One Piece: Who still has dreams?

Redio said, "This Ghost Island is the territory of Gecko Moria, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. His Shadow-Shadow Fruit ability allows him to steal other people's shadows and stuff them into their corpses to make them obedient zombies."

As he spoke, he took the Poké Ball Nami had given him and released her pet bird.

The strange bird squawked and flapped its wings as it landed on the head of the island whale, Laboon, which was covered in crisscrossing scars. The once enormous bird suddenly seemed tiny.

"Roar~~" Laboon shouted at Redio twice, looking at him expectantly with his big eyes.

Redio smiled, flipped his hand, and a Fortune Cookie appeared in his palm. He took one out, wrapped it with Armament Haki to increase its power, and "whoosh," it flew towards Laboon.

Laboo opened his huge mouth, and the tiny biscuit looked like a speck of black dust; he ate it without feeling anything.

"These are cookies that bring good luck. Go find them, Rab."

Reddio reached out and patted Laboon's scarred head as it leaned closer. "If Brooke and the others are really in this magical sea, you'll definitely find them. Annie, you help out too, patrolling the skies for it."

"Caw!" The strange bird flapped its wings, raised its head and cried out, then flew into the distant thick fog.

Laboon shouted happily to Redio twice, then turned and chased after the strange bird. Just like that, the huge black whale shadow broke through the waves and disappeared into the depths of the thick fog amidst the sound of the waves.

Previously, Laboon, through Chopper's translator, had conveyed his wishes and become Redio's quest client. If Laboon finds Brook, the quest will be automatically completed, and Redio will receive his reward. Even if he can't find him, as the quest client, Redio doesn't need to worry about the little whale getting lost in this magical sea.

"..."

Redio suddenly sensed a presence lingering nearby ever since they arrived at the beach. Was it a wild beast?

"Let's go, Gertz."

Reddio leaped into the giantess's large hand, patted his forehead, and looked towards the depths of Ghost Island shrouded in thick fog in the distance. "Oh dear, I forgot to remind Nami and Robin of something."

"What is it?" Gertz strode into the dark woods on the island.

"There's some super pervert on this island who ate the Clear-Clear Fruit..."

"Hehe, Nami and Robin are very strong, and there's also Ace, so everything will be fine."

Gertz smiled slightly, turned around and looked behind him. In the gloomy forest shrouded in thick gray fog, he always felt that there was something sneaky going on everywhere, which made him nervous and easily startled.

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What was that sound?

On the path leading deeper into the island, towards the massive mainmast that Gertz had seen, Nami suddenly jolted awake and grabbed Robin's arm. "It looks like something's crawling out from underground..."

"Is there?"

Ace raised his hand, and flames erupted, forming a small, blazing fireball that illuminated the dark, gloomy forest within a 20-meter radius. Small creatures like mice and insects scurried away quickly from the grass and the crevices of the tangled ancient vines.

"some."

Robin crossed her arms and looked upwards. A split second before Ace's massive fireball illuminated the surroundings, Robin caught a glimpse of several pale, ghostly figures. However, once the firelight illuminated the sky, things higher up in the air appeared even darker and became difficult to see.

"Negative, negative..." A pale, ghostly figure flew down against the light, seemingly appearing suddenly as it passed through Ace's chest. Two other identical pale, ghostly figures, also muttering "Negative, negative," flew towards the astonished Robin and Nami.

"careful!"

Nami gently pushed Robin away, and two negative phantoms suddenly passed through Nami's body.

"Someone like me shouldn't have been born at all..."

Ace knelt on the ground, pounding his fist on the ground, his whole body filled with low spirits, talking to himself in an extremely negative way.

"What's wrong with him?" Robin asked in surprise.

"Robin, I feel something's wrong..." Nami swayed and reached out to Robin. Robin steadied her. Nami frowned, clutching her chest, and said疑惑地, "I don't know why, but I feel empty inside, and my mind is full of pessimistic and negative thoughts..."

"It seems those three ghosts were behind it."

Robin, supporting Nami, looked at the three pale ghosts hovering in mid-air, seemingly observing them. After Ace recovered, they wisely and quickly drifted into the depths of the thick fog, disappearing without a trace.

"Don't run!"

Ace, enraged, gave chase.

"You'd better not run around!"

Nami was angry and followed.

Robin thought to herself, "Nami's constitution seems to have some resistance to Devil Fruit abilities..."

Ace set fires along the way, rushed back to the forest blocking their path, and soon led his team to their destination: a cluster of Western-style mansions in front of the massive main mast.

In front of this sunset mansion lies a large cemetery.

A zombie, half-buried in the soil in front of a tombstone, was picking up his head that had fallen to the ground, and stared at Ace, Nami, and Robin who suddenly rushed over.

Robin asked, "Could the voice Nami heard be his?"

"Is this the time for such calm analysis?" Nami's face turned pale with fright. How could zombies really exist in this world?!

