A large ship nearly twenty meters long slowly approached the small merchant ship, and on the deck of the small boat, the red-haired young man seemed to sense something, stretched out his little thumb and hooked the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, and the corners of his mouth hooked a slight arc.

The sun shone on the red-haired youth's face, staining the flame-like markings on his forehead a fiery red.

"Even in a place like the East China Sea, pirates are still quite rampant!"

"For a long time, patrolling the sea on the USS Dawn has often yielded little gains, apparently because the target is too big."

"Sitting on such a small boat, it was only two days after leaving the windmill village that I ran into a pirate."

At this time, the young man lying on the deck basking in the sun is Ji Guoyuanyi.

Just a few days ago, he and his men went to the windmill village of the Kingdom of Goa, and then left his warship and his men there, and only took a few close friends to go to sea alone.

The experience in the Moore Kingdom gave birth to some different ideas in Jiguo's mind.

In the past, his views and perspectives on the world of pirates were still too one-sided, and he simply thought that after the Draco people were swept away, this world would become a "Datong" world, but the reality was cruel, even if he cleaned up the Draco people, this world spread for 800 years, and the deep-rooted ideas would still imprison people, thus creating a new Draco people.

It's a death loop, and it's hard to find a way out of it.

Ji Guoyuanyi felt that his perception of the world was too narrow and one-sided, and he wanted to see with his own eyes the real appearance of the vast majority of countries in this world, so as to think about how to change the world.

The Tianlong people need to be cleaned up, this is certain, but while accumulating strength, Ji Guoyuanyi also needs to find a way to save the world in the true sense.

I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve my wish by killing alone.

One thing that can be determined is that education must be an important means to dismantle the "Tianlong people's ideological trend", and he broke away from the naval system to go to sea, and he also has this consideration, and he has not seen the living conditions of the vast majority of ordinary people with his own eyes, so how can he make a school suitable for people.

The people at the bottom who are below the subsistence line do not have the time to come to your school to receive your "education".

"Bang !!" With a loud bang, the hull of the huge pirate ship grazed directly against the small merchant ship, and the violent collision caused the small merchant ship to shake violently.

The huge movement aroused the alarm of the people in the cabin of the merchant ship, and the door to the deck quickly opened, and soon, Tianzheng wearing a neat suit appeared on the deck, and behind Tianzheng, Mihawk and others were followed.

Following Guoyuanyi's trip to sea this time, the people accompanying him are the most special group of people for the Sword of Dawn Navy.

Specializing in monitoring Ji Guoyuan's every move, the former head of the Navy's Criminal Investigation Division, Heima Tianzheng; Mihawk, who aims to surpass Jiguo Yuanyi and become the world's No. 1 swordsman; Former revolutionary army, now a bear who is "prisoner under the stairs"; The former pirate, and now Abel, who is also a "prisoner".

and the two imps of Robin and Irene.

After the pirates stopped close to the merchant ship, several heads poked out from the deck of the pirate ship and looked at the deck of the merchant ship below.

The leader was a strong, pot-bellied man who wore a pair of shorts, a musket pinned to his waist, and his shirt was open, revealing the thick chest hair on his chest.

At the man's chin, there was a thick beard, and among the horizontal flesh of his face, a pair of small eyes quickly scraped over the deck of the merchant ship, and then some smiles appeared on his face.

"One-two... Three.."

"Hehehe, there are seven of them."

"And with two children, that girl should be able to sell for a few more bucks."

"That burly guy, is it a giant? It's a rare slave, and it should be worth a few more bucks. ”

"Hehehe, good deal!"

As he spoke, the bearded man took out a short gun from his waist, pointed it at Ji Guoyuanyi, who was lying on the chaise longue at this time, and shouted loudly:

"You guys, from now on it's the private property of our Labaka Pirates!"

"It's okay to give us all the money on the ship, or else"

Before Labaka could finish speaking, he saw the red-haired young man with sunglasses on the deck hook his hand behind him. At the signal of Ji Guoyuanichi, Tianzheng quickly rushed forward two steps, and then jumped up directly and flew towards the pirate ship.

