Pirate: I'm King Luffy!

Chapter 786 The Mystery of Rising Sea Water
The skin of the fish tail is smoother, and the skin of the upper human body feels similar to that of humans.

Luffy held Shirley's waist and compared the differences between the two in the deep sea.

He said he was hugging her, but in fact he was holding Charlie's belly button.

Because Mrs. Charlie is a giant mermaid, more than five meters tall. If you don't grab her tail, only her belly button is easy to grab, and the other two tall and plump breasts above her.

The quality of the metal suit was quite good. Even when Luffy grabbed her belly button hard, Shirley could only feel the grip was very ordinary, and it was just a little itchy...

Mrs. Shirley wanted to ask Luffy to grab somewhere else, but when she thought about him bearing the sea pressure alone and not being able to breathe, and about what she had said about him when she was holding his tail, she had no choice but to pretend she didn't see it and devote herself to using the battle suit.

With the help of the battle suit, Mrs. Charlie felt that she had never been so powerful, and her swimming speed was faster than when she was a child.

On Fishman Island, if you don't consider additional factors such as body size, it is generally recognized that the fastest swimmers are sailfish-type mermaids. But now, Xia Li feels that even if a sailfish mermaid of the same size is in front of her, it is only worthy of looking at her swinging tail.

Shirley swam faster and faster, heading straight for the abyss. The surrounding ocean currents became hotter as the depth continued to decrease, and soon Luffy's body temperature felt close to 500 degrees.

Shirley was traveling through the deep sea, and Luffy was shining a flashlight downwards while silently calculating how far he had walked.

Soon, Charlie stopped swimming and looked at the scene in front of her in disbelief.

Below the sea water, a white steam belt isolates all the sea water, and further below is a river of blazing magma. The scorching waves of fire keep rolling, and balls of air bubbles can't float up, then burst, forming an undercurrent that merges into the sea.

"What... is going on? Is this lava?"

Mrs. Charlie looked at the red river in front of her in disbelief.

"I'm afraid so. We've already moved down nearly forty kilometers. It seems this is the main reason for the upwelling."

Luffy said as he lay in Madam Shirley's arms.

"So deep! Was this caused by an attack? An attack from the sky, penetrating nearly forty kilometers in one blow..."

Luffy remembered Robin's investigation report when she was inspecting the remains of the city of Shandora, and simulated the scene at that time by himself. On a giant skeleton continent, a great country was thriving.

This nation possesses the power to refine gold, thus obtaining an inexhaustible wealth of precious metals, and also possesses a nearly unlimited source of energy [the sun].

When the war broke out, this country... this continent, suffered a near-devastating blow. The [Sun] was destroyed, the attack penetrated the earth, hot magma erupted, and one of the right eyes of Skull Island disappeared.

Four hundred years later, the remaining golden city in the left eye was also blown into the sky by the rising sea current...

"I know, this is why the sea water is rising!!!"

Madam Shirley said as she looked at the crimson band of light.

"The rising sea levels are simply due to melting polar permafrost or thermal expansion of the seawater... The seawater absorbs heat from deep beneath the seabed, causing it to expand in volume as it warms. Simultaneously, the extreme weather in the Grand Line exacerbates the mixing of the upper and lower layers of the seawater, accelerating this process and causing the seawater to continuously expand outward. These are all aftereffects of the war eight hundred years ago!"

After Charlie said this information, she covered her head and screamed in pain.

"Hey, Charlie, what happened?"

Luffy asked curiously while clutching his belly button tightly.

There is no way his battle suit would lose its effectiveness in this level of environment. Only a general of Katakuri's level can cause damage to the battle suit and penetrate the defense of the battle suit.

This is a battle suit tailor-made for him. As the owner of biometal, Luffy has an outrageous amount of materials, and he can also use it in conjunction with his bloodline factors to enhance his abilities.

It is equipment to fight against the Four Emperors or even stronger beings.

Although the suit has limited effect on Xia Li, judging from her swimming speed, it has increased her strength by hundreds of times.

"I saw it... Fishman Island is in flames!"

Shirley swung her arm, and the immense force, combined with the deep ocean currents, crashed into Luffy.

"I TM..."

Luffy felt like a baseball, being pushed out by Shirley's baseball bat and rushing towards the boiling red sea.

