One Piece: The Salted Fish Fruit

The chains in Mabi's hands made a series of muffled whooshing sounds as she swung them. The supple chains were controlled by Mabi to spin and fly in the air like swimming dragons, without affecting each other.

"Go away!"

With a swing of his arm, the wrist-thick iron chain instantly plunged into the water and tightened, like a straight line pointing directly at the object in the lake that was being perceived by his Observation Haki.

With the arm pulled back again, a body that had only been driven was pulled back onto the deck by Mabi, who had tied it to the other end of the chain.

Taking advantage of the moment when the opponent was weakened by the seawater, Mabi directly used the flying iron chains to wrap around him layer by layer to form a metal ball. She couldn't let him cause trouble in the time to come.

"Instantaneous movement!" Mabi placed the iron ball safely on the deck, and instantly disappeared from the deck, reappearing above the fire island, looking down at the gradually expanding purplish-black slime.

As expected, the group inside the closed research facility attracted the attention of the guards, who, guided by the monitoring room, began to close in and capture Luffy and his crew.

Alas! They really did cause chaos.

We can't afford to fall behind!

With a clenched fist, silvery-white spatial energy formed directly on the surface of her palm. She stomped her feet and lunged forward. Silvery-white spatial rifts pierced into her opponent's body as Mabi swung her fist.

Click! Click!

A silvery-white spatial rift suddenly erupted at a fixed point on Shrek's body. The soft, sticky surface shattered under the sharp spatial rift, turning into soft, limp objects. The remaining spatial rifts continued their momentum, crashing into the dry, cracked soil below, before being compressed and dissipated by the spatial forces.

Before she could stop, Mabi once again swung her silver-white fists, striking the space around her.

"Salted Fish! Vibration!"

Click! Click!

The space that had just been repaired shattered again by Mabi's double blows, and countless spatial cracks spread throughout the entire world.

The earth beneath their feet groaned painfully, and deep cracks, each ten feet wide, formed on the island's surface. Countless dilapidated buildings on the island instantly shattered and fell into the broken earth. The heavy impact directly stimulated the volcano, which was still in its eruptive stage, and scorching lava spewed from the cracks, covering the rolling slime.

Chapter 245 Caesar's Collapse and Madness!

"Ah! What on earth is going on? I was just bending down to repair some equipment!" The staff member standing halfway up the Icelandic mountain felt the iceberg shaking. He stepped over a block of ice in front of him and looked over, only to find that what he saw was a completely apocalyptic world.

Looking from afar, the once fiery island, which was burning fiercely, has now collapsed and broken into ravines. Lava and seawater churn and collide in the ravines, giving rise to plumes of white water vapor that mix with purplish-black mist and rise into the sky.

"This is terrifying! This is terrifying! What happened? Why did Fire Island disappear? That was an island that even two generals couldn't destroy two years ago."

"Will Iceland also crumble like Fire Island?" The companion who appeared behind him was also stunned, his eyes vacant as he muttered to himself.

Upon hearing his companion's emotionless words, the other immediately snapped out of his daze and hurriedly rummaged through his pocket for a Den Den Mushi to make the call.

"With something this terrible happening, I wonder when Iceland will disappear too!"

Master! Master!

We must inform our master; only our master can save us.

"Brubrubru! Brubrubru!" The urgent growl of the Den Den Mushi rang out in the cluttered research room.

Holding a Den Den Mushi, Caesar, who was directing operations inside the research facility, monitored all the screens, his body covered in swirling gas. His excited eyes were fixed on the thick tube held by Hachi, from which blue-white plasma shot out, blasting huge openings in the hard wall to allow everyone to pass through.

The incessantly ringing Den Den Mushi immediately angered Caesar, who was watching the spectacle unfold.

"Monet, you take this call first. I need to punish these troublemakers properly. After dealing with the Straw Hat Pirates, I'll use every single one of these pirates who dares to make a phone call at this hour as test subjects."

"Laser cannons! Where did these bastards get so many Vegapunk laser cannons? I'm going to dismantle their energy systems! Such powerful weapons should only truly shine in the hands of a genius like me!"

"Ok."

Monet, with his wings, put down the bounty poster in his hand and said gently, then stood up and picked up the Den Den Mushi that was ringing incessantly but looked terrified.

