It must be a special fate.
A month ago in the East China Sea, he was punched inexplicably and sent to the Navy branch. After finally escaping, Bucky figured out the key to a treasure map he had obtained before. In order to avoid the bastard who captured him, Bucky took his men with him. They climbed over the Upside Down Mountain and entered the Grand Line. They basically didn’t stop except for supplies along the way. They had just arrived at Vera Island for one day!
So we met again? Did this bastard come with our ship? !
Bucky, who valued the treasure more than his life, immediately decided to fight for it. Half a minute later, Bucky, who was carrying a big bag of the same size as Big Red Nose on his head, felt that life was more important.
Li Ji, the group's pet lion, sat obediently and was being petted by Ji Xing, while Bucky and the crew stood in line in front of Ji Xing as if they had lost their souls.
Ji Xing smiled and asked, "Who is John?"
Bucky rolled his eyes and looked at the sky, and after two seconds he replied with a guilty look on his face: "No one, no one. An ordinary pirate from a long time ago. I happened to get his treasure map and happened to pass by Vera..."
"Really?" Ji Xing said, "How do I remember that Captain John was a famous pirate decades ago? Did I remember it wrong?"
"Hahaha..." Bucky laughed dryly: "I remember it wrong, I remembered it wrong. How could the big pirate's treasure map fall into my hands so easily?"
"You are not an ordinary person. The Four Emperors Shanks are your good friends." Ji Xing said with a smile.
Yes, yes... this bastard mentioned Shanks last time... Bucky's expression froze, but the crew members blinked and their expressions suddenly brightened.
"Yonko? Red-haired Shanks?!"
"Captain Bucky is actually his friend?"
"No wonder you are so familiar with the Grand Line!"
Bucky could tell from their eyes that they hoped that they would stop hiding their clumsiness and hurry up and kill the guy in front of them... so they were given a heavy hammer by the irritated Bucky.
"It's always Tishanks, are you a friend of Shanks?" Then he said to Ji Xing fiercely: "That bastard asked you to deal with me? Damn it! Next time I see him, I will definitely..."
"Do you think you'll live to see him?"
"..." Bucky's face turned green instantly, and his subordinates hugged each other and trembled as if teleporting.
Ji Xing laughed and stopped teasing him. Although Bucky was not a good person, he was not at the point where he needed to draw a knife and kill him. Then he would be sent to the branch where he could not escape.
After thinking for a while, Ji Xing said again: "Where is Captain John's treasure map? Show it to me. I don't think there is a treasure underground here."
Bucky breathed a sigh of relief and reluctantly took out a piece of brown paper from his arms. After all, he had been digging here for a long time and found nothing. Maybe I haven't figured it out yet...
Ji Xing took the picture and took a look at it. The abstract sea current annotations and various unique markings could be understood by only John himself, and probably only Bucky, a treasure-digging expert, could understand it. Ji Xing studied it for a long time. I didn’t see the word Vera either.
'If you can't find it, why don't you take a trip to the Devil's Triangle? I remember that Captain John's body seemed to have been made into a zombie by the Shichibukai Moonlight Moria... Do you still have any memories of his life? After all, he is the King of the Shichibukai...'
Captain John is not an ordinary person. He was once on Rocks' ship, and he was a companion with interests in common with Whitebeard, Big Mom, and Kaido. This man's treasure was mentioned more than once in the original work, and there is probably some good stuff. It’s not surprising to save a few good Devil Fruits!
"Bucky, you can't grasp this treasure. I'll keep the treasure map for you first." Ji Xing picked up the treasure map and said, "You think it's underground? Then step aside and let me take a look. look."
Bucky cursed a thousand times in his mind in an instant, but his body moved away obediently. Look, what do you want to do, dig in the soil with a shovel... Huh? !
Seven or eight pairs of eyes flew out of their sockets, and the lion, Bucky and others were so frightened that their hair exploded.
Ji Xing, who walked into the courtyard, raised his sword above his head and slashed hard. In an instant, it was like ten thousand swords were fired. Countless swords and sword shadows fell vertically from above, and the ground rumbled and exploded!
The courtyard walls and huts that had long been in ruins shook and collapsed, and smoke and dust rose into the sky. The ground overturned, and a huge pit appeared that was too deep to bottom!
Ji Xing looked down and shook his head. Sure enough, things like that in Alabasta could never happen again. How could he find another treasure so easily?
He turned to the people sitting on the ground and said: "It seems there is no one here. Is there any other suspicious location? Let me turn the whole village over and have a look?"
Bucky shook his head blankly, there was no need... this bastard... the moment he raised the knife, he looked like Captain Roger. What happened? !
Ji Xing looked around thoughtfully: "Why do you think the treasure is in this deserted village? Looking at it, the village has been deserted for almost ten years, and there should be people living there for more than ten years. Could it be that John would let the villagers Move away, bury the treasure, and then let them move it back?”
