Chapter 503: The Country Punished by Heaven
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Wonokuni
Gel and a few others appeared in a quiet underground secret passage.
"Da da!"
Even though your footsteps are light, every step you take will still produce a slight echo.
“Da! Da! Da…!”
The sound of footsteps echoed in the dark and deep tunnel, as rhythmic as the ticking of a second hand, making people unable to help but gently echo it with their breathing.
There was an old and decayed smell in the air, and the stone walls on both sides flickered with a faint green fluorescence, which looked particularly strange and added a touch of antiquity and mystery to the exploration of the secret passage. The taste of adventure was fascinating.
Gel reached out and touched some strange symbols and patterns carved on the stone slabs. A sense of vicissitudes of history came over him. It seemed as if these stones could speak, wanting to tell the world that they had crossed mountains, rivers and seas, and passed through crowds of people, witnessing the glorious past of Wano Country.
Unfortunately, Captain Gill didn't want to listen at all.
"What the hell is this carving? It's so ugly!"
The stone steps meander downwards, seemingly leading to endless darkness. One becomes more and more nervous as one walks up, but at the same time, one cannot help but feel a sense of anticipation and curiosity.
What will be at the end of the road? The unknown always makes people want to find out.
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"Puff puff!"
"Cough, cough, cough!"
Franky, who was walking in the front of the team, turned his hands into two hydraulic mechanical arms, easily moved away a rock blocking the way, and clapped his hands with a proud look on his face. Unexpectedly, his handsomeness lasted only 3 seconds as he was choked by the dust raised by his clapping and started coughing. He turned around and asked.
"Captain Ahger, are you sure there are people who live in a place like this? Whose house are we going to rob?"
Franky always remembers the most important mission of this time.
"Hey, hey, hey, Franky, if you have something to say, just say it directly. Don't turn around, you're almost blinding my eyes!"
Gel raised his hand to block the dazzling light, and then expressed his dissatisfaction to Franky who used the (Fu-head searchlight) again.
"Humph! If you don't move away quickly, I will take your "light bulb" apart!"
Instructor Barrett said viciously.
"Ahahaha, so sorry, everyone! Forgot I had my super high beams on."
Franky quickly covered his chest and smiled awkwardly, then turned around and continued to explore the way ahead.
"Huh? There's light! Is that the exit? Are we there? Are we there? Ho ho! I can already smell adventure!"
Seeing a fork in the road ahead and a square beam of light coming in from the entrance, Franky excitedly ran in the direction of the light.
"Hehe, it seems that we haven't reached our destination yet!?"
Seeing that Captain Gol stopped and did not choose to go in, but stood at the entrance of the passage waiting for Franky to come out, the clever Vegapunk asked with a smile.
"Well, that's definitely not the exit, but we should be there soon."
Gel slowly lit a cigarette, leaned against the stone wall and smoked it, then he pointed with his thumb to the fork in the road behind him that was shining with blue light and said.
"If you are interested in what's in here, you can go and take a look. It's a good opportunity to observe more and collect useful information so that you can use your smart brain to help me analyze it later and see where the thing we are looking for may be hidden."
"Oh? Is there something that even you, Captain, don't know?"
Vegapunk said with surprise.
Ger waved his hand and joked.
"Are you kidding me, Dr. Vegapunk? Look at your big head. It's so full of stuff, but there are still many things you don't know. I'm an ordinary person, even less so!"
"Haha, Captain Gul, you are so modest. Even if I were to be classified as an ordinary person, it would be impossible for me to classify you as an ordinary person!"
Vegapunk said with a serious expression.
Barrett also nodded silently to show that he agreed with this point of view.
Vegapunk chose to work for Captain Gol for the money. (No! No! As a genius scientist, how could I decide my side based on the money? It would be too cheap to say it out loud. I'm clearly here to save the world! That's right! That's right! Vegapunk consoled himself.)
After this period of contact, Vegapunk has lost count of how many times he has been shocked by this seemingly nonchalant captain who spends his days either fishing or washing feet and giving massages.
The man in front of me is so smart that he is almost a demon! !
Not only does he possess an advanced business mind that makes a fortune every day, an all-knowing intelligence capability that covers everything from astronomy to geography, and a strategic vision that enables him to plan and win battles from afar, but what's even more terrifying is that he can always make sharp and shocking remarks even when it comes to technology.
Vegapunk suffered greatly from this. As an ordinary genius scientist, every time he came up with some immature new ideas and had not yet begun to clarify the research direction, Captain Gill would directly tell him what the final results of the research would be, what effects it would have, and what shortcomings needed to be improved.
It’s really off the mark!
All in all, every word of Vegapunk's praise for Captain Gul came from the heart, without the slightest suspicion of flattery. He even suspected at one point that his captain might be a time traveler from the future world, so he knew so many secrets that normal people shouldn't know.
Yes! It must be like this! And the guess must be at least from the future of 500 or 600 years! After all, my own technological level is said to be 500 years ahead of the world! There is no way to show off in front of Captain Gol.
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"Wow!! Damn it! (So awesome)!"
Franky's exclamation woke up Vegapunk, who was still fantasizing wildly.
"I'm going to see what's going on!"
Vegapunk winked and signaled to Ger before running over.
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"Eh? This! What is this?"
"How is it? Are you shocked, Doctor?"
"Yeah! How could such a thing exist? Where on earth is this place?!"
Vegapunk and Franky were lying on a stone slab that was as transparent as glass, discussing with each other.
I saw
Outside the wall is a deep blue underwater world.
What is even more shocking is that under the water, there is a huge and magnificent building complex lying quietly, like a precious treasure sleeping in the deep sea, quietly telling the vicissitudes and secrets of thousands of years.
This ancient relic submerged in water has a similar overall architectural style to the Wano Country. Because it is a freshwater area with less corrosiveness, the buildings are still well preserved. You can see palaces, temples, pavilions and towers standing in an orderly manner.
The glazed tile roof is covered with thick seaweed, the stone pillars are covered with colorful corals, and fish swim freely between the hollow carved beams and pillars.
As long as there are no humans, even unnatural products such as steel and concrete can coexist harmoniously with nature and other creatures.
"Look at the scale! This is an entire country! How could it be built underwater? Could it be that fishmen once lived here?"
Vegapunk opened his mouth in surprise.
"This is Wano Country eight hundred years ago. It was submerged by floods for unknown reasons. Perhaps it was punished by the gods because it did something bad that angered the gods and the people!"
Captain Gel, who had already walked behind the two men, explained in a calm tone while putting out his cigarette.
Having been to the Ryugu Kingdom on Fishman Island, 10,000 meters deep in the sea, when I look at the scenery of this underwater palace in front of me now, I feel that it is just so-so and I don’t feel shocked at all.
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