Chapter 79: Island Eater (5-star review required)

The sky is cloudless and the sun is shining brightly. Today is also a rare sunny day.

A large raft was floating on the calm sea, and on it an old man and a young man were fishing with fishing rods.

"Uh? Captain Gur, what's your plan? Are you just trying to trick me into coming out to bask in the sun with you?"

Kurokas put on his straw hat, looked at the empty blue sea, and asked with some doubt.

"How could I not have a plan? This plan is called waiting for the rabbit to come!"

Gel answered confidently as he threw out the bait to bait the nest.

"What? Come on, Captain. The ocean is vast. Even though this monster is quite large, isn't it like looking for a needle in a haystack to just sit there and wait?"

"There's nothing I can do about it. I just know that this monster often appears in this sea area and likes to attack ships that want to leave. I don't know when it will appear. It's just like fishing. You have to be patient! Let's wait a little longer. Maybe it just happened to get up late today."

After casting the fishing rod, Gel sat down on a small stool and spoke while drinking coconut juice.

They said they were going to explore the belly of the island-eating monster, but where exactly was the island-eating monster? How to find it and make it swallow them both? In fact, Geer had no idea, so he simply thought of it as going out for sea fishing, which could both kill time and try his luck.

They hoped that the monster goldfish would come to the island today and attack their raft. In order to let the island-eating monster see clearly, Gel and Kurokas specially built a huge raft. Unfortunately, the two of them drifted on the sea for a whole morning, and they didn't see any island-eating monster, let alone any larger fish.

"This is a bit difficult. We don't know how long we have to wait like this. Captain, will this guy dislike our raft because it is too simple and does not look like a boat?"

Crocus looked thoughtful, stroking his beard as he analyzed seriously.

Gel felt that what Kurokus said made sense. You know, when the Straw Hat Pirates were about to leave the garden, Donli and Broki both believed that the Island-Eating Monster would definitely appear. They must have summed up some experience after staying on the island for a hundred years, which meant that any ship that wanted to leave the island would almost certainly be attacked by this goldfish.

"How about we go and drive the boat over here?"

Ger said hesitantly.

Although this ship was stolen from pirates and I don't have any special feelings for it, I have lived here for so long that I have gotten used to it. If it is accidentally destroyed, it may be very troublesome to steal another more suitable one.

"Meow meow!"

Lab suddenly shouted twice, then jumped off Gel's shoulder and jumped into the sea, giving Gel and Kurokas no chance to stop him.

"Oh!"

The little cat turned into a huge whale over a hundred meters in the air and dived into the sea. The splash after entering the water almost overturned Gel's raft.

After finally stabilizing the raft in the rough sea, Gel turned to look at the angry Kurokas and asked:

"What is Rab doing?"

"This bastard said he wanted to go down to the bottom of the sea to help us find the monster. It's all your fault, Captain, for being too indulgent to it. Now that its wings have grown hard, it doesn't even listen to me!"

Seeing that Kurokas was able to pass on the blame, Gel immediately became unhappy and retorted:

"Uncle Kurokas, you are really wronging me. You are definitely the one who dotes on it the most. Besides, Laboo has been ignoring you for a long time. Hasn't it never listened to you since it was little? Back then, when it kept crashing into the Upside Down Mountain at Twin Cape, you couldn't stop it no matter how hard you tried to persuade it. So this problem has nothing to do with me."

Kulokas blushed, thinking that although there were no outsiders here, Captain, could you please give me some respect? You are just telling the truth.

"Cough cough~"

Kurokas was speechless after what Gel said and could only cough twice to cover up his embarrassment.

Suddenly, the two people who were talking looked at each other in the same direction.

"coming!!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a column of water appeared on the sea surface a few hundred meters ahead. It was the sea water sprayed out when Lab breathed.

"It's a really big guy!"

“It’s much bigger than I thought!”

Kurokas couldn't help but sigh, and Gel nodded in reply.

"It's ridiculously huge! It's much bigger than the average sea king. No wonder it can eat up islands and swallow up ships!"

Apparently, the two were not talking about Laboo, the island whale, but the monster following closely behind Laboo.

Before he could finish his words, he saw a huge hemisphere bulging out of the sea behind Lab. When the sea water receded, a huge round goldfish head appeared in front of the two.

This goldfish has red and white scales on its body, and most of its face is taken up by a huge mouth with square teeth in its mouth, which look a bit like human's big teeth. It is estimated to be over a thousand meters in size. A young island whale that is over a hundred meters long instantly becomes a small fish or shrimp in front of it.

In the original work, they were probably afraid that if the giant and other reference objects were drawn too small for comparison on the same screen, they would not be able to see them clearly, and if the island-eating monster was drawn too large, the screen would not be able to accommodate it. Therefore, Gel, who had always mistakenly believed that the island-eating monster was only a few hundred meters in size, was really shocked by the actual size of this guy.

"Hahaha, that's right! How can I have the nerve to call myself that if I don't have that body shape?"

Gel sighed as he looked at the huge goldfish monster in front of him.

At this time, the island-eating monster was opening its mouth wide, chasing closely behind Lab, wanting to swallow it into its stomach in one gulp, so it had no intention of slowing down and was heading straight towards the raft.

However, Lab's speed was obviously much faster than that of this clumsy giant, but Lab deliberately controlled the distance and always swam near the mouth of the island-eater, slipping away from it. The island-eater looked at the little whale that was so close in front of it but could never be eaten, and refused to give up and could only continue to chase it.

Lab rushed to the front of the raft, swung his thick whale tail vigorously, and jumped out of the water in an instant, about to hit the raft.

"Oh!"

"Meow!"

After a puff of white smoke, Lab changed his shape in the air, turned back into a kitten and gently landed in Gel's arms.

Gel patted Lab's head and said with a smile:

"Hahaha, look how pissed you off this big guy. But you really helped a lot, Lab~ If this operation is successful, you'll be credited as the first meritorious service, and you'll be rewarded with dried fish when you go back!"

Lab squinted his eyes and rubbed the palm of Geer's hand with the fluff on his head, shouting very happily.

Looking at the island-eating monster rushing over with its mouth wide open, Geer felt that this scene should be accompanied by a song, and the title of the song was Big Fish...

"Captain, be careful! Hold on tight!"

Captain Gel was still in a daze when Kurokas quickly reminded him.

"Ahhhh!"

Amid Gel's rhythmic screams, the raft was swallowed by the gullet monster!

The huge noise made everyone on the island several kilometers away stop what they were doing and turn to look over here.

The big meal in his mouth was gone, and he only swallowed a few pieces of broken wood. The island-eater was very dissatisfied. He closed his mouth and dived back into the water.

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