analyzed.
"But how are we going to get there?" Nami asked, looking at Robin.
"I don't know." Nami shook her head helplessly.
"Hahahaha! Ascend to the first step of the Kukai and I, Captain Usopp, swim away! At this moment, Usopp, who had just woken up, looked at Kukai with white clouds in front of him, and he first exclaimed, and then immediately took off his shirt and stood on the railing of the boat to show off his poor muscles.
"Yummy!" Luffy, who couldn't swim, exclaimed, and his eyes sparkled.
"Hey, hey, don't mess around, Usopp, we don't know the situation yet, don't act rashly," Sanji admonished Usopp.
"The sea is the sea! Hahahaha! With a laugh, Usopp jumped into the clouds with a frog.
"Shirley, how are you feeling??" At the same time as Usopp jumped ship, Chopper looked at Shirley, who was ready to wake up and had a pale face, and he couldn't help but ask worriedly.
"Woo... It felt like her head was going to explode," Shirley said groggily, shaking her head and looking wilted.
"Why don't you go back to the cabin and rest, you should be a typical altitude sickness, and you should get better after a good night's sleep," Chopper advised.
"Hmm..."Shirley didn't force herself, she nodded, and staggered to her feet, but her legs didn't obey.
"I'll take you." Looking at Shirley's struggling appearance, Chopper quickly turned into a hairy-faced man and picked up Shirley.
"Chopper, what's wrong with Shirley?" Luffy, who was watching Kukai waiting for Usopp to come out, noticed the movement here, he leaned his head against the guardrail, tilted his head slightly and asked,
"She's sick from altitude sickness and needs to get some rest," he said, and Chopper made his way to the cabin.
"Hey..."Sauron, who had been observing the surrounding situation, couldn't help but look at everyone, "Usopp... I haven't been able to come up."
......When they heard this, they involuntarily walked to the side of the boat and looked down at the white clouds that were churning like waves below.
"I have a question, this place... Will there be a sea floor? There was a moment of silence before Robin spoke.
Everyone: "...... Huh?! β
Sou!
At this moment, the clouds next to the Merry suddenly exploded, and the water under Aaron's feet appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
"Aaron! Hurry up and save Usopp! He fell off the boat! Then before Aaron could speak, Sauron was the first to speak, pointing to the clouds below the ship and shouting eagerly.
"Nani?! I'll go right away! With that, Aaron threw the Gary in his hand at Sauron, "Help me hold the Gary!" β
Poof!
And he ran into the clouds again.
"Whew... It should be okay now. When Sanji saw this scene, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"But can Aaron's strength bring Usopp back?" But Nami didn't relax, her eyes were still solemn.
"No problem, Aaron, he'll definitely think of a way" and Luffy said very firmly,
"Hey, you guys have gossip skills, why don't you come and see Gary, he seems to be in a bad state right now...", Zoro raised the volute in his hand, and showed everyone the conspicuous crack in the volute and Gary's languishing expression.
"How did Gary do this?" Sanji looked at Gary's embarrassed expression at this time, and he was a little surprised, "Could it be that Aaron and Gary fought?" β
"Probably not, let him ask when Chopper comes out" Zoro shook his head, and then he pointed Gary's head at himself, "Nothing is wrong, right?" Gary"
"Catβ" Gary screamed weakly, shaking his two tentacles to indicate that he was fine.
"Quack! Quack!"" It hurts! It hurts! Sorry, sorry! β
At this moment, Chopper ran out of the cabin with his head in his arms, and everyone looked over, and it was Nannan who had guided everyone to the sky-high current.
"Ahh Before we forgot to put it away! Nami looked at Nannan and exclaimed, with some hindsight.
"Quack!" After teaching Chopper a lesson, Nannan saw the light of day and flapped his wings and prepared to leave the Merry.
"Luffy, catch it, there's no vegetation here, it's going to starve to death." Looking at Nannan Mitori, who was gradually moving away, Nami said to Luffy, "Since Aaron said before that he had seen the building, there should be people, and in this case, it is very likely that there will be vegetation."