Luffy could feel the terrifyingly high temperature outside, and the sea water here was constantly expanding.

Domineering burst!

The surrounding sea water was pushed by the violent force, and Luffy's body stopped on the magma layer.

Countless air bubbles exploded near Luffy's body, disturbing the environment here. The undercurrent swallowed the undercurrent and expanded continuously, vaguely forming an extremely terrifying vortex.

Only after Charlie pushed Luffy out did she come back to her senses and immediately realized what a stupid thing she had done.

That's the magma layer over there. The huge heat, boiling sea and high pressure are enough to destroy all living things in an instant.

But Luffy's body was not instantly crushed by the high pressure as Shirley imagined, but stopped directly above the magma.

He seemed to be observing something and just stood there in a daze.

The huge armament Haki formed an extremely black armor on Luffy's surface, and his short hair fluttered along with the current.

Energy Rune...

Luffy saw energy runes on the rock wall, runes that represented heat and fire.

The meaning of runes is to absorb and release energy.

This means that eight hundred years ago, alchemists were collecting earth fire energy here.

"Luffy, come out quickly!!!" Shirley anxiously wanted to get closer to the area where Luffy was, but as soon as she got close, she felt difficulty breathing.

Her strength was too weak, so even if the battle suit enhanced her body, it could only ensure her own safety.

"The ocean currents are about to riot!" Shirley shouted to Luffy.

A high-temperature air bubble exploded next to Luffy, and the magma and ocean currents suddenly rioted, generating an irresistible thrust. Luffy was like a cannonball, hitting Shirley directly.

Just as Charlie was talking, he was swallowed directly by Mrs. Charlie.

Shirley bit Luffy, turned around and swam upwards, swimming several thousand meters in an instant, but such speed was too weak in the face of the ocean current.

The sea seemed to be enraged by their actions. More and more deep-sea undercurrents merged with each other, and finally gathered into a towering sea pillar, which easily caught up with them and directly crashed into the sea surface with the five-meter-long giant mermaid.

The speed that the mermaids were proud of was useless in the face of this expanding lift.

The only thing Charlie could do was to shrink her body and try to wrap herself into a ball.

……

"Hey, Luffy hasn't come out yet?"

Above Gaya Island, Uta looked at the sea below boredly.

"Yes, maybe they found something on the seabed?" Robin said.

"I hope he doesn't drown. Ordinary sea beasts shouldn't be able to bite his body..." The scholar said these creepy words in a relaxed manner.

"He won't drown!" Vivi quickly covered Robin's mouth. "Is that man really okay? He didn't seem to have any diving equipment with him when he went down, not even a few oxygen tanks," Kulikai asked worriedly.

"No problem, absolutely no problem, he is my Pokémon!" Uta said confidently.

While they were talking, Bai Xing suddenly looked down at the sea as if sensing something.

"Out!"

A sound like thunder was heard on the sea surface, and a giant column of water gushed out from the bottom of the sea into the sky in an instant. Nami, Uta and others could clearly see in the air that a golden mermaid was pressed in the center of the giant column of water and could not move. In a blink of an eye, the water column rushed into the gray sky.

"That's Mrs. Shirley!" Shirahoshi was sure.

"It's Luffy's suit. What happened? Chase him!"

Nami turned around and ran into the main control room to control the spaceship and catch up with Haizhu.

"It's a surging ocean current. They have been knocked into the sky island, or directly killed by the sea water..." Kulikai exclaimed.

"That doesn't make sense. This shouldn't be the period of ocean current explosion!"

Robin frowned, "It seems that there must be something hidden under the sea. I can't sense Luffy's voice."

"Be careful, the second surge of seawater is coming!"

Kulikai soon discovered that a current was flowing beneath the overhanging mountain and in an instant it crashed into the base.

Mount Olympus suffered the most violent attack for the first time. The mountain was completely defenseless and was directly blown away by the sea.

"Aiya——" the peacock screamed in surprise.

Everyone was pinned to the ground by this pushing force, unable to move, until it was ejected into the sky ten thousand meters high, and then the pushing force slowly disappeared, and the Hanging Mountain fell directly onto a giant island cloud.

"Everyone, are you okay? Olympus has excellent defenses. This level of impact isn't enough to damage it!" Nami recovered her breath and announced through the loudspeaker, "Bell-mère..."

