Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

Olga's lips twitched involuntarily upon hearing this, as if Reina had pulled her back to a painful memory.

"Let's not bring up the past anymore!" Olga said, shivering involuntarily.

Seeing this, Reina chuckled and said, "Alright, we're almost at our destination. Once we get the treasure, we can go back! You two will get a good share of the treasure when you get back. Remember to give Dr. Assie a gift then!"

Olga and Perona seemed excited at the thought of getting a share of the treasure when they returned, and the two of them began to plot in front of Reina.

"We'll have funds when we get back this time. We must update all the mechanisms in the Terror Forest. Dr. Vegapunk has a lot of good stuff. He's short of funds right now, so we'll try to get some from him! The ability balls from this experiment were very useful! Once we get them, we'll ask the captains to stock up on as many as possible!" Olga said to Perona while imagining what she would do when she got back.

"I want to buy some new clothes and dolls! All my dolls are old and not cute at all!" Perona was a little unhappy with her clothes. She hadn't updated them in a long time, and she also had very few dolls at home, so she needed to get some more.

"Can you two keep your voices down? I heard you!" Reina said helplessly.

“So what if I heard it? We didn’t do anything shameful, and we even used our own Berries! Perona, you agree, right?” Olga said proudly.

“That’s right!” Perona nodded repeatedly, her little head bobbing like a chick pecking at rice.

Chapter 1173 Ancient Ruins

"arrive!"

Reina located the target island following the system's instructions.

"Ah~ this... can this be considered an island?" Perona stared at the island in front of her, completely dumbfounded.

What lay before them was less of a small island and more of an archipelago.

A dozen or so small islands were scattered randomly in front of them.

"Are you sure this is the place? But no matter how you look at it, this doesn't seem like a place with treasure!" Olga said with a puzzled expression.

Because those islands, the smaller ones are probably no bigger than a boat, and the larger ones can be seen from one end to the other.

It doesn't look like a place with treasure at all.

Reina was also a little unsure, but the system wouldn't make a mistake; this must be the location marked on the treasure map, it's just that so many small islands were within the marked area.

Looking at the treasure map in his hand, he couldn't find any connection between the treasure on the map and the islands in front of him.

"How about... we look for it first?" Reina said, looking at the two of them.

"Perona, let your ghost go find it first! Is there any marker marking the location of the treasure?" Olga said somewhat reluctantly.

“Mark…” Reina looked at the treasure map in his hand and said, “According to the records on it, the location of the treasure is a mountain peak that looks like a gourd!”

"Mountains?" Olga rolled her eyes and said, "Are you kidding me? Where do you think there are mountains around here?"

Reina was also somewhat embarrassed, because none of the islands combined had mountains.

"So what do we do now?" Perona asked blankly.

"Well... let's look around first and see if we can find anything!" Reina had no other choice but to say this.

But after circling the hard shell all around, they still found nothing.

"Did we come to the wrong place?" Olga asked with some doubt.

Reina shook his head and said, "No, the location is definitely here, but I don't know what went wrong!"

"So what do we do now? Are you going to blow up all these small islands?" Olga asked, looking at the small islands.

“Perhaps…we can give it a try!?” Reina hesitated.

"Bomb the island? I like that!" Perona said with a grin.

Her abilities are perfectly suited for this task.

Because of all these years of training, her negative ghost can now not only bring negative influences to others, but also self-destruct!

Although the explosion was not very powerful, being caught in the blast wave could still have negative effects.

At Reina and Olga's signal, Perona directed a group of negative ghosts to fly toward a very small island.

"Boom!"

A violent explosion rang out, and Perona detonated all the negative phantoms.

When the smoke cleared, the small island with the single tree that had been there had vanished from their sight.

"It's gone just like that?" Olga asked, her eyes wide with surprise.

She knew the power of Perona's self-destructing ghost; logically, it shouldn't be able to directly destroy a small island, but the island had indeed disappeared from their sight.

"I reckon he only blew up the part of the island above sea level!" Reina guessed.

To verify his hypothesis, Reina activated the underwater mode of the hard shell, and the back of the hard shell was immediately wrapped in a layer of bubble membrane.

But once they descended, they were immediately stunned by what they saw.

"So that's how it is!" After Reina saw it clearly, he immediately understood what had happened.

"This isn't an archipelago, it's just a small island!" Olga exclaimed in surprise.

It turns out that the small islands they saw on the surface of the sea were just the peaks of the real island, while the island hidden in the seabed was actually below the sea level.

"It seems this treasure is no ordinary find!" Upon seeing this situation, Reina knew that this treasure was not ordinary gold, and the fact that the other party could find such a place to store the treasure was definitely not simple.

"There are still islands like this? What caused this island to be submerged by the sea?" Olga asked curiously as she looked around.

“It seems so. I think I saw traces of human activity in some places below!” Perona nodded and said.

"We'll know once we go down and take a look!" Seeing this, Reina immediately ordered Hard Shell to continue descending, reaching the location of the small island.