"Da"

With a soft sound, a pair of shiny black leather shoes stepped on the side of the pirate ship.

Labaka looked at the leather shoes that suddenly appeared in sight, his breath was stagnant, and after a while, he slowly raised his head with a shocked face, and saw a young man in a slim black suit with a big back already standing on the guardrail in front of him.

"You, you."

Labaka opened his mouth, a little speechless. But soon, Labaka reacted, and the gun in his hand was directly aimed at Tianzheng, and without the slightest hesitation, he shot directly.

However, at the moment when Labaka pulled the trigger, Tianzheng had already disappeared in front of him, and at the same time, Labaka only felt a huge force coming from his calf, which made Labaka "poof" and kneel firmly on the deck.

Rabaka came back to his senses and turned his head, and a dark shadow directly covered his vision.

When Tianzheng dodged and dodged, he had already come to Labaka's side, kicked the opponent's calf, and kicked directly on the opponent's face at the same time that Labaka knelt down.

"Bang !!"

With a muffled sound, Labaka's head and the deck came into close contact, and the huge and strong man instantly lost consciousness and fell unconscious.

When the pirates on the deck saw that their captain was attacked, they took out their weapons one after another, and were about to attack, when the figure of Tianzheng suddenly disappeared from their sight.

Afterimages flashed quickly from the crowd, and every time the afterimage changed position, it was accompanied by two or three meters of heavy blows to the pirate and lost consciousness.

In just a few seconds, a shipload of more than forty pirates collapsed on the deck, unconscious.

As the pirates were knocked down, Tenmasa also appeared next to the unconscious Labaka, his suit still straight, without a single wrinkle at all.

"Hey, Tianzheng."

"What are you going to do with these pirates?"

On the deck of the small merchant ship, Ji Guoyuan asked loudly, and his hands rested on the back of his neck with a comfortable look.

"Whoa!!"

Ji Guoyuan's voice had just fallen, and with a sound of breaking the air, Tianzheng had already come to Ji Guoyuan's side and replied:

"According to the regulations, it is necessary to go through the trial of the judicial island, and after the crime is confirmed, it will be escorted to the city of Advance for detention."

"The Advance City Council will take care of these pirates according to their level of danger and crimes."

Tianzheng replied with a glance, and when Ji Guoyuan heard this, he turned his head slightly, looked at Tianzheng, and asked with a smile:

"Locked up?"

"What if such a dangerous guy escapes from prison?"

Tianzheng shook his head and said something he knew was true: "No one has ever been able to escape from the great prison under the sea. ”

Ji Guoyuan didn't say anything, put on his sunglasses again, grabbed the fishing rod at hand, and gently carried it, and found that the fishing line on the fishing rod had already broken, and his bait and hook had disappeared.

Yuan Yi put away the fishing rod in his hand and shouted to the bear behind him:

"Xiong, excuse me, check the pirate ship, and send the things that are still useful to the Solbe Kingdom Naval Base."

"Okay, just let me know."

The bear heard Ji Guoyuanyi's command, and disappeared directly on the deck with a "pop", and in just a few minutes, just after Ji Guoyuanyi re-hung the fishing rod with hooks and bait, the bear's figure appeared on the deck.

Seeing the bear come back, Ji Guoyuan waved the fishing rod in his hand, and a crimson terrifying slash shot out directly towards the pirate ship, and the slash set off a hurricane, and in the blink of an eye, it directly cut off the pirate ship in front of him.

"General." Seeing this scene, Tianzheng couldn't help but let out a low voice, and just as he was about to say something, he was interrupted by Ji Guoyuan:

"Hurry up and get out of the boat, don't get swept up in the whirlpool."

"Tianzheng, I don't have the time to send them to the city."

"I didn't leave the team to go to sea just for fun, we have a lot to do, and time is precious."

