I'm a pirate in Tokyo

The four people left the oasis and headed towards the red light in the distance at high speed.

From a distance, it looks like a smooth desert, but when you walk in, you see huge sand dunes one after another.

In the gaps between each dune, there are negative consciousnesses in human form wearing various clothes walking, which should correspond to ordinary pedestrians in the real world.

The four people tried to contact them and found that these negative consciousnesses were like projected images, intangible. If they reached out, they would penetrate directly and not be affected by them at all.

After several attempts to no avail, I could only treat these negative consciousnesses as part of this desert and ignore them.

As everyone walked farther and farther into the sand dunes, the gap became larger and larger.

The four of them had to switch from running to climbing. Fortunately, with Nami's [Wings of Wind], they could jump from the top of one dune to halfway up another dune, which greatly saved their time on the road. .

The four of them walked in a hurry for 30 minutes. When they looked back, they saw that the oasis had turned into a small dot, but the red glowing dot in front still showed no tendency to get bigger.

"Wait!" Wu Sheng shouted.

"Huh?" "What's wrong?" The other three were about to jump out, but stopped when they heard the sound.

Wu Sheng stopped the three of them and pointed out a problem with some hesitation: "We have been walking for half an hour now. I don't know how long we will go next. If it takes us 4 hours to get there, then it will take us more time to return. 4 hours. In other words, if everything goes well, we will not be able to return to the real world until 12 o'clock in the morning."

In other words, it's not just 12 o'clock that's not going well.

"..." The three of them then remembered that they had to return.

"What should we do?" Luffy was dumbfounded.

"Two ways. One is to use our soul power to hurry up. It would be best if we can arrive within an hour and a half. If we can't reach it even by accelerating, then we can go back within an hour and a half." Wu Sheng took out his hand. Open the APP on your phone, and the direction of their entrance is marked on it, so you know how to return no matter how far you run.

"The second is that we return now and try to make a means of transportation, such as bicycles and sand sleds?"

"Are you sure the bicycle can go faster than us here?" Nami asked hesitantly.

"The sand sled seems pretty good?" Zoro thought while stroking his chin.

"But we don't have any mounts?" Luffy said.

"Chimera? Erig seems to have a horse too." Wu Sheng pointed at Luffy and then at himself. He was really a superficial man who only looked at the surface.

"Eh..." Luffy looked at him with disgust, obviously not wanting to use such a frustrating method.

"Ah! We have it!" Zoro shouted, pointing to the sky, "Plane!"

......

The scene was silent for a moment. What else do you want to do when you have a plane? Wouldn't it be better to travel around the world or do charity?

"No, no, it's an object that can fly. Doesn't Nami have wind magic? For example..." Zoro said quickly and quickly about his flash of inspiration, while racking his brains to figure out the last blind spot. .

"Hot air balloon!" Wu Sheng then shouted.

"Yes!" Zoro slapped his left palm with his right fist: "Hot air balloon!"

"I have fire! Nami has wind! We just need to make a basket that can stand people on, and the hot air balloon body, that's it!" Wu Sheng was very excited, why don't we make an airship!

"Oh oh oh oh oh!" Luffy understood instantly and shouted excitedly.

"Hahahahaha, then it's decided!" Sauron was also happy. After all, he and Wu Sheng couldn't fly. It would be great to experience the feeling of flying in daily life.

"Wait a minute, how can you bring such a big thing in?" Nami interrupted the three cheering people.

"It's easy. Isn't the campus festival coming soon? Let's buy it, assemble it, hide it on the rooftop, and just bring it in every time we come in." Wu Sheng waved his hand, saying it was too simple.

"Okay, what's next?" Nami nodded and said it was indeed feasible.

"Go on, use your soul power to rush forward. If you encounter a battle, return immediately. When your soul power is half consumed, return immediately." Luffy said.

"Okay, it's very safe. Luffy also has his moments of stability." Nami praised.

"Hehe, next time we come we will just take a hot air balloon ride, so it doesn't matter this time." Luffy said with a smile.

