Chapter Eighty-Eight: Upside Down Mountain, Skipping a Shift
As a result, Doflamingo asked Autumn to stay here for about two or three months, waiting for something to arrive—when Dover asked Autumn to enter the Great Voyage a little bit, and then welcome back a batch of superprecious "cargo".
As for why you didn't hesitate to waste so much time? Because of this necessity - the shipment that Dover asked Qiubai to greet was conservatively estimated to be worth more than 1 billion Baileys.
Although Qiubai seems to have heard of numbers like this recently, then he heard that it was just numbers, but this time it was different, those goods were really worth a billion.
This is a huge amount of money, and if you do a little conversion, you can know this more clearly: the bounty of Fisher Tiger, who blew up Marlene Joya, is a little more than 200 million, which means that 1 billion is enough to blow up the Draconian's nest five times.
If so much money is given to the famous "terrorist" revolutionary army, it will be enough for them to subvert the regime of a country.
This money is also not to be underestimated for Doflamingo, so the question is, what is Dover doing, and why does he even leave this kind of thing to Qiubai?
Qiu Bai didn't think he had such a high level of trust with Dover.
However, since the "goods" to be greeted are already known in advance, if Dover doesn't have any intention of "teasing you", then its value is indeed more than 1 billion.
So does Autumn White really have to wait here for the time to enter the Great Voyage as Dover asks?
No, isn't what is happening now just "God help me", and during the "waiting" period, Qiubai can just send Allen away, so that the original time problem no longer exists.
Things should be sooner rather than later, and after Allen's condition improved a bit, Qiubai decided to set off immediately.
Qiubai, Ain, Peibo, and Erren left the Meow Galapas Islands by boat, and although there may still be naval warships cruising in the open sea, it is better for them to move as soon as possible.
So it didn't matter to take a little risk of sailing, and if they had to deal with a last resort, they were ready to do the same as they had last time in Frevans...... Direct cooling helps intercepted warships to be scrapped and dismantled.
Luckily, there have been no surprises, at least so far.
"I suddenly thought of a small question, although it seems a bit amateurish to ask now...... Anyway, Peibo, with your sailing skills, is it okay to climb the upside-down mountain? Qiubai, who had been pretending to be a thinker in the night, suddenly opened his mouth and asked into the cabin.
At this time, Qiubai and Ain were outside, while the navigator Peibo, who was in charge of controlling the rudder, and the seriously injured Allen were in the ship's room.
As it was said earlier, the structure of the Grand Line and the Windless Belt is as follows: the Windless Belt, the Great Route, the Windless Belt, resembles Oreo, and the Red Line is a ring of continents perpendicular to the Great Route, which divides each other into two parts.
And one of the two intersections of the two is the entrance to the great shipping route, "Upside Down Mountain".
If you take the Upside-Down Mountain as the origin, the Great Shipping Route and the Laterite Continent as the horizontal and vertical axes, you can briefly describe the direction, the upper left corner is the North Sea, the right side of the North Sea is the East Sea, the lower side is the West Sea, and the diagonal is the South China Sea.
Originally, there was no passage in and out of the Great Shipping Route, but in order to communicate the four seas and enter and exit the Great Shipping Route, people dug five artificial canals in the towering red clay continent.
The first four of them are X-shaped, the intersection of the canal is the upside-down mountain, that is, the top of the red soil continent, although the altitude of the intersection is much higher than the entrance of the canal, but due to the effect of various factors, the sea current is quite unnatural along the canal channel to the top of the mountain, the huge sea water keeps "climbing the mountain" scene, it is still quite spectacular.
The water flows from the bottom to the top, and this gravity-defying situation is where the name "Upside Down Mountain" comes from.
After the four currents converge at the top of the mountain, and then flow down the rather obscene fifth canal parallel to the right through the confluence of the river channel, which penetrates into the Great Route, that is, when the four seas cross the Upside-Down Mountain, you can enter the Great Route.
The fifth canal is the only one that follows the principle of "water flowing downward", and at the very end of this canal is the twin headlands, where the great shipping route begins.
But for now, there should be a huge "island whale" stuck there.
The story of the whale is not to be talked about for the time being, just because "climbing the mountain" requires the navigator to have super high skills, otherwise he will definitely be crushed in the rapids, so Qiubai has such a question.
Although this question is asked late anyway.
"Bump...... I still know the upside-down mountain and the upside-down current!! As if he had been questioned about his skills, the furry bear showed a fierce expression.
But he avoided answering Qiubai's question directly.
So Qiubai nodded, indicating that he understood, and in this way he was relieved...... At least Pei Bo still knows the basic situation of Upside Down Mountain, but this navigator seems to only "know".
"Autumn White...... Are we really going to enter the Great Voyage? In fact, Peibo had no confidence in victory.
Small boats, rookie navigators, and upside-down mountains, these add up to about the same as the words "ships are destroyed and people die", but what should be done must be done. Even without Allen, simply because of Doflamingo's orders, they would need to climb the Upside Down Mountain and enter the Great Voyage.
"Give yourself some confidence, there is always a first time in everything, besides, what's the difference between pirates not taking risks and salted fish?"
Qiubai's words seemed to make a lot of sense, but Pei Bo always felt that something was wrong there...... Please, there's a bit of a difference between taking risks and dying, right? It's not surprising that there is always a first time, but it would be terrible if it was really only this one.
Don't worry about drowning in the road ahead, who in the world ...... Well, anyway, this voyage was a bit too difficult for Peibo. And there is a seriously injured number on this ship, is it really okay to toss to death like this?
Probably no problem, because ...... The Seriously Injured has no right to express his opinion.
"I should have prepared more if I had known......"
Qiubai had made up his mind, and Pei Bo turned to scratch his cheeks a little unbearable...... He didn't realize that he was just a hairy bear, not a cat bear, so it wouldn't have the effect of selling cuteness.
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Since the Meow Galapas Islands themselves are not far from the Upside Down Mountain, in less than two days, with the rumbling sound of the current, the huge, towering crimson continent appeared in front of Qiubai and the others.
If you go a little further, you will be able to see the rolling white waves and the rising currents of the canal.
The currents are indeed an incredible "mountain climb".
Qiu Bai stood at the bow of the boat and stared speechlessly, and after thinking for a long time, he suddenly turned his head to Pei Bo and said:
"Mr. Navigator, I really changed my mind."
"What?"
"There's no way, really don't you go to the Great Voyage? Mm-hmm, that's too dangerous for us right now. ”
Pei Bo secretly breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest, after seeing the upside-down mountain rapids, he was even less confident that he could control the ship, but ...... Unexpectedly, Qiubai, who is not afraid of the sky and the earth, also has times to retreat.
However, he got one thing wrong.
"No, I mean I had a new idea before going to the Great Voyage...... We're going to go to the East China Sea first. ”
Pei Bo was stunned at first, and then:
"Clams?"
If you go to the Great Route, although it is inconceivable to climb the mountain first and then descend the mountain, it can be classified as "going downstream", first going up the river and then down the river, but if you turn to the East China Sea from here, the route is in the shape of "√", and they have to make a big turn at the top of the mountain.
That is, first go up the river, and then go downstream...... The difficulty of navigation has greatly increased.
It's really a new idea, and TM can't just say it sooner to make people a little mentally prepared?
The longer you get along, the more you often feel that Qiubai as a whole exudes a mysterious feeling......
That's probably called "surprise".