Pirates: The wages are in place and the Yonko will be kicked out.

Luffy, who was approaching the building, looked left and right, and even used his Haki to sense it - "How strange, where is the entrance? There is no handle or keyhole on this door!"

"Rather than a door, this is more like a stone wall to prevent intruders from entering. The three sides other than the front of the building are cliffs, and there is no entrance."

Nami analyzed carefully.

"Grandpa Long, did you remember anything when you saw this building?"

Without considering destroying and forcing their way into the building, the only thing the group could rely on was Grandpa Long's memory. However, Grandpa Long just stared straight at the building, and then took a gentle breath.

"Huh? What? Did you remember something, Grandpa Long?"

Ah, ah sneeze——!

It wasn't that he remembered something - this old thousand-year-old dragon suddenly sneezed loudly for no reason. Abis was blown away by the airflow and fell to the ground.

"You sneezed! Looks like you remembered it!"

Chopper said loudly.

But Grandpa Long said nothing and lay down on the truck again and fell asleep.

At this moment, Abis, who got up from the ground, suddenly felt a vibration coming from below.

"Earthquake!?"

As soon as Abis finished speaking, there was a sound under everyone's feet. The ground began to collapse instantly, and the surrounding stone steps also collapsed in sequence.

Rumble…

"Whoaaah!"

Luffy and others, along with the truck, also fell into the cave hidden underground as the truck collapsed.

The dust rose high, and Abis held her head tightly in fear. Fortunately, Nami took out the weather stick in time and used the wind shell device in it to create a layer of wind under everyone. Cushion.

Everyone landed smoothly, and their eyes became brighter.

"We! Still alive!"

Chopper said tremblingly.

"Ah! It's so sudden! Why did it suddenly start to collapse?"

"It seems to be because of Grandpa Long's sneezing."

Luffy and Nami's voices also came over, and Abis finally opened her eyes. Grandpa Long, who was riding in the truck, followed everyone to the bottom of the cave. He didn't understand what happened and lay there blankly.

"Anyway, it looks like he entered the building."

Sanji moved away the tree roots that were pressing on him and stood up.

"Haha! Correct answer!"

Luffy raised his thumb and Sanji shrugged helplessly.

"But what exactly is this place? It doesn't seem to be an ordinary cave!"

Frankie dusted himself off and stood up.

In the huge underground cave, there is only a faint light from the patio, but the light is dim. In front of Abis, there was a huge stone wall. This is a part of the building that seems to have fallen with the collapse.

What's going on...dragon?

Like the stone gate just now, there is also a brightly colored dragon painted on the stone wall.

Abis raised her head: "Could this be..."

The vaulted patios of cathedral-like buildings are decorated with patio paintings. Although you can see some peeling off in some places from time to time, unlike the paintings on the stone wall just now, these paintings are as if they were just painted on with paint.

"It's probably because there is no corrosion from the outside air!" Nami looked at it carefully.

"It's amazing! What a big painting!"

Luffy was babbling as usual, mindlessly.

"But what kind of painting is this? And, where is this place? Isn't this the Dragon's Nest?"

Contrary to the excited Luffy, Sanji crossed his arms and looked puzzled: "I don't know why, I feel a religious emotion."

In the center of the painting is a sun, moon, stars and other spheres moving around. This celestial body goes around like a wheel. On one of the spheres are the sea and the land, which is where humans live.

"Sanji and I agree."

"Right! Nami!"

"We deliberately built such a building on the top of the mountain and sealed the entrance with a stone door. It can be seen that this is a temple or something else. In short, it is a very sacred place for the residents of the island."

"Grandpa Long said he didn't remember such a building."

"Still can't help at all!"

"What are you talking about! Then Luffy, did you help me in any way?"

"I'm the captain! Of course I don't have to help!"

Luffy was talking very violently like a pirate captain, but his attention was immediately diverted by a part of the patio painting: "Look, there are many sparrows flying up there!"

"Luffy, that's a dragon!"

Chopper corrected.

"Wait...that should be a certain island. Isn't that the island?"

After Nami said it, everyone saw that it was the current island.

"It's true! It looks very similar to this building!"

Abis saw a white building on the top of the green mountain on the right. Around the building, there are paintings of many people worshiping devoutly.

"This means that the people depicted around the building should be the residents who once lived on the island. They are facing in the same direction and worshiping something."

Move your gaze to the left of the crowd of worshipers.

"Dragon! There are many dragons...!"

Here is a group of thousand-year-old dragons that Luffy mistakenly mistook as sparrows. The stone wall that fell next to Abis just now should have fallen from there.

"In other words... the residents who once lived on this island thought that the Millennium Dragon was a kind of sacred creature, so they began to worship them. Therefore, many dragon statues were built, and also specially built We built such a temple to worship the Millennium Dragon."

“And if we follow this line of thought and the map on the patio painting is from a long time ago, then the Dragon’s Nest where the Millennium Dragons gather should be in the direction that people face when they worship. However, the shape of the island where the dragons are located... "

"Wait! What is that?"

Franky yelled after hearing what Nami said.

In the direction where the worshipers are facing, the Millennium Dragon gathers there. The mountain is shaped like a group of dragons, like a sailboat sailing in the sea.

"Battleship Island?!"

"It's really Battleship Island! If you look at it from the map, the Dragon's Nest should be near Abis' hometown!"

"Wait a mininute!"

Zoro interjected, "If the Dragon's Nest is near Battleship Island, then why does Grandpa Long say he wants to return to his hometown?"

"I mean if it's as indicated on the patio painting."

