The journey from Dressrosa to Eggtip Island was quite peaceful.

The biggest difficulty encountered by the group on the road is not the countless pirates in the new world, which may be encountered at any time and anywhere.

Rather, it was the extreme weather in the second half of the Great Route.

Storms, tsunamis, hailstorms, whirlpools and other natural disasters and sea disasters have become the seafarers' worst enemies.

In June 1508 of the Haiyuan calendar, after several months of trekking, relying on the permanent record pointer of Eggtip Island obtained by Ji Guoyuan from the "special way", Ji Guoyuan and his party finally entered the sea area around Eggtip Island.

As the name suggests, this island and the waters around this island should be a perennial winter, but for some reason, the waters around Eggtip Island are divided into four seasons.

It was June, and the sun was shining.

The damp sea breeze was blowing, and the new navy, who had just experienced a storm, collapsed on the deck, recovering their strength.

Although Ji Guoyuanyi is strong, he is also unable to cope with a wide range of natural disasters. Even if his slash can split the sea and clouds, in the face of the storm, he can only face it with the crew.

Personally, he would not have been able to die at sea because of the capsizing of his ship, but it was different to be human, and in the face of the power of nature, what humans could do was too limited.

When the unexpected comes, with the power of Jiguoyi, the people who can protect are quite limited.

Fortunately, although the ship he traveled on this trip was not large, and it was still a sailboat in the traditional sense, but with the concerted efforts of the crew, he finally survived the wind and waves.

On the ship's deck, the long auxiliary mast was slanted in the center of the deck, and the ground was full of wood chips from the cracking of wood. The front half of the cabin was hit by a falling mast and was badly damaged.

But at this time, the crew simply did not have the physical strength and energy to care about the broken mast.

"This ship. It's going to be unbearable. ”

"Luckily, we're out of the storm zone, and we need some time to overhaul the ship first, so we can't go on like this."

"If you can, you need to rest on an island with abundant timber resources."

"Why did you come to Dressrosa on such a boat? Where's your USS Dawn? ”

"If it's the Dawn, we'll have to have an easier journey!"

On the side of the boat, Luo Nandi leaned weakly on the railing and said to Ji Guoyuan beside him.

Roxinandi has rich experience in sailing, and he can see at a glance that this ship is already at the end of its power, and now whether this ship can support Eggtip Island has become a problem.

"The Dawn target is too big, and Eggtip Island is controlled by the Navy Headquarters, one of the core territories of the New World."

"If I let the people in the headquarters know that I plan to come to Eggtip Island, there will inevitably be disputes again."

"You know, I've been removed from the Navy, but I don't want to fight my former colleagues if I can."

"And my ship is actually a new ship."

Ji Guoyuan stood beside Roxinandi, observed the situation of his subordinates, and said to Roxinandi beside him.

In this sea, wooden ships are the mainstream, and any ship with the ability to go to the sea is a rare item.

Because the material of shipbuilding is wood, these woods cannot be used directly after cutting, and the moisture in them must be dried after cutting, and they must be stored for a long time before they can be processed into "parts" for shipbuilding.

The new navy had its own dockyard and craftsmen, but after the Navy Headquarters completely cut off the supply resources, the materials for shipbuilding had to be prepared by itself.

The island is densely forested and has many huge trees suitable for shipbuilding, but when the trees are cut down, they cannot be used directly.

The parts on this ship should have been used to repair the ship rather than to build a ship, and the quality of the ship was only barely up to the undocking standard, if it was sailing on a calm sea, it would be no problem to carefully maintain it for a year or two.

But if you cross the boat with strong winds and waves, the service life of the boat will be greatly reduced.

"New ship."

Rosinandi looked at the auxiliary mast that was leaning on the deck, and looked at the iron patches on the mast one by one, and was speechless for a while.

"There's no way around it, the skills of the craftsmen are not the top kind of people, and my craftsmen obviously can't compare with the masters of the Navy Dockyard and the Seven Waters Capital."

"It's a bit beyond my expectation that this ship has been able to survive in the harsh environment of the New World."

"The most important time now is to find an island as soon as possible and stabilize it first."

Ji Guoyuan said, glanced down at the eternal record pointer on his wrist, and then looked in the direction where the record pointer was pointing, but what came into his eyes was the vast sea.

