373 Hellish trials
Luffy's gaze focused on the flower on the islander's shoulder.
The flower had pale yellow petals and a smiling face, probably because it was more cartoonish, and it looked a little cute.
"Looks like you have a lot of confidence in your friends." The owner of the island said.
"Very well, then please take the hellish trial, ready to begin!"
As the owner spoke, the ground began to shake, and the surrounding landscape trees began to shift with the shaking.
Luffy turned on the domineering aura of what he saw and heard and listened.
The ground makes a clicking sound, which is the same mechanism technology as Clockwork Island, and moves the earth.
Each tile is starting to move because of the mechanism.
"This is really a big arm, the entire million square meters underground can be moved!"
Luffy exclaimed.
Etta then found himself and his gang standing in the middle of a giant lake.
With the sound of a huge mechanism, a fish tank was lifted up by the floor tiles, and many small goldfish swam inside.
"The first level, catch goldfish!"
"It looks similar to the activities in Frostmoon Village." Uta watched as the little colorful goldfish swayed in the water.
"The rules are simple, within three minutes, whoever catches the most goldfish wins."
"By the way, I would like to remind you that this goldfish paper is particularly easy to melt when it encounters water, hmmmmhahahaha......" The owner of the island laughed very rampantly, as if he was some evil villain.
"Wouldn't it be too easy?" Uta asked curiously.
"If only it were that simple, this is a million-square-meter venue," Nami sighed.
She heard a loud noise in the water, a behemoth.
A water monster is swimming in the sea.
"Well... Now I'm going to introduce the opponents I recommend to you, dueling. ”
"Come out, Whipgoro!"
A man with leaves on his head holding a small goldfish paper paddle jumped high and landed on the slender runway, and then ran all the way to the island in the center of the kilometer-long road, panting.
The surrounding audience erupted in frenzied shouts.
They sat in chairs, and the whole space looked like a huge square, and these spectators were densely packed, and in the perception of seeing and hearing colors, there were more than 200,000 people.
"Luffy, these people... Residents, as strange as it sounds. Nami had a fine sweat on her neck, leaned her back against Luffy, and touched it gently.
Nami also opened up the domineering of seeing and hearing.
These people with leaves on their heads sound weird.
"It doesn't sound strange, but I can't tell if there's anything wrong."
Luffy listened to it for a while, but he didn't feel Nami, "I didn't find anything wrong, the only problem was that they all had leaves." ”
"What's strange about that, maybe it's a special human that grows naturally on this island, these leaves allow them to photosynthesize, yes, it's a human race that has not yet been discovered and revealed - vegetative people!"
Uta said with conviction.
"I'm Whip Goro! The chief officer of the Baron of the Festival! ”
"Which of you will fight against him? It's a girl, or it's a boy. ”
The Baron of the Festival's gaze was locked on Luffy.
This lineup on the opposite side ...... A large group of delicate women, and the only one man, at this moment, everyone's eyes are focused on Luffy.
Luffy received so much attention at once, and he was really a little shy.
"The vibe is here, and I have to go on it."
Luffy said with emotion, so Luffy picked up the small fishing net made of paper and stood in front of the small fish tank with Whip Goro.
"I'm still a little bit confident in catching fish."
As he spoke, a layer of domineering was wrapped around the paper net.
"Really?"
Whipgoro on the other side smiled and held the net, "Come out, my lovely pet, little Rosalie!" ”
He pointed insidiously at the sky, and the red goldfish in the fish tank jumped high.
The sea boiled for a moment, accompanied by a snoring sound, and huge goldfish leaped high above the water.
A terrifying shadow permeated the entire small landmass, and the goldfish made a magnificent leap from one end of the island to the other.
Goldfish, but larger than whales.
Bang!
As the goldfish jumps up and falls into the water, the huge waves it brings with it crash like a high wall, with a heavy sense of oppression, like a giant hand swooping down.
Nami and Uta looked up, their mouths wide open, at the monster.
