Sailing: His comprehension is against the sky, and he comprehends the Eight Gates at the beginning.

Instead, he turned to ask Crocus.

How do we get out of here?

As soon as Luffy finished speaking, everyone suddenly felt a violent shaking.

At the same time, the mournful sounds that had been heard outside earlier began to ring out again.

"Boohoo..."

Noticing this sudden change, Crocus frowned.

"Oh no, Laboon is ramming the Red Line again!"

Before anyone else could react, Crocus plunged into Lab's stomach acid and swam away into the distance.

Meanwhile, the Straw Hat crew, apart from Luffy and Uta, were still deeply confused.

"Hey! What happened?"

Why did that uncle suddenly leave?

"That's gastric juice! Isn't he afraid it will corrode?"

"He just said 'lab,' what's that?"

At this point, Uta explained to everyone.

"Laboon is the whale that ate us!"

As she spoke, Uta's mood sombered, and she explained.

“I heard from Crocus that Laboon once made a pact with a pirate crew.”

"That pirate crew said they would return here to reunite with Laboon after sailing around the Grand Line."

"But 50 years have passed, and that pirate crew has not returned."

"Krocas once tried to find out about this pirate crew, but to no avail. The fate of those pirates is unknown."

"So Crocus guessed that the pirates were either dead or had escaped the Grand Line and sailed back to their homeland through Calm Sea."

"In short, no matter which one it is, that group of pirates will never come back to reunite with Laboon."

"He told Laboon his guess, but Laboon refused to believe it and started banging his head against the Red Line, trying to break through the mountain and find the pirates."

"That's why Crocus created this world inside the whale's belly, so that he could inject it with a tranquilizer to calm it down every time Laboon crashed into the Red Line."

After Uta finished speaking, the atmosphere suddenly became heavy.

Sadness and sorrow were evident on everyone's faces.

"That whale is so pitiful!"

"Is it really possible that those pirates would abandon Laboon and flee the Grand Line? That would be such a disservice to Laboon."

"Raab has been keeping his promise and waiting for them to come back!"

"The fate of this whale is truly lamentable! It may very well have been let down, yet it's still waiting here. Clearly, there's no point in waiting any longer!"

As everyone sighed, Crocus suddenly emerged from the stomach acid, realizing they were talking about Laboon, and added the last sentence.

"That's why Raab refuses to accept my words, precisely because they have lost their meaning!"

"Losing the meaning of waiting is more terrible than anything else."

Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent.

Just then, Luffy suddenly spoke.

"They didn't escape, they're still alive!"

Everyone was taken aback upon hearing this, and then cast questioning glances at Luffy.

"What are you saying, Luffy? If they didn't escape, why haven't they come back to see Laboon in 50 years?"

"Yes! Even if they are still alive, they must have escaped the Grand Line."

Faced with doubts, Luffy remained resolute, his eyes filled with hope, and spoke.

"That's what I believe!"

"I believe they would never abandon Raab. Perhaps something happened to them that prevented them from coming back!"

Luffy was making a "guess".

He couldn't tell these people directly and definitively that there was another skeleton at sea longing for Laboon, so he could only explain it as a conjecture.

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Upon hearing Luffy's words, everyone on the ship was stunned.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that Luffy has always done what he believed in and persisted in.

Immediately, everyone's heavy expressions gradually eased, and the corners of their mouths turned up slightly.

"Then...I believe it too!"

"me too!"

"I also..."

Crocus was shocked to see the Straw Hat crew change their attitudes so drastically because of Luffy's simple remark.

He looked at Luffy with shock and excitement in his eyes.

The image of a certain person involuntarily came to mind.

That man with the mustache, the only one to conquer the Grand Line.

The infectious charisma Luffy displayed in changing those around him reminded him of Roger in his prime.

Just as Crocus was stunned, Luffy smiled slightly and said to him again.

"Krocas, take us out of here!"

"I've come to save Labour!"

