One Piece: Nico Robin Collection

Chapter 118 Heaven
In just over an hour, Gaya Island was completely plowed by Ace and his men.

Although it is a pirate island, it is only located in the first half of the Grand Line. The guy with the highest bounty on the island is only worth tens of millions of berries, which is no match for Ace and his friends.

Originally, Caesar thought there would be one or two people with special abilities, but unfortunately, he was unlucky and there was not a single person with special abilities on the island.

The quality of this year's new pirates is not high. In the original plot, there was only one supernova, Ace, in the year when Ace went to sea.

It is worth mentioning that next year’s supernova pirate is Cavendish, and he is the only one.

It wasn't until the year Luffy went to sea that there was a boom.

In previous years, it was rare to see pirates with bounties exceeding 100 million in the park.

This is also why Caesar is so intimidating.

In a place where people can act tyrannically even with a bounty of tens of millions, the feeling of oppression is extremely strong when a guy with a bounty of billions suddenly appears!
After a while, the strongest pirates on the island were all killed by Ace's fire fist.

Bonnie doesn't kill people, but Ace's fire fist has no eyes.

On the other side of the island, the people who had cleared the entire island found Caesar drinking and chatting with Kulik under the guidance of their observation Haki.

"Ha—Chestnut Head!"

Yamato pointed at Kulik's head and said excitedly.

"Haha, you're so energetic."

Looking at the group of young people in front of him, Kulik smiled.

"Wait, this hairstyle..."

Noticing Kulik's chestnut hair, Luo's pupils trembled: "Big Liar Nolando?"

"Are you from Beihai..."

Kulik looked at Luo. Luo's plush hat was obviously in the Beihai style.

And the story of Nolando, the Big Liar, is also widely spread in Beihai...

"I am Montblanc Kulik, a descendant of Nolando."

Kulik lit a cigarette and said calmly, "I've been here for many years."

"Are you going for the Golden Country?" Luo asked.

"what…"

Kulik nodded. "I always thought that the Golden Country sank into the sea, just as Nolando said, until this guy just told me that the Golden Country was washed onto the White Sea by the strong current."

"It's incredible, fate plays tricks on us..."

"Doesn't that mean you've wasted a lot of years?"

Luo's eyes were a little complicated. He still admired the other party's spirit. Just because of a vague legend, he spent so many years on a pirate island like Gaya Island.

"Haha, not really. I still gained something."

As he spoke, Kulik took out a package and opened it. The golden light suddenly shone in everyone's eyes.

"Is this... a golden bird?"

Nami's eyes sparkled with light, and her figure appeared beside Kulik in a flash.

"This is the compass bird, also known as the south-seeing bird. Here, this is it."

Caesar kicked the compass bird at his feet. At this time, the big stupid bird had woken up and was squatting beside Caesar with an unwilling look on its face.

"This is the habitat of the Compass Bird, so there were many Compass Bird golden eagles in the ancient Golden Country. If we want to ride the high current to the Sky Island, we need to rely on these birds to locate us."

"So, these sculptures are from the Golden Country?"

Robin picked up a small sculpture of a compass bird and felt it was heavy.

"Gold-plated?"

"Even in the Golden City, they wouldn't be so extravagant as to build an entire city out of pure gold. Otherwise, even if they hollowed out the planet, they wouldn't be able to find that much gold."

Caesar shook his head and laughed. There would be no shortage of gold in the Golden City, but it was impossible for all objects to be made of pure gold.

For example, a golden bell. If it were a large bell made of pure gold, it would probably make a hole when struck.

"Nami, Bebop, for the next few days, you will follow Mr. Kulik and learn how to predict the turbulent currents."

Caesar arranged, "Everyone else, please go down and help Dr. Wolfe drive the ship over here. We need to modify the ship in the next few days."

"Finally, we're going to Sky Island..."

Ace was eager to try it out. In addition to his curiosity about Sky Island, it was time to put his power boat on the agenda.

"Well, Mr. Kulik, please give me your guidance."

Nami and Bebop bowed humbly.

"You're welcome. I'm just trying to help to the best of my ability. After all, this is also my long-cherished wish."

Kulik chuckled.

He had a good impression of Caesar and his gang; they were young, lively, and kind.

Although Caesar had doubts about his leadership, he could see that the young people around him were very innocent.

Soon, everyone drove the boat to the side of Kulik's house, and Nami and Beibao began to learn about the knowledge of the rushing ocean current.

At night, the group held a party outside Kulik's cabin.

