The natural system started off strong, but the navy finally reached its peak!

The deep voice carried an undeniable air of authority: "Snake Princess, I want you now."

The snake princess's previously composed expression froze instantly, her pupils dilated slightly, and her breath caught in her throat.

Gern, you want me? Here? Is it that wild?

Her ear tips flushed crimson at a visible speed, and her cheeks rapidly warmed up.

It felt like I had been thrown into a steamer, with steam practically rising from my head.

"I'm walking on thin ice in the Navy right now, and I need your help."

"You, you suddenly said such a thing..." Snake Princess's voice stammered for the first time, her fingers unconsciously tightening around his sleeve.

The next second, as if she could no longer withstand the sudden, direct attack, she closed her eyes and fell straight backward.

Seeing this, Libo reacted quickly and grabbed her waist in an instant to prevent her from falling onto the deck.

"Gern, Sister Snake Princess has fainted!!"

"It's nothing." Gern looked down at the "unconscious" Snake Princess in Libo's arms, a playful smile playing on his lips.

"So you're playing hard to get with me now, playing the 'playing hard to get' trick on me?" He leaned close to the Snake Princess's ear and whispered.

"Do you think I didn't find those written versions of 'Manual of Youth' in your room on Amazon Lily?"

The snake princess's eyelashes trembled violently, but she kept her eyes tightly closed, though the redness at the base of her ears had already spread to her neck.

Gern chuckled and continued to add insult to injury: "How to Make a Cold Man Fall for You, The Art of Love for a Mature Woman, The Guide to Winning Over a Cold and Aloof Man..."

Tsk tsk, who knew that the mighty 'Snake Princess' would be so fond of studying this in private? No wonder her condition suddenly worsened~

"Shut up!!!" Snake Princess finally couldn't keep up the act anymore. She suddenly opened her eyes, grabbed Gern by the collar, and glared at him with a mixture of shame and anger.

But her face was still incredibly red, and she had lost all her composure, instead looking like a cat whose thoughts had been exposed.

Gern let her pull him along, raising an eyebrow and saying, "Finally, you're not pretending anymore?"

"You..." Snake Princess gritted her teeth, but in the end she suddenly deflated, let go of her hand, turned her face away and said sullenly, "What exactly do you want?"

“Didn’t I say?” Gern looked her straight in the eyes. “I need you.”

"Not only as combatants, but also as comrades."

The Snake Princess paused, the embarrassment and annoyance in her eyes gradually fading, replaced by an internal monologue.

"Tch~ Why not mention being a woman?"

"What a cunning man." She scoffed, but a slight smile played on her lips. "He could have just given orders, but he chose to say things like that."

“Because orders are useless to you.” Gern released his grip, turned, and walked towards the bow of the ship, the sea breeze ruffling the hem of his coat.

"It only has meaning if you are willing to do it."

The Snake Princess gazed at his retreating figure, remained silent for a moment, and then suddenly smiled.

Chapter 223 The White Sea Above the Sky

One month later, in the waters near Jaya Island on the Grand Line.

The White Gull was anchored on the calm, mirror-like sea, reflecting the azure sky.

“Jay Island…” On the deck, Tesoro held a nautical chart, his brows furrowed slightly.

Then I looked up and gazed at the bustling port not far away, where ships were coming and going.

That was the town of Mogu before it became a gathering place for pirates.

“Lieutenant General Gern, we’re just ahead in Mogu Town. Should we land there, replenish our supplies, and perhaps ask the locals for some information?” Tesoro asked, turning around.

"After all, if I remember the nautical chart correctly, this is the sea area of ​​Jaya Island mentioned in the legend of Noland's Golden Land."

“No need.” Gern leaned against the ship’s railing, gazing at the sky, a slight smile playing on his lips. “Because we’ve already landed.”

"Landed?" Tesoro was stunned. He looked around and saw no other land except for the vast ocean and the town of Mogu on half of Jaya Island in the distance.

"Gern, you're not kidding, are you?" Snake Princess leaned lazily against the mast.

