346. Big Finding

The Clown Pirates follow the path on their map and start finding more hidden rooms. Unlike the first hidden room, the other hidden rooms have valuables inside them. Of course, they all take everything they can, even scraps.

They find some armories filled with many armor and weapons. Many of those items have rusted, but many are still in good condition because of their high quality. They take everything even the rusted ones because they still can use the materials.

Other than armories, they also find rooms with treasures like jewelry, valuable metal bars, etc. They find food storage too, but most of the food has rotted, so they leave them. The only things they can take are barrels & bottles of alcohol that have aged for too long that their amount has reduced a lot and their alcohol contents have increased so much.

At the end of the path, they find a big door that looks very thick. Buggy cuts it without any problem though and nothing is happening. So they enter it and find something amazing inside there.

What they see is a whole town with buildings carved on the walls and many are standing on the ground normally. The buildings also have many designs. Every type of design the Clowns have ever seen is here. It's like they see the types of buildings from all over the world, from all cultures.

These buildings also seem very sturdy even after hundreds of years. There's no broken building here, not even a hole can be seen from where they stand. Maybe there are some broken parts somewhere, but right now, they don't see any.

This massive underground room is also very bright despite being very deep in the ground. The sources of the light are many glowing bulbs on the ceiling. Just looking at the glowing bulbs has made the scientists' eyes sparkle, just like how the shipwrights' eyes sparkle when they see the sturdy buildings.

There are even plants here, green living plants like those on the surface. These plants can live here even though there's no sunlight. Maybe the light from the ceiling replaces the sunlight, so it makes sense for the plants to live healthily here.

The crew can even feel living beings which are either animals or people here. Although the chance for people to still live here is very low, maybe there's a miracle. Considering the advanced technologies in this place, making people survive for hundreds of years might be possible.

Buggy doesn't even need to give any orders because they all immediately explore the town. Such a place surely piques their interest because it's the first time they see something like this. There's no way they will not explore and plunder this place that must be full of treasures.

Seeing his crewmates explore the town vigorously makes Buggy giggle. They all think the same, so he doesn't even need to tell them what to do. Well, they've done it many times that they know what to do without any order.

Buggy then also walks to explore the town with Dela who didn't go with the others. She is his secretary, after all, so she always needs to move with him. Besides, Buggy often finds interesting things, so moving with him is often the best choice.

As usual, Buggy takes pictures of everything they find while Dela notes them. They documented everything they find in this underground town. There are many ancient items that looked old but also advanced at the same time.

The crew doesn't even know the functions of many items they find there. So they take samples of those items to be researched. Maybe they'll find useful knowledge from learning these ancient items or at least satisfy their curiosity.

They explore the underground town for hours, but they still haven't finished yet. There are too many new things they find here that make them unable to finish fast. But it's not a problem at all for them because this is very fun.

They find many interesting things here because many things are new to them. Foreign and unknown technologies on many subjects are the most interesting things here. It's like just like how people from modern Earth find incredible things about ancient civilizations that they can't understand to this day.

Other than those, they also find that there are animals here too. These animals were probably livestock and pets that survived and multiply. Almost all of them have evolved to survive in this condition, so they look rather different from their initial forms.

The most noticeable traits are their smaller sizes, less colorful appearances, and their glowing eyes. But the crew isn't too focused on the animals because they aren't animal lovers. Seeing these evolved animals only makes them impressed and that's it.

Then, the crew also finds a very wide graveyard that has many graves in it. Everyone who lived here in the past must've been buried here, everyone but the last person who couldn't bury him/herself and didn't have any choice but to not get buried.

The Clowns find that last person in the graveyard too, as a skeleton. That person must've died here while sitting in front of a grave because that's what the skeleton looks like. It must be a very lonely time to live in this place alone and die after everyone else left this world first for who knows how long.

Buggy orders his crewmates to bury the skeleton beside the grave that it faced. It must be the grave of the skelly's loved one, that's why the person chose to die there. So it's only right to bury the skeleton there as a form of respect by the crew.

Anyway, the crew takes a break after 10 hours of exploration. They also find something after 7 hours of exploration. The light bulbs on the ceiling dimmed as if night falls on this place, so the ones who lived here won't lose track of time.

After 10 hours of exploration, Buggy orders half of the crew to return to the surface and bring their loot there. They are also tasked to take food & drinks for the ones who stay here. Buggy then asks Dela to make shifts for the crew in this exploration so they won't be exhausted.

No one knows how long they'll stay here, so they need to plan it from now on. Food & drink aren't problems for them because they can hunt and there are water sources here. They've used to survive in the wilderness, so they can stay here for months.

There are many things they can get from this place. So they will stay here as long as possible to maximize the benefit they get. This place is also their goal in this journey, so spending time for a few months here is not a problem at all.

Besides, leaving too fast is such a big waste because they've found so many things that can help them. Even in a few days, Ruff & his scientist team have found ways to improve their weapons. Palu & his shipwright team find a way to strengthen everything they make too.

The others also learn new things even though they can't understand the ancient writings. They learn from analyzing the stuff they find using their own interpretations. What they got here may be incomplete, but they still got a lot, so it's not a big problem.

The crew stays on Lodestar Island for 5 months before deciding to leave. They get a lot of benefits here that really satisfy them. There is still much they can get from this place, but this is their current limit because they don't understand the ancient writings here.

They have a plan for it though and they also have made an Eternal Pose to this island, so they can return anytime they want. For now, they want to rest after a very long journey. And the place that they choose to rest is none other than East Blue.

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