Reincarnated into the world of One Piece, in a land of giants with open eyes?!

Chapter 137: Has the Demon Escaped?

When Oro opened his eyes, Thomas was with his back to the hospital bed, tidying up the medical supplies that might be needed.

She heard the sound of fabric rubbing behind her, turned around, and saw that Oro had already sat up.

"Auro! You're awake!"

Thomas, beaming with delight, dropped what he was holding and rushed to the bedside.

Oro looked somewhat bewildered. He glanced at Toma, then at his surroundings, and it took him a few seconds to realize where he was.

"The Yoda Perfume Ship?"

His voice was a little hoarse, simply because he hadn't had water in a long time.

"right."

Thomas poured him a glass of water and handed it to him: "As planned, we left the waters of God's Valley as soon as possible."

Oro took the glass of water and drank it all in one gulp. His chapped lips were moistened, and the stinging sensation in his throat was relieved.

"How long was I unconscious?"

"About twenty hours."

Thomas said, "Osa and Shakky are busy, I'll go get them."

"etc."

Oro called out to her, "Tell me what happened first."

Thomas briefly recounted what had happened since they surfaced from the submarine, focusing on the information Oro had uttered before losing consciousness, and how they had copied and preserved it.

"The things you said before you lost consciousness—"

Thomas took out his notebook: "We've written everything down. Do you want to look at it now?"

"Hmm, let me take a look first."

Oro sat back on the edge of the bed, took the notebook, and flipped through it page by page, reading very slowly. Sometimes he would stop and stare at a particular line of text for a long time.

Thomas sat quietly to one side.

The cries of seagulls could be heard outside the medical room window. The Yoda Perfume was sailing at full speed, its hull rocking slightly.

"Mostly correct."

Auro finished reading the last page and closed the notebook: "But I should have said something else."

"You only said that much before you fainted."

After thinking it over carefully once more, Thomas said, "After that, you kept talking in your sleep, but it was all fragmented and didn't form sentences."

Oro closed his eyes and pressed his fingers to his temples.

His mind is in a mess right now.

Reading information from Lox's golden brain is not like turning the pages of a book, but rather like being thrown into a storm full of fragments of memories.

Those messages came from eight hundred years ago, from that demon, from Im, from Davy Jones —

They were mixed together, without order or logic, just endless images and sounds.

Auro pieced these fragments together bit by bit, a painful process.

Some fragments carry intense emotions: Im's ecstatic joy at gaining power for the first time, Davy Jones's resolute determination when pierced by a tentacle, the allure of a demon's whisper—

Facing these intense emotions head-on, one can easily lose one's way if one is not careful.

Oro was able to wake up unharmed thanks to pure gold.

Pure gold can distort time, stabilize body cells, and also stabilize consciousness to some extent.

Even so, Oro's mind still felt like he had just finished a battle.

"I remember now."

Oro opened his eyes: "I should have also said that Im can convert energy into his own after absorbing it, but you guys didn't remember that."

Thomas honestly shook his head: "You fainted as soon as you mentioned the number of souls."

Oro nodded, picked up his pen, added the sentence to the last page of his notebook, drew a line below it, and began writing something new.

Thomas watched him write.

Oro's handwriting was very neat. After he finished writing, he handed the notebook to Thomas: "Add these in. Encrypt both the original and the copy. No one can obtain information about the relevant events without my permission."

"clear."

"I was really scared to death at the time. Xia Qi isolated the compartment, and I was the only one left in the entire control room."

In the mansion aboard the Yoda Perfume, Osa was sitting on the sofa in the living room with Toma in her arms, leaning on Oro's shoulder and muttering to herself, "During those few hours at the floating trading port, I really thought of every possible scenario for you guys!"

"Because of the system malfunction and I couldn't contact you, I was so worried about you in the cabin where it was over 30 degrees Celsius that I was shaking with anxiety!"

Thomas, who was being held, gently patted Osa's hand to comfort her.

Xia Qi, sitting to the side, rolled her eyes: "Alright, you've been talking about this from the moment you left the cabin until you boarded the ship."

"We're about to leave the Valley of the Gods' waters, and you're still going on and on. I think you just want to take this opportunity to steal Tomma's place!"

Oro was writing a long plan on the coffee table. He turned to look at Osa and smiled gently, "Thank you for your hard work."

"Hmph!" Osa turned her face away, but the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.

Xia Qi rolled her eyes again, too lazy to pay attention to that arrogant woman anymore, and looked at Auro: "Auro—do you really think that information is reliable?"

Oro thought for a moment: "I dug it out of Lox's brain."

"Theoretically, it's firsthand information, but it's not 100% accurate; it's uncertain."

"So, it's possible that it was adulterated with counterfeit goods?"

"Possibly."

Oro nodded: "But even counterfeit goods have analytical value. Counterfeits are used to cover up the truth, and the general outline of the truth can be deduced from counterfeits."

Xia Qi shrugged, indicating that she understood.

Osa held Thomas, resting her chin on Thomas's head, and looked at Oro: "Are you really alright?"

Oro also looked at Osha and replied softly, "So far, there are no signs of contamination, but just in case, I'll still need to find Asir when we get back and use his alchemical methods to check it again."

Osa gave a soft "hmm".

What she was really concerned about wasn't Im's information, but Oro's safety.

Osa felt the journey to the abyss was dangerous just from listening to Oro's sleep-talking.

Living cities, demons, contracts—just putting these words together is scary enough.

Thankfully, the man is alright.

Shakky stared intently at Oro, as if trying to see through him. After a moment's hesitation, she finally asked, "Is it true that the news from the God Valley informant that Rocks has appeared in town? Could it be that the demon has really escaped?"

Upon hearing this, Oro stopped writing.

He stared at the paper in front of him, which was covered with densely written small characters, and pondered for a long time before tapping his fingers on the paper.

Finally, he slowly nodded: "The most likely explanation is that the demon possessed Lox and escaped using Lox's body."

Auro's voice was calm: "My goldification is based on the principle of using the stability and inertia of pure gold to forcibly lock the physical state of the target."

There are only two ways to break it: one is for me to take control, and the other is to forcibly break it with power that exceeds my limits.

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"I don't believe Rocks has the ability to dispel it on his own, so—it can only be that demon who did it."

Xia Qi frowned: "That demon has such great power? Why didn't you just attack him when you were in the city?"

"There are limitations."

Oro held nothing back from them: "I tested it out in the city, and that demon has many limitations."

"It cannot attack people directly, or at least it cannot attack them easily."

"It requires using temptation, guidance, and deception to get the target to voluntarily complete certain steps."

Auro looked out the window; the sea met the sky in the distance, a dazzling blue. "The little favor that pretentious demon mentioned must have meant that it needed a body that could move freely to leave R'lyeh."

The hall was quiet for a while.

Thomas, held in Osa's arms, whispered, "Shouldn't we just leave it at that?"

Oro turned to look at the youngest and quietest girl in the Kuja Pirates: "I've already sent people to pick up Rocks' father and grandmother. As for Rocks—"

"At least he is still under my surveillance. He has not shown any extraordinary power, nor has he shown any signs of leaving the Valley of the Gods."

"We know too little about that mysterious demon at this stage; we can only react to its moves as they come."