Bucky was startled, and his flying right fist hit his left palm hard. Yes, I am in a hurry to hunt for treasures, why did I forget such a thing? !
So in this case... He subconsciously glanced at the woods in the southeast, then quickly looked back, laughing and said: "Yes, yes, I must have read the wrong picture this time..."
"That forest? Let's go take a look."
Ji Xing turned around and left. Bucky's face suddenly darkened. He shook his head sadly at his subordinates, motioning for them to follow him. He gestured hard twice behind Ji Xing. Seeing Ji Xing turn around, he immediately pulled out the human and animal parts. Harmless clown smiley face.
The forest to the southeast of the deserted village is not small. It is somewhat like the forest on Hatchinos Island. It grows on the beach. If the population was large, it would have been cut down and turned into a village. But in the current situation of Vera, it is naturally allowed to grow freely. .
After walking in, the environment is really dark.
Ji Xing tilted his head and said: "By the way, Bucky, have you heard of the ghost legends on Vera Island? Have you seen any ghosts?"
Bucky paused: "Of course! That's a super scary, super scary ghost! And I like the most powerful men, like you..."
"Hey - Captain, you, you don't seem to have said that before. It's really, really weird..."
"...Idiot?! I scared him!"
"He, he's not scared at all... But, but now I..." Mochi, Bucky's deputy captain, trembled with the lion close to him and looked around at the gloomy trees. Suddenly, he felt the lion's hair explode and let out a strange sound. The terrified child screamed and jumped into Bucky's arms!
"You idiot..."
Bucky was about to curse when he suddenly saw Ji Xing turn his head and said with a smile: "The ghost is really here. I found it right after I landed on the island. I'm really lucky this time."
"...Eh?!" The Bucky Pirates immediately hugged each other: "Quick, look at Li Ji's feet..."
I saw something like a rattan protruding from the feet of the lion Liji, encircling its four hooves, and the tip pierced into the flesh, just like pumping blood vessels. Liji's life force was flowing out quickly, and his strength was disappearing quickly, and he was frightened. He screamed, but couldn't. The lion's face was full of expressions asking Ji Xing for help.
Ji Xing drew his knife and made a sword. The branches on Liji's four hooves were all broken, and his body fell down. Ji Xing then looked to the east and slashed with his knife!
"There are no ghosts, only people pretending to be ghosts."
Click——
The huge flying slash cut off more than a dozen trees blocking the front in an instant!
A hundred meters away, a man half lying on a tree showed a look of astonishment on his face and stretched out his right hand.
The five fingers of his right hand stretched and lengthened, turning into branches and spreading. The next moment, they were covered with flowing armed domineering energy, and he slashed at Ji Xing!
Boom - the two collided, huge power and shock waves burst out, and the big trees with a radius of tens of meters exploded, turning into broken wood branches and scattering. The turmoil was like the sky exploding with a burst of thunder!
The big tree under the man also exploded to pieces, but he received Ji Xing's blow without any damage. He landed steadily on the ground and looked over in surprise.
"Hey, here comes a guy who is not weak. It seems that it is not that easy to taste the taste of the rare beast lion today." He smiled.
Ji Xing also smiled and flashed.
The distance of a hundred meters was instantly covered, and the blade was wrapped with armed domineering energy!
"wait--"
The expression of the man who was originally smiling suddenly changed. He clenched his right hand into a fist, and his arm turned into a wooden hammer, shrouding the armed tassel, and swung it towards the falling black blade!
boom--
An even more violent vibrating sound exploded, and the center of the collision almost lost its light for a moment. In the next moment, a vast white light spread, crushing the broken wood and rocks into sand and dust, and the clouds in the sky began to roll and scatter!
The aftermath of the majestic power overturned the land within a hundred meters radius. Bucky and others who were still confused in the distance were blown away and rolled far away in confusion.
"Then, who is that guy?!"
After Bucky stabilized himself, he screamed in his heart. He hadn't seen a fight of this level in many years. He lay on the ground and looked up cautiously. Suddenly, he felt something wrong with the touch on his hand and lowered his head.
A skull stared back at him.
"Wow-" Bucky jumped up in fright.
In the deep pit created by the collision center, Ji Xing looked around at the numerous broken bones, and thought to himself: It seems that there are no treasures in this forest, only people who were buried and drained by ghosts.
He looked at the 'ghost' on the opposite side, who hurriedly took the knife from him and only took a few steps back. The exploded arm was still intact as if it were spinning.
Ji Xing already knew who he was.
The man opposite had a look of astonishment on his face: "The strongest man I've ever seen...who are you?"
"Holo, the world's greatest swordsman."
"...Huh? Isn't the world's greatest swordsman Hawkeye Mihawk?" the man asked strangely.
"I'm new."