Her long, orange-red hair swayed gently in the wind. She chuckled and stroked her pet snake: "There's nothing here except seawater."

“Gern said he’s landing, so he must have landed!” Libo skipped over to Gern’s side, tilting her little face up, her fluffy bunny ears perked up: “Gern, did you find something?”

Gern looked down at Lipo, his eyes full of affection.

So he reached out and hugged her, ruffling her hair as he smiled and said, "Sure enough, my Libo understands me best."

Seeing this, Snake Princess's eyes flashed with envy, and she immediately changed her words, saying, "Actually, I believe in you too, Gern."

"The Sky Island must be somewhere!" she said, opening her arms wide as if to say, "Come and hug me!"

Gern, however, acted as if he didn't see her and walked right past her.

His gaze returned to the sea, and he murmured, "I think I know how to get up there."

Tesoro shook his head helplessly: "Lieutenant General Gern, although that place is called Sky Island, it can't possibly actually exist in the sky, can it?"

It might just be a small island hidden in the ocean, exaggeratedly called a 'sky island' by adventurers.

“That’s right, that’s right! Legends are often given a unique color.” Snake Princess pouted and agreed, while complaining that Gern didn’t hug her.

Gern did not refute, but simply smiled slightly.

He raised his hand, and a wisp of pale, vibrating particles condensed at his fingertips, which he gently touched in the air.

In an instant, the surrounding air seemed to be drawn by some force, creating subtle ripples.

“Look over there,” Gern pointed to the distant sea.

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a thin column of water suddenly shooting into the sky at the horizon.

“Isn’t this just an ocean current?!” Tesoro frowned. “Although it’s rising…”

At this point, Tesoro suddenly realized, "Wait, Lieutenant General Gern, you don't mean to say......"

“That’s right,” Gern nodded. “Here, the ‘sky-high current’ is the only channel that can send ships directly into the sky.”

“So…” Libo jumped up excitedly, “Are we really going to fly?”

A hint of surprise flashed in Snake Princess's eyes, but it was quickly replaced by arrogance: "Hmph, even so, you should have hugged me just now."

Gern glanced at her helplessly, then said seriously:

"But this towering ocean current is a rare and precious sight, so..."

Since there's no existing upwelling current, let's create our own.

Before he could finish speaking, Gern suddenly raised his hand, palm down, fingers slightly spread.

"Boom—Crack, crack!!!"

In an instant, the entire sea surface seemed to be crushed by an invisible giant hand, instantly collapsing to form a terrifying whirlpool with a diameter of one kilometer.

Subsequently, driven by the vibration of air molecules, the compression became smaller and smaller.

This causes the molecules to rotate continuously due to vibration and friction. The airflow compresses the seawater, causing it to rotate wildly, and the pressure at the center of the vortex rises sharply.

"What, what is this?!" Tesoro clung tightly to the ship's railing, his face pale. "Vice Admiral Guern, you're not trying to use your powers to send us and the ship flying into the sky, are you?!"

The Snake Princess's pupils constricted, and she instinctively tensed her body: "The ship won't hold..."

And Libo, get off Gern's back!

Gern ignored what everyone was saying, only slightly raised the corners of his mouth, and suddenly pressed his palm down!

"Bang!!!" A terrifying shockwave suddenly erupted from the bottom of the vortex, the high-pressure impact piercing through the deep sea, and then...

"Boom!!!" A torrent of water, hundreds of meters in diameter, burst forth from the center of the vortex, shooting straight into the sky like a giant dragon!

"Hold on tight!" Gern shouted.

"Heavenly Tremor - Return to Ruins".

Libo screamed and clung to Gern's neck, while Tesoro gripped the ship's rudder tightly.

Snake Princess stumbled and almost got thrown off, but luckily Gern grabbed her waist and pulled her back.

"You!" Upon seeing this, Snake Princess was about to reveal her beautiful and charming shyness as she was being embraced.

As soon as he opened his mouth to speak, a gust of wind rushed in and filled his mouth.

