Pirate: I am a logistics person, what the hell is the emperor

Chapter 369 Because Luffy’s father is too poor

From a distance, it looks like an island full of tropical atmosphere. The waves are lapping against the shore. There are coconut trees on the island and large green banana leaves are swaying in the wind.

What is surprising is that among the cotton-white clouds floating above the island, a huge purple eggshell-shaped building stands above the clouds.

"Could it be that!"

"That can't be it!"

Luffy, Chopper and Usopp stuck their heads out in amazement, staring at the white cloud in disbelief.

"It's Sky Island!!"

The excitement in their hearts was revealed on their faces, and the eyes of the three of them immediately flashed with golden light.

“As we approached the island, even the air started to warm up.”

Nami muttered curiously as she looked around.

The blizzard in the distance behind her showed no signs of dissipating, and this unusual climate contrast left her feeling baffled.

The Merry slowly sailed towards the island. At this moment, a large number of black shadows appeared underwater around the island, and bubbles gurgled from the sea surface.

Wow! Wow! Wow!
Several waves were stirred up, and in the surprised gaze of everyone, huge bodies broke through the sea and rose up, guarding the island, and pairs of beast eyes stared at them.

“—Hey! Is that a sea monster?!”

Usopp cried out in surprise.

"Yohohoho~, it looks like they're guarding this island."

Brooke's figure was as light as a swallow. He jumped onto the bow railing with a smile and squatted down, his bony fingers grasping his crutch, ready to draw his sword at any time.

"Wait a minute, these sea beasts don't look normal."

Franky suddenly spoke, looking seriously at the group of sea beasts in front of him.

After he said this, the others also realized that something was wrong.

Sea lions, sea giraffes, sea bulls, beaver cats, etc. have been sailing on the Grand Line for a long time, so they are no longer surprised by these things.

But these sea beasts were all wearing very high-tech equipment, which made everyone surprised.

"They look like they've been bred in captivity."

Zoro frowned and walked forward with his elbow resting on the hilt of his sword.

If these sea beasts have owners, they would not be able to act rashly.

汽~
At this moment, several steam sounds were emitted at the same time.

The eyes of those sea beasts glowed red, and their bodies opened up in their chests like mechanical doors, revealing several missiles.

Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!

Without any call, several missiles with flames spraying from their tails flew towards them quickly!

Seeing this, Sauron raised the corner of his mouth and smiled coldly:
"Since the other party took the initiative, we don't need to be polite."

As he spoke, Zoro quickly pulled out the Wado Ichimonji and bit it in his mouth, then jumped high with two swords in hand, his eyes darkened, and he swung the swords hard at the flying rockets!

"Three Swords Style: Thousand Eight Troubled Phoenixes!!"

Stupid! !

Three green flying slashes gathered together, spinning out like a whirlwind, instantly engulfing all the rockets.

boom! boom! boom!
The rocket exploded in the air with such great power that Zoro couldn't help but look serious.

The terrifying explosion turned into a strong wind, and the entire surrounding sea surface was like a blue carpet with huge waves, and the Merry was shaking continuously.

Brook fixed his gaze, drew out his rapier, a cold light flashed, and he shot towards the sea beast in one leap.

however.

His skeleton body had just emerged from the smoke produced by the explosion and came in front of the sea monster, with dazzling light shining on his face.

Brook was stunned for a moment. All the sea beasts opened their mouths and aimed at him. The lasers condensed in their mouths emitted a terrifying energy.

“—Hey!!”

"Wait a minute! Damai, damai, how could it be a laser?!"

Brook was so scared that his jaw dropped. He quickly turned around and ran back, his flywheel legs flapping in the air, leaving afterimages.

"Run!"

"Brooke!"

Luffy and the others leaned on the guardrail with their hands and cried out in panic.

Swish!
In a flash of lightning, a swift figure flew past the crowd.

"Amulet of Evil!!"

A flash of green flame leaped, and a huge black heavy shield appeared in time to block Brook.

boom--! !

Several laser beams shot towards the shield, causing a terrifying explosion. The impact swept Brook's body back to the ship.

In the smoke of the explosion, Reiner crossed his hands to resist the strong wind. The huge shield in front of him was blown into pieces, and then slowly recovered in the burning blue flames.

When it comes to lasers, Reiner would not easily choose to take them head-on even if he could avoid them. If Brook had to take on so many lasers, his old bones would be broken.

"Leave this to me! Franky, lead the ship to break through!"

