Chapter 17 Double Red Combination

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2 days later

East China Sea

Near the entrance to Upside-Down Mountain in the Red Earth Continent.

As the news of Roger's impending execution in Rogue Town spread, people of all kinds from all over the world began to gather in the East China Sea.

Most people can only choose to travel by land, cross the Diandao Mountain and then take a boat to Roge Town in Donghai. At this time, a natural harbor near the Diandao Mountain has gathered many tourists who come to Donghai for sightseeing.

Many businessmen keenly sensed the business opportunities and prepared their ships early on and started selling tickets directly to Rogue Town.

With so many people staying here, they all need to solve the problems of food, drink, defecation, urination and shelter. It is profitable, so naturally there are people willing to transport various supplies to help solve the problems. Therefore, in just over half a month, a lively small market has spontaneously formed at the harbor.

Two young men were walking side by side on the road, the one on the left had a handsome face and a straw hat on his head, but it still couldn't cover his bright red hair. The one on the right couldn't be said to be ugly, but he had a talent for comedy, especially his big, round red nose, which allowed him to play a clown without any makeup.

The two walked around the market and only bought two rice balls because they had no money left after buying the boat tickets.

Red Nose threw the dumpling into his mouth, chewed it twice and swallowed it. He touched his still rumbling stomach and said angrily:

"Damn it, I can't even get full. When I get rich, I'm going to eat one and throw one away!"

"It's good to have something to eat, Bucky, let's go, it's almost time to board the ship."

The red-haired girl at the side said while eating her own rice ball.

"understood."

As they spoke, the two of them walked towards the port.

Under normal circumstances, whenever the two of them were together they would inevitably quarrel and argue from time to time, but recently they had both been in a very depressed mood and had no interest in quarreling.

port

A merchant ship flying the flag of a world member country in the East China Sea is about to set off.

The radio was playing repeatedly:

"Passengers on board the Haiyang 666 passenger ship, please board as soon as possible, the ship is about to depart!"

"Hey, stupid Shanks, hurry up and get on the boat."

Bucky urged.

"I'm coming."

Shanks held down the straw hat on his head with his right hand and jumped onto the deck with a running start. His movements were very handsome.

The ship slowly sailed away from the port.

The two men stood at the bow, staring at the sea in a daze, not playing around as usual.

"Hey! You little red-haired kid over there, do you have a ticket? Take it out and let me see it!"

A rough voice came.

I saw a ticket inspector coming over and asking.

The man who came was a tall and mighty middle-aged man. The sea was very turbulent, so even if they were not pirates, those who could make a living on the sea were all strong and brave people.

"Yes, yes, wait a moment."

Shanks said this and put his hand in his trouser pocket to take out the ticket, but his expression suddenly became panicked.

"Huh? Where's the ticket? Where's my ticket?"

Shanks searched all his pockets but couldn't find the ticket. He looked helpless, thinking that he might have lost the ticket while running and jumping just now.

The ticket inspector understood and waved his hand:

"Okay, stop pretending. I didn't expect that you, who look so handsome, are so naughty at such a young age and even want to evade the ticket. Do you want to pay for the ticket or be thrown off the boat? Choose one for yourself!"

Shanks didn't want to cause trouble, but they were really out of money. He was confident that he could knock the man out with his own strength, but the man was just doing his job and was very reasonable. He was not a bad person, so he really couldn't do it.

Just when Shanks was at a loss, he suddenly felt someone poking him on the butt. He turned around but saw no one. Buggy was still standing beside him with his back to him, as if he didn't know him at all.

Shanks looked down and saw a hand on his butt with a boat ticket in the palm.

Shanks understood immediately and was deeply moved!

A friend in need is a friend indeed! Bucky! You are truly my lifelong brother!

"Found it, found it, I'm so sorry!"

Shanks took the ticket and handed it to the ticket inspector, smiling.

The ticket inspector was confused, but after taking the ticket and carefully checking it to make sure there was no problem, he did not investigate further. He tore off a corner of the ticket and returned it.

Just when Shanks and Buggy thought they had successfully gotten away with it and were about to breathe a sigh of relief, they heard the ticket inspector's rough voice again.

"Well, the guy inside, could you please show me your ticket too?"

Buggy, who was still pretending to be obsessed with watching the sea, suddenly realized something. He had already cursed Shanks a hundred times in his heart. Sure enough, he would always be cheated by this guy when he was with him! I must stay away from him in the future!

Buggy turned his head and pretended to be stupid with a stiff smile on his face:

"Are you calling me? What's going on?"

"Yes! I'm talking about you. Please show me your ticket!"

"Oh? What? Food? Are there any meals on the ship? That's great! Thank you for reminding me, I'll go to the cafeteria to eat now."

