Chapter 9: The Cold Snap in Iceland
Just ten minutes after deciding the direction of sailing, in the blink of an eye, this sea area was pouring heavy rain, clouds up to more than a kilometer, and the first terrifying hailstone the size of a ship's rudder suddenly fell, and almost at the same moment, dozens of tornadoes swept down from the sky.
At the same time, the sky seemed to darken along with the strange storm, and the unknown Devil Fruit that Grace had taken gave him first-class vision, but at this time, he was standing on the ship, but he was obscured by the towering waves that rose from time to time around the Golden Noah.
Torrential rain, hail, tornadoes, and dense fog, in an instant, the Golden Noah has become a piece of driftwood struggling under the harsh trials of nature, so small and powerless, and at the same time, this feeling of extreme fear and depression is unreservedly conveyed to every member of the Black Flame Pirates.
"It's terrible!"
Even the pirates, who had traveled from the first half of the Great Voyage to the present, had never encountered such a torrential rain.
"Oh, oh, it's a new world, what a storm!"
"Eun, it's really scary!"
Ace, the pirate captain who did not have the slightest sense of danger, even commented with interest on which tornado was more imposing and where the waves were more powerful, Yuna and Lilith respectively made the standard posture when watching a movie with their boyfriends, hooked their hands, hugged each other's left and right arms, and secretly competed with each other without retreating, until Ace in the center rolled his eyes.
It's just that Cones, the "temporary nanny", Yuna, the nominal mother, runs to fight for the wind and be jealous, and Natsu, who is still a child, naturally has a particularly high curiosity about this "masterpiece" of nature, running around on the deck, if it weren't for Coness being able to fly freely in the air, maybe she would fall into the sea.
Thanks to the fact that Escon spent nearly a month building this golden Noah, which was impeccable in shape and function, the solid wood and cloud iron frame of the empty island gave the ship an extremely strong hull, and it came to the island under countless tornadoes and torrential rains.
"The weather hasn't calmed down." Ace stood on the deck, looked at the sky covered in stratocumulus clouds, and muttered to himself, "Although there are no tornadoes, no tsunamis, and no hail, it is obviously much colder than just now, and this wind seems to be getting stronger." ”
Ace is a person who has eaten the ability of natural burnt fruits, not to mention the restraint of ice and snow weather on his ability, such a cold and harsh environment alone makes him feel a sense of disgust from the heart.
It's like an island covered in ice and snow, like a silvery snow covered in a layer of silver, and if it weren't for the fact that this is a new world, Ace would really think that he was in the first half of the "Winter Island".
"Whew, it's so cold!" Yuna took Natsu's hands, exhaled a breath of heat, and rubbed them gently in her palms, but she realized that she had underestimated the dragon fruit at the top of this animal-based ability, and at present, with the powerful attributes of Natsu's body, a pair of small hands seemed to be warmer than any of them.
In comparison, the others are much inferior, not to mention Conise, who is weaker in physical fitness, even Brooke sneezed coldly, which made the surroundings laugh and couldn't help laughing, Hulk laughed even more forward and backward, will the skeleton also catch a cold?
"It's so cold here, if you don't pay attention, you can't say it's a cold, even if you get frozen, it's very likely."
Ace nodded, and asked Doda to take out a few thick cotton clothes from the storage room and let everyone put them on in turn. "Everyone be careful, don't stay too far away from the people around you for a while, such a big snowstorm, if you get lost, it will be difficult to find it again."
Hall, Lilith suddenly looked up, only to see countless ice chips flying over with the storm, completely covering the continuous dense clouds above, and there seemed to be obvious swirling clouds, which were forming with great rapidity.
"That's not right!"
In the blink of an eye, Lilith had already realized that the center of these swirling clouds was the so-called "eye of the storm"!
When the surrounding cold air revolves around such a central position, moving in a positive and counterclockwise direction, the bottom air will also rotate while flowing towards the low-pressure air, the faster the air flow, the higher the wind will naturally be, but when the air loss outside the eye of the storm reaches a certain upper limit, the huge centrifugal force will make the outside air be repelled outside the storm area, and the result will also create a vacuum-like windless environment.
In the end, there is only one phenomenon, that is, under the eye of the storm, the central temperature continues to drop sharply, and the indescribable cold will freeze all the substances, life and non-life in the area, into ice!