Reiner called over his shoulder.

"understood!"

Franky responded loudly, jumping into the wheelhouse and starting the coke compression power unit.

"Hold on tight, everyone! We're about to fly!"

Franky grinned and watched the pressure gauge needle gradually move to the maximum.

After everyone grabbed hold of the surrounding fixed objects, Franky decisively pressed the button, and the muzzle exposed at the stern instantly sprayed out the compressed gas converted from Coke!

"Wind coming! Explosion!!"

boom! !

The huge impact released from the stern blasted a huge deep pit on the sea surface. When the sea water rushed back into the deep pit, the Merry broke through the clouds and flew high into the sky!
The group of intercepting sea beasts raised their heads and stared in shock at the spaceship that had turned into a flying ship and passed over their heads.

Inside a sea monster, in a modified operating room sat a girl with short bright orange hair, wearing a pink yoga suit and a purple leather jacket.

"Oh wow! He can actually fly! That's pretty cool."

Lilith watched the scene on the screen with interest.

"Lilith, stop attacking, do you hear me, Lilith?"

Suddenly, a steady male voice came from the communicator beside her ear. Lilith covered the high-tech earphones with her hand and said dissatisfiedly:

"What's wrong, Shakya? Are you going to lecture me again? I'm doing this for our research funding."

"Let's put this topic aside for now. They are the Straw Hat Pirates of the Five Emperors. Didn't you notice the flag on the ship?"

The voice continued to come from the headphones, saying lightly:
"The man in front of you is Reiner, the black snake known as the strongest in the world. Don't fight him. His true form wants to see the Straw Hat Boy."

"Eh?!"

Lilith looked at Reiner on the screen with surprise and replied:
"Okay, they've already landed on the island, so I'll take him up there directly?"

"Well, I'll go pick them up. You bring the other party to the research floor. I'll see you later."

"Got it. See you later."

Lilith nodded in response, hung up the communication, opened the hatch and walked out.

Reiner held a battle axe wrapped in a ball of white energy and was about to blast out, but he saw the lasers condensed in the mouths of the sea beasts gradually dim, and a woman walked out of the hatch opened on the sea beast's body.

"Hey! Stop it! A ceasefire, a ceasefire!"

Lilith raised her hands and waved and yelled at him.

Seeing this, Reiner stopped and took back the battle axe and the falcon under his feet.

Vegapunk's android clone?

Reiner vaguely recognized the other party's identity, but he didn't expect that the other party was hiding inside, and was almost killed by his axe.

"Welcoming guests with laser beams is a bit too enthusiastic, isn't it?" Reiner jumped towards the other side, landing on the sea monster's head and looking down at Lilith.

"Hahaha, what a misunderstanding, I thought you were pirates who accidentally broke in. After all, plundering pirates is not against the law."

Lilith scratched the back of her head with a laugh, showing no apology for what happened before, and continued with a smile:

"Let me introduce myself. I'm Vegapunk 2, you can call me Lilith."

the other side.

"Then I'll leave Merry to you, Zoro! Let's go!"

Jumping off the ground, Luffy turned around and shouted towards the ship, his tone full of impatience and excitement for the adventure.

"Hey, your pirate bento."

Sanji bit his cigarette and threw out a few packed lunch boxes.

Luffy, Chopper, Usopp, and Uta caught the packages, put them on their backs, and tied the straps.

"Let's go!"

Leaving Zoro and Brook to guard the ship, the rest of the group entered the forest on the edge and headed towards the center of the island, with Luffy leading the way.

"This idiot is really careless."

Zoro sighed helplessly:

"As soon as we approached the island, we were attacked by those modified sea beasts. The people on this island are most likely enemies, not friends."

"In this situation, you're still clamoring to take risks. You really don't have any sense of vigilance at all."

While muttering, Zoro walked to the mast, untied the sword at his waist and placed it beside him, then sat down cross-legged, leaned his back and closed his eyes.

The snoring became louder.

"."

Brook looked at Zoro in silence.

You are wary, but not much.

As expected, they are still a group of young people with too little experience. It is better to leave the job of protecting the Merry to him.

Brooke went to sit at the table by the cabin stairs.

"Ha~"

Taking a sip of tea and putting down the cup, Brook leaned back in his chair comfortably, letting his hat slide down to cover his face.

The snoring became louder.

"Is that a whale?! Luffy! Look, a whale is flying in the sky!"

"Wow! There's a giant robot!"