Also attending the banquet were Kulik's two younger brothers and two captains of the Yuanshan United Army.

One of them looks like an ape and the other looks like a gorilla.

As for appearance, it can be said that the name suits the person.

The two men went out to carry out salvage work during the day, and accidentally avoided being eliminated by Caesar and his gang.

However, after learning that all the pirates on the island were killed by Caesar and his gang, the two were also frightened.

Caesar didn't make things difficult for the two of them. After all, he still needed Kulik's help in calculating the ocean current.

Besides, these two people didn't do anything bad, they just liked to salvage. Caesar was not an extremist like Akainu, so he naturally wouldn't attack them.

Over the past few hundred years, pirates have become a culture in this world.

Just like the Viking pirates on Earth, people in the pirate world admire pirate culture more because of their brave spirit of adventure rather than burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of evil.

Of course, most pirates are not good people.

……

The pattern of the turbulent ocean current is not difficult to find. The main reason for this supernatural phenomenon is the eruption of submarine volcanoes.

In just two days, Nami mastered the measurement rules and accurately deduced the arrival time of the next upwelling current - thirty nautical miles east of Gaya Island in four days.

So Caesar caught another pointing bird.

As for the guide bird, he didn't release it either. After all, two of them could keep each other company.

And the two birds are pointing in different directions, so they can be used as a reference.

Taking advantage of this time, others, under the command of Dr. Wolf, gave the ship a new upgrade!
Many small sails were hung on the bow and stern, and there were two round cylindrical objects at the stern.

On both sides of the ship, there are two straight wings like bird wings.

Caesar looked at the two wings and was silent for a while.

Although the feasibility of wings has been personally confirmed by Merry in the original book, it still looks weird.

"We'll have the apes and gorillas take your boat to your destination. All you have to do is wait for the current to break out."

Early in the morning, Kulik, holding a cigarette, bid farewell to Caesar and the others.

"I won't say much else. Anyway, have a safe journey."

"Ah, I'll lend you my blessing."

Caesar waved his hand, jumped to the bow of the ship, and with the help of the Saruyama Allied Forces, sailed towards the east of the island.

Soon, the ship arrived at its approximate destination.

Gardino and von Kray were shaking like sieves, but they still stood on the deck with forced composure.

Even the usually calm Law was a little agitated, while Ace and Bonnie were jumping around non-stop, their expressions unable to hide their excitement.

There is no way. Flying to an altitude of ten thousand meters on a boat is really a fantasy.

Fortunately, Caesar and Yixiao were there to back them up, which gave everyone on board confidence for this voyage. Compared to the others, Caesar was much calmer, even having the leisure to tease the compass birds, which made the two silly birds squawk loudly in anger.

No one asked Caesar why he didn't let Yixiao use his ability to take them up, not even Nami, who was always timid.

When it comes to adventure, if you can't achieve your goal through your own efforts, then even if you achieve it, it's meaningless.

In fact, Nami was the calmest among this group of young people.

After all, she is the navigator of this ship, and what she has to consider is never whether she can do it, but how to take Caesar to where he wants to go.

"This is probably it!"

The ape lay on the railing of the salvage ship and shouted loudly.

"The next step is to identify the specific location and use echolocation to find the seabed vortex."

"Leave this to me."

Caesar waved his hand, and four blood-red bats circled up and flew to the east, south, west and north of the ship.

Immediately afterwards, the four blood bats opened their mouths wide and emitted a sharp sound wave.

The violent sound waves created a layer of faint ripples on the sea surface, sweeping rapidly in all directions.

Caesar transformed into a human-beast, his ears twitching slightly, and raised his hand to point: "Nine o'clock."

"Nine o'clock direction, forward!"

Nami called out, and Big Bear gently steered the boat, turning it to the left. Before they had gone far, a wave suddenly rose on the sea.

"It's right ahead! This is the foreshock of the explosion! Everyone be careful! Don't get thrown into the sea!"

The ape warned loudly.

"Look ahead!"

Nami pointed forward and everyone looked in the direction she pointed. A deep and huge whirlpool appeared in everyone's sight.

"We can only take you so far! If you go any further you will be sucked in!" the ape shouted.

"Ah! Thanks so much! You two!"

Caesar waved his hand and immediately looked at Nami: "What should we do next?"

"Wait for a suitable moment to strike."

Nami carefully observed the whirlpool ahead and waited for about thirty seconds. Suddenly, she shouted, "Now, rush in!"

"ha--?!"

Gardino and von Kray both burst into tears.