"I thought this was the kind of setting where if you lose, you'll be eaten by monsters, so it's not going to be for us to use a goldfish net to catch whales, right?"
Nami asked, dumbfounded.
As the wall of water came to her, Nami reached forward, as if she had grabbed something, and Qian Qiansu's hand pierced the water curtain, as if she was pulling someone's neck or tie, and fell to the other side of the land.
"Sea current ~ over-the-shoulder fall!"
Nami struggled to wrestle the waves, not directly against the whole wave, but by taking advantage of the momentum, just to keep the waves from hitting the entire ring and wetting their clothes.
However, from the observation that can be seen by the naked eye, it is extremely exaggerated.
Everyone watched as Nami tossed the sea out and changed her direction.
It's terrifying.
The celebration baron even drank tea, and his hand trembled slightly, "Evil... Devil Fruit Ability! ”
Apparently, he divided Nami's martial arts into Devil Fruit abilities.
All unusual superpowers are Devil Fruit abilities.
"You don't want us to catch this goldfish, do you?" Nami asked, angrily, pointing at the beast in the sea.
"That's right, that's what pirates should be."
The Celebration Baron snapped his fingers and regained his shocked face from being able to do the Devil Fruit.
"How do you get this kind of thing!"
Huge yellow barrels floated on the surface of the sea.
"It's very simple, just pick it up and put it in a bucket." The baron said.
"He's not listening at all." Robin looked at the cartoon flower on the baron's shoulder with concern.
"This goldfish is so ugly~"
Luffy sighed, this goldfish has very hard cuticle armor, a string of rubies on its forehead, and very sharp teeth, which looks extremely scary.
Luffy took the small paper net, jumped high, and smashed his fist into the giant sea monster, which was very abstract from the proportions of the two sides, and a small black dot like an ant crashed into the fish monster flying in the air.
With a loud bang.
The giant fish monster was punched into the yellow bucket.
"That's it, right?"
"Ahhh Whipgoro on the other side watched Luffy's operation in shock.
"Whip Goro, hurry up, don't play anymore, they've already scored a point first!"
The island owner was also shocked, and became a little more dignified, these people can easily fight against the existence of giant sea beasts, they are no longer weak, they are worthy of the pirates who cross the sea.
A huge fishing net handle popped out behind him, and when he grabbed it with his bare hands, he pulled it out, and it was a giant fishing net.
"Wait, isn't this a foul, we only have such a big net!" Uta asked loudly.
"We didn't say we were only allowed to use that net." The island owner said with a sinister smile.
"Either way, we're going to win." Uta crossed his hands on his hips.
Whipgoro was also a strong warrior, and with a huge fishing net, he caught little Rosalie, who was larger than a whale, and then, with a burst of strength, lifted the fifty or sixty tons of goldfish and threw it at his bucket.
"It's a pirate game, but it's actually a taboo, right?" Nuo Qigao looked at the huge goldfish with emotion.
Then she jumped up like a hanging arrow and kicked the little Rosalie in the body.
The giant goldfish was kicked by her and threw a C-shape in the air, crashing into the yellow bucket again.
"Damn!"
"Another master of physical arts?!"
"Dusty, do you recognize them?" Luffy slouched his hands on the pillow and asked Dusty.
Dusty glanced at the people.
"I don't have an impression, I've already reviewed all the well-known pirates who were active along this part of the Great Voyage, maybe they are really ordinary island owners, island owners who are very enthusiastic about pirates." Dusty shook his head and said.
"Either way, we won, right?"
As the countdown ended, Uta asked the owner angrily.
"Congratulations, the Straw Hats won!"
The flower on the owner's shoulder clapped his hands as he spoke.
"Robin, you said this flower... Is it an animal or a plant? Luffy thought subconsciously.
"Mr. Major... I'm an archaeologist, not a botanist or zoologist. ”
"Alright, then, you must move on to the next trial!" The owner gritted his teeth and said.
"How many trials do you have?" Uta asked.