"I will give him a new meaning to waiting!"

Looking at the confident man in front of him, Crocus was also deeply inspired.

He looked at Luffy with a mixture of excitement and anticipation, and asked.

Can you save Raab?

Luffy smiled and nodded, and said.

"give it to me!"

Upon hearing this, Krocas's face immediately lit up with excitement and joy, and his eyes even became slightly moist.

He tried to persuade Raab for decades, but could never save him.

But at this moment, the young man uttered such confident words that even Crocus couldn't help but be moved.

Because Crocus sees Roger's shadow in Luffy, he now believes in Luffy just as he believes in Roger.

Krocas took off his glasses, rubbed his moist eyes, and said.

"Come with me!"

After saying that, he boarded the Going Merry with Luffy and the others, preparing to pass through a huge iron gate.

That's the entrance and exit to and from Labuk.

Just as the Merry was halfway across the ship, they suddenly saw a small door above the massive iron gate suddenly open.

Then, two figures appeared in everyone's sight.

Two figures, a man and a woman, were seen. The man wore a crown, and the woman had blue hair tied in a ponytail.

The two men both wore sinister and wicked smiles, crouching down like thieves, huddled together and chuckling.

"Hehehe...Infiltration successful!"

"Looks like we've finally gotten inside this whale's body!"

Upon seeing the two people who had suddenly appeared, Crocus frowned and said angrily.

"It's you two scoundrels again. I will never let you hunt Labu."

Upon hearing Crocus's words, the Straw Hat crew members immediately looked puzzled.

"Hunting Lab?"

"How is this going?"

"Who are they?"

While the others were asking questions in confusion, Luffy had already recognized the person who had come.

The two are Mr. 9 and Ms. Wednesday, members of Baroque Works, founded by Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

The real identity of this Ms. Wednesday is actually Princess Nefit D. Vivi of the Kingdom of Alabasta.

However, at this time, in order to hide her identity, Weiwei was putting on a fake personality.

Upon hearing Crocus's angry accusations against them, Vivi and Crocus both gave wicked smiles.

The next second, they set up the two cannons they were carrying and aimed them at the walls inside the whale, which was Laboon's body.

He spoke in an extremely exaggerated villainous tone.

"Hehehehe... Stop the futile resistance!"

"If you want to protect this whale so much, then protect it to your heart's content. We're going to use this whale as food for our town."

As soon as they finished speaking, the two were about to fire their guns.

Upon seeing this, Krocas was startled and was about to leap up to shield Lab from the two shells.

"stop!"

Before Crocus could act, he suddenly heard a voice beside him that was not loud but full of domineering power.

Weiwei and the other woman also heard that voice that made them somewhat afraid.

I couldn't help but turn my head and look over, and I saw the man wearing a straw hat.

Both of them were intimidated by Luffy's aura and domineering presence, but since they were currently tasked with hunting Laboon, they naturally wouldn't back down and submit so easily.

Although there was fear and tension in his eyes, he still pretended to be calm and disdainful.

"Tch...tch! Who cares about you!"

"We're going to kill this whale!"

As soon as they finished speaking, the two were about to fire their guns.

But suddenly they felt an unparalleled aura and pressure coming towards them.

In an instant, their minds were filled with fear.

Immediately afterwards, his eyes rolled back and he lost consciousness.

Upon seeing this, Crocus's eyes widened in shock as he stared at Luffy.

"This...this is...Conqueror's Haki!"

Crocus was shocked. He never imagined that such a young newcomer, who was only entering the Grand Line for the first time, would have already mastered Haki, and even the Conqueror's Haki, which is one in a million.

At the time, Shanks simply told him that he had met a very interesting kid and that he thought highly of him.

However, no specific details were given.

Now that he saw it with his own eyes, Crocus understood.

He let out a long, excited sigh.

"Roger, is he the one we've been waiting for?"

...

Led by Crocus, Luffy and his crew successfully arrived outside Laboon's body.