Late at night.

Torrential rain and gales.

The raging waves swept against the reef beneath the cliffs, as if they were going to crush them into powder, and the trees on the shore were blown to and fro, and occasionally broken branches were swept up by the wind, and soon disappeared without a trace.

There are two lights in the darkness.

One of them was the steam whaling ship moored in the harbor, which was not very large, and the hull was not entirely made of steel, but more of a wooden structure, except for the chimney and captain's cabin in the middle, which were mechanical, but this did not affect its role as a lighthouse in the storm.

On the other side was a large, brightly lit warehouse near the harbor, and between the two places, a dozen figures were moving back and forth.

Walking at the end of the crowd was a burly young man, wearing only a short coat, he was carrying a thick rope on his shoulder, connecting the bulging cloth bag nearly five meters long behind him, and he didn't know what heavy things were inside, leaving a straight deep ravine on the beach between the drags.

The heavy weight of the goods and the harsh environment around him obviously caused a lot of pressure on the young man, and he only pursed his lips, and walked slowly but resolutely, until he walked into the gas lamp hanging outside the large warehouse, his frowning eyebrows relaxed, and he looked up at the crowd under the eaves, and his deep black eyes were still full of determination.

"Ah Jing, didn't you just say that you called me to help when you moved the fish, why did you carry it silently?"

At this time, there were already many people at the door of the warehouse, most of them took off their clothes and squeezed the sea water inside, one of them had dark skin, deep wrinkles on his forehead and eyes, and his temples were also a little pale, and the middle-aged man with a kind face rushed out, and said not without blame.

"Uncle Fu, you're tired of moving so much, it's just a fish, I can handle it. ”

The young man took a few more steps forward before putting down the thick rope on his shoulder, and walked under the eaves to take off his short coat and squeeze water like the others at the door, and the muscles of his arms and chest were clearly distinguished, and the water droplets on his bronzed skin shone brightly in the light, showing the most primitive strength.

"Hey, Brother Fu, I said it a long time ago, Lu Jing is like this in our group, and he can handle it completely!"

There was a middle-aged man with a scar on his face next to him who gave his thumbs up, looking at the young man with eyes full of appreciation, and as soon as he said this, several young people next to him also echoed,

"Oh, didn't you see Brother Lu's movements of the whale just now, just say it, steady and ruthless...... I'm sure there's no one on this nearby ship who can beat him!"

Uncle Fu on the side also laughed and patted Lu Jing's shoulder, and said loudly: "Then it doesn't need to be said, you all go out to inquire, who doesn't know the few ship bosses who go to sea near us, I, the second mate on Zhao Fu's boat, just one word, hard!"

Regarding the praise of his companions, Lu Jing just smiled slightly and didn't say much.

After taking care of each other at the door, and letting the two warehouse workers work together to get the fish they dragged into the warehouse, Lu Jing scooped a bowl of pickled vegetables and minced meat tofu soup in the iron pot erected behind the door, moved a chair and sat at the gate, ready to drink the tofu soup and then go in to rest.

There is a special place for the crew to rest on the second floor of the warehouse here, and the owner of the warehouse will send someone to take care of it, and as long as the overnight fee of ten copper plates, you can sleep comfortably for one night.

Looking at the wind and rain outside the warehouse, Lu Jing took a sip of the soup in the bowl, and his thoughts gradually drifted.

In his previous life, as a captain, he encountered a rare storm during a whale hunting voyage, and when he woke up, he had already appeared on the ship of the middle-aged man he respectfully called "Uncle Fu" just now with this new young body.

Coincidentally, Uncle Fu himself is also the captain of a steam whaling ship, and in order to get familiar with this world as soon as possible, Lu Jing naturally became his sailor.

The best one!

Through what he saw and heard during this time, Lu Jing probably understood that the situation in this world was very different from his previous life, and he had neither the mind nor the energy to remember the specific details, but he only knew that it was similar to a certain migrant manga that he liked to watch when he passed the time in his previous life.

Although there is no ONE PIECE, it has long been confirmed that there are a large number of ultra-ancient ruins and various mysterious treasures in the depths of the Infinite Sea!

This has led countless people with dreams to rush to the sea...... To put it bluntly, this is the Age of Discovery!

The Shuoming Dynasty, where Lu Jing is now located, is a standard archipelago country, and its state of affairs is somewhat like the feudal dynasty in his previous life, except that the states, provinces, and prefectures are scattered on islands of different sizes.

The only thing that surprised him was the rather strange development of the world's technological level, as evidenced by the steam whaling ship outside.

With this ship, Lu Jing has already earned the first pot of gold in the world, and this trip to sea has also gained a lot.

This brought him one step closer to owning his own boat.

Yes, Lu Jing wants a boat that really belongs to him, not to fish in the offshore area or whaling in the ocean, but to see the world.

He wanted to see how lush Morishima was in the midst of the towering trees and even the youkai that the sailors had said, and he wanted to go to the coral meadows full of land, and he wanted to catch two long-legged fish on the coral terrace full of land and taste what it was like.....

In addition, what interests Lu Jing even more is that there is really such extraordinary power in this world as in One Piece.

Lu Jing didn't know if this had anything to do with some kind of fruit, he had only seen someone on a pirate ship kick up waves several meters high with a punch during a certain voyage.

Of course, these people are rare, Lu Jing has met him once so far, he is an ordinary fisherman, and naturally has no intersection with those extraordinary characters.

However, Lu Jing believed that when he really set sail, he would be able to see them again.

"Ah Jing, come here, you got that fish and opened a baby!"

The pickled vegetables, minced meat and tofu soup in his hand had already drunk most of the bowl, and Uncle Fu's slightly excited shout came from the warehouse, and the fish in his mouth was dragged by Lu Jing just now.

