Chapter 170
On the day of bidding farewell to Darrow, Long and the group of Celestial Dragons hurriedly left Gaya Island, and Abet did the same. After confirming that his injuries were not serious, he solemnly bid farewell to Darrow and his group and set out on the road to find his fellow tribesmen.
Darrow had no choice but to stay where he was and wait for the rising current three days later.
Even though there was a Garp outside, Garp's reputation would not scare Darrow to the point of fleeing without even going to Sky Island.
He was not like Blackbeard, who withdrew his entire group when he saw Akainu.
Knowing that there was a tiger in the mountain, he still went to the tiger mountain. This is a pirate.
"I say, is that generous drinking vice admiral uncle so scary?" Lecter, who was leaning against the bar, took a sip of the cocktail in his hand and asked Darrow curiously.
He didn't understand. They had fought with Admiral Zefa before in Winminnie Island. Could it be that the uncle who was not doing his job every day in the Lezibart Tavern could be stronger than Admiral Zefa?
Darrow smiled and didn't say much. After all, Garp has not yet fully shown his strength. His reputation is indeed weaker than that of the two admirals Sengoku and Zefa.
But who would have thought that this unknown vice admiral of the navy would join forces with Roger in the battle of God Valley next year, end the Rocks Pirates, which is in its heyday, and become the spiritual totem of the new generation of the navy.
Not only that, after personally ending the Rocks era, this naval hero chased Roger, who arrived at Raftel and became the Pirate King, everywhere, forcing the powerful Roger Pirates to retreat.
It can be said that this guy who regards catching pirates as stamp collecting and has accumulated a lot of precious "collections" in Impel Down is the most powerful existence in the navy.
"Don't underestimate Garp, he is much more difficult than ordinary admirals." Darrow raised his eyebrows and gave everyone a shot of prevention.
"Indeed, when I met him in the tavern, I felt the strong sense of oppression brought by that uncle." Izumi Reiken, who had met Garp once, also put down the hot tea in his hand and said with squinting eyes.
As a person with extremely high vision and keen fighting instinct, what Izumi Reiken said is still very convincing.
While Darrow was still discussing Cap's affairs, Sophia, who had just completed the final inspection of the hull, came in, took off the goggles hanging on her forehead, and placed them on the bar.
"It's so hot! Rector, please make me a Margarita."
After sitting down, Sophia took the drink handed over by Rector while flapping her hands. After taking a sip, she shrank her neck comfortably, like a cat that had inhaled catnip.
After drinking the wine, Sofia wiped the sea salt on the corner of her mouth with her slender hands and asked, "What are you talking about? It's so lively."
"We are talking about Mr. Long's father, Vice Admiral Garp."
Hearing this, Sofia put down the wine glass in her hand and said, "I have fought with that guy. He is indeed a very difficult man to deal with."
"You have also fought with Garp?"
Daro raised his eyebrows and looked at Sofia, who was sweating, with some surprise. Obviously, he believed it. After all, although Sofia's strength is not bad, if she fights with Garp, she should be defeated in less than a few rounds.
"..." Sophia rolled her eyes, looked at the straight man in front of her speechlessly, and complained: "Why, you seem to regret that he didn't beat me to death."
"Just a little curious." Darrow shrugged, picked up a pickled olive from the wine glass with a fork, held it in his mouth and said inarticulately: "Can you tell me what happened?"
Seeing that Darrow was interested in this, Sophia did not refuse. After putting the hair on her forehead behind her ears with her right hand, she slowly spoke:
"A long time ago, I joined a killer organization called [Funeral House] in the underground world to undertake tasks or exchange intelligence. Until two years ago, the organization was infiltrated by spies planted by the navy, resulting in the location of the headquarters being leaked, and the navy took this opportunity to come to the door."
"It seems that the person in charge of that operation is Vice Admiral Garp." Darrow seemed to have guessed the result and interrupted with a smile.
"That was not an operation. The navy that came to the island that time was actually only one man and one woman. It was not so much an operation as it was that Vice Admiral Garp.
"Two people? Who is the other one?" Darrow showed great interest. He didn't remember who Garp's partner was. Could it be Luffy's grandmother? Darrow, with his gossipy soul burning, sat up straight immediately. "I don't know much about the organization of the navy. That woman doesn't show up often, so I don't know much either. But her ability is very special. It seems that she can dry people like clothes." "It turned out to be Crane!" After listening to Sofia's description, Darrow naturally realized that Garp's partner was the naval staff officer who would chase Doflamingo all over the ground in the future. "Then how did you escape from them?" Darrow was even more curious. Logically, with the abilities of Garp and Crane, the killer organization that Sofia was in should not be able to escape. "Haha. "
Sophia seemed to have thought of something funny, and she covered her mouth and laughed: "Although that Garp is very strong, he seems to be face-blind!"
"..." Such a strong reason made Darrow choke, but when he thought of Luffy's various outrageous face-blind performances in the future, it seemed to make sense.
"So you escaped by makeup?" Darrow still didn't believe it. After all, even if Garp was unreliable, there was a crane next to him. She couldn't be face-blind too.
"No, most of the people in the organization didn't escape. Only I and a few young people escaped by disguise." Sophia shook her head.
