Chapter 19 The battle begins
"Huh? What are they doing?" Luffy asked in a daze as he looked at the two figures fighting in front of him.
Why did Xia Chen and Sauron start fighting again as soon as he woke up?
"What else can we do? Just a friendly exchange!" Nami said calmly. Then she turned to look at Luffy.
"Why are you sleeping here?"
"Oh~ you're talking about this"
"Usopp and I just saw the butler talking to another strange person here."
"They said something like they were going to kill all the villagers tomorrow, and then..."
"I was discovered, and then I fell asleep!"
"Falling asleep?" Nami seemed to suddenly think of something when she heard this.
"Is that weirdo you're talking about the one holding the hoop?"
"Yes, yes! I fell asleep after seeing his ring!"
"I see!" Nami stroked her chin and continued:
"That man is a hypnotist. You must have fallen asleep directly because he hypnotized you!"
"It's a deadly search!" Luffy clapped his hands, revealing an expression that showed he had found out.
Nami said: "In that case, let's go back to the village now!"
Then he turned to look at Zoro and Xia Chen who were still fighting over there and shouted:
"Let's go, you two!"
"Coming!" Xia Chen replied. Then he ran away, and after using the shaving technique a few times, he appeared next to Nami. On the other hand, Zoro was still more than a hundred meters away.
Zoro gritted his teeth and retracted the knife.
"What a bastard!"
……
After some time~
When the group was halfway back to the village, they ran into Usopp who came back in a daze.
Everyone looked at Usopp like this, confused, except Xia Chen.
"Captain, here, here!"
Onionhead said while looking at Usopp.
Usopp put away the sadness on his face, put on a smile and waved at them, saying: "It's you!"
However, when he saw Luffy, he was immediately shocked and ran over to Luffy and asked:
"Aren't you dead?"
"Huh? Luffy was a little confused, but turned around and reacted.
"Yeah, I just woke up!"
Just when Usopp was about to say something, Carrot Head interrupted:
"Let's not talk about this for now. We have all heard about it from Straw Hat Brother. Let's go and tell the villagers about the pirates!"
"Tell... the people in the village?" Usopp hesitated for a long time. Then he laughed and said:
"Of course the pirate thing is fake as usual! It's all because that bastard butler is so annoying that I said that to him!"
"a ha ha ha……"
"I see. That's what we were saying. How could there be any pirates?"
The three of them walked towards the back while laughing.
Usopp keenly noticed that something was wrong with them and couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"
"I suddenly look down on the captain!"
"Me too!"
"In our opinion, the captains of the past would never say anything to slander others, no matter how many times they lied, no matter how irritating that steward was!"
"Oh! This is so boring, let's go home and have dinner~" The three of them walked back while chatting.
Usopp looked at the three people going away, and stood there for a long time thinking of their words, but in the end he didn't say anything. However, the determination in his eyes did not diminish at all, but became even stronger.
At night, the sky was full of stars, and Xia Chen, three others, and Usopp sat around a bonfire on the beach.
Usopp looked at the burning flames with wandering eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
Xia Chen asked, "Is the pirate story true?"
"It must be true, and they will definitely land on the island from here tomorrow!"
"Must we climb up from here?" Xia Chen asked in a puzzled tone, and then asked with a hint of meaning:
"Is there no other place on the island similar to this one where we can go to the island?"
"Now that you mention it, there's a similar place in the north! We can also land on the island there!"
"In that case, let's split up into two groups. I'll go to the north alone, and the rest of you stay here!" Xia Chen said calmly.
"You mean..." Usopp's eyes showed surprise.
"Need I ask? Of course I will protect this island with you!" Luffy said as a matter of course.
In an instant, looking at the sincere eyes of the people around him, Usopp's tears flowed uncontrollably like a dam breaking.
"Thank you so much, thank you!"
"Oh, no need to thank me. We decided to help you because we saw how determined you were. If you don't have the courage, we definitely won't interfere!"
Xia Chen said lightly.
"That's right!" Sauron also echoed, and then he changed the subject and looked at Xia Chen and said:
"I'll go to the north alone, you guys stay here!"
"Huh?" Hearing this, Xia Chen looked at Sauron in confusion.
"Third-rate swordsman, you are a little overconfident."
"Let's not talk about your rubbish strength first. Just look at your lack of direction. I wonder if you can find the north first!"
"Clang!"
The knife in Zoro's arms was unsheathed in an instant, but Xia Chen didn't even look at him.
A third-rate swordsman is not worthy of being his enemy!
"Zoro, let's do as Xia Chen said. We'll stay here and Xia Chen will go to the north!" Nami advised.
"Indeed, Zoro, just listen to Xia Chen!" Luffy also nodded beside him.
Compared to Sauron, he still thinks Xia Chen is more reliable.
Of course, it's not that he doesn't believe in Zoro's strength, but Zoro's direction is indeed a bit...
I won’t say more, those who understand will understand!
"You guys!" Sauron was a little dissatisfied. Isn't it just that you don't know the way? What's the big deal?
"Okay, it's settled then!"
"The Xiluobu Village Protection Plan has officially started!"
……
the next morning.
Nami looked at the oil that Usopp found and marveled at it. She didn't expect that you could find this thing.
"Of course. Don't you see who I am? I am the almighty Captain Usopp!"
"But these pirates are a little slow. They haven't shown up yet at this time!" Usopp asked puzzledly while looking at the scorching sun above.
"Are they joking?"
This thought popped up in Usopp's mind, but he rejected it in an instant.
Judging from the expression of the butler he saw yesterday, it didn't seem like he was joking at all!
Since it's not here, then it should be in...
Usopp ran back and said to Luffy and the others:
"They should have landed on the island in the north. Let's go help Xia Chen quickly!"
The moment he finished speaking, he felt a red figure flash by, leaving only a sound.
"Okay, I'll go then!"
Seeing Luffy and Usopp walking away, Zoro was about to rush over when he felt someone grabbing him from behind.
then……
"Nami, you bastard, let me go!"
Zoro lay on the oily ground and yelled at Nami.
But Nami ignored him and smiled instead.
"Have it!"
After saying that, Nami climbed up on Zoro's back in front of his astonished eyes, saying:
"Thank you!"
Poor Soda slid to the bottom of the slope with this step, leaving behind only one sentence full of anger.
"That woman, I must kill her!"
……
Meanwhile, on the northern slope...
