Pirate: I'm King Luffy!

Chapter 785 Deeper than the Seabed

Mrs. Shirley frowned, "Then let's give it a try..."

Luffy's hands were in claw shape, grabbing around.

"Jujutsu·Sea Flow·Shoulder Throw!"

Although Luffy grabbed the water column and swung it forward suddenly, a current surged in, forming a whirlpool path that led straight ahead.

Shirley grabbed Luffy's arm and jumped up like an arrow, riding the super current and quickly traveling through the ocean.

Shirley's speed was too fast, and Luffy was directly hit in the face by the sea water. He hurriedly hugged Shirley's constantly swinging shark tail, and this grab immediately made Shirley's body tremble.

"Hey, don't mess with my balance!"

Mrs. Shirley kept swinging her tail, trying to shake Luffy down. Luffy was shaken so much that he felt dizzy.

"Slow down, I'm not proficient in mermaid jutsu..."

Luffy felt like he was about to be thrown out by Shirley.

"Shark~Huff~So tired..."

After swimming forward at high speed for a few seconds, Xia Li immediately slowed down.

"Okay, we've crossed the undercurrent area, get off my tail now!"

Charlie turned around and looked at the human man who was lying behind her, holding her tail, and said in embarrassment.

"I know. Why are you so angry..." Luffy let go of the fish tail and saw another sea king staring at them in front of him.

This is a sea king with a body length of about 100 meters. It is not very dangerous to them, but they will still be scared when they see such a giant monster in the deep sea.

A flash of domineering aura flashed across his eyes. The sea king stared at Luffy for a moment, then turned around and left.

A huge undercurrent of deep sea surged towards them both.

Luffy couldn't stand steadily in the sea and was tossed around by the huge current.

Charlie had to go over and help him up.

"Damn it! The current here is too strong."

All the swimming knowledge he learned was like a joke in the face of such a fast undercurrent.

"Where should we go now?" Shirley asked, pulling Luffy and looking at the identical sea in all directions.

"I should have made a straight line before, and now here..." Luffy used his observation Haki to scan around and listened to countless sound fluctuations.

"Lost..."

"Nami..." Luffy had to call his navigator. He shot a laser beam straight into the sky above his head, and then used the communication function on his battle suit to call Nami.

"I want to go to the other eye of the skull. Please show me the way."

"The right eye of Skull Island?" Kulikai watched Nami project a very unfamiliar skull map.

"This is the ancient Gaya Island. The former golden city was here..." Nami looked at the laser shot by Luffy, and then calculated the distance.

"You're going off course way too far."

She told Luffy the correct coordinates while looking at the ancient map of Gaya Island.

"There's no way the right eye hides a treasure or a country. The Shandians haven't mentioned it."

"The only scholar on board hasn't returned yet, and there's no one to consult."

"Maybe there's nothing there. After all, the pirates have to cover one eye, so it must be an abyss." BABY-5 also put forward his own guess.

Joy Boy is the first pirate in the world, and the most classic pirate image is that of the one-eyed pirate.

He sailed out to sea with his hometown as the symbol of his flag. According to what Luffy said, the Joyboisandians said that there should be nothing on the other eye of Skull Island.

"The ocean currents here are crazy... They're countless times more dangerous than Fishman Island." While pulling Luffy forward, Shirley carefully avoided the deep-sea undercurrents and headed towards the coordinate point.

Moreover, the number of sea kings here has become ubiquitous, as if they are on guard against something.

Luffy and Shirley were like two ants moving through a dragon's nest.

Luffy increasingly felt that he should not take the sea route. It would be more convenient to fly directly to the coordinate point in the air and then dive into the sea.

No matter how he swam in the sea, Charlie would accuse him of making mistakes, so he had no choice but to let Charlie lead him forward. Moreover, due to the surge in the number of sea kings, he no longer glowed, and had to rely on the mermaid's night vision to identify the direction.

Although the process was a bit bumpy, under the guidance of the navigator, Xia Li gradually reached her destination.

"I don't feel well..." Xia Li gradually stopped swimming. The unknown fear made her instinctively seek protection from the strong people around her.

