Chapter 42
“The collection was successful. We obtained a metal pipe of Island Whale Lab, some gold, some gems, a Kuluokas anesthetic, and a permanent pointer of the Sabaody Archipelago.”
“Hiss~”
Even with Xia Chen’s state of mind, he couldn’t help but gasp when he saw the collection results.
Apart from anything else, the 600 points of physical attribute alone can double his current base. You know, his current physical fitness is only 612.3, which is not doubled.
Xia Chen calmed down and put all the things into his backpack. This was not the time to absorb. Then he would collect again, but at this moment, the hair on his back stood up and he instinctively moved his palm away.
And summoned a ball of water to form a shield in front of him.
Bang!
Invisible energy burst out from the body of Island Whale Lab, like a cannonball, easily piercing the water curtain and knocking Xia Chen back to the deck.
“What is this?”
Xia Chen’s pupils shrank. He had expected this, but he didn’t expect Kukaros to react so quickly.
“Young man, stop it.” An old voice came from behind him. Xia Chen hurriedly stood up and prepared himself. He saw a short old man wearing some kind of feather decoration, holding Luffy, who was limp and had a big belly, in one hand, looking at him with a smile, his eyes constantly wandering between his hands.
As the ship doctor of the previous Pirate King, he was not an ordinary person.
But even so, he couldn’t figure out how this kid stole his permanent pointer.
You know, just now, the straight-line distance between them was more than one kilometer.
What kind of devil fruit ability user is this?
In fact, after Kukaros first received Luffy’s wanted order, he started to pay attention to it and collected intelligence within a certain range. Because he really wanted to see what kind of person this guy who inherited the captain’s will in the mouth of the kid Shanks was?
Especially the kid Shanks, who even gave up an arm for this Luffy.
Even so, it still did not stop him from ascending to the throne of the Four Emperors. If Shanks had all his limbs intact, he might have become the strongest man in the world, replacing Edward Newgate, the Whitebeard.
Therefore, when the Straw Hat Pirates began to climb from the other side of the Upside-Down Mountain, Kukaros in Laboo’s body watched from afar, and indeed saw a lot of his previous captain’s shadow in Luffy.
Passion, adventure, bravery, responsibility…
To put it bluntly, when a person wears a filter, everything he sees is beautiful.
But originally he only planned to watch from afar, and then wait for Luffy and his group to find him, and even planned to design a few small levels to test the quality of the next Pirate King, but he didn’t expect that Xia Chen suddenly took action at this time, through some strange fruit ability.
It caused considerable damage to Laboo, and he watched many things suddenly disappear.
This involves the concept of space, but from the information he collected, Xia Chen should be good at controlling water flow.
And it is most likely the natural water-water fruit, although in his database, this kind of fruit seems to have never appeared in the world.
After all, it is too illegal to put this fruit in the sea.
After being knocked away just now, Xia Chen is still a little depressed. He thinks that this should be the advanced application of armed color·Ryu Sakura. Of course, it may also be the Conqueror’s color. Does Crocus have Conqueror’s color… I don’t have enough information, so it’s hard to say.
But it can’t be said that there is no.
However, although he knows the identity of the person in front of him and will not cause much harm to him, he still came to the other party with a silent step and punched him. Crocus smiled slightly and dodged lightly, but the next second, Xia Chen took Luffy from his hand.
And summoned a group of rotating water to knock Crocus away.
The latter dodged again easily and fell on the side of the ship.
“Three Swords Style·Demon Slash!”
“Big Pot·Barbecue!”
Sanji and Zoro’s attacks came from behind him, crack!
The side of the ship and part of the mast were broken, but Crocus was not affected at all, and he had already fallen on the back of the whale Laboo.
He gently patted his back and said, “Young people nowadays are really amazing. I’m old, I don’t want to play with you anymore.”
Then he immediately took Laboo diving and disappeared.
Sanji and Zoro looked alert, Xia Chen slapped Luffy’s belly hard with his hand, and his mouth was like a fountain, spraying out clusters of sea water.
At the same time, he asked Nami to steer the helm and leave here.
Although the sea currents in this area are very chaotic, with Xia Chen’s escort, they were able to leave smoothly.Left.
“Luffy is fine, he just drank too much sea water.”
“Look…”
Everyone looked in the direction indicated by Usopp, and sure enough, the Crocus who had easily escaped their siege before was under the lighthouse in the east, and he even set up a parasol, which was very comfortable.
But it was only about ten minutes.
However, because the whole area was blocked by water mist, although it was noon, they were not sure if there were any parasols or something like that next to the lighthouse.
“Xia Chen, what should we do?”
Xia Chen looked at Crocus with a “dignified” face, thought again and again, jumped from the boat to the shore, and clasped his hands, “Old sir, I offended you just now, I wonder if I can borrow your precious land to repair it.”
Although the Golden Merry was almost unscathed and passed the Upside-Down Mountain with Xia Chen’s protection and escort this time, the fight just now still had an impact on the Merry, especially since they still needed to obtain new equipment here.
This Crocus hand is like an NPC in the game.
Crocus waved his hand, signaling them to do whatever they wanted. Then Xia Chen took on the responsibility of the vice-captain and directed everyone to repair the ship.
Luffy is worthy of being Luffy. He slipped over at some point and soon became familiar with Crocus. He even greeted everyone and heard the story of the whale Laboo from him. Xia Chen, who was listening to the story together, also showed a face of emotion.
This story is quite touching, a bit like Hachiko.
As expected, Luffy used his post-impressionist painting skills to leave a big straw hat skull on the head of the whale Laboo and made an agreement with it. And Nami also got new equipment from Crocus, the recording pointer.
Xia Chen did not do anything extra. These powerful old men are all smart people. They make more mistakes and do their duties as vice-captain.
They rested here for a night and prepared to set off the next day.
Crocus looked at Xia Chen and said inexplicably: “Why don’t you practice swordsmanship!”
“Mr. Crocus, what do you mean?”
“You should know that you can’t become the strongest person in the sea just by relying on the power of the devil fruit. You should have been wondering how I attacked you yesterday, right?”
Xia Chen nodded hesitantly. He did this deliberately.
“It’s domineering!”