Hmm... you can imagine this scene; it's utterly unrecognizable!

Driven by the ocean currents, the White Gull gradually accelerated.

The ship began to rock violently, as if it would be torn apart by a tremendous force at any moment.

So Gern stood at the bow of the ship, swung his Black Blade Eight Directions, and created a vacuum layer at the point where the ship and the ocean current met, just in case.

The next second, the White Gull was completely swallowed by the surging ocean current, and the ship shot straight into the sky like an arrow!

Amidst the violent jolts, Ribo's screams, Tesoro's shouts, and Boa Hancock's la la la la mingled together.

The sky drew ever closer, reflected in Gern's eyes, and he silently murmured, "Sky Island, here I come."

As the altitude increased, the surrounding scenery gradually blurred, and clouds rushed past on both sides of the ship.

Finally, after a blinding flash of white light, the White Gull broke through the 7000-meter and 10000-meter-high cloud layers and crashed heavily onto a sea of ​​white clouds.

"I...we're really in the sky?!" Tesoro gripped the ship's railing tightly, his face deathly pale as he stared at the endless sea of ​​clouds below.

Libo's rabbit ears were pressed tightly against her scalp, and her fluffy tail puffed up into a white ball: "Clouds, clouds are real?!"

She carefully jumped down from behind Gern, looked at the white sea outside the ship's side, and swallowed hard. "It looks exactly like the sea!"

While the two were stunned, only the Snake Princess remained frozen in place like a statue.

She mechanically held her giant snake, her long orange-red hair disheveled, her usually proud and beautiful face blank.

Just as she shot into the sky, Gern grabbed her waist with one hand, tucking her under his arm and carrying her into the air.

Her proud image and the mature, sophisticated aura she had carefully maintained were all shattered by that gust of wind.

"Snake Princess?" Gern waved his hand in front of her eyes. "Surely not? A great swordsman is scared out of his wits like this?"

Seeing Gern waving his hand in front of her, the Snake Princess's pupils finally focused, and she slowly lowered her head to look at her wrinkled cheongsam.

She touched her hair, which had been blown into a bird's nest, and finally her gaze fell on Gern's hand, which was still resting on her waist.

“Gern, you shouldn’t have just…”

"I took the picture."

“Gern Regi Nord!!”

.......

[Salted Fish Science Classroom: Explaining the principle of vibration creating ocean currents]

The main method used is ocean resonance excitation, because seawater molecules are in a state of perpetual thermal vibration.

If the vibration frequency of water molecules can be directly manipulated, they can resonate synchronously, converting microscopic vibrational energy into macroscopic kinetic energy.

Therefore, when all particles vibrate vertically with the same phase, superimposed mechanical waves will be generated in local areas of the sea surface, forming a high-pressure water column (similar to acoustic levitation, but on a much larger scale).

Next, crustal vibration coupling is used: by the final vibration, the crustal particles on the seabed are directly vibrated, which can induce an artificial "undersea earthquake".

The high-frequency vibrations of tectonic plates can propel seawater upwards (similar to the mechanism of a volcanic eruption).

If energy is continuously supplied, the ocean current will break free from gravity and rush into the atmosphere!

Chapter 224 Kingdom of Gods

The White Gull drifted on the white sea for several hours, surrounded by nothing but endless clouds and the occasional flying fish.

Libo, leaning against the ship's railing, poked at the clouds with a carrot, looking utterly bored. "Gern, are we lost?"

"The Sky Island is bigger than I imagined." Gern stood at the bow, his gaze sweeping across the distance.

"As far as I remember, Angel Island should be floating on the White Sea!"

(The White Sea is at an altitude of 7000 meters, while the islands where Sky Island is located are all in the White-White Sea at an altitude of over 10000 meters.)

“Lieutenant General Guern.” Tesoro adjusted the recording pointer, frowning. “The magnetic field here is chaotic; the pointer keeps spinning and is completely unusable.”

"Tsk tsk tsk." Snake Princess leaned lazily against a deck chair, tidying her wind-blown hair as she glanced at Gern.