As Buggy was about to slip away, he was stopped by the ticket inspector. The 2-meter-tall burly man impatiently grabbed Buggy's ear and shouted:

"It's not a meal! It's a boat ticket! Boat ticket!!"

Bucky's eardrum was almost broken, and if he continued to pretend to be deaf, he might really be deafened.

"Oh, oh, oh! You don't have to be so loud. I heard you clearly. You said the boat ticket, right? What's wrong with the boat ticket?"

The ticket inspector was almost furious. He grabbed Buggy by the scruff of the neck and was about to throw him into the sea. Seeing this, Shanks hurried forward to save his good brother.

At this moment, the ship began to become noisy and a crowd quickly gathered on the stern deck. The ticket inspector stopped what he was doing, let go of Bucky, and hurriedly turned around to see what was going on.

"Asshole Shanks! You almost got me hurt!"

Buggy grabbed Shanks' neck and yelled.

Shanks said with a dead pig fearless look:

"Alright, alright, isn't everything alright? Stop being angry, let's go over and see what's going on!"

As they spoke, the two of them squeezed into the crowd.

"Hey, look over there!"

"It's a boat! There's a boat coming down from Upside Down Mountain!"

"Is it true? Let me see!"

"Stop pushing! Let me see too!"

"Wouldn't that current have carried us straight to the top of the mountain? How could a boat have come down from the top?"

The passengers on the ship all liked to watch the excitement, so they came all the way to the East China Sea to watch the execution. When they heard the noise, they all ran to the deck to watch the excitement.

Thanks to their short stature and rich experience, Buggy and Shanks managed to squeeze to the front, and saw a large ship going upstream, ignoring the turbulent current that was turning the mountain upside down.

"Hey, hey! Look, is there someone pulling the boat ahead?"

"Hey! Are you kidding me? Is this something a human can really do?"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

“Just swimming in this current is unbelievable, and to be able to pull a big ship through it!”

When the distance got closer, they could clearly see that there was a person pulling the boat in front. The person who had been shouting "impossible" just now had a swollen face. The scene in front of them shocked the onlookers so much that they didn't know how to describe it in words.

"A monster! Who is that guy? Why does he look more like a monster than Barrett? Could it be Kaido?"

Bucky was so shocked that his tongue was tied and he could barely speak.

"Idiot, Kaido is a fruit user, how can he swim in the sea?"

Shanks retorted to Buggy at the right time and stopped talking. He held the fence tightly with his hands and had a serious expression on his face.

It seems that I need to work harder. The sea has never lacked strong people.

"Hey, hey! Stop looking and leave! Stay away from them. If they come with bad intentions, all of us on the boat will have to feed the fish in the sea! Do you still dare to stand there and watch the fun? Don't you want to die?"

The older captain was still able to remain rational. He anxiously called back the crew members who had run to watch the excitement. When everyone heard the captain's concerns, they all came to their senses and quickly performed their duties to operate the boat and leave.

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"Hahaha! It's finally here. I almost thought I'd have to wait eighteen years before I could be a good man again!"

Finally getting out of the range of the rising current, the ship finally reached the calm surface of the East China Sea, and Gel finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Originally, I just saw that Weevil had been eating and sleeping all the time recently, so I suddenly wanted to give this stinky brother some more training. Besides, in the original work, it seemed that it only took a while for the Merry to pass through the Upside-Down Mountain and enter the Grand Line. Thinking of this, Gel felt that with Weevil's strength and endurance, it would definitely be no problem for him to go against the flow. Unexpectedly, the mountain was so high that the top of the mountain was completely invisible. Gel was frightened when he saw it. If Weevil had not finally triggered (the will of the bulldog) and greatly improved his endurance, willpower and fatigue resistance, the group might have been badly harmed by the old villain Oda.

After soaking in the water and pulling the boat for two whole days, Weevil lost a lot of weight. His originally curled crescent-shaped beard was washed down naturally by the ocean current, and now it looks more like a normal beard.

The fat that had been stored before had long been burned. At this time, the muscles in every part of Weibull's body were strong and stringy. If he didn't move, he would look like a mummy.

Gel felt a little distressed when he saw this, so he asked Uncle Fit to prepare a lot of food for him in advance. At this time, as soon as Weevil returned to the boat, he just focused on eating. Seeing that the food on the boat was almost not enough for him to eat, Gel took a large net bag and went into the sea to fish himself so that his brother could eat more.

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The sun gradually sets

Weibull was finally full and fell asleep on the deck. His strong heartbeat was like thunder, and his terrifying recovery ability made his muscles recover their circumference and luster like balloons at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Gel, Uncle Fit and Bia were exhausted after working for the whole afternoon. In addition, their nerves had been tense for the past two days. As soon as they relaxed, they felt sleepy. Everyone dragged their tired bodies back to the house to rest, and the boat drifted on the sea.

