Chapter 507: Catching a Turtle in a Jar
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Two days later,
A certain sea area in the Inland Sea of Wano.
"Gulu gulu gulu~"
A burst of bubbles emerged from the bottom of the water, and then a submarine was seen half-surfaced and heading towards the shore.
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In the night, among the rocks on the beach, a huge bonfire flickered in the wind.
Captain Gel had a melancholy look in his eyes, with flickering firelight in his vision. He stared at the fire in a daze with a sad expression.
"Gudong!"
Weibull stared at the dozen or so prey being roasted on the campfire, swallowed his saliva and asked.
"Can I eat now, brother?"
"..."
"elder brother??"
"Hmm? Oh, go ahead and eat, eat well and have a good sleep, and continue looking tomorrow."
Captain Gel, who came to his senses after being called several times, said helplessly with a wry smile.
Although no ancient weapons were found, a lot of fresh seafood was caught. Weevil was almost catching all the big fish, shrimps, crabs, sea beasts and sea kings in the inner sea of Wano Country to extinction. Every meal these past two days had been uric acid meals, and there was still a lot of food stored in the space that could not be finished.
"Baji, Baji~! Delicious~~!"
Weebull, who had no worries as long as he had meat to eat, started eating immediately.
Barrett and Franky also ate with big mouthfuls.
"What's going on? Why is there nothing?"
Captain Gill, who was full of energy and applauded his own intelligence two days ago, now had a worried look on his face.
"Shouldn't it be? Did I get fooled by that cartoon guy again?"
Gel bit the pen cap, pulled out the pen, and drew red crosses on the map, scratching his head and complaining.
"Hey, Captain, could it be that the intelligence is wrong?"
Franky asked incoherently while eating.
In the past two days, he has transformed into a submarine and a drilling machine, and has consumed a lot of physical strength and urgently needs to replenish his energy.
"Captain Gul, I have the same question!"
Vegapunk took out the design drawings and said.
"According to the information on this blueprint, this super battleship is a huge monster. It should be more difficult to avoid being discovered than to not find it, right? We have carefully searched the entire underwater ruins, including the huge Fujiyama that now supports the New Country of Kano. We even dug into the mountain to explore, but still found nothing."
"Yeah, I'm depressed too."
Captain Gear murmured quietly.
The information about Pluto being underground in Wano Country is officially released information, so there shouldn't be any mistakes, right?
Isn’t the huge Fujiyama mountain located underneath Wano Country now?
Wasn’t the bottom of Wano Country the seabed 800 years ago?
How could it not be found?
"Which link went wrong?"
"Brother, this meat is delicious!"
Webull picked up a big fish that was roasted golden and crispy. The fish had a fleshy crown on its head and fins on both sides that looked like chicken wings. Webull tore off a two-meter-long chicken wing and handed it to Ger.
"Eat it yourself, Wilbur. I'm not hungry yet."
Ger said casually with a relieved smile.
"oh oh."
Weibull also continued to refuse. He listened to his brother the most. He immediately opened his bloody mouth and stuffed the whole chicken wing into it. He chewed it twice and swallowed it into his stomach.
My brother is so smart, he will definitely not let me starve.
"By the way, Weevil, we are here to look for food, not to survive in the wilderness, nor because we are running out of resources and have nothing to eat. So starting tomorrow, don't catch any more fish or sea beasts. We have stored what we caught these past two days and we can't eat them all."
Ger looked up and ordered.
"Oh, is that so? Okay, brother."
After saying this, Weeble looked thoughtful, then grinned and said.
"Hey, brother, what kind of fish are you looking for? Tell me what it looks like first. Otherwise, I won't know how to find it, and I'll just have to catch all the ones I see for you."
"Hahaha, Brother Weeble, we're not looking for fish, we're looking for the ancient weapon Pluto."
Little Franky tried to explain.
"Huh? Isn't that a fish? Is that a sea beast or a sea king? I caught everything edible! Didn't my brother say that the thing called a king is edible?"
Weibull held a bone of a near-shore sea king in his mouth, his mouth corners pulled down, and he spoke with a look of serious thinking.
"Uh..." (vi)
Franky was speechless for a moment, then nodded and shook his head.
"Brother Weibull, what you said seems to be right. No... No, no, strictly speaking, that can't be considered "edible"!"
"Huh? Can't eat it? Did I make a mistake?"
Weibull looked at his brother with some frustration.
"Hahaha, no, you're not wrong, good job, brother, you cleared all the fish, shrimps and crabs in the sea, which made it easier for us to find things, right? You're a big help."
Hearing that his silly brother Weeble caught all these seafood not just to fill his stomach, but to help him find the "fish" he wanted, Gel felt inexplicably touched.
"Hey hey hey!"
After receiving the praise, Weibull smiled happily again and quickly helped to give advice.
"Brother, you haven't caught the fish you want after catching so many. Could it have escaped into the sea?"
"Don't worry, it can't run away because it's surrounded by mountains, uh..."
Gel stopped talking halfway, and then his furrowed brows began to slowly relax.
Could it be...
Gel suddenly stood up from the ground with a whoosh.
"What's wrong Captain?"
Barrett's eyes focused and he immediately released his Observation Haki, alert to the movements around him.
"What's wrong? What's going on?"
Franky yelled, wiping the grease from his mouth.
"Have you thought of anything, Captain?"
Vegapunk asked curiously.
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Gel remained silent, his mind full of thoughts.
Weibull's rational speech suddenly reminded Geer of another important information besides "Pluto is underground in Wano Country":
The reason why there is an old site of Wano Country underwater is that a long, long time ago, the early Wano Country was built at the foot of the huge Fujiyama Mountain. Later, for some reason, a circle of walls was built to enclose Wano Country.
With the fall of the last "plank", Wano Country was like being put into a huge bucket. The water level in the bucket began to rise rapidly, and finally completely submerged the entire Wano Country, while also isolating Wano Country from the outside world.
The survivors were forced to leave their original land and became homeless. It took dozens of generations before they finally caught their breath and rebuilt the present-day Wano Country on the hillside of the huge Fujiyama Mountain.
The cause of all these changes must be related to the war eight hundred years ago, or to be more precise, it is related to the defeat of the Joyboy camp.
Gel deduced that it was most likely that the ancestors of the Kozuki family who participated in that war escaped back, and they also brought back the ancient weapon Pluto, which could play a key role on the battlefield, to Wano Country.
They chose to isolate themselves from the outside world, and began to lie dormant, waiting for the day in the future when Joyboy's reincarnation would once again sound the drum of liberation and lead them to a comeback and victory!
In order to hide Pluto, they chose to sacrifice the entire country and civilians without hesitation, allowing the flood to submerge Wano Country and leaving countless people displaced and homeless.
(According to the principle of symmetry, perhaps when Joy Boy covered his followers’ evacuation, it was a similar brain-* plot to when Kozuki Oden rescued the Nine Red Scabbards, and before he died he shouted: I will definitely come back! Then the surviving followers were thinking about waiting for the day of the oath to come, and then they would respond to the call, come back, overthrow the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and so on.)
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