【One Piece】Painter

"What the hell is that guy doing? It's already dawn, it's already morning! He's 46 minutes past the agreed time. How can he catch up with the current? No, it must be that the weight of the gold nuggets on the return trip is too heavy."

Nami walked around anxiously, "You don't even consider this to go and settle the accounts with others. That guy has no brains at all!"

"He doesn't know how to calculate how long it will take." Usopp corrected, and Sanji nodded, "One hundred percent."

"Will something happen in the town?" Chopper asked worriedly. I was taking pictures of the Golden Merli with wings and a comb. I patted his hat when I heard this, "Don't worry, Luffy is I won’t lose to that kind of person.”

"Hey--"

Luffy's voice came from far away. He was holding up a unicorn, "Look, it's Helix! It took me a long time to catch it!"

……

"Listen up! It's 7 a.m. now, and based on the current speed, it's estimated to be 11 a.m. when we get to that current!"

"The position of the bottom-up current is different every time it breaks out, so we must arrive in advance so that we have time to accurately detect its location!"

The two ships escorting the Mellie shouted, and while the ship was sailing, I tied all the paintings and tools with ropes to prevent them from being damaged when the ship flew away.

"Boss, it's bad! The night is coming from the southwest, it's Ji Diyun!"

"Really? What time is it!"

"10 a.m.! Showed up earlier than scheduled!!"

"The exploration submarine is dispatched and goes to the sea immediately to explore the position of the current!"

Listening to the roar outside, I walked to the deck and looked to the southwest. Sure enough, there were huge cumulus clouds covering that area of ​​the sky like darkness.

"A large current appeared at 12 o'clock!"

"A huge creature was detected at 9 o'clock, it should be a sea king type!"

"At 10 o'clock, there is a wave in the opposite direction to the current, which is probably a huge vortex!"

"That's it!" the orangutan roared, "Turn the rudder to 10 o'clock. That's the precursor to the explosion. You can't retreat when heading towards that vortex!!"

The waves suddenly surged, "This is the foreshock of the explosion, everyone, be careful!!"

We were sucked into the huge whirlpool, and then the eye of the whirlpool disappeared, and the sea became calm for a moment.

"What's going on? Why did such a big Uzumaki Eye disappear?" Usopp looked around, and Nami looked horrified. "The underwater explosion started, so the Uzumaki Eye temporarily disappeared from the bottom of the sea."

"Nani!!"

Suddenly, a man came over by boat with a big smile. It was the old man who ate cherry pie in Moku Town. He shouted, "I finally caught up with you, Straw Hat Boy."

"I'm here to take your head worth 100 million beli, please wake up!!"

"Why is my head worth 100 million beli?" Luffy asked in confusion. The black-haired man took out a bounty ticket and said, "Your head is now worth 100 million beli. The announcement has been made."

"And pirate hunter Zoro, your bounty is 6 million beli!"

Usopp held the telescope, "It's true, it's a new reward order, and Zoro has become a wanted criminal."

"It must be because of the incident in Alabasta that the bounty was so high all of a sudden. It actually soared to 100 million beli..." Nami said with disbelief in her tone.

Luffy cheered: "Yahhoo - 100 million Baileys, do you hear that? I am 100 million Baileys!!"

Zoro also smiled, "Only 6 million is not enough, haha."

Nami growled with fangs: "What's so fun!"

"Everyone grab the hull or enter the cabin!!!"

Sanji shouted, I hugged the mast nearby, the current rose a little, and just when we thought it was a squib, the ship suddenly shot up into the sky. I could only hold on to the railing tightly to prevent myself from falling. .

The boat flew up along the water column, and many things fell down. They should all be victims of the current from bottom to top.

"Set the sail immediately and move quickly!"

Nami shouted, "This is the sea, not an ordinary water column, it is a current rising into the sky, and the wind blowing up from below is the updraft generated by the explosion of geothermal heat and steam on the seabed."

"Since the target is the wind and the sea, I can sail it. Who is the navigator of this ship?" Nami shouted.

"It's Nami!!"

