Chapter 587: Unlucky x [Red Earth Continent Tunnel]

Hearing everyone's exclamations, the Straw Hat Boy touched his head, showing his white teeth, and said with a silly smile: "Hey~hey~hey~"

Luffy is very happy every time someone reads out his bounty. To him, it is a kind of recognition.

Faced with Luffy's call, the captain dared not remain silent, for fear that Luffy would be unhappy and start a killing spree.

Holding back his fear, the captain stood up and said tremblingly, "Master Straw Hat...if you need anything, just take it. Just don't hurt anyone on the ship."

At this point, the captain only hopes that Luffy will seek wealth, not his life.

I have to say that the captain of this merchant ship is a nice person.

Luffy waved his hand and said, "I just came here to ask you some questions."

"Please ask! We will answer whatever we know!" The captain breathed a sigh of relief and patted his chest to assure that he would tell him everything he knew.

Hearing this, Luffy opened his mouth to speak.

When the words came to his lips, Luffy tilted his head and said in confusion: "What was I going to ask?"

Hearing this, all the crew members were ashamed.

The captain was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, thinking to himself: "Are you here to tease me?"

However, he did not dare to show any dissatisfaction and stood quietly aside, waiting for the judgment of fate.

While Luffy was thinking hard, the others were suffering.

After a while, the Merry came next to the merchant ship.

"Luffy, why are you so impulsive!"

Usopp complained loudly to Luffy.

At this time, everyone turned their attention to the [Merry].

Many people looked desperate: "It's over now!"

Seeing the newcomer, Luffy waved happily and said, "Usopp, what question did you want to ask?"

Usopp glanced at the shivering crowd and understood everything in an instant.

"Really?! I don't know what you want to ask but why you're so impulsive!" Usopp complained and jumped onto the merchant ship.

Facing everyone's fearful eyes, Usopp showed a kind smile and asked, "Um... I want to ask, where are you planning to go?"

The captain shuddered and quickly replied: "We want to go to the North Sea to do business..."

"To the North Sea!" Usopp repeated, and then raised his own question: "Aren't you going to cross the Upside Down Mountain? Why are you sailing southwest? Isn't that the Calm Belt?"

The captain replied cautiously: "Sir...we will not cross [Upside Down Mountain]..."

"Ha~, then how do you get to the [North Sea]? As far as I know, there is the [Red Earth Continent] between the [North Sea] and the [East Sea]." Usopp asked puzzledly.

"We...we plan to enter the [North Sea] through the [Red Soil Continent Tunnel]." The captain replied truthfully.

"[Red Continent Tunnel]? What is this?" Luffy and the others heard about it for the first time and had a lot of question marks in their heads.

Upon hearing this, the captain's eyes flashed with surprise, but he still lowered his head and explained dutifully: "The [Red Earth Continent Tunnel] is a safe passage opened up by the [Netherlands Kingdom] to connect the [Four Seas] and the [Grand Route]."

"As long as they pay a certain toll, pirates, navy officers, and merchants can enter other waters safely."

"Awesome!" Luffy shouted exaggeratedly.

"There is such a place?" Usopp asked in surprise.

"I dare not deceive you gentlemen!" The captain nodded repeatedly, trying to prove the truthfulness of his words.

"Interesting~" Zoro showed an interested look.

Sanji blew out a smoke ring, as if he had thought of something, and said, "I seem to have heard about this from a guest at Barati, but I didn't pay much attention to it."

When he was young, Sanji also traveled around the world with the Germa Kingdom. However, he relied on his family's snail boat that could crawl across the Red Earth Continent.

Sanji himself never expected that there would be such a convenient thing as the [Red Continent Tunnel].

"Let's go and take a look!" Luffy suggested excitedly.

After hearing this, Zoro, Sanji and Usopp did not object.

"But we don't know the exact location of the [Red Continent Tunnel]." Usopp suddenly asked a serious question.

Upon hearing this, the others turned their eyes to the captain of the merchant ship.

Seeing this, the captain of the merchant ship secretly cursed his bad luck, but said respectfully: "It is my honor to lead the way for you gentlemen."

Then he turned around and shouted, "Why are you still standing there? Start the boat!"

"Oh, oh!"

The crew members felt as if they had been pardoned and they all took action without any delay.

Luffy patted the merchant ship captain on the shoulder and praised him: "You are such a good man!"

The captain of the merchant ship was complaining in his heart but smiling all the time.

Not long after, a strange scene appeared on the sea.

A merchant ship and a pirate ship were traveling side by side.

Everyone who saw this scene looked at the unfortunate merchant ship with sympathy.

The crew members on the merchant ship all showed expressions of having survived a disaster. As long as they reached the vicinity of the [Red Earth Continent Tunnel], they would be safe. In their opinion, no matter how strong the [Straw Hat Pirates] were, they would not dare to act recklessly in front of the [Netherlands Kingdom].

You must know that it is strictly forbidden to use force in the [Red Earth Continent Tunnel]. Anyone who violates this ban will have grass three feet high on his grave.

After more than ten minutes, more and more merchant ships came and went.

For safety reasons, these merchant ships tacitly kept their distance from the Merry.

After a while, the towering [Red Earth Continent] came into view again.

"No matter how many times I see it, it still feels incredible." Sanji muttered as he gazed at the towering [Red Continent] that stretched as far as the eye could see.

Zoro on the side rarely refuted.

"Oh my god! There really is a tunnel dug in the [Red Earth Continent]." Usopp's hand holding the telescope trembled slightly.

"【The Kingdom of the Netherlands】...is really not simple!" Zoro said in a gloomy tone.

"Nonsense! You still have to tell me that!" Sanji glanced at him and rolled his eyes.

Sanji had a complicated expression, not knowing what he was thinking about.

[The Kingdom of the Netherlands] defeated the [Vinsmoke Family]!

Sanji couldn't say he was happy, but rather felt a sense of inexplicable melancholy.

Fortunately, Reiju was safe and sound.

Amid complicated thoughts, the [Merry] quickly approached the [Red Earth Continent Tunnel].

The captain of the merchant ship breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head, and said with a smile: "My Lords, we have arrived at the Red Earth Continent Tunnel!"

Then, he said carefully: "Then... let's go in first!"

"Goodbye! Thank you for leading the way!" Luffy smiled and waved goodbye to the captain of the merchant ship.

The captain of the merchant ship waved hypocritically, and then the merchant ship quickly sailed away as if fleeing.

Before leaving, the captain of the merchant ship did not forget to complain in his heart: "Goodbye? I think it should be goodbye forever!"