I’m Not Interested in Devil Fruits: 862 Foolish Old Man Digging Mountain
〖Entrance of the Grand Line, Upside Down Mountain, Twin Capes〗
Generally speaking, the closer to the Red Earth Continent, the worse the weather is. It is common for clouds to accumulate all year round and heavy rain to persist.
But there are some exceptions. For example, the World Government installed a red port with elevators to facilitate crossing the Red Continent, or this is the hermitage of a certain ship doctor.
The Red Earth Continent, which is made up of countless Spring Islands, Summer Islands, Autumn Islands, and Winter Islands, will certainly cause a chaotic climate due to the conflict between the magnetic forces, but there will also be magnetic forces that will conflict with each other, and finally return to zero, and everything will be calm. node. Red Harbor, Twin Capes... fall into this category. And they happen to be at the junction of the Red Continent and the Grand Line. Whether this is a coincidence or an intentional design, no one knows.
When Lynch and Robin first arrived here as teenagers, Kurokas said seriously that being a doctor was just his side job, and being a lighthouse keeper was his true job.
What he didn’t tell Lynch and the others was that he, his father, and his grandmother were the lighthouse keepers of Twin Points. It was their family’s job for generations.
These days, even the Twin Capes of Topsy-turvy Mountain, where the weather used to be pretty good in the past, has become windy and rainy, with roaring waves crashing against the shore.
Click!
Lightning illuminated the windows of the lighthouse, lighting up Cullocas’s workshop and lounge inside... Cullocas, the former ship’s doctor of the Roger Pirates, insisted on being a lighthouse keeper. Doesn't seem to be at his lighthouse post today.
Rumble...
Black clouds are low and thunder is rolling.
The strong long-beam lights on the tops of the two lighthouses facing each other across the shore swayed in circles, struggling to penetrate the vast curtain of wind and rain, trying their best to project farther, shining on the dark and cruel sea.
〖Beihai, Haiyan Island〗
In the violent storm, this island that looks like a giant petrel seems to be silently confronting the raging waves and the cruel sea. Let the storm come more violently!
"Stop it! How many days has this heavy rain been raining? It will never end!!"
"Wooooo! Mom! Dad!!"
Many places on the island were flooded. On the high slopes, a small group of surviving residents gathered. Men's tired curses, women's silence, and children's hoarse cries were intermittent.
Suddenly, in the distance of the filthy flood that was rolling by, the water surface actually broke, and a... fish-man's head emerged?
"Floc!?"
"Help! It's unlucky enough to have a flood, but why are there still monsters like this chasing us..."
"This must be a nightmare! This is all a nightmare!"
Surrounded by storms, with thunder and lightning overhead, the survivors were soaked, shivering, and pale.
The fish-man seemed to have discovered them, and everyone tensed up. The fishman returned to the water, and soon it was like a rocket was launched from the water, and a line of water quickly approached the hillside where everyone was. The survivors didn't even have time to be afraid, the water surface nearby broke open, and the fishman's head popped out, yelling: "Sit tight! I will take you to a safe place!"
"Wow!!"
Before the adults had time to be frightened and puzzled, the children were so frightened by the appearance of the rarely seen fish-man that they burst into tears. Especially this fish-man looked no longer young, and looked strange and scary. The man-eating sea monster in the story... The fishman shook his head, tightened the harpoon in his hand, got into the water, estimated the height, and rushed up the hillside with a harpoon.
Boom...
Everyone only heard a muffled sound under the water, and felt the slight shaking of the mountain under their buttocks, and then...
Then in everyone's confused look, the hillside actually ran away... carrying them, speeding across the sea that submerged the island. Seen from the sky, it looks like a small stone tip floating against the sea... Under the water, the fishman holds the harpoon in one hand and the other hand, swimming at an incredible speed. Swimming out of the scope of Haiyan Island.
He shouted into the deeper water, and it seemed as if countless schools of fish heard the sound and spread out like a large net.
Not long after, a faint beam of light in the deep water found the fish-man and quickly approached.
It's a giant submarine!
"Wolf, they'll be left to you. Go up." The fishman nodded to the old man in the cockpit of the giant submarine's glass cover.
The voice of inventor Wolf in the cockpit came from the loudspeaker on the head of the giant submarine, "Sambel, I couldn't build these submarines without your help. You should meet those who were saved by you." People! ”
The fishman Sambel said calmly: "No need. Although I am willing to save them, I do not recognize these people."