"Hello! Is this Master? Is this Master? Save us! It's terrifying, so terrifying! The entire Fire Island has been shattered and disappeared by an unknown force. Ice Island is about to be hit too! Master, please take a look and save us!" Upon seeing someone answer the phone, the other party urgently poured out everything, waiting for his master to come to the rescue.

"Okay, I understand," Monet replied gently, hanging up the phone without waiting for the other person's reaction, and then checking the situation outside the island on another monitor.

The apocalyptic scene suddenly appeared on the monitor, causing Monet's pupils to contract and her face to tighten. A chilling aura gradually emanated from her body, and a thin layer of white frost formed on her skin. She moved and appeared in front of Caesar, forcibly pulling him to watch the video being filmed outdoors.

"Caesar, come and take a look. The tremor just now wasn't caused by an explosion inside the research institute. It was caused by the collapse of the outer island. Your pet slime was also killed by the enemy and burned away by the lava."

Caesar reluctantly released the video recording of Luffy and the others' actions, then turned to the video Monet had retrieved. The apocalyptic scene immediately made his mouth widen and his eyes bulge.

"A completely shattered Fire Island! Who did this?! This is a slime I've raised for four years!"

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"Hahaha! Great! Fire Dragon King, let's charge!" Luffy stood on the dragon's head and laughed heartily.

He dodged the incoming musket shells from time to time, and commanded the fire dragon king beneath his feet to spew fire and rampage through the enemy.

"Huff! Where exactly is this place? Why were there prisoners frozen in ice when we first came in? And why do they have surgical scars on their bodies, making everyone look so terrified before they died?" Chopper pondered, resting his head on Robin's head.

From the moment I entered, I felt a chilling and terrifying atmosphere. The frozen prisoners and the shells filled with various poisonous gases were options that the World Government had completely prohibited.

The air was filled with the same scent as the island where he had first set sail. Thinking of this, Chopper took a deep breath. He had encountered another madman who had undergone human modification!

Rumble!

Luffy's Fire Dragon King crashed into another wall, and a blinding light shot into everyone's eyes.

One by one, the children, their faces filled with fear yet possessing enormous bodies, stared in terror at the dragon head bursting through the wall, desperately huddling in a corner seeking comfort.

"Stop! Luffy, tell the fire dragon to stop! It can't hurt the children!" Nami shouted as she saw the children through the broken hole.

"Fire Dragon King, stop!" Luffy punched the Fire Dragon King on the head, stopping its movement.

The people on the dragon's back jumped down one by one, and were immediately filled with doubt as they looked at the warm hall and the shivering children.

"Children! They are all children of giants. Why would giant children appear on an island that has already been destroyed?"

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“Vice Admiral Smoker, that’s an ability that appeared in Marineford before, a power capable of shattering an entire island in one blow. Why is he here?” Tashigi stood on the icy coast, looking at the fire island that had once been a single entity, and said with lingering fear.

"Hoo hoo!" Smoker took two deep drags on his cigar, drawing upon that familiar memory.

"He's the first mate of the Straw Hat Pirates; he appeared during the Marineford War."

Since it was his power that was displayed, the Straw Hat Pirates must have already landed on this island.

“It’s him, that pervert who dressed as a woman in Loguetown before,” Tashigi exclaimed in surprise.

“Yes! A terrifyingly powerful figure rumored to be even stronger than Whitebeard among the Navy's high command, who willingly submits to the Straw Hat Pirates.” Smoker nodded.

"That's terrifying. Could it be that he was also attacked by the local inhabitants and, in a fit of rage, destroyed half the island?"

"It's possible. There used to be a lot of reports of pirates disappearing after entering this place. If it really is him, it makes sense. There must be an enemy here who enjoys capturing pirates."

Crunch!

Just as the two were talking, two figures walked out from the opened door.

"Maureen the Water Witch, Trafalgar Law the Death Doctor, what are you doing here?"

“Is that not allowed? This is our villa.” Trafalgar Law, leaning against the doorframe, replied coldly.

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"Damn it! Damn it! My pet that I raised with so much care!" Seeing the slime he had nurtured turn into a cloud of poison once again caused Caesar immense heartache, and he flew into a rage.