"Soga!" Hearing Nami's explanation, Luffy nodded abruptly, and then he moved his right arm, "It's going to go, rubber rubber, pistol!" β
Burst!
At the same time as Luffy reached out to catch the bird, Aaron, who had gone to save the man, also emerged from the clouds, and at this time he was tightly pressed against Usopp's back, with his legs and hands facing down, and the whole person was like a four-legged table, with strong water spraying down with both hands and feet.
"Everyone, be careful! There's something in the back! When he saw the crowd, Aaron's head lifted up sharply, and when he had finished telling them, he controlled his limbs and flew upwards.
Rumble!
As soon as Aaron's words fell, several thick wrists and feet emerged from the clouds, baring their teeth and claws to attack Aaron.
"Wow! What is this! "I have to say that tentacles have a negative status bonus to women at any time, but I didn't see that at this time, not only Nami, but even Robin's face couldn't help but change slightly, and he unconsciously took a step back.
"What's so scary about the tentacles!" Zoro didn't understand the thoughts of this group of women at all, he rushed with a knife, and in three or two strokes, the tentacles were shattered, and they exploded out of thin air.
Later, a large flat fish appeared, and then Sanji rewarded him with a skull kick and successfully received the lunch.
"That octopus can explode, like a balloon," Zoro gasped as he commented on what he had just chopped, and then he couldn't help but curse, "Damn, why is it so hard here?" β
"Going from low altitude to high altitude in extreme times causes a lack of oxygen supply to the whole body, so it would be nice to adjust it a little more," Chopper explained to Zoro.
"I didn't expect there to be creatures here," Nami sighed as she looked at the big fish that looked like a playful face on the deck, "It's really a true Kukai." β
Boom!
While everyone was chatting, Aaron, who had just flown higher, fell on the deck in free fall, because of the cushion of Aaron's sponge body, so Usopp on Aaron's top of him was not a big deal... Probably.
"Usopp!" Looking at Usopp who was rolling his eyes and foaming at the mouth, Chopper, who was a doctor, hurriedly ran forward to observe, "It's okay, it's just that I'm too frightened." β
"Chopper, hurry up and pull me out! Usopp is so heavy that I can't move at all! Aaron, who was struggling violently under Usopp, called for help from Chopper.
"Huh? Is Usopp heavy? Chopper looked at Usopp, whose thin bones protruded, and his eyes were full of doubt.
ββ¦ It's not like you don't know what strength I have, so don't talk about it, hurry up and help! β
Even idiots like Aaron have a bit of lost self-esteem.
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"Aaron, what did you do before? How did Gary get like that? Looking at Aaron, who was quietly changing clothes, Zoro couldn't help but raise the gary in his hand that had been retracted into the shell, and he raised his eyebrows, "How do you feel like you're fighting with someone?" β
"Uh... How do you know? Aaron's face froze, and he muttered quietly.
"Huh? What the? The voice was so small that Sauron didn't hear it clearly.
"It's nothing, nothing," Aaron recalled what Gary had said to himself, and he continued to lift his pants and said, "It's just that when we went to look for Hailou Rock before, we happened to encounter an undersea volcanic eruption, which caused a large-scale change in the earth's crust and caused the seawater to pour in, and the huge pressure crushed us to death, and it took a lot of effort to escape, hahaha..."
"It doesn't look like you're going to be able to say these words," Zoro looked at Aaron suspiciously, and he always felt that this matter was not so simple.
"Gary told me... By the way, why didn't you see Shirley?" Even Aaron knew that if he said too much, he would lose, so he looked around, and when he didn't see Shirley, he decided to ask rhetorically about it.
"She's a little unwell and goes back to her room to rest," Zoro replied, giving up on the question.
"Huh? She's fine, right? After hearing this, Aaron couldn't help but look at Sauron worriedly.
"Listen to Chopper and say that it shouldn't be a big deal," Zoro turned to look around with a telescope at the base of the wooden plank that had broken from rushing into the clouds before, "Right, Chopper, Chopper?" β
"Ahh Hearing Zoro's shout, Chopper's whole body trembled, and he suddenly fell backwards on the deck, his face a little frightened.
"What's wrong Chopper, do you see anything?" Sanji asked, looking at Chopper.