Abel took a deep look at Ji Guoyuan, and then entered the cockpit without saying a word and drove the boat.

On the deck, Tianzheng looked at Jiguoyuan for a long time, and finally nodded slowly and didn't say anything more.

The small merchant ship slowly sailed away from this sea area, and the huge pirate ship also slowly submerged into the sea and disappeared completely.

Ji Guoyuanyi came to the East China Sea because he learned the news of the rubber fruit, and now the news about the rubber fruit has been broken, and Ji Guoyuanyi has no reason to continue to stay in the East China Sea.

However, Yuan Yi did not give up the search for rubber fruits, in order to be able to get relevant information as soon as possible, Ji Guo Yuan Yi asked the navy left in Windmill Village to set up a station, responsible for collecting information about Devil Fruits in the East China Sea.

Judging from the information received by the Moore Kingdom, it was the pirates who robbed the Devil Fruit, so now the Devil Fruit must still be in the hands of the pirates, and the Devil Fruit Illustrated Book circulates in this sea, although the number is small, but there are still some.

Pirates who have obtained the Devil Fruit will definitely try to figure out the purpose of the Devil Fruit they have obtained before making a plan, even if it is to sell it, they must confirm the value of the fruit, right?

Enichi believes that except for Luffy, who eats it by mistake, no one will eat a waste fruit stupidly.

Cleaning up the pirates in the East China Sea, maybe the rubber fruit will reappear in his sight.

Unable to get the rubber fruit, Ji Guoyuan Yi also set his sights on another powerful fruit. Before, he couldn't easily get out of the new world, and now he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to take control of that thing.

It doesn't matter if you eat it yourself or not, the most important thing is that that Devil Fruit can increase his own power!

October 1506 in the lunar calendar.

"Is there really an empty island in this world?"

"An island suspended in the air?"

On the deck of the small merchant ship, Erin asked Ji Guoyuan, her little face full of excitement.

"How is that possible?"

"How can there be anything in this world that can float in the air?"

"If you really want to say anything, I'm afraid you need to rely on the power of the Devil Fruit, right?"

"But after eating the fluttering fruit, the golden lion with the ability to float in the air is dead, otherwise you would really be able to see it."

"Sky Island is just a legend."

On the deck, Tianzheng, who was drinking coffee with a newspaper in his hand, heard Erin's words, waved his hand, and said with a smile. He had been in the Navy for so many years, but he had never heard of anyone who had actually found the Sky Island.

If there were, someone would have been there a long time ago, and it would have been in a big uproar, instead of being passed down as a legend all the time.

"Huh?"

"Tianzheng, do you think Sky Island is fake?"

As soon as Ji Guoyuan heard Tianzheng's words, he asked with some surprise, he didn't expect that Tianzheng, the headquarters, actually felt that the empty island did not exist? Isn't the fact of the existence of the empty island the consensus of a small number of people?

"Huh? General. You won't be"

Hearing Ji Guoyuanyi's rhetorical question, Tianzheng was also stunned.

"Hahahaha!"

"Erin, don't listen to this guy's nonsense, Sky Island is real!"

Ji Guoyuan didn't mean to deceive Erin, speaking of the empty island, it was really their next destination.

In the past few days after leaving the windmill village, the small merchant ship that followed the national edge has been wandering on the sea for several months, going to many countries and islands in the East China Sea, and seeing the completely different scenery in this world.

In the past few months, the whereabouts of the rubber fruit are still unknown, but because of the first reason, they got a superhuman "shovel fruit" and an animal "cat fruit and civet form".

Yuan Ichimi had never seen the whereabouts of the rubber fruit for a long time, and the ship had already approached the Twin Gorges, so he had no idea of staying in the East China Sea and planned to head directly to the Sky Island.

Ji Guoyuanyi didn't make any stop at the entrance of the Twin Gorges, and his eyes didn't even linger on the lighthouse for even a second, and directly let Xiong drive the boat into the alleyway.

After more than ten minutes of "sea current roller coaster", the small merchant ship of Yuanyi also successfully entered the first half of the great voyage.

