One Piece: Ultimate Clone

Walking on the white ground and looking at their own reflections, everyone just felt that this place didn't look like a place where humans lived...

Even those so-called nobles are far behind compared to the environment here!

"Ivan, these pieces of wood feel like stones!" Leivo knocked on the wall.

It feels like stone when you touch it or even look at it, but when you knock it on it, it sounds like wood.

Nami took out a gemstone at random, touched the wall with her other hand, rubbed it carefully for a while and said, "Really, it feels exactly like a gemstone!"

"This must be a special species of tree! Otherwise, I wouldn't have succeeded in turning it into paper!" Ivan replied seriously.

"Ivan!" Leo jumped onto Ivan's shoulders, looking very serious.

"What's wrong?" Ivan stopped and everyone looked at Leo in confusion.

Leo solemnly said: "I can feel it, this big tree is still alive!"

"Still alive?" Violet said firmly: "It's impossible, I saw it was almost dry inside..."

"It's really alive!" Leo said with a serious look on his face: "This tree is an impossible species. Even artificial devil fruit trees don't look like this. The reason why this tree looks like this must be related to Everyone is the same, possessing thaumaturgy!"

"You mean...this is a tree that ate a devil fruit?" Ivan exclaimed.

"That's right!" Leo said seriously: "We have inherited planting techniques for hundreds of years. From my experience, it is absolutely correct!"

"This tree is really full of gems!!!" Nami leaned against the wall, her eyes so bright.

"Hmm..." Ivan muttered: "If it's a Devil Fruit, it's not impossible. After all, swords can eat Devil Fruits. It's not that weird to eat a tree!"

"If the tree is not dead yet, then the reason why the tree is like this is because the power of the Devil Fruit is still there, so it remains like this!" Eveli said calmly.

"Then do you know which part of this tree is still alive?" Violet asked doubtfully.

She was sure that the tree was dry everywhere.

"The bottom!" Leo said seriously: "At the very bottom, the life of the big tree is underneath!"

"Arnold!" Ivan called out Arnold directly, "Are you sure?"

"Chirp~" Arnold roared, indicating that it was absolutely fine.

"What did you ask just now?" Nami asked in confusion, and everyone looked puzzled.

"Hehe!" Ivan said with a smile: "Can you keep it a secret!"

"No!" everyone shouted in unison.

"Okay~" Ivan spread his palms and said, "I want to use a clone to merge with this tree! In this case, this base will be truly unbreakable!"

"Are you going to become a tree demon..." Nami looked frightened.

She was reading fairy tales recently, and there were tree demons among ancient creatures.

"It's a clone, a clone!" Ivan shouted.

Everyone retreated to the wall with frightened expressions on their faces.

"I've convinced you..." Ivan shook his head helplessly.

"Didn't you say you don't like being away from your clone for too long?" Nami blinked her big eyes.

Ivan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. With Arnold's current speed, no matter where I go, I can come back within a while! And~~"

Ivan clenched his fist, looked at his fist and said, "I have a vague hunch that after all nine clones are fused with ability users, there will be great changes!"

"Won't he turn into a monster or something?" Everyone asked doubtfully.

"No way!" Ivan yelled crazily.

........

In the end, Ivan firmed up his idea and decided to go with Leo to explore the remaining sapling of this big tree.

Zhizhi's clone appeared, pressed one hand on the center of the big tree, and activated its ability.

Countless papers flew out, and a dark passage leading straight to the bottom appeared.

However, in less than 10 minutes, Ai

Fan stopped moving.

"What's wrong?" Leo asked confused.

"The bottom is actually hollow! It's like... a cave dug out from below!" Ivan's expression tightened.

"No way, there are actually people down there?" Everyone was shocked.

The thunder clone appeared, and after careful sensing, Ivan smiled and said: "It has been sensed, and there is no reaction of any biological current below!"

In other words, there is no living thing down there, not even the heartbeat of an insect!

To be on the safe side, Leo put the Menmen clone in his pocket, then opened the air door and reached the bottom in an instant.

slap~

The handle of the red sword ignited with flames, lighting up the environment here.

The ground was a little damp, but very hard. In the tree hole, there were more than a dozen corpses lying there, as well as some aging tools and the like.

This place is like a mine, surrounded by gems of various colors, and there are many piled on the ground.

Ivan took a photo and found a sheepskin scroll on a skeleton with diary and other things written on it.

Ivan smiled, put away all the gems, opened the air door, and when he reappeared, he was already next to Nami and the others.

wow wow~~

After pouring out all the gems piled into a hill, Nami jumped on them with a cheer.

Ivan, on the other hand, spread out the parchment scroll and began to look at it carefully.

There was something like a diary written on it. Although the handwriting was a little blurry, everyone could still recognize it.

It turned out that the people below were a group of explorers who accidentally discovered this place due to a shipwreck, and accidentally discovered that this tree seemed to be made of gems.

Just when they were happily preparing to cut down the trees, they unexpectedly encountered a "red tide".

They ran for their lives in a hurry, and finally fell into a tree hole.

Turns out it was all filled with gems!

However, they did not dare to dig down, because there was the seabed below. They dug up, and the results were very good. They found a huge wealth of gems that they could not spend in ten lifetimes.

However, the red tide struck again, and the entrance of the mine where they fell completely blocked everyone's way. He wrote his last words, but only half a sentence...

I regret my greed, I want.........

At this point, the diary ends abruptly.

"It's so scary~" After Ivan finished speaking, Nami on the side touched her arm, which was covered with goose bumps.

"What is the red tide recorded in the diary?" Charlie was slightly confused.

"Is it some kind of special natural phenomenon?" Violet asked doubtfully.

"Compared to that!" Pique, who had always been silent, said:

"I prefer to believe it is some kind of creature! Judging from his records, the first red tide did not catch up with them, but the second red tide directly blocked them... Ivan, there is something down there Something unusual?"

"Nothing abnormal!" Ivan shook his head and said, "There are only these gems and some skeletons!"

"That's right, skeleton!" Ivan suddenly remembered something, and as he spoke, the thunder clone had reached the tree hole like light.

When they came out again, more than a dozen skeletons had been wrapped together and brought out.

Under the sun, everyone couldn't help but shudder when they looked at the skeleton in front of them.

It turns out that Ivan didn't take a closer look, but looking at it now, the skull bones are all covered with fine bite marks, but some are too fine and look like they are weathered.

"Let's sort out other things and take a look!" Pik picked up the worn clothes and packed away a lot of debris.

"Let me do some divination!" Charlie held the crystal ball. After a moment, she said seriously: "These people only have more than ten years to die!"

"More than ten years!!" Everyone was surprised.

"Maybe some of these people have names that everyone knows!" Ivan joked.

"Stop joking!" everyone shouted together.

"Look slowly, Leo and I are looking for the last hope of this gem tree!" Ivan grinned and led Leo back to the tree hole.