After that, the four of them rested on the spot, drank some water, and each ate an energy bar to cushion their stomachs.

Then igniting her soul power, Nami opened the music box, and with the crisp ringing of the end of get out of class bell, the four of them flew towards the red light.

After using their soul power, the speed of the four people changed qualitatively.

Under the gray clouds in the world of crime, above the sea of ​​sand and the sea of ​​negative consciousness formed by hills, four small dots kept flashing on the top of each hill, moving rapidly towards the red glow on the sand sea.

The four of them were not very familiar with each other at first, and they often landed one after another, and the people behind were always covered in sand.

After the tacit understanding was established, Luffy and Nami, who were fast, deliberately slowed down their own pace and consciously cooperated with Wu Sheng and the two who were slower.

Slowly, the four of them rose and fell together, moving towards the red light very rhythmically.

As he ran, Wu Sheng felt an inexplicable sense of immediacy. After a while, he understood.

Aren't the four of us like members of Naruto's team, flashing through the desert of the Land of Wind?

As soon as Kokoro was distracted from complaining, the rhythm changed, and the sand blown up by Luffy splashed all over him again.

"Takeda, are you okay?" Nami turned around and asked while gliding in the air.

"It's okay, it's okay." Wu Sheng Bankong quickly adjusted his rhythm, stopped thinking, and concentrated on getting on his way.

......

It was right to use soul power to rush forward. Each step of the extremely fast flashing jump stretched the distance extremely long. After another half an hour, they could no longer see the oasis when they looked back, but the red light became brighter and brighter, proving that they It really brings distance.

It was already 5:30 in the afternoon, and there was still an hour before the time they set for themselves. If they couldn't make it within an hour, they could go home.

The consumption of soul power becomes very small with the help of the music box. If 1 soul power is consumed in one step, it can be reduced to 0.6 with the help of the music box.

Of course, it also depends on each person's soul power attribute, because this attribute affects not only the total amount of soul power, but also the recovery speed of soul power.

For example, Nami, with a soul power value as high as 43, can consume as little as 0.4, and even has enough energy left to renew BUFFs for four people.

Although the other three people have lower soul power than her, they still have their own ways to reduce their own consumption.

Just like this, they hurried on in silence, and when the total soul power of everyone almost dropped below 60%, they finally arrived at the periphery of the red light.

At this time, the four people discovered that the red light turned out to be a giant tree nearly 200 meters high!

Different from trees in the real world, the trunk and branches of this tree are not wooden. They are more like a collection of giant transparent infusion tubes, which then separate in mid-air and become branches, and then branch out into branches, and then There are dots of red light hanging on the branch road.

Because they were still in the outer layer, they couldn't see clearly what the red dots were. But even from such a long distance, they could see that black-red energy liquid was constantly flowing back and forth in the giant infusion tube that was pierced into the ground.

The four of them couldn't help but stop. They were shocked by this strange and cyberpunk scene. They looked at the "giant tree" that exuded a ferocious aura from a distance and did not dare to approach it for a while.

"Is this a palace?" Luffy asked.

"No." Wu Sheng said. He had already confirmed it with Eliger in his mind: "This is the 'transmission network' site of the criminal world, which is also the real subway station."

"Subway station? What station is this?"

"Maybe it's the station near the school." Wu Sheng suppressed the turbulent emotions in his heart and said, "We will eat here to restore our soul power, and there may be a battle later. And this matter is a bit complicated, just a few words I can’t speak clearly.”

"it is good."

It's almost 6 o'clock and it's dinner time now, and everyone is a little hungry.

So the four of them sat on the floor, took out the energy drinks and bread from their backpacks, and started eating.

Wu Sheng repeated Eligo's explanation while everyone was eating:

“We all know that the realm of sin is born out of the negative consciousness of all humans.

Usually our schools, homes, and shopping streets are filled with a happy and relaxed atmosphere, which generates relatively little negative consciousness. So we will see that schools correspond to oases in the criminal world, and of course the same will probably be true for residential areas and commercial streets.