"Yes! You simple-minded green algae head, listen to Nami!" Sanji ruthlessly took away the private goods.

"Hey, curly eyebrows, who are you talking about..."

"Hey, everyone, look at that painting again. If you look carefully, don't you think there's something wrong?"

This time it was Abis who discovered the problem.

"What's wrong? Abis."

"Look! This island extends all the way to the vicinity of Battleship Island, doesn't it?"

"Really, really!"

The circular patio is very high and the light is dim, so it looks very laborious. Despite this, it is still possible to see the existence of an island as big as a continent on the patio painting. The island with the white buildings is actually not an island, but a mountain.

"Judging from the buildings and roads that sank into the sea when we stopped the ship, it turns out that this island sank for some reason a long time ago. It must have been a very big island before. Maybe it was as big as Alabasta. maybe!"

Nami has entered the "detective's reasoning" state——

"The coastline of this big island once extended to the vicinity of the small Battleship Island, so the place where the Millennium Dragons live should be in the strait between the big island and the small island!"

"That is to say, it is impossible to find the Dragon's Nest on this island!"

"Nami?"

"Judging from that map, the Dragon's Nest should go west from here, that is, on the sea near Battleship Island!"

"Wait wait wait wait!"

Luffy, who had never been good at such complicated thinking, opened his eyes wide. He was completely confused. "I still don't understand. In this way, Battleship Island is the Lost Island? Is the legend told by Grandpa Boku false? "

"It's not false. Battleship Island and this island are both Lost Islands."

"Why?"

"Didn't Grandpa Boku say that the Lost Island sank into the sea when it was very prosperous? The descendants of the royal family on the island moved to Battleship Island and continued their lives. The ancient legends passed down orally and It is common for the facts to have some small differences, such as the Crown Island we visited before, and this patio painting has made the facts clear."

"In other words, this island and Battleship Island are both named Lost Island, right?"

"That's right! Sanji. This is what's left of the sunken continent called the Lost Island! Both this place and Battleship Island were once high mountains on this continent, but now only the top part remains and has become an island!"

"Grandpa Long!"

Abis looked at Grandpa Long's face.

"The Dragon's Nest is near Battleship Island, right? Even if you said it was in the direction of the rising sun!"

At this time, the glazed birds that Abis had encountered while going up the mountain flew in through the small hole where the sunlight came in, and screamed loudly in the hall where the light beam shone.

Abis noticed Grandpa Long looking at the birds.

A glazed bird with glazed wings - it has the same brightly colored wings as the thousand-year-old dragon on the patio painting.

What exactly happened?

Abis asked Grandpa Long.

At this time, the birds began to fly around on the patio painting. Head west from the top of the mountain with the white domed temple, and fly straight forward until you reach the sea marked on the mark, which is Battleship Island.

"I remembered!"

"Abis? What's wrong?"

"Grandpa Long said that just like the painting on the patio, to the east of Battleship Island, where the sun rises, is the Dragon's Nest! Once in a thousand years, the thousand-year dragons will gather on the sea here to meet their king!"

Abis conveyed Grandpa Long’s original words directly to everyone.

"I'm really sorry! I made everyone come here for a place that has already sunk into the sea, and I wasted a lot of time! I'm so sorry!"

"It's okay, I just walked a little bit!"

Sanji said this, and Nami also pretended to sigh, "Yes! My life seems to have been taking detours since I boarded Luffy's pirate ship!"

"Everyone……?"

"And isn't it nice to have taken a detour here?"

Zoro said coolly.

"Hey, Zoro, your detour is just because you got lost!"

The Lost King was ridiculed mercilessly by Franky - Sanji and others also winked.

".Thank you all very much!"

Abis's heart was filled with warmth, and she expressed her truest feelings to these best companions who had given her courage and found ways to ease her guilt. At this time, Abis also understood more clearly how Grandpa Long felt when he said thank you to everyone during the journey.

She looked at Grandpa Long again. At this moment, Grandpa Long was looking up at the birds flying on the patio.

What do those glazed birds mean to Grandpa Long? Abis suddenly understood.

They are friends!

Grandpa Long once saw the thousand-year dragons flying in the sky, and now, Grandpa Long sees them again! Unknowingly, tears flashed in its old eyes.

...I want to go home!

"Grandpa Long, I will not give up!" Abis said loudly, "I have made an appointment with you. I will definitely find the Dragon's Nest!"

"That's right, Abis, this is the momentum! Alright! Let's go! Let's go to Battleship Island!"

Luffy shook his fist.

"There's no need to leave in such a hurry," Nami took out the phone. "Before I leave, I have to take pictures of these things. General Porusalino might be useful. These murals are really interesting. People care!”

"Then let's take advantage of Nami..."

The birds suddenly screamed loudly and flew out of the cave entrance in a swarm, interrupting Sanji's original plan to prepare a picnic for everyone on the spot.

"Someone is coming!"

Abis heard the warning sounds of the birds, and Zoro and others' Haki sensed the undisguised hostility in time.

Whizzing!

Franky's highly modified body was cut open twice silently.

"Hahahaha, thank you for leading the way! Pirates, thanks to you, we found the Dragon's Nest and this island!"

Along with such a sound, the figures of two men appeared at the entrance of the patio.

ps: In fact, if you pay attention to One Piece information and follow the comics, you will know that the conflict between the huge kingdom and the world government is likely to be the conflict between the "heliocentric theory" and the "geocentric theory" - after the names of the five old stars are announced, In fact, they are also the five planets!

ps: So the story of the Millennium Dragon is not just as simple as the original plot!