Chapter 52: Into the Great Voyage
"Okay, no big deal." Kurokas put away the stethoscope and put it back in the first aid kit.
Karp had fallen asleep as if no one was around.
He snored and sat until Kurokas called him again, when he suddenly woke up from his sleep and looked around blankly.
"Ah, it's Kurokas, you're ......"
"You've said that before." Kurokas glanced at Karp, "Your narcolepsy is still the same, is there no one in the Navy to cure you?" ”
"It's an old problem, even the grandson of the old man has developed this bad habit." Karp laughed for a while, "By the way, do you want to simply join the navy, be by my side, and help me regulate my body?" ”
Kurokas touched the white beard on his chin and looked at Karp obliquely.
"If you're worried that your past will make you ostracized, then rest assured, neither Sengoku nor I will let this happen." Karp clasped his hands to his chest, "Besides, now that we have a system like the 'Seven Martial Seas', it's not a strange thing for you to join us." ”
"Excuse me." Kurokas shook his head, "You know that in this world, there is only one man I am willing to follow. ”
Karp's mouth was half-open, then he sighed, then smiled, "That's right...... By the way, guess who is on the black ship I just pursued? ”
Kurokas frowned and glanced in the direction where the black ship had disappeared, "It can't be Bucky, right?" ”
"You know?" Karp was surprised to show his forehead lines.
"Of course, it's not like I don't read the newspaper." Kurokas suddenly grinned, "Is David Jones a gang?" It's okay, at least he didn't completely abandon the sea because of the captain's death. ”
"You know I'm going to kill him if I catch up with him, right?"
"I know, but as a pirate, if you're afraid of this and that, then there's no need to go to sea, go home and be a good baby."
"I should really send you stubborn guys, one by one, to the 'Advance City' at the bottom of the sea." Karp sat on the red clay, shook his head and sighed, "That's the case with Reilly, that's the case with Shanks, and so is the case with you, and now even Bucky is back on the Great Voyage." ”
"Hehe, retire early, or you will die sooner or later." Kurokas looked out to sea.
"Death is not so exaggerated, the old man's life is still hard."
"I'm talking about me."
"You said you were going to retire, and that was you?!"
Ignoring Karp's shouting, Kurokas stretched out his hand and pointed to the sea: "It's coming, it's coming, it's coming every day. ”
"Huh?" Karp looked up in confusion.
After a while, a black shadow surged on the sea, and a column of water rose from the sky.
A moment later, a huge figure appeared on the twin headlands.
It has a streamlined and huge body, and its head has many old scars from the impact, and it is like a whale!
Karp's eyes widened in shock: "So you're here for it?" ”
"Yes. This is the 'Island Whale' Rab from the West Sea, originally a social creature, who came here by coincidence with a group of pirates, who entrusted me to take care of it, and then they disappeared for more than 50 years. ”
"More than fifty years? That is, you knew Rab before Roger and them? ”
"Of course, I spent the rest of my time with Rab except for the last few years when I followed the captain on the Great Voyage. It has been waiting here for the group of pirates, returning here after a week around the world. ”
"More than fifty years ago...... Karp frowned, "most likely it's ......"
"That's what I told it, and that's how it expressed its determination to me."
I saw an island whale named Rab, like a mayfly shaking a tree, crashing towards the thick rock formations of the Red Earth Continent!
Bang –
The red sandstone layer was knocked out of a crater, and the vibration reached the feet of Karp and Kurokas, proving how hard it worked.
But compared to the entire Red Earth Continent, the crater was simply inconspicuous, and its head was drenched in blood.
"Karp, I won't tell you." Kurokas walked in the direction of the island whale, "I need to quiet it. ”
Karp watched him walk quickly, and then leaped over to the island whale, and disappeared without a trace in a while, and secretly sighed in his heart.
You're all the same people, stubborn to the extreme.
He turned and walked in the direction of his kobold warship.
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Above the Great Passage, in the midst of the sea fog, the Terror Ghost sailed out into the uncharted seas.
As always, David Jones used most of the creepy dread from this harvest to strengthen himself and the Terror Ghost.
He had a pair of jet-black flesh wings on his back, which he could stretch out to help him fly when he needed them, and when he didn't need them, they would melt into his body and disappear.
The Terror Ghost, on the other hand, gains the ability to teleport between two anchor points at a fixed point.
The two anchor points fixed can only be creatures around the horror ghost, and once confirmed, they cannot be changed, and the two fixed anchor points cannot go beyond a certain range, otherwise the teleportation ability will be invalid.
This range is roughly the distance that the Terrorphant Ghost has sailed in a week, ignoring all obstacles, as a diameter.
In other words, the Terror Ghost can appear directly above one of the anchors at any time and fall from the sky!
However, as with the "Ghost Ship Status", there are some limitations, including distance, ability cooldowns, etc.
David Jones quietly turned around and looked at his crew.
Bucky sat on the deck in horror.
When Karp's "Bone Fist Impact" fell, he thought he was dead, after all, there was no monster-like companion to stop Karp for him this time.
However, something unexpected happened.
The entire Horror Wraith, including the lives on and off the hull, all entered a strange dark green state, and Karp's "Bone Fist Impact" didn't even do any damage to them!
He sat dumbfounded for a few moments, until he noticed that David Jones' gray-blue eyes were looking at him, and he shuddered and got up.
"Captain......" Bucky's red nose was sweating.
David Jones pointed to the limp Yarrita, who was still trapped in the stone net of the sea building: "Find a way to get her out." ”
Arrita's face flushed with shame, because she was the first to fall to Smoker and Tina, and she couldn't do anything about Karp's attack, and she couldn't even break free from the net.
Bucky scratched his head, then picked up the mace that Yarrita had thrown to the side, and used it to hook up the sea building stone net and toss it aside.
David Jones was interested in the net, so he reached out and fished it out.
At this time, Chloe had also walked out of the cabin, and when he saw the scene in front of him and the calm outside, he knew that he was safe and breathed a sigh of relief.
The lenses of his glasses were shattered, and it looked like he would have to buy a new one in the next town.
Chloe helped the fallen octopus Hachi up, and looking at the injuries on his body, it seemed that he was about to recuperate again.
Counting up, Octopus Hachi has been injured since he boarded the ship.
Jarrita and Chloe consciously help Octopus Hachi to deal with his wounds.
And David Jones, after observing the net for a while, asked Bucky, who was standing on the side, "What's mixed up in this net?" ”
"Captain, that's the 'Hailou Stone'." Bucky told him all he knew, "It can exert the power of the sea, so it is often used to imprison those with Devil Fruit abilities." ”
"Can you buy Hailou Stone?"
"It's hard." Bucky grimaced, "It is native to the 'Wano Country' of the 'New World', and other than that, only a small part of it is distributed elsewhere. Production is scarce, most of the finished products are in the hands of the World Government, and they are hard to buy on the black market, even rarer than Devil Fruits. ”
David Jones nodded: "Then forget it, I'll talk about it later." ”
Suddenly, a snowflake fell on his wriggling tentacles, and the cold touch made him tilt his head.
I saw that in the sky that was still stormy just now, it was snowing with goose feathers, and a gust of sea breeze was blowing head-on, which was painful.
David Jones looked at the sea: "This is the 'Great Passage'......"
The crew also fell silent, quietly watching this unpredictable sea area that was both familiar and unfamiliar.