In the first half of the great voyage, Ji Guoyuan Yi casually intercepted a group of pirates, and after the pirates were cleaned up, the record pointer in the hands of the pirates also fell into the hands of Ji Guoyuanyi.

After following the record to a place called Hesse, Yuan Yi learned that the route of Sky Island was completely different from his current route.

After spending some time on the island of Hesse, Ji Guoyuan paid a lot of money to buy a permanent record pointer to the island of Gaya.

January 1, 1507 in the lunar calendar.

Ji Guoyuan's entourage, who arrived on Gaya Island, gathered information about the time of occurrence of all the cupola currents, and finally went out to sea to chase the cupola currents on this morning.

The Cupola Current is a "natural disaster" phenomenon around the island of Gaya, in which the water forms a tornado that escapes the influence of gravity and flows in the opposite direction towards the sky.

And this is also the "route" to the sky island!

In this world, the sky island is not only in the East China Sea, there are actually empty islands in the four seas, the hometown of the strange monk, the sky island that Nami went to in the two years of "3D2Y", and the sky island over the island of Gaya are actually not the same place.

On the sea, Ji Guoyuan stood at the bow of the ship, watching the sky gradually become dark, and the wind and waves on the sea became bigger and bigger, and his face also showed a bright smile.

"Soaring currents!"

"Let me see with my own eyes the wonders of this world."

As soon as Ji Guoyuan's words fell, a vortex began to appear on the sea surface in the distance, and Ji Guoyuan could feel that above the vortex in the distant sea, the air flow was accelerating.

Sensing this, Ji Guoyuan beckoned to Robin and Erin's two children, and when the two approached, he held both of them in his arms with one hand, and then shouted to Abel in the cab:

"Abel, go above that vortex."

The small merchant ship slowly sailed towards the vortex, and with the convergence of the wind and clouds, the vortex suddenly stopped, and the next second when the merchant ship arrived at the center, a huge sea current rose directly into the sky at a terrifying speed of 100 meters per second.

The moment the sea broke away from gravity, the small merchant ship also suddenly disappeared into the sea.

"It's all caught, if a few of you are thrown down, just use the moon steps to climb up by yourself, hahahaha!"

The boat rode the ocean current against the sky, and Ji Guoyuan nailed his feet to the deck, leaned over slightly and raised his eyes to look at the scene above, and shouted loudly to the crew on the ship.

Abel held the rudder in the wheelhouse, looking at the scene outside the window, the bear was also a little nervous, staring at the people outside the window, thinking that if there was danger, he would go out immediately and use his power to send everyone away.

On the deck, Mihawk was holding the railing with one hand, only a little surprise in his eyes, and Tianzheng was holding the mast with both hands, and his neat big back was already messy.

"Bang!!"

Sky Island.

Between the sea of clouds, a small boat suddenly broke through the clouds and flew into the air.

After a while, the boat seemed to have lost the strength to continue rising and began to fall rapidly, and at this time, the boat in the air suddenly disappeared.

"Knock !!!"

After a muffled sound, the small boat that had just disappeared in mid-air actually appeared directly on the shore on the side of the sea of clouds at this moment, and a huge depression appeared on the ground around the boat, if you look at it from the air, the sunken ground is like a bear's palm print.

"Ju actually really exists"

"Sky Island?!"

On the deck of the boat, Erin and Robin, two children, walked out of Yuanyi's arms, looking at the sea of clouds behind them and the dense forest in front of them, their eyes full of incredible surprise.

Ji Guoyuan stood up slowly, looking at the scenery in front of him, the corners of his mouth slightly hooked.

Suddenly, he felt a vibration in his arms, and after Ji Guoyuanyi's expression was slightly condensed, he took out a phone bug from his arms, and quickly picked up the earpiece.

"Zizizi-"

The earpiece was full of noise, which made Ji Guoyuan frown.

"Who could it be? And at a time like this?"

(End of chapter)