One Piece: The Eternal Flame

Everyone didn't stop. After passing the first level, they went straight down to the second level. The beasts here were not challenging at all.

"It's boring." Gray looked at the crocodile in the third level and commented.

"You should be bored by now." Perry was not interested in this kind of adventure, and it was entirely because Gray wanted to play that he agreed to use such a tortuous method.

The captain's action after he was bored was straightforward. He smashed a big hole in the ground, then jumped down, and came to Assier's research room.

The pure gold is on the table in the research room, stored in a transparent box filled with liquid.

Gray's eyes lit up immediately, he grabbed the box and said with a smile: "This is pure gold, it does look quite valuable."

"Its functions are more valuable." Gary said as he picked up Assier's research diary. After consulting Assier's opinion, he looked at the research data of the other party.

But after reading the first two or three lines, he handed the diary directly to Olga.

The latter froze and looked up at him.

"You'd better take a look, if you want to find a reason to forgive your father." Gary sighed.

They don't care about whether the father and daughter will reconcile later, the pirates only care about pure gold.

Everyone formed a circle and looked at the pure gold in the box. It looked no different from gold, but it was such a thing that could keep people at their current age and achieve the effect of almost immortality.

"Captain, what do you want to do with it?"

Being old and young is very tempting to people, but the people from Hei Huo Huo turned all their eyes on the captain.

Whenever Gray said to use it, they used it, and when he said to throw it away, they didn't say no to it.

"Hey, hey~ Is this throwing all the problems to me?" Gray said with a helpless smile.

He glanced around and looked at Ace, "So Ace, what do you think?"

"I'm not interested in immortality, as long as I can live today." Ace laughed.

"It's so cool, Ace!" Bud and his brother embraced Ace's shoulders and said with a smile, "I decided this is my motto for this week!"

"Then what was your motto before?" Ace asked with a smile.

"Long live the captain!" Bud gave a thumbs up and said with a smile, "How is it? Isn't it amazing."

"Haha, not bad, what about a week later?"

"The captain is forever god!" Bud said without thinking.

The degree of admiration for Gray on this ship is close to that of the most devout believers. Ace even felt that if a statue of Gray was erected on the ship, they could go there to worship every day.

"Where's Mita?" Gray asked Mita again.

"Your Majesty?" Mita blinked. He still doesn't have a clear understanding of the concept of immortality. "Isn't it a good thing to have a longer time to travel and practice?"

He feels that living longer means being able to do what he likes for a longer time, "I want to be with you for a longer time, this is the most important thing!"

"You boy, it's not in vain to hurt you!" Alder hugged Mitian hard, patted his back and choked up: "Damn it, we will be together forever!"

If it were any other person, they would probably utter contempt for Alder's ambiguous words, but Oden nodded vigorously, taking this as a common agreement of everyone.

"Then vote." Gray laughed.

"I'll follow Captain Ticket."

"Me too!"

"It's the same with others."

"Well~" Gray said helplessly, "What's the point of this~"

He put the pure gold on the table, and glanced at everyone, "Since everyone listens to me, then treat it as a collection and put it in the storage room. If it lives for too long, it will not be a black firework, but a living fossil hahaha."

The name of their pirate group is fireworks, and Gray likes this fleeting but extremely bright thing.

And pirates, most of them hold the idea that they can earn money if they can live for a day, and carpe diem in time is the way of life.

Of course, people who want to live forever still account for the majority, and aliens like black fireworks are actually not common.

Even Assier couldn't help feeling after hearing this: "You guys are really a bunch of weird pirates, this is the first time I've seen someone who isn't interested in longevity."

"Our captain is only interested in treasure." Perry smiled lightly.

"This is one of the few hobbies he has persisted in."

"What is one of the few persistent hobbies? Am I usually someone who would give up easily?" Gray complained with a frown.

"You always say you will read intelligence, but you always don't."

"Talking about going to watch the night, but sleeping soundly on the observation deck."

"Promise not to steal food, every time I go to the kitchen, I will find that there is less food."

"If you can't catch a fish for a few minutes, then you quit."

Everyone snapped their fingers and counted Gray's shortcomings one by one. Everyone seemed to be able to say a lot, one after another.

"Stop, stop!" Gray pulled out the tag stuck on his body. He wanted to refute but didn't know what he could refute. In the end, he could only speak confidently: "Anyway, I'm the captain, and I can do whatever I want."

"Now, I'm going for a walk outside!" After finishing speaking, he ran out of the research room in despair.

Without hesitation, Ace followed Gray out of the building and came to the open space outside.

"I thought you'd let Perry and Teuton use pure gold," Ace said.

"Ah, is it because they are old?" Gray asked in surprise, "You will be smashed in the head by them, even a man would mind his age very much."

"That's why I asked you at this time." Ace made a silent gesture and said, "If it was before, you would let everyone choose for themselves, use it if you want to use it, and don't use it if you don't need it?"

"Haha, am I so democratic?" Gray laughed.

"Don't change the subject." Ace insisted.

"Because they listen to me, it's okay~"

"Then why don't you want to use pure gold?"

"Because I'm tired from living for too long~" Gray said with a smile without hesitation, "And even in a few decades, I'll still be a handsome uncle, no matter how I think about it, I don't need such sensational things as pure gold."

"Is it tiring to live so long?" Ace pouted, keenly aware of the meaning in Gray's words, "Do you know what it's like to live too long?"

"Hmph, it will be a few years later if you want to get a routine from me!" Gray put his arm around Ace's shoulder, and smiled at him mysteriously: "Your future brother, friends and relatives you know, many of them have not yet been born. Does it feel cool to pretend to be an expert in front of them?"

"Also, in the future, when you see a sloppy uncle in his 70s say something abnormal like "I am you", you will definitely punch him, hahaha."

"Even if I'm seventy, I won't be sloppy." Ace held back for a long time before retorting.

"Hahaha, isn't it interesting?" Gray let go of his hand, "The future is the most interesting thing, because your arrival has made everything uncontrollable."

"It's not the same with you, you know the future." Ace said.

"That being said." Gray said helplessly, "All I know is that you haven't returned to the future, and I don't have much motivation. I'd better be your backing."

".Well, even if I want to ask you what you've been through now, you'll just tell me everything until you see that bastard and...my mother."