"I wonder if the treasure was hidden before or after the island sank!" Olga said with some anticipation. "But whoever found a place like this must be quite powerful!"

Reina remained silent, instead carefully observing the small island before him.

This small island underwater reminded him of the days he explored with Olvia. It was because of a treasure map that he went to Ohara, found Dr. Clover, and borrowed Olvia.

It was also the beginning of their relationship.

"I found it! Look, a mountain peak shaped like a gourd!" Perona suddenly shouted excitedly after the meeting.

Reina looked up and saw a tall mountain peak stretching from the small island all the way to the sea not far in front of them. From their angle, the mountain peak really did look like a gourd.

After finding the target, Reina immediately sent the hard shell closer.

But as they got closer, Reina immediately spotted a building at the foot of the mountain.

"This is... ancient writing?" Reina was surprised to find that there were ancient characters on the building in front of him, and the building looked like some kind of sacrificial building.

"We're rich...we're rich!" Olga's eyes widened; all signs indicated that the treasure they had discovered was something extraordinary.

However, Reina frowned slightly. Perhaps influenced by Olvia and Robin, he did not want to damage such ancient buildings, and he couldn't understand the ancient writing on them at all.

He had only learned a little bit of ancient writing from Olvia. He could understand the simple ones, but he couldn't understand the complex ones at all.

“Oh, right, Robin!” Olga immediately suggested, seeing this, “Why don’t we contact Robin? Doesn’t she know ancient writing? Back then, Olvia…”

Olga stopped abruptly before she could finish speaking, realizing she had seemingly mentioned a name she shouldn't.

"Olvia? Who is that?" Perona asked curiously when she saw Olga's appearance.

Olga didn't answer, but frantically winked at Perona, signaling her to stop asking.

Chapter 1174 Reinforcements Arrive

“Olvia…is my wife!” Reina said softly in response to Perona’s question.

Upon hearing Reina's words, Perona was first taken aback, then her expression changed drastically. She finally understood why Olga had given her that meaningful look.

However, Reina wasn't as angry as they expected. Instead, he looked up at the sea and said, "Let's go up first! Without professional equipment, we can't do anything, whether it's excavating the ancient ruins or digging for treasure!"

The two didn't say much, but simply nodded in agreement with Reina's point of view.

Since they had no experience working underwater, they could only follow Reina's orders.

After surfacing, Reina took out a Den Den Mushi (snail phone) and first contacted Frank to tell him about the situation. Then he asked Frank to send people with equipment to prepare for underwater excavation work.

After some further thought, he ultimately decided to inform Robin.

Robin became immediately interested when she heard that there was an underwater island near the Calm Belt with ancient writing on it.

After getting the coordinates from Reina, Robin decided to go alone.

But after hearing about this, Luffy changed his mind, because he wanted to come too.

They are currently in a truce with the extraterrestrials, and Luffy, whose injuries have almost fully healed, can't stay idle. He happened to find out that Robin was going out, so he insisted on going along.

So Robin, who originally planned to come alone, had no choice but to bring Luffy and the ship's doctor Chopper along.

Because Luffy's body hasn't fully recovered, and Robin's Sharingan had previously caused problems, they brought Chopper along.

Reina, Olga, and Perona waited in the same spot for two days before the people sent by Frank and Robin and others arrived.

"Why did Frank send you here?" Upon seeing the person who had come, Reina immediately stepped forward to greet him.

It turns out that the people leading the team this time were Bai Xing and Naga, who had been staying on Xuan Yue Island.

“We can’t be of much help on the front lines, but underwater operations are our forte!” Naga said with a smile.

"It's just a treasure trove, why bother you making the trip?" Reina said politely as he greeted them.

Also arriving with them were Luffy, the Straw Hat crew's captain, Chopper, the ship's doctor, and Robin.

"How did you two end up coming together? Did you meet on the way?" Reina gave Robin a hug and asked.

"Yes, we just ran into each other too!" Robin nodded in reply.

Shirahoshi and Luffy are very close, and they are chatting and laughing together.

Reina took out a map, a rough map of the underwater islands he had drawn over the past two days.

“Our target is here. This is a building that looks a bit like their sacrificial altar. There are a lot of ancient characters on it. Robin, come down with me first to see what it says. Then we’ll ask our merfolk friends to dismantle the important structures. Finally, we’ll dig for the treasure!” Reina said, pointing to the map as he explained his plan.

"Okay!" Everyone nodded, indicating that they had no objections.

Soon, accompanied by the fish-men, Reina and Robin arrived at the ruins they had discovered earlier.

"This is..." Upon seeing the ancient characters on the wall, Robin excitedly stepped forward to examine them.

Not long after Robin finished reading all the text, she spoke up: "This place used to be a country, and they were subordinate to the Great Kingdom! Later, the Great Kingdom was defeated, and they were also implicated. In order to escape the World Government's pursuit, they severed the foundation of the island, causing the entire island to sink directly into the sea!"

"Then how do their subjects survive? Are they fish-men?" Reina asked in surprise.