Chapter 44
The first time, the second time.
"Ah, ho~"
Luffy shouted excitedly. The rest of the people also had expectant smiles on their faces.
As long as they climb over this mountain, they can enter the Grand Line!
Driven by the ocean current, the Merry continued to rush upwards and soon reached the top of the mountain. Then after a short flight, it fell into the canal downstream.
And when going down, the speed was faster than before, and the splashes were bigger. So it was more exciting!
"Woo~~~~"
Suddenly, a strange sound came. Xia Chen couldn't help but look up and look forward. He murmured, "Labu?"
Besides Xia Chen, Zoro was the only one on the ship who noticed the sound. He couldn't help but ask the people around him curiously, "Did you hear any sound?"
"It must be the sound of the wind!" Nami answered confidently.
She is now a navigator who has seen the world. She can't be surprised by any situation on the sea. Otherwise, wouldn't it be embarrassing?
Although the sound is indeed a bit strange, it is the Grand Line after all, the most incredible sea in the world. It is normal to have a bit of strange wind sound!
"Could it be the sound of a whale?" Xia Chen said with a smile.
"Xia Chen, what are you talking about? How can the sound of a whale be so loud? If it is really the sound of a whale, how big must this whale be?"
Before Sanji finished speaking, he saw a black mountain in front of him. When he got closer, he found that it was not a mountain, but a huge whale.
! ! !
"Ah!!"
Everyone on the ship was frightened and panicked.
"How...how can there be such a big whale?"
"This is a kind of island whale in the West Sea. It can grow to the size of an entire island, so this size is normal!"
"Search to death!" Everyone stood there and clapped their hands.
But in a blink of an eye...
"No, Xia Chen, the problem now is not to calmly say what kind of whale this is, we are going to hit it!!!"
"Don't worry, don't worry! I have a way!" Xia Chen said lightly.
✧*. ٩(ˊωˋ*)و✧*!
"What is the way!" Everyone asked in unison.
"The way is..."
Xia Chen jumped on the goat's head and slashed forward with his right foot.
"Lan Jiao!"
A slash flew out and hit Lab's body.
"Moo~"
The painful Lab couldn't help but let out a scream, then opened his mouth and sucked in all the surrounding seawater. Of course, Xia Chen's ship was not immune.
Then the whole ship went into Laboo's stomach.
? ? ?
‼ (•'╻'• )꒳ᵒ꒳ᵎᵎᵎ
(σ;*Д*)σDeath penalty!
"So your so-called way to avoid collision is to let us be swallowed!"
"Just tell me whether you have collided or not," Xia Chen said with his hands spread out.
"It's true that we didn't roar~"
"But we are going to be eaten!"
"Isn't this more serious than the situation of collision?"
Luffy and his friends grabbed Xia Chen's neck and shook him and roared.
"You guys...are you looking for a fight?"
"Bang bang bang bang!"
"Tsk, people nowadays are not allowed to say anything when they do something wrong!" Luffy said sarcastically with a face full of blue and red.
"That's right, the wrong person dares to hit someone first, what do you think is right?"
"The world is going downhill, people's hearts are not the same as before!"
Zoro and Sanji also said one by one.
After hearing this, Xia Chen's fists felt itchy again for some reason. But after thinking about it, he decided to forget it. It's boring to always bully these weak people.
Xia Chen said lightly: "Since I dare to be swallowed by a whale like this, it proves that I'm absolutely fine!"
"Don't talk nonsense, just watch it later!"
A few minutes later, after a dizzy spell, the Merry landed steadily on a green ocean.
The blue sky, the white clouds, and the flying birds made everyone stunned.
"Aren't we swallowed by the whale? What's going on?" Nami asked stutteringly.
"We are indeed in the whale's stomach now!" I don't know when a cup of coffee appeared in Xia Chen's hand. He took a sip and said lightly.
"Eh?"
"Indeed, you see, these white clouds and birds are not moving, they are all painted on!" Usopp also pointed to the sky and said.
"So that means
...The ocean below is stomach acid?" Sanji's face changed drastically.
"That's right!"
"Who are you?"
Just when everyone was still wondering why the whale's stomach was like this, an old voice sounded in their ears.
Everyone looked towards the direction of the voice unconsciously.
"Wow! A chrysanthemum is coming towards us!!!" Luffy shouted in horror.
"Hmph! What chrysanthemum, so rude!"
"Chrysanthemum can talk!" Luffy was even more terrified.
"Stupid, that's obviously a person!" Zoro said speechlessly, but he was also a little confused.
"Why is there an island in the stomach of a whale?"
Thinking of this, Zoro couldn't help but ask him: "Old man, who are you? Why are you in the stomach of a whale?"
"Shouldn't you say who you are before asking others?"
"Uh...that's right! "
"I'm Roronoa…"
"I'm Crocus, the lighthouse keeper at Cape Gemini, 71 years old this year, Gemini sign, AB blood type!"
"Clang!" The Wado Ichimonji was unsheathed.
"Don't stop me, I'm going to chop him off!"
"Calm down, calm down!" Sanji pulled hard on the side.
"Want to fight? I advise you not to, it's going to kill people!" Crocus said faintly with a cold light flashing in his eyes.
"Hmm?" Everyone who heard this was grim. They stared at the old man in front of them.
Sanji took a puff of the cigarette in his mouth. He exhaled smoke rings and said, "Then let's see who will die!"
He didn't believe that a 70-year-old man could have any fighting power.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Isn't it obvious who will die? Of course it's me! "Kurokas said confidently.
⁽⁽ƪ(•̩̩̩̩＿•̩̩̩̩)ʃ⁾⁾ᵒᵐᵍᵎᵎ
"It's you!!!"
...
"By the way, what are you doing here? You don't want to harm this whale, do you?" When he said this, Kurokas stared at the people opposite.
"Of course not, we were just accidentally eaten by Lab!" Xia Chen stood at the bow and said.
"Oh~ That's it!" Kurokas nodded.
But suddenly he seemed to react to something, looked at Xia Chen with horror, and asked word by word: "Why do you know the name of this whale?"
Xia Chen showed a mysterious smile on his face.
"This..."