Being smart, I had already untied the sail rope when Nami gave the first order.

"Now put the starboard side into the wind, turn the rudder to the left immediately, and try to make the hull match the current!"

"Follow orders!!"

……

I coughed out the salty sea water in my mouth, got up and looked around.

“Everyone, look outside the boat!!”

Luffy shouted excitedly, I rubbed my eyes, we were above a sea of ​​white clouds.

"So we are on the Sora Sea now." Nami concluded, she showed the record pointer, "But you see, the record pointer is still pointing up."

"It looks like this is the middle level of the Cloud Seedii Cloud." Robin said, leaning on the railing of the ship. Chopper sat next to her and asked, "Does this mean we have to continue walking? How?"

Robin spread his hands: "I don't know about that."

Usopp was so brave that he jumped into the Sora Sea and swam, but Usopp did not come up after diving for a long time.

A drop of cold sweat fell from Robin's forehead, "I was wondering if there would be an ocean bottom here..."

"Did that idiot fall from the clouds?" Zoro woke up the dreamer by saying, well... what pattern should be painted on Usopp's tombstone?

Luffy reached into the sea of ​​clouds and pulled Uso up with Robin's cooperation.

Hmm... How should I say, I haven't painted anyone's tombstone yet.

But Usopp was followed by huge deep-sea animals. Zoro drew his sword and hit the octopus's tentacles, and the tentacles exploded.

After some activities, Zoro was out of breath: "It's really hard to breathe here."

At this time, a man wearing a strange mask was gliding in the sea of ​​clouds and soon approached our ship.

He jumped onto the deck and quickly knocked down Luffy, Sanji and Zoro. He jumped up and was about to fire a cannon to sink the Merry, but a man in armor fell from the sky and knocked him into the sea of ​​clouds.

"What? Who is it this time!" Nami shouted in collapse.

"I am the Sky Knight." The old man in armor said, and Nami frowned, "What is going on? Who is that guy? And..."

She glanced at a certain three people who were panting and exhausted and said, "And what kind of plane are you planning? It's really useless. Three of them were beaten to pieces even with their hands."

"Thank you for saving us, thank you." Chopper bowed to the Sky Knight, and the Sky Knight turned around, "Well, this is a free service."

"So you still need money..." I complained slightly.

"I always feel that my body is weird and I can't feel energetic." Luffy lay on the deck panting heavily. Robin guessed: "It must be because the air is too thin."

"Are you from Qinghai?" Sky Knight asked, and Nami repeated in confusion: "Are you from Qinghai?"

"By the way, who are you?"

"I am the Sky Knight. The so-called Qinghai people refer to the people who live under the clouds. Does that mean you are from the blue sea?"

"Ah, that's right," Luffy said.

"That's right. This is the 'White Sea' located at a height of 7000 meters above Qinghai. In addition, the 'White Sea' higher up reaches a height of 1 meters. The bodies of ordinary Qinghai people cannot bear it."

As soon as they finished speaking, Luffy and the others patted their bodies and sat up, "Yo Xi, I'm getting used to it."

"Speaking of which, why was that guy able to glide on the sea just now?" Chopper asked, and the Sky Knight raised his hand, "Wait a minute, I know you have a lot of questions, but can you talk about our business first?"

"Business?"

"To tell you the truth, I am a mercenary. This is a very dangerous sea area. For those who are not familiar with air combat, they will be attacked by guerrillas like just now and become food for empty fish."

"So if you whistle 500 million Ik, I will come to your rescue."

Everyone looked at him outside: "What are you talking about, uncle?"

The Sky Knight waved his hands in panic, "My price is already very cheap, don't bargain with me, I won't even lower it by 1 ik! Don't embarrass me, I also want to live!"

"But uncle, what is that Ike? What does the whistle mean?" I asked, and the Sky Knight said strangely: "Didn't you rush down from the top of the high-speed air road? Then you will pass at least one on the way. Two islands, maybe.”

"Wait a minute!" Nami said excitedly, "It sounds like there are other ways to get to this empty island?"