"Bastards! Bastards! Since you have destroyed all my hard work over the years, I will never let you go. I will fill the entire island with the poison gas 'Death Kingdom', and no matter how powerful you are, you will not be able to escape the punishment of the poison gas! Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Finding the idea of ​​revenge, Caesar laughed madly.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh! Whoosh whoosh whoosh! I'm going to start a live stream and let the whole world know the consequences of going against this genius. Straw Hat Pirates, you will all rot and die in this new type of poison gas!"

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

Chapter 246 Saving the Giant Child

"Salted Fish Barrier!"

Mabi stood atop the mast, gazing at the poisonous clouds floating in the sky. Snake reached out and created a spatial barrier, forming a dome that enveloped the Sunshine, preventing the poisonous clouds from damaging it.

Using his Observation Haki, the research institute built against the mountain immediately appeared in his mind. As he used his Observation Haki to detect Luffy and the others' body lines, they were like the bright moon in the night sky, and he easily found their location.

Dozens of bodies of varying sizes were intertwined and stacked among them, presumably the group of genetically altered children who had encountered them. Given Robin and the others' maternal instincts, they would surely rescue these trafficked children.

Luo and Maureen happen to be on the island near the other gate; we can pick them up on the way.

As for Caesar's little tricks using Observation Haki, they have nothing to do with me. If things get out of hand, I'll just kill him.

This is a good opportunity to have my companions bring the children over for treatment. The Sunshine is no longer threatened by the giant slime's continuous attacks, and the spatial barrier is enough to block the poison cloud's attack, so it doesn't matter if I'm not there.

Without hesitation, Mabi bent her legs and leaped from the top of the mast, easily landing on the deck. With a powerful push, she darted into the warehouse where the space door was installed, opened the door, and stepped into the territory of the other dimension.

"Hey, little squid, guard the gate well." As soon as Mabi entered the space gate, she saw the little squid that had climbed out of the water tank and was playing with the golden statue standing on the side, smiling and greeting her.

"Hahahaha!"

Upon hearing Mabi's voice, the other person immediately acted like a cat that had stolen some fish, its tentacles twitching nervously as it rubbed its little head shyly.

"It's nothing, go play. You're probably bored by yourself," Mabi said with a smile, before disappearing.

Seeing Maggie disappear, the little squid was not surprised. With permission, it waved its thick squid tentacles again, fiddling with the giant golden straw hat pirate statue, and happily spinning around in place using the bearings on the base.

"Little Green, open the door," Mabi, who had disappeared, reappeared on the vines near Little Green's core head and gave the order.

Having been trained by the old man and possessing the intelligence of a teenager, it is no longer the giant hedgehog that could only wave its vines everywhere. Having reduced most of its limbs to only eighteen vine tentacles for daily use, its concentrated physical strength makes its limbs as hard as steel yet retaining the flexibility of vines. Coupled with its Devil Fruit power that can open doors on any object, even Luffy, without the protection of Haki, would be torn into pieces and destroyed one by one.

"Crack!" Two vines collided and then joined together to indicate that they knew each other. A vine extended and formed a circle around the projection of everyone. The fruit's ability was activated, and the vine pulled open a door connecting the two spaces.

After the portal opened, Maggie's head popped out of the space, and she smiled as she looked at her companions who were busy comforting a group of children:

"Hello everyone, have you found the rescuer you're looking for?"

"Found it, it was this damn samurai who did it. The distress call was sent by those monsters that captured us." Sanji replied, kicking half a body and a head next to him. His legs stomped through the air, sending out coal spears that hit the humanoid monsters with animal-like lower limbs in the distance. The powerful force then pinned them to the wall behind them.

"Mabi, you're here! I was just calling you to ask you to tell Midori to open the portal." Franky looked at Mabi's appearance with surprise, holding up the Den Den Mushi in his hand, and casually put the Den Den Mushi into his pocket.

“Yes, come check on us once the Sunshine is safe,” Maggie nodded.

"Mabi, who are these bastards? They started attacking us the moment we appeared on the snowy mountain, and they have the same equipment as those who ambushed us on the shore before," Usopp replied, launching a seed that used the plant's expansion speed to knock back the enemy.

“A madman who wants to conduct physical experiments, we are his material, we must capture us!” Maby replied.

I'm selectively revealing some things, since I'll find out about them later anyway.

"Human experimentation?" The group exchanged glances, all recalling that disease-ridden island from back then, which was also inhabited by a medical madman.