Wolf had no choice but to float the diving suit to the surface first. The fishman Sambert held the top of the mountain and looked up at the undulating water. There were longing figures on the water, and the shouts and cries of the survivors he sent were heard... Sambert's thoughts were in a trance. He went back decades ago, and on the other side, he met a man named Roger and his friends.
"Let me tell you, you are quite a arrogant kid?" The bold man put his straw hat on his head and laughed. "You look down on human beings? How about a bet? You come to our ship and travel together in a month. If you don’t hold the banquet with us with a smile, then I lose!”
"Why do you want me to bet with you? Just a human being... No, just a group of human beings..."
Roger laughed wildly and said: "You can only bet with me! Otherwise..." The guy made no secret of his arrogant nature, rubbed his fists and said with a grin, "Then be prepared to be beaten! Who told you to beat me?" But what about me?"
After all the survivors were transferred to Wolfe's submarine, the fishman Sambel gathered his emotions and left the mountain that was shoveled here by a fork. As he was about to leave, he found a warship approaching.
"Haiyan Island is also destroyed!" The naval officer on the warship looked heavy.
"Colonel! What is that?" Suddenly a soldier pointed at the sea and shouted, "It's a... ship? No, it's a diving ship?!"
"Hey, Navy." The unfamiliar voice sounded in their ears, which startled the branch colonel and all the sailors on the warship. They turned around and saw a fishman holding a harpoon jumping out of the sea at some point. , stood on the side of the ship and glanced at them lightly, "If you want to save people, I can help."
"Who are you! Why would the Navy ask for help from someone of unknown origin?"
"Wait! This fishman..." The branch colonel suddenly recognized it and stared at Sambel in disbelief, "You are the only fishman in that devil's pirate group... the fishman Sambel? ! Aren’t you all the devil’s henchmen already..."
Sambel rolled his eyes, "Death? How do I remember that Pluto Rayleigh was in the newspaper before?"
He stepped back and fell back into the sea, "Stop talking nonsense, you get out of the warship and I will help. With the help of a fishman master, more people can be saved."
The sailors on the deck were in disbelief, "How could we possibly cooperate with the pirates!"
The companion next to him looked at him hesitantly. Isn’t the King Shichibukai a pirate who cooperates with us? !
"Why should we agree?" the branch colonel asked calmly.
"Why?" Sambel smiled faintly, holding the harpoon and pointing it at the hull of the warship, "Because... you have no right to refuse! Either let me help, or don't want this warship!" ”
"Wait! Stop! It's really a pirate... Stop! We were wrong!"
"Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding! Sambel is a good person..." In the distance, the anxious voice of inventor Wolf came from the loudspeaker on the top of the giant submarine heading towards the warship, "Even pirates, there are good people. There’s something wrong with this world! It’s just this **** world that makes good people accidentally become pirates!”
〖New World, an Island〗
"Mom, are pirates... good people?"
In the huge, dull spherical cave, more than a hundred round holes on the top of a hundred meters above the head revealed the faint light from the sky outside, as well as the whimpering sound of the storm passing by.
Although the environment here is harsh enough, it is already 10,000 times better than in the town where nothing existed after being washed away by floods. And this is all because the pirate named "Black Feather Stealing Doctor" used the power of Devil Fruit to dig a huge shelter in this mountain and sent the surviving people here...
The woman hugged her three children tightly, with mixed emotions. She thought about it for a long time, and finally sighed: "Mom doesn't know either... When you grow up and become sensible, you can tell your mother, okay?"
"Okay!" The two children responded, and one of them said seriously to the other: "I want to be a navy. The navy must know whether pirates are good guys or bad guys, right?"
The third child said: "It's so simple. If I become a pirate, I will be a good person! Because I am a good boy! Hehe..."
"Captain, they are discussing whether you are a good person."
The inside of the mountain is a shelter dug out of the surgical fruit. In the wind and rain outside, Bebo found Luo standing on the top of the mountain and said with a naive smile.
"Am I a good person?"
Luo stared at the wind and rain and the crazy-looking horizon in the distance, remembering that white town more than ten years ago, that crazy town... He said to himself, "No, I'm not a good person. Or a bad person, I... am a doctor. A doctor should save people as much as possible, that's all."
