Super Card System

"Thief Sun! There is something to come back!"

Ian patted the ship's side and yelled at the Pique Pirates group that had been far away, attempting to turn on the taunt mode and get the guys to turn back.

The consequence of this is...The Piqué Pirates' ship runs faster...

The sailors on the boat looked at each other, not knowing what Ian meant. As the caravan, the pirates ran away. They were anxious for the other side to run. How could there be any reason to call the other side back?

Bill pulled Laian from behind and shook his head: "Forget it, you won't come back. Don't look at the fat man at Pixar, you think he is really stupid and can be the captain on the Pirate Ship. Yes, none of them are stupid. Since he has made up his mind to escape, he can't be turned back after you scold him a few words. Your duty is only to protect ships and cargo. There is no need to entangle pirates too much."

After being advised by Bill, Ian could only give up angrily.

Seeing the effectiveness of his persuasion, Bill finally smiled and said, "Don't worry, everything is lacking on the great route, but the most indispensable is the pirate. If you want to catch the pirate, there will be opportunities in the future."

Since Rabu dived into the sea and crossed the upside-down mountain, the remaining eleven merchant ships arrived safely, but because Ian and their flagship mast was damaged, all the ships of the caravan were docked at I arrived at the lighthouse shore at Twin Capes, and prepared to wait for the flagship to repair the mast before going on the road together.

It won't take long to repair the mast, but you need to stay here for at least an afternoon, so Ian followed Bill to the shore.

"Old man! Old man, are you there? I'm here again!" There was a house beside the lighthouse on the shore. As soon as Bill went ashore, he yelled at the house, which made Ian stunned: Bill he wouldn't It's the old man called, isn't it Colacs?

Ian can’t remember the name of this person, it seems to be called this, Ian only remembers that he is the tower guard at Twin Capes, but shouldn’t this tower guard live in Rab’s belly? ?

As Bill shouted, the door of the house opened, and an old man in a short-sleeved shirt with petals on his head came out. He had glasses on the bridge of his nose. It wasn't who Colax was. He came out and looked. After arriving at Bill, he froze for a while, and then said hello: "Bill, are you here again with the fleet?"

"Yeah! This is the last time!" Bill laughed, and he was very happy to see his old friend.

Ian stepped forward and asked Bill in a low voice, "Do you know this old man?"

"Of course!" Bill nodded and said, "If you go back and forth more often, you will know it naturally."

When Ian was talking to Bill, he didn't notice that Colax stared at his hat for a while, and then suddenly asked Bill, "Who is this young man?"

"Oh! He is the most famous pirate hunter in the East China Sea!" Bill quickly introduced: "The pirates with the highest bounty in the East China Sea have all been caught by him. We are also lucky this time. Please come to him. Be a caravan escort."

Kolux nodded, did not say anything, moved a few chairs out, let Ian and the others sit down.

At this moment, a voice rang carefully from behind, saying: "I... can I sit here and take a break?"

Ian looked back and found that it was Roland Gale. At this time, where did he have the kind of invincibility he had when he first got on the ship?When he was attacked by the Pique Pirates group before, this guy had been hiding in the cabin and shivering.

I want to come to this encounter of entering the great route, I am afraid that this little nobleman who has not seen the outside world very much stimulates it.

Ian ignored him either, but Bill gave him a chair, poured him a glass of water, and let him sit and rest.

Colax and Bill chatted,

In fact, he had already had doubts. This time he came with a merchant ship. Hearing what Bill said, after they sold the goods, they had to buy them before returning to the East China Sea. According to the way of inverting the mountain current, Ian always wanted Asking how they are going to go back, this question has been held in his heart for a long time, and now he finally asked it while Colacs was there.

"Can you get in or out? Who do you listen to?" Bill asked with a look of surprise.

"Isn't it?" Ian said: "I heard that the climate and ocean currents are chaotic on the great sea route. The only thing I can believe is the record pointer, but the record pointer will only point to the next island. You want to go back, never Maybe follow the pointer all the way and circle the great route, right?"

In fact, Ian’s so-called hearings are all derived from his memories when he read the comics before, and these words were said by the colax in front of him, so Ian asks here, in fact, he wants to hear how colax is. answer.

"You are wrong!" Bill grinned and said, "We are a caravan, unable to go deep into the great route. Our caravan destination is only the island closest to the Twin Capes. There are seven such islands. It is the starting island of the seven routes on the Great Route."

"Even if you don't go far, how do you come back?" Ian still frowned and said, "Gemini Cape is not an island. It's impossible for the record pointer to point here, right?"

Hearing Ian’s question, Kolux finally spoke. He pointed his thumb towards the towering lighthouse on the mountain behind him, took the conversation and said: "Young man, if you can really get in and can't get out, then What do you think is the lighthouse erected at this end of Twin Capes?"