"It's a secret, the next level will test your teamwork skills, it's a two-person water competition!" The owner of the island said with two fingers raised.
"Next level, ring game!"
"This competition is divided into two teams, each team of four, in a dinghy, as long as the trap is put on the whole team of the opposing team to win."
"So, the next step is to draw lots to determine the number of people on the team."
"In other words, we can only produce four people, and we can't decide who to come out with?" Uta asked the owner.
"Yes, that's it."
Both the man and the woman were too scary to be excluded from the game.
As the rule-maker, the baron figured out in an instant how to make the rules work in his favor.
Luffy and Nokigao's combat power is too strong.
The huge little Rosalie said to kick and fly, it was a veritable great voyage specialty.
Moreover, looking at their appearance, they all look very relaxed, which shows that little Rosalie's tonnage is not a match for them at all.
These two monsters should be eliminated as soon as possible, and then slowly cooked afterwards.
Orange-haired Devil Fruit Abilities, as well as off-color haired females, seem to be easy to deal with.
Because it's in a dinghy, it's hard to exert even some strange Devil Fruit powers.
After all, there is the sea below, and all you need to do is destroy the opponent's ship to make it fall into the sea.
can't be sure if the other party is a pirate, Luffy doesn't have much murderous intent, besides, coming to this island itself is to play, and these game rules can be regarded as part of entertainment.
The results of the draw are in.
Uta and Nami in a group, Vivi and Robin in a group.
"How could it be so coincidental?" Uta couldn't help but say as she looked at the results.
"The draw is random, there are too many of you women, and it's normal to form a women's team." The owner said.
Uta saw that the opponents chosen by the owner of the island were a group of old grandfathers and grandmothers wearing frog headdresses.
These old men looked short and looked ineffective, but they walked like a fly, and they were younger than the young people.
"A large group of grandpas and grandmothers, how is this competition?" Nami couldn't help but say, "This trial of yours is too unscored. ”
"Old man, I just want to sleep." The frog-headed old man yawned.
"Is this the pirate's hellish trial? If you want me to say, this is not as exciting as rushing down an upside-down mountain tens of thousands of meters high. Nami smiled.
"It's a big loss to look down on the old man like this." The old woman said with a yawn.
"Yes, yes, then hurry up and get started, the trials of hell."
Uta was also a little sullen when Nami said this, although it was called a hellish trial, and the first level of catching goldfish was indeed outrageous and difficult.
But...... This second level is a little too watery.
The two teams sat in the dinghy, which was used by two people, one in front of the other and one behind, and an engine underneath.
Two pairs of eight people set off from different directions, speeding along the waterway, although it was a wooden boat, but it ran at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour, accompanied by the roar of the engine, and disappeared in the far end in an instant.
The old team started slowly, and there was leisure to build a barbecue stand on it, looking like they had given up the game.
"It's really slow, worthy of an old man, can such a trial really show that it is a pirate among pirates?"
Nami leaned back in her chair and looked sideways at the elderly frogs, who could only eat exhaust fumes.
"There's even harder!" Uta said unconvinced.
"They're catching up, ring up!" Uta reminded.
The ferrule on the boat is a device similar to a swimming ring, which shrinks and binds the human body.
Nami took the swimming ring and prepared to throw it at the enemy boat.
The ship passed through the dark tunnel, and when the view opened up again, there were dense crowds of people standing on both sides of the waterway, and huge cheers erupted.
Nami couldn't help but look at these people in amazement with a domineering look.
This island is a little too unnatural.
"Nami, lose it!" Uta couldn't help but shout, and she lunged forward and knocked Nami down, dodging the ring attack on the other side.
"What are you doing?"
"This island is kind of sick to my stomach, I just want to get out of this island as soon as possible." Nami explained, then took the circle and aimed at the enemy ship.
But the opponent's motor roared, and suddenly it accelerated to the front.
"What's the matter, can't you keep up with the old man's boat?"
"This is what happens when we look down on our elderly, hahaha~"
(End of chapter)