"Wheelhouse, look at the charts, see where we are now, and find out where the nearest island is!"

"Stop and recuperate"

With his hands on the floor, Rosinandi struggled to his feet, then shouted loudly in the direction of the cab.

Today's weather is hot and sunny.

Luo Nandi and Ji Guoyuan didn't know that they had entered the sea area of Eggtip Island at this time, because in the intelligence system of the two of them, Eggtip Island was a winter island that was like winter all year round.

As he spoke, Ji Guo Yuanyi, who was looking at the sea in the distance, suddenly narrowed his eyes slightly, and on the sea, a gray-brown shadow appeared in Ji Guo Yuanyi's sight.

"That's it."

At this moment, the young navy, who had just returned to the watchtower, picked up his telescope and looked around at the sea, but in his telescope's line of sight, an island appeared.

"General, the island was discovered at three o'clock!"

"Do you want to dock?"

The sound of the lookout's report suddenly made the tired navy on the deck show a bright smile, leaving the last island, they have been adrift at sea for more than ten days, and finally, there is land again.

Seafarers have always longed for land, especially now after a storm.

"Let's go ashore."

"When you get to the shore, check again"

Suddenly, Ji Guoyuan's ears moved slightly, his pupils shrank, and he quickly turned around and looked down at the sea.

"What's wrong, Yuanyi?"

When Luo Nandi saw Ji Guoyuanyi's movements, he immediately asked.

"Something's coming!"

And Ji Guoyuanyi, who heard this, also snorted, and then quickly pulled out the long knife from his waist and looked coldly at the sea area on the side of the warship.

"Gollum—"

When Luo Nandi heard Jiguo Yuanyi's words, he turned around for some reason, glanced at the sea, and just wanted to say that Yuanyi was a little nervous, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed immediately.

Ripples suddenly rose on the calm sea, and the dull sound of the bubbles as they floated up also fell into Rosinandi's ears.

"Alert!"

Realizing that something was wrong, Rosinandi shouted and quickly got up from the ground. And when he said this, the door of the cabin had just been opened, and Luo and baby5, two little ghosts who had been hiding in the cabin during the storm, looked out of the cabin and saw a messy scene on the deck and were about to get out of the cabin, so they heard Rosinandi turn around and shout:

"What are you two doing on deck?"

"Don't hurry back yet!"

“.”

However, as soon as his words fell, a wave tens of meters high suddenly set off on the sea behind him.

"Whoop!!

At the same time as the sound sounded, a wave hit the side of the ship, the already shaky ship shook wildly under the waves, Roxinandi stood unsteadily, and lay directly on the deck, and the sailors on the ship also screamed again and again, grabbing the nearest object, so that their bodies would not be thrown away.

Luo and baby5, the two little guys, also quickly shrank their heads, grabbed the escalator again and again, and waited until the ship was stable, and the two poked their heads out again and looked outside.

On the side of the ship, a giant sea beast in the shape of an electric eel leaped out of the sea, its eyes scarlet and flashing with a terrifying light, and its gray scale armor reflected a little light in the sunlight.

The smell of rotting flesh and the smell of sea made the sailors who smelled this smell subconsciously nauseated, and after this sea beast jumped out of the sea, it was actually like a hungry tiger pounced on a sheep, and pounced fiercely towards the ship where Ji Guoyuan and the others were.

That open mouth of blood, I'm afraid that it only takes one blow to easily bite and destroy the entire ship.

"Sea Kings!"

Luo Nandi exclaimed in disbelief, and hurriedly rushed towards Luo and baby5, and the sailors on the ship also stabilized their bodies for a while, and they didn't have time to react at all, and they saw that this sea beast had been killed in front of them.

"Knock !!"

At this moment, there was a muffled sound on the deck, and Ji Guoyuanyi's figure suddenly jumped up, and instantly appeared directly above the sea beast, and then the long knife in his hand was raised, and he quickly slashed at the sea beast that was boiling in the air below.

In an instant, the sound of thunder reached everyone's ears, and the powerful overlord color domineering aura of Ji Guoyuan converged into a terrifying slash, and instantly descended on the sea king who exposed half of his body to the sea.

"Wow-"

The terrifying body of the sea beast was stunned, and quickly smashed down from a low-altitude position to the sea, and the entire beast body was cut in two by Ji Guoyuan, and the slash completely penetrated the body of the sea beast and landed on the sea, directly causing a bottomless trench to appear on the sea, and as Ji Guoyuan's figure fell back to the boat, the trench was also quickly filled with the return of sea water.

