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The excitement of entering the Grand Line had not yet dissipated from Ace. Kos and Deus looked at each other and nodded.

Then Deus took out a nautical chart from his arms and spread it out on the deck. He also sat cross-legged on the deck.

"What is going to be said next is particularly important."

Deus pointed to a small dot next to the long red strip on the chart that represented the Red Earth Continent and said,

“This is where we are now.”

Then his finger moved forward and lightly tapped the seven islands that were almost lined up.

"We will choose one of these seven islands as our starting point on the Grand Line."

"Hey! So there is such a thing?"

Ace looked at the chart on the deck in surprise, and then sat down cross-legged.

Kosi didn't want to talk to him at all. After all, if someone dares to go out to sea on a small sampan, you don't have to expect him to understand the precautions of the Grand Line.

But perhaps out of a tacit understanding, even though Kos didn't say anything, Ace still felt the contempt from his companions.

"Aren't you and Deus here? So everything is fine."

Ace showed a hearty smile.

However, Cos and Deus were tired of seeing this smile, which meant that they didn't know how to be armed and domineering, otherwise they would definitely let Ace know how deep the crew's "love" was for the idiot captain.

"Once a route is selected, it cannot be changed easily. You can only follow the point of the record pointer and move forward one island after another."

Deus brought the topic back to the discussion of routes.

"So the decision we make now will affect the rest of our journey."

"Why half?"

Michal curiously raised his doubts,

"Didn't you say that once you make a choice, you can't change it easily?"

"Let Cos explain this issue!"

Deus pointed at Cos. His own understanding of the Grand Line was actually limited to the first half, and he knew almost nothing about the second half.

“Because these seven routes will all converge here.”

Kos moved his finger to the location of the Shampoo Islands on the chart.

"After coating here, we will dive to Fishman Island, and then pass through the red earth continent through the undersea tunnel to the new world in the second half of the Grand Line. Of course, that is not what we need to consider now."

Kos moved his finger back to the location of the initial islands of the seven routes.

"It's better to decide quickly which route to take!"

“Which route is the most interesting?”

Ace stared at Kos, his face full of anticipation.

"how could I know!"

Kos rolled his eyes at Ace, thinking that he really thought of himself as a know-it-all.

Kos himself also knew some of the more well-known settings and the islands that Luffy passed along the way.

"So which one should I choose?"

Ace stared at the chart spread out on the deck, looking at the seven starting islands hesitantly.

"But I can rule out one route. It's best not to choose this island."

Kos's finger landed on the Whiskey Peak, and then moved back along the route,

"The island next to this island is called Little Garden, and it takes a year for the recording needle there to register the magnetism of the next island."

The reason why Cos didn't want to take this route was of course that he was likely to meet Crocodile on the way forward, but he couldn't say it clearly, otherwise Ace's character would definitely prefer to go to the mountain with tigers knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, so he There was only one other reason to prevent Ace from choosing this route, and he didn't lie. It was also true that the recording pointer of the small garden would take a year to complete the recording.

"One year is indeed too long. If we are trapped there, we might be caught up by Luffy."

Sure enough, Ace accepted Cos' statement and gave up the idea of ​​choosing this route.

But Cos didn't notice that Deus started to tremble with excitement after he said the name "Little Garden".

"Is the little garden the little garden? That island where dinosaurs and giants are said to live."

Deus couldn't help but grab Kos's shoulder, and asked almost out of control.

"Eh!"

Seeing the strange state of Deus, Cos was stunned for a while, and then remembered that Deus seemed to have said something like this before Chapter 67 - "I want to see the island where giants and dinosaurs live; floating on the The island in the sky above the clouds; the fish-man island where the mermaids live.”

The island where giants and dinosaurs live is a small garden!

"Miscalculated."

Kos sighed secretly.

"Dinosaur! Giant!"

Ace's eyes turned into sparkling stars, then he grabbed Cos's other shoulder and asked excitedly,

"Really? Really? Are there really dinosaurs on that island?"

"Do dinosaurs still exist?"

Even Michal seemed interested.

Kos held his forehead, a look of despair on his face.

"Why did this happen?"

Judging from the attitude of the current members on the ship, it can be said that heading to the small garden is a certainty.

So he stopped being secretive.

"Yes, there are ancient creatures such as dinosaurs and saber-toothed tigers in the small garden, and there are also giants there, but there are only two of them. They have been fighting on that island for nearly a hundred years."

"It really does exist, that's great."

After receiving Kos's affirmative answer, Deus smiled reassuringly and moved.

Ace jumped three feet high, then sat down and tapped the chart and said, "As expected, let's take this route! There are dinosaurs here! Dinosaurs."

"So that's the decision?"

Kos looked around. Although he was a little reluctant, there was nothing he could do if everyone else agreed.

And if you think about it from a slightly different angle, although there is a possibility of encountering Crocodile on this route, the dangers that may be encountered along the way can also be roughly foreseen.

Maybe compared to choosing an unknown route, this route that seems to be the most dangerous may actually be the safest.

"But didn't you say that the record pointer on that island would take a year to clear? Is that okay?"

Michal interjected slightly worriedly.

"It would be nice if there was a permanent pointer."

Deus looked troubled,

"But I haven't found any place to sell it in Rogge Town. It would be troublesome if there is no permanent pointer on the island in front of the small garden."

"Don't worry, there is definitely a permanent pointer on that island."

Cos is absolutely certain of this.

That island is a gathering place for pirate hunters. It is impossible for them to stay on that island forever, but they can only go to the small garden by relying on the general recording pointer, so there is definitely a permanent pointer there.

"But it's not necessarily where it will point?"

After all, pirate hunters go to the naval base to exchange for bounties after hunting pirates, so nine times out of ten, the permanent pointer there points to an island with a naval base.

Kos realized that it seemed that he would not necessarily meet Crocodile in this case, and he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

"No problem, as long as there is a permanent pointer to determine the direction, just use it as an ordinary compass."

Deus patted his chest and assured,

"Although I am only a half-baked navigator, I will never let everyone get lost at sea."

"Then it's decided."

Ace burned with joy (physics), then suddenly thought of something, looked at Kos,

"Since you know there is a permanent pointer, why were you so opposed to taking this route before?"

"Tsk—"

Kos turned his head away guiltily.

"Why are you so sharp all of a sudden?"

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The fgo national server has ushered in another wave of vertical painting and name changes. The humble mobile game players have already become numb.

But what is interesting is that the blackbeard Edward Teach was changed into Eddie Sage. Teach took away Sage's name (life), and Oda's prophet was once again confirmed (convinced).