"I'm fine... It was so scary, I thought it was an earthquake..." Bellmère lay on the ground and breathed a sigh of relief.

"I almost thought this mountain was going to be disintegrated by the collision... I was scared to death." The primitive man wiped his forehead.

"After hearing the sound of the Golden Bell, we planned to use the ocean currents to reach Sky Island, but we were worried about the sturdiness of the ship, so we delayed it. We also planned to steal some steel from the Seven Water City..."

……

Luffy lay on Mrs. Shirley's tongue for a while before he saw the light of day again and was taken out of Shirley's mouth.

"That must have been a really bad kiss," Luffy said jokingly.

"..." Mrs. Shirley rolled her eyes and lay on the cloud, ignoring Luffy.

This was truly the most thrilling experience in my life.

"I didn't expect him to survive being hit head-on by such a super current. This suit is truly amazing..."

"Thank you for the compliment. After all, the poor rely on mutations, the rich rely on technology, and people like me who are not geniuses can only rely on technology and knowledge to become stronger."

Luffy said as he stood up.

He flew in front of Mrs. Charlie and reached out to take off the fang necklace.

This necklace was originally very large on Shirley, but after touching Luffy, it returned to the size suitable for humans to wear.

This is one of the abilities of bioalloys, to remember their shape and adapt themselves to the user.

As the armor was removed, Lady Shirley changed back to her original attire, with a dark purple hood on the back of her head and long bangs covering one eye.

Luffy hung in the air, put the necklace back on, and looked at the giant fish below with scrutiny.

Charlie felt uncomfortable being stared at by him. Just as she was about to say something, a breeze blew across her face, revealing the light of day to her eyes.

"You really look better with both eyes showing."

"Also, your hair should be longer, shoulder-length would be better." Luffy said examiningly.

Charlie snorted, "Disrespectful person."

She seemed to have thought of something, and looked up at Luffy. "You made up that mermaid story on the spot, didn't you? How could it be such a coincidence, a mermaid and a king?"

"Hey, come to think of it, you mermaids often marry humans, but how on earth do you, with your size, manage to conceive a child with a human?"

"How could I know? I haven't looked for it."

"Of course you haven't looked for it. You're too much of a homebody."

The fang necklace vibrated slightly, and Luffy heard his phone ringing.

"Luffy, where are you? We were hit by the sky-high current! How are you guys doing?"

"Of course I'm fine. The torrent can't hurt me. I'm here..." Luffy shot out a bolt of lightning that cut through the night sky, allowing Uta and others to lock on to his position.

Charlie reached into her bosom and pulled out a long pipe, ready to smoke one to relax after surviving the disaster.

She put her hand in slightly, and the button snapped and broke.

The loose clothes were open on both sides along her smooth cold white skin, but the snow-capped peaks were not empty. Two shells just concealed the advantages perfectly. But even so, it was a rare scenery in the world.

"Disrespectful..." Charlie instinctively scolded Luffy, but Luffy was even more anxious than her, "Hey! You need to change your dressing habits. Look, it broke in an instant!"

Luffy anxiously pulled the two ends of the clothes to sew up Mrs. Shirley's clothes. He instinctively wanted to button the top button, but he didn't expect that Mrs. Shirley's strength was too great. Luffy pulled the clothes and directly tore the purple clothes to the extreme. Finally, with a crackling sound, the clothes were torn into pieces.

"This dress doesn't fit you!"

Luffy was shocked.

"Ignorant person!"

Charlie couldn't hold it anymore and crossed her arms to hide the shellfish hanging in front of her.

She was a dignified person and had never suffered such humiliation before.

"There's not much fabric suitable for swimsuits on Fishman Island, and even less suitable for giant mermaids like us. Haven't you noticed that everyone dresses like this?!!"

"Huh? So that's the reason. I'm so sorry... It's okay. Once I build a clothes-changing machine, you can wear more clothes..."

"Now you have to think of a way to deal with this!" Charlie said angrily.

The huge hanging mountain was flying towards them, and the searchlight kept scanning the clouds. Relying on the domineering power of observation Haki, it soon illuminated the two of them.

Then what you see is... a five-meter-long giant fish with its arms crossed to protect itself and a human hovering in the air.

(End of this chapter)