The waves gradually went out, and the two halves of the head body floated on the sea, and Ji Guoyuan, who returned to the deck, looked at the corpse of this sea beast intently, and couldn't help but shrink his pupils slightly.

"What the hell is going on here?!"

"What is this!!

Luo Nandi and the crew also walked to the side of the ship at this moment, looking at the two halves of the beast body floating on the sea, which was different from the imaginary flesh and blood, the structure of this sea beast was not the appearance of a creature at all!

The body of the split sea beast is full of various hydraulic and mechanical devices, and there are yellow oil flowing out of various severed transparent pipes, polluting this sea area, and on the body of the mechanical beast, there are arc flashes from time to time, perhaps because of damage or short circuits, on the huge beast, from time to time there are some small explosions, and a little spark appears.

The essence of the Sea King who attacked the ship was actually a mechanical sea beast, except for the outermost layer of scale armor and animal skin, everything else, even the skeleton, was made of machinery.

"Mechanical Sea Beasts?!"

"How can this !!?"

Rosinandi looked at the beast body floating on the sea in front of him, opened his mouth wide, and muttered in disbelief. The scene that happened in front of him was beyond his imagination.

In this world, such things as oil lamps have not been completely eliminated, the most developed ship technology, and a considerable degree of wooden structure, and even in the manufacture of weapons, the most crotch-pulling filled guns and flintlock pistols are used.

However, at this time, what everyone saw was actually a simulated mechanical sea beast driven entirely by machinery and hydraulic devices, and the level of science and technology represented by this kind of thing and the level of technology developed in the current world were completely in two eras.

The gap in science and technology may be hundreds or even thousands of years.

Rosinandi thought he was well-informed, but it was the first time he had seen such an outrageous thing.

Even Ji Guoyuanyi was a little surprised at this moment. Before the knife was released, Ji Guoyuan actually knew that the thing he was going to cut was not a creature.

But just as the core of this mechanical sea beast was exposed to his sight, Ji Guoyuan was still surprised.

Advanced, it's too advanced.

It is hard to imagine for a while that such a thing can move freely in the sea, and if this technology is used to make weapons or ships, what kind of things can be made.

"The Mechanical Sea Beast."

"Vegapunk?!"

Ji Guoyuan carefully looked at the beast corpse, and then quickly turned his head to look at the island in the distance, looked down at the permanent record pointer in his hand, and found that the direction indicated by the pointer was the island in the distance.

The island in the distance was still just a brown shadow, although it was not real, but one thing that was clear was that the island was not Winter Island, because he could not see any traces of snow from the color of the island's outline.

Eggtip Island should be a winter island, right, is there a discrepancy between the information he obtained and the actual situation?

"Following the general of the country, we are already in the sea area of Eggtip Island!"

At this moment, the wheelhouse had already confirmed their location through the chart, and excitedly reported to Ji Guoyuanyi.

Hearing this, Ji Guoyuan glanced back at the corpse of the mechanical sea beast and nodded slightly.

It should be true, the place in this world that can have this level of mechanical technology should be the egg tip island known as the island of the future.

But why isn't that island Winter Island anymore? Then I'm going to go to the island and see it again!

"Toot-toot-"

Just as Ji Guoyuan was about to give the order for the warship to sail to Eggtip Island, a sharp alarm suddenly remembered in the corpse of the sea beast in front of him.

The siren sounded like a super-large buzzer, like the city's air defense siren, and the loud sound instantly pierced the sky and spread I don't know how far.

“！！！”

The piercing sound made the crew subconsciously cover their ears, and Ji Guoyuan couldn't help frowning when he heard the sound, and swung a slash in the direction from which the sound came.

The shrill sirens stopped abruptly.

But not long after the sirens on the sea beast's corpses disappeared, a sharp siren sounded above the island in the distance.

The navy on the watchtower picked up the binoculars and looked into the distance, and actually saw that the beach of the island in the distance was slowly splitting apart, revealing an inner harbor.

In the harbor, there are 8 large warships lined up, slowly lowering their sails.

“！！！”

"Admiral, there is a navy stationed on the island!"

"They're all sailing!"

(End of chapter)