Chopper and Luffy raised their heads, their eyes shining with golden light and excitement.

After passing through the forest, the group finally arrived in the city, where they were overwhelmed by the futuristic skyscrapers.

The schools of fish swimming in the air, the space monsters and giant robots shuttling through the city made them marvel again and again.

Walking on the streets full of technological atmosphere, Luffy and others are like country bumpkins entering the city, and they want to touch and play with everything they see.

"Unmanned food processor?"

Chopper's footsteps made a clattering sound as he walked to a machine that was as big as a house and stopped. He looked up at the words and various food patterns on it.

Luffy bent sideways, leaned his head forward, and stroked his chin in thought.

"Emm, how do I use this?"

Luffy pressed the buttons with food patterns on the food processor randomly, but when there was no response, he kicked it twice.

boom!boom!
The two feet were somewhat emotional. The unmanned food processor shook a few times, and then made a clanging sound, and a plate fell from the food receiving port.

Then, rice, meat, and curry sauce were shaken out, along with a bottle of lemon sparkling water.

“—Oh! Yes.”

Luffy's eyes lit up and he picked up the beef curry rice and started eating.

"Oh? It's interesting."

Sanji couldn't help but marvel at this. He walked over to take a look and found a coin slot. He was speechless.

"Hey, you're eating and dashing again."

"Eh? Isn't it free? I kicked it twice and it came out on its own."

Luffy looked unimpressed and gobbled the entire plate of rice in one gulp.

"So not only did you dine and eat for free, you're also suspected of damaging other people's property, right?"

Sanji spoke in a bad tone, threw a few coins into the coin slot, and tried pressing the button again.

There was another clanging sound, and a serving of fried chicken and Coke fell out of the food tray.

Sanji tasted it, felt it carefully, opened his eyes, and commented:
"It's okay. It can't compare to the taste of a chef's careful preparation, but it's not bad either. The key is that the food is freshly made. I thought it was prepared in advance."

"Freshly made? Is there a chef living in there?"

Chopper glanced at the machine curiously.

"Probably not."

Sanji looked at it and guessed:

"This big thing is quite convenient. It can store almost all kinds of food from all over the world. It's so big, I guess they have to store a lot of ingredients in it."

Suddenly, he seemed to be aware of something and looked back.

"This unmanned food processor is pretty cool, but unfortunately we can't mass-produce it due to a severe lack of funds and manpower."

A well-proportioned man wearing a dark blue windbreaker, a motorcycle helmet, and a mechanical-style outfit walked over.

"I'm Vegapunk No. 1, just call me Shakya. I'm here to pick you up, Straw Hat Pirates."

"You know us?"

Nami looked at the person who came, frowned in confusion, and suddenly realized something, her eyes widened in shock.

"Wait! Did I hear you right?"

"You said you were Vegapunk?!!"

Not only Nami, but everyone except Luffy and Uta looked in disbelief when they heard the name.

Franky was full of admiration.
"Really?! That genius scientist who's five hundred years ahead of the world! I'm your fan, Vegapunk!"

"In your hometown, the Balkimos Research Institute! I saw the scientific and technological achievements you left behind there. You are truly amazing!"

Franky clenched his fists tightly, his tone becoming increasingly excited.
"There are so many inventions that could bring great convenience to our lives, but they are left there due to funding and current human technology. It's so regrettable that I want to cry!"

"Really, Iron Man Franky? I never thought that the inventions rejected by the World Government would be recognized by a pirate like you."

Shakya looked over with a relieved tone.

On this road, he met and made friends with many partners, most of whom focused on how to create more powerful weapons and how to use technology to become more powerful, but few people paid attention to these inventions that simply brought convenience to mankind.

This is true for Judge, Caesar, and Quinn as well.

Shakya put his hands in his pockets and said lightly:
"Strictly speaking, I am one of Vegapunk's clones and possess a part of his will."

"As for whether a android with the same will as the original can be considered the original, I'm afraid the outside world won't be able to give a unified answer to this question for the time being."

"Anyway, Vegapunk himself wants to see you now, or rather, you, Monkey D. Luffy."

As he said that, Shakya looked towards Luffy.

Luffy had a puzzled look on his face and pointed a finger at himself.

"Me? Do you know me?"

"I don't know him, but I know your father, Monkey D. Dragon. I almost joined the Revolutionary Army at his invitation. It's a pity."

Shakya shook his head and explained:
"Your father and his family are really too poor."

(End of this chapter)