This is the biggest weakness of the Black Flame Pirates,—— there is not a professional weatherman on the whole ship!
Therefore, for natural disasters like nature, Ace either relies on extraordinary strength, or completely relies on extraordinary luck!
That's too much luck!
"What a bunch of fools!"
Lilith didn't know whether to laugh or cry now, and looking at the formation of the cold snap in the eye of the wind, it seemed that they were already within walking distance.
"Everyone, now run to the bottom of the mountain as fast as you can." Lilith shouted loudly, pointing to the snow-capped mountains in the distance, "We need to get to the foot of the mountain immediately, make a hole, and hide inside." ”
As soon as Lilith spoke, everyone was stunned.
Ace looked at the strange gaze coming from around him, his face full of confusion, "What's wrong with you?" Suddenly say something like that······"
"There's no chance to explain now!" Lilith herself is not a professional weather forecaster, but she has been floating on the great voyage all year round, and she has done some shady transactions, so naturally most of them are not in the normal way. In this regard, she still has some sailing experience, so through a trace of clues, combined with some meteorological knowledge, she judged the current situation.
"If we stay here, we'll all die!" Lilith didn't have the bother to explain them one by one, and directly shouted out a word that was almost threatening.
"What are you crazy about?" Yuna frowned slightly, although Lilith's style has always been confusing, but there are still traces to follow, she is not like the kind of person who has no purpose, so she also secretly paid attention.
"I only ask you, do you believe me?" Lilith only looked at Ace, or rather, she was just asking Ace's opinion in the first place.
"Ah, of course." Although Ace didn't understand why the other party asked this question, he still smiled and nodded.
Lilith smiled again, smiled easily, and without any hesitation, she took Ace's hand and ran forward like crazy, leaving only a place where people who had not recovered for a long time, and it was quiet for a while.
"I said, what's going on?" Anilu frowned and said, and everyone shook their heads, expressing their confusion.
Yuna's expression was slightly condensed, and she immediately made a decision, greeted her companion behind her, picked up Natsu and immediately rushed towards the snowy mountain in the distance, "Although I don't know what that woman wants to do, there is no better way now, right?" Keep up, everyone! ”
Everyone, including Anilu, rushed into the sprint with a blank thought, but before they could go far, the chill on their faces had already disappeared.
The wind, stopped.
Just when they still couldn't figure out what was going on, a crackling sound sucked away their attention, and everyone heard it clearly, the sound came from behind them, and naturally there was only one behind them, that was the Golden Noah, but at this time, this large pirate ship had turned into a stiff ship-like ice.
"Mom!" Brooke screamed, his feet had turned into an afterimage, and he rushed forward lifelessly, and for a while, everyone was not to be outdone, and they tried their best, hoping that they would grow another pair of legs.
"It's the front, make a hole at the foot of the mountain." The snow-capped mountain was already in front of her, Lilith immediately shouted, Ace took a deep breath, the fire in his right fist soared, and the incandescent pillar of fire had dissolved a deep cavern at the foot of the mountain.
"Get in!" Without Ace to speak, Lilith threw him into the cave, her eyes flashed, and the four fox tails behind her shook violently, and the entrance to the cave seemed to have been buried by heavy snow.
"I'm going to us, I'm going to force us to death!" Seeing that the entrance to the cave had been covered, Hulk immediately scolded, and the others did not say anything, not because they didn't want to scold, but because they were reluctant to put that short time on such a useless matter, the Golden Noah had been frozen, and according to the degree of cold air flow, I am afraid their time was only two to three seconds.
It's too short!
The tallest Hulk seemed to be able to feel the silk on the top of his head begin to freeze, and then it would soon be his ears, eyes, mouth and nose······
"Fight!" Anilu's eyes flashed with determination, and a dazzling electric light suddenly flashed around his body, rushing forward with an unstoppable momentum, but this time the lightning was a little weird, it pushed everyone in front of him and rushed together, and everyone also howled in pain at the same time, but where did Anilu still manage so much, and regardless of whether other people could withstand the electric shock and degree of thunder and lightning, he instantly melted away the cave that was buried a second ago, and rushed into it with everyone, and with a loud bang, the hole was hoarded with snow again.
The whole island suddenly became a veritable "Iceland".