Luffy opened his Observation Haki and heard a loud sound, full of power. Unlike the sound of the Sea King, the sound seemed to be fixed in one place and not moving.

A beam of light shot out from Luffy's palm, illuminating the deep seabed.

Then the light source continued to expand, illuminating a place similar to ruins.

They could see in the sea that the seabed was covered with concentric circles, with many traces of buildings located on those concentric circles. They could also glimpse the roads and mountains. It seemed like a fragment of a city, a lost continent.

Countless things similar to resin bubbles continued to rise from the ground and then burst.

"Nami, what do you think...the natural formation of upwelling currents...should be?"

Luffy looked at the bubbles, was silent for a moment, and asked Nami.

"This peculiar climate...is caused by the high temperature heat of low-temperature seawater, which produces a massive amount of water vapor. When the steam pressure exceeds a critical point, it triggers an underwater explosion, which then erupts and spreads outward..."

"To tear apart an entire island of tens of millions of square kilometers, there must be a giant cavity and a high-temperature heat flow... Such a phenomenon is impossible in nature..."

"The upwelling phenomenon here on Gaya Island occurs five times every month, at random locations, and each time lasts for one minute." Seeing that Nami was so powerful, Mont Blanc Coulee added a little about the geography and climate of Gaya Island.

"I used to think that place was under the sea, so I would go to the seabed to salvage shipwrecks every time, trying to get some useful information. Over time, although I contracted deep diving fever, I also figured out some of the patterns of upwelling currents..."

"The large cavity and the high geothermal temperature...were all found."

Luffy and Lady Shirley said in silence as they looked at the concentric circles in front of them.

In the center of the concentric circles, an extremely dark abyss rift appeared before them.

There is no city here, only bubbles of high-temperature steam constantly gushing out.

With this kind of thing around, it’s no wonder there are no sea kings in the center.

The light emitted by Luffy cannot reach the center of the abyss at all, and no one knows how deep it is. The hot bubbles on the seabed are also very troublesome.

"Hey, Luffy, okay, can we go now?" Madam Shirley asked, pulling Luffy's hand. "No..." Luffy activated his Observation Haki.

He heard what seemed to be an extremely loud sound on the Concentric Circle Continent.

As he got closer, he saw something like lines drawn in concentric circles.

"Ancient writing?"

These ancient characters are so powerful that they are like a beacon in Luffy's vision that cannot be ignored.

Luffy didn't know what this ancient text recorded. No... this thing didn't look like a record at all, but more like an application.

Luffy flew a little further away and recorded the entire giant earth, then turned back to show it to Robin.

But the more they filmed, the more uncomfortable Luffy felt.

This giant concentric continent gave him a strange feeling, like an eyeball. As his thoughts spread, the black cavity in the center that continuously spewed out huge bubbles seemed like the legendary abyss.

"Hey, Luffy, are you ready?" Shirley asked in a low voice.

"Wait a minute... This is a ruined city, with traces of war. The houses are broken into neat pieces. If this is the ancient continent, how deep would that black cavity be?"

"You don't want to go down and take a look, do you?" Charlie got goosebumps.

"Why not? We're already here anyway."

Luffy looked at the deep black hole eagerly.

"I can take you up there to meet up with Uta and the others."

Charlie really wanted to nod and agree immediately. "Don't be ridiculous. The currents here are so complicated. How can a human like you possibly stand up to the power of the entire ocean? You don't know where you'll be swept away to."

She said with extreme disgust.

In the end, he agreed to explore the black hole with Luffy, but the prerequisite was that he had to leave immediately if anything went wrong.

The two dodged a giant air bubble that had just exploded. Mrs. Shirley led Luffy to swim towards the center of the concentric circle. The wall of the black hole was very smooth and extended all the way downward. They didn't know how long they swam. In such a dark environment, time seemed to have lost its original concept.

The only source of light is the giant ball of light thrown by Luffy, which is responsible for illuminating this space.

At this moment, both of them felt the heavy sea pressure from the deep sea, and Mrs. Shirley had the illusion that she had returned to Fishman Island.