"Young people?" Darrow mentioned it, because he suddenly realized that he seemed to have heard of the killer organization called [Funeral House].
"I don't remember much about the others, but there was a guy named Dracula Piedro in it. It is said that he later formed a new team and re-established the [Funeral House] organization. "Sophia stretched lazily.
Thinking of the guy with a weird mask and full of evil spirit, who called her the big sister, Sophia's mood seemed to be better. Then she winked at Darrow playfully and said teasingly:
"Some time ago, they invited me to join their organization! What do you think? I'm still quite popular. If I'm not promoted, I'll find another master." Sophia obviously had regrets about her being a trainee crew member at this time.
Daro ignored Sophia's crazy hint, because he remembered that the guy named La Gude Piedro seemed to be one of the six kings of the underground world.
The killer king who controls the killer organization [Big Brand Funeral House].
"Good guy...you are the founding elder of the future number one killer organization, right? "Daro pursed his lips, looked at Sophia in front of him, and complained in his heart.
What is this? The Godfather of the underworld.
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Two days later, it was the day when the rising current broke out.
After completing all the rest work, Daro drove the Mermaid Anthem to the sea near Gaya Island where countless broken ships and rotten wood were floating.
"Hey, Daro, do you think there will really be an upwelling current that can send me to the sky island?" Black Cat Brig leaned on the side of the ship, looking at the calm sea.
"Don't worry, there will be one." Daro said affirmatively, holding his cowboy hat, and then looked at Elsa on the side, and said in a tone of entrusting an important task: "I'll leave it to you later! "
In the world of pirates, the sky current is a very special existence. It is said that it is formed by the seawater pouring into the huge cavity on the deep seabed and under the impact of geothermal heat, that is, volcanic eruption.
And this will cause a big problem - the power of the volcanic eruption and the amount of seawater contained in the huge cavity are not certain, so the scale of each sky current is also uncontrollable.
That is to say, not every sky current can guarantee to send the ship to the sky island. There may be a situation where the power is too small and it cannot reach the sky island at all, or the power is too large to directly penetrate the ship.
This is also That's why there are so many damaged ships floating here...
They are all the failed landings denied by Sky Island, and the only outcome of failure is that they and their ships will sleep forever in this sea area.
Daro certainly won't mortgage everything on that illusory luck, but fortunately they have Elsa with superb perception on their ship. Her perception range allows her to obtain information about the ocean currents before they erupt.
Elsa, who was highly expected by Daro, was obviously a little nervous, but with the comfort of Namib, she quickly calmed down and opened the third eye on her forehead to enter the
A magical state of perception.
"It's coming, the first ocean current." Aisha, whose spiritual consciousness has reached the bottom of the deep sea, felt the terrifying energy erupting from the deep sea and warned.
But after roughly estimating the power of this surging ocean current, Aisha quickly gave the result: "The power is too small, no."
As soon as the voice fell, a dark blue area suddenly appeared on the sea surface.
Then a water column that rose up to the sky suddenly burst out, like a water dragon rushing straight to the sky, but after rushing out for thousands of meters, the water column had no more energy to go up, and turned into a heavy rain and fell straight down.
Soon, the second and third currents also arrived as scheduled, but according to Aisha's estimation, these were still not enough for Daro and his team to reach the Sky Island.
...
Just when Daro and his team were still waiting for the surging ocean current that could send them directly to the Sky Island, a naval warship with the Seagull flag suddenly appeared in Daro's sight on the sea surface of Gaya Island.
"Are you here? Garp!" Daro said, looking at the bow of the warship, a muscular man wearing a cloak of justice.
On the other side, Garp on the navy warship naturally saw the strange behavior of Daro and his men. As a senior navy official who holds most of the world's secrets, Garp naturally knows the existence of Sky Island.
"Hurry up, full speed!" Garp urged his marines.
When the warship approached the Mermaid Anthem with a distance of only more than 3,000 meters, Garp jumped up and wanted to fly directly to Daro's ship with the Moon Step.
"Hey, kid, you said you can do something with your talent, but you have to be a pirate. Then taste my iron fist." Garp in the air clenched his fist and thought maliciously.
Looking at Garp, who was approaching him like a ghost and was only more than 1,000 meters away from him, Daro's eyelids jumped. As a devil fruit ability user, Daro didn't want to fight with Garp at sea.
"Elsa, is the next surging ocean current coming?" Darrow turned his head and asked Elsa, aiming at Garp in the air, trying to slow down Garp's speed by sniping.
"It's coming." Fortunately, Elsa didn't let Darrow wait for long, but after sensing the terrifying power of the surging ocean current, she shook her head again: "No, the power of this ocean current is too great."
In such an urgent situation, Darrow couldn't care less, and immediately ordered the helmsman Bear to drive the Mermaid Anthem to the outbreak of the surging ocean current and protect the hull with a compressed air wall.
"Hold on, little guys, we're going to set off." Darrow held the cowboy hat on his head and ordered everyone on the boat.
The next second, the surging ocean current rose up, and the water flow like a giant pillar broke through the sea surface, sending the entire ship into the sky island thousands of meters above...