"What are you trying to be cool about?" Xiaocao hummed while holding a cigarette in his mouth, "If you want to save people, leave quickly and go look elsewhere..."
〖Great Route, entrance section〗
"No need to thank me, I'm a doctor." Kurokas waved his hand.
"How can there be a doctor like you?!" The bustling crowd was about to retort and thank them, but suddenly they screamed one after another. The "boat" under their feet was violently bumped by a big wave and was thrown away. At the top of the wave. Kurokas roared: "Hold on to the boat rope! Don't fall!"
What ship are they on?
Of course it is the kind of living boat that Kurokas once made in Rab's stomach, which is not afraid of bumps and waves (stomach acid). It is not so much a boat as it is a super life raft made of super buoyant wood. And the current one was dozens of times bigger than the one in Labu's stomach. At this moment, hundreds of survivors found by Kurokas were gathered on the ship.
"Ahhhhhh..."
“There’s another big wave!”
"Listen to Dr. Kurokas! Everyone hold on to the rope!!!"
It is obviously not a long voyage, but on this crazy sea, it is like sailing against the current, struggling to move forward in one big wave after another. After an unknown amount of time, Kurokas squinted his eyes and shouted: "We can see the lighthouse! Hurry! It's right in front!" Everyone followed his words and looked through the wind and rain, and sure enough they saw a faint glimmer of light coming regularly. Sweeping through, it’s the lighthouse on the sea, the lighthouse of Twin Points in Upside Down Mountain!
"Saved!"
Everyone arrived at Twin Capes with a narrow escape. Kurokas **** the big boat, clapped his hands and urged: "It's not safe here! It will be washed away by the waves at any time! Go up there!"
"Above?!"
The survivors were stunned because the direction Dr. Kurokas pointed was actually the Red Earth Continent.
Everyone took a closer look and saw that there were actually ropes specially set up for climbing on the slopes of Upside Down Mountain.
Kulokas smiled and said: "I was shocked when two little guys walked down like this before! Let's go, don't fall behind! There are not enough supplies in the lighthouse for everyone to eat and drink... ”
"Is there one in the Red Earth Continent?"
"Hahaha, how is that possible?"
"...How can you laugh at such a desperate thing?"
"Even if you don't want to laugh, you can't change it to something to eat. Oh, it's so cold, I really want to drink hot soup!"
"Oh God, hot water is enough!"
"Cold water is fine too!"
"Then why don't you drink sea water?"
"Get out!"
Hundreds of survivors lined up in a row, holding on to the climbing ropes and making noisy noises, or anxiously following the topmost Kurokas toward the red earth continent.
One after another, everyone climbed to the top and sat down tiredly.
"Is there any writing here?" Someone discovered that someone actually carved a line of writing on the ground at the top of the Red Earth Continent, "It must have been left by the pirates who broke into the Grand Line. They are really illiterate. What kind of ghost writing is this?" ”
Some people look blankly into the distance, whether it is the great shipping route in front of or behind them, or the East China Sea, South China Sea, West Sea, and North Sea on the left and right... Looking around, it seems that all the seas and the whole world are shrouded in a layer of dark gray In the shadow of , storms and tsunamis are raging across the world.
All mankind is at the end of its rope. Such a doomsday feeling of despair suddenly came to my mind. Someone in the crowd cried softly.
"It's a good thing to go to the Red Earth Continent. Although there is no food or drink here, at least it won't be flooded..." someone murmured to himself.
"Yes." Someone next to him sucked instant noodles and nodded.
The two looked at each other, and the former suddenly grabbed the instant noodles like a hungry wolf and drank it, making him scream from the heat.
"Hey!" said a person passing by eating instant noodles with dissatisfaction, "There are plenty in there, don't grab it!"
The people who were struggling to eat instant noodles looked back and saw that at the top of the Red Earth Continent not far away, there were people "going in and out" up and down... a cave? !
He jumped up and rushed over, "Doctor Kurokas, you dug a hole in the Red Earth Continent?!"
"But this, how is this possible..." The man was lying at the entrance, looking down to observe. The huge and deep space was winding and even divided into different rooms. The long corridor was deep and strangely lit. Illuminated flowers with no end in sight, "Such a huge 'basement'...how could you..."
Kulokas smiled lightly and said: "Did I say I dug it by myself? My ancestors have been working as a lighthouse keeper at Twin Capes for generations..."