"Boat! I just saw the boat! Chopper got up from the ground and looked at the crowd with a panicked expression, "But the boat is gone!" β
"What are you talking about?" Zoro looked at Chopper suspiciously.
"And there's a four-pointed cow running towards here from the clouds!" Chopper jumped and reminded everyone.
"Hey, hey, calm down, Chopper, I don't understand what you're talking about at all" Nami looked at Chopper, who was obviously in a frenzy, and she couldn't help but soothe, "Slow down, is there something coming over?"
"That's what he's talking about, right?" At this moment, Sauron, who had already seen something coming, slowly put his hand on the hilt of his sword.
It was a man with a ghost mask the size of a shield, naked and bronzed, with a huge cannon barrel and a shield in each hand, and was gliding towards the Merry at great speed.
"It's a man, and he's still gliding on the clouds?!" "Wow! It's amazing!! β
Not to mention the different performances of the crowd, the big man who approached the Merry jumped sharply, and was about to jump onto the deck.
"Hey, stop, what are you here for?" Sanji asked, looking at the big man in mid-air.
"Exclude!" The big man coldly spat out two words, and his face under the mask was covered by two cruel and cunning eyes.
"It's not good!" "It's guts." "What's wrong, what's wrong?" "What does it mean to exclude?"
The above is the performance of the four main forces of the Straw Hat Pirates.
Knock knock knock!
Then the four of them were solved one after another by this big man's string of gourds.
"Wait a minute! The four of you can't beat one?! Nami was so scared that she thought these four guys were faking a fight.
After "......" knocks down all the men on the ship (Chopper is seen as a pet, and Usopp is in a state of self-denial), the big man jumps away from the Merry, and he aims his cannon at the Merry, and just as he is about to fire the cannonball, the protagonist's aura suddenly comes into play!
"That's it!" An ethereal voice sounded from the sky, and then a figure swept through the sky like thunder, stabbing fiercely at the big man.
Rumble!
The huge kinetic energy smashed the big man into the sea of clouds, and then he saw the figure turn over a smooth arc in the air and jump gracefully onto the deck of the Merry.
"Who are you?!" Nami screamed as she looked at the figure.
The white-bearded old man, dressed in a medieval retro armor style, heard Nami scream, he pulled the shield from his helmet, his eyes were as bright as light, he looked at Nami and said, "The old man is a knight in the sky. "Woo give!!"
Behind him, strange birds that had been pink and spotted chirped loudly.
"What is a Sky Knight? And what was that one just now? Why is there such a mess on the Sky Island? What the hell is going on here?! Nami kept rambling like a cannonball, and the successive emergencies made Nami a little devastated.
"Old man knows you still have a lot of questions, but can you wait until old man cleans up that guy?" And the old man was also annoyed by Nami's unexpectedly fast speech.
"......" looked at Nami, who was tightly covering her mouth, and the old man breathed a sigh of relief, and then he looked at the silent and empty Kukai seriously, and waited for a long time without seeing anyone come out.
"Did you escape?" The old man muttered.
"What the hell is going on here? What did that guy do? Hearing the old man's self-talk, Nami spoke this time, she was puzzled at first, and then turned her head to look at the three people next to her who were panting and Aaron who was curious to see them panting, and said angrily, "And you, it's really useless, four people were beaten by one person!" β
"Huh? He just came to fight? Aaron looked at Nami in surprise, "So the exclusion means fighting?" β
"......" ignored Aaron, who felt that he had learned something new, Nami raised her eyebrows and looked at the three of them, "Aaron won't talk about it, what's going on with the three of you?" β
"I feel weird and can't lift my energy." Luffy said as he opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue, panting.
"It's because the air is so thin, right?" Robin guessed.
"It really could be the reason." Zoro on the side also tried his best to regulate his breathing.
"Okay, you don't have to say anything, I know what you're trying to say" Nami held out her hand to stop Aaron who was about to speak.
It's nothing more than a surprise to say that the air is thin and I don't feel anything, this kind of monster-like speech.
Tut.
"You're from the blue sea, aren't you?" At this time, the old man on the side interjected.