In the world of sin, which is hundreds of times larger than the earth, every negative consciousness gathering place is far away from each other. Just like in reality, we can reach the school within 5 minutes of walking from the subway. Here, it takes almost 1 An hour and a half, and we were still driving at a high speed.

Of course, this is not the point.

The point is, the subway, as a transportation network for modern people, transports an excess number of people every day. People take the subway to and from work and to get out of class.

People’s resentments arising from their lives gather in the subway every day, day after day, year after year, thus forming a huge ‘transmission network’ of negative consciousness in the world of crime.

And this scarlet tree is a small station. The energy in those giant infusion tubes is the resentment generated by negative consciousness. "

"Then why don't some office buildings form this kind of thing? Those places seem to be more likely to generate negative consciousness and resentment, right?" Nami asked.

Wu Sheng took a bite of bread and replied:

"Because they are very busy at work and have no time to complain. Only during the time before and after get off work, in the subway, do people have time to complain in their hearts about their day's life.

Therefore, most of the concentrated outbreak of negative consciousness has formed these outlets. "

"That's it." Nami nodded, understanding deeply. Because she was hurt by cold violence and rumors, she also had a lot of resentment in the subway during class: she didn't want to escape from school, and felt that life was boring. Discouragement, a hopeless fear of the future.

"Well, there are many such sites in the Sin World. We can also use this site to quickly travel to other areas of the Sin World." Wu Sheng said, "If we don't go to this site and walk on our own, we will probably have to walk a lot. It takes half a year to get to the next stop.”

"What's inside the site? Are there any monsters?" Zoro was curious.

Wu Sheng pointed at the ferocious red giant tree: "Of course there are. The monsters inside are the essence of human consciousness. Have you seen the red dots shining on those branches?"

"Hmm, you see, those are monsters?!" Nami was shocked, looking at the shining red dots like stars. At first glance, they seemed to be densely packed into a red light.

"No." Wu Sheng sighed and shook his head.

"Oh, that's okay..." Nami patted her chest.

The other two were a little disappointed.

"Those are BOSS-level monsters..." Wu Sheng said solemnly to Nami, "The worst ones in terms of combat power are above the monsters formed by Aaron."

!!!

"Hiss!!" Nami opened her eyes, her pupils dilated, and took a breath.

Luffy and Zoro were also shocked by this information for a moment.

"Are we still close to that site?"

“Is this true at every site?”

"How many sites like this are there in the Sin World?"

Nami asked a series of questions and seemed to see countless tentacle monsters like Aaron rushing towards her.

Wu Sheng pressed his hands forward and made a calm gesture: "You continue to listen to me."

“Aaron’s glutton just drained the resentment and soul power generated by the negative consciousness of the total number of people in our school every day.

How many people are there in our school? The total population of the Tokyo metropolitan area is nearly 4000 million!

The subway carries tens of millions of people every day. Under the resentment generated by this level of negative consciousness, Aaron is really not worth mentioning. "

The three of them compared it and found that it was indeed the case, so they nodded one after another.

At this time, compared to Wu Sheng, who was calm but hiding excitement, the three of them had different expressions:

Nami was worried, but Luffy was indifferent.

Sauron's eyes were shining, and there were as many monsters as stars, and there were countless battles to improve his swordsmanship.

Seeing that none of them showed fear or flinching, Wu Sheng nodded slightly and secretly sighed that they were indeed the Straw Hats, and continued: "The difference between these monsters and Aaron is..."

As he spoke, he paused, clapped his hands, and called back the attention of the three of them: "What's different from Aaron! They are not gluttons or monsters born in the palace.

They are born in the collective consciousness of the masses! They come from the myths and weirdness recognized and believed in the public consciousness: God! Buddha! monster! Angel! The legendary elf! Heroes in history! "

"What's more important!! As long as our will is recognized by them, they, like Rakshasa, can join us and become our partners!!"