The radius of the vortex light in front of us is two kilometers. If we are sucked into it, we will definitely be killed!
boom--

The big bear turned the rudder casually, and the boat suddenly rushed into the whirlpool.

The wings on both sides of the ship created buoyancy, and the ship seemed to glide as it rushed towards the center of the vortex.

Suddenly, under the horrified gaze of Gardino and von Klay, the whirlpool suddenly disappeared out of thin air and the sea surface returned to calm again.

"Disappeared…"

Everyone was stunned, but the expressions of those with the strongest observation Haki became more and more solemn.

"It's about to begin, everyone hold on tight!"

Caesar grabbed Nami and Robin's wrists and shouted.

Yamato then pulled baby5 to his side, and Big Bear silently pulled Bonnie into his arms.

Luo and Beibao supported Dr. Wolfe, and Gardino immediately made more than a dozen candle chains and distributed them to everyone, and the ends of the chains were put on the main mast.

"Yes, I have an idea."

Caesar praised him, and Gardino's mouth twitched, but he really couldn't laugh.

tension!

The entire ship was filled with a tense atmosphere, and everyone wore candle rings around their waists to prevent themselves from being blown away.

Just when everyone was extremely nervous, countless bubbles suddenly surged upwards from under the sponge.

The sea water below seemed to be boiling, and suddenly a huge bulge appeared, lifting the entire ship high!

"coming soon!"

Caesar's heart was pounding.

He doesn't worry about dying.

But this thing is like riding a pirate ship for the first time, I just can't stop feeling excited.

In silence, the bulge grew higher and higher until it lifted the ship to a height of more than 100 meters, and then it seemed to have reached a threshold and suddenly froze for a moment.

Then, there was a loud bang!
The sky-high ocean current exploded!

A column of azure water shot up into the sky, rising into the clouds like a dragon. In the blink of an eye, it reached a height of ten thousand meters, connecting the sea and the sky with a route to the sky!
The ship was thrown high up by the violent impact, and pushed by the rapidly rising air current, and it was sailing towards the sky on the surging ocean current!

“I actually…got on board!”

Deuce stood on the cabin wall, staring blankly at the incredible miracle before him. His heart was so agitated that his legs gave way and he fell to the ground.

Click, click, click!

Caesar held up his camera and frantically took pictures of the surrounding scene.

Just for this scene, selling Morgans a photo for one million baileys is not too much, right?
Looking around, except for one person who smiled calmly, everyone else had their mouths wide open and expressions of shock, even the cold-faced man Luo.

Even when he smiled, he looked a little excited.

After all, using one's ability to fly to the sky island and relying on navigation skills to sail to the sky island are completely different levels of difficulty.

Using the ability to fly up, that's the power of the fruit.

Flying up there by relying on navigation skills is a pure miracle!
"Hey, the boat is tilting!"

As the ship rose in altitude, Barto, who was most sensitive to balance, suddenly shouted.

"Lower the sails!"

Nami held Caesar's arm and spoke calmly.

"This is the sea. Not just any water column, but a sky-high current! And the wind blowing from below is the updraft generated by the seabed's geothermal heat and steam explosions. As long as the targets are the wind and the sea, I can find a way to sail!"

Nami's eyes were burning: "Now, lower the sail!"

wow——

The sails fell in response, and everyone lowered the sails without any hesitation.

As expected, as if to confirm Nami's words, as the ship slowly broke away from the strong current, under the influence of the rising air flow below, the ship suddenly flew towards the clouds above the sky at a speed faster than before.

"Long live!!!"

"Take off!"

"Long live Nami! Haha!"

Seeing this, cheers suddenly broke out on the deck.

"As expected of the captain's beloved navigator."

Robin smiled and Nami's pretty face turned slightly red. This was the first time she confirmed her value as a navigator. She felt excited and satisfied for a moment.

But now is obviously not the time to get excited, because the ocean current does not rush upward in a straight line, but actually rises in a spiral inside.

"The wind is blowing on the port side, turn the rudder right and adjust the boat to match the current!"

Upon hearing this, Big Bear silently turned the rudder to the right.

The wind was howling, and the ship seemed to have turned into a flying bird, rushing into the dense clouds amid the cheers of the crowd!

The moment the ship rushed into the clouds, everyone felt suffocated, and then it seemed as if a barrier had been broken through. In the wet and white clouds, their vision suddenly became dark.

Caesar took a deep breath and instantly adapted to the oxygen-deficient environment at high altitude. Then he stood up and looked around.

What you see is a vast sea of ​​clouds!

(End of this chapter)