"It's at least 10,000 meters deep here," Luffy said.

They have lost contact with the spacecraft.

Charlie didn't want to talk, so she just continued diving a distance deeper with Luffy, "Are you okay?"

Based on the speed of the mermaid, Charlie felt that they had dived to a depth of 50,000 meters, but had not yet reached the bottom. She looked at the man in golden armor, wondering if he would be able to withstand the water pressure and retreat.

"Can't you swim faster?" Luffy wanted to know more and more what was down there.

"Don't let yourself be crushed by the sea water!" Mrs. Charlie said angrily.

As she continued to dive, even with her mermaid physical fitness, she felt it was too much to bear.

"How is it possible that we haven't reached the bottom yet..." Xia Li felt incredible and couldn't help but look back. It was pitch black in front and behind, and only where they were was there was light with a radius of one thousand meters.

As they continued to dive, Shirley felt a little dizzy. Even a shark mermaid couldn't withstand the water pressure here. Looking at Luffy, he seemed to be completely fine. She couldn't help but wonder:
"Do you have a monster body?"

"Just stay here for now, I'll come find you later." Luffy didn't feel any discomfort.

The battle suit is amphibious and has strong kinetic energy absorption and impact resistance. It also has strong environmental adaptability and has unknowingly ignored the sea pressure here.

"It's the most dangerous to act alone at a time like this, right?" Xia Li complained speechlessly.

Besides, since she was already here, she also wanted to see what was down there so deep.

Luffy thought about it, readjusted the authority program in the necklace, then took a deep breath, took off Mrs. Shirley's hood, and casually revealed an eye covered by her hair.

I just felt a sense of enlightenment.

"Don't you look pretty with both eyes exposed?"

"Are you saying I wasn't good-looking before? You unreasonable human!"

Mrs. Charlie immediately bared her shark teeth, "Shark!"

"You really don't suit the style of covering one eye..." Luffy's eyes suddenly widened.

Mrs. Charlie was wearing a one-piece dark purple button-up swimsuit with a hood. She always only buttoned the middle button and usually hid under the hood. Although she looked very attractive, her temperament was too gloomy to be seen.

She feels like the kind of gloomy and damp girl who hides in her room.

Luffy saved her other eye from being covered by her hair, which made her seem a little more sunny. At such a close distance, Mrs. Shirley's figure seemed to become a little hotter.

Luffy could clearly appreciate Mrs. Shirley's broad shoulders and collarbones.

She was a large mermaid, with a broad frame that did not fit the description of petite and lovely at all. Even her collarbone looked very majestic.

Of course, the most heroic thing is the two majestic curves dominating the body. The deep V with only one button makes it even more exciting, as if you can peek at the advantages at any time, which is more tempting than having nothing.

"Hey, rude person!"

Mrs. Shirley didn't expect Luffy to take off her hat. When she was about to get angry, she saw Luffy taking off the fang necklace from her neck, and the golden battle suit on his body gradually disappeared surrounded by lightning.

Then Luffy held his breath, put his arms around Mrs. Shirley's neck, and hung a necklace on her. After a series of lightning, a layer of golden battle suit appeared on Mrs. Shirley's body. The metal battle suit fit perfectly, tightly attached to the cold white skin, even the tail was not spared, turning Mrs. Shirley into a golden mermaid.

This golden battle suit also continues Mrs. Charlie's dressing style, revealing most of the chest and breast muscles, with just the right amount of concealment.

The precious metal and the cold white skin complement each other, creating a sense of color contrast like the combination of gold and pearls.

"This... this feeling of being filled with power..."

Charlie clearly felt that something was different about herself. A feeling of strength filled her whole body, and the uncomfortable deep sea water pressure disappeared without a trace.

"So strong, is this the effect of this dress? Thank you, I misunderstood."

Xia Li felt the power brought by this battle suit.

"But are you okay? If you lose your suit, you won't be able to breathe, right?"

Just as Charlie asked, she saw Luffy hugging her waist tightly and burying his head above his belly button.

"It's okay, as long as you stick close, you can breathe in the oxygen."

(End of this chapter)