"Didn't it guide the ships coming down from the upside-down mountain?" Ian said.

"Wrong, guiding the ships coming down from the upside-down mountain is one purpose, and there is another purpose, to guide the ships returning from the starting island to Cape Gemini!" Colacs said: "Indeed, Cape Gemini is not an island, so record the pointer. It won’t be affected to point to Gemini, but do you think people can’t sail at all without a pointer?"

"As long as the light of the lighthouse has not been extinguished, the ships returning to the Twin Capes will not lose their way at sea!" Colacs said: "This is handed down from hundreds of years ago. Human wisdom! In those people In the era before the record pointer was invented, the navigators were guided by the lighthouse."

Ian understood a little and nodded, but then asked: "Even if you can return to Cape Gemini from the starting point, how can you get out? It's impossible to walk in the windless belt, right?"

"Indeed, caravans like ours cannot walk through the windless zone!" Bill said: "The windless zone is very dangerous. Even a warship equipped with sea-building stones may not guarantee that it can pass smoothly every time. No wind zone, let alone ordinary merchant ships like us, but... we have our way!"

When talking about this, Bill winked at Ian and asked, "Ian, what do you think are the reasons that affect the ocean tide?"

Ian thought for a while and said, "Climate, temperature, and geographical factors..."

Bill shook his head and said, "What you said is one of the factors, but you forgot the most important thing!"

After speaking, he pointed to the sky.

Ian raised his head, looked at the sky with doubts, and said: "Heaven? You are not talking about rain... The sun... Ah! I see, it's the moon!"

"Yes!" Bill smiled and nodded: "It's the moon. The tides of the sea are actually caused by the moon's gravity. If there is no moon, you will not see the surging waves of the sea, you can only see It's the dead water."

Kolux also opened his mouth and said: "The current of the upside-down mountain does not flow like this all the time. It actually does countercurrent. Whenever the moon is full, when the moon’s gravity reaches its maximum, the direction of the mountain’s water flow will be reversed. Turn around, rush straight up from Gemini Cape, then split into four streams at the top of the mountain, flowing into the four oceans respectively."

Ian's eyes widened at hearing, and there is such a statement!?

This is something he doesn't know at all... This real One Piece world is more wonderful than he knew...

Looking at Ian’s face, both Bill and Kolax seemed to have a sense of satisfaction. People who don’t understand or don’t understand the great route usually have such a surprised expression when they hear about it. In other words, what they like most to see is this expression.

"The time of Upside Down Mountain is not sure, but it is usually between the 15th and the 17th of every month!" Bill explained to him: "At that time Upside Down Mountain will change from the entrance of the Great Route At the exit, caravans like us who want to return will choose to come to Gemini Cape during this time period, wait for the countercurrent to happen, and then return to the blue ocean."

"This is something that most caravans that have traveled on the great sea route only know about it!" Colacs said: "Some pirates who were born halfway didn't know this, or some people who went too deep into the great sea route were unable to return to Cape Gemini. , Then if they want to break away from the great sea route and return to the four seas, they will venture to break into the windless zone. Fortunately, those with high strength may be able to break through. If they are weak, they will be buried in the mouth of a large sea king, so It is completely wrong to say that the great route can be entered but not exited."

Ian rarely had someone to help him answer these doubts, so he listened with gusto, and asked another question by the way, saying: "On the great route, can I only take the seven fixed routes?"

"It's not necessarily!" said Koluxe: "The so-called fixed route is not accurate, because it is only based on the direction of the recorded pointer. In fact, as long as you have a permanent pointer, you can completely start from an island on a route. , Jump to another route, because the permanent pointer is not interfered by the magnetic field of the other islands, it will always point to a certain island."

"Of course, the production of permanent pointers is not easy!" Bill took over: "It is said that a very special production process and principles are required. Ordinary record pointers can be done by Corox, but he cannot make permanent pointers! So in general, Permanent pointers are very precious. People who have permanent pointers will carry them carefully, and will not easily show them to others."

However, the voice hadn't fallen yet, and a weak voice sounded behind everyone: "The permanent pointer you are talking about, doesn't it mean this?"

Ian and the others all were taken aback. They turned their heads, only to find that it was Roland Gale who had just landed ashore. At this moment, he was holding a delicate, hourglass-like thing in his hand, a circle. The round glass sphere is fixed on the outside by a frame supported by four small pillars. In the glass sphere is a suspended magnetic pointer.

Although it looks very old, it is definitely a permanent pointer, because on the wooden sign facing Ian and the others, I can see a few letters very vaguely, and Ian carefully identified it for a while. , Then I read it out: "Ah...Allah...Alabastan!?"

Damn it!?This turned out to be a permanent pointer to Alabastan!?