The 1520th year of the Haiyuan Calendar.
East China Sea.
After a storm, the Meli is still advancing towards the great channel.
The person at the helm is Usopp.
Nami lay on the beach chair not far behind him, glanced at Guina who was standing on the deck practicing swords. After sighing, she turned her head and looked at Rochi who was fishing.
"Do you have no sense of crisis?"
Nami said speechlessly: "You should have heard what I said just now, right? If we want to enter the great channel, we must first ride a powerful current into the canal located in the Overturned Mountain. If the direction is slightly deviated, it is likely to hit the mountain and be destroyed by the boat!"
"We believe in the strength of you, the navigator!"
Guina turned around and smiled, "But I also looked at the chart left by Bucky. In fact, we can enter the great channel by sailing directly south. Why do we have to go through a lot of effort to climb the mountain?"
“Because there are windless belts on both sides of the great waterway.”
Roqi, who was fishing, interrupted leisurely, "It's a windless sea area, and it's also a large sea king's nest. Unless it has the strength to be close to the Four Emperors or the Three Generals, it's easy to become the food of sea beasts."
"Ohhhh! Look!"
Usopp, who was in charge of the helm, suddenly shouted excitedly: "That's the Red Clay Continent, right?!"
Everyone looked forward together—
Standing in front of the vast ocean is a steep continent as cliff-like as a cliff. The highest point is covered by clouds and cannot be seen clearly. Moreover, no matter whether you look to the left or right, you can only see the endless thick cliffs.
This is definitely an insurmountable barrier!
Rochi stood at the bow of the boat and stared at the spectacular scene in front of him. He felt admiration for the fishman Tiger arose. God knows what kind of determination and perseverance this guy has to climb this continent that can be called a super Great Wall with his bare hands!
"Everyone is ready! We are going to enter the canal!"
Seeing the ship approaching the Cangshan Mountain by the current, Nami quickly held the mast and said loudly: "Our direction is a bit wrong! Turn right and turn thirty degrees!"
Usopp quickly followed the orders.
The direction of the bow of the ship was slightly adjusted, and the entrance of the canal was accurately aligned. The expressions of the four people on the ship became nervous. Although they were very confident in Nami's ability to control the current, everyone here had no experience in driving a boat and climbing the mountain. The visual effect of hitting the mountain was really too exciting!
Fortunately, no accidents occurred during the sprint.
They jumped up along the powerful sky-sky current, climbed to the top of the mountain along the canal on the hillside, fell rapidly in the sea currents gathering in all directions, and rushed to the long-awaited great waterway—
"Haha! We're in!"
Everyone on the boat cheered from the bottom of their hearts, thanking that the starting point of the great journey was going well!
Then they suddenly discovered-
Between the white mist in the sky, a huge black shadow appeared and disappeared.
"What's that?!"
Usopp used a telescope to observe carefully: "It's not another mountain, right?"
"impossible!"
Nami held the chart in her hand tightly: "It is obvious that you can directly enter the ocean as long as you cross the Gemini Strait!"
"Did you hear any sound?"
Guina tightened the hilt with some anxiety: "It seems like a roar from some kind of animal—"
"It's a whale!"
While the ship was approaching the other side quickly, Roach gave all the answers to his questions: "That thing is a huge whale!"
"Switch the rudder quickly!"
Nami rushed to Usopp, who was at the helm: "Let's adjust the direction to the left together, there is a gap there, let's go through it! Move quickly, otherwise we will definitely bump into it!"
Usopp knew that the situation was urgent, so he quickly turned around with Nami.
Then there was a click!
The wooden handle was broken into two pieces by the anxious two people, and the ship also lost control of their collapsed mood.
"It's over! I'm going to bump into it!"
Nami and Usopp, who were standing at the bow of the boat, burst into tears: "It seems that our journey is about to end at the beginning..."
"Usopp, go and fire at the whale!"
Roche quickly walked up to the bow of the ship: "Although this may anger the other party, at least it can use the impact force to slow down, which is more likely to be more life than to hit it directly. After all, this guy is rough and thick-skinned, and maybe he won't notice our attack at all."
"Ohhhhh! It makes sense!"
Usopp rushed to the front gun deck and fired at the whale very quickly.
So the ship speed slowed down a little.
Just as the Meli was about to approach the whale, Roach stretched out his hands and shook it behind him, and then—
"Rubber and rocket launcher!"
The heavy attack hit the whale's rough skin, and with the reaction force, the Meli stopped with difficulty. Although there was still a slight collision at the bow, it at least avoided the tragedy of the ship's destruction and death.
Next, it depends on whether the other party will notice his attack—
"Roar oh oh oh!"
With the whale's roar, one eye appeared in the clouds and mist, staring at the little lives with anger.
"It seems that I was noticed..."
Roche scratched his head with some depression, as if the fate of being swallowed was inevitable, and the whale suddenly opened its huge mouth like an abyss and sucked the Melis into its stomach with the current.
Then everyone found that there was another world here.
Above my head is a clear blue sky and white clouds, and in front of me is a house standing on the island.
"What's going on?"
Nami and others looked puzzled: "Aren't we swallowed into the whale's stomach? Why did we come to such a place in a blink of an eye?"
“Are these hallucinations?”
"Look! It seems that someone has come out of the room!"
As Usopp, who was sharp-eyed, pointed his hand, everyone quickly turned their heads and saw a strong old man walking out of the hut on the island, dressed in Hawaiian casual style and decorated like flowers on his head.
The old man didn't even look at the group on the boat, so he moved a beach chair and sat down to read the newspaper.
"Can you disturb me? Old man!"
Nami waved enthusiastically: "I would like to ask where is this place?"
"Are you an idiot?"
The old man said with a bad expression: "Of course this is still in the whale's belly. Did you collectively lose your memory when you were swallowed?"
"How can there be blue sky and white clouds in the whale's belly?!"
"I drew it all!"
"Then why is there light?"
"Are you a curious baby?" the old man said with a bad expression: "You broke into my private villa, why are there more problems than me!"
"Do you want to provoke us?" Guina touched the hilt of the knife with some displeasure.
"I advise you not to fight with me." A cold light flashed in the old man's eyes: "It will die."
"Who do you think will die?"
Chapter completed!