That was Lu Jing accidentally found when he was returning home, this fish was pitch black, not to mention the huge skull and abdomen, but also full of sharp teeth, great strength, he rowed a small boat alone and fought with it at sea for a while before subduing it, after fishing it up, even Uncle Fu couldn't remember where this guy came from.

Putting down the bowl and walking in, Lu Jing saw that the sailors who came over together were all gathered around the edge of the fish cutting platform at this time, and not far away there was a huge whale that had been cut in half and was about to scrape the oil.

Seeing Lu Jing coming, the onlookers immediately gave way to a path, Lu Jing took two steps forward, only to see that the strange fish he caught had been cut open on the stage, and the position of the crack was placed two things stained with the slime in the fish's stomach.

An octagonal metal box with brass trimming, a silver-gray number "76" engraved in the center of the lid, and a palm-sized pale yellow human head.

"Baby?"

Lu Jing looked at these two things, was stunned, and looked sideways at Uncle Fu, he thought he had taken out the coins.

"Hahaha~ Ajing, you don't understand this, in our place, if something is opened in the belly of the fish, whether it is good or bad, it is called 'baby', it is a great thing, you quickly take these two things to wash and put them away, this is the good luck that can bring." ”

For Lu Jing's surprise, Uncle Fu and the others next to him all laughed kindly, and someone opened his mouth to explain.

"I see, then I'll take it, just want to go upstairs to rest, everyone, see you tomorrow. ”

stepped forward and took the two things in his hands, Lu Jing didn't care about the slime and blood stains on it, and said hello to a few crew members on the side and went up to the second floor of the warehouse.

The rooms here are all separate single rooms, and there is only a bed and a table in them, so Lu Jing can only go to the common bathroom first, take off his clothes, and wash these two things while taking a bath.

First of all, this metal box, Lu Jing washed away the mucus on its surface and shook it in his ear, but he didn't hear any abnormal sound, and then he used his thumb to open the mechanism, revealing a very delicate compass inside the metal box, with a white dial as the bottom, and brass hands swaying lightly from side to side above, and when it gradually stopped, it pointed not to the north and south marked on the compass, but to the southeast, to be precise, it was the head statue of Lu Jing on the low stool placed on the side.

"Broken?"

Shake it a few more times, and find that it always points to the position of the head statue, Lu Jing didn't care much, the style of this compass suited his heart, and he would go back to Qing Chu City tomorrow to find someone to repair it, if it could be used, he planned to take it with him.

Pick up the head statue and put it under the head of the lotus shower, Lu Jing doesn't like this thing very much, and plans to find a random place to store it after it is washed away.

However, as the slime on the statue was washed away, Lu Jing soon discovered that it was not as unbearable as he imagined.

First, the material of this human head statue is beige, which is not the color that ordinary wood can have at all, and the weight in the hand is extraordinary, and the feel is even more delicate like porcelain, even if Lu Jing, who doesn't know anything about these things, can still feel its extraordinary.

The second is that the carving of this human head statue is extremely exquisite, it is carved with a human head wearing a laurel crown, and its demonic handsome face is Lu Jing, who is used to seeing handsome guys and beauties on TV in his previous life, is also involuntarily attracted.

Staring at the human-faced statue in a daze, Lu Jing shivered inexplicably, and had a thin layer of goosebumps on his body, and for no reason he had some vague and not very positive confusion about this statue.

Lu Jing, who came back to his senses with a tenacious will, subconsciously wanted to stay away from the human-faced statue, but found that when he fell into a trance, a large amount of dark blue energy in the form of lines had emerged from the surface of the statue, as if it was forcibly pulled out of the statue by some force, and then another wave of brain poured into his arm.

Lu Jing was terrified, and he was about to let go immediately, but the next second he found that his right arm had lost control.

Leaning against the wall in the bathroom, Lu Jing staggered out, he tried to open his mouth to ask for help from others, but the suffocation and powerlessness from all over his body made it difficult for him to move, and finally fell to his knees, leaning forward and falling on the bathroom floor.

Lu Jing could feel a cold and viscous energy that was spreading along his arm to all parts of his body, frantically and resolutely depriving him of everything that belonged to him.

Some kind of disgusting tone began to sound in his head, a fragmented whisper of Sisso.

His vision became more and more blurred, his spirit tended to collapse, Lu Jing sensed the coming of death, he did not choose to close his eyes, but opened his eyes that had been covered with a layer of dust. Turning sideways, slamming all your strength into the bathroom wall.

The sharp pain and dizziness dispelled the abnormal sound in his mind, and the strong stimulation made Lu Jing's body subconsciously react, and in order to prevent his death, his body began to fight against that energy.

It works!

Lu Jing, whose face was covered in blood, grinned silently and tilted his neck back again.

Lao Tzu's dream hasn't even started yet, how can he die in such a small place!

The human will is extremely weak, but extremely strong.

In the past and present life, more than ten years of sailing career have already honed Lu Jing's will to be as hard as a sea reef, either crush me, or roll me back obediently!

Poof!

The sound of a powerful heartbeat suddenly sounded, and the manic heat that accumulated in the heart mouth rushed out to all parts of the body in the rotation of Lu Jing's thoughts, not only crushing the cold energy that had already occupied everywhere, but even devouring them in turn, giving birth to another strange existence.

If someone is around, they will find that above Lu Jing's head at this time, there is an illusory card with lingering blue energy lines gradually condensing!

Wow~Wow~

Hiss ~ roar ~

The wind and rain outside the bathroom window intensified again, and in the mixed sound of waves and wind and rain, the roar of fury was hidden......