"...Hahahaha, no wonder." The man laughed and shook his restored arm.
He has unkempt, messy black hair. He is tall and strong, and his eyebrows are very unique, like two upside-down hooks. He looks pretty good overall, but his lips are slightly thick, which makes his facial features look a bit ugly when he smiles.
"I am Huang Mu. I just wanted to taste the precious lion. Since there is a strong man like you here, let's forget it, hahaha..."
Speaking of the name Aramu, many people may be unfamiliar with it, but Green Niu is familiar with it.
In the original work, three years later, the navy will conduct a global conscription due to lack of troops. Two monsters among them were directly awarded the position of navy admiral because of their extremely strong strength!
Fujitora smiled, and the green cattle grazed wildly.
He is a person with special superhuman-type Sensen Fruit abilities. He can skip meals and use the Sensen Fruits to extract nutrients from the human body to become stronger and replenish what he needs. He might even be able to give birth to a tree world with one hand!
As for the pirates who disappeared, they were obviously sucked and then buried by him, and with his strength, there was no chance of them missing. Over time, they were naturally said to have turned into ghosts.
'It's not my luck, it turns out to be Bucky's luck. If he hadn't met me, he would have been dead if he had met this guy directly...'
Ji Xing glanced back at Bucky, then turned back and said: "The ghost legends on Vera Island have been around for a long time, for more than ten years. Has it always been you?"
"Ah, hahaha, that's what they seem to say..." Aramaki spread his hands and said, "Hahaha, I'm just too lazy to go to the town to eat."
"That's strange. You've been in Vera all this time? Are you from Vera? I heard that riots often occur in Vera. If there is a strong person like you, they can suppress them easily..."
Aramaki chuckled: "Yes, I was born in Vera. I have been to the sea, but in recent years I have been in Vera, but... why should I care about them?"
He looked at Ji Xing and turned his lower lip strangely: "Are you interested in this kind of thing? Speaking of which, what is your identity? I don't seem to have seen your reward order. Those guys are pirates, right? ?But you... don't seem like a pirate?"
Ji Xing smiled and said, "I'm here to travel."
"Ku..." Aramaki couldn't help bursting out with laughter, and waved his hands in the next second: "Sorry, sorry, this is such an unexpected answer. Vera is not a good place to travel. The people here are all idiots. No way. Reasons are boring!"
His tone gradually became more serious and he asked: "If you come to travel, have you learned about the history of Vera?"
"A little bit." Ji Xing said, "Looking at you, there is probably something I don't understand?"
Aramaki smiled and said: "As a local, let me introduce you to the stupid Vera people.
Hundreds of years ago, the town of Vila on Vila Island was a prosperous town well-known throughout the Grand Line. Although the territory was small, it was still prosperous enough that a country was established here.
Then a few decades ago, when I was a child, the natural resources on the island and neighboring islands were exhausted. Coupled with the increasing number of pirates on the sea, the Kingdom of Vera suffered from chaos.
Prosperity and prosperity are things of the past, and people everywhere are hungry. This phenomenon reached its peak after the execution of the Pirate King! "
He looked around and said with a smile: "Forest? At that time, even the bark of the trees would be chewed clean. The wise King Vera knew that the Kingdom of Vera would only perish if this continued, so he made an important decision to join the World Government. , become one of the participating countries of the World Government!"
Ji Xing raised an eyebrow.
Aramaki said: "By then, a navy branch will be established on the island, the situation with pirates rampant will improve, and Vera will be able to regain its vitality. And the hungry civilians have nothing more to lose, right? ?
Hahaha, but rich people don’t think so! Even in the poorest countries, there is still a gap between the rich and the poor, especially some families with long-standing inheritance still have treasures from their most prosperous period!
Just when King Villa wanted them to collect their belongings and pay heavenly gold to the Celestial Dragons, opponents appeared. The leader was a woman, shouting with great righteousness that 'Joining the World Government will only lead Vera into a more terrifying abyss', and 'The greed and ugliness of the Celestial Dragons will completely hollow out Vera's heritage and make Vera history.' ...But many civilians who didn't even have enough to eat were bewitched by her and actually led a rebellion! "
He laughed loudly and said: "As you can see, the Kingdom of Vera is already in a semi-ruined state, and the opportunity to join the World Government and become a member of the order has been completely cut off by the stupid Vera people themselves!
So I say that the people of Vera are to blame for the frequent riots. It is their choice. Who will care about them? ! Ha ha ha ha--"
Huang Mu laughed non-stop, sarcastically and playfully, but Ji Xing did not give him the feedback he wanted.
After laughing for more than ten seconds, Aramaki raised his hand in boredom: "Forget it, it's hard for you who are not from Vera to feel the same way as me. The world's greatest swordsman, I wish you a happy trip to Vera."
He shook his head, turned around, and walked away.
Ji Xing thought for a while but didn't stop him.