Nothing in the night

Beautiful sleep

After waking up the next day, Ger and Uncle Fit finally found a tattered instruction manual on the boat, and then they began to study how to steer a sailboat.

"Captain! I really didn't expect you couldn't sail a boat."

Uncle Fate said helplessly.

Ger scratched his head a little embarrassedly.

Since the two brothers went to sea, they have always used sea beasts to pull the boat. They can go wherever they point it and there is no need for sails. Fate is a cook and knows nothing about sailing a three-masted sailing ship. He has eaten pork and seen pigs run but cannot learn to run on four legs like a pig.

Seeing that the two of them had been studying on the deck for a long time and didn't even know how to lower the sail, Bi Ya sat aside and shook her head and sighed:

"It's over~ It's over~ The adults in my family are more unreliable than the others."

Hearing this, Gel and Fate blushed.

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"Hello, my name is Mosan, and I'm a businessman. May I ask if you have any problems?"

A merchant ship approached, and a fat young man, about 20 years old, dressed elegantly, stood at the bow and asked.

Gel was overjoyed. He threw away the knotted rope in his hand, stood up, turned around and saw that the owner of the voice was a fat, white businessman with flesh on his face, wisdom in his small eyes, a kind face, and a smile that looked a bit like Maitreya Buddha.

"Haha, hello, Mr. Mosan, my name is Ger and I'm an adventurer. It's not a big problem, I just don't know how to sail a sailboat."

Geer wanted to express it in a more tactful way, but unexpectedly, Bi Ya told the truth directly without hiding anything:

"Help! Big brother! Our captain and my father don't know how to drive a boat. They just started reading the operating manual today. We are trapped here. Please save us!"

Geer covered her mouth and said with a smile:

"Hahaha, sorry to make you laugh."

Mosan felt a little puzzled. How did he get here if he couldn’t even operate a sailboat?

Although there are relatively few pirates in the East China Sea, sea merchants are still encountered occasionally. He has also heard that some pirate ships will pretend to be in distress and specifically attack ships that come to rescue with good intentions.

However, when Mosan saw that Gel and Fate did not look like bad people, especially when he saw a cute little girl on the boat, he let down his guard and called two sailors to board Gel's boat to help.

Geer happily shook hands with the other party and said:

"Thank you, brother Mo Sang. You really helped me a lot. As soon as I saw your face, I knew you were a kind-hearted person."

"Haha, these are just some small things. Brother Gel, you don't have to be so polite. It's normal for us to help each other when we are out. We are going to Rogue Town to sell a batch of goods. Where are you going?"

Mo Sang stroked his mustache and asked with a smile.

"Great, Brother Mosan, we are going to Rogue Town too."

Bi Ya said happily that her father and the captain were not reliable at all. Now that there were professionals to help, she could finally feel relieved.

"Oh? That's great, we can travel together, hahaha."

Mo Sang did not refuse and laughed heartily.

"Thank you for your help. Brother Mosan and these two brothers, please stay on our boat and have dinner with us today. I will let you taste our chef's cooking skills."

Geer took Mosan's chubby hand and looked very hospitable.

Mo Sang also nodded in agreement, giggling, the fat on his face trembling, and both the host and the guest were having a great time.

"Brush it!"

The two sailors successfully lowered the sail on the main mast, the sail swelled, and a huge skull pattern appeared in front of everyone.

The smile on Mo Sang's face froze. He turned to look at Gel and saw that Gel was still laughing. Mo Sang felt that the man in front of him had really good acting skills. He could smile so sincerely even with the pirate logo exposed. No wonder he was fooled.

Although he didn't know how many pirates were hiding on the other ship, Mosan felt that he could still give them a try with his armed merchant ship and dozens of guards. But now he was tricked onto the enemy ship and was directly captured.

Finally, Mo Sang could only sigh helplessly and said:

"Alas, Captain Gill is really an old cunning man... Young and promising, I admit defeat, the cargo and money on the ship can be taken away, Captain Gill, please consider that I am trying to help out of kindness and don't hurt my men."

Geer was stunned at first, then he patted Mosan on the shoulder and laughed:

"Brother Mosan, you misunderstood. We are not pirates. I stole this ship from pirates. I have thrown away the flag and other things. I just haven't had time to deal with the skull and crossbones symbol on the sail. Hahaha."

"I see. I was wondering how a handsome Captain Gol could be a pirate. Haha, what a misunderstanding."

Mosan secretly wiped the sweat from his forehead.

They soon arrived at Rogue Town after chatting and laughing all the way. After Gel thanked the kind merchant again, the two sides parted ways.

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