With a rustling sound, the soil in front of all the tombstones in the cemetery loosened, and one after another, strangely shaped zombies with tattered bodies and ragged clothes crawled out.

"Roar..." "We are zombies..." "Humans, stay away..."

The zombies, with their ferocious expressions, distorted faces, and bizarre movements, surrounded the three like a horde of undead.

"..."

Ace was bored by their slow pace, so he raised his hands and aimed his ten fingers at the approaching zombies. "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"... His ten fingers shot out a dense barrage of fire bullets, piercing through all the zombies.

“Speaking of dealing with zombies and ghosts,” he chuckled and snapped his fingers, causing all the zombies around him that had been pierced by fire bullets to burst into flames with a “whoosh,” “that’s fire, of course.”

The horde of corpses transformed into dozens of raging flames all around, emitting a foul and acrid smell.

"Is this all the subordinates of the Seven Warlords of the Sea are capable of?"

Ace said with some dissatisfaction, then his eyes suddenly widened and he looked sharply to the distance on his left.

"What's wrong?" Nami had just breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Ace's suddenly serious expression. She thought something else had come out again, and her heart jumped. "A ghost?"

"It shouldn't be,"

Ace looked towards the dense fog in the woods to his left. "A very strong aura of Haki just came from over there... It was Conqueror's Haki, no doubt about it." He grinned excitedly. "Warlord of the Sea or someone else? Never mind, I'm going to go and meet him!"

"These guys over here seem pretty weak, you'll be fine. I'm off!"

Ace grinned at Nami and Robin, then unleashed a burst of fire from his feet, propelling himself high into the sky with a "bang," the flames dispelling the mist as he swept away in a devastating rush.

"How irresponsible!"

Nami, with her sharp teeth, yelled, "Leaving two ladies at the entrance of this haunted house!"

With a loud "boom," a giant wild boar dressed in a beautiful princess dress charged out from the gate of the Western-style mansion behind the cemetery, brandishing two watermelon knives and charging at Nami and Robin, shouting, "You're the ones who seduced Lord Absalom!"

Who is that?!

Nami yelled and jumped aside.

good chance!

Absalom, who was hiding not far away and silently waiting for his chance, really wanted to applaud Lola, that stupid pig zombie.

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A moment ago

"The Cursed Pirates?"

In the cemetery, Absalom, the leader of the zombies, is a monstrous man with the lower half of his face being that of a lion and his body being stitched together with the muscles of ferocious beasts such as elephants, bears, and gorillas. Weighing a staggering 300 kilograms, he is quite surprised to hear his zombie subordinates tumbling and crawling towards him to report that they have come to him.

"Hooray, they actually came!"

Absalom's expression turned serious. That was a powerful pirate crew with a total bounty of over 2 billion! The captain alone had taken more than 12 billion of that, which was already terrifying enough. What was even more outrageous was that there were only 5 subordinates, 3 of whom had bounties of over 100 million!

With a bounty exceeding 1 million Berries, any one of them could easily become a pirate captain in the first half of the Grand Line.

"First, find their pirate ship..."

Absalom wasn't so reckless. As an invisible man who ate the Invisibility Fruit, being steady and cunning was his nature. He immediately gave orders to his zombie soldiers.

"But Lord Absalom, they don't have pirate ships."

"Yeah, I didn't see any new pirate ships on the beach..."

The zombie soldiers all said.

"what?"

A question mark appeared above Absalom's head, but he suddenly remembered the newspaper articles that had described the Cursed Pirates' "elusive" movements, and suspected that there was someone on their ship who could teleport the entire crew around the world.

"Alright, I got it. Heh." He waved his hand. "You guys hide first, the rest are up to me. Heh heh, and Perona too."

He saw several pale, ghostly figures wandering in the mist, and he himself quickly concealed his form, becoming a completely transparent human.

As the zombies crawled into the grave, they muttered, "Knowing the enemy was so powerful, they still went there..." "Lord Absalom is really brave." "Yeah, he must have had the guts of a lion." "Or rather, the guts of lust." "Yes, after all, he's a super perverted lecher..."

That's right!

The reason why they went to investigate the Cursed Pirates despite knowing how terrifying they were was, of course, because there were several beautiful women on their ship!

In the latest bounty poster, "Cyclops" Gertz is no longer one-eyed; for some reason, her eye has been healed, perhaps with a prosthetic eye or a giant beast's eyeball. In any case, this giant warrior is a great beauty.

But Absalom was not interested.

He liked beautiful, but delicate women. The kind of pitiful beauties who seemed fragile and easily broken in his 300-kilogram, beast-like embrace—that was the kind of woman who was most worthy of his perfect woman.

The remaining characters are "Avenger" Nami and "Devil Child" Nico Robin...

On the way, Absalom spotted the two of them from afar, along with "Fire Fist" Ace.